Chapter 83: Love Welfare Center

The dean took them to the 9th floor, which had fewer patients than the floors below and didn't look as sick. Bai Liu felt that the patients on this floor were about as sick as he was, and the most intuitive thing was that they were all about the same height.

From Bai Liu's observation just now, the sicker the patients in this hospital are, the more slender their bodies will be, that is to say, the more they look like the [Slender Ghost Shadow] thing.

Little Bai Liu's description of him was actually quite correct, and the boy's ability to perceive horrors made Bai Liu realize that he had probably been consciously paying attention to this aspect of his life since he was fourteen years old.

There were twenty-one wards on the floor, and the dean arranged a room for Bai Liu, then said she had to go back to pick up the other investors.

Bai Liu lived in 906, a room on the left side of the corridor, Bai Liu observed the whole ward and thought that this private hospital was also a bit strange.

This hospital is very well decorated, very exquisite, but the lighting is extremely poor, all the wards are avoiding light, indoor dim to the daytime need to turn on the lights, and the brightness of the lights here is also very low, turned on can not see anything, the hospital is full of high-power humidifiers everywhere in the interior, all the time to the outside of the spray mist, make the whole hospital is like a return to South China's day as humid, all around the haze like water vapor.

Avoiding light plus high humidity, a normal hospital would never be built this way, as if they were afraid that the patients would not die if they stayed here.

The poor lighting and heavy fog make visibility in the hospital very poor.

If it wasn't for the dean leading Bai Liu , it would be very difficult for the player to find the various passages here, because they can't be seen, and because of the water vapor, the floor and walls are very slippery, and Bai Liu's body is now tall and has long arms and legs, so it's easy for him to fall down on the slippery floor, and this gives Bai Liu a bad feeling- -If there is a chase in this map of the hospital, he will probably have a hard time running.

Bai Liu scans around the entire ward and finds three humidifiers, but only one light, which is very dim.

The stranger place was the hospital bed, and as I said before it was a private hospital well fitted up in every way, and it looked classy, and the taps in the bathrooms were in the shape of gilt lions, but the beds-

-- Bai Liu lifted the white sheet of his hospital bed and raised an eyebrow at the stack of straw beneath it.

It's actually a straw bed.

Bai Liu had only lived in such beds as a child in a relatively poor orphanage; they were uncomfortable and cumbersome, but had the advantage of being cheaper than any other beds.

Straw needs to be dry in order to sleep comfortably, once wet it is easy to get insects and rot, which will bite all kinds of red dots out of people, and very humid environment, these straws are even grow mushrooms.

For example, Bai Liu, the corner of this hospital bed, after lifting the bed sheet, he saw a cluster of gray mushrooms growing in dense clusters, growing all the way to the side of the hospital bed next to the wooden bookcase.

A bed of straw in a room with three humidifiers like this would be not so different from a fungal petri dish, and the straw would soon rot, and then it would be covered with worms and maggots and mushrooms, and grow all sorts of decomposers that would crawl all over the carcasses of the people who slept on it.

Anyway, during Bai Liu's childhood, during the rainy season, he would rather sleep on the ground than on a bed of straw.

[System prompt: Please ask player Bai Liu (investor status) for the main quest - to find a life-sustaining remedy to alleviate the symptoms of his terminal illness]

Renewal Remedy ......

Where do you go to find a cure? If this were a private hospital with a doctor, Bai Liu would have raided the doctor's office by now to look at the prescription list and find a cure.

But there is no doctor here, only a group of nurses pushing carts in the corridor, and the nurse's office Bai Liu came in and took a look, there are no bottles, no pills, not even syringes and tubes, empty, only a few with waist-high stainless steel carts, it looks very much like Bai Liu's company cafeteria carts, which are supposed to be used for delivering meals to the patients.

How is a hospital with no doctors, no drugs, and nothing but patients going to find a [life-sustaining remedy] for a terminally ill patient?

Wait, nothing but patients ......

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed slightly as he began to search through the ward's bookcase.

This ward door behind the bed there is a bookcase, Bai Liu before sweeping a glance did not care, are some very old books, because the number of these books is too much, Bai Liu simply did not think of these books in the direction of the clues, and there are many books inside and cluttered, what novels, geography, atlas, everything, stuffed full of a large bookcase.

If Bai Liu were designing the game himself, he wouldn't have hidden the clues in such overly cumbersome information, because it's boring to ask the player to find a two-meter-high bookcase full of books without hints.

