Chapter 94: Love Welfare Center
Looking at Mu Ke who was crying non-stop, Bai Liu tried to tell Mu Ke to stop crying a few times, but it still didn't work. Finally, even when Bai Liu raised the words [I order you not to cry], Mu Ke just covered his mouth and didn't cry, but his eyes were still dropping tears from the bata bata, especially the poor sobbing that he couldn't stop, and that he might need a few more minutes.
Mu Ke did not think he was a big crier, but for some reason when he saw Bai Liu, he was like a child who had been wronged and met his parents, who even allowed him to complain, Mu Ke felt that he would have endless tears in his eyes.
Although he felt a little ashamed, he just couldn't help himself.
Mu Ke lowered his head while being ashamed, and at the same time felt a little ...... subtle happiness.
Bai Liu also ignored Mu Ke, who was trying to cry quietly, and turned to Liu Huai, whose expression was a bit hard to explain.
Liu Huai was all filled with [Is this how you usually fool your teammates?
Bai Liu just ignored it, and in a calm and very serious tone, he started another topic, "Let's talk about what's next?"
Liu Huai immediately collected his expression, his eyes looked at Bai Liu with some complexity, after watching the whole process of Bai Liu's fooling Mu Ke, Liu Huai sighed with some uncontrollable chagrin: "I still can't believe that I've been convinced by you that easily, I'm going to fight against Miao Feichi and the others when I'm on your team, even if I pass this game, I'll still have a lot of subsequent troubles. I'm going against Miao Feichi and the others, and even if I pass this game, I'll still have a lot of trouble."
"But if you don't team up with me, you and your sister will have a hard time even getting through this game." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "And your sister Liu Jiayi will most likely be directly blood sacrificed or eaten by Miao Feichi."
Convincing Liu Huai was a simple task for Bai Liu, and finding Liu Huai and bringing him on board was also a very simple idea.
The monster in Mu Ke's room comes back to life, and Bai Liu has to break into the ICU one more time surrounded by nurses if he's going to get Mu Ke out of the ICU now that he's run out of Mu Sicheng speed skills.
Bai Liu obviously can't do this by himself, and he can't let Miao Feichi go through it again. Although it's not impossible to trick them into going through it again, Miao Feichi's skill has also exhausted his stamina slot, and this state of exhausting the stamina slot is the same as Bai Liu's, which can't be recovered by stamina restorative, and won't act rashly. At most, Bai Liu can trick Miao Gaojiang, an anti-monster player with low movement speed, into going there.
But Miao Gaojiang was of little use to Bai Liu, who needed to escape.
Bai Liu needs a player with high movement speed, who is good at stealth and escaping, and who Bai Liu knows his weaknesses are good to control - there is no better candidate than Liu Huai.
Liu Huai and Miao Feichi are on the fifth floor, as are they, and finding the man's room is easy; there are only three new patients on the fifth floor - Miao Feichi, Miao Gaojiang, and Liu Huai.
The new patients' wards are marked differently, and the one that excludes Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang is Liu Huai, and with Bai Liu holding both Liu Jiayi and [Life Renewal Formula] in his hands, it won't even take him a minute to convince Liu Huai.
Liu Huai tilted his head back and collapsed on the hospital bed, his eyes somewhat lax as he stared up at the foggy, steaming ceiling, "You're saying that Jiayi will be the target of our group of [investors] hunting, and that we'll need that heap of children's blood pouring out of the beds in order to survive?"
"Let me correct two inaccuracies in your words, firstly, to be precise, it is not that we need her blood to water the bed to survive, but rather you need to eat this bed to survive after absorbing her blood and growing out the Blood Ganoderma, and she is that this is the [Life Renewal Remedy] for you, the terminally ill patient." Bai Liu patted this bed where Liu Huai was lying.
Liu Huai raised his hand to cover his eyes and pursed his lips tightly as if he was trying to avoid something.
Bai Liu then looked up at Liu Huai, made a two sign, and said calmly, "Secondly, as I told you, Liu Jiayi is not only a hunting target for [the investors], but her blindness puts her at a disadvantage in the ranks of the children as well."
Bai Liu's tone was unhurried, "You should know, Liu Huai, on the children's side there is also a minor Miao Feichi who likes to eat children's meat, my little friend said that Miao Feichi likes to slobber after Liu Jiayi, Liu Jiayi's kind of invisible little girl is at an absolute disadvantage in all aspects. Liu Jiayi, an invisible little girl who is at an absolute disadvantage in every way, is a very good target for little Miao Feichi to start with."
"It's safe to say that your sister Liu Jiayi is, on some level, a double-hunting target."
