"It seems you don't want to discuss the whip with me." Seeing that Hei Tao was distancing himself from him, Bai Liu readily changed the subject. He smiled and asked, "Then are you willing to discuss Bai Liu's problem with me?"

Spade stopped in his tracks and looked straight at Bai Liu.

"Maybe we can sit down and talk?" Bai Liu raised his hand with a smile, and a stool spun out from the darkness of the stage and rested on Hei Tao's knees. Bai Liu politely made a gesture to invite him to sit down.

Spade stared at White Six and slowly sat down.

"The last time you saw me was when you won the championship last year, right?" Bai Liu walked slowly behind Hei Tao, casually resting his hands on the back of the chair, and said with a smile, "Tell everyone in your winning team not to make a wish to me, and store the wish with me."

“Very interesting approach.”

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at Hei Tao, curling his lips: "But this is already the second time we have met. Do you still remember the first time we met?"

Spade was silent for a moment, then spoke: "Siren Town."

"Yes, the first person you saw after you were born in "Siren Town" was me. I gave you my bone whip." Bai Liu's eyes were full of pity. His hand stroked Heitao's head from a distance. "Do you know why?"

Spade didn't answer.

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Because you are the vessel of my most precious creation."

"Do you know why you were born?"

Bai Liu slowly bent down and whispered next to Hei Tao's ear. He raised his hand, and a water-rippled wall appeared in front of Hei Tao. Ripples and waves appeared on the water-rippled wall, spreading out in circles, reflecting a completely new scene.

Behind the water pattern wall appeared the fourteen-year-old Xiao Bailiu who was locked in a closed room in the Love Welfare Home. He curled up in the darkness and slept soundly, perhaps because of the cold or something else. His eyelids trembled and his limbs curled up unconsciously. He looked like a very insecure little animal, with his lips gently opening and closing.

Sheta.

The little animal murmured the name in its sleep.

Hei Tao's eyes fixed on him, and Bai Liu explained softly, "This is Bai Liu, who is fourteen years old."

The scene on the water-patterned wall kept changing, revealing a face wrapped in bandages and a huge, thin ghost doll. The doll raised its hands awkwardly, swayed from side to side, and made some funny movements.

"When you grow up, do you really not consider making a living as a puppet?" A youthful voice with a smile came, and the scene changed to show the 14-year-old Xiao Bailiu, who was smiling with his chin in his hand, and his eyes were focused on Xie Ta. "I think you have a talent for this."

The doll didn't seem to notice that Bai Liu was laughing at him, and instead asked back seriously, "Really?"

"How much money can we make from playing puppets? Can it support both of us?"

Bai Liu paused, and turned his head away: "I don't need you to support me, and you can't afford it."

"Just take care of yourself."

Although Bai Liu seemed to be refusing coldly, Hei Tao saw that the moment he turned around, the corner of Bai Liu's mouth curled up slightly.

Hei Tao had never seen Bai Liu smile so easily before, which made Hei Tao completely calm down. The light and shadow on the screen were reflected in his eyes, and his gaze was fixed on the water-patterned wall.

The water pattern wall is like a huge TV screen, playing what happened in the orphanage in chronological order.

They met, studied together, were punished together, chased together, and hated together.

——In the darkness, they hugged each other and fell asleep peacefully.

But then Shetta died.

So Bai Liu studied alone, was punished alone, was chased and beaten alone, and was hated alone.

——A person curled up in the darkness and slept uneasily.

While all this was happening, Xieta, the one Bai Liu thought was dead, was not dead. Hei Tao saw Xieta's translucent soul in the water pattern wall circling around Bai Liu anxiously, constantly begging him:

"Go away, don't stay here."

"Don't feed me the food, you will die if you eat too little!"

Bai Liu could not see Xie Ta, nor could he hear Xie Ta's pleas. He continued numbly walking along the same path as when Xie Ta was still alive.

