Chapter 75: Children's Welfare Institute

Bai Liu looks to Lu Yizhan : "You first tell us the specifics of last night."

Lu Yizhan's eyes close, he takes a deep drag on his cigarette and exhales over his lungs, "Last night, around 3 a.m., all 37 children brought in coincided with severe vomiting ...... "

"What these children threw up was one intact mushroom after another, but all of these children had been emetic and gastric lavaged at the time of their emergency admission the day before yesterday, and were fasted and given fluids all day yesterday, and none of them had eaten, and there was no way that there could have been anything in their stomachs at all."

Lu Yizhan said here paused, he shook his cigarette ash on the trash can in the hallway: "This thing scared the nurses and doctors, immediately called the police, and then prepared to take emergency blood tests on all the children ......"

Lu Yizhan slowly exhaled a mouthful of white air with smoke, "But except for that living child, the nurses stuck in the blood vessels, can only draw out a kind of light green semi-transparent liquid from the body of these children who kept vomiting, can not draw out the blood at all, and these liquids were tested to be the composition of the mushroom sap."

Bai Liu was not scared, these things are like that antique mirror that can hide a huge bomb to avoid security check, is loaded into this [reality beta mode] [horror game], in a horror game, what is unbelievable is possible, extracting the mushroom sap is still Bai Liu think it is more normal and common game direction, it is kind of what he expected.

Bai Liu thought for a moment and asked, "What about the living child? Her blood is normal, right? Have the results of her blood tests come back yet?"

"It came out, a little mildly anemic, but generally normal." Lu Yizhan said.

Bai Liu pondered for a while and then asked, "So have you asked any key information to solve the case from this waking child?"

"No." Lu Yizhan smiles bitterly and lets out a long sigh, "This little girl is blind, she doesn't recognize our voices, she refuses to communicate with us in any way, she only nods and shakes her head once in a while to respond to us, and since she can't see, there's a very good chance that she doesn't know anything about it either, because of her eyes she doesn't even know that what she's been eating that day is mushrooms. "

"This little girl's name is Liu Jiayi, and she has a half-brother named Liu Huai, and she's waiting for her brother to arrive before she's willing to talk." Lu Yizhan sighed and said, "It's mainly because this little girl's situation is not willing to talk, otherwise I would have brought you in to talk to her, you're quite good at tricking children."

Bai Liu's expression gave a faintly unnoticeable lurch as he slowly looked up at Lu Yizhan : "What did you say her brother's name was?"

Lu Yizhan froze: "Liu Huai, is a famous college student, before has been working part-time to raise this little girl, but in almost half a year ago, suddenly put this little girl foster in this accident in the orphanage, almost a week will come over to see Liu Jiayi once, but he really does not have the obligation of support for his half-sister, how, do you know her brother?"

"Sort of a one-sided relationship." Bai Liu smiles, "I networked and played games with him, he should remember me, maybe he can get me to talk to his sister."

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Liu Huai sits stiffly in the hospital room, and on the bed is a skinny little girl hugging her knees and curled up in a ball, this little girl is Liu Jiayi.

But that wasn't the main reason for Liu Huai's stiffness; it was Bai Liu, who sat across from him and smiled kindly at him, who made him stiff.

Liu Huai also do not understand why out of the game, he can be so coincidental and so unlucky to meet Bai Liu this big devil, this person also came up a very familiar look hooked his shoulders, brow curved and he set close to him, said to talk to his sister Liu Jiayi.

Liu Huai lamented his bad luck in his heart, but he still brought Bai Liu in.

But because Liu Jiayi couldn't take too many people in her environment, and she couldn't help screaming, Liu Huai refused to let more people into the ward, so the police stood outside the door and didn't come in, first letting Liu Huai work on Liu Jiayi, and then Liu Huai brought Bai Liu in on behalf of his friend.

So at the moment there are only three people in the ward: Liu Huai, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi.

Bai Liu and Liu Huai sit on the left and right sides of Liu Jiayi's hospital room, Liu Jiayi sitting in the center of the bed with her knees wrapped around her, her face buried between her hands and knees, wearing a hospital gown that is a little too big for her and hangs empty on her thin, frail frame.

The little girl was, as Lu Yizhan had said, thin and a bit deformed, like an underdeveloped skeleton, several models away from the overnourished contemporary children Bai Liu remembered from the fast-food restaurants.

Liu Huai couldn't stand the heavy atmosphere first, he used the quilt to block Bai Liu's view of Liu Jiayi and blocked in front of Liu Jiayi.

