Chapter 89: Love Welfare Center

Xiao Bai Liu over there paused, and then opened his mouth to continue to explain: "and last night you did not say good evening to me this kind of polite opening, this is usually when I get money will say to the gold master words, but you are the gold master, do not need to say this kind of words to me, and you really did not say it last night, tonight the first opening is good evening, a little strange. "

That's true, Bai Liu recalled, he only seemed polite and courteous to strangers when he had money to take, and Bai Liu could say anything strange, like to Zhang Gui's master, which he himself had not realized.

"How did you come up with the idea of letting Mu Ke take your phone and talk to me?" Bai Liu asked with a smile. "And how did you end up with Mu Ke tonight? And how are you tonight?"

The phone on the player's side is bound and cannot be exchanged, but the phone on the child's side is not.

But in a situation where almost all children are out on the phone and it is extremely difficult for them to make a phone call, having one child take another child out on the phone and hand the phone over to the other child at the moment of the call and let the other child speak is something that Miao Gaojiang, who has never received a phone call from a child before, has probably never thought of doing.

Children's execution and obedience is much lower than adults, especially compared to these adults who have already crawled and rolled in the game, it is even lower than I don't know how many grades, in the premise of letting this group of children call them is difficult, like Xiao Bai Liu such as for the sake of money in the middle of the night do not sleep, and also drag Mu Ke out of the little psychopaths running all over the yard, do not say Miao Gaojiang Not to mention Miao Gaojiang, even Bai Liu himself is a bit surprised by Bai Liu's rare executive power.

Although he knew that he would probably do anything for money, Bai Liu on this side still raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard Little Mu Ke's voice on the phone.

Bai Liu Jr. reports flatly, "Since we're having a baptism tomorrow, the teacher asked that investors and parents be notified, so a lot of kids are out calling tonight, but so far it's going okay except for the ones I haven't managed to get yet, and a few others who were attracted out by the sound of the flute so the freaking kids aren't chasing after us."

"As for why I was with Mu Ke tonight, I think you're asking knowingly." Little Bai Liu's tone was cold and disgusted, "Didn't you ask me to babysit two kids for you last night? Said you paid me to take care of one of the kids is a blind girl, I now know her name is Liu Jiayi, one is this Mu Ke, the girl I can't get in touch with for the moment, but I'm sleeping in the same room as Mu Ke, and for the sake of the money tonight when I call you, I'm sure to look for will be the Mu Ke in the same room."

"I meant for you to hear his voice to give you a checkup, to verify that the little brat was in pretty good shape and could run and cry, but not realizing that you had a situation on your end, I just stopped talking and gave him the phone to pretend to be your investment child."

There was a subtle pause in Bai Liu Jr.'s voice over there, and then he questioned Bai Liu quite directly, "Actually, I think when you told me last night that you were paying me to help someone, it was so that you could get Mu Ke to call you now, right?"

Bai Liu had a bit of a very subtle smirk in his voice as he leaned lazily against the wall, "You could say that."

He knew when he told little Bai Liu that I'll pay you to look after this Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi for me that little Bai Liu would drag one of them out to call him tonight.

His fourteen year old self's obsession with money was stronger than ever before, there was no way he would give up such a chance to get money, but Bai Liu had been a relative abider of deals since he was a child, so he wouldn't be able to easily deceive the person he was dealing with, and the best way to verify that the deal was a success was to have little Mu Ke talk to Bai Liu directly and say that he himself wasn't so bad.

And little Bai Liu sure enough did.

"You can just let me drag Mu Ke out to call you tonight, no need to go through so many hoops with me." Little Bai Liu's voice line had a kind of youth's unique youthfulness, but because it was too calm and appeared very cold, "You give money, I can do anything for you."

"But then you'd know in advance about the hostile plans I'm going to make against the other two investors." Bai Liu said nonchalantly, "You would have guessed what I was going to do, what kind of terrible threats I would face, and knowing what the call would mean to me, you might have betrayed my plans to my enemies when you made the call, in exchange for more money from my enemies, and that's what you would have done, isn't it? "

Little Bai Liu over there fell into a long silence.

Bai Liu let out a soft chuckle, "I can't have you guessing what I'm going to do, because you're also a very dangerous guy."

"I even think that you are more dangerous to me than anything else in this game, but fortunately I know you, and I'm telling you the truth based on what I know about you, Bai Liu, that I'm going to give you more money than anyone else in the world, and I'm even going to give you all the money I have."

Bai Liu slowly lowered his eyes, "There will be no one more generous to you than me, Bai Liu."