But there is one exception to this list - and that is that this bookcase does not contain just one piece of information that the player needs to discover.

Rather, all but a small portion of it is information that the player should have found.

[System Alert: Congratulations to the player who triggered the side quest--Searching in the Medical Books (Life Renewal Formula)]

Sure enough.

Bai Liu made a simple classification of the books in the bookcase, some Bai Liu think more obvious and copies have nothing to do with throw away, such as yellow women's magazines and so on, the remaining are some medical magazines and books, heavy pile on the ground, Bai Liu carried out the weighing estimate, it must be dozens of pounds.

All medical books, Chinese, Western, internal and external gynecology and pediatrics, as well as a number of English medical journals, in so many medical books to find a Bai Liu completely do not know what for the purpose of (life-sustaining prescription), Bai Liu feel that a person with little general knowledge of medicine can not do.

But then his eyes narrowed, and he detected a slight sense of dissonance as he looked at the pile of medical books that no one had ever looked through before.

There were no doctors in this private hospital, and these books could not have been read by a doctor, but it was obvious that the people who wrote them were reading them to people who had some general medical knowledge.

And these books are for patients who are in this ward, or rather, investors.

So it's not that there are no doctors in this private hospital, but the patients who live here are the doctors.

They're reading a book and self-medicating at the same time - strange sick people.

All of these investors are obviously worth a lot of money, but why don't they trust doctors instead of self-medicating? Is it because doctors can't treat it? But doctors can not treat, they read these books of little value meaning, after all, are doctors have seen things.

Bai Liu thought for a while - it is obvious that all the investors here have some kind of terminal illness, so except for Bai Liu, someone must have already started to treat, that is to say, started to use that life-renewing prescription, but they, the new patients, can not get this (life-renewing prescription) free of charge, but have to find it out by themselves from this pile of books! But they, the new patients, could not get it for free, but had to find it themselves from this pile of books.

But for a person who was not very disciplined and didn't love homework when he was a student, Bai Liu's reading comprehension efficiency for this kind of things that didn't interest him was very low, and his grades in a lot of subjects when he was a student were average, so when Bai Liu didn't want to read the book and couldn't solve the answer, he quickly and shamelessly decided to copy other people's [homework], and when he was reading, he usually When he was studying, he usually copied Lu Yizhan's, because Lu Yizhan, a good student, had the highest correctness rate, but in this game--

Bai Liu squinted and thought for a moment - the key now was whose [homework] to copy?

Who in this hospital right now can solve the [answer] to this pile of books the fastest and most correctly?

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Mu Ke was also brought to this private hospital by the director, who also triggered the quest to find a cure for life renewal in the medical books by searching the bookcase, and is now sitting by his bedside looking at the pile of medical books.

After graduation, he hadn't read a book for a long time, or this kind of big book, the light in this room is so dark that even if someone walks around one meter away from him, he can't see it, not to mention reading a book. Originally, Mu Ke was going to buy a desk lamp or something to use for illumination, but before purchasing, the system prompted him, the ward needs to be protected from the light, and it's forbidden to use high-brightness illumination, are you sure you still want to buy the relevant props?

It means that props can be sold to you, but you can't use them in the ward.

Mu Ke was going to try to see if the book could be taken outside, at least it was better lit than in this room.

But as soon as he stepped out of the ward with the book in his hand, he ended up being shocked when he opened it, an expressionless nurse was patrolling the corridor pushing a stainless steel trolley, and seeing Mu Ke ready to come out with the book in his hand, this nurse gave a warning saying that please don't walk around with anything inside the ward and that on the first day of his admission the patient should not be allowed to walk around freely and please stay in the ward.

It just doesn't look like it's going to make it out of here, Mu Ke frowns and shrinks back.

Mu Ke had to try reading with this nether light.

But after reading for a short while, Mu Ke had a feeling of being overwhelmed; he was a fast reader, but it was so inefficient to read in this kind of lighting theater, and the directions were so jumbled, that it was difficult to come up with a very effective treatment plan from it, or in the words of the system, a recipe for renewing the life, as well.

Mu Ke also realized that it would be difficult for him to find the right answer by himself, but he couldn't think of any other ideas for a while.

After all, the game's hints are so directional that it's obvious that the player is told to look at this pile of books in the bookcase to find the answer, which happens to be Mu Ke's strong suit.

