"There are only two coordinates left." Wu Ruishu pushed his glasses seriously, "I personally prefer this isolated island on the sea. This is also our next goal."

"If my guess is correct, we will face Bai Liu and his many heretics on this isolated island. I hope everyone will be well prepared and have a good rest tonight. We will set out tomorrow. The meeting is adjourned."

"yes!"

After the meeting.

After more than two years of high-tempo searching, Lu Yizhan had long been accustomed to lying in bed one second and setting off fully armed the next. In short, there was not a single second that belonged to him.

Unexpectedly, now that it has come to an end and he can have a simple breather or a night to rest, Lu Yizhan feels a little confused and doesn't know what to do.

He walked unconsciously to Yu Fu's infirmary.

This infirmary is now vacant. Lu Yizhan would occasionally come over to clean it up, stand there for a while, smoke a cigarette and calm down.

Yes, that's right, he learned to smoke.

One team was prohibited from smoking. Fang Dian once caught Lu Yizhang hiding in Yu Fu's infirmary to smoke. He looked at him silently for a while with deep eyes, as if examining him.

Lu Yizhan was so frightened that he almost flew off, but after a while, Fang Dian held out his hand to him and asked with a smile: "Any more? Give me one."

Fang Dian took the cigarette, and very skillfully lowered his head and smoked quietly with him in Yu Fu's infirmary.

The smoke filled her face, passed through the collar of her uniform, and dispersed into endless smoke. Then Lu Yizhan heard Fang Dian say with a smile, "The ban on smoking in the first team was passed by Yu Fu and others without my knowledge."

"Actually, they gave me an order. I smoked too much and they thought it was bad for my health. They always said that I was not killed by heretics, but I died from smoking myself."

"I didn't expect it." Fang Dian turned around and smiled at the stunned Lu Yizhan, "Before I could beat them to death, they were killed by the heretics."

Fang Dian finished a cigarette in just a few puffs, and then naturally reached out to Lu Yizhan: "Another one."

"No, there are none left." Lu Yizhan stuttered, "The one just now was the last one."

Fang Dian raised her eyes and smiled faintly as she glanced at the cigarette that was still smoking beside Lu Yizhan's mouth. Then she naturally reached out to pick up the cigarette and shook it in front of Lu Yizhan: "Do you mind if I smoke this one?"

"No, I don't mind!" Lu Yizhan's expression was blank. He felt like he was going to ascend to heaven.

"Thank you! I'm a little addicted to smoking." Fang Dian patted Lu Yizhang's shoulder carelessly. She held the cigarette in her mouth, bit the mouthpiece lightly with her teeth, lowered her head and lit the cigarette with a lighter.

The flickering flame of the lighter reflected on Fangdian's profile, giving it a very gentle beauty.

"Smoking is actually a very depraved behavior." Lu Yizhan heard Fang Dian whisper, "I often wonder if cigarettes are a kind of low-risk addictive heresy that is packaged and then released by Bai Liu, slowly and silently corrupting many people."

Fang Dian exhaled a puff of white smoke: "For example, me."

"It is very difficult for people to fight against their own negative desires. I understand this very well. I can't even quit smoking, but I expect to win Bailiu. It's a bit ridiculous."

Fang Dian lowered her head and smiled softly: "But in this world, as long as there is someone who hopes that I will quit smoking, every smoker will have someone who hopes that they will quit smoking."

“—Then I won’t lose.”

Fang Dian took his last puff, smiled and waved to Lu Yizhan: "Quit smoking, Lu Yizhan."

After that, Lu Yizhan didn't sneak over to smoke for a long time, but maybe it was because he was too emotional the night before departure, Lu Yizhan couldn't help it, he came here again, and couldn't help but light a cigarette for himself.

As a result, just as he ordered, the door of the infirmary behind him opened. Lu Yizhan, who was smoking a cigarette, turned around and saw Fang Dian smiling and greeting him. He walked to his side very naturally and said, "Anything else? Have one."

