Chapter 266 |
Reality.
Liu Jiayi took Tang Erda out of the game as soon as they logged out and had him call Su Yang to ask about the plane.
“Contact was lost while crossing the sea over the Antarctic.” Su Yang’s voice tightened, “Captain, you’ve …… [seen] it again, haven’t you?”
This was asking Tang Erda if it was the same as before. The [Prophet] generally waited and saw this future.
“…… sort of.” Tang Erda rubbed his brow, sounding tired, “But this time when I [saw] it, it was too late, sorry.”
“There’s no need to say sorry to me, Captain.” Su Yang smiled bitterly, “It’s my fault.”
Liu Jiayi jumped up and grabbed Tang Erda’s phone and said into it, “Captain Su, things may not be turning around either.”
Su Yang’s voice was suddenly a harsh one, “Is there anything I can do?”
Liu Jiayi spoke quickly, “Help us find out if there is a Du Sanying, Du Jie, the number three, the parrot, in Mirror City.”
Then came the sound of Su Yang’s feet hurrying away, and soon he returned at a trot, panting, “There’s no Du Sanying in Mirror City, do we need to widen the search?”
Liu Jiayi knitted her brows, and she realised – Du Sanying had actually changed his name in the game.
Finding a player without knowing his original name is like looking for a needle in a haystack in the real world.
Su Yang understood this too, and his voice took on an urgent tone: “Is there any other special information about this person? We will do everything we can to help you.”
The plane over the Antarctic could make an emergency landing at any moment, and any time is as precious as five lives at this moment.
But unfortunately – Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and spoke, “This man does have special points.”
Su Yang followed up with, “What special point?”
Bai Liu left the game pool, and within a second of standing still wet, he quickly logged out of the game to meet up with Liu Jiayi’s group who were looking for Du Sanying.
The meeting place was at Bai Liu’s house.
Bai Liu looked as normal as ever, except for some unkempt creases on the collar and cuffs of his shirt. He was in the best condition among the group.
Bai Liu took one look at Liu Jiayi and said with a start, “He changed his name, didn’t he? Then it’s going to be troublesome to find him now.”
He was talking about trouble, but there was not a hint of a troubled expression on this man’s face, which remained relaxed and at ease.
And this ease gave Liu Jiayi an indescribable sense of dissonance.
Bai Liu logged out of the game, which means that the heart was destroyed……
She knows what that heart means to Bai Liu. Bai Liu’s [relaxed and comfortable] state was not normal.
But there was no way she could ask, as Bai Liu soon steered her thoughts in the right direction.
Bai Liu looks at Liu Jiayi: “What’s your next idea for finding someone?”
“Find people around us who are relevant.” Liu Jiayi’s face was stony, “As you said, according to what you know about yourself, that is, [Bai Liu (6)], if a character like [Du Sanying] with 100 percent luck existed, you would never let him go.”
“He was quite outstanding and very valuable.”
“Yes.” Bai Liu lifted his eyes and smiled at Tang Erda, “So this is the time to ask our Captain Tang to patiently remember if there was such a cute and lucky character in The Wandering Circus in other times and places?”
Tang Erda quickly realised what Bai Liu was up to. His brow furrowed in thoughtful recollection, and after a time, he said:
“The Wandering Circus, for most of its time, consisted of you and four others. I rarely saw anyone else other than those four on the league field or exist around you.”
“But …… if it’s not a Wandering Circus member, but a supernumerary associated with the Wandering Circus, there is indeed someone.”
Bai Liu gestures with his eyes for Tang Erda to continue.
Tang Erda has to think very hard to recall that character with a low presence.
“He rarely plays, but you …… Bai Liu (6) will take him a lot, but with him ……”
–What to do?
The face of the boy who appeared on the field from time to time, sitting huddled on the bench, is completely blurred in Tang Erda’s memory.
It’s a bit strange to say. Bai Liu (6) never brings worthless people, and this boy did not leave an impression on Tang Erda at all – because Bai Liu (6) never put this boy on the field.
It was as if Bai Liu (6) was deliberately protecting him……
But what is the value of a reserve player if not on the field of play?
Why did Bai Liu (6) bring him to every game……
Tang Erda jolted as he remembered a rather brief moment – the boy standing cowering in front of Bai Liu (6), helping him draw the enemy cards from the box.
Drawing enemy cards was a very important part of the league.
The league is divided into three parts of the competition: pre-season, mid-season and post-season.
The pre-season tournament is a mixed competition, also known as a rookie tournament.
This part of the tournament features older teams that did not finish in the top 32 places in last year’s league, as well as new teams that have registered for the league for the first time this year.
Only two teams will emerge from this competition, but these two teams will have direct access to the playoffs.
Mid-season games are also known as star games.
The teams in this part of the tournament are those that finished above the 32nd place in last year’s tournament. They are highly capable and strong, and most of them will have star players, making it the most interesting round of the tournament.
These teams will go through several rounds of back-and-forth play against each other, and the eight with highest point totals will advance to the playoffs.
The playoffs are divided into a challenge and a main competition.
