Li Bai felt a creepy feeling.
Calling a living person a "work of art" doesn't seem like a normal person's idea. Especially considering Li Fang's current state, while appearing calm on the surface, there's a certain madness lurking underneath.
She took a deep breath, calming the turmoil caused by the sudden news. "Even if it's what you said, I still don't understand your motive for doing this."
It’s not Li Bai’s conspiracy theory that’s to blame, it’s just that Li Fang’s behavior is too bizarre.
She believed that perhaps all of this was inextricably linked to Li Fang's arrangements, but she didn't believe his actions were simply motivated by such ridiculous reasons as "letting my daughter complete my unfulfilled ideals." For someone like Li Fang, every action should have a clear purpose, rather than driving himself to despair for such metaphysical pursuits.
Either he has another trump card, or he has other purposes.
But Li Fang clearly had no intention of explaining everything to her. "You don't need to know this. Since you've come this far, you're entitled to everything you deserve. Now, you only need to do one last thing—"
"Kill me."
Even though Li Bai had always had very weak feelings towards this so-called father, and the two of them had hardly ever spent time together, their relationship was more like that of a distant superior and subordinate rather than a father and daughter, her expression could not help but change drastically when she heard these words, and the fingers of the hand holding the weapon twitched nervously.
The room fell into silence. The two men, one standing and the other sitting, just faced each other, neither of them speaking or taking any action.
Fortunately, someone quickly broke the standoff, and Yang Jia simply broke open the door and rushed in.
"Li Bai!" She took a quick glance after entering the room, then immediately walked to Li Bai and whispered, "I just cracked his personal terminal..."
"I already know." Li Bai said calmly.
Yang Jia was slightly stunned. "You know?" Then he turned to look at Li Fang. "Did he tell you himself?"
Li Bai nodded, his gaze still fixed on Li Fang, a touch of caution and wariness. Li Fang, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes, staring at Yang Jia thoughtfully. He knew there was someone like this close to Li Bai, but he didn't actually know their true relationship.
——Zheng Yizhao faithfully carried out all his requests, but chose to conceal this matter.
As for Li Fang, who always caught the big ones and let the small ones go, since this person would not affect his arrangements and was indeed of some use, he did not need to pay too much attention. So when he saw Yang Jia appear here, he could not help but feel a little surprised.
The next moment, this surprise spread from the bottom of his heart to his face, because he heard Yang Jia say, "Although I also think he is quite hateful, but hateful people also have their pitiful aspects. Since he is about to die, we don't need to worry too much."
"What did you say?" Li Bai turned and looked at Yang Jia, "What do you mean he's dying?"
"...Didn't you say you knew? He has a genetic defect, so his life has been extended by various means over the years, but current technology cannot completely cure it. It has been delayed until now, and it is already the extreme. He only has a few days to live at most." Yang Jia said.
This was the most shocking piece of news she had found on Li Fang's personal terminal. As for the rest, they were just minor details.
Li Bai certainly believed that Yang Jia would not speak nonsense, and the surprise on Li Fang's face was definitely not pretended, which means that it was indeed the case.
So just now, this person who was already about to die wanted to trick me into taking his life?
"What exactly do you want to do?" Li Bai clenched the weapon in his hand and stared at Li Fang.
Li Fang's gaze still fell on Yang Jia, with some hostility, "I was negligent. There is no point in keeping this person by your side, he should have been eliminated long ago." When he said this, his eyes suddenly moved, he already understood that Zheng Yizhao had concealed some information from him when reporting, deliberately leading him to ignore the existence of this person.
"I told you, I'm different from you." Li Bai raised his gun towards him, his face calm. "Do you think I don't dare to kill you?"
"How could that be? Killing me to achieve your goals was the path I designed for you." Upon hearing this, Li Fang finally turned his attention back to Li Bai. "Don't you think this is interesting?"
Although Yang Jia didn't know what had happened in the room before he arrived, he knew from hearing these words that Li Fang had come with ill intentions. Making Li Bai bear the crime of patricide was clearly intended to make her sink into a sea of suffering, never to be freed.
It’s really not a good thing.
