deep in the jungle.

Hei Tao was jumping on the tree trunks with Bai Liu on his back, getting closer and closer to the other side of the lake. The voices of Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi could be heard faintly from below.

"That group of corpses are still chasing us. To be more precise, they are chasing you." Tang Erda said.

Liu Jiayi asked: "Bai Liu, do you want to lure these carcasses directly to the bottom of the lake when crossing it, and then accumulate the points?"

Bai Liu hummed vaguely, Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda looked at each other, they looked towards the lake in front of them, and immediately acted separately.

Behind them, from the ground to the branches, there were densely packed corpses, mixed with some half-formed corpses. They looked ferocious and mad, raising their heads with bared fangs and claws and roaring at the white willow above.

Spade stepped on the tree trunk with his left foot to gain leverage and flew into the air. A number of black corpses immediately jumped up from behind him, roaring and rushing towards White Willow behind Spade.

Hei Tao turned around indifferently to protect Bai Liu, knocked down all the corpses with a whip, and knelt steadily on one knee on another branch.

The tree branch swayed twice, and Heitao suddenly asked, "Bai Liu, I think you know why these corpses are chasing you, and you can easily dissolve this pursuit. Why do you deliberately let these corpses chase you?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Didn't Liu Jiayi just say that as long as these corpses keep chasing me, I can naturally lure them into the lake bottom to accumulate points. As long as these corpses are recovered by the lake bottom, they can be counted as my points. This is my goal."

Spade said without hesitation: "You are lying. This is not your purpose."

Bai Liu paused for a moment, and his hand around Heitao's neck loosened a little. He spoke with a casual smile: "Heitao, your intuition about me is not always correct."

"Occasionally listen to what I tell you instead of trusting your instincts."

Spade was silent for a moment, frowning slightly, as if he was adapting to the state of not trusting his intuition, and then he said, "As long as you lure the corpses into the bottom of the lake, you will take the initiative to stop these corpses from following you, right?"

Bai Liu lowered her eyes: "Yes."

Spade paused, jumped up on one knee, swung his whip to knock away the approaching corpse, and got closer and closer to the lake.

Bai Liu leaned on Hei Tao's shoulder. He glanced at the blue lake that was getting closer and closer to him, clenched his fingers lightly, curled them up, and clenched them into fists.

The wind from the burning embers blew through their hair, and Spade approached the lake faster and faster.

Bai Liu rested her head on the center of Heitao's shoulder blades, half-closed her eyes and remained silent for a while, then suddenly spoke jokingly, "Heitao, your intuition is really an amazing thing. Can you tell me what your intuition is telling you right now?"

"My intuition tells me that you are afraid and you are lying." Spade said calmly, "You don't like jumping into the water. You hate this burning environment, these burned corpses, and you hate seeing corpses sinking in the water."

"You didn't jump into the lake for any points, you jumped into the lake for something else, something more dangerous. You hated to do it, but you jumped in anyway."

Spade paused for a moment: "I don't understand why you would do something you hate."

"Do you hate denying your intuition?" Bai Liu asked softly.

Spade hummed: "I don't like it."

Bai Liu laughed softly: "Then why are you willing to deny your intuition for me and trust me? You can clearly feel that I am lying to you, and you are also doing things that you hate."

Spade paused for a moment: "...Because you asked for it."

"Are you willing to do what you are asked to do?" Bai Liu smiled, "Will you also do what others ask you to do?"

Spade immediately retorted: "No."

Bai Liu whispered: "Then why are you willing to do it when I ask for it?"

Hei Tao was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice was filled with confusion: "...I don't know."

Bai Liu opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just smiled and explained: "Heitao, has anyone ever taught you that sometimes people are willing to do something they hate for someone else?"

Spade shook his head honestly and asked, "Why?"

Bai Liu was silent for a long time, then said, "Because I love this person."

He whispered in an incredibly soft voice, and the next second, he released his hands from around Spade's back and fell backwards.

Hei Tao was swinging his whip to push away a group of corpses that were approaching. When he noticed Bai Liu falling behind him, he immediately turned around. He ignored the corpses that were flying towards him, and swung his whip to push away the corpses next to Bai Liu. He fell down with Bai Liu and reached out his hand to grab Bai Liu.

