Chapter 115: (Love Welfare Center)
Looking at Bai Liu's running back disappearing in the morning light, Mu Ke suddenly stopped his heart for a few seconds, he thought of Liu Jiayi's strange smile, and suddenly wanted to pull Bai Liu's hand to tell him not to go to that classroom, but little Bai Liu ran too fast, he quickly stuck to the door of the other classroom, calmly unscrewed the lock and sideways drilled into it.
Mu Ke's breath came in two quick gasps, and he snapped to remembrance-he hadn't heard a sound from that classroom in almost an hour.
"Bai Liu, come back!" Mu Ke subconsciously rushed out to try to call Bai Liu back, he anxiously rapped on the door of this classroom, "Something's not right with this classroom! You have to come out! We don't care about Liu Jiayi anymore! Bai Liu, just the two of us, let's run!"
But no matter how much Mu Ke breaks down and yells and stomps and yells, the only sound in the empty corridor is the sound of his own breathlessness, a sound that can no longer be transmitted to the other handmade classroom where the props of [Silence and Silence] have been placed.
Soon Mu Ke was exhausted by his emotional slamming of the door, and he crouched down in front of the classroom Bai Liu had entered with his heart in his mouth, gasping for air, his lips flushed with a layer of blue and purple, while over the corridor there appeared the sound of the teacher's footsteps, who had heard the commotion and was coming over.
Miao Gaojiang followed him out, looking at Mu Ke, who was holding on to the door handle of the other classroom with a somewhat complicated expression, and broke Mu Ke's fingers one by one.
He dragged the exhausted Mu Ke back to the classroom and whispered to Mu Ke: "Don't shout, it will attract the teacher and Bai Liu will suffer too, wait for ten minutes as Bai Liu said, he is much better than us, you have to trust him!"
Mu Ke's chest was heaving violently, he glanced at Miao Gaojiang, opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, because his breathing was too rapid, Mu Ke didn't say anything and turned his head away, he looked at the quartz watch on the classroom, biting his lips and counting ten minutes silently.
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Another craft classroom.
Bai Liu went in and smelled a very strong smell of blood, he looked at Liu Jiayi, who was huddled in the corner holding his shoulders and constantly trembling and sobbing, Liu Jiayi There was a lot of blood on his body, and there were also some wounds and traces that looked like they had been bitten by someone hard.
Those teeth marks are indeed the teeth marks of a child of Miao Feichi's age.
Bai Liu's brow furrowed, and the balance of suspicion in his heart slowly tipped back toward the speculation that Miao Feichi hadn't eaten anyone.
But Bai Liu didn't lean over easily, but vigilantly kept a certain distance and asked softly, "Liu Jiayi, where is Miao Feichi? He did attack you didn't he?"
Liu Jiayi huddled in the corner in his own cloth suitcase nodded with a small sob, "Right."
With shaking hands, she pointed to another corner densely covered in shadows.
Bai Liu turned his head to look at the corner, there is indeed a very tall figure in the corner, Miao Feichi, among their several children, is second only to Bai Liu in height, and now this figure is standing in the corner hidden behind a pile of messy discarded handicrafts, and his hand seems to be holding something ready to sneak up on him.
Miao Feichi seems to have seen Bai Liu come in and was ready to hide himself.
"Miao Feichi?" Bai Liu gripped the candlestick as he examined Miao Feichi's soul bill and took a tentative step forward.
With the soul bill in his hand, Bai Liu is not worried about Miao Feichi attacking him, he pushes aside those redundant things with cobwebs and dust, and finally sees Miao Feichi, who is hiding behind all these things, with horrified eyes, even though he has seen a lot of horrible things, what he sees in front of him makes Bai Liu's breath pause for a few seconds.
Miao Feichi was tied up by a bunch of IV tubes like a puppet on strings, hanging from the ceiling, her face, hands, back and neck were densely covered with needles, and there were needles inserted into every blood vessel of her body flowing blood into the IV bag.
He had been sucked by these blood-sucking bags to the point where his lips were dry, his skin had a somewhat papery, withered texture, his hands and feet were trembling constantly, and even his tongue was full of needles, which allowed him to breathe only painfully and slightly, and no sound whatsoever could come out.
Miao Feichi was hanged by his arms and legs, his eyes were slack, tears flowed out of his eyes the moment he saw Bai Liu, ah ah screamed softly in an airy voice, and his eyes even showed a little bit of desperation for death, what he held in his hand was a doll whose whole head was penetrated by countless needles, wearing clothes exactly like Miao Feichi's now.
Liu Jiayi, who was hugging her legs and crying, gradually turned her crying into a weird laughter, she slowly stood up with her hands behind her back, turned around with a dimple like smile and tilted her head to "look" at Bai Liu, who was blocking Miao Feichi's way, and she spit out her tongue in a cute and playful way: "I'm lying to you, Miao Feichi, this kind of big idiot can't hurt me". She spat out her tongue in a very cute and playful way, "I'm just kidding, Miao Feichi, this kind of big idiot can't hurt me."
