Chapter 99: Loving Welfare Home

After the baptism of little Bai six, it was Liu Huai's turn to come forward and baptize Liu Jiayi.

Liu Huai was very gentle with Liu Jiayi's baptism, and Liu Huai didn't want to keep Liu Jiayi in the water for long, so she was soon out.

He finally dropped a cherished kiss on Liu Jiayi's forehead, declined the man's offer to take Liu Jiayi's blood, and silently returned to the investor's seat below amidst Liu Jiayi's somewhat confused expression.

Liu Huai was sitting far away from Bai Liu, at the back of the room. He didn't hear Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang talking about laying hands on Liu Jiayi, but he could probably guess what the two veteran players were doing, and Liu Huai looked at Bai Liu from a distance with a tense expression.

"That's all for today's baptism, please take a break and eat in the orphanage canteen." The director greeted them with a smile as if they were opening for business.

"In the afternoon our baptised children will offer you pure song - a choral performance to celebrate our encounter, to be performed in front of the church, from 3pm to 7pm, investors are invited to be there in time to hear the singing."

Bai Liu glanced down at the time, it was now eleven forty.

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Muke's eyes snapped open as he lay on the straw bed and he quickly got up and looked at the time - it was eleven forty, and he had slept since Bai Liu left!

Muke gritted his teeth a little in frustration, he really felt he was wasting his time - with a file room, he wouldn't necessarily be able to remember everything in half a day, and there was no telling when Miao Feichi would be back, the sooner he could blend into the file room and get in there and remember things the better.

But the effect of Bai Liu putting him to sleep is clear - Muke's mental state is much better.

After a morning of safe and trouble-free sleep, Muke went down to the ground floor, where most of the patients and nurses were now eating in the canteen.

The patients who hadn't come out to eat were the ones who had been given their medication by the nurse in the morning and whose rooms were now closed, and Muke could hear the creaking, faint sound of chewing coming from their rooms as he passed close by.

It reminded Muke of the sound the monster patient had made that night when he gorged himself on blood lingzhi.

Muke silently moved away from the door, remembering the layout of the entire ground floor - the case file room was behind the nurses' duty room, and he could only get in when the nurses' duty room was empty - like now, or at the early and late shift times.

Muke glanced around to make sure no one was there, then took a deep breath and scurried into the case file room, only to gasp as soon as he entered.

"Okay ......" Muke stared at the dusty folder in awe, a little tearful, "That's a lot! How come there's so many! More than yesterday's books!"

For the first time in a long time, he felt like he was scrambling to memorise his homework on the eve of an exam.

Muke slapped his face as he calmed down and pulled out a file, opened it and began to remember: "Name, Wang Guoqiang, donated 1,700,000 to The Love Welfare Institute in 200X, the child he [married] is ......"

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3pm.

The children standing at the front of the church pushed and shoved in a pile, while the investors sat on seats the children had placed on the grass, and the director gave them investors a programme - all the children in this orphanage had to perform for them in groups, all choral programmes, some with more than one song, and a group photo afterwards, which is why it lasted Four hours.

Bai Liu is no stranger to this kind of effort to please [investors] - his orphanage also brings out a group of children to put on a show when leaders come to visit, and all the teachers try their best to make the children behave and act like they like the visiting leaders, singing to them from the beginning to the end. All the teachers try to get the children to behave and act like they like the leaders, singing to them from the beginning to the end, because the teachers say that singing is better than talking.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this practice, it is a means of gaining more benefits for the orphanage, but generally speaking the benefits are not available to Bai Liu, so Bai Liu usually feels like a circus monkey being led out to perform acrobatics, or the kind of monkey that doesn't get paid.

But Bai Liu never thought he would have a day when the children in the orphanage would sing to him, which was a novel experience.

Bai Liu flipped through the programme that was on his lap - the Happy Day song, presented by the newly baptised children.

Little Bai six stood in the corner, dressed in a new outfit, his face painted with gaudy make-up, his face flushed and with a red dot on his forehead, the ends of his hair still dripping from the wash, standing in the back row with a somewhat lazy and careless gaze humming casually, obviously lazy.

