"You can't do this!" Lu Yizhan rebuked him. He took a deep breath and steadied his trembling voice and breathing. "He is only eighteen years old! From the time he was born until now, as long as he took a step towards the life of an ordinary person, Bai Liu would have placed a copy on him, forcing the people around him to torture him and force him to return to where he was."
"But he hasn't done anything bad so far. You have no right to judge him in advance!"
Cen Mingming just stared at Lu Yizhan calmly, with no hesitation in his tone:
"He'll do it in a minute."
11:55 pm.
In the shade of the jungle, a bright lake like mercury reflects the clear yellow moon in the sky, just like the only remaining eye of Cen Mingming peeking at everything in the dark, or like the halo that spreads out when a small TV screen is opened for a moment, warm and fuzzy, just like the long hair of the moonlight growing under the water.
"It's almost twelve o'clock." Bao Kangle looked at Bai Liu standing by the lake nervously, "Let's start circling."
——According to the legend of Gaokao Lake, students have to walk on the edge of Gaokao Lake and walk around it once before they can see their test papers at the bottom of the lake under the full moon.
At the edge of the College Entrance Examination Lake is a casting platform about 60 centimeters high. The casting platform is very narrow, only 15 centimeters wide, and can only allow one foot of a person to stand on it. Bai Liu raised his foot, stepped onto the casting platform in one step, jumped lightly, and stood on it lightly with his body swaying.
The moment Bai Liu stood up, the leaves in the jungle suddenly trembled, and a number of black gun muzzles poked out from the jungle, aiming at Bai Liu's head and heart as he stood on the edge of the casting platform.
The sizzling sound of electric current passed through the jungle, and the cold sound of the report was transmitted along with the sound of the current:
"Team Two, Group One are observing the heretic contamination target. At nine o'clock, the contamination target is already standing on the edge of the lake. We have made preparations according to the captain's instructions. If the target jumps into the lake and shows any mental dimensionality-reducing offensive behavior, kill it immediately."
"Six o'clock, ready, over."
"Three o'clock..."
"Twelve o'clock..."
A number of cold faces stared through the aiming mirror at Bai Liu who stepped onto the casting platform. Under the moonlight, Bai Liu, who was standing on the mud casting platform by the narrow lake, was wearing a white shirt that was so thin that it was translucent. The fine hair behind her neck and the fluff on her face were clearly visible in the increasingly dazzling moonlight.
Bai Liu spread his arms to steady his body, lowered his eyes, and began to walk around the lake step by step.
Half of his shadow was reflected in the lake, a shimmering shadow, and the other half was reflected outside the lake, a dark shadow without any light.
The lake and the outside are two completely different worlds. The lake is full of strange lights and dazzling views, while the outside is extremely quiet and dark. Bai Liu just staggered along the lakeside where only one person can walk on one foot, as if there was no place in the whole world that would allow him to stay for a short while.
Bao Kangle followed behind Bai Liu, walking staggeringly, but he was still trying hard to get closer to Bai Liu - he wanted to supervise Bai Liu to complete the journey.
The muzzle of the gun turned as Bai Liu moved slowly. The moon was reflected quietly in the center of the lake. Bao Kangle followed behind Bai Liu and muttered an unknown prayer:
"Oh God, please bless me to get good grades in the college entrance examination."
"God, please bless us to see the college entrance examination papers."
They were about to complete a circle, but Bai Liu said nothing and there was no movement in the lake. Bao Kangle became anxious and tugged at the corner of Bai Liu's clothes: "Why don't you say something!"
Bai Liu was silent for a moment, and then he stopped walking: "What should I say?"
"It's just like what I just said." Bao Kangle complained, "This is a wishing lake after all. Haven't you played wishing games like Pen Fairy? You have to ask for something before making a wish. This lake also asks for something from the gods!"
"I don't like praying to God, because God doesn't exist." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids, and a layer of blurred light fell on his long eyelashes. He looked at his own reflection and the moon on the lake, and spoke casually, "If God exists in this lake."
"Then let me see what it looks like."
Just as Bao Kangle was about to ask Bai Liu in horror who had come, he saw him take the last step without hesitation, and the footprint overlapped with the one he had left when he stepped onto the lake. Suddenly, the night wind blew the trees wildly, and the moon reflected on the lake suddenly burst into a strong light. The lake surface expanded violently, revealing the lake bottom.
A set of desks and college entrance examination papers appeared at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, next to the set of college entrance examination papers, a twisted silver-blue door valve appeared. Through the door valve, one could see endless small TVs placed inside. On those small TVs, various players were fighting in the horror game in a thrilling and exciting way.
The guns of the second team were blown all over the place by the sudden strong wind. They tried their best to look at the bottom of the lake. The moment they saw the bottom of the lake, their expressions were all shocked:
"It's the entrance to the game hall!"
“This student is going to enter the game!”
"He is indeed a player!"
