Chapter 321 Reality (Day +168)



Du Sanying was confused: "???"

After returning home, Du Sanying took the parrot out and hung it by the window. Bai Liu was watching by the side. When the parrot in the cage saw Bai Liu, it got angry and shouted twice, "Bai Liu, run away."

Seeing that Du Sanying didn't run away, the parrot looked around and slowly widened its green eyes, staring blankly at Bai Liu who was smiling outside the cage.

It seemed to finally realize that it had come to Bai Liu's territory. After standing there for a minute, it quickly buried its head under its wings and then curled up motionlessly in the corner of the cage.

Du Sanying explained awkwardly: "San San is not like this usually."

Bai Liu friendly expressed his understanding: "It is indeed difficult for animals to accept a change of residence, but you usually use this parrot to remember things, is it because it can transport people, is there anything special about it?"

Du Sanying nodded excitedly: "Yes! Mr. Bai Liu, you should know that many things in the game cannot be remembered in reality. They will be tampered with or erased, but San San can remember these erased things!"

“It’s very useful!”

Bai Liu looked at the parrot and asked, "How can we make it remember these things?"

"It's very simple." Du Sanying said, "Just keep repeating it to it and wait for it to agree with you."

"But San San can't remember complicated things." Du Sanying shook his head embarrassedly, "It can only remember simple things, so I usually only let it remember the most important things."

Bai Liu nodded as if he understood something.

After Du Sanying had packed up his things, he held up the basin and clothes and greeted Bai Liu: "Mr. Bai Liu, I'm going to take a shower. Can I use your bathroom?"

Bai Liu nodded.

After Du Sanying entered the bathroom, Bai Liu stood up and walked slowly to the window sill.

Although the parrot in the birdcage buried its head under its wings, it couldn't help but tremble slightly because of Bai Liu's approach.

Bai Liu half closed his eyes, stretched out his index finger, and stroked the parrot's fur.

The parrot trembled even more violently.

"What do you remember?" Bai Liu asked softly, "Tell me what you mean, and I won't do anything to you."

"Bai Liu, you bad guy!" the parrot screamed and shrank inward as if it was resisting.

Bai Liu sighed with regret: "It seems that you are unwilling to cooperate, so let's change the way. I will tell you something you must remember, how about you help me remember it?"

"In return, I will ensure your and Du Sanying's survival."

The parrot hesitated for a moment, then slowly poked its head out from under its wings and looked at Bai Liu with a pair of alert green eyes, as if asking him what it wanted it to help remember.

Bai Liu turned around and sat on the window sill. Behind him was an unprotected high-rise building. The night wind blew gently, making Bai Liu's half-long hair, which was not cut neatly, sway gently.

"On August 17, Spade broke my whip and my cross."

The parrot hesitated for a long time, then repeated what Bai Liu said. It tilted its head in confusion and said, "Just remember this?"

"Just remember this for now." Bai Liu said softly, "If he damages my other things in the future, I will ask you to remember it too."

The parrot said in deep confusion: "Is this important?"

"It's very important to me." Bai Liu looked at it and smiled. "I don't want what this person owes me to be erased or forgotten again."

After taking a shower, Du Sanying dressed neatly and walked out. He looked at Bai Liu nervously: "Mr. Bai Liu, where should I sleep?"

"There are two single beds in my room. I bought them this afternoon." Bai Liu said, "Please choose one and sleep in the position you like."

Du Sanying chose the single bed near the inside, and Bai Liu slept near the window.

There was a bedside table between the two beds, which looked a bit like the cold, commercial layout of a hotel, but...

Du Sanying turned over carefully without making any sound. He looked absent-mindedly at Bai Liu who was sleeping on the other side. The moonlight faintly seeping through the window fell on Bai Liu's peaceful face, giving Du Sanying a dazed feeling.

...He had forgotten how long it had been since he had been in the same room with someone like this.

