Inside the Sinner's Well, the old wallet began to burn again. Covered with scars, Bai Liu stood up again and raised his head, with water dripping from his chin.
"If you get hurt again this time," Bai Liu said with a smile, "there will be no witch's antidote that can save you."
Bai Liu tightly grasped the white bone whip, and the bone whip began to spread black from the tail end. The black came with great force and instantly stuck to the tail of the whip. A silver-blue halo began to flow around Bai Liu's body.
"Wow." Bai Liu raised his eyebrows and finally smiled happily, "Finally you figured it out and are ready to take over the position of the evil god, right?"
Tang Er used all his strength to shoot at Liu Jiayi's back. Liu Jiayi fell down in his sight. His expression was empty. He staggered and tried to stand firm, but he staggered twice and couldn't stand. The elevator door was completely shattered in the explosion and couldn't be closed. Daniel's hand was stuck on the edge of the elevator. His right hand was shot off by Tang Er, but he managed to hold the edge with his left hand and climbed up.
"...You're the only one left." Daniel was beaten to a bloody mess by Tang Erda. He crawled on the ground with difficulty, raised his head and looked at Tang Erda who was kneeling on the ground, motionless. He smiled with an extremely crazy smile, "As long as I kill you, the Godfather's last burden will be gone."
Tang Erda looked at Daniel, who was dragging himself on the ground with only the upper half of his body left. His mind was blank and he was completely unable to think. His face was smeared with the blood of various people. He muttered to himself and repeated Daniel's words:
“…I am the only one left.”
One meter in front of Tang Erda was the blood that flowed out when Mu Sicheng was shot. The elevator was full of blood, and it was unclear whether it was Daniel's or Jiayi's. At his feet lay the bodies of three Deer Hunter team members. Cen Mingming had been shot by him when he had just gone mad, and now he was lying on the ground, his life or death unknown. He raised his head and saw a pool of blood and bullet holes in the middle of the messy and ruined corridor. Those were left when Mu Ke was shot madly by Daniel.
Indeed...he is the only one left again.
Everyone is dead.
Tang Erda slowly put down his gun, his expression blank and silent.
Daniel's consciousness was already blurred, but he had an incredibly stubborn belief in his heart. This twisted belief supported his broken body to move. He looked into Tang Er's dazed deep blue eyes and laughed with satisfaction:
"Ahem, as long as you die, the Godfather will give up everything and become a god!"
——That’s what the beautiful dream he had last night told him.
Daniel raised his bloody face. His ugly mask had fallen off in the chaos just now, revealing a young face that had not yet lost its childishness. He stared at Bai Liu with his clear apple green eyes, with an adoring smile on his face, like a little animal that had found support. His expression was almost naive. He stretched out his hand, supporting half of his body, and wanted to touch the godfather who had his eyes closed not far away.
"padrino (godfather)..."
"Daniel sara'il tuo fedele credente (Daniel will be your most loyal believer)."
[System prompt: Heretic Xiao Chou approaches Desire Core player Bai Liu, and receives stimulation, and his skills change - (Soul Crushing Spear) The skill can be reset once, without cooling down.]
Xiao Chou pulled out his gun and aimed it at Tang Erda again.
Sinner in the well.
In the old wallet, before the previous soul coin was completely burned, the next soul coin began to burn, and ashes leaked out from the gaps, like black rain, falling to the bottom of the sinner's well.
Bai Liu raised the corner of his mouth. He used the whip to wrap around Bai Liu's neck, who was in a bad condition, and hung him up. Bai Liu seemed like a dead body, with his limbs hanging down weakly, only his right hand still tightly holding the old wallet.
Blood kept seeping down from Bai Liu's body, falling into the bottom of the well and spreading. The white bone whip that fell into the well water not far away was stained black until only a line of white was left.
"What are you hesitating about?" Bai Liu stepped on Bai Liu's bone whip with a happy smile, lowered his eyes and whispered, "What value do you have if you keep this little bit of persistence and conscience?"
"The homeless man who had finally filled his old wallet, the homeless man who tried hard to control himself as a good person, would only end up like this."
"Any bad person in this world can trample on your most precious property like I can and leave you with nothing."
