Chapter 83: Loving Orphanage

The dean took them to the 9th floor, which was much less crowded than the floors below and did not seem as sick, Bai Liu felt that the patients on this floor were about as sick as he was, most intuitively because they were all about the same height.

From Bai Liu's observation, the sicker the patients in this hospital, the more elongated their bodies become, i.e. the more they resemble the [Long and Thin Ghost] thing.

The little Bai six's description of him is actually quite correct, as the boy's ability to perceive scary things makes Bai Liu realise that he may have been consciously aware of this since he was fourteen.

There were twenty-one wards on the floor, and the director gave Bai Liu a room, then said she had to go back to pick up the other investors.

Bai Liu is in room 906, a room to the left of the corridor and to the inside, and after observing the entire ward, Bai Liu finds this private hospital a bit strange.

The hospital is very well decorated, very sophisticated, but the lighting is extremely poor, all the wards are hidden from the light, the room is so dark that you need to turn on the lights during the day, and the brightness of the lights here is so low that you can't see anything even if you turn them on, and there are high-powered humidifiers all over the hospital, spraying mist out all the time, making the whole hospital as humid as a southern day, filled with hazy water vapour everywhere.

A normal hospital would never have been built like this, as if it were a place where patients could not die.

The poor light and heavy fog made visibility in the hospital very poor.

If it wasn't for the director, Bai Liu would have had a hard time finding the various passageways here, as he couldn't see them and the walls were very slippery due to the water vapour, and Bai Liu was now tall and had long arms and legs, so he could easily fall on the slippery ground, which gave Bai Liu a bad feeling - - if a chase happened on the hospital map, he would probably have a hard time running. -If there is a chase on the hospital map, he will probably have a hard time running.

Bai Liu scanned the entire ward and found three humidifiers, but only one light, which was very dim.

The stranger part was the hospital beds, as mentioned before this was a private hospital well fitted out in every way, it looked classy, the bathroom taps were in the shape of gilt lions, but the beds -

--Bai Liu Liu lifted the white sheet of his hospital bed and raised an eyebrow at the pile of straw beneath.

This is actually a straw bed.

Bai Liu only lived in these beds in a relatively poor orphanage as a child, and they were uncomfortable and cumbersome to live in, but had the advantage of being cheaper than any other bed.

Straw needs to be dry in order to sleep comfortably, and when wet it is prone to insect rot, which can bite people with all sorts of red spots, and in very wet conditions these straws can even grow mushrooms.

For example, in the corner of Bai Liu's bed, after lifting the sheet, he saw a dense cluster of grey mushrooms growing in clusters all the way to the wooden bookcase next to the bed.

A bed of straw in a room with three humidifiers like this would be not very different from a fungal petri dish, and the straw would soon rot, then it would be covered with worms and maggots and mushrooms and grow all kinds of decomposers and crawl all over the bodies of the people sleeping on it.

In short, during Bai Liu's childhood, during the rainy season, he would rather sleep on the ground than on a straw bed.

[System Alert: Please ask player Bai Liu (as investor) for the main quest - to find a cure for his terminal illness]

A Remedy for Renewed Life ......

Where do you go to find a cure? If this were a private hospital with a doctor, Bai Liu would have been raiding the doctor's office for prescriptions and medication by now.

But there were no doctors here, only a group of nurses pushing trolleys around in the corridor, and when Bai Liu entered the nurses' office, he took a look inside, there were no bottles, no pills, not even syringes or IV tubes, just a few waist-high stainless steel trolleys, which looked like the food trolleys in Bai Liu's company canteen, supposedly used to deliver meals to patients.

How is a hospital with no doctors, no drugs, and nothing but patients supposed to find a [life-sustaining remedy] for a terminally ill patient?

Wait, there's nothing but patients ......

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed slightly as he began to search through the ward's bookcase.

There was a bookcase behind the door of the ward, behind the bed, which Bai Liu did not care about, as it was full of old books, because there were so many of them that Bai Liu did not think of them as clues.

