Chapter 411
Lu Yizhan sat in the cafeteria for an hour with his cheeks flushed, his mind filled with Fang Dian smiling softly, pursing his cigarette and exhaling a puff of smoke, and then in the afternoon when he went for his interview, he gave himself a simple primping and a formal-looking back, and then...
The interviewer was not Fang Dian.
Lu Yizhan could barely contain himself from seeing the big, burly interviewer slump his shoulders in disappointment and sigh inwardly.
The interviewer, Dong Chenglong, is a member of the [Cross Judgement Army] on assault duty, armed with a pair of meteor hammers said to weigh a ton and a half, standing at 2.21m tall, with a body so strong that he could run a horse on his biceps, his eyes glaring at everyone and his hair spreading out in all directions like a resounding sunflower.
When Dong Chenglong was an instructor during the training sessions, he often complained in private that he had hyperthyroidism and his eyes were so bulging.
...... It's not even close to Team Fang ......
Dong Chenglong gave Lu Yizhan a nod and gestured for him to come forward, "I'm taking all the newcomers this year, come up and introduce yourself."
Lu Yizhan introduced himself with a sad expression: "Hello, my name is Lu Yizhan, I am eighteen years old, I am interested in Buming, and I am subject to transfer."
"No spirit!" Dong Chenglong frowned at the sight of Lu Yizhan, who had entered with his shoulders crossed, then looked down at Lu Yizhan's file with a subtle change in his eyes, and then looked up at the downcast Lu Yizhan.
The trainee, Lu Yizhan, had a mediocre record in previous training sessions, but there was something strange about that mediocrity.
For example, if you pass a shooting class with a score of 80, this Lu Yizhan will basically maintain a grade in the 80-85 range each time, and if you pass a heresy information recording class with a score of 85, this Lu Yizhan will maintain a grade in the 85-90 range.
All subjects fluctuated by five points or less, except for the actual vs. Heresy training session, where Lu Yizhan's score fluctuated a little more.
The results are incredibly consistent.
The highest combined trainee this year is Cen Buming, who has gone to the second team, and he hasn't even been that consistent, more or less missing out.
Dong Chenglong put his hands together on the table and looked solemnly at Lu Yizhan across the table: "I see that your grades are average, but you came first in this year's written exam, with a perfect score, two points higher than Cen Buming, who had the highest overall score before."
Lu Yizhan scratched his head and giggled, "Good luck, instructor."
"I believe I can get a 98 with luck." Dong Chenglong's eyes were rounded as he tapped his fingers on the table twice and questioned, "Lucky enough to get a perfect score? Put away your little smarts Lu Yizhan, why do you usually pretend to have average grades?"
"I don't suppose there's anything here at the Bureau of Heresy Processing that forces you to hide your clumsiness?"
"No no!" Lu Yizhan quickly shook his head and waved his hands in denial.
The captains in the Heretic's Bureau were all very level headed, so he actually expected to be seen, and was not embarrassed to be seen now. After thinking about it, Lu Yizhan replied seriously, "But, the Heretic's Bureau doesn't need me to be very good either, does it?"
Dong Chenglong was stunned.
Lu Yizhan smiled, "There are already enough good people, so a loser like me, who is just a little smart, has no ambition, no goals and no desire to save the world, should just be an ordinary person and give more space to people like Cen Buming who really have big aspirations."
Dong Chenglong looked at Lu Yizhan for a long time, then lifted the large seal next to him and stamped it on Lu Yizhan's file: "The interview was not approved."
"A detachment doesn't need ordinary people."
Dong Chenglong's tone rose to a fury as he slapped the table and rose to his feet with such force that the floor shook.
"Anyone who can stay in a team, even if they are just a loser, must give me the awareness to save the world!"
Lu Yizhan jumped at the tap, and as he glanced over his shoulder at the huge [not approved] red stamp stamped on his file on the desk, he sighed inwardly, but also rose with great acceptance, took his file and bowed to Dong Chenglong, thanking him.
"Thank you for the instructor's guidance, I will take the initiative to go to the third team of the logistics team."
Dong Chenglong looks deeply at Lu Yizhan: "Only in a world where God does not exist are there ordinary people."
"In a world that can be turned upside down at any moment, there are only heretics and those who fight them, there is no place for ordinary people."
"One day, one will regret one's inaction, Lu Yizhan ."
Lu Yizhan waved goodbye unmoved, thinking calmly in his mind -
--Then let's wait for that day to come.
But that day came much sooner than Lu Yizhan expected.
Lu Yizhan, who was staying at the third detachment, was opening the warehouses one by one to clear them of heretics, and after clearing one covered in slime, Lu Yizhan came out shaking his hands and saw people running through the corridors in panic, talking loudly.
"What is dried rose leaf gas?!"
"None of the men from the second detachment who went there have returned!"
"The large force of the Cross Judgement Army has not returned from their field trip and now there is no way out, it will have to rotate to the three detachments to cover!"
"Oh my God, I'm not ready to go out in the field, we're not going to die ......"
Fear creeps in among all.
Lu Yizhan, the heretical warehouse cleaner, was hastily transferred in this case to the impromptu squad that was to go into battle.
The team consisted of fifty-three men, seven of whom were drawn from the three detachments, among them Lu Yizhan, and the man who led the team -
-- is Dong Chenglong.
This man, dressed in a bulging, muscular uniform of the Heretic's Authority, scowled angrily at everyone as he clasped his arms across his chest, giving a great sense of oppression and -
--sense of security.
Lu Yizhan clearly heard the three team members next to him rubbing their hearts with a long sigh of relief, "What? So it's Instructor Dong from the [Cross Judgement Army] leading the team, so it's okay."
Dong Chenglong ordered in a deep, medium voice: "A group from the second detachment has encountered a special heresy in a perfume factory. By the time they discovered it, the perfume heresy had already spread on a large scale throughout the city."
" The Cen Buming crew risked their lives investigating the possibility that the heretic's weakness might be linked to something buried beneath the field of roses in front of the perfume factory, and at that point, contact between them and us was completely broken."
Dong Chenglong's eyes were rounded, "Our mission this time has three points-"
"Firstly, to contain the heresy of rose dry leaf gas."
"Secondly, bring back the whole of the second detachment of the regiment."
"Last but not least -" Dong Chenglong yelled out, "whatever happens, come back alive, you hear me! "
Everyone replied loudly, "I hear you, instructor!"
Dong Chenglong yelled even louder: "No spirit! Speak louder! Do you hear me!"
Everyone took a deep breath and hissed, "I hear you-!!!"
It was already night when we arrived outside the perfume factory.
The perfume factory was shrouded in a rose-coloured haze, and everyone, wearing breathing masks and carrying more than two oxygen tanks, marched carefully through the flower fields, afraid of alerting the people in the perfume factory and of inhaling the bizarre perfume fumes.
The men of the third detachment, to which Lu Yizhan was transferred, had the easier task of not digging up heretics in the flower fields, but going around the perfume factory in search of the men of the second detachment regiment who had disappeared.
It was a simple enough task, but under Lu Yizhan's intense search, the whereabouts of the men of the Second Regiment, deduced from the clues he found, became increasingly strange - he discovered that the men of the Second Regiment had most likely been captured inside the perfume factory.
Contacting Lu Yizhan for clues about the scent paper, he began to have a bad feeling.
These members of the team, wouldn't have been taken in to make ...... the so-called fragrance testing paper, would they?
Lu Yizhan calmly stopped his search and used the intercom to contact Dong Chenglong who was housing the heretics: " Team Dong, we are now at the outer entrance of the perfume factory, we suspect that the people from the second detachment may be in the basement, imprisoned by the people in the perfume factory, should we continue the search? "
A stern voice soon came from there, "Stop searching and wait for me to come."
