Real World

Bai Liu watched the TV for a while, Lu Yizhan followed him and saw that the TV was talking about community psychologists, he casually asked Bai Liu: "I recommended you to go to see that community psychologist, have you been going to see him on time lately?"

Lu Yizhan is probably the most worried person in the world about Bai Liu's mental health, fearing that this person will go to make black money if he can't think of anything else.

"After two visits, I think I'm about to psych out that psychiatrist, so I'll do some good and not go." Bai Liu withdrew his gaze from the TV and turned to Lu Yizhan, he raised his eyebrows slightly, "I think you should see a psychiatrist too, given your current state."

Lu Yizhan, bearded and worried, with heavy black and blue eyes, a big smell of cigarette smoke on his body, his clothes are wrinkled, with soot on them, it seems that he didn't go home all night yesterday to keep watch, and his eyes are full of red bloodshot, which makes him look agitated and overflowing with emotion.

Lu Yizhan just let out a bitter smile even after being joked at by Bai Liu, "Why are you here?"

Bai Liu is not the nosy type, and his willingness to come to the hospital for a visit before was caused by Lu Yizhan's short mouth.

But it's not at all Bai Liu's style to come here so proactively.

"I came to see when you're going to smoke yourself to death." Bai Liu lightly swept a glance at the mountain of cigarette butts in the top lid of the garbage can next to Lu Yizhan's hand, "What, don't you want to save up to marry your sister and spend so much money on cigarettes?"

Lu Yizhan held up his fingertip's cigarette butt and shook it, slowly exhaling a mouthful of smoke, "Cheap Smoke, don't tell Sister Dot, I'm really annoyed and uncomfortable inside, last night a few kids had another accident."

Bai Liu nonchalantly followed Lu Yizhan's words and asked, "Oh, what happened?"

Lu Yizhan remained silent for a while and took a sharp drag on his cigarette butt, "The five children at the orphanage who managed to survive, started fainting one after another last night for some reason, and were rushed to the hospital."

"But check the indicators are no problem at all, it is severe anemia, and they checked the day before yesterday, anemia is not so serious at all, the results of the early hours of the morning of these children began to appear a certain coma shock and even spasm symptoms, the doctor said that it may be the result of blood loss, but the children are well stay in the hospital, the doctor simply can not find out the cause of blood loss. "

"Where's Liu Jiayi?" Bai Liu asked as if offhandedly, scatterbrainedly digressing from the topic.

Lu Yizhan's frown got deeper and deeper, "This child is also very strange, she followed behind her brother yesterday morning and suddenly slipped out, we only found her back this morning, asking her what she went for, she didn't say, checking the surveillance also broke off halfway through, no one at all knows where this child went last night, we can only send people to step up their guards on her, she just came back after we had the doctor pass her blood, and now it's being sent off to be checked."

"She looked much whiter than yesterday, much like those kids who had accidents last night, and most likely had very bad anemia as well."

"A police officer was going to arraign her because the point Liu Jiayi ran out was so inches away that it raised suspicion, but she was in really bad shape so it was just better to have a doctor look at her first."

Lu Yizhan's words, once opened, will be endless, he may also be held a night, and can not find someone to discuss, so it is easy to Bai Liu to the door, he is a source of Bai Liu vomit bitter water.

Lu Yizhan sighs, "Also, it's not just that, this orphanage thing is obviously not right, and I still think there's a connection to those investors."

Speaking here, Lu Yizhan a little anxious with his thumb to dislike his forehead, it seems that with his thumb to poke a hole in his forehead he can find the idea of solving the case, "I inquired about it, the colleagues investigating this case seems to be the same idea, they have sent out the whole department to check upwards, but it's still too difficult to find the clues, the orphanage those missing children all ran out on their own, they simply don't know where they ran off to, and then there's the special identity of those investors, it's unlikely that we'll be able to do a hard check before we get the key evidence."

Bai Liu nodded that he had heard, and spoke, "May I see these children?"

Lu Yizhan thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, I can vouch for you, and now many kind people who are interested in adopting come to see these children, so you should be able to see them."

"The other children are fine, Liu Jiayi may have a little trouble, after we held her down and forced the doctor to take her blood, she kept hiding under the bed and wouldn't come out, she started screaming and overreacting as soon as we went in, I don't know if she's willing to let you in or not."

