The still air began to flow. Mu Sicheng looked at the huge storm rising from the ground, sucking in all the dust around him. He gritted his teeth and wanted to try to break through, but was stopped by Bai Liu's cold command in the earphone: "Run, Mu Sicheng, your health can't withstand the damage from Armand's skills."

"You are our trump card in this battle. Try your best to escape. If you survive to the end, I, the tactician, will kill you. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Mu Sicheng nodded. He looked at Hurricane again, gritted his teeth, gave him the middle finger, turned around and ran away quickly.

"Hang him away and let us go into the mine. Don't let him and Georgia reset their skills in the same map. Controlling Armand is your main goal in this game."

Mu Sicheng jumped down from the tall building, narrowly avoiding the hurricane that brushed past his legs. He wiped the blood from his mouth due to the fall and smiled wickedly: "It's a piece of cake."

The hurricane covered the sky and the earth, and the metal chains hidden inside were tightly wrapped around it, chasing Mu Sicheng who was running wildly.

Liu Jiayi, who was rushing at full speed, suddenly turned her head and looked in a certain direction, pursing her lips tightly: "There is a sound in that direction, it is..."

"It's Mu Sicheng." Bai Liu replied calmly, "He led away the opponent's main attacker Armand. Our first head-on confrontation with Golden Dawn has begun. What follows is a war of attrition. We must seize the time."

"The No. 13 mining area should be ahead." Mu Ke glanced at the picture, raised his head and looked at Bai Liu, "Georgia's main force is under the mine. Should we stick with the previous tactics?"

"Yes." Bai Liu raised his eyes and scanned everyone. "Georgia is a strong support, and this is a team with close teamwork, so our basic tactics are to fight on different sides, that is, one to one. Everyone will try to hold back one team member and increase the distance between them and Georgia, so that Georgia cannot assist them and reduce the opponent's advantage."

"But the problem with this tactic is," Tang Er frowned, "if it's just one-on-one, it will be a stalemate. Then both sides hope to have an ace player who can break the stalemate."

"I believe Captain Georgia thinks the same as I do." Bai Liu smiled, "It's just that he put his trump card on Armand, while I put it on Mu Sicheng."

"The next step is to see how they perform."

"Now." Bai Liu turned his head and looked at the group of golden human-shaped sculptures holding banners at the entrance of the mine, and said calmly, "Let us first enter the most valuable core area of ​​this golden country."

"Get on the minecart."

The mine cart doesn't look big, but it can still basically accommodate Bai Liu's entire team. Tang Er sits in the front, pulls down the horizontal bar, and the mine cart rushes forward.

Liu Jiayi looked at the intact minecart and couldn't help but sigh: "Captain Georgia is such a gentleman. He didn't even destroy the minecart."

"If Bai Liu arrived first, he would have driven away one of the mine carts himself, and he would have placed a bunch of explosives under the other mine cart, which would have exploded with a single push, sending the entire enemy team to hell."

"Georgia is a prince, so it's normal for him to behave like an aristocrat during the competition." Bai Liu said innocently, "For an ordinary commoner like me who pursues value for money, of course I can only set traps wherever I can win. It's because of my background, there's nothing I can do about it."

Liu Jiayi: “……= =.”

Why does this person always make such despicable means sound so common?

"But Georgia didn't tamper with the minecart. Maybe it was because he was a gentleman and didn't want to destroy this place." Bai Liu touched his chin. "After all, this is his homeland. Every blade of grass, every tree, and every minecart must be very precious to him."

"Of course it's more likely."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "He thinks that if he lets us enter the mine, a place he is more familiar with, he will have a better chance of defeating us."

The mine cart creaked as it moved, and after going around several bends like a roller coaster, it finally entered the core of the large mine.

The moment they entered the big mine, even Mu Ke, who had seen a lot of the world, was stunned. Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi were stunned. Bai Liu was rarely able to maintain his composure, but he couldn't help but sigh: "It's hard to imagine the scale of the mine."

