Chapter 82: Loving Orphanage

Sensing Liu Jiayi's uneasiness, Liu Huai forced his tone to control, he hugged Liu Jiayi and patted her, calming himself down: "No, Jiajia did nothing wrong, it was just a game."

"Yes, it's just a game." Liu Huai closed his eyes, as if hypnotising himself or Liu Jiayi, and when he opened them again his tone was calmer, "Brother will take you to play games, Jiajia."

Liu Jiayi, held in Liu Huai's arms, grabbed Liu Huai's coat and asked in a whisper, "What game is it, brother?"

Liu Huai opened his mouth, thinking of Bai Liu, who wanted to control Liu Jiayi's soul, and Miao Feichi, who liked to eat children's flesh, and finally Liu Huai hugged Liu Jiayi tightly and laughed bitterly, "A game where all the bad guys are bad except for brother and you, Jiajia, you must stay close to brother and not go anywhere, okay? Jiajia, you must follow your brother closely and don't run around, okay?"

"Good." Liu Jiayi nodded obediently, "I won't wander off."

The crowd in front of the multiplayer area also whispered, seeing for the first time that a first time player had skipped the newcomer section for single player and was dragged straight into the multiplayer area.

If the girl's desire was to meet her brother, and it was so strong, the system could have dragged her into the game where Liu Huai's brother was.

This little girl's TV should obviously be in the [Newcomer Zone], but in a multiplayer game, it would be logged in the multiplayer zone as well, and there has never been a precedent for multizone logging on a little TV.

But Open Door is a second-tier game, and even with Liu Huai's protection, this little girl is likely to be in a bad way.

After all, Liu Huai is in a difficult position to defend himself in the second level of the game, and the only players left in the second level are probably the league pair of Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, who have already heard about Bai Liu's skills and are wary of them, and are probably not so easily controlled by Bai Liu.

So it is likely that there were no other strong players in the game for Bai Liu to control and use to block the knife, giving Bai Liu very little room to play.

Some viewers who had some goodwill towards Bai Liu sighed: "I can only hope that Mu Sicheng plays well with him this time, so maybe we can still have a chance."

There are also viewers who are just rushing over to fall into the stone and sneer: " Mu Sicheng, the support is unbelievable, Bai Liu, the main output is just as bad, the output of the scavenging zombie is Miao Feichi, the S-board player, you are comparing a primary student with a graduate student?"

But soon, a viewer browsed through all the small TVs in disbelief and asked back in confusion, "No, of the five small TVs on in this game, there's no Mu Sicheng?"

" Bai Liu was in the game alone?!"

After confirming that the gamer was indeed not Mu Sicheng, both fans who rushed over to worry about Bai Liu and passersby who watched the action, as well as Bai Liu's hacks, were stunned.

After a few seconds apart, the group of onlookers with different stances unanimously uttered a plant: "Fuck !!!!"

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Bai Liu logged into a somewhat backlit room on the first floor of the orphanage, which was locked, and smashed it open to search the map one by one.

No doubt he ghosted it, or the game forced him to go through the episode before he could leave the floor.

Bai Liu walks into the house he has just logged into.

A small bench sits in the dark, cold room, the evening light casting long shadows on the floor and small benches stacked in a disorderly manner on either side of the room.

On the classroom podium directly opposite was an old-fashioned radio, which looked like a ten-year-old version, with a cassette tape inside, spinning by itself, the sound of a little girl humming a nursery rhyme coming out of the radio.

"Born on Monday, the day of the moon

Baptism on Fire Day (Tuesday)

Wednesdays (Wednesdays) Marriage

Obsidian (Thursday)

Golden Obsidian (Friday) aggravated by illness

Saturday (Saturday) Dead

Sunday (Sunday) buried in the earth

This is the life of Bai Liu -"

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows, he heard it the first time, it was a nursery rhyme from the famous dark nursery rhyme 'The Rhymes of Mother Goose' called 'Seven Days of Solomon', it was about a tragic story of a man's life experiences, the last line of the rhyme said - [This is the life of Solomon Grundy], but here it seemed to change the name into his.

As he listened to the rhyme I don't know how many times, with the repeated humming of the nursery rhyme, the shadow of that chair refracted by the dull sunlight gradually became more and more of a figure, and from the shadow it appeared that there was a person sitting in the chair, but Bai Liu from the side there was nothing, just a small empty chair with nothing on it.