Lu Yizhan led Bai Liu to see the children.

All of these deformed children who had lost so much blood lay pale, breathing weakly, with very low body temperatures, even their hearts beating slowly, and the line between life and death seemed to have blurred in these children's case.

The blood lingzhi that nurtures the adult's desire for survival is greedily and uncontrollably sucking fresh blood from the bodies of these tender children, who are at the age of the fastest rate of blood production, and still can't satisfy the rate of blood sucking by the filthy greedy adults.

"They can't find out what's wrong with them." Lu Yizhan can't bear to look at these children lying in hospital beds; one look at them makes his eyes red, "They're suffering too much, they're just a little bit older."

Bai Liu gently stroked the child's dry mouth with his finger, his voice was soft and faint, and he didn't know who he was talking to, "Don't be sad, it will get better."

[System prompt: Does player Bai Liu want to use props (Blood Lingzhi) to cure the subject in the hospital bed?]

Warm reminder: Blood Ganoderma is only one plant, adults can take it three times, children can take it six times, this prop has the dosage and the number of times it can be used, is player Bai Liu sure to use this prop?

Bai Liu: [OK]

[System Warning: This prop is not a core desire prop of player Bai Liu and cannot be used directly by player Bai Liu in reality! ......滋滋 ......滋滋 ...... abnormal bug data invasion ......]

Bai Liu felt the cross in his heart begin to burn, and along with it, the temperature of the coin seemed to be running overheated.

[...... Unable to clear anomalous data ...... Prop (Blood Lingzhi) put into use ......]

The mouth of the child's throat rumbled oddly in a lump, as if he had eaten something, and then swallowed it subconsciously as he frowned.

The face of the frail child in the hospital bed flushed strangely in an instant, and within seconds he slowly regained consciousness, opening his eyes a little with difficulty.

Bai Liu's face without any emotion appeared in front of him.

The child breathed weakly, his chest rising and falling very lightly as he stared blankly at the strange uncle in front of him whose face was blurred in his eyes, a warm feeling rising up from a stomach that was not sure what it had been digesting, and he licked the roof of his mouth as a very ripe, fuzzy taste of mushrooms filled his mouth.

It tasted similar to the one he had eaten from his teacher, the one that had poisoned all the children, but it was sweeter and sweeter than that one, not bitter at all, like the taste of mushrooms that had ripened thoroughly, with a full, sinister taste that did not resemble human blood, that did not come from the blood of children.

--The smell from the gods, the happy smell of being saved.

"Let's go, next." Bai Liu pulled away Lu Yizhan, who hadn't yet realized that the child had woken up abnormally, and pushed Lu Yizhan, who was still a bit dazed, out of the room, closing the door behind him.

As the child saw that the strange uncle had left, he felt a slight sense of regret and sadness in his heart for some reason, and his skinny fingers, which were placed beside the hospital bed, moved as if trying to catch the departing uncle.

Then Bai Liu's head poked out from the doorway, and he calmly, without feeling at all shameless, said to the child in the hospital bed, "Little friend, ah, uncle I remember your name, remember that it was uncle who saved you."

"Uncle's name is Bai Liu, remember to pay me back your medical bills when you grow up, right now you're too young to pay them back, I can let you have credit for now, I put the note on your bedside."

The child watched in bewilderment as Bai Liu closed the door after saying this, and then he suddenly, for some reason, had a slight urge to laugh.

So he laughed happily, and weakly.

From outside the door came Lu Yizhan's strangely questioning voice: "What did you just poke your head back to see?"

"...... Nothing, thought I forgot my cell phone ......"

After walking through five wards, Bai Liu finally arrived at Liu Jiayi's ward.

Lu Yizhan was already starting to feel a little weird: "Why do you suddenly have the urge to visit sick kids today?"

"Looking for clues, didn't you ask me to check for you?" Bai Liu, without changing his color, casually blurted out nonsense to fool Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but fall into deep confusion - he'd seen these kids many times, was there some clue he'd missed? It shouldn't be.

Before Lu Yizhan could figure out what he had left behind, Bai Liu had already unscrewed the door to Liu Jiayi's hospital room.

