Wednesday, 4:17 AM.

Liu Huai was extremely anxious because of Bai Liu's speculation. He had already lost too much blood, and he refused to rest because he was always worried about his sister. Both his health and mental state showed signs of declining, so Bai Liu simply took advantage of the situation and used sleeping pills to knock Liu Huai unconscious.

Now Liu Huai was sleeping soundly on the straw bed, but Bai Liu and Mu Ke were not asleep. They were still organizing and analyzing the information obtained today - mainly the information that Mu Ke obtained from the medical record room and the information that Bai Liu obtained from Xiao Bailiu.

Mu Ke looked at Liu Huai sleeping peacefully on the straw bed with mixed feelings. He thought of himself this morning. He found that Bai Liu's way of chatting was really shameless. Once he couldn't convince you, he would just drug you. This was simply...

All in all, it doesn't seem like a good person's behavior.

Mu Ke slowly moved his gaze to Bai Liu, who was leaning against the wall and still analyzing the comprehensive information.

Bai Liu leaned against the wall, with one leg bent and a piece of paper on it, and the other leg stretched out casually. His face was not obviously tired, and his eyes were obviously dark blue, but his eyes were still clear and calm. He lowered his head and continued to write on the paper with a pen, and said in a calm tone: "Now we have roughly understood the operating mechanism of this welfare home and most of the information in the copy. The points I was worried about before have basically been explained, but there are still two points left - and it is best not to discuss these two points in front of Liu Huai."

Mu Ke was stunned.

Bai Liu raised his head and glanced at Liu Huai who was still sleeping on the bed: "First of all, why were Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi tied together, and their health points were reduced to 50?"

"I previously speculated that it was because she was poisoned, but there are two reasons why this statement doesn't make sense. First, why was Liu Huai's health also reduced by half? Although this can be inferred based on the game's binding logic, now combined with the information you gave me, Mu Ke, and the information I got from Xiao Bailiu and Liu Huai last night, I have completely overturned this possibility because I found the second doubt."

"The second point—" Bai Liu looked at the little girl on the paper with extremely calm eyes, and used a pen to draw a big question mark on the thin girl he drew. He looked at Liu Huai calmly, "If Liu Jiayi was selected and poisoned by the blood ganoderma because of her close relatives, or in other words, Liu Jiayi was parasitized by this blood-sucking mushroom, then in this case, it would be very strange for her to vomit blood while escaping. This is completely unreasonable. The blood ganoderma will not waste her blood and make her vomit it out."

"Another point that I find very strange is that the time when she vomited blood was too coincidental. She didn't vomit earlier or later, but just when she was about to escape and touched the door." Bai Liu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Xiao Bailiu's hesitation and consideration at that time were right, because if it were me, I would also suspect that she didn't want to escape and was deliberately delaying."

Mu Ke's scalp began to tingle as he listened. He looked at Bai Liu and lowered his voice: "Bai Liu, what do you mean...?"

"But now, after combining enough information, it is obvious that she is acting and lying to me, or to Xiao Bailiu." Bai Liu concluded with a heavy look in his eyes.

A chill suddenly ran down Mu Ke's spine: "But why did Liu Jiayi do this? It would be of no benefit to her to stay in the welfare home!"

Bai Liu's eyes moved to the face of Liu Huai who was sleeping on the bed: "She must want to save her brother and stay in the welfare home waiting for her brother to come and draw her blood."

"But she will die if she does that!" Mu Ke was a little confused, "How old is she? Isn't she afraid of death?"

Bai Liu paused: "She may not die."

Mu Ke was increasingly confused: "Why? If her blood is drawn, she will die when her health points are used up. It's even easier for her to die when she only has 50 health points."

Bai Liu raised his eyes slowly: "What if she has a personal skill that can restore her health?"

Mu Ke was stunned for a few seconds, then looked at Bai Liu with a look of astonishment: "Fuck?! No way?! You mean she is..."

Liu Huai was pushed awake while half asleep. As soon as he woke up, he saw Bai Liu's eyes which were too calm, but these eyes made Liu Huai feel a little cold involuntarily.

"Jiayi--" Liu Huai shook his head, remembering the issue he was arguing with Bai Liu before going to bed. The expression on his face instantly faded from the sleepy look after waking up, and became anxious, "Bai Liu! You promised me to save Jiayi! I have already given everything for you! You promised me!"

Bai Liu replied indifferently: "Maybe your sister doesn't need any of us to save her."

Bai Liu told him his guess.

