A black bone whip grazed past Bai Liu's cheek, leaving a massive gash on his face, his lower left cheek completely stained red.
Bai Liu raised his hand to wipe it off without a care, then suddenly chuckled, rarely raising his eyes as he replied to Bai Liu (6), "Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda are fighting. Aren't you going to continue your prediction?"
Bai Liu (6) smiled. "You're this happy just because it's reached your area of expertise?"
"As for Tang Erda, he is indeed your strongest asset—good physical condition, peak combat power, a stable mindset, and firm goals."
"Plus, his Russian Roulette skill targeting me, it was a state completely capable of killing me, so he was the first one I sent away."
"I've never seen a Tang Erda with such good combat qualities. It really makes one take a look and immediately—couldn't help but—"
Bai Liu (6) flicked the whip, the whip turning into smoke and dissipating in the air. Four test tubes of poison appeared out of thin air between his fingers. He lifted his eyelids to look at the Bai Liu opposite him, smiling even more wickedly. "—covet this high-quality asset in your hands."
He flicked his wrists, releasing the poison test tubes clamped between his fingers. The four test tubes containing poison spun rapidly in the air before landing and exploding at the southeast, northwest, and center corners by Bai Liu's feet.
Black poison mist spread toward the center, restricting Bai Liu's range of movement.
"It's truly enviable."
Bai Liu (6)'s voice drifted through the poison mist. He was like a high-level hunter playing with his prey, slowly using skills and things that would stimulate Bai Liu and make his emotions fluctuate.
"Your Little Witch looks so obedient to you, but my Little Witch has strong hostility toward me. She thinks that men are the most disgusting collection of desires in this world."
"And I am the most disgusting one among them."
A sound of rushing wind came from the poison mist on the left. Bai Liu did not look aside as he raised his left hand, using his whip to block the black bone whip that had been swung from behind his left side. Bai Liu was knocked backward a distance by the impact of the black bone whip's momentum, his feet scraping two deep marks into the ground.
The poison mist was blown apart by the air movement created when the two whips collided.
Bai Liu (6) stood less than a meter in front of Bai Liu, a relaxed smile on his face, holding the whip with both hands to suppress Bai Liu. "It's rare for you to be willing to chat with me. Although these two prediction results are ones I don't want to see, I can still tell you them for your reference."
"There is a high probability that Tang Erda and Little Witch will be injured, but the final result is—your Tang Erda will win, and Jiayi will not kill Little Witch."
Bai Liu (6) lowered his eyes and chuckled. "Because Jiayi doesn't kill girls."
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Inside the magic space.
Both Tang Erda and [Tang Erda] had some gunshot wounds, but [Tang Erda] had clearly suffered more severe injuries.
Tang Erda looked at this self, who was putting up a desperate struggle with complex eyes and slowly lowered his gun.
[Tang Erda]'s gun had been shattered and dropped to the ground. He covered his right shoulder, which was still bleeding continuously after being hit, his eyes dark and his voice hoarse: "…Don't look at your enemy with those pitiful eyes. Just kill me and get lost!"
Tang Erda lowered his head and was silent for a long time before suddenly speaking: "Su Yang's child is a hundred days old."
"I… went to see it. It was very light when picked up, feeling like it wasn't even as heavy as my gun. Its eyes look very much like his; it's quite cute."
[Tang Erda]'s pupils constricted in disbelief, his eye sockets turning red almost instantly. "What… are you talking about?!"
"No one from the Third Team has entered the game either." Tang Erda took a deep breath. He seemed to have thought of something funny and couldn't help but let out a low laugh. "…This bunch of brats is quite useless after being comfortable for too long. When I asked them to catch a humanoid heretic before, they were in a panic all night and almost blew up the General Bureau."
"Bai Liu saved the survivors of the Love Welfare Home, blew up the Rose Factory, and is currently dealing with the issues of this copy."
Tang Erda raised his head, looking firmly at the trembling pupils of the [Tang Erda] opposite him, and smiled softly. "Everything you are worried about didn't happen."
"Everyone is living happily without knowing anything."
"It is because of this kind of happiness that I sold my soul to Bai Liu."
[Tang Erda] sneered mockingly. "This kind of short-lived happiness is nothing more than a sugar-coated shell that this guy Bai Liu (6) used to bribe your soul…"
One day, it will be taken back and shattered.
Before he could finish his sentence, tears were already streaming from his eyes.
"But even so." Tang Erda slowly raised his gun at [Tang Erda]. "This is also the first time I have seen the kind of happiness I have dreamed of."
Tang Erda smiled with relief, as if he had let go of everything. "The price I paid with my soul, the journey through time I embarked on at the beginning—wasn't what I hoped for just to bring such brief happiness to everyone?"
[Tang Erda] closed his eyes, tears sliding down the corners of his eyes. He scoffed. "…You really are pathetic. In the end, you actually let… what was his name again?"
