Chapter 132: The Real World

Bai Liu watched the TV for a while, Lu Yizhan followed him and when he saw that the TV was talking about community psychologists, he casually asked Bai Liu: "I recommended you to go to that community psychologist before, have you been going there on time lately?"

Lu Yizhan is probably the most worried person in the world about Bai Liu's mental health, fearing that he might have a momentary lapse of mind and go on to make a fortune.

"After two visits, I think I'm close to psyching that shrink out, so I'll do some good and not go." Bai Liu withdrew his gaze from the TV and turned to Lu Yizhan, who raised his eyebrows slightly, "I think you should see a psychiatrist too, the way you look now."

Lu Yizhan, with his beard pulled back and frowning, his eyes heavily bruised and black, his body smelling of cigarettes, his clothes crumpled and covered in soot, he hadn't been home all night yesterday and was here, his eyes all red and bloodshot, which made him look agitated and overflowing.

Lu Yizhan just laughed bitterly at Bai Liu's jibe: "What are you doing here?"

Bai Liu is not the nosy type, and his willingness to come to the hospital for a visit was due to Lu Yizhan's short mouth.

But it's not at all Bai Liu's style to come over so proactively.

"Come to see when you're ready to smoke yourself to death." Bai Liu gently glanced at the mountain of cigarette butts in the top lid of the bin Lu Yizhan was holding, "What, you don't want to save up to marry your sister anymore and spend so much money on cigarettes?"

Lu Yizhan raised the butt of his cigarette and shook it, exhaling slowly: "Cheap smoke, don't tell Sister Dot, I'm really agitated, some kids had another accident last night."

Bai Liu nonchalantly followed Lu Yizhan's words with a question, "Oh, what happened?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a while and took a sharp drag from his cigarette butt: "The five children who had managed to survive in the orphanage started to faint one after another last night for some reason, and were rushed to the hospital."

"But check all indicators at all, it is severe anemia, and they only checked the day before, anemia is not so serious at all, the result of the early morning these children began to appear a certain coma shock and even spasms, the doctor said it may be caused by excessive blood loss, but the children are well in the hospital, the doctor simply can not find the cause of excessive blood loss. "

" What about Liu Jiayi?" Bai Liu asked, seemingly offhandedly, digressing diffidently.

Lu Yizhan's frown grew deeper and deeper: "This child is also very strange, she suddenly slipped out yesterday morning after her brother, and we only found her this morning. We had the doctor give her blood and are sending her off for tests now."

"She looks much paler than yesterday, much like those kids who had an accident last night, and most likely has very severe anaemia as well."

"Some police officers were going to arraign her because the point at which Liu Jiayi ran out was too inchy and suspicious, but she was in a really bad way, so it was better to have a doctor look at her first."

Lu Yizhan's mouth was full once the floodgates were turned on. He had probably been holding his tongue all night, but he couldn't find anyone to talk to, so when Bai Liu came to him, he kept pouring out his grievances.

Lu Yizhan sighs: "Also, it's not just that, this whole orphanage thing is obviously not right, I still think there's a connection with those investors."

Lu Yizhan said here, a little anxiously disliked his forehead with his thumb, as if using his thumb to poke a hole in his forehead he could find a way to solve the case, "I asked around, the colleagues investigating the case seem to have the same idea, they have sent the whole department up to investigate, but it is still too difficult to find clues, those missing children in the orphanage The missing children in the orphanage all ran out on their own, there's no telling where they went, and there's also the special status of those investors, it's unlikely we'll be able to investigate hard without getting key evidence."

Bai Liu nodded that he had heard, but said, "Can I see these children?"

Lu Yizhan thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, I can vouch for you, many good people with an interest in adopting are coming to see these children now, you should be able to look at them."

"The other children are fine, but Liu Jiayi is a bit more difficult. After we held her down and forced the doctor to draw her blood, she kept hiding under the bed and wouldn't come out, she started screaming and overreacted when we went in.