Lu Yizhan: “…”

Why does this woman who says she wants to quit smoking act so nonchalant every time she asks him for cigarettes?

Fang Dian looked up at him, the moonlight outside the window reflected in her eyes, bright and clear, with a slight smile on her face, the wind gently ruffling her ponytail behind her head, and she said, "You've grown a lot taller, Lu Yizhang. When you joined the team, you were about the same height as Xiao Wu. Now I have to look up to you."

"Your performance in the team is also very good. You have grown completely."

As if he had expected that he would see someone asking for cigarettes here, Lu Yizhan actually brought a pack of cigarettes with him. But at this moment, when he heard those words, Lu Yizhan said inexplicably: "...No more, only one cigarette left."

He knew what Square Point would do when he only had one.

She would take the cigarette from his lips and smoke it, which indirectly...

But before he could finish his thought, Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank.

Fang Dian stretched out two fingers to pull the cigarette from his lips, then took a step forward, tiptoed slightly, put one arm around the back of his neck, closed his eyes and kissed him.

——Kissed.

The wind blew in from the window, blowing on Lu Yizhan's blank profile and Fangdian's closed-eye face, and lasted for about fifteen seconds. Fangdian stepped back, naturally raised his hand to take out the new cigarette that Lu Yizhan brought from his pocket, put it to his lips and sipped it, then put the cigarette in Lu Yizhan's mouth back into his hand.

Lu Yizhan thought slowly in a daze -

Ah, Fang Dian saw that I brought new cigarettes.

Then she must have known that I was lying to her by saying I only had one and kissed her indirectly, so why not just kiss me directly...

This is incomprehensible, right?! What kind of weird logic is this!

So why did you kiss me!!!

"How long have you liked me?" Fang Dian suddenly asked.

Lu Yizhan stood up straight with conscious thought: "Two years, three months and eight days!"

"At that time..." Fang Dian touched his chin, "Did you fall in love with me at first sight?"

Lu Yizhan was sweating and his face was red: "...Yes, yes, when did Fang Tai know about it?"

Fang Dian lowered his head and thought carefully: "When you joined the team."

Lu Yizhan: “!!!”

So early?!

A strange feeling of shame surged into the Landing Inn's heart. He covered his flushed face with both hands, wishing he could dig a hole and bury himself in it right there and then: "Then why did Fang Tuan pretend not to know that I liked you when my weapon was a heavy sword..."

"You didn't say it directly, and it seems you don't want to say it." Fang Dian scratched his head, "I've never been in a relationship before, I don't know if I should respect you for the time being and not expose it."

"Well, then just now..." Lu Yizhan paused.

Fang Dian answered seriously, "Just now I thought that I might die tomorrow, and you seemed willing, so I kissed you."

Lu Yizhan covered his face, remained motionless and silent.

Fang Dian held the cigarette beside him but didn't smoke. After a while, she lowered her eyelids and said softly, "If you don't want to, I'll say sorry to you."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "Not unwillingly..."

And he was the one who had the idea first, and Fang Dian just saw it...

Stop thinking! It's shameful!

Fang Dian turned his head to look at him: "If you are willing, let's kiss again? What if I die tomorrow and there is no kiss..."

Lu Yizhan suddenly put down his hands, hugged Fang Dian and kissed her with a blushing face, stopping her from continuing.

Fang Dian was silent for a moment.

She slowly closed her eyes.

After Fang left at 12:00, Lu Yizhang opened the window of Yu Fu's infirmary and let in some cool air in an attempt to calm down, but in the end he walked out of the infirmary almost in sync, and at the same time comforted himself, saying that it was just a kiss, nothing serious.

As a result, as soon as Lu Yizhan came out of the infirmary, he saw Cen Mingming waiting outside with a subtle expression.

Luyi Station: ...

