Chapter 230: Reality

Cen Buming covers his ears and frowns for a moment, then quickly releases them, "What were you saying? I had a ringing in my ears and didn't hear it."

"Nothing." Bai Liu changed the subject, "I've seen what's behind the door, and accordingly, I'm going to give you the means to free these two thousand people."

"- There is one thing that painlessly eliminates the symptoms of contamination from dried leaf roses."

Cen Buming held his breath, "What the hell?"

"Blood Ganoderma." Bai Liu shrugs, "If I remember correctly, you should have already stripped the strain from the few children that survived the orphanage to preserve, or in your words shelter, you already have the raw materials for the antidote."

Cen Buming stared at Bai Liu , the raised gun aimed at Bai Liu's forehead, "The Blood Reishi can only be raised with the blood of a specific child, yet there are nearly two thousand adults waiting to be rescued - are you encouraging us to use the blood of young children to illegally breed heretics? "

Bai Liu smiled, "--Isn't it often said that the antidote is hidden within five steps of the poison? Perhaps you could also try the blood of these two thousand infected to cultivate the Blood Lingzhi?"

Cen Buming was stunned.

Bai Liu brushed past Cen Buming's shoulder as if he hadn't seen the gun being pointed at him, and headed for the elevator entrance.

Tang Er stopped Cen Buming's gun, which continued to be aimed at Bai Liu, and exchanged a glance with him, shaking his head admonishingly.

Cen Buming lowered his gun, swept Tang Er to fight, then looked sideways at Bai Liu's back, squinted meaningfully at his intact right eye, then wiped the muzzle of the gun hard and slid it behind his waist.

"You know Captain Tang, this isn't the first time I've used the [Mirror of Perspective] on someone." Cen Buming said coldly, "But this is the first time I've seen someone using the [Mirror of Perspective] with his left eye-especially if the person is also a right-handed person, which doesn't fit his eye habits."

"I was almost about to think your ward was mocking the fact that I only have one right eye."

Bai Liu does have the potential and bad taste to do so.

Tang Er also saw Bai Liu intentionally switching his hands while holding and placing the lenses, and also raised his eyebrows and slowly swept a glance at Cen Buming's left eye.

Bai Liu has always held a grudge, and when Cen Buming messes with him, although he won't say anything explicitly, the little details of flirting and provoking people will not be missing.

Cen Buming's eyes looked coldly at Tang Er and fought, "Are you sure you want to release such a clever heretic?"

"I owe him." After Tang Er typed that, he ran in Bai Liu's direction.

Only Cen Buming was left alone where he was, engulfed by the pitch blackness at the bottom of the Heretic Authority, it took a long time before Cen Buming stepped out of the gloom, one hand caressing his left eye with an eyepatch, his right eye glancing at the backs of Bai Liu and Tang Er as they fought their way out, murmuring in an extremely grim tone:

"No one owes the monster, it's all the monster that owes us."

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Tang Er beat Bai Liu to the door of the Heresy Authority, and saw a bunch of third team members at the door who were eyeing Bai Liu with hostility, and couldn't help but have a headache -

--These are the debts he owes.

Quite a few of the team members who stayed here last night had a nasty battle with the heretics Bai Liu summoned, and without a way to tell them the truth, their hostility towards Bai Liu will continue for quite some time now.

Unless it was ...... transferring those resentments to him.

As Tang Er hit his head down in deep thought, a sudden shout came from behind him, "Captain!!!"

Tang Er hit's pupils contracted slightly as he stopped his steps toward the outside and slowly turned around.

Su Yang stood in the doorway looking deeply at him, his uniform held up in her hand, her eyes red, and behind her stood almost all of Detachment 3's crew.

They were just that incredulous, unbelievable, looking at their one-time captain as if abandoned, gazing at the bewildered runaway hunter.

"Captain, do you really have to go?"

Tang Er hit nailed in place by these words, he clenched his fists, how he could not move forward to continue walking-

--These people, these players, these eyes.

These little nuances of happiness and beauty that he had possessed in the three hundred or so meaningless reincarnations he had had, were all connected to these faces that smiled widely or slept peacefully.

