Chapter 159: The Rose Factory
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
"Fuck!" Mu Sicheng was so bored he wanted to punch the air, "I can't even guarantee I'll get out of a level 3 game alive! How the fuck does Bai Liu, a low level panel player, have the balls to go straight in!"
Muke took a few breaths and turned to Mu Sicheng, a more experienced player than him: "So what, then, can we do for Bai Liu now?"
"All we can do is stay out of the game, keep our people out, and let Bai Liu call on our skills freely." Mu Sicheng was silent for a while, before returning to Muke's words, "That's all we're worth to him, for now."
"At first I told him that a hundred points for my soul was too cheap and that I had suffered a great loss, but I never thought that after only one game, I would be useless to him." Mu Sicheng gave a self-deprecating laugh, looked down at his palm, and gripped it with all his might, "As a result, he really overspent these hundred points."
The feeling of powerlessness that Liu Huai felt when he was manipulated and controlled by others and had to die in front of his eyes rises again in Mu Sicheng's heart - it is as if he is always watching the person who can just deliver a little emotion being held hostage by fate, heading for inevitable danger and death in front of him.
It was the same with the man who started it all, it was the same with Liu Huai, and it is the same with Bai Liu now, who thinks he can do a lot but often comes up short.
This uncontrollable sense of disengagement was quickly suppressed by Mu Sicheng's clenched fists.
But Muke found other values quicker than Mu Sicheng, who looked down at the boisterous forum and snapped his head up to Mu Sicheng: "There's one more thing we can do."
Mu Sicheng looked over: "What is it?"
Muke's eyes lit up alarmingly: "The guild, Bai Liu's guild! The scavenger guild he got in the last round!"
"He talked to me about some management ideas." Muke found something he could do for Bai Liu, which quickly calmed him down and made him coherent and sensible.
"This Scavenging Guild has lost a lot of powerful players so far, and the players that are left are the remnants of those who want to cling to Bai Liu, but these people are not completely worthless, I need information on all of them and then sort out what makes them most useful to Bai Liu... ..."
Muke analysed line by line what they could do next for Bai Liu, while Mu Sicheng listened intently.
Had Tang Erda been here, he would have been amazed to discover that the [Wandering Circus], which he thought hadn't grown up ten minutes earlier, quickly evolved into the embryonic team he saw in other parallel lines after Bai Liu entered the third level of the game with the injured Liu Jiayi.
Muke, a thief desperate to become strong, starts to take on the role of guild and stage manager, and the little witch who blocks his bullets for Bai Liu ......
Everything seems to have been predetermined, heading inexorably towards a set trajectory.
The only possible change is the hunter himself, who is caught in the abyss.
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Tang Erda stepped into the game and quickly redeemed a bottle of psycho-bleach and took a big swig before breaking free from the near-death, wanting to kill someone else or himself, he leaned against the entrance to the central hall and closed his eyes to rest, not rushing after Bai Liu.
He caught up with Bai Liu in the central hall and was unable to kill him, so Tang Erda had to wait for Bai Liu to enter the game.
Although Bai Liu's situation will be more dangerous once he is in the game, Tang Erda believes that Bai Liu will be in the game soon.
Because Liu Jiayi was wounded.
Not to Tang Erda's surprise, he soon received an alert from the system that
[System Alert: Your favorite player Bai Liu has logged in to the game~ Please go and watch~]
Tang Erda didn't hesitate to head for the game's login at the beep.
Tang Erda walked towards the boarding gate while sending a cold gaze to the senior guilds who wanted to hire him for this league.
The notice he sent to the guilds was clear and concise - he wanted to kill Bai Liu, and Tang Erda would join his team for free with whoever lent him help to surround Bai Liu.
It has to be said that this is quite a tempting bargaining chip. The powerful and mysterious [Rose Hunter], whose panel is said to have risen to S rank long ago but has been hiding his panel, is suddenly willing to join a team for this year's league, which is a heavyweight news that could totally dominate the direction of the league.
The moment Tang Erda's announcement was sent out, it provoked a heated discussion within several ranked guilds.
In fact, with Tang Erda's strength, of course he could have gone after Bai Liu single-handedly.
However, this is subject to the very important caveat that Bai Liu does not run away from each other between games.
Catching Bai six can become quite difficult if Bai six is quick to clear one low-level game after another, using the game's pass mechanic to roam and flee, moving between simple games at a fast pace to evade Tang Erda.
