Chapter 201

The iron door swayed open, Tang Erda standing in front of the door remained motionless.

He seemed to have turned into a wooden sculpture in an instant, or, at this moment, he wished that he was just a wooden sculpture.

The factory worker pushed him twice suspiciously, but Tang Er was so tall and strong that he couldn't push at all. At this time, the "fragrance tester" in the cage suddenly moved his finger and moved slightly towards him.

Leaning against the wall, the "fragrance test paper"'s slack eyes tried to focus on Tang Erda, and he made a very weak, questioning, hoarse voice: "...Captain?"

With just such a soft sound, Tang Erda, who had been sinking on the spot, seemed to have been hit hard by a gun. The pain was so painful that he almost had to gnash his teeth. Only with a ferocious face could he control his expression.

Tang Er's eyes were scarlet, and he was able to stabilize his body by leaning on the wall. He was looking at the people in the cage, or trying the scented paper.

Something drained Tang Erda's strength, made him exhausted, bruised and unrecognizable, so that he could only rely on external objects to support his body, step by step, stumbled into this place that has been trapping him, In this cage that trapped Su Chao.

Tang Erda walked up to the fragrance test paper, and at this moment, he could clearly see the whole picture of the other party.

Su Chao's entire face was "blooming", the roses in his eyes were as lush as those in a flower field, his face was covered with lines of blood and flesh, and he was wearing the uniform of the vice-captain of the Dangerous Heresy Management Bureau. Still have badges.

Su Chao's work photo on the badge was stained with blood, making it look dirty.

This face, and this work photo, reminded Tang Erda of the time when Su Chao was shot by the clown, and the heart-piercing screams of the team members seemed to still echo in his ears.

And Tang Erda seemed to be out of his body, looking blankly at the videotape recording Su Chao's death. His brain seemed to be malfunctioning, and he only echoed a sentence - if only I was next to Su Chao. up.

——If only I was arrested with Su Chou, if only I was arrested instead of Su Chou, if only I were Su Chou.

If only I was the one who was tortured, the one who suffered the pain, and the one who died.

——Why does it have to be Su Qi every time, every time?

It must be him, the most important person who dare not tell so many timelines, who dare not face up, who dare not take a second look and say a word?

Tang Er closed his eyes, the veins on the back of the hand holding the wall were bulging, and he almost couldn't stand still

There was a very faint, very faint light in Su Chao's eyes. He didn't seem to feel that he was in such pain now. His jagged face was pure. Seeing the trust and joy of Tang Erda, the captain, he seemed to be in pain. want to laugh.

But the torn skin and muscles prevented Su Chao from smiling.

So the corner of his mouth was half-curved, and then fell down helplessly, only his tone was still happy: "It's really you, captain!"

Su Chao wanted to raise his hand to reach the corner of Tang Erda's clothes, but failed several times, instead his hand trembled due to excessive force.

Once again when Su Chao raised his hand enough to fall, Tang Erda finally squatted down silently. He gently covered the void with his trembling hand at a distance. On the back of Su Chao's hand.

Su Chou gasped weakly, leaned against the wall dying, smiled at him with half-closed eyes, and suddenly turned his hand to hold Tang Erda's hand.

Tang Erda took a deep breath to suppress those turbulent emotions. For the first time in this timeline, he did not reject Su Chao's approach, but instead held Su Chao back. The voice was hoarse and difficult: "Well, the captain is here to rescue you."

"No, you can't... get me out! Kekeke—" Su Chao had a look of annoyance, helplessness and amusedness on his face.

Like every time he cooperated with Tang Erda before, he seemed to be troubled by his captain's reckless decision, but in the end he still had the patience to persuade the other party.

Su Chao's voice sounded broken because of his shortness of breath: "It's useless for you to rescue me, I'm really dying."

Su Chao's eyes drooped, and his tone lowered: "My family, parents, and team members didn't make it through. They all withered. Now I'm the only one left, but I can't last long."

"I'm just not reconciled. I'm not reconciled to being unable to do anything in front of this thing. I'm such a waste." Su Chao's tone was slightly dazed. Tightening Tang Er's hand that wanted to take it away, "But you are different, captain! You are the one chosen by the prophet! You can definitely change everything!"

At this moment, Tang Erda seemed to have all the memories in the timeline converged on this sentence.