"Hurry up and follow Team Two's instructions and kill him!"
One of the team members bared his teeth and held the gun against his chest. He aimed at Bai Liu's head and was about to pull the trigger.
"no!!"
Lu Yizhan, who had hurried over, almost stopped in his tracks when he saw this scene. He shouted "No" in panic. He subconsciously rushed forward two steps, grabbed the muzzle of the man's gun, and looked up at Bai Liu who was standing by the lake.
Bai Liu had his back to Lu Yizhan, his hair was messy due to the wind, his back was straight, his head was slightly tilted, he seemed to be calmly observing something under the lake.
Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank.
He saw Bai Liu spread his arms, lean forward, and fall into the lake.
"Bai Liu!!"
Bao Kangle was also swept into the lake, but when the group quickly gathered together, the lake returned to its calm state as if nothing had happened.
There was nothing at the bottom of the lake. The two living people who had just jumped in were like sugar cubes dissolved in the water, and no trace of them could be found.
Lu Yizhan lay by the lake, breathing heavily, his heart pounding, unable to recover.
The members of Team 2 couldn't help but want to scold the student who suddenly came out to cause trouble, but finally held back: "Take him back to the Heretic Management Bureau, erase his memory and bring him back. He should have seen it just now."
"Damn it, Captain Cen will punish me when I get back for not hitting that brat!"
"Where's Captain Cen? Why hasn't he come over? Logically, he should be here to watch us do our mission."
As he was talking, Cen Mingming walked out of the woods at a very fast pace. He subdued Ling Luan, his expression so gloomy that water could almost drip out of it: "Lu Yizhang, you actually put sleeping pills on the cigarette holder just to please Bai Liuyin. Who did you learn these despicable methods from..."
"He jumped down." Lu Yizhan, who was guarding the lake, did not turn back, but just said that abruptly.
Cen Mingming's expression suddenly darkened. He waved his hand away from Lu Yizhan and scanned the bottom of the lake two or three times. Then his face completely darkened. He turned to look at the team members next to him and asked in a loud voice: "Did you hit him?!"
The team members were silent and shook their heads.
A brave team member immediately threw the blame. He pointed at Lu Yishen who was squatting by the lake and said, "That student came out to block us. We dare not shoot casually to avoid hurting ordinary people."
Cen Mingming was almost so angry that he laughed: "He is a shitty ordinary person!"
After the beast Lu Yizhan landed in this world line ten years ago, he quickly faked his death and hid by Bai Liu's side under a different name. Now, no team member knows that this famous captain of the prophecy branch is the second in the grade in this ordinary high school, and he only wants to raise his old rival.
Lu Yizhan slowly stood up from the lakeside. He turned to look at Cen Mingming, his expression calming down: "Cen Mingming, since you are so sure that Bai Liu will enter the game and will do bad things, why don't I make a bet with you."
"I believe you already know the relationship between Bai Liu and Bao Kangle. If Bai Liu enters the game later, the first person he will kill after he comes out will definitely be Bao Kangle."
"But if Bai Liu doesn't enter the game and doesn't kill Bao Kangle, you should stop monitoring and attacking him, treat him as an ordinary person, stop interfering in any of his affairs, and let him grow up normally."
Cen Mingming narrowed his eyes and said, "What if he enters the game and kills someone again?"
Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and looked around at the second team members around Cen Mingming: "I know that the players around you are all players. I also know that you have been raising your own team in the game, just to kill Bai Liu in the game one day."
"If Bai Liu really enters the game and kills Bao Kangle himself, then I will join your team, become your tactician, and help you train your team."
Lu Yizhan raised his head and looked directly at Cen Mingbu: "If I let him enter the game, I will definitely kill Bai Liu in the game myself."
"Is this okay?"
Cen Ming was silent for a second: "Deal."
A team member who didn't hear the conversation between the two raised his hand and asked quietly, "Well, can't we just go down and catch Bai Liu now? We can just let this student go around and open up the College Entrance Examination Lake, right?"
"The opening condition of this College Entrance Examination Lake requires students who have failed the college entrance examination." Cen Mingming glanced at the Lu Station with a sneer, "In order to match his excellent college entrance examination results, a certain person has never failed the college entrance examination in so many world lines."
"If he could open it himself, he wouldn't have to lie in wait here every day, waiting for other students to open it before going down to clean up the heresy."
Lu Yizhan: “…”
This is the bad thing about having a junior brother who knows you too well and has a sharp tongue.
Lake bottom.
Bai Liu passed through the lake and fell into a transparent bubble-like barrier. This barrier was about three or four meters in size. It was no longer filled with water, but air. In the middle of this barrier was a set of desks and chairs. On the desk were a set of Chinese papers, a pencil case, and an answer sheet. There was a timer right in front of the desk, and it was now counting down from 150 minutes to 149 minutes.
This is clearly a proportional replica of the Chinese language scene in the college entrance examination.