Chapter 115: Love Welfare Home

Looking at Bai six's running back as he disappeared into the morning light, Muke's heart suddenly stopped for a few seconds as he thought of Liu Jiayi's strange smile and suddenly wanted to take Bai six's hand and tell him not to go to that classroom, but little Bai six was running so fast that he quickly closed the door to another classroom, calmly unlocked it and turned sideways to get in.

Muke's breath came in two quick gasps, and he remembered with a jolt - he hadn't heard a sound from that classroom in almost an hour.

"Bai six! Come back!" Muke rushed out to call Bai six back, and pounded on the classroom door, "Something's wrong with this classroom! Come out! We don't care about Liu Jiayi, okay? Bai six, just the two of us, run!"

But no matter how much Muke shouted, stomped and yelled, the only sound in the empty corridor was the sound of his own breathlessness, which could no longer be transmitted to the other craft room in which the [silent] prop had been placed.

Soon Muke's strength was exhausted by his emotional slamming of the door, and he crouched in front of the classroom Bai six had entered, covering his heart and panting heavily, his lips bruised, while the sound of footsteps from the corridor appeared as the teacher heard the commotion and approached.

Miao Gaojiang followed him out, and with a somewhat mixed expression he glanced at Muke, who was holding on to the door handle of another classroom, and broke Muke's fingers one by one.

He dragged the exhausted Muke back to the classroom and whispered to Muke, "Stop shouting, you'll draw the teacher here and Bai six will get hurt too, just wait for ten minutes like Bai six said, he's better than us, you have to trust him!"

Muke's chest rose and fell violently, he glanced at Miao Gaojiang and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, because he was breathing too hard, Muke said nothing and looked at the quartz watch in the classroom, biting his lip silently as he counted down the ten minutes.

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Another craft classroom.

Bai six smelled a strong smell of blood as soon as he entered. He looked at Liu Jiayi, who was huddled in a corner, holding her shoulders and shaking and sobbing, and there was a lot of blood on Liu Jiayi's body, as well as some cuts and marks that looked like someone had bitten her hard.

The teeth marks are indeed those that a child of Miao Feichi's age would have bitten off.

Little Bai Six's brow furrowed as the scales of suspicion slowly tipped back towards the suspicion that Miao Feichi had been cannibalised.

But Bai Liu did not lean over easily, but kept a wary distance and asked softly, " Liu Jiayi, where is Miao Feichi? He attacked you, didn't he?"

Liu Jiayi nodded with a small sob as she huddled in the corner in her own cloth box, "Yes."

With a shaking hand she pointed to another corner that was densely shadowed.

Miao Feichi, the second tallest of the children, was now standing in the corner behind a pile of discarded handicrafts, holding something in his hand as if he was ready to attack.

Miao Feichi seems to have seen Bai six enter and is ready to hide himself.

" Miao Feichi ?" Bai six gripped the candlestick as he examined Miao Feichi's soul note and took one tentative step at a time.

With the soul note in his hand, Bai six didn't worry about Miao Feichi attacking him. He plucked away the tangled mess of cobwebs and dust and finally saw Miao Feichi hiding behind it all, her eyes terrified.

Miao Feichi was tied to her limbs like a puppet on a string and suspended from the ceiling, her face, hands and neck densely laced with syringes, with needles in every vein of her body pouring blood into the IV bag.

He had been sucked by these blood-sucking bags to the point that his lips were dry, his skin had a somewhat paper-dry texture, his arms and legs were trembling constantly, and even his tongue was full of needles, which made it impossible for him to make any sound, as he could only breathe slightly in pain.

Miao Feichi is hanging by his arms and legs, his eyes are slack, and the moment he sees Bai six, he bursts into tears, screams twice in an airy voice, and his eyes even show a bit of desperation to die.

Liu Jiayi's sobs turned into a wry laugh as she slowly stood up with her hands behind her back and turned to look at Bai six, who was in front of Miao Feichi, with a dimpled smile. I can't be hurt by a big idiot like Miao Feichi."

"I probably gave him a bad first impression of eating human flesh by biting him and crying loudly while begging me to leave him alone." Liu Jiayi casually fingered the bite wounds on his body and said with a smile, "But I couldn't have fooled you into coming in here without doing that, smart, cold, little brother Bai six who doesn't look like a normal, good boy at all."