Liu Huai was stunned. He looked at Bai Liu. His brain was a little slow to react due to excessive blood loss. He looked at Bai Liu's expressionless face in confusion: "...What do you mean when you said Jiayi was acting and lying?"

Bai Liu opened his eyelids and said, "Don't you understand? I told you a long time ago that your sister is not as simple as you think. She is very smart, smarter than you and I expected."

"The system is indeed for the sake of game balance. It weakens your group's health points, mainly to weaken your sister. If we don't weaken her, the game will be unfair to the rest of us players because her personal skills are too strong. In this game where more health points will give you an advantage, if we don't weaken her and your health points, the game will have no playability. She is like a cheat in this game."

"Liu Jiayi has always played the role of a good sister in front of you. Even Xiao Bailiu was fooled by her - but in the end, her flaws were exposed because of you."

Bai Liu looked directly at Liu Huai: "She guessed the mechanism of this game. She wanted to save you, so she didn't want to run away. She pretended to vomit blood so that she could stay in the welfare home and wait for you to pick her up for blood draw tomorrow. But she probably didn't want you to know her identity, so she was very careful from beginning to end, but in the end, she was exposed because of you."

Liu Huai shook his head and whispered in disbelief that it was impossible. Liu Huai's body was a little unbalanced because he had no arms. When he got out of the bed, he was shaking and almost fell off. It was Mu Ke who stood up in a hurry and supported him.

Mu Ke couldn't bear to look at the expression on Liu Huai's face - what Bai Liu had told Liu Huai so far was far from the most cruel part towards Liu Huai.

Liu Huai staggered off the bed. He walked in front of Bai Liu and looked at him. Liu Huai's steps were unsteady and his eyes were tearful. He seemed to be completely unable to understand what Bai Liu had just said:

"How could it be... identity? She is just a child, what identity can she have? I must protect her well..."

Bai Liu looked up at Liu Huai and said, "Liu Huai, we got the logic wrong from the beginning to the end. It was not you who influenced Liu Jiayi to enter the game."

Liu Huai stood motionless in front of Bai Liu, with his head lowered and looking straight at Bai Liu. He was waiting for Bai Liu to tell him the extremely cruel truth.

Bai Liu spoke clearly, "--It was Liu Jiayi's desire that influenced you to enter the game. She should have been the player who entered before you. She forced the system to actively weaken her health points, and then bound you, her brother, to restrict her. She is a player with extremely special personal skills."

Liu Huai was silent for a long time. He seemed to have just reacted and lowered his head, looking at Bai Liu with a dull and dazed look.

Bai Liu's eyes were calm and his tone was neither hurried nor slow: "Liu Jiayi is the little witch, the one who will cooperate with Zhang Kui in the league, the new star player launched by the King's Guild, and the number one rookie on the new star list whose personal skill can actively restore health."

Game Hall, Inside the King's Guild, Queen of Hearts' Office.

Hong Tao lazily fluttered her high heels that were about to fall off, swaying back and forth. She yawned loudly in boredom, holding her chin with her hands and watching the people in the audience giving her a long and boring report with her eyes rolling around.

The reporter read the report aloud: "Next is the small TV data analysis of each member of the King's Guild this quarter..."

"…Among our team members this quarter, the one with the fastest rise in comprehensive statistics is the new member [Little Witch]. She has firmly secured the first place on the Nightmare Rising Stars list 7 weeks after entering the game. Her popularity and support rate remain high. After joining the guild, her output and support in several large-scale team battles were remarkable. She is a core-level team battle support…"

As he was talking, the informant clicked on his system panel, and a huge panel playing a video popped up, floating between them in front of the Queen of Hearts. Just like playing a PPT, the informant slid on the panel to show the Queen of Hearts, and finally stopped on a video.

The title of the video is [High-energy cut collection of the forbidden witch - I have a bottle of poison tonight, I have a bottle of antidote, but tonight is not Christmas Eve, who do you think I am going to kill? ]

The Queen of Hearts was slightly interested when she saw the title. She sat up a little straighter, raised her hand and tapped the video interface to signal the reporter to play the video. She asked, "Have you finished the support video for "Little Witch"? Show it to me."

The video started playing at Red Heart's signal.

In the originally pitch-black video, white smoke began to slowly appear. In the swirling smoke, a player wearing a black floor-length lace skirt and only as tall as half an adult's body appeared. She glanced at the camera and turned her head away nonchalantly. She was covered in a veil from head to toe, so it was impossible to see who was inside, but it added a bit of mystery to her.

