"What do you want to talk to me about?" Bai Liu asked back calmly.
"I thought you would be the first one among us to ask questions." Bai Liu spread his hands slightly, and smiled at him with a face that looked exactly like Bai Liu. "After all, after seeing my appearance, you should have a lot of questions to ask."
"For example, why do I, a god, look like you?"
"I don't think so." Bai Liu said coldly, "You look twice my age."
Bai Liu: “…”
"If you don't like me as an adult." Bai Liu didn't look offended and frowned, but smiled with amusement. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and his tone was even a little indulgent. "How about this?"
"Will this make you more willing to accept me and have a peaceful conversation with me?"
Bai Liu quickly turned into an 18-year-old high school student who looked exactly like Bai Liu. He wore the same white shirt and school uniform as Bai Liu. Apart from the pair of black leather gloves on his hands and the relaxed smile on his face, there was almost no difference between him and Bai Liu.
Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu's rapidly changing appearance and slowly tightened his back.
...If he is not mentally ill now, then the thing that appears in front of him now, which can stop time and space and change its appearance at will, should be the so-called God?
"Let's start the conversation in a way that we can both accept." Bai Liu smiled friendly, "Do you want to know the origin of Spade?"
Bai Liu's gaze was stilled for a moment. He looked directly at Bai Liu, and understood something almost instantly: "Is he related to you?"
"You can say that, but you can't say that." Bai Liu held his right elbow with his left hand, rested his right hand on his chin, and raised the corner of his mouth, "Everything in this world is related to me, including you."
"But its birth has nothing to do with me."
"Its birth is only related to you. It is a soul that exists for you."
Bai Liu paused for a moment, then quickly returned to normal. He raised his eyes and said, "Since he exists for me, why would he leave?"
"Sometimes a short separation is for a better reunion." Bai Liu said with a smile, "Your reunion is already destined in the future."
"You will meet again in a grand horror game."
"Horror game?" Bai Liu asked calmly.
"Yes, a horror game, a horror game that both you and it will like." Bai Liu stretched out his hand, and the smile on his face deepened, "——This game exists inside this door."
The moment he stretched out his hand, a door-shaped silver-blue vortex appeared in front of Bai Liu. Inside appeared the densely packed small TVs that Bai Liu had seen before. The people inside were fleeing, fighting, and killing monsters in panic.
"This is where the spade comes from." Bai Liu said with a smile, "If you want to find him who left, just enter this game."
Bai Liu's gaze passed by the door and landed coldly on Bai Liu's face: "Is this college entrance examination lake tonight also one of the horror games you planned?"
Bai Liu sighed slightly, and said with praise: "You reacted really quickly. You guessed it so quickly."
"You are indeed the smartest of my derivatives."
"You want me to join this game?" Bai Liu's eyes narrowed into a slit. "Spades are a product in the game, so you deliberately placed spades around me in order to lure me into the game?"
"You can guess like this. It's close to the truth, but not completely correct." Bai Liu did not refute. He smiled in a friendly manner and patiently answered Bai Liu's malicious speculation about him. "But it is indeed your anchor. It's normal for you to be affected by it."
"I thought you would quickly choose to enter the game after getting the answer, but it seems..."
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows with interest: "Its impact on you is not as serious as I thought?"
"Maybe I should give you some other incentives and chips to make you willing to accept this horror game."
He narrowed his eyes and smiled very subtly: "I can't wait to see you enter the game, Bai Liu."
"Let me think about what you would like..." Bai Liu tapped his lower lip twice with his index finger thoughtfully, and then smiled with sudden enlightenment, "Before that, let me tell you what you have lost because of this boring life of an ordinary person."
Bai Liu snapped his fingers happily, and the silver-blue door-shaped vortex in front of Bai Liu instantly expanded into a black screen. The screen flashed, revealing the fourteen-year-old Bai Liu, who was sitting in the welfare home, eating his meal with a spoon indifferently.
"Originally, the life I designed for you started from here and entered the game, but you didn't, and you entered high school."
"When you turn 18, you will have more than 10 million liquidity points, a guild, two large underground organizations in reality, three to five smuggling channels, and a complete team of loyal people working for you."
"But now all of these are gone." Bai Liu sighed with regret, "You have been deprived of the right to enjoy the most wonderful desires in the world by the existence of Lu Station. You suppressed your desires and controlled yourself to survive within a safety line. Then, you lived like a stray dog in this unknown high school. There is no safe zone to stay, and even--"
Bai Liu stretched out his index finger, and a translucent silk thread flew out from it and pierced into the back of Bao Kangle's neck.
Bao Kangle felt a pain from the stab and woke up with a start, but he was led by Bai Liu's puppet strings and walked over with a terrified expression.
"--Even minor characters like Bao Kangle and Xu Wei, whose names I don't even remember in other world lines, can make you suffer three years of campus violence." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids, and his tone became casual and smiling, "--You were punished to stand, go to the toilet, be kicked out of the dormitory, and have your chair removed from the classroom by Xu Wei. You sat alone on the ping-pong table in the rain, boredly flipping through the English textbooks that the people in the classroom were taking, and there was Bao Kangle's handwriting on it mocking you for being an orphan."
