The elevator went up and then stopped. The doors opened to both sides. Bai Liu slowly raised his head and saw Cen Mingming standing outside, looking at him with red eyes and clenched hands.

The hatred, disbelief, being deceived, and murderous intent in this man's eyes finally boiled over into the worst scenario he had ever imagined.

"So this is what that idiot saw in the future..." Cen Mingming's face was twisted into a hideous look. The sneer that came out of his throat seemed to carry a bloody smell. He walked over staggeringly, completely without any rules, but very fast. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Bai Liu, grabbed his collar and pressed him to the ground, and punched Bai Liu angrily, "How could you..."

Cen Mingming's voice and fists were trembling, tears were welling up in his eyes, and his voice was intermittent and hoarse: "How could I..."

"In the [future], I killed Lu Yizhan with my own hands!!"

"You already knew it, right? You've seen the future! You must know that in the future, Heretic 0001 is Lu Yizhan himself!!"

"He raised you with his own hands, stood in front of you time and time again, did everything he could for you, warned you of everything, and you actually killed him!!"

"Do you have a heart, Bai Liu?!"

Bai Liu paused in his whipping motion, his pupils shrank to a tiny dot, all the discordant fragments in his memory connected in an instant, he felt as if he had fallen into ice water, entering a state of illusion.

...That day, yes, he had seen [the future]. In this heresy, he had seen a small TV that showed clips of the future, and a man wearing the uniform of the captain of the first team who was recording save points. At that time, he naturally thought that Lu Yizhan existed in this heresy as a prophet, and was just using this heresy's storage place to record save point information.

He thought heresy was some small TV that showed the future.

He really didn’t expect… didn’t expect…

Bai Liu chuckled softly in Bai Liu's ear, who was in a daze. "It's normal that you didn't expect it."

[Because you didn't expect that there are still humans in this world who can still have self-awareness after being used as a carrier by heretics? No one would have thought that the small TV in (the future) is not heresy, but the active Luyi Station is. ]

【That is its soul trapped in the future.】

[Even I didn't expect that Luyi Station would still try to save you after it became like that.]

[It has thus retained consciousness, and it believes that you can change the outcome of the world line.]

[——Even though it has already seen the future of all world lines.]

Bai Liu pulled out the whip and threw away Cen Mingming who was pressing on him. He stood up by supporting himself on the ground, his chest heaving violently. When he raised his head and looked at Cen Mingming, his dark pupils reflected the silver-blue light that came through the space-transmitting window.

The light scattered on the surface of his eyes and floated up like bubbles exhaled by a drowning person in the deep sea.

658 world lines were spinning outside the window, and the light in Bai Liu's pupils faded, just like the last bubble exhaled by a drowning person dissipating into the deep sea.

...as a carrier of heresy, it can still maintain consciousness.

What he should have thought, what he knew, what he had seen.

The Lu Yi Station who raised her head from the last prison of the Rose Factory, covered with fallen petals, smiled and said to him, "It's been a long time since we last met." The Lu Yi Station who sat in front of the sofa, wiped her eyes, and choked up and said, "Fifty percent of the Lu Yi Station—"

——The one who seemed to have lost all strength, stood in front of him with relief, and said suddenly:

I am old.

[There is no one alive behind me.]

...of the Lu Station.

He should have thought of it, why didn't he think of it?

At this moment, even Bai Liu himself was a little confused. There were so many facts connected together as fragments, and he only needed to reason a little deeper to come to a conclusion.

Why didn't you think of it?

"You are emotionless!" Cen Mingming roared hoarsely. He tightly grasped the Death Ring and swung out a black long knife along the silver light of the Death Ring, aiming at Bai Liu and slashing at him. "You did it on purpose!"

"You deceived Lu Yizhan! You knew everything a long time ago. You took advantage of his trust in you and made him delegate the authority of the "Prophet" to you!"

"And then you killed him again! And won the game again!"

"Toying with mortals and plundering their pain, is it so fun for a monster like you?!"

Cen Mingming stabbed Bai Liu's shoulder with a knife, pinning him to the wall of the elevator. He roared angrily, "From the beginning, it was you who set up this trap!"