Suddenly the shadow suddenly rose from the chair and darted all the way over to Bai Liu's side. Bai Liu didn't duck, thinking it would be an opening animation to introduce the game as in the last game, and he watched as his own shadow was melted by this fast approaching shadow.

Bai Liu's shadow lengthens and lengthens in the light of the sinking western sun, burrowing in the light until it lengthens into the doorway and then abruptly breaks outside the door.

At this time the nursery rhymes came to an abrupt halt, while a knock sounded at the door.

"Hello, are you an investor in this orphanage?" A boy asked politely, knocking on the door with a hint of the rasp of a teenager who hadn't finished changing his voice, "I'm the child who came to report today."

But Bai Liu is keenly aware of the coldness and impatience hidden in the politeness of the man at the door.

Bai Liu knew the voice, or not so much as knew it, but was familiar, so familiar that he could detect all the emotions beneath the person's seemingly calm tone the moment they spoke.

After all, ten years ago, Bai Liu spent his days with this voice.

Bai Liu stepped on the shadow he had pulled into distortion and slowly opened the door.

"Hello, I'm the new sponsored child." Outside the door was a small teenager who measured just above Bai Liu's chest, with ancient dark eyes looking at him with a hint of scrutiny that was not very well hidden, the youngster seemed to be sizing Bai Liu up as well and finally extended his hand with deliberation and courtesy, "Hello investor, my name is Bai six and I am the new child who has been informed to come to this private orphanage to be admitted. "

"Let's see, in this state I ......" Bai Liu rubbed his chin and scanned the overly bashful young teenager up and down, "would be almost fourteen."

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has successfully met and talked to the secondary identity line, successfully triggered the child identity line, player Bai Liu has entered the dual line operation mode]

[System Tip: In "Love Welfare Home", players enjoy two different identity lines, one is the adult you and the other is the infant you, the adult you is the main identity line, the infant you is the secondary identity line, you are different halves of one person, the secondary identity line is a game generated child npc, the memory and setting system has made certain corrections according to the game background, it is a character that exists in full compliance with the game background, and In reality, you have similar personalities and memories to those of the young player, so please explore and communicate with them yourself]

[Player Bai Liu Secondary Identity Line Name: Bai six]

[Age: 14 years].

[Status: Children without parents sponsored by investors to enter a loving orphanage]

[Features: Enjoys fifty percent of the player's life value, is the pure and immaculate half of the player, has no future-related memories or skills, will enter the crisis-ridden orphanage, please make sure the player protects them from monsters!

[Main Quest: Escape from the orphanage (incomplete)]

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[Player Bai Liu Main Identity Line: Player Bai Liu]

[Identity name: Bai Liu].

[Age: 24].

[Identity: terminally ill investor in a children's home]

[Characteristics: Enjoys fifty percent of the player's life value, but due to a terminal illness life value will drop over time after the illness is severe, after the illness invested in children Bai six]

[Main Quest: Find a way to renew your life and survive (incomplete)]

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly as he looked at the system screen where a bunch of panels had popped up.

His native identity was that of an investor, and the child in front of him, Bai six -- Bai Liu, raised his eyes and looked slowly over.

Fourteen year old Bai Liu doesn't seem to like being looked at too nakedly, and he turns slightly to avoid Bai Liu's gaze.

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze in good humour, thinking what a nuisance, he hates himself at this age, smelly and difficult.

Bai Liu stood in the corridor outside the classroom and looked around at the layout before confirming - this was really the same orphanage he had been to before.

The children's park in the centre of the three buildings has relatively large equipment such as a slide, and from a distance you can see a separate canteen, something that the decaying children's home that Bai Liu saw does not have now.

Bai Liu looked at the dates of the various children's awards hanging on the walls of the classroom and determined that this should be the orphanage from ten years ago. It seemed that, as he had guessed before, the main plot of this copy was indeed ten years ago, when this orphanage had just been completed.

When Bai Liu looked around as if he was looking for something, Bai six gently reminded her, "It's Sunday, a regular inspection day, and the children and teachers are not here."

"Sunday is inspection day?" Bai Liu turned to Bai six, "Is this orphanage of yours inspected every week? What do you check?"