Seeing that Lu Yizhan was about to collapse in embarrassment in front of him, Cen Mingming mercifully looked away and said, "Tomorrow, Team Two will be responsible for cleaning the perimeter of the base you are heading to."

When Lu Yizhan gets down to business, he will instantly come back to his senses and ask, "What's the matter?"

Cen Mingming paused for a moment and asked: "What are your chances of surviving tomorrow?"

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Although Cen Mingming had handed over many things to him after becoming the deputy captain of the second team, most of the time they were just official business. Although they had experienced some things together, they obviously had different opinions. Lu Yizhan generally would not have private contact with people who disagreed with him.

And Cen Mingming is also such a person.

They basically don't talk about things that are not related to work, nor do they have any connections outside of work.

So when Cen Mingzhu said those words which clearly carried personal concerns, Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Cen Mingming crossed his arms and turned his face away, his tone very cold: "Don't act so stupid in front of me, I'm just seeing if I can rush over to collect your body on the way."

Lu Yizhan laughed. He thought about it seriously and then answered, "What is the chance of survival? Actually, we haven't found any possibility of survival yet."

Cen Mingming was silent for a moment, and he tightened his arms around himself: "... Lu Station, if you don't want to go tomorrow, I can apply for a replacement to replace you..."

"Deputy Captain Cen, why are you suddenly doing this for me?" Lu Yizhan was a little curious and confused. He scratched his head and said, "It seems that... our relationship has not reached this stage yet, right?"

Cen Mingming turned his head suddenly, stepped forward, grabbed Lu Yizhan by the collar and pushed him against the wall, questioning him in an angry tone: "Then why did you carry me out of the Rose Factory, and why did you stand in front of me in the trial!"

"Why did you lie to me and make me hate you for saving me?"

"Our relationship back then was far from this, Captain Lu Yizhan!"

Lu Yizhan lowered his head and looked at Cen Mingming, who was wearing an eye patch on his left eye, breathing rapidly and looking angry. Lu Yizhan put his hands on Cen Mingming's shoulders and slowly pushed him away. He leaned against the wall, lowered his eyes and asked softly, "You know it now."

"I knew it a long time ago." Cen Mingming turned his face away, his tone was very cold, "I still hate you, Lu Yizhan, but I don't like to owe others, so if you need me to die for you, I can take your place."

Lu Yizhan slowly raised his head: "What if I need you to live well for me?"

Cen Mingming's pupils shrank.

"We were indeed strangers at first, but I am one year older than you, so I am at least half your senior brother." Lu Yizhan straightened his uniform and smiled good-naturedly, "It is natural for a senior brother to save a junior brother."

Cen Mingming sneered: "Senior brothers from the first class? Lu Yizhan, you are so shameless. Logically speaking, my senior brothers should all be the seniors of the second team..."

When it came to this, both of them were stunned.

Almost all of Cen Mingming's fellow brothers were executed in that rebellion.

"I'm not forcing you to recognize me as your senior brother." Lu Yizhan raised his head and patted Cen Mingming's shoulder with a smile, "If your real senior brother is absent, then if you don't mind, you can let me take your place temporarily."

Cen Mingming sneered and slapped away Lu Yizhan's hand on his shoulder: "Get lost, stop taking advantage of me, who needs a senior brother?"

Lu Yizhan thought for a moment, "Really? At that time, you and I lived in the same ward, and at night I would hear you crying and saying, 'I really want a senior brother to take care of me...'"

Cen Mingming narrowed his right eye and said, "If you continue to spread rumors, I will kill you."

"Hey, you used to be someone who loved to cry while hugging your blanket, why are you like this now?" Lu Yizhan shook his head with regret, "As expected, children become vicious when they grow up."

Cen Mingzhi, who was being taken advantage of by Lu Yizhan, said: "..."

He shouldn't have bothered to care about this person.

After Lu Yizhan finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave. Halfway through his walk, he heard a very faint voice coming from behind him:

"Senior brother."

