Real World 8 pm, Heresy Authority.
The uniford team mbers thodically loaded each 40cm*40cm box onto the transport truck, while Su Yang stood by with his gun at attention, not daring to be distracted.
They were putting these Extraordinary Red Heretics on a plane tonight and transporting them to Zone 3 to be closely guarded.
It was a routine and a dangerous transport, but the presence of a particular heretic made it a particularly thrilling one.
Su Yang moved his eyes to the end of the transport queue.
The boxes, which were of a darker shade of tal than the others and looked significantly heavier, were carefully carried by several mbers of the team, who were bent over by the pressure on their hands.
Su Yang stepped forward to help give a hand and asked, “Are you sure that this batch of body parts that we dug out of the land outside the Rose Factory are all together?”
The team mber finally had ti to catch his breath and replied, “Team Leader Su, we’ve done the count, we’re all here.”
Su Yang nodded, not taking it lightly, and advised, “This batch of corpses is not at the sa level of danger as the other heretics and cannot be put on the sa vehicle or plane.”
The team mbers carefully put the boxes onto the transfer truck, turned their heads, and leaned against the side of the truck to catch their breath. They looked at Su Yang who was at the end of Team Xiang Wu again: “…… Team Leader Su is so careful this ti, they even applied for a special transfer line for this batch of corpses.”
The team mber next to him, who was also taking a break, said, “You don’t know how powerful this batch of corpse heretics are, the team mbers who went to the factory that day to dig up the corpse blocks all ca back crazy and are still undergoing ntal descending training, I don’t know if they can recover from it.”
The mber rubbed his hands together in staggering disbelief, “Its….. so terrible?”
The team mber next to him rolled his eyes, “Why else do you think Team Su is splitting this corpse up specifically? If this thing has so kind of bonus effect on the other heretics, boom, a plane full of people will be destroyed!”
“But it’s just not safe to escort this heretic’s plane if it’s released alone, is it?” The team mber asked worriedly.
“Of course, it’s not safe, but at least we don’t have to have so many escorts, and how often is it safe in our line of work?” The team mber next to him shook his head mockingly.
“Originally it was said that Captain Su was going to escort him himself, but with Team Tang gone, there couldn’t be no one in charge of the three detachnts and the bureau forced him to hold him.”
When the subject of “Team Tang is gone” ca up, both people were uncharacteristically quiet.
……When Tang Erda was still around, such dangerous things were not their turn.
Tang Erda would take care of everything before danger strikes, taking all the risks alone, and although the Heretic’s Bureau is a precarious place, with Tang Erda they can always hide from the storm under this protective umbrella.
But this umbrella has finally left.
The team mber reluctantly changed the subject, “……Team Su separately requesting a transfer vehicle and transfer plane for this heretic I can understand, but also making a separate route?”
It’s not that the Heretic Authority has never escorted an extraordinarily dangerous heretic before, such as Bai Liu, but it has only done so on its own, and this is indeed the first ti that a separate route has been planned.
“And it’s not on a normal route, I’ve just had a look and the landing point is on the Antarctic side, right? Isn’t this ……” the team mber tried to find a suitable description, “…… too big of a deal? Why are we shipping this heretic to the South Pole?”
After this team mber next to them looked around to make sure no one was looking at them, he approached this team mber, lowered his voice and said, “The Team Su application said that they could not put this heresy in Zone 3 for safekeeping or near a zone with a resident population, sothing would go wrong, this heresy had too much influence and people could easily die.”
“Finally the Bureau reported Team Su’s application and it was delayed until yesterday before it ca down for approval, saying that the polar research station was contacted and it was decided to make an ice core of this heresy and sink it under the ice cap in Antarctica to house it. Additionally, people from Zone 3 were sent over to the holding site to guard the holding site for 365 days without interruption.”
This mber of the team exclaid, “This is really ……24 hour manned for 365 days, and this is the first heretic to have this row.”
“Who said it was the first one?” The next person deflated, “Have you forgotten Bai Liu? Our Team Tang captain doesn’t even do that anymore, it’s all about guarding.”
The team mber had a hard ti hearing that Team Tang was gone and forced the conversation back around, “Eh, the Antarctic is so big, does it say where to seal the heretic?”
The team mber next to him wrinkled his brow and recalled for a long ti, “…… I didn’t hear it either, it said it was near the Ice Do A area, the highest point on the Antarctic ice cap, high enough and thick enough to hold down this heresy……”
11.30 pm, out to sea port.
The team mbers carrying another batch of heretics went straight to the airport, while the team transfer vehicle with the body parts arrived at the port of departure and was divided up and loaded onto a small cargo ship.
The freighter1 was to be transferred first to another port, where a special plane was waiting to escort the heretics to the South Pole.
There were five escorts in total – the minimum number Su Yang had weighed up.
Watching the boxes being parceled and consigned to the freighter, the gangway being stowed on the vessel, the sturdy little freighter being towed into the water by a tug and gradually sailing away from the harbor under the cover of night, the five escorts standing on the hatch cover saluted Su Yang standing on the shore and waved away.
Su Yang watched in awe as the five people left his sight and waved his hand. The unease in his heart grew thicker as the watery mist increased.
The mont the boat disappeared from his view, Su Yang was so flustered that he could hardly breathe.
It was as if he saw before his eyes the snow-covered bodies of the five mbers of his team just now.
In the aftermath of the Rose perfu and the exhumation of the bodies at the factory, Su Yang himself showed signs of a certain ntal descent and would occasionally see hallucinations.
It is because Su Yang has been through this himself that he understands better than anyone the dangers of the body parts.
The mont he saw the body parts for the first ti, Su Yang, a man who had always been a firm and peaceful person, had an unprecedented level of inner turmoil, if he hadn’t held on to his sanity and collected the body parts, the other mbers of the team digging them up might have fought over them.
