“Hey.” Hua Ganjiang leaned his head back, leaned against the wall, sighed, and suddenly laughed out loud, “Actually, I think it’s childish too.”
“I heard from others that the president has been the main attacker of the Reverse God for many, many years. Since the Deer Hunter Guild existed, the president has been the main attacker of the Reverse God.”
“In a team match with the president as the main attacker, no matter how fierce the battle is, the tactician the Reverse God will never get hurt, because the president will do his best to protect the Reverse God.”
Hua Ganjiang recalled: “If the Reverse God is a [prophet], the president is just like his [hunter].”
“——A Hunter born to protect the Prophet.”
“It was said that everyone wanted the Reverse God to be the guild leader at first, but he didn’t want to, so he handed the position over to the guild leader, and said with a smile that he believed the guild leader would be able to lead everyone to the future that he saw.”
“But the future has not yet arrived.” General Hua exhaled and laughed at himself, “The person who gave us the future fled at the critical moment.”
Spades said calmly, “It’s not desertion.”
Hua Ganjiang was stunned.
Spades stared at him without any expression on his face: “the Reverse God is trying to give you the future you want in a different way.”“When you can’t see the future, you can choose to believe in those who can see the future.”
Hua Ganjiang was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud: “That’s right, we [villagers] who don’t know the truth still have to follow the [prophet’s] instructions.”
After saying that, Hua Ganjiang jumped off the stool and took the Reverse God’s heavy sword out of the furnace with pliers.
Hua Ganjiang turned the sword over and looked at it for a few times, then dipped it into the water and said, “It’s almost done. Spades, where’s your broken whip? Bring it here and I’ll start repairing yours.”
Spades handed over the whip, which was broken into pieces with only the handle left.
Hua Ganjiang looked at him blankly for a moment: “Although I never ask why weapons are broken, this is too outrageous!”
“If you fight with others, it will be bad.” Spades explained perfunctorily.
Hua Ganjiang was stunned: “Is there any player who can fight like you? The league is about to start, and the Reverse God didn’t stop you?”
Spades had a deadpan expression on his face: “The Reverse God has joined the other side to fight me together.”
Hua Ganjiang: “…Then you must have done something really excessive.”
Spades slowly leaned over the back of the stool, rested his chin on the back of his hand, and said, “Yes, so I want to apologize to that person.”
Hua Ganjiang raised his whip to examine it carefully, and replied casually: “Then go ahead.”
“But the Reverse God won’t allow that.” Spades slowly lowered his eyelids, “He said that before you figure out why the other party treated you like this, going to the other party casually will only make things worse.”
Hua Ganjiang nodded in agreement: “That’s true, have you figured it out?”
Spades was silent for a moment.
Hua Ganjiang laughed: “Haven’t you figured it out?”
Spades was silent for a moment before speaking: “I feel like he likes me, but he always feels sad when he sees me, and he always thinks a lot.”
“I don’t understand what he’s thinking or what he’s sad about.”
Hua Ganjiang dipped the handle of Spades whip into the magma and smiled maliciously: “Love problems…”
“Generally speaking, based on my experience, if you give her [1] what she wants, she will forgive you a little, even if she doesn’t say it. What does she want?”
Spades paused for a moment and said, “Yes, a whip similar to mine and an inverted cross.”
After that, Spades was silent again: “But I didn’t want him to get it, so I broke them all.”
Hua Ganjiang was completely stunned: “Isn’t it normal for the other party to hate you?”
Spades suddenly raised his head and stared at Hua Ganjiang: “Can you do it? A whip that feels similar to my whip.”
Hua Ganjiang was full of questions: “Brother, do you know what level your whip is?”
“If I could mass-produce whips of your quality, I would have formed a union long ago!” General Hua said as he swung the whip in his hand. “To be honest, I’ve never seen anything like the texture of your whip bones.”
“I can’t find this kind of bone in the entire game, nor in real life. I don’t know what kind of lizard monster you used as a reference to create such a perverted skill item.”
Spades glanced at the whip in the lava and replied calmly, “It’s my bones.”
Hua Ganjiang was startled: “…Didn’t you say lizard bones?”
“At first, many people said I was a lizard,” Spades replied, “I thought I was a lizard too, so I said I was a lizard bone.”
Hua Ganjiang became more and more confused: “…Why do you think you are a lizard?”
Spades recalled: “Because when I came out of the shell, my lower body was a fish tail, but I also had legs. I laid on the ground and looked like a lizard.”