Bai Liu fell freely in the burning forest and the remnant wind. There was no emotion in his pure black eyes, which reflected the black spade that kept approaching him like a mirror.

The corpses around him kept approaching Bai Liu. Although most of them were beaten away by Hei Tao with his whip, there were too many of them and a small part of them still climbed onto his body.

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu is being attacked by a monster (Zombie Block), and his spirit value is decreasing...]

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu's spiritual value has fallen below 60, and he is about to see hallucinations...]

Hei Tao stared intently. He tried several times to use the whip to circle Bai Liu's waist and pull him up, but each time he stopped at the moment of pulling out the whip.

——He was not sure.

Spade used any weapon to hit monsters without considering the strength. Although it seemed that he had good control over the strength, he himself was not sure.

Because he has never used a whip to save anyone.

He didn't know whether this blow of the whip would capture Bai Liu intact or break her into two pieces.

For the first time, Hei Tao felt that what Ni Shen said to him was useful.

—Practice with the whip well, or sooner or later you will encounter a situation that you cannot handle with the whip.

【At that time, you will lose to another person who is good at using a whip. 】

Spade used a whip to continuously beat away the approaching corpses, then focused on stepping on the surrounding wooden trunks, rapidly descending, and reaching out to White Willow who was falling close to the lake.

Just when Heitao's hand was about to grab Bai Liu's shoulder, Heitao saw Bai Liu turn her head slightly and smile at him.

That smile was innocent and mischievous, and his eyes were full of the reflection of Spade, as if there was water flowing in them. It was obviously pure joy that could not be concealed, but it always made people feel that he would cry in the next second.

Bai Liu looked at Hei Tao with that smile and said softly, "Xie Ta, I miss you so much."

"goodbye."

Hei Tao was startled, and just as he was about to grab Bai Liu's hand, he paused. Bai Liu slipped from his palm and fell into the cold lake.

Then the spade fell.

The corpses all around were crawling towards the lake frantically as if they had gone mad. A dark mass poured into the bottom of the lake, instantly dyeing the blue-green lake surface black.

Even the corpses and dried firewood used in the new evil god's sacrificial ceremony were attracted away and rushed to the bottom of the lake without hesitation.

There were only a few corpses left who wanted to run, but were fixed in place by some unknown force. They howled miserably while carving the new evil god in a distorted posture.

After Alex saw all the corpses run away, he laughed in a trance: "Bai Liu finally came, I can finally be free."

Nishen's expression changed: "Not good, with this reaction, Bai Liu chose to accept the evil god's gift."

After saying this, he raised his hands and cut the ropes that bound his hands. The other three team members also cut the ropes that bound themselves and jumped down from the wooden stake.

Bai Yi yawned in confusion: "What's going on? I just fell asleep. Have I collected all the information about the [true end] line and cleared the level now?"

Bai Jiamu couldn't help but roll his eyes: "How can you fall asleep in this situation? Are you a pig?"

Bai Yi said confidently: "Every time I push the [true end] line, I don't understand a word. I might as well take this opportunity to have a good rest. I still have to do housework after I log out of the game. Do you think it's easy for me, a househusband, to find time to train every day?"

Bo Jiamu was speechless: "...You are the only one who can talk about your stupidity so openly."

"Did you understand what Nishen said just now?" Bai Yi shoved Bai Jiamu with his shoulder maliciously and looked at him sideways.

Bai Jiamu: “…”

Actually, I didn’t understand it and almost fell asleep afterwards.

Nishen waved his hand helplessly, interrupting the two men's quarrel: "Okay, let's do the main thing first."

After hearing what Nishen said, Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi finally became serious and drew their weapons at the same time.

[System prompt: Player Bai Yi uses his personal skill (Cooking God) and selects a high-speed egg beater as the tool]

Bai Yi pulled out a half-person-high egg beater and casually carried it on his shoulder.

[System Awareness: Player Bo Jiamu uses personal skill (Failed Scalpel)]

Bai Jiamu pulled out several scalpels with a loop on the end from his chest, put them on the base of his fingers, and smoothly rotated them several times in a strange way without hurting the surrounding fingers at all.

Then he raised his hand to grasp the hilt of the knife, looked at Nishen and nodded, indicating that he was ready.

Nishen paused, raised his hand to pull something out from behind, but finally put his hand down: "Let's go."