"These wounds are all I forced him to bite me, well, I may have given him a not so good first impression of eating human flesh, while biting and crying loudly while begging me to let him go." Liu Jiayi casually pointed her finger at those bite wounds on her body and said with a smile, "But I couldn't trick you into coming in without doing so, smart, cold, little brother Bai Liu who doesn't even have the appearance of a normal, good little child."
Bai Liu squinted at Miao Feichi who was still whimpering behind him, he raised the candlestick flatly and made a gesture to attack, "At this point, I don't think you're in a position to say anything about me, you purposely didn't get Miao Feichi killed because you're afraid that I'll notice something wrong and not enter this classroom?"
Bai Liu would never have come over if he could see from the soul bill in his hand that Miao Feichi was dead.
"With your skill, you are able to see the death state of the people you control, right?" Liu Jiayi padded his feet step by step, walking in a scattered manner towards Bai Liu's side.
Bai Liu keeps a wary distance from her, holding a candlestick.
But Liu Jiayi didn't care much about it either, and still had a very sweet smile on her face, "Soul control skill? Your investor, or the future you talked about this skill in front of me, it's really a perfect skill, you can exchange souls, you just need the other party's consent, right? It's a rule skill with a bit of limitation, but it's already quite good it, for a newcomer like Bai Liu."
"It's like becoming another system that can live and die on those under its control." The smile on Liu Jiayi's face shallowed slightly, her foggy eyes moving a bit, revealing a condescending, bored-to-death disgust, "Acquiring souls this kind of ambition-filled control is truly a disgusting personal skill derived from the peculiar desires of dirty grown men, isn't it?"
[System alert: Player Liu Jiayi's speech about (Soul Trade) and other related content has been blocked by the system]
Liu Jiayi steps closer and closer to Bai Liu, but his footsteps are getting faster and faster, and Bai Liu is backing up fast.
Liu Jiayi bounces around the clutter of handmade goods with a smile that looks like it was painted on, jumping over boxes like a wind-up doll, her tone light and breezy:
"Bai Liu, at your age, are you already addicted to the pleasure of being in control of others? This is quite similar to the man who gave birth to me, no wonder you would do that to my brother in the last game, so it all has its roots."
Xiao Bai Liu backed up carefully, while retreating and utilizing various items to cover himself, his brain rapidly rotating: "You want to save your brother Liu Huai, right? But now you have already taken Miao Feichi's blood, together with yourself, you can probably save your brother Liu Huai, so there is no need to do it to me, right? Liu Huai and the future me are still working together."
"Cooperation?" Liu Jiayi's soft laughter was omnipresent and pervasive, approaching Bai Liu from all sides of the classroom, "The kind of cooperation that uses all sorts of conditions and then verbally induces and forces my brother to choose between him and me? What a disgusting cooperation."
Bai Liu Jr. glanced around the center of the classroom, observing every place Liu Jiayi could possibly come out, his tone still hushed, "But you didn't stop it either did you?"
"You could have called your brother and told him to tell him that you didn't need him to save you so that he wouldn't be coerced into cooperating by the other me, but you still watched Liu Huai make this choice between you and him that was so painful for him to make, or you waited for this same answer that he was choosing between you and his life."
"If anything, this is a disgusting collaboration." Xiao Bai Liu's eyes were calm, "Then you are also a participant and facilitator of this collaboration, Liu Jiayi."
"Obviously you want to see Liu Huai give up his own life for you to reach this cooperation more than we do, you want to see your brother tortured and begging for death in order to save you and protect you, if you didn't drag it out to the last moment when Liu Huai was sure that he would die for you, you wouldn't even expose yourself, would you, Liu Jiayi?Speaking of disgusting, we're still far from being able to compare to you. You."
Liu Jiayi's laughter stopped abruptly.
The weak light in the corridor suddenly flickered, and when it came on the next time Bai Liu saw Liu Jiayi holding a doll whose head and limbs had been torn to the point of falling off, with no expression on his face, standing very close to him, tilting his head and eyes up without blinking, and breathing softly as he looked at Bai Liu very close to him.
The doll in Liu Jiayi's hand was wearing a white shirt, suit pants, and a strange coin with a hole in the center around its neck, its head screwed up almost one hundred and eighty degrees, with a weird dull smile on its face as it looked up at Bai Liu with Liu Jiayi.
Even though he has never met the future Bai Liu, through Bai Liu's description of himself, little Bai Liu recognizes the crude doll in Liu Jiayi's arms as his future self.