When Spades was born from Tawil’s skin in the Siren Town, he had not yet completely shed his mermaid form. He had a huge fish tail on his lower body, but his feet slowly grew out of the fish tail. He looked weird and out of place, and almost scared the townspeople crazy.
The townspeople frantically slapped Spades who had stood up, trying to get the “lizard man” to get out.
So for a long time, Spades really thought he was a lizard. When he encountered a lizard in other copies, Spades would even take the initiative to observe and imitate the lizard’s movements.
This misunderstanding continued until the Reverse God entered the Killer Sequence and seriously explained to Spades that lizards would not play games. It was only then did Spades suddenly realize.
——It turns out that I am a human being.
“Can you use my bones—” SpDes raised his head and looked at Hua Ganjiang, “—to make a whip for Bai Liu?”
Hua Ganjiang was shocked and rejected it subconsciously: “No!”
Although his proposal was rejected, Spades still stared at Hua Ganjiang motionlessly, causing Hua Ganjiang to walk back and forth several times in annoyance: “No means no, even if you can stare a hole through me!”
“Even if I’m willing to help you, players are forbidden from hurting each other in the central hall. I can’t pick your bones out at all. That’s the first point.”
Hua Ganjiang turned around and raised two fingers seriously: “Second, even if you go into the game and pick the bones off, you can’t bring them out to make a whip for me.”
“You can only get out of the game with injuries and game reward items. I’ve never heard of anyone being able to get out with their own bones.”
“Third, even if you really find a way to get the bones for me, a whip will require at least four to six sets of your spine. You need a recovery period after you remove the bones and then grow them back. I can’t stay in the Killer Sequence to make whips for you during your bone growth recovery period. The Deer Hunter is also preparing for the league, so I have to be there.”
“To sum up, your fantastic plan is not feasible.”
“Once all these problems have been solved, you will help me, right?” Spades looked at Hua Ganjiang with a very focused and serious look.
This look made Hua Ganjiang speechless for a moment, and he evaded the question: “How do you solve it?”
Spades lowered his eyes to look at Hua Ganjiang’s whip which had returned to its original shape in the furnace. He pulled it out, and the whip made a slight hissing sound as it was soaked in water, emitting wisps of white smoke.
Then he raised his hand to the back of his neck, and without any expression on his face, he placed the whip against the spine of his neck and slashed it down mercilessly.
Blood dripped instantly, and Hua Ganjiang looked shocked. Spades slowly withdrew his clenched fist from his back and opened it in front of Hua Ganjiang.
In the palm of his hand was a bloody spine.
“My whip can tear through time and space, so I can hurt myself in the central hall and remove bones.” Spades said calmly, “My regenerative ability is very strong, and the bones I remove will grow back quickly, so it won’t delay you for a long time.”
“That’s all solved. Now can you make me a whip?”
Hua Ganjiang’s lips were trembling. He was silent for a very long time. With trembling hands, he took out a cigarette box from his pocket, put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. Then he dared to slowly lower his eyes to the bone in Spades’ white palm that was still dripping with blood.
“You…don’t you feel anything?”
Spades paused for a moment and said, “I can feel it.”
Hua Ganjiang looked at Spades unreasonably: “Then why the hell can you dig out your own bones without batting an eyelid?!”
Spades was silent: “Because I just know that he wants this.”
Hua Ganjiang was startled. He remembered what he had just said to Spades – [Give her what she wants, and she will forgive you a little.]
“If you have to pay such a painful price to give the other party what they want…” Hua Ganjiang sighed with a complicated expression, “There’s no need to give it to them…”
“Give it to me.” Hua Ganjiang took the bone with a cigarette in his mouth. Seeing that Spades started to take the bone again, he turned away, “Don’t let the blood splash everywhere. Be careful when you take it.”
Spades hummed.
Hua Ganjiang looked at the bone in his hand and took a deep breath: “Damn, what is going on…”
The league day is getting closer day by day.
All the guilds were making their final frantic sprint. Not only in the game pool, but even in the small TV area, the atmosphere was much heavier.
The Wandering Circus trained almost day and night, and under the high-intensity training of various games, not only Mu Sicheng cried out in unbearable pain, even Tang Erda sometimes showed signs of fatigue.
Mu Sicheng lay helplessly on the desk in the lounge of the Wandering Circus, his eyes dim, “…I am about to experience the most terrifying thing in my life.”
Liu Jiayi was speechless: “It’s just a preseason game, you weren’t that scared before, right?”