Bai Liu became thinner and weaker, and the color of her lips changed from light pink to pale and then to blue. She became visibly thinner and more haggard.

Hei Tao's brows slowly wrinkled.

When Bai Liu fainted in the cold mud beside the pond and spent the whole night without being discovered, Sheta's soul leaned over and hugged the curled-up Bai Liu with his soul ring - just like they had slept in each other's arms before.

Sheta closed his eyes: "God."

“If you exist right now and are watching this right now, I would like you to show up.”

"I want to make a wish to you."

The wind blew around Sheta, and his soul was lifted up. Opposite him, an old carved door flashed, and behind the door were endless silver-blue spheres of light. A hand stretched out from these spheres of light, grasped the door handle, and pushed it outward.

The sphere broke into light spots one after another. Bai Liu stepped out from the light spots and stood in front of Sheta. He lowered his eyes and looked at Sheta's soul kneeling in front of him with a sympathetic smile on his face: "Tavier, what do you want to wish for me?"

Xie Ta knelt in front of Bai Liu's unconscious body. He raised his head and said softly:

"God, I want to give all the happiness that ordinary people in this world can have to the person behind me."

"I want him to have someone by his side during the loneliest times in his life. I want everything that is causing him pain to disappear. I want him to have everything he has lost back."

"I want someone to always be able to play his favorite horror games with him."

Sheta raised his head, his silver-blue eyes filled with a faint light: "I hope he and the one he loves will never be separated."

"They were able to meet as human beings, be together as human beings, and end happily with human death."

Bai Liu raised his lips with a smile: "What a greedy creature! These are more than just one wish. What price are you willing to pay for these wishes?"

Sheta was silent for a long time, then he spoke softly, "I am willing to pay the price with my soul."

"Now that I have a soul, I will become the next generation of evil god as you wish and guard the door forever."

He raised his eyes and looked calmly at the silver-blue vortex and sphere inside the door behind Bai Liu: "As long as I know that there is a world line behind this door where he lives happily, I will never leave this door."

"——Never leave the abyss, desire and pain."

"Are you sure?" Bai Liu said with a half-smile, "No matter how many times you see him happily together with other people in the future, there is no turning back."

Xie Ta held Bai Liu's cold hand in his palm and said without any hesitation: "I'm sure."

"Then the deal is done." Bai Liu stretched out his hand, and in an instant all the glittering silver-blue vortices behind the door slanted out from behind the door, surging like waves and wrapping around the tip of Bai Liu's outstretched right index finger, touching Xie Ta's brow.

The silver-blue vortex rushed into Sheta's forehead, knocking him back and his eyes blank.

Bai Liu's ethereal and smiling voice rang in Xie Ta's ears:

"I grant you the desire to change the world line. You can pull in all the people in the world lines who you think can change Bai Liu's fate into here, and use the method you think is appropriate to let Bai Liu have friends and relatives."

"But Bai Liu is still too young and has no concept of love. When the time is right, I will use your wish to bring the person he loves to his side."

"However," Bai Liu said with a smile, "Although you have a soul now, you are not in pain."

"In order for you to become the evil god smoothly after the game in this world line ends, Tavier, I will give you some other painful experiences." Bai Liu's eyes turned to the little Bai Liu who was sleeping with wrinkled brows behind Xie Ta, and the smile on his face deepened. "If you can't provide me with satisfactory pain by then, I may choose another child who is more miserable to be my successor."

"If you don't want to see this, try to be more miserable."

A silver-blue vortex swept by, and Xiao Bailiu woke up with a cough. He looked at the empty pond around him, then glanced at his right hand and clenched it in an absent-minded manner.

At that moment, it seemed as if Shetta was still alive, holding his hand tightly and not wanting to leave.

Looking at the water pattern wall, Hei Tao seemed to have noticed something. His expression was more vivid than ever, revealing an emotional resistance. He turned his head away and said, "I don't want to watch it anymore."