The back of Lu Yizhan who was leaving paused. This was Cen Mingming's unknown voice.

Cen Ming was silent for a moment, then continued calmly: "If you die, I won't cry for you."

Lu Yizhan smiled and waved without turning his head: "That's good."

The next day, the Inquisition flew to the island, with one team clearing the inner area of ​​the island and the second team clearing the outer area.

This is an island located in the endless black waves. There are no other islands around it. It is so lonely as if it is located in the center of the universe. The island is surrounded by raging waves and fierce sea winds. Ships cannot get close at all. Under the sea surface, dark, indescribable monsters that are so huge that they can swallow yachts sway and swim from time to time.

By the time Fang Dian and his men landed on the island, many people had already been killed or injured.

There was an extremely grand temple on the island, and Bai Liu sat on a rock card table in front of the temple with his chin propped up, looking at them with a half-smile: "You are finally here, I almost fell asleep waiting."

Fang Dian stared at Bai Liu and took a step forward: "We won the game with you."

"No, you lost." Bai Liu smiled and raised his eyes, "Because the condition for winning the game is to capture my [Tower], but you have only arrived now."

"This is my temple. You can't capture it. Even I can't destroy it."

Wu Ruishu was furious: "You are cheating! Doesn't that mean I have no way of beating you from the beginning?"

Bai Liu lazily fiddled with the cards on the table: "No, I actually hoped that you could beat me and destroy this temple. It's just a pity that you couldn't do it."

"But I didn't lose either." Fang Dian continued calmly, "You can't capture the Bureau of Heresy because I brought all the heretics and all the team members here."

"So you're moving the Bureau of Heresy to my temple? Risking so many casualties?" Bai Liu smiled with a slight admiration. "I can't destroy my temple, so you won't lose the game either."

"What a great comeback, Fangdian. You are truly the best human being I have ever seen, a ruler who values ​​both cruelty and mercy."

"You've never won a game from me, but you've never lost a game from me. Your goal has always been so firm." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and looked at Fang Dian, smiling, "--You want to trap me, the evil god, in your game so that more people from other world lines can survive."

"I'm curious, when did you know there were other world lines? This is already something in the realm of God. How did you know about it?"

Fang Dian laughed carelessly: "I guessed it! Seeing that you always wanted to run away, I thought there must be other places where you can have more fun."

"Even if you have never met people from other world lines, and have never had any emotional connection with them, and you don't even know what kind of world they live in." Bai Liu walked down the steps high up in the temple step by step. He looked at Fang Dian and smiled with interest, "You still have to risk sacrificing yourself and the people around you to save them."

"Why, Fangdian?"

"You have no basis for empathy with them, so why do you have such a strong desire to become a god to save everyone?"

Fang Dian looked at Bai Liu who was walking down. She raised her head and looked at him directly: "Actually, I don't want to save them."

"I just don't think they should be your playthings."

"But what if this is what they want?" Bai Liu spread his hands, "I receive many prayers every day, praying that I go to that world to fulfill their desires and bring evil."

The sea breeze blew Fangdian's long hair violently. She said calmly, "Want to play a game with me?"

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows: "What game?"

Fang Dian laughed: "Even if you let everyone in the world enter your game, derive all kinds of weapons according to their desires, let them kill each other in your game, encourage them to gamble and commit crimes, and let the entire game be filled with your favorite heretics, in the end-"

"You will definitely lose to them, to them as human beings."

Bai Liu was silent for a second, then he raised his lips and said, "Okay, I'll fulfill your wish and play this game with you."

"I will separate the game from reality. When someone develops desires in their hearts and prays to me, the evil god, to come and fulfill their wishes, I will bring them into my game. At the same time, I will give excellent and high-quality human desires like you personal skills so that they can survive for a long time in my dangerous game."

"At the same time, in order to facilitate the so-called mutual assistance between humans as you mentioned, Captain Fang, I will allow them to see each other's game status and give each other their own resources to help each other."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "From now on, I will let this game run in all world lines."

