Chapter 97: Love Welfare Center

Game center lobby, core screen area.

Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang's Jr. TV positions were slightly weaker than Bai Liu's in their previous matchup, and both of their Jr. TV stats slipped, causing both of them to drop slightly in promotional positions, slipping from near the [King's Promotional Positions] to the Core Promotional Positions, while Bai Liu's Jr. TV rankings went up a little bit, but his Jr. TV stats weren't good enough to make it to the [Nightmare Rising Stars Promotional Positions]. Nightmare Rising Stars].

What's happening now is that the two sides are meeting in the [core promotional space], and Bai Liu still has the upper hand, with his promotional space directly above Miao Feichi's father and son.

The circulation of the audience of the players in the same promotion is very big, because the audience can see each other's situation, when a player's performance is outstanding, the audience of his small TV will be cheering and tense excitement, although the audience of different players' small TVs can't hear each other's voices, but that kind of atmosphere easily attracts the audience around them, which leads to one side absorbing the audience of the other side, one side flying higher and higher and one side falling lower and lower, so far Bai Liu and Miao Feichi are in this kind of stalemate. So far, Bai Liu and Miao Feichi are in a stalemate.

And this stalemate can easily lead to audience loss.

But the good thing is that Bai Liu's side of the audience loss is not serious, standing in front of Bai Liu's small TV those rare big brother did not go, Wang Shun look at this situation can not help but let out a breath of air - the main thing is that Bai Liu's gameplay is too deadly, the kind of fear of accidentally will be overturned the gameplay is very hooked! The curiosity of the game is very appealing to people.

A top player from Ka Bala guild (the 4th ranked guild) commented to Bai Liu with a sob, "That's a real turn on, this guy's playstyle is still really suited for the [Comedy of Death] zone, no wonder he supposedly fell into that place the first time."

Ka Bala's guild executives wear a green pendant in the shape of a growing tree branch in their hair, which is very recognizable, Wang Shun recognized it at a glance, and the darker the color of the branch in the hair, the higher the rank - and the spectator commenting on Bai Liu has a pendant in his long hair that is nearly dark green, and looks like a pretty good ranker. It looks like a high level guild leader.

"Indeed, I seldom see such desperate players." A spectator wearing a neat white uniform, with the symbol of a seven-stringed lute with wings embroidered in gold thread on the right side of the system's heart nodded.

The spectator had a handsome and elegant mixed-race face with brilliant blonde hair combed to the back of his head, and spoke with a somewhat apathetic demeanor as Wang Shun recognized the uniform as that of a league player of the Golden Dawn Guild (the third ranked guild).

But this Wang Shun has not seen before on the field, and he is really a bit face-blind to the personnel of this guild, many foreigners, but this should be an alternative player who has just joined the team this year, and Zhang Gui who was in the same position before he died.

"But Bai Liu should also have a hard time handling this situation, he's kind of walking on a tightrope right now, just one wrong step and Miao Gaojiang will kill him." Commented a lazy-faced spectator, who was dressed in a very lousy, ragged outfit like a beggar on the street, there was only one guild in the entire game that had this kind of dress up bad taste - Paradise □□□□ (ranked 7th guild).

This was a very strange guild, the founder of this guild was a very rich beggar who had died in the game, but under the influence of his spirit the entire guild was painted in this strange style of liking to wear tattered clothes - the most frequent place where the names of the players of this guild appeared was on the in-game [Reporting Wall], and every day players were reported this guild's players as having an exhibitionist fetish and being poorly dressed.

And this just spoke □□ player audience clothing on the verge of being reported, but he did not care, but raised his finger pointing to the small TV in the Bai Liu, said with interest: "So it is true that newcomers have a halo ah, this game's small TV design in order to avoid newcomers do not have the points to use to lead to the death rate of the strange high this kind of situation, so that the newcomers can promptly Get the points rewarded by the audience to buy props to use."

"And the game more than a year old players get the small TV reward points will be transferred to the system wallet, only after the end of the game, according to the number of points obtained, according to the ladder was deducted from five to twenty percent of the tax ranging from the hands of live players."

"And the newcomers who are live streaming the game can completely judge whether or not they are operating correctly based on how many points they have been rewarded with, whereas veteran players don't have this benefit, they can only follow their own judgment of experience all the way through." This viewer continued, raising his eyebrows, "But in this stalemate situation, this newcomer's aura is ineffective because he doesn't get too many bounties."

"And once they realize that their operational mistakes have caused their reward points to drop drastically, many newcomers will have a mental imbalance that will eventually lead them to a dead end." This viewer eyed Bai Liu in the small TV, "What would you do Bai Liu?"

