Alex's screams gradually faded away, and soldiers covered in blood walked out of the tent one after another. They shook the blood off their hands and left.

Bai Liu looked down at his watch and waited for another fifteen minutes before walking outside Guy's tent and pulling open the curtain to go in.

Tang Erda waited outside with a complicated expression: "I won't go in. Alex's mental state should not be very good now."

"...If you need anything, call me." Tang Erda couldn't help but call Bai Liu, "Will you continue to use Alex?"

Bai Liu paused in his attempt to open the curtain, then smiled and turned his head to answer naturally, "Yes, what's wrong?"

Tang Erda pursed his lips, clenched his fists and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, shaking his head: "...Nothing."

As a player, it is natural for Bai Liu to use the NPCs in the game to achieve his own goals. He is indeed not obligated to consider the feelings of the NPCs.

But why did he feel so uneasy...

Bai Liu patted Tang Erda on the shoulder and asked gently, "If you feel uncomfortable with the way I used Alex, I can take care of his feelings and try another way."

Tang Erda wanted to say that he didn't mind, but when he met Bai Liu's dark eyes that didn't even show a smile, he blurted out: "What method?"

"It's a very useful method." Bai Liu smiled, "You will like it."

——Because he had also used this method on Tang Erda.

Bai Liu opened the curtain and walked in.

Alex sat motionless in the middle of the blood-stained tent, his head hanging as if it would fall off his neck at any second. His hands on both sides of the wheelchair were covered in blood, which was dripping from his fingertips. At his feet lay Guy's head, whose eyes were still closed.

The bed at the back was a mess of blood and flesh, the snow-white sheets were stained red in large patches, limbs were scattered on the sheets, and internal organs were flowing out of the abdominal cavities. Such a pile of people looked like lambs that had been chopped up but not yet picked up.

It was a hot and humid rainy season, and within a short while after Guy's death, flies had already come to pick up the body.

Bai Liu stood in front of Alex, but Alex still kept his head down as if he felt everything. His eyes had completely dulled, as if he could no longer respond to anything in the outside world.

But Bai Liu only needed one sentence to make Alex raise his head.

"You guessed it, didn't you?" Bai Liu said, "I arranged for Guy to die like this."

Alex slowly raised his head, his voice extremely hoarse: "...Why?"

"I believe you should have guessed this, otherwise you wouldn't have come to the Red Cross to guard Guy." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, looking down at Alex with pity, "Because Guy himself wanted to die like this."

"He wanted to apologize to his teammates who he killed by blowing them to pieces, so he wanted to die like this too."

Alex's face was covered with dried tear marks, and tears were overflowing from his eyes, which had already been red and swollen from crying.

He lowered his head and covered his face, choking: "Guy..."

Alex cried for a while, then raised his head with all his strength. He looked at Bai Liu with disgust and an unconcealable fear: "Guy wanted to die to atone for his sins. You didn't want him to die for such a simple reason, did you?"

[System prompt: NPC Alex's favorability towards player Bai Liu is decreasing...]

Bai Liu seemed to have not heard the hint and replied to Alex calmly, "Yes, I facilitated all this for my own purpose."

Alex arched his back and half stood up from the wheelchair, shouting at the top of his lungs: "--You induced Guy's death, you deliberately let me see this scene, you have been using us from the beginning!"

"You despicable liar, dirty manipulator!" Alex panted, his eyes full of hatred and bloodshot, "--you are much more evil than that non-existent god."

He couldn't help but shed tears, and he recalled as if mumbling to himself: "...Guy trusted you so much, you accepted his bouquet, and had your own wedding under his witness."

"...People like you don't deserve any pure love in this world."

Alex cursed fiercely: "If one day, Spade discovers your true face, he will definitely leave you!"

Bai Liu's fingers hanging at his side clasped together slightly, but his expression remained calm, even with a bit of a peaceful smile: "This is nothing new to me."

Alex yelled and insulted Bai Liu for more than half an hour, repeating the same few words over and over again. This well-born medical student didn't seem to be very good at swearing. In the end, he broke down and cried bitterly. He grabbed Bai Liu's clothes and questioned him:

"Why did you let him die? Why did he have to die?!"

"Isn't my existence worth him letting go of his guilt and hatred and starting over?"

Alex was shaking with tears. He looked at his empty hands and couldn't stop crying: "...There is nothing left. Nothing is left for me."

Bai Liu turned his eyes to the pile of things on the bed: "He also left his body for you."

Alex shuddered. He couldn't control his distorted expression. He raised his head and looked at Bai Liu in horror.