"Happy day, happy day, God save me and make me joyful.

The blood of atonement cleanses me from sin, the living water of life quenches my thirst.

Happy day, happy day, God save me and make me joyful."

The song's ingratiating meaning is all too clear - it's a happy day for this group [of investors], not for these little kids.

After listening to the song for a short while, Bai Liu soon lost interest and Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, sitting in front of him, simply dozed off with their arms around their chests, but Miao Feichi still had his knife in his hand and Miao Gaojiang wasn't completely asleep, both veteran players still maintaining a basic level of alertness, but it was certainly a long and tedious show.

Except for Liu Huai, who sat in the back row and couldn't take his eyes off Liu Jiayi, he never took his eyes off her for a second, with a sad feeling that one look was all that was missing.

Four hours Miao Feichi has already complained several times about how long it is, can we just start slaughtering kids.

But for Liu Huai, those four hours were too short, and he looked up at Liu Jiayi, who had a small red dot on her forehead and was gently swaying and singing, and suddenly looked down and wiped his eyes, but soon he looked up again, not wanting to waste a single second looking at Liu Jiayi.

But perhaps Liu Jiayi will never know that Liu Huai has seen her in this way, and she is still blind.

After the little Bai six had finished singing and their next show was not due to start for another fifteen minutes according to the programme, Bai Liu got up and walked around the seats towards the preparation chapel, looking at Miao Gaojiang who was sleeping, his eyes opened instantly and he squinted at Bai Liu: "What are you going to do? It's only the beginning of the song."

"Go find my kid and see if I can teach him to escape." Bai Liu said.

Miao Feichi snickered meaningfully Buming, "Eh, you let him go, people's only chance to pass."

Miao Gaojiang hesitated for a few moments but finally let Bai Liu go, this was right in front of the church and Bai Liu couldn't sneak up on the children they had their eye on early even if he wanted to, as this church forbade the slaughter of children, which was why they hadn't even done it yet.

Of course Miao Feichi's still unrecovered stamina slot is another reason why they haven't done anything yet.

Bai Liu nodded to Miao Feichi and headed off to the church where the children had retired. Miao Gaojiang looked at Bai Liu's back, his eyes heavy and sombre: "I always felt that something was wrong with this Muke."

"You're getting a bit annoying dad." Miao Feichi was slouching in his seat, he looked sideways at Miao Gaojiang, "You've checked the panel, you've checked the phone, this Muke is definitely an average player, his panel doesn't even exceed B, he's only played twice, he's a pure rookie, he should have been controlled by Bai Liu when he was unlucky enough to come in. He was controlled by Bai Liu when he was unlucky enough to come in and we killed him just in time to release the control.

"He's got a broken keyboard in his prop bar." Miao Gaojiang has a low brow bone, which makes his eyes and eyebrows gather when he frowns, and he looks sinisterly hostile, "I remember the two times I inspected his system storage, the keycaps that fell off that broken keyboard were different when I saw them."

When Miao Feichi heard Miao Gaojiang say this, he also sat up straight in his chair.

Miao Gaojiang is very meticulous, he always notices details that people don't notice, and he is also good at suspecting details and using them, and Miao Feichi has worked with Miao Gaojiang for so long that he knows that Miao Gaojiang's suspicions are usually not unwarranted.

Miao Feichi was reminded by Miao Gaojiang and raised an eyebrow and asked in return, "Dad, you mean that someone was communicating with Muke through the keyboard, do you remember what keycaps fell off Muke's keyboard?"

Miao Gaojiang's frown grew deeper: "Here's the problem, I'm not familiar with the layout of the keyboard, I can only realize that the position over the keyboard has changed, but exactly where it is and what keycaps it corresponds to, because I've just scanned it, in fact I don't really remember very well."

"Normally, the system backpack is only accessible to one person, Muke is with us all the time, it's unlikely to hand the keyboard to someone and then take it back again, and it's too risky to communicate that way."

Miao Gaojiang's tone was sombre: "I think it's more likely that someone shared the system backpack with him, and if someone's skills can share the system backpack with Muke, then this method of communication is feasible and extremely covert."