But before Dong Chenglong's voice could drop, the slow, unhurried footsteps of leather boots and a man's slightly smiling voice came from the entrance: "It's not very nice to come uninvited to someone's factory at this late hour, is it?"
Lu Yizhan took an alert half-step back as he saw a writhing, limb- and head-covered creature oozing birth fluids in the darkened entrance, respectfully carrying a paraffin lamp with its tentacles to light the man's way ahead.
The monster carrying the lamp is wearing a factory uniform and has a sign pinned to his chest that reads [Generation Director of the Rose Perfume Factory].
The man's face slowly emerged into the light, his long hair tied loosely in a low ponytail and hanging down at his waist, properly dressed in a long black trench coat, a long black bone whip appearing in his hand at some point, his dark eyes slightly curved in a smile, the dim light of a paraffin lamp reflected in them.
Lu Yizhan stepped back cautiously while diverting the man's attention, "You're not from here either, are you? Aren't you a guest here just like us?"
The man smiled up, "Me? I'm not uninvited, I'm a guest of the factory manager."
The monster-shaped factory manager rubbed the two tentacles on his chest and hemmed and hawed with the seven or eight mouths of who knows who that had sprouted from his face, "Yes, Mr Bai Liu(6) is my honoured guest."
"If I hadn't happened to pick up what Mr Bai Liu(6) had left in the harbour and planted it in my rose fields, my fields wouldn't have grown such beautiful roses, I wouldn't have been able to make such good perfume and the factory wouldn't have been able to run."
The creature's face was dripping mucus, and his laughter was getting weirder and weirder: "I had to invite Mr Bai Liu(6) over to thank him for doing me such a big favour."
"Personally, I'm not a big fan of the deal." Bai Liu(6) smiles, his smile obscure in the dim light Buming, "but the world does seem a bit boring."
"It seems good to end it for good in this way."
Bai Liu(6) said, dropping his eyes and gently waving a finger in the air.
Lu Yizhan's pupils flinched and he immediately turned around with a stern warning, "Protect the oxygen tanks and masks!"
But it's over.
Except for Lu Yizhan, who was quick to protect the one oxygen tank on his back, the rest of the men's tanks were all wrapped around the thorny tentacles, shrinking inwards in a circle as the tanks began to deflate, the edges hissing with gas leaks, and the rose-coloured perfume fumes instantly poured back into the masks.
In barely a breath, the pupils of the other six men, except Lu Yizhan, emerged as roses, and their eyes fell to their knees in disbelief.
Lu Yizhan jumped back twice quickly to avoid the constant stream of thorns coming up from the ground, gritted his teeth and gasped at the dimly lit face of Bai Liu(6), then took out his communicator: " Team Dong! There are unknown people here! Team 3 has failed in their mission to save the members of Team 2..."
No sooner had he spoken than a sledgehammer brushed past his side and came thundering down on Bai Liu(6), who was standing at the entrance, and a thick, angry male voice snapped out a rebuke, "No spirit-!"
"- No aborting the mission before the lead man has arrived!"
Bai Liu(6) moved deftly to dodge the sledgehammer, which struck the factory manager's head hard enough to reduce him to a pile of bits and writhing flesh as he screamed.
Dong Chenglong stood in front of Lu Yizhan with his legs apart in a kind of horse stance, holding an unconscious Cen Buming in his left arm, then tossed the Cen Buming to the Lu Yizhan next to him, dragged the thrown sledgehammer back with both hands, straightened his back and looked sternly at the Bai Liu(6) standing at the entrance. He straightened his back and looked at Bai Liu(6) standing at the entrance and bellowed, "Bai Liu(6)--!"
Bai Liu(6) smiled politely, " Captain Dong, it's been a long time, you're still in good spirits."
Without saying a word, Dong Chenglong was about to fling the retrieved pair of sledgehammers at him again when Bai Liu(6) suddenly reached out to his left, and in the light of the paraffin lamp that had fallen to the ground, there was a heart beating in his glove.
He smiled and looked at Dong Chenglong: " Team Dong, this is the heretic at the heart of the rose perfume you are looking for, if you smash your weapon over now then this heart will shatter with me."
"-and then that moment, the world would be tainted by the rich rose-scented water flowing from this heart."
Dong Chenglong paused in his lifting of the sledgehammer, he lowered it and glared angrily at Bai Liu(6): "What game are you playing this time?"
Bai Liu(6) laughed a little: " Team Dong already knows my style well."
"You have two choices, the first, you eat this heart and let all the rose thorns wear into your body, using your own body as a receptacle for this heresy."
"Second option -" Bai Liu(6) looked over at Lu Yizhan who was staying next to him and he smiled, "is to let the little player next to you swallow it."
"My personal advice is to let that junior member swallow, because you are the main attacker of the [Cross Judgement Army] and are far more valuable than that junior member, and if you just die and become a vessel-"
Bai Liu(6) shook his head as if pitying Dong Chenglong: "- your captain, Fang Dian, who is fighting another heretic I placed, will have a hard time against me in the future, as she has no main attacker left. "
"I'm sure your little team member feels the same way." Bai Liu(6) smiled at Lu Yizhan who kept his head down and didn't say a word, "Letting this ordinary junior team member die here might be the most productive use of his time for you."
Lu Yizhan clenched his fist, he was running out of oxygen behind him, if he kept going he and Dong Chenglong would both die here.
This Bai Liu(6) is quite right, an ordinary member of the team like him would have been a most valuable contribution to the Heretic Authority to die in this way.
A main attacker of the [Judgemental Army of the Right Cross] and a caretaker of the third detachment, any fool knows how to choose.
Lu Yizhan slowly got to his feet before he was heavily pinned down by Dong Chenglong with a slap.
Dong Chenglong looked hale and hearty at Bai Liu(6), wheeled his hammer and ran over to him, snatched the heart from Bai Liu(6)'s hand, tilted his head and swallowed it in one gulp, rolling his throat a little to swallow the heart, and then, while beating the sledgehammer over, he hissed: "I've finished! "
Bai six laughed up, "What a ...... surprising choice."
His shadow and voice disappeared into the rose-coloured smoke the moment he was hit by the sledgehammer.
The thorns burst out from beneath the ground and wrapped themselves around Dong Chenglong's ankles, pulling him back and preventing him from moving. The thorns emerge from beneath the ground, hovering in the air and aiming their sharp heads at Dong Chenglong on the ground, then falling down like a million arrows aimed at him.
Lu Yizhan's pupils shrink to a tiny dot, his face is covered in Dong Chenglong's splattered blood, and his oxygen tank is nearing the bottom as he breathes heavily.
Dong Chenglong was nailed to the ground by a million arrows of thorns, dying as they criss-crossed through him, his broad, bloody palms removing his own face mask and inserting his own oxygen bottle into Lu Yizhan's.
"Why ......" Lu Yizhan asked with a blank expression, "am I just a ...... worthless common ...... waste."
Dong Chenglong lifted his blood-stained face, his eyes, which were always full of anger, became unfocused, and he said in one word.
"...... The only value of our existence is so that you, one day, will have the freedom to choose to be ordinary people."
"Now--"
Dong Chenglong roared out of his chest with his last breath, "- Run like a normal person under my protection, Lu Yizhan!
"Use all your spirit and run away like a waste!!!"
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Chapter 412
Lu Yizhan had never run so fast before, panting heavily, breathing in the oxygen Dong Chenglong had hooked up to him, with an unconscious Cen Buming on his back.
The field of rose-coloured smoke was a mad dash in my head.
