Chapter 229: Reality

Lu Yizhan's screen fades to black, and a new line of subtitles appears on the small TV:

[Setting up the main game part3 - A close team in tatters]

The picture fades in from a far distance, a round sun on the sea, and the mist of mist and softness, the line of sight turns inward, is a lofty and solemn huge temple, in the blue sea mist and the firelight of the day color hidden, mysterious and beautiful.

But the temple looked as if it had been through a vicious battle, littered with black craters from falling flint, and what Bai Liu recognized at first glance, the fusion marks of Liu Jiayi's poison, Mu Sicheng's claw scratches, Tang Er's bullet holes, and Mu Ke's dagger cuts.

These people should have just fought here, but for some reason Bai Liu is the only one here now, and what's also a bit strange is that Bai Liu didn't find any traces of his attack.

The fishbone whip flinging marks were well recognized, Bai Liu looked for them several times from the screen and found none, but there were traces of the other four men's attacks everywhere ......

It looked as if Bai Liu didn't exist, or his existence was meaningless, in a battle where everyone was trying their best.

Moving on, through the blackened jungle brush, strewn with gray stones, Bai Liu saw the trail of the four men he had been looking for.

Or maybe trail isn't a good enough description, it should be body.

Liu Jiayi, with a bullet hole in her forehead, lay on her back with gray eyes, the poison leaking out of her hand and spreading to the ground where Mu Ke lay slumped.

Mu Ke's eyes were blank, the daggers in his hands held only one, the other was lodged in Mu Sicheng's chest, and Mu Sicheng was nailed to the tree by this one, leaning back against the tree with his head on his back, the claws in his hands hanging down at his side, and the blood dripping down his body.

And the owner of this blood - Tang Er - leaned against a rock with his eyes closed and his head cocked, his throat clawed and bloody, his hand still in the grip of a gun, but the gun nowhere to be found.

Bai Liu finally realizes why there's no sign of his attack - because it's an undefeated team civil war that he's not involved in.

At this time he heard a misty voice behind him coming from the clouds with an elusive smile that echoed through the mountains and forests:

"It's game over for this world line, Bai Liu."

"You lose."

The screen faded and the color of the subtitles on the small TV turned black:

[Setting up the main game DLC - game archive for other world lines]

The noise-filled image from the small TV became clear, and on the screen was a pure white room identical to Heretic 0001, with a long table in the center of the room, and on the tabletop were five earthen-colored dossier bags lined up in a row.

Behind the table sat a man in a Heresy Handling Bureau uniform, the image was limited to his chest and his face couldn't be seen, but you could see the ID card he had clipped to his breast pocket, which read [Captain of the First Detachment].

But the name on the back is coded. Bai Liu can't see it.

This first detachment leader is organizing these file folders on his desk.

The file bag unfolds the line button, the documents inside are arranged in order, Bai Liu saw the number of the file row head are [0002], [0004], [0601], [0005], [0006].

The captain of the first detachment was picking up and approving these documents one by one, so Bai Liu could also see the specific contents of these documents.

[Heretic 0004: Mu Sicheng]

[Spiritual downgrading process (the process of being downgraded from a normal human to a monster due to abnormal spiritual values): In the second semester of the sophomore year of high school in the year 200X, I witnessed my classmate Yuan Qingqing being hit and killed by the No. 11 bus on the spot due to his negligence, and then entered the game due to the influence of my college roommate Liu Huai, who was besieged by the unwillingness of joining any of the big guilds... ...]

[...... After Bai Liu's inducement, he killed Liu Huai who betrayed him in anger, and his desire to steal went out of control and he became a member of the wandering circus ......]

[Heretic 0004's archived ending in world line 0237: assassinated by the little witch Liu Jiayi]

......

[Heretic 0004 archived ending in World Line 0412: abandoned by Bai Liu after three years due to loss of ability to play due to injuries, killed by clowns in a manhunt by random gunfire and then thrown to the Heretic Disposal Bureau ......]

