When he was preparing to wait for Cen Mingming to calm down at Lu Station so that he could have a peaceful chat with him, he heard Cen Mingming request a "fair judgment" duel to Fang Dian.

[Fair Judgment] is a method of judging within the Bureau of Heresy. When two or more people are competing for a position or mission, the [Cross Inquisition] will present a question, and the two will complete the problem-solving process under the supervision of ten randomly selected members of the Bureau of Heresy as the [jury], to prevent cheating by either party.

Whoever solves the problem first gets the task or position.

The members of the previous [Crusader] were basically selected in this way, so Fang Dian approved it very readily.

Lu Yizhan got his own question very quickly.

[We will randomly select one of the red-level dangerous heretics currently contained by the Heretic Administration and place it in the venue. All you have to do is contain it by yourself within half an hour. Whoever completes the containment process first will get a seat in the Inquisition.]

[Of course, this process will be somewhat dangerous. There will be members of the Judicial Army supervising. If there is an emergency and help is needed, the members will promptly go to the scene to help the person seeking help, and the person seeking help will give up his rights.]

After Lu Yizhan got the question, his eyes darkened for a moment - Dry Leaf Rose was just a heretic of red danger level.

It was obvious what this question was testing: their familiarity with the weaknesses of heretics, their ability to adapt on the spot, and perhaps... their psychological qualities to a certain extent.

Cen Mingming submitted his consent form without hesitation on the day the test questions were released.

The next day, Luyi Station also delivered it.

On the third day, the assessment officially began. The Cross Inquisition member who came to act as a safety officer and observe the assessment was named Yu Fu. She was a female member who was in charge of medical accidents within the team. She was the healing position within the team and was very good at using scalpels and surgical threads. She looked very gentle and sweet, with long hair draped over her shoulders. She always wore a close-fitting white coat and sometimes a nurse's uniform.

She has a very good figure, so good that even Lu Yizhan, who doesn't care much about this, has heard of her (referring to hearing his roommate calling her name in his dream). She is the beauty of the Heretic Management Bureau. The opposite-sex team members who have a crush on her can form a long queue in the management bureau that circles the headquarters twice. She is the dream lover of many people, but no one dares to pursue her yet.

Although Yu Fu always looked worried and radiant with joy whenever she looked at someone, the first thing she said to someone was usually: "How come you're injured again? Come here and let me take a look at you."

But the team members who were treated like this by her usually felt amorous while trembling and said, "Teacher Yu, it's not necessary."

Yu Fu would hold her face and smile gently, saying, I am a doctor, isn't it my responsibility to treat you? Then she would drag in the team members who were screaming and grabbing the floor and didn't want to go in for treatment.

After an intense treatment, the team member recovered from his illness but crawled out of Yu Fu's treatment room, barely breathing. Yu Fu smiled and took off her blood-stained mask and surgical gown, waved and said to the team member, "Come again next time."

Yu Fu has a strange habit: she doesn't like to use anesthesia when treating people.

Captain Fang, who did not want to reveal his name, once asked Yu Fu why she did not like to use anesthesia. Every treatment made her feel very painful. Yu Fu looked at Captain Fang gently and smiled, saying that if the recovery was too easy, people would not remember how to avoid injuries.

Only pain, only deep pain, will make people remember not to make the same mistake again next time.

Pain doesn't kill, but mistakes do.

The person who came to release the heretics on the day of the trial was Fang Dian, and the place of release was the field training base of the Heresy Handling Bureau.

When Lu Yizhan was still a trainee, he often dealt with various heretics released by the instructors to train them. This is the field heretic internship class for the trainees of the Heretic Processing Bureau.

The heretics released at that time were of relatively low danger level, the highest being orange, and the instructor leading them at that time was still Dong Chenglong.

But now everything has changed.

Lu Yizhan put on protective gear and fastened the gun on his waist. He looked far away at Cen Mingming who was also wearing protective gear.

