Chapter 296: The Border of the Dense Forest (Day +158)



The next morning, in order to prevent the remains of the body from decaying and getting infected, Guy's body would be collected by the Red Cross and incinerated. So before dawn, Bai Liu packed up all of Guy's body parts and waited by the side for Alex who was still struggling with whether to do so or not.

"Have you thought about it?" Bai Liu asked.

Alex's expression was extremely complicated: "...What if what comes back is just a shell, a monster?"

Bai Liu glanced at Hei Tao standing beside him with a barely perceptible gleam in his eye: "It depends on how much emotion you can place on this body."

Alex gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind: "Okay, I agree with your proposal, let's go!"

Bai Liu took a look at Alex's legs. He took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket and threw it to him: "Use the medicine to solve your own leg problem first."

Alex took the medicine, looked deeply at Bai Liu, then took a deep breath and fell on his leg with a gunshot wound - the wound did not heal, but turned into a bluish-white color like a corpse.

He quickly stood up, put on the backpack full of corpses, and looked at Bai Liu: "What is your next plan?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Do you want to end this war?"

Alex was startled, but he quickly retorted: "Now that the fight has come to this, both sides suffered a terrible defeat in this morning's sneak attack. There is no way they can stop."

"Of course they can." Bai Liu looked at Alex, "When they have a common third-party enemy that they fear more, they can stop fighting and cooperate with each other."

Alex was stunned: "Where does such a powerful third-party enemy come from?"

Bai Liu glanced at the package on Alex's back and asked, "Does the army of the living dead that you imagined count?"

Alex was silent for a long time, and then he spoke hoarsely: "...I know what you want me to do, but I don't have so many drugs and corpses to create a third-party army."

"Don't worry about that." Bai Liu smiled and pointed at his feet. "As for drugs and corpses, isn't the Red Cross where we are a ready-made production site? There will be a constant supply of drugs and corpses sent here for you to use."

Alex refuted in a low voice: "But the Red Cross will not give corpses and medicines to an ordinary soldier like me for casual use. Listen, Bai Liu, I know what you want to do, but it's impossible. You are just an ordinary person. The Red Cross is not your back garden. It is strictly guarded here. Only insiders can get the medicine..."

"I agree with your point of view." Bai Liu pointed behind Alex and said meaningfully, "Maybe you can turn around and take a look?"

Liu Jiayi, wearing a nurse's uniform, leaned against the tent, twirling the key and looking at Alex with a raised eyebrow: "I have just solved the problem of corpses and medicines. They have given me the key to the medicine warehouse and the destruction of corpses. You can use them as you like."

Alex looked at Bai Liu with wide eyes as if he had seen a ghost. He felt an uncontrollable chill on his back: "...When did you plan all this?"

Guy's death, his breakdown and compromise, and the subsequent drugs and corpses were all completely taken care of by this guy before it happened!

Bai Liu even took the time to get married, and he never left Alex's sight from beginning to end. Alex never saw him do anything!

Oh my god, how did Bai Liu do all this!

Bai Liu looked at him with a half-smile: "Do you really want to know the answer? Believe me, you won't be happy if you hear it."

Alex rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and swallowed. "...I swear, you are one of the best time managers I have ever met."

While cleaning his gun, Tang Erda asked curiously, "One? Is there anyone here who is better at using time than Bai Liu?"

"It's Guy..." Alex sighed faintly, "When I first met him, he could maintain good relationships with seven or eight good guys at the same time, and he could contact at least three good guys privately in one day without being discovered by others."

He emphasized the word "good".

Alex's eyes were deep, and he glanced at the spade next to Bai Liu meaningfully: "You know, Bai Liu, I found something in common with Guy. You can both secretly contact other people under the noses of your partners without being discovered."

Bai Liu, who has done things behind the backs of the Spade liaison team members many times: "..."

Tang Erda, who was contacted, said: "..."

Liu Jiayi who was contacted: "..."

Hei Tao stared at Bai Liu with a squinting eye and uttered an "oh" with a rising tone.

Nishen, who was contacted privately by Bai Liu, sneezed loudly and rubbed his nose in confusion: "Who is scolding me?"

"There are too many people who want to scold you. Do you need me to screen them for you on the spot?" Bai Yixing suggested impetuously.

Nishen waved his hands and said, "Thanks for your kindness, but I don't want to hear something like this that will give me a heart attack while I'm playing games."

Bai Jiamu was holding his chin in his hand, in a daze: "Nishen, did that Bai Liu dove you? Now Alex hasn't defected, and our main NPC Guy is dead, and the traditionalists are about to go haywire."

"Let them make noise. The more noise they make, the quieter it will be here." Nishen didn't care. "Guy's death must have been deliberately brought forward, but it's not a big deal."

Bai Jiamu asked in confusion: "The situation is so chaotic, isn't it a big deal?"