He had been with Mr. Bai Liu for nearly seven hours since leaving the nursing home, and it was just as Mr. Bai Liu said, nothing bad had happened...

"Can't sleep?" Bai Liu suddenly spoke without opening his eyes.

Du Sanying was so scared that he sat up from the bed: "Did I wake you up by turning over? I'm sorry!"

"It's not like you woke me up." Bai Liu opened his eyes. "This is also my first time living with someone. I'm a little uncomfortable with it."

Du San sat cross-legged on the bed and asked in surprise, "Has Mr. Bai Liu always lived alone?"

"Yeah." Bai Liu replied, "I only slept with someone when I was very young, and since then I have always lived alone."

Du Sanying was very surprised: "When Mr. Bai Liu was a child, did he sleep in the same bed with someone? Where is that person now?"

"Dead." Bai Liu said calmly, "He committed suicide. His whole body was covered in gasoline."

Du Sanying was stunned.

He seemed to vaguely remember the incident, but he couldn't remember the details. He just felt sad because he had witnessed the scene before and couldn't help but apologize: "I'm sorry... I seem to have amnesia again. I can't remember it."

"It doesn't matter." Bai Liu said calmly, "Not many people need to remember this kind of thing."

Du Sanying was silent for a long time, and almost at a loss, he changed the subject: "Well, the game league of Mr. Bai Liu's team is about to start!"

"Well, we will start team training soon, and the intensity of training will be increased." Bai Liu replied, "Because the league competition is about to begin."

"I think Mr. Bai Liu will definitely be the champion of the league." Du Sanying cheered for Bai Liu earnestly, then lay down again. He looked at Bai Liu's profile, "What does Mr. Bai Liu want to do after winning the game?"

This time it was Bai Liu's turn to remain silent. Du Sanying yawned and thought Bai Liu had fallen asleep. Suddenly, Bai Liu spoke again:

"With that guy, sleeping on a lot of money."

Du Sanying was stunned, then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Bai Liu glanced at Du Sanying: "Is it funny?"

Du Sanying scratched his head, still smiling: "It seems normal for other people to make this wish, but Mr. Bai Liu said this wish so seriously..."

He said honestly, "I think it's funny."

"But it's a wish that can make people laugh." Du Sanying said seriously, "Mr. Bai Liu will definitely be very happy when it comes true."

Bai Liu turned his gaze back, a faint smile appeared on his face: "Maybe."

Killer Sequence Guild, Weapon Modification Room.

General Hua Gan hammered at the cracks on the Sword of the God-Defying Heavy Sword again and again, while Hei Tao sat on a high stool beside him, staring at him in silence.

"Don't look at me so strangely." General Hua Gan said without raising his head. "I am indeed a weapon modification engineer for the Deer Hunters. I shouldn't serve you, the Killer Sequence."

General Hua Gan let out a long sigh: "But who said that your tactician Nishen is the most powerful soul figure of the Deer Hunters, the highest-ranking tactician in the guild, and the judge of Nishen?"

"Ni Shen really saved many people, including me."

"I owed Nishen so many favors, but I didn't follow him when he left Deer Hunter. That was already ungrateful enough." General Hua Gan sighed with a complicated expression, "Now that he has arrived at the new guild, he asked me to help with the weapon modification. I really couldn't refuse."

General Hua shook his head: "What happened this year? I, a privately-owned weapon modification engineer, actually took over the weapon modification of three guilds and accepted outsourcing from two of them."

Only then did Heitao say, "Is it not possible?"

He raised his eyes and looked at General Hua: "Our guild's warehouse protection is also outsourced, and Golden Dawn took it over."

General Hua Gan was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, laughing until tears came out: "Ni Shen outsourced the weapon modification to me, and the prop protection to Golden Dawn, he really deserves it."

