The moment Lu Yizhao heard Bai Liu's words, he turned around very quickly and reached out to push open the door of the interrogation room.

Bai Liu, with one hand on the interrogation table, smiled and snapped his fingers.

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu uses the item (Magic Space) on player Lu Yizhan, limiting the movement range of player Lu Yizhan to the current interrogation room.]

After realizing that he couldn't get out, Lu Yizhan calmed down instantly. He turned to look at Bai Liu behind the table: "You broke the rules of the game."

"I didn't say at the beginning that this was a game between the two of us." Bai Liu smiled, "And Deputy Captain Cen just agreed to pay the price and join my game."

Lu Yizhan was trapped in the magic space. He looked at Bai Liu through the wall of the magic space. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly: "What big adventure are you going to take this time?"

Bai Liu trembled his fingers, and Lu Yizhang noticed that there were several transparent silk threads wrapped around the joints of his fingers, extending from his fingers to the body of someone outside the door.

Lu Yizhan's heart sank. He realized what Bai Liu was going to do, so he stared at Bai Liu and said, "Trapping the opponent is not the right way to play the game."

"But now is not the Lu team's turn." Bai Liu smiled and raised his eyes, "It is Deputy Captain Cen's turn."

"This is a skill that I've been using very well recently, puppet strings. I just connected all of these puppet strings to the suspects that you, Captain Lu, released."

"Captain Lu, guess what would happen if I opened the door and controlled these suspects to suddenly launch a violent attack on you who are currently trapped in the [Magic Space] and unable to move or resist——"

Bai Liu smiled and hooked a thread on his index finger, and the door of the interrogation room was slowly opened: "—— Your loyal Deputy Captain Cen, Mr. Hunter, what will you do with these suspects who have not yet been convicted and whose innocence is unknown?"

"Of course, I promise that these suspects will not harm you."

"But I can't guarantee that Deputy Captain Cen won't harm these suspects."

Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion. The moment the door was opened, there was a sudden noisy shouting from outside. The suspects were pulled by the puppet threads and rushed into the interrogation room where Lu Yizhan was located almost in the blink of an eye. Their faces were greedy and deformed, and some had turned into heretics, raising their weapons high at Lu Yizhan who was trapped in the magic space.

Cen Mingming outside the door raised his gun without hesitation. His cold eyes revealed an extremely sharp and murderous aura.

"Put down your gun, Cen Mingming!!"

"Bang bang bang bang bang-!!"

Lu Yizhan looked at the people in front of him with dilated pupils, who were covered in blood, exploded under Cen Mingming's shooting, and then fell to the ground motionless.

Blood flowed all over the ground and spread to Lu Yizhan's feet.

Lu Yizhan was unable to utter a word. He was stunned or in a trance as he looked at Cen Mingming who was pointing the gun, which was emitting the smell of gunpowder, at him.

Cen Mingming just stared at Lu Station quietly, his eyes did not avoid, and he still did not put down his gun.

"Call a doctor..." Lu Yizhan said hoarsely, "Call a doctor quickly--!!"

Cen Mingming said calmly, "There is no need to call a doctor. For these people, every shot I made was fatal."

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes and slowly slid down to his knees.

...Cen Mingming was awake. He heard his order, but still did not put down his gun. He knew exactly what he was doing...

Bai Liu folded his hands in satisfaction: "The game is over, the props are collected, and players are requested to leave on their own."

Lu Yizhan thought he would collapse, angrily scold Cen Mingming, or even fight with Cen Mingming. But when he walked out of Bai Liu's magic space props and looked up at Cen Mingming, his mind went blank.

He couldn't say anything.

Something that they had always reached a consensus on and worked hard to maintain across more than 300 world lines was finally shattered.

On that day at Lu Station, a man stood in the training ground for a very long time. He looked down at the trainees running circles. His mind was completely empty. He felt as if he had thought about a lot of things, but also as if he had thought about nothing.

Until Cen Mingming appeared beside him.

Cen Mingming's voice was still very calm: "I killed Bai Liu."

"This world line is about to end."

"But we still won't win." Lu Yizhan looked far away. "When I caught him, he must have already planned the backing. Now some kind of heresy must have spread all over the world."

Cen Mingming hummed.

After a while, Cen Mingming said, "Among the six people I killed that day, five were involved in Bai Liu's heretical smuggling."

