Real World
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"I asked my dad to get someone to do it, a professional, an overseas address, it shouldn't be that easy to trace, and my dad said there's a way for it to be traced." Mu Ke said to Bai Liu on the phone, he coughed a bit vainly, "There are people in here who have business rivalry with my dad, so he censored some of the less credible facts, such as the blood ganoderma lucidum part, and ambiguously exposed the fact that these investors were experimenting with children for cures, making a big deal out of it shouldn't be a big deal to you, should you not mind? "
Bai Liu was using his computer to retrieve hot searches:
## Entrepreneurial groups##
# The shocking inside story of the orphanage poisoning #
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"Don't mind." Bai Liu belonged to the type that didn't care much about the process as long as the result could be achieved, he lazily leaned back on his sofa chair, "But right now that side should be frantically spending money to pull down the hot search, right?"
"Yeah, but it won't be that easy for them to take it down, we're also dropping money on our side to stabilize the hotspot, it shouldn't be too easy to take it down on their side until the police get involved in the matter." Mu Ke said.
"Trouble you, Mu Ke." Bai Liu said, "Rest first to recover your status, and enter the game at twelve tonight, I have a little business to attend to in the afternoon."
Mu Ke snorted, "Okay, Bai Liu."
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At 3:00 p.m., Bai Liu brought a couple to the hospital again.
Opposite Liu Jiayi sat a couple who rubbed their knees nervously, looking expectantly and incredulously at the little girl sitting on the hospital bed. Soon their eyes became moist, and they looked unbelievably at Bai Liu, who was standing beside them, and asked in a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, can we really adopt her? "
"...... Are we eligible to adopt her?"
Bai Liu leaned against the door and swept a light glance at Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua: "You are eligible for adoption."
The only daughter died tragically, the family has a good reputation and loves children, and the two have reached this age, there is no longer any intention to have children, this is fully eligible for adoption, it can be said that Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua is the best type of adoptive family conditions, much better than Lu Yizhan, the precarious conditions of the general conditions of the small investigators.
For the children in the orphanage, Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua would probably be head over heels if they wanted to come and adopt someone - it's the best way out and the best choice for them.
Liu Jiayi is also clear about this, she propped up on the railing of the hospital bed and opened her mouth in a somewhat guarded tone, "Bai Liu, I said I can be alone, you find me this condition so good adoptive family is completely unnecessary, I won't be grateful to you, and I don't want to continue to act and pretend in front of other people, you have to be clear that I'm a gamer. They stay with me maybe ......"
"They are also gamers." Bai Liu opened his mouth salaciously to interrupt Liu Jiayi's words.
Liu Jiayi was quiet, and a very startled look appeared on her face.
Bai Liu directly drew a bench to sit down, cut Liu Jiayi still want to continue to say: "They know you are a little witch, I let them buy to see all your game little TV video, they know exactly what kind of kid you are, you can not have to disguise in front of them, into the game, into the game, how to do. "
"I sold Lu Yizhan to you before, partly because he likes you a lot, and partly because your brother really wants Lu Yizhan to adopt you, and he also thinks Lu Yizhan is a good person who can give you a perfect family." Bai Liu raised his eyes to Liu Jiayi, "But if you don't want to, I'll also make other arrangements for you, arrangements that will allow you to move around more freely and not have to worry about the aftermath."
Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu are both still a little nervous.
Xiang Chunhua has been rubbing his thighs, blearily looking at this eye-blind little girl: "My family had a child before, but ...... something happened, and Lao Liu and I, it is true that we are not considered very powerful, not powerful in the game, not powerful outside the game, or else we wouldn't have let Guoguo ......"
She paused as she said this, lowering her head and wiping her eyes with the palm of her hand, "Jiayi ah, I know you're a formidable little girl, and we can't do much to help you, but Bai Liu said that you need a place to land outside of the game that's legal and sensible, but then again you're a kid, and there's not much of a good place for Fang Ke to go. "
"This we can still help a little." Liu Fu picked up Xiang Chunhua's words, his body leaned forward, and his speech was a bit stuttered and apprehensive, "This adoption relationship is just a stopgap measure, if you dislike us and don't want us to be your nominal parents, you can dissolve the relationship when the game is over."
