Chapter 113: Loving Welfare Home

Wednesday, 4.17am.

Liu Huai was anxious about Bai Liu's speculation, he had lost a lot of blood and was worried about his sister, so his life and mental levels were dropping, so Bai Liu took advantage of the situation and knocked Liu Huai out with a sleeping pill.

Liu Huai is now sound asleep on the straw bed, while Bai Liu and Muke are still up, sorting out and analysing the information they have obtained today - mainly from Muke in the case files and from Bai Liu from little Bai six.

Muke glanced with some mixed feelings at Liu Huai sleeping peacefully on the straw bed - he remembered himself from this morning and realised that Bai Liu had a really rogue way of talking to you, and when he couldn't get through to you, he just drugged you, which was... ...

All in all not like a nice guy to do it.

Muke slowly moves his eyes to Bai Liu, who is leaning against the wall, still analysing the combined information.

Bai Liu leans against the wall, one leg bent over the paper, the other stretched out casually, his face Buming with obvious fatigue, his eyes a distinct greenish black, but his gaze still clear and calm, his head bowed as he continues to write with his pen against the paper, his tone even, "Now that we have a general understanding of how the orphanage works and most of the information in the copy, the points I was wondering about before are largely explained. The points I had previously wondered about have been largely explained, but there are still two points left - and they are best not discussed in front of Liu Huai."

Muke is stunned.

Bai Liu looked up at Liu Huai, who was still sleeping on the hospital bed: "First, why are Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi bound together, with their life points reduced to fifty?"

"I had previously speculated that it was due to her being poisoned, but there were two points that didn't quite make sense, firstly why Liu Huai's lifesteal had also been cut in half. But now, after combining the information you gave me Muke, and the information I got from little Bai six and Liu Huai last night, I've now completely disproved that possibility, because I've found a second point of doubt."

"The second point -" Bai Liu's eyes looked calmly and unmistakably at the little girl on the paper, using his pen to put a big question mark on the skinny girl he had drawn, as he looked at Liu Huai without a ripple. "If Liu Jiayi was screened in reality for the poison of the blood lingzhi because of her inbred offspring, or to put it another way, Liu Jiayi was parasitised by this blood-sucking mushroom, then in this case it would be a strange thing for her to vomit blood during her escape, it's completely out of character, the blood lingzhi wouldn't waste her blood to make her vomit it out. "

"Another point that struck me as odd was that the point at which she vomited blood was too coincidental, not early but late, just when she was about to escape and touch the gate." Bai Liu's eyes narrowed slightly, " little Bai six was right to be hesitant and considerate at the time, because if it were me, I would have wondered if she didn't want to escape and was deliberately delaying."

Muke listened as his scalp gradually began to tingle and he looked to Bai Liu with his voice lowered, " Bai Liu, what do you mean ......?"

"But now after combining enough information it's obvious that she was acting and lying to me, or rather to little Bai six." Bai Liu's eyes glazed over in conclusion.

A chill ran up Muke's spine: "But why would Liu Jiayi do that? She's not doing herself any favours by staying in the orphanage!"

Bai Liu's gaze moved to the face of Liu Huai, who was sleeping on the bed: "I think she wanted to save her brother and wanted to stay inside the orphanage until her brother came to draw her blood."

"But then she'll die herself, won't she!" Muke wondered a little, "How old is she, isn't she afraid to die?"

Bai Liu paused, "She doesn't have to die."

Muke was getting more and more confused: "Why? If you get blood drawn, you die when you run out of life, and she's more likely to die with only fifty life points."

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes, "What if she has a personal skill that restores her own lifesteal?"

Muke stares at Bai Liu with a stunned look after a few seconds, "Holy shit? No way?! You mean she's ......"

Liu Huai is half asleep when he is nudged awake, and as soon as he wakes up he sees Bai Liu's calm, over-the-top eyes, but they make Liu Huai shiver a little.

"Jiayi--" Liu Huai shook his head, remembering the argument he had been having with Bai Liu before he went to bed, and the expression on his face instantly faded from sleepy drowsiness to anxiousness, " Bai Liu! You promised me you would save Jiayi! I've done everything for you! You promised me!"

Bai Liu returned nonchalantly, "Perhaps your sister does not need saving from either of us."

Bai Liu told him his suspicions.

Liu Huai was stunned as he looked at Bai Liu, his mind a little slow from the blood loss, he looked at Bai Liu's expressionless face with some confusion, "...... What do you mean when you say Jiayi is acting and lying?"

