Chapter 72: Reality

Bai Liu turned around and continued to knot his tie, but Mu Sicheng was stunned.

While the two men were talking, Muke woke up from his bed with a cry, sweating and twitching his arms and legs, sitting up and shaking uncontrollably, clutching Bai Liu's white shirt in his arms, his eyes blank and gasping for breath, tears falling down his face, as if he had not yet awoken from the nightmare.

Bai Liu whispered his name: "Muke, you're alive, calm down."

Muke's out-of-focus eyes slowly regained focus as he stared blankly at Bai Liu, tears pooling in his reddened eyes, and the white shirt he had clutched in his hands was released. "

"Bai Liu, oooh, Bai Liu!" Muke bawled like a hose torn by overwhelming fear, only the sight of Bai Liu calmed him down a little, his hand clutching the corner of Bai Liu's suit hem, he looked up at Bai Liu in disbelief, tears pouring from his eyes.

Muke's voice was hoarse from shouting: "I thought I was going to die in that school! They were going to strangle me!"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes and whispered, "But you didn't, so you did well and you survived, and it's all over now Muke."

Muke couldn't stop crying, his chest heaving violently as he cried, hiccuping in the middle of his sobs as he lifted his wet eyelashes to Bai Liu and asked very softly and carefully, "I passed the game on my own like you said, so I'm qualified, right? You'll let me survive as long as I can in the game, right?"

"I will do my best to train you so that you can grow strong enough to survive on your own." Bai Liu replied readily, but then his tone became much crueler as he changed his tune, "But if you only think of relying on my means and become more and more worthless, I will also make sure I give up all my investment in you very quickly, do you understand Muke ? I don't like to waste energy on something that doesn't pay off."

Muke nodded frantically, choking back tears, his pretty eyes filled with teardrops, like a child who had been so hard pressed for approval: "I will, I promise I will Bai Liu!"

"I want to start the next game by arranging for you to follow me." Bai Liu stood up and handed Muke, who was still in tears, a piece of toilet paper and squinted at Muke, "If you will follow me, we will have to paint fifty copies in sixty days, I want to take you to the league, but at the same time I need you to grow up quickly."

Muke looked up in dismay as he took the toilet paper Bai Liu handed him.

Bai Liu looked down at him without a ripple: "Can you do that? If you can't, I'll arrange other routes for you to train you, you don't have to follow me."

Before Bai Liu could finish his sentence, Muke bit his lower lip and clutched the toilet paper Bai Liu handed him, his voice and thin shoulders shaking a little as he lowered his head: "You need me to do this, don't you? Then I... I can do it."

"Are you sure you want to do this, Muke?" Bai Liu spoke in a flat tone, " Muke, I'm used to the other person looking straight at me when I'm discussing things with them, you keep your head up."

Muke raised his head slowly, a little shakily, and Bai Liu could see the expression Muke was trying to hide as he looked down.

The young master with a heart attack sat on Bai Liu's bed with red eyes, his hands clenched into fists and propped up on his knees, his body trembling uncontrollably, looking up at Bai Liu with his head tilted in pity.

To the casual observer, the crying boy must have been a good looking and pitiful one, who would have softened the heart of anyone who looked at him. Muke, answer me when you've thought about it."

"Follow me and play in the league, or be a good strength face charge player with my help, you can survive both paths, which one do you choose?"

Bai Liu lifted his eyes and looked at the bewildered Muke: "You will grow quickly with me, my advice to you from a personal needs and your ability development point of view is that you can try with me first, first follow me to raise your own panel attributes, it is best to follow me into the league, if not follow in you can grow quickly and help me from other places. The league is fine for me to find other players, you are just a backup option for me, simply put you are taken to make up the numbers."

"So what's your choice?" Bai Liu held out his hand to Muke and he looked at him quietly, waiting for Muke's answer.

Muke was aware of the league and saw the fireworks and system notifications when he came out of the game, but he came out quickly because he was too scared to play because he had just passed the game.

Any newcomer to the game will want to get out of it quickly, and only a brain-challenged person like Bai Liu will be able to wander around slowly and collect information, while Muke is clearly not mentally capable of maintaining a relatively calm state of mind after a near-death pass.

The near-death, driftwood-less feeling after the game was over reminded Muke of the drowning choking sensation he felt in Siren, and there was no Bai Liu around to lend him a hand.

The environment without Bai Liu was too frightening for Muke, and Bai Liu's rescue from the bottom of the sea had a strong psychological impact on Muke, who thought that Bai Liu was above the game and that Bai Liu could even cross the system barrier to rescue him. After another near-death encounter, Muke's subconscious need for a safe environment led him to log out of Bai Liu's house in a trance-like state.

Muke is in a league of fear, knowing that this must be a scenario a million times more dangerous than the single-player game he has just cleared, and that a newcomer like him must be in for a nail-biting ride.

Muke blinked his red eyes, his heart beating fast as he lowered his tear-stained lashes and looked at Bai Liu's hand outstretched to him, his breathing quickening - Muke knew in his heart that Bai Liu was a cold man, that this man would not save him every time, and that the first time he had saved him was for the added value of his The first time he saved him was for the added value of the mermaid's amulet, but it had already been used by Bai Liu.

Bai Liu was not a nice person, but he was a man of his word.