It was the faces of these men, fresh as ever, that the soundly intoxicated hunter slept on as he curled up exhausted in the pile of monsters with his gun for a pillow.

--it was his duty, his mission, his destiny, his inescapable destiny when these people died for him.

Bai Liu also stopped, he turned his head back to see this scene, not really surprised, he swept a glance at the stopped Tang Er Ta, as if he was very relieved, patted Tang Er Ta's shoulder, and gently pushed Tang Er Ta, who was fixed in the same place and motionless, forward:

"Say a proper goodbye to your crew, I'll meet you outside."

Bai Liu said, then waved his hand lazily and turned away without looking back.

Tang Er hit stumbled forward, looking down at his scruffy old Heretic Authority uniform, his hands calloused from shooting an unknown number of monsters and living heretics, and then looked up, deep, confused, and out of his mind, at Su Yang and the team across the street-- -

--He suddenly realized that he was on the verge of not remembering himself or them at first.

Tang Er beat only remember those bad, mutilated, full of blood and hate images, these images like a knife, cut in the face of each of these people, and then bit by bit, Tang Er beat the memory carved into a blood-soaked and disfigured appearance.

How could he not remember the last place he and Su Yang had drank with their chipped beer mugs held aloft, the last reason to celebrate with this group of dumbasses, the last context in which Su Yang leaned over his shoulder and bent her eyes and said, I'll be waiting for you.

Obviously so important, obviously rely on these memories to survive so much, but to this moment, those memories seem to be too far away from him, so far away that they are blurred, yellowed and faded, so far away that they are like the memories of another third detachment captain Tang Er hit.

Instead, he, Tang Er, who had morphed into a monster, fought the memories.

The further he got, the more he tried to go back to the old days, the further away from them he had to go.

"Captain, please don't go!!!"

Su Yang held the uniform Tang Er had hit him with both hands flat, his entire back straight, and bowed to him with a regular 90-degree bow, his voice still audibly choked despite his enforced composure.

"Captain, please don't go!!!"

Led by Su Yang, an entire third detachment bowed their heads and struck their bows at Tang Er, shouting at the top of their voices to stay, tears slipping from the faces of a certain few of them and dripping onto the ground.

Tang Er hit finally took a step forward, he slowed his pace and took a step towards Su Yang and the third team, silently taking his uniform from Su Yang's hand.

Su Yang looked up in surprise, "Captain?!"

The other end.

Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi received a text message from Tang Er, and drove up to wait outside the Heretic Bureau right behind them.

Now seeing Bai Liu walk out unharmed, Mu Ke in the driver's seat let out a long breath and slumped in his seat.

Liu Jiayi, who had gotten out of the car long ago to get some fresh air and leaned against the door, seemed to hear someone approaching, and she looked up a little surprised.

She listened repeatedly in her side ear several times, then incredulously spoke up and asked, "You're the only one with footsteps, and you actually left that stupid big guy at the Heretic Authority?!"

"Aren't you afraid he'll stay again?!" Liu Jiayi hugged his chest and looked in the direction of Bai Liu's footsteps, "I don't believe you don't see that he has a stronger sense of belonging to the Heretic Handling Bureau as a group, and you're sending a sheep into a tiger's mouth if you leave him where he is and expect him to cut the psychological ties with the third unit." "

"He won't incorporate psychological belonging to our side." Liu Jiayi shook his head while concluding with certainty, "I can feel that he is very rejecting, even hostile to us."

Liu Jiayi raised his eyebrows in impatience, criticizing Bai Liu: "Didn't you make such a big detour in order to completely control Tang Er's fight? What's going on? It's not your style to drop the ball at the last minute."

Bai Liu was questioned by Liu Jiayi face to face, not panicked, turned around and leaned on the car door, took a bottle of water from the driver's window, unscrewed it and took a sip before answering Liu Jiayi's words:

"I'm suddenly curious as to what choice this Captain Don would have made if I hadn't deliberately cut."

