Chapter 264
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"Then what are you going to do with...us?" Liu Jiayi shrank back in the seat, buried her head in her knees, "...throw us out of the game, and then what?"
"It's not about throwing you out of the game, you still have something to do for me." Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi.
Liu Jiayi raised her head slightly, and looked at him with red eyes: "...what's the matter?"
"Because Ice Age has not been cleared by anyone, that is, there is no [end] line, then the time corresponding to the reality of the game is stagnant, and the copy has not been loaded into the reality, so the reality still has room for change."
Bai Liu said: "I need everyone to leave the game to prevent that plane from crashing in Antarctica."
Liu Jiayi stretched her body, and she also realized that there was room for maneuvering, and asked back with a frown: "But according to the routine of loading reality in this game, this plane is probably already in the sky above the South Pole. Once we log out, the reality Time starts to flow and it doesn't take long before it crashes."
"We can't stop a plane that's about to crash, and it's still in Antarctica."
Bai Liu smiled: "No, someone can."
Liu Jiayi looked up suspiciously: "Who?"
Bai Liu: "Du Sanying."
Tang Er knocked on the door of the helicopter: "I can already vaguely see the outline of the metal box."
He exhaled white breath, his eyebrows and hair were covered with frost, but Tang Erda's expression was more condensed than these frosts: "——It's the box of the Bureau of Heresy."
———————
Reality, over Antarctica.
The biplane that was about to land had dialed out a communication signal for a long time but was still not received. The five escorts on the plane had already noticed that something was wrong.
They looked at each other, and an ominous premonition welled up in their hearts.
"Plane—Zizi—Call the ground communication station—Zizi—Encountered a lot of clouds and air currents, please answer when you hear—"
The radio station was still silent, and the airflow directly hitting the two wings became stronger and more turbulent. The escort took a deep breath, and they had to prepare for the worst.
"What's ahead?"
"Ross Sea Area."
"Prepare for an emergency landing."
...
Antarctica, the open space in front of the observation station near Dome A.
A group of observers wearing conspicuous red jackets rubbed their hands and stomped their feet and raised their heads to look at the sky. They discussed with each other in low voices with a little anxiety:
"Didn't you tell us to check the ice crevasses for the plane to land today? Why haven't we arrived yet..."
"I don't know. I just came out of the observation station. The liaison officer inside said that I haven't contacted the pilot for a long time. I have used all methods of satellite phone, but there is no signal feedback..."
"Is something going to happen?"
...
Bureau of Heresy, District One.
Wearing a captain's uniform that was a little too big for him, Su Chao looked tired and tight, walked through the brightly lit corridor at night, and entered a mechanical room at the corner.
The mechanical room was in chaos, with coffee cups lying on the table and a few ground communicators who were manipulating the instrument panel staring at the big screen with unshaven beards.
These people's eyes are black and blue, and they feel that they will die suddenly if they tilt their heads at any time.
Captain Su attached great importance to escorting the body parts, and the people below naturally became nervous.
From the time the escort left the port to now over Antarctica, the ground communicators have been maintaining the communication throughout the whole process and have not closed their eyes after working overtime for several days.
But even with such caution, when the plane was about to arrive in Antarctica and everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, something happened suddenly.
No matter what means they used, they could no longer contact the escorts on the five planes.
The ground communicator turned back with a pale face: "Captain Su, what should we do?"
Su Chao hasn't closed his eyes since he sent the escort away. He looked at the pure white snow surface in Antarctica detected by the satellite on the big screen, and his brain went blank for a while because of the too dazzling color.
A kind of feeling that no matter what, there is no way to prevent certain established things from happening.
"So this is what it means for the [Prophet] to have the supreme authority in the Bureau of Heresy." Cen didn't know when he appeared beside the delirious Su Chao.
Su Qi turned his head and looked over in a daze: "Captain Cen..."
Cen Buming crossed his arms, looked at the snowy surface for a while with his eagle-like clear yellow eyes, and turned to look at Su Qi: "Because [achieving] is much more important than [doing it]."
"—Fate has its own arrangements, and those of us on the cards can only obey."
Unknown Cen brushed past Su Chao's side without looking back, "Get ready to collect the corpses of these five escorts."
"Captain Su, what should we do?"
"Captain Su, are we still in touch?"
"Captain Su..."
"Captain Su..."
Su Chao closed his eyes. He leaned on the edge of the table and said in a difficult voice, "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see dead bodies when I die. Let the Antarctic side prepare search and rescue team members and... body bags."
"No matter what the situation is, bring the person back to me."
in-game.
Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng took turns to continue working with Tang Erda. The wind was not as strong as before, and it was replaced by the sun with strong ultraviolet light.
In the process of getting closer to the heart, the temperature on the ice continued to rise, and Mu Sicheng was sweating.
"Tsk, what's going on?" Mu Sicheng shook his neckline, sweat and heat rose together, "Why did it suddenly become hot? Can the weather here be any worse?"
Bai Liu squatted down, and he touched the ice surface that showed obvious signs of melting: "It's not that the weather suddenly became hot."
"It's because we have to dig out the heart and complete the main task, so the world has started to warm up."
Tang Erda poked his head out of the helicopter and shouted loudly: "—Bai Liu, the temperature has risen abnormally, and it's already above zero!"
He jumped off the helicopter and walked in front of Bai Liu in a few steps: "According to this rate of temperature rise, the ice will melt very quickly."
Bai Liu shook her head: "I think not only will it melt quickly, this heart is likely to be the core device site for Edmund to build global cooling, and it is also the last prop of the [true edn] line."
"—If it is taken out, I suspect that this global warming will cause the entire Antarctic ice sheet to melt."
Tang Er frowned: "Then, wouldn't Antarctica become a vast ocean?"
Bai Liu looked up at him: "There are more troublesome things than this."
"If the ice sheet melts completely, the area of Antarctica will be greatly reduced, and the massive disappearance of ice and snow fields will lead to drastic climate changes, and extreme weather such as blizzards that block sight and movement will also be greatly reduced. In such a map, we will be more It's easy to detect."
Bai Liu paused: "This will speed up the speed at which Spade finds us."
The implication of Bai Liu's words was obvious, he had to find a way to hide his heart, otherwise it would be a matter of time before Spade found it.
Tang Er frowned: "But where is it hidden? Spade's attack speed and movement speed are too high. He can explore all places in Antarctica anytime and anywhere. It doesn't matter where he puts his heart." Safety."
He had to sigh: "Aside from being not good at deciphering, this guy is really a perfect master attacker."
Bai Liu smiled: "That's it, let's make him a puzzle."
Tang Er was taken aback: "What puzzle?"
Bai Liu said: "Trees are hidden in the forest."
Scott Cottage.
The snow had melted around the hut in the rapidly rising temperature and it stood in the middle of a wet hill, its planks spattered with mud and looking grimy.
When Bai Liu came to visit again, Edmund was very surprised: "Did you dig out the heart?"
"Yes." Bai Liu looked at Edmund, and he handed the metal box to him, "I have something to trouble the professor."
Edmund took the box and became more and more confused: "Is this the heart box? Why give it to me?"
Bai Liu smiled: "Professor, please do me a favor and hide this heart so that spades won't find it."
Edmund smiled wryly: "Son, spade is the player who comes here most often. He may be more familiar with the plants and trees here than I am. I'm not sure I can find a place to hide my heart in Antarctica so that it won't be caught." Discovery in spades."
Bai Liu said: "Maybe I have a good place to hide. Of course, this place is not perfect, and it may be discovered, but at present, in the game of Ice Age, this place should be the best place for spades." The strangest place for him."
Edmund asked in surprise, "Where is it?"
Bai Liu stared at him: "In my body."
"There is already a heart in my body, why is there room for another heart?" Edmund teased him in a joking tone, "Child, can't you be in my body?" When you encounter love, use double-mindedness."
But Bai Liu answered him calmly: "Yes, just dig out my heart."
Edmund was stunned for a while, and he realized that Bai Liu was not joking with him.
His gaze looked back and forth between Bai Liu and the box in his hand several times in disbelief, and then tremblingly raised his head to look at Bai Liu:
"Are you crazy? You want me to take out my heart and put this heart in?!"