Mu Ke sighed a bit anxiously as he looked at the book in his hand, he hadn't had this feeling of not being able to find the answer while reading a book for a long time, Mu Ke had been a student since he was little, and had even skipped a couple of grades after he had entered junior high school, and his Intelligence value was quite high entering the game, with 85 points.

His reading and memory comprehension skills were excellent, if he was given a relatively bright environment, it would not be difficult to read the pile of books in three days to integrate the clues of knowledge and arrive at an answer, he desperately wanted to quickly come up with a prescription for renewing his life to offer to Bai Liu, but the dim reality of the world was making him more and more irritated.

It's been an hour since he finished a book, and that's not even close to his true level!

Mu Ke was just thinking about how to operate it when his system panel suddenly vibrated and he saw that an additional prop had appeared in his props bar.

Mu Ke is not buying a prop right now, and it's clear that the person who just bought this prop is Bai Liu -- Bai Liu can manipulate his panel to buy props from space, which is one of the ways they communicate.

Now that they were all in the ward, communicating with each other in this way of purchasing props was extremely private and could be avoided.

Mu Ke clicked on his system panel to see his own props in the warehouse, the audience can see the system store, but the warehouse interface can not be seen, in order to protect the safety of the player's property, the warehouse will be coded, so Mu Ke and Bai Liu's private exchanges, even the audience in front of the small TV will not notice, can be said to be the ultimate in secrecy.

The only way to expose Mu Ke and Bai Liu's communication is if Mu Ke is suddenly killed, and the props they used to communicate are exposed to the player who killed Mu Ke, and the other player notices something is wrong. For example, if Bai Liu and Mu Ke used a notepad or cell phone recorder to write and communicate with each other, then after Mu Ke dies, the props used to communicate with each other will be dropped in front of the player who killed him. The player who killed him will see the props.

If Mu Ke is suddenly killed during the exchange, or if Mu Ke is killed before he has time to erase the traces of the exchange, then the prop dropped from Mu Ke's body will likely expose the traces of Bai Liu's exchanges with him in front of other people.

Of course, it is possible to encrypt this communication process with a password that prevents the other party from simply deciphering it, but how can we be sure that this password will not be simply deciphered by others and can be quickly understood by Mu Ke?

Bai Liu doesn't like to expose himself to his opponents, so he didn't choose a very conventional communication prop.

Bai Liu bought Mu Ke a black keyboard.

The keyboard is a familiar tool to both Mu Ke and Bai Liu, and compared to notebooks, paper, and tape recorders, which can leave obvious traces of communication, snapping the keycaps and putting them back on the keyboard is relatively seamless, and can leave no traces of the communication after it is over, compared to other communication tools.

And the "code" on the keyboard is one that Mu Ke and Bai Liu, both game players, can quickly understand.

Even if a Mu Ke kill dropped a keyboard, the enemy would not easily associate it with a communication tool, much less think about what information is contained within that keyboard.

Of course, the other reason why Ryu chose the keyboard was that when the man was browsing the system's discount sale store, he saw this keyboard that only cost less than ten points, and Ryu felt that he could use it, and casually bought it.

Mu Ke froze at the sight of the keyboard.

The [ctrl] and [c] keycaps on the keyboard have been snapped off, which is a very common shortcut for connecting keys, [ctrl] + [c] means [copy], which means to copy.

Copy? Copy what? What do they have to copy now? Shouldn't their first priority be to find the cure?

And so on! Mu Ke quickly understood what Bai Liu meant - Bai Liu was trying to copy (the recipe for renewal)!

Is Bai Liu trying to copy this thing? But how can this be copied? Where to copy it? There are so many wards here, does Bai Liu know which ward has the cure?

Mu Ke looked at the keyboard, he thought deeply, then hesitantly snapped off the [? and [numlock] keycaps and put them into his storage, waiting apprehensively for Bai Liu's reply, and a little worried that the other party would not be able to understand what he meant.

[numlock] is a keypad numeric lock key on a keyboard, but the literal meaning can be translated as [Lock Numbers], combined with the [? keycap, what Mu Ke is trying to convey is - [Bai Liu, what number are we locking?

Ward room numbers here are all numbers. All Bai Liu needs to do is tell him what number to lock, and he'll know which ward Bai Liu is going to.

But soon, the keyboard Mu Ke put into storage disappeared, and not a moment later came back, and when it came back the [ctrl] + [c] keycaps on the top of the keyboard came back, but three more keycaps were missing.

