The world line continued to revolve forward.

Cen Mingming became his deputy captain in the next world line. This man is calm, decisive, has excellent memory and information processing ability, and his personal skill is executioner.

With Cen Mingming's help, the time when they lost the game in each timeline began to extend continuously, and the chances of killing Bai Liu also became more and more. Although they still failed to win the game in the end, they were infinitely close to the point of winning the game.

But deep down in Lu Yizhan's heart there was always a hidden sense of uneasiness.

Cen Mingming always managed to quickly get into the right state after jumping to a new world line. After receiving the prophecy he gave, he quickly processed the information of the entire world line, and then caught some of the heresies that Bai Liu had planted in advance and would spread from the information revealed in the prophecy, and dealt with them cleanly with swift means.

——Or to kill them all.

Lu Yizhan frowned and walked quickly towards the interrogation room.

From far away, Lu Yizhan could hear hysterical screams coming from the torture room, and then a man said with a weak cough: "I really... don't know anything."

"I didn't do anything, please, let me go."

Lu Yizhan pushed the door open and walked in.

Cen Mingming was leaning against a chair with his legs crossed in front of him. His feet, in their hard, thick-soled black leather boots, were stepping on the face of a dying man kneeling on the ground. In his hand, he was holding a thorn fork with a little blood on the end.

Seeing Lu Yizhan coming, Cen Mingming looked up, greeted him lightly, and turned back: "Captain."

Being ignored, Lu Yizhan's face suddenly darkened: "Cen Mingming, you've gone too far! Let this man go!"

"Okay." Cen Mingming obediently withdrew his hand. He looked at Lu Yizhan deeply and said, "I hope the captain won't regret it in a week."

"This person was the director of the rose perfume factory in the previous world line."

Lu Yizhan looked directly at Cen Mingbu without avoiding the gaze: "But he is not yet."

Cen Mingming raised his hands, picked up his shoes, and said sarcastically, "Okay, whatever, Senior Brother."

"Don't come to me to clean up your mess if something goes wrong." Cen Mingming glanced at Lu Yizhan and said in a cold voice, "Sometimes I hope the captain will change his inappropriate kindness, maybe we can win."

Lu Yizhan clenched his fists suddenly.

This was not the first time that he and Cen Mingming had such an argument. The further into the future the world line went, the more copies Cen Mingming was able to catch the heretics planted by Bai Liu and prepare to land in reality, and the more ruthless his methods became.

And Lu Yizhan also disagreed more and more.

Lu Yizhan once proposed a plan to replace elimination with supervision. He thought that the team members could monitor those who might bring heretics into reality, but he was ruthlessly ridiculed by Cen Mingming - Captain, how many people do you think the Heresy Bureau has to monitor the tens of thousands of heretics that Bai Liu is going to release into this world?

If the Bureau of Heresy had more members than the Heretics themselves, we wouldn't have to lose so badly every time.

What Cen Mingming said was indeed right. Their current manpower was simply not capable of dealing with the heresy thrown out by Bai Liu.

Moreover, there are too many ways for a heretic to enter the real world, or rather, there are too many people, and normal surveillance is simply impossible to monitor - no one knows who will be bewitched by the heretic and bring evil to the world.

The idea of ​​Luyi Station is just an idea, there is absolutely no condition for its implementation.

Cen Mingming said coldly: "Captain, your self-righteous and impractical behavior is only sacrificing the lives of Heresy Bureau members to fill the endless black hole of heretics."

"Do you know how many of our team members died every time we went out on a mission when the heretics actually landed?"

Cen Mingming glanced at the silent Lu Yizhan and said with sarcasm: "Is this the hypocrisy and cruelty of those in high positions?"

[He said... I will use the lives of the second team members of the Bureau of Heresy to fill this black hole of heresy that is impossible to fill...]

[He asked me if I knew how many members of the second team died every time they went out on a mission.]

[He called me a cruel bitch]

Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank, and he subconsciously grabbed Cen Mingming's wrist, murmuring: "...Don't go down that road."

Cen Mingming shook off the wrist that Lu Yizhan was holding, brushed past the shoulder of Lu Yizhan who was standing there unable to move, and without saying anything else, he lowered his eyes, pushed the door open and walked out.

A week later, the Rose Factory appeared.

After a lot of trouble, the director of the rose factory was finally caught.

The factory director turned out to be that man. Lu Station sent people to monitor the other side, but Bai Liu deployed the heretics too quickly, and also hid various props. When the supervising team members said that this man often disappeared at night, by the time Lu Station reacted, the Rose Factory copy had already landed in reality through this man.