"It will become a monster!!" Edmund looked at Bai Liu incredulously, he raised the box containing the heart in his hand and emphasized loudly, "He is a real person, there is a real story His life is completely different from the product of a game like mine."
"Do you know what it means to do this?!" Edmund roared tremblingly.
"If I put a heart into my body, after the heart and my body are fully grown, you will become one, one..."
Edmund gasped for breath: "—a complete monster!"
Bai Liu raised his eyes slightly, he looked at the box that Edmund held high, and then his eyes fell on his face.
"I've always been a monster."
Edmund took two steps back, stared directly at Bai Liu for a long time, and finally sat down as if tired, and sat on the chair.
"But even if you hide your heart in your body, it's not enough." Edmund raised his head, "It's possible to find spades, too. You know, this guy is good at everything, but he's not good at deciphering..."
"I know." Bai Liu said, "So I prepared a puzzle for him."
"Professor, is there a way to prepare a large amount of [White Willow], and then perform similar heart surgery on everyone in it, input [my] memories before the surgery, and let me hide it inside."
Edmund looked at Bai Liu in amazement: "This is to... prepare a multiple-choice question for Spades?"
"That's right." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "And this is a multiple-choice question with no answer."
"—Because every [Bai Liu] here will think that he is the real Bai Liu, and the heart he hides is the real heart. Even I don't know whether I am real or fake, and I don't know who the answer is."
Bai Liu looked down at Edmund: "—as long as we continue to produce [White Willow], we can equalize the killing speed of spades. This is a puzzle that no one can solve."
"As long as it grinds until he quits the game, I win."
Edmund sat on the wooden bench and fell silent for a long time.
"Do you know what I've seen on your face?" Edmund murmured to himself, "I saw me on the eve of the experiment, in order to save the thing I love, at all costs."
Edmund raised his head with tears in his eyes: "I will help you, child, even though it is wrong."
Bai Liu thanked earnestly: "Thank you, Professor Edmund."
The coastline rose higher and higher, and the ice melted smoother and smoother under the sun's rays, until the last rays of sunlight passed the horizon.
But the temperature keeps rising.
"It's almost ten degrees." Tang Erda took off his jacket, looked around, and frowned, "Why hasn't Bai Liu come back? Didn't he say to go to Edmund with his heart to unlock the final plot, and then destroy it?" Do you want to clear the game and leave after losing your heart?"
Tang Erda didn't go to the cabin with Bai Liu, he didn't know what Edmund said to Bai Liu.
The result of destroying the heart is also unknown.
Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and said nothing, Mu Ke glanced at her.
Mu Sicheng asked the same question as Tang Erda: "Yes, how long has it been?"
"If he doesn't come back, the water line will soon reach our place." Tang Er glanced at the tile-like ice floe that had been torn apart, "Go to the helicopter first——!"
Before Tang Erda finished speaking, a pure black whip swept over from a distance with unstoppable speed, entangled the landing gear of the helicopter and pulled it back, shaking Tang Erda who was about to climb onto the helicopter off.
"Grass!! It's spades!!!"
Mu Sicheng used his skills subconsciously, and spread his monkey paws with both hands, trying to catch the black whip that continued to sweep towards them.
When the light whip hit Mu Sicheng's palm, he felt the pain that every metacarpal bone in his hands was smashed in an instant, and he almost had no time to warn others, and was directly thrown into the thick under the ice.
Mu Sicheng's chest was sunken by the rest of the whip, and he choked out a mouthful of blood.
Tang Erda took out his gun without hesitation and started shooting at Spade quickly. Only then did they catch Spade walking out with his whip shaking from the cloud.
He held the whip in one hand with a cold expression, flipped his wrist and shook it quickly, the whip danced in front of him into an almost impenetrable afterimage, and the bullets shot on the whip and made a crisp crackling sound.
During the continuous shooting, Spade's shoulder and whip-holding right hand were hit - Tang Er's target was obvious, he wanted to disarm Spade.
This is the conditioned reflex of a professional attacker when he meets an opponent—to control the opponent's organs for attack.
Tang Er hit the spade, and the blood kept gushing out from the spade. Logically speaking, the spade should have stopped attacking after being hit.
But Spades, as if they didn't know it, still didn't stop approaching here.
Tang Er fights and retreats, his scalp tightened by an unprecedented sense of oppression, he has no choice but to activate the monster form - [Rose Hunter], and change to the extended revolver to shoot more quickly.
Spade was shot repeatedly, and the blood oozing from the surface of his clothes dragged long traces on the ice.
But he was still approaching, and he was attacking faster and faster—but the target of his attack was not the person, but the helicopter on the ice.
Spades smashed the helicopter to pieces, and pushed the "wreckage" of the helicopter away on the ice with a whip, as if looking for something.
But he didn't seem to find what he wanted, turned his head and put down the whip, and beat Tang Er: "Isn't the heart here with you?"
Tang Erda also seemed to realize that this guy had no intention of attacking them. He pretended that the gun in his hand couldn't be turned off in an instant, and fired two more shots at Spade to test it.
Sure enough, Spade was hit, but he didn't fight back, but stared at Tang Erda with no emotion on his face, as if waiting for his answer.
Tang Er said: "The heart is not with us."
"Oh." Spade gave Tang Er two whips without hesitation, and raised his eyes, "I know I can stop just now, this is to return those two shots."
Tang Erda: "..."
After Spade got the answer, he left again.
Mu Sicheng was helped up while vomiting blood, his head was full of question marks: "He just came to ask questions?! So why did you hit me?!"
If Spade was there, he might answer him, intuition—I think Mu Sicheng should be beaten first, otherwise he will rush up later, which is very annoying.
But Spade is not there, so Mu Sicheng doesn't know the answer to this question, which may be a good thing for him.
Mu Ke looked worriedly at Spade's leaving back: "He should have gone to find Bai Liu."
"Bai Liu will be fine, he just needs to destroy his heart to clear the level." Liu Jiayi raised her head, "We have to quit the game before he clears the game, so that for us, real time is frozen and we can go Solve real problems."
Tang Erda suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Jiayi: "Bai Liu told me how to solve the problem in reality?"
"He told." Liu Jiayi said.
Tang Er breathed a sigh of relief, with a rare smile on his face: "He always has a way, so let's log out of the game first."
Mu Sicheng also relaxed, and cursed with a smile: "Then you scared me to death if you didn't say it earlier, and I thought something happened to him."
"But think about what can happen to this bastard Bai Liu in the game, it's almost as bad as what happened to me."
Liu Jiayi clenched her fists.
No one questioned Bai Liu's decision, and no one felt that Bai Liu had no choice.
He has always been omnipotent, infallible, without weaknesses.
She also believed in the same way, so she always...wanted to wait.
Maybe Bai Liu would come back suddenly, and said with a smile that everything was taken care of, and then everyone logged out of the game together.
But now that Spade appeared, the whitewashed peace in her heart was shattered, and arrangements had to be made immediately.
She needs to prepare for White Willow's defeat and send the team out of the game before Spades turn back.
Bai Liu's mask-like smile appeared in front of Liu Jiayi, he stroked Liu Jiayi's hair, his smile was hypocritical and warm.
[Jiayi, she is a smart little girl, she knows what to do, and when I was away, I temporarily handed over the team to you. 】
[I was originally trained by Heart as the second tactician, but now I feel that I have the ability to take on this role. 】
He smiled and praised her: [Because there is no one more suitable for this position, Jiayi. 】
Liu Jiayi gritted her teeth, raised her head and ordered: "Log out of the game immediately!!"
the coast.
Scott's hut was completely submerged in the water, and Spade, who came riding on the ice floe, bowed his head to the abandoned wooden house dangling under the water.
Spade untied his heavy jacket and spikes, and jumped into the water. He swam into the cabin in the water and passed by. A strange feeling caught Spade, and he quickly turned to the side. On his head, a pure white bone whip pierced from behind his ear.
Bai Liu in a white shirt and suit pants smiled at him underwater, and stabbed him a second time without stopping.
