The center screen of the game lobby, Nightmare Nova Lobby.

There were a lot of people in front of Bai Liu's small TV. Ordinary players looked up at the small TV screen of Nightmare Rising Star No. 1 in disbelief:

"Bai Liu rushed too fast! What made him rush so fast?!"

"Eat the little witch. The child has gone mad. Who did he say the little witch was?"

"Liu Jiayi."

"What kind of gift?"

"What's Liu Yi?"

"Liu Jia what?"

"...You little witch fans, stop deceiving yourselves. Liu Jiayi, Liu Huai's sister, was just introduced by Bai Liu. I think it's almost certain."

"I don't want to listen! The forbidden witch is so cold, so elegant, and so mature. She must be a beautiful 28-year-old girl under the black veil!"

"Wake up, the Forbidden Witch is so short, she should be an 88-year-old girl."

"... Didn't the character official book published by the Gobi King Guild say that the Forbidden Witch is an underdeveloped person? Damn! I always thought the Forbidden Witch was a dwarf! So this is what underdeveloped means!"

"This is a piece of news. The forum has exploded. Countless male fans of the little witch are wailing about how their wives suddenly became daughters. They are not ready to be fathers yet..."

"Red Hearts seems to be handling this matter, but the more troublesome thing is in the game. I feel that Liu Huai is not in a good situation. Tsk, this year's league support season is good. Such a big scandal broke out among the hot newcomers..."

"I think Bai Liu is not doing well. The little witch is always cruel to those who are not members of the team. I think Bai Liu is in trouble."

"The clash of the old and new nightmare rising stars, who will become whose nightmare - the forum has been opened in Tao..."

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Liu Huai knelt down in front of Bai Liu with a plop. He opened his mouth wide and remained speechless for a long time, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing.

There was only a hazy tear in his eyes, dark and gloomy with watery light, like a sky that could not emit any light.

Liu Huai knelt in front of Bai Liu with his head down, like a puppet with its soul drained out. His upper limbs were accidentally torn off by a naughty child, leaving only a trunk that could not straighten its back and curled up in place limply after the puppet strings were torn off.

The tears could no longer flow, Liu Huai stared blankly with tear marks crisscrossing his face, and everything seemed so far away from him.

The damp ward and the dark little village gradually overlapped in front of him. Liu Jiayi's dirty yet well-behaved smiling face was the only thing he could see, a scene different from anything else.

She ran barefoot in the mountains and fields, sniffed the wild flowers and grass beside the pond, and then turned around and smiled at Liu Huai amid his nervous scolding.

Liu Jiayi bent her blind eyes, raised her little face and called him brother loudly, then ran towards him with open arms, like a little bird, a butterfly, a sun that was shining without knowing it was.

What a reckless and naive little girl, she fell into Liu Huai's arms with scars all over her body. Liu Huai sobbed and stroked Liu Jiayi's hair, saying, "Soon, soon my brother will pass the exam! You just hold on for my brother!"

Liu Jiayi leaned gently on his chest and said in a very soft voice that Jiayi would persevere for her brother.

Liu Huai carried Liu Jiayi on his back and walked out of the mountains on a rainy night. From that day on, Liu Huai vowed to prevent her from seeing any darkness in the world, to bring her the brightest future, and to live up to what she had paid for him.

They all have the blood of the men they hate the most, and rely on this hateful blood to connect with each other and depend on each other for survival. They grew up together with stuttering, fear and trepidation.

Liu Huai told Liu Jiayi that brother and sister had experienced the most terrible things together, so they would never let go of each other's hands no matter what.

Liu Jiayi is the most important person to him. Liu Huai is willing to live in this horror game in order to give her a bright future, willing to be Zhang Kui's lackey for her, pick up a dagger to betray his best friend, and willing to die for her.

But she still lied to him.

Just like he had deceived Liu Jiayi, Liu Jiayi also deceived him.

Liu Huai vaguely recalled the dirty face of Liu Jiayi hiding under the bed...Is this retribution?

Because of what he did to Jiayi, because of his cowardice and inaction, could this also be Jiayi's revenge and retribution against him?

"...Do you know why I followed Zhang Kui and betrayed my fourth brother?" Liu Huai's head seemed to be about to bow to the ground. He said very softly, "...Because at that time Zhang Kui used the news about Jia Yi's real life to threaten me to join the King's Guild and become his puppet to encircle and suppress my fourth brother..."

There was no light in Liu Huai's eyes. "He promised to treat me well and ensure my safety. I was indeed the best treated among all his puppets... But I have always been very confused. I have never told anyone about Jiayi in the game. Why did Zhang Kui know about Jiayi's existence? Why did he know that Jiayi was my sister? Why did he know so many details about Jiayi and me? It was as if I had told him on my own initiative."

