Chapter 96: Love Welfare Center
Little Mu Ke was a little reactive: "...... Why wouldn't we be taken away on baptism day? "
Bai Liu Jr: "According to my conventional understanding of baptism, we should not be eligible to have our blood drawn before we are baptized because we were sinful before we were baptized, and only the Lord's blood can wash away our sins."
Little Bai Liu said and lazily made a cut, he stayed up for two consecutive days, really a little sleepy: "And haven't you realized? This group of [flute-playing children] is saving people."
Little Mu Ke was stunned, "Saving lives?"
"Yes, saving people." Little Bai Liu closes her eyes again, hands folded on her chest, lying peacefully, like she's going to fall asleep next, "They're carrying IV tubes and bags, they should be coming from a private hospital, so I'm guessing that they know what kids those terminally ill investors over there are going to be pumping blood from next, and that's why they're taking the ones that have been chosen to have blood drawn from them soon. "
"For example, this child in our room that was taken, I saw that during the day today the dean led him to register, saying that an [investor] wanted to adopt him." Bai Liu Jr. said calmly, "What will happen after being adopted, I'm sure you saw it very clearly in your dream, Mu Ke."
Little Mu Ke shivered at the thought of the blood torture in his dream.
Little Bai Liu continued without any fluctuation, "And because of this, if I'm not mistaken, the taken children were first hypnotized by the [flute] to see what might happen to them in the future, and then met this group of children who looked exactly the same as the ones whose appearance was bizarre and the same as the ones they had in their dreams after having their blood drawn."
"The [flute-playing kids] supposedly expressed to them that they were victims of this blood-drawing, and we're going to take you to a safe place where you'll never have to come back, and that's why these kids voluntarily sobered up and followed this group of weird-looking [flute-playing kids], and walked away so joyfully."
Bai Liu Jr. paused, "And our [investors] have given up pumping blood out of us, so even after baptism we're safe."
"Because we don't need saving, they won't take us."
Little Mu Ke lying on the bed, sideways to see in seems to have been asleep little Bai Liu, did not hold back a small voice asked: "...... little Bai Liu, how are you so sure that your [investor] will not secretly register behind the back to take away you and then draw blood you? "
Xiao Bai Liu breathing evenly, did not answer Xiao Mu Ke, seems to have fallen asleep, Xiao Mu Ke sighed sadly, muttered two Xiao Bai Liu You are so gullible your [investors], in the end, who is more naive, and then he thought about it and fell asleep with worry.
At the last moment when Little Mu Ke was about to fall asleep, he seemed to hear Little Bai Liu answering very calmly while he was half asleep, "If he lies to me, I will kill him."
Two other pairs of eyes were stiffly open in the darkness of the children's sleeping quarters.
Xiao Miao Feichi and Xiao Miao Gaojiang were trembling under the quilt, they had listened to the conversation between Xiao Mu Ke and Xiao Bai Liu, and they had also seen the terrifying [flute-playing child] that had intruded, and it seemed that because both of them were awake, the flute-playing child had hovered right above them for a long time.
Now these two have not yet been in the game through a variety of horrors later merited the event of the S- level players of children scared of cold sweat, do not dare to move, in the final analysis of these two people's childhood is also just ordinary people.
Maybe it can't be considered ordinary, after all, it's also grown up to also have the guts to do things like kill their mothers and condone their children to kill their wives and eat their corpses.
But how can killing one's terminally ill mom (wife), a woman of no consequence, and one's own murder be the same thing?
Xiao Miao Gaojiang's clothes are full of cold sweat, can only maintain barely calm, was scared enough.
Little Miao Feichi, who had the evil guts to scald his terminally ill mother to death with boiling water and who loved to eat children's flesh, could not accept being treated like that - the thought of his future blood being drawn into that dry, skin-and-bones form made Little Miao Feichi crumble with fear, and his feet couldn't help but twitch a few times. couldn't help but twitch a few times.
Even as he covered his head with the covers, he let out what he tried to suppress but could still hear, a whimper of shock.
Hearing two slightly heavier breaths and a bit of light crying coming from the sleeping room, the face of little Bai Liu An Ning, who seemed to have been asleep for a long time, suddenly evoked a strange smile.
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At 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Bai Liu's phone rang on time.
"Good morning, Mr. Investor." Bai Liu Jr. greeted politely, "Last night I found ......"
"A child who plays a flute?" Bai Liu asked rhetorically with amusement as he scratched open his system panel.