Until once again the back of the one carrying the heavy sword was seen.
Lu Yizhan's knees gave out and he almost stumbled to his knees in front of Fang Dian, who caught him with one hand.
He gasped, and only now did tears roll unconsciously from his eyes, unable to utter a word.
He heard Fang Dian's order very clearly in his ear, "Lu Yizhan, a member of the third detachment, led by Dong Chenglong, a member of the [Cross Judgement Army], has successfully rescued a group of members of the second detachment!"
"Next-" Fang Dian looked ahead, dusty and determined, at the Rose Factory, her heavy sword drawn and thrust hard into the ground as she stepped out behind the other members of the Inquisitorial Army, "Mission handover! "
"[Cross Judgement Army] Clear the battlefield!"
Lu Yizhan has forgotten how he got back to the Heresy Bureau, he seems to have blacked out, but he doesn't. He remembers everything that happened afterwards clearly, just as if he were a rigid shell, with his soul withdrawn from him.
Cen Buming was taken off his back and put on a stretcher, and Lu Yizhan was able to get up after only half a day in his bed and went back to the main office.
The whole of the Bureau of Heretics was in a state of chaos, full of members of the team who had been carried back with roses reflected in their pupils, wilting in pain.
With each step Lu Yizhan took against the wall, he felt as if he had crushed a petal from flesh and blood, and his ears were filled with heartbreaking howls and cries of pain, as if he were in hell on earth.
The end of the world seems to be coming the next moment.
And Fang Dian is the one who will stop the end of the world from coming.
She came back like a pin, calming everyone down, and Fang Dian stood in the middle of everyone's line of sight with her bloodstained heavy sword, looked up and said, "We took care of the rose factory, and now we've found a way to house the dried leaf rose gas."
"Get some of the team over here who are mentally fit and not easily driven mad by heresy, we need to pick up the antidote to the dry leaf rose gas quickly."
A dozen players raised their hands to sign up, Lu Yizhan being the first to do so.
Lu Yizhan followed behind Fang Dian who was walking fast with his head down, he opened his mouth several times and finally asked the question he always wanted to know the answer to: " Team Fang, has Team Dong ...... come back yet? "
Fang Dian's grip on the heavy sword tightened violently and she bowed her head, her hair falling over her forehead, her expression unreadable, "Back."
It soon became clear to Lu Yizhan in what way Dong Chenglong had come back.
Lu Yizhan's face was blank, his eyes slack as he looked at the body of Dong Chenglong, whose eyes had turned grey with rage and whose mouth was wide open, pierced through the heart by thousands of thorns in the heretical storage room he had just fought.
"Heresy 6071, Dried Rose Leaf Gas, Reception: the body of Dong Chenglong, a member of the [Cross Judgement Army]."
Fang Dian paused for a moment and continued, "Weakness and how to mitigate it, the weakness being the heart, mitigated by stripping the rose thorn segments that grow from its corpse and having the team member contaminated with dried rose leaf gas swallow it."
"One hundred and twelve members of the Heresy Processing Bureau contaminated with rose-scented water, please now cut open the body of Captain Dong Chenglong and strip the thorns from his body and send it to the hospital there for the contaminated members to swallow."
Fang Dian said and then paused, "Don't tell the team where this thorn came from, I'll classify the Rose Perfume file as a first class secret later."
"Now please move with speed."
Fang Dian was about to leave after saying that.
Lu Yizhan hung his head and clutched the oxygen mask in his uniform pocket, which Dong Chenglong had given him to hold over his face before he escaped, and which he was now clutching with his fingers so hard that it was about to be deformed.
" Team Fang." He suddenly asked in a mute voice, "If you had to choose between me and Team Dong to survive, who would you choose?"
Fang Dian's departing back paused: "I have no right to make that choice about you."
"Then again." She said, "Hasn't Dang already made his choice?"
"Don't question his choices in front of his corpse, and watch out for him coming alive to scold you later when he thinks you're worth dying for-"
"-you're just worth it."
Lu Yizhan gritted his teeth to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall, and he raised his red eyes as he was the first of a group of stiff, motionless team members to lift his knife and slice through Dong Chenglong's skin, cutting out the thorns that were still writhing in his body.
"Come on, cut it out!" Lu Yizhan turned his head and hissed out to the players who were frozen in place, "No spirit!"
Three days later, the Rose Factory matter had subsided.
Lu Yizhan hesitated around the corner for a long time, but when he saw Fang Dian passing by after dinner, he finally plucked up the courage to go up to her and held out his file and handed it to her: "Team Fang, I want to join the first team!"
Fang Dian raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "But it's past admissions season this year."
"I'm not going down the recruitment route." Lu Yizhan slowly raised his body, "I want to apply directly to join the [Cross Judgement Army] to take Team Dong's missing position."
"It's a rarity, [the Cross Judgement Army] didn't receive a single application report in previous years, but this year we actually received two." Fang Dian waved the other side of the file in her hand and smiled, "And both are very well-qualified merit students."
Lu Yizhan was stunned.
Fang Dian said, "Apart from you, Cen Buming from the second team has also submitted an application, even if we want to take on someone we can only take on one person this year, do you want to talk to each other first?"
So Lu Yizhan went to Cen Buming's ward.
Before stepping into Cen Buming's ward Lu Yizhan heard a conversation from inside, starting with a young male voice with a somewhat dry tone: "...... Am I the only one who came back from the second team?"
--This is the voice of Cen Buming.
The other voice was more mature and should be a member of the second team, the other was silent for a moment before answering, "...... The others didn't survive the test of the incense test paper and didn't last until we got there before they were alienated into monsters and killed by the [Cross Judgment Army]."
After a breathless silence, the other man seemed to pat Cen Buming on the shoulder, "Cheer up." Then he pushed open the door and walked out.
Lu Yizhan waited for the man to come out and was just about to go in when he heard extremely subdued and heartbreaking shouts and cries coming from the ward, like the sound of a man with his head in a cup, hammering the bed frantically and desperately to vent his emotions, and then turning into a very small sob afterwards.
Lu Yizhan, who was waiting outside the door and just about to knock: "......"
He did understand the emotional process, after all, he had just been through it a few days before and cried with a much more spiritual voice than this Cen Buming student.
But after twenty minutes, when the noise inside had not stopped, Lu Yizhan began to think seriously about whether he had come at the wrong time today, and as he turned to leave, his foot accidentally stepped on a tile that had risen, and with a crunch, he heard Cen Buming inside asking alertly, "Who's at the door? "
Lu Yizhan: "......"
Lu Yizhan pretended he had just arrived and pushed open Cen Buming's door, "Hello, Cen Buming, I'm the other person you're competing with for an alternate spot in the [Cross Judgement Army], I'm Lu Yizhan from Team 3."
Lu Yizhan kindly offered his hand to Cen Buming.
Cen Buming gave a cool glance and did not take Lu Yizhan's hand: "You're the one who scored two points higher than me on the written test."
Lu Yizhan sensed a hint of coolness in the other man's choice of words and felt that he had come at a bad time, so he sighed inwardly and said, "Yes, it's just a coincidence."
"That's quite a coincidence." Cen Buming's tone was cold as he glanced over his shoulder, "It just so happens that you passed me on the written test once, and happened to get a perfect score, so it's not a coincidence that you usually only get 70 or 80 points-"
Lu Yizhan replied seriously to Cen Buming: "It's a coincidence, if it wasn't a coincidence I would have beaten you in every exam."
Cen Buming: "......"
As Cen Buming's eyes were already red from crying, Lu Yizhan's tears were about to roll out through his teeth, so Lu Yizhan scratched his head and said, "I didn't mean to put you down, I thought the questions were so easy, you could have gotten a perfect score.
