Chapter 288: Dense Forest Borderland
Alex stumbles backwards, kicking a bottle on the ground, which is empty, and rolls down to Bai Liu's feet.
Bai Liu lowered his eyes to look over, the bottle neatly reads - [Cell Reactivation Potion for Dead Organisms (Animal Experiment Version, Not for Human Use)].
[Developed by Alex Brown]
Bai Liu shifts his eyes, he sees several scattered empty bottles behind Alex, and then he calmly looks around him onto these body parts.
Fragmented upper limbs, half a head with exposed brain matter, and a calf with a tendon ruptured by the blast, all aimed their severed mouths at Bai Liu at an eerie angle.
In the dimly lit tent, the bloody severed mouths seem to be the eyes of these limbs, and they are gazing greedily with these vile eyes at Bai Liu, the uninvited guest with his limbs intact.
It s as if ...... these broken body pieces evolved an independent consciousness.
[System Alert: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for unlocking the Monster Book - Half-Dead Necrotic Block from "The Borderlands of Dense Forests"]
The player who collects and subdues one half-dead body gets one point, and the player with the most points within seven days wins the game.
It looks like this is the corpse the game has them collecting.
And the creator of these body parts - Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes to Alex who was still collapsing on his knees , he could feel in this npc a great pain brought about by the wavering of his position.
This should be a central plot point that determines whether or not Alex goes rogue.
Bai Liu didn't get up, letting the corpses wriggle closer to him, still squatting and looking at Alex: "You think Guy did wrong, but do you think these corpses did right?"
Alex held his head and howled in agony, he didn't answer Bai Liu's words, but the faltering and dazed look in his eyes already showed his answer - he didn't think what these people did was right either.
Bai Liu swept a glance at the bodies on the ground and said meaninglessly, "Guy told you that this is what war is like, that in war everyone is a corpse without feelings."
"I think that idea you had before was pretty good, if corpses could come alive to fight, no one would get hurt." Bai Liu sighed regretfully, "But that's simply not possible."
Alex stalled.
After saying that, Bai Liu patted Alex's shoulder who didn't move after listening to these words: "Rest well, there is still a big battle tomorrow, we don't know how many fresh corpses will be produced, we have our hands full."
Bai Liu got up and dragged Spades, whose eyes had been glued to these integral pieces, out of Alex's tent and back to their own.
Spades looks to Bai Liu: "You're baiting Alex to switch sides."
"Not all of it." Bai Liu takes off his dirt spot stained uniform jacket and hangs it on the tent as soon as he enters, laying down on his marching bed with a sideways grin at Spades, "Switching sides won't do us any favors, and if Alex switches to the enemy side and we defect right after him, the enemy army won't be as accepting of us rebels as they would be of the Adversary God who defected over there in the first place. "
"To put it simply, it means that after Alex's defection, our chances of winning are not as high as the Against God's." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and looked at Spades with a smirk, "In that case, the odds are that the Against Gods and the others can beat you."
When he heard about winning and losing, Spades instantly stared at Bai Liu as he undressed and sat on the edge of the bed, "How are we going to win against them?"
Bai Liu didn't move and stepped back a little into the bed, "The game only gives two options, your side and the enemy side, and from the way things are going, whether Alex stays on your side or defects to the enemy side, we're going to have to be reduced to weapons of war in order to win, and by paying huge amounts of labor for massacres to create corpses for Alex to switch to. "
"Personally, I don't really favor this kind of cost-effective way of winning that compares the panel values of both sides, and we shouldn't be able to outperform them in terms of rounds of combined panel values."
Spades interrupted Bai Liu, "It's more than enough, my panel value is higher than the other three besides the Reverse God combined."
Bai Liu stills slightly and raises an eyebrow in slight surprise, "What are your panel value numbers?"
Spades seriously quoted a string of numbers out, then said, "The panel value of the Adversary God is kept secret, so I don't know, but it shouldn't be higher than mine."
Bai Liu fell into an eerie silence - no wonder the Adversary God wants to suppress Spades This guy's aura ......