Bai shook her head, "I'm not sure, I've only just come in and I haven't been checked yet, it's just that my admissions code states that every Sunday all children are to leave the orphanage for a full body check up and those who fail the check up are to stay there for treatment."

"But a lot of the children that go there every week just stay there for treatment, and the place in the orphanage is empty." little Bai six looked up at Bai Liu, "but the empty places are wasted in the orphanage, so every week they take in new children into the orphanage, I came over this week."

Sunday was check-up day and there were many more children who were checked and failed and simply stayed there for treatment and didn't return ......

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and remembered the nursery rhyme [Obsidian Day (Sunday) is buried in the earth].

It seems that most of the children left there are "buried in the earth".

While Bai Liu was still thinking, the system suddenly sounded a reminder.

[System Delivery Props: Each investor and their child have a one-to-one, single-line only walkie-talkie]

[Code of conduct for the use of walkie-talkies: Only one-way communication from the child to the investor is allowed with this walkie-talkie, players are prohibited from purchasing other communication tools to communicate with the child, and dialing from the investor to the child is prohibited]

[Intercom dialing time: 21:00~24:00, 6:00~9:00, children's dialing time not at this time will be occupied, the investor can not be connected, each child can dial in these two time slots every day, please players and children moderate communication, give children the space to grow independently]

No sooner had the system announcement been made than Bai Liu saw in his hand a large, unbelievable Big Brother with an antenna standing on top.

And little Bai six's is a child's mobile phone, only half the size of his hand, hanging from his neck on a thin pink strap of hello kitty, looking like a toy.

Bai Liu smiled a little, "It suits you." He shook the Big Brother in his hand, "Every night from nine to twelve, and in the morning from six to nine, if you have anything to do you can call me, I'm always on."

"I'm not going to call you." Bai six said with an expressionless face, "A waste of my time."

Bai Liu had expected this to happen, his forehead twitched, he sighed and offered a solution without hesitation, "I'll pay for it, I'll bill you by the minute if you call me."

Little Bai six's face, which had always been emotionless, wavered visibly as he turned to Bai Liu and said hesitantly, "How much?"

"How about a hundred dollars a minute, by the minute?" Bai Liu said without skipping a beat.

Little Bai Six quickly agreed, "Deal."

As soon as Bai Liu's words were spoken, the bell rang outside and the closed metal doors of the orphanage opened, with many children chattering and rushing in behind their teachers, who scrambled to settle the small, bird-like children back in their nest.

The two Bai Liu's, one large and one small, stood in the corridor of the building overlooking the innocent, carefree children running and jumping downstairs with the same indifference in their eyes.

Little Bai Six suddenly looked sideways at Big Bai Liu and said out loud, "You don't seem to like children, so why did you sponsor me into this private orphanage in such good condition?"

"What kind of investor do I look like to you?" Bai Liu inquired, looking at his younger self with amusement, "What makes you think I don't like children?"

Although he did dislike it.

"You look a lot like the Long Thin Ghost, with your expensive suit and shirt and tie and pale face, and rumour has it that the Long Thin Ghost hates children so much that he kills them and then rips out their organs and eats them."

Little Bai six describes his vision of Bai Liu very calmly.

Bai Liu was reminded by little Bai six's description, and he looked down at himself to see that he had somehow changed from that high school girl look to a very regulation suit with a tall black hat.

Bai Liu searched for a mirror in the classroom washroom and found that his face had been altered in the mirror.

His face was thin and pale, with two huge bags under his eyes, and his fingers were so long and thin that they looked like a layer of skin wrapped around his bones.

It does look a lot like the rumoured child-killing maniac, the horror creature [Long, Thin Ghostly Shadow].

"All the investors here look exactly like you." little Bai six added faintly, "All this suited and short looking, don't look like the type that likes to do good deeds before they die."

"You've got a foul mouth, little friend." Bai Liu turned to little Bai six and raised his eyebrows, "Why don't I look like someone who does good deeds before they die? Isn't investing in you one of the good deeds I did?"

Little Bai six gave Bai Liu an unmoved glance: "Are you sure that sending me to this orphanage where children keep disappearing is a good deed?"

[System alert: The inspection day is coming to an end, the children and teachers have returned, please bring your sponsored children to the registration office on the ground floor of the Pok Oi Building to register for admission]

"Come on, little friend, I'll take you to the ground floor to register." Bai Liu's location was the third floor of the Pok Oi building and he was just about to go down.

