The moment Hei Tao's hand passed through Bai Liu's chest, the heart that was fixed to Bai Liu's blood vessels slid out of his back.

The beating heart fell into the blue-black deep sea. Bai Liu half closed his eyes. He knew it was useless to do so, but he couldn't control himself and stretched out his hand to try to reach the heart that disappeared in the deep sea.

The slender fingers opened and closed weakly in the cold sea water.

Hei Tao grabbed Bai Liu's ribs and lifted him up, then turned and chased after him into the deep sea, obviously trying to catch that dirty heart and destroy it completely.

Bai Liu spread his limbs listlessly, and slowly and passively floated upwards under the upward force, reaching the sea surface that was shimmering with fine phosphorescence.

The sun sank below the horizon, leaving only a faint layer of light, like a silver frame, on the edge of the endless sea.

Glaciers and ice floes, relics or remains of a planet that had cooled and heated up, brushed past the white willows floating on the sea and drifted away along the ocean current.

There are no clouds in the pure black sky, only countless stars in the universe flowing, they emit an intoxicating flash, dazzling, dazzling, like crushed large carat diamonds, like strings of pearls scattered on flannel.

Just like all the luxurious and unforgettable things in this world, at the moment of being broken, they bloom with heartbreaking and crazy beauty.

But this beauty was obscured by a light green veil shaking from the southeast sky - that was the aurora.

The aurora borealis shimmers in the night sky, the fluorescent colors floating like a cheap curtain at the beginning of a dream.

Bai Liu's eyes were half open, his spirit and health points dropped drastically, and Edmund's cangsang's exhorting voice rang in his ears like an illusion.

[Child, never use truth or falsehood to test the one you love. I have done this before. I insisted on completing that experiment, but the only conclusion I came to was——]

They can tell.

[I still don’t understand what the difference is between monsters and humans. Even if they have the same memories, bodies, and structures as us, just like another us in a parallel universe, in the eyes of those who love us, they are still not us.]

What is it that separates them from us?

[The experiment I wanted to do at first was to explore whether these monsters could pass the Turing test and become indistinguishable humans. What exactly are the differences between them and us humans?]

[If they are the same, then are we humans really humans? ]

[Perhaps we are just the same kind of monsters placed on this planet, in this game. We are injected with memories from other people, and are a species that is born to go to war and self-destruction - just like what my superiors asked me to do to these monsters.]

【This makes sense. I understand all the bad things that have happened to me, my friends, and those around me—because we are born this way. There is a higher dimension than us, or it would be more appropriate to call him God, who has decided that the fate of this world is so cruel.】

[If they are different, where do these differences come from when the body, core, and memory are the same? When even we ourselves cannot distinguish the real from the fake, how can someone recognize the real us? ]

[The people at Taishan Station gave me the answer, and I verified this answer once again on you, but I still don’t understand why.]

【Where does this difference come from? 】

[Before you came, many guests came here. I used them for experiments. Some of them left halfway, and some stayed here forever. Under every ice crack here are the "corpses" of these guests whose experiments failed.]

[The people at Taishan Station erased their memories again and again, and read the files again and again, but no matter who the guests were, they could still recognize each other, and sometimes the guests could also recognize each other.]

But why?

[Why can some people recognize it, but others can't? Why can the people at Taishan Station always recognize it, but the guests who come here can't do it so consistently? ]

[I couldn’t find the factor that affected the experimental results, so no matter how many times I conducted the experiment, I still couldn’t control the experimental results—until I met Spade.]

[He was the guest who recognized his teammates the fastest I had ever seen. He was willing to talk to me and gave me the answer - intuition.]

[This is the weirdest experimental variable I have ever heard of - if my students handed me a lab report with these two words, I would make them jump into the Ross Sea out of shame.]

[I saw you, Bai Liu, in the memory of Hei Tao's friend, Ni Shen. You will conduct an experiment that is a thousand times more extreme and crazy than the one I am currently doing. You will use thousands of copies of yourself to create an unsolvable game to test another person's perception of you.]

[I know you will do this, and I believe you also know the consequences of doing so, but like me, you want to see it again and verify the result again——]

[These White Willows have the same appearance, memory, and inner core as you. You have even been transformed into one of these monsters, a monster itself - can Spade still find you? ]

【Thank you for finally letting me know the answer to this unsolvable puzzle. 】

[I have always thought that it is the human side that identifies the monster side, but that is not the case. Rather, the monster side is unable to give the human side the special emotional feedback that it wants.]

[Even though you are already a monster, you love him, Bai Liu]

[So you can't hide Tavier's heart in the body of another "White Willow", because it is a heart that belongs to you. ]

【Your response gives you away.】

[Love turns you from a monster back into a human, love gives you weaknesses, love makes you let him hold your heart and drift in the deep sea, love makes you stand out from thousands of monsters and become the most special monster to Spade.]

【So he discovered you.】

[But don't be sad, child. It is not fate that leads you to your destiny, but love.]

【Love may separate you, but it will bring you together again.】

The ice surface melted away in large chunks, and the pale monster "corpse" frozen inside floated on the sea, mixed with broken ice and swam past the white willow. Very fine ice particles condensed on his eyelashes, glowing a flaming green light under the aurora, and the sea water rushed back and forth through his empty chest.

Someone emerged from the bottom of the water. Hei Tao hugged Bai Liu's waist and knees, picked up Bai Liu, who seemed to be unconscious, and put him on the shore. He held two hearts in his hands.