Lu Yizhan led Bai Liu to see the children.

These deformed children who had lost so much blood all lay pale, breathing weakly, their body temperatures were low, even their hearts were beating slowly, and the line between life and death seemed to blur in these children's bodies.

The blood spirits that nurture the adults' desire to live are greedily and uncontrollably sucking the fresh blood from the bodies of these tender children, who are at their fastest age of blood production and still can't keep up with the rate at which the filth-hungry adults suck the blood.

"They can't find out what's wrong with them." Lu Yizhan couldn't bear to look at the children lying in the beds, one look at them made his eyes red, "They suffer so much, they're only a little old."

Bai Liu gently ran his fingers over the dry skin of the child's mouth, his voice was soft and faint, and he didn't know who he was talking to: "Don't be sad, it will get better."

[System prompt: Does player Bai Liu want to use the prop (Blood Lingzhi) to heal the subject in the hospital bed?

[Warm tip: There is only one Blood Lingzhi plant, adults can take it three times, children can take it six times, this prop has the dose and the number of times to use, players Bai Liu sure to use this prop?

Bai Liu: [OK]

[System warning: This prop is not a core desire prop of player Bai Liu and cannot be used directly by player Bai Liu in reality!  ... zzz ... zzz ... Abnormal bug data intrusion...]

Bai Liu felt the cross of his heart begin to burn, and with it the temperature of his coin seemed to run overheated.

[...... Unable to clear abnormal data ...... Prop (Blood Lingzhi) put into use ......]

The child's throat rumbled strangely as if he had eaten something, then swallowed it subconsciously with a frown.

The face of the frail child in the hospital bed was strangely flushed in an instant, and within seconds he slowly regained consciousness as he opened his eyes a little with difficulty.

Bai Liu's face, devoid of any emotion at all, appeared before him.

The boy's breathing was weak, his chest rising and falling very gently as he stared in awe at the strange uncle before him whose face was blurred in his eyes, a warm feeling rising from a stomach that didn't know what it was digesting, and he licked the skin of his mouth as a very ripe, fragrant mushroom flavour filled his mouth.

It tasted much like the mushroom he had eaten from his teacher, the one that had poisoned all the children, but it was sweeter and sweeter than that, not at all bitter, like the taste of a mushroom that had been thoroughly ripened, with a full, evil taste that was not like human blood, that did not come from the blood of children.

--Smell from the gods, the happy smell of being saved.

"Let's go, next." Bai Liu pulled away Lu Yizhan, who had not yet noticed that the child had woken up abnormally, and pushed the still slightly confused Lu Yizhan out, shutting the door behind him.

As the child saw that the strange uncle had left, he felt a slight sense of regret and sadness for some reason, and his thin fingers, which were placed next to the hospital bed, moved as if to catch the departing one.

Then Bai Liu's head poked through the doorway and he calmly, not at all shamelessly, said to the child in the hospital bed, "O little one, I remember your name, and remember that it was my uncle who saved you."

"Uncle Bai Liu, remember to pay me back for your medical bills when you grow up, right now you are too young to pay, I can let you have credit for now, I have the note on your bedside."

The boy watched in awe as Bai Liu said this and closed the door behind him, and then he suddenly, for some reason, had a slight urge to laugh.

So he laughed happily, and weakly.

Lu Yizhan's strange questioning voice came from outside the door, "What did you just poke your head back in to see?"

"...... nothing, thought I'd forgotten my phone ......"

After walking through five wards, Bai Liu finally arrived at Liu Jiayi's ward.

Lu Yizhan was already feeling a little weird: "Why are you suddenly so kind today that you have the urge to visit sick children?"

"Looking for clues, didn't you ask me to look into it for you?" Bai Liu was casually talking to Lu Yizhan without changing his face.

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but be deeply confused - he'd seen these children many times before, was there any clue he'd missed? It shouldn't be.

