As soon as Bai Liu climbed onto the Sky City, he quickly switched to Mu Sicheng's panel and started running, looking around as he ran.

This is an island with extremely beautiful scenery. The island is full of birdsong and flowers. Everywhere there are beautifully built pavilions surrounded by flowers. In the pavilions walk girls wearing white scarves draped over their heads and wreaths on their heads. They have beautiful faces and slender figures. In the pavilions, they play the harp and sing softly about the God's family.

Except for the formal marble tower in the center of the island, which seems a bit out of place in the painting style, the rest of the island is like a medieval oil painting, magnificent and like a fantasy of heaven.

However, the Pope who was running madly, and Bai Liu and the witch who were chasing after him, destroyed the dreamlike beauty.

"Stop them!" The Pope ran towards the central tower, shouting orders, "Don't let these evil witches get close to the operation center of the entire island!"

Bai Liu looked towards the end point of the Pope's run - the tall tower.

On the white tower you can see swinging bells and a statue of a suffering goddess. That is the final ending point of the entire game - just put the witch's heart on it and the game will end.

On the other side of the tower, Bai Liu saw Hong Tao walking up barefoot.

The tower is surrounded by a circle of white marble stairs that spiral upward to the top. On the stairs is Hong Tao walking slowly. He is covered with wounds and blood drips with every step he takes, but the strange thing is that his clothes and demeanor are still so elegant and natural, as if he is strolling in the garden.

——It was as if he was heading to, not the end of the game where he had to dig out his own soul as a sacrifice, but an ending that had been anticipated long ago.

Bai Liu's eyes stopped on Hong Tao.

He understood what Red Heart was going to do.

If you only need to place the [Witch's Heart] on the high tower, and it does not have to be the enemy's [Witch's Heart], you can also place your own [Witch's Heart] on the high tower.

But with the concept of [Witch's Heart] and soul binding, no normal player would do this - this no longer represents death, a low-risk situation that can be avoided with a gold medal of immunity from death, but rather it means offering the soul to the tower of the sky city, just to end this huge witch trial.

After this, the player is likely to be trapped in this copy forever and become a monster because his soul is left in this tower.

But why make such a choice?

Obviously, another possible [Witch's Heart] is right behind Bai Liu. Jeon Bora has already attacked the island. Hong Tao is standing at the highest position on the island. He can clearly see Jeon Bora who is chasing and rescuing the nun, and then easily attack Jeon Bora from a high place who is unaware of his existence and has no defense against him, and take away her Witch's Heart offering.

Why would you choose to sacrifice your own soul over an NPC?

"Cough cough..." Phoebe knelt down and moved back as the smoke spread. There was blood on the wings behind her and various scars on her still face. She looked at Liu Jiayi opposite her with almost no eyes, covered her mouth and coughed violently, with dirty blood like crumbs flowing out of the corners of her mouth.

She had just accidentally swallowed the poisonous mist that the little witch had sneaked into her body, and now her internal organs felt as if they were corroded.

But the little witch was also covered in wounds. She had used up all her poison and antidote skills. She leaned against the ruined pillar of the ladder, barely able to stand steadily. Her arms and calves were covered with scars from her wings.

"You've grown a lot." Liu Jiayi wiped the blood off her face, stood up shakily, and made an attacking gesture again, aiming at Phoebe.

"You are also much stronger than before." Phoebe wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with her thumb and put her hands together in a praying gesture.

The two men looked at each other, and then fought each other almost without stopping, colliding, moving back, and fighting to the death.

They are the team's tacticians. They must plan and fight for the team's victory until the very end, until they have used up their last bit of physical strength, last bit of mental energy, and last bit of health.

Finally, they lay dying on the ground, unable to move, looking up at the island floating in the sky. In the distance, they heard the roar of the battle between the Hunters and the Titans.

The wind blew past their scarred hands, and except for their chests that were still rising and falling, they were as dead silent as two corpses lying on the ground after a fight.

"I didn't expect you to actually let go and hand over the key to the whole game to Hong Tao." Liu Jiayi coughed and glanced at Phoebe, who was lying next to her and was slowly weakening due to the corrosion of the poison. "Don't you hate Hong Tao the most?"

"But there's nothing we can do about it." Phoebe smiled. She tried her best to turn her head and look at the little witch who was surrounded by ghosts and corpses. "Who said he was the ace of the team?"

"It's a tactician's instinct to believe in the trump card, right? Didn't you also put the key to victory on the player named Bai Liu?"