Liu Huai stared at Bai Liu as if he was a beast protecting its cubs: "Bai Liu, what do you want from me?"

Bai Liu's chat is always straightforward: "I'm not here to see you, I'm here to see your sister."

"My sister?" Liu Huai fiercely wrapped Liu Jiayi in a quilt, hugged her in her arms, and looked at Bai Liu very hostilely, "What are you looking for her for?"

"Liu Huai, how old is the youngest player you've seen in the game?" Bai Liu suddenly changed the topic.

Although there was a monitor in the ward being watched by the police, due to the existence of the system's [Banning] mechanism, Bai Liu's words would most likely be harmonized, and he had no qualms about asking the question.

"Why are you asking?" Liu Huai was puzzled.

Bai Liu raised his eyes to look directly at Liu Jiayi, who was trembling in Liu Huai's arms: "I was wondering if your sister would become the youngest player in the game."

Liu Jiayi, as the only child to survive the scourge of mushroom poisoning at the orphanage, shares some similarities with Bai Liu, who survived the Mirror City bombing, and Mu Ke, who survived the haunted dormitory at the Japanese school.

Currently the players known to Bai Liu need to fulfill two conditions, the first [the existence of players around the player].

The spreading pattern of this game is similar to that of a virus, which is spread by the pattern of mutual influences [from person to person], such as Mu Ke influencing Bai Liu, Li Gou influencing Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu.

And Liu Jiayi is surrounded by Liu Huai, who qualifies.

The second condition that Bai Liu feels players should have to fulfill is to have experienced at least one copy of [Horror Game Official Edition] and successfully survived.

And Liu Jiayi clearly meets both criteria.

Bai Liu guessed that the little girl who came back from the dead would probably become a reserve player chosen by the game.

Liu Huai Huai completely froze, he slowly looked to Bai Liu, with an unbelievable gaze at Liu Jiayi in his arms, still shaking slightly, and finally he himself could not control the trembling, he looked at the change of flow in shock and uncertainty: "...... But she's only eight years old! , how could she be a player ...... And I specifically controlled myself to only look for her once a week, this kind of frequency that I influence her, it is impossible to directly influence her to enter the game ......"

"Why is it impossible?" Bai Liu asked calmly in return, "Does the system prohibit minors from playing games just like parents do?"

Parent Liu Huai was choked speechless, he subconsciously hugged Liu Jiayi in his arms tightly, his face showing a very panicked expression: ''But she can't see at all! She entered the game, and she simply couldn't survive in that harsh survival environment! There's no reason for the system to pick her!"

"So how did she survive this nasty poisonous mushroom incident?" Bai Liu has a subdued attitude.

The only child to survive a real-world copy of a horror game, even if he can't see it, Bai Liu doesn't think Liu Jiayi is a very simple child.

Liu Huai was stuck at a loss for words by Bai Liu, and could only hold himself together to rebut Bai Liu: "Jiajia survived the poisonous mushroom incident just because she was lucky! But she's not Du Sanying, she can gamble on luck every time!"

At that moment, Liu Jiayi was heard to speak in a thin voice, her voice was very weak, "Brother, it's not."

Her skinny little hand gently pulled Liu Huai's jacket, from Liu Huai's ground outside sets poked out a very hairy little head, the eyes of the eyes are like a haze blinded like grayish-white, but the voice is slight and clear, "Brother, I'm not poisoned not because I'm lucky, it's because I secretly poured out the rice that the teacher gave me to serve. "

Liu Huai froze, "Why did you pour out the rice your teacher served you?"

Liu Jiayi's pale, dry lips pursed as she said in a very small whisper, "Brother don't blame me for pouring the rice, I didn't think the teacher was quite right that day, she must have taken the initiative to feed me, she had previously thrown the bowl to me for me to eat on my own, and then I poured it out and pretended to eat it while she was serving it to the other children."

Bai Liu spread his hands and smiled, "It seems your sister is a lot smarter than you."

"I won't let her enter the game no matter how smart she is!!!" Liu Huai was completely furious, his eyes glared at Bai Liu with glowing red eyes, "Bai Liu, whatever you want to do, my sister won't be able to do it!"

Liu Jiayi, who was hugged tightly by Liu Huai fiercely, circled Liu Huai's neck in some confusion, "What are you talking about, brother? What am I going to enter?"

Liu Jiayi was obviously [blocked] from Bai Liu and Liu Huai's chat conversation, and Liu Jiayi, who had not yet entered the game, could not hear the specific conversation between Bai Liu and Liu Huai about the [game].