Bai Liu listened quietly without saying anything.

Liu Huai smiled, tears rolling down his cheeks: "So, Jiayi and he are a perfect match. Jiayi should have said these to him. Why did Jiayi say these to him? Bai Liu, you said Jiayi is so smart, is she, is she..."

He finally choked up, and Liu Huai muttered to himself in a trance: "...Is she doing this on purpose? She knew everything that happened from the beginning to the end...She is punishing me...punishing me for what I did, for not being a good brother..."

"If you ask me," Bai Liu answered calmly, "I think she probably thought this was the best thing for you. Joining the King's Guild and becoming a puppet under Zhang Kui would be the safest thing for you in this game. As for Zhang Kui manipulating you to betray Mu Sicheng under her suggestion, it is indeed unsafe for you to follow Mu Sicheng with your abilities."

"So if her goal is to ensure your survival in the game, then I think what she does to you is completely reasonable - letting high-level players guide you and help you train your abilities, choosing the best guild for you and teammates she can control, providing you with shelter, and following you in time to save you when you enter some high-risk games. In short, everything she does is planned to protect you."

After Liu Huai entered the game, he was afraid that he would die, so he had to send Liu Jiayi to the orphanage. On that day, the little girl curled up in Liu Huai's arms, hugged his neck, and said to him worriedly, "Brother, is Jiayi a burden and trouble to you? Are you going to send me away?"

He smiled and shook his head, saying, "No, Jiayi is my future. I'm sorry to send you here for the time being, but one day, if my brother is still alive, I will definitely take you away."

Give you the brightest future.

Liu Huai lowered his head for a long time without saying anything, then raised his head dully: "... So from that time on, my survival has become such a troublesome thing for her?"

"Whether it's troublesome or not is another matter, but she definitely doesn't need you to save her. She might even attack other children to save you. As an experienced player, Liu Jiayi must understand the mechanism of this second-level game." Bai Liu's eyes slowly moved to Liu Huai, "That is, her own blood alone is not enough. She needs at least one child's blood to save you."

"Then the question is, which child will she find to draw blood from?" Bai Liu paused, "And Liu Huai, because I controlled you in the last game, and given her desire to protect you, I think it is very likely that she will think that I am harmful to you. In order to eliminate this factor that is more dangerous to you than Mu Sicheng, she will most likely kill my child, that is, Xiao Bailiu."

"I suspect she will draw blood from my children, but fortunately, my children are in the church now." Bai Liu said calmly, "Unfortunately, with my mobility, Xiao Bailiu will soon find the place where they are imprisoned and take them away today - and now even though I have learned this information through deduction."

Bai Liu shook the mobile phone in his hand and frowned, which was unusual for him. "But because this call is one-way, I can't call Xiao Bailiu to tell him this information. I have to wait until after six in the morning for him to call me before I can tell him what I know."

Bai Liu was silent for two seconds: "But I doubt whether he can make it here alive."

"So now it's us, a group of defeated soldiers, who are about to face the league players Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang who are about to wake up..." Mu Ke looked at Bai Liu and Liu Huai and smiled a smile that was uglier than crying, "Over there, our children have to deal with your sister, the No. 1 rising star witch, without knowing anything."

"That's probably it." Bai Liu said indifferently, "It's very likely that we're going to die, Mu Ke."

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5:37 in the morning, in the handicraft classroom behind the welfare home.

The chaos caused by the explosion in the private hospital did not end until nearly three in the morning. After confirming that there were no teachers patrolling near the church, Xiao Bailiu ran all the way along the grove from the back and circled the welfare home to find the place where Mu Ke and the others were confined. Generally, these teachers were confined in two places, one was the cafeteria warehouse, and the other was these two handicraft classrooms that looked like a prison with only one side having windows facing the corridor and toilet.

Bai Liu went to the cafeteria to take a look. There were no children there, so it was very likely that Mu Ke and the others were locked up in the handicraft classroom. Bai Liu vigilantly climbed into the building through the window in the women's toilet of the welfare home, and then waited quietly behind the door of the women's toilet.

When a teacher came in to use the restroom, he heard the sound of keys colliding on his waist, and Bai Liu came out from behind the door without hesitation to attack the teacher.

After knocking the teacher unconscious with the candlestick he had taken from the church, he took the teacher's key from his waist. He hid at the door of the women's restroom and adjusted his heavy and rapid breathing alertly and calmly. After making sure that no teachers or nurses were coming in the corridor, Bai Liu ran to the two craft classrooms across the corridor with very light movements.