Bai six gave a sidelong glance at Miao Feichi, who was still whimpering behind him, and he raised the candlestick flat in a gesture of attack, "I don't think you're in a position to say anything about me at this point, did you deliberately not kill Miao Feichi because you were afraid I wouldn't notice anything wrong and not enter this classroom?"

Bai six would never have come over if he could have seen from the soul note of Miao Feichi in his hand that Miao Feichi was dead.

"With your skill, you are able to see the death status of those you control, right?" Liu Jiayi padded one step at a time, scattering his feet and walking towards Bai six.

Bai six holds the candlestick at a wary distance from her.

But Liu Jiayi didn't care much either, still with a very sweet smile on her face, "Soul control skill? Your investor, or future you, talked about this skill in front of me, it's a perfect skill to exchange souls, you just need the other person's consent, right? It's a rule skill with a little restriction, but it's pretty good, for a newbie like Bai Liu."

"It's like becoming another system that can live and die on those under its control." The smile on Liu Jiayi's face lightened slightly, her foggy eyes moving a little, revealing a condescending, bored disgust, "The ambitious desire to control the acquisition of souls is a disgusting personal skill derived from the unique desires of a dirty adult man."

[System Alert: Player Liu Jiayi's comments about (soul trading) and other related content have been blocked by the system]

Liu Jiayi is approaching little Bai six step by step, but his steps are getting faster and faster, and little Bai six is flying backwards.

Liu Jiayi bounces around the clutter of handicrafts with a smile as if painted on her face, leaping over the various boxes like a wind-up doll, in a light tone.

" Bai six, so at your age you're already addicted to the thrill of being in control of others? It's a lot like the man who gave birth to me, no wonder he did what he did to my brother in the last game, it's all rooted in something."

Little Bai six backed up cautiously, using various objects to cover himself as he did so, his mind racing, "You want to save your brother Liu Huai, don't you? But you've already taken Miao Feichi's blood, and you can probably save your brother Liu Huai yourself, so there's no need to go after me, is there? Liu Huai and the future me are still in a partnership."

"Cooperation?" Liu Jiayi's light-hearted laughter was everywhere and everywhere, approaching Bai six from all sides of the classroom, "The kind of cooperation that uses various restrictions and then verbally coaxes my brother into choosing between me and him? What a disgusting collaboration."

Little Bai six glanced around the centre of the classroom, watching every possible place where Liu Jiayi could come out, his tone still hushed, "But you didn't stop it either did you?"

"You could have called your brother and told him you didn't need him to save you so he wouldn't be coerced into cooperating by the other me, but you still watched Liu Huai make this painful choice between you and him, or maybe you were waiting for this answer that he was choosing between you and his life too."

"If anything, it's a disgusting collaboration." little Bai six's eyes were calm, "Then you are also a participant and facilitator of this collaboration, Liu Jiayi ."

"It's obvious that you want to see Liu Huai give up his life for you to reach this cooperation more than we do, to see your brother tortured and dying to save you and to protect you, and you wouldn't even reveal yourself if you didn't delay until the last moment when Liu Huai was sure he would die for you, right Liu Jiayi? When it comes to being disgusting, we're nowhere near as bad as you."

Liu Jiayi's laughter stops abruptly.

The faint light in the corridor suddenly flickered, and when it came on again, Bai six saw Liu Jiayi holding a doll whose head and limbs had been torn off, her face expressionless, standing very close to Bai Liu, her eyes unblinking, her breathing very soft and close.

The doll in Liu Jiayi's hand is wearing a white shirt, suit trousers, a strange coin with a hole in the middle around her neck, her head twisted almost a hundred and eighty degrees, and a strange dull smile on her face as she looks up at little Bai six with Liu Jiayi.

Even though he has never seen the future Bai Liu, little Bai six recognises the crude doll in Liu Jiayi's arms as his future self through Bai Liu's description of himself.

Little Bai six's eyes rested on the doll in Liu Jiayi's arms and his breath caught in a slight pause, the knot in his throat sliding up and down from his rapid heartbeat and breathing - so this is what it feels like to have the fear of death so close, little Bai six even thought for a moment, as if it wasn't as terrible as he thought. Not as scary as he thought.