Before Lu Yizhan could even think about what he had left behind, Bai Liu had already unscrewed the door to Liu Jiayi's hospital room.

The shrill screams of the girl inside were about to topple the roof, and the police officer guarding the ward could not help but grimace and cover his ears, gesturing for Bai Liu to close the door quickly.

Bai Liu was unmoved and said, " Liu Jiayi, I'm Bai Liu, let's talk."

The screams of the girl inside came to a screeching halt.

Both the policeman and Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with astonishment.

Bai Liu was able to enter Liu Jiayi's ward, thanks to the suspicious eyes of the guards and Lu Yizhan's vigorous vouching, provided that the surveillance was switched on and that he entered with the tape recorder connected to the outside.

In less than a minute after Bai Liu went in, a police officer came over with a phone in his hand, looking ugly: " Liu Jiayi's brother Liu Huai is dead, we were just informed by the traffic department that there was a traffic accident this morning, and it seems to be an accident. What should we do now?"

Lu Yizhan turned on the loudspeaker connected to the recorder with a complicated expression, and Bai Liu's voice came out clearly: "Liu Jiayi, can we talk?"

After a long, long interval, a hoarse, dry little girl's voice came out, "What do you want to talk about?"

The policeman holding up the phone looked at the recorder in dismay: "Who's that? Why is Liu Jiayi suddenly willing to talk?"

"My one, no, he should also be considered one of Liu Huai's ...... webmasters." Lu Yizhan said with an increasingly complex expression.

Although he has no idea how Bai Liu made friends with Liu Huai.

Inside the ward, Liu Jiayi crawls out from under the bed and curls up in a corner position.

Her head was still buried within her own knees, a very insecure self-defensive position, and her bare skin and fingers were frighteningly white, with no trace of the bruising of her veins visible.

It was obvious that Liu Jiayi was also suffering from blood loss, which Bai Liu could have guessed - because the antidote [Blood Lingzhi] would only be rewarded by collecting the page "Love Welfare Institution - Plant Patients", but Liu Jiayi was basically at the welfare institution from the beginning to the end. But Liu Jiayi was at the orphanage from start to finish, so he didn't have time to collect this page.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Liu Jiayi asked hoarsely and indifferently, her head still not lifted.

Bai Liu always likes to cut to the chase: "You know Liu Huai is dead, right?"

Liu Jiayi's whole body trembled uncontrollably as she shrank smaller and smaller, almost reducing herself to an unnoticeable, ballooning blob on the quilt, and her breath caught in her throat.

She ran out this morning to look for Liu Huai.

But she was not able to prevent Liu Huai's death in time.

"I have his soul, or rather it is partly with me and partly where the system is." Bai Liu turned the conversation around and continued on unhurriedly, "If you want to resurrect him, you need his soul, and I won't give it to you for free, you need to take something in exchange."

Liu Jiayi is silent for a moment and asks, "What do you want?"

Bai Liu squints at her, "You should guess what I want, I want your soul, I need you to accompany me to the league this year, then win the league you can use the points your brother and also get out of the game with a wish, I also promised Liu Huai to take you out of the game, this is how I will take you out. "

Liu Jiayi finally managed to lift her head, her grey eyes staring straight at Bai Liu, the ring around them still visibly red and swollen, obviously having cried.

She said, "You're ambitious, if I want to win the league, why don't I just follow the King's Guild, they have a much better chance of winning, and even if you take my brother's soul, as long as I win the league, I can use my wish to take my brother's soul directly from you and the system will do anything for me."

"Does that include being brother and sister with Liu Huai forever without any hard feelings?" Bai Liu's tone was calm, "I thought you'd had enough of the system, a thing full of lies."

Liu Jiayi's fists clenched as she remembered Hearts' flirtatious smile and the system's prop called [Psyche's Tears].

The God-level prop is already the highest level prop in the game, but it still didn't grant her wish.