"There's still one person missing."

Lu Yizhan was silent for a long time. He slowly curled his fingers and asked softly, "If it happened again, would you shoot again?"

Cen Mingming said without hesitation: "Yes."

"In my opinion, the lives of good people are more valuable than the lives of those who are most likely bad people." Cen Mingming looked into the distance, "Lu Yizhan, I may really not be able to do the same as you. I hate these people who walk on the gray edge. One action or one mistake of theirs can take away the lives of countless innocent people who are trying to live."

"If it weren't for their own desires and greed, they would have never come into contact with Bai Liu, and they wouldn't have been brought to the Heretic Administration by us."

"So if it happens again, I will still shoot."

Cen Mingming looked at the flags of the Bureau of Heresy Failure flying over the training ground and said, "Because in my eyes, your life is more important than the lives of these six people."

"My life is not more important than any of these six people." Lu Yizhan said softly, "especially when we are facing death at the same time."

Lu Yizhan turned and left.

Cen Mingming didn't turn around, he suddenly said: "Senior Brother."

Lu Yizhang’s back paused.

Cen Ming was silent for a few seconds, then said, "In the next world line, you won't come to fight for me, right?"

Lu Yizhan didn't answer, he just stood there quietly.

"Then kill me." Cen Mingming suddenly smiled, "A hunter who cannot stand in the prophet's camp, I am just a monster wandering on the edge of gray."

Lu Yizhan left without looking back.

Cen Mingming, who stayed where he was, looked at the trainees running and laughing below, and slowly closed his eyes.

After that world line ended, Lu Yizhan sat in the temple, and for the first time, he took the initiative to propose a deal with Bai Liu about the rules of the game: "I hope to revoke Cen Mingming's hunter status."

"Cancel your hunter status." Bai Liu raised his eyebrows and smiled. "You can cancel it, but Cen doesn't know that you have reincarnated in so many world lines. I believe you have noticed it."

"——Cen Mingming has also paid the price for participating in the game. He has already become a heretic."

"Every world line restores the memory of all world lines with your arrival, and loses the memory of all world lines with your departure. He has become a consciousness that can only follow you, the prophet."

"If you revoke his hunter status now, you must ensure that you can properly accommodate him and not let him directly interfere with my game or any plans between you and me."

"——Otherwise I will just erase Cen Mingming's consciousness."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and said, "I will take him in and make sure he doesn't interfere with the game."

"Okay then, I'll choose the second-generation hunter cards for you." Bai Liu was about to shuffle the cards when he was stopped by Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu firmly, "I know you are intentionally interfering with Cen Mingming's Hunter card, forcing him to collapse and completely reduce his mental dimension to become a heretic without self-awareness."

"Bai Liu, don't you want the game to be more interesting? This time I made an agreement with you that I will not interfere directly with the second generation Hunter cards, and you should not interfere directly either. How about we just see how he chooses his camp?"

"Let it be?" Bai Liu lowered his eyes and chuckled, "Interesting, I promise you."

"The second-generation hunter I chose this time also has hunter-like demeanor. I will not directly interfere with or torture him. I will directly give him the qualifications to become a hunter and let him start reincarnating with you in the world line."

Lu Yizhan said in a deep voice: "I will also directly give him my authority as a prophet, but I will never meet him or interfere with him."

"Then let's see what this wildly grown hunter will look like." Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled, "But Captain Lu, you are the only one left."

"There are more than 300 world lines. Do you want to persist alone?"

Lu Yizhan said, "I can."

The second generation hunter chosen by Bai Liu is Tang Erda, a trainee whom Lu Yi Station has seen twice.

Tang Er played better than Lu Yizhan had expected, he grew very fast, and even defeated Bai Liu in the game of the later world line, and got the qualification to start the reincarnation of hunter.

But Lu Yizhang soon discovered that even if Bai Liu abided by the agreement with him and did not directly interfere with the hunters, Tang Erda was slowly becoming radical and irritable in the constant cycle of timelines, and began to hate those who were about to commit crimes in the previous world line.

——Tang Erda became more and more like a replica of Cen Mingming.

And Lu Yizhan soon discovered why.

Bai Liu never tortured Tang Erda directly, and would even deliberately let Tang Erda go if he caught him, but he tortured Tang Erda's deputy captain, Su Yang, and Tang Erda fell deeper and deeper into trouble because Su Yang was tortured to death by Bai Liu in front of him time and time again.