"Don't you usually get full marks? How come this time it's 98?" Lu Yizhan was genuinely puzzled.
Cen Buming, who had coincidentally missed two marks on this written test, was so angry that his eyes began to redden and he coldly withdrew his gaze, "Get out."
Lu Yizhan also felt that it might not be a good day to talk about things, so he said to Cen Buming that you should get some rest, turned around and was ready to leave.
"Wait." Cen Buming suddenly shouted at Lu Yizhan, his voice suddenly sinking, "I was just told by the men from the second detachment that you were the first one to run from the factory and left Team Dong behind."
" Team Dong got me out, it was my incompetent waste, too unconscious to assist him at that time, but you, why did you run away at that time when you clearly had the power?"
Cen Buming's eyes were red as he stared dead at Lu Yizhan, his fists clenched tightly, "Mingming if you had stayed, you might have saved one more man from the second detachment."
" Team Dong wouldn't have had to put in all that work to protect me and die in a place like that!"
Lu Yizhan opened his mouth to say something, realising that Cen Buming thought Team Dong had rescued him and that was why he wanted to join the [Cross Trial Team].
But looking at Cen Buming's gritted back teeth, tear-stained face, and extremely resigned look, hating himself so much that he wanted to kill himself, Lu Yizhan finally swallowed the words of explanation - [I couldn't save anyone else behind your back].
"Because I'm a common loser." Lu Yizhan scratched his head and smiled, "More greedy for life and death, so he ran away, I guess."
Cen Buming, his eyes completely red, hissed: "Cowards! Deserters! Get the hell out of here!!!"
Lu Yizhan closes the door of the ward quickly to block the glass of water that Cen Buming is smashing, pats his heart with a heartbeat, and walks away.
A long time later Cen Buming asked Lu Yizhan, "Brother, why didn't you tell me that you had carried me out?
But at that time, after listening to Cen Buming's heartbreaking cry outside the door, Lu Yizhan just thought...
--Seeing you like that, I don't think you're going to last much longer if you keep hating yourself.
Then how about coming to hate me.
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Chapter 413
While Lu Yizhan was about to wait for Cen Buming to calm down before having a peaceful chat with him, he heard Cen Buming apply to Fang Dian for a duel [fair decision].
When there are two or more people competing for a position or task, the [Cross Judges] will give the question and ten randomly selected members of the Board will serve as the [Jury] to complete the process to avoid cheating.
Whoever solves the puzzle first, gets the task or the job.
This is how the members of the Crusaders have been selected, so Fang Dian was quick to approve.
Lu Yizhan soon got his questions.
All you have to do is to take it in alone within half an hour, and whoever completes the process first will get a seat in the Crusade.
If there is an emergency, a member will come down and help the person who needs help, and the person will abstain.
Lu Yizhan's gaze sinks for a moment after he gets the question - the dried-leaf rose is nothing more than a heretic of the red danger class.
The test is obvious, it's a test of their familiarity with the heretic's weaknesses, their ability to adapt to the situation and perhaps ...... a certain psychological profile.
Cen Buming did not hesitate to submit his consent form the same day the exam questions were given.
The next day Lu Yizhan also submitted.
On the third day, the test began. The member of the Crusaders who came to observe the test as a safety officer was Yu Fu, a female member of the Crusaders who was in charge of medical accidents in the team, the team's healer, very good with scalpels and surgical threads, very sweet and gentle looking, with long shoulder-length hair, always wearing a close-fitting white coat and sometimes a nurse's uniform.
Lu Yizhan, who is not a big fan of this kind of thing, is the flower of the Heretics Authority and has a long queue of crushes on her.
Although Yu Fu always looks at everyone with a saintly, worried look, the first thing he says to someone is usually: why are you hurt again, come and let me take a look at you.
But the team members who are treated like this by her are usually shivering with spring in their step while excusing themselves and saying Mr. Yu, no need.
Yu Fu would smile gently and say, "I'm a doctor, isn't it my job to treat you?" and then drag the screaming team members who didn't want to go in by holding on to the floor.
After an intense treatment, the team member crawled out of Yu Fu's treatment room, cured but dying, and Yu Fu smilingly took off his blood-stained mask and surgical gown and waved to the team member to come back next time.
Yu Fu has a bizarre habit of not using anaesthesia when she treats people.
A Captain Fang, who wishes to remain anonymous, once asked Yu Fu why she didn't like the use of anaesthesia, which caused her so much pain every time she was treated.
Only pain, and only deep pain, will make one remember not to make the same mistake next time.
Pain is not fatal, but mistakes can be.
The person who came to release the heretics on the day of the trial was Fang Dian, and the venue for the release was the field practice base of the Heretics Directorate.
When Lu Yizhan was a trainee, he used to deal with all kinds of heretics released by the instructors to exercise them, as part of a field heresy training course for trainees of the Bureau of Heresy.
The heretics released at that time were less dangerous, the highest being orange, and the instructor who led them at that time was still Dong Chenglong.
But now everything has changed
Lu Yizhan puts on his protective gear and secures his gun on his belt, he looks away to Cen Buming at the other end who is also dressed in protective gear.
Yu Fu came over and introduced them to their jury members, four from the third branch, three from the second branch, one from the first branch, and finally two trainees who looked to be only 15 or 16 years old.
The gentle smile on Yu Fu's face became a little helpless: " Team Fang stuffed them in on a whim, she said that the quality of this year's trainees was very good and they could get in touch with the battlefield earlier, so she chose two of them to come and watch the show, oh no, watch the battle.
"Sorry, I just made a slip of the tongue." Yu Fu covered her mouth and smiled softly, "You guys don't mind, do you?"
Lu Yizhan: "......"
Cen Buming: "......"
We actually don't mind too much, Team Yu.
Cen Buming, however, kept talking to the second team, one of whom was the one Lu Yizhan had seen visiting him in the ward earlier and telling him that the Crusaders had killed his alienated teammate.
The man tapped Cen Buming on the shoulder and said something to Cen Buming with a complicated expression.
When Lu Yizhan saw this scene, a flash of something strange passed through his heart.
...... normal Heresy Authority Team 2 members, would they use [Cross Judgment Army] to kill people like that?
The two trainees seemed to realise they were not very popular and both looked a little tense and confused, the slightly taller trainee was the first to step forward and introduce himself, " Tang Erda, sixteen years old, current ambition is second team, I want to kill all the heretics in the world that hurt people."
The other took a deep breath and also introduced himself, " Su Yang, sixteen years old, current ambition is the third team."
Lu Yizhan, a former member of the third team, smiled good-naturedly at Su Yang: "The third team is good to get into, come on, you can do it."
Su Yang let out a long sigh of relief and nodded coyly to Lu Yizhan, "Thank you, Brother."
It was Cen Buming who came back, clutching his chest, glancing sorrowfully at the trainee named Tang Erda and sneering, "The second team doesn't welcome over-ambitious fools who open their mouths and want to save the world."
I vaguely remember when Cen Buming volunteered for the same Lu Yizhan: "......"
Tang Erda raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to talk back, but Yu Fu stopped her and she smiled at Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming: "That's enough pleasantries, let's go in."
Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming looked at each other and Cen Buming turned his face away coldly first and entered the training ground.
The field is full of artificial fog, both shrubs and low grasses, the whole view is not open at all, and there are cameras and broadcast speakers buried all over the field, constantly playing ear-splitting insects and birds, so that you cannot hear the sound of heretics approaching to scrape the grass, so to speak, blocking observation from both hearing and sight.
All you can rely on at this time is your familiarity with heretics and your own combat reflexes.