She walked barefoot in the misty jungle in the early morning, her fair skin showing through the hollow patterns of the lace embroidery, and her steps were vaguely and mysteriously light and elegant, but this elegant feeling was destroyed the next second.

A large number of monsters appeared in the jungle. They seemed to grow along vines, wriggling on the rotten ground, and soon they emerged from the ground. There were also players who ran and shouted at the top of their lungs in the jungle filled with monsters, but they were soon caught up and swallowed by these wriggling vine monsters.

Two glass bottles with liquid inside were sticking out from under her black gauze. She was running quickly in the bushes, black smoke rising from the gauze, and her movements were crisp and clear as she sprinkled the liquid in the bottles.

The monsters quickly decayed, and the players who begged for her mercy and salvation decayed in the woods along with the monsters. The witch only saved the players in her own team very accurately, and she didn't even look at the other players - even though she still had a lot of antidotes in her potion bottle.

Screens from different games are quickly interwoven between the clips. The witch, hidden under the ominous black veil, uses poison to bring the prelude to death, and uses the antidote to show mercy to the players who are about to decay.

Her steps were light, nimble and agile, moving freely between different monsters and players. Her black veil was soaked with the blood of dead monsters and players who unfortunately passed away, becoming increasingly thick and sticky, making it impossible to tell whether the person underneath was a human or a ghost.

The blood on the veil dripped onto the back of her fair feet, and she shook it off carelessly, along with the hand of the player who was still holding her ankle tightly for help. This hand left a hideous bloody handprint on her thin ankle, which was silently covered by the falling black veil as she jumped away.

"... [Little Witch] has precise game ideas, a very high level of game skills, simple but efficient and extremely ruthless attacks, and a psychological quality that is not inferior to many players who have played several times in the league. It is really hard to imagine that this is a...

The person reporting below looked at the contents on the system panel and paused with a complicated expression.

The Queen of Hearts smiled in an ambiguous way and continued slowly, "——I can't imagine that this is an eight-year-old girl who is blind, right?"

The reporter sighed and said, "Yes, Queen, the little witch was only seven years old when she first entered the game, but she was already able to stand out from a group of newcomers as the first place. She is really very smart and quickly adapted to her skills."

"The little witch's skills were very special and rare. At that time, many guilds wanted to control her and threatened her to join their guilds. However, the little witch was not controlled or frightened by the various means used by these guilds. Instead, after realizing her own uniqueness, she quickly started a charging bid - she said that she would join the guild that gave her the most charging points."

"Yes, she is indeed a very smart girl." Hong Tao Rao recalled with interest, "At that time, all the top ten guilds participated in the charging bidding. It was a very crazy bidding."

"And she also relied on charging bidding to rush to the top of the rising star in just seven games. During this period, she kept moving between various guilds and cooperating with different guilds to conduct dungeons. This made all the guilds further recognize her value. Instead of being willing to take heavy measures against her, they could only choose to charge to attract her. Therefore, they became more and more crazy about charging and pursuing her. I remember that at that time, the highest amount of charging she could get in a game was 300,000?"

"Yes." The reporter patted his chest with a lingering fear and pain. "For a newcomer, this is an astronomical figure. Our union has spent at least 600,000 or 700,000 points on the Little Witch's TV to win this auction."

The data on the system panel of Hong Tao's random reporter flipped twice, and Liu Huai's face appeared on it.

Looking at Liu Huai's clueless face in the data, Hong Tao smiled twice. She tilted her head and her long hair fell from her shoulders. Her smile became more intense. "And even if she had topped up so many points, if it weren't for our guild player Wang Shun who successfully found her weakness - that is, her brother Liu Huai, and her brother happened to enter the game during that period and we knew about it, the smart little witch might not have decided to settle down and join our King's Guild in the end."

"But Queen, this is also what I find strange." The reporter searched the system panel and asked a question in confusion, "After the little witch joined the King's Guild, why didn't she directly accept her brother into the King's Guild, but used Zhang Kui to control him in such a roundabout way to let Liu Huai join our guild? Moreover, after Liu Huai joined, the little witch did not let him know that he was the ace rookie candidate of the King's Guild, and she did not say anything to stop Zhang Kui from torturing Liu Huai."

The reporter frowned in suspicion. He looked at the information about the little witch and Liu Huai with mixed feelings: "...It seems to me that the little witch's weakness is her brother, but the way she treats Liu Huai is somewhat distrustful, even cruel..."

