Bai Liu looked at the system panel that popped up. After Alex's favorability dropped briefly, it rose again. He realized that Tang Er had dealt with the matter over there.

Now he was in his dormitory which was converted from a hotel in the town. Dozens of recruits were crammed into a small room - this was already the best room.

But fortunately, all of them were out now, leaving only Hei Tao sitting next to Bai Liu and Guy sitting opposite him.

Guy stretched out his arms and leaned on the bed. He noticed Bai Liu's gaze and smiled friendly, "You're not used to it, right? This is the best condition here."

"But you can probably have this room to yourself tonight and have a nice time together," Guy winked. "These new guys will be partying all night in the taverns and whorehouses in town."

"After all, they don't know if they can come back alive from the assault mission, so they have to enjoy themselves with the military pay given to them in advance."

Bai Liu looked at Guy and said, "You will go too, right?"

Guy shrugged his shoulders. "Everyone from the assault team will be there. Normally Alex won't allow me to attend such gatherings, but this time should be an exception."

He smiled nonchalantly: "After all, before you die, you have to eat your head."

Bai Liu pondered Alex's approach and asked, "Alex will go with you, right?"

"Of course!" Guy seemed to be helpless under the constraints, but his smile was full of happiness, "He won't let me go alone."

After knowing that Alex, the main NPC, would go, Bai Liu immediately asked, "Can we go with you?"

Guy looked up with a hint of surprise, leaned forward and held Bai Liu's hand: "Of course! I thought you wouldn't like this kind of occasion."

Spade, who was sitting nearby, slowly lowered his gaze to Bai Liu's hand holding Guy's. He paused for a moment, then looked away and lowered his eyes to the tiptoes of his feet, rolling them.

Guy was completely unaware of Spade's gaze and continued excitedly, "I have prepared a show for Alex tonight. It would be great if you, as friends, could come!"

Bai Liu realized that this might be a hidden plot, so he smiled and asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"God, you really hit the nail on the head, Bai Liu!" Guy was both worried and happy. "I'm really worried that no one can help me. This is a big show, and I have to keep it a secret from Alex. The guys I know don't have the sense to keep secrets. I can only do it alone."

"It would be great if you and Spade would like to help."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Of course."

Guy stood up excitedly: "Then I'll go get the list now. There are a lot of things to prepare for this show."

After Guy left, Bai Liu put away the smile on his face, and Hei Tao sat silently beside him, with a distance of exactly 50 centimeters between them.

Since leaving the camp, Bai Liu has kept this distance from Hei Tao and has not spoken a word to him again.

Bai Liu talked to Alex, talked to Tang Erda, talked a lot to Guy, and even shook hands with him.

But he just didn't talk to Spades.

"Are you deliberately not talking to me?" Spade asked, lowering his eyes.

There were only him and Bai Liu in the room. Although he didn't look at Bai Liu, it was obvious that he was talking to Bai Liu.

Bai Liu was silent for a few seconds, then he turned his head to look at the door that Guy had left open before he left: "Yes."

Hei Tao raised his head and looked at him: "Are you angry that I kissed you?"

Bai Liu replied calmly: "No."

Spade was confused: "Then why don't you talk to me?"

Bai Liu turned his head to look at Hei Tao and asked calmly, "Do I have anything to say to you?"

Spade paused, then spoke again: "But we have a special relationship, so we should talk more."

"That was in front of Guy, for the main mission. We are nothing in private." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "I really hate you, Spade. I've said it three times, the most recent one was 47 minutes ago. Do I need to repeat it again?"

Spade was silent for a while, the whip in his left hand hanging on the side of the bed, he shook it, and then said:

"That was forty-seven minutes ago. I thought you didn't hate me by now."

Bai Liu turned his eyes away and said, "Mr. Spade, has anything happened in these forty-seven minutes that made me dislike you?"

Spade looked at him and said, "I carried your bag for you."

Bai Liu said coldly: "Tang Erda also helped me to mention it."

Spade said seriously: "You are happier when I help you pick it up."

"I saw you smile at me several times."

Bai Liu: “…”

Bai Liu calmly retorted: "I didn't."

Spade repeated more seriously: "You have it, you are behind me..."