If Bai Liu had designed the game himself, he wouldn't have hidden the clues in such overly cumbersome information, as it would have been boring to ask the player to find a two-metre high bookcase full of books without hints.

But there is one exception - and that is where there is not just one piece of information in this bookcase that the player needs to discover.

Rather, with the exception of a small number, it is all information that the player should discover.

[System Prompt: Congratulations to the player for triggering the side quest - Searching in Medical Books (Life-Sustaining Remedies)]

Sure enough.

Bai Liu put the books in the bookcase into a simple category. Some of the books Bai Liu thought were obvious and not related to the copies were thrown away, such as yellow women's magazines, and the rest were medical magazines and books, which were piled up heavily on the floor.

There were all medical books, both Chinese and Western, internal and external, women and children, as well as some all-English medical journals.

But as his eyes narrowed, he looked at the pile of medical books that no one had ever looked through before and detected a slight sense of dissonance.

There are no doctors in this private hospital and these books could not have been read by doctors, but it is clear that the people who read these books were for people with some general medical knowledge.

And these books are for the patients, or rather, the investors, who are the residents of this ward.

So it's not that there are no doctors in this private hospital, but the patients who live here are the doctors.

They are reading and healing themselves - strange sick people.

These investors are obviously worth a lot of money, but why don't they trust doctors instead of self-medicating? Is it because doctors can't treat them? But doctors can't cure, and there is little point in them reading these books - after all, they are all things that doctors have read.

Bai Liu thought for a while - it was obvious that all the investors here had some kind of terminal illness, so apart from Bai Liu someone must have already started treating them, i.e. started using the renewal formula, but they, the new patients, could not get this (renewal formula) for free, but had to find it themselves from this pile of books They had to find it out for themselves.

But for someone who was not very disciplined as a student and not much of a homeworker, Bai Liu's reading comprehension of such things that did not interest him was very inefficient, and his grades in many subjects as a student were average, so Bai Liu quickly and shamelessly decided to copy other people's [homework] when he did not want to read the book and could not solve the answers himself. He usually copied Lu Yizhan's homework because Lu Yizhan, a good student, had the highest percentage of correct homework, but in this game--

Bai Liu squinted for a moment - the key now was whose [homework] to copy?

Now who in this hospital can solve the [answer] to this pile of books the fastest and most correctly?

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Muke, who had also been brought to the private hospital by the director, had also triggered the quest to find the cure in the medical books by searching the bookcase and was now sitting on the bedside looking at the pile of medical books.

He hadn't read a book since he graduated, and it was such a big book that he couldn't even see if someone was walking around a metre away from him, not to mention reading.

It means that the props can be sold to you, but you cannot use them in the ward.

Muke was going to try to see if the book could be taken outside, at least better than the light in this room.

But as soon as he stepped out of the ward with the book, he was shocked when he opened it. An expressionless nurse patrolling the corridor with a stainless steel trolley saw Muke about to come out with the book and this nurse gave a warning that please don't walk around with the contents of the ward and that on the first day of admission patients are not allowed to walk around and should stay in the ward.

It just didn't seem possible to take it out, and Muke shrank back with a frown.

Muke had to try reading a book with this netherworld light.

But after a short while, Muke felt overwhelmed. He was a fast reader, but reading in this light was so inefficient and disorganised that it was difficult to come up with an effective treatment, or in the words of the system, a remedy for life.

Muke also realised that it would be difficult for him to find the right answer on his own, but he couldn't think of any other ideas at the moment.

After all, the game's hints are so directional that it's obvious that the player is being told to look at the pile of books in the bookcase to find the answer, which happens to be Muke's forte.

Muke sighed a little anxiously as he looked at the book he was holding, he hadn't had this feeling of not being able to find an answer while reading a book for a long time, Muke had been a school master since he was a child and had skipped a few levels since he was in junior high school, his intelligence value was also quite high when he entered the game, with 85 points.