Lu Yizhan crouched down on the grass and lowered his head to sniff the mucus on a blade of grass, which had a distinctive fishy smell, a milky white mass of small, pitiful lumps that smelled like the mucus secreted by human eyes.
Bitter and slightly salty, much like the taste of tears.
There are over a hundred heretics with eyes, and about 32 heretics who shed tears.
With his features locked in, Lu Yizhan drew out a forked probe and began to discreetly tap the surrounding grass from below.
Excluding the 6 plant-like heresies growing from below, then the animal heresies are next.
Yu Fu, standing in the room watching the big screen, gave a slightly appreciative smile: "Very good knowledge of the theory and a very good detection procedure."
"But over here ......" Tang Erda looked slightly reluctantly at the monitor reflecting Cen Buming, "this one called Cen Buming seems to have found it. "
"How can it be so fast ......" Yu Fu turned his head to look over and then his face changed, " Cen Buming how can he use this?! Who gave this to him?!"
In Cen Buming's hand was a mirror about the size of his palm, and he was using the reflection to find somewhere where there was a piece of something wriggling and he was about to walk over to check it out.
And as you can see from the surveillance, the back of the mirror has a looming square cross in relief.
But Yu Fu knew that it was because Cen Buming had taken it backwards, and wondered what the person who gave it to him had said, that the mirror should be a reverse cross in relief on the front and back.
--This is Bai Liu(6)'s thing, called the Murphy Theorem Magic Mirror, which allows a man to see his worst fears.
Yu Fu did not hesitate to press the alarm bell: "Test aborted! Call the Commander of the Crusading Army!"
A hasty, panicked reply came over the contact with a jumble of currents, "Team Fang can't get through for now!"
"The Directorate is rioting! Something has caused all the heretics to flee at the same time! The Crusaders are urgently dealing with the incident, ask Team Yu to handle it themselves over there first!"
Yu Fu hung up her contact and closed her eyes, then opened them and swept a look of fear across the faces of the eight team members and two trainees behind her and ordered calmly, "I'll go into the training ground later to take in the heretics, so stay put and don't move easily, no matter what happens."
"And especially don't look in the mirror."
She put on her uniform and walked briskly towards the training ground, intercom in hand, " Cen Buming, face down put the mirror in your hand-"
Inside the training ground.
After all the loudspeakers around Cen Buming had turned into an ear-splitting tinkle of electricity and he could not hear the sound from the control room, Cen Buming gripped the mirror in his hand warily and looked at the heretic with his back to him, took two steps back, closed his eyes and hid himself in the grass.
With its tearing eyes, its ocular discharge and its massive solidity, Cen Buming judged what this heresy was almost as soon as he saw it.
Heresy 0573, Eyetun Food.
The whole body of this heretic is covered with eyeballs, forming the cause Buming, and as soon as any of its eyeballs sees your eyes, your orbits will be empty for a moment, while your eyeballs will appear in its body.
But this is not the most dangerous part of this heresy, the most dangerous part of this heresy is that the eye is not dead, the eye that was taken away by the [Eye Tuna] retains its neurological connection and physical awareness, which means that the eye still seems to be growing on your body and can still see what you see, and if the eye that belongs to you that is growing on the [Eye Tuna] is attacked, you will still feel pain. .
And if all the eyes on this [eye-tunnel food] see your eyes at the same time, then they will parasitize you in a flash.
No one knows what happens to the hosts after they have been parasitised, but the screams of agony from the last person parasitised are still in the Heretic Authority's sound files, Cen Buming, and it is said to be an unrelenting pain, with each host not living more than an hour before dying in extreme agony.
This heretical weakness is also obvious, and when you don't look it in the eye, it naturally can't detect you.
Cen Buming hid in the grass with his eyes tightly shut, he could feel the heretic wriggling closer to himself with a huge mass of limbs full of eyeballs, seemingly turning the tens of thousands of eyes on himself to find out where the eyeballs on his face were.
But it was clear that the other side had not found it and was ready to leave again.
Cen Buming's breathing slowly lightens and he prepares to step back, but suddenly, as if seeing something, the heretic darts closer to him again, Cen Buming's heart tightens, but soon he realises what the problem is -
The square cross mirror in his hand had somehow turned into a reverse cross, with the mirror facing [Eyeball Tun Food], and [Eyeball Tun Food] saw his reflection in the mirror and thought it was the eyeball running wild!
Cen Buming flung the mirror out of his hand at the first opportunity.
The moment the mirror was out of his hand, it flipped several times in the air and landed firmly on the ground, becoming a carved antique mirror the size of a dressing-glass, and where it had fallen, the figure of Lu Yizhan, running in the distance, was faintly visible in the direction it was facing.
By the time Lu Yizhan saw the mirror, which had bizarrely appeared out of place in the examination room, he was fully illuminated, even if he was keen enough to dodge it the next second.
Ripples and ripples appeared in the centre of the mercury surface of the mirror, spreading out in a circle in all directions, reflecting in the mirror a person who looked completely different from anyone else on the field.
Wearing leather boots that wrapped around his calves, the white shirt Lu Yizhan had seen that night underneath, and a black whip in his hand, he smiled as he stepped through the mirror into the training ground, and greeted Lu Yizhan with a smile, "Thank you for summoning me here with your fear."
Lu Yizhan's pupils fluttered as he quickly understood the purpose of the mirror.
This man used his fear and this mirror to get right to the inside of the Bureau of Heresy Processing!
A sharp silver scalpel flew from behind Bai Liu(6)'s diagonal, which Bai Liu(6) dodged with a slight dip.
Bai Liu(6) smiled back, "The metaphorical examiner is as good as ever at destroying my personal belongings."
Yu Fu also smiled gently and affectionately: " Mr Bai Liu(6) is still so good at using dirty tricks."
"Now even the fear of our trainee team members is being exploited." Yu Fu's eyes were closed not looking at everything in the field, a smile clouding her face, "You've been setting this up since the time of Big Dragon's death?"
"If you say the current riots in the Heresy Handling Bureau and the fact that I've come to be a guest now." Bai Liu(6) smiled the eight winds, "Indeed it is, Team Yu ."
"One game has to be closely linked to another to make it interesting, doesn't it?"
Yu Fu was calm for a long time before he spoke, "What game do you want to play with me?"
" The game between a quality player like Team Yu and me is going to be left for last." Bai Liu(6) turned sideways as he smiled at Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming who were standing a short distance away, "Why don't you let your Crusaders' reserves try a game with me, the villainous big bad you've been targeting for a long time, first?"
"Let me, the big bad guy, pick it out myself-"
Bai Liu(6) smiled, "Let's see who gets to play the next round of the game with me."
Yu Fu raises his hand and shoots another scalpel. Bai Liu(6) smiles and raises his hand, and a wall of fluctuating water patterns is erected in front of him, engulfing the scalpel shot by Yu Fu and allowing Yu Fu to see the other side of the wall in a faintly visible way.
Bai Liu(6) smiles and looks at Yu Fu behind the watery wall: "The best seat in the house for game viewing, Team Yu."
"Since you are new players, let's play something simple -" Bai Liu(6) clapped his hands together and turned his head to Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan behind him, smiling softly. The game is called "Open your eyes when it's dark."
"The rules of the game are I count one, two, three, say it's dark and then whoever opens their eyes first wins."
"This game is played by you two novice players, along with the so-called heretic [0573], and I will have it and you both close all eyes and sit down face to face."
The scalpel that Yu Fu had just shot into the wall of water disappeared and now shot out from within the wall of water, passing right through Cen Buming's shoulder blade and pinning him to the ground.