Inside the sharp girl screams instantly to overturn the roof, next to the police in charge of guarding the ward can not help but bare their teeth and cover their ears, gesturing to let Bai Liu quickly close the door.

Bai Liu said, unmoved, "Liu Jiayi, this is Bai Liu, let's talk."

The screams of the girl inside came to an abrupt end.

Both the guarding police and Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with astonishment.

Under the suspicious eyes of the police guards and the strong guarantee of Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu was able to enter Liu Jiayi's hospital room as he wished, provided that he went in with the surveillance on and the recorder connected to the outside.

After Bai Liu went in less than a minute, a police officer holding up a phone looked ugly came over: "Liu Jiayi's brother Liu Huai died, just now the traffic department notified us, this morning just out of traffic accidents, now it seems to be an accident, this little girl her brother does not come to who came to call, called their own fainted over not open their mouths, now what to do? What should we do now?"

Lu Yizhan turned on the loudspeaker connected to the recorder with a complicated expression, and Bai Liu's voice came out clearly, "Liu Jiayi, can we talk?"

After a long, long interval, a hoarse, dry little girl's voice came out, "What do you want to talk about?"

The police officer holding up the phone looked at the recorder in dismay, "Who's in there? Why is Liu Jiayi suddenly willing to talk?!"

"My one, no, he should also be considered one of Liu Huai s ...... netizens." Lu Yizhan looked more and more complicated and said.

Though he had no idea how Bai Liu made friends with Liu Huai.

Inside the hospital room, Liu Jiayi, who crawled out from under the bed, is curled up in a corner position.

Her head was still buried within her lap, a very insecure position of self-defense, and her bare skin and fingers were frighteningly white, with not a hint of the bruising of her veins visible.

It was obvious that Liu Jiayi was also suffering from excessive blood loss, which Bai Liu could have guessed - because the antidote [Blood Ganoderma] would only be rewarded if the page "Love Welfare Institution - Vegetable Patient" was collected, but Liu Jiayi basically stayed in the welfare institution from the beginning to the end of the game. But Liu Jiayi stayed at the orphanage from start to finish, so he didn't have time to collect this page.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Liu Jiayi asked with hoarse indifference, her head still not raised.

Bai Liu always likes to go straight to the point: "You know that Liu Huai died, right?"

Liu Jiayi's whole body trembled uncontrollably, and she shrank smaller and smaller, almost shrinking herself into an unnoticeable, ballooning blob on the quilt, her breathing rapid.

She ran out this morning to find Liu Huai.

But she didn't have time to prevent Liu Huai's death.

"His soul is with me, or rather partly with me and partly where the system is." Bai Liu's words changed, and he continued on without a hitch, "If you want to resurrect him, you'll need his soul, I won't give it to you for nothing, you'll need to take something in exchange."

Liu Jiayi is silent for a moment and asks, "What do you want?"

Bai Liu squinted at her, "You should have guessed what I want, I want your soul, I need you to accompany me to the league this year, then win the league you can use points your brother, and at the same time use the wish to get out of the game, I also promised Liu Huai that I would take you out of the game, and that's how I'm going to take you out. "

Liu Jiayi finally gave up her head up, her gray eyes looked straight at Bai Liu, around a circle is still flooded with obvious redness and swelling, obviously cried.

She said, "You're quite ambitious, if I want to win the league, why don't I just follow the King's Guild, they have a much better chance of winning, and even if you take my brother's soul, as long as I win the league, I can use Wish to directly wish for my brother's soul to be taken from you, and the system will help me with whatever I need to do."

"Including being brother and sister without any hard feelings with Liu Huai forever?" Bai Liu's tone was calm, "I thought you'd had enough of the system, a thing full of lies."

Liu Jiayi's fists clenched as she remembered Heart's frivolous smile and the system's prop called [Pushk's Tears].

The god tier props were already the highest tier props in the game, but they still didn't grant her wish.

"You can make a deal with me, I can tell you about my skills completely spread out, I can't break a deal, and my soul would be imprisoned if I did." Bai Liu looked directly at Liu Jiayi, "You can trust me at least on the point of keeping my word."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, then she asked very softly, "If I agree to trade souls with you, what will you arrange for me? Do I need to remain in the orphanage? I'll need to disappear one day a week to enter the game, or you'll have to let me go back to my hometown, that might be more convenient."