"Liu Huai, I just want to cooperate with you." Bai Liu said faintly, "If Liu Jiayi is really chosen by the game, then you won't be able to stop Liu Jiayi from entering the game."

"And there is a way I can help you, help Liu Jiayi." Bai Liu said softly as he looked up at Liu Huai.

Liu Huai Haven't given a sigh of relief, "What you mean by help is to control us, isn't it? Bai Liu, you're just like Zhang Gui in nature, I'm grateful that you've helped me, but I won't let my sister fall into your hands!"

"I don't know what use she is to you right now to bring you to the door, but get the hell outta here!" Liu Huai yelled like a ferocious beast defending his pups, staring Bai Liu dead in the face, his spine arching like he was about to rush over and strangle Bai Liu the next second.

Bai Liu was quiet for a couple of seconds and then stood up, he didn't argue too much, he did want to save Liu Jiayi, but it was only because Bai Liu could see that Lu Yizhan had moved to adopt the little girl.

And if Lu Yizhan wanted to choose the little girl as his adopted daughter, Bai Liu would try to save her life.

Lu Yizhan wants to help Liu Jiayi, but Bai Liu can see that Lu Yizhan has always been a nosy person.

It's like when Lu Yizhan was in the orphanage, he would secretly give something to Bai Liu who he felt was not full, even though Bai Liu didn't feel he was ever starved.

Bai Liu never understood Lu Yizhan's logic of having to help people, but as a former beneficiary of Lu Yizhan's logic, Bai Liu mostly chose to condone the guy's self-righteous choices, after all, Lu Yizhan would pay him, Bai Liu didn't do anything for nothing, and Lu Yizhan understood his logic very well.

That's why Bai Liu will remain friends with Lu Yizhan.

Bai Liu casually tore a piece of paper and wrote his phone number on it, and put it on Liu Jiayi's bedside: "I can help Liu Jiayi survive her first game, but only if all her souls are trafficked to me so that I can make her survive the first game."

Only by getting Liu Jiayi's soul can Bai Liu help Liu Jiayi manipulate the panel.

Liu Huai roared and tore off the piece of paper ready to throw it at Bai Liu's face, "I won't allow it!!!! "

"I think that when you put her in the children's home, you have already given up her custody, you are not her guardian in the name of the law." Bai Liu lowered her eyes without waves to Liu Huai, "So I don't think you have the right to decide for Liu Jiayi herself."

Bai Liu's casual words completely enraged Liu Huai, Liu Huai's eyes glowed a reddish color due to his extreme rage, but he laughed instead of being angry: "Bai Liu, do you know what my desire is to enter the game?"

"I'm doing it to let her see the light." Liu Huai took a deep breath and turned her head to stop looking at Bai Liu, "Go away, I won't entrust her in the hands of someone like you, then her future must be very dark."

Liu Huai's eyes reddened a little as he turned his head away, "I've already tasted enough of the bitterness of being controlled by others, so her life can never be controlled by you."

"I was controlled by Zhang Gui to betray the fourth brother ...... when that moment to lose the best friend and the most tacit teammate people, not only the fourth brother, Mu Sicheng a." Liu Huai side lowered his head, could not see the expression on his face, his voice was dry and hoarse, "Being forced to hold the blade to become hurt that party, your heart will not be good ...... so I do not want to let her also fall to my point."

Bai Liu quieted for a moment, "Controlling a few year old girl doesn't give me any value, my best friend trying to save your sister is the only value I have in doing this."

Liu Huai turned his head to Bai Liu in dismay.

Liu Jiayi turns her head a little confusedly, her foggy eyes presenting a strange sense of vulnerability on her sharp and thin face, she is held by Liu Huai, like a light gray, docile butterfly whose tentacles are bound, she rubs the top of her head against Liu Huai's chin, as if soothing Liu Huai, who is experiencing violent mood swings.

Bai Liu, in Liu Huai's suspicious gaze, no longer say more, calmly turned around and opened the door of the ward to leave.

Lu Yizhan stood at the corner of the stairs and waited for Bai Liu, who was still smoking, with a pile of cigarette butts on the trash can next to him, not knowing how many he had smoked.

Seeing Bai Liu come over, Lu Yizhan's eyes lit up: "How is it, do you have an idea?"

But when Lu Yizhan saw the look on Bai Liu's face, he froze.

Bai Liu this person, the mood of the general or happy time to wear a smile, not moving very much, emotional ups and downs when the face will not have any open color, but a very heavy and very depressing things floating in his eyes and face, which is generally what he encountered not quite get things figured out when he fell into the expression of deep thinking.