The challenge is for the two Rising Stars teams that won the pre-season. They will randomly challenge two of the eight teams entering the playoffs, and if they win, they enter the playoffs instead of the other team.
If they lose, then the fate of these two teams ends here.
The main event is a single-legged final between the eight teams that remain in the tournament, with the winner advancing and the loser being eliminated. It leaves no room for recovery and is the most exciting part of the tournament – both for the players and the audience.
Usually by this point in the game, all the spectators have almost gone crazy and it’s not uncommon for people to fight each other within the game after a match.
And card draws are an important part of the pre-season as well as the post-season challenges – because in both of these more random fixtures, teams rely on drawing cards from a box to randomly decide their opponents.
If your side is lucky enough to draw an opposing team with poor form, low ability, or a skill match, you will be quite lucky for your side.
And this kind of luck happens a lot with Bai Liu (6) – but this guy is a 0 luck player!
Tang Erda’s account corroborated Bai Liu’s suspicions.
Since Du Sanying has been seen in the vicinity of Bai Liu (6) in other worlds, there must be some sort of connection to Bai Liu in this world.
After all, the one who wanted to change him from Bai Liu back to Bai Liu (6), or rather God, would not give up trying to modify any of the points of difference between them.
This god had simply and directly sent Du Sanying to him before, but Bai Liu could not control Du Sanying, presumably because of the special nature of Du Sanying as a person.
With 100 percent luck, it was too easy for this guy to escape Bai Liu, an unfortunate man.
But in that case, [God] must have placed Du Sanying in a place within Bai Liu’s reach, so that Bai Liu could [use] the reserve team member that God had prepared for him at any time.
Over the years, due to work and other reasons, Bai Liu has been living on the move and has even changed his rental properties, so he has been living in a lot of different places.
Only one place is relatively permanent for him.
But the place has been knocked down and rebuilt.
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, “Have Su Yang check out the patients, caregivers, and doctors at the nursing home that was built after my orphanage was knocked down and rebuilt.”
Tang Erda dialed the number and Su Yang on the phone asked, “What kind of person do you need to check for inside?”
Shrine.
The man in the hood opposite the prophet snorted in boredom. He propped his palms up and looked at the werewolf card on the table, shaking his head slightly regretfully, “- Shame, I thought I’d see Bai Liu corrupt the heart himself.”
“After all, it was a game of metamorphosis that I had so carefully prepared for him.”
The prophet said, “Bai Liu will not do that.”
The man raised his eyes with amusement as he stared at the seer, “But my purpose was achieved nonetheless.”
“You see, Bai Liu is not repelled by water now. He will even take the initiative to dive in and use this to his advantage to deter his opponents, nor will he linger too much over a fading heart, or even-“
The prophet interrupted him sternly, “That was not his heart!”
The man added the second half of the sentence without haste, “-and would even take initiative to take the [lucky man] I had prepared for him.”
He smiled, “What a wonderful transformation. Bai Liu has begun to not see the people around him as human beings in his eyes. His feelings were stripped away with the death of that heart, his flesh alienated with those corpses. He only has eyes for the league and the ultimate desire for money.”
“How beautiful, there is only one victory between him and Bai Liu (6).”
“Although the process wasn’t quite what I expected. I was going to draw away his only feelings when he was fourteen with the help of Xie Ta’s death, unfortunately ……” The man lowered his eyes and brushed the red eyes of the werewolf brand with his index finger:. “-but it doesn’t matter, he’ll soon be what I want him to be.”
The prophet’s petrification had reached his waist and his chest rose and fell weakly: “What you do is not the way of God.”
The man laughed: “That’s right, because I’m an evil god.”
“Playing with humans, gaining profit, enslaving them, is what I like to do most.”
“Like this fool card.” The man casually flung out a card, “I’m not a big fan of these purely good guy cards that wolves can’t even kill with tempo, but this one does seem interesting and valuable for a Bai Liu (6) team.”
On the face of the card flung out by the man on the table was a boy in a hospital gown scowling a little as if he were afraid of someone, a small freckles scattered across both cheeks and the base of his nose, and a pair of boxy flat glasses on the bridge of his nose.
The man looked at the card with downcast eyes and folded his hands, “Idiot with 100 percent luck, nice setup, Bai Liu (6) in all world lines love him. I’m sure the Bai Liu (6) in this world line does too.”
The prophet spoke hoarsely, “Because he saved Bai Liu (6).”
“Saved?” The man smiled as he shook his head slightly, “I prefer to call this process destiny.”
He stretched out a few fingers and nodded casually to the fool card, his gaze scattered, ” – during a conflict with the Heretic Handling Bureau in reality, the mad hunter used a weapon with targeted skills and attacked Bai Liu (6) in a suicide attack, leaving him seriously injured. “
“The accidentally injured leader of the wandering circus had the misfortune to hide out in the center of a car accident.”
“And at the center of this crash, the only person who survived was Du Sanying, the lucky one.”
“He was too lucky to survive a car accident in which everyone was killed instantly.” The man folded his fingers carelessly, “But his good fortune must be accentuated by the misfortune of others, it must invite the misfortune of those around him.”