Miao Feichi is quiet for a moment, and there is only one player on the field whose personal skills they are not aware of.

"You mean Bai Liu isn't dead? He has more than just his personal skills, he has this shared system warehouse backpack?" Miao Feichi's expression seeped up and his eyes narrowed to slits, "Muke was his pawn to get into our side? And he's constantly communicating with Bai Liu on his keyboard?"

"But that's just a guess on my part."

Miao Gaojiang also looked at Miao Feichi whose face had taken on a fierce and murderous look, " Muke a C rank panel player, you can kill whenever you want, it's best not to act impulsively because you're in the support season now, killing a normal player who has defected to you will not be good for your reputation, it will affect your support, and And another very important point-"

"The skill of Sharing System Backpack is already in the realm of [Rules Skill], which requires a violation of System Rights to do so."

Miao Gaojiang propped his hands on his knees, thinking deeply: "There are only a few people in the game whose personal skill is [Rule Skill], I think it's unlikely that Bai Liu's personal skill is [Rule Skill], because if he really had a buggy personal skill like [Rule Skill], he could have just pinned us down like Queen Hearts did. Bai Liu doesn't need to be so passive."

"But we can't completely rule it out, after all Bai Liu is a newcomer and it's possible that he doesn't use his personal skills well, let's see."

Miao Gaojiang looked at the church where Bai Liu had gone in, his eyes shady: "It's not too late to kill him when you've recovered and he's revealed himself."

When Bai Liu came backstage, little Muke and little Bai six were sitting face to face, wiping their faces with tissues dipped in water.

Little Bai six, however, swept him off his feet and said softly, "This is not the place to talk, let's go somewhere else."

Little Muke instantly realised that this was little Bai six, the [investor] who had christened him, and he nodded slightly awkwardly in greeting before little Bai six took Bai Liu's hand and took him away.

Bai Liu leans against the wall and looks down at little Bai six, who is still persistently rubbing his blush on his face in front of him.

Bai Liu naturally took the soaked toilet paper from little Bai six's hand and knelt down to wipe him up very carefully.

"You can't wipe it off like that." Bai Liu used a bit of toilet paper and pressed it repeatedly on little Bai six's brow, "You'll get lipstick all over your forehead if you rub it like that."

Little Bai six was expressionless as Bai Liu held his shoulder and wiped his forehead: "You know how to use lipstick, do you always use it yourself?"

Bai Liu pretended not to hear the sarcasm implied in the little friend's words, "I've been made up like this before, on a similar occasion to you, are you angry because I didn't christen you and you were punished by the Dean?"

"Not really angry, I just feel like I've been played." little Bai six looked at Bai Liu, his lips pursed for a moment, and raised his eyes to Bai Liu, "But because of that, you'll have to give me--"

"-Okay, I know, extra money, right? Okay, whatever you want." Bai Liu leaned forward and leaned in close to wipe the red lipstick stain that little Bai six had rubbed so carelessly onto the end of his eyes.

Bai Liu leaned in close, his breath spraying steadily over little Bai six's skin, the ends of his eyes dropping with the illusion of someone being intently pampered, "Don't move, you still have a bit here, you're really not mad at the Dean for saying that about you, the child abandoned by parents and gods and me, the investor?"

little Bai six held his breath for a few seconds.

Quickly he darted a sideways glance away from Bai Liu and his tone was calm: "I'm not angry, after all, Dean wasn't wrong in a way."

"And rightly so." Bai Liu finished wiping and stood up, his investor's body now so slender that the perspective of standing up could almost be described as an overlook of the way he looked at little Bai six, "The gods have indeed not favoured you because you are a bad boy who never believed in them."

Little Bai Six looked up at him with the words [so what] written in her eyes.

Yes, he was born a bad boy and just didn't believe in God, so what the heck.

"So do I." Bai Liu laughs softly.

He rubbed Little Bai Six's head as if casually, jokingly, "Do you want to change your name, in case the gods favour you with it? I did have a little better luck when I changed my name, but of course it was still bad."

