"I just want to find someone to entrust my soul to. I heard someone in the guild tell me that the souls of players who died in the game will be recycled by the system."

He was silent: "I don't want that."

[System prompt: Player Liu Huai mentioned that the content of soul trading involves violations. The small TV will be automatically blocked and muted during playback. Player Liu Huai is requested to reduce the number of times he mentions it, otherwise the system will consider blocking player Liu Huai's small TV.]

Liu Huai was silent.

"Besides the soul, I have something else to give you, Bai Liu." Liu Huai raised his eyes that were dry with tears, "This thing is more useful than my soul. After all, I am going to die. My soul is just a piece of paper to you. You can't get any value from me. But as long as you sign this with me, after I die, you can use my personal skills at will, just as if this personal skill is yours."

A very strange piece of paper with a yellowed parchment texture appeared in front of Liu Huai.

The paper floated down like an unburned ashes. Bai Liu reached out to grab it, and the parchment fell into his hand.

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked over:

["Twenty-four related notices and explanations from Party A and Party B regarding the transfer of personal skills before the player's death"]

[Before death, Party A voluntarily transfers his personal skills derived from his desires to Party B. If Party B agrees to inherit Party A's personal skills, then Party B will also inherit Party A's desires, become the carrier of Party A's desires, and fulfill his desires for him...]

[…If the player of Party B already has a derivative personal skill that he desires more, because the player's desire is saturated, the player of Party B who signs the agreement to obtain the personal skill of Party A cannot bear too much desire, and the second skill obtained will be reduced to a certain extent. If the third skill is obtained, the effect of use will continue to decrease. Because if the personal skill obtained by the transfer is not effective when the player of Party B uses it, it is not due to the system. I hope that the players of both parties who transfer the skills will understand…]

[…Before signing the agreement, Party A is obliged to inform Party B of the origin of his or her desires. I hope that Party B will listen carefully and then decide whether to sign the agreement…]

[The agreement is signed by the souls of both parties. Once signed, both parties cannot regret before their souls perish. The agreement involves desires and souls, and requires both parties to sign voluntarily from the bottom of their hearts. It cannot be forced to sign.]

[The agreement is in one copy and can be entered into the systems of both parties after signing. The original copy of the agreement will be kept by the notarized public institution system]

[Party A: ——]

[Party B: ——]

After a quick glance, Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai and said, "I can't sign now. The system is not with me. Even if I sign, I can't input it. And from various aspects, your agreement is too restrictive for me. I need to inherit your desires, and your skills as my second skills are not fully functional."

As he spoke, Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai's severed arms. He recalled Liu Huai's pair of daggers and placed them at his feet. The pure black reflective blades had the word "Blood" embossed on them.

Bai Liu paused and said, "But your skills are indeed very interesting, and they are indeed your most valuable things, but they cannot play the greatest effect on me."

"And your main purpose is to make me inherit your desire - to protect Liu Jiayi." Bai Liu said indifferently.

Liu Huai looked up at Bai Liu in panic. He had already taken out his hidden chips, but Bai Liu showed no eager desire to get them, which made him a little panicked.

"Don't you want my skill?" Liu Huai asked tremblingly.

"I won't give it up. Your skills are very useful, but not to me. There is a more suitable candidate for this agreement than me. He is more suitable for your desires than me, and can better play the ability of your skills." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and looked directly at Liu Huai, "It depends on whether you are willing to change the transfer."

Liu Huai asked in confusion: "Who is it?"

Bai Liu said, "Mu Ke."

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Mu Ke's face was dark and he gritted his teeth as he climbed up the lower floor which was reduced to ruins by the bomb. As he climbed, he was burned by the hot cement sections.

Mu Ke was not physically fit due to his illness, so climbing this kind of thing took a lot of time for him, but fortunately the nurses were all out rescuing patients who were half-dead from the explosion, so he had enough time to climb up.

With great effort, he finally climbed up to the ninth floor where Bai Liu and the others were. As soon as he got up, Mu Ke ran madly to Ward 906, and he fell several times while running, with tears streaming down his face. When he saw Bai Liu, who had a broken hand, talking to Liu Huai with a normal expression, Mu Ke couldn't help but fell to his knees and burst into tears.

He was terrified the whole night, and when he went downstairs to call the nurse, he almost lost his soul when he saw the explosion on the ninth floor! He rolled and crawled up desperately!

Fortunately, Bai Liu is fine!

Mu Ke wiped his tears and rubbed against Bai Liu: "You scared me to death!"

"Don't cry yet, let's talk about business." Bai Liu pinched Mu Ke's shoulder with that hand and turned him to Liu Huai's side.

Mu Ke, with tears in his eyes, looked at Liu Huai, who was examining him seriously. Liu Huai's gaze frightened Mu Ke and he stopped crying. He shrank back a little and spoke in a much quieter voice: "...What's the matter?"

