Chapter 137: Dangerous Heretics Handling Bureau (1/2)

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 game 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 timeline while the real Bai Liu (6) inexplicably swallowed his game coin and died?”

“Perhaps the Bai Liu (6) in this timeline was unlucky and died in the game before he could grow up into the frightening trader. Thus, the game 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 game, 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 times.”

“A group of psychopaths like me?” Bai Liu asked with interest.

Tang Erda cast a sideways glance at him. “I wonder in every timeline how you can find so many talented and abnormal people like you to form your so-called Wandering Circus.”

“It is only in this timeline.” Tang Erda tapped his index finger on the table as he looked up at Bai Liu. “This is the first time I’ve seen your process of forming this Wandering Circus.”

“You were already in a powerful position in other timelines when I met you. I risked my life in dozens of timelines to dig out your origin and I found that you lived in that private welfare home. 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 timeline, the base only knew their titles and habits and the rest couldn’t be found at all. Once something was found, the people on our side would have an accident.”

He leaned against the chair and lazily wagged his finger. “You should’ve met all these people. The monkey thief who helps you steal all types of secrets and the little killer witch who likes to kill men with poison.”

“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 some psychological gaps.”

“Only you are a natural madman, Bai Liu. You seized these gaps and tamed 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 tamed them now? Do you think they will bite you to death for catching me, 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 become 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 some 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 extremely low mental value for scars to be brought out of the game.

—It was like Mu Ke’s dagger that lowered mental 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 me, 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 came 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?”