"One, seven, zero."

Mu Ke was confused, with the door number, the number 0 can't be put in the first place, so the number in front of it can only be one or seven.

There are only three permutations of these three numbers, [701], [710], and [107].

The seventh floor is an operating room, there are no wards.

And [107] is even more bullshit, this is a "space ward", this building is not [107] ward, should be vacated to do the warehouse and so on, so occupy this label, but in fact there is no this ward.

Instead, there are [106], and [108] wards.

Mu Ke was a bit sad, he couldn't understand what Bai Liu meant, he scanned the three numbers and thought about all three number 6 arrangements in his head for a while, then he slowly sat up straight.

It is true that this private hospital does not have ward door numbers with alphabets, but it does have special care units without numbers - ICU units.

The ICU ward on the first floor, this ward is not marked with a number, and the first floor is all wards except for this place, so this [icu] ward is likely to be the one that occupies the [107] number [space ward]!

Bai Liu didn't directly describe the ICU ward because there is more than one ICU ward in this hospital, and not specifying the ward number might cause misinterpretation of the message, and Mu Ke directly asked what the number was, so Bai Liu simply used a clearer number to refer to the ward number - it didn't even occur to this guy that the person on the other side might not be able to keep up with the speed of his mind jumping to equate ward 107 with the ICU ward on the first floor. This guy didn't even think about the fact that the people on the other side of the room might not be able to keep up with the speed of his thinking, and equate Ward 107 with the ICU ward on the first floor.

But fortunately, Mu Ke is a player with a pretty good memory and information gathering skills, and he smoothly got the meaning of what Bai Liu was trying to convey.

Bai Liu is trying to go here to copy the treatment of this serious patient!

"Grass." Mu Ke didn't hold back his foul mouth - the ICU was inhabited by the original aboriginal investor of this hospital, a patient with a height of more than two meters, looking almost as good as a ghost! It was likely that it was the monster in their copy!

And the nurses here have said that the patients in the icu wards don't leave the wards throughout the day, so how do they get in to copy the life-renewing remedies inside?

And they don't clearly know if there's a so-called [life-renewal formula] in there!

Bai Liu is quite sure that the ICU has what the system calls a "life-sustaining remedy".

If all the patients here are doctors, then for a group of [novice doctors] who have just been admitted, the more likely treatment options on the ward must be the older doctors who have been sicker and longer and studied longer.

To summarize, in the ICU ward, Bai Liu feels that there is most likely a so-called [life-sustaining prescription] from the system.

But whether you can get it or not is another matter.

The patients in the ICU don't look very human, and they don't leave the ward all day, Bai Liu doesn't have the chance to enter, and I don't know if he will cause the patients, or the monster to attack furiously after entering, after all, Bai Liu is not going to do anything good, but to rummage through the things, the risk is quite high.

But the corresponding gain is also very high, if successful, Bai Liu will be the first of all players to get the [Renewal Remedy], which will give Bai Liu considerable initiative, he can be used to trade a lot of things with other players, but breaking into icu's bright side of the difficulties are two points:

Point 1: How do you break in?

This hospital corridor has traveling nurses, the patient slightly do a little against the hospital rules and regulations of the operation will be caught to correct, not to mention forced to break into the icu, if the player is strong heart to break into the nurses will have to drill the patrol of the empty, but the more troublesome point is that these nurses reconnaissance ability and moving speed is quite fast, at least Bai Liu visualization on the slippery ground, he can't run away from these wearing fine high heeled shoes! The nurses are wearing thin high heels.

Point 2: How do you turn things over after you break in?

The patients in this ward were very wrong, mostly monsters, and it would probably be hard enough to break in and look for something in front of each other.

Night came before Bai Liu could figure out exactly what to do.

Nine p.m. arrived and the nurse informed the ward of the curfew and that all patients were forbidden to go out.

Corridor can only hear the nurses pushing the trolley creaking back and forth, these nurses shift patrol in the corridor, see the doorway of the ward through the dim light will knock on the door and ask you to turn off the lights and rest, just like Liu Liu high school hostel aunts.

But these nurses are far less friendly than the aunts, and Bai Liu opened the door to see that the way these nurses patrolled the nighttime corridors back and forth on high heels and stony faces through the humidifier's steaming mist reminded Bai Liu for a moment of the nurse monsters in Silent Hill.