"——That's enough, shut up." Bai Liu interrupted Heitao. He took a deep breath and turned his head away without any emotion on his face. He tightened his fingers holding the edge of the bed slightly, "That smile was not directed at you, but at Tang Erda."

Spade's swinging whip stopped for a moment, he said "oh" and stopped talking again.

"We have a special relationship in front of Guy, but not in private, right?" Spade asked again after a while.

Bai Liu's eyes were half closed, and he hummed without turning his head.

Guy came back dragging several large boxes of things, with a long pole clamped in his arm and a notebook in his mouth. There were too many things, and Guy was blocked at the door and couldn't get in.

Bai Liu stood up to help, and Hei Tao also helped to take the box.

Guy collapsed back onto the bed and panted. "God, this is more exhausting than fighting in a war."

"What are these?" Bai Liu asked.

Guy sat up and smiled mysteriously at Bai Liu: "Something that can make Alex, that little bastard, smile at me all day long. Of course, Alex always smiles at me normally."

"You know, when you like someone, you can't help but smile at him." Guy winked at Bai Liu, "Just like you do to Hei Tao."

The expression on Bai Liu's face froze.

Hei Tao, who was packing his boxes, straightened up slowly. He was staring at Bai Liu. Although he didn't say a word, Bai Liu could read the arrogance of "You are smiling at me" from this guy's calm eyes.

Bai Liu explained calmly: "No, I was joking with Tang Er."

"Come on!" Guy waved his hand and lay down again. "You may be able to deceive others, but look at Spade's eyes and smile, they are exactly the same as when I was with Alex just now."

"What a wonderful period of passionate love." Guy sighed while lying on the bed.

Spade nodded in agreement.

Bai Liu glanced at Hei Tao slowly, and Hei Tao paused in nodding. Then he said with no desire to survive, "You are just smiling at me."

"You didn't make fun of Tang Er." He emphasized, "You are wrong."

Bai Liu smiled slowly and raised his eyelids: "I was wrong, so what?"

"I smiled at you this time, but I don't have to smile at you next time. I can always smile at Tang Erda. After all..." Bai Liu smiled very kindly. He leaned close to Hei Tao's ear and whispered, "When Guy is not around, I can smile at anyone and for as long as I want."

"It has nothing to do with you."

After saying that, Bai Liu turned around and went over to sort out the contents of the list with Guy.

Spade's originally high spirits slowly fell back down. He slowly sat down on the bed, lowered his head to organize the items in the box that Guy brought back. He seemed to be in deep thought, and seemed a little confused as to why he was so depressed and confused.

Guy took out the list and sorted the items one by one. He noticed the little tricks of Bai Liu and Hei Tao. He nudged Bai Liu with his elbow and smiled knowingly: "What are you and Hei Tao doing?"

"Nothing is as shocking as the show you and Alex had before." Bai Liu changed the subject as if nothing had happened. He glanced at the things he had prepared on the list and looked up at Guy. "You and him have a really good relationship."

Guy held his chin, his eyes full of nostalgia, with a faint smile on his lips: "It's not always good. I've had arguments with him before."

He recalled quietly for a while, and then said abruptly: "Alex has a fiancée back home."

Bai Liu showed surprise at the right time.

"What do you mean by that expression?" Guy raised his eyebrows. "I wouldn't do anything to steal someone's love. When Alex and I were together, he didn't have a fiancée. His parents later chose one for him. After Alex received the photo of his fiancée from his parents, he immediately wrote a letter to reject the offer."

"But you know what? I think there might be something wrong with my brain."

Guy smiled absentmindedly: "At that moment, I even wanted to stop Alex from saying no, but it was not fair to the little girl, and Alex felt the same way."

Bai Liu listened quietly.

"Alex is a very good medical student. He has made a lot of achievements during his university years. He invented a drug that can preserve the dying body. This can extend the time before death and save more dying people. This is also the reason why he became a cleanup soldier. He wanted to see if he could help these soldiers."

Guy recalled: "That little girl, Alex's fiancée was a small town girl who adored him. Even though Alex wrote to her and told her that he had a lover, she was still determined to wait for Alex to come back, saying that even if you give up on me, you have to give up on me in person and alive."

"——I don't accept a letter from a person whose life or death is unknown rejecting my love. This is disrespectful to me."