One was broken and tattered, but still beating weakly, and the other was frozen in a block of ice, as fresh as if it had just been taken out of the chest cavity - this was what Spade dug out from the body of a [White Willow].

The spade action carefully thawed the dirty heart.

"This is your real heart." Heitao lowered his eyes to look at Bai Liu who was motionless, and put the heart that had just been thawed into Bai Liu's body, "I'll give it back to you."

Bai Liu's body, which had been transformed by Edmund, quickly grew blood vessels connecting to his heart. The muscles and skin on his thin heart healed instantly, and his originally cold and stiff chest began to beat slowly and weakly.

Spade turned around, took out the fuel and strong acid stored in the warehouse, and without any pause began to treat the still faintly beating heart in his hand.

Amid the roasting of fire and the corroding of acid, the heart turned into ashes.

Bai Liu's frozen fingers clenched lightly, and his dark eyes reflected the beautiful night sky, and nothing else.

At the moment when the other heart was treated to stop beating, Bai Liu's chest, which had originally resumed its rise and fall, stopped for a moment.

It was as if his heartbeat had stopped as the other heart stopped completely.

[System prompt: Player Spade destroyed the last corpse, achieving the true end line achievement, all players have cleared the game, and the dungeon will be closed soon...]

The snowfield collapsed behind him, and Bai Liu's system panel jumped out and automatically exited the game. Hei Tao knelt beside the ashes and Bai Liu, who seemed to be dead, and raised his head slightly, looking at the melting world of ice and snow.

Only after the white willow beside him turned into a beam of light and disappeared did Spade stand up and prepare to quit the game.

He also didn't understand why he had to wait until Bai Liu quit the game before he quit.

This seems to be a deep-rooted, intuitive habit.

Spade felt as if he had seen this person exit the game and turn into a point of light many times before falling into a long darkness, waiting to see this person again at the start of the next game, so he did the same this time.

It's like a subconscious instinct that I have to come here and destroy all the corpses.

Spade vaguely felt that the person who designed this game was using these corpses and hearts to trap Bai Liu forever, making him live a cold and lonely life in the snow as a monster.

This is something that is very likely to happen. Liu Jiayi was even thankful that the person who logged into the game with them was Spade.

Because no one else can stop Bai Liu from going crazy.

If Bai Liu logs into the game with other players, they will find that the main task here is to destroy the corpses. As long as one player finds the corpses and destroys them, the [true end] line will be triggered.

Even if you kill these players and Edmund, the game will not end.

Because the game is already on the [true end] line, the game will not be completed unless the final ending of destroying all corpses is played.

Bai Liu can also exit the game directly, but at that time the game will become real and will be loaded in reality.

After exiting Ice Age, Bai Liu will also enter the Ice Age instance in the real world, which is essentially the same as if he were in the game.

In the real world, now that methods of destroying corpses are known, it is inevitable to destroy these particle weather devices forever.

The body will definitely be destroyed completely, and countless people will try their best to do this.

Bai Liu knew very well that he could not be the enemy of the whole world forever, so at that time he made the choice to stay in the game.

This is how he prevents the game from ending, preventing the true end from coming, and preventing the game from loading into reality.

It can be said that this game was a trap designed specifically for Bai Liu from beginning to end. The moment Bai Liu entered this game, he had only two choices:

——Or become a monster forever and stay in the snowfield.

- Or... destroy Tavier's heart, destroy the only emotion in his mind, love, and weakness, become cold-blooded, cruel, unscrupulous, calculating everything, and then complete the game as a winner.

Let Bai Liu change from Bai Liu to Bai Liu.

This is what people behind the scenes have been doing.

Liu Jiayi is sincerely grateful that the player they met in this game is Spade.

Because other players can't stop Bai Liu from doing what he wants to do, but Spade has the ability to defeat Bai Liu. As long as he wins, Bai Liu doesn't need to make a choice.

As long as Hei Tao destroyed that piece of dirty heart, Bai Liu would have to come out of the snowfield.

Liu Jiayi didn't know where Heitao's obsession and intuition to destroy this dirty thing came from, and who gave it to him.

Although Kuroo's intuition was cruel to Bai Liu, it broke the heart of someone who was very important to Bai Liu.

But he did save Bai Liu.

Because he completely destroyed Bai Liu's only weakness, making it impossible for the person who designed the game behind the scenes to exploit this weakness.

The author has something to say:

It's a bit confusing, let me explain it to you. Bai Liu is the last test player. After he tests a game, the game can be launched online. So in order to prevent the game from being launched, Bai Liu didn't want to hit the game's [true end], so he was stuck in the game and couldn't leave. The developer couldn't do anything about it, so he had to give up the game.

Then Spade forced Bai Liu to complete the game

That's about it!

Sorry, I should have finished the last chapter, but I found that there was still a plot missing, so I added it here.

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Mini-theater:

Me: Let me interview the person involved. Heitao, may I ask what do you think about this heart-wrenching action?

Spade (distracted): ...

Bai Liu (smiles): I think he had planned this a long time ago. He probably said those words to the Rose Factory to give me a heads-up. I think it’s okay and I’m not too angry. This is not the first time he has done this.

Spade (subconscious): I'm sorry

Bai Liu (continues to smile): I'm not angry

Spade: ...

Afterwards, Spade, the person involved, told us that he had an intuitive feeling of murder at the time.