"Hmm." Liu Jiayi turned her gaze back to the Castle in the Sky and paused, "...what if Hong Tao chooses to enshrine her own soul?"

Phoebe said calmly: "I have already sent him another witch's heart."

"If he still chooses that, there is nothing I can do."

"Really?" Liu Jiayi asked in a daze, "If the queen really left her soul here, wouldn't you be sad?"

"——In the guild, your favorite person is the Queen, right?"

"Although you always say that he is weak, you are the one who trusts him the most in the guild, who has always followed him, who insulted him to make him sober up, who will put all the chips on him in the competition, who believes that he will win and survive to the end. After I leave, you will be the only one left."

"So the Queen handed the guild over to you."

"In each other's eyes, you are like family, right?"

Phoebe was silent for a long time:

"I can't stop a person whose soul has already chosen death."

"It's like this with Mom, and it's like this with him."

Phoebe opened her eyes, and her emerald green eyes reflected the shadow of the Sky Island suspended in the sky, just like a withered leaf falling into the center of a clear lake, rarely revealing a trace of mist and confusion.

"I can be strong, but I can't keep him alive."

"Hey." Liu Jiayi said helplessly, "Don't cry."

"My ace team is still on the island." The little witch smiled just like she did when Phoebe first saw her. Her gray eyes curved playfully, and then she said to him lightly and proudly, "That guy will not allow anyone to waste the value of his soul in front of him."

"The Queen's soul is so valuable, that guy will definitely do everything he can to preserve her soul."

In the castle in the sky.

Hong Tao walked to the top of the high tower. Through the white pigeons flying up with the sound of the bell and the falling rain, he looked at Bai Liu who was standing on the ground from a distance.

Bai Liu was wearing a thin white shirt, with a priest's robe draped over his shoulders that rustled in the wind. His dark eyes stared emotionlessly at the red hearts on the top of the tower.

The storm swept through them, as if it was about to bring about a bigger storm.

Hong Tao's eyes seemed a little dazed - the first time he met the evil guest was also on such a violent rainy day.

And at this moment, on such a rainy day, Bai Liu landed on his island again.

In the heavy rain and wind, Bai Liu was wearing a priest's attire, which was almost the same as that guest's, but it gave him a completely different feeling.

Hong Tao lowered her eyes and gazed at the white willow in the wind and rain.

He still had the same appearance as before - long burgundy hair and red eyes, his expression still lazy and careless. He was fiddling with the cards in his hand from time to time, but his eyes were a little dazed.

This was not the first time he faced Bai Liu.

After realizing that Bai Liu was the soul-like self that the guest had mentioned, the words with a smile, "You will like him because he understands love and emotions," lingered in his ears.

So Hong Tao, with an almost rebellious mentality, went to find Charles to verify the news and went to meet this so-called soul-possessed [Bai Liu] whom he had imitated to find out what kind of person he was in real life, who could be that guest and say such words, and even said such extreme words when he met Bai Liu for the first time.

The kind of thing that everyone will say to him at the end of their relationship - [Do you want to sleep with me? ]

Desire and love are two different things. Every player knows what desire is, but few players stay in the game for love. Everyone is floating in desire and transformed into monsters in desire. Bai Liu, the guy who seems to be a synonym for desire in the game, a demon who uses souls as a means of transaction, does he really understand what love is?

He wanted to humiliate Bai Liu, who was praised by the customer for having an unprecedented soul and understanding love and emotions, just like he was humiliated by his own preferences when he was eighteen years old.

But when Hongtao and Bailiu looked at each other, he rarely stepped back.

His skills are born out of [desire] and [love]. As long as the person who looks at him has an unresolved desire, a lover who cannot be let go, an old friend who has not seen each other for a long time, or all the inner emotions that make people unable to let go or even fear, Red Heart will become that person.

Red Heart was used to playing a thousand roles for people to entertain and relieve the pain of her own unfulfilled desires. In the end, she even forgot what she looked like in the mirror and her original name, leaving only a code-like title - [Queen of Hearts].

When he is in the game and this skill exists, every player who looks at him will inevitably see others through him and project their desires onto him.

When he is outside the game and this skill does not exist, every audience member watching him will inevitably become obsessed with the role he plays and develop derivative desires for him.

He was in the game and in the human world, and it seemed as if he was never free from the gaze of desire.

No one is looking through him to see himself.

Even that guest hoped to see Bai Liu through him.