The man looked up at the prophet with a smile, “For God is fair, and misfortune and fortune should be kept constant.”
The prophet’s voice was mute beyond words, “…… Du Sanying’s father, mother, sister, and older siblings all died in the crash.”
“It was a family trip to celebrate the end of his senior year, but you let them all die, die in front of Du Sanying, and even let such a teenager know that these people died because of his luck.”
The man spreads his hands, “One should always be aware of how high a price one has paid for one’s good fortune, otherwise they would not appreciate it.”
“It is a blessing from God.” He smiled lightly, “-and the price I charge will only be higher.”
The prophet stared straight at the man, “But he has paid. You made him save the wounded Bai Liu (6), isn’t that enough to pay the price you want?”
“No, no, no.” The man shook his head slightly, a smile in his eyes, “I didn’t ask him to save him.”
“It was Du Sanying himself who took the initiative to save him.”
“Du Sanying’s life was surrounded by people who paid for his good fortune. He seemed to be incredibly fortunate to have a good family and good brothers.”
“But Du Sanying could not prevent the unfortunate fate of anyone associated with him – even though it was caused by him.”
The prophet said in a cold voice, “It was caused by you.”
“One could say the same.” The man raised his eyes, smirking, “-and Bai Liu (6), a man with a luck value of zero, is the only one whose misfortune is not caused by Du Sanying.”
“Bai Liu (6) misfortune is innate and has nothing to do with Du Sanying, whose presence will instead bring him luck. So Bai Liu (6) is the only person in the world that Du Sanying can use his luck on to prevent his misfortune.”
The man under the hood smiled, “- so Du Sanying will definitely put his life on the line to help Bai Liu, to save Bai Liu, and become the most obedient pawn and puppet under him without even having to trade souls.”
“Du Sanying is desperate to protect the Bai Liu (6) he meets at the centre of the crash in every world, because he no longer knows the meaning of his existence other than to protect the Bai Liu (6).”
The prophet interrupts him, “Provided that Du Sanying remembers this has happened to him.”
Within five minutes, Su Yang returned the call, reporting at a rapid pace.
“We should have found the person you’re looking for, original name Du Ying? He’s the third in the family, with an older brother, an older sister and a younger sister. Their family is an ethnic minority and not restricted to family planning, so it’s a big family.”
“The family has always been relatively smooth but strangely unlucky. or example, Du Ying’s father, a lawyer, has been in some very dangerous situations from time to time, but whenever Du Ying goes to him, he is bound to have a major confrontation and get injured, while Du Ying is unharmed.”
“Du Ying used to enjoy going to wait for his father to finish work, but after realising the trouble he would cause, he never went back.”
“In primary school, Du Ying’s class was attacked indiscriminately by vengeful people and all the children sitting in front of and behind Du Ying’s seat were stabbed to death, except Du Ying, who was still alive.”
“After that, no one dared to make friends with Du Ying, and he sat alone in the corner of the class where the rubbish bins were kept, with no one in front of or behind him, just the bins.”
“When he got to junior high school, his class teacher, Mr. Ren, was a pedophile and had been watching Du Ying for quite some time, wanting to lay hands on him. But one day Du Ying’s sister volunteered to pick up her brother from school and was seen by the class teacher, who then changed his goal.”
Su Yang takes a deep breath: ” Du Ying’s sister was almost sexually assaulted after a period of stalking, but Du Ying found out just in time.”
“Du Ying got into a heated physical confrontation with his teacher and was forced to transfer to another school, but after the transfer Du Ying never had any contact with his family. He felt that there was something wrong with him, and moved out on his own when he transferred to another school.”
“But the family felt that this was a myth, and that Du Ying had saved his sister. They were reluctant to give up on Du Ying, always trying to reconnect with him, even his sister used to come to his brother to open up to him.”
“She thought her brother was brave and that it was the class teacher’s fault. She felt her dad had used the law to get her justice, so the incident left her no harm and spared her brother a disaster.”
“It was a lucky thing – I looked up that his sister had sent such a text message to Du Ying.”
“Then Du Ying gradually came around, he moved back home in his senior year and decided to study law and become a lawyer like his father to put an end to the injustice that these misfortunes had incurred.”
Su Yang let out a long breath, “Du Ying overachieved in the entrance exams, scoring extremely high marks, being number one in the city. He usually gets average grades, so his family were all very happy.”
“After filling out the application form, the family decided to celebrate Du Ying by preparing a graduation trip.”
“But the family’s car was involved in a series of crashes on the motorway and none of them survived, except Du Ying, who was unhurt.”
“Du Ying suffered from a peculiar mental illness called amnesia, after which he could only remember the events of the last week and had forgotten everything that had happened before that.”
“A year ago, he was unable to maintain a normal life due to constant memory loss. His doctor recommended that he be hospitalised and Du Ying entered the nursing home where he now resides in room 906.”
“This is all information from his medical records.”
Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi look at each other – this is the nursing home room where Bai Liu stayed in ‘Love and Welfare’.
It seems that from that time onwards, those behind the scenes had already arranged Du Sanying’s position.
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<time datetime="2023-10-23T21:25:44+04:00">October 23, 2023</time>
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