The water droplets on the sea surface were blown up by the wind along with the rising and falling waves, hitting the dilapidated temple on the isolated island.

There was a roar of tides, the sky was grey and dark, clouds were gathering, and heavy rain was about to come.

The evil god sitting on the stone table looked at the prophet opposite him with his head bowed.

The evil god rested his chin on one hand lazily, leaning to one side. He lowered his eyes without any emotion: "For humans, 658 world lines are really a long dream."

"Lu Yizhan, you have modified the memories of everyone, even my derivatives, three times, to cover up the tragic events that really happened in this world, and to whitewash the impending conflict with a false peace."

"Do you remember what the world's most realistic trajectory looks like?"

"Or have you also been immersed in this false reality and forgotten everything that happened?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes calmly: "But no matter how you delay and cover up, you will have to face it all."

"Wake up."

The prophet sitting opposite him began to breathe slightly faster.

Lying on the narrow hospital bed, Lu Yizhan flicked his fingers very lightly. His eyelids moved as if he was about to wake up from an uneasy dream. His dry lips slightly opened and he murmured softly:

“…Don’t go down that path.”

"White Willow."

Bai Liu was discharged from the hospital the next day after waking up.

Of course, this decision was opposed by everyone. Everyone thought that he should stay in the hospital for a few more days for observation, but Bai Liu never accepted public opinion when making such decisions. He just said lightly that he wanted to be discharged from the hospital the night before, and he had completed the discharge procedures the next morning.

By the time Mu Sicheng finished his make-up exam and rushed to the hospital to see Bai Liu, the bed had already been vacated.

Mu Sicheng strongly condemned Bai Liu's disobedient behavior.

So Mu Sicheng called and scolded Tang Erda: "How could you let Bai Liu leave the hospital on her own? Why didn't you hold back? Ah! If something happened to her, would you be able to pay for it? You are still the bedside attendant! If it were me who was the bedside attendant..."

Tang Er interrupted Mu Sicheng with a cold voice: "Given your habit of Bai Liu's behavior, maybe Bai Liu was discharged from the hospital last night."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Grass.

"I let him stay one more night only because I stopped Bai Liu." Tang Erda was also having a headache, "But you also know that when this person wants to do something, you can only go along with him."

Mu Sicheng sighed: "Why does he have to be discharged from the hospital today?"

"Today, the Bureau of Heresy will forcibly demolish some unfinished floors of the Sunshine Building where heretics remain," said Tang Erda. "According to the developer's son, he had a magical dream after his father died. He dreamed that as long as he put part of his father's ashes and the real estate contract together, and scattered the other part of the ashes on the land of the Sunshine Building, that piece of land would be attached to his father's vengeful spirit, and then occupied by his family forever."

"The contract was burned, and the ashes on the ground were dug up and cleaned up by the Bureau of Heresy, but some of the ashes were thrown onto the upper floors. We can detect that a certain amount of heresy remains. Just in case, Su Yang and his team decided to blast these floors in a targeted manner."

"Bai Liu is going to watch the explosion process."

"Demolition?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked. "Why would he want to join in the fun? And isn't directional blasting dangerous, troublesome and time-consuming? Is your Heretic Administration reliable for doing this?"

Tang Erda said in a steady voice: "In some special moments that require emergency treatment, we will reasonably use the abilities of some heretics to ensure the safety of the masses."

Mu Sicheng understood: "Unconventional power."

"The dream that the developer's son had..." Tang Er paused, "Bai Liu thought it might be related to Bai Liu, so he wanted to come and take a look."

Mu Sicheng frowned: "How is it related to Bai Liu, this intimidating person?"

Tang Er paused for a moment: "You will find out in the future that the whole world is related to him."

"The world is just a game for him, and Sunshine Real Estate is just a game map for him."

Sunshine property.

The people in the surrounding residential buildings had already been evacuated by the Heretic Management Bureau personnel. The buildings in the Sunshine Building that were to be blown up were separated by yellow cordons. There were members of the Heretic Management Bureau patrolling everywhere. The security was very strict and no ordinary citizen was allowed to approach this place.

Bai Liu was originally going to be stopped outside the cordon, but Tang Er called Su Yang and Su Yang came in person to pick her up and let her in.

Su Yang looked deeply at Bai Liu behind Tang Erda and extended his hand respectfully: "Thank you Mr. Bai for your guidance on our work, otherwise we would have only investigated the real estate contract and would not have thought that there was also a problem with the ashes."

Bai Liu smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Su Yang: "You're welcome. Captain Tang has helped me a lot."

Su Yang smiled and withdrew his hand: "Mr. Bai, is there anything I can help you with this time?"

Bai Liu looked away from Su Yang's face and looked at the building behind him. He smiled at Su Yang and said, "Captain Su, can you let me go up to this building once before the explosion?"

Su Yang was startled: "It's not safe for you to go up to a building that is about to be blown up."

"Don't worry." Bai Liu smiled. "Captain Su, you have unconventional forces to quickly and directionally blast this building. I also have unconventional means to leave this building safely."