"Do gods look at names to favor humans?" little Bai six spat expressionlessly, "Then the gods are too stupid ......"

Bai Liu untied a pendant from his neck, a coin wrapped in broken fish scales that he had cradled in a bandage, Bai Liu leaned over and hung the coin around the neck of little Bai six: "This is all my possessions, my skills, everything I have here, the product of selling my soul, so to speak. It's the most expensive and precious thing I could have."

"Now I give it to you and from now on you are me, you have my skills, money and I am sorry to have just left you alone to be baptised."

[System Warning: Is player Bai Liu handing over the system to his secondary identity line? After the handover the player will no longer be able to use any skill points from the panel, and there is no doubt with the npc characters in the game that the game survival rate will be significantly reduced]

Bai Liu: [OK]

Bai Liu closed his eyes and bent down to embrace a somewhat bewildered little Bai six, his slender, tall, thin, somewhat eerie body bent into a hunched arc, like an aged man embracing his loved one, and he smiled, "But I think, from now on, I think you're kind of in the gods' good graces. "

It was this strange investor who came out of nowhere who favoured little Bai six, not some god who was wrapped in a reverse cross and couldn't move.

If there is a god, it is he himself.

Little Bai six was held in Bai Liu's arms. He opened his mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out and he just accepted the hug quietly.

Although he found the carnal physical contact a little disgusting.

But his Mr. Investor was paid, so little Bai six decided to put up with this somewhat disgusting Mr. Investor.

"This coin given to you is very important, you must take good care of it." Bai Liu let go of little Bai six, "If you are killed, this coin will fall out and be picked up by others, which is a very scary thing."

Bai Liu smiled and nudged the coin on Little Bai Six's chest with a long, thin finger: "Because I have secrets and souls hidden in there."

"Did you just ask me that, do you want me to change my name?" Little Bai Six gripped the coin on his chest and spoke abruptly, "Just to be clear, I don't accept drastic changes, but in return for the money you so generously gave me, I'm willing to accommodate your personal wickedness, Mr. Investor."

[Lu Yizhan, I can change my name, but I don't like to change it drastically, do you have any recommendations?

Bai Liu's eyes pause and he whispers, " How is Bai Liu?"

" Bai Liu ?" little Bai six asked back in confusion, "Which Bai, which six, sounds the same as if it hadn't changed."

Ten years ago, Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with a twinkle in his eye and said, "How about Bai Liu?

Bai Liu said, somewhat bemused, that it sounded like nothing had changed at all, so what was the point of changing it?

Lu Yizhan said it made sense, it was a good name, both words were good, and Bai Liu asked him what was good about it.

Lu Yizhan stroked Bai Liu's head as he smiled a clear and innocent smile and said, "Because it is the white of the day, the willow of the willow, from now on, you will enter the day of the willow, Bai Liu, you will be better in the future."

Bai Liu from ten years ago was quiet for a moment: "You're so boring, Lu Yizhan, playing this game of words."

Bai Liu stroked little Bai six's head and smiled, just as Lu Yizhan had once smiled, with a lush growth of innocence and a confidence that came from nowhere, and with the sound of the children's chorus and the fresh smell of the summer breeze wafting through the wild grass behind the church, the strange [long, thin, ghostly] face in little Bai six's eyes The smile on that strange [long, thin, ghostly] face in little Bai six's eyes was a genuine, prayer-like curve.

He whispered, "Your name is white as in day and willow as in willow."

little Bai six After a moment of silence, he looked away, "Boring game of words."

"So did you change?" Bai Liu asked.

little Bai six: "Change, you paid for it."

"You'll be called Bai Liu from now on." Bai Liu added after a pause, "There is a good chance that my deception will be exposed and there is a good chance that I will die tonight at the hands of my opponents, you are my only hope, so I am entrusting everything to you, you must live, Bai Liu."

Bai Liu was well aware that he was facing two veteran players who had played in the league, Miao Feichi was a little more impulsive but Miao Gaojiang was alert, which is why Bai Liu made the [triple paper cup].

But [paper cups] are only paper cups after all, and paper can't cover fire.

