TL: Thanks to the winner of the event prize who requested a bonus chapter of GHG. There will be one more coming eventually.
Tang Erda watched Bai Liu through the cigarette smoke.
“It is amazing that you really worked as an obedient ga worker in an ordinary company for several years only to end up laid-off because of your boss’ prejudice.”
Tang Erda couldn’t hold back his smile here. “Once I found this, I wondered if I recognized the wrong person. Is there really an ordinary Bai Liu in this tiline while the real Bai Liu (6) inexplicably swallowed his ga coin and died?”
“Perhaps the Bai Liu (6) in this tiline was unlucky and died in the ga before he could grow up into the frightening trader. Thus, the ga made him die in the real world. Who knows?”
Tang Erda shook off the ash. “Then I soon discovered I was wrong.”
“Because I entered the ga, right?” Bai Liu looked at Tang Erda. “You determined my identity using my skill?”
“Yes.” Tang Erda bit the cigarette in his mouth. “I will never mistake your personal skill of buying souls unless I turn to ash. You gathered a bunch of psychopaths like yourself in this way and almost destroyed our base a few tis.”
“A group of psychopaths like ?” Bai Liu asked with interest.
Tang Erda cast a sideways glance at him. “I wonder in every tiline how you can find so many talented and abnormal people like you to form your so-called Wandering Circus.”
“It is only in this tiline.” Tang Erda tapped his index finger on the table as he looked up at Bai Liu. “This is the first ti I’ve seen your process of forming this Wandering Circus.”
“You were already in a powerful position in other tilines when I t you. I risked my life in dozens of tilines to dig out your origin and I found that you lived in that private welfare ho. I knew nothing about the personal information of the mad dogs around you.”
Tang Erda’s eyes narrowed. “One reason is because the mad dogs under your hands are rampant but they are very cautious and made it hard to discover their real identities. The other is that you protected them very well. Before this tiline, the base only knew their titles and habits and the rest couldn’t be found at all. Once sothing was found, the people on our side would have an accident.”
He leaned against the chair and lazily wagged his finger. “You should’ve t all these people. The monkey thief who helps you steal all types of secrets and the little killer witch who likes to kill n with poison.”
“The only person we could identify who had sothing to do with you was Mu Ke, an investor who inherited his father’s business and helped you promote the evil things. However, Mu Ke was very slippery. He hid in a care facility for 356 days a year due to his heart disease. Every ti we asked him questions, he would cover his heart and start to cough up blood. Then the doctors would rush in.”
“However, now I know who they are.” Tang Erda hit the hand that held the cigarette on the table and the ashes drifted to the ground. He leaned closer to Bai Liu and spoke in a low voice, “Then I realized they weren’t born mad dogs. They just had so psychological gaps.”
“Only you are a natural madman, Bai Liu. You seized these gaps and tad them into mad dogs under your hand, so they can bite everyone but you.”
“Is that right?” Bai Liu looked at Tang Erda without any fluctuation. “Do you think I have successfully tad them now? Do you think they will bite you to death for catching , Captain Tang?”
Tang Erda squinted his narrow, dark blue eyes before pressing the still burning cigarette butt against Bai Liu’s white neck.
The cigarette was extinguished, leaving a burn wound on Bai Liu’s clavicle. This made Bai Liu’s breathing beco slightly faster. However, such a close distance allowed Bai Liu to see a ferocious scar on the clavicle exposed through Tang Erda’s casually open white shirt. It was corroded and like a scar scratched by so beast.
It was a bit like a scar left behind by the combination of Mu Sicheng’s monkey hand and Liu Jiayi’s poison. It also required the attacked person’s willpower to be shaken to an extrely low ntal value for scars to be brought out of the ga.
—It was like Mu Ke’s dagger that lowered ntal value.
“How do you know I didn’t get bitten?” Tang Erda buttoned up his clothes and covered the wound. He gave a cold smile as he whispered in Bai Liu’s ears, “I killed you and you also killed , Bai Liu (6).”
“It is a pity that none of us died.” Tang Erda blew the cigarette smoke in Bai Liu’s ear and laughed at Bai Liu’s cough. “We’ve all been resurrected.”
***
Tang Erda ca out of the room and Su Yang greeted him. “How did it go? Did he tell you how to solve the rose gas?”
“Not yet. He won’t say it so easily.” Tang Erda held the cigarette in his mouth in a slightly sloppy manner. “I have to grind him down a bit more so keep an eye on him.”
“Grind him down for a bit more? How long?” Su Yang frowned. “Captain Tang, are you sure he can solve this matter?”
