Chapter 296: Dense Forest Borderland

When the next morning comes, in order to avoid the corrupted and infected corpses, Guy's body will be collected by the Red Cross and incinerated, so before dawn, Bai Liu packs up all the Guy's corpses, and waits for Alex, who is still struggling with the question of whether or not to do so.

"Are you ready?" Bai Liu asked.

Alex's eyes were incredibly complex: "...... What if what comes back to life is just a shell, a monster, what then?"

Bai Liu swept the end of his eyes imperceptibly at Spades standing next to him, "It depends on how much emotion you can put into this shell."

Alex gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind of some sort, "Okay, I'll agree to your proposal, let's go!"

Bai Liu took a look at Alex's leg as he pulled a potion from his pocket and tossed it to him, "Use the potion to fix your own leg first."

Alex took the potion, he looked deeply at Bai Liu , then took a deep breath and collapsed on his gunshot wound in the leg - the wound didn't heal, instead it turned a corpse-like greenish-white color.

He quickly stood up, picked up his backpack full of body parts and looked at Bai Liu: "What's your next plan?"

Bai Liu smiled, "Do you want to settle this war?"

Alex was stunned, but he quickly retorted, "Now that it's been fought, and both sides lost badly in this morning's sneak attack, there's no way it's going to stop."

"Of course." Bai Liu looked levelly at Alex, "When they have a common, third-party enemy that they fear more than anything else, they'll be able to stop fighting and work with each other."

Alex froze, "Where did such a powerful third party enemy come from?"

Bai Liu glanced at the package on Alex's back, "Do the armies of the living dead you once envisioned count?"

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Alex was silent for a long time, then he spoke in a muffled voice, "...... I see what you're asking me to do, but I simply don't have that many potions and corpses to create a third party army."

"You don't have to worry about that." Bai Liu smiled, he pointed at his feet, "Potions and corpses, isn't the Red Cross where we are a ready-made production site? There will be a steady stream of potions and corpses delivered here for you to use."

Alex whispers in refutation, "But the Red Cross won't give me a body and potion for a random soldier to use, look Bai Liu, I get what you're trying to do, but it's not going to happen, you're just a regular guy, the Red Cross isn't your backyard, it's heavily guarded, and only insiders have access to the potion... ..."

"I agree with you." Bai Liu pointed behind Alex as he said meaningfully, "Maybe you could turn around and look?"

Liu Jiayi in a nurse's uniform leaned against the side of the tent as she spun the key and looked at Alex with a raised eyebrow, "I've just gone and solved all the problems with the corpses and potions, I've been given the keys to the potions warehouse and the destruction of the corpses they've been given to me to take care of, so feel free to use them as you all wish."

Alex glanced at Bai Liu as if he'd seen a ghost, and he had an uncontrollable chill running down his back, "...... When the hell did you premeditate all this?"

Guy's death, his crumbling compromise, and the subsequent potions and corpses were completely taken care of by this guy before it happened!

Bai Liu even took the time to tie the knot, never leaving his sight from start to finish, and Alex never saw him go through with anything at all!

God, how the hell did Bai Liu do all this!

Bai Liu looked at him with a smile, "You really want to know the answer? Trust me, you won't be happy to hear it."

Alex rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and gulped, "...... I swear, you're one of the best time managers I've ever met."

Tang Er asked with a little curiosity as he cleaned his gun, "One of them? Is there anyone here who is better at utilizing time than Bai Liu?"

"It's Guy ......" Alex sighed quietly, "When I first met him, he could be on good terms with seven or eight nice lads at the same time, and in a single day he could have at least three private contact and not be noticed by anyone else."

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The word [good] was bitten hard by him.

Alex's eyes were deep as he swept a meaningful glance at Spades next to Bai Liu: "You know, Bai Liu, I find something in common with Guy in you, you both can sneakily contact other people without being detected in front of your date's eyes."

Bai Liu, who has carried Spades on his back many times to contact team members for work: "......"

Tang Er, who was contacted, typed: "......"