Liu Huai slowly clenched his fists as he lowered his hand over his eyes and turned his head to look straight at Bai Liu.
Bai Liu calmly continued, "And I, I promise that my little friend will protect your sister, and the fact that your sister managed to call you tonight is one of the results of my little friend's protection, and I said I'd protect Liu Jiayi because she's also the child my friend wants to adopt."
Liu Huai took a deep breath and sat up, he sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at Bai Liu : "I believe this now, so what do you say, what are we going to do next?"
"The logical thinking of this game is already basically clear." Bai Liu leaned back his body, casually opened the drawer from Liu Huai's bedside cabinet, took out a pen from it, then without knowing where this person pulled a roughly blank book title page, lowered his head to write and draw on it to start analyzing it.
Bai Liu used to write briefly when analyzing the ground, his pen tapped on the paper and began to write the keywords: [secondary game] [50-80]
While writing, Bai Liu spoke, "Loving Welfare is a secondary game with a mortality rate of at least fifty percent, a game that splits our life values, dividing us into two different lines of identity, [adults] and [children], with fifty percent of our life values each."
Bai Liu wrote two [50] on the surface of the paper, and then punched a mutually antagonistic arrow in the middle of the two [50], "But our two lines of identity are not much of a cooperative relationship from the start, because this game can obviously only survive fifty percent of the players, so a more reasonable setup for us and the group of kids who share a single lifesteal progress bar with us would be an adversarial relationship."
That's why Bai Liu was kind of wary of Bai Liu Jr. before, because in a way--
"We are enemies with this group of children." Bai Liu faintly raised his eyes to glance at Liu Huai, whose face was a bit sullen, as he continued his narration, "And this [Life Renewal Remedy] ultimately validated my thoughts."
"For us [investors] to survive we have to draw the blood of the corresponding children, and judging from the time course of that Mother Goose nursery rhyme - [born on Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, seriously ill on Thursday, critically ill on Friday, dying of illness on Saturday, and in the ground on Sunday] - we have to draw the blood of this group of children at least as soon as we are seriously ill, which is draw the blood of this group of children before Thursday, in order to survive successfully, or else [after becoming seriously ill], we will die after one day."
Bai Liu wrote a [ddl] (dead line) on the paper: [three days later].
"And the same goes for this group of kids, who have to escape the Love Orphanage before Thursday in order to avoid having their blood drawn by us and survive successfully, so their main mission is to escape the orphanage."
Bai Liu tapped his pen with his fingers, as if thinking, "In fact, I feel that little Bai Liu, that is, my little friend has already sensed the confrontational relationship between us, but this act of me handing over my own handle to him before made him realize what I wanted to do, and also allowed him to dispose of obliterating my life as he pleased, and this level of delivery made him ultimately chose to enter into a partnership with me."
Liu Huai stared blankly at Bai Liu, who had only 6 life points, and the moment he met Bai Liu's ancient and unperturbed eyes, Liu Huai trembled, and he suddenly realized what Bai Liu was going to do.
"Let me confirm one more thing, you can give your life for your sister, right?" Bai Liu lifted his eyelids to look at the obscure Liu Huai, his tone was calm and quiet to the point where he didn't seem to be talking about his own life or death, "Mu Ke and I are both nearing the bottom of our life values, I believe you can see the course we are taking on our side as well."
Bai Liu said calmly, "We protect the small, not the big."
The reason why little Bai Liu is willing to trust him in the end is because Bai Liu is willing to sacrifice himself for little Bai Liu so that little Bai Liu can live, and for this reason Bai Liu willingly gives up the handle that would make it easy for little Bai Liu to strangle himself.
And little Bai Liu understood this, and wondered at this total dedication and sacrifice without any reason, which is what Bai Liu wanted, and there was no one who knew better how to win the trust of his fourteen year old self - that is to be the kind of person to whom Lu Yizhan could dedicate himself without any reason, and to whom he could sacrifice himself without any reason. He wanted to be the kind of person that Lu Yizhan could devote himself to without any reason.
Fourteen-year-old Bai Liu trusts Lu Yizhan's type, because between hurting himself and hurting Bai Liu, he knows Lu Yizhan would choose to hurt himself.
Then Bai Liu, the fourteen year old Bai Liu in the game now, will trust Bai Liu, the current [investor], and Bai Liu becomes his own [Lu Yizhan] - the [investor] who will give selflessly to him, even to the point of giving his life.
Liu Huai's face was cloudy.
Bai Liu withdrew his wandering gaze as if he didn't see Liu Huai's face, and continued to look at the paper in his hands.