Simply put, Bai Liu is not in a very good mood at this time.

"What's wrong?" Lu Yizhan couldn't help but soften his voice, "Were you scolded? I heard Liu Huai yell at you in the hospital room. What did you say that offended him? But the monitor heard you didn't say anything, but some victims' families do get very emotional, so you don't need to take it to heart."

"I still, sometimes, can't understand the logic of human emotions." Bai Liu's gaze was a bit scattered, one of the signs that he was still thinking.

"It's really strange." Bai Liu muttered to himself, "I can't understand some of Liu Huai's logic, he should be a very selfish person by nature, but for his sister, the law doesn't even require him to have a duty of support, yet Liu Huai can do this for the sake of the other party."

Bai Liu didn't suspect Liu Huai of lying to him, people's subconscious reaction can't be fooled, Liu Huai was obviously afraid of him, but he kept Liu Jiayi in his arms, blocking Liu Jiayi's face.

But he quickly recovered from that state.

Bai Liu swept a glance at Lu Yizhan : "But it's not the first time I've encountered this kind of self-devotion that baffles me, let's grab the orphanage and check it out."

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Bai Liu was admitted to the children's home with Mu Ke.

Mu Ke came to Bai Liu's house early to guard, but Bai Liu was called by Lu Yizhan earlier, he was called by Lu Yizhan to the hospital in the early morning, good thing Bai Liu went back to the house to get something, and only then he saw his own house squatted in front of a young master Mu Ke holding his legs and staring at the door.

This young master knocked on the door but did not open, probably thought Bai Liu was sleeping, did not even dare to call him, so stupidly stood at Bai Liu's door waiting for Bai Liu to get up.

Moreover, Mu Ke was sent here by his own asset father whom Bai Liu often sees on TV, Mu Ke's father waited at Bai Liu's door with Mu Ke, and even this Mu Ke's father had so much respect for Bai Liu that he chose to wait at the door with his own son, knowing that Bai Liu was most likely still sleeping and that's why he didn't open the door.

When Bai Liu came home, he saw Mu Ke and his father waiting at the door of his house, not even daring to speak loudly, but lowering their voices to whisper for fear of disturbing Bai Liu's sleep.

I don't know what Mu Ke told his family, the big boss had no doubt that Bai Liu was Mu Ke's savior, he seemed to think that Bai Liu took Mu Ke away for two months to cure his illness, anyway, Bai Liu didn't ask Mu Ke how this young master fooled his father, anyway, the big boss had no doubt that Bai Liu was Mu Ke's savior! Anyway, the boss was convinced that Bai Liu was Mu Ke's savior and thanked Bai Liu profusely for saving his son.

And after learning that Bai Liu was going to the Children's Welfare Institution to care for the children, the big boss who is worth an unknown amount of money was immediately moved to say that he also wants to do good deeds to his son's upcoming journey to cure the disease and donate money to the orphanage, and personally drove a Maybach costing more than 10 million dollars in a very high-profile way to send him and Mu Ke over there.

After arriving at the orphanage, Mu Ke doesn't follow his own father, but obediently follows Bai Liu, his eyes keep glancing at Bai Liu secretly, with a snort, like a cat that wants to stick to its master but hasn't gotten permission yet.

Bai Liu could perceive Mu Ke's strong uneasiness, an uneasiness that would do no good in getting into the game, and it was his duty to calm the overwrought young master, so he acquiesced in Mu Ke's clinging to him.

Bai Liu said hello to Lu Yizhan and said he was going to the orphanage with his friend, Mu Ke, to see what was going on inside.

Lu Yizhan went in with his colleagues to investigate.

Bai Liu and Mu Ke were shown the way by the director of the children's home with great respect because Mu Ke's father was generous enough to donate money.

The director of the Children's Welfare Institution is an overly senile-looking grandmother, with a lot of old age spots on the tip of her nose and cheeks, reminding Bai Liu of a corpse spot, the old director's eyes are cloudy, her body is stooped, and she has a faint, putrid mushroom odor, looking at people as if they were looking at a piece of cargo, making Bai Liu feel slightly uncomfortable.

Mu Ke's father had followed the director to discuss donations, and the old director had a teacher lead them around the orphanage.

This is a very dilapidated children's home, the architectural style of ten years ago, there are three not tall buildings surrounded by a triangular circle, the short building of the outer wall and the inner wall of the wall skin rotting and peeling off, revealing the inside of the moss-covered walls, the middle of the three buildings circled is a small children's kindergarten-like place, with faded rusty paint colorful iron horses, swings and see-saws.