If no one helps populate the rest of the game to stop Bai six from entering, then those chasing Bai six will just be left hanging all over the screen, leaving the audience to marvel at his skill in getting through the game quickly - don't ask Tang Erda how he knows, because he's already been played like this once by Bai six from another timeline Don't ask Tang Erda why he knows, because he's already been played like this once by Bai six from another timeline.
Bai six was born for these horror games and no one can win in a game with him.
Tang Erda understands this better than anyone else, otherwise Bai Six would have been killed a thousand times over, and he wouldn't have had to resort to that [Russian Roulette] skill in desperation to barely kill Bai Six.
Tang Erda used this skill to win the league match against [Wandering Circus] - because he killed Bai six.
Of course the guy didn't really die, his popularity gave him an exemption from death in league matches, and although Bai six didn't really die, the moment Bai six was killed by Tang Erda's skills, all the members of the circus unanimously chose to stop the match to make sure Bai six was safe, which meant surrendering to Tang Erda.
Even though Tang Erda was the only one left in the ring, Circus Team Quan didn't hesitate for a second when it came to giving up the game.
To the trained mad dogs of the circus, Bai six's life and death meant much more than a league victory - perhaps only Bai six, the psychopath himself, would put the importance of victory and money before his own life.
Tang Erda walked up to the game portal and at the same time, the notifications he had sent out were answered.
It was the King's Guild that gave him the quickest response.
[System Alert: Player Tang Erda, you have a guild notification from (Queen of Hearts) ~]
Tang Erda taps on the notification on the system panel that the envelope is fire-painted in the shape of a poker Hearts.
[Reply from the Queen of Hearts: Dear Lord Hunter, I am also tracking Bai Liu, who has abducted the lovely little witch of our guild.
[Of course if you would like to join our team afterwards, the King's Guild would be honoured, but if you don't want to join, we won't force you, but in the matter of Bai Liu, I believe we can reach a mutually pleasant and short-lived cooperation~]
Tang Erda's eyes sank slightly when she saw the notice.
Hearts, an amazing woman.
She is the only woman in all the timelines Tang Erda has seen, apart from the Little Witch, that Tang Erda knows of that can be directly related to Bai six.
Tang Erda looked at Hearts' offer to work with him on the Bai six hunt with a sense of subtlety and defiance - because the Hearts queens of other time periods were, for the most part, not so friendly to him.
Each person in a different timeline has a different identity and situation, each event is chosen differently, and the same people produce different futures - this is the theory of parallel time and space.
Just as there are no two identical leaves in this world, even the same people in each timeline will not have the same future, because each person in each timeline will make more or less different choices at different points in time, leading to a completely different life.
Except for Bai six, a bug-like being who is a counter-example to this theory.
Bai six is so unlike a normal human being that each timeline, when faced with a major event that could determine the future course of his life, Bai six will not hesitate to do the same, leading him to the path that will win him the most money - so each timeline, even if there are more twists and turns in between or different So every timeline, even if there are more twists and turns or differences in between, Bai six is bound to end up as a heretical smuggler.
On this, Bai six from another time once made a very interesting remark to Tang Erda, laughingly saying to her that most of the avenues to enrich oneself quickly in this world are to stimulate the urge to spend by tickling people's desires.
But could there be any goods that excite the desire of the heart more than the sale of evil itself?
No more, indeed, as Bai six has proved to Tang Erda with a smile in countless timelines.
Bai six's desire to chase money, in different timelines, is so stable that it is like a placed coordinate that doesn't produce the slightest waver, which leads him to the exact same future in each timeline - which in itself is not normal.
One cannot be so stable.
Like Hearts in other timelines, a woman who is Bai six's rumoured mistress one moment, Bai six's smuggling partner the next, and who works against Bai six to help the Bureau of Heresy kill him the next, and occasionally has no connection to Bai six at all - a normal person's [ future fluctuation curve].
In the absence of a drastic change in one's upbringing, many basic circumstances can be determined, meaning that there is no infinite possible parallel time and space for a person to derive a future that fluctuates around a [standard future value], within a roughly determined upper and lower limit - such as This is the case with the woman Hearts.
She makes contact with Bai six in most of her timelines, but her attitude towards Bai six is completely different in each timeline because she is from a different position.