【team leader! You can do it for sure! 】

[Captain, I believe in you! 】

[Captain, ahem, as long as you are alive, we have hope! 】

Countless, all, different Su Chou with bloody, broken, pale, scarred, or bloody faces all stared at him with bright eyes full of relief and hope, shouting he captain.

Then the next moment he smiled and died for him, and his soul disappeared into the light in an instant, without any trace.

Tang Erda looked at Su Chao anxiously watching his face vaguely. For a moment, he felt that what he accepted was no longer Su Chao's entrustment and trust, but a desperate curse and staying away.

Su Chao moved his body forward with difficulty, leaning on Tang Erda's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Captain, listen, there's no point in rescuing me, you should be promoted to a factory worker now that you've come here. Immediately afterwards, he was promoted to a perfumer, and there is an antidote for rose perfume, but only every factory manager knows the antidote."

"As long as you are promoted from a perfumer to a factory manager, you will know what the antidote is." At this point, Su Chao was a little out of breath, resting his head on Tang Erda's shoulder, and then He continued quickly, with a smile in his tone, "At that time, you can save these polluted people."

Tang Erda couldn't tell how long he had been silent before he said hoarsely: "...What about you?"

Su Chao didn't speak, but leaned quietly on Tang Erda's shoulder, with his eyes closed and his chest heaving slightly.

Their tacit understanding does not require them to say anything, both of them understand what kind of decision Su Chao has made - Su Chao decided to sacrifice himself to test Tang Erda, so that Tang Erda can be successfully promoted to a factory worker.

This is equivalent to letting Tang Erda kill Su Chao with his own hands to save other people in this game.

Even this Su Chao is just a character in the game, just a fake Su Chao, but Tang Er can't beat him.

"But the captain..." Su Chao leaned on Tang Erda's shoulder and opened his empty eyes, as if muttering to himself, "I can't be saved anymore, I'm addicted."

"Captain, you have to be more open-minded. Death is something... human beings are all going to die." Su Chao's tone had a casual, indifferent smile, as if he was coaxing Tang Erda, "If I have to If you are going to die, I hope my death means something to you."

"I'm actually really happy to see you before you completely wither, because at least it means that I have been struggling and suffering like a fool for so long, and the self-torture of not being willing to succumb to rose perfume is meaningful." Su Chao said in Tang Erda turned his head on his shoulder and looked at him tenderly, "What I mean is to wait for you, Captain."

Tang Erda could see the cracks on Su Chou's face gradually deepening and falling off, blood seeping from the edges, and Su Chou reflected in his pupils became more and more like a rose.

More and more like a monster.

He had never seen life passing through a person's body so clearly.

Su Chao looked at Tang Erda imploringly.

Tang Er let go of Su Chou's hand holding him little by little, and then shook the hand he let go voluntarily. He lowered his head, couldn't see his expression clearly, and his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't hear clearly: "...Testing, how to do it?"

Su Chao laughed from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you, captain."

"By the way." Su Chao seemed to have remembered something important, and his face became serious, "Captain, do you still remember the living heretic Bai Liu who you captured and then escaped? Wait until you leave here, if you have the chance Find him, please kill this man."

"This is the man who blew up the factory we went to inspect on the day he escaped from the Dangerous Heresy Administration."

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In another cage across the wall.

At Luyi Station, I finally figured out that the person in front of me was really Bai Liu who had become Liu Jiayi. The two of them chatted without any tension.

Bai Liu opened his eyelids and glanced at Lu Yizhan who was sitting opposite him: "Did I blow up the rose factory?"

"Yes." Lu Yizhan didn't seem to feel that he was talking about an important topic. His body and tone were very relaxed. He lay on the bed with his hands behind his head. Well, I use my ten-year knowledge of you to guarantee that, standing on top of the rose factory, the person who claims to blow up the factory is definitely you."

"You said you were going to cause an explosion, leak rose dry leaf gas, and destroy the world. I also had a few conversations with you, and I finally confirmed that you are the one I know. You are right." Lu Yizhan said with his face up.

The timeline of the game "Rose Factory" is ten years after the real world.

Bai Liu sorted out the timeline that Lu Yizhan told him.

The explosion that led to the popularization of dried rose leaf gas all over the world happened the day after Bai Liu escaped from the dangerous Bureau of Heresy.

On the same day, Lu Yizhan and the deputy captain of the third team of the Dangerous Heresy Management Bureau, Su Chao, both came to the Rose Factory on the same day to investigate the factory that was forcibly closed down but secretly reopened—this is Bailiu’s newspaper in this factory What he saw on the Internet was basically consistent with the reality that Bai Liu had inferred, and it was also consistent with what Lu Yizhan told him just now.