"What's so strange about you all of a sudden!" Liu Jiayi stomped her foot and said urgently, "There are still two months to go before the league, if you don't control the players quickly and Tang Er plays with such a high quality, you'll be robbed of your players just like Heart!"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes to Liu Jiayi : "-- So you want to see me use Heart's way of controlling you to control Tang Er fight? And also make him live and die with those closest to him?"

Liu Jiayi was stunned.

"I had planned to do the same." Bai Liu The conversation took another turn, and he admitted it unapologetically.

Bai Liu puts the lid on the mineral water and puts one hand in his pants pocket casually, looking far away from the huge white round building, the morning breeze and the dew from the sun brushes past behind him, blowing Bai Liu's broken hair and the wide shirt that is not tied into his pants, making them shake.

The dazzling early sunlight shines on the side of Bai Liu's face, lined with his light smile, sparkling in the fading dawn.

"But at certain times, I think it feels good to channel people in a Lu Yizhan kind of way."

Shining bright daylight in the fog in the morning mist dense into a myriad of bright rays, and then the beams of light fused with each other, from the sky all the way to the inward gradual dye, will be barren and empty, trapped monsters in the ground, the huge round metal buildings, as well as team uniforms octopus-shaped shine into the light reflection of the brilliant gold color.

Tang Er hit looked down at the sun-brightened octopus insignia on the uniform that had followed him for centuries in his hands for a long time without moving, and then he let out a long, long breath and suddenly laughed softly.

"Captain?" Su Yang inquired cautiously.

"Do you remember when we started out training as reservists at the Heretic Authority?" Tang Er typed bringing up a completely unrelated issue.

Su Yang froze, but still seriously answered Tang Er hit the question, "...... remember, we were all reserve members of the first team at the beginning, and trained very hard."

"--It was hard to stop me from being stupid, right?" Tang Er hit his eyes with nostalgia, "At that time, the most impulsive person in the whole detachment was me, when I encountered heretics killing people, I also couldn't hold down my temper, and I also must kill heretics, and every time, I would be stopped by the captain of the first detachment, he taught us a lot."

"Yes, at that time Cen Buming was still the vice-captain of the first detachment and was particularly strict with us, but would be particularly good at calling out to the captain of the first detachment, Sifu."

Su Yang didn't know what Tang Er 打 wanted to say, but still meekly recalled with Tang Er 打, "--at that time, you didn't like him, and even made fun of him in a shady way like he called the first detachment leader senior brother, and he scolded you saying that with such a bursting temper, sooner or later he would be contaminated spirit downgrade."

Tang Er hit a bit of a trance, "...... Did I even fight Cen Buming originally?"

"It was more than twenty years ago, it's normal not to remember." Su Yang smiled, "Why are you suddenly talking about this?"

"I just, suddenly remembered something the First Detachment's captain once said to me." Tang Er hit lowered his eyes to look at that team emblem, gripping it tightly and whispering, "--There are no two leaves in this world that are the same, nor are there two timelines that are the same--"

"--When you are chosen by time, no matter how much you meet things that you want to stay for, or people that you want to stay for, you have to be aware that they are no longer the real person or thing that you want to stay for, they are long gone. --"

"You can't look back, you can only keep moving forward."

"--This is the [future] that belongs to you."

Tang Er hit raised his head as he looked around at all the team members and spoke in a deep voice:

"I have become the [Guardian] as well as the [Binder] of Heretic 0006, and the accidents caused by Heretic 0006 last night as well as this morning were all caused by the radicalization of Heretic 0006 as a result of the improper judgments I made about her-"

His ghostly blue eyes were bright and square and clear: "-for which I am solely responsible."

"Heretic 0006, a non-injurious type of heretic, controlled himself during two violent riots, did not kill a single person, and both made amends afterward to salvage the consequences of his actions, whereas I misjudged Heretic 0006 and used various means to force him to do so, which was the cause of the accident in the first place, for which - -"

In front of a stunned crowd of stay-at-home members, Tang Er hit bends down deeply and bows to them:

"--I deeply apologize."

"I will do my best to compensate the 67 players who were injured last night, and the Rose Factory explosion the next day is now resolved, and as a punishment-" Tang Er hit gripped the team logo on his uniform and yanked it down hard.

