Chapter 114: The Caring Orphanage

Game lobby centre screen, Nightmare Nova Room.

Bai Liu's small TV was bustling with people, with regular players looking up incredulously at the small TV screen of the first Nightmare Nova.

"Bai Liu is also rushing too fast! What's he eating that fast?!"

"Eat the little witch, the child is already stupid, who did he just say was the little witch?"

" Liu Jiayi ."

"What Jiayi ?"

"Liu whatyi?"

"Liu Jia what?"

"...... you little witch fans stop fooling yourselves, Liu Jiayi, Liu Huai's sister, Bai Liu just launched, I think eight or nine is not far off."

"I won't listen. I won't listen! The forbidden witch is so cold and elegant and mature, she must be a beautiful girl of twenty-eight under the black veil!"

"Wake up, the forbidden witch is so short she's more like an eighty-eight year old girl."

"...... Didn't the character formula book out of the King Dogby guild say that the Forbidden Witch was an underdeveloped person! Damn it! I always thought the Forbidden Witch was a dwarf! So that's what underdeveloped means!"

"The forum threads have exploded with flying melons, and countless Little Witch's boyfriend fans are wailing about how their wives have suddenly become daughters, and they're not ready to be dads ......"

" Hearts seem to be dealing with it, but it's the in-game that's the problem, I don't think Liu Huai is in a good position, tbh, the league support season is good this year, such a big melon in a hot newcomer ......"

"I think it's Bai Liu who's not doing so well, the little witch has always been hard on the non-team members, I feel Bai Liu is going to get cold feet."

"The clash of old and new Nightmare Nova No.1, who will be whose nightmare - the forum has opened a post in Tao ......"

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Liu Huai threw himself down on his knees in front of Bai Liu, his mouth hanging open for a long time, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

His eyes were only a haze of tears, dark and watery, like a piece of sky that did not glow.

Liu Huai kneels in front of Bai Liu with his head hanging, as if he were a puppet with his soul drained from it, his upper limbs torn off by a naughty child, leaving a straightened torso curled up in a state of discomfort after the puppet strings have been ripped out.

Tears no longer flowing, Liu Huai's eyes are vacantly open, his face streaked with tears, and everything seems far away from him.

The damp ward and the dark little countryside gradually reunited in front of him, Liu Jiayi's dirty, good-natured smile the only view he could see, unlike anything else.

She runs barefoot through the hills, sniffs the wild flowers and grasses at the weir, then Liu Jiayi turns to him and smiles at Liu Huai's nervous scolding.

Liu Jiayi bent his invisible eyes, tilted his little face and called him loudly to his brother, darted towards him with open arms like a little bird, a butterfly, a sun that did not know it was shining.

What a reckless and naive little girl, she fell into Liu Huai's arms covered in bruises, her body covered in the marks of the beating she had received. Hold on a little longer for your brother!

And Liu Jiayi leaned meekly against his chest and said in a soft, soft voice, Jiayi will stick around for her brother.

Liu Huai carried Liu Jiayi out of the mountains on his back one night in the pouring rain. From that day onwards, Liu Huai vowed to make sure that she would not see any darkness in the world, to bring her the brightest future and to be worthy of what she had given to him.

They both had the blood of the man they hated most, and grew up stumbling and fearfully clinging to each other by this disgusting bloodline.

Liu Huai told Liu Jiayi, "My brother and sister have been through the most terrible things together, so we will never let go of each other's hands, no matter what.

Liu Jiayi is the most important person to him. Liu Huai is willing to live in this horrible game in order to give her a bright future, to be Zhang Gui's lapdog, to take up a dagger and betray his best friend, to die for her.

But she still lied to him.

Just as he had lied to Liu Jiayi, so Liu Jiayi had lied to him.

Liu Huai drifted back to a dirty, hidden Liu Jiayi's face under the bed ...... Is this retribution?

Because of what he did to Jiayi, because of his cowardly inaction, is this also Jiayi's revenge and retribution against him?

"...... Do you know why I followed Zhang Gui and betrayed Fourth Brother?" Liu Huai's head looked like it was about to drop to the ground as he said very softly and gently, "...... Because at that time, Zhang Gui took Jiayi's real life information to threaten me to join the King's Guild and be his puppet to besiege Fourth Brother... ..."