Su Yang and Tang Erda, who was standing next to Bai Liu, exchanged a glance. After seeing Tang Erda nod slightly and confirming that Bai Liu would be fine, Su Yang cautiously stepped aside and said, "I don't recommend Mr. Bai to go up, but if Mr. Bai is sure to go up, we only have one hour left before the blast, and Mr. Bai can only stay for thirty minutes at most."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Thank you, Captain Su."

Tang Erda sent Bai Liu to the entrance of the building. He frowned and asked, "Are you sure you don't want me to go up with you?"

"No need." Bai Liu said calmly, "The person I'm going to meet probably doesn't want you to be there."

Tang Er beat him up: "If you have anything to do, just go into the game. I'll wait for you in the game."

Bai Liu nodded, turned around, stepped onto the dusty first floor of the unfinished building, and walked up.

Su Yang looked nervous as Bai Liu walked into the rotten tail building. He looked at Tang Erda disapprovingly: "You should stop him. It's really not safe."

Tang Er let out a breath, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and lit it, half-squinting his dark blue eyes: "Nothing he does is safe."

"But you are his guardian in name only," Su Yang stressed, "so you shouldn't let him go like this."

Tang Erda subtly looked away: "...He must have his reasons for doing what he did. We'll talk about it when something happens."

Su Yang was helpless and at a loss for words: "You are too used to him! What about the principles you always stick to, Captain Tang?"

"Captain Su!" A team member ran over, "The owner of the Sunshine Real Estate came to ask us if we had seen the owner group leader, Yuan Guang, and said that he came over to our place this morning."

"We checked the surveillance and found that he had indeed come, but he did not leave. Now we can't find him anywhere."

The team member looked serious and said, "We now suspect that the person we suspect is most likely in the five buildings we are going to blow up."

Su Yang's face turned pale, and Tang Erda immediately called Bai Liu: "Bai Liu, did you see anything upstairs--"

"——Yuan Guang?" Bai Liu held up the phone and looked calmly at Yuan Guang, who was sitting motionless on the chair with his head down, as if he was asleep. "I saw it."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

Bai Liu hung up the phone and looked at the other person calmly: "I'm already here, why don't you come out to see me, Bai Liu?"

A burst of laughter came from Yuan Guang's arms.

"I'm keeping my promise to you. If you hadn't come to me, I wouldn't have come to see you."

Yuan Guang, who had been bowing his head opposite, slowly raised his head. He had his eyes closed in a coma, holding a self-portrait in his arms.

The person in the self-portrait is Bai Liu, who is sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, holding his chin and looking at Bai Liu with interest. In the self-portrait, Bai Liu has several puppet strings on his hands wearing black leather gloves. The strings extend from the edge of the frame and are tied to the joints of Yuan Guang's limbs.

Bai Liu in the painting looked at Bai Liu with a smile: "Although I knew you would come to me on your own initiative, it was still beyond my expectation that you would find me so soon."

"How do you know it's me? Or, how do you know I would use Yuan Guang to land in reality to contact you?"

Bai Liu's calm eyes swept across the puppet strings in Bai Liu's hand: "You used the puppet strings to control Yuan Guang at the end of the last game. The puppet strings will not disappear after you leave the game, which means that you have completely controlled Yuan Guang."

"Plus, you have his soul currency in your hand. You only need to reduce his spirit value to zero, and you can easily use him to enter reality."

"Wow." Bai Liu smiled, "It's so easy to clear the spirit value? I believe you should already know that I can't just mess with the world line of prediction reality, why do you think I can easily clear a person's spirit value?"

Bai Liu raised her eyes and said in a light tone: "Haven't you already put the standard answer in front of me?"

Bai Liu smiled and asked, "What's the answer?"

Bai Liu said: "Dream."

"You can manipulate people's dreams, so that developer's son will dream that dream."

"That's not accurate." Bai Liu half closed his eyes, "I can only manipulate the dreams of my believers."

Bai Liu's eyes swept across Yuan Guang's face: "Yuan Guang doesn't believe you."

"But he believes in you." Bai Liu's smile deepened. "It's difficult for an ordinary person like him to tell in a dream whether the person who comes to him is me or you."

White Willow is quiet.

"It's not a pleasant feeling to be threatened in every possible way, right?" Bai Liuyan smiled and said softly, "If you kill Yuan Guang now, there won't be so much trouble."

"If it's not Yuan Guang, it could be someone else." Bai Liu said calmly, "If you want to find me, you will always find a way."

Bai Liu curled his fingers upwards, pressed them against his face, lowered his eyes and chuckled, "That's right."

Bai Liu said calmly, "What do you want to talk to me about? What game are you going to play?"

"No." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and smiled softly, "I just had a very long and boring dream."

"I felt a little lonely after waking up, so I just wanted to take a look at you."

Bai Liu was unmoved by these teasing words. He looked up at the shaking building outside and asked calmly, "In the background of an impending explosion?"

In the portrait, Bai Liu raised his hand to retract the puppet strings that he was using to control Yuan Guang.

The puppet strings that were wrapped around Yuan Guang loosened, and Yuan Guang slid down from the chair. The smiling Bai Liu in the painting he was holding slowly turned into a motionless colorful oil painting, and said with a smile:

"The more destructive and horrific the background, the more interesting our game will be, right?"