And the only person in the world who would look at him, really look at him, and praise his beauty, had left forever twelve years ago.

But that time... when he really walked in front of Bai Liu in reality and looked directly into Bai Liu's dark eyes, he actually saw the complete self in this guy's eyes - without any desire, any projection, or any derivative meaning.

Just simply, calmly, looking at him.

——Just a person named Zhao Muchi.

So he left, as weak as Phoebe said, unable to face the look in her eyes that he had not seen in twelve years.

And in such a situation, he and Bai Liu were face to face again. Hong Tao lowered his eyes and looked at the poker cards in his hand, turning them slightly - was he going to kill Bai Liu?

He had the ability to kill him. He was his enemy, the person he had always been brooding over and wanted to kill. He wanted to prove that at least the aspirations and feelings he had given to him were not a joke. Now he was about to die, why not kill this person and let him feel a little more at ease before he died?

Killing him would at least make Phoebe feel better.

The wind and rain became more and more violent. Hong Tao looked at Bai Liu's blurry figure through the rain. She was silent for a while, then lowered her long eyelashes, put away the poker cards, turned around, and walked towards a higher place in the tower.

……never mind.

He doesn't kill on rainy days.

He definitely didn't like or feel attracted to this fake called "Bai Liu", it was just that... he just didn't like killing people on rainy days.

And we were about to win, so there was no need to create any more trouble.

The red heart went higher and higher. At the same time, the witches on the ground were rescuing other permanent residents trapped on the island, and the original church guards on the island were fighting with the witches. There were people roaring, attacking and crying everywhere. In just a dozen minutes, the island was turned from a paradise into a hell.

Of course, it's the other way around for the witch and the people trapped on the island.

When Hongtao climbed to the top, reached out his hand and touched the silver-blue gap device that held the witch's heart, the silver-blue device was reflected in his pupils, and he suddenly recalled his past life.

The guild and the island were handed over to Phoebe, and everything had been handled. Even without him, Phoebe would be able to perform quite well in the next league - even better. His [Shield] tactics were contradictory and inconsistent with Phoebe's offensive tactics.

He also found someone to handle the affairs of the Vatican, and that group of unskilled men could no longer cause any big trouble.

...He also repaired her tomb, and Rebekah would go to worship on his behalf every year.

The studio will announce his retirement tomorrow at the latest, saying that he is ill and needs to rest, and will not take on any more works.

Everything has been taken care of long ago, and it seems that there is nothing left to do.

Hongtao closed his eyes and reached out to grab the device.

A man suddenly appeared from behind him.

The man was wearing a pope's robe, with dishevelled hair and a mad look. He fiercely pointed his staff at the neck of the red heart and threatened him hysterically: "It's you! You are the one who just destroyed the gap device on the island, right!"

——It was the Pope who ran up the tower madly.

Red Heart was unmoved and wanted to throw the Pope over his shoulder to the ground, but when he moved, the Pope waved his scepter, and the gem on the top of the scepter flashed. Red Heart suddenly felt an intense pain in his heart, and he was frozen in place as if he was frozen, unable to move.

"It's you!" After seeing that Red Heart didn't move, the Pope laughed triumphantly and crazily, waving his scepter, "The seller told my client that as long as someone swallows the gap device with a very tough soul gem, the gap will malfunction, but at the same time, fragments of the gap will remain in the swallowed soul gem!"

"The crack fragments remaining in your soul and the cracks in the gemstone on my scepter are of the same origin. They can resonate with each other, and then I can use the scepter to control you!"

"——The guest said that this is to ensure that no matter how many people try to attack my island, the gap that swallowed my island will close. As long as I hold the scepter, I can always control the group of people who have swallowed the gap. The scepter recognizes its master. The guest said that its owner is recognized by God as my prop, so it will always be my prop!"

"Then I will have the power to control this island forever, and the Castle in the Sky will belong to me forever!"

The Pope laughed almost like a madman. He waved his scepter and directed the island as if he was holding a remote control: "As long as this island exists and these men's desires exist, the Church can come back again!"

"Fly to the western sea, my Noah's Ark!"

The island roared, and a huge amount of dust spread around it. It slowly began to move towards the sea in the west, or more precisely, to escape.

But before that, the Pope has one more thing to do - he has to drive all those annoying witches off the island!

"Jeon Paula!" the Pope yelled, his voice heard over the tower's loudspeakers throughout the island. "Look here!"

"Your son is in my hands!"

"If you want to save him, get off my island!"