"No." Nishen replied affirmatively, "The more chaotic the situation, the better. The player who plays this game must be very greedy. Although I usually don't make judgments easily unless the probability is more than 80%, but after contacting me, I feel that the player who disrupted the situation should be Bai Liu. This is how he played the game before."

Bo Jiamu frowned: "Then why did you cooperate with him so easily before?"

"I've watched his videos on the TV. His skills are related to money transactions." Nishen said, "It seems that the higher the points transaction, the more he wants to execute the transaction."

Bai Yi beside him suddenly realized: "So you gave him 5 million points when you cooperated with him?"

"Partly for this, partly for..." Nishen's eyes wandered, and he clenched his fist and coughed, "As a gift, he's married to Spade, and as a tactician, I should give him a gift on behalf of the whole team."

Nishen counted on his fingers seriously, "Except for Xiaobai who is underage and can't pay the gift, the four of us adults each give a monthly bonus to Heitao, so 1.2 million points is reasonable. Then the four of us should get 4.8 million points, plus the points from the transaction, and the total is exactly 5 million."

Bo Jiamu: "...= =You are so good at calculating, Ni Shen."

Nishen continued as if nothing had happened: "But, are you paying attention to something wrong? Bai Liu said that he would help us make Hei Tao lose, but he didn't say that he would help us win."

"Alex's defection was just a cover-up proposed by Bai Liu. He didn't tell the truth, which means he can't be counted as part of the deal."

Bai Jiamu stood up, looking unhappy: "He lied to us?"

Nishen glanced at Bai Jiamu and said, "To be more precise, we were deceived. Deception has always been an important part of this game. The game for players depends on whether they can prevent themselves from being deceived."

"There is nothing wrong with cheating people, but we who are cheated are wrong."

Bai Yi muttered, "Nishen, you have such a good temper, aren't you? Even if someone deceives you, you don't get angry?"

Nishen gave Bai Yi a meaningful smile: "If I were deceived, I would be angry. I should have been angry when I entered this game."

"This game is a massive scam."

It's getting light.

There were many stiff human figures walking in the woods, with crisscross stitches on their faces and broken flesh faintly visible as they moved. Strange howling sounds came from their mouths, like a bunch of puppets made from real human corpses, awkwardly twisting their limbs to move forward.

Bai Liu and his group fell far behind the group of corpses.

Liu Jiayi couldn't help but complain: "It's only now that I realize this is a zombie book."

"But we're not fighting zombies." Tang Er added, "We're the sweepers responsible for creating zombies. We'll have to pick up a lot of corpses after the battle begins."

"The Red Cross still has too few bodies." Liu Jiayi stared at the bodies in front of her, "I don't know how long they can hold out under the support of these two camps."

Bai Liu was very calm: "Don't worry, as long as the war between the two sides does not stop, our camp will continue to grow stronger."

"Yes." Liu Jiayi squinted at Bai Liu, "You are quite thoughtful. As long as the other side has dead people, our zombie army will continue to grow. In the end, they will try their best to avoid casualties on both sides in order to prevent us from continuing to grow, thus achieving the goal of stopping the war forever."

"Is this what you used to convince the indecisive main NPC?"

Liu Jiayi retracted her gaze: "Bai Liu, sometimes I really don't understand what you are thinking. You always manage to achieve the goal of peace in an extreme and evil way."

"You are a good person, but you are doing things in an extremely inhumane way. You have no mercy on these innocent soldiers and you want to use them to do things for you even after they die." Liu Jiayi stared at the broken zombie soldiers in front of him and said, "You are a bad person, but judging from the results, you have done something that surpasses the efforts of all the good people."

Liu Jiayi asked: "Sometimes I am very curious, why do you do this?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Because I'm curious."

Liu Jiayi asked back: "What are you curious about?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes: "I was curious about what kind of ending Alex wanted, peace or endless war, so I included both possibilities in the plan."

"What ending does Alex want?" Liu Jiayi frowned. She realized that Bai Liu had something else in mind, so she asked sharply, "What do you mean?"

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi and said, "Don't you think Alex was too quick to accept our proposal to form a third camp and attack the other two camps?"

"It's not a normal reaction to someone who hurts others, and it was strange that Alex complied with my proposal without much struggle."

"Based on Alex's previous performance, the emotional impact of Guy's death should have been very strong, but he calmed down very quickly and immediately threw himself into the production of the living dead." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and looked at the large group of zombies in front of him, "and the speed of producing zombies is also too fast."

"Alex's identity is set as a medical student who has not yet done an internship, but he is very skilled in finding a certain part of the same person among a pile of broken limbs and sewing them together."

"…It felt like this wasn't the first time he had done something like this."

Liu Jiayi paused and suddenly turned her head to look at Bai Liu: "Do you still remember the effect of Alex's medicine?"