"If you need anything, you can also talk to us at any time, and we will definitely do our best to do what we can do, do you think this is okay?"
Xiang Chunhua couldn't help but add, "Look at how skinny you are, if you stay with us, at least you'll be able to have a hot meal when you come out of the game, I'm not as good as you Jiayi in other things, but I'm a good cook!"
"I also boil soup very well." Liu Fu also said a little embarrassed.
Obviously two middle-aged people who were almost a hundred years old combined, when they spoke to an eight-year-old girl, they both spoke in a tone of consultation that was careful and afraid of scaring her away, as if they felt that they didn't have anything to hold on to and couldn't keep her.
Liu Jiayi sits on the edge of the bed with her head bowed, she sits long, silent, motionless, only her thin fingers slowly gripping the covers, her toes curling as they hang in the air.
"Games, shelter, help with cover, a safe place to rest and rejuvenate are all there, they are also my people, I promise I won't harm you, I can also help take care of you, after all, you're still underage and inconvenienced by a lot of things, it would be a lot more comfortable to do things with two adults who are oriented towards you, do you have any other questions?" Bai Liu asked, "Ask and I can figure it all out for you."
All the problems Bai Liu mentioned have always been solved by Liu Jiayi herself, she has been stumbling and hiding, and has been completely used to solving all the problems she encountered on her own, and no one has ever said to her, "Raise the problem and I'll help you solve it.
Liu Jiayi finally raised her head, her eyes were a little red, but her tone was cold, "Yes, how do I return these things of yours?"
Xiang Chunhua was a little confused, "Give me back ...... what is it?"
"Just shelter, hot food, hot meals, soups you guys make and stuff like that." Liu Jiayi felt it was only natural to pay back a debt, "What do you want me to pay back with? Money or points?"
Xiang Chunhua's eyes reddened, and just as he wanted to say that he didn't need to pay back these things, Bai Liu spoke up first: "I'll have them make a list of the money they spend on you every day with a bill, and settle it all in one go when you come out of the game... Any other questions?"
Liu Jiayi shook her head slowly, sluggishly, feeling as if she still owed something.
But they were things she didn't know what they were for a moment, and she didn't know what to return them with.
Xiang Chunhua gazed at Liu Jiayi with eyes full of emotion, wanting to embrace her. After hesitating for a long time, this middle-aged woman with a face full of vicissitudes of life reached out her hand to gently touch Liu Jiayi's face and choked on a sob: "Why is Aura so ah, only a little bit big, when Guoguo was eight years old, it was as big as two of you! So big ......"
Liu Fu's eyes are also red, his voice hoarse: "Go back to the child to raise, fatten up, feed more braised meat and bone soup, a moment will grow up."
"Eat as much as Gogo, you'll grow so fast, you'll be a big girl before you've seen two."
Liu Jiayi didn't seem to know what to say, she was silent.
Bai Liu gave her a look, "What I find for you will be the most suitable place for you to survive, you don't need to think so much, do what you need to do, I will be in the game tonight, if you want to be in the game, follow me in, if you don't want to be in the game, it's okay, after Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua adopt you, it will be a lot easier for you, you don't need to hide from everything like you did before. ."
It was quiet for a long time before Liu Jiayi gave a soft, "Uh-huh." She let out a sound, indicating that she knew.
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Walking out of the hospital door, Liu Fu didn't know what to say and shook Bai Liu's arm, Bai Liu looked over and saw Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu both looking at him with tears in their eyes.
"Thanks, Bai Liu, really thanks." Liu Fu blew his nose, he didn't know what to say, so he could only talk dryly about business, "We're going into the game tonight, right? We're going in too, right?"
They were ready to die, never thought they could get a little girl as a daughter before they died, it's not like they didn't move to adopt a child when they were in the most pain, but they didn't dare to give birth to such thoughts at all after they entered the game, and they were very careful when they came into contact with people for fear of influencing whoever they put into the game.