His reading and memory comprehension skills were excellent, and if he was given a relatively bright environment, it would not be difficult for him to read the pile of books and consolidate the clues to come up with answers in three days, and he was desperate to come up with a quick remedy for Bai Liu, but the dim reality made him more and more irritable.

It took an hour to finish a book, that's not even close to his real level!

Muke was thinking about how to proceed when his system panel suddenly vibrated and he saw an additional item added to his prop bar.

Muke is not buying props right now, and it's clear that the person who just bought this prop is Bai Liu - Bai Liu can manipulate his panel to buy props from space, which is one of their ways of communicating.

Now that they are all in the ward, communicating with each other in this way of buying props is extremely discreet and out of sight.

Muke clicked on his system panel to look at his props in the warehouse. The audience could see the system shop, but the warehouse interface was not visible, and the warehouse would be coded to protect the player's property, so Muke and Bai Liu's private communication would not even be noticed by the audience in front of the small TV, which could be said to be secretive to the extreme.

The only way Muke and Bai Liu could be exposed as communicating with each other would be if Muke was suddenly killed and the prop they used to communicate was exposed to the player who killed Muke and the other player noticed something was wrong, for example, if Bai Liu and Muke used a notepad or phone recorder to write and communicate, then when Muke died, the prop used to communicate would fall in front of the player who killed him. The prop used to communicate will fall in front of the player who killed him.

If Muke is suddenly killed during the exchange, or if Muke is killed before he has a chance to erase the exchange, then the prop dropped from Muke's body is likely to reveal Bai Liu's exchange with him to the others.

Of course it is possible to encrypt the communication with a password to prevent easy deciphering, but how can you be sure that the password will not be easily deciphered by others and that it can be quickly understood by Muke?

Bai Liu didn't like the idea of exposing himself to his opponent, so he chose a prop that wasn't very conventional.

Bai Liu bought Muke a black keyboard.

The keyboard is a familiar tool to both Muke and Bai Liu, and compared to notebooks and paper, and recorders and other props that leave visible traces of communication, snapping the keycaps and putting them back on the keyboard is relatively unmarked and leaves no traces of the communication afterwards, compared to other communication tools.

And the "code" on the keyboard is one that Muke and Bai Liu, both gamers, can quickly understand.

Even if Muke kills and drops a keyboard, the enemy will not readily associate it with a communication tool, let alone with the information it contains.

Of course, another reason why Ryu chose the keyboard is that when the man was browsing the system discount sale shop, he saw this keyboard that cost less than ten points, and Ryu thought it would work and bought it off the shelf.

Muke froze at the sight of this keyboard.

The [ctrl] and [c] keycaps on the keyboard are snapped off, which is a very common shortcut concatenation of the keys, [ctrl] + [c] means [copy], which means copy.

Copying? Copy what? What do they have to copy now? Shouldn't the priority be to find that cure?

Wait a minute! Muke quickly understood Bai Liu's meaning - Bai Liu was trying to copy (and renew) the cure!

Is Bai Liu trying to copy this? But it can be copied? Where to copy it? There are so many wards here, did Bai Liu know which one had the cure for life?

Muke looked at the keyboard, thought deeply about it, then hesitantly snapped off the [? and [numlock] keycaps and put them in his storage, waiting apprehensively for Bai Liu's reply, and a little worried that the other party would not understand what he meant.

[numlock] is a keypad number lock key on a keyboard, but the literal meaning can be translated as [lock numbers], combined with the [? The keycap, Muke is trying to say - [Bai Liu, what number are we locking?

The ward room numbers here are all numbers, and all Bai Liu has to do is tell him what number to lock and he will know which ward Bai Liu is going to.

But soon, the keyboard Muke had put into storage disappeared and came back a short while later with the [ctrl]+[c] keycaps back on it, but with three more keycaps missing.

"One, seven, zero."