Liu Jiayi's voice was very low and she looked down and stroked the doll in her arms and said, as if to herself.

"Do you know why medieval witches made voodoo dolls? When they started cursing someone and started loving someone, they would start making dolls of that person in the hope that the doll would hold the soul of the other person, and the person they hated would die in a hated way, and the person they loved would stay around in a loved way."

Little Bai six had retreated to the edge of the wall, his expression still calm: "Is there any difference between your approach and Bai Liu's?"

Liu Jiayi was silent for a long time, then she suddenly tilted her head and gave a delighted laugh with a wink, "Essentially no, so I also deserve to be a disgusting presence and not treated well by my brother."

"But Liu Huai gave everything for you, you got exactly what you wanted." little Bai six breathed softly, his toes pressed against the wall, his eyes looking to Liu Jiayi who was already pressed against his face, "You got what you wanted, what is there not to be satisfied with?"

Liu Jiayi finally looked up, her expression pale and indifferent, the foggy and grey dense eyes set in her childish and emotionless face, with an odd, eerie, sad sense of dissonance.

She curled her mouth and her eyes like a very good, untutored child, but her words came out with the indistinctness and buoyancy of a heavy mist:

"Because I was never afraid to really believe in my brother, and because I refused to believe, I never got it."

Liu Jiayi's eyes reflect little Bai six in a very foggy quality, as if the soul is imprinted in her eyes.

"My brother is a, very cowardly man who wouldn't, and wouldn't dare, give everything for me."

"Betrayal is a bad habit of his, he is a cowardly repeat offender."

Little Bai six looked at Liu Jiayi and remembered what Bai Liu had told him about Liu Huai, a man who did seem to have a habit of betraying others, from Mu Sicheng to Zhang Gui ...... If betrayal and cowardice are bad habits, then the people who suffer most from this habit must be the people they spend time with. If betrayal and cowardice is a bad habit, then the people who are most affected by this habit must be the people they spend time with.

Little Bai six suddenly understood something and he looked at Liu Jiayi: " What did Liu Huai betray you?"

The smile on Liu Jiayi's face finally disappeared and she looked straight at little Bai six.

"He has betrayed me ...... what?" She whispered softly and smiled, "You might as well ask, when did he stop betraying me."

Everyone would speak to her in that disgusted tone of lust.

[Inbred children, not very intelligent, are they?

[Surely you are blind, and it's a female child, why didn't you get rid of it?

[...... my mother said you simply you this kind of inbred children simply do not have will not be able to go on the account, you can not even go to school, your brother also said to you to cure your eyes to send you to study to let you take the university, ha ha, funny!

The man would punch and kick her when she was drunk, slapping her in the face, forcing her to go down to the weir to find fish, saying viciously that she would not be allowed to come up until she caught a few pounds of fish.

The weir was so cold that the water seemed to reach her throat when she stepped in it at only a few years old, all mud and water, and the fish in it were as slippery as dead limbs, swimming around her but hard to catch.

She was trapped like her dead mother in this weir that she would never be allowed to climb up from, Liu Jiayi could never catch enough fish to satisfy the man who, she understood, was trying to drown her in the weir as a useless, little cub who only wasted food.

It was like drowning her sister and her mother.

In Liu Huai's absence, during school hours, Liu Jiayi hid in the chicken coop or the pig pen, with the animals, or under the wardrobe or bed, in case the man would come looking for her to beat up in the house if he didn't know what was bothering him.

Most of the time she was fine if she hid well from detection, but she had to be on constant alert or she would be grabbed by the man's hair and thrown to the ground, whipped with a water-soaked bamboo strip, or ripped into the weir to catch fish.

For as long as Liu Jiayi can remember, she hid in all the unseen parts of the house, hugging her knees in silence, counting the hours that passed, waiting for Liu Huai to come home from school, feeling the coldness of the countryside as the night came on, soaking from her skin to her heart.

Sometimes she would cry out or scream, beating the animals she was locked up with as if they were retarded or insane or psychotic, as if that would give vent to the resentment and pain that she could not get rid of.

She never dared to let Liu Huai see this side of her. In front of Liu Huai, Liu Jiayi was always the meek, well-behaved, innocent sister who knew nothing and would always smile sweetly at Liu Huai when he came back from school and called her brother.