Bai Liu patted Mu Ke's shoulder and said, "Briefly introduce yourself. How old are you? What are your family conditions? How do you plan to have marriage and family in the future? How many children do you plan to have? Do you have any bad habits? What is your education level? How many girlfriends and boyfriends have you had?"

“???????” What the hell?! Am I going on a blind date with this guy named Liu Huai?!

Mu Ke became more and more confused, but Bai Liu glanced at him calmly and motioned for him to start.

Although Mu Ke was still confused, he began to introduce himself obediently and cautiously: "Oh, oh, my family conditions are not bad? At least hundreds of millions, right? I am not sure, if you need to understand, I will ask for you when I go back. I am almost 21 this year, I don't smoke, don't drink, and don't have any bad habits. Future marriage... I haven't thought about it yet. I have never had a boyfriend or girlfriend. I have a bachelor's degree, but if I want to get a master's degree, I can take the exam anytime."

After saying that, Mu Ke looked at Bai Liu with a look of help, and asked him with a wink - what on earth is going on? !

Bai Liu raised his chin: "Please introduce yourself, Liu Huai."

Liu Huai took a deep breath and looked at Mu Ke from head to toe with a slightly critical look: "You are not the candidate I am satisfied with. I would rather have Bai Liu come, but there is no way he would not accept it. You look okay."

Mu Ke looked at Bai Liu in astonishment, his eyes revealing a huge amount of information - you have already gone on a blind date with him?! You don't want me to come?!

Bai Liu handed the parchment to Mu Ke and motioned for him to look at it. Mu Ke lowered his head to read it, and when he raised his head and looked at Liu Huai again, his eyes were full of complexity.

...Is this person going to transfer his personal skills to him? Although Bai Liu knew that Liu Huai's death was an irreconcilable outcome when he made the plan long ago, he did not expect...

"I have a younger sister..." Liu Huai chattered to Mu Ke about some things about Liu Jiayi for a while.

Bai Liu waited patiently for him to finish reading before he spoke. He stared at Liu Huai with an almost all-seeing gaze: "What is the core of your desire? Liu Huai, if you want Mu Ke to bear your life desires and your sister, you must be honest with him. Otherwise, I will not let him sign this agreement easily. This agreement is engraved in his soul, and his soul belongs completely to me. I need to be responsible for the soul in my hands."

"I need to know everything."

Liu Huai opened his mouth and closed it again.

[System prompt: Does player Liu Huai want to spend 200 points to purchase the silencing service? ]

【Sure.】

[System prompt: Purchase is successful. Your words will be muted for the next ten minutes. The small TV audience will not be able to hear you. Please start speaking freely without any scruples! ]

Liu Huai turned his head away, and with red eyes he spoke in a dry voice: "...Jiayi and I are half-siblings with the same father."

"…Our home is in a very remote, small, and rural area. You probably can't imagine how remote it is. After getting off the bus, we have to wear rubber shoes and walk for an hour and a half. After a heavy rain, the road will even be closed. The road is full of mud, and people inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in."

Liu Huai closed his eyes and thought of that muddy, dark little village.

"I had an older sister when I was young, but she drowned in a pond on a rainy day. My father stood by the pond waiting for my sister to dig fish for him, but he didn't go down to save my sister who was struggling in the mud. I didn't understand why at the time... Although my father sent me to school, he didn't care about anything else. My sister raised me before, and he occasionally raised me later. My father said that my mother ran away a long time ago, and I don't know where she went. I have never seen her."

Tears streamed down Liu Huai's face, his eyes were wandering and empty.

"I wanted to leave that place very much. I studied very hard, but I wasn't very smart, so I didn't do well."

"Then one day a student from our village was admitted to a prestigious university. She was my aunt's daughter, and the village gave her a bonus of 20,000 yuan, which was an astronomical sum for us."

"My dad changed from that day on. He never cared about my grades before, but from that day on, he would ask about my grades every day. Whenever I didn't do well on the test, he would start beating me. He would scold me with a red face, saying that we were all my grandfather's children, so how could a boy like me not score better than my aunt's daughter? How could a girl like her, other than being able to get pregnant, be better than me, a legitimate descendant of the Liu family?"

"But the harder he hit me, the more scared I became. My hands started shaking whenever I held a pen during an exam, and my grades got worse and worse. One day he finally thought I was a loser, so he gave up beating me. I breathed a sigh of relief. He said he would ask my cousin, who was admitted to a prestigious university, to tutor me for a few months. I was very happy at the time."

Liu was silent for an extremely long time, so long that Bai Liu thought his story had ended there. But he suddenly bent over as if he couldn't accept it at all, gritted his teeth and took a deep breath, and finally laughed miserably:

"Do you know why Jiayi was born blind?"