"The standard for winning or losing the game is set as follows: if a heretic in the game is brought into reality and pollutes the entire world, I win. If not, you win. The entire world is our [Tower]. How do you say that?"

Fang Dianmin sharply retorted: "It is more difficult for us to win this game because there is no time limit during the defensive period."

"That's right." Bai Liu held his chin and thought for a moment, then he quickly laughed again, "How about this, remove me from the entire game. I won't enter any game or reality."

Fang Dian's eyes really lit up this time: "Really?"

Without the existence of a bug like Bai Liu, everyone will be much more relaxed!

"Really, but correspondingly." Bai Liu turned his head and smiled, "I will place a coordinate derivative of myself under each world line. Like you, this derivative is a mortal body, mortal combat ability, and in order to make it easier for you to find them, I will set them to look exactly like me."

"This derivative of mine is the hourglass for both of us. It is your time limit. The game ends when you kill it. If the whole world has not been polluted by that time, you win. Otherwise, I win."

The conditions of this game sounded so good that it was almost like a dream. Fang Dian understood Diao Liu's bad taste so well that she couldn't understand it any more. So she asked cautiously: "What are the requirements for us?"

"What do you want?" Bai Liu smiled with a smile, "Of course, you want me to sit across from you, the punished evil god, and play games with you."

"In all world lines, I will set you to exist in every world line. Usually, each of you is different, but I will set the souls of all of you to be unified, which means -"

Bai Liu smiled calmly: "You will use one soul to experience the reincarnation of all world lines."

"If any of you are seduced by my derivative in a certain world line and sell your soul to him, then your soul will be completely useless and turned into a stone sculpture in my temple, and there will be no chance to start over again."

"I will project your souls into the world line just like I project my derivatives, but at the same time, you will be like game NPCs with the save file reset to zero. You will not remember anything. Every world line is a brand new game."

Bai Liu stood on the steps with his eyes lowered, looking down at Fang Dian who was standing below: "Team Fang, as a reward for you touching God, or to make this game more interesting, I can give your members of the [Crusader] skills that only God has, which will help them fight against me."

"But each of their world lines has these rules and skills that only gods have, and each world line can play this game with me. Correspondingly, you have to pay a price for them in each world line."

Fang Dian asked: "What is the price I have to pay?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Painful."

Wu Ruishu and Lu Yizhan both looked at Fang Dian quickly, but Fang Dian raised his hand to stop them and nodded calmly: "Okay, I promise you."

"You give the skills first."

Bai Liu pointed lightly in the air: "Wu Ruishu, Tai Chi transformation can make all offensive skills ineffective and use the opponent's force to attack."

"Su Lan, world line overlap can temporarily overlap two world lines you know."

"Ren Yuxin, memory folding can change the memory of all creatures in the entire world line and completely erase the trace of a certain event, but it can only be used three times in a world line."

“…”

"Finally, I will give you two rule-based skills that can determine the direction of the game." Bai Liu's smile deepened, "The first skill is [Listen to God's Words]."

"For each world line, although I will not be on the scene, I will design my own game background script for each world line, and use the players and heretics in the game to make the entire world line follow the path I preset."

“But it would be boring to keep following my path.”

Bai Liu pointed at Lu Station and said with a smile: "——So you can use this skill to gradually spy on what I am going to do and then stop me. So you can also say that this is a prophet's skill."

"The last skill - Judgment of the Evil God."

"This skill can be used to judge all heretics related to me, the evil god, in every world line, including me."

"After the trial, the heretic's weaknesses will be exposed in front of you and they will continue to be weak. No matter how strong the heretic is, you can use this skill to contain the other party."

Wu Ruishu reacted quickly. He stared at Bai Liu and said, "You only mentioned six skills just now. You didn't give the team any skills."

The corners of Bai Liu's lips curled up: "She has no skills."

