Bai Liu walked towards the cockpit on the ups and downs of the aircraft deck, with Du Sanying standing beside him. Objects flying from both sides of the aircraft automatically avoided them.

In front of the cockpit door, Bai Liu knocked on it. The people inside pushed the door open with great effort. They looked at the two extra people on the plane in astonishment. Almost instantly, they pulled out guns from the side and pointed them at Bai Liu's head, saying angrily:

"Who are you?! How did you hide on the plane and follow me here?!"

Bai Liu was wearing a thick down hat and an oxygen mask that covered most of his face. The team member didn't recognize that this was the Bai Liu who had caused such a turmoil in the Bureau of Heresy.

"I was sent by Tang Erda, the former captain of the Third Division of the Bureau of Heresy, to handle the current situation." Bai Liu exhaled a breath of white air, raised his eyes and looked directly at the team member, "He foresaw this situation."

The team member hesitantly put away his gun and asked, "Are you the living heretic Bai Liu that Captain Tang is following? Did Captain Tang send you here?"

Bai Liu nodded.

The team member gritted his teeth, turned around and let Bai Liu into the cockpit: "Come in and talk."

The captain sat in the cockpit with bloodshot eyes, his hands rapidly operating the dial that kept beeping alarms, and asked coldly without turning his head: "——What can you do?"

"You all know that I'm a living heretic, so I won't be transformed by the corpse." Bai Liu said calmly, "Open the door of the cargo hold for me, and I can take out the corpse and carry it with me, then parachute down alone."

The captain's eyes moved, and he finally glanced at Bai Liu with his peripheral vision: "--You want me to hand over a high-risk heretic like a corpse to you, a high-risk heretic, for safekeeping?"

His attitude was aggressive, even a little fierce: "--What if you run away with the body, or want to use it for other things?"

“If a little bit of this heresy is leaked, thousands of people will die. Do you know how precious human life is?”

"You have no idea. In your eyes, human life is just a superficial thing, not even as valuable as money." The captain turned his eyes back, expressionless, "But in my eyes, it's not. I can't take responsibility for so many lives in Antarctica."

"You have a history of this sort of thing. The Third Squadron has not yet settled the account with you regarding the Rose Factory."

"I won't let you take the body."

The co-pilot couldn't help but advise: "Captain, this is also a solution!"

Another team member also became anxious: "Captain! Do you really want to be cut into four pieces?!"

The captain interrupted them with a sharp rebuke: "Okay, find parachutes and communication equipment for these two people, throw them down, and let them roll back on their own. No need to waste any more words!"

"I have made up my mind!"

Bai Liu exhaled calmly: "The lives of the people you want to save are lives, but the lives of these team members, your own life is not a life, right?"

"Who gave you the right to use your own life and the lives of these team members to exchange for the lives of what you thought were ordinary people?"

"Shut up!" The captain gritted his teeth, tightened his cheeks, and his eyes were red with tears, "Get off the plane!"

Bai Liu continued calmly: "They are human beings, so you are not human beings?"

"Or do you think that you and your teammates are inherently inferior and should be sacrificed first when encountering any situation, so that you can die in exchange for others to live? Aren't you afraid of death?"

The crew members and the co-pilot were all at a loss for words.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes: "But I am not a human, I am a living heretic, a monster who has made mistakes and has no moral values ​​or human emotions - you are right just now, Captain, human life is indeed not as valuable as money in my eyes."

"So in your eyes, you don't have to treat me as a human being."

"At this critical moment, you used my life to preserve the overall situation. Whether it was out of emotion or ethics, it is in line with the logic of the human worldview."

Bai Liu's voice was gentle, steady and firm: "I am the one who should be sacrificed, not you."

"As for what you said about me using corpses, I don't deny that I have a tendency to use everything, but you brought a high-risk heretic on the plane. You must have some way to control a high-risk heretic like me, right?"

Even the member of the Third Team who had always disliked Bai Liu couldn't help shaking his head at this moment. He decisively refused: "But that is used to remotely monitor the mental pollution of corpses and prevent riots. The monitoring metal mechanical buckle must be driven into the bones of every part of the body..."

Bai Liu interrupted him and replied casually: "Just use this."

The team member looked up suddenly, and he retorted in disbelief: "But you are a living person! Because we are hitting a corpse, we don't have any anesthesia equipment. There are thirty rings in total. If we force it in, you will be in so much pain that you will die!"

"But the corpse is also made of this, right?" Bai Liu looked up at the team member with a faint smile on his face. "It and I have always been the same kind of monster, or heretic."

"Isn't it normal to use the same thing to control it?"

The captain shouted: "- Even if you are a fucking heretic, I will not agree to use this thing on a living person, Bai Liu, get off the plane-"

"Captain." Bai Liu interrupted him calmly, "There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. I will suffer this pain, or you will die five at once. You have to choose one."