Then he saw a [long, thin, ghostly figure] looking person eerily staring at him in the classroom on the first floor of the opposite floor.

The man was holding the hand of a little boy with bangs in his other hand, staring at Bai Liu in another building, who looked quite cute, except that he looked a bit gloomy and autistic with his head down, similar to Muke when he grew up.

The investor is Muke.

And on the floor above Muke's, an investor with twin knives in his hands is also keeping an eye on the child in his hands, the man dragging his long twin knives up and down the floor corridors like a homicidal maniac dragging a chainsaw all over the map in Texas Chainsaw.

Bai Liu stood in front of the little Bai six and looked at the investor across the street with a smile on his face. The [long, thin ghostly figure] across the street looked for a while and realized that Bai Liu had been blocking his child.

The weapons are twin swords, and if Bai Liu is correct, this would be the famous Miao Feichi.

This man is obviously looking for who Bai Liu is. After all, all the players logged in have the same identity, and all have the same appearance of a long, thin, ghostly figure.

How do you determine who Bai Liu is in a pool of [investors]?

By far the most standard way seems to be to look at the children carried by the other side.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes as he looked behind him at the little Bai six.

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Miao Gaojiang was leading his teenage self down the stairs when he saw an investor waiting at the exit of his building, which made Miao Gaojiang subconsciously want to draw his weapon, but the man's next words made Miao Gaojiang quickly let his guard down, only to hear the investor across the street cursing through gritted teeth, "Dad! I see a teenage me! What the hell is going on?"

" Feichi ?" Miao Gaojiang gave the other man a hesitant look, he was a little wary and suspicious, "Are you really Feichi ?"

In a game like this, where everyone's original identity is the same, it's too easy to pretend to be another person; the only way to be sure of the other person is to look at the other person's children.

But Miao Feichi is not a person who likes children, this person only likes to eat children, but Miao Feichi is not a pervert who eats himself.

But as a teenager, Miao Feichi has just awakened to her cannibalism, she wants to eat and doesn't have any food to eat, so she wants to take a bite out of anyone she sees.

"I was shocked when I opened the door and saw a teenage me guarding the door." Miao Feichi cursed and complained, "and had to follow me, the little pervert was looking at me all wrong, I felt like I just wanted to eat human flesh, so I just told him to get lost."

Miao Gaojiang doesn't trust people who come to her door that easily, but what this man says is indeed what happens to Miao Feichi.

Miao Feichi has a flamboyant and impetuous nature, and his high force value allows him to do as he pleases in this secondary game.

Suddenly meeting a teenage version of herself, Miao Feichi's first reaction is definitely not to have a nice conversation to trigger the quest, but rather to chase the other party away in a vicious manner.

Miao Gaojiang was also extremely distressed by Miao Feichi's personality, but considering that there was another Bai Liu in the game who had a relatively high intelligence value, he might play a trick like jumping the identity line of others based on the setting that everyone looked the same. Miao Gaojiang hesitated for a moment, not letting his guard down, but he briefly introduced the rules of the game to the other party and tried out some information that only they knew.

After a few tests Miao Gaojiang's mind was mostly made up, but he was still unrelenting: "I want to make sure you are Miao Feichi, tell me something crucial about you?"

Miao Feichi is impatient: "Like what?"

"Like how we got into the game in the first place ......" Miao Gaojiang's seemingly honest and naive face had obscure eyes Buming, and his tone was a bit of a slight pause, "Like after you eat human flesh. Who was the first person to eat it?"

Miao Feichi licks his teeth, as if remembering what it tasted like, and he narrows his eyes, "The first person I ate was the woman who gave birth to me."

"She's got a serious illness that the family hasn't been able to support, and after she was picked up from the hospital she's still been spending a lot of money on medicine, and that's all money that was going to be left to me, and it's all being spent on this dead woman, and she asked me to pour water again at night, and I poured her a glass of boiling water, and after I gave it to her, her lips and esophagus gave off that scalded aroma."

"She died the next day." Miao Feichi tsked, "Before the burial I told you I wanted to eat her corpse and it scared you to death, but I know you always wanted her dead sooner too, I was your son, she was just someone to sleep with, and I couldn't figure out why you spent so much money on her, I went on a hunger strike for a few days after she died and you cut part of her up for me to eat. "

"But it's not really that good." Miao Feichi is a bit disgusted, "She's too old because the sick meat is dry and woody and smells like medicine."