"You can make a deal with me, I can tell you my skills in full spread, I cannot break a deal, and my soul will be imprisoned if I do." Bai Liu looked directly at Liu Jiayi, "At least you can trust me on keeping my word."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, then she asked very softly, "If I agree to trade with your soul, what will you do with me? Do I need to stay in the orphanage? I would need to disappear one day a week to enter the game, or maybe you would have to send me back to the countryside, that might be more convenient."

"I don't think this orphanage will be able to continue." Bai Liu doesn't say that Muke is already compiling evidence to report anonymously, "I can't let you go back to your real father's village either, but I do have a friend who wants to adopt you."

Liu Jiayi, as if she had expected this, asked in return, "Was it the policeman who was guarding me?"

Bai Liu: "Yes."

Liu Jiayi clutched her knees again and turned her head, her grey opaque eyes "looking" out of the window, which faced the street and was open at the moment, and she could hear the horn of some breakfast vendors downstairs. Jiayi, curled up in a hospital bed with a numb expression, does not fit in.

"Red bean cakes, sweet and savoury red bean cakes! Ten dollars for three red bean cakes!"

"Bean curd brains! Five dollars a bowl!"

"Beef noodles ......"

"This morning, this policeman bought me red bean cakes." Liu Jiayi spoke up very abruptly, "Because I had my blood drawn, and then it seems he saw from the CCTV that I kept looking out of the window, probably thinking I wanted something sweet, and he went down and bought it for me."

Bai Liu notices a paper bag of red bean cakes on the bedside table of Liu Jiayi's hospital bed, cold but unopened.

"He's the first nice guy I've ever met." Liu Jiayi tilted her head very slowly again, she looked placid, "So a bitch like me, don't go wrecking him."

"I'm a gamer, and contact with me might get you involved in the game, so forget it, Bai Liu."

She finished and looked away from the window again.

The morning breeze blew warmly, with the sweet aroma of baked red bean cakes on Liu Jiayi's cold forehead, and the daylight shone golden on her pale face, shimmering in a dull yellow outline around her body as she closed her eyes in a trance.

She doesn't even deserve a worse good, let alone a pure good like Lu Yizhan.

There are very few people in this world who are willing to pay ten dollars to be nice to her anymore, and although she is cheap, there is no need to meet one to harm another.

"It is indeed a possibility, but considering the special nature of my friend, it is unlikely that your influence on him has reeled him into the game." Bai Liu analyses objectively and calmly.

"After all, even I can't do that, and it's more of a subjective choice for him to adopt a child." Bai Liu's tone was calm, "He likes you so much that he was preparing everything for your arrival before you even asked, and I think he was prepared for all the possibilities he would face after you."

"Are you sure you want to say no to him, Liu Jiayi?"

"Lu Yizhan will be the best dad in the world." Bai Liu says with certainty. If you want, Lu Yizhan can run five kilometres from his home to this hospital every day to buy you red bean cakes, send you to the best school for the disabled, stay up late to make you rag dolls, and he will be happy to do it for you," Bai Liu says with certainty.

Liu Jiayi was about to scoff at the fact that you described your friend as really stupid, but the moment she opened her mouth, her tone was a little muffled and choked, "No more."

"Bai Liu!" Lu Yizhan opened the door with a red face and a frantic glare at Bai Liu, "What are you saying to that little girl!"

Lu Yizhan sputtered outside when he heard Bai Liu's categorical statement that [Lu Yizhan would be the best father in the world], and rushed in to interrupt Bai Liu under the eerie stares of his two colleagues.

Lu Yizhan scratched his cheeks in embarrassment and walked up to pull Bai Liu outside, while whispering to Bai Liu: "I say you Bai Liu, how can you talk to a young girl about her brother and then act as a lobbyist for me, are you a human being, look, you've made a young girl cry. I came here to check something, you give me this mess I will send you away ah!"

With a glare, Lu Yizhan criticises Bai Liu again.