Bai Liu stood in front of the door, looking left and right at the corridor to prevent anyone from coming. He quickly opened the handicraft classroom outside.

As soon as the door opened, Mu Ke looked in amazement at Xiao Bailiu who had just flashed into the classroom. He was so happy that he almost jumped up: "Bai Liu! Why are you here!"

"I'm here to take you away." Bai Liu briefly explained the current situation: "I have checked the spot outside. Last night I found that the group of flute-playing children with IV bags all over their bodies came from a tunnel behind the statue in the church. They also took the children out through this tunnel in the church. I saw them last night in the church. I followed them in the tunnel for a while and found that this tunnel had a strong smell of disinfectant."

"We can run out of this tunnel before daybreak while the teachers are still asleep. I guess based on the strong smell of disinfectant in this tunnel, the direction of the tunnel should be where the group of children who had their blood drawn came from - that is, near the private hospital. All the investors in the hospital leave the ward after nine o'clock. We have to run there before nine o'clock to avoid running into these investors and getting caught."

"There must be a car near the hospital. We'll be safe if we get in." Bai Liu briefly explained his plan. "This is the backup plan my investor discussed with me. He said that if we couldn't get out on the open day last night and the gate of the orphanage was locked, we could activate this backup plan - we can try to follow the group of flute-playing kids and find out how they got out of the orphanage."

"I had already planned the escape route last night. After comprehensive analysis, I now think this plan can be implemented. You guys pack up and get ready. We need to move quickly."

Bai Liu just brushed off all the thrilling experiences of last night in a few words. He scanned the entire classroom and finally fixed his eyes on the faces of Miao Gaojiang and Mu Ke who were silent: "Where are the other two people? Where are Miao Feichi and Liu Jiayi?"

Bai Liu reacted quickly. He looked at Mu Ke with a cold gaze: "What happened? Why were these two people locked up in another classroom by the teacher?"

Mu Ke swallowed his saliva, he stepped forward and explained to Bai Liu what had happened, Bai Liu's eyes darkened.

Bai Liu said that Miao Feichi did have a habit of eating people. When he didn't know whether he would be saved today, this idiot Miao Feichi came up with the idea of ​​"having a full meal before death" and put it into action. Bai Liu didn't find it strange.

But Liu Jiayi was not a simple child. She followed Miao Feichi without any resistance... Considering some information Bai Liu had told him before, Liu Jiayi had obvious doubts, but Bai Liu did not have much time to deal with them.

His investor, his future self, is still waiting for him to escape with others - Bai Liu needs him to save Liu Jiayi, no matter how many suspicious points there are about Liu Jiayi.

After all, Bai Liu gave the money.

"I'll go check it out. You guys stay here." Bai Liu turned around and was about to leave the classroom, but when he opened the door, the doubt in his heart made him pause for a second. He turned his head and looked at Mu Ke who was looking at him eagerly. "If I don't come back in time, you guys jump out of the women's toilet window in ten minutes and run around the jungle to the church."

"The exit from here is right below the thorny inverted cross statue, below the baptismal font. I'll take Liu Jiayi and the others after I finish dealing with things here and chase you." Bai Liu looked at Miao Gaojiang and narrowed his eyes slightly threateningly. "Mu Ke has a heart disease. Miao Gaojiang, you'd better take him with you and take good care of him. Otherwise... you know what you've mortgaged with me."

"Okay!" When Miao Gaojiang heard Bai Liu come up with another escape plan, his face showed a hint of excitement and he quickly agreed.

After hearing what Xiao Bailiu said, Mu Ke's heartbeat quickened nervously: "It's just going to another classroom, what's going to happen? Miao Feichi can't do anything to you! You can come back and run with us!"

"I don't know what will happen, but I've always had bad luck, and good things never happen to me." Xiao Bailiu leaned against the door and turned to look at Mu Ke. The faint morning light fell from behind him, casting a long, ominous shadow on the ground.

Xiao Bailiu's gaze was very indifferent, so indifferent that one could hardly see any emotion in it. His pale, bloodstained face was gradually gilded by the golden sunlight, and one could even see tiny hairs on his face that looked like unripe fruit. There seemed to be an indescribable smile at the corners of his mouth.

Xiao Bailiu curled his eyes and chuckled, "But I seemed to have good luck last night. Maybe it's because I changed my name. It seemed like I was suddenly blessed by something very strange, and good things happened to me."

He pushed open the door, waved casually to Mu Ke with his back to him, and left the handicraft classroom where he had painted two gift paintings for Bai Liu.