Spade opened it with a flick of his hand, and he noticed that there was blood oozing from Bai Liu's chest, so Spade reached out and grabbed the neckline, and pulled Bai Liu's shirt open.
The buttons of the shirt were cracked one by one in the water, suspended in all directions, and there was a long scar across the entire right chest in front of Bailiu's thin white chest.
The scar seemed to have just been formed and hadn't healed yet, and the dense blood was pulling out from the scar like unwrapped threads.
Spade stared at the scar for a while, then raised his eyes to Bai Liu, at the moment Bai Liu rushed towards him, he grabbed his neck, then closed his palms, strangled him "to death".
[Corpse] Falling down.
Spade opened his mouth in the water, and the air bubbles overflowed from the corner of his lips. He commented: "Bad quality."
He emerged from the water and rolled onto the shore.
Facing the dark water bottom, Spades rarely frowned: "It's so troublesome..."
This one named Bai Liu prepared a bunch of imitations exactly like himself and hid them under the water.
And these imitations are very difficult to kill in this kind of map where the Antarctic is completely melted and the water surface is everywhere-killing the weakness of these monsters, whether it is burning or strong acid, is a very difficult condition to achieve.
Then this Bai Liu still hid his heart in [his] body, but these [Bai Liu] couldn't finish killing them and couldn't kill them. If you hit one, the other one would come back to life soon and come out again.
...Even if the real Bai Liu is caught from the monster pile, under the circumstance that everyone has the same memory, Bai Liu probably doesn't know which [Bai Liu] has the real heart hidden in his body.
This is a game designed to be solved.
Spade didn't like this uncomplicated game of whack-a-mole, so he sat on the ice with his eyes open for a while, the water dripping from his chin on the ground.
He's not good at this situation, like he's not good at dealing with tacticians.
This Bai Liu should be a pretty good tactician, because this is the first tactician who really trapped him with his own body.
Most of the time it is the tactician who has a headache for spades, whether it is in the game or out of the game.
Spades sat on the shore for a while, then he stood up, his eyes resting on the calm water for a long, long time.
[There is no unsolvable game in this world. 】
Someone smiled and whispered in his ear, leaning on his shoulder and looking up at him, with a vicious but innocent gamer in his dark eyes.
But Spade didn't remember what he looked like, nor who he was.
He just remembered that he had said this to him.
[Games that are designed and presented to a certain person are intended to be solved by that person, so there is no unsolvable game in this world. 】
【 will definitely win my game, anyway, except for , no one in this place comes to play my game, is my only player. 】
[That is to say, my game is designed to win. 】
Spade plunged into the water, he was led by some intuition to dive deeper and deeper, and dived into an unknown depth of the seabed, where a pile of [White Willow] bodies sank in a criss-cross pattern.
Occasionally, [White Liu] would come back to life and float up, but soon sank again due to suffocation.
These [White Willows] seem to dislike water very much, whether they are going up or down, they always feel a sense of repulsion.
Finding the correct one among the white willows in the vast sea seems to be the idiom of "finding a needle in a haystack".
Spade was suspended in the icy sea water, and Bai Liu kept trying to get close to him to kill him, but he was swept away again, and finally his sight stopped on a Bai Liu who was buried in layers.
——This Bai Liu never attacked him.
He slept peacefully on the bottom of the sea with his eyes closed, and the wound on his front could be seen through the open shirt.
This Bai Liu has a very strange mixed feeling of a monster and a human—like a transitional body undergoing transformation.
Spade has an intuition so strong that it doesn't make sense - this white willow has a heart.
He quickly dived down, and the moment he reached out and touched the white willow, the white willow opened his eyes.
Air bubbles emerged from Bai Liu's lips, and then swung his legs/limbs to swim quickly in the water.
The other [White Willows] on the bottom of the sea were like shoals of awakened fish, swarming to wrap him in the center, a large pile of white willows swaying back and forth, dazzling people's eyes, and the white willow that Spades had just locked onto was almost gone for a moment. disappeared.
But Spades quickly locked on to that white willow again.
Spade seems to be equipped with a device to track the white willow, he can find the white willow he is looking for among all those who are exactly the same as the white willow, and even he can't tell the difference, and then chase after it without hesitation. .
The swaying azure water waves are shining, on which floats the melted wreckage of the world's largest ice and snow world. The ice floes are far away from the land in large chunks, drifting in the sea area, and the protruding part of the iceberg is out of the water, just like It is an island suspended in the sky.
Spades and Bailiu dodged and chased in this cold and white [island].
But no matter how Bai Liu escapes, how to cover, how to use various skills to interrupt another person, Spades can find him among thousands of identical Bai Liu in this cold, hellish underwater world.
Under the melting ice dome, in the darkest seabed, Spades finally caught Bai Liu.
Spade gently stretched his hand into Bai Liu's unhealed wound.
The blood vessels were twitching to match the heart, and the warm blood touched the fingers overflowing with spades. He held the cold heart that was beating out of season in the warm body, and looked down at the white willow under his control.
For a moment, Spade felt that the expression of the tactician who almost trapped him was familiar.
It seems that a long time ago, this tactician named Bai Liu used to stare at him with such reluctance and calm eyes as if he hated him at the bottom of the water, tied his rotten ankles, and trapped his corpse like a person just trapped himself. Same, buried under water.
Spades slowly closed his palms, and at the moment his heart burst on Spade's fingertips, for some reason, he bent down and hugged Bai Liu, put his chin on Bai Liu's shoulder, and mouthed [Sorry].
Bai Liu closed his eyes in the water, the blood mist around him exploded, and his consciousness drifted into the void.
Tavel, Scheta...
[Don't be afraid of the dead me, or the living me. 】
[I will always stay in my winter waiting . 】
【——No matter what choice I make, they will leave me, right? 】
【--Yes. 】
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"Then what are you going to do with...us?" Liu Jiayi shrank back in the seat, buried her head in her knees, "...throw us out of the game, and then what?"
"It's not about throwing you out of the game, you still have something to do for me." Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi.
Liu Jiayi raised her head slightly, and looked at him with red eyes: "...what's the matter?"
"Because Ice Age has not been cleared by anyone, that is, there is no [end] line, then the time corresponding to the reality of the game is stagnant, and the copy has not been loaded into the reality, so the reality still has room for change."
Bai Liu said: "I need everyone to leave the game to prevent that plane from crashing in Antarctica."
Liu Jiayi stretched her body, and she also realized that there was room for maneuvering, and asked back with a frown: "But according to the routine of loading reality in this game, this plane is probably already in the sky above the South Pole. Once we log out, the reality Time starts to flow and it doesn't take long before it crashes."
"We can't stop a plane that's about to crash, and it's still in Antarctica."
Bai Liu smiled: "No, someone can."
Liu Jiayi looked up suspiciously: "Who?"
Bai Liu: "Du Sanying."
Tang Er knocked on the door of the helicopter: "I can already vaguely see the outline of the metal box."
He exhaled white breath, his eyebrows and hair were covered with frost, but Tang Erda's expression was more condensed than these frosts: "——It's the box of the Bureau of Heresy."
———————
Reality, over Antarctica.
The biplane that was about to land had dialed out a communication signal for a long time but was still not received. The five escorts on the plane had already noticed that something was wrong.
They looked at each other, and an ominous premonition welled up in their hearts.
"Plane—Zizi—Call the ground communication station—Zizi—Encountered a lot of clouds and air currents, please answer when you hear—"
The radio station was still silent, and the airflow directly hitting the two wings became stronger and more turbulent. The escort took a deep breath, and they had to prepare for the worst.
"What's ahead?"
"Ross Sea Area."
"Prepare for an emergency landing."
...
Antarctica, the open space in front of the observation station near Dome A.
A group of observers wearing conspicuous red jackets rubbed their hands and stomped their feet and raised their heads to look at the sky. They discussed with each other in low voices with a little anxiety:
"Didn't you tell us to check the ice crevasses for the plane to land today? Why haven't we arrived yet..."
"I don't know. I just came out of the observation station. The liaison officer inside said that I haven't contacted the pilot for a long time. I have used all methods of satellite phone, but there is no signal feedback..."
"Is something going to happen?"
...
Bureau of Heresy, District One.