Contacted Liu Jiayi: "......"

Spades squinted at Bai Liu and gave an upturned oh.

The Inverse God, who had been privately contacted by Bai Liu in the distance, sneezed profusely and rubbed his nose in confusion, "Who's cursing me?"

"There are too many people who want to scold you, do you need me to screen you on the spot?" Bai Yi proposed cheerfully.

The Adversary waved his hand, "Thanks for the kind words, but for the time being, I don't want to hear stuff like that that gives me heart attacks while I'm playing a game."

Bai Jiamu rested his cheeks on the side and fumed, "Counter God, do you think that Bai Whatsit Willow's, pigeon-holed you? Now Alex hasn't even defected over, and Guy, the mainline NPC on our side, is still dead, and the traditionalists are about to make a scene."

"Let them make a scene, the more they make a scene the quieter our side will be." The Reverse God was unimpressed, "Guy's death should have been deliberately brought forward, but it's not a big deal."

Bai Jiamu asked in confusion, "Isn't it a big deal that the situation is in such a mess?"

"No." The Reverse God gave a reply with certainty, "The more chaotic the better to reshuffle the cards to take control of the situation, the heart of the player who plays this set should be very greedy, although I usually don't make judgments easily without more than eighty percent likelihood, but I've come into contact with it, and I feel that the player who is churning out the situation should be Bai Liu, who has played the game in the way he did before. "

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Bai Jiamu frowns, "So you worked with him that easily before?"

"I've seen the video of his little TV, and his skills are related to money transactions." The Reverse God said, "It seems like the higher the amount of points traded, the more he executes the trade."

Bai Yi beside him drew a sudden realization, "So you gave him five million points when you worked together?"

"Partly for this, partly ......" The Inverse God's eyes wandered, clenched his fist and coughed, "the share of money it, he is married to Spades, I am a tactician, how can I also on behalf of the whole team should give rush a gift I'm a tactician, so I should give a gift on behalf of the whole team."

The Reverse God boarded the fingers of a serious calculation: "In addition to the small cypress underage does not rush gift, we four adults a person to Spades a monthly bonus, 1.2 million points should be, then the four of us should be rushed to 4.8 million points, plus the points of the transaction to make up a whole to give five million just ah."

Bai Jiamu : "...... == You're good at math, Inverse God."

The Reverse God continued as if nothing had happened, "But aren't you guys paying attention to the wrong thing? Bai Liu said he would help us make Spades lose, but he didn't say he would help us win."

"Alex's defection was just a front put forward by Bai Liu, he was not telling the truth, which means it couldn't be counted as part of the deal."

Bai Jiamu stood up, looking displeased, "He lied to us?"

The Reverse God swept a glance at Bai Jiamu : "To be more precise, it's us who are being tricked, deception has always been an important part of this game, and the gamut of players lies in being able to prevent themselves from being fooled."

"There is nothing wrong with such behavior as lying to people; what is wrong is us who fall for it."

Bai Yi muttered, "Adversary God, your temper is too good, aren't you too angry even if someone lied to you?"

The Counter God gave Bai Yi a meaningful smile, "I'd be pissed off if I was lied to, I should have been pissed off when I came into this game."

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"This game, it's one big scam."

It will be light.

Walking in the woods were many stiffly poised figures, their faces crisscrossed with stitches, their flesh and blood sections faintly visible as they moved, their mouths emitting strange whimpering noises like a pile of puppets on strings made from real human corpses, rustily wriggling their own limbs as they marched forward.

Bai Liu and his group fell far behind the group of corpses.

Liu Jiayi couldn't help but spit out, "I didn't realize it was a zombie book until now."

"But not zombie fighting." Tang Er hit added, "We're sweepers in charge of creating walkers and picking up a lot of bodies later after the war starts."

"There are still too few Red Cross bodies." Liu Jiayi stares at the bodies in front of him, "I wonder how long I can hold out against these two camps holding them hostage."

Bai Liu was quite composed, "Don't worry, as long as the war between the two sides doesn't stop, our camp will keep growing."