Muke can't remain in hiding given the large scale of player conflict that will arise in the future, but once Muke appears, it's likely that Bai Liu's previously prepared plan to swap him and Muke will reveal that he and Muke are working together and that there is a backroom connection.

And judging by the way Miao Gaojiang treated him today, he's probably noticed something wrong - like the keyboard in Muke's backpack.

Bai Liu had anticipated this step when he made his plan, as the exposure of Muke's panel was inevitable, so the communication props in this system's backpack were bound to be exposed to Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, which is why he chose to use the keyboard as a relatively unintuitive and unobtrusive way to communicate.

By communicating with Muke using a keycap, Bai Liu is already stepping into a gap in knowledge that Miao Gaojiang, a middle-aged man of high intelligence, is likely to lack in his knowledge of digital tools, but it is unlikely that Miao Gaojiang is oblivious.

Miao Gaojiang inspects Muke's panel twice, both times with different gaps in the keycaps, as both are in a gap where one side is waiting for the other to message back - a gap that cannot be avoided by two people sharing a prop exchange in the system's backpack.

Miao Gaojiang was most likely aware that the keycaps were changing, but his lack of knowledge meant that even when he had the keyboard, he couldn't clearly understand what he and Muke were communicating about - which is one of the reasons Bai Liu chose the keyboard as a This is one of the reasons why Bai Liu chose the keyboard as a prop for communication.

It was clear then that he was an unstable factor for Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, who were about to engage in a scramble, which is deadly in a level 2 game where life is at stake.

Before this happens, Bai Liu feels the need to hand over the most valuable thing about himself to little Bai six.

Also known as this hollowed out, broken coin-shaped game manager in the middle.

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Bai Liu taught little Bai six about the specific game manager and the use of his personal skills. The child was initially confused but soon got the hang of it, accepting the fact that his reality was a multiplayer game rather quickly and without any elaboration from Bai Liu, the child was soon navigating the system shop on his own.

Before Bai Liu left, little Bai six looked at Bai Liu and asked, "You told me the exact process of those two games before so that I could get used to this so-called game manager quickly now, right?"

"It's not even a game shared between friends." Little Bai six had no emotion on his face at all, "You're a lying liar full of lies, everything you say and do to me has a purpose, which makes it even more difficult for me to understand why you gave up taking blood from me and died for me."

"It's simply not something you could do, and certainly I would never do something this stupid."

"Say it." little Bai six clutched the coin on his chest as he looked straight at Bai Liu: "What else do you need me to do for you, you've given me enough money to do a lot of things for you."

"I just want you to live." Bai Liu turned his head and looked at little Bai six with a smile, "No more really."

He came out from the back of the church just in time to see Liu Huai also rambling on about something with Liu Jiayi.

Liu Huai wanted to give everything to Liu Jiayi like Bai Liu did, but Liu Jiayi couldn't see it and it wasn't good for her to have so much stuff.

Although Liu Huai did not trust Bai Liu, he trusted Bai Liu's trading character and had no choice but to tell Bai Liu that if I died, I would give you everything before I died and you would pass it on to my sister.

Liu Huai then forwards them to Liu Jiayi, who gives Bai Liu 400 points in return.

Bai Liu said yes.

Soon, it was time to take a group photo for this choral performance. Little Bai six, who had easily finished removing his make-up, was caught by the teacher poking a large dot in the middle of his forehead with lipstick because he wanted to take a group photo, and he stood in the back row with his hair still wet from the wash, looking slightly at the investors standing in front of him.

Bai Liu and several new investors are at the forefront.

The director set up a camera on them, "A group photo of the 200x Love Children's Home cultural performance."

With a click, the little Bai six, whose gaze is inattentive, is left in the colourful photo.

Bai Liu had always wondered how little Bai six had managed to find him out of a group of investors, but he didn't ask, and if he had, little Bai six might have pointed to the photo of Bai Liu and told him -

--only the way you look at us, without the implication of deprivation or greed.

You look at us very calmly, as if you were once yourself.

