A tall, drunk man in uniform was helped by several team mbers to the small room where Bai Liu was detained. The team mbers looked at the collapsed man who was drunk and fanned their noses. “How much did Captain Tang drink?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know how long he had fallen in front of the base before he was found by the patrol mbers.” The team mber holding the man smiled bitterly. “Where is Vice-captain Su? Is he still working on the newly captured heretic? Well, looking at Captain Tang now, I don’t know if he directed us to catch an ordinary person or a real heretic...”
“We still have to trust in Captain Tang. After all, he has the ability to foresee the future which is why he has such a high level of ergency authority. Moreover, everything he mobilized us to catch previously was correct. This ti should be the sa... right?”
The eyes of several team mbers fell on Captain Tang, whose face was covered by his hair that he hadn’t trimd for a long ti. The drunken Captain Tang smashed his mouth and scratched at his thighs.
The team mbers hesitated again. “Although... Captain Tang has been drinking a bit too much lately. Didn’t Captain say that the more he drinks and loses his mind, the more heretics he can see in the future?”
“Do you believe that? It is just an excuse he made for drinking.” Su Yang pushed open the door of the small room and walked out while casually speaking to the team mbers. “If Tang Erda doesn’t touch a drop of alcohol then he can accurately predict when and where the evil things will appear. Now that he is drinking, his ability has beco worse. His last few actions have been in vain and perhaps the alcohol he has been drinking has gone to his head.”
Looking at Tang Erda lying motionless on the ground and still snoring slightly, Su Yang’s vein on his forehead bulged. “Go to the CEDT-0076 room and get ice water to wake him up.”
The ice water splashed down and the man lying on the ground coughed and sat up. His hair was a bit ssy and curled on both sides of his ears. It wasn’t known how long he had shaved but his chin was full of stubble. He wiped the ice water from his jaw with his thumb and stood up lazily.
The man’s uniform was very crooked. There were a few buttons on his collar that weren’t done up properly and the badge on his right chest was raised to his chin. It read: Captain of the Dangerous Heretic Handling Departnt’s Third Team - Tang Erda.
“Wow—burp!” The man burped with the sll of alcohol. He swept his wet hair back, revealing a pair of extrely sharp and narrow dark blue eyes like a wolf.
He was clearly covered in the sll of wine but Tang Erda’s eyes didn’t have the haze of alcohol at all. Yet it was only for a mont. He soon supported himself against the wall and shook his head in a daze. “Why does the wall of this bar look so much like the base?”
Su Yang helplessly held his forehead. “After three minutes, wake him up and send him into the small room. Let him deal with the human heretic he wanted to capture himself.”
Three minutes later, Bai Liu looked at the wet man sitting in front of him, his eyes drawn to the other person’s badge. “You are the Captain Tang that Su Yang ntioned was determined to catch ?”
“I don’t know why you think that catching can solve these... strange little problems you face.” Bai Liu glanced at the rose perfu bottle on the table and then Tang Erda opposite him. “I’m just an ordinary, laid-off citizen.”
“Che, an ordinary citizen? Haha.” Tang Erda took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. He lit it up without any delay. He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. The scarlet smoke rose from his index finger and reflected in Tang Erda’s eyes like a wolf.
He stared in a fixed manner at Bai Liu for a mont. Then he suddenly gave a very fierce smile. “Bai Liu, why are you still pretending with ?”
“Do you know how many tis I have caught you in this place?” Tang Erda stood up, pressing the cigarette butt to Bai Liu’s handcuffs. He sarcastically blew the smoke from his cigarette toward Bai Liu’s face. “You’ve been a 10 thousand year old fox dozens of tis. Do you still need to play with ?”
Bai Liu leaned back slightly to avoid Tang Erda. “However, this is our first ti eting. Captain Tang, have you recognized the wrong person?”
Tang Erda fell back and sat down on his chair. He squinted at Bai Liu with drunken eyes before suddenly sneering with disdain. “First eting? This isn’t the first eting between you and ? I have t you a lot.”
“The legendary believer of the evil god, Tawil’s loyal running dog, the most hated and wanted criminal of all the Dangerous Heretic Bureaus in the world, the interface of all evil things, the gambler who uses evil objects to swallow money rcilessly... Let think of what other titles you have as a wicked villain—”
“Oh yes—” Tang Erda slowly turned his stiff neck and stared into Bai Liu’s eyes. “The leader of the famous ga team, Wandering Circus. Bai Liu (6), the White King.”
“I don’t rember seeing you, Captain Tang. I don’t understand what you are talking about.” Bai Li lied without changing his expression.
Tang Erda stood up and pressed down on Bai Liu’s shoulder. He was like a wolf who suddenly attacked and exposed his fangs, his open mouth biting Bai Liu’s neck. He used his index finger to slowly hook up the chain around Bai Liu’s neck. Hanging on the chain was a reverse cross and a gray fish scale.