"Yes." Liu Jiayi squinted at Bai Liu, "You're quite good at thinking, as long as there are dead people on the other side, the legions of zombies on our side will continue to grow, and in the end, they'll try their best to avoid casualties on both sides in order to prevent us from continuing to grow, thus achieving the goal of the war stopping forever."

"That's what you used to convince that indecisive mainline NPC, right?"

Liu Jiayi withdrew her gaze, "Bai Liu, I really can't understand what you are thinking sometimes, you always manage to achieve peace with an extreme and evil approach."

"Call you a good guy, but you are indeed doing things in an extremely anti-human way, nor do you harbor any compassion for these innocent soldiers, dying to use each other to do things for you." Liu Jiayi stared at the fragmented zombie soldiers in front of him and said, "But call you a bad guy, but judging from the results, you've done another thing that surpasses all good guys' efforts."

Liu Jiayi asks, "I sometimes wonder why on earth you do what you do."

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Bai Liu smiles, "Because I'm curious."

Liu Jiayi asked rhetorically, "Curious about what?"

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "Curious as to how Alex wanted it to end, peace or endless war, so I made both possibilities into the plan."

"The way Alex wanted it to end?" Liu Jiayi furrowed her brows as she realized Bai Liu's words were implied and said sharply, "What do you mean?"

Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi : "Don't you think Alex is too quick to accept our proposal to form a third camp to attack the other two camps?"

"It's not the behavior of someone who normally rejects hurting people, and it's odd that Alex went along with my offer with barely a struggle."

"According to Alex's previous behavior, the emotional impact Guy's death brought to him should have been strong, but he also calmed down very quickly and immediately threw himself into the production of the living dead." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids to look at the large army of zombies in front of him, "And the speed of producing zombies is also too fast."

"Alex is set up as a medical student who hasn't practiced yet, but he's very skilled at finding a part of the same person in a pile of shredded limbs and sewing it back together."

"...... It just feels like, it's not the first time he's done something like this."

Liu Jiayi's footsteps lurched as she suddenly inclined her head toward Bai Liu: "Do you remember what Alex's potion did?"

Bai Liu's tone was calm, "Remember, the effect of his potion is to freeze a person in a pre-mortem state."

"...... state before death." Liu Jiayi muttered twice, then she jerked her head up to look at the army of zombies in front of her, and her expression changed, "The potion that this guy invented isn't a bio-healing type of potion at all, it's a time potion that can turn back the time of an organism! It's a resurrection in the true sense of the word!"

"These things aren't zombies at all, they're the living dead who are traveling back and forth to their pre-death state!"

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Tang Er hit has not yet responded, lowered his head close to Liu Jiayi doubtfully asked: "What time medicine?"

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and turned Tang Er's beaten head around, "You'll understand when you see it."

The group of otherwise shambling, stitched up corpses gradually opened up the breaks in their limbs as they continued to march, and the wounds that were originally covered in various gunshot wounds gradually grew closed, or to be more precise, all the various wounds on the corpses turned into bloody, fresh wounds in a creepy way, and then healed in a bizarre manner.

These originally greenish-white corpses became rosy and moved more and more nimbly, as if they were all alive.

Tang Er hit completely baffled: "What the hell, what's going on?!"

Bai Liu wasn't surprised, he looked at the bodies that were "coming to life" as if he had expected it, and said flatly, "Sure enough."

Tang Er hit immediately turned his head away and stared dead at Bai Liu: "You already knew?!"

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes and said breathlessly, "Of course he already knew."

Tang Er hit and pointed at Bai Liu, his tone condemning, "Then why didn't he say anything, he's a tactician, why did he hide it from us!"

Liu Jiayi Fu forehead: "of course because he wants to play ah, you do not find him in a bad mood, into this game has been playing not do anything serious? Playing the game all said that what fun, Bai Liu do not tell you is playing you this teammate ah ......"