“No.” Mu Sicheng retorted with his eyes blank, “It’s not just the preseason, I have to start school.”
Tang Erda lifted his clothes and wiped the sweat off his face. He smiled when he heard this and said, “Is the start of college going well?”
“Yeah, it should have been fine…” Mu Sicheng said angrily, “But I spent the whole last semester playing games and failed two subjects at the end of the semester! Make up for it when school starts this semester!”
Mu Sicheng grabbed his hair and howled in pain: “And I haven’t even started reviewing yet!”
Mu Ke was puzzled from the bottom of his heart: “The college exams are very simple, why did you fail?”
Liu Jiayi scoffed mercilessly: “You are the only one among us who will fail the exam.”
Bai Liu, who was standing by, paused for a moment and said calmly, “I’ve failed them before, too.”
In an instant, everyone in the office looked over there in shock.
“What’s wrong?” Bai Liu returned these looks calmly, “Is it strange that I failed the exam?”
“My studies have always been average.”
Mu Ke recalled thoughtfully: “I remember now. I saw on the resume that Bai Liu’s grades didn’t seem to be very good. I remember that his college entrance examination score was -“
“485 points.” Bai Liu took a sip of water and said calmly, “I remember it was quite a distance from the first-tier line.”
Mu Sicheng was shocked: “Your college entrance examination score is actually more than 100 points lower than mine!”
Then Mu Sicheng quickly fell into complacency, crossed his chest and raised his eyebrows, looking at Bai Liu with a very annoying smile: “I didn’t expect it, Bai Liu, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, you look like an excellent student, but you didn’t do as well as me in the exam!”
“Very strange.” Liu Jiayi frowned. “Bai Liu has strong thinking and learning abilities. How could he score lower than Mu Sicheng?”
Mu Sicheng was angry: “Hey–!!”
Bai Liu thought for a moment and said, “When I was in high school, I didn’t work very hard, and I wasn’t sensible. I was quite rebellious, and I never focused on studying. I only started to study seriously in the last half of the semester.”
“When the results came out, I considered repeating the year under the persuasion of Lu Yizhan, but I decided not to go in the end.”
Mu Sicheng rubbed his hands together, looking horrified: “What’s going on? I feel so uncomfortable hearing you say you’re considering repeating a grade that it scares me!”
Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng and said, “Normally, people would consider repeating a grade after doing poorly on an exam.”
Mu Ke asked curiously: “Why didn’t Bai Liu go in the end?”
Bai Liu paused for a moment and said, “Because I had no money. I was over 18 years old and the welfare home had stopped providing financial support.”
Everyone was silent, even Mu Sicheng was stunned.
This reason is really… a little unexpected.
“Although the welfare home also provides educational subsidies for adult adults, there are not many places for that kind of subsidy. You need to have good grades or work hard to get it, such as Lu Yizhan. It would be very unfair if someone like me could get it.”
Bai Liu sat on the chair with a calm expression: “Although Lu Yizhan told me to repeat my studies, he would work hard to earn money to pay for my tuition and living expenses after I go to college, and then I can pay him back after I get a job, I still refused in the end.”
Liu Jiayi couldn’t help but ask: “Why?”
Bai Liu raised his eyes and said, “Because I hate studying and living in high school, so forget it.”
Wang Shun interrupted the atmosphere of a group of people chatting:
“Everyone, the pre-season game will start in one day. Now I want to tell you some important pre-game matters. Then please go back and have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow we will enter the game and officially draw lots for the game.”
“First of all, the main stage of the league is in the central hall. The days without spectators, which everyone is used to, will soon be gone.”
Wang Shun’s expression was serious: “None of you has obtained the golden medal of immunity from death. You really need popularity.”
“So when you encounter weaker opponents in the preseason, please try to play more entertaining games to attract the audience’s attention.”
“Secondly, the game pool will be closed to the public soon. According to the practice in previous years, the game pool will be used as a private rental venue and rented out by bidding every day. The guild with the highest bid on that day will be able to rent the game pool for one day.”
Wang Shun emphasized: “Although the league has already started, except for Captain Tang, the rest of you are all pure rookies, and the training intensity is far from enough.”
“So from now on, not only will you have to participate in the preseason, but the guild will also actively bid to rent a game pool every day. Once you rent one, please endure a little hardship on that day and continue to come to the game pool for training after the competition. We must make up for the cost of the rental.”