[The Monster Book of Love Welfare Refresh - Deformed Child (1/3)]
[Monster name: deformed child (blood-drawn berserk version)]
[Characteristics: Likes to go out late at night and take children]
[Weakness: ???? (to be explored)
[Modes of attack: blood injection (A+), telephone location (A+)]
[Trigger new attack method: flute-playing little urchin, A-rank skill, can lure away the player's secondary identity line with the sound of a flute]
[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for collecting all the deformed children's attacks]
Xiao Bai Liu there a quiet, he did not ask why Bai Liu know what happened on their side, but without fluctuations continue to report: "Yes, the time of emergence is about two o'clock in the morning, it is in the mode of sleep hypnosis, can see investors in the future to pump their own blood ...... "
Bai Liu quietly listened to Little Bai Liu's report and thoughtfully said, "It seems that the deformed children and you are on the same side, that's right, you all belong to the victims, then the deformed children who chases you every night is estimated to be the same as this flute-playing child, even if they make you disappear, but the main purpose is to take you away to hide you and protect you, in fact, to prevent me to find you guys."
But being hidden somewhere - a group of ghost kids can hide a group of real kids in such a way that the living can't find them at all, so it's hard to say whether it's hidden in the netherworld or the yangworld, and Bai Liu feels that the kids who are taken away by this group may be dead on another level, only euthanized.
According to that bridge in The Piper in Flower's Clothes that takes the child away, the child should have drowned as well, only happily to the sound of the flute.
Bai Liu Jr.'s viewpoint is consistent with Bai Liu's, he said coldly, "I don't think it's protection, it should be death as well, if you take the children every night, such a large number of children I don't think you very rich [investors] won't be able to find them, and I don't think a group of dead children can be resettled with another group of children. "
"Yes, but it does have something to offer." Bai Liu's eyes narrowed, "These flute-playing kids should know how to get out of that all-encompassing orphanage of yours."
Bai Liu Jr. was quiet again, "You need me to escape this [loving orphanage]?"
"Right." Bai Liu said, "But now the question is, if you run out of the orphanage after this group of flute-playing kids, how do you protect yourself from this group of kids, and you don't just run, you take the others with you."
Bai Liu's fingers tapped twice on the edge of the bed, his eyes hiding many obscure emotions, "Inside this everyone, including Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, you have to take them and run out, and then-- "
"Do them and get the blood for you right?" Bai Liu Jr. added in a waveless voice, "That's no problem, I can have them follow me, but it's going to cost extra."
"One hundred thousand dollars a person."
Bai Liu gave a slight, undetectable lurch, and he lazily hooked up the corner of his mouth, "Deal."
"But there are two core points to note in this deal, if you violate one of them the deal is null and void-" Bai Liu added in an idle tone, "First, the core mission is to escape, but the primary guarantee is your personal safety, followed by Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi's safety. is your personal safety, followed by Mu Ke's and Liu Jiayi's safety, if you can't guarantee it don't act easily."
"The second point is that killing Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang is not a mandatory task for you." Bai Liu said softly with his eyes downcast, "I would like you to leave them to me if you can, little Bai Liu, after all, you're only fourteen and I'm twenty-four, perhaps better suited for this kind of thing than you are, and of course, I'll pay you the two hundred thousand dollars as it is."
This time Bai Liu Jr. was quiet for a long time, then asked, a little genuine doubt in his voice: "Is there a difference between coming to this at fourteen and twenty-four?"
"The substance isn't much different." Bai Liu paused, "But I just don't want you to do it, wait until you're an adult and can take responsibility for your actions before you decide if you want to be a bad person."
"Now let the bad guy be the adult in me, little friend."
After Bai Liu hung up the phone, Bai Liu looked up at the dark window outside his hospital room and let out a breath, thinking that he was really conditioned by Lu Yizhan.
Just a moment ago, Bai Liu said he wanted to kill someone, Bai Liu's first thought was that he was soliciting a minor to commit a crime, which is a felony, and Lu Yizhan was most afraid that he would engage in this kind of thing, after all, Bai Liu is really good at it.
So Lu Yizhan reads eight hundred times a day to tell him not to cooperate with the minors to engage in marketing, so that even in the game, Bai Liu subconsciously avoided the situation.
However, it is indeed better for him to come, after all, Xiao Bai Liu's task over there is already troublesome enough, do away with Miao Feichi these two people for Xiao Bai Liu a child is not something very easy, Xiao Bai Liu's core task is to escape, it is best to just throw this kind of easy to get into trouble in the process of escaping to him to do it is more appropriate.
Nine o'clock in the morning.
An announcement in the ward informed all patients that they could come out and move around, as well as informing new patients to go and watch their children's baptisms.