When it came to the last few world lines, Tang Erda could no longer hold on.

Lu Yizhan sat beside the stone table. He looked at Bai Liu straight in the eye and said, "You beat Tang Er to the point of driving him crazy."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "I have never encountered a second-generation hunter."

Lu Yizhan said: "But you touched his [anchor]."

Bai Liu lowered his eyelids, and the smile on his face became clear: "It seems that you have fully understood the definition of [anchor]."

"Yes, my derivatives in each world line constantly torture Su Yang to reduce the mental dimension of the hunter who chose you. He can only support one world line at most."

"Are you going to change hunters again, Prophet?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a while and said, "No need to change it."

"That's right." Bai Liu crossed his arms and said with a smile, "There are only three world lines left, so there is no need to change."

In the penultimate world line, Lu Yizhan did not deal with the Heretic Administration for the first time when he logged in. Instead, he found out the location of the point of this world line and went to see her.

It was raining heavily when Lu Yizhang went to meet Fangdian. He held a black umbrella and looked for Fangdian through the rain among what seemed like ten thousand umbrellas.

He found her quickly because Fang Dian didn't have an umbrella. She was standing next to a grocery store, holding up her briefcase to protect herself from the rain. But she didn't wait long before she put the briefcase down, rolled up her sleeves and trousers, and seemed ready to just give up and rush into the rain.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yizhan smiled. He held his umbrella and wanted to move forward, but he stopped after taking only one step.

He stared blankly at Fang Dian through the heavy rain, the umbrellas, and the endless stream of people.

Fang Dian ran past him with her head slightly lowered, holding a briefcase in her hand. She had a smile on her face and did not look back. Suddenly, a man appeared beside her and rushed into the rain with her, laughing and carrying a briefcase on his head.

Lu Yizhan stopped in the middle of the crowd holding a black umbrella. He did not look back at Fang Dian who was running past, and raindrops were sliding down his chin.

Fangdian's happy smile and the face with its head down and crying silently when each world line intersected intersected in his mind.

[Because Lu Yizhan lost the game this time, the person you love will die. ]

[Because Luyi Station lost the game again, so...]

"Fang Dian..." Lu Yizhan slowly put down his umbrella, letting the rain wash over his face, muttering to himself, "Is this the right choice?"

"If you're still here, have you already won?"

“I’m really terrible.”

He lost the game again and again, and everyone was tortured by his self-righteous choices.

Drops of water were sliding down Lu Yizhan's face. His voice was so soft that it could even disperse the raindrops: "If only the person who met you guys wasn't a waste like me."

"There is only one world line left." Bai Liu asked Lu Yizhan with a smile, "I can give you all the cards you got before."

Lu Yizhan raised his eyes and asked, "What's the price?"

Bai Liu chuckled: "The price is that if you lose this game, the souls of these cards will all be destroyed."

"Of course, if you don't want me to, I will destroy the souls of these cards. I don't accept worthless things like loser cards here."

Lu Yizhan said: "I'll pay this price, and the game will continue."

"The game needs the consent of both you and the other player to continue." Bai Liu stood up, turned his head to look at Lu Yizhan, raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to go see her?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a moment: "Okay."

seabed.

Through the water-marked wall, Lu Yizhang saw Fangdian with her hands hanging up. She still had her head down. Bai Liu walked up to her, squatted down and said, "This is the last world line."

"Your team members and Lu Station have all lost in the previous 657 world lines."

"The last world line, do you still want to continue paying the price and let the game go on?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at Fang Dian: "If you choose to stop now, you can still walk out of the temple. If you lose the last world line, then you lose all the games."

"The soul is at my disposal."

"From the current situation, it is impossible for Lu Yizhan to win me at the last line."

Fang Dian suddenly raised her head. Her long hair fell from her face, covering half of her face. This made her look haggard and weak, but she still had a smile on her face and her eyes were still bright: "He will definitely beat you."

Lu Yizhan, who was standing behind the water-marked wall, looked at Fangdian in disbelief.

Bai Liurao asked back with interest: "Where does your unreasonable trust come from?"

"The post station doesn't charge money, so why can't we trust it?" Fang Dian smiled and said, "Let's continue the game."