Bai Liu slowly raised his head, grabbed Cen Mingming's knife, clenched it tightly, and pulled it out, his voice intermittent and hoarse: "No..."

Blood flowed down the palm of his hand that held the blade.

"I didn't deceive Lu Station..."

"I just... didn't know that Heretic 0001 was him."

"You just what?!" Cen Mingming put away his sword and chopped it down, then drew it out and chopped it again, brutally blocking Bai Liu's throat with the blade and interrogating, "You have seen Lu Station in the future, how come you don't know it?!"

Bai Liu blocked it with the whip. The blade and the whip made a sharp crisscrossing sound. The elevator door slowly closed and began to sink. Bai Liu stretched out his foot to step on the elevator door. His shoulder was cut by the knife. The blood soaked his white shirt and slid down, instantly staining a large area red.

...can't let the elevator close and go down.

If they saw him like this, they would definitely get involved, and then the situation would be out of control.

Cen Mingming used more and more force with the knife in his hand, digging into the bone on Bai Liu's shoulder. His voice was extremely cold and furious: "Answer me, Bai Liu——"

"Don't use such a low-quality excuse that I don't know. I know how smart you are. There's no way you didn't figure out that Heretic 0001 is Lu Station—"

"——When you took the initiative to suggest watching Heretic 0001, wasn't it just to stimulate him, make him more miserable, and make it easier for you to harvest him?!"

Bai Liu opened his mouth, but he really couldn't answer.

Under Cen's uncertain questioning, Bai Liu suddenly realized something - could it be that he really was an emotionless monster, so he deliberately couldn't push it out, causing Lu Yizhan to suffer and everyone to lose the game?

But obviously, he didn't think so.

Bai Liu's voice appeared in Bai Liu's ears again, soft and smiling: [It's really fun to see you confused and in pain. ]

[I have been watching you and can tell you the answer. Why didn’t you figure it out? —]

[——Actually, you had a premonition, but people tend to be fearful of things they care about, just like the Land Station is avoiding the future, and you are also avoiding the fact that there is a Land Station in Heresy 0001.]

[You are afraid, you don’t want to, so you refuse to admit that the heretic is the Lu Station itself.]

[——It’s like you always think you can change the future set by God.]

"It seems you can't answer." Cen Mingming took back the long sword indifferently. He threw his hand away, and the Death Ring slipped from his ring and turned into a well. "I have nothing to say to the sinner."

"Go into the well and repent for the few remaining years of your life."

[System prompt: Heretic 0009 Cen Mingming uses the Monster Book skill on the player Bai Liu——(Sinner Well)]

[This skill can imprison the person whom the heretic considers guilty in a well full of monsters. If the imprisoned player has not come out of the well before exiting the game, he will die in the well (this skill can ignore the death-free gold medal). The cooldown time is 30 minutes.]

The entire system spaceship began to turn at this moment, and shook violently, causing the Sinner's Well that had just landed to deviate to the left, just enough to push away Bai Liu's long whip that was blocking the elevator door. The elevator door closed in Bai Liu's tightened pupils, and fell rapidly amid the vibration of the system spaceship.

Bai Liu fell forward. He passed Cen Mingming and stood in front of the door. He stepped on the Sinner's Well and the Sinner's Well began to swallow him. Bai Liu swung out the whip and grabbed the buckle in the elevator, pulling himself up from sinking. He raised his head, and on his blood-stained face, there was a very faint light in his dark eyes.

"I...may really be a monster."

"But I have feelings."

Cen Mingming looked at Bai Liu who was crying unconsciously. His brain seemed to be hit by something and he was briefly awake from his intense emotions.

The Bai Liu who was crying ignorantly in front of me was the same Bai Liu who was curled up on Lu Yizhang's shoulder and crying quietly six years ago.

【Look at the person you are going to execute. 】

【He's not really a monster, he's a human being. 】

Cen Mingming's heart tightened for a moment, and the Sinner's Well also tightened as his heart tightened. It stopped when it wrapped around Bai Liu's feet. The well mouth, which was the size of an elevator, became only the size of a fist.