"This orphanage shouldn't be able to continue." Bai Liu didn't say anything about Mu Ke already organizing evidence to report anonymously, "It's also impossible for me to let you continue to go back to your biological father's village, I do have a friend who wants to adopt you."

Liu Jiayi seems to have expected this, as she asks rhetorically, "Is it the policeman who is guarding me?"

Bai Liu: "Right."

Liu Jiayi hugged her knees tightly again, she inclined her head, and her gray opaque eyes "looked" out the window, which was facing the street, and the window was not closed at this time, so that she could hear the yelling of the horns of some breakfast vendors downstairs, which was noisy and full of the fireworks of the world, and the expression of Liu Jiayi, who was curled up in the hospital bed with a numb expression, did not fit in with her. Jiayi, who was curled up in his hospital bed with a numb expression, was out of place:

"Red bean cakes, sweet and savory red bean cakes! Ten dollars for three red bean cakes!"

"Tofu brain! Five dollars a bowl!"

"Beef Noodles ......"

"This morning, this policeman bought me red bean cakes." Liu Jiayi spoke up very suddenly, "Because I was having my blood drawn, and then he seemed to see from the surveillance that I had been looking out the window, and probably thought I wanted something sweet, so he went down and bought it for me."

Bai Liu noticed a paper bag of red bean cakes on the nightstand of Liu Jiayi's hospital bed, cold but unopened.

"He's the first good person I've met." Liu Jiayi tilted her head very slowly again, she looked peaceful, "So a cheap bastard like me shouldn't try to wreak havoc on him."

"I'm a gamer, and contacting me might get you swept up in the game, so forget it, Bai Liu."

She finished and looked away from the window again.

The wind of the morning sun blew warmly and gently, interspersed with the sweet aroma of red bean cakes being baked and blown on Liu Jiayi's cold forehead, and the daylight shone goldenly on her pale face, shimmering into a dark yellow haloed outline around her body as she closed her eyes in a trance.

She doesn't even deserve worse good, let alone pure good like Lu Yizhan.

There were very few people left in the world willing to pay ten dollars to be nice to her, and as bitchy as she was, she didn't have to meet one to victimize another.

"There is indeed this possibility, but considering my friend's special nature, it's unlikely that your influence on him will involve him in the game." Bai Liu analyzed objectively and calmly.

"After all, even I can't do this, and adopting a child is more of a subjective choice for him to make." Bai Liu's tone was calm, "He likes you a lot, so much so that he was already preparing everything for your arrival before you even asked, and I think he's prepared for all the possibilities you'll face afterward."

"Have you really thought about turning him down Liu Jiayi?"

"Lu Yizhan will be the best father in the world." Bai Liu said with certainty, "He will spoil you rotten, if you want, Lu Yizhan can run five kilometers from his house to this hospital every day to buy you red bean cakes, send you to the best school for the handicapped, stay up all night to make you rag dolls, he will be very happy to pay for you."

Liu Jiayi was about to scoff at the idea of you describing your friend as really stupid, but the moment she opened her mouth her tone was a little fuzzy and choked, "Don't."

"Bai Liu!!!" Lu Yizhan opened the door violently with a red face, he made a crazy look at Bai Liu, "What are you talking to the other little girl!"

Lu Yizhan was outside when he heard Bai Liu's decisive statement [Lu Yizhan will be the best father in the world], and hurriedly pushed his way in to interrupt Bai Liu under the strange gazes of his two coworkers.

Lu Yizhan extremely embarrassed to scratch his cheeks, came up and pulled Bai Liu to go out, while walking while whispering down Bai Liu: "I say you Bai Liu, how can you and other little girls directly on her brother's things and then give me as a lobbyist it, you are a human being is it you, you see, you make other little girls are forced to cry, I look for you here! is to check something, you give me these mess I can send you away ah!"

Lu Yizhan glared at him and tried to criticize Bai Liu a few more times.

But Liu Jiayi called out in a very soft voice, "Bai Liu, are you gone?"

While saying this, Liu Jiayi's hand is still grabbing in the air, and with Liu Jiayi's fragile expression of crying or not crying, Lu Yizhan's scalp is simply numb.