"Ni Shen got all the best weapon modifiers and item protectors in the game and gave them to Huo Huo." General Hua Gan sighed, "You, the Killer Sequence, a brand new guild, obviously couldn't be built, but you relied on Ni Shen's connections to solve the two most difficult problems for a new guild and managed to hold it together."

"You really deserved to dig up Nishen, Spade." Hua Gan said with a sour tone, "Nishen was very decisive when he left. Our guild leader was such a cold and hard person, but in the end he softened his tone and begged him, saying that as long as Nishen was willing to stay, he would do anything. But in the end, he didn't let Nishen stay."

General Hua Gan glanced at Hei Tao and said, "I've always been curious, what conditions did you offer Ni Shen to make him willing to leave the Deer Hunter?"

"You got it wrong." Spade said calmly, "It was Nishen who wanted to leave Deer Hunter. I just gave him a suitable excuse."

General Hua Gan was stunned and subconsciously retorted: "How could Ni Shen want to leave the Deer Hunter on his own?!"

"Nishen has always been the core of the Deer Hunters. He has a good relationship with everyone. He is also a very good friend of our president in real life. They have fought side by side for many years."

General Hua Gan recalled: "The president always put Ni Shen's decision first in everything. He was seriously injured several times in order to protect Ni Shen on the field. Ni Shen did not let the president down and the tactics he formulated protected everyone."

"Everyone really likes and admires Nishen, and Nishen also truly cares for everyone in the guild. He is the soul of the entire guild."

"So when Nishen transferred this year..." General Hua Gan looked down at the heavy sword that Nishen had sent him to repair, and slowly exhaled a foul breath, "I'm just a blacksmith and I can't accept it, let alone others."

Hua Gan put the heavy sword that had been beaten red into the stove, then hooked a stool with his foot and sat down next to Hei Tao.

He wiped the oil off his hands on his apron, looked at the cross heavy sword slowly melting in the magma in the furnace, and muttered to himself: "...How cruel! This heavy sword in the hands of the God of Rebellion once protected us, but now it is aimed at us."

“I’m still helping him fix it.”

General Hua Gan snorted in self-mockery, pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket, flicked out a cigarette and lit it on the magma, then held it in the corner of his mouth in an unruly manner, inhaling and exhaling the smoke through his lips.

"Would you like one?" Hua Gan handed the cigarette box to Hei Tao.

Spade refused.

General Hua Gan narrowed his eyes in the smoke: "The God of the Negatives doesn't allow you to smoke, right?"

"He was like this when he was in Deer Hunter. He hypocritically issued a strict ban on smoking. The funniest thing is our president. He is the biggest smoker, but he was also banned by Nishen."

"The president will absolutely obey any order given by Nishen. He is Nishen's main attacker, so it's a habit. So after Nishen issued the smoking ban, no matter how uncomfortable he felt, he never smoked once."

"Instead, it was Nishen himself who was secretly disobeying the order. Every time he felt like smoking, he would hide in my small workshop and smoke a cigarette in secret."

General Hua laughed and said, "I didn't smoke at first, but he led me to start smoking."

After finishing speaking, Hua Gan was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "I have never understood why he wants to leave."

"The Deer Hunters... is a guild founded by Nishen."

"It was the God of Rebellion who pulled us back from some unknown corner, bringing us together from the hopelessness of dying, forming a group that seemed to be able to keep each other warm and survive."

General Hua Gan lowered his head and said, "Ni Shen always tells us with a smile, as if he is joking. I can see your future. Your future is very good. Just hold on a little longer."

"So we have been holding on until now for the future he talked about."

"I met Nishen in reality." Hua Ganjiang recalled while holding up a cigarette, "In reality, I was a poor gangster who no one cared whether I was dead or alive. Although I had a small blacksmith stall, I couldn't support myself."

"It became even more difficult to support him later." General Hua Gan said to himself, "I picked up a young boy as my apprentice, but he made me poor. Sometimes, in order to make a living, he would do something sneaky when he was pressed to the limit."