Bai Liu didn’t hide them. It would be strange for him to put so many things in his mouth. Apart from the coin, the things hanging around his neck looked like ordinary ornants and items. Losing them wouldn’t prevent him from entering the ga.
anwhile, the coin couldn’t be lost or he wouldn’t be able to enter the ga.
“You have this evil cross around your neck. Are you saying you don’t know that you are the only believer of the evil god?” Tang Erda grasped the cross in his hand and raised Bai Liu’s head with a smile. “Aren’t you afraid of upsetting that evil god? Bai Liu (6), I’ll warn you. You better hide your tail and talk to again. Let guess where you hide your ga manager?”
He used a fierce force and opened Bai Liu’s mouth with a severe pain that made Bai Liu squint. Tang Erda used the plastic bag to cover his hand with a bit of disgust and roughly reached toward Bai Liu’s tongue. This action made Bai Liu frown slightly and then Tang Erda’s fingers moved.
“There’s nothing?” Tang Erda frowned. This strange captain who had a clear understanding of Bai Liu showed surprise in front of Bai Liu for the first ti.
“Every ti I caught you in other tilines, it was always hidden under your tongue. How could it not be here?” Tang Erda clicked his tongue. He pulled his hand out of Bai Liu’s mouth and shook it with a very disgusted expression on his face. “Did you swallow it? You never did such things that didn’t fit with your villain’s aesthetics in other tilines.”
Tang Erda threw the plastic bag aside and deliberately put back Bai Liu’s jaw with great force. There was a clear sound that hurt to hear.
However, Bai Liu didn’t show any signs of weakness due to the pain as Tang Erda wanted. Bai Liu just moved his jaw to adapt before calmly looking up at Tang Erda. “Other tilines? Your personal skill is ti shuttling? You caught many tis in other tilines?”
“My personal skill isn’t moving between ti. That is a high-risk ability or in other words, a god item in the ga.” Tang Erda lazily leaned back on the chair. He placed his feet on the table and leaned his head back against the chair, not looking at Bai Liu. “I won the league in a certain tiline and got to make a wish. Then the ga rewarded with an item according to my wish.”
Tang Erda bit an unlit cigarette with his teeth, his eyes looking slightly drunk. “This item allowed to jump through different parallel tilines. Every ti I’m not satisfied with sothing or have regrets, I can reverse ti to change it.”
“I thought I was reversing ti but I soon discovered this wasn’t the case. I was in different tilines of parallel ti and space. I wasn’t in my original tiline.” Tang Erda lowered his eyes and chewed on the end of the cigarette.
He was silent for a while before he recovered his cynical expression. He turned to look at Bai Liu. “Bai Liu (6), the interesting thing is that in all the tilines I’ve experienced, you will definitely beco the biggest enemy of our Heretic Handling Bureau.”
“It is because in all the eternal and continuous tilines, you are destined to be the only believer of the evil god Tawil.” Tang Erda took out the gun hanging from his waist. His eyes looked like he wasn’t awake but his posture of raising the gun was very stable.”
He pointed his gun at Bai Liu’s right eye. “Then you, the devil who is desperate for money, used the evil god you believe in to turn the world into a hell full of evil things. I’ve experienced this in every tiline.”
“You used the identity of the only believer of the evil god to create all types of evil things that can be used to collect money. You used the sky high price auction so the mirror can reflect people’s inner fear. This way, unscrupulous people will steal it and sell it again and again at high prices, circulating it through the market. You put the siren’s fishbone on display in an exclusive museum, so that viewers go crazy about the rotten, beautiful rman. You sold the most expensive life-saving dicine, the blood ganoderma lucidum to the rich. You smile and receive the rewards of these dogs who survive by sucking the blood of children.”
“In addition, this rose dry leaf gas that makes everyone crazy.” Tang Erda looked down at the small glass bottle of perfu on the table. “You let it flood out and constantly raised its price, so that the poor who can’t afford it will feel despair and wither on the roadside, scattering the aroma of roses. anwhile, roses will bloom in the eyes of the rich who can afford it in the hall of glory.”
Tang Erda used his thumb to open the safety while his index finger was on the trigger. He stared straight into Bai Liu’s eyes with a sharp and piercing look. “You are the sa in the ga. You are a madman who buys human souls and dumps evil things into the world for your own interests.”
“anwhile, my destiny is to kill you.”
Bang!
TL: So we’re finally getting a bit into the main plotline of the novel. It can be a bit confusing so I hope I do justice to it. This is also the point where our ML starts showing up more than once or twice in an arc, although it still isn’t as much as MLs in other novels haha.
One last note, Tang Erda is a character that many Chinese readers hated and almost dropped the novel because of him. Still, he is an important character to the story so I hope you can put up with it for a bit.
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