On this high to bizarre panel value data, do not suppress also do not listen to the command, equivalent to a super Wrecking Crew, will make the situation chaotic, the direction of the victory or defeat can not be seen clearly at all, the league once on the field is about the same as the other nine people to beat him one, are not necessarily beat.
"I heard rumors from the outside world and just knew that your panel was worth over 10,000, I didn't think it was over by that much." Bai Liu said.
Spades replied, "Broke 10,000 when I first played last year, then my teammates asked to keep it a secret when the league opened, saying that the panel values were too prominent and easy to target."
Bai Liu continued, "But even if you have a high panel value, it's still just a personal advantage, in this game Adversary God and the others made a good first move, went into the enemy army, and took the advantage of the camp, and even if we defected over again, when it comes to fighting over the corpses, their advantage is still far superior to ours."
"So I was thinking." Bai Liu smiled slightly, "Could a third camp option be induced in order to dismantle their camp advantage."
Spades frowned, "The third camp, whose camp?"
Bai Liu replied, "Alex's personal camp."
Midnight.
Spades, who was lying next to Bai Liu, slept soundly and defenselessly, hugging Bai Liu's waist.
Bai Liu very gently moves away from Spades' hold on his arms and legs and walks off the bed and outside the camp.
He entered Alex's tent unnoticed, and Alex was still sitting on the ground, exactly as he had been before Bai Liu left, looking as if he hadn't moved for hours.
Alex seemed to notice Bai Liu coming in, but he didn't look up, just said in a hoarse voice, "There are still three hours before the big battle starts, don't come to persuade me, go back and sleep well."
"You've joined Assault Team Two, and in three hours, you and Guy will be standing on the battlefield to meet each other in arms." Bai Liu flicked on the dim chandelier as he looked down at Alex, "Do you want to see him one last time before you point guns at each other?"
Alex slowly, slowly raised his head, a faint glimmer of hope spilling out of his otherwise lightless eyes, but it was quickly extinguished, "Soldiers caught in a private association before the start of a major battle will be tortured, don't risk your life for me, Bai Liu."
"But there's a place where your rendezvous is justified and you won't be tortured." Bai Liu smiled softly, "The Campless Red Cross Relief Society, where any wounded soldier can go voluntarily for help."
Alex's eyes instantly lit up again, "But to go to the Red Cross you need someone to vouch for acceptance, do you know anyone in there?"
Bai Liu smiled, "Yes, I have someone I know who should be able to vouch for you to get in now."
The Red Cross salvage yard was lit up.
This relief-oriented, borderless, campless medical organization is stationed in camps on both sides, as well as on the border of the engagement.
After Bai Liu reported his location to Liu Jiayi, Alex did not hesitate to shoot himself twice in the leg.
Soon the Red Cross car stumbled in and took Alex, who had a leg wound.
Bai Liu went up with the car, and the people in the car were very friendly to Bai Liu, asking him with a smile, "Are you Jiayi's brother? She thought it was you who was injured and asked us to come quickly, so we stepped up and rushed over, you look so much alike."
In the eyes of these people, Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu, two Asian faces, are undoubtedly similar.
"Hey, your sister is such a wonderful little girl." The people on the bus seemed to take a special liking to Liu Jiayi, scrambling to talk to Bai Liu about her, "She's very good at saving lives, we just can't believe that such a young child can skillfully handle war injuries, hemorrhages, she can do things by herself that a dozen or so adults can't do."
"She saved dozens of people in just two days."
"Have you considered sending her to medical school or something like that after the war?" A group of people frantically hinted to Bai Liu, "I remember after the war, you had a place to study at a top university, did you consider giving it to Jiayi?"
Bai Liu smiled back, "But she's only nine."
The group vehemently retorted, "It has nothing to do with age, Jiayi totally has what it takes to further her education at a top university, she's a little genius!"
It seems that within two days, Liu Jiayi has already brushed up the favorability of the Red Cross npc group.