......

[Heretic 0004 was taken in by the Heretic Authority in world line 0045, number 0004, and was released into society in world line 0047 in sequence 0047 under the guarantee of the captain of the first detachment (i.e., myself), in which he has been fully integrated into society, transformed from a heretic to a normal human being, and succeeded in his spiritual uplift ......]

[Formed a new team with Bai Liu in the current world line (Serial No. 0658), mental dimension is stable, no obvious signs of degradation into a monster ......]

After this captain had organized this document, he proceeded to open the next one:

[Heretic 0601: Liu Jiayi]

[Spiritual descent through: congenital blindness, due to his father's inappropriate behavior, before the age of 6 years experienced a very long period of abuse, his brother Liu Huai at the age of 7 years old to enter the university will be taken away, but still did not get rid of his father, and later by his father tailing entanglement for more than a year ......]

[...... one day Liu Jiayi was kidnapped by her father and sold to a middle-aged butcher Li Gou as a righteous daughter, and was later stopped by Liu Huai in an attempt to stop her, but in the process Liu Jiayi was severely stimulated by her contact with the gamer Liu Gou and was sent to the welfare center by Liu Huai in order to protect her from continuing to be harassed by her father. orphanage when she exploded with a strong desire and entered the game ......]

After being induced and helped by Bai Liu, he killed his father and Li Gou with his own hands in reality, and his sadistic desire got out of control and he joined a wandering circus ......].

[Heretic 0601 Archived ending in World Line 0261: Arrested by the authorities while torturing and killing a certain father, killed on the spot after putting up a strong fight]

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[Heretic 0601 was taken in by the Heretic Authority in world line 0068, number 0601, and was released into society in world line 0071 in sequence 0071 under the guarantee of the captain of the first detachment (i.e., myself), and has been fully integrated into the society in that world line, transformed from a heretic to a normal human being, and succeeded in his spiritual uplift ......]

This captain was quick to look at the dossier, and after getting another copy, he quickly opened the next one:

[Heretic 0005: Sinchimani Daniel]

[Spiritual descent through: born in the home of an international arms smuggler, because of the family tradition, all the children were thrown by their father to grow up in the gangs, and do not care about the dead and alive, the children who survived are worthy of respect ......]

[At the age of seven, his mother was shot dead on the spot for betraying his father, and in order to teach Daniel, his father asked Daniel to film his mother being shot and ordered Daniel to play the video every day during his bedtime prayers to God as part of his family's education ......]

[...... Daniel was asked to lead a gang to intercept a certain shipment of smuggled arms at the age of fourteen, but the shipment of arms was actually Bai Liu's heretical smuggling, Daniel failed in the interception, and after escaping home, he was heavily punished, and was ready to be abandoned by his father, Bai Liu intervened in this matter and contacted Daniel's father, giving the shipment to his father for free, and his father became a partner. Bai Liu intervened in the case and contacted Daniel's father, giving the smuggled goods to him for free and becoming a partner with him ......].

[Daniel survived, and later his father recognized Bai Liu as Daniel's godfather in order to show him favor ......].

[...... Bai Liu took Daniel under his tutelage, and soon Daniel entered the game. A year later, Daniel shot his father with a gun, shattered his father's limbs and skull, and brought his entire family to defect to Bai Liu ... ...]

[Heretic 0005's archived ending in World Line 0107: stormed the Authority on a mission and was killed after killing seven of our team members and releasing one hundred and eight heretics.]

......

[Heretic 0005 is highly domesticated by Bai Liu, extremely difficult to capture, as of the current world line, kills have been successful many times, reception has failed ......]

The captain hesitated for a moment as he took down another document, a moment that was brief enough to be caught by Bai Liu.

--which means this document is different for this captain.

Bai Liu's eyes moved to the document on the desktop.