Bai Liu was not affected by Liu Huai's struggling emotions at all, but continued his analysis indifferently, "And in my opinion, it should be unlikely that a Blood Ganoderma plant that can save us can be instilled just by taking a child's blood, because this is a game with a minimum mortality rate of fifty percent, and if one just obtains one's own child's 's blood to survive successfully, I don't think it's a normal mortality rate for a level two game."
While saying this, Bai Liu writes [6] → [3] on a piece of paper.
"So if you look at it from that point of view, there's more setup to this game, and if you look at it purely in the range of eighty to fifty percent mortality rate for a level two game, it's a six-player death game, and the number of player deaths should be somewhere between 3 and 4.8."
Bai Liu simply sketched an image of a little girl on a piece of paper with a few strokes of the pen, "But the other special point of this our copy is that there is another player on the child's side, namely Liu Jiayi."
Hearing the name [Liu Jiayi] appear, Liu Huai's gaze was fixed on Bai Liu's face.
Bai Liu continued as if nothing had happened, "In the case of a total of only five children who can take blood, assuming a minimum mortality rate of fifty percent, only three players need to die, assuming that Liu Jiayi dies from blood sampling to make up for one of the deaths, and assuming that the surviving players are all of us [investors]. "
Bai Liu, with his eyes focused on the paper, wrote: [Maximum clearance efficiency for investors].
"Then with all of the above conditions most favorable to the investor met, a maximum of three investors will survive, and based on this ratio and the premise of a fifty percent mortality rate, a [investor] passing a bed will require a minimum of roughly 1.6 children's blood."
Bai Liu wrote a [1.6] on a piece of paper, and he drew a small circle around the [1] and the [6] after the decimal point.
His eyes were serene, "So who is this [1] and who is this [0.6], and the game has hinted as much."
"The child we invested in is our core blood-taking child, that's that [1], by watering our bed with the blood of the child we invested in, and with the addition of almost 0.6 or so of the blood of one of the other children, we can bear the Blood Ganoderma that maximizes the relief of terminal illnesses." Bai Liu calmly drew a fork on his face, blotting out that [1.6], "But this option was ruled out by me because the cost effectiveness of the pass was too low."
"The likelihood that an investor pass is at the maximum cost-effective possibility in all respects, the high probability is that it will take the blood of 1.6 children to pass, so sacrificing one investor without taking blood, in other words, will keep 1.6 children safe."
"We, a group of blood-sucking adults, are far less valuable than if they survived, and it's cost-effective to pass." Bai Liu casually drew a protective shield over the Liu Jiayi sketch of a little girl that he drew on the paper, raised his eyes to Liu Huai, and continued on, "That's why I ultimately decided to prioritize the preservation of the life value of the little friend's side of the game, this [Life Renewal Remedy] is ineffective for Mu Ke and I, and we won't be going on this side of the mainline quest."
Bai Liu said here, looking at the pale Liu Huai, he paused meaningfully: "But you and I are in a different situation, although we chose to sacrifice ourselves to protect our younger selves, but if the plan works, we ourselves won't die, we can pass the level." "But you, Liu Huai, you're different from us," he said. ""But you, Liu Huai, you are not in the same situation as us. "Bai Liu's eyes looked obscurely at Liu Huai who didn't say a word, "You and Liu Jiayi are two separate and hostile individuals, if you chose to prioritize the preservation of Liu Jiayi, there's a high probability that you'll die due to the lack of access to blood."
"So what do you choose?"
Obviously it was such a cruel choice, but Bai Liu asked it with a curious inquisitive tone, he raised his eyes to Liu Huai, his eyes were serious and focused, but with a kind of thinking as if he was observing a different kind of creature from him.
-- How far can Liu Huai go for his sister? Is this man's professed love for his sister really like Lu Yizhan's strange guy, the point where people can give up all of their own interests for such unwarranted feelings?
Especially since Liu Huai was also a person with a strong desire to survive - Bai Liu thought wistfully, as his pen worked little by little on the protective shield he had casually drawn to represent Liu Jiayi, the little girl, and soon the shield was covered with strange black dots, as if the shield was being overshadowed by a layer of shadows.
Liu Huai sat on the edge of the bed like a silent plant, his dagger-holding hands at his side, silent and numb, but breathing rapidly.
Bai Liu quickly withdrew his gaze, seeing on Liu Huai's face a struggle and fear that twisted his features into a hideous grimace, an uncontrollable fear of the approaching unknown.
