Alex’s shrill screams gradually faded away, and soldiers covered in blood walked out of the tent one after another. They shook off the blood on their hands as they left.
Bai Liu lowered his head, glanced at his watch, and waited for another fifteen minutes before walking towards Guy’s tent, opening the curtain and entering.
Tang Erda waited outside with a complicated expression: “I won’t go in. Alex’s mental state will not be very good right now.”
“…If anything happens, just call me.” Tang Erda still couldn’t help but call out to Bai Liu, “Will you continue to use Alex?”
Bai Liu paused lifting the curtain. He tilted his head with a smile and answered naturally: “Yes, is something wrong?”
Tang Erda pursed his lips and clenched his fists as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn’t, shaking his head: “…It’s nothing.”
As a player, Bai Liu wanted to win, and it was natural for him to use NPCs in the game to achieve his own goals. He really has no obligation to consider the feelings of NPCs.
But why does he feel so uneasy…
Bai Liu patted Tang Erda’s shoulder and asked gently: “If you feel uncomfortable with the way I use Alex, I can consider his feelings and find another way.”
Tang Erda wanted to say that he didn’t mind, but when he faced Bai Liu’s dark eyes that contained no smile at all, what he blurted out was: “What way?”“It’s a very useful method.” Bai Liu smiled slightly, “You will like it.”
——Because he also used this method on Tang Erda.
Bai Liu lifted the curtain and walked in.
Alex sat motionless in the middle of the tent full of blood, his head hung as if it was about to fall from his neck the next second. His hands on both sides of the wheelchair were stained with blood that dripped down along his fingertips. At his feet lay Guy’s open-eyed head.
The innermost hospital bed was covered with flesh and blood. The snow-white sheets were stained red, limbs were scattered on it, and internal organs flowed out of the abdominal cavity. It was a sight akin to scattered pieces of a lamb that had not been picked up after being butchered.
In the hot and humid rainy season, just a short time after Guy’s death, flies were already picking at the body.
Bai Liu stood in front of Alex, but Alex still kept his head lowered as if he felt everything. His eyes were completely lax, as if he could no longer respond to anything from the outside world.
But Bai Liu only used one sentence to make Alex raise his head.
“You guessed it, right?” Bai Liu said, “I arranged for Guy to die like this.”
Alex slowly raised his head, his voice hoarse: “…why?”
“I believe you should have guessed this, otherwise you wouldn’t have come to the Red Cross to guard Guy.” Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked down at Alex as if pitying him, “Because it was Guy who wanted to die like this. “
“He wanted to apologise to the teammates he killed in this way. He blew them into pieces, so he wanted to die in the same way.”
Alex’s face was covered with dried tears, and tears overflowed from his eyes that were already red and swollen from crying.
He lowered his head and covered his face, choking: “Guy…”
After Alex cried for a while, he tried his best to raise his head calmly. His eyes when he looked at Bai Liu were full of disgust and a kind of fear that could not be hidden: “Guy wanted to die to atone for his sins. If you wanted him to die, it must not have been for such a simple reason, right?”
[System prompt: NPC Alex’s favourability towards player Bai Liu is decreasing…]
Bai Liu seemed to not have heard the prompt, and still responded to Alex’s words calmly: “Yes, I arranged all of this for my own goal.”
Alex arched his back and half-rose from the wheelchair, yelling hoarsely: “——You induced Guy’s death. You deliberately let me see this scene. You have been using us from the beginning! “ ṙἈNŐᛒĘS
“You despicable liar, dirty manipulator!” Alex gasped, his bloodshot eyes filled with hatred, “——You are so much more evil than that non-existent god.”
His tears flowed down uncontrollably, and he recalled, mumbling to himself: “… Guy trusted you so much, you took his bouquet and had your own wedding under his witness.”
“…People like you don’t deserve any pure feelings in this world.”
Alex cursed viciously: “If one day, Spades discovers your true identity, he will definitely leave you!”
Bai Liu’s fingers hanging by his side clenched slightly, but his expression remained calm, and even showed a gentle smile: “This is nothing new to me.”
Alex roared and insulted Bai Liu for more than half an hour, repeating those few words over and over again. This well-educated medical student seemed to not be very good at cursing, so in the end he broke down and cried bitterly. He grabbed the hem of Bai Liu’s clothes and asked him:
“Why did you let him die? Why did he have to die!!”
“Isn’t my existence worth him letting go of his guilt and hatred and starting over?”
Alex sobbed, shaking all over. He looked at his empty palms and couldn’t stop crying: “…There is nothing left, nothing left for me.”
Bai Liu turned his eyes and looked at the pile of things on the bed: “He left his body for you.”
Alex shuddered, unable to control his distorted expression, and raised his head to look at Bai Liu in horror.
But Alex quickly calmed down. He pushed the wheelchair back a few steps: “I won’t use this medicine on him. Guy will always be Guy. He is a human being. Even if he dies, he is still a human being. I won’t turn him into a soulless monster.”