Because I am you and you are me, money circulates strangely between you and me across time and latitude, but the essence is attributed to the identity of [me], and the money I own is owned by you and me at the same time, but the money Bai Liu owns is not diminished one iota.

"All the money?" Bai Liu Jr.'s tone was still cold, but there was an inexplicable sarcasm to match his words, "Then you are a rare and not at all self-serving good Samaritan, Mr. Investor."

"I am indeed very selfish and egotistical, and greedy, so I am definitely not like that to others." Bai Liu didn't get angry even after being sarcastic, his face remained unfazed staying an affable smile, "But anyways, you're the most special person to me in this [world], so I must have no reservations about you."

Little Bai Liu did not reply to Bai Liu's remark, but only maintained a subtle, indifferent, skeptical silence.

Bai Liu continued unhurriedly, "But I can understand what you are thinking, you must be thinking that human beings are a kind of instinctively very selfish for their own animals, I as an investor, why should I do this for you, a stranger, against instinct? There must not be such a person in this world, even if there is, it must be pretending in order to get more benefits - after all, there is no free lunch in the world, is not it?"

Across the room, little Bai Liu lapsed into another eerie silence, and it was clear that Bai Liu knew exactly what the fourteen year old was thinking.

"That's what I thought when I was your age." Bai Liu leaned against the wall, his eyes closing slightly as he tilted his head back.

Because of his physical weakness and the orphanage, a copy that carried some special meaning for him, as well as the existence of Little Bai Liu, the game NPC, Bai Liu had a rare immersion in memories of the past.

What was he like when he was fourteen? Bai Liu thought he wouldn't remember much.

Because man is indeed a very forgetful creature, perhaps man's memory is really only seven seconds, and the rest of it is just something that man constructs to deceive, fool and comfort himself based on his own shallow sense memory.

But the moment he hears Bai Liu's cold, emotionless voice, Bai Liu closes his eyes and remembers what kind of person he was at the age of fourteen.

Lonely, aloof, and out of place with everything around him, no one can understand this scrawny little boy who spends his days reading horror stories and is always looking at every kind of story and game about horrors that can be obtained in the orphanage.

Bai Liu was not as good as he is now at covering his face and disguising himself, looking at people with a repulsive gaze and a cold aura that made him a stranger to the world, so there weren't many kids who wanted to get close to him.

Of course this has a lot to do with Bai Liu himself.

While the other children in the orphanage have trains or blocks donated by donors, Bai Liu's favorite toys are scary dolls with missing arms and legs, and while the other children are reading comic books and storybooks, Bai Liu reads books such as The Long, Skinny Ghost Murderer, which was donated to the orphanage without knowing how it came about.

But in those days, before these human cubs had entered society to be poisoned and imbibed with all sorts of adult rules, every child in the orphanage would also have fought to the death for good toys, good food, the chance of possible adoption by their parents, and even less damp straw beds.

No one had taught them to do this, that stepping on other people in order to live a better life for yourself was something akin to biological instinct, and Bai Liu had realized that early on, so he'd stayed further and further away from these people.

And there are two people in the orphanage who don't fight about these things at all: Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan.

Bai Liu did it because he didn't need the stuff, he preferred the money, which isn't usually given to kids in the orphanage, and Lu Yizhan did it because he thought other people needed it more, so the idiot volunteered to give it up.

Lu Yizhan has foolishly given up better food, better toys, and the chance to be adopted, looking at the happy faces of others who are using the fruits of his exploitation, when all the other person needs to do is to give Lu Yizhan a simple and shallow thank you, and the idiot will scratch the back of his head and show a grin that is even bigger than the other one.

"I used to think that there are no human beings in this world who give their all for the sake of others." Bai Liu's voice was soft and calm, "Even if you give for the sake of others, it's still for the sake of getting that sense of self-giving and self-satisfaction that has been brainwashed and inculcated by the world's moral norms, and it's still essentially for the sake of pleasuring yourself."

"There are no pure good guys in the world, only pure bad guys."

Little Bai Liu's breathing rasps from across the room as he pulls little Mu Ke, still sobbing quietly, as he runs through the children's home in the dead of night, but Bai Liu knows he's listening.

The little guy hadn't hung up yet because it was billed by the minute, a really hard working chaperone - albeit a child laborer.

Bai Liu's voice brought out a bit of a very lazy and idle laugh, as if he was recalling something very funny, "And then while I was firmly committed to these ideas, I met a douchebag who volunteered to be my friend."