Guy laughed, "She was a very nice girl. She knew I was a man, but she even provoked me in the letter and asked us to come back alive to give her love a perfect end."

He lowered his head softly and stroked the wedding dress in his arms that he had taken out of the box.

"I was a cunning man. I didn't tell Alex that I was selected for the commandos, but I wrote to his fiancée and begged her to let me marry Alex before her."

"What a despicable act! Anyone who hears it will feel disgusted." Guy laughed at himself and looked at the wedding dress. "The girl didn't write me a single word in reply."

"She just... hurriedly made this wedding dress in adult men's size overnight and sent it to the front line. It was mailed to me with the words 'God bless you with everlasting happiness' sewn on it."

Guy raised his red eyes and smiled softly and reluctantly: "You know Bai Liu, I am a very lucky person. I have never met many bad people. The people around me treat me very well. They are so kind and upright, and their souls are shining."

"But I am so miserable and sad." Guy's eyes were filled with tears, "because every one of them is having a hard time because of the war."

"No one can be happy because of war, so why should war still exist?"

Bai Liu looked at Guy calmly as he cried.

He said, "Because God does not want you to be happy, He creates war."

At night, the town is brightly lit.

The coming war lit up the town ahead of time. Everyone raised their glasses and drank like they had already won a battle. The streets were filled with beer foam.

The assault team contracted a small tavern. The veterans almost emptied the wine shelves in the tavern. The owner was busy transporting wine from the wine cellar below. The alcohol concentration was so high that the air here would make you feel tipsy after just a few sips.

In this situation, people who don't drink alcohol are a bit conspicuous.

Tang Er sat next to Alex holding a glass of wine. They all drank low-alcohol wine, and even Spade took a glass of sparkling wine and put it on the table.

Only Bai Liu was holding a glass of boiled water with ice cubes.

"Are you... unable to drink at all?" Tang Erda looked at Bai Liu in surprise.

In his mind, it was incredible that Bai Liu couldn't drink, because he remembered that Bai Liu drank...

Bai Liu looked at him dimly: "Office animals have no right to drink. I will have a terrible headache the next day when I work overtime on the computer. I won't torture myself for no reason."

Tang Erda: "..."

Life has really changed you a lot, Bai Liu.

Hei Tao sat aside and watched Bai Liu and Tang Er talking silently. He opened his mouth and tried to say something, but when he thought of Bai Liu's threatening smile and the words "I want to make Tang Er laugh all the time", he swallowed his words silently.

He lowered his eyes and looked at the vodka in the glass.

Generally speaking, Nishen also strictly forbade him to drink. Although Spade was not the type of person who had a bad drinking behavior, nor was he the type who would go crazy after drinking, he would be particularly stubborn after getting drunk. He would get to the bottom of everything and anyone who talked to him would be furious.

Simply put, you will become a nitpicker.

To be on the safe side, Hei Tao was not prepared to drink. After all, Ni Shen had warned him many times that he would easily offend people if he drank.

Although Spade didn't know what was so terrible about offending others, but after being cursed by the God so many times, Spade would not take the initiative to drink.

Bai Liu took a sip of ice water and watched Tang Er drinking wine like water with interest: "You can drink quite a lot."

Tang Er paused in his action of raising his glass: "There was a time when I used alcohol to drown my sorrows. I got used to it after drinking too much."

Bai Liu immediately realized what Tang Erda was talking about, and he said apologetically, "I'm sorry."

"It has nothing to do with you." Tang Er shook his head, calmed down for a moment and drank another half cup, but his eyes were still clear. "Not now, I drink less."

Bai Liu smiled: "It's a good thing to be able to drink a lot. I actually like the fact that you can drink a lot."

Hei Tao, who was sitting behind Bai Liu, straightened his back without making a sound.

Tang Erda helped Bai Liu fend off many NPCs who came to drink with him thanks to his drinking capacity, so Bai Liu said this.

But Heitao's understanding was wrong. He sat down in front of Tang Erda with a whip in his hand and an expressionless face. He pushed Bai Liu away and placed the wine glass in front of Tang Erda: "Want to drink?"

Tang Erda, who was immersed in his memories, asked: "???"