Bai Liu chuckled: “Why not? Is there any difference between a resurrected Guy and the Guy you love?”
“They are not the same thing at all!!” Alex seemed to have finally caught on tp Bai Liu’s madness. He kept raising his voice, as if it could suppress the weird feeling of fear that made chills run down his spine, “——A corpse that has been treated with that medicine is just a corpse, only flesh and blood vessels that can move. They are nothing but soulless monsters!”
Tang Erda, who was guarding the door, frowned and listened to the conversation. Alex’s emotions were so agitated that he doubted whether Bai Liu really used the so-called gentler method.
Someone patted Tang Erda’s shoulder. He turned around and his eyes widened in surprise.
Spades stood in front of Tang Erda with no emotion on his face. He stared at the tent for a while, but did not go in. He turned around and asked Tang Erda: “Is it impossible for a human to fall in love with a soulless monster?”
Tang Erda was stunned by this sudden question.
Bai Liu nodded and motioned for Alex to continue: “So?”
Alex looked at Bai Liu in disbelief: “Could you fall in love with a soulless vessel?”
It was quiet for a long time, and only Bai Liu’s calm and gentle breathing could be heard – he seemed to be thinking.
Spades stood upright outside the tent, his lips pursed and his fists clenched tightly. He looked like he was going to rush in and demand Bai Liu’s answer in the next second, and then beat Alex up.
Bai Liu finally spoke: “I don’t know.”
Even Tang Erda was surprised at this moment. No Bai Liu in his memory would give such an ambiguous answer before negotiating and taking advantage of someone.
Tang Erda didn’t know why he relaxed –
——Bai Liu did not do this purely to take advantage of Alex and Guy.
Bai Liu had just answered Alex’s question seriously, and he did not give the answer to this question with a completely profit-oriented approach.
He was different from Bai Liu (6).
Tang Erda breathed a long sigh of relief.
A faint depression surfaced on Spades’ expressionless face. He kicked the gun lying across the door of the tent and asked coldly: “Why doesn’t he know?”
Tang Erda went to pick up the gun with questions in his head: “Go in and ask Bai Liu, how would I know why he doesn’t know.”
After Spades said “oh”, he stepped forward and approached the tent. After walking back and forth two times with a solemn look, he still didn’t go in. He stepped back and squatted next to Tang Erda. He lowered his head and poked the hole in the mud with his fingers, and then poked the next two holes into neat rows. Tang Erda didn’t know what he was thinking about.
Tang Erda was confused: “Why don’t you go in?”
Spades hugged his knees and squatted on the ground, rocking his body back and forth, like a child squatting on the ground in a daze after being abandoned by a friend.
When Tang Erda asked him, Spades just nodded lightly and said, “I don’t know either.”
Spades stared straight at the hole on the ground, poking hard while answering Tang Erda with a somewhat dull tone: “…I don’t want to see Bai Liu for the time being, he doesn’t even know this.”
Tang Erda followed Spades’ line of sight and looked over, startled for a moment, and couldn’t help but sigh in amusement.
The holes poked by the Spades crookedly connected into two words – white willow (Bai Liu).
Even if you say you don’t want to see him, you still want to see him.
Alex inside was also confused about Bai Liu’s answer: “…You don’t know?”
“I can’t say I don’t know at all.” Bai Liu’s voice was very flat, “It’s just that it’s difficult for you to distinguish whether you miss the feelings you once had for him in this body, or whether this body actively wants to bear the part of the feelings you have.”
“Sometimes I feel like he is a souvenir left to me by the gods who took pity on me.”
Bai Liu was quiet for a long time and then spoke again: “Sometimes, I feel that he is the monster I love.”
“It’s not that he has no soul, it’s just that the soul is hidden within the body. I have to wait until the day when the soul comes out to see me again.”
Alex looked at Bai Liu in disbelief, and he reluctantly made a joke: “…You make it sound like you have experienced the same thing as me…”
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked directly at Alex: “I have indeed experienced it.”
“So I can tell you that two people who love each other may be separated by death.” Bai Liu’s eyes dropped and fell on Guy’s head at Alex’s feet, calm and distant, “But two monsters who love each other will not. “
The curtain of the tent suddenly opened, and Bai Liu moved his gaze. Spades stood at the door with his back to the light. He stared at Bai Liu motionlessly, his chest rising and falling slightly.
Bai Liu seemed to have known that he was outside for a long time, and was not surprised when he barged in. He asked calmly: “You’re back? Why didn’t I see you before?”
“Yeah.” Spades paused and explained, “There is mud on my body and it doesn’t look good. I’ll wash it off and come back to you.”
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EN2: this chapter was a bit hard to fix up but we did as best as we could so forgive us if anything is odd or out of place T_T if you have any other suggestions as a replacement for a weird sentence/paragraph, feel free to send them to our discord!!
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