The water-marked wall deflected along with Spade's line of sight and returned to Spade's front. No matter how Spade turned his head away in resistance, it was still facing him and getting closer and closer.

Spade simply closed his eyes and held the whip tightly in his hand.

Bai Liu chuckled and snapped his fingers. He seemed to be understanding and said, "If you don't want to watch it, I can explain to you what happened next."

"Because Tavier made a wish at the cost of his soul, Bai Liu gained his own friends and family, and he became one of the happy and ordinary people in this world."

"But Tavier was exiled to the game by me, and was slaughtered and tortured by all players."

"But unfortunately, even if this happens, he still won't feel pain. He will only feel pain because of Bai Liu. So I lured Bai Liu into the game. And one year before Bai Liu entered the game, in order to fulfill Tavier's wish, I let him and Bai Liu meet and fall in love in a human way-"

Spade interrupted coldly: "I can't hear you."

Bai Liu smiled and continued indifferently: "--I separated Tavier's soul and body in "Siren Town", trapped the soul in the game for seven days, and released the body from the game, and lived normally with Bai Liu."

"His body is you, Spade."

"You were born out of the love that Tavel and Bai Liu had for each other, but to be honest, I created you for only one purpose—"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "That is to make Bai Liu and Tavier suffer."

"Your birth means the death of Tavier, the soul that Bai Liu truly loved."

"The first time you met Bai Liu, you took out the remaining heart of Tavier from Bai Liu's body and crushed it. The second time you met Bai Liu, you forced him to accept the identity of the evil god's successor that I gave him, because that was the only way to save Xie Ta."

Spade suddenly opened his eyes and swept across with his black whip. White Six dodged by moving backwards. Countless water-patterned wall screens enveloped Spade, showing the scene of him injuring White Willow.

Bai Liu lay on the bed with a pale face. Du Sanying beside him cried and said to the doctor: "How could his heart be cut open?!"

At the last second before Bai Liu was submerged in the pond in "The Jungle Edge", she smiled with eyes filled with water light and said to him softly, "I miss you so much, Shetta."

Bai Liu's voice came from behind the countless water-patterned screens, with a smile:

"Your existence will bring constant harm to Bai Liu and cause him constant pain."

"You have done an excellent job in the task I gave you, but what surprised and surprised me even more is——"

Bai Liu chuckled. He suddenly broke through the countless water-marked walls and pressed Spade in the middle onto the chair. He lowered his eyes and looked at Spade, who was preparing to counterattack with a stern look on his face. Bai Liu smiled with pity:

"You actually gave birth to your own soul under Bai Liu's loving gaze."

"Although that love is not for you, it is just looking at Tawil through you."

The moment Spade raised his hand to swing the whip, he suddenly felt an extremely sharp burning pain in his lower back, forcing him to put down the whip.

——That was the wound from being hit by some soul-shattering bullet. It hurts from time to time.

But today the pain is so strange.

Spade had felt all kinds of pain since he was born, but he had never felt this kind of pain. This kind of pain was not a sharp, stabbing pain, not like being cut by a knife or chopped by a sword, but it was like something was burning inside his body, making his heart start to feel astringent, his limbs began to move slowly, and even his eyes began to shed tears.

This kind of pain wasn't that painful, but it made him feel like... no matter what, he couldn't win.

But what can’t I win? It’s not like I can’t win the game…

Spade was a little confused.

A transparent thread flew from a distance and tied to Hei Tao's right wrist.

Bai Liu smiled and said, "You also have a soul and have also experienced pain. To some extent, you are also qualified to be my successor."

"But guess who Bai Liu will choose to be his lover, and who will he give up and let become the lonely heir of the evil god?"

Hei Tao finally raised his head with sudden realization, a drop of water flowed from the corner of his eye unconsciously, and fell on the water-patterned wall that reflected the past of Bai Liu and Xie Ta.

Oh, this is it.

This is the thing he just thought he could never win.