This made it extraordinarily easy for Bai Liu to get things done, and they drove straight into the Red Cross camp, where Bai Liu jumped down from the tailgate of the van when he saw Liu Jiayi running towards him at a trot.
Liu Jiayi wore a poorly fitted nurse's uniform, a tiny nurse's cap on her head, bloodstained white gloves on her hands, and a palm-sized Red Cross emblem on her cufflinks, which fluttered as she ran.
She was trotting this way through the chain of intertwined stretchers with a serious look on her face, directing as she ran.
The people here listened to her surprisingly well, and as soon as she spoke up and said where to send it, the men carrying the stretcher would immediately send it to the tent in that place.
Liu Jiayi is already a very vocal figure here.
When she ran in front of Bai Liu, Bai Liu smiled and teased, "Not a bad mix."
Liu Jiayi took off her gloves and threw them into the medical waste garbage can in no uncertain terms, "You could have dragged it out a bit more, this kind of camp game you actually dragged it out until just before the Great War before you had the intention to change camps, I almost brought the entire Red Cross to rebel on your side."
"But you haven't made instructions yet, so I'll stabilize first." Liu Jiayi shook off the talcum powder on her own hand and said with a straight face, "You didn't contact me yesterday, I knew that you should have other ideas about this game, the Red Cross as a campless volunteer organization can build a bridge for your switching camps, now you are going to enter that side?"
Bai Liu smiles, "Third party."
Liu Jiayi reacted extremely quickly, "You're forming your own party? With mainline NPCs and corpse blocks as the core?"
Bai Liu nods.
Liu Jiayi wrinkled his brows in thought for a moment, "Corpse pieces don't need rescuing, so the Red Cross is useless to you, I'm going to get out of here as soon as I can."
"Oh yeah, the hard part of this game isn't in the camps." Liu Jiayi looks up, "I think you know that, it's in the sequence of killers that aren't on the same side of the camp as you."
She was a bit worried, "Even if Inquisitors of the Counter God seem to be targeting each other with Spades in this game, either side is not something that we can fight against right now, they are last year's champion team after all, and the overall quality is too far off."
"Essentially, the two camps that will really decide the winner of this game are Spades and Against the Gods, and we're just a small addition."
"I know." Bai Liu smiles, "So just need to make both Spades and the Reverse God think I'm on the same side as them all, no?"
"That way no matter which side of them wins, I win."
Liu Jiayi was stunned, she quickly realized what Bai Liu was trying to do and couldn't help but "==", "You want to play double agent again?"
Bai Liu grinned and hmmm'd.
Liu Jiayi frowned, "But Spades and the Counter God are not easy to deal with, how do you convince the other side that you are on the same side as them?"
Bai Liu drops his eyes, "My sincerity, of course."
Liu Jiayi: "......"
Don't give me the cold shoulder at a time like this!
"The Reverse God and the others and the mainline NPC Guy they should all be at the Red Cross right now, right?" Bai Liu changed the topic.
Liu Jiayi nodded, "Well, since it's the eve of the Great War, the Adversary God and the others came over to pick up the Red Cross, and Guy, the mainline NPC I just triggered, was sent over to be healed when he was injured."
Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi: "Did they recognize you as a player?"
"Recognized." Liu Jiayi was puzzled, "But the Reverse God and their overall attitude towards me was quite good, they seemed to treat me as an ordinary NPC with a rescue function, and even traded points with me twice for the antidote."
Liu Jiayi : "The NPCs here can't be rescued with antidotes, but the players can, and the Reverse God and the others took the initiative to buy antidotes from me, and I gave them all."
After deep thought, she replied, "They are not hostile to us, their goal is very clear, they just want to win against the Spades."
"Straight up, they just want Spades to lose." Bai Liu hooked his lips, "We're pretty much in agreement on that."
Liu Jiayi tilted his head towards Bai Liu : "I feel like you've already figured out how to convince the Reverse God, what about Spades? He doesn't look like he's very persuasive."