Even if she had only just risen from an afternoon of struggling to get up from a weir full of mud and silt, even if she had nearly strangled a goose ten minutes earlier in a mad shriek.

Liu Jiayi has known since she was a little girl that all the affection Liu Huai has given her has been in exchange for her disguised appearance, so at all times she has been as vigilant as if she were hiding under her bed or in a dark closet, not wanting her true face to be pulled out by Liu Huai in the same crude way as that man, and then whipped hard, disappointed and questioning, "How can you be such a son of a bitch? And then whipped hard, disappointed and questioned, how could you be such a son of a bitch?

Or maybe not. Even if she were to stand in front of Liu Huai with her true face on, Liu Huai would cower and look away from her.

Because her brother is a man who is afraid to face his true colours and is cowardly.

Liu Jiayi stands in front of little Bai six, looking into the dark eyes of little Bai six with questioning eyes.

She had just learned to hide under the bed and in the closet to escape the man's drunken beatings, only to sneak out after Liu Huai returned or after the man had fallen asleep and snored.

One day, the man didn't know what had happened to her and was so angry that he searched for her for half a day, but he couldn't find her.

The sound of chopsticks crackling on the floor, Liu Jiayi covers her mouth with her hands, not even daring to breathe loudly as she holds her breath and listens to the man's insults against her.

"...... Damn this little fucker is getting better at hiding! I can't even find anything to pass the fucking time, Liu Huai! Liu Huai, get your ass over here!"

Then there was a crisp slap, the boy's suppressed cries rang out fearfully, the man cursed and gulped two gulps of wine, and the sound of that big gulp seemed to pour through Liu Jiayi's ears as her breath caught and a bitter taste that made her dizzy began to rise in her mouth.

Then came the process-like, drunken, thick, middle-aged beating of hands and feet on Liu Huai's back, which rang out ventilatingly and soon stopped at Liu Huai's shuddering cries.

"Shit." The man cursed drunkenly, "Fuck, you're Liu family's only root, and I don't want to hit you, but my hands itch when I'm drunk and the little bitch is away, and she's a pussy who hides, only coming out when you're around, and I pretend your voice to trick her into coming out ...... burp, and she doesn't even not come out."

"Go!" The man slurred and kicked Liu Huai, "You trick that little bitch out, and I won't beat you up."

Liu Jiayi waited for a long, long time, until she thought it was dawn, and then heard Liu Huai's voice ring out with sobs and trembling.

" Jiayi, brother is back, would you ...... come out for a bit?"

"Will you come out for a minute? Outside, outside Dad is gone! You come out here! No one's going to hit you!"

"Come on out! It's really ...... only brother out there! Brother wants to see you!"

Liu Jiayi was silent for a long, long time, the sounds haloing her sensitive, muddy ears into an incomprehensible ringing in her ears, before she burst out from under Liu Huai's bed, where she had been hiding all day, shivering.

The man pulled her by the hair and wrestled her to the ground, slapping her with the breath of pleasure and alcohol, he lashed Liu Jiayi's body, cowering on the ground, with a thumb-thick whip, and kicked Liu Jiayi's soft belly, Liu Huai, standing next to him, shuddered with her eyes closed with each drop.

But Liu Huai didn't dare to go forward, just leaned cowardly against the wall and waited in silence for the torture to end.

After the torture was over, Liu Huai hugged the dying Liu Jiayi and cried out, saying that he would get you out, that he would get into a good university and get out!

You'll bear it for your brother a few more times and he'll get you out! Soon! Very soon!

Liu Jiayi's fingers curled and fell slowly as she listened to Liu Huai's voice, which gradually became similar to that of the man in her ears.

"Yes, Jiayi will help brother bear it." She said weakly and meekly, knowing that Liu Huai needed her to soothe his guilty heart with this [good sister] shell.

Liu Huai, her brother ever so cowardly, afraid to defy the man who betrayed her, cajoled her, stood by the dimly lit hall where she had crawled out and then been beaten for him, eyes closed and afraid to look at it all.

Her brother is an utter, cowardly assassin, incapable of hurting anyone even with a weapon.

But the best thing she had ever gotten in her life was such a cowardly brother.

Betrayal and suspicion were born to be brother and sister.