As for what happened after Lu Yizhan said, Bai Liu only raised his eyebrows after hearing a few words.

Lu Yizhan said that when they arrived at the factory, they searched everywhere in the factory for containers suspected of storing dried leaves and rose gas. The whole factory was very strange, with all the equipment, but the people seemed to disappear out of thin air. I don’t know where they went. .

They searched without sleep until the wee hours of the morning, but found nothing except some iron pots and stills containing the residue of the rose training.

At this time, Bai Liu appeared on the roof of the rose factory out of nowhere, as if falling from the sky, holding a big lama who didn't know where to get it, and lazily shouting at the crowd below with one hand in his pocket——

As Lu Yizhan said, he imitated the scene at that time by comparing his hands to a big lama: "I am the anti-social Bailiu, because I have been laid off for more than a month, I can't find a job, and I have no money to earn, I am very sad , I feel that the world will be destroyed with me, so I will detonate this factory later, let the dried rose leaf gas leak, and let everyone play with me."

Bai Liu was silent for a while, then asked back: "Then the rose factory exploded?"

Lu Yizhan nodded honestly: "Well, then you disappeared completely. Because of this, for a while, the Dangerous Heresy Management Bureau issued a bounty for your arrest warrant to 16 million, and I was a little tempted."

Bai Liu squinted at Lu Yizhan who was lying on the bed: "Don't you think I made the explosion?"

If Lu Yizhan is sure that Bai Liu made the explosion, as long as he can move, as soon as Bai Liu walks in, he is guaranteed to bounce off the bed and kill Bai Liu on the spot.

But now Lu Yizhan is still lying on the bed calmly chatting with Bai Liu, which proves that Lu Yizhan feels that the explosion has nothing to do with Bai Liu.

Lu Yizhan was silent for a while before speaking: "I'm sure that you were the one who shouted on the roof of the rose factory that the factory was going to be blown up, and I'm also sure that the rose factory exploded within fifteen minutes after you finished speaking. A perfume spill that endangers everyone."

Then Lu Yizhan gave a very thoughtless speculation: "But I don't think you did this."

Bai Liu asked interestingly: "Why?"

Bai Liu seldom doubted Lu Yizhan's inferences about him. Lu Yizhan might be more familiar with him than he himself, and would never lie to him.

Lu Yizhan said that the person standing on the roof was Bai Liu, and Bai Liu guessed that it was really him.

Lu Yizhan looked up at the top of the cage for a while as if in a daze, and then answered Bai Liu's words: "It's very unprofessional and subjective, I believe you would not do such a thing."

Bai Liu squinted at him: "I never knew that you still trust my character?"

Lu Yizhan let out a slow "hey", then turned his head and gave Bai Liu a light look: "It's not because of this, I can't believe your character."

If it weren't for the strange lines on Lu Yizhan's face, their conversation would have been as calm as usual gags.

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu: "But I believe in your trading ethics. You made a hot pot deal with me yesterday for ten years. There is no need to destroy the world before you have eaten a meal. What a loss. I don't believe you can do such a thing."

"Yeah." Bai Liu glanced at Lu Yizhan, "Although I think so too, other people don't think so, do they?"

Lu Yizhan smiled, turned his head back again, and said with emotion: "Indeed, I was the only one who felt this way among the factory staff who went there that day. The reason for the speculation is too subjective to convince them, so there will be people who treat you later. high bounty."

"It's a pity that they couldn't last, and they all left one by one." Lu Yizhan's expression finally became complicated, and he sighed a long time, "The people in this world who can still believe in you persistently, and those who hate you There seems to be only one person left."

The person who believes in Bai Liu is obviously Lu Yizhan. According to the bad taste of the game designer, if Bai Liu's guess is correct, the person who hates him should be Su Chao. Su Chao.

Lu Yizhan continued: "During the ten years here, I have been thinking about the ten years I have known you, trying to find clues about who you really are, so as to prove that I will not detonate roses for you. The factory speculation, while the other guy kept emphasizing the evidence, emphasizing that he saw you detonate the factory with his own eyes."

Lu Yizhan stared straight at the ceiling, and his tone became very soft, as if he was talking to himself: "What kind of person are you, has become the only reason for our survival."

"And recalling later, I began to doubt whether you existed, whether you were just a friend I imagined because I was too lonely here, a murderer, a kind of self-compensating salvation in order to stay awake-knowing that you exist, I'm at least looking forward to it."