"How would you, a poor, penniless fellow, go to the next step." He pondered, "Miao Gaojiang and Miao Feichi are waiting for you to give an account of the [Life Renewal Remedy] in front of the hospital, they're talking about killing you if you don't give an account of it, Miao Gaojiang isn't a player who will casually tolerate unstable elements around him, you'll honestly give an account of the quest clues that you've managed to obtain ?"

Bai Liu's eyes droop in the small TV as he walks briskly down the hospital corridor toward where the investors are meeting.

In addition to Bai Liu and their players, there are some other [investors] who are going to observe the ceremony, except that all [investors] look the same, and if they don't take the initiative to greet each other, they can't really recognize who's who when they stand in front of the hospital.

But Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang are still recognizable, after all, Miao Feichi likes to play with the two hogweed knives in his hands, and the one who usually stands next to Miao Feichi is Miao Gaojiang.

Bai Liu, who was pretending to be Mu Ke, went over and greeted him respectfully, while Miao Gaojiang, upon seeing him, single-handedly brought up the matter of the [Life Renewal Formula].

This thing Bai Liu couldn't hide from Miao Gaojiang, and it was impossible to lie to them, because it was necessary for these two people to get the correct [Life Renewal Recipe] before the system would say that they unlocked the main quest, or else the system didn't respond, and Bai Liu and Miao Gaojiang looked at each other - This person was also looking at him with a very scrutinizing gaze, Bai Liu needed to prove his worth in front of this person Miao Gaojiang.

Bai Liu simply handed Miao Gaojiang the pages he had torn out of the book, but with some other pages mixed in as confusing information.

After Miao Gaojiang and Miao Feichi finished scanning through the lines at a glance, these two people's faces stuttered for a moment, which should have popped up the system panel to unlock the main quest, and Miao Gaojiang's face eased for a split second towards Bai Liu: "Indeed, it's a [Life Renewal Remedy]."

But even with the confusing information, Miao Gaojiang quickly sorted out the entire [Life Renewal Recipe], and his face sank quite a bit, "But we have to kill the child to get the blood, if we do that, it's going to chip away half of our life value."

"Old secondary gameplay now, it's just forcing the player to eat half of their total life value." Miao Feichi pulled out her ear with her little thumb, very unconcerned, "I also see that little cub of mine is not good, troublesome and useless, before that, it even kept staring at me and swallowing saliva looking like it wanted to eat my meat, disgusting, so let's just get rid of it."

"And that little Bai Liu." Miao Feichi rubbed his fists, he licked the skin of his mouth, showing a clear look of salivation, "This game's design of killing children is quite in line with what I want, I just like to kill children and then eat their flesh, and then I can eat the skin and flesh afterward, no waste, just right. I can eat the flesh afterward, no waste, just right."

"But it's best not to do it today." Miao Gaojiang looked at Miao Feichi warningly, "Your stamina slots still have at least a day to recover to the point where they can be restored with stamina restorers, so if you do it today during the day, you'll be stuck with your skills pretty badly."

"Tsk." Miao Feichi swept a glance at Miao Gaojiang with slanted eyes, "I know, but even if the monsters here are A+, you don't need to be so nervous, how many times have we played all three levels of the game."

Miao Gaojiang warmly advised Miao Feichi, "Be careful."

Miao Gaojiang is too vigilant and won't act easily without 80-90% certainty. The stuff he got from Bai Liu before included points, and this guy didn't directly put it into the system parcel because he was wary of Bai Liu's trade hosting item hidden inside, but wrapped it up in a cloth - using the same cloth item Du Sanying used in the previous game, the camouflage cloth. -The cloth that Du Sanying used in the last game is the fabric category props [camouflaged fabric].

The system of this fabric gives the props explanation of [false reality], that is, the actual existence but untouchable fabric, this thing wrapped around the thing is not considered to be the player's direct possession, so Bai Liu's trading skill is not valid, because the other player did not [get] the trading item, just like Taobao buyers that have purchased but have not received the goods state.

Moreover, Miao Gaojiang will intentionally avoid Bai Liu speaking to him in imperative sentences, he is very careful, any end sentence where Bai Liu speaks to him in a questioning tone will be called back by Miao Gaojiang without moving his lips, and Bai Liu tries to talk to Miao Feichi a few times, which is also blocked by Miao Gaojiang.

Bai Liu now understands a little bit the meaning of the Miao Gaojiang popularity poll inside the [heart as fine as dust, deep city] logo.

Miao Gaojiang is indeed a very difficult opponent to deal with. The observation and details are so dense that even though Bai Liu has the upper hand now, he can't find any openings that Miao Gaojiang can exploit.

After a few failed attempts at condescension, Bai Liu had to pretend to keep his mouth shut under Miao Gaojiang's increasingly suspicious gaze.

