They had to go back and forth and carry Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi on their backs. It was obvious that the three children were not as strong as adults. But fortunately, Xiao Bailiu started running as soon as it was half past nine, so he still had a certain time advantage. The teachers behind them could not catch up with them in a short time.

As they were about to approach the gate, Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang both showed expressions of ecstasy on their faces, but soon this expression solidified on Miao Feichi's face like wax dropped into cold water.

He stood still, at the edge of the open door, and did not move out. He even took two steps back.

Outside the door, there were countless investors who looked like "slender ghosts" wearing hats and with bandages wrapped around their faces, wandering around in a shadowy manner.

Their mouths were exposed naked, as if the bandages that bound them had been chewed up, their sharp teeth were wide open, as if they were laughing all the way to their ears. Their noses were raised and they kept sniffing the air for the fresh child prey that was approaching them, and their mouths were dripping with sticky saliva.

They were completely black and could not be seen clearly at night. It was not until Miao Feichi ran up to them that he could see clearly that the white spots floating like shadows outside the door were not moonlight.

It's the faces of these things with bandages all over them.

They were blocked outside the orphanage's half-open door. They stretched out their slender hands through the fence-like door to reach the children inside. Their sharp teeth in their mouths clicked up and down, as if they were imitating chewing something, and saliva kept dripping down.

Looking at the monster outside the door, all the children stopped moving. Miao Feichi and Miao Gao, who were carrying Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi on their backs, sat on the ground in a state of paralysis, with a look of realization on their faces.

Xiao Bailiu also sat on the ground. He adjusted his breathing and glanced calmly outside the door: "...Failed. It's not that easy to escape."

These monsters should be the investors who became seriously ill and died due to not getting the right children's blood. They wandered outside the children's welfare home late at night. The children who escaped were most likely torn apart by these investors.

The teachers behind caught up with them and they spit on the children who dared to run away. Xiao Bailiu was slapped to the ground by a teacher.

He was held down and hit hard with a broom several times, but there was no expression on his face, as if he had expected these actions. The dean who followed closely locked the door, turned around and looked down at these naughty children gloomily.

Her face was so gloomy that it seemed like water was about to drip out of it. She turned around and looked at the group of children, saying in a grim tone: "Tell me now who came up with the idea of ​​escaping. If you tell me, you won't have to be punished so severely. If you don't tell me..."

Before the dean could finish his threat, Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, who were running away, looked at Xiao Bailiu with hatred and pointed at him without hesitation: "It's him!"

The dean's eyes moved to Xiao Bailiu, who was still lying on the ground after being beaten and was slowly getting up. She paused and said in an unclear tone: "It seems that the baptism you received today has not washed away your sins, Bailiu."

"You need to be cleansed more thoroughly." The dean smiled gently, but there was no smile in her eyes. "Tonight, before you are sent to the hospital on Wednesday to be matched with other investors, I will cleanse you of all the sins."

"The other children were locked up together and fasted for a day, but I was taken to the church alone and locked up."

As soon as Xiao Bailiu stood up, the dean grabbed the back of his collar and dragged him roughly towards the church.

He had been running all night and now had no strength left. He was dragged away by the dean without any resistance and thrown into the church, stumbling and breathing disorderly.

Luckily, the director only punished him with his old trick, which was to push him into the baptismal font and suffocate him repeatedly. It seems that this is the only trick the director has to torture children.

But this time, the fact that Bai Liu ran away with the child seemed to have completely touched the dean's bottom line. She pushed his head into the water of the baptismal font and muttered some curses that Bai Liu couldn't actually hear clearly.

"You disgusting little bastard."

"You are alive today only because of the kindness of investors. How dare you do such a thing?!"

Xiao Bailiu half-closed his eyes weakly, with water droplets hanging on his eyelashes. Time and again, he struggled to climb out of the drowning feeling, but was pushed down again. The water rushing into his nasal cavity made him want to cough, but Xiao Bailiu was often pushed down again by the extremely angry dean before he could even cough.

"Do you know how much trouble you'll cause us if you run away?!" She roared hysterically, dragging Xiao Bailiu's hair and shaking him in the water, "You inhuman little monster, your parents really caused us trouble by abandoning you. They should have drowned you when you were born to benefit society..."

Xiao Bailiu's eyes gradually drooped, and he began to lose interest in this game of "Whack a Mice in the Water".

I also lost my strength.