Jeon Bora, who was rescuing the trapped residents, turned her head and looked over.

The moment Hong Tao saw Jeon Bora turn her head and look at him, his pupils and heart contracted.

He was captured by his father and used as a bargaining chip, his mother was threatened, and she and he were forced to go to the island.

All of this was like what he experienced twelve years ago in reality, and the "Witch's Heart" trial twelve years ago in the game was happening again at the same time.

viewing pool.

Qi Yifang was so anxious that he almost jumped off the building. He was so nervous that he almost couldn't breathe. It was the first time that he watched a game and hoped that his opponent would win instead of himself.

When he heard Phoebe say that the queen wanted to die, he thought she was just mocking him. But now looking at the situation, the queen not only wants to die, but also wants to be damned forever!

I don’t want the soul anymore!

To the entire King's Guild, nothing is more important than the Queen!

Even if we lose, as long as the Queen is here, we can come again next year!

If a person dies, there is absolutely no future!

"Even though the Queen will be immune to damage when attacking this stupid Pope!" Qi Yifang rolled on the spot in panic, "But her skills can still be used!"

"As long as the Queen uses her skills, she will become the Pope's favorite or most feared person, and can seduce the other party. This way, the Pope can no longer threaten her!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, the killer sequence.

"Red Heart won't use her skills on the Pope." Lu Yizhan said calmly, "That skill will turn him into the person he least wants to see now."

"He has tried it once, so he cannot accept it. He will definitely not use it this time."

"Who?" Bai Yi beside him asked curiously.

Lu Yizhan paused and asked: "Who do you think the Pope desires the most?"

After a while, Bai Yi looked a little stunned and stuttered, "No, it won't happen, right?"

In game.

The Pope stepped back, smiling sinisterly: "Why don't you use that strange skill of yours to threaten me?"

"My dear child."

"Are you, like me, afraid of what you become in the mirror when you look at me—"

"——Are you afraid of your mother who left you alone on the island, Jeon Bo-ra?"

"Stop talking about it!" Hong Tao's expression was uncertain, and his whole face was full of confusion and madness. "I don't allow you to mention her!"

"SHUT UP!!"

That day, when he used his skills on the Pope, he turned into her appearance in front of the Pope.

He saw himself in the mirror, and saw a mother who was full of desire and murderous intent. He had a half-smile, but a dark and uncertain expression on his mother's face, which was so disgusting and sickening.

At that moment, he clearly saw the ugly and sordid depravity of his own soul.

He actually used her face to make that expression and do that thing - he didn't even dare to look at himself in the mirror.

If she were still alive, she would probably be afraid and disgusted with him, right?

——He was just like the other men on the island, full of inferior desires, unable to control himself, and self-degrading.

For those who have reached this point, is there any other destination except death and destruction?

Even if there was, he wouldn't accept it.

Just like the fourteen-year-old Hong Tao punished those men, Hong Tao now tortures herself in the same way.

"Your mother, Jeon Bora, can't attack me." The Pope laughed hoarsely, "If she abandons you first, what will her group of witches think of her in the future? Is such a cruel woman really worth following?"

"But if she doesn't give up on you now, she will have to give up on saving the others on this island. You will definitely live in pain when you think of the people who sacrificed their lives for you on this island, right?"

"Seeing Jeon Bora and you in pain, I feel relieved!"

"I pursued her so much back then, but she was so arrogant that she refused to even look at me. She only wanted to save the people in the world. Now I want to let her see that a woman like her can't save anyone no matter how hard she struggles, and she can't escape from my clutches!"

"This is karma for her rejecting me back then! You know what I mean? Karma!"

The Pope's face turned red and he roared with veins bulging. In the end, he could hardly stand.

Hong Tao's gaze shifted back, he looked at the device that was less than an arm's length away from him, slowly adjusted his breathing, and quietly approached in that direction.

As long as he holds the device and offers his (Witch's Heart), the island will be destroyed instantly.

Fighting, confrontation, threats, games... everything that made him hate was over.

Including himself.

At the same moment.

Jeon Bora clenched the bow and arrow in her hand and stared at the platform.

Bai Liu approached her: "The Pope is immune to all witches, but there is one exception."

"I can use the little witch's panel. They are not looking for the little witch. The little witch has not been tried. I can use her panel to attack the Pope."

"I will use the poison fountain later, but this place is too far from the tower, and the poison fountain's range is not enough to attack you."