Liu Huai's eyes were not at all bright: "He promised to give me good treatment and keep me safe, and I was indeed the best treated of all his puppets ...... but I always wondered why, when I had never spoken to anyone in the game about Jiayi Zhang Gui knew about Jiayi's existence, why he knew Jiayi was my sister, why he knew so many details about what happened with Jiayi and me, as if I had told him of my own accord."

Bai Liu listened quietly without speaking.

Liu Huai laughed a little and tears rolled down her face, "So, Jiayi and him are a pair, these should be Jiayi's words to him, why would Jiayi say this to him? Bai Liu, you say Jiayi is so smart, is she, is she ......"

He finally managed to choke up, Liu Huai mumbled somewhat in a trance, "...... Did she do it on purpose, she knew what happened from the beginning to the end ...... She's punishing me ...... punishing me for the things I've done, I'm not a good brother ......"

"If you ask me." Bai Liu replied calmly, "I think she probably thought it would be best for you, joining the King's Guild as a puppet under Zhang Gui would be safest for you in this game, and as for Zhang Gui manipulating you into betraying Mu Sicheng on her cue, with your ability to follow Mu Sicheng It is indeed not safe."

"So if her aim is to safeguard your survival in the game, then I think what she's doing to you is perfectly reasonable - letting senior players take you while helping you hone your abilities, choosing the best guilds and teammates she can control for you, giving you shelter, following you in time to save you when you enter some of the more high-risk games in time to follow in and save you, and in general she did everything with a plan to protect you."

After Liu Huai entered the game, fearing that he would die, he had to send Liu Jiayi to the orphanage on the day when the little girl curled up in Liu Huai's arms, hugged his neck and said to him as if she was worried, "Brother, is Jiayi a burden and a problem for you? Are you going to send me away?

He smiled and shook his head, saying no, Jiayi is the future for me, sorry to have to send you here for now, but one day, if my brother lives, I will take you away.

Give you the brightest future.

Liu Huai lowered her head for a long time without speaking, and then looked up dully: "...... So from that time onwards, was it such a trouble for her that I had to live?"

"It's another story if she's not in trouble, but she definitely doesn't need you to save her, and there's a good chance she'll even go after the other kids to save you, because as a veteran player with some experience, Liu Jiayi must understand the mechanics of this secondary game." Bai Liu's eyes moved evenly to Liu Huai, "That means her own blood alone is not enough, she needs at least one more child's blood to save you."

"So now comes the question, which child will she seek to draw blood from." Bai Liu paused, "As well as Liu Huai, because I controlled you in the last game, and given her protective nature towards you, I think it's likely she'll feel I'm a danger to you, and in order to eliminate me as a factor that's more dangerous to you than Mu Sicheng, the odds are she'll kill my children, aka little Bai six."

"I suspected that she would draw blood from my children, but thankfully my children are now in church." Bai Liu said calmly, "And unfortunately, with my mobility, little Bai six will soon feel their way to their confinement and take them on the run today - and now though I reasoned to learn this information."

Bai Liu shook the Big Brother in his hand and frowned in a rare moment, "But because this call is one-way, I can't call to inform little Bai six of this information, I must wait until he calls after 6am so I can tell him what I know."

Bai Liu was quiet for two seconds, "But I doubt very much if he'll live to fight."

"So now it's our ragtag group of league players who are about to face to wake up Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang ......" Muke looked at Bai Liu and Liu Huai showing a worse than a crying smile, "And over there our children have to deal with your sister, the little witch of Nova First, without knowing anything about it."

"Probably so. " Bai Liu said nonchalantly, "Most likely we're going to die, Muke."

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5.37am, craft classroom at the back of the orphanage.

The chaos of the private hospital explosion didn't end until nearly 3am, when little Bai six, after making sure there weren't any teachers on patrol in the vicinity of the church, darted from behind and wrapped around the orphanage in search of where Muke and the others were supposed to be confined - usually two places for these teachers to be confined One was the canteen storehouse, and the other was this two-room craft room, which had only one side with windows facing the corridor toilets.

Bai six went to the canteen and saw that there were no children there, so it was likely that Muke and the others were being held in the craft room. Bai six, very vigilantly, tumbled into the building through the window in the orphanage's ladies' room and waited quietly behind the door of the ladies' room.

After waiting for a teacher to come in to use the toilet and making the sound of keys clinking at his waist, Bai six came out from behind the door and attacked the teacher without hesitation.

After knocking the teacher unconscious with the candlestick he had taken from the church, he took the teacher's key from his belt, hid in the doorway of the ladies' room, alertly and calmly adjusting his heavy, rapid breathing, and, after making sure that no teacher or caretaker was coming down the corridor, Bai six ran with very light hand and foot movements to the two craft rooms across the corridor.