"Spades over there ......" Bai Liu paused slightly eerily, "took care of it, and he's completely convinced that he and I are on the same side."
Liu Jiayi was shocked, "You guys were fighting last copy, right? How did you convince him to trust you wholeheartedly?!"
Bai Liu averted his eyes imperceptibly, "With a bit of special means."
Liu Jiayi circled around suspiciously and continued to face Bai Liu squarely: "Why don't you dare to look me in the eye and say this? You've never been ashamed of your dirty deeds, what have you done to Spades that you're so ashamed of?"
Bai Liu: "......"
Kids being too sharp really isn't good for dirty adults.
Seeing Bai Liu not answering, Liu Jiayi raised his eyebrows, "I won't force you to say it, but I will always know."
"But let's forget about it now, the war is about to start and time is running out." Liu Jiayi waved his hand, "I'll take you to see the Reverse God and the others."
Bai Liu followed behind Liu Jiayi and asked, "Isn't it a bit too urgent for the Reverse God and the others to come over to contact the Red Cross at this point?"
"You have the nerve to talk about others." Liu Jiayi was speechless, "Aren't you the same?"
Bai Liu : "I'm waiting for the key node plot."
Liu Jiayi walked on without looking back, "They are the same, the people on the indigenous side don't trust the Red Cross people, they feel that the Red Cross and the other side are all in cahoots, and have been very much refusing our help, and won't allow us to help take in their wives and children."
"But the Red Cross is actually safer than that neutral indigenous village they're hosting."
Bai Liu was instantly clear: "But last night's raid made the natives realize that the neutral villages weren't safe, so they started to think about the Red Cross, and the Reverse God and the others, being rebels, had no communication or understanding barriers with the people over here, so they were sent over here to communicate, right?"
"It's not just that." Liu Jiayi glanced back at Bai Liu, "The Adversary is more capable than you think, I don't know what he's done, but he's now a commanding officer on the indigenous side, the topmost strategy officer, and he came over to the Red Cross to pick up the pieces today, and also came as a commanding officer to resettle the harmless women and children."
"Two days to go from rebel to commander?" Bai Liu raised the end of his eyebrows.
Liu Jiayi paused, "Yes."
"All in all this guy gives me an ...... unpleasant feeling of looking harmless, a smiling face, but actually knowing everything."
"But if the Adversary God is the commander, it should be a simple matter for him to come over and approach the women and children to be resettled, it shouldn't be delayed until before the big battle when he's still stranded here, he should have returned to the camp." Bai Liu pondered for a moment before inquiring, "Is something wrong?"
"Yes." Liu Jiayi said, "There are also sub-parties within the natives, part of which is the emerging natives led by Reverse God, a new commander, and the natives of this party are happy to accept a lot of the newer factions, and hope to use the victory of the war as the beginning of their development, and develop and grow and come out of it."
"Most of the top brass of this party were friends with, and had been aided and ideologically enlightened by, the plant manager who was shot earlier."
"Then there's the part of the old natives who are highly hostile to everything that's emerging, who follow a religion that an Arab came over to preach about, some kind of evil god's religion, I'm told, and aspire to a traditional agrarian life, rejecting all mechanical means of production, which they feel is blasphemy against the very hands that God gave them to use for their labors."
Liu Jiayi turned to Bai Liu : "I'm sure you've guessed that the leader of this party of natives is the old commander, the one who shot the factory manager and started the war."
"There are irreconcilable contradictions between the old and new parties, and at present it is the new faction that is dominant, but the old faction is always reluctant to let the new faction come to power, and will make all sorts of trouble."
"Today, for example, the Adversary actually placed these women and children hours ago, but the group from the old faction suddenly killed them and epileptically prevented the Adversary from doing so, saying that the Adversary was a traitor, an undercover agent, and that he wasn't at all trying to protect these offspring and wives, but rather, he was trying to gain even greater commendation by sacrificing them to the enemy army. "
Liu Jiayi led Bai Liu to a tent and raised his chin, "They're in here, they should still be arguing, want me to accompany you in?"
