"I'm curious about what life has done to you, turning you into such a..." Xiao Bailiu said coldly, "--a look that makes me a little disgusted."

"You've been lying to me from the beginning. You knew I liked money, knew what kind of people would arouse my curiosity, understood my motives and my psychological makeup, and used this to constantly tempt me to do things for you without hesitation. And you also deliberately let me know that I'm your secondary identity, right? To ensure that I can keep in touch with you after I successfully escape from the orphanage."

"You need to make sure I don't betray you, and that I continue to give you more than the money you give me, knowing full well that money can't sustain a relationship with me for that long."

Xiao Bailiu's breathing came through the phone with a bad signal. It sounded like a sudden jam of water, a little heavy and rapid. "You are not talking now, are you waiting for me to calm down?"

Bai Liu didn't say anything. He held the phone in one hand and supported his chest with his elbow with the other hand. He leaned against the wall with a calm expression. He was indeed waiting for Xiao Bailiu to calm down.

Xiao Bailiu is a very rational child. His breathing on the other end of the phone rose and fell rapidly twice, as if he was taking a deep breath to calm his emotions. Then his breathing returned to normal and his tone calmed down: "I have to say, you really know yourself well. I will never betray myself."

It took the fourteen-year-old Xiao Bailiu only a dozen seconds to accept the absurd fact that he was the one who had to draw half the soul of a weird investor's blood. He quickly and soberly got to the point.

"The two problems I escaped tonight were the teachers and the deformed children. The teachers would come to inspect the bedrooms of all the baptized children, and we were not allowed to stay out late. Liu Jiayi didn't know why, but she was very familiar with this orphanage, as if she had lived here before."

Bai Liu said in a subtle tone, "She figured out the rules of the teacher's inspections and told me that the teacher would usually finish inspecting our bedroom at 9:15 and her bedroom at 9:30. Then after 9:30, the five of us could leave the bedroom and run out. Liu Jiayi also planned a rough escape route for us based on her familiarity with this orphanage."

Xiao Bailiu's evaluation: "She is very capable in making plans. Although she was a little panicked when I first discussed escaping with her, she soon confirmed that I was sent by her brother. Then Liu Jiayi began to provide me with useful information. This is unlike the planning level of a blind eight-year-old girl. She is more useful than Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang combined."

"If she hadn't been blinded by the deformed children wandering around, I think she could have found her way out of the orphanage on her own tonight." Xiao Bailiu concluded.

Bai Liu didn't say anything. He let Xiao Bailiu continue talking in silence - it was normal for Liu Jiayi to know about this welfare home. She had indeed stayed here, and judging from the poisonous mushroom incident in the real world, Liu Jiayi had excellent psychological quality and intelligence. Bai Liu was not worried at all that Liu Jiayi would hold Bai Liu back during the escape.

White Six continued, "But these wandering deformed children are indeed a big problem. However, after checking the props in the coin you gave me, I found a prop that can work here."

Bai Liu and Xiao Bai Liu said in unison: "【Blessings from the passengers】."

This buff type of item is also the main reason why Bai Liu gave the coin to Xiao Bailiu.

[Passenger's Blessing] Bai Liu gets this item as a reward for collecting all the monster books in the second instance. The system explains it as [The passengers are grateful to you for saving their miserable fate, so they give you a blessing. As long as you sit on the seat of the vehicle, their spirits will protect you and prevent any monster from harming you.]

However, players cannot bring their own vehicles, they must be native to the scene, and can only be used once in a game.

This item was not dropped to Miao Feichi and the others when Bai Liu pretended to be dead. Instead, it remained in the coin, which is the game manager. Because it is a buff-type item, the use of this item does not depend on the entity but on the player. It is a prop that cannot be dropped, so Miao Gaojiang did not suspect anything.

"We have that kind of toy car in the children's park. I think it can be regarded as a means of transportation in the orphanage, but this toy car will be locked at 6 pm, locked to the teacher." Xiao Bailiu was particularly calm, as if he was not going to do anything wrong, but to play with toys. "Liu Jiayi said that she could trick the teacher with the key to come here alone, and then let us knock the teacher unconscious, steal the key, and drive away the toy car."

"But this toy car, as far as I remember, can only seat four people." Bai Liu stroked his chin thoughtfully, "Where will the other person sit?"

Xiao Bai was silent for two seconds in surprise. "We are also planning to steal a large walker. There is one in the welfare home, which is specially for disabled children. We can hang it on the toy car and run together."

Bai Liu was silent for a while.

A baby walker is a small toy that looks like an open-crotch pair of pants mounted on four-cornered wheels. The speed depends entirely on the two feet running underneath, and the child has to sit in the car with legs apart. The youngest in Xiaobailiu's group is seven or eight years old. If nothing else, sitting in such a car would look really embarrassing - it's like running around in a pair of flowered cotton pants.

"Who are you going to let sit in this walker?" Bai Liu asked.