Cen Buming couldn't control his anger and tried to open his eyes when Lu Yizhan's calm voice suddenly came to his ears, "We play with you."
"How does that count for us?"
Bai Liu(6)'s eyes swept over to Lu Yizhan, whose eyes were also closed at the moment, and the smile on his face became amused again, "It's simple, as long as one of you opens your eyes before the heretic [0573] the moment I say it's dark, you win."
"But it also means that one of you must lose one of your own eyes."
Bai Liu(6) propped up his jaw as he pondered as if in thought, the smile on his face deepening, "It's certainly great that the player who lost both eyes won the game and protected another, but at the same time, that person will never be able to join the [Cross Judgement Army] again."
"- and even have to quit the Bureau of Heresy Processing for good and become a protected, worthless piece of ordinary crap."
Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming's breaths hitched.
"So-" Bai Liu(6) said with a small smile, "the game is on, it's dark, time for bed, all eyeballs close please."
The eyeballs above seemed to be hypnotised by Bai Liu(6)'s words and closed one after the other.
"Now on the count of one, two, three, werewolves please open your eyes."
Cen Buming, pinned to the ground by the scalpel, opened his crimson eyes with little hesitation, but before he could see the [eyeball-tuned food], a man darted to his feet to block his path, right in front of the eyeball-filled monster.
Cen Buming's mind went blank and all he heard was a "buzzing kong" sound, like something being gouged out, and a steady stream of blood dripping from the left side of Lu Yizhan's face, seeping into the grass around him.
"Now that the game is over, do I win?" Lu Yizhan asked in a hoarse voice.
Bai Liu(6) looked over at Lu Yizhan, who was in Cen Buming's way, and raised his eyebrows slightly as he smiled, "You win."
Lu Yizhan is breathing heavily, his right eye tightly closed and his left open, having been gouged out, leaving only broken blood vessels seeping out in a steady stream from the empty socket and dripping down his jaw.
"That was quite a warm up game." Bai Liu(6) snapped his fingers and the wall of water ripples that stood between Yu Fu and him fell away as he turned to Yu Fu and said with a grin, "Now it's the official game, Team Yu ."
He snapped his fingers again and the ten members of the [Jury] who had been watching the battle from the communications room appeared in the training ground.
" Has Team Yu ever played Werewolf?" Bai Liu(6) took a step towards the group, the smile on his face growing friendlier, "It's a game I really like."
"Now we're going to play a variant version of werewolf killing called [Open your eyes when it's dark], which has different rules again from the game we just played."
"Since Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming, two new players, have just cleared the first game, let them be the audience for now and let us play the rest of the game with just the twelve players."
Bai Liu(6) looked up and he smiled, "There is one heretic among your twelve players, a God Zhang card, this God Zhang card is Team Yu and the rest of you are all villagers."
"You may choose to sacrifice yourselves and allow the heretic to parasitise you, successfully harbour the heretic and the game is over."
"- Or, you can choose to actively become werewolves and kill the God sign in the dark or slaughter all the villagers, the game ends after the slaughter of the sides."
The smile on Bai Liu(6)'s lips became misty: "Either way, you don't have to worry about the consequences, because the judge, that is me, will erase everyone's memory after dark, people won't remember killing people, neither will the rest of you, and you can still remain an innocent survivor of the game in the Heretic Authority. "
"- Or, after becoming a werewolf you can choose to leave with me, away from this dangerous Heretic Authority, and become the evil villain who is free and makes others feel dangerous."
"Bai Liu(6)--!!!" Cen Buming braced his bruised shoulder and tried to stand up.
Bai Liu(6) raised his hand gently without looking back, and the watery wall separated them, and he said with a soft smile, " - this is the wall that isolates all attacks, and the attacks of the heretics are also ineffective in the space behind the wall, so you can also look straight at the heretics 0573 from behind the wall. "
"Now stay well back as a spectator and watch it all."
Lu Yizhan felt himself being pulled downwards by something and sat down forcibly on the floor, looking up at the contents behind the watery wall, the blurring of which made everything unreal, and for a moment he felt in a trance like he was watching a small television audience.
It's ridiculous.
Tang Erda refused with a face full of anger, "Are you fucking shit? I'm not going to play this game with you!"
Yu Fu calmly ordered, "Trainee Tang Erda, match his game."
Tang Erda turned his head sharply at Yu Fu, finally clenching his back teeth and lowering his head in obedience, "...... Yes, Team Yu ."
Bai Liu(6) smiled and said, "So the game begins, it's dark, all eyeballs close please."
The eyes of everyone, including heretic 0573, were closed.
Bai Liu(6)'s eyes swept over the three members of the second team whose hands were trembling, and he spoke with a smile, "Now, open the eyes of the wolves."
As Cen Buming watched in disbelief, the three second team members opened their eyes one after the other and hesitantly, slowly, stood up, gripped their guns behind their waists and hesitantly walked up to Yu Fu, raising them to point them at her.
Yu Fu's breath caught for a moment, then quickly calmed down, his voice soft to the point of inaudibility, but still clear and steady.
"...... Bai Liu(6), the riot at the Heresy Handling Bureau, did you turn the captain of the second detachment to get him to release all the heretics?"
"From before the Rose Factory, you turned the men of the second detachment, you deliberately had the men of the second detachment of one group go to the Rose Factory to investigate, lured Captain Dong Chenglong there, killed him there, and at the same time deliberately released Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan, by Lu Yizhan's fear of what you had planted in the Rose Factory Then through the magic mirror given to Cen Buming Murphy by the second team, you managed to get inside the Bureau of Heresy, didn't you?"
Cen Buming's breathing stops.
...... Yes, when the guys from Team 2 came to see him earlier, they gave him a mirror with a positive cross back carving, saying that it was a relic related to the [Positive Cross Judgement Army] left to him by Team Dong and could be used to check for heretics, and that they wanted him to make good use of it.
--Don't let Team Dong down for saving his life.
He never, ever thought that everything he had suffered for since the beginning was just a game made between this Bai Liu(6) and the men of the second detachment, and that he was just an NPC in the game.
Bai Liu(6) smiled and replied, "Yes, that's very clever Team Yu, but I followed the rules of the game with Team Fang and didn't force my way into the Heretic Authority."
"Not everyone is as committed to their ideals as the people in [the Crusaders], many just want to be ordinary."
"But ordinary people have so many desires that it is too easy to satisfy and betray them, and I am really incredulous at the extent to which you attach trust to them -"
"-evil and lust, after all, have a natural attraction for humans."
Bai Liu(6) lowered his eyes to Yu Fu and whispered as if with a sigh, "-Wolves please kill."
The three second team members raised their guns high at Yu Fu, who opened her eyes before she was shot, and slashed at the closed-eyed heretic 0573 before Bai Liu(6) could say [Violate the rules of the game, kill everyone].
Heretic 0573 opened all her eyes to look at Yu Fu, whose gentle smiling eyes hollowed out the moment she met Heretic 0573's. She fell to her knees, and her body, which had been so good that it had exploded, began to bulge and deform, and oddly shaped eyeballs continued to grow, and she still had that gentle, powerful smile on her face, and her tone was light and graceful: "I'm sorry.
"I'm going to go with God's brand of self-destruct."
The next second, Yu Fu was completely parasitized, her beautiful face completely transformed into a stack of eyeballs, Yu Fu's mind went blank, blood spilled from her mouth, and she was in a trance, remembering Fang Dian.
The big-hearted captain sat in front of her covered in bruises and asked her, Yu Fu, what's the most annoying way you can die?
Yu Fu smiled gently and said, "Of course by pain, Captain."