The captain's back teeth were grinding against each other, the area under his eyes was dark blue, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and the muscle on his cheekbone was shaking from clenching his back teeth.

Bai Liu suddenly stepped forward, half bowed, and said sincerely: "Captain, you have people you want to save, and I also have monsters I want to save."

"I hope you can understand and help me realize my dream."

The captain stood up from the cockpit and gave his seat to the team member who was guarding nearby. He turned around and looked at Bai Liu who was still bowing. He let out a long breath because his fingers, which had been operating for a long time, were unable to open or close for a moment.

His gaze slowly moved from the haggard faces of the two team members who were still operating the instrument dials to the white clouds and mist outside the window, and he briefly relaxed for a while.

Then he closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice:

"...Come over here, just put on the four rings, wrists and ankles, control the limbs."

Bai Liu stood up and thanked him sincerely, "Thank you."

The captain waved his hand wearily: "If it hurts, just tell me if you can't bear it any longer."

Bai Liu was taken to the infirmary. Du Sanying waited outside anxiously. He thought he would hear some screams from inside, or at least a little groan - the beating was without anesthesia, and it sounded very painful.

But in the end, all that could be heard from the infirmary was a sound like a stapler stapled books together. It was heard four times, and then Bai Liu said in a calm voice, "Are you done? Thank you, Captain."

Du Sanying wanted to push the door open, but he stopped - he heard the sound of someone kneeling inside, and the knees hit the cold floor with a bang.

"You are a heretic, a monster without fear. The Heretic Management Bureau, our Third Squadron will monitor you for the rest of your life and won't give you any chance to do evil." The captain gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

Bai Liu hummed calmly: "I know, this is your position, I understand."

The captain's breathing was rapid. He seemed to be crying, his voice was choked with sobs, and then there were two heavy, forceful, knocking sounds: "But this time, I take back all my previous personal evaluations of you."

"Thank you for saving the other team members, thank you for saving me."

Two people came out of the infirmary. Bai Liu rubbed his wrist gently. There was a yellow mark on his back that had been disinfected with iodine, and there were some strange deformations on the protrusion of the bone - this should be where the ring was hammered in.

The captain's face still had traces of tears that had been roughly wiped away. He nodded to Bai Liu and said, "I'll help you open the cargo door. Go ahead."

Bai Liu led Du Sanying, who had not yet come to his senses, all the way to the lower cargo hold.

As soon as you enter the cargo hold, you can see at a glance the metal boxes that store corpses. They are neatly placed in a circle at a distance of about two or three meters, with a lot of foam and air cushions stuffed in between them. However, some of the air cushions have been punctured during the turbulence and are spread out on the ground with a clatter.

Bai Liu asked Du Sanying to stand at the door of the cargo hold, telling him not to get close and preferably not to look, to avoid being mentally contaminated. He went in alone to deal with the body parts in the box.

Du Sanying stayed obediently at the door of the cargo hold, his back straight as if he was standing sentry.

In fact, even if Bai Liu didn't tell him, he wouldn't look back at the things in the boxes - those boxes inexplicably gave him a premonition of bad luck, which made him feel a little creepy.

Less than ten minutes later, Bai Liu came out with the body wrapped in cloth and winter clothes. He intentionally kept a distance from Du Sanying.

Bai Liu: "Go contact the captain and ask him to prepare for everyone to abandon the plane and try to find a place where you can parachute and land."

——According to the path of the game "Ice Age", this plane is most likely not able to be saved and will most likely crash. Run away as soon as possible.

Except for the captain and co-pilot who were still in the cockpit, the other three team members were already waiting at the door of the plane.

They were sent here to teach Bai Liu how to parachute from a high altitude, and one of them would even jump down to give Bai Liu an aerial demonstration.

In order to avoid being spiritually polluted, they stood far away from the white willow and could only shout when talking in the strong wind:

"If you land on the sea, the parachute comes with a raft. We've modified it with heresy, so it's lightweight and can withstand very low temperatures. It can be used as a temporary landing point on the sea after it expands instantly. The raft doesn't bear much weight, so don't put anything too heavy on it."

"Be careful not to let either you or the corpse fall into the water!"

"The water temperature here is too low. If you fall into the water, your life will be in danger. The corpses will pollute the water and mutate the creatures here."

"If you land on land, the package contains a tent and some dry food, which can last for about a week. Find a safe place to carry them during this period. You have our Bureau of Heresy buckle on you, which is equipped with a positioning system. We will do our best to find you within a week."

The three team members shouted until their voices became hoarse, and pointed at Du Sanying and said, "And Bai Liu, what is the purpose of this person you brought here?"

"Do you want to take him with you? He is a heretic like you. Won't he be bothered by the corpse?"

Bai Liu looked at Du Sanying who was shivering in the cold wind, and turned to say, "I brought him because I have always had bad luck. Unexpected situations always occur no matter what I do."

