Chapter 227: Reality

"Everything on this is what you personally testified to in front of everyone, Team Tang, and there's no reason to turn your head and deny it."

Cen Buming stepped forward and forcefully tried to enter the room where Bai Liu was being held.

But just as he reached the doorway where Bai Liu was being held, there was a loud bang from above his head, and after the ground shook for a while, someone with a pale face stumbled in from the exit, looking up at the group of people, saying in a broken voice:

"Report! The ...... factory exploded!"

Su Yang was so anxious that she immediately asked, "Have all the people within a five-kilometer radius been evacuated? Not only the citizens, but also the homeless people sleeping on the streets and the like, have they been notified?"

The man gave a hasty gulp, "All sweeps notified, not a single cat left in the area, the aroma is still spreading, preparing a second line of pumped up defenses but should be able to keep the contamination within 28 kilometers of the plant."

"But the members of the first line of defense ......," the man said with pathos on his face, "are all contaminated."

Tang Er hit his eyes closed, his long-held worries and fears all slackened at that moment, every muscle in his body collapsed, and he fell backward onto a bench, his arms and legs hanging loosely over the edge, his head tilted back as he stared up at the blinding incandescent light on the ceiling.

For a few seconds Tang Er hit could not even hear the voices of the people around him calling out to him, only the long tinnitus interspersed with Bai Liu's calm voice - [Captain Tang, leave it to me, I have a way].

--This is the least casualty and most controllable situation in all the worlds Tang Er has fought in.

Unreal like a dream bestowed by divine mercy.

Tang Er hit raised his hand and touched his face, and suddenly laughed out in the dull atmosphere of the whole arena, scaring the team members who stood in front of him.

They turned their heads back in shock to look at this Captain Tang sitting on the bench, half covering his face and laughing, and for a moment they even wondered if their captain couldn't handle the bad news and was made mad.

Cen Buming raised an eyebrow at Captain Tang, "If Team Tang hasn't sobered up yet, I'll take Heretic 0006, the one who caused two huge group accidents, for now."

Tang Er fought to lower his hand as he stood up, his gaze sullen as he looked to Cen Buming : "You can't take him."

"I move to use my last [Prophet] authority." Tang Er hit removed his ID card and placed it on the tabletop pushing it in front of Cen Buming with his four fingers, "--Pledge the captain's identity to extract Heresy [0006] as my personal identity bound to Heresy."

"If Bai Liu did anything wrong, I will take the responsibility together with Bai Liu." Tang Er hit raised his head and looked fixedly at Cen Buming across the room, "If you want to torture him and kill him, then kill the torture together with me."

A long silence fell over the scene.

Su Yang looked at Tang Er in shock and fought, "Captain?!"

Tang Er hits Cen Buming with an unobtrusive stare.

Cen Buming was quiet for several seconds before slowly dropping his hand to clip the Tang Er Fight Captain ID card from the desktop, he looked across the table with his eyes up at Tang Er Fight, "Team Tang, after binding to the Heresy you will not be able to return to the Heresy Authority and you will no longer be any kind of honorable Captain."

"--You must be responsible for guarding this one heretic for the rest of your life, and if this heretic does anything wrong, you are as guilty as it is, and the moment you realize that you can no longer control this heretic, you must kill yourself and bring it back-- -"

"The only reason you exist is so that this heretic can move around the outside world like a human, you're just a humanoid box, or safety pin, that traps this heretic." Cen Buming asked rhetorically in a hushed tone, "And even then, you're going to release Heretic 0006?"

Tang Er hit looked straight at him, "Yes."

"Even if it's the same as the captain of the first detachment, going crazy and killing yourself because you're bound to Heretic 0001, you don't regret it?" Cen Buming deadpanned as Tang Er fought.

"No regrets." Tang Er said.

The [Prophet] authority within the Heresy Authority refers to a series of special authorities that the captain of the first detachment used to have, and the most special of those authorities is this one [Bind a certain heretic, release it back to the human world to watch over it, and take full responsibility for everything it will do] authority.

It's a very strange authority, and runs counter to the main mission of the entire Heresy Handling Bureau.

If capturing heretics into the [Dangerous Heretics Handling Bureau] is a process of dehumanizing these dangerous heretics and treating them as dead things, then what this authority is doing, which is like the rights of humanity being reassigned to these heretics and releasing them back into the human world, is a process of giving humanization.

But the process is clearly fraught with danger to humans.

That's why when the original First Detachment leader proposed this authority, there was also an extremely poignant question derived from it at the same time - [Who will be responsible for these heretics released back into the human society?]

[What if these heretics continue to kill and pollute others? Who can be responsible for these consequences?