A mine tunnel, nearly the size of three or four large stadiums, spans the entire mountain. The mountain has been chiseled open from the top, with a large opening like a volcanic eruption running from the top to the bottom. Beams of light shoot into the mine from the top, and dozens of tracks crisscross the mine. These tracks are not built on the mountain or on some kind of surveillance foundation, but are suspended from steel cables hung from the top of the mountain, so these tracks are all suspended in the air.

On the four walls of the mine, there are many miners hanging in the air, wearing protective suits and holding chiseling tools in their hands, working.

Or more precisely, a gold sculpture in the style of a miner.

These miners seemed unaware that a disaster that would turn everyone into gold was about to befall them. They were still working unconsciously. Some miners were jokingly chatting with the miners next to them who were hanging in the same position as them. Some miners were holding food in their hands to eat. This should be their lunch, but it had long been rotten.

Miners of all stripes are suspended in mid-air, frozen in time at a certain moment in their lives, in the form of gold.

On the four walls of the cave, under the mottled black soil, gold is faintly visible everywhere, and it is not even ore, but gold directly. They can all imagine what a busy and bustling labor scene it was ten years ago when this place was still the Kingdom of Gold - miners were suspended from the top of the mountain, mining and working all day long, and mine carts ran back and forth on the suspended tracks, transporting the gold mined by the miners to the Gold Bank one by one, and everyone's face was filled with a cheerful smile.

Under the sunlight from the top of the mountain, these gold miner sculptures and the gold on the cave walls reflect dazzling halos of light, which is extremely magnificent.

"It must have been a very sudden accident." Mu Ke quickly recovered, "These miners had not yet come down from their work, and they were just hanging there and turned into gold."

"The same goes for the sculptures at the entrance." Liu Jiayi frowned and recalled, "They seem to have come here just to protest Georgia's decision to hand over the mine to the Bureau of Heresy. Right at the entrance to the mine, they were turned into gold."

"But if it is some kind of incident that turns people into gold in an instant..." Bai Liu thought, "The situation with the animals in the Gold Distribution Office doesn't make sense. These animals moved in after the Gold Distribution Office was closed for a long time and slowly turned into gold."

"If it is some kind of heresy that turns living things into gold, the impact of this heresy on living things should have a variable that we don't know."

"Personally, I tend to think it's the concentration." Bai Liu spread his hands. "I initially speculated about the concentration of gold powder. The higher the concentration of gold powder, the faster the creatures will be transformed into sculptures. But after entering the mining area, this speculation is actually not very sustainable, because the concentration of gold powder here is not as high as outside."

"So it shouldn't be gold dust." Mu Ke pondered, "Is it possible that it is some other stone dust similar to gold dust?"

"Like some kind of heretical dust?"

"It's possible." Bai Liu looked down along the track where the minecart was moving. "So something happened on the day of the protest, causing the heretical dust to spread. After being inhaled by the people of this country, they turned into golden sculptures."

"It's a bit strange..."

Bai Liu opened his system panel and lowered his eyes: "It's the same question as before. We should have reached the place with the highest concentration of heretics. My lungs and body are obviously uncomfortable, but the strange thing is that my health and mental values ​​are normal and have not dropped at all."

"So, how does this heresy affect people, turning them into golden statues of heretics, or monsters?"

"Do you want to try to attack these statues now?" Mu Ke asked, "You can unlock the monster book, maybe there is an explanation in it."

"Let's go out and attack again." Tang Erda, who was sitting at the front of the minecart, looked ahead solemnly, "There are too many golden sculptures here. If a chain reaction is triggered, it will be difficult for us to escape."

"and……"

Tang Er paused for a moment and said, "I have played many games and have often dealt with heretics in reality. I don't know if my perception is wrong, but I can't sense the aura of heretics or monsters from these golden sculptures."

“These sculptures are… not offensive.”