[Heresy 0002: Tang Er Fight]

[Spiritual downgrading through: the original first detachment members, now the third detachment captain, the initial world line of spiritual stability, because of a generation of hunters in the world line [0317] spiritual downgrading began to lose control, Tang Er hit in the world line [0325] by the first detachment of the captain (i.e., I myself) was selected for the second generation of hunters to take over the [prophet] permissions, is responsible for the killing of heretics who have already committed a crime, and at the same time sheltering will soon be controlling the heretics who are about to commit crimes. Heretics who have committed crimes ......]

[...... In as many as three hundred world lines, he was repeatedly maliciously spiritually contaminated by heretic 0006 who utilized his psychological weaknesses, and began his spiritual descent in world line [0642], and after continuing to hold on to more than ten world lines he completely spiritually descended and disintegrated into a heretic, voluntarily interned and voluntarily struck down... ...]

[Not to be destroyed under the guarantee of the leader of the first detachment (i.e., myself) due to its low harmfulness, it is under observation for the time being ......]

[...... teamed up with the current world line (serial number 0658), heretic 0002 and heretic 0006, who are currently in a stable mental state and show no signs of continued downgrading ......]

Then the last one, Bai Liu looked at the document numbered [0006], which was much thicker and older than the previous ones.

The captain of the first detachment was quiet for a few moments before turning over this last document.

[Heresy 0006: Bai Liu (Bai Liu)]

[The process of spiritual downgrading: unknown, it seems that from the moment of birth, spiritual downgrading is completed ......]

[Except for the current timeline, no timeline has been found where this heresy is less harmful ......]

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[Heretic 0006 archived ending in world line 0003: Successful contamination of world line using heretics, game over]

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[Heretic 0006 archived ending in world line 0407: Successful contamination of world line using heretics, game over]

[Except for the current world line, all discovered world lines have been successfully contaminated by heretic 0006, the current world line is lightly contaminated, the harmfulness of heretic 0006 is currently unknown ......]

[In Worldline 0006, Heretic 0006 voluntarily defected to the Heretic Authority to be taken in, and his reason for giving it was that a simple pollution incident was too monotonous to maximize the benefits in the fight, so he needed the Heretic Authority to fight him with all his might ......]

[Heretic 0006 requests to play a game of Heretic Contamination against the Heretic Authority, with the outcome being whether or not the worldline is completely contaminated.]

[As soon as he loses a game, he voluntarily accepts permanent internment, and if he keeps winning, he keeps using the Heretic Authority as an objectively hostile instrumental benchmark presence that exists on every worldline and cannot stop fighting with it.]

Bai Liu will use the Heretic Treatment Bureau, a rival organization, to stimulate his team's combat capabilities and the productivity of his subordinates. ......]

[Heresy Authority agrees to conduct its confrontation ......]

[Heretic 0006 was semi-institutionalized in world line 0006 and released into society in world line in sequence 0007 under the sponsorship of the captain of the first detachment (i.e., myself), the placement failed and the world line was contaminated ......]

[Released into society in worldline 0008, placement failed, worldline contaminated ......]

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[Released into society in Worldline 0658 (current worldline), worldline mildly contaminated, no large-scale heretical contamination events occurring for the time being ......]

[...... Heretic 0006 is suspected to have completed the process of spiritual ascension and can successfully integrate into society ......]

[The ending of this world line is to be determined ......]

All the images in the small TV fade out, Bai Liu's lens is taken down by Cen Buming, and in front of him is a thick metal door.

Cen Buming raised his eyebrows and scrutinized Bai Liu: "Time's up, what have you seen that you haven't seen enough?"

"I see the world as it is." Bai Liu said.

Cen Buming looked at him, "That sounds scarier than [the future]. "

Bai Liu smiles, "I agree with you on that one."

"So what's the truth?" Cen Buming asked.

Bai Liu says softly, "The truth is that our reality is a game that can be restarted over and over again."