Muke was confused. The number zero cannot be placed first in a door number, so the number before it can only be one or seven.

There are only three permutations of these three numbers, [701], [710] and [107].

The seventh floor is the operating theatre and there are no wards.

This is a "space ward", there is no ward [107] in this building, it was vacated for storage or something like that, so it took this number, but there is no such ward.

Instead, there are [106], and [108] wards.

Muke was a bit worried, he couldn't understand Bai Liu's meaning, he scanned the three numbers and thought of all three numbers in 6 arrangements in his head, then he slowly sat up straight.

It is true that this private hospital does not have alphabetical ward door numbers, but it does have special monitoring rooms without numbers - the ICU wards.

The ICU ward on the ground floor, this ward is not marked with a number, and the ground floor is all wards except this one, so this [icu] ward is most likely the same [space ward] that took up the [107] number!

Bai Liu did not directly use the ICU ward description because there was more than one ICU ward in the hospital and not specifying the ward number might cause a misunderstanding of the message, and Muke asked directly what the number was, so Bai Liu simply used a clearer number to refer to the ward number - it didn't even occur to this guy that the person opposite It didn't occur to him that the person opposite might not be able to keep up with his leap of faith and equate ward 107 with the ICU ward on the ground floor.

But Muke, a player with a good memory and ability to gather information, managed to get the point Bai Liu was trying to make.

Bai Liu is trying to go here to copy this critically ill patient's treatment!!!

"Fuck." Muke couldn't hold back his foul mouth - the icu was inhabited by the hospital's original indigenous investor, a patient who was over two meters tall and looked like a ghost! It could have been the monster in their copy!

And the nurses here have said that the patients in the icu ward don't leave the room all day, so how do they get in to copy the recipe for life extension in there!

And they know for sure if there's a so-called "cure" in there!

Bai Liu is quite sure that the ICU must have what the system calls a [life-sustaining remedy].

If all the patients here are doctors, then for a group of [novice doctors] who have just moved in, the more likely treatment options to appear on the ward must be the older doctors who have been sicker and studied for longer.

In summary, Bai Liu felt that there was mostly what the system called a [life-sustaining prescription] in the ICU.

But whether you can get it or not is another matter.

The patients in the icu don't look very human and don't leave the ward throughout the day. Bai Liu doesn't have access and doesn't know if going in will cause the patients, or monsters, to go on a rampage - after all, Bai Liu isn't there to do anything good, but to go through things, which is quite risky.

But the payoff is correspondingly high. If it works, Bai Liu will be the first of all players to get a copy of the [Renewal Remedy], which will give Bai Liu considerable initiative that he can use to trade many things with other players, but the explicit difficulties of breaking into icu are twofold.

Point 1: How do I break in?

There are roving nurses in the corridors of this hospital. Patients who do something slightly against the rules and regulations of the hospital will be caught and corrected, not to mention forcing their way into the ICU, and if the player forces himself to break in, he will have to exploit the nurses' patrol. The nurses were very fast and, at least in Bai Liu's estimation, he could not outrun them on the slippery ground.

Point 2: How do you turn things over after breaking in?

The patient in this ward was very wrong, mostly a monster, and it would probably be hard enough to break in and find something in front of the other person.

Before Bai Liu could come up with a concrete solution, nightfall came.

When 9pm arrived, the nurse informed the ward that there was a curfew and all patients were forbidden to go out.

The only sound you can hear in the corridors is the sound of nurses pushing trolleys back and forth. These nurses patrol the corridors during their shifts, and when they see the dim light coming through the doors of the wards, they knock on the doors to tell you to turn off the lights and get some rest, just like the hostesses at Bai Liu High School.

But the nurses were far less friendly than the aunts. Bai Liu opened the door to take a look at them, and the way they patrolled the corridors at night on their high heels, their faces frozen in the mist from the humidifier, reminded Bai Liu for a moment of the nurse monsters in Silent Hill.