But Liu Jiayi called out in a soft voice, "Bai Liu? Have you left?"

Lu Yizhan's scalp tingled as he said this, while Liu Jiayi's hands were clawing at the air, with Liu Jiayi's fragile expression of not crying.

Bai Liu turned his head, shrugged his shoulders and mouthed to Lu Yizhan [it seems I can't leave yet].

Under Lu Yizhan's breathless gaze, Bai Liu walks back and sits next to Liu Jiayi's bedside table, who gently grabs the corner of Bai Liu's coat, as if he is very attached to him.

" Lu Yizhan, you can buy me three red bean cakes and bring them up too." Bai Liu naturally ordered, "I haven't had breakfast either."

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Lu Yizhan held his breath and raised his hand to Bai Liu and waved it at him twice, verbally scolding him for being so shameless. "You'll see, Bai Liu!"

"Bai Liu did not like children when he was young, so how come this little girl is giving him a good look. ......" Lu Yizhan muttered, closing the door and walking down the stairs, seemingly ready to go buy red bean cakes for Bai Liu. "...... The old man still eats red bean cakes, he doesn't mind the snooze."

When Lu Yizhan closed the door, Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: "Are you sure you don't want to be adopted by Lu Yizhan?"

Liu Jiayi's lips were pursed as she shook her head gently, "No, I can follow you in the game, but there is no need to be adopted in reality, I can ostensibly go back to my real father's village as a cover, no one in that village will notice if I am dead or alive, and then I will stay in the game, I can afford to pay the points for staying in the game all the time. "

"That's a waste of points, are you sure you're in the game with me?" Bai Liu asked again, " Lu Yizhan is a good guy fool rare in seven billion people, you'll hardly meet one if you miss out, I'm genuinely trying to sell you on my friend because he really likes you, otherwise I wouldn't have saved you in the game."

Liu Jiayi was stunned for a moment, then shook her head slowly and firmly, smiling softly as if in self-deprecation, "I'll just thank him for the three red bean cakes, I won't harm him anymore."

Bai Liu leans forward as he sits on the stool next to Liu Jiayi's bed: "Lu Yizhan and I are completely different types, he is the one who gives you nothing in return, but I will remember even if I buy you a red bean cake until you give it back to me."

"If you agree to trade with my soul, I will drain you of your value to the last moment, and of course I will pay you accordingly, do you want to Liu Jiayi ?"

Liu Jiayi could sense Bai Liu's position and she looked straight at him for a moment before suddenly pointing to the door and saying, "Now go down and buy me red bean cakes."

------

Lu Yizhan came up with three red bean cakes, he was delayed in answering a phone call from his sister downstairs and the cakes were already a bit cold when he came up.

He subconsciously swept the red bean cake he had bought earlier on the bedside table - it was still there, unopened.

" Jiayi, who bought this for you?" Lu Yizhan asked curiously as he stepped forward, "Other police officers?"

Liu Jiayi took a small bite on the edge of the red bean cake, the sweet and sticky bite sliding down her throat and warming her whole body.

She had a small piece of mushroom in a red bean cake with a hint of blood - it was a blood reishi.

It was too bad, she didn't like the taste of mushrooms in the red bean pie.

" Bai Liu bought them for me." Liu Jiayi bowed her head and clutched the red bean cake.

Lu Yizhan was shocked: "And he would spend money on other people?!"

Liu Jiayi shakes his head: "It's not free."

Lu Yizhan's expression was incomplete: "I knew it, did he ask you for money Jiayi? No, you don't have any money either ......" Lu Yizhan was puzzled when he swept up a piece of paper on the bedside table, Lu Yizhan picked it up and took a look at it, his face split instantly.

[IOU: Today Liu Jiayi asked Bai Liu to buy one red bean cake for ten yuan and three pieces, the goods should be three pieces of three yuan].

[Liu Jiayi instructed Bai Liu to pay for the errand: $5. Liu Jiayi chose to use the rest of the red bean cake to cover the debt, so Liu Jiayi actually owed Bai Liu $5].

