Chapter 96: Loving Welfare Home

Little Muke was a bit overwhelmed by the reaction: "...... Why won't we be taken away on Baptism Day? "

little Bai six: "According to my conventional understanding of baptism, we should not be eligible to have blood drawn before we are baptised because we are sinful before we are baptised and only the blood of the Lord can cleanse us of our sins."

Little Bai six said with a lazy snort, he had stayed up two days in a row, he was really sleepy: "And haven't you noticed? These [flute-playing kids] are saving the day."

Little Muke was stunned: "Save people?"

"Yes, to save lives." little Bai six closed his eyes again, hands folded over his chest, lying peacefully, like he was going to fall asleep next, "They're carrying IV tubes and bags, they should be coming from a private hospital, so I'm guessing they know what kids those terminally ill investors over there are going to draw blood from next, so they're taking away the ones that are selected for the upcoming blood draw. children."

"For example, the child taken from our room, I saw the dean register him during the day, saying that an [investor] wanted to adopt him." little Bai six said calmly, "I'm sure you saw it all in your dream, Muke."

Little Muke shuddered at the thought of the blood draws in his dream.

Little Bai six continued without a hitch: "And because of this, if I'm not mistaken, the children were first hypnotized by the sound of the flute to see what might happen to them in the future, and then they met the children who looked exactly like the ones whose blood had been drawn from their dreams."

"The [flute-playing kids] must have expressed to them that they were victims of this blood draw, that we would take you to a safe place and never have to come back, and that's why the kids voluntarily and soberly followed the weird-looking [flute-playing kids], and walked away so happily."

little Bai six paused, "And our [investors] have given up bleeding us, so even after the baptism we are safe."

"Because we don't need saving, they don't take us away."

Little Muke, lying on his bed, turned sideways to look at little Bai six who seemed to have fallen asleep and couldn't resist asking in a whisper, "...... little Bai six, what makes you so sure that your [investor] won't secretly register behind your back to take you and bleed you?"

Little Bai six breathed evenly and did not answer Little Muke, as if he had fallen asleep. Little Muke sighed sadly and muttered two words Little Bai six you are so gullible in trusting your [investor], who is more naive, then he fell asleep with worry in his thoughts.

In the last moments of little Muke's sleep, he seemed to hear little Bai six answer calmly, "If he lies to me, I will kill him."

Two more pairs of eyes were rigidly open in the darkness of the children's sleeping room.

Little Miao Feichi and little Miao Gaojiang were trembling under the covers as they listened to little Muke and little Bai six, and saw the horrible [flute-playing child] that had come in, seemingly because they were both awake, and the flute-playing child hovered directly above them for a long time.

Now these two children, who have not yet experienced the various horrors in the game and later achieved fame and fortune as S-rank players, are in a cold sweat, afraid to move, and in the final analysis these two people's childhoods are just ordinary people.

Perhaps it can't be considered ordinary, after all, it was also grown up to also have the guts to do something like kill his mother and condone his own children killing his wife and eating the corpse.

But how can killing your own terminally ill mother (wife), a woman who was useless, be the same thing as being killed yourself?

Little Miao Gaojiang, her clothes covered in cold sweat, could only maintain a barely contained composure and was terrified enough.

Little Miao Feichi, the man who had the audacity to scald his terminally ill mother to death with boiling water and who loved to eat children's flesh, could not accept being treated like this - the thought of his future being bled to a dry, skin-and-bones state was so frightening that his feet He could not help but twitch a few times.

Even though he covered his head with the blanket, he let out a whimper that he tried to suppress but could still hear, in shock.

Hearing two slightly heavier breaths and a little light crying from the sleeping room, a strange smile suddenly curled up on the face of little Bai six Anning who appeared to have been asleep for a long time.

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At 6.15am on Tuesday morning, Bai Liu's phone rang on time.

"Good morning, Mr. Investor." little Bai six greeted politely, "I found out last night ......"

"A child playing a flute?" Bai Liu asked rhetorically, sardonically, as he crossed his system panel.

