Suddenly, a large amount of mental bleach smoke was sprayed out of the viewing pool, and the entire viewing pool was covered with clouds and fog. It was a white mist and nothing could be seen. The only sounds that could be heard were the constant coughing and complaints from the audience.
"What's going on? What NPC escaped?"
"I was still waiting for the results of the competition! Now I can't see anything."
Before Bai Yi could react, he saw Hei Tao falling to the ground not far from him. He subconsciously reached out to help him, but was stopped by Liao Ke.
"No!" Liao Ke dragged Bai Yi behind him, clicked on the prop panel in his system, and faced Hei Tao, who was lying on the ground with wounds all over his body and struggling to stand up, with his head turned away and warned him with a deep look, "Hei Tao is in great danger now."
"If you don't want to leave the game, you'll go crazy and kill yourself. Now you better behave yourself!"
"Don't look him in the eye."
Liao Ke dragged Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi back quickly, and soon they retreated to the edge of the inner circle of the viewing pool. From where they stood, they could only see the vague human silhouette of Hei Tao in the white mist.
The silhouette was trying hard to stand up, but it seemed that the injuries were too severe and it was unable to do so. It fell down again after taking a few steps, but it managed to stand up again by shakily holding on to the ground.
Get up, get down, get up, get down.
Spade seemed to be looking for someone, moving in one direction in an almost crawling manner. He looked like a lizard that had just transformed into a human form, whose limbs were not coordinated and could not walk normally.
Bai Yi's heart trembled as he watched: "Are we just going to ignore him?"
Liao Ke looked serious: "We don't have the ability to control him now."
"We are his teammates! Can't you even help him up?" Bai Yi's eyes were red and his voice was shaking, "He hurt the city like this because of our game!"
"He doesn't understand anything! We forced him to play, taught him to play, made him win these games, and forbade him to experience reality."
"We taught him so many rules that are beneficial to us humans living in reality, but we never let him have the friendly treatment we give to people in reality. Even in front of us, he lives like a monster."
"Everyone is afraid of him."
Bai Yi's eyes were filled with tears. He asked hoarsely, "If even we, the teammates who took advantage of him, are unwilling to help him now, then he will really have nothing."
Liao Ke opened his mouth, clenched his fists, and lowered his head: "You are not allowed to help."
"I'll go." He raised his head and said.
Bai Yi was anxious: "I don't mean to force you to go! I just want me to go!"
"You don't have to go." In the mist, a slender man came out with his back slightly hunched and his fists clenched, coughing. He had a warm smile on his face, his face was a little pale, and he had a bloodstained uniform on his shoulders. He said softly, "Someone will go."
Liao Ke let out a long sigh. He looked at the man opposite him and finally smiled sincerely: "You are finally here."
Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu stared blankly at the man who suddenly walked out of the white mist.
Bai Jiamu's tense shoulders relaxed in an instant, and Bai Yi burst into tears. He rushed over and hugged the other person, crying loudly as if he had found his backbone: "Captain!!"
"We lost the singles match!!"
Lu Yizhan smiled and caught the crying Bai Yi: "Really? It seems that I just missed a very exciting game."
"I'm late."
In the white mist, Hei Tao stumbled forward alone. His clothes were soaked through. He stumbled with every step he took. Blood dripped from his hair and clothes onto the ground. His face was expressionless. In his ears was the harsh warning sound played repeatedly by the system:
[Please don't get close to Player Spade! He is in a dangerous monster book state! ]
【Please stay away from Player Spades! 】
【Please don't get close to player Spades! 】
Oh, keep them away from me.
Only now did his brain slowly process the sound information transmitted to his ears.
Spade fell to the ground, his knees bent, and he knelt on one knee to support himself and tried to get up again. He thought calmly while getting up.
There is no need to provide this warning system, it is unnecessary.
These people, these players, won't come near me without warning.
They were so scared of me.
——It’s like being afraid of the monsters in the game.
Spade took a step, his knees broke, and he knelt heavily on the ground.
Blood and sea water dripped from the ends of his drooping hair, and a pool of blood spread out from his knees, Spade remembered vaguely.
Yes, I was originally a monster in the game.
No one should get close to me. My duty is to kill those who get close to me, to make them feel fear and pain, and to let them drown in their own desires.
This is the only value of my birth and existence.
【That’s not the case.】
Hei Tao suddenly remembered what Lu Yizhan had said to him. The strange prophet leaned against the balcony fence of the killer sequence, looked at him with a smile, reached out and gently patted his head, and told him:
[That's not the case. We, the Spades, do not exist to make others suffer and fear. No life in this world is born for this.]
【You must have been born because of someone's love for you. 】
[And your existence will definitely make this person feel extremely happy. ]
Who is this person? Spade asked.
Lu Yizhan smiled and replied: [That person is the one who brought you into reality and turned you into a human being.]
Does this person really exist?