Lu Yizhan personally brought the factory manager back. He knelt on the ground crying and praying, just like he had begged for mercy from Cen Mingming before: "I didn't do anything. I know nothing."

Lu Yizhan was silent for a long time before asking, "Do you know that perfume? If it runs out, will it kill people?"

"When Deputy Captain Cen interrogated you earlier, he already told you the dangers of this perfume. Why did you still use it after you got out?"

The factory manager avoided her gaze for a while.

Lu Yizhan suddenly had a ridiculous idea in his mind. He asked incredulously, "You didn't know what rose perfume was originally, but when you were in the Heresy Bureau, you heard Deputy Captain Cen's description of the perfume and thought it was profitable, so you started planting roses as soon as you got out. Do you want to make the rose perfume that Deputy Captain Cen mentioned?"

The factory manager lowered his head and suddenly chuckled twice: "It's profitable, it's human nature."

"Besides, I'm not killing anyone. As long as they keep buying my perfume, nothing will happen."

"Don't talk about me. If you change anyone, listen to the effect of this perfume, tell them the profit of this perfume, and then give them the secret formula of this perfume, see if they will be tempted and plant roses."

Cen Mingming took the man away from Lu Station.

Before taking the prisoner away, Cen Mingming turned around and looked at Lu Yizhan who was sitting silently behind the desk: "Brother, you knew that this person would cause huge damage, but you still had to wait until he caused huge damage before taking action."

"Is this the justice you uphold?"

Lu Yizhan raised his head slowly: "Preliminary execution is unfair to those who have not done anything wrong."

Cen Mingming raised his eyebrows sarcastically: "But if there is no pre-execution, it will also be unfair to those who died in the mistakes made by these people."

Cen Mingming was about to turn around and leave when Lu Yizhan suddenly called out to him, "The prophecy that Bai Liu showed us may not be true."

"His predictions are always more real than your thoughts, Captain." Cen Mingming's voice was cold.

After saying that, Cen Mingming closed the door and left.

Lu Yizhan was left alone in the office. He slowly slid down from the armchair, staring at the ceiling with empty eyes, muttering to himself: "Is my choice really the right one, Fangdian..."

He always felt that Bai Liu's predictions were becoming more and more targeted.

It was as if he was invisibly inducing Cen Mingming, who could discover these traps and heresies, to personally eliminate them.

During this eradication process, Cen Mingming became more and more extreme, more and more cruel, and more and more...

——Like the captain of the second team who defected to the White Sixth Battalion.

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes, moved his hand back, slowly grasped the gun on his waist, took a deep breath, and slowly let go as if all his strength was drained away.

...if there really comes such a day.

Can he do something to Cen Mingming?

Fang Dian, how did you feel when you killed the captain of the second team?

Lu Yizhang was on duty in the Heretic Administration that night. He could have slept in the first half of the night, but because his mind couldn't stop and he kept thinking about things, Lu Yizhang felt that he probably wouldn't be able to sleep, so he simply stayed up in the first half of the night as well. After dinner, he went out for patrol.

After inspecting the heretic detention center, he somehow came to the training ground.

Lu Yizhan stared at the training ground in a daze, feeling as if he was in another world. Clearly in this world line, he had just graduated from this place not long ago, but in fact, he had not been here for a long time.

The captains of each detachment are not responsible for teaching at the training ground. Only the deputy captains need to come here to perform certain teaching tasks.

Just as Lu Yizhan was about to look away and leave, he saw a group of trainees panting while running across the training ground. He stopped in surprise.

It's almost midnight now, and the night training time has passed, so why are these trainees still training harder?

Soon Lu Yizhan found out the reason. After running the laps, the trainees fell to the ground in the playground, gasping for breath, and complained madly while resting:

"Is Master Cen sick?! He just came over with a gloomy face to give us extra night training?! Does he know what time it is now?"

"Oh, what a devil instructor! Doesn't Instructor Cen always add extra training?"

"But the extra training recently is too outrageous! Is he the one who came?"

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this - his trainees in the same batch also often secretly complained about Dong Chenglong.

Now it's Cen's turn to be confused.

A gentle boy interrupted another boy's complaints with amusement and helplessness: "Tang Erda, you are exaggerating. Teacher Cen is also doing this for our own good."

Tang Er snorted coldly: "Bullshit, Su Yang, stop saying good things to him, he just got mad at his senior brother and came to us to vent his anger!"

"I just love it when the Army makes him mad! Damn it! It would be best if he were mad enough to die!" Tang Er, who was trained to be furious, was so angry that he pounded the ground.

Su Yang and Lu Yizhang couldn't help but laugh again.

Su Yang became increasingly helpless: "Why do you always like to imitate Cen and call me Senior Brother?"

