Chapter 133: The Real World

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"I had my dad get someone to do it, a professional, an overseas address, it shouldn't be that easy to trace, and my dad said there were ways to trace it." Muke says to Bai Liu on the phone, coughing sheepishly, "There's a business rivalry between my dad and someone here, so he cut out some of the less credible facts, like the blood ganoderma part, and vaguely exposed the fact that these investors were experimenting on children to cure them, you don't mind if it gets bigger, do you? "

Bai Liu used the computer to search for the following hot searches.

#Blackheart Entrepreneurs Group

#The shocking inside story of the #welfare home poisoning

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"I don't mind." Bai Liu, the type who doesn't really care about the process as long as it leads to a result, leaned back in his sofa chair, "But they're probably spending money like crazy to pull the buzz now, aren't they?"

"Yeah, but it's not going to be that easy to get them to pull back, we're also throwing money at the hot seat and it shouldn't be easy for them to pull back until the police get involved in this thing." Muke said.

"Please, Muke." Bai Liu said, "Rest up and get back in shape, get into the game at twelve tonight, I've got a bit of business to attend to this afternoon."

Muke snorted, "Okay, Bai Liu."

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At 3pm, Bai Liu brought a couple back to the hospital.

Across from Liu Jiayi sat a couple, rubbing their knees a little nervously, looking expectantly and incredulously at the little girl sitting on the bed, and soon their eyes were moist with disbelief as they looked at Bai Liu standing by and asked in a trembling voice: " Bai Liu, can we really adopt her? "

"...... Are we eligible to adopt her?"

Bai Liu leaned against the door and gave Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua a breezy glance: "You are eligible for adoption."

The only daughter who died tragically, the family with a good reputation and who loved their children, and the fact that they had reached such an age that they had no intention of having any more children, were perfectly qualified for adoption, and it could be said that Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua were in the best category of adoptive families, much better than Lu Yizhan, a small policeman in precarious conditions.

For the children in the orphanage, Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua would be a head-scratcher if they wanted to adopt anyone - it's the best way out and the best option for them.

Liu Jiayi was also aware of this, she propped herself up on the railing of her hospital bed and spoke in a somewhat guarded tone, " Bai Liu, I said I can stay alone, it's totally unnecessary for you to find me this adoptive family in such good condition, I won't be grateful to you, and I don't want to keep acting and pretending in front of others, you have to be clear that I am a gamer. They might stay with me and say ......"

"They're gamers too." Bai Liu interrupted Liu Jiayi with a nonchalant remark.

Liu Jiayi was quiet, a look of consternation on her face.

Bai Liu drew a bench and sat down, cutting off what Liu Jiayi was about to say: "They know you're a little witch, I made them buy and watch all your little TV videos of the games, they know what kind of kid you are, you don't have to pretend in front of them, you can just go into the game and do what you have to do. "

"I sold you on Lu Yizhan before, partly because he liked you so much, and partly because your brother really wanted Lu Yizhan to adopt you, and he also thought Lu Yizhan was a good man who could give you a perfect family." Bai Liu raised his eyes to Liu Jiayi, "But if you don't want to, I'll make other arrangements for you to move around more freely without having to worry about arrangements for the aftermath."

Both Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu are still a little nervous.

Xiang Chunhua has been rubbing his thighs, eyeing the blind little girl: "My family had a child before, but ...... something happened to me and Mr. Liu, it's true that we're not very good, not in the game, not outside the game, or else we wouldn't have Wouldn't let Guoguo ......"

She paused and lowered her head to wipe her eyes with her palms, " Jiayi, I know you're a great little girl and there's nothing we can do for you, but Bai Liu said you need a place to land outside the game that's legal and sensible, but you're a kid and there's no good place for Fang Ke to go. "

"We can still be of some help with this." Liu Fu took Xiang Chunhua's words, his body leaning forward and his words stammering and apprehensive, "This adoption relationship is just a stop-gap measure, if you don't like us and don't want us to be your nominal parents, you can dissolve the relationship when the game is over."

"If you need anything, you can always talk to us too, we will do our best to do what we can, do you think that's okay?"

Xiang Chunhua couldn't help but say, "Look how skinny you are, stay with us and at least you can have a hot meal when you come out of the game.

"I make soup very well too." Liu Fu also says, a little embarrassed.

It was clear that two middle-aged people, who were almost a hundred years old combined, were talking to an eight-year-old girl with a careful, consultative tone, afraid of scaring her away, as if they felt they had nothing to offer and could not keep her.

Liu Jiayi sits on the edge of the bed with her head bowed, she sits long, silent, motionless, only her thin fingers slowly gripping the covers, her toes curling in the air.

"Games, shelter, help with cover, a safe place to rest and rejuvenate are all there, they are also my people, I promise not to harm you and can help look after you, after all you are underage and inconvenient for many things, it will be much more comfortable to have two adults who look towards you to do things, do you have any other questions?" Bai Liu asked, "Just ask and I can figure it all out for you."