[System warning: Heretic Cen is not clear about his mentality and cannot regard the player Bai Liu as a sinner. He is imprisoned in the (Sinner Well). The (Sinner Well) skill will soon become invalid.]

"Really?" Bai Liu sighed with a smile. The voice that had been floating in Bai Liu's ears finally came true at this moment. "I thought that if we did this, Mr. Hunter would never let you go no matter what."

"I didn't expect that I would soften my heart towards you, Bai Liu."

A hand wearing a black glove reached out from the edge of the well, and like tearing a book, it tore the originally narrow wellhead open, and reached out from the wellhead filled with silver-blue light, grabbed Bai Liu's feet, and dragged him down.

"The game still has to go on." Bai Liu said to Bai Liu with a smile in the well, "Then I will have to intervene."

Bai Liu stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Your soul, just accompany me into the well and play other games."

"You are the only humanoid heretic soul missing from my system spaceship, Bai Liu."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Liu grabbed Bai Liu's ankle and pulled it down. Bai Liu's soul was pulled out of his body. His body and eyes were empty and he fell forward. At the same time, the elevator door slowly opened. Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke, who had been anxiously guarding the elevator door, turned around and saw Bai Liu slowly falling down.

Mu Ke's expression froze.

"You did to Bai Liu--" Mu Sicheng's pupils shrank, his hands quickly turned into monkey claws, one foot stepped on the fence to use the force to shoot into the elevator, the tip of the claw went straight to Cen Mingming's throat, his voice was full of anger, "-what did you do?!"

Mu Sicheng forced Cen Mingming into the elevator and attacked as fiercely as a tiger. Mu Ke caught Bai Liu and passed him to Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda behind him.

"Take good care of him." Mu Ke took a deep breath, "Mu Sicheng and I will go up first. You wait for the next elevator after we clear the area."

Liu Jiayi nodded solemnly. Before Tang Erda could say anything, Mu Ke followed Mu Sicheng into the elevator.

The elevator was closed during the fierce fight. Tang Erda originally wanted to follow, but Liu Jiayi stopped him.

This usually calm little girl was at a loss for what to do. Her hands that were holding onto Tang Erda's clothes were shaking, and her eyes were dim: "Tang Erda..."

"Bai Liu, she's out of breath."

Tang Erda quickly half-crouched down. He checked Bai Liu's physical condition and his expression became grim. He had more gaming experience than Liu Jiayi and had seen this kind of situation several times before: "...Bai Liu's soul was pulled out of his body."

"If the soul cannot be retrieved, Bai Liu will die if he logs out of the game."

"Before that, we must not let anyone destroy Bai Liu's body. Otherwise, her health will be reduced to zero and her body will automatically disappear. Even if her soul comes out, she won't be able to log out of the game without the body as a carrier."

"...What will happen then?" Liu Jiayi looked at Bai Liu who was barely breathing, and tried hard not to cry.

"Bai Liu's soul..." Tang Er paused, "will remain on this airship forever."

"Go up first. We can't let Bai Liu's body and soul be too far apart, otherwise the connection will be severed and there will be problems with the subsequent fusion."

The elevator slowly opened, and Cen Mingming almost threw the two Rangers who were attacking him madly out of the elevator. The violent commotion in the elevator attracted the Deer Hunters who had gone to other places before, including Daniel who had been looking for the key.

When Daniel saw Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng being thrown to the ground by Cen Mingming, his originally bored expression changed and his apple-green eyes lit up.

"Ciao~" Daniel squatted down and waved his right hand at Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng on the ground with a smile, "Finally I see you——"

"——My godfather's useless and trashy subordinates."

The funny little ugly mask on Daniel's face tilted, he smiled excitedly, and pulled out the green sniper rifle from behind: "I can finally kill you and reduce the burden on my godfather!"

"Don't shoot at them!" Cen Mingming pulled out his hand and slashed, knocking away Daniel's sniper rifle aimed at Mu Sicheng. He shouted coldly, "Follow orders in the league!"

The gun in Daniel's hand was knocked away. He shrugged and put the gun behind his waist in boredom: "OK, if you insist."

Mu Sicheng jumped up at this moment, and with his claws turned into knives, he chopped at Cen Mingming's neck, saying viciously: "Who wants your kindness!"