"Well, you guys are going in as well, I'll have Mu Sicheng continue to take you guys, it's probably a secondary game now, are you guys okay with that?" Bai Liu asked.
Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua shook their heads decisively, "No problem."
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After dealing with Liu Jiayi, Bai Liu went back to his small rental house.
Seeing that the time was still early, Bai Liu, who was mentally exhausted, was ready to rest for a while before moving on to the next game. He set his alarm clock and put on his pajamas and lay down on his bed, closing his eyes.
Bai Liu is a good sleeper and rarely dreams.
But this time I don't know whether it's because the state is too consumed or too tired, Bai Liu had a very strange dream, he felt his body from the fingertips covered with a layer of white frost, can not resist to be frozen, the body appeared on a cold body pressed heavily on his heart, Bai Liu felt as if he dreamed of ghosts on the bed.
It's just that this ghost is pretty good looking.
Taville braced herself against him and looked down at him, her light colored pupils devoid of human emotion, "Your doom is coming."
Bai Liu could feel Taville's small arm propped up against his ear, a cool texture.
He looked up at Taville half-asleep, tempted to say that he never seemed to have any good luck, but rather was quite used to bad luck.
But Bai Liu's voice is like being stuck by a piece of sticky adhesive, always unable to sound good, can only make all the sound a little strange, sticky short word sound, with this position ...... Bai Liu from the goodness to stop trying to pronounce the action, with a look to signal Taville to continue to speak! Go on.
Taville leaned over and lifted the cross hanging on Bai Liu's chest from his neck with his fingers, kissed the cross, and placed it on Bai Liu's brow, pressing it gently with his forefinger.
"As the wall clock reaches a quarter to nine, the avenger, who comes with hatred from other timelines than this one, will descend upon you with the death destined for you, and so God manifestly manifests Himself, reveals Himself to you here and now, blesses you and shelters you."
Taville looked down at Bai Liu, who was frowning and struggling in his nightmare, and his tone had an indescribable, indifference and solemnity from the gods.
He said, "My evil devotee, remember to dodge the hunter's suicidal bullets, do not feast your eyes on desire with your right eye, the only and irreversible time on your body until the real death comes."
Taville put his hands over Bai Liu's eyes, he bowed his head and kissed the inverted cross placed on Bai Liu's forehead heart, and then said in the same cold and holy tone as the cross, "The key to everything is in the hands of the witch, the poison or the antidote is the key to your choice."
"The gods live forever, the souls live forever."
Taville puts the cross back into Bai Liu's clothes, he gazes at Bai Liu, but his pupils reflect a light pink rose whose branches and leaves are gradually spreading and blooming, "Beware of the rose."
As soon as the words fell, he turned into a pile of colorful rose petals scattered on Bai Liu's body, a rich to make Bai Liu uncomfortable stimulating rose aroma rolled out from the rose petals, and then these petals instantly broke into a burst of pink light smoke, which smoke in the Bai Liu quilt over the obsessive hovering, and finally like a burned ash fell to the bottom of his bed, was blown by the wind, and dissipated. It was blown by the wind and dissipated into thin air.
Bai Liu's eyes snapped open.
What roses, what petals, what Taville nothing, he was in his low rent house less than three meters high, sleeping on an old bed with springs popping out of the foot of the bed, Bai Liu sat up, he pulled that cross out of his neck.
The cross he kept close to him was strangely cold to the touch, and Bai Liu held it to the tip of his nose for a moment.
The cross lingered with a rose scent that made him ill.
"Both doom and death are about to befall me ......" Bai Liu rubbed the cross on his hand and narrowed his eyes, "...... Be watch out for hunters and roses."
Taville is God, and the identity he obtained because of the cross is [Taville's believer], then the suggestive messages he just received from Taville are, in a common language, [oracles].
All [oracles] from ancient times seem to be plausible and unspoken, including this one given to him by Taville, which is ambiguous about a lot of things.