Wearing a captain's uniform that was a little too big for him, Su Chao looked tired and tight, walked through the brightly lit corridor at night, and entered a mechanical room at the corner.
The mechanical room was in chaos, with coffee cups lying on the table and a few ground communicators who were manipulating the instrument panel staring at the big screen with unshaven beards.
These people's eyes are black and blue, and they feel that they will die suddenly if they tilt their heads at any time.
Captain Su attached great importance to escorting the body parts, and the people below naturally became nervous.
From the time the escort left the port to now over Antarctica, the ground communicators have been maintaining the communication throughout the whole process and have not closed their eyes after working overtime for several days.
But even with such caution, when the plane was about to arrive in Antarctica and everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, something happened suddenly.
No matter what means they used, they could no longer contact the escorts on the five planes.
The ground communicator turned back with a pale face: "Captain Su, what should we do?"
Su Chao hasn't closed his eyes since he sent the escort away. He looked at the pure white snow surface in Antarctica detected by the satellite on the big screen, and his brain went blank for a while because of the too dazzling color.
A kind of feeling that no matter what, there is no way to prevent certain established things from happening.
"So this is what it means for the [Prophet] to have the supreme authority in the Bureau of Heresy." Cen didn't know when he appeared beside the delirious Su Chao.
Su Qi turned his head and looked over in a daze: "Captain Cen..."
Cen Buming crossed his arms, looked at the snowy surface for a while with his eagle-like clear yellow eyes, and turned to look at Su Qi: "Because [achieving] is much more important than [doing it]."
"—Fate has its own arrangements, and those of us on the cards can only obey."
Unknown Cen brushed past Su Chao's side without looking back, "Get ready to collect the corpses of these five escorts."
"Captain Su, what should we do?"
"Captain Su, are we still in touch?"
"Captain Su..."
"Captain Su..."
Su Chao closed his eyes. He leaned on the edge of the table and said in a difficult voice, "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see dead bodies when I die. Let the Antarctic side prepare search and rescue team members and... body bags."
"No matter what the situation is, bring the person back to me."
in-game.
Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng took turns to continue working with Tang Erda. The wind was not as strong as before, and it was replaced by the sun with strong ultraviolet light.
In the process of getting closer to the heart, the temperature on the ice continued to rise, and Mu Sicheng was sweating.
"Tsk, what's going on?" Mu Sicheng shook his neckline, sweat and heat rose together, "Why did it suddenly become hot? Can the weather here be any worse?"
Bai Liu squatted down, and he touched the ice surface that showed obvious signs of melting: "It's not that the weather suddenly became hot."
"It's because we have to dig out the heart and complete the main task, so the world has started to warm up."
Tang Erda poked his head out of the helicopter and shouted loudly: "—Bai Liu, the temperature has risen abnormally, and it's already above zero!"
He jumped off the helicopter and walked in front of Bai Liu in a few steps: "According to this rate of temperature rise, the ice will melt very quickly."
Bai Liu shook her head: "I think not only will it melt quickly, this heart is likely to be the core device site for Edmund to build global cooling, and it is also the last prop of the [true edn] line."
"—If it is taken out, I suspect that this global warming will cause the entire Antarctic ice sheet to melt."
Tang Er frowned: "Then, wouldn't Antarctica become a vast ocean?"
Bai Liu looked up at him: "There are more troublesome things than this."
"If the ice sheet melts completely, the area of Antarctica will be greatly reduced, and the massive disappearance of ice and snow fields will lead to drastic climate changes, and extreme weather such as blizzards that block sight and movement will also be greatly reduced. In such a map, we will be more It's easy to detect."
Bai Liu paused: "This will speed up the speed at which Spade finds us."
The implication of Bai Liu's words was obvious, he had to find a way to hide his heart, otherwise it would be a matter of time before Spade found it.
Tang Er frowned: "But where is it hidden? Spade's attack speed and movement speed are too high. He can explore all places in Antarctica anytime and anywhere. It doesn't matter where he puts his heart." Safety."
He had to sigh: "Aside from being not good at deciphering, this guy is really a perfect master attacker."
Bai Liu smiled: "That's it, let's make him a puzzle."
Tang Er was taken aback: "What puzzle?"
Bai Liu said: "Trees are hidden in the forest."
Scott Cottage.
The snow had melted around the hut in the rapidly rising temperature and it stood in the middle of a wet hill, its planks spattered with mud and looking grimy.
When Bai Liu came to visit again, Edmund was very surprised: "Did you dig out the heart?"
"Yes." Bai Liu looked at Edmund, and he handed the metal box to him, "I have something to trouble the professor."
Edmund took the box and became more and more confused: "Is this the heart box? Why give it to me?"
Bai Liu smiled: "Professor, please do me a favor and hide this heart so that spades won't find it."
Edmund smiled wryly: "Son, spade is the player who comes here most often. He may be more familiar with the plants and trees here than I am. I'm not sure I can find a place to hide my heart in Antarctica so that it won't be caught." Discovery in spades."
Bai Liu said: "Maybe I have a good place to hide. Of course, this place is not perfect, and it may be discovered, but at present, in the game of Ice Age, this place should be the best place for spades." The strangest place for him."
Edmund asked in surprise, "Where is it?"
Bai Liu stared at him: "In my body."
"There is already a heart in my body, why is there room for another heart?" Edmund teased him in a joking tone, "Child, can't you be in my body?" When you encounter love, use double-mindedness."
But Bai Liu answered him calmly: "Yes, just dig out my heart."
Edmund was stunned for a while, and he realized that Bai Liu was not joking with him.
His gaze looked back and forth between Bai Liu and the box in his hand several times in disbelief, and then tremblingly raised his head to look at Bai Liu:
"Are you crazy? You want me to take out my heart and put this heart in?!"
"It will become a monster!!" Edmund looked at Bai Liu incredulously, he raised the box containing the heart in his hand and emphasized loudly, "He is a real person, there is a real story His life is completely different from the product of a game like mine."
"Do you know what it means to do this?!" Edmund roared tremblingly.
"If I put a heart into my body, after the heart and my body are fully grown, you will become one, one..."
Edmund gasped for breath: "—a complete monster!"
Bai Liu raised his eyes slightly, he looked at the box that Edmund held high, and then his eyes fell on his face.
"I've always been a monster."
Edmund took two steps back, stared directly at Bai Liu for a long time, and finally sat down as if tired, and sat on the chair.
"But even if you hide your heart in your body, it's not enough." Edmund raised his head, "It's possible to find spades, too. You know, this guy is good at everything, but he's not good at deciphering..."
"I know." Bai Liu said, "So I prepared a puzzle for him."
"Professor, is there a way to prepare a large amount of [White Willow], and then perform similar heart surgery on everyone in it, input [my] memories before the surgery, and let me hide it inside."
Edmund looked at Bai Liu in amazement: "This is to... prepare a multiple-choice question for Spades?"
"That's right." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "And this is a multiple-choice question with no answer."
"—Because every [Bai Liu] here will think that he is the real Bai Liu, and the heart he hides is the real heart. Even I don't know whether I am real or fake, and I don't know who the answer is."
Bai Liu looked down at Edmund: "—as long as we continue to produce [White Willow], we can equalize the killing speed of spades. This is a puzzle that no one can solve."
"As long as it grinds until he quits the game, I win."
Edmund sat on the wooden bench and fell silent for a long time.
"Do you know what I've seen on your face?" Edmund murmured to himself, "I saw me on the eve of the experiment, in order to save the thing I love, at all costs."
Edmund raised his head with tears in his eyes: "I will help you, child, even though it is wrong."
Bai Liu thanked earnestly: "Thank you, Professor Edmund."
The coastline rose higher and higher, and the ice melted smoother and smoother under the sun's rays, until the last rays of sunlight passed the horizon.
But the temperature keeps rising.
"It's almost ten degrees." Tang Erda took off his jacket, looked around, and frowned, "Why hasn't Bai Liu come back? Didn't he say to go to Edmund with his heart to unlock the final plot, and then destroy it?" Do you want to clear the game and leave after losing your heart?"
Tang Erda didn't go to the cabin with Bai Liu, he didn't know what Edmund said to Bai Liu.