"...and now that the competition season is almost here, why is the little witch still unwilling to accept the props we provide to fully restore her eyesight, but instead insists on using some intermittent props to restore her vision in the game, maintaining a semi-blind state? And Queen, you also choose to condone the little witch's behavior, which I cannot understand. A little witch who can see on the field can help us more."

The informant looked at the Queen of Hearts, full of questions.

Hong Tao's feet twitched, and her high heels soon fell off her feet. She didn't care, but glanced at the reporter across the desk with a half-smile: "You haven't carefully read the information about the little witch that Wang Shun found out? Go and take a look at the core of her desire to enter the game."

The reporter was startled, and he quickly clicked on the personal profile of the "Little Witch" that Wang Shun had analyzed comprehensively.

What Wang Shun wrote at the core of the desire of "Little Witch" to enter the game is: "I hope to be loved by my brother, I hope to be with my brother forever, and I hope my brother will love me forever."

Such an innocent desire does seem like a wish that an innocent eight-year-old girl could make.

But the informant knew very well in his heart that the little witch who danced on the hands of everyone who asked for help and moved freely between the major guilds was not such a child. She was bloody, cruel and indifferent, and possessed the wisdom of an adult and the innate viciousness of a minor.

This kind of [core desire] even seemed like something she just threw out to get rid of them and deceive them.

The reporter's brows furrowed as he stared at the [Desire Core]: "Queen, I still don't understand..."

"You really don't understand women." The Queen of Hearts placed her bare foot on the ground, leaning forward. Her smooth hair slid from her collarbone to her snow-white chest. The reporter blushed and turned his gaze away.

The Queen of Hearts continued to smile and lean forward without caring: "Don't you think about why the little witch wants to get her brother's love? Of course, she feels that she hasn't got it yet."

The reporter was startled.

The Queen of Hearts rested her head lazily on the back of her hand and smiled charmingly: "Smart women are like this. The little witch's growth environment made her completely distrust men. She has a natural disgust for men, especially Liu Huai, who was somewhat tempted by her poor growth environment. But she can't make herself not care about Liu Huai. This is very similar to me. I don't trust men either, but this is not inconsistent with my desire to get their love. Most of the time, I do get it."

"Of course we all know that Liu Huai's core desire is to save his sister, but in order to win over this suspicious, yet slightly immature, smart little girl, I chose to hide the information we found about Liu Huai from her." The Queen of Hearts shook her shoulders to one side, revealing her snow-white shoulders. She leaned back in the chair as if she had no bones, with a smile on her lips. "I taught her a more reliable way to get the love she wants."

The reporter was stunned for a moment: "...In the beginning, it was indeed you who recruited the little witch yourself. We don't know the specific process in between. I remember that you took a confidential supernatural god-level prop from the guild warehouse and gave it to the little witch, and the little witch agreed to join, but the specifics of this prop have always been kept secret from us."

"Since the league is about to start, I don't mind telling you what the item is. The item I took from the warehouse is called [Psuk's Tears]. It's a consciousness item, and it's in a very beautiful glass bottle." Red Peach smiled lazily and whispered, "It's also a very suitable item for a little witch. The description of the item is that after drinking it, you can be with the person you want to be with forever, but the drug will guide her to do some very interesting things - I've drunk it before."

The smile on Hong Tao's face was like that of a neighbor's older sister who was giving advice. She murmured with seductive tenderness, "The little witch was very hostile and wary of men, but she had a natural trust and affection for women, especially for an adult woman like me who had similar experiences to her and had great expectations of her. In the end, under my advice, she drank the potion."

Hong Tao carelessly lowered her long eyelashes, which cast a faint shadow in her light-colored pupils. "Then she began to control the brother who made her so nervous step by step under the control of drugs, eliminating the possibility that this man would be in any danger and give his thoughts to others, and finally turned him into Zhang Kui's puppet."

The reporter couldn't help but shudder.

Hong Tao chuckled: "But the little witch soon regretted it. She didn't want a brother who was like a puppet and had no soul. She was full of doubts about whether the love she got through the props was real or fake. At the same time, she was filled with guilt because she hurt Liu Huai in the process."

"She became more and more afraid to leave Liu Huai, but she was not satisfied and dared not to fully believe him. She was at a loss as to what to do and was terrified of the possibility that they could not be together forever. Finally, under my advice, in order to ensure the possibility of [being together], she could only keep asking me for more [Puxike's Tears] - after all, the props description effects given by the system will not lie."

The reporter looked at Heart's still gentle and soft smile and couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine - this was such a smart little witch, but now that things had developed to this point, she had been completely manipulated by the Queen of Hearts.