Bai Liu lifted his eyes, "Are you still Buming White, I told you a long time ago that your sister is not as innocent as you think, she is very clever, cleverer than you and I expected."

"The system did nerf your group for game balance, mainly to nerf your sister, without nerfing her, the game would be unfair to the rest of us, because her personal skills are too strong, and in a game where more life is an advantage, without nerfing her and your life, the game would have no gameplay, she's like a cheat in this game anymore is like a cheat."

" Liu Jiayi has always played the good sister to you, even little Bai six was fooled by her - but eventually it came out, because of you."

Bai Liu looked straight at Liu Huai: "She guessed the mechanics of this game, she wanted to save you so she didn't want to run, she pretended to vomit blood to stay in the orphanage waiting for you to pick her up for a blood draw tomorrow, but she shouldn't have wanted you to find out who she was so she was careful from start to finish, but in the end it was because of you that she revealed her flaw. "

Liu Huai shakes his head, whispering incredulously that this is impossible. Liu Huai's body is a little unbalanced because of the lack of arms, and as he gets out of bed his body wobbles and almost tumbles off the bed, before Muke scrambles to his feet and helps him up.

Muke can't bear to look at the expression on Liu Huai's body - what Bai Liu has told Liu Huai so far is far from the cruelest part for Liu Huai.

Liu Huai staggered out of bed, he walked up to Bai Liu and looked at him, Liu Huai stumbled on his feet, his gaze was slack with tears, he seemed to have no understanding of what Bai Liu had just said.

"How can ...... identity, she's just a little kid, what identity can she have? I'm going to protect her well ......"

Bai Liu tilts his head at Liu Huai: " Liu Huai, from the beginning to the end we have got a logical relationship wrong, it wasn't you who influenced Liu Jiayi to enter the game."

Liu Huai stood motionless in front of Bai Liu, his head bowed and looking straight at Bai Liu as he waited for him to tell him the unbearably harsh truth.

Bai Liu said, word for word, with uncanny clarity, "- Rather, Liu Jiayi's desires influenced you to enter the game; she would have been a player who entered before you, a player who forced the system to take the initiative to weaken in terms of lifesteal, and then bound you, her brother, to limit her. player with extremely specific personal skills."

Liu Huai was silent for a long time before he seemed to react by lowering his head with a lurch and looking at Bai Liu with a dull, dazed look.

Bai Liu's eyes were ancient, his tone unhurried: " Liu Jiayi is the little witch, the one who is going to team up with Zhang Gui in the league, the new star player launched by the King's Guild, the rookie ranked number one on the Rising Star list whose personal skill can actively restore life value."

Game Hall, Inside the King's Guild, Queen Hearts Office.

Hearts lazily crossed her heels to fall off or not, wobbling as she gave a very large hachette of boredom, resting her cheeks and eyes rolling as she watched the people on stage giving her a long and tedious briefing.

The debriefer read the report aloud, "Next is a small TV data analysis of each member of the King's Guild for this quarter ......"

"...... Among our team members this season, the fastest rising overall stats for small TV is the newcomer [Little Witch], who has been firmly locked in first place on the Nightmare Rising Star list since she entered the game 7 weeks ago, with a high popularity and support rate, and a few large group battles since she entered the guild where her output and support have been She's been a core support player since she joined the guild. ......"

With that said, the debriefer tapped on his system panel and a huge, video playing panel popped up floating between them in front of the Queen of Hearts, like a PowerPoint presentation, the debriefer slid across the top of the panel to show the Queen of Hearts, eventually stopping on a video.

The video above is titled [Forbidden Witch's collection of high energy cuts - tonight I have a bottle of poison, I have an antidote, but it's not Christmas Eve, guess who I'm going to kill? .

The Queen of Hearts was barely interested when she saw the title and sat up a little straighter, raising her hand and tapping the video screen to indicate to the reporter to play the video and asked, "You've got the [Little Witch] support video ready? Show it to me."

The video starts with a gesture from Hearts.

The video, which had been pitch black, began to slowly appear in white smoke, and in the swirling haze of smoke appeared a player draped in a black floor-length lace dress, only half the height of an adult, who glanced at the camera and looked away again without a care in the world, she was covered in a veil that made it impossible to see who was inside, but added a bit of mystery to her.

She walked barefoot through the misty jungle of the early morning, her pale skin showing through the openwork patterns of the lace embroidery, her footsteps having a vague yet mysterious lightness of grace that was destroyed the next moment.