"This bastard!!!" Lu Yizhan was really convinced, "A cake is $3.30 and he charged you $5.00 for the errand, he is good at business, what did you use for the red bean cake to cover your debt, don't trust him! He's an ass, he's probably taken more than three yuan from you, tell the police uncle, he'll help you recover it later!"

Liu Jiayi finished the last bite of her red bean cake, she clapped her hands and, not knowing what she remembered, turned her head to look out of the window, squinted her eyes and smiled very innocently like a little girl: "I paid off my debt with something worth one red bean cake, he didn't overcharge me."

Lu Yizhan became more and more confused: "What is it?"

Liu Jiayi replied, not very concerned: "It's not very important, it's not worth much money."

"No matter how worthless you are, don't exchange with Bai Liu. ......" Lu Yizhan said with a headache, "He is so treacherous, he will exchange everything with people, he is so clear in his calculations. "

"Is that bad?" Liu Jiayi looked up at Lu Yizhan, her tone had a naive ethereal quality, "Is it bad that I can get everything I want in trade, that he will never betray me, that he will never give me good or bad for no reason?"

She had no way to trust anyone else, so she simply existed untrustworthy.

Bai Liu is the best choice for her because Bai Liu understands her, understands her lowliness and evil, understands everything about her that is not like a child and not like a normal human being.

She will never have to worry about hurting Bai Liu, nor will she have to worry about Bai Liu hurting her; theirs is a bank transaction, always calculated so clearly and reasonably that there will be no betrayal or suspicion.

Lu Yizhan looked at Liu Jiayi with a stunned expression, but it wasn't long before someone came to call out to him.

" Yizhan, the other five children are awake!"

Lu Yizhan's eyes lit up and he put down the red bean cakes he had bought for Bai Liu and hurried there.

Bai Liu bites into his red bean cake as he looks at an extra Liu Jiayi soul note in his old wallet, takes a big bite from his left hand and then frowns, "It's too sweet too, and this goes for three dollars? I should have known to buy just one."

Bai Liu wrapped the red bean cakes and carried them around, clipping his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, he scanned the screen - it was Lu Yizhan.

"Where are you? I've bought you some food, so come and eat it!" Lu Yizhan sounded excited, "I'm telling you, those five kids are awake! The doctor says they're doing better! If you have anything to ask, you can ask now!"

"No, I've sorted this out." Bai Liu said slowly, "You should be able to sort this out right away too. "

Lu Yizhan was shocked: "? When did you sort it out! What do you mean we sort this out right away?!"

Bai Liu looked back at the hospital with his phone in the air and instead of answering Lu Yizhan's question directly, he lamented in a headless manner, " Lu Yizhan, I find that at fourteen years old, I really eat your shit up."

"Luckily I'm more than fourteen now, I don't eat your shit anymore. " Bai Liu took another bite of his red bean pie, he wrinkled his nose and swallowed, "Remember to buy me another meal when things are sorted out or I'll be a bit short, I'm running out of phone bills, hang up."

"?!?!!?" Lu Yizhan was confused, "I thought we were talking about a case, why are we talking about- Hey!!! You're really dead! Bai Liu! Bai Liu!!!"

Lu Yizhan cursed and charged Bai Liu's mobile phone number which was said to be in arrears, and as soon as he had done so, he turned his head to see the police officer guarding Liu Jiayi with him looking up in a trance: " Yizhan, someone has posted our case on the internet ...... "

"?!" Lu Yizhan opened his phone to search in disbelief, "There's no card over at Cyber Security? I thought the status of this case said they weren't allowed to just post it?"

The police officer shook his head a little deliriously, "It's not the circumstances of this case, it's the clues to this case, someone has sent out a compilation of what happened to these kids back then, and the medical records of those investors, and it's now hanging on the hot seat ......"

Lu Yizhan: "?!"