These nurses' eyesight is so good that it is surprising, in this kind of visibility is very low in the scene, Bai Liu just slightly open a crack in the door to peep a little bit, but soon to be discovered by these nurses, the nurse's eyes in the night emit a fluorescent green like cats, looking far away from the Bai Liu, the trolley carts quickly approaching the Bai Liu this side, high-heeled shoes thumping towards the Bai Liu this side, Bai Liu quickly pulled the door closed, and also locked it. Liu quickly pulled the door together and unlocked it.

Soon the cart's cackle braked to a halt in front of Bai Liu's door, and the nurse pounded on the door twice, her tone low: "Patient in room 706, did you just open the door? Did you not read the hospital's rules and regulations! It is strictly forbidden to go out after nine o'clock at night, and you can only open the door of the ward after nine o'clock in the morning."

The nurse sternly questioned Bai Liu while banging on the door, which was slammed and rattled in the dead of night.

Of course Bai Liu wouldn't open the door for her.

The nurse slammed the door for a moment, trailing off in a long, slightly creepy tone, "If you have to open the door to your hospital room during those two hours, the hospital is not responsible for your personal safety if you let anything get into your room."

With that, the nurse carted away from the door of Bai Liu's room.

What the hell, Bai Liu wrinkled his nose when he heard the nurse say this, it looked like something not quite right would be roaming around outside at night.

But this time period ......

Prohibiting the opening of ward doors after 9:00 p.m. and before 9:00 a.m. is tantamount to prohibiting patients from going outside, but this time period just happens to coincide with children's calling hours (6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.).

The time the kid came out to call the investor coincided with the time the investor was unable to go out, and the nurse who said earlier that [something] burrowed into your hospital room-assuming that the [something] the nurse was talking about was a monster-then the monster came out and moved around at the exact same time the kid came out to make the call.

Looks like Bai Liu Jr. is taking a big risk by calling him.

At 9:30, just when Bai Liu thought he wouldn't get a call from Bai Liu Jr. tonight, his walkie-talkie rang.

Bai Liu picks up, this version of the somewhat ancient walkie-talkie comes from the sound of what seems to be a bad contact, and the wheezing sound of someone running at breakneck speeds, it feels like someone is running with this walkie-talkie, and running very fast, and can't come up for air.

Bai Liu didn't make a sound, and waited until the gasping on the other side had mostly subsided, when the other side said, "Hold on, something's chasing me."

After Xiao Bai Liu said this, the system interface on Bai Liu's side popped up:

[System Alert: Congratulations to Player Bai Liu for triggering the Monster Book on his Sub-Identity Line]

[The Monster Book of Love Welfare Refresh - Deformed Child (1/3)]

[Monster Name: Deformed Child]

[Characteristics: Higher movement speed (350-600)]

[Weakness: ???? (to be explored)

[Attack: likes to play with the player's secondary identity line, and will make the player's secondary identity line disappear in the welfare center when playing]

After almost five minutes or so, the sound of pattering clothing rubbing came from the opposite side, Little Bai Liu seemed to be hiding in something, and lowered his voice to speak, "Well, it hasn't caught up for the time being, so you can talk now."

Little Bai Liu's voice was a little up and down, but you could hear that there were no obvious mood swings, and he wasn't afraid of what was chasing him,.

Bai Liu asks, "What's chasing you?"

"A kid." Little Bai Liu said, still breathing a little unevenly, "crouched on the ground, chasing me on all fours like a monkey, very thin, drooling and laughing all the time, very strange looking, looked like the kind of congenital stupidity that doesn't work intellectually."

Little Bai Liu this also a description, Bai Liu understand, he also stayed in the orphanage before, inside the Down syndrome patients, looks very characteristic, squinting eyes, flat nose, long mouth, two cheeks and fat and bulging, neck is very short, eye spacing is very wide, eyeballs are always like to run to the top of the slant, the year in the orphanage Bai Liu has seen some children to these fools nicknamed [frog], because the looks and frogs like. Because they look like frogs.

Such a frog like child on all fours on the ground tilting his head and drooling, giggling and chasing after little Bai Liu ...... Thanks to the fact that little Bai Liu is obsessed with money and is willing to call him for the money, or else a normal child would have long been scared and cried, and who can guarantee to run all the time without hanging up the phone.

"So he's gone?" Bai Liu asked.