"Every time he calls Captain Lu 'Senior Brother', he sounds weird." Tang Er was lying on his back, breathing heavily, his chest muscles bulging, and the cuffs of his four sleeves were all wet. "It makes me very unhappy to see this. Captain Lu is a very good person, with strong abilities and good people. But that guy surnamed Cen always looks like he wants to usurp the throne, it makes me..."

Cen Mingming's voice suddenly appeared calmly: "What do you think of me?"

Tang Erda was so frightened that he jumped up: "Fuck!"

Lu Yizhan, who was listening with great interest, was also startled: "Oh my god!"

"Are you two having a good time chatting?" Cen Mingming's eyes swept across the two people who screamed in fear without any emotion.

Lu Yizhang felt guilty and subconsciously stood next to Tang Erda, and bowed his head to admit his mistake together with Tang Erda.

Cen Mingming crossed his arms and said calmly, "You slandered the instructor behind his back, so you should be disciplined."

Tang Erda gritted his teeth and ran off. Lu Yizhan wanted to run after him unconsciously. Cen Mingming's eyelids jumped, and he pulled Lu Yizhan back by the back of his collar, almost suppressing his anger: "You are no longer a trainee, Lu."

Lu Yizhan scratched his head and smiled innocently: "I thought you were talking to me."

Cen Mingming: "..."

Sometimes Cen Mingming also doubted himself, why did he cooperate with such a person for three hundred world lines?

Cen Mingming and Lu Yizhan were standing by and watching the group of trainees running laps with heavy weights.

Lu Yizhan looked at Tang Erda who was running in circles with gritted teeth, and suddenly smiled: "You remind me of Master Dong."

"I didn't like Teacher Dong when I was a trainee, but now I feel like having an instructor like him is..."

Cen Mingming calmly continued the second half of the sentence: "There's nothing wrong with that, right?"

"If being an annoying instructor can increase everyone's survival rate, then it's okay for me to be that annoying instructor."

"If being an annoying vice-captain can help more people survive, then it's okay for me to be the annoying vice-captain."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Cen Mingming continued calmly, "Team Land Forces don't need to worry about me. I know what I'm doing."

"In the game of Werewolf, the Prophet is a card that does not involve blood and is only responsible for testing werewolves. The one who shoots and executes is always the Hunter."

Cen Mingming lowered his eyelids slightly, the night wind blowing the hair hanging on the side of his face, making it difficult to see his expression:

"So I, a hunter, will do my best to ensure that you, a foolish prophet who wants to protect everyone, survive to the end."

"I will not go against the principles of Teacher Dong, Captain Yu, and all those who died for us before."

"I didn't torture the factory manager. I just asked him if he had any contact with Bai Liu. He said no, so I threatened him with a thorn fork. The blood on it was from the team member who had used the thorn fork before, not his blood."

Luyi Station was quiet for a long time.

From then on, he never went to Cen Mingming's interrogation room again.

The world line continues to cycle forward.

Lu Yizhan thought that this apparent tranquility could at least continue for dozens of world lines, but in world line 0317, this balance so thin that only a spider's thread could hold it together was finally completely broken.

In this world line, Lu Yizhan captured Bai Liu alive for the first time.

Cen Mingming wanted to interrogate Bai Liu immediately, but was stopped by Lu Yizhang, who asked to talk to Bai Liu first.

Cen Mingming agreed.

It was the first time that Lu Yizhang had been sent down to the countryside with Bai Liu, the so-called derivative of himself, and had a conversation at such a close distance. The other party was a young man of 24, with a delicate and handsome face, a gentle smile, and a very strange sense of danger and affinity.

——It’s very similar to the feeling that the evil god Bai Liu gave him.

"Are you Lu Yizhang?" Bai Liu had handcuffs on his hands. He crossed his hands and placed them on the table, his body leaning forward. Although he was sitting in the position being interrogated, his posture was relaxed, as if he was interrogating someone else.

He smiled and said, "I have obtained the rules and skills and world line items in the game, and have become a believer of the evil god. I know your bet and everything that happened between you."

Lu Yizhan reacted almost instantly: "You were arrested by us on your own initiative."

"Because from what I saw." Bai Liu's smile became more meaningful. "You are indeed a person that makes me very curious, Captain Lu."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Captain Lu, I know you have a lot of questions to ask me, so how about we play a game?"

Lu Yizhan paused: "What game?"

"Truth or Dare." Bai Liu raised his lips. "If you win, I will answer your question truthfully. If you lose, or if you are unwilling to do what I ask, then I will not answer."

Lu Yizhan agreed.

