After hanging up the phone, Bai Liu turned his head to look at Liu Huai who was struggling to drink the mental bleach beside him - this guy's two hands were chopped off, and now he was begging for food, curling up into a small ball and drinking from the bottle, choking everywhere.
Bai Liu wanted to feed Liu Huai before, but he only had one hand. When Xiao Bailiu called, Liu Huai let him answer the phone first. Now that Bai Liu had finished the call, he reached out to pick up the bottle and feed Liu Huai. Liu Huai glanced at Bai Liu.
Bai Liu moved the bottle forward with no expression on his face.
Liu Huai still stretched his head to drink.
Liu Huai felt that he must be looking very ugly now, with a gray and black face, drinking water from other people's hands like a stray dog. He knew that many spectators were watching this ugly scene of his. As his mental strength recovered, he felt more embarrassed than ever before, and the turbulent emotions made tears flow down his face.
"Why are you crying?" Bai Liu asked calmly, holding up the bottle. "Didn't you survive?"
"...I don't know why I'm crying." Liu Huai's mental state had not yet fully recovered. He turned his head to cover his face like a male college student who was very proud and easily felt embarrassed at his age, not wanting Bai Liu to look at him.
Liu Huai hunched his neck, lowered his head and spoke in a hoarse voice: "...I feel like a homeless stray dog."
"A bit like them." Bai Liu commented without any emotion. He looked up at Liu Huai, the wound on his other arm still oozing blood. "We both look like stray dogs now, but at least we are living stray dogs. Everyone is alive, including your sister."
Liu Huai bit the bottle of mental bleach in Bai Liu's hand tightly, and tried to hold back, but still couldn't help sobbing and crying out.
Liu Huai, who had no arms, hunched his body while crying. He bent his waist, rested his head on Bai Liu's hand, and bent deeply to the ground, as if he was kowtowing to Bai Liu. He choked and said thank you incoherently, "...Thank you for saving me, and thank you for saving my sister."
With a few seconds left before the explosion, Liu Huai thought he was going to die, because without hands, the assassin's full strength would be of no use to Bai Liu, who put profit above all else.
But Bai Liu risked his life to rush out from the firelight and dragged him into the mirror with a whip.
"In fact, I didn't expect the other person to save your sister. I don't know his reason." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids. He raised his arm and straightened Liu Huai, who was bent on his wrist. He looked at Liu Huai's tearful face indifferently, "But I saved you for a reason, because you also saved me. This is the content of the transaction and cooperation we discussed before. If you succeed in delaying Miao Feichi, then I will do my best to save you."
"If I must say, I'm a trustworthy stray..." Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai's eyes that were still filled with tears and said calmly, "A stray dog, right?"
Thirty-seven minutes ago, Ward 913.
Liu Huai was restless and paced back and forth anxiously. From time to time, he turned his head to look at Bai Liu who was sitting beside the bed. He took a deep breath and said, "Are you really going to ambush and kill Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang?! These two are S-level players. If we can't succeed in one go, we will all die!"
"So we have to succeed in one go." Bai Liu said slowly, "They should be suspicious of Mu Ke's identity. At this point, I think they should have looked for me in the ward, but I'm not in the ward now, so they will search other places to catch me, [Mu Ke]."
"But they probably didn't guess that Mu Ke would be in the medical records management office, so they couldn't find Mu Ke in the hospital. But Mu Ke must be back in the ward before 9:15, because the nurses will come out to clear other parts of the hospital. I guess they should wait for Mu Ke."
"Where are they guarding?" Liu Huai asked nervously, "In Mu Ke's ward? Then they won't come over, right?"
"It's too stupid to stay in Mu Ke's ward, because if Mu Ke doesn't go back to his own ward, but goes back to Bai Liu's ward or other empty wards, then the two of them will be trapped in Mu Ke's ward, because the nurses will make their rounds. Of course, they can take advantage of the gaps in the nurses' patrols to look for Mu Ke in other wards, but this will double the trouble, and it's not a very wise plan."
Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai and said, "If I were Miao Gaojiang, I think a more effective and feasible way would be to guard the elevator."
"Mu Ke can't go through the safe passage, because his personal panel is totally inadequate to resist the monsters over there. The more likely way for them is to take the elevator. Miao Gaojiang and his men only need to wait by the elevator door between 9:00 and 9:15, and press the button when they see the elevator moving, because all the nurses are changing shifts at this time, and the only one who would take the elevator would be a patient who sneaks back to his ward - that is, Mu Ke."
"After capturing Mu Ke, Miao Gaojiang will definitely want to find out what Mu Ke and I are planning, but Mu Ke won't open his mouth easily, so he will naturally think of working on the keyboard that Mu Ke and I use to communicate." Bai Liu continued calmly, "I will reveal some information that he can understand from this keyboard, such as [9] [0] [6]. In this case, Miao Gaojiang will not doubt the authenticity of the information he has obtained."
"Because we are going to adopt a child tomorrow, Miao Gao Zombie will definitely come to kill me tonight to prevent us from causing any impact at the critical moment tomorrow."
"And in this case, if they take the initiative to kill me, they have the initiative, and they won't have too many psychological defenses against the people in room 906." Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Miao Feichi, "This creates favorable conditions for your successful sneak attack. Liu Huai, the main character of this plan is you. Although on the surface it looks like a regular routine of [thief and assassin] that you and Mu Sicheng played before, this time it is you, the assassin, who is responsible for the main task."