But the equipment was old, swaying forlornly in the muddy, barren grass, and with the sound of the wind the seesaw moved, the empty right seat went down and up again, and the swing swung around regularly, with increasing amplitude and a creaking sound, as if something were sitting and playing on it.

The teacher who led the way turned a little white, she didn't dare to look towards the park side, cowering with her head down and quickly leading the way to the most outwardly oriented of the three buildings, Bai Liu followed and whored around the outside of the building, and found that there were two faded gold-painted plaques hanging outside of the building, which were the [Top Ten Children's Welfare Institutions in the Country], [National Minors' Protection Cash Units].

Bai Liu swept a glance at the date of the award under the medal, more than ten years from today, that is, not long after the establishment of this orphanage.

The teacher in front of them began to introduce to them in a low voice: "Our orphanage is an old orphanage, covering an area of 25 acres at the beginning, with a building area of nearly 10,000 square meters, professional education classrooms for children with disabilities, musical instrument teaching classrooms, an internal doctor's room and so on, with more than 300 beds, which can accommodate 300 children, and more than two hundred caregivers... ..."

Bai Liu looks around the week and then asks rhetorically, with his eyebrows rising, "$250,000 for nearly $10,000 in floor space? 200 caregivers?"

Bai Liu hasn't seen any of the so-called caregivers since he came in, and it's likely that there aren't many caregivers left in this orphanage.

The teacher paused, and his words began to break, "That was when it was just built, and then it ...... let out a part of it, and then our orphanage was downsized to a certain size because of financial problems, and the caregivers quit most of them."

"Originally we had 46 children left in the orphanage, and we rehearsed a program performance for this year's June 1 Children's Day to show the investors behind this children's home, but they've been funding this children's home for ten years now, and said that spending money was just too much, so ...... this year they did decide to stop funding it, and We can't find a new sponsor for the time being either ......"

Bai Liu inquired in an unhurried tone, "You had 46 children here, 37 at the hospital, and 9 more, why haven't I seen any of them? How come I haven't seen any of them? Can you let the remaining nine children come out to meet us?"

The teacher's face went white again, and she wrung her fingers without speaking, not seeming to want the child to come out.

Something's wrong, Bai Liu's eyes narrowed.

Mu Ke and Bai Liu looked at each other and understood each other, this young master coughed twice in a pretense, took two steps forward with a bit of condescension, lifted his chin and said, "Our preliminary plan is to donate 10 million dollars to your children's welfare institution, we want to meet the children who are still in this children's welfare institution, this is not too much to ask, is it? "

The exorbitant figure of 10 million dollars visibly moved the lead teacher, her eyes and lips twitched strangely, and after a long, long interval she seemed to have made up her mind, and turned her head to Bai Liu and Mu Ke : "Are you really going to donate? 10 million dollars?"

Mu Ke really seemed to think that 10 million dollars was chump change, and the pitbull kid nodded without hesitation.

This teacher took a deep breath and said in a very low, quick voice, "There are not nine children who can come to see you, only five."

"And four more?" Bai Liu frowned.

An unconcealed horror appeared in this teacher's eyes, and he lowered his head and whispered, "There were four other children who disappeared last night, they snuck out to play on the swings and seesaw in the night, but as they played, they disappeared, but the swings and seesaw swung all night long ...... "

The wind blew fiercely for a moment, and the various equipment in the children's playground behind Bai Liu was blown by the wind, the temperature in the courtyard plummeted, and the chilly wind made the seesaw undulate faster and faster, and the swing swing also swayed higher and higher.

Fiercely the swing and the teeter-totter stopped at the same time, the swing stopped motionless at its original point in the wind, and the teeter-totter was even more bizarrely hovering, stopping as if it were a balance.

It was as if something that had been playing up there suddenly jumped down and stood staring at the group of adults with its hands pulling on the toy equipment.

Shortly after, the teeter-totter hovering like a balance suddenly collapsed to the left at a slow and abnormal speed, and something on it rolled down with a gurgle along the skewed teeter-totter, and Bai Liu looked at the falling teeter-totter and realized that it was a doll whose head had been twisted off.

The thing that rolled down was this doll's head.

And this doll that rolled down with the head was wearing a white shirt and black pants, its limbs and head had been twisted off, and the doll had a weird smile on its face and what looked like a poorly made necklace of coins hanging from its chest.

Here's a doll that looks exactly like Bai Liu's current outfit.