–These corpses can catalyze a spiritual downgrade, or to describe the process as a spiritual downgrade would be an understatent; to be more precise, these corpses can catalyse an infinite amplification of one’s negative desires to the point of destroying the bottom line of humanity.
Having realized this, Su Yang forcefully demanded that the conservative location of the corpse be changed. The thing must not be placed in a crowded garrison or else sothing terrible, even more terrible than rose perfu, would happen.
In the end, it was decided that the body would be placed at the bottom of Ice Do A – the coldest part of the Antarctic, known as the inaccessible pole, 4,083 ters above sea level, and never before visited by human beings.
–It was the safest place Su Yang could think of.
But he also knows that ……
Su Yang’s light-coloured eyes reflected the swaying waves of the sea, heavy emotions squeezed his chest, piling up layer by layer from the lapping harbour to his heart as he closed his eyes, feeling a long-awaited pang of powerlessness.
…… He knows beyond a doubt that there is no promised land in this world where one can escape one’s desires.
He just hoped that no more innocent people would die in the process.
But how is that possible?
Human desire, whether good or bad, is such a hurtful thing when taken to its extres.
After Tang Erda left, Su Yang understood a little what Bai Liu had said to him in the interrogation room that day.
The clean, fresh-looking young man looked up, gazed at him with black eyes that seed to hold everything in the universe, and said softly, “Team Su, the desire to be too close and protective can kill you.”
Su Yang gripped the solid octopus-shaped team crest on his right chest and, with what appeared to be a sigh, turned away in the icy night air.
The small cargo ship behind them sounded the clear whistle of departure and headed off into the deeper, darker night.
——–
Ga pool.
Bai Liu and his team squatted near the Spades team a few tis and finally figured out a little bit of the team’s routine – usually they would go to a certain subgroup regularly.
Occasionally, however, Spades will break away from the group and go off on his own to work on one of the ice fields – like Bai Liu did last ti he entered the ga pool.
He seed to harbor a particular affection for this copy of the ice field, as if one were attached to one’s dwelling and bed, returning to this copy with a biological rhythm of resting.
–It’s as if Spades has made this copy of the ice field his ho.
Bai Liu’s target is this copy of the ice field.
He was not so insolent as to think that the Wandering Circus could single-handedly take on the entire Killer Sequence battle group to begin with.
But with no lives at stake, Bai Liu felt they could have tried to team up and solo a star player.
This is sothing that has more advantages than disadvantages.
You can get information about the star player, polish your team and, if you get lucky and actually win against a star player, you can make enough buzz off it.
Shaless, but useful.
Bai Liu decided to test the waters with Spades first, out of so peculiar sense of inquisitiveness. He kept a firm eye on the players coming and going from the pool, and couldn’t help but curve the corners of his mouth when he saw soone appear quietly who had scared off a circle of players around him.
Spades walked over to the ga pool holding the whip that organized the regulation bundle.
After the players around them realised it was him, they held their breath and backed away, not even daring to enter the ga for fear of unfortunately picking the sa ga as this god of evil.
But Spades didn’t seem to be paying much attention to his surroundings. After a few monts of quiet observation of the rapidly rotating posters in the pool, he simply selects one and dives in.
At that very mont, Bai Liu wasted no ti in hooking the whip around Spades’ waist, pulling a long line of players behind him into the ga.
Spades gave him a faint glance back, a glance as cold as water under ice, and was quickly swallowed up by the ga pool.
By the ti the ga pool subsided, the circle of players next to them were too stunned by the scene that had just dragged their team to their deaths to go with Spades after waiting at the front of the ga pool for a long ti.
It took a long ti before soone asked arduously, “What the hell are……they doing here?”
——–
Snow and ice covered the sky and the wind howled.
Bai Liu chokes and coughs as he cos to his senses, subconsciously curling up from the excessively cold temperature and freezing to the point where his epidermis2 is numb to the point of unconsciousness in a matter of minutes.
It was not until a voice ca from behind him that Bai Liu realized he was not on the ground but in soone’s arms.
“You shouldn’t have co into this ga with .” Spades wrapped his arms around Bai Liu, who had fallen on top of him, and the shiver of Bai Liu’s skin under his hand made him conclude flatly, “You’re scared of the cold.”
Bai Liu just turned around.
Spades was so close to him that Bai Liu could turn his head and touch the tip of thisman’s nose.
This caused Bai Liu’s breath to halt for a mont before he subconsciously pulled away.
Spades didn’t see any problem with this close proximity, he stands up naturally and picks up Bai Liu who had fallen on top of him and expertly pulled his jumper off the wall, zipping it up while handing Bai Liu one.
Once fully ard, Spades opened the door and walked out.
Bai Liu took the jumper with narrowed eyes, “Aren’t you going to ask why I ca in with you?”
He had a number of reasons to deal with the other side, such as rubbing the first star player’s nose in the heat or sothing.
Spades pushed open the door and turned back in the powerful wind and snow that was coming at him. The wind blew his hair wildly from his forehead, but underneath his hair, his eyes were as pure black and as emotionless as Bai Liu’s.
“Didn’t you co in here with to play gas with and win over ?”
Bai Liu: “…..”
Spades pulled down his goggles and stepped out of the room, his voice strangely audible in the blizzard.
“Don’t lie to or yourself for any other reason, if you want to play a ga with , then play it well and then do your best to win , Bai Liu.”
EN1: Finally getting more of bai liu and spades !!
(And more horrendous editing…)
EN2: this arc is about to be hell to edit i actually want to kms 😭😭🙏🙏
PF: this arc made wanna cry so much 😭😭😭😭
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