"...I know." Liu Huai also sat on the bed, Bai Liu sat next to him. Liu Huai lowered his head, his hands clenched into fists against his forehead, "But Bai Liu, I have never been a main attacker, I have always been a fourth... Mu Shen did this, you put all the chips of the plan on me, the risk is too great."
"This plan has three steps." Bai Liu said softly, "The first step is that Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang come to attack. Open the door and you sneak attack and hold Miao Feichi. I will steal Mu Ke from Miao Gaojiang's hand and let him go down to find the nurse. Then when Mu Ke goes down to find the nurse, Miao Feichi will definitely shorten the time to attack you and attack me instead."
Liu Huai did not raise his head, his voice became hoarse: "In this case, if Miao Feichi wants to shorten the time of fighting me and does not want to be interrupted by an assassin like me who can disrupt his attack from time to time, his best way is to disarm me."
"To put it bluntly, it means cutting off both of your hands." Bai Liu said without any emotion.
Liu Huai lowered his head and said, "...Yes, this is the fastest way to punish a player who is good at using his hands."
"But this also has its advantages. After cutting off your hands, he will definitely not doubt that you still have the ability to attack and will relax his supervision on you. This will lead to the second step of the plan. I will hold back Miao Gao and Miao Feizhi to give you time to burst your power." Bai Liu made a very light statement about holding back two S-level players at the same time, as if he had never considered that he could not do it. "After your power bursts, you can use your skill [Flash Strike] to make Miao Gao fall into a state of stiffness."
"Then we've entered the third step of the plan. You block Miao Feizhi's attack. It will only take me one or two seconds to drag out the bomb..."
Liu Huai suddenly raised his head and interrupted Bai Liu's words. His face was full of panic: "Bai Liu... I don't think I can do it after stabbing Miao Gao and blocking Miao Feizhi's attack on you. This plan is too risky. Bai Liu, if you leave the rear completely to me, you will die! I will die too!"
"But you have cooperated with Mu Sicheng so many times, and he handed the rear area to you, but you didn't let him die, didn't you?" Bai Liu's eyes were as calm as an unruffled lake.
Liu Huai was silent for a long time and closed his eyes: "...but I made him lose both arms."
"You did betray Mu Sicheng with the dagger in your hand, but now you have no hands to betray me." Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai as if asking for his opinion. "Liu Huai, my style of doing things is to assume that the other party can do it before it happens. Can you really do that?"
Liu Huai said softly, "I don't know."
Bai Liu looked away calmly: "Then let's give it a try. If you can't do it, we'll tell you later."
"What if... I die?" Liu Huai asked with a trembling voice.
"If you stop Miao Feichi, I won't die easily. If I don't die, I won't let you die. If you don't stop Miao Feichi and die." Bai Liu said calmly, "Then I will probably die with you."
Liu Huai stared at Bai Liu in a daze. Bai Liu squinted at him and said, "Why, are you not satisfied with me being buried with you?"
He actually didn't die.
When Liu Huai was dragged out of the mirror by Bai Liu, he was in a trance and even thought that he had gone to hell. It was not until he saw his still broken arms that he realized he was still alive. Bai Liu quickly gave him a dose of mental bleach, and Liu Huai drank it with a cough. Soon, Xiao Bailiu called.
After Bai Liu hung up the phone, Liu Huai's spirit was restored by his feeding, and he staggered to his feet. After Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang were lifted up by the nurses, he and Bai Liu dared to come out of the mirror. This led the nurses to think that there was no one upstairs, and now no nurse has come to treat them.
Bai Liu lay on the still hot ground without any anxiety: "Mu Ke will come up to find us later."
Bai Liu, the investor, was very thick-skinned. He didn't feel anything particularly hot lying on the ground after the explosion. His straw bed was also blown to pieces. Liu Huai sat on the ground with his legs crossed. He leaned against the remaining wall which was also blown black. He looked up at the dark sky. He didn't know how long he looked at it. Suddenly, Liu Huai lowered his head and looked at Bai Liu. He hesitated for a moment.
"I'm selling my soul to you now, do you want it?"
"Yes." Bai Liu agreed without hesitation, "But my game manager is with Xiao Bailiu now. I will take your soul after he returns it to me. How much do you want?"
Liu Huai was stunned for a moment. He seemed to be amused by Bai Liu's eagerness to take advantage of the opportunity. He gently raised his eyebrows and said, "I thought you wouldn't want it. After all, I will probably die in this game. My dead soul will be of no value to you, right?"
"But if you really want to buy it," Liu Huai said softly, "How much did you give me if my fourth brother sold it to you?"
Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai with a little caution: "Don't even think about offering the price of Kai Mu Sicheng. It's too high. I won't buy it at that price."
"...I don't want that much." Liu Huai was really made to laugh and cry by Bai Liu. He just asked casually for some unknown reason. He didn't expect that the soul trading, which sounded very evil, would become an ordinary transaction with bargaining in Bai Liu's place. His heavy mood also dissipated a lot.
Liu Huai lowered his dirty eyelids and said softly, "I'll sell it to you for one point. One point is enough."