"At the end of the choral performance, please hand the children the gift of thanking each other for investing in themselves by the investors." The dean raised his hand to indicate, "This is the task I gave you yesterday, have you done it?"

A sparse echo of small children rang out, "We did it all, Dean."

These children started lining up to give homemade gifts to the investors.

little Bai six stood in line and walked out, he walked past Bai Liu in silence, handing out nothing - because his investor [was dead] and he didn't have to and couldn't give out gifts.

But Bai Liu asked Bai six after church for the gift Bai six had prepared for him, and Bai six was not very happy to give it to him, but Bai Liu was so shameless and said he had paid for it that Bai six finally gave in to the charm of money and handed Bai Liu the gift he had prepared for him.

The gifts were two drawings of themselves - one of a small fish placed in a glass jar, and one of a broken mirror burning and bursting on an exploding train - which happened to be scenes from the two games that Bai Liu and little Bai six were talking about last night, and were signed [w] underneath.

Bai Liu looked down at the two paintings and he understood where the two paintings he had seen in the real world had come from and where the dissonance of the scenes in the paintings had come from.

Bai Liu looks at little Bai six standing in front of him - since little Bai six has not actually experienced those games, he can only rely on what he knows so far to try to imagine and portray the scene Bai Liu is telling him about, and

This little orphanage is the only world that little Bai six can see at the moment.

So he used things from the orphanage to depict the grand scenes Bai Liu described, which made Bai Liu feel a little strange when he first saw them, because they were so 'narrow' and hostile, not his usual style.

This oddity comes from the fact that little Bai six and his cognitive dissonance.

Bai Liu's gaze fell on little Bai six, who had a bit of lipstick on the end of his eyes, and little Bai six quickly looked away - he didn't like being looked at.

Oh yes, Bai Liu remembered that at his age he hated being looked at directly, but now Bai Liu is used to looking directly at people in everything he does, a habit he has developed in his work.

Little Bai Six is so different from him, he is no longer the child whose eyes are trapped in this narrow orphanage, who likes to flaunt sharp, saturated colours.

But he did used to be such a child.

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The chorus ended at 7.30pm.

After the director sent all the investors back to the hospital, Miao Gaojiang said a long and meaningful goodbye to Bai Liu, who returned to Muke's room with an unconcerned good night.

Muke's room is empty.

This guy is still down there in the file management room, Bai Liu glances down at the clock.

The time he had planned for Muke was from 12 noon until 9.15pm, a total of nine hours and fifteen minutes, and at Muke's fastest memory speed, he could almost remember between three hundred and five hundred cases before the nurses changed shifts - this was the one Bai Liu had got from his real-world This is the number of [investor] cases that Bai Liu estimated from the number of children in the orphanage that he had received in the real world.

Almost an hour and a half to go.

At this point Muke would have contacted him on the keyboard, but - Bai Liu rubbed his bare neck - he had given the game manager to little Bai six, he could not contact Muke, nor could he go down there now to find out about Muke, nor could he tell Muke There was no way he could get in touch with Muke, and there was no way he could go down there now and find out about Muke or tell him anything that would help him.

Case management room.

Muke covers his mouth as he rummages through the dusty pile of files, a dark place where he doesn't even know how long he's been, a place that doesn't look like a ward with clocks, and where Muke can only occasionally look at the nurses patrolling outside to determine what time it is.

Muke was a little nervous when he saw a nurse heading towards the canteen - that meant it was dinner time.

At this point, Miao Feichi and the others should have returned, and Muke quickly opened his system backpack, and was just about to fiddle with the keyboard to ask Bai Liu about it when he saw it move.

[enter] - this means to enter and should be back already.

Muke pulls off a [backspace] and a [? keycap, which is a back button and a question mark, he means [am I coming back now? and then put the keycap back on.

Bai Liu's reply came quickly: [end][?

Muke reluctantly replies: [N][O].

There are more cases than he expected, and Muke briefly looks over the names, which he has difficulty remembering even with such a large number of irregular names, not to mention the time of day and the specific information about the child who is ill under each name.