"I believe he can beat you, just like I believe——"

Fang Dian's eyes were firm and resolute: "——Justice will eventually defeat evil."

Bai Liu stood up and said with a smile, "As you wish."

He snapped his fingers, and the Land Station fell backwards, just like the 657 times he landed on the world line before. He thought that this time he would be in the Heretic Management Bureau as soon as he landed, just like before.

But when he was falling, there seemed to be a mermaid-like creature with a silver-blue fish tail brushing past him in the sea, causing Lu Yizhan's descent to suddenly become bumpy, and when he landed, he actually landed in an orphanage.

And in this welfare home.

Lu Yizhan looked in disbelief at Bai Liu, who was sitting in the corner of the dining table far away. He was skinny, had dark eyes, and had only a small plate of food in front of him.

——He met Bai Liu, who was only fourteen years old.

A Bailiu who has not yet logged into the game.

This is a completely new and strange world line, with incredibly few heretics, as if it has been freed from the interference of evil gods.

——It’s like a bug, a miracle. This is a world line that has not been polluted.

After Lu Yizhan had secretly observed the skinny and ostracized Bai Liu for a few days,

——He couldn't restrain his murderous intent at all.

In this world line, this miraculous world line, as long as he kills Bai Liu now, he will win.

Lu Yizhan tracked the strangely behaving Bai Liu to the small pond he visited every day, and was calmly preparing himself mentally, ready to kill the fourteen-year-old Bai Liu as soon as he surfaced from the bottom of the water.

But he waited for a long time and Bai Liu didn't come up.

Lu Yizhan jumped into the pond with a puzzled look in his mind. He found that Bai Liu had not come out for such a long time and must have drowned at the bottom of the pond!

Moreover, even when he was drowning, Bai Liu was still holding on to something at the bottom of the lake. Lu Yizhan now had the body of a child, and it took him a lot of effort to pull Bai Liu out along with the thing at the bottom of the lake that he was holding on to.

But when he saw that thing, Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank - it was the corpse of a young boy with a very handsome and delicate appearance.

But this was not what surprised Lu Yizhan the most. What surprised him the most was that the corpse actually talked to him in his mind without opening a single word.

"My name is Shetta, and I am the corpse in front of you."

"I used all my strength to pull you into this world line ahead of time. I know you are a good person and I know you have been through a lot."

"But you are the only one who can save Bai Liu. He can't continue to waste time here. He will really die."

The young boy's voice pleaded with him sincerely, "Please believe me, the Bai Liu in front of you is different from all the other Bai Lius. He is a good boy."

"Please don't kill him."

Lu Yizhan's hand slowly tightened, grasping the knife hidden behind his back. He stared silently at Bai Liu, who was kneeling on the ground weakly.

Bai Liu was spitting water with his head down, his face was so pale that it was almost transparent. Even in this situation, he held Xie Ta's body tightly in his arms.

——It seems that he is almost powerless to resist any attack.

Lu Yizhan walked forward slowly, he gripped the knife tighter and tighter, all the information in his brain surged wildly, his expression was a blank state as if overloaded.

Tang Erda complained about the instructor, Fang Dian ran in the heavy rain, Cen Mingming had a cold expression, Wu Ruishu accidentally fell down, Yu Fu was wrapping someone up like a mummy and smiling gently, and Dong Chenglong scolded him with a dark face.

——As long as he kills the fourteen-year-old Bai Liu now, all these people’s painful sacrifices will not be in vain.

Bai Liu held Xie Ta in his arms. He knelt on the ground with an unconscious expression similar to that of a drowning person. He looked up at Lu Yizhan with a tear falling from his eyes. His voice was soft and hoarse: "... No matter who you are, please, save Xie Ta."

“I’d pay any price for it.”

Bai Liu's voice overlapped with Xie Ta's voice in Lu Yizhan's mind.

"Please, save Bai Liu."

“I’d pay any price for it.”

——This was the first time that Lu Yizhang saw Bai Liu cry.

Lu Yizhan stood quietly in front of the crying fourteen-year-old Bai Liu as if in a daze for a long, long time. His hands hidden behind his back finally loosened as if they were weakened, leaving a red mark on his palm from the handle of the knife that he had gripped too tightly.

The knife hit the grass without making any sound.

Lu Yizhan heard his own voice clearly answering: "Okay."

Volume 5: Challenge Tournament