The result of destroying the heart is also unknown.
Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and said nothing, Mu Ke glanced at her.
Mu Sicheng asked the same question as Tang Erda: "Yes, how long has it been?"
"If he doesn't come back, the water line will soon reach our place." Tang Er glanced at the tile-like ice floe that had been torn apart, "Go to the helicopter first——!"
Before Tang Erda finished speaking, a pure black whip swept over from a distance with unstoppable speed, entangled the landing gear of the helicopter and pulled it back, shaking Tang Erda who was about to climb onto the helicopter off.
"Grass!! It's spades!!!"
Mu Sicheng used his skills subconsciously, and spread his monkey paws with both hands, trying to catch the black whip that continued to sweep towards them.
When the light whip hit Mu Sicheng's palm, he felt the pain that every metacarpal bone in his hands was smashed in an instant, and he almost had no time to warn others, and was directly thrown into the thick under the ice.
Mu Sicheng's chest was sunken by the rest of the whip, and he choked out a mouthful of blood.
Tang Erda took out his gun without hesitation and started shooting at Spade quickly. Only then did they catch Spade walking out with his whip shaking from the cloud.
He held the whip in one hand with a cold expression, flipped his wrist and shook it quickly, the whip danced in front of him into an almost impenetrable afterimage, and the bullets shot on the whip and made a crisp crackling sound.
During the continuous shooting, Spade's shoulder and whip-holding right hand were hit - Tang Er's target was obvious, he wanted to disarm Spade.
This is the conditioned reflex of a professional attacker when he meets an opponent—to control the opponent's organs for attack.
Tang Er hit the spade, and the blood kept gushing out from the spade. Logically speaking, the spade should have stopped attacking after being hit.
But Spades, as if they didn't know it, still didn't stop approaching here.
Tang Er fights and retreats, his scalp tightened by an unprecedented sense of oppression, he has no choice but to activate the monster form - [Rose Hunter], and change to the extended revolver to shoot more quickly.
Spade was shot repeatedly, and the blood oozing from the surface of his clothes dragged long traces on the ice.
But he was still approaching, and he was attacking faster and faster—but the target of his attack was not the person, but the helicopter on the ice.
Spades smashed the helicopter to pieces, and pushed the "wreckage" of the helicopter away on the ice with a whip, as if looking for something.
But he didn't seem to find what he wanted, turned his head and put down the whip, and beat Tang Er: "Isn't the heart here with you?"
Tang Erda also seemed to realize that this guy had no intention of attacking them. He pretended that the gun in his hand couldn't be turned off in an instant, and fired two more shots at Spade to test it.
Sure enough, Spade was hit, but he didn't fight back, but stared at Tang Erda with no emotion on his face, as if waiting for his answer.
Tang Er said: "The heart is not with us."
"Oh." Spade gave Tang Er two whips without hesitation, and raised his eyes, "I know I can stop just now, this is to return those two shots."
Tang Erda: "..."
After Spade got the answer, he left again.
Mu Sicheng was helped up while vomiting blood, his head was full of question marks: "He just came to ask questions?! So why did you hit me?!"
If Spade was there, he might answer him, intuition—I think Mu Sicheng should be beaten first, otherwise he will rush up later, which is very annoying.
But Spade is not there, so Mu Sicheng doesn't know the answer to this question, which may be a good thing for him.
Mu Ke looked worriedly at Spade's leaving back: "He should have gone to find Bai Liu."
"Bai Liu will be fine, he just needs to destroy his heart to clear the level." Liu Jiayi raised her head, "We have to quit the game before he clears the game, so that for us, real time is frozen and we can go Solve real problems."
Tang Erda suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Jiayi: "Bai Liu told me how to solve the problem in reality?"
"He told." Liu Jiayi said.
Tang Er breathed a sigh of relief, with a rare smile on his face: "He always has a way, so let's log out of the game first."
Mu Sicheng also relaxed, and cursed with a smile: "Then you scared me to death if you didn't say it earlier, and I thought something happened to him."
"But think about what can happen to this bastard Bai Liu in the game, it's almost as bad as what happened to me."
Liu Jiayi clenched her fists.
No one questioned Bai Liu's decision, and no one felt that Bai Liu had no choice.
He has always been omnipotent, infallible, without weaknesses.
She also believed in the same way, so she always...wanted to wait.
Maybe Bai Liu would come back suddenly, and said with a smile that everything was taken care of, and then everyone logged out of the game together.
But now that Spade appeared, the whitewashed peace in her heart was shattered, and arrangements had to be made immediately.
She needs to prepare for White Willow's defeat and send the team out of the game before Spades turn back.
Bai Liu's mask-like smile appeared in front of Liu Jiayi, he stroked Liu Jiayi's hair, his smile was hypocritical and warm.
[Jiayi, she is a smart little girl, she knows what to do, and when I was away, I temporarily handed over the team to you. 】
[I was originally trained by Heart as the second tactician, but now I feel that I have the ability to take on this role. 】
He smiled and praised her: [Because there is no one more suitable for this position, Jiayi. 】
Liu Jiayi gritted her teeth, raised her head and ordered: "Log out of the game immediately!!"
the coast.
Scott's hut was completely submerged in the water, and Spade, who came riding on the ice floe, bowed his head to the abandoned wooden house dangling under the water.
Spade untied his heavy jacket and spikes, and jumped into the water. He swam into the cabin in the water and passed by. A strange feeling caught Spade, and he quickly turned to the side. On his head, a pure white bone whip pierced from behind his ear.
Bai Liu in a white shirt and suit pants smiled at him underwater, and stabbed him a second time without stopping.
Spade opened it with a flick of his hand, and he noticed that there was blood oozing from Bai Liu's chest, so Spade reached out and grabbed the neckline, and pulled Bai Liu's shirt open.
The buttons of the shirt were cracked one by one in the water, suspended in all directions, and there was a long scar across the entire right chest in front of Bailiu's thin white chest.
The scar seemed to have just been formed and hadn't healed yet, and the dense blood was pulling out from the scar like unwrapped threads.
Spade stared at the scar for a while, then raised his eyes to Bai Liu, at the moment Bai Liu rushed towards him, he grabbed his neck, then closed his palms, strangled him "to death".
[Corpse] Falling down.
Spade opened his mouth in the water, and the air bubbles overflowed from the corner of his lips. He commented: "Bad quality."
He emerged from the water and rolled onto the shore.
Facing the dark water bottom, Spades rarely frowned: "It's so troublesome..."
This one named Bai Liu prepared a bunch of imitations exactly like himself and hid them under the water.
And these imitations are very difficult to kill in this kind of map where the Antarctic is completely melted and the water surface is everywhere-killing the weakness of these monsters, whether it is burning or strong acid, is a very difficult condition to achieve.
Then this Bai Liu still hid his heart in [his] body, but these [Bai Liu] couldn't finish killing them and couldn't kill them. If you hit one, the other one would come back to life soon and come out again.
...Even if the real Bai Liu is caught from the monster pile, under the circumstance that everyone has the same memory, Bai Liu probably doesn't know which [Bai Liu] has the real heart hidden in his body.
This is a game designed to be solved.
Spade didn't like this uncomplicated game of whack-a-mole, so he sat on the ice with his eyes open for a while, the water dripping from his chin on the ground.
He's not good at this situation, like he's not good at dealing with tacticians.
This Bai Liu should be a pretty good tactician, because this is the first tactician who really trapped him with his own body.
Most of the time it is the tactician who has a headache for spades, whether it is in the game or out of the game.
Spades sat on the shore for a while, then he stood up, his eyes resting on the calm water for a long, long time.
[There is no unsolvable game in this world. 】
Someone smiled and whispered in his ear, leaning on his shoulder and looking up at him, with a vicious but innocent gamer in his dark eyes.
But Spade didn't remember what he looked like, nor who he was.
He just remembered that he had said this to him.
[Games that are designed and presented to a certain person are intended to be solved by that person, so there is no unsolvable game in this world. 】
【 will definitely win my game, anyway, except for , no one in this place comes to play my game, is my only player. 】
[That is to say, my game is designed to win. 】
Spade plunged into the water, he was led by some intuition to dive deeper and deeper, and dived into an unknown depth of the seabed, where a pile of [White Willow] bodies sank in a criss-cross pattern.