The elevator opened again, and this time Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda came up. Tang Erda stood in front of Bai Liu's body and Liu Jiayi. His expression was also very cold, and the look he gave Cen Mingming was almost filled with angry condemnation - the only skill that could extract souls, he could guess, was Cen Mingming's Sinner's Well.

After all, only Daniel's Soul Crushing Gun and Cen's unknown Sinner's Well are regular skills.

The only way to get Bai Liu's soul back is to let Cen Mingming open the Well of Sinners himself and spit out Bai Liu's soul.

Tang Erda picked up Bai Liu with his left hand and put him in the corner, then swung the gun with his right hand and pointed it directly at Cen Mingming's head. At the same time, Daniel, who had just hidden the gun behind himself, looked at Bai Liu's body. He curled his lips slightly, and his apple-green eyes widened, like a brutal beast that smelled blood.

"godfather……"

Xiao Chou laughed strangely: "I dreamed of you last night."

"——That was a beautiful dream."

"But when I woke up, you weren't by my side, and it became a nightmare."

He pulled out the soul sniper rifle, and the face hidden under the mask was distorted with excitement. Beyond everyone's expectation, Xiao Chou aimed the muzzle of the gun at Bai Liu who was lying on the ground. The muzzle of the sniper rifle condensed an unsettling green energy, and everyone heard the sound of the green bullet that could shatter the soul being loaded.

"How could you lie on the ground and fall asleep so peacefully the first time you saw me?"

Xiao Chou said cheerfully.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion. Tang Erda's pupils constricted. He quickly stepped back to defend himself and raised his gun to aim at Daniel.

Bai Liu's body cannot be attacked!

Liu Jiayi hugged Bai Liu tightly, using her body to block as much as possible for Bai Liu. Her eyelashes trembled with fear and helplessness. Mu Ke gritted his teeth and opened the panel to use [Flash Strike]——

——But the fastest person in the whole field was still the last one.

Mu Sicheng blocked Bai Liu at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye. There was no expression on his face, as if it was blank as if he had no time to think.

But he stood in front of Bai Liu.

Daniel's eyes were filled with a dull look, and his aiming mirror was focused on Mu Sicheng's back. He had expected that as long as he aimed his gun at the Godfather, these guys would rush over to die.

Didn’t Cen Mingming say that he couldn’t aim at other team members?

He didn't.

These stupid team members came here to die.

Daniel laughed wickedly and pulled the trigger.

——If these useless trash think about it a little more, they will know why he would shoot his godfather?

His target, from the beginning to the end, was these fools who were confused and thought they were so important to the Godfather.

Green bullets fired.

Mu Ke's pupils shrank, and he swung out a dagger, aiming to hit Mu Sicheng in the back. Mu Sicheng was shocked by the blow and fell forward into Bai Liu's arms.

It was the bullet that hit him first.

Pale fire instantly burned on his body. At this moment, Mu Sicheng was able to think - this is what it felt like to be shot by a soul-crushing gun...

Wang Shun was right, it really hurts, as if a thousand knives are scraping your body at the same time, cutting it into millions of pieces.

But what is even sadder is the feeling that the thoughts are gradually fading away.

It’s as if your life has no meaning at this moment, and everything you have fought and lived for has become boring.

The fire burned Mu Sicheng's face. He raised his eyelids with great effort and looked at Bai Liu, who was sleeping soundly in front of him. He suddenly smiled, and tears fell from his eyes, and then flowed continuously.

...Now I have no soul left.

Are you still my friend, Bai Liu?

I really want to ask you, this heartless guy, face to face...

But now…

There seems to be no other way.

Mu Sicheng's eyelids drooped, and the fire burned upwards, trying to burn away the last trace of him. The last thing that stopped in his thoughts was what Bai Liu said to him when they played the game for the first time -

——【I promised him that I would definitely save him.】

Mu Sicheng forced a smile, then completely disappeared in the firelight without leaving any trace.

I don't believe you, Bai Liu.

[System prompt: Player Mu Sicheng's soul is shattered, death confirmed, exit the game. ]