Tang Erda threw his cigarette butt accurately into the trash can and glanced at Su Yang.
These people didn’t know what his ability was or why he could predict where so many heretics would appear. It was estimated that the group of people in front of the surveillance couldn’t even understand the conversation between Tang Erda and Bai Liu in the room just now.
Such conversations would give away the existence of the system and the ga so it was blocked when spoken by a ga player like Tang Erda.
This was the restriction of the ga on players. Tang Erda could only communicate with players like Bai Liu. In addition, Tang Erda was a tiline traveler. In every tiline, his people or things would have subtle changes in personality, family and emotions.
Only Bai Liu was unchanging. He was always evil and greedy, like an anchor that wouldn’t let Tang Erda, a sailor drifting in the torrent of ti, lose his way. He appeared in front of Tang Erda in an unchanged manner and would never be astonished by his theory of ti traveling. Rather, Bai Liu was calm and looked at him with a funny smile, as if saying ‘the other is so interesting.’
The world was a ga in this guy’s eyes.
Tang Erda was a player in the ga who wasn’t reconciled with the ending and kept loading the file to start over again.
It was ironic to say that Bai Liu, this strange anchor point, was actually the only person that Tang Erda could tell everything to casually.
For Tang Erda’s other colleagues, friends and Su Yang, Tang Erda had already lost them many tis. It was so painful that when they t again, he didn’t dare touch them easily.
It was because he was a player. He couldn’t touch anyone in case he brought them into the ga. This was a truth that Tang Erda understood after countless tilines.
The Dangerous Heretics Handling Bureau, a special departnt that confronted evil things, had always easily bred players. The ga players in the base were far more than Tang Erda.
However, these players who knew the origin of the evil things couldn’t tell other people who weren’t ga players due to the limitations of the ga. They weren’t fighting against sothing that had no origin. They were fighting against a ga product. These things were endless so run quickly.
If a team mber died in the ga, those who weren’t ga players would watch these dead players log out of the ga and die miserably in reality in various strange ways. The normal people beca more and more desperate and afraid of these evil things. They were also affected by the people who were players. This produced a strong desire to survive and they fell into the ga.
In the other tilines that Tang Erda had experienced, in the later stages, most of the mbers of the Heretics Handling Bureau beca ga players. Then they died in the ga one after another, including Su Yang in front of him.
Tang Erda’s eyes were distracted as they gazed through a lot of smoke, death and unknown ti to slowly settle on Su Yang’s frowning and questioning face.
Su Yang died trying to save him in the semi-finals of the league.
The mbers of the bureau t in the ga. They all tried their best to prevent others from entering the ga and wanted to perform their duties in the ga. They wanted to protect the precarious real world that they didn’t know was real or false. It was also to protect their teammates, relatives and friends in the real world.
Yet it was like there was an invisible hand pushing everything in a place they didn’t know. They lived like rats crossing the street in the sewer. They didn’t dare to et their relatives, talk to their friends or kiss their lover. They just stood in the shadows where they couldn’t be found and looked at everything from a distance. It was because they were afraid that their identity as a ga player would affect the people they cherished. They were involved in this harsh ga where the ending was unknown.
When Tang Erda first entered the ga, he didn’t dare to even go out to buy food and cigarettes. He ordered takeout and asked people to put it outside the door. He would get it after an hour or two and sat alone in a room full of cigarette butts and beer, waiting for the next seven days. After he narrowly survived, he lingered for seven days. He lived like a virus with self managent consciousness and didn’t go out to infect others.
Yet sotis, no matter how careful, the people he cherished would inevitably go toward the future he didn’t want to see because of him.
Su Yang ca to see Tang Erda, who was locked up at ho and never made contact with anyone.
Tang Erda started to run around, hiding from Su Yang. He changed to different hotels and had different log out conditions. Even so, Su Yang stuck to him and looked for him. Tang Erda had the ga cheat to run around while Su Yang didn’t. Once he realized that Tang Erda could avoid these ans, he started to use stupid thods to find Tang Erda.
In the end, Vice-captain Su would hold up photos of Tang Erda and ask people on the street if they had seen his captain.
anwhile, Tang Erda stood in an alley not far away from Su Yang. He lit his cigarette and didn’t smoke it.
However, in the end, Tang Erda t Su Yang in the ga.
Tang Erda entered the ga and saw Su Yang, the vice-captain who was much younger than now, smiling at him like he felt no fear at all. Su Yang said, “Captain, I finally found you.”
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