"No." Little Bai Liu just finished answering this sentence, Bai Liu heard a child's small voice and the kind of sound that comes from the other end of the phone, the sound of limbs on the ground, between the fabric of the pants and the dirt and gravel, but this sound is very fast, forming a kind of hissing and hissing sound effect like snakes swimming, the first time I heard the child who was chasing after Little Bai Liu was moving very fast.

Little Bai Liu returned this sentence no, and then no sound.

All Bai Liu could hear was the sound of his rapid breathing and footsteps as he ran, as well as the innocent giggles of the children who followed behind him, and the scuffling of pants on the ground.

This sound is getting louder and louder, it feels like the contact area between the fabric and the ground should be very large, it seems that this kid chasing Bai Liu is dragging his lower body to chase him, and will soon catch up with him.

Bai Liu didn't say anything, he was waiting quietly, not disturbing little Bai Liu who was chasing the battle.

After waiting for almost another five minutes, Bai Liu Jr. spoke out of breath, "It's ready."

"You dodged him?" Bai Liu inquired.

"No, he went after the others." Little Bai Liu There was no sympathy in her tone, "Some other kid came out to make a phone call, and as soon as he came out he was chased, and now he's running while crying, and that kid didn't chase me."

Bai Liu understands, this wandering outside the orphanage chasing the weird kid should only be one, now shifted the hate value to chase others, small Bai Liu will be relatively safe.

He asked, "What's going on over there? What happened after you were taken in by Dean?"

"After we were brought in it was the normal process, the orphanage people assigned us rooms, I shared a room with three other new boys, and there was a little blind girl who lived in a different building, across from us, and we all shared a room on the first floor." Bai Liu Jr. spoke about things in a clear and organized way, he first briefly talked about the overall situation, and then began to talk about the points that Bai Liu would be concerned about.

Little Bai Liu gasped before she could catch her breath, "That children's phone of ours was going to be confiscated, the teachers at the orphanage expressly forbid the carrying of such means of communication, but then they said that we were new, and that we had to be given a period of acclimatization, and said that we would be allowed to carry it for a week, but they gave us rules about the time of day to make phone calls, the same as you said, as well as not being allowed to make phone calls in the room. phone calls, saying that it would disturb other people resting."

"As well as all the teachers and caregivers at the orphanage I met, I was warned not to follow the sound of the flute at night, and not to go out when I heard it, saying that the flute player would abduct children." Bai Liu Jr.'s tone is calm, "As a result, at 9:03 p.m., I heard someone with a harp outside whimpering and playing some garbled nursery rhymes."

"I didn't want to go out, but this Piper guy was too stocked up on the jamming point, it was exactly a little after nine, but there was no way around it, you said I'd pay me per minute of airtime for each call I made to you, so I came out anyway."

Don't follow the sound of the flute, Bai Liu If you think about it, there was an episode like this in the real world orphanage, where those 4 kids supposedly went out on their own accord after hearing the flute and then disappeared.

Bai Liu thought of a fairy tale at that moment.

"Don't follow the sound of the flute, it says the flute will abduct children, what do you think of when you hear this?" Bai Liu inquired thoughtfully.

Little Bai Liu over there was silent for a moment, "You mentioned that, so you should be thinking of about the same point as me, The Flower-Coated Piper of Hamelin, I remember the name."

"It's the name." Bai Liu said, "It's an English children's poem."

The poem "The Flower-Coated Piper of Hamelin" tells the story of a town that was once infested with the bubonic plague. The townspeople were tormented by the rats that were running around everywhere, and after trying to think of many ways that would not work, a flower-coated pied piper came to the town and said that his flute could take away the rats, but demanded that the townspeople pay him for his efforts.

The townspeople agreed, and the piper played his flute, and the rats all poured out from all corners of the town, and followed the piper in a row of their own accord, and the piper blew and blew and walked and walked, and the rats followed behind him seemingly with great pleasure in general, and did not move an inch.

The piper went into a creek that was waist-high, and the mice went into this creek, and they were both drowned by the waist-high water, and floated around on the creek.

The plague is over and the townspeople are happy, but they backtrack and won't pay the piper.

The piper then played his flute once more, and the flute sounded, and this time it was the townspeople's children who came out from the four corners of the town.

The children laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed, lined up behind the Piper one by one just like the rats before them, jumping and jumping and rejoicing, not turning back no matter how much the townspeople cried and shouted to dissuade them from doing so, and the Piper led them out of the town, never to be seen again.

Some say that the Piper took the children back to the waist-high creek where they were born and tried to drown them to get back at the townspeople, others say that the Piper turned the children into rats and went to the next town to let the rats run riot so he could continue to collect his paychecks.