"As for getting into the game ......" Miao Feichi said a little irritated, "isn't it because of that kid? You took me digging up a mass grave for a while, I ate dead human flesh for a while, it was so bad it was rotten, I wanted fresh fresh human flesh, and that kid was just some homeless kid who ran away from nowhere, crying about someone doing bad things in their orphanage and begging me to call the police."

"I thought to myself that a child who escaped from the orphanage would not be known if I ate him, but you even released him, and when you released him, the police found him, and I was under surveillance, and I was so hungry that I entered the game, and I just ate a finger of that child raw, and that child cried so badly that you drew him here, and you... ..."

"Well, you are indeed Feichi." Miao Gaojiang sighed deeply and interrupted Miao Feichi's unfinished sentence, "Everyone in this game looks the same, we have a code word for each other."

"Just the finger." Miao Feichi hammered home, not seeming to find the murderous code word so much as a bit of a remnant, "That was the last bite of human flesh I ate before I entered the game."

Miao Gaojiang did not like this code word, but in the teamwork he generally gave way to Miao Feichi, his son, in such trivial matters, not dominating, and he was extremely indulgent towards Miao Feichi, otherwise Miao Feichi would not have been impatient with him and done all sorts of things with his eyes open and shut. He is not a dominant son.

So Miao Gaojiang snapped his mouth shut and only after a while asked, "Where is the child you invested in? Where is the location where you got rid of him?"

"The little brat was following me after I chased him away, but there are too many children in this yard and all of them look fine and tender." Miao Feichi narrowed his eyes somewhat wickedly, "I reckon he was hung up, the little brat hadn't had his meat yet, and being subjected to all this walking human flesh should have appealed to him."

Seeing that Miao Gaojiang was about to say something else, Miao Feichi waved his hand in annoyance and skill: "That's enough, can't I just eat the kids and the opponents in this game? I can't even touch this game data? I think you want to starve your son to death, you are my father can not even control my food and drink, but also to come in the way is too much ah."

Miao Gaojiang looked at the children, who were so alive that they could not be seen as data, and he opened his mouth, but finally closed it again.

These children were so vivid that for a moment he even felt that these were not some in-game NPCs, but real people, no different from those in reality.

"Go find your child first and then go to the ground floor to register." Miao Gaojiang said.

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Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang had not yet arrived when Bai Liu went there, which was not unusual as these two had to find each other first and confirm each other's identity.

Miao Feichi estimated the difficulty, and the man probably didn't even pay attention to the little cub that suddenly appeared.

Bai Liu was upstairs when he saw Miao Feichi's little cub wandering around the orphanage by himself, following the different children with green eyes like a wolf who hadn't eaten raw meat yet.

Bai Liu enters the registration room with little Bai six and finds that he has already registered two people in front of him, one of them is Muke and the other one is - looking at the names on it, Bai Liu's eyes are dark.

[Due to blood ties, player Liu Huai and player Liu Jiayi activate (brother-sister identity line), registering as brother and sister, each other's doppelganger and another identity line, activating a special two-line operation mode]

[Player Liu Huai (Brother Identity Line): terminally ill investor in a children's home]

[Identity features: enjoys 50 percent of life value, but due to a terminal illness life value will drop with time, please find a way to renew life quickly!

[Player Liu Jiayi (Sisterhood Line): Children sponsored by investors to enter a loving orphanage]

[Identity features: enjoys fifty percent of life value, is pure and immaculate sister, will enter the crisis-ridden orphanage, please players must protect them!

[Note: For each player in the Brother and Sister status line, fifty percent of the life value is cleared to zero, which means death]

The last time Bai Liu met Liu Jiayi, he said that Liu Jiayi should be entering the game soon, but I didn't expect to see her in the game this time.

But how does Liu Jiayi, a newcomer, get straight into a multiplayer game? Shouldn't newcomers start with a single player game?

Is there a special connection between Liu Jiayi and Liu Huai? Is the system pulling Liu Jiayi, the newcomer, directly into the game where Liu Huai is? Bai Liu pondered - the pattern of these two was clearly different from Bai Liu's and theirs, no longer one with an infant form of himself, but an older brother with a younger sister.