No wonder many men who were hurt by the Queen would say that Hong Tao was a woman that no one could resist. Even though they were used to that extent, these men never said a bad word about Hong Tao and cried for reconciliation.

The little witch was also trapped by the red heart and fell deeper and deeper.

"The final result is that she began to constantly torture the other party and herself to verify the possibility that the other party loved her." Hong Tao lowered her eyes and looked at the face of Liu Huai on the panel. She stretched out her finger and tapped Liu Huai's cheek as if with pity, and said softly, "What a poor sister and poor brother. The brother has clearly made up his mind to give up his life for his sister, but the sister still doubts you.

"And the sister eventually had to join the league to win huge points to ensure her brother's safety and love for her."

"Usually we women call the process that Liu Huai has gone through -" The Queen of Hearts raised her eyes and looked at the informant. She blinked, shook her fingers, and smiled with a bit of girlish playfulness, "- a test of sincerity. Of course, most men in this world cannot pass the sincerity test of me and the little witch."

Thinking of Liu Huai, who was forced to lose his best friend after being controlled by Zhang Kui, and the so-called tests and tortures Liu Huai suffered at the hands of Zhang Kui, the informant quickly sobered up from Hong Tao's beauty. He looked at Hong Tao's beautiful face and shuddered again: "...but what does this have to do with the little witch's unwillingness to completely restore her sight?"

The Queen of Hearts laughed: "Would you be willing to love a woman who has tested you like this?"

The reporter shook his head wildly.

Hong Tao raised her eyes and whispered, "But what if she was blind? What if you didn't know that she had tested you and thought she was a helpless, pitiful eight-year-old girl who couldn't live without you? After she had been tortured so much, would you still be unable to help but pity her, love her and be with her forever?"

The reporter was silent for a long time. He could not answer the question. After a long while, he spoke with mixed feelings: "Liu Huai, it's a bit pitiful... being deceived into loving such a sister."

"I don't think he should be pitied, but the little witch should be pitied." Hong Tao's eyes were clear, "Because if one day Liu Huai knew that he was deceived and no longer loved her and protected her as his sister, she would go crazy."

"Then what about this cheering video for the little witch to register for the league after she has completed enough dungeons..." the reporter asked tentatively, "Queen, do you think it has been approved?"

Hong Tao nodded casually, and when the reporter breathed a sigh of relief, she reminded him: "Be careful to protect her real information, and don't let other teams and Liu Huai know about it, otherwise you and I will both suffer."

The reporter was already frightened, and upon hearing this he gave a wry smile: "That's for sure."

"Oh, by the way, the little witch should be clearing a dungeon now. Which dungeon is she in?" Hong Tao asked as if she suddenly remembered something. "She can start team training after she gets a dungeon notification. Before, when she entered the game, if it was a level 2 game where health was more important, her and her bound teammates' health would be severely weakened. Later on, we assigned her a control player Zhang Kui, hoping to reduce the system's weakening of her health through multi-person control, but Zhang Kui died before it had any obvious effect. We need her to adapt to the new team and new plan."

The informant began to have a headache: "But Queen, we don't know where the little witch is now. We checked all the small TVs that were open, but we couldn't find the little witch's TV."

Hong Tao's eyes suddenly narrowed, and she reacted very quickly: "Ask Wang Shun to check if anyone in any dungeon has turned off the TV. She is a top 100 player, so she can turn off the TV."

She paused for a moment, then quickly sat up straight and gave an order with a calm look in her eyes: "Forget it, go check Liu Huai's TV and see if there are any strange players in disguise in his copy."

"Liu Jiayi is a very planned person. She will not do anything beyond her plan unless it is related to Liu Huai."

There was a sudden knock on her office. After she nodded, Wang Shun came in with a sweaty face. He looked at Hong Tao and said, "Empress! Liu Huai knows that Liu Jiayi is the little witch!"

"Who told him!" Hong Tao sat up from the chair, her tone sinking.

Wang Shun ran all the way here. He took two breaths and said hurriedly, "Bai Liu! He figured it out based on the game mechanics! The little witch successfully fooled the others, but she couldn't fool Bai Liu. Now all the players are flocking to Bai Liu's TV! Currently, the number of viewers of his TV has exceeded 200,000! He has topped the list of new stars. After he figured out that Liu Jiayi was the little witch, all the fans of the little witch went crazy and ran to his TV! What should I do?"

Hong Tao narrowed her eyes slightly: "Bai Liu? Is it that new person again?"