"It's too dangerous for Liu Jiayi to sit in the back where she can't see, so -" Xiaobai Liu paused, with a hint of ill-gotten humor in his tone, "Only the shortest among us is suitable, and I'm not the shortest."

"Mu Ke is."

While Xiao Bailiu and Bai Liu were talking, the sound of a nurse's high heels stomping on the ground and fading away was heard outside Bai Liu's ward door. But soon after the nurse left, new footsteps were heard outside the door, and it sounded like there was more than one person - Bai Liu's eyes sank slightly. This steady and fast-moving footsteps should be from Miao Feichi and the others.

Miao Feichi obviously arrived at Bai Liu's door at the point where the patrol nurse left. This is the advantage of players moving faster than NPCs. They can seize the gaps in the NPC's movement speed, unlike Bai Liu who was chased to death last night.

"Knock, knock, knock." There was a knock on Bai Liu's door, and Mu Ke's trembling voice rang out, "I, I'm Mu Ke, I'm here."

Bai Liu's eyes moved to the door, and he whispered into the phone: "I'm hanging up."

"Wait." Xiao Bai paused and asked, "When should I call you next time?"

Bai Liu said absentmindedly, "After 9:30, you can call me anytime. Calls are still charged by the minute."

"If I am still alive to answer your call."

Xiao Bailiu was silent for a second. "From a financial point of view, I hope you're alive, but considering the plan you told me and your identity, I'll be in trouble if you're alive. Besides, your most valuable thing is already with me. From this point of view, I still prefer you to be dead."

After saying that, Xiao Bailiu simply hung up the phone.

Bai Liu smiled nonchalantly and put the phone behind his back. The hand holding the phone was a monkey's paw. Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the monkey's paw in his hand - when he left the welfare home, he manipulated the system interface and fixed Mu Sicheng's soul coin panel on him, which allowed Bai Liu to still use Mu Sicheng's skills after giving the game manager to Bai Liu.

But you can only use Mu Sicheng's skills.

He could no longer switch back to other people's soul coins, and Xiao Bailiu could not control the panel of Bai Liu, the main identity line. It was only because Bai Liu's game manager coin was bound to both his main and secondary identities at the same time that Xiao Bailiu could roughly see his survival status and personal attribute panel, and could receive system prompts from Bai Liu, knowing whether Bai Liu, the main identity line, was dead or alive.

Ever since he heard the footsteps, Bai Liu has kept his Monkey Claw skill half-activated. His stamina bar was also exhausted last night, so Bai Liu couldn't use any of Mu Sicheng's skills before that. He could only throw out Mu Ke as bait to lure Miao Feichi and the others to the ward in a roundabout way, delaying time and avoiding a head-on confrontation.

However - Bai Liu glanced at the clock hanging on the wall of the ward. At 9:15, there were more than just Miao Feichi.

Miao Feichi is not the only player who cooperates with his teammates.

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes and looked at Liu Huai who was standing quietly behind the door, holding his breath.

The assassin Liu Huai held the dagger tightly in both hands, standing quietly in the shadow behind the door with the coolness and determination of a real assassin who was going to kill everyone. After getting a look from Bai Liu, Liu Huai nodded slightly. He took a deep breath, jumped lightly, and silently hung on the ceiling lamp by his legs.

Looking at Bai Liu below, Liu Huai's mood was more complicated than ever before. His gaze fell on the monkey paw that Bai Liu had equipped - Liu Huai could not have imagined that after such a long time he would actually cooperate with Mu Sicheng's skill in this way.

This may be the last time that Thieves and Assassins work together.

Liu Huai closed his eyes and touched the doll on his chest that looked very similar to him but was crudely made. It was a gift Liu Jiayi gave him today, and also a gift for the [investor].

A handmade doll that she made by herself, in the image of Liu Huai that she imagined.

Liu Jiayi really likes all kinds of dolls. Although she can’t see them, she likes to touch them with her hands and then make dolls. It seems to be a way to make up for her inability to see the world, although the dolls Liu Jiayi makes are all ugly.

It was also because Liu Jiayi liked dolls that Liu Huai clumsily made a teddy bear for her. Of course, it turned out very ugly. The brother and sister were quite similar in this respect, but fortunately Liu Jiayi could not see how ugly the teddy bear was and she quite liked it.

Perhaps this was the last time Liu Huai saw the ugly brother doll made by Liu Jiayi.

Liu Huai took a deep breath, and his body swayed as if weightless, and he gently opened the door of the ward with his hand.

The door slowly opened in the silent night, making a creaking sound. Before the person standing outside the door could fully appear in Bai Liu's eyes, two double swords flashed with arcs of light and slid across from Bai Liu, accompanied by Mu Ke's scream: "Bai Liu!!"

The author has something to say:

Xiao Bailiu said coldly: "I am very curious about what life has done to you to make you look like this, something I find a little disgusting."

Bai Liu: Go to work

Xiaobailiu:……?

Well, who wouldn’t gradually lose their human nature in the process of being a corporate slave? (?