But Alex quickly calmed down. He pushed the wheelchair back a few steps and said, "I won't use this medicine on him. Guy will always be Guy. He is a person, even in death. I will not turn him into a monster without a soul."

Bai Liu chuckled: "Why not? Is there any difference between the resurrected Guy and the Guy you love?"

"They are not the same thing at all!!" Alex seemed to have finally discovered Bai Liu's madness. He kept raising his voice, as if this could suppress the weird chilling fear on his back. "--The corpses that have been treated with that drug are just corpses. They only have flesh and blood vessels. They can only move. They are nothing."

"They are just soulless monsters!"

Tang Er, who was standing outside the door, frowned and eavesdropped from the corner of the wall. Alex's emotions were so agitated that he doubted whether the Bai Liu family really had the so-called gentler approach.

Someone patted Tang Erda on the shoulder. He turned around and widened his eyes in surprise.

Heitao stood in front of Tang Erda with no emotion on his face. He stared at the tent for a while but did not go in. He turned around and asked Tang Erda: "Is it not possible for a person to fall in love with a soulless monster?"

Tang Erda was stunned by this sudden question.

Bai Liu nodded and motioned for Alex to continue: "So?"

Alex looked at Bai Liu in disbelief: "Could you fall in love with a soulless vessel?"

It was quiet inside for a long time, and the only sound that could be heard was Bai Liu's calm and gentle breathing - he seemed to be thinking.

Spade stood straight outside the tent, his lips tightly pursed and his fists clenched tightly. He looked like he was about to rush in and force Bai Liu to give him an answer, then beat Alex up.

Bai Liu finally spoke: "I don't know."

This even surprised Tang Erda. No Bai Liu in his memory would give such an ambiguous answer before negotiating or exploiting someone.

Tang Erda didn't know why he relaxed.

——Bai Liu didn't do this purely to take advantage of Alex and Guy.

Bai Liu just answered Alex's question seriously, but he did not give an answer based on pure profit-orientation.

He is different from Bai Liu.

Tang Er let out a long sigh of relief.

A faint sense of depression appeared on Hei Tao's expressionless face. He kicked the gun that was placed across the door of the tent and asked coldly, "Why doesn't he know?"

Tang Er went to pick up the gun with a puzzled look in his head: "Go in and ask Bai Liu. How do I know why he doesn't know?"

After Hei Tao made an "oh" sound, he took a step forward and approached the tent. He walked back and forth twice with a serious expression but still did not go in. He took a step back and squatted next to Tang Erda. He lowered his head and poked small holes in the soil with his fingers. He poked two neat rows of holes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Tang Erda was confused: "Why don't you go in?"

Hei Tao squatted on the ground with his knees hugged, his feet stepping back and forth, and his body swaying back and forth, like a child squatting on the ground in a daze after being abandoned by his friends.

When Tang Er asked him, Heitao just hummed calmly and said, "I don't know either."

Heitao stared at the hole on the ground, poking it hard while answering Tang Erda, his tone a little depressed: "...I don't want to see Bai Liu for the time being. He doesn't even know this."

Tang Er looked in the direction Heitao was looking, was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh with amusement.

The holes made by the spades formed two crooked words - Bai Liu.

Even though I say I don't want to see you, I still want to see you.

Alex inside was also confused by Bai Liu's answer: "...I don't know?"

"I can't say I don't know at all." Bai Liu's voice was very flat, "It's just that it's hard to tell whether you are remembering the feelings you once had for him in this body, or whether this body is actively trying to bear the part of the feelings you have."

"Sometimes I feel like he is a token of God's mercy to me."

Bai Liu was silent for a long time, then spoke again: "Sometimes, I feel that he is the monster I love."

"It's not that he doesn't have a soul, it's just that the soul is hidden under the shell. I have to wait until the day when the soul comes out to see me again."

Alex looked at Bai Liu in disbelief. He forced a joke: "...You sound like you've been through the same thing as me..."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked directly at Alex: "I have indeed experienced it."

"So I can tell you that two people in love may be separated by death." Bai Liu's eyes fell to Guy's head at Alex's feet, calmly and distantly, "But two monsters in love will not."

The curtain of the tent was suddenly pulled open. Bai Liu moved his gaze over and saw Hei Tao standing at the door with his back to the light. He stared at Bai Liu motionlessly, his chest heaving slightly.

Bai Liu seemed to have known that he was outside for a long time. He was not surprised when he came in. He asked calmly, "You're back? Why didn't I see you before?"

"Yeah." Spade paused for a moment and explained, "There's mud on my body. It doesn't look good. I'll go wash it off and come back to see you."