The sound of a heated argument came faintly from the tent.
Bai Liu shook his head.
Liu Jiayi nodded understandingly and tossed Bai Liu a bottle of antidote, "Your weapon is destroyed, if there's any movement call for a yell, I'll keep watch outside."
After that, Liu Jiayi, dressed as a nurse, drew out a bottle of poison spray, then hid in the side of the tent and gave an OK sign to Bai Liu, who was about to enter.
Bai Liu returned an OK gesture, then lifted the curtain and calmly walked in.
Both sides that were arguing were quiet, standing on the left was the Adversary God's line, on the right was a line of people wearing eagle feather hats, with animal skins plastered on the back of their shoulders, and their faces smeared with grease paint, this line of people's faces were ferocious, and one could see that their exposed teeth were slightly sharp, so it should be that they were usually in the habit of ripping off large chunks of meat.
As soon as they saw Bai Liu enter the room, the group of traditional natives were prepared to gently gush their teeth at Bai Liu, but they were stopped by the leader, who stared at Bai Liu for a long time, and said in a very strange accent, "He is a person favored by the true God, and should not be offended."
Then he made a bow to Bai Liu, bowed and retired politely.
The emotions in Bai Liu's eyes were obscure, but were quickly reined in as he looked to the Adversary, "It seems as though I have interrupted your conversation."
"No no no, you saved me." The Adversary God rubbed the corner of his forehead and sat down wearily in his chair with a long sigh of relief, looking at Bai Liu with a smile and holding out his hand, "I've been arguing with them for two hours, and as soon as you came they were willing to take an intermission and leave me alone for the time being."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and held out his hand to shake the Reverse God's, "First time, Bai Liu."
The Adversary smiled, "Tactician of the Slayer Sequence, just call me Adversary."
The Adversary gave Bai Liu a sitting gesture, "You wanted to talk to me about something, didn't you?"
Bai Liu sits down and raises his eyes and smiles, "Yes, I want to talk to you about how to make Spades lose this game."
Originally paralyzed in his chair, the Adversary God slowly sat up straight, he waved his hand and the people behind him immediately retreated, only the other three members of the Killer Sequence and Bai Liu and the Adversary God who were sitting in their chairs remained in the tent.
Without skipping a beat, Bai Liu said, "I have a way to make Spades lose this match to you guys miserably."
The Reverse God and the three Killer Sequence members all stared at Bai Liu with a very astonished look, and only after a long interval did the Reverse God ask with anticipation, "Tell me specifically."
"I can lure Spades to a certain place in the battlefield, and cooperate with you guys to attack him back and forth, he trusts me more and won't have too much defense against me, so the success rate of this plan is still relatively high ......" Bai Liu narrated.
"Stop." A teenager who appeared to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old standing behind the Retrograde God raised his hand and made a [STOP] gesture, and then looked at Bai Liu, questioning with a slightly cold look, "Spades simply won't listen to any words, there was a problem with this plan of yours right from the start."
The Reverse God turned back and hit the teenager in a seemingly angry manner, "How do you talk to other players? Don't you know how to be polite? Introduce yourself properly first."
The teenager stiffened and paused, "Slayer Sequence Warrior Team member, control position, Bai Jiamu."
The Adversary raised his hand in embarrassment and apologized, "I'm sorry, ah, go on."
Bai Jiamu dryly interrupted the Adversary, "But there's no way he'll be able to control Spades, Spades doesn't even care about us ......"
"Although it is not necessarily possible to reach this level of control." Bai Liu raised his head with a smile, "But influencing at this level should be okay."
The Reverse God first apologized again for his teammates, but then he turned the tables and asked with a smile, "Mr. Bai Liu, do you have any objective basis worth referring to when you say that Spades will trust you?"
Bai Liu said calmly, "Oh, yes, I married him yesterday."
Against the Gods: "......"
Bai Jiamu: "......"
Other Killer Serial Crew: "......"
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 10/16/2024 11:00