Hordes of monsters appeared among the jungle, as if they were growing along vines, writhing and soon shrugging out of the rotting ground. There were also players running and shouting vociferously among the jungle filled with monsters, but they were soon overtaken and devoured by these writhing vine monsters.

Two glass vials with liquids protruded from beneath her black veil, and she darted through the jungle on her feet, black smoke rising from her veil as she cleaned and dispersed the liquid from the vials with crisp, clean movements.

The monster rotted quickly, and the players who begged for her mercy to save them rotted in the woods with the monster, the witch just saved the players in her party with great precision, while the others she didn't even look at more than once - even though she still had plenty of antidotes in her magic potion bottle.

Images from different games nestle and intersect between cutscenes at a rapid pace, as the witch hidden under a black ominous veil brings the prelude to death with poison and doles out the antidote to the player's imminent decay.

Her footsteps were light and agile, moving between monsters and players with ease, her black veil soaked with the blood of the dead monsters and unfortunate players who had passed away, growing thicker and stickier, making it impossible to see whether it was a person or a ghost that was covered beneath.

The blood from the veil dripped down onto the backs of her pale feet and was shaken away again without care, along with the hand of the player who was still clutching her ankle in a death grip for help, a hand that left a hideous bloody handprint on her thin ankle and was again covered noiselessly by the black veil that fell as she leapt away.

"......[Little Witch] game thinking is precise, the standard of play is extremely high, the attack is simple and efficient and extremely ruthless, the psychological quality is not inferior to many players who have already played in the league several times, it is impossible to imagine that this is a, is a... ...

The person reporting from below looked at the system panel and gave a complicated pause.

The Queen of Hearts smiled meaningfully as she continued unhurriedly, "- Can't imagine this is a girl who is only eight years old and still blind, can you?"

The debriefer sighed tersely, "Yes, Empress, the little witch was only seven when she first entered the game, yet she was already able to slay her way out of a group of newcomers with a first place finish, and she was really very smart and adapted to her skills very quickly."

"The Little Witch's skills are so special and rare that many guilds at the time tried to control her and threaten her into joining their guilds, but instead of being controlled and intimidated by the various tactics used by these scheming guilds, the Little Witch quickly opened up a charge bid after realising her uniqueness - -saying that she would join whichever guild gave her the most charge points."

"Yes, she's quite a clever girl indeed." Hearts recalls with amusement, "All the guilds in the top ten were involved in charging bids at the time, a very crazy one."

"And she also relied on charge bidding to surge to the number one position of Rising Star in just seven games, and she kept moving between guilds during this period, working with different guilds on copies, which made all the guilds further realize her value, instead of reluctant to lay a heavy hand on her, they could only choose to charge to recruit her, so the charging and pursuit of her The more frantic she became - I remember when her charge for a game could go up to 300,000?"

"Yes." The debriefer patted his chest heartily and carnally, "That's an astronomical amount for a newcomer, our union combined to charge at least half a million to seven hundred thousand points in the little witch's little TV to win the bid."

Hearts casually flips through the profile on the panel of the reporting system and Liu Huai's face appears on it.

Looking at Liu Huai's clueless face on the profile, Hearts laughed twice, her smile growing as she tilted her head and slipped her long hair off her shoulders, "And even with all those points charged, if our guild player Wang Shun hadn't managed to find out her weakness - that is, her brother Liu Huai, who happened to enter the game during that time and was known to us, the little witch's cleverness might not have ended up settling down. -that is, her brother Liu Huai, who happened to enter the game during that period and was made known to us, this clever little witch might not have chosen to settle down and join our King's Guild, in the end."

"But Empress, that's what I'm wondering about as well." The debriefer asked, somewhat confused as she rummaged through the system panel, "After the Little Witch joined the King's Guild, why didn't she just plug her brother into the King's Guild, but had to get Liu Huai to join our guild through such a convoluted way of Zhang Gui controlling him? And after Liu Huai joined, Little Witch didn't let him know she was the King's Guild's ace rookie player, and she didn't say anything to stop Zhang Gui from torturing Liu Huai like that."

The debriefer wrinkles his brow in suspicion as he looks at the profile of the Little Witch and Liu Huai above with mixed feelings: "...... gives me the impression that clearly the Little Witch's weakness is her own brother, but there is something distrustful, one might even say cruel, about the way she treats Liu Huai ......"