If one were to explain these ambiguous [oracles] with the previous knowledge of Bai Liu's worldview, Bai Liu would say that because God doesn't exist, these [oracles] believers in the magi are making up their own, and that one has to be ambiguous in order to anticipate what is going to happen in order to have a greater margin of error.
But this time, Taville's [Oracle] gave him a familiar feeling.
"It's kind of like what I say after I've been shielded, because there are some things I can't say outright that will be shielded, and have to beat around the bush and use other phrases to convey the same meaning ......" Bai Liu thought wistfully, "So It's quite possible that Taville is also being blocked by a higher being, and can't tell me directly what I have to circumvent, but can only hint at it in such a subtle way so that I can be careful and vigilant."
The witch is a good guess, referring to Liu Jiayi.
But what do the rose and the hunter imply?
Bai Liu clutched the rose-scented cross and squinted at the time on the worn wall clock.
It's just a quarter to nine now.
Bai Liu heard footsteps coming from the walkway in front of his house one after another, the diaphragm of this rental house is not good, which makes Bai Liu can clearly hear the footsteps outside one after another, not dense, and all directly from the door to go up, seem to be the normal residents of the building.
But on the fourth time this footsteps reappeared with great regularity, Bai Liu softened his breathing and got out of bed to put on his clothes and shoes, he opened the window and looked outside, reasonably assessed the chances that he could survive a few moments of jumping from the fifth floor, and finally chose to give up.
The building he lives in is low-cost housing from top to bottom, Bai Liu lives on the fifth floor, and there are only four tenants on the fifth floor, which means that these people are not normal tenants in the building, and this kind of trained footsteps are familiar to Bai Liu, and he's only ever heard it from one person -
--That's Lu Yizhan.
The footsteps eventually stopped in front of Bai Liu's door, which was kicked in behind him, and a group of people shouted at him in a stern voice with guns held flat in both hands: "Investigators! Don't move! Hands in the air!"
Bai Liu quickly looked down and removed the coin hanging from his neck and took it into his mouth and pressed it under his tongue.
In the night air coming in through the window, Bai Liu slowly turns around and raises his hands in an unhurried manner.
The wind ruffled the hair on his forehead, and although Bai Liu did nothing, there was a sense of calm that seemed to anticipate his arrest, and he was submissive enough to let these investigators twist his hands back to tie him up, asking no questions and not looking too scared.
Although Bai Liu has not yet figured out why he was arrested, these investigators were terrified of him. These investigators who broke into his room at a quarter to nine were heavily armed, with leather gloves and protective suits, and some, Bai Liu visually estimated that there might be a shield of 2~3cm thickness, not knowing what kind of metal it was made of, but it looked very strong.
The equipment makes these investigators look like bomb investigators about to dismantle a bomb with a very high explosive power.
And Bai Liu, who doesn't know when he's been as much of a threat as a bomb, dozes off in the car on the way to the station.
The car in which Bai Liu was sitting was also special, with a thick metal plate separating the front from the back, leaving only a small window measuring 15cm by 15cm, through which a small investigator could be seen gulping nervously while pointing a gun at Bai Liu, seemingly fearful that the young man, whose hands and feet were tied up, would suddenly rise up.
The light from the streetlamp shone through the small window in front into the back of the car Bai Liu was in, and on the wall there was a red triangular symbol with an octopus grimly writhing its tentacles, and next to it a sketchy little man with scattered limbs and blood all over the floor, and then a big red cross over the octopus.
It is noted below the logo:
[This is an unknown supernatural hazardous object with a tendency to injure! Please stay alert and keep your distance!
Strips of light flashed from Bai Liu's emotionless face, frightening the investigator who was watching him from the small window and almost didn't hold his gun steady, and the investigator who was driving the car next to him was also startled by this movement by this, "What's wrong with it? Has there been a mutation!"
With a sob, the little investigator said, "It! It's breathing!"
"Calm down!" The investigator driving the car took two deep breaths, "It's the first humanoid heretic monster captured by our division, it's normal for it to breathe, don't get all freaked out."
Published at: 05/14/2024 04:00