Xiao Bai Liu's eyes stopped on the doll in Liu Jiayi's arms, his breathing stuttered slightly, the knot in his throat sliding up and down due to his rapid heartbeat and breathing - so the fear of death is very close to this feeling, Xiao Bai Liu even thought in a moment of distraction, as if it wasn't as scary as he thought it would be.
Liu Jiayi's voice was very low as she looked down and caressed the doll in her arms, as if she were talking to herself:
"Do you know why medieval witches made voodoo dolls? When they started cursing someone and when they started loving someone, they started making dolls of that person in the hopes that the dolls would hold the other person's soul, that the person they hated would die in the way they hated, and that the person they loved would stay around in the way they loved."
Bai Liu Jr. had retreated to the edge of the wall, his demeanor still composed, "Is there any difference between what you're doing and Bai Liu?"
Liu Jiayi was silent for a long time, then she suddenly cocked her head and let out a delightful laugh with a wink, "Essentially there isn't, so I'm a pretty disgusting being as well, and deserve to not be treated well by my brother."
"But Liu Huai gave everything for you, you got exactly what you wanted." Little Bai Liu breathed softly, his toes pressed up against the wall, his eyes looking over at Liu Jiayi who was already pressed up against his face, "You got what you wanted to get, what's not to be satisfied with?"
Liu Jiayi finally raised her head, she looked shallow and indifferent, that mist and gray dense eyes set in her childish and emotionless face, there is a kind of strange, bizarre, saddening sense of incongruity.
She curved the corners of her mouth and eyes like a very good-natured, know-nothing child, and the words came out of her mouth with the ethereal and buoyant quality of a heavy mist:
"Because I was never afraid to really trust my brother, and because I refused to believe, I never got it."
The reflection of Bai Liu in Liu Jiayi's eyes is a very foggy texture, as if the soul has been disembodied and imprinted in her eyes:
"My brother is a, very weak man, he wouldn't, and wouldn't dare to give everything for me."
"Betrayal is a nasty habit of his, and he is a cowardly recidivist."
Little Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi and remembered what Bai Liu had told him about Liu Huai. Liu Huai did seem to have a habit of betraying others, from Mu Sicheng to Zhang Gui ...... If betrayal and cowardice is a bad habit, then the people who suffer most from this habit must be the people who have been with them. If betrayal and cowardice is a bad habit, then the people who are most victimized by this habit must be the ones who have been together with each other.
Little Bai Liu suddenly realized something, he looked at Liu Jiayi: "What has Liu Huai betrayed you?"
The smile on Liu Jiayi's face finally disappeared, and she looked straight at little Bai Liu.
"He betrayed me ...... what?" She whispered softly and smiled, "You might as well ask when he stopped betraying me."
Everyone would speak to her in that disgusting tone of lust.
"Inbreeding." "Intellectually challenged," right?
[I'm really blind, and it's a girl child, why didn't you guys get rid of it?]
[...... my mom said you simply you this kind of inbred children simply do not have on the account, you can not even go to school, your brother also said to give you a good eye treatment to send you to study so that you can take the university it, haha, funny!
The man would beat and kick her when he was drunk, slapping her one by one and forcing her, who was only a few years old, to go down to the weir to touch the fish, saying viciously that he wouldn't be allowed to come up until he had caught as many pounds of fish as he could.
It was so cold in the weir, only a few years old the water seemed to reach her throat when she stepped in it, it was all mud and water, and the fish in it were as slippery as a dead man's limbs, swimming around her but hard to catch.
She was trapped like her dead mother in this weir that she was never allowed to climb up, and Liu Jiayi could never catch enough fish to satisfy the man who, she understood, was trying to drown her in the weir, a useless little brat who was only wasting food.
Like drowning her sister and her mom.
During Liu Huai's absence, during school hours, Liu Jiayi hid in the chicken coop or the pigsty with the animals, or hid in closets and under beds to prevent the man from finding her all over the house and beating her up when he didn't know what to do with his irritation.
Most of the time she was fine when she hid well enough not to be noticed, but she had to be on her guard all the time or she would be grabbed by the man by the hair and wrestled to the ground, whipped with water-soaked bamboo strips or ripped to the weir to catch fish.
As long as Liu Jiayi could remember, she hid in all the unseen places in the house, quietly hugging her knees, counting the hours that passed, waiting for Liu Huai to come home from school, feeling the coldness of the countryside as night came, soaking from her skin all the way to her heart.
Sometimes she would cry uncontrollably or scream miserably, like the retards or lunatics or psychopaths in those people's mouths, and beat the animals she was locked up with, as if that would give vent to all the resentment and pain in her heart that she couldn't get rid of.
She never dared to let Liu Huai see this side of her, in front of Liu Huai, Liu Jiayi will always be meek, well-behaved, naive and unaware of anything, and will always tilt her head and smile sweetly at Liu Huai, who came back from school, and call her brother's sister.