All the problems that Bai Liu talks about have always been solved by Liu Jiayi herself, she has been stumbling and hiding and has been completely used to solving all the problems she encounters on her own, no one has ever said to her, you bring up your problems and I will help you solve them.

Liu Jiayi finally looked up, her eyes a little red, but her tone was cold: "Yes, how am I going to pay you back for all this?"

Xiang Chunhua is a little confused: "Give me back ...... what?"

"Just shelter, hot rice, hot food, the soup you made, stuff like that." Liu Jiayi thinks it's only right to pay what you owe, "What do you want me to pay with? Money or points?"

Xiang Chunhua's eyes reddened and he was about to say that he didn't have to pay them back when Bai Liu started, "I'll have them list the money they spend on you every day in a bill and settle it all at once when you come out of the game, any other questions?"

Liu Jiayi shook her head slowly, sluggishly, feeling as if she still owed something.

But for a moment she did not know what they were, or what to return them with.

Xiang Chunhua gazed at Liu Jiayi with a look full of affection, wanting to embrace her, and hesitated for a long time before the middle-aged woman, her face full of vicissitudes, reached out to gently touch Liu Jiayi's face, her tone choked with sobs: "How can you be so young? When Guoguo was eight years old, he would have been as big as two of you. ......"

Liu Fu's eyes were also red and his voice was hoarse: "Go back to your home and raise them well, fatten them up, feed them more roast meat and bone broth, they will grow up in no time."

"Eat as much as Guoguo, she'll grow up fast, she'll be a big girl before you know it."

Liu Jiayi seems unsure of what to say as she is silent.

Bai Liu looked at her, "I'll find you the best place for you to live, you don't have to think so much, do what you have to do, I'll be in the game tonight, you can follow me if you want to, it's okay if you don't want to, after Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua adopt you it will be much easier for you, you don't have to come and hide from everything like you did before. ."

There was a long moment of silence before Liu Jiayi whispered, "Hmm." to indicate that she knew.

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When he walked out of the hospital, Liu Fu shook Bai Liu's arm, not knowing what to say, and when Bai Liu looked over, he saw Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu both looking at him with tears in their eyes.

"Thanks, Bai Liu, really thanks." Liu Fu blew his nose, he didn't know what to say, so he got down to business, "We're going into the game tonight, right? We're going in too, right?"

They were ready to die and never thought they would get a little girl as their daughter before they died. It's not that they didn't have thoughts of suicide when they were in the most pain, but they didn't dare to have such thoughts at all after they entered the game and were very careful when they came into contact with people for fear of influencing anyone into the game.

"Well, you guys are going in too, I'll let Mu Sicheng continue to take you, probably for the second level game, are you okay with that?" Bai Liu asked.

Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua shook their heads decisively, "No problem."

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After taking care of Liu Jiayi's affairs, Bai Liu went back to his small rented house.

Seeing that it was still early, Bai Liu, who was mentally exhausted and ready to rest before moving on to the next game, set his alarm clock and put on his pyjamas and lay down on his bed, closing his eyes.

Bai Liu was always a good sleeper and rarely dreamed.

But this time, I don't know if it was because he was too depleted or too tired, but Bai Liu had a strange dream in which he felt his body was covered in a white frost from his fingertips, and he was frozen irresistibly, and a cold body appeared on his body and pressed down on his heart.

It's this ghost that's quite good looking.

Tavel propped himself up against him and looked down at him, his pale pupils devoid of human emotion: "Your doom is coming."

Bai Liu could feel Tavel's small arm propped up against his ear, a cool texture.

He looked up at Tavel, half asleep, and was tempted to say that he never seemed to have any luck, but was used to bad luck.

But Bai Liu's voice felt like it was stuck to a sticky piece of self-adhesive, and he was never able to vocalise it very well, only producing all the odd-sounding, sticky short word sounds that go with the position ...... Bai Liu stopped trying to pronounce the words with good grace and gestured with his eyes for Tavel to continue.

Tavel leans over Bai Liu's neck and picks up the cross hanging from his chest with his fingers, kisses it with his head and then places it on Bai Liu's brow, gently tapping it with his index finger.

"At a quarter to nine on the wall clock, the avenger who comes with hatred from a time line other than this will come upon you with a death destined for you, so that God will manifest himself and reveal himself to you here, to bless you and to shelter you."

Tavel looked down at Bai Liu, who was frowning and struggling in his nightmare, with an indefinable tone of indifference and solemnity from the gods.

He said, "Remember, my evil devotee, to dodge the bullet of the hunter's suicide, and not to feast your eyes on desire with your right side, the only and irreversible time in you until the real death comes."

Tavel placed his hand over Bai Liu's eyes as he bowed his head and kissed the reverse cross placed on Bai Liu's forehead, then said in a tone as cold and holy as the cross, "The key to everything is in the hand of the witch, the poison or the antidote is the key to your choice."

"The gods live forever, the soul lives on."

Tavel put the cross back into Bai Liu's shirt as he gazed at him, but his pupils reflected a pale pink rose whose branches were gradually spreading and blooming: "Beware of the rose."