Bai Liu turned his head, shrugged his shoulders and mouthed [Looks like I won't be able to leave for a while] to Lu Yizhan.

Under Lu Yizhan's stifled and speechless gaze, Bai Liu went back and sat next to Liu Jiayi's nightstand, Liu Jiayi gently grasped the corner of Bai Liu's coat, as if she was extremely attached to and trusted Bai Liu.

"Lu Yizhan, buy three red bean cakes up here for me as well." Bai Liu naturally ordered, "I didn't have breakfast either."

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Lu Yizhan held his breath as he raised his hand and waved it twice at Bai Liu, cursing him for his big face, but when he saw Liu Jiayi's small hand clenching the corner of Bai Liu's shirt uneasily, Lu Yizhan let his breath out helplessly, and he gave Bai Liu an annoyed blank look as he nudged Bai Liu's head with his hand in the air: "You wait for me, Bai Liu!"

"Bai Liu when he was a child was not like the children ah, how this little girl gave him a good face it ......" Lu Yizhan muttered closed the door and went down, seems to be really ready to go to Bai Liu to buy red bean cake, "...... big man still eat red bean cake, also do not mind snore. "...... big old man still eat red bean cake, also do not mind snore panic."

When Lu Yizhan closed the door behind him, Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: "You really don't want to be adopted by Lu Yizhan?"

Liu Jiayi's lips pursed as she gently shook her head, "No, I can follow you in the game, but there's no need for me to be adopted in reality, I can ostensibly go back to my real father's countryside as a cover, no one in that countryside will notice if I'm dead or alive, and then I stay in the game all the time, and I can afford to pay for the points that I'd get if I stayed in the game all the time. "

"That's too much of a waste of points, are you sure you want to follow me in the game?" Bai Liu asked again, "Lu Yizhan is a rare good guy fool out of all seven billion people, it's hard to meet him if you miss out, I'm genuinely trying to sell you on my friend because he really likes you or I wouldn't have saved you in the game."

Liu Jiayi was stunned for a moment, then shook her head slowly and firmly, laughing softly as if mocking herself, "Sort of thanking him for the three red bean cakes, I'm not harming him anymore."

Bai Liu leaned forward and he sat on the stool next to Liu Jiayi's bed, "Lu Yizhan and I are completely different types, he is giving anything for you without needing anything in return, but if I even buy you a red bean cake, I will remember it until you give it back to me."

"If you agree to trade your soul with me, I'll drain your value to the last moment, and of course I'll pay you accordingly, do you want it Liu Jiayi?"

Liu Jiayi could feel Bai Liu's position, she "looked" straight at him for a while, and then suddenly pointed to the door and said, "Then go down and buy me some red bean cakes now."

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Lu Yizhan carrying three red bean cakes up, he was delayed downstairs to take a point sister's phone call, come up when the red bean cakes have been a little cold, the result he came up to see Liu Jiayi holding a red bean cake in the small mouth small mouth blowing to eat.

He subconsciously scanned the nightstand for the red bean cake he'd bought earlier-still there, unopened.

"Jiayi, who bought this for you?" Lu Yizhan steps forward and asks curiously, "The other cops?"

Liu Jiayi took a small bite on the edge of the red bean cake, the sweet and sticky cake bites slid down her throat, warming her whole body, Liu Jiayi bit twice, she suddenly choked and coughed, choking her eyes out.

She had a small piece of mushroom in a red bean cake with a hint of blood - it was blood reishi.

It was awful, and she didn't like the taste of mushrooms in a red bean cake.

"Bai Liu bought it for me." Liu Jiayi lowered her head and clutched the red bean cake.

Lu Yizhan was shocked, "And he spends money on other people?!"

Liu Jiayi shook his head, "It's not free."

Lu Yizhan's expression was difficult to say up: "I knew it, he wanted your money Jiayi? No ah, you also have no money ah ......" Lu Yizhan is puzzled, he swept to the bedside table put a piece of paper, Lu Yizhan picked it up and looked at it, his face instantly cracked.

[IOU: Liu Jiayi asked Bai Liu to buy three red bean cakes for 10 yuan, and the merchandise should be sold for 3 dollars and 3 yuan.]