"Yes." Bai Liu pulled his chin and thought, "The monsters we encountered in the game before would actively attack us. The same is true for sculptures. The mermaids in Siren Town will actively attack the hatched players. But the sculptures here are indeed too stable in their attitude towards players."

Tang Er whispered a reminder: "But the Bureau has also taken in some heretics who were not very aggressive."

Bai Liu thought for a moment and said, "At the moment, we don't have enough clues to draw any conclusions. Let's move on."

The wheels of the mine cart rolled with a rumbling sound, and it went up and down through the dangerous mine tunnel. The further in, the dimmer the light became, the narrower the road became, and the more miners were hanging on the cave wall. Tang Erda turned on the flashlight he found in the mine cart, knocked it, and turned it on.

If it is the big mine outside, you need to dig to see the gold. Inside, the gold nuggets are chiseled out from the golden wall - the surrounding walls of the cave are all shining with gold, and you can't see any mineral soil. You can only see some hard rock patterns crisscrossing inside the huge golden wall. These rocks support the entire mine.

"This is..." Liu Jiayi was shocked, "Isn't this too exaggerated?"

"This level of gold production has continued for a thousand years." Mu Ke sighed, "I can understand why the people of ancient Luolun have such a mentality."

"...No wonder..." Tang Erda lowered his voice, "The Third Bureau was built by Georgia herself. In order to expand to the sea and guard a giant underwater heretic, it cost a lot of money at the time. The finance department refused to report it, saying that Georgia overbuilt, so Georgia paid for it herself."

"They said it was given in gold."

"Georgia was very generous in giving the money. Su Yang felt bad for a while at that time. He complained to me that the Heresy Bureau's finances were too strict, even though he could have reported it." Tang Erda sighed, "The Third Bureau is notoriously generous. Basically, you can't get away with it. Georgia would pay for it himself. Sometimes he would report accounts of several hundred million. The finance department didn't pay for the Sunshine City incident completely before. Georgia knew about it and paid for part of it. Su Yang was very grateful to him."

"From his attitude towards giving money, I can tell that he really doesn't think the money is worth anything." Tang Erda looked up at the gold in the mine and sighed, "I had previously guessed what kind of birth would produce someone like Georgia who has no attachment to money and has a lot of money in reserve. It turns out that this is her background."

"Georgia is a literal spendthrift."

Tang Erda teased Bai Liu for a rare moment: "I'm doing the exact opposite of you, Master Bai."

Bai Liu smiled indifferently and spread his hands: "I am just an employee. I have risked my life to earn every penny. It is difficult to ask me to spend money lavishly, Captain Tang."

"But the finances of your Bureau of Heresy are quite interesting. It seems like everything is very strictly controlled."

At this point, Tang Erda held his forehead with a headache and whispered, "Don't talk about it, that's a demon department."

"It's not that they are bad people. In fact, they are not bad people. They are just very timid, like a group of hamsters. They are very afraid of the cold winter and want to store more food." Tang Er sighed. "The financial operation method of the Bureau of Heresy is that the Field Affairs Department collects heretics, and then the Logistics Department accepts heretics, classifies the heretics, compiles them into files, and summarizes a part of the safe heretics that can be rented. Then the Ministry of Finance issues an approval document to rent heretics from various countries in the world to make a profit, and the money earned is used to maintain the operation of the Bureau of Heresy."

"But many high-risk heretics cannot be rented out. Not only can they not be rented out, they also need some specific environments to contain them. For example, the blood ganoderma must be placed in a soil-free, blood-free, dry environment, otherwise it will produce spores. It also costs money to maintain these environments for a long time."

"Not only that, when you are out on the field, the expenses you have to pay will vary depending on the heretics you encounter."

"The cost of sheltering some heretics is relatively low." Tang Erda sighed helplessly, "But the cost of sheltering some heretics is extremely huge, such as the largest underwater heretic sheltered by Georgia in Sunshine City last time. The cost of sheltering these heretics would be as high as tens or even hundreds of millions, but they have to be dealt with."

