Chapter 78: Entering the Game

Bai Liu didn't stay at the orphanage for long, he had to go into the game with Muke soon and after a brief sweep of the orphanage he was ready to go.

But Bai Liu had a brief explanation to give to Lu Yizhan before he left.

Bai Liu told Muke to go home and wait for him. The young master looked at Bai Liu with fondness when he left, and asked when Bai Liu would be back.

As soon as Bai Liu came out, he saw Lu Yizhan, who was waiting for him at the entrance of the orphanage.

Lu Yizhan saw Bai Liu and couldn't resist flirting with him: "What about the young master? When did you get that kind of charm?"

Bai Liu teased back without changing his face, "What's the point of being charming, I didn't turn him down for you and let him go first."

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but smile and get down to business: "You saw the inside, how was it?"

Bai Liu did not slow down: "This orphanage besides poisoned children there are also missing children, poisoned children I almost know, missing children, I guess this is not the first case of this orphanage, right?"

"How do you know?" Lu Yizhan was startled.

"The attitude wasn't right." Bai Liu analysed calmly, "The teacher's gave me the wrong impression, a normal person would avoid a place like this where a disappearance had occurred, but when she introduced us to it, even though she was scared, she just subconsciously went to the location of the disappearance, the children's amusement park."

"This isn't the first time a disappearance has happened in terms of attitude, odds are it's happened several times before this scared but used to it attitude comes into play."

"Yes." Lu Yizhan gripped the cigarette he'd put away again with a little annoyance, "We spoke to the dean, and we're told it's been almost every year for ten years."

Bai Liu asked, "How come you haven't heard of this before when you have a record of disappearances that happen every year in a row?"

"Because they're not missing, most of them are children who run away on their own, and even if they're reported, they're treated as runaways." Lu Yizhan's teeth are grinding on his cigarette, his eyes obscure, "It's probably just a mention in the records, so it's not noticeable if you don't pay attention."

When a child goes missing from a private orphanage, the effort to find him or her is a chore, and there are no parents or relatives to scold you for not finding him or her.

"Before I found out that the group of entrepreneurs had invested in this children's orphanage and after all the illnesses got better, I checked this orphanage exactly." Lu Yizhan exhales a wisp of smoke, "but this private orphanage is not as strictly registered as the public orphanage, it is more under private autonomous control, exactly at what point in time how many children are in this, and whether the records we get are true records is not easy to say."

"For example, if this child goes missing and there are years in between when this dean doesn't report it, there's a good chance we won't even know about it."

Lu Yizhan added after a moment's silence, "I tend to suspect that there is something wrong with that group of entrepreneurs, but people are now double-claimed and it has been so many years that we have no evidence here and there is no way to investigate in depth."

Bai Liu lightly picks up, "Assuming that even if this group of entrepreneurs did do something with some of the children back then, without knowing who this pile of these children's last names are and where they came from, they could very well use such a disappearing trick to make these children disappear from this orphanage without a word, you have no idea of the investigation. "

"Yes." Lu Yizhan took a deep drag on his cigarette as he choked and coughed, "But Bai Liu, it's a human life."

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with red eyes: "I'm not happy that the lives of these children are being classified as accidents, and even if they were, I'd have to rule out all other possibilities that weren't accidents.

"You have no evidence." Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan calmly, "You can't rule it out, and it's not your job to do so, and it's already a very nosy thing for you to come and run the scene."

Lu Yizhan is quiet for a while, and soon the guy is talking to Bai Liu about the disappearance as if nothing had happened, or rather indefatigably.

Lu Yizhan has a peculiar resilience. Bai Liu will not touch a task if he knows it cannot be done, but Lu Yizhan will try to do it no matter how much effort it takes, as long as he thinks it can help others.

And he will drag Bai Liu along with him.

Lu Yizhan talked to Bai Liu about the specific cases of disappearances he had learned about, and showed Bai Liu the missing children and photos for each year, using the June 1 group photo from the orphanage each year.

Lu Yizhan was eerily silent for a moment when the first one came out.

Because Bai six is one of the missing children in this photo.

"You think he looks a lot like me at fourteen, don't you?" Bai Liu asked Lu Yizhan, pointing directly at Bai six's face, commenting plaintively, "I think he looks like me too."