When Xiao Bailiu floated up to breathe and was pushed back into the water again, he didn't breathe enough and groaned.

The dean pressed Xiao Bailiu's head under the water with an expressionless face. Bubbles overflowed from Xiao Bailiu's mouth and nose. His expression did not have the twisted fear of a drowning person, but was very calm. Although he now felt that he was really going to drown, he had already gotten used to this painful feeling of drowning.

Bai Liu's eyes were completely closed. He completely loosened his hands that were holding on both sides of the baptismal pool and slipped into the water. He floated in the clear, swaying water of the baptismal pool as if he was unconscious. The coin on his chest floated out from his clothes, glittering in the water waves.

"Okay!" The dean grabbed the coin fiercely and pulled it. She screamed, "How dare you steal the investor's things! You sinful, devil's child!"

When she was about to continue to torture Xiao Bailiu, when Xiao Bailiu really thought he was going to be drowned in boredom, there was a sudden earth-shattering explosion outside the church, and a bright red system warning popped up in front of Xiao Bailiu:

[System warning: Warning! Warning! The player Bai Liu's main identity line health is rapidly decreasing! Please quickly stay away from the dangerous scene! ]

[…The player Bai Liu’s main identity line’s health value has been reduced to 2…reduced to 1…Warning! The player Bai Liu’s main identity line is about to die!!!]

The church was also shaken by the explosion. The dean finally stopped torturing Xiao Bailiu. She turned around and walked out of the church, cursing: "What happened that caused such a big commotion?"

Xiao Bailiu climbed out of the baptismal font with great difficulty. He sat in the baptismal font with no emotion on his face. He breathed weakly and looked up at the strange and young statue next to the baptismal font. The red warning interface that kept popping up by the system was reflected in his eyes.

Not long after, the dean came back with a gloomy face: "There was an explosion at the private hospital. Tomorrow's matching ceremony has to be cancelled. Did you do this with the things you stole from the investors?"

As she spoke, she angrily grabbed Xiao Bailiu's throat and pushed him back into the water.

Xiao Bailiu did not struggle. He really did not have the strength to struggle.

He lay at the bottom of the water, his eyes half open, his face pale, his lips purple and black, his pupils slightly dilated due to suffocation and lack of oxygen, and shrank slightly. Behind the red and transparent modern digital panel in his eyes was the sleeping face of the strange god tied to an inverted cross with thorns.

This strange scene made Xiao Bailiu, who was pressed under the water, think a little bit differently.

Are there really gods in this world? Didn't he say that if he changed his name to White Willow, the god would look after him?

He can probably be considered a good boy tonight. Why doesn't God bless him?

The god's eyelids suddenly moved, and it opened its pure white eyes without pupils and looked at Xiao Bailiu who was being forced to be baptized in the pool. A warm and clean white light shone on his body, and the thorns slid strangely on his body as if trying to bind him tighter, but that holy glow still made Xiao Bailiu dazed for a moment, as if he was protected by something for a moment.

[System warning: Player Bai Liu's health value continues to decrease... Player Bai Liu's health value has stopped decreasing, and the remaining health value is 0.5. Player Bai Liu's main identity line is alive]

[System warning: The NPC dean attempted to strangle a child in the church, triggering a divine taboo]

[God’s punishment]

The dean seemed to be bounced away by an invisible air wave, and hit the church pillar hard, letting out a scream.

But the punishment did not stop. The thorns on the cross grew vigorously, and countless branches emerged from the ground to wrap around the director. She was wrapped in the thorns, with only a pair of eyes left, looking at Xiao Bailiu who crawled out of the baptismal font and the god with open eyes behind Xiao Bailiu through the thorny jungle. She trembled with fear and knelt on the ground to pray for mercy.

"No, God, I didn't mean to drown him. I was just teaching a sinful child. No, God, please don't punish me like this-Aa ...

The next second, the thorns tightened.

The dean's blood splashed on the marble floor of the church. She threw her head back and let out an ear-piercing scream. The thorns penetrated her skin and her wide-open mouth, rolling violently inside her body like a meat grinder. Soon she was tied to the thorns with her head tilted and twitching all over.

The blood dripped from her body like water dripped from Xiao Bailiu's body, dripping to the ground and merging together.

She instantly turned into a corpse, and the thorns slowly placed the corpse on the ground. The corpse only existed for a few seconds, and soon turned into a data light spot and disappeared in the church.

[System prompt: Dean NPC was attacked and killed, data is being recovered...]