Bai Liu said calmly, "Remember, the effect of his drug is to freeze a person in the state before death."

"...the state before death." Liu Jiayi muttered to herself twice, then she suddenly raised her head and looked at the group of zombies in front of her, her expression changed, "The drug invented by this guy is not a biological healing drug at all, it is a time drug that can reverse the time of a living organism! It is a real resurrection!"

"These things are not zombies at all, they are the living dead who are going back and forth between their pre-death states!"

Tang Erda hadn't reacted yet. He lowered his head and approached Liu Jiayi and asked in confusion, "When will the medicine be taken?"

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and turned Tang Er's head away: "You will understand when you see it."

The group of corpses that were originally swaying and stitched together had their limbs gradually open and close as they continued to move forward. The wounds that were originally covered with various gunshot wounds also gradually healed. Or to be more precise, the various wounds on the corpses turned into fresh bloody wounds in a horrifying way, and then healed in a strange way.

These corpses, which originally had pale faces, turned rosy and moved more and more flexibly, as if they were living people.

Tang Er was completely stunned: "What the hell is going on?!"

Bai Liu was not surprised. He looked at the group of corpses that were "coming to life" as if he had expected it. He said calmly, "As expected."

Tang Erda immediately turned his head away and stared at Bai Liu: "You knew this a long time ago?!"

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes and said speechlessly, "Of course he knew it a long time ago."

Tang Erda pointed at Bai Liu and said accusingly: "Why didn't he tell us? He is a tactician, why would he hide it from us!"

Liu Jiayi supported his forehead: "Of course it's because he wants to play. Didn't you notice that he was in a bad mood and has been playing the game without doing anything serious? What's the fun of playing the game if you tell him everything? If Bai Liu didn't tell you, he was just teasing your teammate..."

"Tang Erda, sometimes it's not a good thing to rely too much on a tactician." Bai Liu quickly interrupted Liu Jiayi and said seriously, "I would rather you, as my best main attacker, think about the information you have obtained first."

Tang Erda looked between Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu with doubt twice, then he took two steps back cautiously, crossed his arms and looked at Bai Liu: "Tell me what's going on with this game first."

Bai Liu asked: "Do you remember the time limit of this game?"

"Seven days." Tang Er answered quickly.

Bai Liu continued to ask: "Do you remember which day it is now?"

"Early morning of the third day." Tang Erda replied.

Bai Liu smiled: "Don't you think it's strange? A game with a time limit of seven days has developed to the third day, and the progress is halfway through, but no player has earned any points yet."

Tang Erda answered cautiously: "This situation is not impossible to happen."

"Yes, but it's impossible for top players." Bai Liu said, "The players in this game, me, you, Liu Jiayi, and the Killer Sequence, can be said to be the top players in the entire system. If a game is about to progress halfway and these top players still haven't received any points, then there can only be one problem."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Tang Erda: "First, the design of this game is very poor. It doesn't allow players to experience a sense of gain even halfway through the game."

"Second, these three days are not real three days at all. The game is not even halfway through, and we found the wrong time reference."

"Then what is the real time reference?" Tang Erda asked.

Bai Liu said, "I gave my radio to Heitao and asked him to look for it. If he finds it, he should be able to use the device to send you a message."

Liu Jiayi asked in disbelief: "Bai Liu, you just said that you gave our team communication equipment to an outsider?!"

Bai Liu replied calmly, "It's not free. I sold it to him. I sold him 10,000 points for a 73-point item, so it's not a loss."

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Tang Erda: "..."

Yes, it's something you can do.

Not long after, Tang Er's radio rang. He lowered his head to check it, then raised his head to look at Bai Liu: "He said he found it."

Bai Liu asked: "Where?"

Tang Er called back: "It's the military cemetery built behind the town."

Bai Liu found a truck that had been thrown into the mud after an anchor was dropped on the road. Tang Erda used brute force to get it out and then crawled under the truck to fix it. The three of them tied up the pile of zombies and loaded them onto the truck bed.

"The road here is not easy to drive on." Tang Erda, who was sitting in the driver's seat, lifted up his vest to wipe the mud off his face, his expression serious, "I will drive a little faster so that it is not easy to get stuck. You sit tight."

From polar planes to battlefield tanks to this old-school truck...

Bai Liu slowly looked at Tang Erda: "I'm curious what other means of transportation you don't know how to drive?"

Tang Erda really pondered for a few seconds, and then answered Bai Liu seriously: "If it is the means of transportation in your definition, I will not use Mu Sicheng."

Bai Liu: “…”

Liu Jiayi: “…”

Who taught Tang Erda to sneer?

It takes about a few hours to drive from the Red Cross detour to the town. Fortunately, Tang Er drove very quickly and arrived near the town soon.

