Chapter 295: Dense Forest Borderland

Alex, as the screams fade away, the bloodstained soldiers come out of the tent one after another, shaking off the blood stains on their hands and leaving.

Bai Liu looked down at his watch and waited another fifteen minutes before walking outside Guy's tent and lifting the curtain to enter.

Tang Er hit waited outside with a complicated expression, "I won't go in, Alex should not be in a good mental condition now."

"...... If there is anything you call me." Tang Er hit or did not hold back to call Bai Liu , "Will you continue to utilize Alex again?"

Bai Liu's movement to lift the curtain paused, he smiled and inclined his head, answering naturally, "Yes, why?"

Tang Er hit pursed lips, he clenched his fists seemed to want to say something, but in the end did not say, shaking his head, "...... nothing."

Bai Liu As a player who wants to win, it's only natural to use npcs in the game to achieve his own goals, and it's true that he's not obligated to consider the feelings of npcs.

But why does he feel so uneasy ......

Bai Liu patted Tang Er's beaten shoulder and gently inquired, "If you're uncomfortable with the way I'm utilizing Alex, I can take care of him and do it differently."

Tang Er wanted to say that he didn't mind, but when he met Bai Liu's dark eyes that didn't even contain a smile, he blurted out, "In what way?"

"Quite a good way to use it." Bai Liu smiles, "You'll like it."

-- because he used the same set of ways on Tang Er's fight.

Bai Liu lifted the curtain and walked in.

In the center of the blood-stained tent sat Alex, motionless, his head hanging as if it would fall from his neck in the next second, his hands on either side of the wheelchair stained with blood, dripping down his fingertips, and at the bottom of his feet lay Guy's still-open head.

The innermost bed was a bloody mess, the snow-white sheets were stained red, the limbs were laid out on it in a messy manner, the internal organs flowed out from the abdominal cavity, such a pile of people, like lambs that hadn't had a chance to be collected after being chopped up.

It's been a hot, humid rainy season, and Guy's been dead for such a short time that flies are already coming over to pick at the body.

Bai Liu stood in front of Alex, but Alex kept his head down as if he had felt nothing, his eyes were completely slack, as if he could no longer respond to anything in the outside world.

But Bai Liu made Alex look up with just one sentence.

"You guessed it, right?" Bai Liu said, "I arranged for Guy to die this way."

Alex slowly raised his head, his voice muffled beyond words, "...... Why?"

"I'm sure you guessed that, or you wouldn't have come to the Red Cross to watch over Guy." Bai Liu lowered his eyes as he looked down at Alex as if in pity, "Because Guy wanted to die this way."

"He wanted to apologize to those teammates he killed in such a way that he blew them up piece by piece and so wanted to die that way himself."

Alex's face was streaked with dried tears, and his eyes, long red and astringent from crying, overflowed again.

He looked down and covered his face, choking, "Guy ......"

Alex cried for a while, then tried his best to calm down and raised his head again, the look he gave Bai Liu was filled with disgust, and a kind of fear that he couldn't hide, "Guy wanted to die for himself, to atone for his sins, surely you didn't want him to die for a simple reason like that, did you?"

[System alert: npc Alex's favorability towards player Bai Liu is dropping ......]

As if he hadn't heard the cue, Bai Liu calmly returned Alex's words, "Yes, I made this happen for my purpose."

Alex arched his back and half-rose from his wheelchair, hissing in rage, "--you induced Guy's death, you let me see this on purpose, you've been using us from the beginning!"

"You vile liar, nasty manipulator!" Alex huffed and puffed, his eyes covered in hate and blood, "--you're far more evil than that non-existent god."

His tears flowed uncontrollably, as if muttering memories, "...... Guy trusted you so much that you took his bouquet and had your own wedding in his presence."

"...... People like you don't deserve any pure feelings in this world."

Alex curses viciously, "If Spades ever finds out who you really are, he'll leave you!"

Bai Liu's fingers dangling at his side closed slightly, though his expression remained calm, even bringing out a small, placid smile, "That's not new to me."

Alex ranted and raved for more than half an hour, repeating the same words over and over again. The well-bred medical student didn't seem to be very good at cursing, and at the end of the rant, he broke down and cried out in pain, grabbing Bai Liu by the hem of his shirt and questioning him:

"Why did you let him die, why did he have to die!!!"

"Wasn't even my existence worth putting aside his guilt and hatred to start over!"

Alex sobbed and shook, he looked at his empty palms and couldn't stop the tears, "...... Nothing, nothing left for me."

Bai Liu turned his eyes to the pile on the bed, "And he left you your own body."

Alex shivered, unable to control his distorted expression, he looked up at Bai Liu in horror.