Even if she had only just risen dying from a weir full of mud and silt after struggling all afternoon, and even if she had nearly strangled a goose ten minutes ago by screaming madly.
Liu Jiayi understood from a young age that a bad child cannot be loved, she always knew that all the affection Liu Huai gave her was in exchange for her fake appearance, so at all times she kept her guard up as if hiding under the bed or in a dark closet, not wanting to be ripped out of her true colors by Liu Huai's rude methods like that man, and then whipped hard and questioned in frustration, saying how could you be such a son of a bitch? And then whipped hard, disappointed and questioned, saying why are you such a son of a bitch?
Maybe not, even if she showed her true colors and stood in front of Liu Huai, Liu Huai would cower and turn his head away, not daring to look at her.
Because her brother was a man who was afraid to face his true colors, a coward.
Memory and consciousness sank together into the depths of the dark, bottomless mud, Liu Jiayi stood in front of Little Bai Liu, she looked at Little Bai Liu's dark eyes with a questioning look, Liu Jiayi trance felt as if she had gone back to that small, broken down house in the countryside.
She had just learned to hide under the bed and in the closet to escape the man's drunken beatings, and would only sneak out when Liu Huai came back, or when the man went to sleep and snored.
One day, the man did not know what happened, the fire is particularly big, rummage through the box to look for her half a day did not find her, until Liu Huai back from school that man is also relentless in looking for her.
The sound of chopsticks breaking crackled on the floor, and Liu Jiayi covered her mouth with both hands, not even daring to breathe out loud as she held her breath and listened to the man's insults.
"...... Damn this □□/cub is getting better at hiding! I can't even find something to pass the time, Liu Huai, Liu Huai, get your ass over here!"
Then there was a crisp slap, the boy's suppressed cries rang out fearfully, and the man cursed and grunted and gulped down two mouthfuls of wine, the sound of that gulp seeming to pour down through Liu Jiayi's ears as well, her breath coming in sharp gasps and her mouth beginning to flood with a bitter taste that made her giddy.
Then there was the process-like, drunken, thick, middle-aged man's hands and feet slamming on Liu Huai's back, the kind of beating sound that resonated in a venting manner and soon stopped in Liu Huai's trembling sobs.
"Shit." The man drunkenly cursed, "Fuck, you are the only root of the Liu family, I don't want to beat you, but the old man's hands itch when he is drunk, and the little bitch seed is not there, she, this pussy can hide, only come out when you are there, the old man pretends to be your voice to trick her to come out ...... hiccups, and she doesn't even come out. "
"Go!" The man slurred and kicked Liu Huai, "You trick that little bitch out and I won't beat you up."
Liu Jiayi waited for a long, long time, until she thought it was dawn, and then she heard Liu Huai's voice ring out with a sobbing and trembling tone:
"Jiayi, brother is back, will you ...... come out for a bit?"
"Will you come out for a minute? Outside, outside dad is gone! You come out! No one's going to hit you!"
"You come out! There really ...... is only brother outside! Brother wants to see you!"
Liu Jiayi was quiet for a long, long time, the voices swooning into a tinnitus she couldn't understand in her sensitive, dirt-encrusted ears, and then she shivered and burrowed out from under Liu Huai's bed, where she'd been hiding all day.
The man pulled her hair and slammed her to the ground, slaps with the smell of exhilaration and alcohol landed on her, he lashed Liu Jiayi's body, which was curled up on the ground, with a whip as thick as his little thumb, and kicked Liu Jiayi's soft abdomen with his foot, and with each fall Liu Huai, who was standing next to him, shuddered a little with her eyes closed.
But Liu Huai dared not go forward, but cowardly leaned against the wall and waited in silence for the end of this torture.
After the torture was over, Liu Huai hugged the dying Liu Jiayi and cried, saying that his brother would definitely take you out, and that his brother would definitely get into a good university and go out!
You'll help your brother bear it a few more times, and he'll definitely take you out! Soon! Soon!
Liu Jiayi just blankly opened her invisible eyes, she listened to this and the man gradually become similar to the ear, Liu Huai's voice, Liu Jiayi's fingers curled up, and slowly fell down.
"Okay, Jiayi will help brother bear it." She said weakly and meekly, knowing that Liu Huai needed her to soothe his guilty heart with this shell of a [well-behaved sister].
Liu Huai, her brother ever so cowardly, afraid to defy the man who betrayed her, cajoled her, stood by the dimly lit hall where she had crawled out for him and then been beaten, eyes closed, afraid to look at it all.
Her brother was a complete, cowardly assassin who didn't even have the weapons to hurt anyone.
But the best thing she ever got in her life was a cowardly brother.
Betrayal and skepticism are meant to be natural siblings.
Published at: 04/26/2024 04:00