The nurses' eyes glowed a cat-like fluorescent green in the night, watching Bai Liu from afar, trolleys darting towards Bai Liu, high heels thumping towards Bai Liu. Bai Liu pulled the door closed and unlocked it as quickly as he could.

Soon the creaking of the trolley braked to a stop in front of Bai Liu's door and the nurse knocked twice, her tone low: "Patient in room 706, did you just open the door? Have you not read the hospital rules and regulations? It is strictly forbidden to go out after 9pm, and the door to the ward can only be opened after 9am."

The nurse questioned Bai Liu sternly while banging on the door, which was slammed against the frame in the dead of night.

Bai Liu, of course, would not open the door for her.

The nurse slammed the door for a moment and trailed off in a slightly creepy tone, "If you have to open the door to your ward at these two times, the hospital is not responsible for your personal safety if something is allowed to get into your ward."

With that, the nurse trolleys away from Bai Liu's room.

What is it, Bai Liu wrinkled his brow when he heard the nurse say this, it looked like there would be something not quite right running around out there at night.

But this time period ......

It is forbidden to open the door of the ward after 9pm and before 9am, which is the same as forbidding the patient to go out, but this time period just happens to coincide with the children's call times (6am-9am and 9pm-12pm).

The child comes out to call the investor at exactly the same time that the investor is unable to go out, and the [something] that the nurse said earlier gets into your ward - assuming that the [something] that the nurse is talking about is a monster - then the monster comes out to move around at exactly the same time that the child comes out to call.

It seems little Bai six took a big risk by calling him, too.

At half past nine, just when Bai Liu thought he would not receive a call from little Bai six tonight, his walkie-talkie rang.

Bai Liu picks up and there is a sound like a bad contact coming from this somewhat ancient version of the walkie-talkie and the sound of someone running at breakneck speed panting, it feels like someone is running with this walkie-talkie and running fast and up and down.

Bai Liu didn't make a sound and waited until the panting had largely subsided and the other side said, "Hold on, something's chasing me."

After little Bai six said this, the system screen on Bai Liu's side popped up.

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for triggering the Monster Book with his secondary identity line]

[The Monster Book of Love Orphanage Refresh - Deformed Children (1/3)]

[Monster Name: Deformed Child].

[Features: Faster movement speed (350-600)].

[Weakness: ????? (to be explored)]

[Attack: Likes to play with the player's secondary identity line, and will make the player's secondary identity line disappear into the orphanage while playing]

After almost five minutes or so, the sound of clotheslines came from across the room, and little Bai six, who seemed to be hiding somewhere, lowered his voice and said, "All right, it's not catching up for now, so you can talk."

little Bai six's voice was a little up and down but you could hear no obvious mood swings and he wasn't afraid of what was chasing him,.

Bai Liu asks, "What's chasing you?"

"A kid." little Bai six said, still breathing a little unevenly, "crouched on the ground, coming after me on all fours like a monkey, very skinny, drooling and smiling all the time, strange looking, looking like one of those congenital idiots who can't think straight."

He had been in an orphanage before, where people with Down's syndrome had a distinctive look, with squinting eyes, flat noses, long mouths, fat and bulging cheeks, short necks, wide eye spacing, and eyes that always ran upwards. Frogs], because they looked like frogs.

Such a frog-like child was on all fours on the ground with his head drooling, giggling and chasing little Bai six ...... Thanks to little Bai six's obsession with money, he was willing to call him for it, otherwise a normal child would have been scared to tears and who could guarantee to keep running without hanging up the phone.

"So has he gone?" Bai Liu asked.

"No." No sooner had little Bai six answered than Bai Liu heard the child's little voice on the other end of the line and the sound of the fabric of his trousers against the dirt and gravel, but the sound was fast, creating a hissing effect like a snake swimming, and the child chasing little Bai six was moving very fast.

The little Bai six replied with this no and then went silent again.