Fang Dian, while having her face twisted and screwed up by Yu Fu's treatment, grimaced and gave her a thumbs up, showing eight teeth and smiling brightly, saying Yu Fu you only make people die of pain, how can you die of pain yourself!
--you are the healer of our team, and I will always protect you.
Yu Fu slowly closed her vacant eyes as she opened her mouth to say something, but in the end not a word came out before an eyeball grew violently in her throat.
She had always thought that it was the mistakes that were fatal.
So pain can be fatal.
Bai Liu(6) clapped his hands together and he smiled at everyone, "That was quite a nice comeback."
"The God sign explodes itself and it saves everyone, as expected of a healer Team Yu."
"Even the traitors want to save down-" Bai Liu(6) looked sideways at the three members of the second detachment whose expressions were blank, and he hooked his mouth, "- -not bad for the [Massive Cross Judgement Army] style."
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Chapter 414
Cen Buming was admitted back to the hospital the day after his discharge, this time in the same ward as Lu Yizhan.
The two men stared at the ceiling with their eyes open, without a word, from darkness to dawn, and could faintly hear the noise and cries of soldiers coming from outside the door of the ward.
"Third detachment, second small regiment killed!"
"Where did the men of the 5th Regiment of the 1st Detachment go?!"
"2nd New Regiment, 3rd Defection!"
Lu Yizhan eventually drifted off to sleep to the sound of this noise in the background, awakened by the urgent shouts of Cen Buming, who was too dazed to realise that he was in the same ward as Cen Buming, when he heard someone shouting Yu Fu's name hoarsely in his sleep.
He sighed inwardly, rolled over and covered his head with the blanket, thinking that my roommate was having Team Yu's wet dreams again.
But Team Yu is dead.
Lu Yizhan woke up in a flash at this sudden thought, as if he had jumped from some peaceful routine to a nightmare, fully awake with a cold sweat on his back.
He slowly turned his head to look at Cen Buming in the other bed with his eyes closed, his brow furrowed and his forehead sweating, who was clearly having a nightmare.
I don't know what Cen Buming was dreaming about, but his voice was dry as he kept calling out Yu Fu or Team Yu, his hands clenching and unclenching as if trying to hold on to something, and tears slipping from the corners of his eyes.
" Team Yu ......" Cen Buming murmured hoarsely with a sobbing voice, "Don't die."
" Lu Yizhan, don't you die ......"
Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long, long time and calmly replied to Cen Buming's dream: "Well, I'm not dead."
After Cen Buming went back to sleep, Lu Yizhan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. The bandage around his left eye was still bleeding and the doctor gave him a stern warning not to move around, but Lu Yizhan couldn't sleep and got up and started wandering around the medical department.
There were injured players everywhere and a strong smell of disinfectant permeated the corridors, but this still could not cover the strong smell of blood.
Lu Yizhan heard the injured team members whispering.
"The fleeing heretics are basically under control ...... Things should be over."
"The head of the second team of traitors, the captain of the second team, has been captured and will be tried by Team Fang himself tomorrow."
"The captain of the ...... second team is a contemporary of Team Fang, right? I remember the two of them were quite close before."
"The contemporaries who had the best relationship with Team Fang were Team Yu, right? Eh ...... now one defected to be tried and one ......"
"...... Not to mention, Team Yu dead, Team Fang seriously injured, I don't know what face I'll be using to walk past Team Yu's medical office."
Lu Yizhan's steps stop and he turns around, heading towards Yu Fu's medical office.
The area around Yu Fu's medical office was quiet and empty, except for the door, which was slightly ajar, and Lu Yizhan was just wondering who had used the key to open Team Yu's office when he heard Fang Dian's cheerful laugh.
"Yu Fu, I've come to see you for treatment, I was particularly badly injured this time, that animal from the second team almost cut my arm off, I was thinking that I was lucky I had you, otherwise this broken arm would probably not have been connected."
"When I was a trainee, me and that animal always fought and you were the one who helped me sew with him, every time you moved gently and then sewed us both grimacing, haha."
"Tomorrow." Fang Dian's voice paused, the amusement in her voice fading, "I'm about to cut that animal's head off."
"He betrayed the Heretical Authority."
"The fool who said he'd put down big words with us about going into the second team and slaying the evil in the world defected over to Bai Liu(6)."
Fang Dian's voice gradually lowered: " Yu Fu, what do you think he was thinking ...... He obviously hated Bai Liu(6) so much, hated the heretics so much, but yet he said to me that the heretics are absolutely impossible to kill and Bai Liu(6) is absolutely impossible to overcome. "
"He said ...... I was taking the lives of second team members of the Bureau of Heresy Processing to fill this black hole of heresy that was impossible to fill, and he asked me if I knew how many second team members died every time I went out in the field, and he called me a cruel bitch."
"He yelled at me, questioned me, said that those who knew nothing about it, even insulted them, the members of the team, for interfering with their own fucking lives as ordinary people, and that the lives of so many young men in their teens and twenties in the second unit of the Heretic Authority were not lives?"
"He asked me why I should sacrifice the lives of these members of the team to save the lives of worthless ordinary people?"
Fang Dian's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible: " Yu Fu, you're a doctor, you've been saving lives, tell tell me, I don't understand......"
"Why would one feel such hatred for the object of one's save?"
Lu Yizhan's hand pauses as he knocks on the door, unsure of whether to enter or exit.
A gust of wind blew the door open from the inside and Fang Dian turned back, "Who is it?"
Lu Yizhan: "......"
Was it his luck? It keeps happening all the time.
But when Lu Yizhan saw what Fang Dian looked like now, all the jumbled thoughts in his head emptied and he became blank.
Fang Dian's hair was loose, her black, moist, half-length hair half-hidden from her face, her face and lips unmistakably pale, her nose and the corners of her eyes slightly red, she had just cried, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.
Her left arm was dangling in a triangular bandage, a captain's uniform draped over her shoulders and a somewhat wider blue and white striped hospital gown underneath, which made Fang Dian look a lot thinner without being straitjacketed in a full regulation uniform.
Opposite Fang Dian hangs a white coat with Yu Fu's badge pinned to it.
Fang Dian just seemed to be pouring out her confusion over this dress that had lost its owner.
The dull light of dawn strikes Fang Dian's shoulders against the backdrop, but it no longer gives Lu Yizhan the sense of oppression she felt when she first met her.
It just feels as if ...... the omnipotent Team Fang is about to shatter in the coming sunlight the next moment.
"It's Little Lu." Fang Dian smiled again, "I heard you had an eye injury, why don't you take a rest and come here?"
Lu Yizhan clenched his fist, he bowed his head and opened his mouth: " Team Yu and Team Dong died because of me, Team Fang, I ......"
"There's no need to say sorry." Fang Dian interrupted Lu Yizhan calmly, her gaze leveled at the empty white coat across the room, "This matter goes back to its roots, it's Bai Liu(6)'s fault, it's my fault, it's the fault of any accident in this world that caused you to take the blame for both of their deaths."
"But it's not your fault, Lu Yizhan, you're a victim too."
"One thing to remember when playing with that Bai Liu(6) guy is that you don't have to beat him to win." Fang Dian looked back at Yu Fu's white coat hanging on the wall and said in a soft tone, "It's the most people who survive that wins for us."
" Yu Fu did it perfectly and the fact that you survived is the best accolade she could have received for winning the game."
Fang Dian smiled with her teeth as she came over and patted Lu Yizhan on the shoulder, where her long hair flew in the light and became shiny again, "You've done well."
"Keep up the good work, Lu Yizhan."
Lu Yizhan's fists were clenched until his fingertips turned white as he fought back a choked sob and said loudly, "Yes, Team Fang!"