Yu Fu came over and introduced the jury members to them. There were four from Team Three, three from Team Two, one from Team One, and finally two trainees who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old.

Lu Yizhan looked over with a bit of surprise, and the gentle smile on Yu Fu's face turned a bit helpless: "Fang Tuan suddenly had the idea to send them here. She said that the trainees this year are of very good quality and can be exposed to the battlefield earlier, so she chose two to come and watch the show, oh no, watch the battle."

"Sorry, I made a mistake just now." Yu Fu covered her mouth and smiled softly, "You guys don't mind, do you?"

Lu Yizhan: “…”

Cen Mingming: "..."

We actually don’t really mind it, Captain Yu.

The people from Team Three were more timid. After refueling Lu Yizhan, they stepped aside. Cen Mingming had been chatting with the people from Team Two. One of them was the one from Team Two whom Lu Yizhan had seen visiting him in the ward and who had told him that it was the Inquisition who had killed his mutant teammate.

The man patted Cen Mingming on the shoulder and said something to him with a complicated expression.

When Lu Yizhang saw this scene, a strange thought flashed through his mind.

...Would a normal member of the Heretic Management Bureau's second team say that someone was killed using the [Crusader Inquisition]?

The two trainees seemed to realize that they were not very popular, and they looked a little nervous. The slightly taller trainee took the lead and stepped forward to introduce himself: "Tang Erda, sixteen years old, my current ambition is to be in the second team. I want to kill all the heretics who hurt people in this world."

Another one took a deep breath and introduced himself: "Su Yang, 16 years old, my current ambition is to join the third team."

As the senior of Team 3, Lu Yizhan smiled at Su Yang with a good temper: "Team 3 is easy to advance, come on, you can do it."

Su Yang let out a long sigh of relief and nodded shyly to Lu Yizhan: "Thank you, Senior Brother."

However, after Cen Mingming came back, he crossed his arms, looked at the trainee named Tang Er sinisterly, and sneered: "Team Two does not welcome idiots who are too ambitious and want to save the world."

I vaguely remember that Cen Mingming's original wish was also this Luyi Station: "..."

Tang Er frowned and opened his mouth to retort, but was stopped by Yu Fu. She smiled and looked at Lu Yizhan and Cen Mingming: "Enough of the pleasantries, let's go in."

Lu Yizhang and Cen Mingming looked at each other. Cen Mingming turned away coldly first and entered the training ground. After checking his attire, Lu Yizhang also went in.

The outdoor training ground is full of artificial fog, shrubs and low bushes, so the whole view is not wide at all. In addition, cameras and loudspeakers are buried everywhere in the field, continuously broadcasting the harsh sounds of insects and birds, making it impossible for you to hear the sound of heretics approaching and scratching the grass. It can be said that observation is blocked from both hearing and vision.

What you can rely on at this time is your familiarity with the heretics and your own combat reaction ability.

Lu Yizhan squatted on the grass. He lowered his head and sniffed the mucus on a blade of grass. It had a unique fishy smell, a milky white, poor little lump, and smelled like the mucus secreted by human eyes. After using an instrument to simply test for poison, Lu Yizhan carefully licked it with the tip of his tongue.

Bitter and slightly salty, it tastes a lot like tears.

There are more than a hundred heretics with eyes, and about 32 heretics that shed tears.

The feature was locked, and then judging from the attack method, Lu Yizhan pulled out a fork-shaped detector and began to carefully knock on the surrounding grass from the bottom.

Excluding the six plant heresies that grow from below, the next ones are animal heresies.

Standing inside and looking at the big screen, Yu Fu smiled with a hint of appreciation: "You are very proficient in theoretical knowledge, and your detection program is also very good."

"But here..." Tang Erda looked at the surveillance camera showing Cen Mingming with a bit of reluctance, "It seems that this person called Cen Mingming has been found."

"How could it be so fast..." Yu Fu turned her head to look over, and then her face changed, "Why would Cen Mingming use this?! Who gave this to him?!"