This is where Muke has to be thankful that Bai Liu had the foresight to know that such detailed information was much more efficient and clear when he got up after a good night's sleep, but he still couldn't finish it in an afternoon - because the case files here were too long!

Each patient here also has a detailed record of previous diagnostic procedures at other hospitals, and each patient's medical history is as complex as a small book, as they have all been treated by many doctors before being declared drug-free, and the case information is as complex as a small book.

Another message from Bai Liu: [9] [1] [5].

Muke understood that this was to get him back at 9.15 after the nurses' shift.

But there was a serious problem: Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang had already returned and they might have run into Muke on the way.

Muke: [v][p][?

Muke used this as a POV, but used the second half of it because there was only one [p] on the keyboard, but he thought Bai Liu, a gamer, would be able to read it.

PVP is short for Player vs Player, which means Player vs Player, and Muke is asking what happens when he meets Miao Feichi and their rival players on his way.

This time there was a longer silence, as if he was trying to understand the meaning of this, and Muke waited, somewhat confused, by the keyboard, and then waited for a very cold reply.

Bai Liu ; [L] [F] [G].

Muke couldn't help sucking in a cold breath when he saw the three letters, he didn't understand them.

It took a while for Muke to dig up the meaning of the term from his memory - LFG is an abbreviation for the game term "Looking for group" in multiplayer network games, which means seeking a group of players.

But this expression is actually rarely used, it's an acronym for a game term that was only used years ago for large networked games, nowadays it's more common to use voice invitations to team up, or just pop in a team invite.

Thanks to Muke's good memory and his study of the game, he could barely recall the meaning of the acronym, which he worked out - Bai Liu meant that if he met Miao Feichi, he should not panic and be hostile, but calmly ask him for a team.

This translates to Muke pretending to be Muke, which is a strange way of putting it, but that's probably what it means.

However, Bai Liu had told Muke last night that Miao Gaojiang was likely to be suspicious of their identity today and that [Muke] was not absolutely safe, but to attack them, they would have to wait at least until after 9:15 tonight for Miao Feichi's stamina slot to recover and use his higher skills.

Without the cooperation of the main attacking player, Miao Gaojiang will not take on them for the time being.

Because they used up one of Miao Feichi's moves when they broke into the icu at 9:15 last night, Miao Feichi is unable to regain her strength with potions today, and is in a state of auto-recovery where she is forced to be on the bench.

Muke sneaks into the archives just in time for the nurse's shift at 9:15, and if he encounters Miao Feichi, he is also in the last few minutes of his stamina slot, so Muke will be safe until 9:15.

Everything stuck together perfectly, not a single point.

Muke exhaled a long breath, everything was just right under Bai Liu's arrangement, he couldn't find out when exactly Bai Liu started to make the plan, Muke now even felt that Miao Feichi's rampage last night using his S skill to drain his stamina slot was all part of Bai Liu's plan.

Although they nearly dogged it last night when Miao Feichi went on a rampage.

But today, both the children's side and his side, where he was unable to use his personal skills today because of Miao Feichi's rampage last night, maintained a brief peace.

This protects the children and Muke.

Muke feels as if every point has been calculated and maximised by Bai Liu without him even realising it.

But to be honest, anything that was within the plan didn't feel like it when he was being led by Bai Liu's plan, because it was all too risky!

It was like a desperate gambler's last gamble, if Miao Feichi had succeeded last night, both he and Bai Liu would have been instantly gigged, that was an S-rank attack skill! One hit would have wiped out 50% of Bai Liu's and his life points!

But Bai Liu won the bet, and they have Christmas Eve today.

At ten minutes past nine, the keyboard moved again and Muke opened it to see [G][O].

This was his way of letting him go, and Muke took a deep breath as he scanned the entire file room closing his eyes to reflect on what he had written down before turning to peek outside through the doorway of the file room.

The light in the nurse's duty room was on, but the corridor was deserted, dark and empty, the patients had all been shut back in by the nurses, and he exhaled slowly, pushing the door open and cautiously making his way out.

The dark corridor and the humidifier, which was constantly operating, were shrouded in a dense mist that had a damp, sticky, eerie feel to it, and the only bright sight in the night was the dull yellow light peeking through the half-hidden doorway of the nurses' duty room.