"...... And now that it's getting close to the season, why is it that the Little Witch is still unwilling to accept our offer of a prop eye to fully restore her sight, but instead keeps having to use some intermittent prop to restore her sight during the game and remain in a state of semi-eye blindness? And you, Empress, have chosen to condone this practice by the Little Witch, which is something I cannot understand, a little witch who can see on the field of play could help us so much more."

The debriefer looked at the Queen of Hearts, who was full of questions.

Hearts' feet buckled, her heels quickly falling off her feet, and she ignored them, instead sweeping a smirking glance across the desk at her reporter: "You didn't seriously read the information Wang Shun found out, about the little witch, did you? You go look at the core of her desire to enter the game."

The debriefer was stunned as he moved quickly to click on the profile of [Little Witch] that Wang Shun had synthesized and analyzed.

Wang Shun What is written on the core of [Little Witch's] desire to enter the game: [to be loved by her brother, to be with her brother forever, to be loved by her brother forever].

Such childlike desires are indeed very much like what a naive eight-year-old girl could wish for.

But the reporters knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the little witch who danced on the palms of everyone's hands begging for help, who bounced from guild to guild with ease, was not such a child; she was bloody, cruel and indifferent, with the wisdom of an adult and the innate bad sense of a minor.

Such [core desires] even seem like she's flinging them out at random to fool people.

The debriefer's brow knitted tighter and tighter as he looked at the [Core of Desire], "Empress, I'm still Buming White ......"

"You really don't know anything about women." The Hearts Queen's bare foot nudged the floor, her body leaning forward, smooth hair sliding down her collarbone to her snow-white chest, and the reporters averted their gaze with some blushing.

The Queen of Hearts, however, continued to smile and lean forward without a care in the world: "Do you not wonder why the little witch's desire is to be loved by her brother? That is certainly when she feels she hasn't got it yet."

The debriefer was stunned.

The Queen of Hearts rested her head lazily on the back of her hand and smiled flirtatiously: "That's the way it is with wise women, the little witch's upbringing made her completely distrustful of men, she had a purely natural aversion to them, especially Liu Huai who was a certain trigger for her bad upbringing, but she couldn't bring herself to care about Liu Huai --I don't trust men either, but that doesn't contradict my desire to be loved by them, and most of the time I do."

"Of course we both knew that Liu Huai's desires centred on saving his sister, but in order to recruit this suspicious, still slightly youthful, intelligent young girl, I chose to withhold from her what we had researched about Liu Huai." Queen Hearts shoulders shrugged to one side, exposing her snowy white shoulders as she leaned back in her chair as if she had no bones, the smile on her lips undiminished, "I taught her a more reliable, way to get the love she wanted."

The reporter was stunned for a moment: "...... It is true that you personally recruited the little witch at first, we are not sure of the exact middle process, I remember that at that time you took a confidential level transcendent god grade prop from the guild warehouse to the little witch, and the little witch agreed to join, but what exactly is this prop? was always kept secret from us."

"It's all about to start playing league, it wouldn't hurt to tell you what that prop is, the one I took to her from the warehouse is called [Psyche's Tears], it's a consciousness level prop that comes in a beautiful glass vial." Hearts whispered with a lazy smile, "and a prop that would be perfect for a little witch, the instructions for that prop were that when you drank it, you could be with the person you wanted to be with, forever, but that drug would guide her into some pretty interesting actions - I drank it too. "

The smile on Hearts' face was like that of an older sister next door giving advice, with a compelling and gentle murmur: "The little witch was very hostile and wary of men, but she had a natural trust and affection for women, especially grown women like me who had similar experiences to hers and expected a lot from her, and eventually, at my urging, she drank the potion ."

Hearts drops her long eyelashes carelessly, the fall of which casts a light shadow on her light pupils: "Then she begins to control the brother who keeps her on her toes, step by step, under the manipulation of drugs, eliminating the possibility of the man being in any danger and dividing his mind between others, eventually turning him into Zhang Gui's puppet. "

The debriefer couldn't help but shiver.

Hearts laughed softly, "But soon the little witch regretted that she didn't want a puppet, soulless brother, and she would be filled with doubts about whether the love she received through the prop was real or not, and guilt because she had hurt Liu Huai in the process."

"She was thus more and more afraid to leave Liu Huai, and unsatisfied to be completely convinced, bewildered as to how to go about it, terrified at the possibility of not being together forever, and eventually, at my suggestion, she had to keep, keep asking me for more and more [Psyche's tears] in order to secure this possibility [of being together] --after all, the effect of the prop description given by the system is not deceptive."