Cen Mingming held a mirror in his hand that was about the same size as his palm. He was using the reflection to find a place where something was wriggling, and he was about to walk over to investigate.

From the surveillance footage, we can see that there is a faint relief of a regular cross on the back of the mirror.

But Yu Fu knew that it was because Cen Mingming held it upside down. She didn't know what the person who gave it to him said, but if you hold the mirror right side up, there should be a relief of an inverted cross on the back.

——This is Bai Liu’s thing, called Murphy’s Theorem Magic Mirror, which can make people see the things they fear the most.

Yu Fu pressed the alarm bell without hesitation: "Test aborted! Calling the captain of the Cross Inquisition!"

A hasty and panicked reply came through the connector, with the buzz of current: "The team can't get through for the time being!"

"The General Administration's thugs are in action! I don't know what caused all the heretics to flee at the same time! The Inquisition is urgently handling the incident, Captain Yu, please handle it first!"

Yu Fu hung up the phone. She closed her eyes, then opened them again and glanced at the eight team members and two trainees who were looking terrified. She calmly ordered, "I will go to the training ground to contain the heretics. You stay here and don't move easily no matter what happens."

"Especially don't look in the mirror."

She put on her uniform and ran towards the training ground, holding a walkie-talkie in her hand: "Cen Mingming, put down the mirror in your hand face down--"

Inside the training ground.

All the loudspeakers around Cen Mingming suddenly turned into a harsh crackling sound of electricity. After he could no longer hear the sound coming from the control room, Cen Mingming vigilantly held the mirror in his hand tightly and looked at the heretic who had his back to him. He took two steps back, closed his eyes, hid himself in the bushes and stopped moving.

It shed tears, had a lot of eye secretions, and was huge in size. Almost the moment he saw this heretic, Cen Mingming immediately determined what this heretic was.

Heresy 0573, eyeballs store food.

This heretic has eyeballs all over its body for unknown reasons. If any one of its eyeballs sees your eyes, your eye sockets will become empty in an instant and your eyeballs will appear on its body.

But this is not the most dangerous part of this heresy. The most dangerous part of this heresy is that the eyeball is not dead. The eyeball taken away by [Eyeball Stores Food] retains nerve connections and limb consciousness. In other words, this eyeball is still like it is growing on your body and can still see what you see. If the eyeball that belongs to you and grows on [Eyeball Stores Food] is attacked, you will still feel pain.

And if all the eyeballs on this [Eyeball Food] see your eyes at the same time, they will parasitize on your body in an instant.

No one knows what will happen to the host after being parasitized, but the painful screams of the last parasitized person are still in the sound files of the Heresy Management Bureau. Cen doesn't understand what it is, but he heard that it is a kind of pain that cannot be relieved. Every host who is parasitized cannot survive for more than an hour and dies in extreme pain.

This heresy's weakness is also very obvious. When you don't face it, it naturally cannot find you.

Cen Mingming closed his eyes tightly and hid in the bushes. He could feel the heretic moving its huge body full of eyeballs towards him. It seemed that it was moving its tens of thousands of eyes on its body to search for the eyeballs on his face.

But it was obvious that the other party didn't find it and was about to leave.

Cen Mingming's breathing gradually became lighter, and he was ready to retreat, but suddenly, the heretic seemed to have seen something and quickly approached him again. Cen Mingming's heart tightened, but he soon found out what the problem was -

The cross mirror in his hand had somehow turned into a reverse cross, and the mirror was facing [Eyeball Storing Food]. [Eyeball Storing Food] saw his own reflection in the mirror and thought it was an eyeball running towards him madly!

Cen Mingming threw the mirror in his hand without hesitation.

The moment the mirror left his hand, it flipped in the air, became several times larger, and landed steadily on the ground, turning into a carved antique mirror the size of a dressing mirror. In the direction facing where the mirror fell, the figure of Lu Yizhan running towards him from a distance was vaguely reflected.