Bai Liu understood. He was silent for a few seconds, looking up at the night sky. He said calmly, "Many deformed babies with congenital defects are caused by inbreeding. Liu Jiayi is also the case, right?"

Mu Ke suddenly realized what Bai Liu meant. He looked at Liu Huai with a doubtful look, and got goosebumps on his back: "Fuck... No way?! So lawless?! Is there no one to take care of it?"

Liu Huai was like a bone crushed by a cruel burden, his head drooped deeply.

Liu Huai's voice was hoarse and cracked, as if there was a piece of charcoal in his throat. He seemed to be crying and laughing sarcastically:

"No one would care because it was too dirty. No one was willing to care. Everyone who knew about it covered it up as a scandal and was not allowed to tell anyone. My cousin wanted to call the police for an abortion after she got pregnant, but my dad said that the baby in her belly must be a new college student who was a scoundrel. He was also the only son of the Liu family. With the coordination of my grandfather, he finally succeeded."

Liu Huai closed his eyes: "...and my cousin was unable to go back to college a few months later. Not long after Jiayi was born prematurely, she went fishing and drowned in the pond, just like my sister. My father stood by the pond, watching my cousin struggling in the mud, but did not save her."

"I started studying like crazy and was admitted to a prestigious university. I took the 20,000 yuan and ran away from that small country with Jiayi. But soon my father came to our house and asked me to give him money to support him. He tortured Jiayi and me. I spied on this man thousands of times in the dark and wanted to kill him with a knife, but I didn't dare to. I couldn't bear to leave the university I had finally been admitted to, and I couldn't bear to leave Jiayi."

Liu Huai choked, his tears fell to the ground, he roared and wailed in a suppressed and dull manner, like a cowardly beast that was stabbed but still dared not resist openly, he knelt on the ground, his head resting on the ground, tears flowing freely.

Next to his head was the dagger engraved with "Blood". It seemed that the sin in his blood had entered his desires and soul, turning him into a painful fish that struggled in the mud but could not escape.

"You're like an assassin who wants to kill someone but doesn't dare to do it." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids and commented calmly, "The personal skills you finally generated are all about cutting off people's spirit points. There are no damaging skills."

"Yes." Liu Huai rested his forehead on the ground, his eyes dull, "...I am a cowardly assassin."

[System prompt: Player Liu Huai's skill identity - (cowardly assassin) background story line and carrying desire have been activated. Do you want to enable the transfer of personal skills? ]

【Open】

Liu Huai slowly stood up and looked at Mu Ke, tears in his eyes: "Can you live bravely for me, pick up my dagger and protect Liu Jiayi in this game? This is my only wish, do you have the awareness to bear it?"

Mu Ke turned his head and glanced at Bai Liu somewhat helplessly. He was not ready to bear such a heavy burden, and he subconsciously sought Bai Liu's advice.

Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke calmly: "Mu Ke, if you want to ask for my advice, then my attitude is very clear now. I suggest you accept it. Having a skill is only good for you and has no disadvantages. But whether you accept it or not is up to you."

"Ability and desire are linked." Bai Liu said, "When you choose to pick up the dagger Liu Huai gave you, you will become an assassin like him."

"...Can I pick up your dagger and try it out?" Mu Ke asked cautiously.

Liu Huai nodded in agreement.

Mu Ke looked at the two black daggers engraved with "Blood" lying on the ground. Their surfaces were flowing with a luster that looked like ominous, forbidden black blood. Mu Ke reached out to grasp the handles of the daggers, and he couldn't help but shudder the moment he touched them.

The handles of the daggers pulsated slightly in his palms, and were as warm as human veins and blood vessels growing from his hands. Mu Ke's weak heart could not help but begin beating rapidly because of the strong desire in the daggers. The vitality and hatred flowed from the dagger along Mu Ke's palms all the way back to his heart.

For a moment, Mu Ke felt as if he could feel all the turbulent resentment and extreme emotions in Liu Huai's life.

He stared blankly at the armless, ferocious Liu Huai, whose face was covered with lumps of dirt. His breathing was weak and he was dying, like a fish that had not been caught in a dried-up pond.

The life of a fish struggling in the mud was something that the noble cat living in the crystal box could not understand. But at this moment, Mu Ke and Liu Huai resonated with each other as never before. Their weak hearts beat at a frequency that seemed to be about to jump out of their throats.

——They all just want to survive.

Unfortunately, the world does not allow it.

"I agree." Mu Ke clenched the dagger in his hand and said in a hoarse voice, "I want to inherit your skills and become an assassin."

Liu Huai's head and eyelids drooped in exhaustion. His voice was as light as smoke: "...Thank you."

[System prompt: Player Mu Ke and player Liu Huai officially signed the "Twenty-four related notifications and explanation agreements between Party A and Party B regarding the transfer of personal skills before the death of the player"]

[This agreement will take effect after the death of player Liu Huai]

【Third-party witness: Bai Liu】