As the reporter looked at Hearts' still gentle smile, a chill began to run down the back of her spine - she was such a clever little witch, but at this point, she was being played by the Queen of Hearts.

It is no wonder that many men whose hearts have been broken by the Queen would say that Hearts is a woman who is irresistible to anyone. Even after being used to that extent, these men have never said a bad word about Hearts and have cried for a return.

The little witch is also getting caught up in Hearts.

"The end result is that she begins to constantly validate the possibility that the other person loves her by torturing them and herself." Hearts lowered her eyes to the face of Liu Huai on the panel, she reached out her finger as if in pity and tapped the side of Liu Huai's face, whispering, "What a poor sister and a poor brother, a brother who has clearly made the conscious decision to give up his life for his sister, and a sister who still doubts you.

"And the sister eventually has to join the league to win huge amounts of points to ensure her brother's safety and love for herself."

"Usually we women call this process that Liu Huai goes through -" Queen Hearts looked up at the debriefer, she winked and wiggled her fingers, smiling with a bit of girlish playfulness. "-a test of sincerity, and of course, the vast majority of men in this world would not pass the test of sincerity that the little witch and I have."

Thinking of Liu Huai, who had been forced to lose her best friend after being controlled by Zhang Gui, and of the so-called trials and tribulations Liu Huai had suffered at Zhang Gui's hands, the debriefer quickly snapped out of Hearts' beauty, and he couldn't help but shiver again as he looked at Hearts' luscious face. "...... But what does that have to do with the little witch's unwillingness to completely restore her sight?"

The Queen of Hearts laughed: "Would you love a woman who had tested you in this way?"

The debriefer shook his head frantically.

Hearts raised her eyes and she whispered, "But what if she's blind? What if you didn't know that she had tested you and thought she was a helpless, miserable little girl of eight who couldn't live without you? Would you not have been able to resist pitying her and loving her and being with her forever because she was tortured after all that?"

The debriefer stayed for a long, long time, he could not answer the question, and after a long interval, he spoke with some mixed feelings, " Liu Huai, a bit poor ...... being tricked into loving such a sister."

"I don't think he's pitiful, it's the little witch that's pitiful." Hearts' eyes were clear, "Because if Liu Huai knew one day that he had been tricked into not loving her and protecting her as a sister, she would go crazy."

"So this support video for the little witch signing up for the league after she's painted enough copies ......?" The debriefer tentatively inquired, "Empress do you think it went through?"

Hearts nodded casually before reminding the debriefer as he breathed a sigh of relief, "Take care to protect her real information and don't let the other teams or Liu Huai herself know, or you and I will both suffer."

The debriefer had already been scared for a round and let out a bitter laugh at this, "That's for sure."

"Oh yeah, the little witch should be painting a copy right now, which one did she go to?" Hearts asked, as if suddenly remembering, "When she's out of the game, we'll let her know she's ready to start team training. We gave him a control player late in the game, hoping to mitigate the system's lifesteal nerf by using multiplayer control, but Zhang Gui died before it could have any noticeable effect and we needed her to adapt to the new team and new scheme."

The debriefer began to have a headache, "But Empress, we don't know which Ben the little witch is in now, we checked all the little TVs that are opening and none of them came up with the little witch's TV."

Hearts' eyes suddenly narrowed and she reacted quickly, "You tell Wang Shun to check if anyone has turned off the mini-TV in any of the copies? She's one of the top 100 players and is allowed to turn off the TV."

She finished with a beat and quickly sat up straight again, her eyes calm as she gave the order, "Forget it no, just go check Liu Huai's little TV and see if there are any weird players in disguise in his copy."

" Liu Jiayi is a very well-planned person and she wouldn't do anything outside of her plan unless it had something to do with Liu Huai."

There was a sudden knock on her office and after she nodded a sweaty Wang Shun came in and looked at Hearts: "Empress! Liu Huai knows that Liu Jiayi is the little witch!"

"Who told him that!" Hearts sat up from his chair, his tone sinking.

Wang Shun, who had run all the way over here, took a couple of breaths and said hurriedly, "Bai Liu! He's relying on the game mechanics to figure it out! The little witch managed to fool everyone else, but she couldn't fool Bai Liu, and now all the players are flocking to Bai Liu's TV! He has now reached over 200,000 viewers! He's gone to number one on the Rising Stars list, and fans of the Little Witch have gone crazy after he deduced that Liu Jiayi is the Little Witch! What to do?"

Hearts' eyes narrowed slightly: " Bai Liu ? The new guy again?"