One can only think of other ways.

When it was almost ten o'clock, the director of the orphanage who had led them, the investors, over yesterday came over, and it was the same director who led them across the orphanage to watch the baptism.

Going past the path they came over yesterday, and backward behind the classroom building where Bai Liu had logged in, one could see a church of a perfect size and architecture, a building that the real one didn't have after a few downsizing due to financial dilemmas.

The church was a typical one, with a spire of pure white marble and many runes engraved on the bottom surface that Bai Liu did not quite understand. He scanned it twice to make sure that it was not from the New Testament or the Old Testament, it was a very strange kind of runic prayers, not belonging to any kind of words that Bai Liu knew well that would be engraved on the walls of churches, twisted and grimy hieroglyphics.

The highest building can see a lot of niches in the cherubs, these angels real life child size, realistic lifelike appearance, as if it is from the face of a real person to print down to do the sculpture, the eyes are surprisingly large, as if the next second will be rolled down from their faces, these angels have a strange color lines on the face of the God, as if the skin wrinkled and bulging after the dark blood vessels, but also because of the wind and the sun caused by the cracks in the face from peeling paint.

But the rest of this church is so new that the sculptures don't deteriorate like this.

Bai Liu retracted his gaze without moving, and followed the other investors into the church.

The interior of the church was spacious, tall and wide, the sound of human footsteps echoed as they walked on the floor, the light came straight in from the tall windows on both sides of the church, falling on the pale faces of their terminally ill patients who were full of the smell of death, their seats were directly opposite an altar with a one-meter-high crucifix on it, a common church building, but Bai Liu squinted for a moment and realized something was wrong.

They make horror games that actually use some religious elements, and the picture of the sculpture of Ye Su being tied to a crucifix Bai Liu has seen not a thousand but eight hundred, but this one is clearly not right.

This is clearly a reverse cross, and the bundle on this reverse cross is not a statue of Ye Su as Bai Liu remembered it, but a statue of a teenager.

The young man on the reverse cross looks a little older than Bai Liu Jr. His eyes are closed, and his hands and feet are bound with thorns. Ye Su's cross is also known as the Suffering Face, but unlike the expression of suffering on the face of the traditional Ye Su crucifixion statue, there is no expression on his face, and there is a kind of almost innocent indifference, as if he has no feeling that he is suffering.

The wooden cross had thorns twisting through his ankles and neck and around his face, and Bai Liu could almost see the shadows of his long eyelashes falling across his face scarred by the thorns-but it was just a plain white statue, not so meticulously carved.

But even if it hadn't been so meticulously carved, it would still be a beautiful sculpture.

The limbs were smooth and graceful, and the proportions of his face were strikingly superior, as he lay in the thorn-bush that grew out against the cross, his face slightly tilted sideways nestled in his bound arms, and the light fell from the side windows upon his serene sleeping face, and densified the somewhat dimly lit church with a kind of holy radiance.

Like a sleeping god.

The dean stood in front of the statue blocking Bai Liu's observing gaze, she looked at all the patients who were already seated, "Today, we are here, to welcome the newborns, but baptism is only the beginning, killing children is forbidden in the church, please be patient, investors, wait until you you really confirm that it's the child you want after that, and also make sure that that child can indeed bring you new life, then you may take them."

"Not all children can bring you new life. "The dean looked at the people in her seat with a very deep gaze as she raised her arms in the air, "It takes a child of pure blood to bring you new life!"

The following investor couldn't help but conform excitedly, "Brand new life! "

Bai Liu was sitting in the back row of Miao Feichi Miao Gaojiang, when he heard this, Miao Feichi sidled over and complained to Miao Gaojiang: "How come this game has set up a safe house for children, and it's forbidden to kill children in churches, so if we catch all these children running to the church, how inconvenient it is. It's inconvenient."

"Normal, after all, it's a secondary game, it can't let you pass so easily." Miao Gaojiang thoughtfully and clearly analyzed, "But I think the key to this game is still to be sure to catch yourself that child, that blood innocence should mean this, and we flow the same blood, should only be eligible for the child to be the main drug attraction in order to water that blood ganoderma that we want."

But Miao Gaojiang slightly a meal, quickly added: "But in accordance with the consistent urine of the second level of the game, I think a child's blood should not be too able to save a player, so that can not be stuck in the player's mortality rate, to be safe we catch a few more, a player corresponds to the two children, it should be more or less the same. "

Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang chatted about what to do with these children, these two had no hesitation in classifying children as their enemy since they learned of the [Life Renewal Remedy], and now they were already chatting about how to draw blood out of their infant selves, and Miao Feichi even laughed cheekily and said that they should buy an oversized juicer in the system and throw these children in to squeeze them, would the blood come out a little more? The blood will come out a little bit more.