So the captain of the first detachment proposed the [Lifetime Responsibility System], also known as [Parental Responsibility Authority].

A member of the team who advocates the release of a heretic into the program assumes all responsibility for the heretic, is responsible for watching over, protecting, and educating the heretic to integrate into human society, and is fully responsible for everything he or she does, i.e., the team member is the equivalent of the heretic's parents.

But as a parent, or a parent of such a dangerous "child", it is only natural that you should keep a close eye on him around the clock.

So at the same time when this team member becomes a [parent] of a heretic, basically his main task is to monitor the heretic for life, and no longer needs to exist as a team member within the processing bureau.

No one wanted to have that access in the first place, and no team member was willing to take that kind of responsibility.

They could not understand why [the prophets] had unrealistic fantasies about these evil and horrible heretics becoming human beings, and gave them the sympathy that parents give to their children, and taught them to expect them to grow up to be "human".

In the eyes of most of the team members, a heretic is a heretic, a monster is a monster, there is a clear demarcation line with humans, it is impossible to become a human being, it is born evil and should be confined and eradicated.

But [Prophet] always saw more of the future than they did, so in the end the permission went through, but the only person using it was [Prophet].

So [the Prophet] unloaded the rights and obligations of the captain of the first detachment, and the first heresy that was attempted to be released was 0001.

Then he went mad and killed himself, and destroyed the Heresy 0001 file, bringing it back to the Heresy Authority and sealing it forever in the deepest underground of the Heresy Disposal Authority, not allowing anyone to pry into the secrets within.

It was clearly a failed attempt, so no one ever brought up the ridiculous permission again either.

But the permission did exist and was wrapped up in a whole bunch of weird permissions that were passed on to Tang Er to fight by [the prophet].

And Tang Er fights that if he were to use this [parental authority] on Bai Liu, he would need to step down as captain, protect and guard Bai Liu at all times, and forever be responsible for everything Bai Liu does - including the Rose Factory explosion at hand.

Cen Buming waved Tang Er hit ID card back, "Totaling nearly two thousand Dry Leaf Rose infected, half of which are our crew, how are you responsible for this now?"

"Bai Liu has a solution." Tang Er typed a quick reply.

Cen Buming snickers, "A bomber, and you expect it to fix you?"

Tang Er composed himself and did not take Cen Buming's words head on, but turned around and asked, "Can you let me talk to Bai Liu inside first?"

"If you insist on binding this dangerous heretic inside." Cen Buming, who was blocking the doorway, backed away, and he slanted a meaningful glance at Tang Er Fight, his tone light, "--you certainly have the right to talk to your own [child]."

Tang Er pushed open the door and walked in.

Bai Liu propped up his chin with his hand and swept a bored glance at Tang Er hit.

His eyes briefly paused for a moment at the empty piece on Tang Er 打's right chest, the area where the ID card was placed, before Bai Liu raised his eyes to Tang Er 打 with a wry smile, "Wow, Captain Tang made quite a sacrifice to fish me out."

Tang Er turned his chair around and sat down, he was sitting quite upright, his hands were clasped on the table, his head was lowered and silent - compared to Bai Liu, who had an idle posture, he looked more like the one who made a mistake and accepted the sanction.

"Sorry." Tang Er hit a deep voice, "Thank you."

The headless apology was for everything he'd done before, and the thank-you was in appreciation for Bai Liu's willingness to do all of this after he'd done all of this.

"It's okay, you're welcome." Bai Liu took it with a smile.

Bai Liu glanced at the piece of glass, "How many people were affected by the explosion?"

"The current number is nearly a thousand, basically all of the crew." Tang Er let out a long breath, "But the overall trend of proliferation is under control and things are going okay."

"So you came in here because someone wants to save the thousand members of the team?" Bai Liu dropped the hand propping up his chin and he rested his head on the desktop, tilting his head in a sleepy snort, "It's not impossible, but I have a condition."

Tang Er hit followed his words and asked down, "What conditions?"

Although Bai Liu was talking to Tang Er, his eyes were on the single piece of glass and he laughed softly, "I never make a deal that I don't have a vested interest in."

"If you want to cooperate with me and let me save people, show me something that can impress me."

Tang Er hit pushed the door and walked out, he looked to all the team members outside, "Bai Liu's conditions, you all just heard it."

Everyone's face had an extremely complex, mixed expression, as if they were overwhelmed by Bai Liu's request, except for Cen Buming, whose face showed little emotion.

This captain, on the contrary, as if he had raised some interest, his eyes were fixed motionlessly on Bai Liu, who was sitting behind that glass and seemed to be sleeping on the table.

"That's funny, I thought it would ask for money." Cen Buming curled his lips, "- and it actually turned out to be a request for us to open the gates of Heresy 0001."