All Bai Liu could hear was the sound of his rapid breathing and footsteps as he ran, the innocent laughter of the children who followed him, and the sound of hissing trousers on the ground.

The sound was getting louder and louder, and it felt like the fabric must have had a lot of contact with the ground, so it seemed that the kid chasing little Bai six was dragging his lower body after him and would soon be catching up with him.

Bai Liu did not say anything, he waited quietly, not disturbing the little Bai six who were chasing the battle.

After waiting for almost another five minutes, little Bai six panted and spoke, "It's ready."

"Did you avoid him?" Bai Liu inquired.

"No, he went after the others." There was no sympathy in little Bai six's tone, "Some other kid came out to call, and as soon as he did, he was chased, and now he's running while crying, and that kid isn't chasing me."

Bai Liu understands that there should only be one creepy kid wandering around chasing outside the orphanage, and now that he's shifted his hate value to chase someone else, little Bai six is relatively safe.

He asked, "What's the situation on your end? What happened after you were taken in by the dean?"

"Once we were brought in it was the normal process, the orphanage people allocated us rooms, me and three other new boys in one room, a little blind girl in another building, opposite us, and we all stayed in a room on the ground floor." little Bai six said things in a very clear and organised way, he first briefly talked about the overall situation and then started to talk about the points that Bai Liu would be concerned about.

little Bai six hadn't even caught her breath: "That child's phone we had was supposed to be confiscated, the teachers at the orphanage had explicitly forbidden us to carry such means of communication, but then they said we were new and had to be given a period of acclimatisation and said we were allowed to carry it for a week, but gave us a time limit for making calls, the same as you said, as well as not being able to the room on the phone, saying it would disturb other people resting."

"As well as all the teachers and carers I met at the orphanage, I was warned not to follow the sound of the flute at night, and not to go out if I heard it, saying that the flute-player would abduct children." little Bai six's tone was calm, "I ended up hearing someone whistling some nonsense nursery rhyme on a harp outside at 9.3pm."

"I didn't really want to go out, but the piper guy was too saved for his card spot, it was exactly a little after nine, but it couldn't be helped, you said I'd pay me for every minute I called you once according to the time I spent on the phone, so I came out anyway."

Don't follow the sound of the flute, Bai Liu If you think about it, there are episodes like this in real-world orphanages where the four children are said to have gone out on their own accord after hearing the sound of the flute and then disappeared.

Bai Liu came up with a fairy tale at the time.

"Don't follow the sound of the flute, it says the flute will abduct children, what do you think of when you hear this?" Bai Liu inquired thoughtfully.

There was a moment of silence from little Bai six: "You mentioned this, so you should be thinking of a similar point to me, The Piper in Hamelin's Flower Cloth, as I recall."

"It's the name." Bai Liu says, "It's an English children's poem."

The story of the Piper in Fancy Cloth in Hamelin is about a town where the plague was rampant and the townspeople were tormented by the rats running around.

The townspeople agreed, and as the piper played his flute, the rats all poured out from all corners of the town and followed the piper in a line of their own accord, the piper blowing and blowing and walking, with the rats following behind them seemingly happy to follow every inch of the way.

The Piper walked into a small river that was up to his waist, and so did the mice, who were all drowned by the waist-high water and floating around on the stream.

The plague was over and the townspeople were happy, but they backtracked and would not pay the piper.

The piper then played his flute once more, and as it sounded, this time it was the children of the townspeople who came out from the four corners of the town.

The children laughed and joked, lining up one by one behind the Piper like the mice before them, jumping and rejoicing, not turning back no matter how much the townspeople cried out to dissuade them, and the Piper led them away from the town, never to be seen again.

Some say the Piper took the children back to the waist-high creek where they had been and tried to drown them to get back at the townspeople, others say the Piper turned the children into rats and went to the next town to let the rats cause trouble so he could continue to collect his pay.

"Did you see who was playing the flute?" Bai Liu asked.

