I said you are all war criminals

"You are very scared,"

Hakuno continued, "When this is all over, the look of contempt on Deng's face as he looks at you... is terrifying, isn't it?"

Li Xi bit his lips tightly.

She hated Hakuno.

It's not just because Hakuno is Deng's boyfriend, but also because of Hakuno's eyes.

Those eyes seemed to be able to see through all of Li Xi's inferiority.

"...If the lamp can be resurrected, it doesn't matter if she despises me."

The act of speaking out against one's will went unexpectedly smoothly.

Li Xi knew he was lying.

Riki also knew that Hakuno could tell that he was lying.

Even so, Li Xi was still lying.

"I've already prepared myself mentally. As long as the lamp can come back to life, I—"

"……never mind."

Bai Ye reached out and rubbed Li Xi's head roughly.

He did not continue to press Li Xi, but changed the subject, "Since you have made up your mind, then I will not say anything more... If a lie persists to the end, it will be no different from the truth."

After saying this, Bai Ye quickly withdrew his hand before Li Xi got angry, and then dodged two or three steps away - according to his understanding, Li Xi should be angry now.

did not expect……

"……Do not make jokes."

Li Xi didn't get angry, but just shook his head calmly, "The important thing now is to collect the residual souls..."

——If possible, Li Xi still doesn’t want to kill ordinary people.

She didn't want to become the weirdo she was yesterday.

"So, how are you going to collect it?"

Seeing that Li Xi didn't get angry, Bai Ye took a few steps back and said, "As I said just now, even if we kill all the curse masters, it won't be enough—"

"I realize that."

Li Xi said, "Killing the Curse Master should only have filled one-tenth of the remaining Dregs. In other words, the remaining fragments of Dregs are probably the Dregs that the Curse Master obtained after killing ordinary people... In other words, as long as I kill the Curse Masters who have killed people, I can plunder the Dregs from them."

...At least, this can avoid the worst situation of "direct killing".

Li Xi thought.

After hearing this, Hakuno didn't comment immediately, but turned his attention to Aine, "Corporal Chihaya Aine, what do you think?"

"Why do you call me Corporal?"

Anyway, Aine asked the question first.

"Corporal Chihaya, what do you think?"

Hakuno repeated.

"Oh... I'm not going to answer at all."

Aine looked at the wall, lowering her head slightly. “As for me, I don’t think there’s really any difference. Whether you kill someone yourself to create a dregs soul, or use someone else’s dregs soul, the essence is the same, right?”

Aine said, “That means someone died.”

"I don't think it makes sense for you to deliberately pursue something without doing it yourself, Lixi."

Aine continued, "The sin will not be mitigated. You can't escape the blame."

...Li Xi was silent.

And Aine continued to chatter on and on.

"And that's a gap of 4,000 people. In other words, for the remaining five Curse Masters, are you going to wait until they kill 4,000 people before you stop them?"

Aiyin looked at Li Xi with a hint of pity on her face, "Li Xi, can you really convince yourself?"

"Shut up!"

Riki actually got angry towards Aine.

"Then tell me, what should I do? What should I do to revive the lamp? What should I do to--"

"Snapped."

Bai Ye clapped his hands suddenly, interrupting Li Xi's raging anger. "Alright, there's no point in saying this now. The two of you together are the complete Curse Master, so no matter what it is, you two have to decide together."

"To kill or not to kill, to resurrect or not to resurrect, that is all up to you to decide."

Hakuno added, "Now, I want to tell you something else... After you came to me yesterday, I conducted an investigation."

"Investigation into the Seven Wonders and the Resurrection Technique."

Hakuno said in a concluding tone, "In short... forty years ago, our office also had a series of bizarre murder cases."

"And... forty years ago, it seems someone actually [resurrected]."

"what!"

Aine spoke in surprise.

To be honest, she never thought that this stupid ritual could really resurrect a person... No, something that happened forty years ago is just a legend, right?

"The details are still unclear,"

Bai Ye said bluntly, "But I can guarantee that [someone will be resurrected]."

"Where did that information come from?!"

Li Xi asked.

"I also have my own channels... mainly intelligence from within the police."

Bai Ye continued to talk, dragging out more information, "However, although both events are related to the Seven Wonders and the Resurrection Technique, this incident is very different from the previous one."

"The first and most noteworthy thing is the number of people."