But Alex quickly calmed down, he pushed his wheelchair back a few steps, "I'm not going to use this drug on him, Guy will always be Guy, he's a human being, even in death, I'm not going to turn him into a soulless monster."

Bai Liu laughed softly, "Why not? What's the difference between the Guy who came back to life and the Guy you love?"

"They're not even a thing!!!" Alex, as if he'd finally realized Bai Liu's insanity, kept pulling up his voice, as if that would suppress the eerie feeling of back-breaking fear, "- corpses with that drug are just corpses, only flesh and veins, only able to move, they're nothing. "

"They're just soulless monsters!"

Tang Er, who was guarding the door, frowned and listened to the corner, Alex's emotions were so turbulent that he wondered if this Bai Liu guy was really using the so-called gentler way.

Someone tapped Tang Er fight on the shoulder and he looked back, his eyes widening in surprise.

Spades stood in front of Tang Er Ta without a trace of emotion on his face, he stared straight at the tent for a while but didn't go inside, turning his head and asking Tang Er Ta, "Is it impossible for a human being to fall in love with a soulless monster?"

Tang Er hit was baffled by this abrupt question.

Bai Liu nodded, signaling Alex to continue, "So?"

Alex looked at Bai Liu incredulously, "Could you love a soulless vessel?"

It was quiet inside for a long time, and all that could be heard was Bai Liu's calm and slow breathing - he looked like he was thinking.

Spades stood straight outside the tent, his lips pursed and his fists clenched, looking like he was about to rush in, force Bai Liu for answers, and then beat Alex up.

Bai Liu finally spoke, "I don't know."

Now even Tang Er was surprised, no Bai Liu he remembered would ever give such an ambiguous answer before negotiating and utilizing the object.

Tang Er hit somehow relaxed--

-- Bai Liu didn't do it purely to take advantage of Alex and Guy.

Bai Liu has just answered Alex's question in a serious way, and he didn't give an answer to the question in a completely profit-oriented way.

He's not like Bai Liu.

Tang Er hit a long sigh of relief.

A faintly depressed air surfaced on Spades' expressionless face as he kicked the gun that lay across the doorway of the tent and asked coldly, "Why doesn't he know?"

Tang Er hit his head full of question marks and went to pick up the gun: "You go in and ask Bai Liu, how do I know why he doesn't know."

After Spades oh a sound, step forward close to the tent, look solemn walking back and forth twice after still did not go in, backed up a step squatting next to Tang Er hit, lowered his head with his fingers in the dirt poking small pits, poked two neat rows, do not know what to think.

Tang Er fights looking confused, "Why don't you go in?"

Spades crouches on the ground with his knees wrapped around him, his feet stepping forward and backward, his body swaying along with them, like a small child crouching on the ground in a daze after being abandoned by his friends.

Tang Er asked him about it, and Spades just gave a faint hmmm and said, "I don't know."

Spades eyes stared straight at the pit on the ground, poking hard while answering Tang Er hit, his tone a bit muffled: "...... don't want to see Bai Liu for the time being, he doesn't even know about this."

Tang Er hit followed Spades' line of sight and was baffled for a moment, unable to help but let out an amused sigh.

The potholes poked by Spades were crookedly connected to two words - Bai Liu.

I said I didn't want to see it, but I still wanted to see it.

Alex inside is also puzzled by Bai Liu's answer, "...... don't know?"

"Can't say I don't know at all." Bai Liu's voice was flat, "It's just that it's hard to tell if you're in this shell that misses the feelings you once held for him, or if this shell is actively trying to take on the part of you that has them."

"Sometimes I think he's a souvenir left to me by the gods in mercy."

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, then spoke again, "Sometimes, I feel again that he is the monster I love."

"It's not that he doesn't have a soul, it's just that it's hidden underneath the shell, and I'll have to wait until the day the soul comes back out to meet me."

Alex looked incredulously at Bai Liu, who grudgingly joked, "...... You make it sound as if, you've been through the same thing I have ......"

Bai Liu looks up at Alex: "I did go through it."

"So I can tell you that two people in love may be separated by death." Bai Liu's gaze descends to Guy's head at Alex's feet, calm and distant, "But two monsters in love won't."

The curtain of the tent is lifted violently, and Bai Liu moves his eyes over to see Spades standing in the doorway with the light at his back, staring at Bai Liu without moving, his chest heaving slightly.

Bai Liu acted as if he already knew he was outside, and wasn't surprised to see him barge in, asking flatly, "Back? Why didn't I see you before?"

"Uh-huh." Spades paused for a moment to explain, "Got mud on me, not a good look, going to wash up and come back for you."