"Tang Er playing, sometimes it's not good to rely too much on the tactician." Bai Liu interrupted Liu Jiayi with a flying interruption, a serious counterpoint, "I would prefer you, as my best main attacker, to think about the information you've gained on your own first."

Tang Er hit his gaze between Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu twice before taking two discreet steps back and looking at Bai Liu with his hands clasped over his chest, "Tell me what's going on in this game first."

Bai Liu asked, "Do you guys remember what the time limit was for this game?"

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"Seven days." Tang Er typed the answer quickly.

Bai Liu continued, "Do you remember what day it is?"

"Early morning of the third day." Tang Er typed in reply.

Bai Liu smiled, "Don't you think it's strange? A game with a time limit of seven days has progressed to the third day, the process has reached the halfway point, and not a single player has gained any points yet."

Tang Er typed a cautious reply, "It's not impossible for this to happen."

"Yeah, but it's impossible for the top players." Bai Liu said, "The players in this game, me, you, Liu Jiayi, and the Killer Sequence, can be considered the top players in the entire system, if a game is going to process to the halfway point, and all of these top players still haven't gotten a single point, that can only mean one thing."

Bai Liu looked up at Tang Er and fought, "Firstly, the design of this game is poor, to the point where half of it fails to allow the player to experience a sense of access."

"Secondly, this three days is not a real three days at all; the game is not even halfway through its course, and we're looking at the wrong time reference."

"And what is the real time reference?" Tang Er asked.

Bai Liu said, "I gave Spades my radio device and told him to go look for it, if he finds it he should use the device to send you a message."

Liu Jiayi asked incredulously back, "Bai Liu, did you just say you gave our team contact device to an outsider?!"

Bai Liu calmly replied, "Not for nothing, I sold it to him, for 73 points I sold him 10,000 points, not a loss."

Liu Jiayi: "......"

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Tang Er typed: "......"

It can be. It's something you can do.

It wasn't long before the radio Tang Er was playing went off, he looked down to check it and looked up at Bai Liu : "He said he found it."

Bai Liu asked, "Where?"

Tang Er typed back, "The military mass cemetery in the building behind the town."

Bai Liu on the road to find a broken down after the truck thrown in the mud, Tang Er fight with brute force out of the car after drilling into the bottom of the car to repair, the three people to the pile of living dead tied up and loaded on the wagon.

"The road here is not easy to drive." Tang Er, sitting in the driver's seat, lifted up his undershirt and wiped the mud on his face, his expression serious, "I'll drive a little faster so I don't get stuck easily, you guys sit tight."

From polar planes to battle tanks to this old van ......

Bai Liu slowly looked over at Tang Er and typed, "I'm curious what other modes of transportation you don't know how to drive?"

Tang Er hit really contemplative for a few seconds, then replied seriously to Bai Liu: "If it's transportation in your definition, I won't make Mu Sicheng."

Bai Liu: "......"

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Who the hell taught Tang Er to play jokes.

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It's about a couple hours drive from the Red Cross detour to the town, but luckily Tang Er opens up extremely fast and soon arrives near the town.

Tang Er hit the car to cover the non-stop writhing living dead in the compartment with a denim, found a hidden place to hide the car, and was baffled for a moment when he was about to take out the skill revolver, he emerged from the back of the car and eh'd out a cry of Bai Liu.

Bai Liu turned back.

Tang Er hit hesitates for two seconds, "Are you going to use my skill gun? I won't take it out if you use it."

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "No, but I'm more curious as to why you suddenly thought of this place?"

Tang Er Playing a player like this who has been with his skill weapon for so long that using his skill weapon is as simple as drinking water and eating, being able to consider Bai Liu, who shares his skill, before using it is honestly quite difficult.

Only Mu Ke can do that, at least in the current stray circus.

Tang Er hit a weird pause for a few seconds as he seemed to realize something from Bai Liu's reaction, "You didn't tell Spades about your skills?"

Bai Liu's eyebrows rose, "What makes you think I'd talk to him?"

Tang Er hit paused again and spoke, "Spades and I acted together for a while, he forbade me to use a skill weapon, said you have to use it, and when I drew my revolver he got his hands on me and beat me up."