Bai six was posted in front of the door, looking left and right down the corridor in case someone approached, and his men moved quickly to open the craft room outside.

As soon as the door opened, Muke was astonished to see little Bai six darting into the classroom and jumping for joy: "Bai six! What are you doing here?"

"Came to take you on a run." Bai six gave a brief and concise account of the current situation, "I stepped outside, last night I found that the group of flute playing children with IV bags wrapped around their bodies came from a tunnel behind the church idol, they also took the children out through this tunnel in the church, last night I was seen by me who was in the church, I followed them for some time in the tunnel and found this tunnel smelled strongly of disinfectant potion."

"We can run out of this tunnel while it's still light and the teachers are all still asleep, I'm guessing from the strong smell of antiseptic drops in this tunnel that the direction it leads to is where this group of children who have had their blood drawn came from - that is, near the private hospital where all the investors over there leave the wards are active after nine o'clock, and we need to run there before nine o'clock to avoid running head-on into these our investors and getting caught."

"There must be a car near the hospital, get in and we'll be safe." Bai six gave a brief explanation of his plan, "This is a backup plan my investor and I discussed earlier, he said if we couldn't run out of the orphanage last night at the open day and the gates were locked, then this backup plan could be activated - we could try to follow the group of flute-playing kids to try and run away and find out how they got out of the orphanage."

"I've stepped on the escape route last night, and after a comprehensive analysis, I now think this plan can be implemented, you guys pack and prepare to give it a go, we need to move fast."

All of last night's shocking encounters were glossed over in a few words by Bai six, who scanned the classroom and finally settled on the faces of Miao Gaojiang and Muke, who didn't say a word: "Where are the other two? Where are Miao Feichi and Liu Jiayi?"

Bai six reacted quickly and looked at Xiang Muke with a condensed look: "What happened? Why were these two people put in another classroom by the teacher?"

Muke swallowed hard as he stepped forward to explain to Bai Liu what had happened, and little Bai six's eyes sank.

Bai Liu has said that Miao Feichi does have a habit of eating people, and Bai Liu is not surprised that, not knowing whether he will be saved today, Miao Feichi, a fool, has the idea to eat before he dies and acts on it.

But Liu Jiayi is not a simple child either, he followed Miao Feichi unopposed ...... Considering some of the information Bai Liu had given him earlier, Liu Jiayi had obvious suspicions, but Bai six had no more time to deal with them .

His investor, the future him, is still waiting for him to escape with the others - Bai Liu needs him to save Liu Jiayi, no matter how much suspicion there is in Liu Jiayi's case.

After all, Bai Liu paid for it.

"I'm going to go check it out, you guys stay here." Bai six turned to leave the classroom, but as he opened the door, doubts in his mind made him pause for a second and he turned his head to look at Muke who was watching him blearily, "If I don't get back in time, in ten minutes you will jump out of the window of the ladies' room and make your own detour from the jungle side to the church. "

"The exit out of here is directly below the thorny tangle of the Reverse Cross idol, underneath the baptismal pool, I'll bring Liu Jiayi and the others after you when I'm done with this side of things." Bai six looked to Miao Gaojiang and narrowed his eyes slightly threateningly, " Muke has a heart condition, Miao Gaojiang you better run with him and take care of him or else ...... you know what you've pledged on my side. "

"Yes!" Miao Gaojiang, hearing Bai Liu give another escape plan out, now with some vague excitement on his face, hurriedly responded.

Hearing little Bai six's explanation, Muke's heartbeat quickened uneasily: "Just going to another classroom, what can happen? Miao Feichi can't do anything to you! You can come back and run with us!"

"I don't know what's going to happen, it's just that I've always had bad luck and nothing good happens to me." Little Bai six propped himself up against the door and turned his head to look at Muke as the faint morning light fell behind him, casting long, ominous shadows on the ground.

His pale, bloodstained face was gilded little by little by the golden sunlight, and even the tiny hairs of unripe fruit could be seen on his face, and his mouth seemed to be tinged with an indefinable, inexplicable smile.

Little Bai six curled her eyes and gave a soft laugh, "But I seemed to have good luck last night, probably because I changed my name, and it seemed that suddenly something very strange blessed me and something good happened to me."

He pushed the door open, turned his back on Muke and waved casually as he left the craft room where he had painted two gift paintings of Bai Liu.