Tang Erda answered seriously: "Bai Liu."
[Tang Erda] scoffed again. "Let this Bai Liu solve these problems for you."
"A little bit, perhaps." Tang Erda smiled, his clear, deep blue eyes opening as he pulled the trigger without hesitation. "So now, I'm going over to solve the problem for him too."
"Sorry."
"Bang—!"
[System Notice: Player Tang Erda has killed (Summoned creature Tang Erda)]
[System Notice: (Magic Space) Restriction lifted]
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District B.
The poison mist dissipated. Liu Jiayi lay on the ground with a pale face, coughing weakly several times, trying to prop herself up with her elbows to get up again.
[Liu Jiayi] squatted beside her, both annoyed and puzzled as she poked Liu Jiayi's forehead, pushing the little girl back down. "Hey, what on earth are you insisting on, you little blind girl? You'd be fine if you just admitted defeat."
Liu Jiayi stared at her with those gray, unfocused eyes, unyielding. "Then what are you insisting on? You've been dragging it out with me until now, showing mercy several times. Wouldn't it have been fine if you just killed me?"
[Liu Jiayi]'s motion of poking her forehead paused. She rolled her eyes and stared at this Liu Jiayi for a while, and then she clearly saw this dirty little blind girl suddenly smile maliciously, dragging out her tone as she shouted:
"You don't want to kill me at all, right, Da-jie!"
The moment Liu Jiayi shouted [Da-jie], the little girl who had been pretending to have no power to fight back retaliated by spraying poison mist directly into [Liu Jiayi]'s face.
Then, she had the spray nozzle pinched by [Liu Jiayi] with an expressionless face, and it was tossed to the side.
Liu Jiayi punched the ground in frustration.
"You really thought you could succeed in a sneak attack? And competing with me in poison—does that have any meaning?" [Liu Jiayi] sat down cross-legged, speechless, and rested her chin on her hand. "Yes, although I am a killer, my targets are usually stinking, lustful adult men like Bai Liu (6). I don't kill girls."
[Liu Jiayi]'s eyes shifted downward, meeting the eyes of the Liu Jiayi who was lying on the ground. "And I am not that psycho Bai Liu (6). I have no interest in abusing another version of myself."
Liu Jiayi sensed a signal that she could communicate and quickly crawled up and sat down properly, raising her hand to ask: "Then why did Da-jie make such a big show at the beginning?"
[Liu Jiayi] rolled her eyes. "Meimei, I am an adult. I have to work to support myself, and I am working for that old animal Bai Liu (6). He asked me to kill you, so I have to get something to report back to him."
As she spoke, she opened the system panel. Liu Jiayi discovered that there was a recording running inside, and clicking on it showed the scene where [Liu Jiayi] was going to kill her.
[Liu Jiayi] clicked it for Liu Jiayi to see, with nothing better to do. "Look, as long as you admit defeat, I can pretty much report back."
Liu Jiayi was silent for a weirdly long time. She faintly felt the feeling of Bai Liu (6) being lazy and just messing with something to deal with his boss from this [Liu Jiayi]…
"The Bai Liu (6) from your world line should be able to tell that you didn't kill me, right?" Liu Jiayi retorted. "Are you not afraid he will hold you accountable?"
[Liu Jiayi] shrugged her shoulders carelessly. "At worst, it's death. If my soul weren't in Bai Liu (6)'s hands, I wouldn't want to work for him in the first place. Anyway, if I die, it's his own property loss. I don't lose anything."
"Hey." [Liu Jiayi] sighed with world-weariness and continued to say something shocking. "It's just that I didn't know any better when I was young, and I was so easily cheated by this dog man. I worked as a draft horse for him in the league for so many years, just to earn money for this psycho's career. People like me and Monkey, we don't even have our own freedom in the end. We can't even run away."
Liu Jiayi keenly caught the keyword: "Monkey?"
"Hmm." [Liu Jiayi] rested her chin on her hand and replied lazily. "It's Mu Shicheng. Monkey and I have a pretty good relationship in the team. We both wanted to run. Monkey once launched a sneak attack on Bai Liu (6), trying to snatch back his soul banknote, but almost got killed by Bai Liu (6) and was whipped until he lay in bed for two months."
Liu Jiayi expressed great shock at this. She tried to reconstruct the event in her mind, retorting in a complex tone: "Mu Shicheng tried to sneak attack Bai Liu (6) and snatch back his own soul banknote?"
[Liu Jiayi] nodded, letting out a faint "tsk." "Only a monkey would do such a stupid thing. After that, I completely gave up."
Liu Jiayi's eyes narrowed. "Mu Shicheng doing this—it wasn't instigated by you, right?"
[Liu Jiayi] gave her a look that was clearly fake. "Between teammates, how can you call it instigation? I just gave Monkey a little reasonable advice."
Liu Jiayi: "…"
It was indeed something she could do.