Occasionally, [White Liu] would come back to life and float up, but soon sank again due to suffocation.
These [White Willows] seem to dislike water very much, whether they are going up or down, they always feel a sense of repulsion.
Finding the correct one among the white willows in the vast sea seems to be the idiom of "finding a needle in a haystack".
Spade was suspended in the icy sea water, and Bai Liu kept trying to get close to him to kill him, but he was swept away again, and finally his sight stopped on a Bai Liu who was buried in layers.
——This Bai Liu never attacked him.
He slept peacefully on the bottom of the sea with his eyes closed, and the wound on his front could be seen through the open shirt.
This Bai Liu has a very strange mixed feeling of a monster and a human—like a transitional body undergoing transformation.
Spade has an intuition so strong that it doesn't make sense - this white willow has a heart.
He quickly dived down, and the moment he reached out and touched the white willow, the white willow opened his eyes.
Air bubbles emerged from Bai Liu's lips, and then swung his legs/limbs to swim quickly in the water.
The other [White Willows] on the bottom of the sea were like shoals of awakened fish, swarming to wrap him in the center, a large pile of white willows swaying back and forth, dazzling people's eyes, and the white willow that Spades had just locked onto was almost gone for a moment. disappeared.
But Spades quickly locked on to that white willow again.
Spade seems to be equipped with a device to track the white willow, he can find the white willow he is looking for among all those who are exactly the same as the white willow, and even he can't tell the difference, and then chase after it without hesitation. .
The swaying azure water waves are shining, on which floats the melted wreckage of the world's largest ice and snow world. The ice floes are far away from the land in large chunks, drifting in the sea area, and the protruding part of the iceberg is out of the water, just like It is an island suspended in the sky.
Spades and Bailiu dodged and chased in this cold and white [island].
But no matter how Bai Liu escapes, how to cover, how to use various skills to interrupt another person, Spades can find him among thousands of identical Bai Liu in this cold, hellish underwater world.
Under the melting ice dome, in the darkest seabed, Spades finally caught Bai Liu.
Spade gently stretched his hand into Bai Liu's unhealed wound.
The blood vessels were twitching to match the heart, and the warm blood touched the fingers overflowing with spades. He held the cold heart that was beating out of season in the warm body, and looked down at the white willow under his control.
For a moment, Spade felt that the expression of the tactician who almost trapped him was familiar.
It seems that a long time ago, this tactician named Bai Liu used to stare at him with such reluctance and calm eyes as if he hated him at the bottom of the water, tied his rotten ankles, and trapped his corpse like a person just trapped himself. Same, buried under water.
Spades slowly closed his palms, and at the moment his heart burst on Spade's fingertips, for some reason, he bent down and hugged Bai Liu, put his chin on Bai Liu's shoulder, and mouthed [Sorry].
Bai Liu closed his eyes in the water, the blood mist around him exploded, and his consciousness drifted into the void.
Tavel, Scheta...
[Don't be afraid of the dead me, or the living me. 】
[I will always stay in my winter waiting . 】
【——No matter what choice I make, they will leave me, right? 】
【--Yes. 】
"Then what are you going to do with...us?" Liu Jiayi shrank back in the seat, buried her head in her knees, "...throw us out of the game, and then what?" "It's not about throwing you out of the game, you still have something to do for me." Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi. Liu Jiayi raised her head slightly, and looked at him with red eyes: "...what's the matter?" "Because Ice Age has not been cleared by anyone, that is, there is no end line, then the time corresponding to the reality of the game is stagnant, and the copy has not been loaded into the reality, so the reality still has room for change." Bai Liu said: "I need everyone to leave the game to prevent that plane from crashing in Antarctica." Liu Jiayi stretched her body, and she also realized that there was room for maneuvering, and asked back with a frown: "But according to the routine of loading reality in this game, this plane is probably already in the sky above the South Pole. Once we log out, the reality Time starts to flow and it doesn't take long before it crashes." "We can't stop a plane that's about to crash, and it's still in Antarctica." Bai Liu smiled: "No, someone can." Liu Jiayi looked up suspiciously: "Who?" Bai Liu: "Du Sanying." Tang Er knocked on the door of the helicopter: "I can already vaguely see the outline of the metal box." He exhaled white breath, his eyebrows and hair were covered with frost, but Tang Erda's expression was more condensed than these frosts: "It's the box of the Bureau of Heresy." Reality, over Antarctica. The biplane that was about to land had dialed out a communication signal for a long time but was still not received. The five escorts on the plane had already noticed that something was wrong. They looked at each other, and an ominous premonition welled up in their hearts. "PlaneZiziCall the ground communication stationZiziEncountered a lot of clouds and air currents, please answer when you hear" The radio station was still silent, and the airflow directly hitting the two wings became stronger and more turbulent. The escort took a deep breath, and they had to prepare for the worst. "What's ahead?" "Ross Sea Area." "Prepare for an emergency landing." ... Antarctica, the open space in front of the observation station near Dome A. A group of observers wearing conspicuous red jackets rubbed their hands and stomped their feet and raised their heads to look at the sky. They discussed with each other in low voices with a little anxiety: "Didn't you tell us to check the ice crevasses for the plane to land today? Why haven't we arrived yet..." "I don't know. I just came out of the observation station. The liaison officer inside said that I haven't contacted the pilot for a long time. I have used all methods of satellite phone, but there is no signal feedback..." "Is something going to happen?" ... Bureau of Heresy, District One. Wearing a captain's uniform that was a little too big for him, Su Chao looked tired and tight, walked through the brightly lit corridor at night, and entered a mechanical room at the corner. The mechanical room was in chaos, with coffee cups lying on the table and a few ground communicators who were manipulating the instrument panel staring at the big screen with unshaven beards. These people's eyes are black and blue, and they feel that they will die suddenly if they tilt their heads at any time. Captain Su attached great importance to escorting the body parts, and the people below naturally became nervous. From the time the escort left the port to now over Antarctica, the ground communicators have been maintaining the communication throughout the whole process and have not closed their eyes after working overtime for several days. But even with such caution, when the plane was about to arrive in Antarctica and everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, something happened suddenly. No matter what means they used, they could no longer contact the escorts on the five planes. The ground communicator turned back with a pale face: "Captain Su, what should we do?" Su Chao hasn't closed his eyes since he sent the escort away. He looked at the pure white snow surface in Antarctica detected by the satellite on the big screen, and his brain went blank for a while because of the too dazzling color. A kind of feeling that no matter what, there is no way to prevent certain established things from happening. "So this is what it means for the Prophet to have the supreme authority in the Bureau of Heresy." Cen didn't know when he appeared beside the delirious Su Chao. Su Qi turned his head and looked over in a daze: "Captain Cen..." Cen Buming crossed his arms, looked at the snowy surface for a while with his eagle-like clear yellow eyes, and turned to look at Su Qi: "Because achieving is much more important than doing it." "Fate has its own arrangements, and those of us on the cards can only obey." Unknown Cen brushed past Su Chao's side without looking back, "Get ready to collect the corpses of these five escorts." "Captain Su, what should we do?" "Captain Su, are we still in touch?" "Captain Su..." "Captain Su..." Su Chao closed his eyes. He leaned on the edge of the table and said in a difficult voice, "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see dead bodies when I die. Let the Antarctic side prepare search and rescue team members and... body bags." "No matter what the situation is, bring the person back to me." in-game. Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng took turns to continue working with Tang Erda. The wind was not as strong as before, and it was replaced by the sun with strong ultraviolet light. In the process of getting closer to the heart, the temperature on the ice continued to rise, and Mu Sicheng was sweating. "Tsk, what's going on?" Mu Sicheng shook his neckline, sweat and heat rose together, "Why did it suddenly become hot? Can the weather here be any worse?" Bai Liu squatted down, and he touched the ice surface that showed obvious signs of melting: "It's not that the weather suddenly became hot." "It's because we have to dig out the heart and complete the main task, so the world has started to warm up." Tang Erda poked his head out of the helicopter and shouted loudly: "Bai Liu, the temperature has risen abnormally, and it's already above zero!" He jumped off the helicopter and walked in front of Bai Liu in a few steps: "According to this rate of temperature rise, the ice will melt very quickly." Bai Liu shook her head: "I think not only will it melt quickly, this heart is likely to be the core device site for Edmund to build global cooling, and it is also the last prop of the true edn line." "If it is taken out, I suspect that this global warming will cause the entire Antarctic ice sheet to melt." Tang Er frowned: "Then, wouldn't Antarctica become a vast ocean?" Bai Liu looked up at him: "There are more troublesome things than this." "If the ice sheet melts completely, the area of Antarctica will be greatly reduced, and the massive disappearance of ice and snow fields will lead to drastic climate changes, and extreme weather such as blizzards that block sight and movement will also be greatly reduced. In such a map, we will be more It's easy to detect." Bai Liu paused: "This will speed up the speed at which Spade finds us." The implication of Bai Liu's words was obvious, he had to find a way to hide his heart, otherwise it would be a matter of time before Spade found it. Tang Er frowned: "But where is it hidden? Spade's attack speed and movement speed are too high. He can explore all places in Antarctica anytime and anywhere. It doesn't matter where he puts his heart." Safety." He had to sigh: "Aside from being not good at deciphering, this guy is really a perfect master attacker." Bai Liu smiled: "That's it, let's make him a puzzle." Tang Er was taken aback: "What puzzle?" Bai Liu said: "Trees are hidden in the forest." Scott Cottage. The snow had melted around the hut in the rapidly rising temperature and it stood in the middle of a wet hill, its planks spattered with mud and looking grimy. When Bai Liu came to visit again, Edmund was very surprised: "Did you dig out the heart?" "Yes." Bai Liu looked at Edmund, and he handed the metal box to him, "I have something to trouble the professor." Edmund took the box and became more and more confused: "Is this the heart box? Why give it to me?" Bai Liu smiled: "Professor, please do me a favor and hide this heart so that spades won't find it." Edmund smiled wryly: "Son, spade is the player who comes here most often. He may be more familiar with the plants and trees here than I am. I'm not sure I can find a place to hide my heart in Antarctica so that it won't be caught." Discovery in spades." Bai Liu said: "Maybe I have a good place to hide. Of course, this place is not perfect, and it may be discovered, but at present, in the game of Ice Age, this place should be the best place for spades." The strangest place for him." Edmund asked in surprise, "Where is it?" Bai Liu stared at him: "In my body." "There is already a heart in my body, why is there room for another heart?" Edmund teased him in a joking tone, "Child, can't you be in my body?" When you encounter love, use double-mindedness." But Bai Liu answered him calmly: "Yes, just dig out my heart." Edmund was stunned for a while, and he realized that Bai Liu was not joking with him. His gaze looked back and forth between Bai Liu and the box in his hand several times in disbelief, and then tremblingly raised his head to look at Bai Liu: "Are you crazy? You want me to take out my heart and put this heart in?!" "It will become a monster!!" Edmund looked at Bai Liu incredulously, he raised the box containing the heart in his hand and emphasized loudly, "He is a real person, there is a real story His life is completely different from the product of a game like mine." "Do you know what it means to do this?!" Edmund roared tremblingly. "If I put a heart into my body, after the heart and my body are fully grown, you will become one, one..." Edmund gasped for breath: "a complete monster!" Bai Liu raised his eyes slightly, he looked at the box that Edmund held high, and then his eyes fell on his face. "I've always been a monster." Edmund took two steps back, stared directly at Bai Liu for a long time, and finally sat down as if tired, and sat on the chair. "But even if you hide your heart in your body, it's not enough." Edmund raised his head, "It's possible to find spades, too. You know, this guy is good at everything, but he's not good at deciphering..." "I know." Bai Liu said, "So I prepared a puzzle for him." "Professor, is there a way to prepare a large amount of White Willow, and then perform similar heart surgery on everyone in it, input my memories before the surgery, and let me hide it inside." Edmund looked at Bai Liu in amazement: "This is to... prepare a multiple-choice question for Spades?" "That's right." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "And this is a multiple-choice question with no answer." "Because every Bai Liu here will think that he is the real Bai Liu, and the heart he hides is the real heart. Even I don't know whether I am real or fake, and I don't know who the answer is." Bai Liu looked down at Edmund: "as long as we continue to produce White Willow, we can equalize the killing speed of spades. This is a puzzle that no one can solve." "As long as it grinds until he quits the game, I win." Edmund sat on the wooden bench and fell silent for a long time. "Do you know what I've seen on your face?" Edmund murmured to himself, "I saw me on the eve of the experiment, in order to save the thing I love, at all costs." Edmund raised his head with tears in his eyes: "I will help you, child, even though it is wrong." Bai Liu thanked earnestly: "Thank you, Professor Edmund." The coastline rose higher and higher, and the ice melted smoother and smoother under the sun's rays, until the last rays of sunlight passed the horizon. But the temperature keeps rising. "It's almost ten degrees." Tang Erda took off his jacket, looked around, and frowned, "Why hasn't Bai Liu come back? Didn't he say to go to Edmund with his heart to unlock the final plot, and then destroy it?" Do you want to clear the game and leave after losing your heart?" Tang Erda didn't go to the cabin with Bai Liu, he didn't know what Edmund said to Bai Liu. The result of destroying the heart is also unknown. Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and said nothing, Mu Ke glanced at her. Mu Sicheng asked the same question as Tang Erda: "Yes, how long has it been?" "If he doesn't come back, the water line will soon reach our place." Tang Er glanced at the tile-like ice floe that had been torn apart, "Go to the helicopter first!" Before Tang Erda finished speaking, a pure black whip swept over from a distance with unstoppable speed, entangled the landing gear of the helicopter and pulled it back, shaking Tang Erda who was about to climb onto the helicopter off. "Grass!! It's spades!!!" Mu Sicheng used his skills subconsciously, and spread his monkey paws with both hands, trying to catch the black whip that continued to sweep towards them. When the light whip hit Mu Sicheng's palm, he felt the pain that every metacarpal bone in his hands was smashed in an instant, and he almost had no time to warn others, and was directly thrown into the thick under the ice. Mu Sicheng's chest was sunken by the rest of the whip, and he choked out a mouthful of blood. Tang Erda took out his gun without hesitation and started shooting at Spade quickly. Only then did they catch Spade walking out with his whip shaking from the cloud. He held the whip in one hand with a cold expression, flipped his wrist and shook it quickly, the whip danced in front of him into an almost impenetrable afterimage, and the bullets shot on the whip and made a crisp crackling sound. During the continuous shooting, Spade's shoulder and whip-holding right hand were hit - Tang Er's target was obvious, he wanted to disarm Spade. This is the conditioned reflex of a professional attacker when he meets an opponentto control the opponent's organs for attack. Tang Er hit the spade, and the blood kept gushing out from the spade. Logically speaking, the spade should have stopped attacking after being hit. But Spades, as if they didn't know it, still didn't stop approaching here. Tang Er fights and retreats, his scalp tightened by an unprecedented sense of oppression, he has no choice but to activate the monster form - Rose Hunter, and change to the extended revolver to shoot more quickly. Spade was shot repeatedly, and the blood oozing from the surface of his clothes dragged long traces on the ice. But he was still approaching, and he was attacking faster and fasterbut the target of his attack was not the person, but the helicopter on the ice. Spades smashed the helicopter to pieces, and pushed the "wreckage" of the helicopter away on the ice with a whip, as if looking for something. But he didn't seem to find what he wanted, turned his head and put down the whip, and beat Tang Er: "Isn't the heart here with you?" Tang Erda also seemed to realize that this guy had no intention of attacking them. He pretended that the gun in his hand couldn't be turned off in an instant, and fired two more shots at Spade to test it. Sure enough, Spade was hit, but he didn't fight back, but stared at Tang Erda with no emotion on his face, as if waiting for his answer. Tang Er said: "The heart is not with us." "Oh." Spade gave Tang Er two whips without hesitation, and raised his eyes, "I know I can stop just now, this is to return those two shots." Tang Erda: "..." After Spade got the answer, he left again. Mu Sicheng was helped