"Lu Yizhan, do you know why I want to take you into the temple today?" Bai Liu chuckled happily, "Only those with God-level desires can enter here."

"Fang Dian and you are the same, except that your desires are not evil. You are almost qualified to replace me and become the next generation of evil gods."

Bai Liu sighed as if with regret. He raised his hand, and a water-patterned wall separated them from Fang Dian, who was lowering his head.

"It's a pity that you don't want to become evil gods."

"Then I will have no choice but to charge you for participating in the evil god game."

Lu Yizhan raised his head slowly and realized something.

Bai Liu continued with a smile: "Lu Yizhan, if you win in a certain world line, that world line will continue to run in the same way as after you win."

"——That is to say, if Fang Dian fell in love with someone at that time and got married to him."

Lu Yizhan's eyes slowly widened, and tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.

Bai Liu said: "Then she will continue to live happily with this person."

"She won't remember you. You're just an irrelevant person who won the game."

"If you lose the game, you will witness her pain as the soul of her loved one is destroyed in front of her. You will feel pain for her pain."

Bai Liu turned his head and looked at Lu Yizhan with a smile: "And if you win the game, you will lose her and watch her live happily with someone else."

Lu Yizhan spoke hoarsely: "...This is the price of [pain] you want me to pay, right?"

"You planned all of this from the beginning, and wanted Fangdian and I to pay for it."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and smiled, "Yes."

"In a sense, I have taken [pain] from every judge, but only your soul and Fangdian's soul have been tempered into divinity through [pain]. The pain you two have given me is the most valuable."

"In a sense." Bai Liu turned his head to look at Lu Yizhan, with a faint smile on his face, "I'm curious about what you will choose."

"Will you continue to work hard and do everything you can to win, or will you simply choose to lose the game and take the person you love."

"From now on, do you really lose the game because you can't win, or is there a tiny bit of the despicable thought of losing deep in your soul?"

Lu Yizhan didn't say anything.

When the next world line began, Lu Yizhan was in a trance for several days. While on a mission, he was pulled back from a heretic by Cen Mingming and was admitted to the hospital with injuries.

Cen Mingming frowned and looked at Lu Yizhan who was sitting in the ward: "What are you doing?"

Lu Yizhang suddenly remembered that, oh, Cen Mingming had fought for this world line as soon as he landed.

Lu Yizhang used [World Line Memory Overlay] on Cen Mingming, allowing him to directly know everything that happened from the first world line to the present. He now has the memory of the first world line and the previous world lines. This is the fastest way that Lu Yizhang knows to win over Cen Mingming.

Except for what happened at the temple.

Lu Yizhan lowered his head in silence.

Cen Mingming raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it related to Fang Dian?"

Lu Yizhan’s fingers curled up.

Cen Mingming was impatient: "Don't force me to use heretics to torture you and make you confess. Tell the truth quickly. I'm busy saving the world, Captain Lu."

Lu Yizhan knew Cen Mingming's character very well. He took a deep breath and finally told him everything.

Cen Mingming commented on Bai Liu's behavior with a gloomy face: "You bastard shot me."

Lu Yizhan nodded in agreement.

"You're nodding your head." Cen Mingming glanced at Luyi Station with a cold look in his eyes. "You're still doubting whether you really don't want to win because you are so despicable. Do you have the ability to win?"

Lu Yizhan, who was stabbed precisely, said: "..."

"I'm not doubting myself." Lu Yizhan scratched his head, lowered his eyelids, and spoke in a low voice, "At that time, I heard that Fang Dian and that man were going to get married, and saw that man being burned to ashes because of Fang Dian's love..."

"There was a moment, and it's funny, but I was actually a little jealous of that pile of ashes."

"Because I am not even qualified to be reduced to ashes, I cannot... get close to her."

He was the only judge left.

"So sometimes I can't really figure out whether I was affected by my emotions at that moment." Lu Yizhan smiled apologetically, "After all, it's hard for a loser like me to beat Bai Liu. A momentary emotional fluctuation is enough to make me lose."