When Lu Yizhang saw this strange mirror that appeared in the examination field, even though he quickly dodged the mirror's illumination the next second, he was already completely reflected in it.

Ripples and waves appeared in the center of the mirror's mercury surface, spreading out in circles. The mirror reflected a person who looked completely different from anyone else on the field.

He wore leather boots that covered his calves, and underneath was the white shirt that Lu Yizhan had seen that night. He held a black whip in his hand, and stepped into the training ground from the mirror with a smile. He also greeted Lu Yizhan with a smile: "Thank you for your fear that summoned me here."

Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank, and he quickly understood the function of this mirror.

This person used his fear and the mirror to go directly to the interior of the Bureau of Heresy!

A silver and sharp scalpel flew from behind Bai Liu. Bai Liu dodged it by leaning slightly sideways. The scalpel directly pierced through Murphy's magic mirror. The huge force knocked the mirror to the ground and directly created a crack.

Bai Liu turned around with a smile and said, "Examiner Yu is still so good at destroying my personal belongings."

Yu Fu also smiled warmly and amiably: "Mr. Bai Liu is still so good at using dirty tricks."

"Now you are even taking advantage of the fear of our interns." Yu Fu closed her eyes and ignored everything on the field. She smiled calmly, "You started planning all this when Dalong died?"

"If you're talking about the current riot at the Bureau of Heresy and my visit here now." Bai Liu smiled calmly, "That's exactly what happened, Captain Yu."

"A game is only interesting if it is closely connected to another game, right?"

Yu Fu was quiet for a long time before she spoke: "What game do you want to play with me?"

"The game between a quality player like Captain Yu and me should be saved for last." Bai Liu turned to the side and smiled at Lu Yizhan and Cen Mingming who were standing not far away. "Why don't we let your Crusaders' reserve players play a game with me, the villain you've been targeting for a long time?"

"Let me, a bad guy, personally select the candidates—"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Let's see who will qualify to play the next round with me."

Yu Fu raised her hand and another scalpel was shot out. Bai Liu smiled and raised his hand. A rippled water-patterned wall appeared in front of him, swallowing up the scalpel shot by Yu Fu, while allowing Yu Fu to vaguely see the scene on the other side of the wall.

Bai Liu smiled and looked at Yu Fu behind the water pattern wall: "The best seats for watching games and movies, Captain Yu."

"Since you are new players, let's play a simple game—" Bai Liu clapped his hands, turned his head to look at Cen Mingming and Lu Yizhan behind him, and said with a chuckle, "This game is called Please Open Your Eyes Before Dark."

"The rules of the game are that I count one, two, three, and then say it's dark. Then whoever opens his eyes first wins."

"This game is played by you two new members and the so-called heretic [0573]. I will ask it and you to close your eyes and sit facing each other."

Bai Liu caught a glimpse of Cen Mingming preparing to rush over to attack him. He raised his hand slightly without changing his expression, and a small water-rippled wall appeared in front of his hand. The scalpel that Yu Fu had just shot into the water-rippled wall and disappeared now shot out from the water-rippled wall, directly piercing through Cen Mingming's shoulder blade and nailing him to the ground.

Cen Mingming couldn't control his anger and wanted to close his eyes. Suddenly, Lu Yizhan's calm voice came to his ears: "We'll play with you."

"How do we win?"

Bai Liu's eyes swept towards Lu Yizhan, who also had his eyes closed at this moment. The smile on his face became amused again: "It's very simple. As long as one of you opens his eyes before the heretic [0573] the moment I say it's dark, you win."

"But it also means that one of you will lose an eye."

Bai Liu held his chin up, as if he was thinking deeply, and the smile on his face deepened: "The team member who lost both eyes won the game and protected another person, which is of course good, but at the same time, this person can no longer join the [Crusader]."

"——You may even have to quit the Bureau of Heresy forever and become a protected, worthless piece of trash."