"But arrows can, right?" Jeon Bora retracted her gaze, took a deep breath, and looked at Bai Liu. "My arrows can pass through the poison fountain. As long as I hit the Pope accurately, it will be fine, right?"

Bai Liu nodded.

"Then come on." Jeon Bora agreed calmly, her hands trembling slightly, "I will definitely hit this arrow!"

Red Heart on the top of the tower grabbed the Pope's broken ribbon while he was immersed in excitement, and held the device. A gust of silver-blue wind blew out from the gap and blew across the entire island.

The wind blowing out from this gap was in the opposite direction to the wind that was dragging the entire island. The two fierce winds collided, and the entire island made a crackling sound as if it was about to collapse. It crumbled into rubble and fell into the sea below. The witches on the island immediately went into a state of emergency and began to jump into the water with the rest of the residents on the island to escape.

There were shouts of surprise everywhere on the island:

"The Castle in the Sky is about to fall!"

"The island is collapsing!"

"Everyone, run away!"

The moment the Pope discovered what Heart was doing, he flew into a rage and was about to swing his scepter and kill him.

Bai Liu on the ground used Mu Sicheng's panel to fly rapidly towards the high tower, while Quan Bora, standing on the collapsing road, calmed down. She pulled the bow with all her strength, and at the moment when the witch's poison was lifted up, the cloak behind her flew up in the collision of the wind. From the top of the high tower, it looked like two horns had grown on her head.

Her clothes were torn in half by the wind, revealing her waist and back, but this did not detract from her concentration at the moment. Her purple eyes became brighter in the wind and rain.

The Pope on the high tower was looking at Jeon Bora in a daze - after so many years, this woman not only did not become old and ugly, but became more determined and beautiful.

He couldn't help but think of the accusation that was fabricated to slander him.

[Her back is so white, her waist is so soft, her eyes glow purple like a succubus in the moonlight, and she has two shining horns on her head.]

But the way she looked at him was still as if she was looking at an ant, a blade of grass, or dust. Even though he had done that to her and thought he had tortured her for decades, many years had passed and when he saw Jeon Bora again, the Pope realized that it was just his own conceit - she didn't care about him at all.

In her eyes, he had never existed - it was as if no matter how many things he had done, he was still not worthy of her even a second look at him. Her eyes were still looking at the tower, the clouds, the wind, and the people she cared about.

The Pope, this little idiot, is nowhere to be seen.

"Why!!" The Pope was almost going crazy. A huge hatred, as if being denied, eroded his heart. "Why do you look down on me?!"

"In the name of the First Witch!" Jeon Bora drew her bow and arrows to their full length, and said in a steady tone, "I declare Father Lee Woo-soon guilty of lying, harming his compatriots, and betraying his integrity!"

She shot her arrows, and White Willow released a fountain of poison.

Arrows pierced the fountain and one shot through the Pope's head.

The Pope fell back in disbelief, his head tilted back, and fell from the high tower into the pool of male eels pierced by the red heart. He stretched out his hands and struggled for a while, but was still swallowed by the eels and disappeared into it with a painful sob.

When Jeon Bora shot the arrow, the Sky Island began to collapse on a large scale. She ran two steps towards the tower and fell into the sea with the collapsed rocks with an anxious look on her face. At the last moment before falling off the island, she looked at Bai Liu who was about to run to the tower and pleaded loudly with tears in her eyes:

"Please save my child!"

"Don't let him die alone on this island!"

As the island collapsed, the tower began to tilt and lean to one side. The red heart on the tower seemed to be severely damaged. It shook for a moment, and then fell down with the tilted tower, holding the device.

Bai Liu's eyes moved, he raised his hand and swung the whip, and at the same time opened the panel:

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu enters player Mu Ke's panel and uses personal skill (flash attack)]

In just a blink of an eye, Bai Liu appeared under the red heart. He used the whip to roll the red heart that was hugging the device over. There was a silver-blue light at the heart of the red heart. His soul seemed to be sucked into the device, but at the same time, his left hand was holding the scepter, and the gem on the scepter was also emitting a strong light, resonating with the soul of the red heart.

The gem and the device simultaneously controlled Hong Tao's soul, causing his soul to be in a strange state, as if it was about to leave the body, but had not yet left the body.

In this strange state, Red Heart seemed to have lost consciousness. He couldn't even hold his weapon, the poker cards. The poker cards flew out of his weak right hand, scattered in the air, and fell around the two people.

Bai Liu used the whip to wrap around Hong Tao's waist, and with the other hand, he grabbed the tower and hung Hong Tao on the high building, saying softly, "Zhao Muchi, wake up."