"...... I thought you talked to him."

Bai Liu quieted, "Didn't tell him, did you ask how he knew?"

Tang Er hit nodded, "Asked, he said he didn't know, it was a hunch."

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"Forget about him for now." Bai Liu skimmed over the subject without moving, "Let's find the cemetery first."

The cemetery was actually quite easy to find, the town signs marked the cemetery, but the strange thing was that whenever Bai Liu and the others went in that direction, they encountered a very thick and strange layer of fog, and then after going through the fog, they came back by the same intersection.

"Is this a ghost wall?" Liu Jiayi raised the poison spray warily, "How do you get around in the same place."

Tang Er hit also drew his rose revolver and stood behind Bai Liu, "Is it something you need to do to get out?"

"There should be some kind of condition to be met before we can get out, and according to the common process, we should decrypt it first." Bai Liu looked to Liu Jiayi, "But there are more direct ways now."

Liu Jiayi quickly put down the spray and turned on the wireless device, "Messaging Spades to ask how he got out huh?"

Spades' message came back quickly, Liu Jiayi frowned when he read it, "-- open those fogs with a whip and you can get out?"

"Weapon attack?" Tang Er hit cautiously fired two shots into the fog directly in front of him, then a cracking sound came from directly behind him, his pupils contracted and he quickly pressed down on Bai Liu who was standing in front of him.

Bullets flew over their heads and hit the indicator markers with a thud, making a large hole.

"The space is in a state of dense connection with each other, weapon attacks are ineffective, cannot be broken, and will reappear in one place." Tang Er hit shook his head with a gloomy expression.

Liu Jiayi frowned, "So how did Spades break it, that whip of his can hardly break space-"

She said this with a sudden lurch, then looked up at Bai Liu, who was patting the dust from her own knees.

Bai Liu stood up and looked back at Liu Jiayi with calm eyes : "--and perhaps break time."

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Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, "The same function as the bone whip you had destroyed earlier."

"So how do we get out now?" Tang Er asked.

Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi : "Send a message to Spades to come and get us."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Bai Liu's side of the face was scratched with a stitch and a bloodstain.

The sewing needle fell to the floor, silk thread still wrapped around the curved end - it was a sewing needle with a tail.

Tang Er hit violently turned his head, just ready to shoot suddenly thought that the space here is close together, shooting is very easy to directly hit here, he had to bite his teeth to change into a saber: "Who?"

In the white haze several figures of women in what looked like broad-skirted dresses loomed, approaching Bai Liu's group in the center of the intersection from all directions, dragging a long gun in their hands, which dragged on the ground and scratched on the gravel with an oozing rustling sound.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought left and right to protect Bai Liu in the center, both of their faces were extremely ugly.

Tang Er hit took a deep breath, "We can't just attack here, because of the dense space, our attacks don't know where they will come out to hit ourselves, we can only fight close to the ground."

"But neither of you are good at it, so wait, I'm going to count one, two, three, and you're going to run back when the physical combat starts."

Liu Jiayi nodded dryly and threw Tang Er two bottles of antidote, "Take care of yourself."

The figure of the women got closer and closer, and it was only then that Tang Er hit to see that the dresses worn by this group of women were not any other dresses, but white wedding dresses that were beautifully sewn and old, and stained with many blood stains.

This wedding dress inexplicably made Tang Er hit feel familiar, he followed the wedding dress upwards, and his expression finally froze when he saw the person wearing the wedding dress.

These people are not women at all, but all Guy.

These Guy was stitched up with surgical thread, his face crisscrossed with I don't know how many suture scars, the stitches still uncut in some places, the smile at the corners of his mouth weird and sweet, his complexion greenish-white, his eyes all black, not a bit of the whites of his eyes to be seen, his wedding dress splattered with uncountable spots of blood.

Congratulations to player Tang Er for triggering the second page of "The Monster Book of the Dense Forest Borderland" - Zombie Bride!

Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.

Published at: 10/24/2024 11:00

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