"You were born to be a bad person. The worse you are, the more valuable you are. The worse you are, the richer you are. But you choose to waste your talent by being a good person who is too honest."
"To be a bad guy, you can be the director of a perfume factory that monopolizes the world, an investor who invests in welfare institutions and uses children to keep himself alive, a real estate developer who controls all the land, or a mayor who develops his town by sacrificing the suffering of young boys and girls," Bai Liu explained slowly and leisurely, "They are all very rich, have realized their wishes, and live very well."
"And if you are a good person, you can only become Lu Yizhan. Cen Mingming and Tang Erda are such heretics. Even a woman like Fang Dian, whose power is almost godlike, has to sacrifice pain continuously under my control as a bargaining chip in order to save people."
"Bai Liu, if you had chosen to be a bad guy at the beginning, you would have become an evil god with everything you deserve."
"Be a good person." Bai Liu smiled, "You can only be a poor homeless man."
"——Didn't I tell you this result in the form of skill names when you first entered the game?"
"This is the game of the evil god. In a world where the evil god exists, good people will not have a good ending."
"——Because the evil god finds this boring."
Bai Liu slowly raised his head. His voice was hoarse from the whip and bone spurs, but still clear: "I don't think good people are boring."
"They... cough cough." Bai Liu grabbed the whip that was strangled on his neck and pulled it out violently. Blood spurted out immediately, but he still did not stop. He replied hoarsely, "It is a very valuable soul."
"They are enough for my wallet."
"With them, I never felt like I was..." Bai Liu raised his eyes, his features twisted and distorted due to anger and extreme emotional shock, tears welled up in his eyes, "...what a tramp!"
"If you really want to become an evil god, you can put an end to this boring world you created."
Bai Liu grasped the whip, and the whip turned completely black. He raised his eyes, and his eyes turned completely silver-blue:
"Then I will become an evil god."
[System prompt: The player Bai Liu's desire core has changed, and the monster book has been changed - (Poor Wanderer) has been changed to (Heir of the Evil God)]
[Player Bai Liu's equipment monster book identity——(The heir of the evil god)]
Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu, who was shrouded in a silver-blue halo, and raised his lips: "I have finally waited until this moment."
"My heir."
In the system spaceship, a black whip flew out from the sky and knocked Bai Liu out. Bai Liu retreated to the ground, and Bai Liu stepped on the ground of the spaceship. He turned around and whipped Tang Erda, who was lying on the ground with gray-white flames burning on his body.
[System prompt: Player Tang Er's health points are reset to zero, exit the game.]
After Bai Liu's whip swept, it did not stop, but continued to swing straight and hard at Daniel on the ground.
When Daniel saw Bai Liu, the wild smile on his face turned into a confused expression: "Godfather?"
"I'm not your godfather." Bai Liu slowly raised his head. His silver-blue eyes had an inorganic coldness. He raised his hand and whipped it down. "——That was just your dream. I have never been your godfather."
"In my eyes, you are just a little idiot who needs to be killed."
Daniel's pupils contracted. He stretched out his hand to grab Bai Liu, but he only grabbed the whip that Bai Liu swung at him. Bai Liu whipped Daniel's broken upper body and threw it out of the spaceship. In space, Daniel quickly suffocated and lacked oxygen. The pressure suddenly changed. He was squeezed by the pressure from all directions into a creature that could not be recognized as a human. Only those apple green eyes were still fixed and looked at Bai Liu in disbelief, who was calmly looking at him in the spaceship as he went away.
"Godfather." Daniel mouthed slowly, stretching out his hand like a drowning man asking for help from the people on the shore, his eyes blurred, "...save me."
Bai Liu stood at the broken window, without moving, watching Daniel drift away and disappear into space.
[System prompt: Player Daniel's health points are reset to zero, exit the game.]
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows at the scene, stood up and stepped back. He smiled and bowed politely to say thank you: "You already have the ability and necessary conditions to become an evil god."
"The rest will depend on the temple."
"I'll wait for you in the temple."
"I hope you can still keep your sanity when I see you next time."
After saying this, Bai Liu pulled back the cabin door, chuckled, fell backwards, and disappeared without a trace.