Bai Liu listens in silence in the background.

He's not surprised that today [investors] can't lay their hands on children; according to that song and his usual understanding of baptism, children before baptism are sinful, impure, and odds are they won't be able to have their blood drawn and used.

If you can just attack the kid today, and Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, two high-risk players, come to the baptism, and the kid is completely defenseless, then Bai Liu will find a way to make little Bai Liu run away with the others this morning.

Soon the dean, after leading all the investors in a few prayers, led in a bunch of barefooted children in wide robes of pure white down to their ankles.

The entire room of investors stirred slightly, the same expression on their identical faces - they gazed wildly and greedily at these children, led to them by the dean, these children who emanated an unceasing breath of life.

This is their freshman year.

Even Miao Feichi, who was lazily leaning back in his chair, sat up straight, his stretched out head surveying the children like a juicer looking at the fruit about to enter his inner cavity with a brutal excitement and greed to churn them out, and his nose shrugged twice with a somewhat mesmerized expression.

"These little brats smell delicious." Miao Feichi, like an animal about to feed, kept licking the skin of his mouth as he stared intently at little Bai Liu, who was walking in the line of children, "That little Bai Liu, he looks like he has such tender skin, it's been a long time since I've eaten a head of children in one sitting, he might be able to."

Little Bai Liu, dressed in a broad white robe that trailed down to his ankles, without shoes, looking down at the, burning, flat candle he held in his hand, the flames wavering on his serene face, walked barefoot at the end of the procession of children, and stood on the dais, guided by the abbot.

Children under the command of the dean on the stage cupped and pulled to stand in a horizontal row, small Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes, under the stage is a lot of identical, thin and pale with a strange smile in the scrutiny of their [investors] faces, in the hands of the children under the shaking of the candle flame, these people's faces seem to be in the hot air deformed and twisted into the shape of a cry, wide-open mouth to pounce on them.

Little Mu Ke standing next to little Bai Liu only sneaked a glance up, and then lowered his head in fear, while little Bai Liu still scanned all the people below without waves, and finally his eyes slowly fixed on Bai Liu's body, and no longer moved away - it is obvious that he was looking for Bai Liu in this pile of investors before. Bai Liu.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in slight surprise - this little friend, all the investors down here look the same, how did he recognize him?

Someone carried in a bathtub, or something that looked like a bathtub, which the dean explained was the altar used to baptize the children, which had been filled with sloshing fresh water, and surrounded by a ring of what looked like unwashable, residual bloodstains.

This bathtub was placed in front of these children.

Dean stood in front of all the children, she raised her hand in a gesture that made all the children look up at her.

She gave a very kind smile, "Alright children, let's sing the hymn once and then we'll start baptizing you one by one, remember to add the hymn to your name at the end."

A jumble of small children's songs rang out, sung in childlike yet clear voices, the flames of the candles they held in their hands leaping brightly in their innocent eyes:

"We're born on Monday, Monday

We were baptized on Tuesday (Tuesday)

We got married on Wednesday.

We (Thursday) get sick.

We (Friday) are sicker

We died on Saturday.

We were buried in the ground on Sunday.

This is our whole life - this is Bai Liu's (each child's name) whole life."

"Excellent." After a quirky opening song, the dean opened the roster she was holding that had been registered and looked down and began to read the names on it, "Next I will have each [investor] baptize their invested child, it's very simple, just immerse your child in this pool of clear water, but the clear water will only wash away the germs that these children have brought with them from the outside world, oh excuse me, it's not germs, it's I'm sorry, it's not bacteria, it's sins, and the water is not enough to wash the sins off of them-"

The dean looked up, her eyes sweeping over all the children, the smile on her face becoming eerily mean, "After washing them with water, you may take a portion of the child's blood and use it to wash away their sins, then take away a portion of the blood and go to the hospital to identify if there are any other sins in them, if there are none, you may come on Wednesday to take away, or, rather, to adopt these children now."

Bai Liu's eyes twitched.

It's no wonder there's a ceremony as unorthodox as [Baptism] here.

It turned out that these [investors] were afraid that these children had some other virus in their bodies, so they also had to use this ritual in advance to wash away [diseases and filth] from the children in these orphanages from the spiritual level, as well as to take away a portion of their blood to go back and check it out, to make sure that there were no problems with these children's blood from the physiological level - for example, whether there were any bacteria and infectious diseases.

These [investors] are quite conscientious, they dislike the dirtiness of these children from the outside world on a spiritual and physical level, so they set up this crowning [baptism] to screen the quality of the blood of the children in the orphanage.

This amounts to a [pre-match] experiment, wait until [Wednesday] and then you can officially start taking children.