Lu Yizhan and Cen Mingming's breathing both stagnated.

"Then..." Bai Liu said with a smile, "The game begins. It's dark. It's time to go to sleep. Please close your eyes."

[Eyeballs Hoarding Food] He staggered to the opposite side of Cen Mingming and Lu Yizhang. The eyeballs above seemed to be hypnotized by Bai Liu's words and closed one after another.

"Now I'll count to one, two, three, werewolf, please open your eyes."

Cen Mingming, who was nailed to the ground by a scalpel, opened his red eyes without any hesitation. But before he saw the [eyeball food], someone stood up and stood in front of him, facing the monster full of eyeballs.

Cen Mingzhu's mind went blank. He only heard a "buzzing" sound, like something being dug out. Blood was dripping from the left half of Lu Yizhan's face and seeping into the grass beside him.

"Now that the game is over, do I win?" Lu Yizhan asked in a hoarse voice.

Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan who was standing in front of Cen Mingming, raised his eyebrows slightly, and smiled: "You win."

Lu Yizhan was breathing rapidly, his right eye was tightly closed, and his left eye was open, which had been hollowed out, with only broken blood vessels seeping out of the empty eye socket and dripping down his jaw.

"This is a really good warm-up game." Bai Liu snapped his fingers, and the water-patterned wall between Yu Fu and him fell down. He turned around and looked at Yu Fu, smiling and said, "Now it's time for the real game, Captain Yu."

He snapped his fingers again, and the ten jury members who were watching the game in the communications room also appeared in the training ground.

"Captain Yu, have you ever played Werewolf?" Bai Liu walked towards the group of people step by step, with a more friendly smile on his face, "This is a game I like very much."

"Now we are going to play a variation of Werewolf called 'Open Your Eyes Before Dark'. The rules of the game are different from the previous one."

"Since two new players, Lu Yizhan and Cen Mingming, have just completed the first game, let them be spectators for now, and the remaining games will be played by the twelve of us."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled: "Among the twelve of you, there is a heretic with a magic card. This magic card is Captain Yu, and the rest are villager cards."

"You can choose to sacrifice yourself and let the heretic parasite on you. If you successfully contain the heretic, the game will end."

"——Or, you can choose to actively become a werewolf and kill the Death Card or all the villagers in the dark. The game ends after the killing."

The smile on Bai Liu's lips turned hazy: "No matter which choice you make, you don't have to worry about the consequences, because the judge, that is, me, will erase everyone's memory after the night. No one will remember that they killed someone, and the rest of the people will not remember it either. You can still stay in the Heretic Administration as an innocent survivor of the game."

"——Or, after becoming a werewolf, you can choose to leave with me, stay away from this dangerous Heretic Administration, and become a free and dangerous evil villain."

“Bai Liu——!!” Cen Mingming tried to stand up with his injured shoulder.

Bai Liu raised his hand without looking back, and a water-patterned wall appeared in front of them. He chuckled and said, "—This is a wall that can block all attacks. The attacks of the heretics are also ineffective in the space behind the wall, so you can also look directly at the heretic 0573 from behind the wall."

"Now just stay back and watch all this as a spectator."

Lu Yizhang felt like he was being pulled down by something and was forced to sit on the ground. He looked up at the content behind the water pattern wall. The blurriness of the water pattern wall made everything seem unreal. For a moment, he felt as if he was a viewer watching a small TV.

That's ridiculous.

Tang Er refused angrily with a smug look on his face: "Are you a piece of shit?! I won't play this game with you!"

Yu Fu calmly ordered: "Trainer Tang Erda, cooperate with him in the game."

Tang Erda turned his head sharply and glanced at Yu Fu. Finally, he clenched his teeth and lowered his head, obeying the order: "...Yes, Captain Yu."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Then let the game begin. It's dark now. Please close your eyes."

Everyone, including Heretic 0573, closed their eyes.

