Chapter 36: Reality

The noodle shop owner gave Bai Liu two one-dollar coins, Bai Liu put the coins into his old wallet, the kind face of the noodle shop owner hesitated for a long time, but still told Bai Liu the couple's phone number and address, with a kind of sighing tone, said that if you can help, please help them, it's not easy to live.

Bai Liu left the noodle shop in a drizzling rain, he held a black umbrella, took a bus to the cemetery that the owner of the noodle shop had told him about, and in the silence of the tombstones, he soon found his parents, who had appeared on TV.

Without umbrellas, they stood in front of their daughter's tombstone in the rain with red eyes, the only umbrella they had in their hands was placed on the tombstone, covering the black and white photo of a smiling and happy Gogo on the tombstone.

"You are ...... Bai Liu? "The mother's voice was coarse and muffled because she had been crying all morning, and she looked at Bai Liu with eyes full of hostility, "You called and said you had a way to bring Li You called and said you had a way to bring Li Gou to justice? What do you have? Or what do you want? Money?"

Bai Liu smiles in the rain, the mist staining his face with a strange holiness, "I've come to make a deal with you, but I don't want money."

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This is probably the first time in Bai Liu's life that he said something like [I don't want money].

He said, "I'll grant you your wish, I'll help you dismember Li Gou, and you'll sell your souls to me."

Mother snorted in anticipation, "Soul, another liar."

She turned her head away woodenly, her eyes flushed red again as she looked at the black and white photo of Gogo on the tombstone.

Father alertly looked at Bai Liu glance, because the fruit of the matter, they have been seeking help from a lot of people, all kinds of ways and means have thought of tried, but also encountered a lot of a variety of liars.

When they came to see this person who is said to be able to make Li Gou get retribution, they were prepared for the other party to be a liar, but they were still prepared to take their chances, but they didn't expect Bai Liu to open his mouth so outrageously, saying that he wants to buy their souls, which is the first time they have met such a liar.

It's just playing with their emotions now.

The father warned in a cold voice, "Liar, get out!"

Bai Liu crouched down on one knee without being moved, he looked flatly at Gou Gou on the tombstone photo and read, "Li Gou, 47 years old, killed female student Liu Guoguo at the entrance of Majia Lane Alley a few months ago, went to jail for trial, and was sentenced to death due to the bad circumstances and serious repercussions, and a week ago the evidence and all the documents related to the evidence suddenly and strangely disappeared all together, and the relevant people also have vague memories said they could not remember whether they had seen the evidence, the case was reopened."

Hearing these facts, Liu Guoguo's parents' eyes became full of resentment, and both of them clenched their teeth and clenched their fists as they looked fiercely at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu, as if he hadn't noticed that the two men were already enraged by the facts he had stated and were ready to beat themselves up, continued calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, this Li Gou has said before that he will definitely be released from prison without charge and that the evidence will disappear, and so on."

"How do you know?" Mother looked at Bai Liu in disbelief.

They have been closely monitoring the reaction of this Li Gou in prison, who was violent and crazy when he was first imprisoned, and after realizing that he was likely to be sentenced to death, he even yelled and screamed all day long, saying that he wanted to take revenge on them.

But not long ago this person's attitude suddenly changed, the last week or two this Li Gou will even be in a good mood, humming songs, and also said that sooner or later he will get out of this hell, the evidence will disappear, God will not wrong the good people and so on.

It seemed that she had expected to get out of jail, which was why she suspected that someone was harboring the brute.

"Well, you can understand that this Li Gou made a deal with some kind of devil and sold his soul so that he could erase the evidence without knowing it." Bai Liu stood up bracing his knees as he leveled his eyes at the hesitant and apprehensive parents who were sizing him up, "I'm sort of here to take business with this devil."

Liu Guoguo's parents looked at Bai Liu skeptically, as if they didn't really believe him, but looked at him with a hint of desperation and hope.

It's also true that better-informed people can inquire about these things about Li Gou, and it can't be ruled out that Bai Liu is a liar who came to rip them off because he knew something.

But all the methods they could use they had really used, even things like inviting the Great Immortal to overpower Guoguo, something they would have laughed at as feudalistic and superstitious before, they had done it several times.

"What are your conditions?" Liu Guoguo's mom asked cautiously, "Is it for money, but we don't have much money left."

Bai Liu smiles, "I said from the beginning, I don't want the money, I want the debt rights to your souls, intact."

He's just curious, what would happen to the system if he snatched and acquired the souls of these [players] before you guys entered the [game]?

Would it be possible to have a higher level of access to these players in [the game] than the system?

If Bai Liu possessed a higher soul authority than the [System] had over these parents, would he be able to manipulate these parents' and thus their system? And eventually achieve dominance over the system?

Bai Liu likes money, but hates being ridden on his head to earn money, which gives him the suffocating feeling of being the bottom social animal in the company, so he wants to try to see if he can dominate the system in turn and have the highest authority.

Seemingly sensing Bai Liu's dangerous thoughts, the coins on Bai Liu's chest began to heat up, and the alarm sound of that bad current signal rang in his ears:

[SYSTEM WARNING: Zi La - Player Bai Liu - Zi La - is prohibited from preemptively acquiring a reserve player's soul debt rights! Player Bai Liu is prohibited from trading with non-players outside of the game!

[System warning: About to -zilla- block player Bai Liu's old wallet skill!

Bai Liu sighed regretfully, robbing the soul of a [reserve player] that [game] looks at while [real world] is being monitored by [game] really doesn't work ......

That's right, the [game] shouldn't allow players with higher privileges than it, and if Bai Liu was the game designer, he would have stopped it, but Bai Liu still came to try, and let's just forget about it if it doesn't work out.