Cen Mingming also fell silent, and then suddenly said in a cold voice: "I will take a day off to accompany you to find the direction of this world line."

Lu Yizhan's pupils trembled: "What?!"

"Emotions make choices." Cen Mingming glanced coldly at the Luyi Station, "Wouldn't you understand once you see it?"

the next day.

Even though Lu Yizhan was extremely reluctant, Cen Mingming still dragged him out.

"In this world line, Fang is still in high school, in her third year, and has a boyfriend." Cen Mingming calmly introduced the gossip he had heard, "The girl Fang is pursuing has a boyfriend who is the school hunk, a well-known aloof flower. She fell in love with him at first sight and pursued him for two months, but he didn't agree, so she gave up."

"Shouldn't you study hard in your senior year of high school? What's the point of falling in love?" Lu Yizhan tried to hold back, but couldn't help but reply, "How handsome you are that she pursued you for two months."

"And didn't she give up? Why did I become her boyfriend in the end?"

Cen Mingming glanced at Luyi Station and said, "Because the other party has started to pursue me."

"She seemed to have come to her senses and realized that she liked Fang Dui. She put aside all her pride and pursued him like crazy for four months. Before the second mock exam, she said that if her score in the second mock exam was similar to hers, she could try. She then started studying like crazy."

"When the results came out, he was only ten points lower than the first place team leader, so Fang Dian agreed."

Lu Yizhan: “…”

Damn it! Why did you suddenly wake up?

Lu Yizhang was dragged by Cen Mingming to a hillside near a school. Looking down from the hillside, he could see the playground of the high school.

Cen Mingming crossed his chest and introduced indifferently: "I asked about their class schedule. The next class is physical education. You should be able to see the parade here."

Sure enough, as soon as the bell rang, Lu Yizhan's back tensed up.

He saw Fang Dian, who had a high ponytail, was wearing a fitted white T-shirt and sports shorts, and white socks that were higher than her sneakers. She was holding a volleyball in her hand and had a bright and sunny smile.

Lu Yizhan watched without moving a muscle, his eyes not missing a single detail.

——It’s the smiling Fang Dian.

Fang Dian was walking on the stairs. Someone seemed to be calling her name on the playground. She turned around and her ponytail swung in a light arc in the air. She seemed to see someone. The smile on her face grew bigger. She handed the volleyball in her hand to the person next to her and seemed to be responding to that person with her mouth.

She ran, jumped down from the high steps in two steps, and opened her arms with a smile.

Lu Yizhan subconsciously opened his arms almost at the same time as the man standing on the steps and took a step forward.

Fang Dian fell into another person's arms.

She smiled happily and sweetly, hugged the boy whose back was only visible, then was lifted up high and spun around.

Lu Yizhan slowly lowered his open hands and stared at Fang Dian in a daze.

Cen Mingming asked calmly, "What does it feel like? Jealousy and pain that makes you want to lose the game?"

"Yes, I am jealous." Lu Yizhan's voice was very calm. He smiled, and there was a faint light flickering in his eyes. "But she is very happy."

"The happiness I feel from seeing her happy is greater than the pain of jealousy."

Lu Yizhan turned his head and said, "Let's go back."

His eyes became resolute again: "--Even if I am the only one left, I will continue."

"Brother." Lu Yizhan was walking forward when he heard Cen Mingming suddenly call out from behind him. His voice was very faint, "I will accompany you to the last world line."

"Until then, no matter what, I will never admit defeat to Bai Liu."

Lu Yizhan turned around and smiled: "Then thank you here first, my hunter friend."

Cen Mingming looked at the tear marks on Lu Yizhan's face for a while, then sneered: "If the prophet cries at the slightest provocation, then he really needs to rely on hunters."

"Don't laugh at me..." Lu Yizhan wiped his face helplessly and muttered softly, "Anyone who encounters this situation will cry, right?"