"He kept asking me why I was alone, starving himself and saving money to give me food, and just froze when he found out I was reading some really bloody weird books, then sneaking out to get them for me to read." Bai Liu said with a very flat tone in his muzzle, "But I was cold to him from start to finish, he was giving without getting any fulfillment, and I thought he'd give up soon."

Little Bai Liu over there finally spoke up, asking, "Has he given up?"

"He stayed away from me for a while halfway through, and I thought he'd given up." Bai Liu paused, "Then one day at noon, I saw a [long, skinny ghostly] doll in the back of the yard."

It was a long, skinny, very clumsy ghostly figure with a doll suit costume made from unwanted sheets from an orphanage, and a tattered hat that looked like some kind of failed elementary school handiwork, and the long, skinny ghostly figure was waving his towel-hanging raggedy clothes in a silly say-hi to Bai Liu.

During that time Bai Liu often read books about long, skinny ghosts and shadows, because the orphanage had not been donated any other books of this kind.

But Lu Yizhan may have misunderstood Bai Liu's fondness for this strange creature of legend, and as a teenager, Lu Yizhan secretly stayed up all night hiding under a quilt to make such a doll, which he then put on his head and stood in front of Bai Liu bouncing and jumping about, grunting and sweating, with his eyes in the poorly constructed ragdoll suit clean and dry, but with orbital redness from staying up all night.

Lu Yizhan thinks of Bai Liu as one of those kids who loves animated characters, and he purely wants Bai Liu to be happy about it.

But he didn't mean for Bai Liu to thank him, and of course Bai Liu didn't mean to thank him either, because it was just ......

"...... He's so stupid. " spat Bai Liu Jr. with an expressionless face.

"Yeah, that's what I thought at that time." Bai Liu gave a low chuckle, "I just looked at him like he was stupid, and then politely explained that I wasn't a little fan of long, skinny ghosts and shadows, I just like reading these horror stories and watching these strange, horrible creatures eat humans who make stupid mistakes, I like that kind of horror story."

Little Bai Liu said quietly for a while, "I like it too, but he should ...... not like it."

I can only say that normal children will not like, at that time Bai Liu is the orphanage freaks, because the books and paintings are not normal, very bloody, belong to the teacher will focus on the type, think he has anti-social tendencies and so on, soon in the teacher's close monitoring, they gave Bai Liu like those things to give him to throw away.

Books and games and even the Muppet toys that Bai Liu looks at a little too much, they guard Bai Liu as if he were a potential prisoner of labor.

Actually, in a way, that defense is right.

Bai Liu has curbed his blatant hobbies and pretends to be a good boy who has lost his way.

Lu Yizhan is not a fan of such unconventional horror stories and games.

But just because he doesn't like it doesn't mean he can't make Bai Liu like it, and he knows Bai Liu likes it, he's just pretending not to.

"It's true that he didn't like it, but the guy was always well liked, and he scrounged up lots and lots of horror games and horror story books from who knows where." Bai Liu, eyes still closed, recalls, "A really lot of them, and then sent them to me full of them without my teacher's knowledge, so I could play them, so I could read them."

Bai Liu Jr. was silent for a while this time as he asked, "Why is he doing this?"

"I asked him the same thing." Bai Liu's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, "He said, "Aren't we friends? This is something I can do for you, so I did."

Xiao Bai Liu was puzzled from the bottom of his heart, "When did you become friends with him? I don't remember you agreeing to this, right?"

"I don't know." Bai Liu says, "But Lu Yizhan just assumed so wishfully, and when I told him that the odds were that I was a freak and that I might do bad things in the future, he told me very seriously that if I was going to be a bad person, he'd be the police officer coming to get me."

Bai Liu let out a soft laugh, "So he reassured me that he wouldn't let me be the bad guy, because a cop's friend can't be the bad guy."

"He played a lot of horror games with me together for many, many years, and then he grew to recognize that I was a not-so-normal person, but he stuck with me as a friend."

"Why?" Bai Liu Jr. asked again, he was a little confused this time, "You can't understand each other at all, would being friends with you do him any good?"

"There's no benefit to anything, I'm a pretty troublesome person in every way. "Bai Liu admits this readily, "I'm not good at being a people person, but that friend of mine didn't befriend me for any favors."

Little Bai Liu: "That's for what."

Bai Liu : "He just wants to in order for me to have a friend."

Lu Yizhan's reason was so simple, he wanted to be friends with Bai Liu, he wanted to make Bai Liu happier, he wanted Bai Liu to have a friend, no sympathy, no pity, he just thought so, so he went ahead and did it.