Bai Liu was just about to give up when the fish scale on his chest, which was hanging with the coin, began to slowly grow and extend to wrap around the coin.

Cool scales wrapped around the hot coins, which cooled down instantly, and the system emitted an electric current that sounded as if it were a scream of misery:

clearing anomalous data - anomalous data clearing failed - occupied by anomalous data - zip zip zip zip]

After a jumble of electrical currents, a new, cold and magnetic electronic male voice rang out:

[System: Player Bai Liu Hello, do you want to use your personal skill?]

This voice Bai Liu raised his eyebrows subtly, his system voice became a bit subtly familiar, although it still had an electronic inorganic quality, but it was several degrees colder than the previous system voice, and it was also very nice to listen to. Bai Liu felt that this voice was a bit like the voice of the NPC [King Seiren] that he had encountered.... ...

Bai Liu laughs: [Of course I use it]

Liu Guoguo's parents couldn't understand some of Bai Liu's words, and they hesitated, but they really had no other choice.

Even if Bai Liu is a fraud, a salesman who came to cajole them, please please please give them, please give Gogo some hope! Even if it's a fake!

The mother was the first to break down and cover her face as she fell to her knees, tearfully saying, "As long as you can get Li Gou killed, you can have anything you want! Take it all! I'll give you all the money I have all you want!"

This is treating Bai Liu like □□□.

Bai Liu hooked his lips and smiled, "No, I won't ask you for a penny, on the contrary, I'm going to give you your money."

He took the two coins the noodle shop owner had given him in change out of his old wallet, spread them out in the palm of his hand and handed them over.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "I'll buy your souls for a dollar, are you willing to make this deal with me?"

The mother gritted her teeth and took the coin, and the father, after a few seconds of hesitation, took the coin from Bai Liu's hand.

"Willing."

No matter what this person did, as long as he was willing to help them avenge Guoguo's death, even if he was a psychopath full of nonsense, they were willing to give it a try.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu used 2 Yuan (RMB) to purchase the souls of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua respectively].

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu is the preferred purchaser of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua and enjoys the highest authority to transfer part of the debt rights of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua's souls for sale].

Xiang Chunhua felt a strange steaming sensation in her body after uttering those words, as if something heavy had been pulled out of her tired shell and stored in a different place.

She looked to the smiling young man in front of her with an unspoken sense of trust and sincerity in her heart.

Xiang Chunhua asked in a stunned voice, "Your name is Bai Liu, right? What do you do? Where are we going to find you?"

"I'm unemployed and a poor drifter." Bai Liu looked down at an extra brand new coin in his wallet, "You will find me in a game, and I hope that by the time I see you, you have made it through the first game alive."

On the coin, Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu stood beside the tombstone with tear-stained faces of despair, and the two of them put a hand on the top of the tombstone and gently stroked it as if they were stroking the top of the head of their own children, while Liu Guoguo on the tombstone was covered by an umbrella to block the rain, and his face smiled as if he were a flower, and on the lower right side of the coin, there was the inscription [$2], and behind it there was the inscription [Soul Money], and below it there was a line of small letters [Not issued by the system bank, authority does not belong to the system, and belongs to all people Bai Liu]. Below is a line of small letters [non-system bank issue, the highest authority does not belong to the system, belongs to all people Bai Liu 】.

Bai Liu curved the corners of his mouth slightly.

Hey, new system. Nice work.

The system was silent for two seconds: [Thanks for the compliment]

The fish scales wrapped around the coin in Bai Liu's chest warmed slightly, then returned to their coldness.

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With less than two days to go before the system's mandatory once-a-week countdown, Bai Liu is ready to get into the game.

He organized his things, sent a message to Mu Ke that he was going to enter the game, and then called Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu, but there was no answer several times, and the landline was also unanswered, Bai Liu's heart had a rough idea - these two people should have already entered the game, and fell into a coma. Bai Liu had a rough idea - these two people should have already entered the game and fallen into a coma.

Bai Liu took a shower, changed into his own favorite very cozy clown with pom-pom nightcap and Benny pajamas, and tucked himself in with a quilt over his chest, holding the coin in his hand over his chest twice in his mind:

[Login to the game]

[System: Is player Bai Liu confirming his login to the game?

Bai Liu closes his eyes: [Confirmation]

[System: accessing ......]

Wait! Bai Liu suddenly opened his eyes again, got up violently to go to the bathroom, and shut off the electric gate, gas valve and water gate of the house before lying down satisfactorily, [Now start logging in, or else these valves will leak some utilities if I open them while I'm asleep, and it will be a waste of money]

[System: ......]

[System: Logging into the game ......]

Bai Liu fell into a swirling black slumber, and when he awoke again he was standing in the hall where people came and went.

[System: Since player Bai Liu has a small amount of popularity, is it possible to mobilize some of the appearance values to hide his identity?]

You can also adjust the appearance data? Bai Liu became a bit interested, "Can I design my own appearance?

He's quite good at face-painting.

[System: Yes, to enter the autonomous face pinching program, you need to pay 300 points, does player Bai Liu pay?

I have to pay for it. Bai Liu quickly gave up, "Then you can just get a free transfer.

[System: Access to random face mobilization procedures - pupil color change (black → blue), hair color change (black → colorful), lip color (flesh → black) ......]

Soon a person with a colorful dirty braid and henna head with black lipstick, which made people think of words like [昰①種悲殇] or something like that at the sight of it, was wandering around the game hall with a bland attitude, attracting countless dumbfounded and shocked gazes from the side.

Cheap is cheap, and Bai Liu anticipated that his face wouldn't look too good when he tuned it out for free, so he was open to the idea of looking like a non-mainstream killjoy.

Anyway, he can't see what he looks like, and it's other people's eyes that are hot, Bai Liu is very indifferent.