up while vomiting blood, his head was full of question marks: "He just came to ask questions?! So why did you hit me?!" If Spade was there, he might answer him, intuitionI think Mu Sicheng should be beaten first, otherwise he will rush up later, which is very annoying. But Spade is not there, so Mu Sicheng doesn't know the answer to this question, which may be a good thing for him. Mu Ke looked worriedly at Spade's leaving back: "He should have gone to find Bai Liu." "Bai Liu will be fine, he just needs to destroy his heart to clear the level." Liu Jiayi raised her head, "We have to quit the game before he clears the game, so that for us, real time is frozen and we can go Solve real problems." Tang Erda suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Jiayi: "Bai Liu told me how to solve the problem in reality?" "He told." Liu Jiayi said. Tang Er breathed a sigh of relief, with a rare smile on his face: "He always has a way, so let's log out of the game first." Mu Sicheng also relaxed, and cursed with a smile: "Then you scared me to death if you didn't say it earlier, and I thought something happened to him." "But think about what can happen to this bastard Bai Liu in the game, it's almost as bad as what happened to me." Liu Jiayi clenched her fists. No one questioned Bai Liu's decision, and no one felt that Bai Liu had no choice. He has always been omnipotent, infallible, without weaknesses. She also believed in the same way, so she always...wanted to wait. Maybe Bai Liu would come back suddenly, and said with a smile that everything was taken care of, and then everyone logged out of the game together. But now that Spade appeared, the whitewashed peace in her heart was shattered, and arrangements had to be made immediately. She needs to prepare for White Willow's defeat and send the team out of the game before Spades turn back. Bai Liu's mask-like smile appeared in front of Liu Jiayi, he stroked Liu Jiayi's hair, his smile was hypocritical and warm. Jiayi, she is a smart little girl, she knows what to do, and when I was away, I temporarily handed over the team to you. I was originally trained by Heart as the second tactician, but now I feel that I have the ability to take on this role. He smiled and praised her: Because there is no one more suitable for this position, Jiayi. Liu Jiayi gritted her teeth, raised her head and ordered: "Log out of the game immediately!!" the coast. Scott's hut was completely submerged in the water, and Spade, who came riding on the ice floe, bowed his head to the abandoned wooden house dangling under the water. Spade untied his heavy jacket and spikes, and jumped into the water. He swam into the cabin in the water and passed by. A strange feeling caught Spade, and he quickly turned to the side. On his head, a pure white bone whip pierced from behind his ear. Bai Liu in a white shirt and suit pants smiled at him underwater, and stabbed him a second time without stopping. Spade opened it with a flick of his hand, and he noticed that there was blood oozing from Bai Liu's chest, so Spade reached out and grabbed the neckline, and pulled Bai Liu's shirt open. The buttons of the shirt were cracked one by one in the water, suspended in all directions, and there was a long scar across the entire right chest in front of Bailiu's thin white chest. The scar seemed to have just been formed and hadn't healed yet, and the dense blood was pulling out from the scar like unwrapped threads. Spade stared at the scar for a while, then raised his eyes to Bai Liu, at the moment Bai Liu rushed towards him, he grabbed his neck, then closed his palms, strangled him "to death". Corpse Falling down. Spade opened his mouth in the water, and the air bubbles overflowed from the corner of his lips. He commented: "Bad quality." He emerged from the water and rolled onto the shore. Facing the dark water bottom, Spades rarely frowned: "It's so troublesome..." This one named Bai Liu prepared a bunch of imitations exactly like himself and hid them under the water. And these imitations are very difficult to kill in this kind of map where the Antarctic is completely melted and the water surface is everywhere-killing the weakness of these monsters, whether it is burning or strong acid, is a very difficult condition to achieve. Then this Bai Liu still hid his heart in his body, but these Bai Liu couldn't finish killing them and couldn't kill them. If you hit one, the other one would come back to life soon and come out again. ...Even if the real Bai Liu is caught from the monster pile, under the circumstance that everyone has the same memory, Bai Liu probably doesn't know which Bai Liu has the real heart hidden in his body. This is a game designed to be solved. Spade didn't like this uncomplicated game of whack-a-mole, so he sat on the ice with his eyes open for a while, the water dripping from his chin on the ground. He's not good at this situation, like he's not good at dealing with tacticians. This Bai Liu should be a pretty good tactician, because this is the first tactician who really trapped him with his own body. Most of the time it is the tactician who has a headache for spades, whether it is in the game or out of the game. Spades sat on the shore for a while, then he stood up, his eyes resting on the calm water for a long, long time. There is no unsolvable game in this world. Someone smiled and whispered in his ear, leaning on his shoulder and looking up at him, with a vicious but innocent gamer in his dark eyes. But Spade didn't remember what he looked like, nor who he was. He just remembered that he had said this to him. Games that are designed and presented to a certain person are intended to be solved by that person, so there is no unsolvable game in this world. will definitely win my game, anyway, except for , no one in this place comes to play my game, is my only player. That is to say, my game is designed to win. Spade plunged into the water, he was led by some intuition to dive deeper and deeper, and dived into an unknown depth of the seabed, where a pile of White Willow bodies sank in a criss-cross pattern. Occasionally, White Liu would come back to life and float up, but soon sank again due to suffocation. These White Willows seem to dislike water very much, whether they are going up or down, they always feel a sense of repulsion. Finding the correct one among the white willows in the vast sea seems to be the idiom of "finding a needle in a haystack". Spade was suspended in the icy sea water, and Bai Liu kept trying to get close to him to kill him, but he was swept away again, and finally his sight stopped on a Bai Liu who was buried in layers. This Bai Liu never attacked him. He slept peacefully on the bottom of the sea with his eyes closed, and the wound on his front could be seen through the open shirt. This Bai Liu has a very strange mixed feeling of a monster and a humanlike a transitional body undergoing transformation. Spade has an intuition so strong that it doesn't make sense - this white willow has a heart. He quickly dived down, and the moment he reached out and touched the white willow, the white willow opened his eyes. Air bubbles emerged from Bai Liu's lips, and then swung his legs/limbs to swim quickly in the water. The other White Willows on the bottom of the sea were like shoals of awakened fish, swarming to wrap him in the center, a large pile of white willows swaying back and forth, dazzling people's eyes, and the white willow that Spades had just locked onto was almost gone for a moment. disappeared. But Spades quickly locked on to that white willow again. Spade seems to be equipped with a device to track the white willow, he can find the white willow he is looking for among all those who are exactly the same as the white willow, and even he can't tell the difference, and then chase after it without hesitation. . The swaying azure water waves are shining, on which floats the melted wreckage of the world's largest ice and snow world. The ice floes are far away from the land in large chunks, drifting in the sea area, and the protruding part of the iceberg is out of the water, just like It is an island suspended in the sky. Spades and Bailiu dodged and chased in this cold and white island. But no matter how Bai Liu escapes, how to cover, how to use various skills to interrupt another person, Spades can find him among thousands of identical Bai Liu in this cold, hellish underwater world. Under the melting ice dome, in the darkest seabed, Spades finally caught Bai Liu. Spade gently stretched his hand into Bai Liu's unhealed wound. The blood vessels were twitching to match the heart, and the warm blood touched the fingers overflowing with spades. He held the cold heart that was beating out of season in the warm body, and looked down at the white willow under his control. For a moment, Spade felt that the expression of the tactician who almost trapped him was familiar. It seems that a long time ago, this tactician named Bai Liu used to stare at him with such reluctance and calm eyes as if he hated him at the bottom of the water, tied his rotten ankles, and trapped his corpse like a person just trapped himself. Same, buried under water. Spades slowly closed his palms, and at the moment his heart burst on Spade's fingertips, for some reason, he bent down and hugged Bai Liu, put his chin on Bai Liu's shoulder, and mouthed Sorry. Bai Liu closed his eyes in the water, the blood mist around him exploded, and his consciousness drifted into the void. Tavel, Scheta... Don't be afraid of the dead me, or the living me. I will always stay in my winter waiting . No matter what choice I make, they will leave me, right? --Yes.