Bai Ye raised a finger, "It is said that the last resurrection technique only required the curse of killing a hundred people."

The huge gap between a hundred people and ten thousand people made Li Xi silent.

If it was forty years ago, then Li Xi would be able to revive the lamp now?

——Li Xi subconsciously clenched his fists.

Facing such a Li Xi, Bai Ye seemed to think that the bomb he dropped was not heavy enough, and continued to give out information that was enough to make people gasp.

"One more thing... From what I've heard, the police were also involved in the last case. So, maybe it's the same this time."

Bai Ye said in a voice that sounded almost like an admonition, "Don't trust the police. The police who come to you might actually be the Curse Master... No, not just the police. Everyone, including me, could be the Curse Master."

"You must protect yourself and don't trust anyone."

Bai Ye said so.

39

Chapter 39: Outside the simulation.

Bai Ye hugged the lamp in the quilt, feeling her faint body temperature.

He asked his own question with great interest, "Was it necessary to have the [last] war?"

Hakuno saw clearly that the events of the previous incident weren't a natural progression of the simulator, but rather something she had designed. She had orchestrated the previous Curse Bead War, including the resurrection of some of the creatures.

Unlike Hakuno, Deng seemed to pay attention to details.

"[Evidence] is the best catalyst,"

Deng said softly, "When the curse masters discover that someone has truly been resurrected from the dead, they will also become positive."

"You think they're not proactive enough?"

Bai Ye rubbed the side of Deng's face.

"Fifty days."

The lamp said.

"This time, I've arranged... only fifty days."

In fact, at the beginning, we only prepared for seven days.

The lamp said in my heart.

If it weren't for the thought of what Kamen Rider Hakuno would be talking about in the future, and the use of Curse Killing as the main axis of the story, then Deng would only arrange seven days for this simulation, and would not increase the number of people cursed to 10,000.

"Hmm, fifty days..."

Hakuno himself was a long-termist; his four simulations had each dragged on for decades. He didn't think he could handle a fast-paced simulation like fifty days.

After all, if you want to arrange things properly in a very short time, the screenwriting skills required cannot be solved with just a sentence or two.

rather say……

Well, with such a tight schedule, is there really no chance of bugs?

Bai Ye didn't act so tactlessly as to voice his concerns. He simply hugged Deng a little tighter. "Then you asked the simulated me to tell Riki and Aine about these things, hoping they would be more proactive?"

Deng nodded slightly, her hair brushing against Hakuno's cheek a few times. "Ritsuki believes she can revive me, but she can't make up her mind. Aine can make up her mind, but she doesn't believe she can revive me. For both of them, precedent is necessary."

Hmm... Hakuno more or less understood.

Lamp idea.

She is convinced that the world will develop as she wants, but she still wants others to act as she wishes.

"You are a bit perverted."

Bai Ye couldn't help but complain.

At least in Hakuno's opinion, Deng's approach was neither meaningful nor efficient.

but……

People don't live for efficiency and meaning.

"Come to think of it, what are you going to do next?"

Hakuno asked, "Should we continue to drop the catalyst on Aine and Riki? If necessary, I should be able to die at will in the simulation."

Hakuno knew he wasn't that obsessed with living. If he knew he was in a simulation, and that his outside self had some corresponding plans, then dying wouldn't matter.

For Hakuno, death itself is not scary.

What's scary is that it's boring.

Fortunately, the lights are not boring people.

"I plan to see what Yukino will do."

The light said so.

"Because I don't know Yukino at all, I have to see what she's doing."

The reason why Deng chose Yukinoshita as the simulator's deputy was because Deng knew Yukinoshita Yukino, but was not familiar with this person.

If you are not familiar with it, you cannot predict it.

...If the simulator belonged to Deng alone, she would never have chosen Yukino as her assistant to control the sub-simulator. No, rather, Deng wouldn't choose anyone else to control the sub-simulator; she alone was enough.

Deng doesn't like the feeling of things getting out of control.

She hoped that everything would develop naturally and turn out the way she wanted.

...However, Hakuno doesn't like that kind of plot.

Deng is actually not very good at guessing other people's thoughts. For example, she still doesn't understand why Xiangzi left Crychic.

But there is no need to guess what Bai Ye is thinking.

Anyone who knows him can more or less feel Bai Ye's thoughts.