Bai Liu turned her head calmly: "So?"

Lu Yizhan gave Bai Liu a blank look as if complaining: "At least please sympathize with me, I'm so miserable."

After finishing speaking, Lu Yi stood silent for a moment, and he smiled: "So for a while, whenever someone came in to test the perfume, I would ask them - do you know Bai Liu, what do you think of him?"

"Maybe because I was very cooperative in the fragrance test, and they basically answered. I got many, many answers about [White Liu], but none of them could convince me that you really exist, and none of them could describe someone I know. "

Lu Yizhan struggled to sit up on the edge of the bed. He took two deep breaths and looked up at Bai Liu: "Now it's your turn to answer my question. Do you know Bai Liu?"

He looked straight at Bai Liu who was standing beside the bed with good eyes: "——What kind of person do you think Bai Liu is?"

"I know Bai Liu." Bai Liu looked at the weak and panting Lu Yizhan very calmly, and said, "He is shameless, despicable, has no empathy, does not compromise methods, has no conventional social awareness, normal value orientation, and does not accept ordinary values. The person kidnapped by the unspoken rules of morality, in simple terms, is a complete asshole, coupled with a strong desire for money, is a very dangerous person in all aspects."

"Yeah." Lu Yizhan nodded seriously, "It's the Bai Liu I know, that's right, continue."

Bai Liu stared at Lu Yizhan for a long time, and then said: "He is indeed your friend, so even if he is such a bastard, he will keep his deal with you - I will not detonate the factory, if standing on the roof of the rose factory That person was me, and there should have been some circumstances that forced me to say that, to make that choice, but I wouldn't do something that would go against the deal."

Lu Yizhan was stunned for a moment, and he smiled sincerely: "Yes, I believe that too."

Bai Liu took a step forward: "Okay, I've finished talking nonsense with you, teach me how to test."

Lu Yizhan was stunned for a moment, and smiled helplessly: "You are too cruel, Bai Liu, I just heard from that factory worker that your talent is very likely to kill me once tested!"

"You may die here." Bai Liu glanced at Lu Yizhan, "but the real you will not die, do you want to make a deal with me? I can stop the explosion that has already happened and save you and others. "

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu in a daze for a while, although he didn't seem to understand what Bai Liu was talking about, and he didn't know how Bai Liu could stop what had happened—

——But he knew that at least 50% of the deal that Bai Liu said was something he could do by himself.

"Yes!" Lu Yizhan replied quickly, his eyes lit up, "What's the deal?"

Bai Liu: "Take me to the hot pot for twenty years."

"Including the previous ten years, it's thirty years! It's too much!!" Lu Yizhan screamed, "Look at me now, I may not be able to live that long!!"

Bai Liu glanced at him: "Then in order to make this deal with me, try to live until then."

Lu Yizhan was stunned, he looked at Bai Liu with an indifferent expression, and couldn't help laughing.

People who care about are so oblique - it's really me.

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Su Chao grabbed Tang Erda's hands, and he rarely showed such regret on his face: "Captain, I and the other team members regretted not carrying out your order seriously at the beginning. If we caught Bai Liu's He can be killed on the same day, so many people..."

His light-colored eyes were filled with tears, and his voice was dry and broken: "So many people will not die because of Bai Liu's revenge, because of the leakage and spread of such things!!!"

"Captain, if only I could have prevented all this from happening, it's all my fault..."

Su Chao seemed to be overwhelmed by some extremely heavy responsibilities and emotions, and he slowly bent his body in front of Tang Erda.

He seemed to have aged decades because of remorse and self-blame in an instant. The knuckles on his back bulged like beads on his overly thin back, and he was so skinny that he couldn't stand upright.

Tang Erda clenched his fists - all this was too late for Su Chao in front of him.

But for him, it was still too late.

As long as he clears the level in time, finds the antidote, and kills Bai Liu—everything he saw, this Su Chao who was so painful that he wanted to die, all of this will never happen again.

Tang Erda calculated in his mind the corresponding time when the game ended in reality, and the time when Su Chao told him that Bai Liu caused the explosion, his eyes turned involuntarily—this is equivalent to Bai Liu going to the factory to trigger the explosion immediately after clearing the customs. exploded.

You have to kill Bai Liu in the game!

He already knew that he could get the antidote after becoming the factory manager, and Bai Liu couldn't keep it anymore!