In such silence, all Muke could hear was the sound of his long, slender feet on the floor and the slight Buming sound coming from the wards on either side of him.

-is a very slender, like the kind of sound a plant would make if it were growing fast on camera at thirty-two times the speed.

There was also a flicker of red fluorescence from the doorways of several wards - the same fluorescence Muke had seen last night on the blood primrose, that peculiar mushroom that gives off fluorescence when it grows - and a very strong smell of blood floated up to his nostrils.

Muke quickened his pace, he didn't take the safe passage as there were a lot of deformed children over there last night and taking the lift was the safer option at this point in time when the nurse wasn't out yet.

Muke entered the lift and pressed [7]. The doors were closing slowly, jarringly in front of him, and the red fluorescence flickering under those ward doors grew lush as Muke heard what sounded like mushrooms exploding and releasing spores.

A ward door at the end of the corridor slowly opened - it was the ICU ward Muke had broken into last night - and inside walked, or rather crawled, a figure, crawling is not accurate, the figure was too long, it bowed its body and pushed the door open crookedly and came out, head up, seemingly sniffing at the air that appeared, that he had sucked, the the smell of blood.

[System Warning: New player Muke with only 6 life points, two monsters have found you, please evacuate the scene quickly!

Muke's breath caught a little - two, only one for this patient, where's the other one?

But Muke didn't see anything else out and about in the whole corridor apart from the patient who had come out and was closing in on him.

From far down the corridor, almost every time Muke blinked, he could see the patient, whose limbs were as long as spiders, stepping on the red light that was reflected in the cracks of those ward doors, moving his slender limbs twisting them one step at a time, his head tilted to stare at him, close to him.

But the door where Muke is located is still stuck and won't close, even when Muke's head is sweating from pressing it.

The private hospital is so luxuriously decorated that it can't use a broken lift that can't even be closed!

Wait ...... this lift is of good quality, if it won't close even if you keep pressing it inside, there is only one possibility, that someone outside is pressing the open button.

Muke peeks out stiffly to see a child covered in syringes standing at the side of the lift, its legs twisted together in what appears to be a physical deformity, kneeling on the floor with its head tilted back and pressing the lift's buttons, which Muke doesn't see because it's just out of the way and small.

After meeting Muke's frightened, vacant gaze, the monster child, whose fingers were broken off on one side, as if they had been neatly cut, gave an eerie, innocent smile and giggled.

"Don't go up, go down, you're going down, there's someone up there waiting to catch you!"

Muke was so frightened that his legs almost gave out, but the patient was already coming over.

After a momentary lull, the lift finally rose slowly, and Muke slumped into the lift, drained and limp, as he glanced at the time on the lift - 9.14.

Miao Feichi's stamina tank is full with one minute to go, so as long as he doesn't encounter Miao Feichi in that minute he should be fine.

The lift suddenly stops on the fifth floor and the door opens slowly. Muke looks up stiffly at the person outside the door.

Miao Feichi smiled and crouched down and waved a finger at Muke who was sitting on the floor, "Good evening Muke, where did you come from so late, did you just go to see Bai Liu?"

The clock on the lift jumped - [9:15:00]

Miao Feichi seemed to notice Muke's eyes on the clock and his grin grew more and more sinister, "Ehhhhhhh, my stamina tank, it seems to have recovered now."

With that, he drew his twin knives against Muke's chin, and with a twist of his wrist forcing Muke's head up, Miao Feichi leaned down to look at Muke, who had been gagging in fear, and spoke in a brisk tone, "I thought you said this was a straw hog knife? But this knife of mine hasn't fucked an animal as dirty as a pig, but if you don't tell us the truth."

"I'll fuck you with this knife through your rectum." Miao Feichi smirked as she pulled the twin knives from her sides and clicked them on the sides of Muke's body.

Muke shuddered at the reflection of the snow on the back of the knife and tried to stomp back towards the lift, but Miao Gaojiang was standing behind Muke at some point, looking down at him expressionlessly.

There was no way back for him.