Chapter 78: Enter the game

Bai Liu didn't stay long at the orphanage, he was about to enter the game with Mu Ke, and after a brief scan of the orphanage's contents, he was ready to leave.

But Bai Liu had a brief explanation with Lu Yizhan before he left.

So Bai Liu let Mu Ke go home and wait for him, this young master left step by step three times look back fondly at Bai Liu, also asked Bai Liu when to come back, Bai Liu simply let Mu Ke took his own home key to go back and wait for him, causing Mu Ke's father to look at Bai Liu a little bit wrong eyes.

As soon as Bai Liu came out, he saw Lu Yizhan leaning against the door of the orphanage waiting for him.

Lu Yizhan saw Bai Liu and flirted with him, "What about the young master? He's following you around in a 10 million dollar luxury car, and he keeps glaring at me, when did you get this kind of charisma?"

Bai Liu teased back without changing color: "What's the use of being charming, I turned him down for you and let him go first."

Lu Yizhan couldn't help himself, but quickly restrained his laughter and got down to business: "You saw the inside, how was it?"

Bai Liu said, "In addition to the poisoned children, there are also missing children in this orphanage, and I know almost all about the poisoned children, but I guess this is not the first case in this orphanage, right?"

"How do you know?" Lu Yizhan was startled.

"The attitude was wrong." Bai Liu calmly analyzes, "The teacher's gave me a wrong feeling, normal people would avoid such places where disappearances happened, but when she introduced us, although she was scared, she still just subconsciously went to the place where the disappearance happened, the children's amusement park."

"This isn't the attitude of a first time disappearance, odds are it's happened several times to get this scared but used to it attitude."

"Yes." Lu Yizhan gripped the cigarette he'd put away again, a little annoyed, "We spoke to the dean, and were told it's been almost every year for ten years."

Bai Liu asked, "You should have a record of this kind of disappearance every year, why haven't you heard of it before?"

"Because it's not a disappearance, most of them are kids running away on their own, and even if they're reported, they're treated as runaways." Lu Yizhan grinds his teeth on the mouthpiece of his cigarette, his eyes dark, "It's probably just a one-time mention in the records, so it's not noticeable if you don't pay attention to it."

Missing children in private orphanages, spend a lot of effort to look for is completely unproductive, can not find no parents and relatives to scold you to urge you, so intermittent reports of missing cases, so shelved to collect dust, a few lines of records with these disappeared children together with the dwindling in the sea of people.

"Before I found out that the group of entrepreneurs after investing in this children's orphanage, the disease are well, I checked exactly this orphanage." Lu Yizhan exhaled a wisp of smoke, "but this private orphanage is not as strictly registered as the public orphanage, more private autonomous control, exactly what point in time how many children in this, we get the record is not a real record is not good to say."

"For example, if this child goes missing and there are a couple years in between when this dean doesn't report it, there's a good chance we won't even know about it."

Lu Yizhan remained silent for a while and then said, "I tend to suspect that there is something wrong with that group of entrepreneurs, but people are now receiving both honor and reputation, and it's been so many years, and we don't have any evidence here, there's no way to go deeper into the investigation."

Bai Liu faintly picked up, "Assuming that even if this group of entrepreneurs really did do something with some of the children back then, without knowing the last name of this heap of these children, where they came from and where they went to, they could very well have made this group of children disappear from this orphanage without a trace by using such a disappearance trick, you have no investigative ideas. "

"Yes." Lu Yizhan took a deep drag on his cigarette as he choked and coughed, "But Bai Liu, this is a human life."

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with reddened eyes: "I'm not willing to let the lives of these children be characterized as accidents, even if they are really accidents, then all other possibilities that are not accidents must be ruled out before I'm willing to let them go, but right now--"

"You have no evidence." Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan very calmly, "You can't rule it out, and it's not your job description, and it's already a nosy thing for you to come and run the scene."

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a while, and soon the guy was talking to Bai Liu about the disappearance as if nothing had happened, or rather, as if he was indomitable.

Lu Yizhan this person has a very peculiar toughness, a thing in the case of knowingly can not do Bai Liu will not touch, but Lu Yizhan as long as this thing can help others, spend how much wasted effort this person will try to do.

And he'll drag Bai Liu along with him.

Lu Yizhan talked to Bai Liu about the specifics of the disappearances he had learned about, and showed Bai Liu the missing children and photographs from each year, using the June 1 group photo from the orphanage, which Lu Yizhan took and used his cell phone to show Bai Liu which children had disappeared.

Lu Yizhan was eerily silent for a moment when the first one came out.

Because among the missing children in this photo is Bai Liu.

"You think he looks a lot like me at fourteen don't you?" Bai Liu asked Lu Yizhan, pointing directly at Bai Liu's face, commenting flatly, "I think it's very similar too."