Lu Yizhan is the first strange human being in Bai Liu's cognition, and his existence almost overturns Bai Liu's view of the world - this person is a high-level, non-personalized, highly moral, just not very good, purely good person, in Bai Liu's worldview. In Bai Liu's worldview, he was a textbook self-giving fool.

Bai Liu's only friend in his life.

"There are still such purely good people in this world, their existence is against evolution and human instincts, so they live a hard life." Bai Liu said softly, "But they just exist, and you will meet one soon."

Yes, Bai Liu, you will meet this friend who is willing to play games with you, make you laugh by pretending to be a skinny ghost, and accompany you through many years, Bai Liu whispered in his heart.

"This kind of person is rare, right?" Xiao Bai Liu's tone was still as light as ever, "It's already a miracle of the world that you can meet one, I won't be meeting this kind of wishful thinking giving fool."

"You will." Bai Liu smiled up slightly, "You still met me didn't you?"

"I also knew you were a bad boy, Bai Liu, and I also knew there was a chance you might betray me, but I ended up telling you about my plan." Bai Liu's tone is soft with a bit of a very strange seduction, "You're really important to me, more important than the plan, even more important than me."

"You're the most important person in this place to me." Bai Liu smiled, "I promise I'll be your strange and reliable friend."

This time Bai Liu was silent for a long, long time, so long that Bai Liu thought he would hang up the phone, and then Bai Liu Jr. changed the topic in a very hard tone, "You like horror games a lot too? Have you played any fun ones?"

Bai Liu drooped his eyes indifferently, the corners of his mouth hooked up slightly, slowly and leisurely chatting with Bai Liu: "There are ah, I've played two very good games, one is called Siren Town, and the other is called Explosive Last Train."

At fourteen he's still very gullible, and would be mildly impressed by Lu Yizhan's self-sacrificing type of big goofball.

And if it was the twenty-four year old Bai Liu he was meeting, it would be much more complicated.

Bai Liu didn't have much time to counsel his fourteen year old self, and he didn't think that little Bai Liu needed it either, and he told such a long string of stories just to lay the groundwork to convince little Bai Liu to cooperate with him wholeheartedly - because the unfortunate best compulsion for little Bai Liu was his points, or rather his money, already thrown out to Miao Feichi and the others. --His points, or money, Bai Liu has already thrown out to Miao Feichi and the others.

This is also a dangerous point, the sum of points, or money, of all the players Bai Liu now controls in his hands is less than Miao Feichi's, and the total number of such props, which are very much in Bai Liu's hands, is less than that of his enemies.

And soon after little Bai Liu met them the next day, this very sharp little child would soon realize this - that Bai Liu is not as rich as Miao Feichi and the others.

This is very awkward, as Bai Liu knows that they are hostile, and based on Bai Liu's knowledge of himself, Bai Liu will inevitably go to the side with more money, and he will most likely sell out to Miao Feichi's father and son - Bai Liu knows that his fourteen year old self is not a submissive child either! Bai Liu knows that at fourteen years old, he is not a very obedient child, and for the time being, Bai Liu Jr. is only obedient to his money.

Even if this will lead to his own death, little Bai Liu will not care, when he was fourteen years old, the desire for money is much stronger than now.

So Bai Liu needs a point other than money that can hold Bai Liu Jr. at bay to get him for the money, a point that is as flagrant as the money, and from Bai Liu's known experience - a great tool to hold himself at bay, that is Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan has been able to keep the money-hungry Bai Liu on the path of non-criminal behavior for so many years, and apart from the unusual stubbornness of this man and his determination to be friends with Bai Liu, there is another important reason - that is, Bai Liu is very curious about Lu Yizhan! Bai Liu was very curious about Lu Yizhan.

Bai Liu is a relatively curious person, full of curiosity about all kinds of bizarre non-human behavior, and in Lu Yizhan's case his curiosity has never waned over the years.

Bai Liu is curious about how long this Lu Yizhan, a freak like himself, can be a good person, curious about what drives this person's behavior, and this curiosity, when it's strong enough, can even counteract Bai Liu's desire for money to a certain extent.

Lu Yizhan doesn't exist in this copy, so Bai Liu tells Bai Liu Jr. that such a person exists, and by taking on the role of Lu Yizhan himself, Bai Liu extracts the element of Lu Yizhan's person that has the most power over him - that curiosity. It is this curiosity.

Little Bai Liu became curious about him and wanted to explore the logic of his behavior, and that was the beginning of the story.

As he did with Lu Yizhan.