"You're nothing alike." Lu Yizhan's voice trailed off as he looked intently at Bai Liu and retorted, with rare obstinacy, to his friend, "Because he's dead, but you're still alive."

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"Has this ever happened to you Mu Sicheng ?" Bai Liu called Mu Sicheng as he walked home, "The future, me as [the player], is certain to die in a ten year old copy of the game, while the current, ten year old me is still alive and existing."

"Sounds like a grandmother paradox to me?" Mu Sicheng's voice came out of the Bai Liu mobile phone receiver, his tone of disbelief, " Bai Liu your luck is really against the odds, let alone seeing it, I've never even heard of this happening in the game."

The Grandmother's Paradox is a paradox of time proposed by a science fiction writer, meaning that if a man goes back in time and kills his grandmother, then obviously he no longer exists in the future either.

Bai Liu is in this situation now, if he enters the game in the future and dies in a copy of the game where the timeline is ten years ago, how is he alive now?

"Parallel universe theory?" Mu Sicheng tried to offer an explanation, "The most common explanation for the grandmother paradox is this, assuming Bai Liu that the parallel time you are in is A, what you see is most likely a failed Bai Liu from time B loaded in our time A [a copy of the game]."

"Then you'd better not enter this game of the orphanage." Mu Sicheng's voice was much more serious and serious as he advised Bai Liu, "If you choose not to enter this game, then you will not die in this game, so that another time and space of possibilities can be formed parallel to the time and space in which you die."

"I don't think it's the parallel universe theory." Bai Liu was sober and calmly reminded Mu Sicheng, "This [real world] of ours is the [official version] of a game, and the result presented would already be the final result of all the game algorithms that exist in the [public version of the game world], there is theoretically no parallel universe derived from the various events going in different directions. "

"Because the reality we are in is already the result of the winding up of all possibilities and cannot be parallel any more."

"That's true." Mu Sicheng affirmed this, but soon he reacted, "No, wait, but if the result presented is unique, doesn't that mean you must have died in that ten year old copy of the game?!"

"But the fact that I am still alive now proves that I did not die in that copy." Bai Liu thinks clearly, "Otherwise the two simultaneous propositions [I am alive] and [I am dead] would form a paradox in the impossibly parallel, uniquely existing reality of space-time. "

"That ......" Mu Sicheng was confused, "that's what's going on."

Bai Liu didn't care about Mu Sicheng's questions, he had already walked to the door and pulled out the key for the door.

Bai Liu, with his phone over one shoulder, asked, "When are you going to get into the game?"

"What for?" Mu Sicheng's head was bald when he talked about it, "Fuck, I've been losing sleep all night since I promised you to enter yesterday, what the hell do you have in mind? I can still work hard for twenty-six copies in two months, but you should at least get me the people!"

"That's what I want to talk to you about. Bai Liu spoke quickly, " Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu, they are the two players who tied for the top ranking in the last batch of newcomers, both have personal skills and C+ panel quality, you take them through a level one copy to practice their skills and teach them some basic knowledge of the game, without protecting them too much. "

Bai Liu spoke to Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu after returning from the hotpot yesterday, asking the two middle-aged men if they were willing to join the league and being honest about the dangers.

But Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu barely hesitated as the two families shook each other's hands in tears and agreed, asking Bai Liu only two questions from start to finish.

The first was, "If we win, we can resurrect Guoguo, right?"

"In theory, yes." Bai Liu said, "but you should also be able to achieve this slowly by playing normally and saving points, not as risky as the league, but the league will gain points faster, so you can think about it and get back to me tomorrow."

Xiang Chunhua, however, glances at Liu Fu with a bit of awe, her hands clutching her apron as the news of Li Gou's likely execution is broadcast on the television behind her.

The news was a rerun, with the sound turned up loud, filling the room with the undulating voice of the male presenter of the [suspect in senior girl's body shredding case to be sentenced to death] broadcast.

Xiang Chunhua looks earnestly at Bai Liu.

"We're going to this whatever contest that's going to help you, right?" -- that was the second question they asked.

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, "Yes, but this is a high mortality rate for the competition, you might want to give it more thought ......"

"Let's go." Xiang Chunhua smiled, there were still tears in her eyes which she wiped away with the back of her hand, "Don't think about it anymore, we believe in you, Bai Liu, and where else can you save up points? It's just a game, isn't it? I was on our girls' volleyball team, wasn't I Liu Fu?"