“I asked Mr. Charles about the expenses for the game pool bidding, and he said he would reimburse them in full.”
Wang Shun looked around at everyone and smiled knowingly:
“Finally, I wish you all a successful start and achieve what you wish for.”
The night before the league game.
Mu Sicheng was half leaning against a desk lamp emitting white light, pouting his lips and lazily holding a pen, scribbling on his textbook with a highlighter from time to time, reviewing the subjects he had to take make-up exams for.
As he was drawing, Mu Sicheng’s eyes suddenly shifted to the empty bed on the left side of the dormitory entrance.
That is Liu Huai’s bed.
Because someone died in the dormitory, other students moved out of fear. Only Mu Sicheng did not move out despite being persuaded twice by the dormitory manager and lived here alone.
“It’s so annoying…” Mu Sicheng muttered to himself, “If you were here, you could draw a picture for me to review the key points.”
“You listen to the class very seriously…”
As he was talking, Mu Sicheng scratched his head in annoyance: “Ahhh! I wish I had only scored 485 points in the college entrance examination! I can’t do the test at all with all the league stuff in my mind!”
Liu Jiayi curled up on the bed, holding a clumsy and ugly doll in her arms. She closed her eyes and recited:
“Stupid brother…”
“Although Bai Liu, whom you entrusted me to, seems to be not good at anything, he is quite faithful to his promises.”
There were two soft knocks on Liu Jiayi’s door. She immediately hid her doll and huddled under the quilt, pretending to be asleep.
The door was slowly pushed open. Xiang Chunhua pushed the door open carefully, tiptoed to Liu Jiayi’s bed, tucked the quilt for her, touched her head, and then left.
Liu Jiayi slowly opened her eyes. She held the doll’s hand under the quilt and said softly:
“I have a very good family now, brother.”
“Bai Liu found it for me.”
Mu Ke sat on a bench in the hospital and put down the clothes that had just been taken off during the electrocardiogram.
The doctor opposite looked at the electrocardiogram carefully for a while and nodded: “Further examination is needed, but your condition has been relatively stable recently. Avoid strenuous exercise and keep a calm mind.”
Mu Ke stood up and bowed politely to thank him: “Thank you for your help, doctor.”
The doctor smiled and said, “You don’t have to be so polite. You have been my patient since you were a child. But Mu Ke, you seem to be in a good mood recently. Did something good happen to you?”
Mu Ke raised his head and smiled: “Yes.”
“I met someone who allowed me to exercise vigorously, to have an uneasy state of mind, but still be happy.”
The doctor was stunned.
Without waiting for the doctor to react, Mu Ke bowed again and said goodbye, then turned around and walked out of the room at a leisurely pace.
As soon as Tang Erda came out of the room, he saw Su Yang and a group of members of the third team standing in front of him.
He was slightly startled: “What are you doing…”
“Come on, come on, we’ve finished our business! Let’s go have a drink!” The team members rushed over, grinning, “It’s been a while since I’ve had a drink with you!”
Tang Erda was almost at a loss as he held these people back: “What are you doing! I have already left the Heretic Management Bureau and am no longer your captain!”
Su Yang smiled, his eyes curved: “Yes, but if you leave, can’t I come to drink with you?”
“We are not here to find the captain of the third team, Tang Erda. We are just here to catch up with our old friend Tang Erda. Is that not okay?”
Tang Erda lurched, then his shoulders slowly relaxed and he smiled with relief: “Okay.”
On the road, Tang Erda and Su Yang walked side by side. Su Yang glanced at Tang Erda and laughed: “I always feel that you have changed a lot.”
Tang Erda paused: “Is there?”
Su Yang nodded: “Before, I always felt that you were worried, as if you were carrying a lot of burdens that we didn’t know about. You refused to tell us, and you were very tense every day.”
“It feels like you are protecting everyone within your territory.” Su Yang raised his head and exhaled a breath of white air, “but at the same time, you are keeping everyone out of your door.”
“But now, it feels like you’ve lifted that burden off of you.”
Su Yang turned his head and smiled: “I’ve never seen you so relaxed. It seems that retirement is really a good thing for a 40-year-old man like you.”
Tang Erda paused for a moment, then laughed, “Although retirement life also has many uncertainties.”
“But the burden has indeed been taken over.”
Su Yang laughed: “Is it Bai Liu?”
Tang Erda held a cigarette between his fingers, a faint smile floating in his dark blue eyes: “Yeah.”
In the game pool.