Bai Liu looked at the three members of the second team whose hands were shaking. He said with a smile, "Now, werewolves, please open your eyes."

Under Cen Mingming's incredulous gaze, the three members of the second team opened their eyes one after another. They stood up slowly and hesitantly, grasped the guns at their waists, walked hesitantly in front of Yu Fu, raised their guns and pointed them at her.

Yu Fu's breathing quickened for a moment, then quickly calmed down. Her voice was barely audible, but still clear and steady:

"…Bai Liu, the heretic rebellion of the Bureau of Heresy, did you instigate the captain of the second detachment to release all the heretics?"

"Before the Rose Factory, you had already instigated the members of the Second Detachment to rebel. You deliberately sent the members of the First Regiment of the Second Detachment to investigate the Rose Factory, lured Captain Dong Chenglong there, and killed him there. At the same time, you deliberately released Cen Mingming and Lu Yizhan. You took advantage of the fear that Lu Yizhan had planted in you at the Rose Factory, and then gave Cen Mingming the Murphy's Magic Mirror through the members of the Second Detachment, and successfully landed inside the Bureau of Heresy, right?"

Cen Mingming's breathing stagnated.

...Yes, when the people from Team 2 came to see him before, they gave him a mirror with a cross carved on the back, saying that it was a relic of the [Cross Inquisition] left for him by Captain Dong, and it can be used to detect heresy, and they hoped that he would make good use of it.

——Don’t let Captain Dong down for his hard work in rescuing him.

He never, never thought that everything he had suffered from from the beginning to now was just a game between Bai Liu and the people from the second team, and he was just an NPC in the game.

Bai Liu smiled and replied, "Yes, you are really smart, Captain Yu. I followed the rules of the game with Team Fang and did not forcibly land on the Heretic Administration."

"Not everyone has such firm ideals as the people in the Inquisition. Many people just want to be ordinary people."

"But ordinary people have too many desires. It is too easy to satisfy or betray them. I am really amazed at the degree of trust you have in them—"

"——After all, evil and desire have a natural appeal to humans."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at Yu Fu, and whispered as if sighing: "——Werewolf, please kill people."

The three members of the second team aimed their guns at Yu Fu. Before she was shot, Yu Fu opened her eyes. Before Bai Liu could say "Violating the rules of the game, kill everyone", she resolutely slashed at the heretic who closed his eyes.

Heretic 0573 opened all his eyes and looked at Yu Fu. Yu Fu's gentle smiling eyes were empty for a moment when they met. She knelt on the ground. Her originally perfect body began to bulge and deform, and strange eyeballs continued to grow. She still had that gentle and powerful smile on her face, and her tone was light and elegant:

"I choose the god card to self-destruct."

The next second, Yu Fu was completely parasitized. Her beautiful face turned into a pile of eyeballs. Yu Fu's mind went blank and blood kept flowing from her mouth. She thought of Fang Dian in a trance.

The carefree captain sat in front of her, covered in wounds, and asked her, Yu Fu, what is the way you hate to die the most?

Yu Fu smiled gently and said, Of course it hurts a lot, Captain.

Fang Dian's face was distorted by Yu Fu's treatment, but he gave her a thumbs up with a grin, showing his eight brilliant teeth and said with a smile, "Yu Fu, you only make others die in pain, how can you die in pain yourself!"

——You are the therapist of our team, I will always protect you.

Yu Fu slowly closed her empty eyes. She opened her mouth to say something, but in the end, no words came out, and an eyeball suddenly grew out of her throat.

She had always believed that mistakes were fatal.

It turns out that pain can be fatal.

Bai Liu clapped his hands and smiled at everyone: "What a beautiful response."

"The divine card exploded and saved everyone. You are worthy of being the healer Captain Yu."

"They even want to save a traitor—" Shiroku turned his head to look at the three members of the Second Division who had blank expressions, and raised the corners of his mouth, "—As expected of the [True Cross Inquisition]."