As soon as the words left his mouth, he turned into a pile of luscious rose petals and scattered them over Bai Liu's body, a pungent rose fragrance so strong that it made Bai Liu uncomfortable swirled out of the petals, which then instantly broke into a light pink smoke that hovered obsessively over Bai Liu's blanket and finally fell under his bed like burning ashes, and was blown away by the wind The wind blew it away and it disappeared.

Bai Liu's eyes snapped open.

What roses, what petals, what Tavel, he was sleeping on an old bed that had popped out of the springs at the foot of the bed in his low rented house, less than three metres high, when Bai Liu sat up and he pulled the cross out of his neck.

The crucifix he kept close to him was strangely cold to the touch, and Bai Liu held it to his nose and sniffed it.

A rose scent that made him uncomfortable lingered on the crucifix.

"Doom and death are about to befall me ......" Bai Liu rubbed the cross he was holding and narrowed his eyes, "...... be watch out for the hunter and the rose."

Tavel is God, and the status he has acquired because of the cross is that of [a believer in Tavel], so the suggestive messages he has just received from Tavel are, in a colloquial way, [oracles].

The [oracles] from ancient times to the present seem to be plausible and imprecise, including this one given to him by Tavel, and many things are ambiguous.

If one were to use the knowledge of Bai Liu's previous worldview to explain these ambiguous [oracles], Bai Liu would say that because God does not exist, these [oracles] are made up by the believing deities themselves, and that one must be vague in order to have a greater tolerance for foreseeing what is happening.

But this time Tavel's [oracle] gave him a very familiar feeling.

"Kind of like what I say after I've been shielded, because there are things I can't say outright that will be shielded, and have to beat around the bush to say the same thing in other words ......" Bai Liu pondered, "So It's quite possible that Tavel is also being blocked by a higher being and can't directly tell me what to circumvent, but has to imply it in such a subtle way that I should be careful and alert."

The witch is a good guess, referring to Liu Jiayi.

But what do the rose and the hunter imply?

Bai Liu squinted as he clutched the rose-scented cross and looked at the time on the battered wall clock.

It is now exactly a quarter past nine.

Bai Liu heard footsteps coming one after another from the walkway in front of his house. The diaphragm in this rented house was not good, so Bai Liu could clearly hear the footsteps coming from outside, not too dense, and they all went straight through the door and up the stairs, as if they were normal residents of the building.

But as the fourth of these footsteps reappeared with great regularity, Bai Liu relaxed his breathing and got out of bed to put on his clothes and shoes, opened the window to look outside, reasonably assessed his chances of surviving the jump from the fifth floor and finally chose to give up.

The building he lives in is low-rent from top to bottom, Bai Liu lives on the fifth floor, and there are only four tenants on the fifth floor, which means these people are not the normal tenants in the building, and the trained footsteps are familiar to Bai Liu, he's only heard them from one person before -

--That's Lu Yizhan.

The footsteps finally stopped in front of Bai Liu's door, which was violently kicked open behind him, and a group of men shouted at him with guns held flat in their hands, "Police! Don't move! Put your hands up!"

Bai Liu quickly looked down and removed the coin from his neck and took it into his mouth and pressed it under his tongue.

In the night breeze coming in through the window, Bai Liu turns slowly and raises his hands unsteadily.

The wind whipped his hair across his forehead and although Bai Liu did nothing, there was a sense of calmness that seemed to anticipate his arrest, and he obediently allowed the officers to twist his hands back and tie him up without asking any questions and without looking too scared.

Although Bai Liu had not yet figured out why he had been arrested, the police officers were terrified of him. The officers who broke into his room at a quarter to nine were heavily armed, with leather gloves, protective clothing and some, Bai Liu visually estimated, shields that were perhaps 2 to 3cm thick, not sure what kind of metal they were made of, but they looked strong.

The equipment made the officers look like bomb police about to defuse an explosive and powerful bomb.

And Bai Liu, who has no idea when he became as much of a threat as a bomb, dozes off in the car on his way to the station.

The car Bai Liu is in is also special, with a thick metal plate separating the front from the back, leaving only a small 15cm by 15cm window through which a small policeman can be seen gulping nervously and pointing his gun at Bai Liu, as if he is afraid that the young man, who has his hands and feet tied up, will suddenly burst out.

The light from the streetlamp shone through the small window in front and into the back of Bai Liu's car, where a red triangular symbol on the wall contained an octopus writhing hideously with its tentacles, next to which was drawn a sketch of a small man with his limbs scattered and bleeding, and then a large red cross above the octopus.

Underneath the logo it states.

[This is an unknown supernaturally dangerous object that has a tendency to harm people! Please stay alert and keep your distance!

A strip of light flashed from Bai Liu's emotionless face, scaring the policeman watching him from the small window, and the policeman driving next to him was startled by the movement: "What's wrong with it?! Has there been a mutation!"

The little policeman said with a sob, "It! It's breathing!"

"Calm down!" The cop driving took two deep breaths, "It's the first humanoid heretic monster our precinct has captured, it's normal for it to breathe, don't be alarmed."