She quickly held down Li Bai's hand holding the gun, "Don't be angry, why are you fussing over a dead man? Killing him won't benefit us."
"I see..." Li Fang's gaze lingered on their clasped hands, a look of sudden realization on his face. "The world's sharpest knife, which I personally polished, now has a scabbard."
At this moment, his eyes, which had been pretending to be calm, finally fluctuated. He stared at Li Bai and Yang Jia, but his gaze was not on them. Instead, he was looking through them at someone, and fell into a long trance.
Li Bai and Yang Jia looked at each other, then retreated tacitly. While Li Fang was in a daze, they successfully left the room.
It was not until this time that Yang Jia breathed a sigh of relief, and then found that his back was sweating.
"What happened?" After recovering from her shock, she immediately pulled Li Bai aside and asked, "Why did he ask you to kill him?"
"From the very beginning, this whole thing was planned by him," Li Bai summarized simply. "Everything in the game, everything outside of the game, he might not know everything, but he definitely knows the general direction. He's been waiting for me to kill him and take everything from him. I didn't understand why before, but if he was already dying, it's not surprising."
"He's going to die, so he wants you to kill him?" Yang Jia couldn't understand the madman's logic at all.
Li Bai nodded, "It's like a ritual and inheritance."
Li Bai didn't quite understand his thoughts, but they were in the same position after all, so she could guess a little. Li Fang said that she was his work, and killing him was the final step of this "work."
Then... she can become the sharpest knife.
Li Fang hadn't lied. This lifeless Earth truly needed some change, so he had used Li Bai's hand to push for this war, cleansing the entire planet. But it wasn't clear that he had any good intentions in doing so.
In fact, if you think about it, a person like him, who is smart and in a high position, must be very conceited. But no matter how powerful he is, he cannot change the fact that he has physical defects.
At a time when everything is being prepared for the upcoming mass migration and everyone is full of hope for a new planet and a new life, his life is declining day by day. It is understandable that he becomes crazy because of his unbalanced mind.
From a leader's perspective, it was necessary to conduct an internal cleansing on Earth first. However, from Li Fang's personal perspective, he didn't want to see these so-called immigrants truly embrace a new life.
So he made Li Bai into a sword that was unrivaled in the world, invincible and capable of hurting others and himself.
But unfortunately, as Li Bai said, she is completely different from Li Fang.
For Li Fang, being in his position meant he was destined to be alone, so his wife and children were all expendable and disposable. Of course, if they were still of some use, that would be best, but if they weren't, it didn't matter.
If it weren't for Yang Jia, Li Bai would have come this far alone, and perhaps he would have become a murderous weapon, just as Li Fang expected, no matter who the opponent was. But at the intersection of fate, this person appeared, and everything became different.
The sharpest knife has a scabbard.
After listening to Li Bai's explanation, Yang Jia was still confused. However, she finally sorted out all the information during this time, and could not help but feel lucky.
Yang Jia used to think she was oddly lucky. For example, despite all the trouble she'd caused in the game, the Li family had never taken any action against her. Then, when she became a force to be reckoned with, Zheng Yizhao's final surprise attack seemed like a deliberate act of giving herself up.
But if all this was arranged by Li Fang, then it would make perfect sense.
Therefore, with the system's support in the game and Li Fang's attention outside the game, it can be said to be a miracle that she and Li Bai can still get to this day smoothly.
Now that I think about it, the most interesting thing is that because of Li Fang's tolerance for her, she was able to gain a foothold in the game and was thus selected by the system as a key figure. And because she was a key figure in the game and could drive the plot forward, she was tolerated by Li Fang.
In this sense, although Li Fang was crazy and selfish, judging from the results alone, he did a good thing.
As for Li Fang's final trance, Yang Jia was willing to believe that he might have been remembering some long-forgotten beautiful moment. After all, "a dying man's words are kind," so in that moment, the positive side of his conflicting emotions prevailed, suppressing his madness, allowing Yang Jia and Li Bai to escape unscathed.
Because from the information she found in Li Fang's personal terminal, Li Fang had arranged quite a few killer weapons there.
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