"You're not alike at all." Lu Yizhan's voice was low as he gazed intently at Bai Liu, and with rare obstinacy, he retorted to his best friend, "Because he's dead, but you're still alive."

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"Have you ever encountered this situation Mu Sicheng?" Bai Liu called Mu Sicheng as he walked towards home, "The future, as [the player], is certain to die in a copy of a game that was played ten years ago, while the present, ten years later, is still alive in my exist."

"Does it sound like Grandmother's Paradox to me?" Mu Sicheng's voice came out from the earpiece of Bai Liu's cell phone, his tone was astonished, "Bai Liu you're really having heavenly luck, let alone seeing it, I haven't even heard of such a situation in the game."

The [Grandmother Paradox] is a time paradox proposed by a science fiction writer, meaning that if a person goes back in time and kills his grandmother, then obviously he no longer exists in the future either.

Bai Liu is in this situation right now, if he enters the game in the future and dies in a copy of the game where the timeline is ten years old, how is he alive right now?

"Parallel universe theory?" Mu Sicheng tried to offer an explanation, "The most common explanation for the Grandmother Paradox is this one, assuming that the parallel space-time that you are in, Bai Liu, is A, what you're seeing is most likely a [copy of the game] loaded onto us, in space-time A, by Bai Liu, who failed to pass the level in space-time B."

"Then you'd better not enter this orphanage game." Mu Sicheng's voice became a lot more serious and proper as he advised Bai Liu, "As long as you choose not to enter this game, then you won't die in this game, so that another possibility of time and space parallel to the one in which you died can be formed."

"I don't think it's the parallel universe theory." Bai Liu was sober, he calmly reminded Mu Sicheng, "This [real world] of ours is the [official version] of a game, the results presented would already be the final result of all the game algorithms that exist in the [public beta version of the game world], theoretically there is no such thing as parallel universes that derive from the fact that the various events go in different directions. "

"Because the reality we are in is already the result of the closing of all possibilities and cannot be parallelized anymore."

"That's true." Mu Sicheng affirmed, but soon he reacted, "No, wait, but if the result presented is unique, doesn't that mean you'll definitely die in that ten year old copy of the game?!"

"But the fact that I am still alive now proves that I did not die in that copy." Bai Liu thinks clearly, "Otherwise the two simultaneous propositions [I'm alive] and [I'm dead] would form a paradox in the impossibly parallel, uniquely existent reality of space-time. "

"Then ......" Mu Sicheng was perplexed, "What's going on there."

Bai Liu didn't care about Mu Sicheng's question, he had already walked to the door of his house and pulled out the key ready to open the door.

Bai Liu asked with his cell phone clutched over one shoulder, "When are you going to get into the game?"

"What for?" Mu Sicheng's head went bald just talking about it, "F*ck, I've been losing sleep all night yesterday after I promised you to participate, what the hell do you have in mind? I can still try my hardest to brush twenty-six copies in two months, but you should at least get me all the people!"

"That's what I want to talk to you about, I want you to help me bring in a pair of newcomers." Bai Liu spoke quickly, "Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu, the two of them were the players who ranked tied for first in the last batch of newcomers, both have personal skills and C+ panel quality, you take them through a level one copy to practice their skills and teach them some basic general knowledge of this game without having to protect them too much. "

Bai Liu spoke to Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu after returning from the hotpot yesterday, asking the two middle-aged men if they were willing to play in the league and honestly informing them of the dangers.

But Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu hardly hesitated, the two couples agreed with tears in their eyes, shaking hands with each other, and they asked Bai Liu only two questions from start to finish:

The first one was, "If we win, we can resurrect Gogo right?"

"Theoretically, yes." Bai Liu said, "But you guys should be able to realize this wish slowly even if you play normally to save up points, it's not as risky as the league, but the league will gain points faster, so you guys can think it over and reply me tomorrow."

Xiang Chunhua, however, glances at Liu Fu with some trepidation, her hands clutching the apron she is wearing, the TV behind her still broadcasting news of Li Gou's likely execution.

The news was a rerun, with the sound turned up loud, and the room was filled with the undulating broadcast voice of the male host of the [Suspect in Senior Girl's Shredded Body Case to be Sentenced to Death].

Xiang Chunhua looked at Bai Liu with earnest eyes:

"We're going to this whatever contest that's going to help you right?" --That was the second question they asked.

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, "Yes, but this tournament has a high mortality rate, you might want to think about it more ......"

"Let's go." Xiang Chunhua laughed, there were still tears in her eyes, which she wiped away with the back of her hand, "Don't think about it anymore, we believe in you, Bai Liu, and it's not like you're saving points anywhere, right? It's just a game, isn't it? I was on the girls' volleyball team at our school, right Liu Fu?"