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

[Monster Name: Deformed Child (Berserk version after blood draw)

[Characteristics: Likes to go out late at night to take away children]

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

[Mode of Attack: Blood Injection (A+), Phone Location (A+)

[Trigger new attack: Flute Player, A rank skill, can lure away the player's secondary identity line with the sound of the flute]

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for collecting all the Freak Child attacks]

There was a silence on the little Bai six side, he didn't ask why Bai Liu knew what was happening on their side, but continued to report without any fluctuation, "Yes, the time of appearance was around two in the morning, it was in sleep hypnosis mode and could see the investors pumping their own blood in the future... ..."

Bai Liu listened quietly to the little Bai six's report and thought: "It seems that the deformed children and you are on the same side, and yes, you are all victims, so the deformed children who chase you every night are probably the same as this child playing the flute, even if they make you disappear, but the main purpose is to take you away and hide you to protect you, in fact is to keep me from finding you."

But hidden somewhere - a group of ghost children can hide a group of real children so that the living can't find them at all, so it's hard to say whether it's hidden in the underworld or the underworld, and Bai Liu feels that the children taken by this group may have died on a different level, only euthanized.

According to the scene in The Piper in Flower, where the child is taken away, the child should also have been drowned, only to die happily to the sound of the flute.

I don't think it's protection, it should be death too, if you take children away every night, such a large number of children I don't think you very rich [investors] can't find them, and I don't think one group of dead children can place another group of children. "

"Yes, but it does have something to offer." Bai Liu's eyes narrowed, "These flute-playing kids should know how to run away from that fully enclosed orphanage of yours."

little Bai six Another silence: "You need me to escape this [loving orphanage]?"

"Yes." Bai Liu said, "But now the question is, if you run out of the orphanage after this group of flute-playing kids, how do you protect yourself from this group of kids, and you don't just have to run, you have to take the others with you."

Bai Liu's fingers tapped twice on the edge of the bed, his eyes hiding a lot of obscure Buming emotions: "All of them, including Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, you have to take them and run out, and then- "

"Do them and get the blood for you, right?" little bai six added in a voice without a ripple, "That's no problem, I can get them to follow me, but for an additional fee."

"One hundred thousand for one person."

Bai Liu gave an unnoticeable pause as he lazily curled his lips, "Deal."

"But there are two core points to note about this deal, and if you break one of them the deal is null and void -" Bai Liu added in a casual tone, "Firstly, the core mission is to escape, but the first priority is your personal safety, followed by Muke and Liu Jiayi's. First, the core mission is to get out, but the first priority is your personal safety, followed by the safety of Muke and Liu Jiayi, and if that's not guaranteed, don't take it lightly."

"The second point is that killing Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang is not a necessary task for you." Bai Liu said softly with downcast eyes, "I'd like you to leave them to me if you can, little Bai six, after all, you're only fourteen and I'm twenty-four, perhaps more suited to this sort of thing than you are, and of course, I'll pay you the two hundred thousand as usual."

This time little Bai six was quiet for a long time and then asked, his voice having a bit of genuine doubt, "Is there any difference between coming to this at fourteen and at twenty-four?"

"The substance isn't that different." Bai Liu paused, "But I just don't want you to do it, wait until you're an adult and can take responsibility for your actions before you decide if you want to be a bad person."

"Now let the bad guy be me, the adult, little friend."

After little Bai six had hung up, Bai Liu looked up at the darkened window outside his ward and let out a breath, thinking that he had really been conditioned by Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan is most afraid of him doing this, after all, Bai Liu is really good at it.

So Lu Yizhan recited eight hundred times a day to tell him not to engage in marketing with underage people, so that even in the game, Bai Liu subconsciously avoided the situation.

But it's better that he's here. After all, little Bai six has enough problems with his tasks, and it's not easy for little Bai six to get rid of the two Miao Feichi. It's best to leave him with tasks that could easily go wrong in the process.

9am.

The announcements in the ward informed all patients that they were ready to come out and about, as well as informing new patients to go and watch their children's baptism.