[System prompt: Triggering a side mission, the player who got the notification of the children's phone call was invited to go to the welfare center to watch his invested children being baptized]
Bai Liu is now in Mu Ke's hospital room, today is the day of baptism, but [Bai Liu] is dead, the five [investors] who are going to participate in the baptism will definitely be one less, Bai Liu and Mu Ke must have one of them to give up this side quest, and it is very obvious that Mu Ke is the one who will give up.
Mu Ke was in a poor state of mind; he had been up two nights in a row remembering things, and had been sucked and chased and cried all night, so that now the young lord's eyes were swollen like a goldfish, and he lay dully on his back unmoving.
This young master didn't really like the wet and sticky straw bed, but he really didn't have the energy to count on that right now.
Obviously, the young master who used his brain and eyes too much needed to rest, and Bai Liu decided to participate in the baptism as an investor of Mu Ke.
But it's one thing for Mu Ke to need a break, it's another to be able to take one.
He simply can't sleep, even if he is already so tired that he doesn't even want to say anything, as long as Mu Ke eyes closed, his mind is full of all kinds of messy images and information, because of all kinds of over-excited emotions and has been keeping the active cerebral cortex to make him have a splitting headache, even if Bai Liu let him sleep on the bed and sleep on the floor by himself, he still can't sleep at all.
Mu Ke saw Bai Liu get up from the floor, ready to go out, Mu Ke also struggled to get up from the bed, he looked at Bai Liu with a bit of concern: "Why don't I go, after all, I'm the real Mu Ke, if they still have any lie detector props or tricks, I'll be able to cope with it if I go on."
"No need." Bai Liu straightened his hospital gown; he'd slept on the floor where he'd slept last night, padded with books, and hadn't slept very well, his face tired.
Bai Liu turned over to look at Mu Ke on the bed, "I have something for you to do in the hospital, and something only you can do."
Mu Ke was stunned, "What is it?"
"I need you to look up some human case files for me." Bai Liu said.
The timeline for this copy of the orphanage is ten years ago, right around the time those entrepreneurs in reality invested in that children's home and started planning for the first children to be enrolled.
These two orphanages fell into being two manifestations of the same copy, with reference to the [Exploding Last Train] and [Mirror City Explosion], although the game copy and the real life events manifested in different forms, the core events were generally the same - it was very likely that these seriously ill entrepreneurs had done the same thing to these children, extracting blood to nourish the blood reishi to cure their illnesses.
However, Lu Yizhan investigated people to be bewildered also did not find these entrepreneurs on the children of any clues, after all, it has been ten years, a lot of can be investigated on their case ideas have been completely cut off, those who have been pumping blood of the child most likely have died, to catch some clues is quite difficult.
Another is Bai Liu thinks that even if there are clues, it is estimated that they have long been swept clean by these powerful people, or else this group of people will not give up funding the orphanage and let this kind of place where they have committed crimes out of their control.
In the end, Bai Liu even from this game out, told Lu Yizhan welfare institution this case is how it is, Lu Yizhan also believe in Bai Liu these strange claims, but there is no concrete evidence and clues, they take a bunch of reputable, good reputation entrepreneurs can not do anything.
But Bai Liu promised to help Lu Yizhan with the investigation, and he ate Lu Yizhan's payoff - he likes to finish what he starts.
What can't be done outside the game may not be impossible inside the game, and clues that aren't available outside the game may not be available inside the game.
Bai Liu looked to Mu Ke : "Mu Ke, I'll write down a few names for you later, during the day the nurses are very lax in guarding the patients, see if you can blend into the file room where they store the patient information, find out these people's case files, and then help me memorize them all."
"Especially the names of the children they use for their cures, and the times they take their blood each time, it would be a good idea to memorize all of them, and then let me know when I get back."
The case files are quite voluminous, or several of them, and it would be difficult to get anyone else to memorize these galaxies in the time it takes to blend into the file room so unnoticed by the nurses.
But for Mu Ke it was a simple matter, and he nodded without thinking, "Yes, just give me the patient's name."
Bai Liu said a few names and asked Mu Ke, "Do you remember the names of these people?"
Mu Ke nodded, and after doing so he furrowed his brows slightly and asked in confusion, "These are those real-life entrepreneurs, they should be ordinary people, right? How did their names appear in the archive room in this game?"
Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "They may not be any ordinary people, they should be monster-like in this game, as well as, if you can, Mu Ke, you memorize the names of all the registered investor patients in the case room as best you can."
Mu Ke was stunned, "Is ...... going to memorize all of it? Why?"