"Did you see who was playing the flute?" Bai Liu asked.

Little Bai Liu recalled, "I didn't see it, the sound of the flute was coming from all directions, I felt that there was more than one person, but the flute player's skill was not very good, he played several wrong notes, and he played for a little more than half an hour going back and forth on those few nursery rhymes, which gave me the impression of a beginner."

"Did any children come out after hearing the flute?" Bai Liu went on to ask.

"No." Bai Liu Jr. replied quickly this time, "Except for us newcomers who sleep in rooms that don't have a teacher sleeping with them to keep watch, all the other rooms have a teacher or caregiver with them, so we're the only ones who can come out and make phone calls."

On the other end of the phone, there was still the shrill cry of the child, and the echoing sound of the child chasing him with his ethereal and silly laughter. At this time, Bai Liu seemed to have just remembered, and asked, "By the way, the one who was being chased was Xiao Miao Feichi, the child of another investor."

"Little Miao Feichi?" Bai Liu asked with interest, "Why did he come out to make a call? Oh yeah, this kid has a bad habit, you stay away from him."

Bai Liu Jr. asked, "What kind of fetish?"

Bai Liu: "He likes to eat human flesh."

The opposite side of the phone was quiet, followed by the sound of Bai Liu's calm and rational voice: "Then I understand why he came out at night to make a phone call, he saw that child crawling on the ground and took the initiative to want to come out, I thought that he came out to make a phone call, and after you said this I thought that maybe he was just using the phone call as a front to come out to feed. "

But Naija met a tough guy.

"I have a bit of a grudge against this kid's investor, so you socialize less with him." Bai Liu said.

"So do you need me to do anything for you? Like mix him up and make him fall to the ground and get caught up and get killed or something like that?" Little Bai Liu's tone was even when he talked about doing such bad things, not like a teenage boy at all, "But I'll do something for you, and you'll have to pay me."

"Well, not for now, just protect yourself, you're more important to me than he is." Bai Liu rubbed his chin and let out a soft chuckle, "I don't remember being this bold at your age to do all this nonsense."

Bai Liu Jr. returned indifferently, "Maybe it's because when you were my age, you didn't meet an investor who had the guts to offer you an astronomical payment for escorting you and wasn't a nice person at first glance?"

Bai Liu paused subtly when he heard this, and he recalled his fourteenth year.

...... have to admit that if he hadn't had Lu Yizhan to firmly take him down the path of doing things according to the law when he was fourteen, and had met an investor who gave him money to do wrong, then this kind of thing he would really have done.

"Little Miao Feichi you don't have to care about him, but there are two kids that if something happens to them, you can help if you can." Bai Liu digressed as if nothing had happened, "One is called Mu Ke, and the other is that blind girl, of course, I'm paying you for helping them."

Bai Liu asked in a somewhat odd tone, "You want to save these two little boys and girls too? What is your relationship with them? Give me money to save them? They are quite good looking ......"

"What are you thinking? She is the child that a friend of mine wants to adopt." Bai Liu instantly got what Little Bai Liu was saying, he was a bit speechless, Little Bai Liu this cub's estimation of the moral level of him as an adult was also a bit too low, "I'm not as bad as you say, I'm not interested in children."

Quickly considering his own characteristic of always wanting money over his life, Bai Liu added, "But everything you do to help them is predicated on keeping yourself safe, you're the most important thing to me, remember that."

The little Bai Liu over there was quiet for a few seconds, did not answer him this question positively, but said without emotion, "The call time is seventeen minutes and three seconds, I'll give you an erasure of zero, as seventeen minutes, one hundred dollars a minute, a total of seventeen thousand, you said, remember to pay me off."

"As well as the persona that you're not a good person at all, so don't say such words of concern for me." Bai Liu Jr. was expressionless, "It's weirdly disgusting to hear, Mr. Investor."

After saying that, Bai Liu on the other side hung up the phone with a "pop".

Bai Liu: "......"

After almost a minute, Bai Liu's intercom rang again, and the voice on the other end was still polite and unruffled, "By the way, Mr. Investor, I fell three times tonight, please reimburse me for my medical expenses, I'll have the dean send you the bill, and have a good night."

"Snapped" and hung up again.

Bai Liu takes away his walkie-talkie and says to himself, somewhat incredulously, "Was I this obnoxious when I was fourteen?"