Watching Bai Liu's running back disappearing in the morning light, Mu Ke's heart suddenly stopped for a few seconds. He thought of Liu Jiayi's strange smile, and suddenly wanted to grab Bai Liu's hand to tell him not to go to that classroom, but little Bai Liu ran too fast, and he soon stuck to the door of another classroom, calmly unlocked it, and slipped in.

Mu Ke took two quick breaths and suddenly remembered that he hadn't heard any sound from that classroom for almost an hour.

"Bai Liu! Come back!" Mu Ke subconsciously rushed out to call Bai Liu back. He anxiously knocked on the door of the classroom, "Something is wrong with this classroom! Come out quickly!! Let's ignore Liu Jiayi, okay? Bai Liu, let's just run!"

But no matter how much Mu Ke yelled, stomped his feet and roared in despair, the only sound in the empty corridor was his own breathlessness. This sound could no longer be transmitted to the other craft classroom where the prop "Silence" was placed.

Soon Mu Ke was exhausted from banging on the door with his own intense emotions. He squatted in front of Bai Liu's classroom with his hands covering his chest, gasping for breath, with a layer of purple on his lips. At the same time, the teacher on the other side of the corridor heard the commotion and came over with footsteps.

Miao Gaojiang followed out. With a complicated look, he looked at Mu Ke, who was tightly grasping the door handle of another classroom, and pried open Mu Ke's fingers one by one.

He dragged the exhausted Mu Ke back to the classroom and whispered to him, "Don't shout anymore. The teacher will be attracted here, and Bai Liu will be in trouble too. Just wait for ten minutes as Bai Liu said. He is much more powerful than us, so you have to trust him!"

Mu Ke's chest was heaving violently. He glanced at Miao Gaojian and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, because his breathing was too rapid, Mu Ke turned away without saying anything. He looked at the quartz watch in the classroom, silently biting his lip and counting to ten minutes.

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Another craft classroom.

As soon as Bai Liu entered, he smelled a strong smell of blood. He looked at Liu Jiayi, who was curled up in the corner, hugging his shoulders, trembling and sobbing. There was a lot of blood on Liu Jiayi's body, as well as some wounds and marks that looked like they were bitten by someone.

Those tooth marks were indeed the kind that a child of Miao Feichi's age would have made.

Xiao Bailiu frowned, and the scale of doubt in his heart slowly tilted towards the speculation that Miao Feichi had eaten humans.

But Bai Liu did not approach easily. Instead, he kept a certain distance and asked softly, "Liu Jiayi, where is Miao Feichi? Did he attack you?"

Liu Jiayi curled up in her cloth box in the corner and cried quietly, nodding: "Yes."

She pointed with a shaking finger to another shadowy corner.

Bai Liu turned his head to look at that corner. There was indeed a very tall figure in that corner, the tallest among Miao Feichi and the other children, second only to Bai Liu. Now this figure was standing in the corner, hiding behind a pile of messy discarded handicrafts, and it seemed that he was holding something in his hand, ready to launch a sneak attack.

Miao Feichi seemed to have seen Bai Liu coming in and was preparing to hide himself.

"Miao Feichi?" Bai Liu held the candlestick, checked Miao Feichi's soul coin, and walked over tentatively step by step.

With the soul banknote in his hand, Bai Liu was not worried about Miao Feichi attacking him. He pushed aside the redundant things covered with cobwebs and dust, and finally saw Miao Feichi hiding behind all these things with a terrified look. Even though he had seen many horrible things, what he saw made Bai Liu's breathing pause for a few seconds.

Miao Feichi was tied up with a bunch of IV tubes like a puppet and hung from the ceiling. His face, hands, and neck were densely pierced with needles, and every blood vessel in his body had a needle inserted, with blood flowing continuously into the IV bag.

His lips had become dry from being sucked by the blood bags, his skin had a dry, papery texture, his hands and feet were shaking constantly, and even his tongue was full of needles, which made him only able to breathe slightly in pain and unable to make any sound.

Miao Feichi was hung by his hands and feet, his eyes were dull, and tears flowed from his eyes the moment he saw Bai Liu. He called out "ah ah" twice in a whisper, and there was even a bit of desperation in his eyes wanting to die. What he was holding in his hands was a rag doll with its head pierced by countless needles, and the clothes it was wearing were exactly the same as Miao Feichi's current ones.