Su Yang stopped him with a stern voice, "CAPTAIN!!!"

But it's still late.

The team insignia was ripped off in one piece, and Tang Er hit took a deep breath, "--I resign as Captain of the Third Detachment, and, as a Binder of Heretic 0006, will never return to the Heretic Management and Disposal Bureau until it is fully integrated into society."

Su Yang closed her eyes, her cheeks shaking from the clenching of her teeth.

Tang Er straightened his back, he smiled as if he had let go of everything, but his eyes were reddened, he shook that team badge at his heart and held it, then he shook off his uniform and draped it over Su Yang's shoulders, smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and gently placed the team badge representing the captain in Su Yang's hand.

Su Yang opened her eyes to him in shock.

Tang Er hit with a deep voice, "- hereby, I appoint Vice Captain Su Yang as the new Third Detachment Captain, transferring all permissions except for the [Prophet] permissions to him."

"I order you, Lieutenant Su, take the badge!" Tang Er hit steeply sank his tone.

Su Yang held back and held back, but still couldn't hold back the swish of tears, almost gritting his teeth as he took the team badge Tang Er hit handed him, "--Yes, Captain."

Tang Er snickered, "You'd make a better captain than me, Su Yang."

Su Yang bawled her eyes out, clutching her badge and uniform.

For more than twenty years, he had never imagined the day when Tang Er fight would no longer be his captain, or in such a brutal, self-punishing way.

Su Yang understands what the Heresy Authority means to Tang Er Fight and how scary it is for Tang Er Fight to give up this place.

Su Yang has thought of a million ways Tang Er could fight his way out of the Heresy Authority - being killed by a heretic, contaminated suicide, or even becoming a heretic's caretaker and dying of old age.

But he never imagined it would be like this; in Su Yang's and each team member's conception, there was never a possibility of Tang Er Fight leaving the Heresy Authority alive-which meant that, in their perception, leaving the Heresy Authority was a thing worse than death for Tang Er Fight.

Tang Er leads them in battle and is recognized by every member of the third unit as the ever-present captain, righteous, brave, sometimes a bit impatient, but never absent from a battle of life and death, not afraid of a heretical "game" that never returns.

But when exactly did they drift away from each other?

Su Yang looked tearfully at Tang Er's back as he hit the sunrise and left, he waved his hand sagely and didn't seem to be staying here, but the clothes and pants on this guy, even his shoes and socks were specially made by the Heretic Authority.

It had been worn until it was tattered and washed until it was white, but it was still worn firmly by Tang Er Fight - it was as if the old Heresy Authority uniform had grown on him and there was no way to take it off again.

But the emblem that "grows" on his heart has been snapped off by his own hand.

Bai Liu leaned on the side of the car and waited for a while, Liu Jiayi did not hold back his mouth to speak sarcastically to Tang Er who had not yet come out of the fight: "Bai Liu, you will regret for your own soft-heartedness, this captain of ours doesn't look like he can be sharp enough to break away from the team, you wait for him ...... "Renegade team it ......

Before Liu Jiayi's words fell, a black dot appeared under the circular building coming their way.

He was walking slowly, clad in a torn and tattered uniform, but did make his way this way.

Liu Jiayi's words stopped as she looked incredulously over to where the footsteps were coming from.

Tang Er hit walks over and Bai Liu looks over his condition from top to bottom, his eyes lingering for the two seconds it takes for his heartbreakingly tattered uniform to smile and tease, "I thought you were going to leave the team logo along with the uniform for Su Yang."

To Bai Liu can guess where things are going this Tang Er hit already not very surprised, he nodded his head, voice a little hoarse to speak, "It was originally intended, the team uniform and team logo are given to him ......"

Bai Liu's eyes stopped on the uniform Tang Er was wearing, "So?"

"But Su Yang insisted on leaving me the team shirt." Tang Er played softly, "He said that the team badge was just for my temporary safekeeping, and that he would wait forever for me to return."

After saying this, Tang Er struck silence for a long, long time before saying, "-But I can't go back, that's not the [future] that belongs to me."

"All I can do is keep moving forward."