[System Alert: A side quest has been triggered. Players who have been notified of the children's phone calls have been invited to go and watch their invested children being baptized at the orphanage]

Bai Liu is now in Muke's hospital room. It's baptism day, but [Bai Liu] is dead, and one of the five [investors] going to the baptism is bound to be missing, so one of Bai Liu and Muke is bound to give up on this sidequest, and it's obvious that Muke is giving up.

Muke was in a poor state of mind, he had been up two nights in a row remembering things, and had been sucked and chased and cried all night, so now the young master's eyes were swollen like a goldfish and he lay dazed and motionless on his back.

This young master didn't really like the wet and sticky straw bed either, but he really didn't have the energy to bother with that right now.

It was clear that the young master, who was using his brain and eyes too much, needed a break and Bai Liu decided to attend the baptism as an investor in [Muke].

But it's one thing for Muke to need a break, it's another for him to get one.

He couldn't sleep at all, even if he was too tired to talk. As soon as Muke's eyes closed, his mind was filled with all sorts of jumbled images and messages, and his headache was splitting from all the overwhelming emotions that kept his cerebral cortex active, even if Bai Liu had given him the bed and slept on the floor.

Muke saw Bai Liu getting up from the floor and getting ready to go out, Muke was also struggling to get up from the bed, he looked at Bai Liu with some concern, "Why don't I go, I'm the real Muke after all, if they have any more props or tricks for the lie detector, I can handle it."

"No need." Bai Liu straightened his hospital gown, he had slept on the floor last night, padded with books, and hadn't slept very well, his face was tired.

Bai Liu turned to Muke on the bed: "I have something for you to do in the hospital, and something only you can do."

Muke was stunned: "What is it?"

"I need you to look up some human case information for me." Bai Liu said.

The timeline for this copy of the orphanage is ten years ago, exactly when those entrepreneurs in reality invested in that children's home to start preparing for the first children to be enrolled.

These two orphanages are caught in two manifestations of the same copy, and in reference to [Bursting Last Train] and [Mirror City Bombing], although the game copy and the real events manifest differently, the core events are generally the same - it is likely that these seriously ill entrepreneurs did the same thing to these children, extracting blood to feed the blood lingzhi to cure the disease.

But Lu Yizhan's investigations have been so devastating that he has not been able to find any clues as to what these entrepreneurs did to the children. After all, it has been ten years and many of the ideas that could be traced back to them have been completely broken.

There is also the fact that Bai Liu thinks that even if there were a clue, it would probably have been swept under the carpet by these powerful people long ago, otherwise this group of people would not have given up funding the orphanage and let a place like this, where they have committed crimes, out of their control.

Even if Bai Liu gets out of the game and tells Lu Yizhan what the orphanage case is all about, Lu Yizhan believes Bai Liu's weird claims, but without concrete evidence or clues, there's nothing they can do about a bunch of reputable, well-established entrepreneurs.

But Bai Liu promised to look into the matter for Lu Yizhan, and he ate Lu Yizhan's payment - he likes to make deals with a finish line.

What can't be done outside the game may not be done inside, and what clues aren't available outside the game may not be available inside.

Bai Liu looks at Xiang Muke: " Muke, I'll write down some names for you later, the nurses are very lax in watching the patients during the day, see if you can infiltrate the file room where they store the patients' data, find out the medical records of these people and remember them all for me."

"Especially the names of the children whose medicines they used, and the time of each blood extraction, it would be good to remember them all and then tell me when I return."

The case files are quite voluminous, or several of them, and it would be difficult for anyone else to remember the galaxies in the time it takes to blend in so undetected by the nurses in the file room.

But for Muke it was a simple matter and he nodded without thinking: "Yes, just give me the name of the patient."

Bai Liu said a few names and asked Muke: "Did you remember the names of these people?"

Muke nodded, after which his brow furrowed slightly in confusion as he asked, "These are the real-life entrepreneurs, they're supposed to be normal people, right? How did their names end up in this game's archive?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "They're probably no ordinary people, they're supposed to be monster-like in this game, as well as, if you can, Muke, you remember as many names as you can of all the investor patients registered in the sick bay."

Muke was stunned: "Does ...... have to remember all of it? Why?"