Bai Yi was surprised and asked, "Hey, Nishen, aren't you going to use your skill weapon? Your skill weapon is the strongest among us, and considering the rebellious character of that Bai Liu, your skill should have a miraculous effect on him."

Nishen turned around and smiled at him, his eyebrows curved, very gentle: "Yes, so we have to save it until the official league to use it so that it can play its greatest value."

"It's a bit of a waste of talent and a bit stupid to just take out your trump card now."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu easily used their "killer mace" skill: "..."

Every time they couldn't figure out whether Ni Shen was deliberately mocking them or seriously analyzing the current situation.

Ni Shen walked straight forward.

Bo Jiamu followed closely: "Where are you going?"

"The lake." Nishen said without hesitation, "The final battlefield chosen by Bai Liu must be there."

Bai Jiamu was puzzled: "Why?"

Nishen turned around and answered, "Because he made a deal with us, saying that he would make Spade lose miserably at the lake and quit the game."

"This man will not break his promise easily. He will definitely give us a crushing defeat in spades at the lake as promised."

the other end.

After Hei Tao followed Bai Liu into the lake, Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi also jumped in without hesitation.

The dark, cold surface of the lake was murky and unclear. Only long black corpses could be seen vaguely swimming. An endless stream of corpses crawled into the water, spreading from the edge of the lake to near the center.

The bottom of the lake seemed to be boiling with asphalt-like mud, swallowing up the corpses.

Tang Erda stood in front of Liu Jiayi and kept shooting at the approaching corpses, but he was still hit by several corpses. Tang Erda's left shoulder and Liu Jiayi's left foot began to disintegrate.

The visibility under the water is too low, and the shooting speed of the bullets will also be hindered. This is a map that greatly limits Tang Er's performance as a gunner.

Not to mention Liu Jiayi, her poison is an offensive weapon in this water that kills one thousand enemies and eight hundred of her own people.

Before she found Bai Liu's location, she was unable to provide Bai Liu with the antidote in time. If she abused the poison at will, she might accidentally kill Bai Liu.

Liu Jiayi curled up her corpse-like left foot and frowned in thought.

...She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that in this copy Bai Liu always separated her and Tang Erda from himself intentionally or unintentionally, or brought them to some game scenes that would restrict the use of their weapons.

For example, at the beginning, Bai Liu allowed Hei Tao to take her away, and then sent them out, to the Red Cross Team and the Assault Team respectively. Then, after finally bringing them together, he took her and Tang Er to the close border where they could not use their skills.

——Now it was this turbid lake again, where both she and Tang Er would be restricted in their skills.

Liu Jiayi believed that Bai Liu would understand the design rules of the game "Jungle Edge". Normally, Bai Liu would have used some extreme tactics to gamble once and then ended the game.

But... he had delayed it until now, and repeatedly used the map to restrict her and Tang Er's ability to perform...

This is not the tactical style of Bai Liu at all. He is good at maximizing the skills of each person instead of restricting them in every way.

...It felt to her like...like Bai Liu was waiting for something extremely dangerous, and this thing was something they would definitely stop Bai Liu from touching, so Bai Liu would use various methods to isolate them, restrict their skills, and prevent her and Tang Erda from stopping them.

Liu Jiayi stared at the black bottom of the lake with a frown on her face, and the uneasy feeling in her heart grew stronger and stronger.

Bai Liu, what on earth are you trying to do by scheming against everyone?!

Ni Shen and his men rushed to the lakeside, where black corpses fell into the water in clusters. From a distance, it looked like swarms of black ants crawling towards a large pool of water.

Bai Yi got goosebumps all over his body. "Wow, what happened in the lake?"

Nishen turned his head to look at the surging lake not far away: "We can only know when we go down."

After saying that, he jumped down first without hesitation, followed by Bai Jiamu and another team member. Bai Yi rubbed the goose bumps on his body, pinched his nose in pain, and followed them down.

In an instant, Tang Er beat Liu Jiayi, and the killer sequence headed by Nishen all swam to the bottom of the lake.

The corpses were continuously swallowed by the lake bottom, forming a large whirlpool. The more corpses were swallowed, the thicker the mud on the ground became. Bai Liu was lying in the middle of the corpses being swallowed.

Bai Liu clasped her hands together in front of her abdomen, her face calm and indifferent, her eyes half-closed with no light, and the fair skin above her neck glowed dimly in the dark bottom of the lake.