Hong Tao raised her head with empty eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's... you, Bai Liu."

"I'm going to win, so just give up..."

"Really?" Bai Liu said calmly, his eyes drooping calmly as he looked at the red peach he had caught. "I didn't come here just to win."

"Outside the game, I promised Jiayi that I would save you, and inside the game, I just promised Jeon Bora that I would save you."

"I usually fulfill the promises I make."

"——So besides coming to defeat you, I'm also here to save you, Zhao Muchi."

Hong Tao's heart beat violently, and at the same time, a stinging pain came from being sucked away by the device. He laughed hoarsely: "Save me?"

"Why did you come to rescue me?"

"You clearly wanted to kill me in the tower before." Bai Liu retorted indifferently, "Then why did you let me go?"

Hong Tao was rarely stunned. He quickly lowered his head and turned away, taking a deep breath, trying to pull his hand away from Bai Liu: "Let go! I don't want a man to save me!"

"I hate men, get out of here!"

"Really?" Bai Liu said calmly, "I don't think so."

He pushed upwards and climbed onto the collapsed tower. With his other hand, he pulled back the red heart outside the tower. Bai Liu turned his head and looked at the red heart that was coughing violently on the ground. He knelt on one knee and looked directly at her. His eyes and tone were very calm, and he raised a card.

"This is the skill card you just dropped. I didn't want to pick it up, but I've seen this card in Jiayi's hand. It's called Heart to Heart, and it reflects the person the person looking at the card likes in their heart." Bai Liu pinched the card with two fingers and turned it. The card was facing Hong Tao who raised her head. He lowered his eyes, "I didn't see your card. Only you have seen your card, so this is your Heart to Heart card."

"The person on your H.I.C. card is me, right?"

The person on the card has black hair and black pupils, an indifferent look, a white shirt and leather gloves. The most iconic feature is the inverted cross scar on his slightly open chest that has not yet healed.

Hongtao's pupils contracted.

Bai Liu made a calm judgment: "You like me, right?"

For a moment, Bai Liu's expressionless face overlapped with Bai Liu's half-smiley face six years ago: [You like me, right?]

"I, ahem! I will never like you!" Hong Tao looked confused and evil, as if he was trapped in the nightmare six years ago. He staggered to his feet and muttered to himself, "I'm going to kill you!"

"If I kill you, I won't like you anymore..."

"As long as I don't like you, I won't be like those men..." Hong Tao's expression became dazed, "I won't be fickle and release my evil desires on so many people. I won't be like those men..."

"My...my love is a very precious thing."

"I'm going to kill you!"

[System prompt: Player Hongtao uses skills...]

Hong Tao used the skill of bewitching Bai Liu, and at the moment when Bai Liu was bewitched, Bai Liu did not dodge or evade. He looked at Hong Tao calmly. In his eyes, Hong Tao's long burgundy curly hair shortened and straightened, the burgundy color of her pupils faded and turned purple, and her figure became slender.

After using the skill, in Bai Liu's eyes, he turned back to his original appearance.

——After using the skill so many times, this was the first time that after using the skill, he did not change into someone else's appearance, but changed back to his own appearance.

Hong Tao looked down at Bai Liu and stopped in shock, tears falling from his eyes: "Why, why would you..."

Will I see myself in the midst of desire?

"Because your soul is like this." Bai Liu raised his eyes and said in a steady voice, "I only look at the value of a person by the value of his soul."

“This is what makes you most valuable.”

Hong Tao slowly stopped, and he gently held onto the device beside the tower. His breathing gradually became steady, as if he was trying to recover from the effects of the device. He shook his head slowly, holding onto his forehead in a daze, and repeated Bai Liu's words word for word: "My most valuable appearance?"

"…Why is it like this?" he asked absentmindedly.

"Then what do you think your most valuable appearance should be like?" Bai Liu asked patiently.

"My most valuable appearance should be as a girl." Hong Tao looked at Bai Liu with a dazed and hazy look, and whispered, "If I were a girl, she wouldn't have to struggle for so long."

"My stepfather would have liked me since I was born. If he hadn't paid attention to her, she wouldn't have gone to the island. I would have been the first one to go to the island, and I would have been able to shoulder everything for her."

“She will survive.”

"I hate men."

"Because I'm a man, she was unwilling to accept her fate and had expectations. That's why she struggled for me for so long, and died so painfully for me to get to the island."

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