The following day, the second team of rebels were all tried, with Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming both staying in the ward.
Cen Buming stared blankly at the ceiling. Lu Yizhan thought the guy might go crazy if he continued like this, so he started a conversation: "What kind of rules do you think Bai Liu(6) plays games?"
Lu Yizhan didn't think Cen Buming would answer, but Cen Buming did almost as soon as Lu Yizhan opened his mouth.
"Disgustingly regular." Cen Buming replied with both eyes glazed over.
"Uh ......" Lu Yizhan tried his best to keep the conversation going, "What kind of disgusting?"
Cen Buming snorted in a trance, "Those three divisions that wanted to kill Team Yu, the traitors ...... thought they wouldn't be remembered by anyone else, that Bai Liu(6) would erase everyone's memory, but everyone in this guy Bai Liu(6) is naturally excluded from the audience. "
"The memories of our two viewers were not erased, so in the end we came out and identified the three traitors, and they deserved to die anyway."
Cen Buming, who identified the traitor, took the initiative, assisted by Lu Yizhan, who added details.
Lu Yizhan was quiet for a moment: "These three men from the second detachment are on good terms with you, aren't they?"
" Bai Liu(6) did erase the memories of the others, and as long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, these three [traitors] won't be found out by anyone and they don't have to be put on trial now, they can live."
"And Bai Liu(6) even erased the memories of these three traitors, who themselves didn't know they had done such a thing, and thought you were deliberately framing them when you identified them, and kept looking at you in shock, thinking it was you ......"
Cen Buming clenched his back teeth and did not speak, Lu Yizhan took a moment of silence before continuing.
"I don't feel they're bad, maybe they wouldn't have done what they did if Bai Liu(6) hadn't forced them to choose, and ultimately they didn't do anything bad, and if you don't identify them, they might slowly turn ......"
Cen Buming placed on the bed with his fists clenched, he hammered hard on the bed and turned his head to stare at Lu Yizhan with bloodshot eyes: "But what's done, is done!!!"
"Even if they forget themselves, even if everyone forgets, but I remember!!!"
"Would it be fair to the dead Captain Yu Fu if we let them go? Is it fair to all the team members who were seriously injured and killed in this accident?!"
Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long time, the only sound in the ward was Cen Buming's ragged panting, before Lu Yizhan spoke calmly: "But they haven't done it yet, and they didn't cause these things, Bai Liu(6) did."
" Team Yu did what they did because they wanted them to survive, and it always felt wrong to punish them for something they didn't do."
"But it's done in my mind!" Cen Buming retorted viciously, " Lu Yizhan, I really do still hate you."
With those words, Cen Buming leapt from the bed and left without looking back, closing the door with a bang.
Alone, with his back to the constant gunfire coming from the side of the courtroom, he walked frantically and quickly, his shoulders shaking with each gunshot, and he ran as if he were running away from this gunfire, through the wards, the training ground, and finally to the heretics' shelter.
Cen Buming came to a halt, panting and with a blank expression.
A team member guarding the heresy shelter recognised Cen Buming and asked him what he was doing here, Cen Buming was silent for a long time before he said, "I came over to see Team Yu."
The team member on guard was a bit confused: "You came to see Team Yu at the heresy shelter?"
Cen Buming opened his mouth as he remembered that these ordinary players knew nothing and said something else: "...... I came to see the heretics [0573] that Team Yu had taken in."
The guard hesitated for a moment, he glanced at Cen Buming, remembering what Fang Dian had said about not treating the remaining Team 2 members too harshly, and added: "...... Because of the previous incident, for security reasons, until the matter of Team 2 is thoroughly investigated, any person who wants to enter the heresy shelter needs direct approval from Team Fang. Anyone from the second team needs Team Fang's direct approval to enter the heresy shelter."
"But you're only half a second team member now because you're in the assessment period for entering the [Cross Judgement Army] and you've also taken it upon yourself to report your own mutinous team members, so if you're anxious to get in, you can go in with restricted movement handcuffs on and see if you want to."
Cen Buming was silent for a long, long time before he slowly held out his hands and said in a muffled voice, "Cuff yourselves."
Led by a member of the guard, Cen Buming walked through several winding corridors, was blindfolded, and came up to the heretic [0573].
The team member, who was also wearing a blindfold to avoid being seen by [0573], said, "As a reserve member of the [Cross Judgement Army], you have a fifteen minute observation period for each red high risk heretic, after which I will forcibly discharge you."
Cen Buming, wearing a black blindfold, nodded and the team member left the mouth as he pushed open the door to the room where [0573] was being held and stepped inside, then removed the blindfold.
[0573] is housed in a one-way visible glass case, meaning that the Cen Buming can see its movements inside the glass case, but it cannot see the Cen Buming outside the glass case, which provides a degree of safety for the observer.
Cen Buming looked at the heretic without saying a word, and after a long interval, he reached out with his handcuffed hands and touched the glass case gently, asking in a dry and mute voice.
" Team Yu, do you want them to survive?"
"...... Did I do wrong when I did that?"
Inside the glass case, more than half of the eyeballs on the eye-tunnel food are closed, the fat body undulating together in some sort of rhythm, seemingly in a deep sleep.
Cen Buming slowly bends his body and presses his eyes up with his eyes closed.
This one-sided glass, if pressed close enough, would allow the heretics inside to sense what was outside, and sure enough, all the eyeballs of the heretics inside opened their eyes at once and squirmed inside the glass case.
The glass case was slowly opened from inside with a certain latch and a crunching sound, and the eyed heretic inside slowly stepped out.
Cen Buming took a deep breath as he closed his eyes and began to back away slowly, then stood still with his hands up, his voice trembling a little, "...... Team Yu, you know how to open this glass case, you still have some consciousness, right?"
All the eyeballs on the eye-tunnel food blinked slowly, as if thinking about what Cen Buming was saying.
"If Team Yu thinks what I'm doing is wrong." Cen Buming's eyelids fluttered lightly as his voice calmed down instead, "I'll open my eyes later, so you parasitize me."
"On the count of one, two, three -"
Cen Buming opened his eyes.
All the eyes of the giant eyeball tun food were closed, it didn't hurt Cen Buming, but all the eyes were twitching as if they were trying desperately to open, but it was suppressed by itself.
Then slowly, an eyeball growing from the end of one of its tentacles was pushed out of its body and slowly reached out in front of the motionless Cen Buming.
It was an eye that did not flutter, it was peacefully and serenely closed, as if it did not want to open at all to harm anyone who saw it, so it preferred to remain invisible, sleeping in the body of a heretic.
--That is Lu Yizhan's left eyeball that was taken from him.
Now Team Yu wants to return it to him.
"I will exchange this eyeball with you." Cen Buming looked up slowly, tears crossing his face, "Please Team Yu take my eyeball."
The moment he received Lu Yizhan's eyeball, Cen Buming's left eye was empty, tears and blood sliding down his face.
--So this is the pain that Team Yu and Lu Yizhan felt?
Cen Buming brings back Lu Yizhan's eyeball and a confused Lu Yizhan is rushed into surgery to see if he can get Lu Yizhan's dropped eyeball back by borrowing some of the powers of an unconventional heretic.
Cen Buming was alone in the courtroom with his freshly bandaged, bleeding left eye.
Cen Buming watched calmly with his one remaining right eye as the pigeons, startled by the sound of gunfire, spread their snowy white wings across the rising morning sun, before walking towards Fang Dian, who had just emerged from the courtroom after his execution.
" Team Fang ." Cen Buming looked up at Fang Dian, "I want to stay with the second team."
"I renounce my entry into the [Cross Judgement Army]."
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