The cabin door closed again. Bai Liu looked at the messy spaceship deck in front of him, looking forward motionlessly. After confirming that Bai Liu had really left, he took a step forward dragging the black whip.
Bai Liu swayed for a moment, quickly stood still, then took another step, swayed again, and when he took the third step, Bai Liu seemed to have used up his last bit of strength. He held onto the wall beside him, lowered his head, and gasped heavily, his silver-blue eyes looking empty.
The black dye on the whip seemed to be jumping physically, spreading from his fingers holding the tail of the whip all the way up, invading every inch of Bai Liu's sanity.
Bai Liu finally knew what dye was used to dye the black whip.
——It’s desire.
It comes from 658 world lines, from all the players who have entered the game, and from the strong desire of all the humans who are about to enter the game.
This desire, with the bone whip as its medium, surged into Bai Liu's brain and body without stopping for a moment, as if these strong desires that had nowhere to go continued to find a carrier, otherwise they would drive the host of the desires crazy.
And Bai Liu is this carrier.
[I really want a promotion, I really want a promotion. It would be great if my boss suddenly got into a car accident and died. What an annoying old man, why hasn’t he died yet? I really want to run him over with my car.]
[…I don’t want to go to class. Maybe the homeroom teacher is seriously ill.]
…
All kinds of desires gathered together, enriched, and went into Bai Liu's brain along the whip. He breathed hard, trying to calm the impact of these things on him, but before he took a step, more desires would enter his body and affect his soul.
He felt that his soul had turned into a container and was about to be stretched to the point of being transparent and losing its original shape by these desires that would never cease to arise.
Is this why evil gods don't have souls?
The soul simply cannot maintain its normal shape under the impact of such desires. If you want to maintain the soul, you must resist the influence of these desires on it.
But these desires are like water spreading from all directions, making it hard to breathe, unable to climb to the shore, and not even having time to rest. The process of resisting desires is like a person struggling to drown in the sea without a piece of driftwood. But if you indulge yourself in desires and fall into the dark seabed...
He will really become the next White Six.
Bai Liu slowly slid to the ground. He leaned his back against the wall, raised his head and breathed hard. His eyes were cloudy and unfocused, like a man who was about to drown. His hand holding the whip slowly fell to the ground and touched the reverse cross key held in the hand of Cen Mingming who was lying on the ground.
He turned his head and looked at the key.
——This is the key item in this game, and also the last item he needs to become the evil god.
They were the ones who landed in the game and stayed with him until the end, wanting to guard what he found.
Bai Liu held the key, stood up on his knees, staggered against the wall, and walked towards the door of the 0th floor.
The moment he grasped the key and pushed the hatch, the 0th floor slowly opened, and the first floor of the spaceship, starting from Bai Liu's feet, gradually lit up the circuit. Each closed heresy opened one by one, making the originally dark first floor extremely bright.
Bai Liu raised his head.
The moment he saw the situation clearly, his brain, which had been blurred by desire, seemed to be emptied. There was nothing left but the scene in front of him, the emotions that were slowly rising up, and the heat in his eye sockets.
He was surrounded by the souls of the players who had entered the game. They, or it would be more appropriate to describe them as "they", were of various strange shapes, like monsters, or some kind of humanoid creatures. Their eyes were filled with desire, and this desire could even be felt by Bai Liu through the container. They rolled their eyes and stared at Bai Liu with their mouths curled up, as if they were looking at some delicious food that they were drooling over. The moment Bai Liu turned his head and looked at them with his silver-blue eyes, these monsters, or the souls of the players, would shrink back in cowardice.
They were held in cylindrical containers filled with silver-blue liquid, just like the ones Bai Liu had seen Tavel for the first time in Siren Town.
Bai Liu walked forward with light breathing. He came to the humanoid heretic souls numbered in the single digits and reached out his hand to touch the surface of the empty containers.
Tears rolled down her silver-blue eyes.
【658 World Line Heresy 0004】
[Name: Capuchin Thief Maki Shisei (Soul Shattered)]
【658 World Line Heresy 0005】
[Name: Assassin Mu Ke (Soul Shattered)]
【658 World Line Heresy 0601】
[Name: Witch Liu Jiayi (Soul shattered by 70%, unable to wake up)]
【658 World Line Heresy 0002】
[Name: Rose Hunter Tang Erda (Soul shattered to 75%, unable to wake up)]
The soul in the columnar container was broken into millions of pieces, slowly floating in the silver-blue liquid that was like sea water, like the bubbles of breath left by the drowned, telling the survivors that their souls were here.