"Okay, the first round, is it truth or dare?" Bai Liu tilted his head and leaned his chin lazily on the interrogation table.

Lu Yizhan said: "It's the truth."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and smiled lazily: "Have you ever looked for a point in this world line?"

Lu Yizhan's jaw tightened, and after a long, long pause, he finally answered hoarsely, "...I have looked for it."

He watched for a long time before leaving.

"It's your turn." Bai Liu asked with a smile, "Captain Lu, do you want me to tell you the truth or take a big risk?"

Lu Yizhan's eyes flashed: "Why are all your world lines so stable?"

"Stable what?" Bai Liu nonchalantly played with the handcuffs hanging on his wrists, "Stable bad, stable to do something that will harm the values ​​of most humans in this world line?"

"If that's what you're asking, I can give you a hint."

Bai Liu smiled and looked at Lu Yizhan: "From the perspective of the rules of human society, the development of a certain personality and tendency in a person is related to key age nodes. The first is the period of 0-4 years old, the second is the period of 6-8 years old, and then the nodes of 14 years old, 18 years old, and 24 years old."

"As a crude derivative creature, I only need to keep my experiences relatively stable at these age points, and my personality will be stable."

Lu Yizhan's eyes darkened: "Your answer is not accurate. I won't continue playing."

Bai Liuzhuang put his hands up and sighed with regret: "Well, in order to let the famous Captain Lu play another round with a poor prisoner like me, I will say a little more."

"For example, Captain Lu, the reason you were able to develop such a kind character is because of the people and things you experienced at the critical age of 18. So as long as these key things remain unchanged, the overall changes and fluctuations in your experiences will not affect the direction of your overall character."

"No matter how much torture you've gone through from me, you've been able to maintain this character."

“Simply put, these people and things are your anchor. As long as the anchor doesn’t change, you won’t change.”

Lu Yizhan almost immediately asked, "What is your anchor?"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "That's the next question."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and said, "You ask first."

"No, this round is a big adventure." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and the smile on his face deepened. "Now I want Captain Lu to open the doors of the interrogation rooms for all the prisoners who were brought here like me and are suspected of crimes but have not yet been convicted."

Lu Yizhan stared at Bai Liu for a while, then stood up and went out to give orders, emphasizing: "Be sure to keep an eye on them, but don't hurt them."

Cen Mingming frowned. "Release all of them? Most of these people are related to the major dangerous heretics in the prophecy."

"What are you doing with Bai Liu?" Cen Mingming realized something quickly. He quickly blocked Lu Yizhan who wanted to return to the interrogation room, "Don't follow his game."

Lu Yizhan just glanced at Cen Mingming, pushed him aside and wanted to go in.

Cen Mingming stopped Lu Yizhan again, his eyes were deep: "Brother, playing games with him will cost you a terrible price, you should have known that."

"I will pay." Lu Yizhan let out a sigh, "I may have found a way out."

Cen Ming was silent for a while, but finally turned aside and walked into the Land Inn: "If this game requires a so-called [pain] price, I will help you pay it."

"Thank you." Lu Yizhan waved his hand, "I still hope I can do it myself."

As soon as Lu Yizhan walked in and sat down, he immediately asked, "What is your anchor?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes, smiled faintly and said: "My anchor landed on a person at the age of fourteen. This person is called Sheta. He was a creation invested by the evil god Bai Liu to determine the direction of my personality."

"As long as he dies, the direction of my personality will be basically determined."

Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan's excited expression. He propped up his chin with one hand and lowered his eyelids. His eyes became compassionate: "But it's a pity that Captain Lu will never be able to touch my [Anchor]."

Lu Yizhan paused: "Why?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Didn't you realize? The evil god won't let you land in the world line before I'm fourteen years old."

"When you log in to a world line, my anchor in that world line has already been destroyed by the evil god. The moment the anchor is destroyed, I will log in to the game and start bringing heresy to reality."

"Okay, now it's my turn. This is also a big adventure."

Lu Yizhan's eyes darkened: "What do you want me to do?"

Bai Liu looked at the one-way glass of the interrogation room with a half-smile, and then he looked at Cen Mingming through the one-way glass, as if he could see him closely staring at him from outside. Then he said with a smile: "It's not the Army this time."

"The one who completed the great adventure mission this time was Deputy Captain Cen."

The author has something to say:

Bai Liu doesn't like Xie Ta. Why is [Xie Ta] a derivative? Bai Liu's [Anchor] will be mentioned later. The only one who really has feelings for Xie Ta is Bai Liu.

Bai Liu is different from the derivatives in nature. He has nothing to do with Xie Ta and Lu Yizhan. He was different from other Bai Liu before he met these two people. He was born different.