Liu Jiayi instructed Bai Liu to pay for his errands: five yuan, and Liu Jiayi chose to use the rest of the red bean cakes to cover the debt, so Liu Jiayi actually owed Bai Liu five yuan.

"This asshole!!!" Lu Yizhan really convinced, "a cake three three charge you five dollars for errand fee, he would do business, you red bean cake with what debt, you can not trust him ah! He can donkey people, most likely to take you more than three dollars, you and the police uncle, the police uncle later to help you recover!"

Liu Jiayi finished the last bite of the red bean cake, she clapped her hands, didn't know what she remembered, turned her head to look out the window, squinted her eyes and smiled innocently very much like a little girl, "I paid off my debt with something worth a red bean cake, he didn't overcharge me."

Lu Yizhan grew more and more confused, "What is it?"

Liu Jiayi replied, "It's not a very important thing, it's not worth a few dollars."

"No matter how worthless you don't exchange with Bai Liu ah ...... " Lu Yizhan headache said, "He can be treacherous, everything has to be exchanged with people, the calculation can be clear. I'm not going to be able to do that."

"Is that bad?" Liu Jiayi looked up at Lu Yizhan, her tone had a kind of naïve etherealness to it, "I can trade for anything I want, he'll never betray me, he won't give me good or bad for no reason, is that bad?"

There was no way she could trust anyone else anymore, so she would simply exist untrustworthy like that.

Bai Liu is the best choice for her because Bai Liu understands her, understands her lowliness and wickedness, understands that she is not like a child and not like a normal person at all.

She will never worry about hurting Bai Liu, and she doesn't have to worry about Bai Liu hurting her. Between them, it's the bank's running data transactions, always calculated so clearly and reasonably, without any betrayal or suspicion.

Lu Yizhan looked at Liu Jiayi That expression was baffled, but not a moment later, someone came to call out to him:

"Stagecoach, the other five kids are awake!"

Lu Yizhan eyes lit up, put down the red bean cake bought for Bai Liu hurried to go.

Bai Liu bit into a red bean cake as he looked at an extra Liu Jiayi soul bill in his old wallet, took a big bite of the red bean cake on his left hand, and then frowned, "It's also too sweet, and this thing can be sold for three dollars? I should have known to buy just one."

The phone rang just as he spoke, Bai Liu wrapped the red bean cake and carried it, and clipped his cell phone out of his pants pocket, he scanned the screen - it was Lu Yizhan's call.

"Where are you? I bought them for you, so come and eat them!" Lu Yizhan's tone was filled with excitement, "I'm telling you, those five kids woke up! The doctor said they're doing better! You can ask anything you want!"

"No need, I've already sorted this matter out." Bai Liu said slowly, "You should be able to sort this out right away as well. "

Lu Yizhan was shocked, "? When did you sort it out! What do you mean we'll settle this matter right away?!"

Bai Liu held up his cell phone and looked back at the hospital, and instead of directly answering Lu Yizhan's question, he lamented without a head, "Lu Yizhan, I realized that at fourteen, I really do eat your shit."

"Luckily, I'm more than fourteen years old now and don't eat your shit. "Bai Liu took another bite of red bean cake, he wrinkled his eyebrows and swallowed it down, "Remember to treat me to another meal after things are settled, otherwise I'm a bit of a loser, my phone bill is going to be gone, hang up."

"?!?!?!" Lu Yizhan was in a daze, "Aren't we talking about the case, why are we getting into- Hey! Damn you really hung up! Bai Liu!

Lu Yizhan cursed to Bai Liu that is said to be in arrears cell phone number to charge the phone bill, just finished charging a turn of the head, and he saw and he guarded Liu Jiayi together with the civilian police trance raised his head: "stage, someone sent us this case to the Internet ...... "

"?!" Lu Yizhan opened his cell phone to search in disbelief, "Isn't there a card on the Cybersecurity Department's side? Didn't the situation of this case say that it's not allowed to be posted casually?"

The police officer shook his head a bit deliriously, "It's not the circumstances of this case, it's the clues to this case, someone has sent out a compilation of what happened to these kids back in the day, and the medical records of those investors, and it's now hanging on the hot seat ......"

Lu Yizhan : "?!"