Looking through the big hole in the edge of the spaceship, the floor was covered with bloodstains from different people. In the deep blue space like the deep sea, 658 world lines were running slowly along a certain predetermined trajectory, converging towards the huge system backstage spaceship in the center.
In the silver-blue universe, glittering dust and debris were floating, with traces of withering roses. The mermaid seemed to wake up from the bottom of the sea, and sighed at the fire that exploded in the mirror. The sun in the polar sky overlapped by a quarter, and following the last afterglow, the fallen god glimpsed the future, and saw the gun that shattered the soul fell into the sea.
The evil god named Wanderer finally came here.
He possessed countless soul coins, money, honor, laurel wreaths and victories were about to be worn on his head. He had everything.
He lost his best friend, his family, and himself.
He has nothing.
[System prompt: Player Bai Liu has gained control of the system spaceship. ]
【Congratulations to player Bai Liu for completing the game. 】
Lu Yizhan lost focus several times during the game and felt uneasy. If Charles hadn't really wanted to lose, this battle might have been difficult for him. As soon as the game was over, he hurriedly followed Spade, who was running ahead, to the No. 2 viewing pool.
When he entered Viewing Pool No. 2 and saw the confused audience whispering to each other and the blackened big screen, Lu Yizhan's heart sank.
——Sure enough, something happened!
Hei Tao swept the big screen, his eyes fixed, and he jumped down with his backhand holding the audience seat, and jumped directly to the side of Wang Shun in the center of the viewing pool. Lu Yizhan also followed him in two steps, and anxiously grabbed Wang Shun and asked, "What happened?"
"I don't know!" Wang Shun was also very anxious. "After Bai Liu and the others logged into the game, the big screen went black. The host called for maintenance several times, but there was no response at all!"
"Has anyone logged out during the journey?" Lu Yizhan asked calmly.
Wang Shun shook his head helplessly.
Du Sanying stared at the big screen, pinched his fingers, bit his lower lip, shrank into a corner, and stayed away from everyone.
"Someone logged out!" the audience shouted excitedly, "Which team is it from!"
"Deer Hunter's!"
"Wow, three people logged out at once!"
"Doesn't that mean the wandering circus will definitely win?"
"Look, look, someone logged out again!"
"The Deer Hunter again!"
"Fuck, it's Xiao Chou and the Executioner!"
"Everyone has been cleared out. The battle is fierce!"
"The circus won?!"
Lu Yizhan suddenly turned his head and looked towards the Deer Hunter.
At the moment when Lu Yizhan and Cen Mingming looked at each other, Cen Mingming turned his eyes away.
——This is how this guy behaves when he feels guilty.
Lu Yizhang's heart suddenly felt empty, and a long-lost feeling of fear and loss of control came to his mind again. He looked towards the exit of the wandering circus in realization and disbelief.
The moment Wang Shun heard that the other side had been cleared out, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw two people slowly pouring out of the exit on his side.
One is Liu Jiayi, the other is Tang Erda, both of them are covered with scales and their eyes are closed.
Wang Shun was stunned in astonishment. Before he realized what was happening, he and Lu Yizhan, who was running beside him, subconsciously rushed forward to catch Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda.
Before Lu Yizhang and Wang Shun could really catch these two people, they disappeared from their hands.
Wang Shun's mind went blank. He realized what had happened and raised his head to look blankly at the Lu Station opposite him.
——This is exactly the same as the last time Lu Yizhan and Spade were hit by the soul-crushing gun.
This means that...
"Their souls are not completely shattered." Lu Yizhan almost squeezed out this sentence through his teeth, his face had turned completely pale, "...but I don't know to what extent they are shattered, and whether they can wake up."
"What about Bai Liu?" Wang Shun heard his voice trembling, and asked this question almost in panic, "Bai Liu hasn't logged out yet, so is he also..."
The audience started to roar again:
"Someone has logged out of the circus again!!"