Bai Liu's shoulders, left hand, right hand, left foot and right foot had all been completely disintegrated, revealing an abnormal bluish-white color.

He lay there peacefully on the pile of corpses that surrounded him, like a corpse that was about to be buried with those corpses.

Hei Tao grabbed his shoulders tightly and was trying to pull Bai Liu out, but in the end he could only watch Bai Liu sink deeper and deeper into the corpse.

It’s not that he can’t pull it out, but——

Hei Tao exerted force with his wrist, and he clearly heard the sound of Bai Liu's bones breaking and tearing. He loosened his grip, bubbles overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and he looked at the corpses under Bai Liu with an indifferent expression——

——These corpses have completely grown together with Bai Liu.

Unless Bai Liu figures it out himself, Hei Tao can only tear Bai Liu's shoulders off his body bloodily instead of pulling Bai Liu out completely.

But Bai Liu obviously didn't want to come out. He lay on the corpse as if he was asleep.

The corpse transformation has spread to my heart.

Spade's resistance panel was ridiculously high, and these corpses posed little threat to him, so no part of him was turned into a corpse for the time being. He stared at Bai Liu for a long while, and suddenly leaned over and hugged Bai Liu tightly, using his body to block the influx of corpses.

Bai Liu finally opened his eyes and looked at the spades on his body: "You don't have to do this for me."

"I'm not doing this for you." Spade's voice was muffled, and bubbles came out of his mouth. "I just felt that I did something wrong just now."

Bai Liu asked: "What did you do wrong?"

Spade's voice was a little depressed. "I should have trusted my intuition instead of your words. You really are lying to me."

Bai Liu chuckled: "Yes, didn't Nishen teach you that the smarter people are, the more they like to lie."

"Yeah." Heitao responded calmly. He hugged Bai Liu tighter. "I understand."

Bai Liu was dragged deeper and deeper by the corpses. His body and the corpses seemed to form an impenetrable barrier. The area that Hei Tao could protect became less and less. In the end, only a pair of eyes and a right hand were left exposed on Bai Liu, which had not yet been turned into corpses.

Hei Tao tightly grasped Bai Liu's only remaining right hand, not daring to let go of the force at all, nor to use too much force. He stared at Bai Liu's gradually disappearing eyes with his pair of black eyes.

Bai Liu's voice with a smile came out from the corpse: "Heitao, you know, I once held a person's hand like this and tried to save him."

Spade asked: "Did you rescue him?"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "She was saved."

"Now, it's his turn to hold my hand tightly and come to rescue me."

Bai Liu's voice gradually faded away: "——But I suddenly want to know what the world belonging to God is like after he was buried underwater."

"——Can I enter that world that belongs to God, find him again, kill everything that imprisoned him, and then bring his soul out?"

As Bai Liu's voice faded away, the wriggling corpses finally stopped and the lake bottom became clear again.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda, who had been blocked for a long time, and the killer sequence finally saw the location of Spade at the bottom of the lake.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda rushed to Hei Tao almost instantly.

She looked at Bai Liu in disbelief as he was swallowed until only his right hand was exposed.

Moreover, the right hand was gradually becoming disintegrated, and Liu Jiayi immediately wanted to use the antidote.

Spade shook his head: "This is a spirit monster attack. Your healing potion is useless."

Tang Erda was about to draw his gun and shoot the huge wriggling corpse at the bottom of the lake, but Hei Tao grabbed the muzzle of the gun.

He stared at Tang Erda without any emotion in his eyes: "Bai Liu is down there, he has become one with the corpse, he will get hurt if you hit the corpse."

Liu Jiayi stared motionlessly at her right hand, which had only two fingers left that had not been turned into corpses, and her expression almost twisted in an instant.

——Think of a solution! Think of a solution quickly! There must be a way to stop Bai Liu from changing!

There is no way.

This was Bai Liu's own desire for alienation. She couldn't stop Bai Liu and his family from doing anything. She couldn't even understand why Bai Liu did this!

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er watched helplessly as their right hand was devoured and turned into a corpse, while Hei Tao released his fingers one by one.

Finally, the right hand was also completely disintegrated.

[System prompt (to all players): Player Bai Liu's spirit value has dropped to 0, his body has been completely transformed, and he has exited the game.]