Liu Huai's fear and hesitation is so real that his fear of death and his retreat from it makes his professed love for Liu Jiayi, who sacrificed everything for him, seem like a self-motivated Biu Tsi signal. Bai Liu soon finds it boring and stops observing Liu Huai, and thinks indifferently. This is no different from the self-righteous love he has seen before.
Bai Liu thought he could see Lu Yizhan's incomprehensible things on Liu Huai, but in the end it was still the same, as if the bagasse was generally chewed between people's mouths and tongues and exported millions of times [I love you], [willing to give up everything for you], and so on.
But what is spit out has no flavor at all, and the only sweetness is for oneself, and ultimately for others in the form of self-motivated spittle-stained crumbs that crumble in a pinch and are worthless garbage.
People are ultimately selfish.
Bai Liu opened his mouth diffidently, "If you want to pass as an investor, I can also have little Bai Liu help you extract ......" Liu Jiayi s blood.
"Bai Liu, if I die, will your friends really adopt Jiajia?" Liu Huai looked at Bai Liu, who still had that look of fear and dread on his face, and some vague apprehension.
Liu Huai looks like a nurturer who has to be forced to divest herself of her young, a nervous uneasiness on her face, "Jiajia can't see and she's clinging to me, I'm afraid that she won't be able to cope well on her own after I'm gone, I have a feeling that your friend is very nice, take good care of her, and if she's got eyes you'd be willing to help think of a way to do that... ..."
It's actually a bit out of character for the not-yet-graduate college student to start rambling on about the do's and don'ts of raising a human cub, which makes him more like a mature, Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua-aged parent.
The look of fear on Liu Huai's face has not abated, but all he says is about Liu Jiayi, as if he is more afraid that his death will make Liu Jiayi's life worse than his death itself:
"She doesn't like to sleep alone at night, there's a little bear, I sewed it for her, it's a bit old but she likes that one, if you take her out of the orphanage, remember to take it with you, she doesn't talk much but she's very good, she's just scared when she can't hear voices all the time, just put the TV on for her, she likes little hamsters but her hands are a little bit ungentlemanly, don't buy it for her, she'll cry if it dies Very bad ......"
Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, he looked at Liu Huai and interrupted him, "Have you really thought about sacrificing yourself for your sister?"
Liu Huai was quiet for a second: "That doesn't require thinking."
"I got into this game to give her a brighter future, but first and foremost in all of this, she has to be alive."
Liu Huai's thoughts were clear, he looked at Bai Liu, he revealed that very ugly and bitter smile, "Bai Liu, if only I was such a great player as you and Mu Sicheng, but I'm not, I don't have the means to bring her a brighter future anymore, but I do have what I can do, I'll try my hardest to keep her alive, it's the only thing I can do for her. is the only thing I can do for her."
"Actually, death is not a difficult thing to accept." Liu Huai seemed to have finally breathed a sigh of relief as he slumped his shoulders and shook his head in a somewhat dazed manner, as if he was breaking his heart in self-compassion, "I knew that this day would come sooner or later when I entered this game, it's just that Jiajia doesn't have a good trustee yet, and it's always hard to accept that she hasn't seen what I look like yet ......"
But it is useless to be unwilling, in this game he has to live Liu Jiayi will die, this cruel game does not give him more unwillingness.
"If, if killing any person I can live, I will defy all odds to try ......" Liu Huai went quiet, he slumped his shoulders and did not speak for a long time.
Tears slid down from beside Liu Huai's eyes, hitting the dagger that was held tightly in his hand - the dagger he had once used to kill his best friend in order to survive.
But in the end, he met someone he couldn't betray.
Bai Liu didn't bother him either. Liu Huai sat on the edge of the bed that was to be doused with blood, his face as pale as a corpse about to be placed in a coffin, his hand holding the dagger trembling slightly, and Bai Liu thought it was funny - Liu Huai was only now fearing for his death.
When Liu Huai realized that he would die, his first thought was Liu Jiayi and then himself, a subconscious emotional reaction that Bai Liu found unbelievable.
Liu Huai lowered his head and smiled miserably, clenched his fists, took a deep breath and raised his head again.
"Bai Liu, I remember your personal skill is trading, if I die, I can, I can take you a very useful thing." Liu Huai looked at Bai Liu, his whole body showed a very tired decadence, his face with a very virtual and like a relief empty eyes, only fear and tears in his eyes, he grabbed Bai Liu's hand, his tone choked, "But only if you help me ...... "
"Make Liu Jiayi see again huh?" Bai Liu said, looking at Liu Huai's tired and weary and desperate face, calmly averting his eyes back, "Wait until you're dead, I don't do short trades."
Published at: 04/05/2024 04:00