Bai Liu saw that Liu Huai wrote [blood brother and sister] in the column for the registered relationship pattern, while Muke wrote [investor and sponsored child].

However, Bai Liu noticed that although it said it was a two player mode, the life bar above the heads of these two was still fifty percent, and it also looked like clearing that fifty percent killed the player outright; Bai Liu they were slashing life points, and the total life points were actually still one hundred.

But Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi are straightforwardly cut in half, which is even less dominant.

And Bai Liu didn't think it was fair enough for the game.

The system has made all sorts of mind-numbing solutions to nerf players for the sake of fairness and game trade-offs, and Bai Liu, who has experienced being systematically nerfed twice, doesn't feel that the system will present players with an unfairly horrible game.

This suggests that this option of reducing Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi's life by half should be relatively fair to all players involved in the game, and the gameplay is relatively well balanced.

But for Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi, the two unlucky siblings who triggered the special mode, the unfairness is again obvious as Liu Jiayi is a blind child and a newcomer to the game, having their lives cut in half.

And while the father-son pairing of Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang does not trigger any father-son line of identity because Bai Liu sees little Miao Feichi, the father-son pairing certainly does not trigger this particular form of blood relationship line of identity.

This is presumably related to Liu Jiayi.

Liu Jiayi, a blind child, enters the game for the first time in a multiplayer game, not knowing what the child's wishes and desires are, Bai Liu feels that Liu Jiayi's wishes are not like wishing he could see again.

When Bai Liu had contact with this child, he actually felt that Liu Jiayi's desire to regain her sight was not as strong as Liu Huai's, and intuitively, Liu Jiayi seemed to feel that her blindness was not a problem, and that she was more attached to her brother, which might be the case if Liu Jiayi's desires were tied to her brother, in a game where everything is tied to the player's desires. In a game where everything is tied to the player's desires, this might be the case.

However, there are other possibilities, and Liu Jiayi is too special a child in every way for Bai Liu to draw any direct conclusions.

Bai Liu makes a tentative note of this place where he feels out of place.

After registering, little Bai six was led in by the director.

Before walking away little Bai six looked back at Bai Liu, the little boy raised his thumb and forefinger expressionlessly and rubbed them against Bai Liu, giving him a very polite gesture, which made Bai Liu want to laugh - it was a money gesture.

Because Bai Liu told him to call and pay, the child has been remembering it ever since.

This child has not yet done anything, but he remembers his accounts very well.

The children were taken into the orphanage and Bai Liu, the investor, was led by the director to a building near the orphanage that looked a bit like a ward, with a nurse and a nurse's office, but there was no registration desk and no doctor's office to see the patients, just floor after floor of inpatient wards.

The director told them that most of the investors were in poor health, so they lived here and occasionally visited the children during the orphanage's open days.

Bai Liu looked around for a while and determined that this place was a private hospital building that was not open to the public.

It's more like the old age rehabilitation buildings Bai Liu has seen for rich retired people, where only nurses are needed to manage the care, and doctors are on call, so there's no need to have many doctors in one building.

But this is not a place for rich retired people in good health, but a group of terminally ill patients in desperate need of treatment, and it would seem strange that there are no doctors in a hospital in this critical condition.

Who will treat them without a doctor?

The private hospital was full of patients who looked exactly like the long, thin ghostly figures, some lying on beds, others walking sluggishly in the corridors propped up on chairs, their faces so tightly bandaged that they didn't even show their eyes, and they didn't know how they could see the road.

Only the air currents from these patients' feeble breaths slightly blowing the bandages around their faces to bulge them out, showing that they are all living people and not some urban rumour of monsters.

The patient lying in the intensive care unit, Bai Liu had visually estimated, must have been more than two metres tall, his feet dangling helplessly from the outside of the bed, his complexion bruised and spotted, reminding Bai Liu of the poisonous mushroom-like skin of the children he had seen die before.

These stiff, sluggish, dying investors move slowly through the corridors and wards, turning their faces as if to watch Bai Liu as he crosses the corridor, his long, thin, spider-like arms and legs dangling on either side of his body, and Bai Liu being grabbed by the neck of one's foot.

The patient who had grabbed his foot and neck seemed to be teasing him, but quickly let go with a weird and nervous cackle.