Muke tilted his head and looked straight at Bai Liu with the wary, tentative look of a small animal in a threatening scene, "If I follow you, will you promise to try to keep me alive in the game?"

Bai Liu whispers patiently, "I promise."

All the security Muke felt for Bai Liu came from this - as long as the man made a promise, he never broke it, no matter how desperate the situation.

And Bai Liu promised that he would not give up on him so easily and would do his best to keep him alive, even if playing in a league sounded like a terrible thing to do.

"Well, I'm going to play in the league with you." Muke put his hand very gently into Bai Liu's and he replied in a small, nasal, sobbing voice, with a little whine and aggression, "I don't want to spend the game alone."

Bai Liu gave Muke's hand a gentle shake and released it, signalling their cooperation, and he softened his tone: "Okay, I understand."

But Bai Liu soon puts away his false, business-like facade of gentleness, used to coax cooperation, and quickly gets down to business with Muke.

"So when will Muke be ready, after all the next time we go in there is a good chance we won't be out for a long time." Bai Liu asked Muke, "You look like you need a good rest as well as you'll probably be gone for about two months or so, you should talk to the people around you as well?"

"But we don't have much time either." Bai Liu looks at Xiang Muke, "The most I can give you is a day to do the preparations, can you do that?"

Muke's lips trembled a little, a little uncomfortable with the intensity of the mode he was about to enter, but under Bai Liu's calm gaze, Muke quickly responded, "...... good."

"Go home now Muke." Bai Liu picked up his phone and called his supervisor, he eyed Xiang Muke as he made the call, "I'm informing my supervisor to pick you up now, you have my address and phone number, call me tomorrow when you're ready, you can just come over or do you need me to pick you up then? Which rendezvous method?"

"Is it okay if I, I come to you?" Muke asked, looking carefully at Bai Liu.

"It's OK." Bai Liu doesn't care.

Bai Liu called his boss, who came over soon afterwards. This was the second time he had come to pick up Muke from Bai Liu's small rented house, and he was familiar with him. But when he entered the room and saw Muke, who was sitting on the bed with red eyes, he couldn't help but twist his face a little.

The poor young master still had bruises on his hands and feet, as if he had been bound by something (scars from the game).

But that's not what dazzled his boss the most. What shocked him the most was that Bai Liu had a tired, superior looking male student sleeping on his desk (he had fallen asleep while waiting for Bai Liu to negotiate with Muke, Mu Sicheng was wearing a shirt with their university logo on it), and Mu Sicheng had a Bai Liu jacket on his shoulders! The male student was sleeping as if he had been up all night, and had a black eye.

The supervisor looked at Bai Liu, who had a calm face but also had a little black eye under his eyes, with a twisted expression - how many men have you played with in one night, you bastard?

Bai Liu turns his head and is confronted with a look of information overload on his boss's face, but since Bai Liu has never been one to read his boss's mind, he leads Muke on as if he didn't see it.

Muke followed his boss three steps back, very distracted, as he thought about what he had just seen, which was so powerful for him that he couldn't hold back his gossipy curiosity.

After walking out of Bai Liu's small rented house, the supervisor coughed twice and asked casually, "Muke, the guy in Bai Liu's room just now looks like a university student, what is his relationship with him?"

"Oh, that guy." Muke speaks of Mu Sicheng in a somewhat mixed and sour mood.

Muke is aware of Mu Sicheng, the fourth ranked Rising Star god in the Rising Star Rankings, Mu Sicheng is stronger and obviously more useful than him, and Mu Sicheng obviously means something different to Bai Liu and has a better relationship with him, as evidenced by Bai Liu's attitude towards Mu Sicheng.

After Mu Sicheng had fallen asleep, Bai Liu put on Mu Sicheng's coat and lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing Muke's sleep.

...... is a deal he didn't get over at Bai Liu.

Muke, the young master, is always given special treatment by everyone. Bai Liu's nonchalant and initially bored attitude towards him is noticeable to Muke, but Bai Liu's attitude towards Mu Sicheng, a great player, is completely different from his, which makes Muke a bit sour.

He grunted, a little indignantly, "He? He's just a playmate of Bai Liu's, like me, and one day, I'll surpass him as Bai Liu's sidekick! I'll make Bai Liu like playing games with me even more! I'm going to start playing games with Bai Liu every day from tomorrow! There's no way he can beat me!"

"......" The supervisor listened with a wooden expression and inner shock.

Is it so competitive among you M's? Even "playing games" is a competition?

And you don't have to work so hard, young master! Can your body stand playing "games" with Bai Liu every day?

"...... You take care of your health too, don't overdo it." The supervisor coughed with an awkward and extremely complicated expression, and politely advised, "Playing that what, it hurts, you should rest more recently."

"No." Muke said sulkily in a bit of a trance, "Bai Liu gave me a task for the next two months, I have to play with him fifty times in two months and we have to play with five people, I might not be able to physically handle it, I haven't played with the others either, eh, Bai Liu only gave me half a day off before starting... ..."

The supervisor is completely wooden: "......"

Bai Liu, this [master's] mission is too fucking outrageous! Fifty "games" in two months! And it's a multiplayer sport, my ass!

He doesn't even give Muke a day off from work to work as a social animal, and he wants Muke to work overtime to play multiplayer with him.

It was a sobering thought for the supervisor - Bai Liu, the animal, was on a 996 system.