"Because she, like me, belongs to the [God] position and will not end."

Fang Dian seemed to have expected this. She held the heavy sword and calmly took a step forward onto the temple steps. "The skills you gave me are good, and I will pay the price well."

"Parade——!!" Wu Ruishu was anxious and wanted to follow.

Fang Dian didn't turn around: "Deputy Captain Wu, wait for me to come out."

Wu Ruishu gritted his teeth and stopped.

"The game in this world line has not started yet. I will let Fang Tuan say goodbye to you and then take the price." Bai Liu bowed slightly, "Please."

Lu Yizhan stood motionless and watched Fang Dian's back as she stepped into the temple. The sea breeze blew her ponytail into a mess, just like the texture of her ponytail that was blown against his face by the night wind last night.

He clenched his fists slowly.

Inside the dark temple is a huge swimming pool connected to the deep sea. There are many unknown sea creatures swimming in the pool. There are pillars around the pool with chains hanging on them.

"It's been so long." Bai Liu looked at Fang Dian, "Besides me, you are the first person who is qualified to step into this place."

Fang Dian looked at the swimming pool and said calmly, "Are you going to lock me up here?"

"Of course not." Bai Liu smiled. "It's too disrespectful to lock you in a pool, a being that is close to being a god. I will lock you in the bottom of the sea."

"Of course, this kind of torture from flesh bullets can't cause you any pain, Captain Fang."

"You are incredibly resilient. The death of your close teammates, betrayal, and the endless heresy have not been able to make you collapse and suffer, but you have persisted all the time." Bai Liu said with a bit of distress, "I thought about it for a long time before I reluctantly came up with this game that can make you feel pain."

Fang Dian raised his eyes and looked at Bai Liu calmly: "What game is it?"

"In every world line, I will completely erase your memory, so that you can be like an ordinary person with a pair of happy parents, excellent looks, a perfect brain, and everything that can make a normal person feel happy." Bai Liu looked at Fang Dian and continued with a smile, "Then I will make you lose it."

"Then at the end of each world line, if the Inquisition loses the game, and you have someone you love deeply, I will bring that person to the temple, to your original soul trapped in the sea. I will tell him that because you love him, I will shatter his soul and turn him into ashes in pain—"

"——There is no way to reincarnate in eternity."

Bai Liu looked at Fang Dian, who was looking down with his head and expression unclear, and continued with a smile: "Then at the beginning of the next world line, I will continue to erase your memory, and you will fall in love with another person under my design."

"And then you continue to watch him perish in front of you again because of your love."

"And I will stand by and enjoy your pain before the next round of the game begins."

Bai Liu smiled and asked, "Team Fang, are you willing to pay this price?"

Fang Dian raised her head and said without any emotion on her face: "Okay, I'll pay the price."

Lu Yizhan waited outside the temple for only ten minutes, but felt as if he had endured half a century. He saw Fang Dian walking down the steps of the temple with a calm expression, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But when Fang Dian reached the lower half of the stairs, he suddenly ran up the stairs with a heavy sword in hand, and then jumped down. Lu Yizhan saw Fang Dian's ponytail swaying in a brisk arc in the air as he ran.

Then she slammed herself and her heavy sword into Lu Yizhan's arms, who was panicking and hugging Fang Dian with open arms.

Lu Yizhan was knocked back several steps, but he still caught her steadily.

Fang Dian hugged Lu Yizhan tightly and buried her head in his shoulder. Lu Yizhan was almost in pain from being hugged like that, but at that moment he suddenly felt that Fang Dian, who was holding him, seemed to be in a million times more pain than he was.

But this feeling was fleeting, and Fang Dian loosened his arms a little from holding Lu Yizhang.

Lu Yizhang heard Fang Dian say in his ear in a very soft voice: "Lu Yizhang."

"——When you reincarnate in other worlds, remember to stay away from me when you see me again."

"Please don't let me fall in love with you again."