"A large children's home that has been open for ten years and has only recently started to taper off investment ......"

Here Bai Liu pauses subtly and then continues.

"The investment cost of a large private children's home is huge, and without a relatively large chain of interests behind it to support it, I think it's unlikely to sustain such a long period of unpaid investment from multiple groups, unless a commodity chain is formed."

Bai Liu calmly analyses and elaborates, "It's clear that the commodity a children's home can provide is children, and the by-products of children, and conventionally I would be more likely to guess the erotic, erotic chain, but here it would be blood."

Bai Liu Liu's attitude has an almost impersonal indifference as he states emotionlessly, "The amount of blood that can be provided by the number of children circulating in an orphanage that has been open for ten years and can house hundreds of children at a time - I think that more than the few people I've mentioned can be saved, so I think that at the time this orphanage was opened, there were more than just the few entrepreneurs in line for the terminally ill, too, on the bright side."

Bai Liu looked at him with a calm look that gave Muke the creeps, "If my suspicions are correct, the information in that archive, except for the players who have logged into this game before-"

"- should all be [investors] who have in reality sucked the blood of children to cure them."

[System warning: Player Bai Liu is talking about something that is at the heart of the game, and this conversation has been blocked and silenced by player Bai Liu's TV].

Muke was completely confused, he was a bit overwhelmed and fumbled and spine tingling as he got out of bed, "Wait, Bai Liu you mean - no, wait, if I have to remember all the patient's case information, I probably can't remember that much in a short time now! I'm, I'm not thinking very well right now, and what the hell did you mean by what you just said ......"

"I'll explain the details to you later." Bai Liu interrupted Muke's questioning, he swept the panicked Muke lightly, "If you can't remember all of them, just focus on the ones I told you about there, with this level of crime, there should be a relatively tight chain of connections between them, once you catch a few, it's easy to pull out the carrot and bring out the mud."

Bai Liu pushed the door open, he turned his head to a somewhat dazed, sitting on the edge of the bed Muke nodded his head with a calm look, "Rest, I need you to maintain a high level of accuracy at all times, there is still a lot of information that you need to remember."

"I don't need to rest, I can't sleep, I'll go and help you with the case...the information now...I can't remember it in a short time, I'll remember it in a little longer ......" said Muke, slowly He blinked twice, he tossed his head twice, but his head hit the straw bed with a thud as if it had suddenly sunk, and he looked with a little shortness of breath at Bai Liu who was looking down at him from above, holding the door handle.

Bai Liu looked at Muke, who had collapsed on the bed with no expression on his face: "You need to rest now, Muke."

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu uses high-intensity inhalable sleeping pills on player Muke]

Muke's eyes went black and he felt the ward spinning. He struggled hard to lift his eyelids, only to see Bai Liu turn and close the door, disappearing between his soon-to-be-dropped eyes. He reached out to grab Bai Liu's departing back, but only moved his fingers twice and he closed his eyes reluctantly.

"I don't want to rest ...... I want to do something ......"

The last words Muke heard Bai Liu say before he faded into sleep were, "The sleeping pills take effect until about 11:30 p.m., when the nurses are eating and the file room is deserted, so that's a good time for you to wake up."

"Sleep well, Muke."

Muke is curled up in a small ball on a bed of straw, his eyes closed and his breathing even, sleeping soundly.

Bai Liu took one look and then turned and locked the door behind him - Muke was in a terrible state of mind, having been in a state of shock since last night, like a cat in a frenzy, and his inability to sleep and rest would affect his memory.

There are not many safe times in the game for Muke to rest, and it is understandable that Muke is in that over-vigilant state Bai Liu is in.

Only today, with Miao Feichi away and a high density of nurse patrols during the day, the odds of monsters coming out are low and there is no better point than now for Muke to rest and recover fully.

But Bai Liu's absence would have greatly deprived Muke of his sense of security, and Muke immediately sat up from the bed as soon as Bai Liu stood up, his eyes were red and bloodshot and he wanted to follow him.

At 9:30, all the [investors] who were going to observe the baptism gathered at the entrance of the hospital.