Little Bai six recalls, "I didn't see it, the flute sounded in all directions, I had a feeling there was more than one person, but the flute player was not very skilled, he played several wrong notes, he played those nursery rhymes back and forth for a little over half an hour, giving me the impression that he was a beginner."

"Did any children come out after hearing the flute?" Bai Liu then asked.

"No." Little Bai six replied quickly this time, "All the rooms have teachers or care workers with them, except for us, the new ones that sleep without a teacher to guard them, so we are the only ones who can come out and call."

The ear-piercing cries of the child on the other end of the line echoed with the ethereal and dumbfounding laughter of the child running after him, when little Bai six asked, as if remembering, "By the way, the one being chased is little Miao Feichi, another investor's child."

"Little Miao Feichi? " Bai Liu asked with amusement, "Why is he out on the phone? Oh yes, this kid has a bad habit, you stay away from him."

little Bai six asks, "What's the fetish?"

Bai Liu: "He likes to eat human flesh."

There was a silence across the phone, followed by the calm and sensible voice of little Bai six: "Then I understand why he came out at night to make a phone call, he saw that child crawling on the floor and actively tried to come out, I thought he was coming out to make a phone call, after you said this I thought maybe he was using the phone call as a cover to come out to feed. "

But nay, it was a tough one to meet.

"I have a bit of a grudge against this kid's investor, so you need to be less social with him." Bai Liu said.

"So, do you need me to do anything for you? Like toss him around and make him fall to the ground and get caught up and get killed or something?" little Bai six spoke of doing such bad things in a matter-of-fact tone, not at all like a teenage boy, "But I'll do the work for you and you'll have to pay me."

"Well, not for now, just protect yourself, you're more important to me than he is." Bai Liu stroked his chin and gave a soft laugh, "I don't remember being so bold as to do all this nonsense at your age."

Little Bai six replied indifferently, "Maybe you're at my age and haven't met an investor who dares to pay you an exorbitant amount for an escort and who doesn't look like a nice person?"

Bai Liu paused subtly at these words as he recalled his fourteenth year.

...... has to admit that if he hadn't been steadfastly led by Lu Yizhan at the age of 14 to follow the path of the law and met an investor who paid him to do wrong, he would have been able to do such things.

"Little Miao Feichi, you don't have to worry about him, but if there are two children who are in trouble, you can help if you can." Bai Liu digressed as if nothing had happened, "One is called Muke and the other is the blind girl, but of course I do pay if you help them."

Little Bai Six asked in a slightly odd tone, "You're going to save these two little boys and girls too? What is your relationship with them? Paying me to save them? They are quite good looking ......"

"What are you thinking about? She's the child a friend of mine wants to adopt." Bai Liu instantly picked up on little Bai six's implication and he was a little bemused, little Bai six was a little too low on morals for his adult self, "I'm not as bad as you say I am, I'm not interested in children."

Quickly considering his own tendency to want money over life, Bai Liu added, "But everything you do to help them is premised on keeping yourself safe, you are the most important thing to me, remember that."

The little Bai six over there was quiet for a few seconds, and instead of answering his question positively, he said emotionlessly, "Seventeen minutes and three seconds of talk time, I'll give you the erasure of zero, consider it seventeen minutes, one hundred dollars a minute, total one thousand seventy, you said, remember to pay me off."

"As well as the fact that you're not a nice guy persona at all, so don't say such words of concern for me." little Bai six was expressionless, "That's weirdly disgusting to hear, Mr. Investor."

With that, the little Bai six on the other end hung up the phone with a crisp "pop".

Bai Liu: "......"

After almost a minute Bai Liu's intercom rang again and the voice on the other side was still polite and unruffled: "By the way Mr. Investor, I have fallen three times tonight, please reimburse me for my medical expenses, I will ask the Dean to send you the bill, have a good night."

"Pop" hung up again.

Bai Liu took away his walkie-talkie and muttered a little incredulously to himself, "Was I this obnoxious when I was fourteen?"