"But once a person becomes bad, the situation will only get worse and worse." General Hua exhaled a puff of smoke. "Originally, we could have received a certain amount of subsidy that year, but we didn't know it at that time. We had already done something bad and had a criminal record, so we didn't get it."

"The situation got worse and worse. The more money we were short of, the more bad things we did. The more bad things we did, the more retribution we suffered."

General Hua slowly lowered his head: "But when I first started robbing, I just wanted to have a good meal, and then send that kid to a vocational high school to get him on the right track."

"I didn't expect that when he was arrested, this young man would suddenly stand up and say that he did it with me. As a result, we both went to jail."

"I always thought this guy had some mental problems to become a beggar on the street, but I didn't expect it to be true."

General Hua suddenly laughed: "When I thought there was no way out, I met Nishen by chance. He took the initiative to treat me to a meal. It was not expensive, but it was delicious. I opened two bottles of beer and my apprentice and Nishen were both drunk."

"Ni Shen drunkenly told me that everything would be fine and he could see the future."

"I thought at that moment that everything would be fine." Hua Ganjiang smiled, "But it wasn't like that."

"I registered a horror game in the alley where I opened my stall. When the people from the Heretic Administration came, my apprentice's torn body had been cold for half an hour."

Hua Gan was silent for a long time: "I logged into the game and met the Nishen in the game. He helped me several times so that I could survive in the game. Later, with his help, I joined the Deer Hunter Guild. Now I can work here with peace of mind."

"I used my points to exchange for a body." General Hua Gan exhaled a puff of smoke, "I molded this body into the appearance of my apprentice, used the points to activate him, and pretended that he was not dead, and helped me forge iron like before."

"But this body can only exist in this hall, so I spend more time here than I do in reality."

Spade looked at him: "Don't you want to return to reality?"

General Hua sneered, "Why would I go back? I don't even have a place to stay in the real world. At least here I have my apprentice, a blacksmith's workshop, and a group of teammates who treat me well. I am living a decent life."

"Sometimes, I feel that what I am doing is not a good thing, and I have thought about resurrecting my apprentice." Hua Gan smacked the cigarette in his mouth, "On the one hand, the points are not enough, and on the other hand, I think, what's the point of resurrecting him?"

"Life is so hard. The best thing this kid has ever eaten in this life is probably the meal that Nishen invited him to."

General Hua Gan exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "When we were having that meal, my apprentice said he had never eaten shrimps. I was afraid that Ni Shen, the sucker, would think it was too expensive, so I scolded him for being greedy."

"But in the end, Nishen still smiled and ordered a plate of shrimp for him, peeled them for him, and let him eat them all by himself."

Hua Gan put out his cigarette, took a deep breath, and his eyes were red. "I just can't understand why such a kind and friendly person left so cruelly without even saying hello to us."

"After knowing that Nishen had left, the president went to find Nishen and begged him to come back."

General Hua Gan looked at the completely melted heavy sword in the furnace and said absentmindedly, "Our president is such an arrogant person. He bowed his head in front of the door of your killer sequence guild hall. He wanted to kneel down, but Nishen supported the president and said that he had already registered for the league as a member of the killer sequence team."

"He's not coming back."

"Our president locked himself in his room for a long time. After he came out, he looked much more gloomy. The president was originally the main attacker of the Nishen, but now he has taken over the position of the tactician, which has greatly changed the style of the entire team."

"Recently, the president found a new member named Xiao Chou who has very bloody means to fill the vacancy left by Ni Shen."

"Ni Shen doesn't like to see casualties on the field, but this newcomer wants to kill people."

Hua Ganjiang said in a daze: "...I feel like the president is just taking revenge on Nishen for running away."

Spade commented honestly: "You guys will grow up to be so childish."

General Hua Gan was immediately furious: "You, a naive vested interest holder, have no right to say such things!"


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