Spade looked at the blood on his knees, his bloody hands, and the empty white mist around him, and doubts arose from the bottom of his heart.
Why would this person, out of all the humans out there, love such a disgusting monster?
"Bai Liu, what are you doing!" Mu Sicheng's voice rang out anxiously, "Fuck! That's Hei Tao! The system won't let you go through! It's very dangerous, didn't you hear me?"
"Bai Liu, you are so badly injured now, don't mess around anymore!" Tang Erda warned in a serious tone.
"Don't go over there." Mu Ke pleaded softly, "Heitao's teammates will handle Heitao's matter first. You can rest first, okay?"
"Bai Liu." The last person who stood in front of Bai Liu was Liu Jiayi. She was silent for a long time before she spoke, "If you want to go, go ahead."
"I know you've made your choice."
From beginning to end, there was no answer from Bai Liu. He seemed to just silently and resolutely push away the people blocking his way and walk towards him with unsteady steps, pushing away the white mist.
Hei Tao slowly raised his head, and before him appeared a figure that looked just as ferocious as he did. This skinny figure staggered every few steps just like him, and was moving closer to him step by step.
No matter how many people tried to stop us, we never took a step back.
The shrill warning sound became more and more shrill:
【Please don't get close to player Spades! 】
[There are so many humans out there, why would this person love a terrifying monster like me?] Hei Tao asked Lu Yizhan in confusion.
【He is so weird.】
Lu Yizhan smiled and said, "I also think he is very strange."
【But when you meet him, you will probably like him very much. 】
Spade thought without hesitation: [I won't like him.]
Lu Yizhan asked with a smile: [Why? ]
Spade answered bluntly: [Because I don’t understand what love is. ]
Bai Liu walked up to Hei Tao who was kneeling on the ground. His face was pale, his breathing was rapid, and the wounds on his ankles and wrists were still oozing blood, which was dragging on the ground.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Hei Tao who was looking up at him. A drop of blood mixed with sea water fell on his eyelashes.
Bai Liu extended his hand to Hei Tao, with the game coin in his palm. He said lightly: "I won."
At that moment, Hei Tao couldn't help but shed tears.
He did not understand the meaning of these tears, just like he did not understand a lot of things. He did not know that at this moment, all the human emotions that he had always been puzzled about, like, dislike, hate, love, jealousy, pursuit, pain, and unwillingness, were all experienced by him at this moment.
"I lost." Spade shed tears unconsciously and clenched his fists. "I am an unqualified souvenir."
Bai Liu paused, put the coin away, knelt on one knee in front of Hei Tao, took out a bandage and wrapped it around Hei Tao's silver-blue eyes. Bai Liu wrapped it in circles, seriously and meticulously, and their breathing was very close and intertwined.
"No." Heitao heard Bai Liu say in his ear, and there seemed to be a smile in his voice, "You passed."
[System prompt: The danger of the player Spade has been dealt with, and the danger alert has been lifted. ]
The rotating spray head of the mental bleach stopped spraying.
The moment the white mist dissipated, Bai Yi rushed up excitedly: "Spades!! The captain is back!"
At the same time, the wandering circus also came up and helped Bai Liu up.
The blinded Hei Tao was put on a stretcher. Liao Ke held his hands guiltily and said, "Are you feeling unwell? I'll take you back to the Killer Sequence Office and show you your wounds."
"It hurts so much." Spade said hoarsely, "It's so heavy."
Liao Ke had never heard Heitao yell in pain since the competition. Now his heart skipped a beat when he heard the words "Heavy". But he was puzzled again when he heard the next sentence: "Heavy? What do you mean by heavy?"
"I feel my body..." Spade described word by word, "so heavy."
"It's normal." Lu Yizhan came forward and touched Heitao's forehead with a smile, "Because the soul and love are both very heavy things."
"Hey..." Bai Yi noticed that Heitao was holding something like a piece of paper in his left hand, and curiously wanted to pull it off. "Heitao, what's in your hand?"
Spade clenched his fists tightly: "Mine!"
"Don't fight, don't fight!" Bai Yi immediately loosened his hands and raised his hands in surrender. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I thought you brought something bad out of the game, so I wanted to show it to you."
"No." Spade said, "Bai Liu just gave it to me."
Bai Yi asked carefully: "You are blindfolded now, do you want me to help you see what Bai Liu gave you?"
Hei Tao lay on the stretcher quietly for a long time before he slowly let go of the little piece of paper that he had been holding tightly.
When Bai Yi saw clearly what was written on the note, he was completely stunned.
This is a very simple piece of paper, and what is written on it is also very simple, a string of twelve digits.
——That is a real coordinate.
The rental house leading to White Willow.
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Mini-theater:
Tao (studying the paper for a month): What is this?
The anonymous Mr. Bai gave the room number and waited for his boyfriend to come and see him that night: …
Tao's memory has not yet been fully integrated and is in a confused stage.