"A large children's home that has been open for ten years and has only recently begun to drift away from investment ......"
Bai Liu pauses delicately before continuing:
"The investment drain on large private children's homes is huge, and without a relatively large chain of interests behind it to support it, I think it's unlikely that it can be sustained for such a long period of time, with multiple groups of people investing in it for no money at all, unless it's formed into a commodity industry chain."
Bai Liu calmly analyzes and elaborates, "Obviously the commodities that a child welfare institution can provide are children, and the by-products of children, conventionally speaking I'd be more likely to guess the erotic, erotic chain, but here it would be blood."
Bai Liu's attitude had an almost impersonal indifference as he stated emotionlessly, "The amount of blood that can be provided by the number of children circulating in an orphanage that's been open for ten years and can house several hundred children at a time - I feel that there are more than just the ones I'm talking about that can be saved, so I feel that there are more than just the few entrepreneurs who were waiting in line for the terminally ill patients at the time that this orphanage opened, there were also more terminally ill patients waiting in line than just the few entrepreneurs in plain sight."
Bai Liu looked at him with a calm look that gave Mu Ke the creeps, "If my guess is correct, the information in that archive room, except for players who have logged into this game before-"
"- should all be [investors] who have sucked the blood of children to cure them in reality."
[System Warning: Player Bai Liu's conversation involves reality at the heart of the game, Player Bai Liu's small TV has blocked and silenced this conversation]
Mu Ke was completely confused, he was a bit unable to regain his senses, his hands were busy and spine chilling as he stepped off the bed, "Wait, Bai Liu you mean - no, wait, if I have to memorize all of the patient's case histories, I probably won't be able to memorize that much in a short time right now! I, I'm not very good in the head right now, and what the hell do you mean by what you just said ......"
"I'll explain the specifics to you later." Bai Liu interrupted Mu Ke's inquiry, he faintly swept a glance at the panicked Mu Ke, "If you can't remember all of them, just focus on the ones that I that and you said, this level of crime, there should be a relatively close chain of connection between them, as long as you catch a few, it's easy to pull out the carrots and bring out the mud."
Bai Liu pushed the door open, he turned his head to the somewhat dazed, sitting on the edge of the bed Mu Ke nodded once, his expression calm, "Rest, I need you to maintain a high degree of precision at all times, there is still a lot of information you need to memorize."
"I don't need to rest, I can't sleep, I'm going to help you memorize the case...the information...I can't remember it in a short time, I'll remember it for a little while longer ......" said Mu Ke, slowly Blinking his eyes twice, he tossed his head twice, but his head hit the straw bed with a thud as if it had suddenly become heavy, and he breathed a little sharply as he looked at Bai Liu, who was gripping the doorknob and condescendingly looking at him.
Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke on the bed with no expression on his face, "You need to rest, Mu Ke."
[System alert: Player Bai Liu is using high strength inhalable sleeping pills on player Mu Ke]
Mu Ke eyes black, he felt the ward are in the sky, he struggled to raise his eyelids, only to see Bai Liu turned to close the door, disappeared between his eyes about to droop, he reached out his hand to grab Bai Liu left back, but only fingers moved twice, he reluctantly closed his eyes.
"I don't want to rest ...... I want to work ......"
The last thing Mu Ke heard Bai Liu say before his consciousness completely faded into sleep was, "The sleeping pills will work until about 11:30 p.m. At that time, the nurses are eating and the file room is deserted, so it's a good time for you to wake up."
"Sleep well, Mu Ke."
Mu Ke was curled up in a small ball on the bed of straw, his eyes closed and he was breathing evenly, sound asleep.
Bai Liu took a look and then turned around and unlocked the door and closed it - Mu Ke's spirit is too bad, since last night he has been in a state of excessive shock, the whole person is like a cat with fried hair and shivering, not being able to sleep and rest properly will very much affect his memory.
There aren't many safe times in the game for Mu Ke to take a break, and it's understandable that Mu Ke is in a state of hyper-vigilance Bai Liu.
Only today, with Miao Feichi away, the high density of nurse patrols during the day, and the low probability of monsters coming out, there was no better point than now for Mu Ke to rest and recover at full strength.
But Bai Liu's absence would greatly deprive Mu Ke's sense of security, Mu Ke really sat up from the bed as soon as Bai Liu stood up, his eyes were full of red bloodshot, but also wanted to follow him, looked completely unable to sleep, Bai Liu simply used drugs to make Mu Ke dizzy.
At 9:30, all [investors] who were going to observe the baptism gathered in front of the hospital.
Published at: 04/07/2024 04:00