Tang Er turned his head with a puzzled look at Bai Liu behind Hei Tao, but before he saw Bai Liu, Hei Tao turned his shoulder and blocked Bai Liu behind him.

Heitao said coldly: "I asked you to drink, why are you looking at Bai Liu?"

Bai Liu's calm voice came from behind Hei Tao: "Drinking can cause trouble, don't drink with him..."

Before he finished speaking, several drunkards nearby seemed to be attracted by the tense atmosphere. They sat on the bar with wide eyes and applauded, "Someone is drinking with vodka!"

"Come on, boss, take out all the vodka in your hotel!"

"Let's have a drinking battle before the big fight!"

In this extremely uninhibited atmosphere, in the blink of an eye, the bar counters around Hei Tao and Tang Erda were densely packed with various brewed liquors. A group of people around them whistled and screamed, just to watch the fun and enjoy the excitement.

There was no expression on Heitao's face. He raised his chin towards Tang Er and said, "Want to drink?"

As a main attacker, Tang Erda would completely follow Bai Liu's instructions in the game. He subconsciously looked for Bai Liu among the crowd that gathered around him.

Heitao stood up and blocked Tang Erda's line of sight. He looked at him levelly and asked, "How long do you want to consider this?"

"He doesn't want to drink with you." Bai Liu walked out of the crowd, stood in front of Tang Erda, raised his eyes and looked directly at Hei Tao.

Tang Er breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to signal his surrender.

There was a huge booing from the sidelines, and the crowd prepared to leave in disappointment.

"You and I are the right couple." Heitao refused to give in. He reached out and pulled Alex, who was about to sneak away from the crowd, into the room. Then he looked straight at Bai Liu and said, "Alex is here. You should stand on my side. We have a special relationship now."

Alex, who was inexplicably dragged into the Shura field, covered his face and pretended that he didn't exist.

God! I'd rather be at the front!

Bai Liu sneered: "So what if it's a special relationship? Tang Erda and I also have a special relationship, soul buddies. You are just playing along."

Tang Erda felt a chill down his spine because of Bai Liu's laughter. He felt that Bai Liu was really angry because of Hei Tao.

Tang Erda, who didn't want to be dragged into the muddy water, pretended to be calm and retreated stiffly. However, Bai Liu pulled him in front of him by his collar and patted him on the shoulder twice.

Heitao looked at Tang Erda's shoulder solemnly: "A special relationship can only accommodate two people."

"Bai Liu, you are wrong again."

Bai Liu smiled more gently than ever before: "How could I be wrong? He and I have a special relationship, so can't I just end the special relationship with you?"

Hei Tao pursed his lower lips, his dark eyes hinting at some emotion.

Tang Erda: "..."

No, Bai Liu is really angry! He can't handle this situation!

It would be good if Liu Jiayi was here. He had no idea what Bai Liu and Heitao were doing!

Heitao seemed to realize that he couldn't argue with Bai Liu. He bypassed Bai Liu and stared at Tang Erda: "Will you drink with me?"

Bai Liu smiled in a friendly manner. He stood in front of Tang Erda and said, "He is my soul mate. I have to be responsible for him. If you want to drink with him, there is no reason for me to ignore it."

He reached out and snatched the glass of vodka from Spade's hand, drank it down in one gulp, then turned the glass upside down and placed it steadily on the table.

Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled: "How about you and I drink together?"

Hei Tao stared at Bai Liu for a while, and after realizing that Bai Liu would not back down and would definitely get Tang Er to drink, he became completely quiet, standing still, with his fingers holding the whip slightly curled.

Alex, who was held tightly by Spade and couldn't leave, said: "..."

Brother, don't take out your anger on my arm, it hurts!

Guy, help!

When Alex thought that Spade would directly beat up Tang Er, the mistress, and Bai Liu, the scumbag, Spade drank a glass without hesitation.

Heitao imitated Bai Liu's movements and put down the wine glass, looking straight at Bai Liu: "Okay, let's compete. If you win, we still have a special relationship. You have to admit that you were smiling at me before, not at Tang Erdiao."

Bai Liu paused slightly, his fingers clasped the wine glass tightly, a thin layer of alcohol appeared under his eyelids, and his voice became a little lighter for some reason: "...Admit it if you want."