"But I didn't want anything to happen this time, so I brought him with me to avoid any accidents later."

The team members were puzzled: "What kind of unexpected situation?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes: "--For example, the body fell into the hands of others."

Three minutes later.

The side and rear doors of the plane finally opened at the captain's instruction.

The cold wind was howling, and everyone put on their parachuting bags, prepared oxygen, breathing masks and cold-proof gear, and waited in anti-cold weather.

The turbulence of the plane became more and more severe, and it was almost out of control. Du Sanying, who was standing in the wind, was almost blown off his feet. He had to hold on to a handle to steady his body. He was trying to put on the package himself.

While putting on the uniform, the team members instructed Du Sanying on how to follow the parachute jump.

"Normally, you and him are tied together for parachuting, but you and Bai Liu are both newcomers, so parachuting is not safe. Besides, there's already a dead body tied to him. You can only parachute with him and try to land at the same place as him."

"But the weather in Antarctica is not suitable for parachuting in all aspects - the only successful parachuting I know of here is base jumping, not high altitude parachuting."

"Because the view below is completely white when parachuting from a high altitude, and the wind direction is unpredictable, it is difficult to locate and find the landing point, so don't force it. You can also look for each other after landing."

"Originally I was going to take you for a double jump, which would be safer." The team member sighed, "but you didn't want to."

Du Sanying paused slightly as he was clumsily adjusting the strap on his chest. He raised his head and forced a smile: "I'll be fine by myself. I'm very lucky."

——But the person who will lead me may not be the same.

Currently, the only person who can survive around him is Bai Liu.

The team member thanked him solemnly: "But whether you are a human or a living heretic like Bai Liu, please be careful."

"Thank you for saving us."

As he spoke, the team member was about to reach out to help Du Sanying adjust the mixed up chest straps.

Du Sanying responded quietly, turned his shoulder to avoid the team member's adjustment, and lowered his head almost to his chest: "...I can do it myself, you can stand a little further away from me."

The team member first performed a parachute jump as a demonstration, exited the cabin, glided, spread his arms, and disappeared in the dense cloud mist in an instant.

"With this kind of visibility," one team member frowned, "it's too difficult to follow the parachute jumper. It's best to find someone to follow you."

"No need." Du Sanying pinched the rope of the parachute bag and whispered, "...It's okay, I'm lucky, I can definitely catch up with Bai Liu."

Parachute jumping begins.

Bai Liu jumped down from the hatch, passing through the thick clouds and icy fog. The cold air cut through his heart and lungs like thousands of newly sharpened single-edged blades, freezing his limbs and paralyzing them. Even the wounds from the buckles didn't hurt that much.

He felt like a camera lens dropping down from a great height to shoot. The clouds, fog, and sea water seemed to be a constantly switching high-frame picture, filling Bai Liu's vision with a dynamic sense.

It was beautiful and ethereal, like the expensive CG opening of a large-scale game.

It gave people a hazy, unreal feeling of coldness, just like the frost on Bai Liu's face at the moment.

Under Bai Liu's feet were 14 million tons of icy ice, in the sky was an airplane about to crash with its tail starting to burn, and hugging his chest was his only friend, who was also his lover who was now broken into pieces.

So who will it be in his future?

[Future] did not tell him the answer, so Bai Liu gave himself one.

In that narrow orphanage, every child longed day and night to be taken away by a strange man and woman - just as they longed to have parents who loved them, caring friends, and brothers and sisters who grew up with them.

They long for a family like those found in fairy tales.

But Bai Liu never participated in the process of being screened and taken away.

So Shetta asked him: [Don’t you want a daddy? ]

Bai Liu said: [I don’t want to.]

Sheta asked: [Where is Mom? ]

Bai Liu said: [I don’t want to.]

Sheta said: [Sisters, brothers, do you want anything? ]

Bai Liu said: [What's the use of them?]

Shetta seemed confused: [This seems to be a necessary component of family needs. ]

Bai Liu asked back: [What is the use of family? ]

Shetta thought for a while and shook his head honestly: [Family seems to be a place formed after two people decide to be together, bound by laws, morals, and a certain emotion called love, to stay together forever.]

【Everyone seems to be longing for family. 】

Xie Ta asked Bai Liu: "If you have a family without these necessary components, what would you like to put in the family?"

Bai Liu did not answer at that time because he felt that he would never need something like a family.

It's too boring for two people to be tied together forever.

But these two monsters...seem pretty good.

Now Bai Liu and Xie Ta have met all the conditions for forming a family, so...if Bai Liu has a [family], then Xie Ta is his only family.

He hoped that if there was a future, Xie Ta would be in it, and if Xie Ta would be willing to love him forever and become Bai Liu's family...that would be great.

That's fine.

A gust of unreasonable wind blew violently the moment Bai Liu opened the parachute.