Bai Liu smiled with interest: "I'm very curious, Bai Liu, what were you thinking at that time?"
Bao Kangle was pulled to the middle of Bai Liu and Bai Liu. The fear of having his limbs completely out of control frightened him to the point where he couldn't make any sound from his throat and could only make some "whoosh" sounds.
Bai Liu leaned against the wall with his head down. His school uniform was wet as if it had been raining. Time was flowing for him, so water was dripping from the ends of his hair and the hem of his clothes. The dripping water was still in the air because of the stillness of time.
The solidified water droplets slowly enveloped him. He raised his head, opened his eyelids and looked directly at Bai Liu. There was no emotion in his tone and eyes: "You seem to know me so well, why don't you guess what I was thinking at that time?"
The smile on Bai Liu's face widened: "I guessed right, will there be any reward?"
Bai Liu said calmly, "Then I will do what you are guessing I am going to do, okay?"
"Hmm..." Bai Liu thought for a moment and then smiled. "What a cunning and smart reward. It's not a loss-making deal anyway, but I like it, so I'll make it."
Bai Liu moved his index finger, and Bao Kangle was pulled by the puppet string and fell to the ground. He rolled in front of Bai Liu, with visible fear on his face. Bai Liu lowered his eyelids and looked at Bao Kangle with pity as he was squirming and trying to escape:
"I guess you wanted to kill Bao Kangle at that time."
"You made a detailed plan in your mind to kill him and his mother seamlessly without anyone finding out, but you were not sure if Lu Yizhan would find out because he was also very smart and knew you."
"You are waiting for an opportunity that will allow Lu Yizhan to reasonably accept Bao Kangle's death and for you to perfectly escape the blame."
Bai Liu raised his head and smiled: "——And this opportunity finally came, it is Gaokao Lake."
"Senior year is a time when students are under great pressure, and a student jumped into the lake to get his test papers. It is only natural that another student would jump into the lake because of great pressure and superstition at this time."
"You and Bao Kangle have always been at odds, and you are both considered by the public to be the type of students who would jump into the lake because of the pressure of the college entrance examination. So it is perfectly reasonable for you to go when Bao Kangle takes the initiative to provoke you to go to the college entrance examination lake. Not to mention that there is surveillance evidence of Bao Kangle provoking you left in the teaching building."
"There is no surveillance near Gaokao Lake. If the two of you jumped into the lake at the same time and Bao Kangle accidentally drowned at the bottom of the lake and you did not successfully rescue him, then you would not be held responsible for his death and there would be no evidence left."
"Because you are afraid of water, it is only natural that you cannot save Bao Kangle."
Bai Liu smiled meaningfully: "And you know that Lu Yizhan knows this. He won't doubt you because of this. He will believe that you are innocent."
"He had no idea that this was a perfect crime planned by his best friend who was suddenly tempted to commit murder.
"Am I right, Bai Liu?"
Bao Kangle on the ground was completely stunned. He gradually stopped struggling and stared at Bai Liu blankly.
Bai Liu looked down at Bao Kangle with no expression on his face. The dripping water solidified in the air, but Bao Kangle rarely sensed something unusual. His back began to feel numb, his face turned pale, and he kept shaking.
From the beginning to the end, Bao Kangle put himself in the position of the perpetrator. He thought that Bai Liu might retaliate against him, but he never thought that Bai Liu, who had always been indifferent to him, was thinking these things in her mind...
He just wanted to bully Bai Liu to vent his anger, but Bai Liu really thought about how to kill him!
This psychopath Bai Liu's brain is completely different from that of a normal person!
"Since you have already thought about it, why not complete this perfect crime now?" Bai Liu raised the corners of his lips, and he smiled harmlessly, "I guarantee that except for me, no one in this world will find out that you have killed anyone."
Bai Liu raised his index finger and made Bao Kangle kneel on the ground, looking up to expose his vulnerable neck, with his hands behind his back - this was a posture of being slaughtered.
"Don't kill me..." Bao Kangle was so scared that he almost peed himself. He burst into tears. "I was really wrong. I won't dare to do it again. Bai Liu, please don't kill me!"
Bai Liu walked forward slowly, held Bai Liu's wrist, placed it on Bao Kangle's neck, lowered his eyelashes, and said softly:
"Look up, my child, and let me see you kill someone for the first time. It will be a memorable sight."
Bai Liu slowly raised his head and tightened his hands: "You were right earlier. I have thought of many ways to kill this idiot without taking the blame."
"But then you guessed wrong what I'm thinking about now."
Bai Liu's fair face, which was covered by wet hair, showed a rather wicked smile. The smile on his pale face had a fragility and delicacy that was shocking, and could even be described as beautiful. He said:
"God, I didn't mean to kill that idiot."
"I'm thinking of Spades."
Bai Liu smiled: "So the reward is gone. I won't kill people according to your idea."