[System Reminder: Due to the upcoming league, the game pool will be closed soon, please evacuate as soon as possible!]
People kept climbing out of the game pool. The game interface that was constantly rotating on the water surface gradually stopped and darkened. The bottom of the water changed from an illusory image to a solid reality. Only the shaking and turbulent water waves reflected the dim colorful halo that was pouring down from above.
Bai Liu stood up from the game pool, water dripping down his body.
From now on, you have to spend points to rent here. Although it is not his money, according to Bai Liu’s basic principle of “if you don’t take advantage of a good opportunity, you are a bastard”, he still trained in the game pool until the last moment.
Now Bai Liu was the only one in the entire game pool. Just as he was about to walk out, Bai Liu looked up and saw another person.
Spades stood outside the game pool, staring at him motionlessly.
Bai Liu stopped walking out and looked directly at Spades.
Neither of them spoke, they just looked at each other in silence.
Spades stood outside the game pool, Bai Liu stood inside the game pool, and the colorful halo flowed silently between the two people.
The game pool, which was originally bustling with people, now only had the two of them, but it did not feel empty. An inexplicable atmosphere permeating between the two people made people feel breathless.
Bai Liu spoke first, his tone was very calm: “What do you want to talk to me about?”
Spades paused, then slowly extended his hand to Bai Liu: “This is for you.”
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at what Spades was holding.
In Spades’ hand was a pure white bone whip.
——It is exactly the same as the bone whip that Bai Liu got from Tawil at the beginning.
Bai Liu just lowered her eyes and watched, water drops dripping from her eyelashes and falling into the closed game pool, spreading out in circles of colorful halos.
When Spades saw that Bai Liu didn’t take it, he curled up his fingers hanging at his side and said, “It’s a lizard bone whip with the same strength as the mermaid bone whip you used before.”
“Don’t you want it?”
Bai Liu was silent for a long time before he looked up at Spades: “Is there only a whip?”
Spades lurched.
Bai Liu calmly asked back: “You also broke my reverse cross, shouldn’t you return it to me as well?”
“The inverted cross…” Spades’ eyes wandered for a moment, “…it’s not fixed yet.”
The material of the inverted cross is so special that Spades drove Hua Ganjiang crazy but still couldn’t make something similar.
Bai Liu nodded and took the whip: “Is that so? I’ll take the whip first. What do you want to use as collateral for the cross?”
Spades stood in front of Bai Liu like a statue with an expressionless face for a long time.
This guy practically has “I can’t think of anything I can use as collateral right now” written all over his face.
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked away, with a slight smile in his eyes: “Didn’t you expect it?”
Spades nodded honestly, then paused: “Is this okay?”
Bai Liu asked, “How is it?”
Spades took out a black marker and explained seriously, “If you really want it now, I can draw one for you first.”
Bai Liu: “…”
After logging out of the game, Bai Liu changed his wet clothes, walked into the bathroom, turned on the shower and started showering.
Halfway through rinsing, Bai Liu seemed to realize something and turned his head to look at the mirror.
In the mirror, a very clear inverted cross was drawn in black marker in the middle of Bai Liu’s collarbone, which was very conspicuous against his fair skin.
Bai Liu leaned against the cold tiles and closed his eyes. He raised his head and let the water wash over him. He whispered softly, “…I actually let him draw it.”
In the game pool, after listening to Spades’ words, Bai Liu paused for a moment, then simply unbuttoned a button of his shirt, tilted his neck back to expose the skin between his collarbones, making it easier for Spades to start writing.
Spades stepped into the game pool, his eyes fixed on Bai Liu’s heart, he picked up the pen and started drawing.
Bai Liu looked away: “Who told you to draw if you can’t give it?”
Spades’ eyes rested on Bai Liu’s collarbone without fail, and he said as he painted, “The Reverse God taught me this.”
Bai Liu asked softly, “How did he teach you?”
Spades glanced at Bai Liu and said, “The Reverse God said that when you don’t have a way to give something to someone for the time being, but you really want to give it to him, you can draw one for him first.”
“One day.” Spades returned his gaze to Bai Liu’s heart and said seriously, “I will return the cross I broke to you.”
“What others can give you, I can give you too.”
In the bathroom, Bai Liu buried his face in the bath towel, covered the towel with one hand and slowly exhaled a long breath.
He kind of regretted letting Spades draw on him.
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[1] In Chinese, pronouns are written differently but are all pronounced the same so he assumed that Spades was talking about a woman.
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