"In some places, the officials are easy to talk to and will reimburse us for a lot of shelter expenses. For example, Sunshine City finally took in hundreds of millions of dollars because the officials paid the largest share. But in some places, the officials don't care about heretics, so the Heresy Bureau has to deal with it themselves, such as the underwater heretics in Georgia."

"Many of the heretics that have appeared recently are very expensive, so the people in the Finance Bureau are particularly nervous, fearing that they will not have enough money when the next heretic comes out."

"I can understand why Su Yang dislikes the Ministry of Finance, because it is indeed a difficult department to talk to, but I can also understand the Ministry of Finance, because the uncertainty of heresy is really too great."

"If you can really put an end to this era of heresy."

Tang Erda smiled helplessly at Bai Liu: "Those hamsters in the Finance Department might hold your legs and cry for your daddy."

"I'll do my best." Bai Liu smiled.

In reality, on the ancient Luo Sea, the third branch of the Heresy Bureau.

Inside the island branch, in the underwater unmanned submarine reconnaissance department processing center, a group of people sat in front of the control desk in a serious and waited manner. Wearing a signal receiving instrument helmet that covered half of his head, he looked at the underwater detection radar signal transmitted from the display screen and reported seriously:

"Reporting to the commander, no one has been found approaching Heretic 0073 for the time being, report complete!"

A voice came from the earphone: "Continue to explore! Captain Georgia has given an order. Before he comes back, make sure no one can get within a thousand meters of Heretic 0073!"

The team members straightened their backs: "Got it!"

After the voice in the headset ended, the team member rubbed his eyes tiredly. He grabbed the coffee cup next to the console and wanted to drink it all in one gulp. However, when he lifted it up, he found that the coffee was empty.

"I'm so tired." The team member next to him stretched his body, looked at the display screen with his chin lowered, "How long do we have to wait? It's already been a day and a night."

"It's just a notice. Is it worth mobilizing all three bureaus?"

Although he did his best in his job, the team member who finished reporting responded a little tiredly: "...Although Captain Georgia has his reasons for doing things, I really don't know what to detect when I sit here."

"I don't know how to steal such a huge heretic from the sea."

"Yeah." The team member spread his hands, his voice covered by the helmet was laughing, and two sharp fangs were revealed at the corners of his lips under the mask. "I've been guarding here for a whole day. I don't know how to steal it."

"...What...How did you steal it?!" Noticing that something was wrong with this team member, the team member who had just finished reporting suddenly woke up from his tired and relaxed state. He suddenly realized that there was something wrong with this team member - this team member's posture was too lazy, which was obviously different from the well-trained team members of the Third Bureau. The Third Bureau's formal and strict uniform was also a little ill-fitting on this team member. His cuffs and collar were unbuttoned and rolled up, turning it into an outfit that was easier to move.

The most important thing is that there is a little monkey logo next to the headset this person is wearing - there will not be such a cartoony logo in the third game!

"Who are you?!" The team member was terrified and was about to use the radio to report. As soon as he picked up the machine, the suspicious team member opposite him raised his hand and hit him on the neck, saying lazily, "I've been waiting for a day, and finally learned how to read the location displayed by this machine."

"Thank you, dedicated brother."

Just before he fell unconscious, the team member saw with horror that all the other team members had fallen to the ground outside.

This team member, or [Mu Sicheng], casually took off the mask on his head and put it aside, crossed his legs on the console, leaned back in his chair, casually took a sip of coffee, and looked at the display with half-closed eyes:

"Bai Liu is really causing me trouble..."

"You actually asked me to come to another timeline to steal such a big heresy. Now is my off time."

"Well, let me see how wide this heretic is..." [Mu Sicheng] leaned forward and adjusted a few buttons on the console. A whole scan map appeared on the display screen. He raised one eyebrow slightly, "It is worthy of being the biggest heretic."

He raised the corners of his lips, and his right hand turned into a monkey's paw to pierce the white uniform glove: "Since the things you stole were great, I'll ask for less overtime pay this time."