Tang Er got out of the car and used denim to cover the twisting zombies in the car. He found a secluded place to hide the car. When he was about to take out his skill revolver, he was stunned for a moment. He popped his head out from behind the car, exclaimed, and called Bai Liu.

Bai Liu turned around.

Tang Er hesitated for two seconds: "Do you want to use my skill gun? If you do, I won't take it out."

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "No, but I'm more curious why you suddenly thought of this place?"

For Tang Er, who has been using his skill weapons for such a long time, using his skill weapons is as easy as drinking water and eating. To be honest, it is quite difficult for Bai Liu to consider sharing skills with him before using them.

At least among the current wandering circuses, only Mu Ke can do this.

Tang Er paused for a few seconds in confusion. He seemed to realize something from Bai Liu's reaction: "You didn't tell Heitao about your skills?"

Bai Liu raised her eyebrows: "Why do you think I would tell him?"

Tang Erda paused again and said, "Heitao and I worked together for a while. He forbade me to use skill weapons, saying that if I used them, he would beat me up if I pulled out a revolver."

“…I thought you told him.”

Bai Liu was silent for a moment: "I haven't told him yet. Did you ask him how he knew?"

Tang Er nodded: "I asked him, and he said he didn't know, it was just a hunch."

"Let's ignore him for now." Bai Liu calmly passed over the topic, "Let's find a cemetery first."

The cemetery is actually very easy to find, as the cemetery is marked on the signs in the town. But the strange thing is that every time Bai Liu and the others go in this direction, they will encounter a very thick and strange fog, and then after passing through the fog, they will return to the same intersection.

"Is this a ghost trap?" Liu Jiayi raised the poison spray cautiously, "Why are we just going around in the same place?"

Tang Erda also pulled out his Rose Revolver and stood behind Bai Liu: "Do I need to do something to get out?"

"You should meet certain conditions before you can get out. According to common procedures, we should decrypt it first." Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi, "But now there is a more direct way."

Liu Jiayi quickly put down the spray and turned on the wireless device: "Send a message to Heitao to ask him how he got out, right?"

Heitao's message came back very quickly. Liu Jiayi frowned when she saw it. "--Can we get out by using a whip to blow away the mist?"

"Weapon attack?" Tang Er carefully fired two shots at the mist in front of him. Then a sound of breaking through the air came from behind him. His pupils shrank and he quickly pressed down Bai Liu who was standing in front of him.

The bullet flew over their heads and hit the indicator with a bang, making a huge hole.

"Space is in a state of close connection. Weapon attacks are ineffective and cannot be broken. They will reappear in one place repeatedly." Tang Erda shook his head solemnly.

Liu Jiayi frowned: "How did the spade break? Could his whip break the space——"

She paused here, then looked up at Bai Liu who was patting the gray on her knees.

Bai Liu stood up and looked back at Liu Jiayi with a calm look in his eyes: "——Maybe I can break time."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and said, "It has the same function as the bone whip that you destroyed before."

"Then how do we get out now?" Tang Er asked.

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi and said, "Send a message to Heitao and ask him to pick us up."

Just as he finished speaking, a suture needle scratched the side of Bai Liu's face, leaving a bloody mark.

The sewing needle fell to the ground, with thread still tangled around its bent end - it was a sewing needle.

Tang Erda turned his head suddenly and was about to shoot when he suddenly remembered that the space here was closely connected and it would be easy to shoot directly here. He had to grit his teeth and switch to a saber: "Who?"

In the white mist, several figures like women in wide skirts were looming. Bai Liu and his group approached the center of the intersection from different directions. They were dragging long guns in their hands. The guns dragged to the ground, making a penetrating rustling sound on the gravel on the ground.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought on the left and right, protecting Bai Liu in the middle. Both of them looked extremely ugly.

Tang Erda took a deep breath and said, "We can't just attack randomly here, because the space is so close, we don't know where our attack will come from and hit us, so we can only fight hand-to-hand."

"But neither of you is good at it. When I count to three, the fight starts, you run back."

Liu Jiayi nodded decisively and threw two bottles of antidote to Tang Er: "Be careful."

The figures of the women were getting closer and closer, and it was only then that Tang Erda could see clearly that the dresses these women were wearing were not any other clothes, but beautifully sewn, old white wedding dresses stained with many bloodstains.

This wedding dress inexplicably made Tang Er feel familiar. He looked up along the line of the dress, and when he saw the person wearing it, his expression finally froze.

These were not women at all, they were all Guys.

Guy's face was stitched up with surgical stitches, and there were countless stitching scars on it. In some places, the stitches had not been cut yet. The smile on his mouth was strange yet sweet. His skin was pale and his eyes were completely black, with no white at all. His wedding dress was stained with countless blood spots.

[Congratulations to player Tang Er for triggering the second page of the "Jungle Edge Monster Book" - Zombie Bride]


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