Liu Jiayi's cry while hugging her legs gradually turned into a weird laugh. She stood up slowly with her hands behind her back, turned around and tilted her head with a smile on her face to "look" at Bai Liu who was blocking Miao Feichi. She stuck out her tongue cutely and playfully: "I was just kidding you. A big idiot like Miao Feichi can't hurt me."

"I forced him to bite me and got these wounds. Well, I probably gave him a bad first impression of eating human flesh. He cried and begged me to let him go while biting me." Liu Jiayi pointed at the wounds on her body and said with a smile, "But I can't trick you into coming in if I don't do this, smart, cold, and not a normal kid at all, little brother Bai Liu."

Bai Liu glanced at Miao Feichi who was still sobbing behind him. He raised the candlestick horizontally and made an attacking gesture: "At this point, I don't think you have the qualifications to criticize me. You deliberately didn't kill Miao Feichi. Are you afraid that I will notice something wrong and not enter this classroom?"

If Bai Liu could see from the soul banknote of Miao Feichi in his hand that Miao Feichi was dead, he would definitely not come over.

"Your skill allows you to see the death status of the person you control, right?" Liu Jiayi tiptoed step by step and walked leisurely towards Bai Liu.

Bai Liu held up the candlestick and kept a distance from her cautiously.

But Liu Jiayi didn't care much, still with a sweet smile on her face, "Soul control skills? Your investor, or your future self, has talked to me about this skill. It's a perfect skill that can exchange souls. It just requires the other party's consent, right? It's a rule skill with some restrictions, but it's already pretty good for a newcomer like Bai Liu."

"It's like becoming another system that can give or take the life of the person under its control." The smile on Liu Jiayi's face faded a little. Her misty eyes moved a little, revealing a condescending and extremely disgusted look. "This ambitious desire to control souls is really a disgusting personal skill derived from the desires unique to dirty adult men."

[System prompt: The system has blocked the player Liu Jiayi's comments about (soul trading) and other related content]

Liu Jiayi approached Xiao Bailiu step by step, but her steps became faster and faster, and Xiao Bailiu retreated quickly.

Liu Jiayi skipped around the jumble of handmade products, with a cute smile on her face that looked like it was painted on, and jumped over various boxes like a clockwork doll, speaking in a light tone:

"Bai Liu, at your age, have you already begun to indulge in the pleasure of controlling others? This is very similar to the man who gave birth to me. No wonder he did that to my brother in the last game. It turns out there is a reason for it."

Xiao Bai Liu Hou retreated cautiously, using various items to cover himself as he retreated. His brain was spinning rapidly: "You want to save your brother Liu Huai, right? But now you have taken Miao Feiya's blood, and you can probably save your brother Liu Huai yourself. There is no need to attack me, right? Liu Huai and my future self are still in a cooperative relationship now."

"Cooperation?" Liu Jiayi's ethereal laughter was everywhere and pervasive, approaching Bai Liu from all directions of the classroom. "Using all kinds of conditions and restrictions, and then using words to induce and force my brother to choose between me and him? What a disgusting cooperation."

Xiao Bailiu looked around in the middle of the classroom, observing every place where Liu Jiayi might come out. His tone was still calm: "But you didn't stop her, did you?"

"You could have called your brother and told him that you didn't need him to save you, so that he wouldn't be forced to cooperate by the other me. But you still watched Liu Huai make this painful choice between you and him, or you were waiting for him to choose between you and his life."

"If this is an extremely evil collaboration," Xiao Bailiu said calmly, "then you are also a participant and promoter of this collaboration, Liu Jiayi."

"You obviously want to see Liu Huai give up his life for you to achieve this cooperation more than we do, and want to see your brother suffer and die in order to save and protect you. If it wasn't until the last moment when Liu Huai was sure he would die for you, you wouldn't even expose yourself, right, Liu Jiayi? When it comes to being extremely hateful, we are far inferior to you."

Liu Jiayi's laughter stopped abruptly.

The dim light in the corridor suddenly flickered, and when it came on again, Bai Liu saw Liu Jiayi holding a baby whose head and limbs were about to fall off. There was no expression on her face. She stood very close to Bai Liu, looking up with her head unblinking, breathing lightly and looking very closely at him.

The doll in Liu Jiayi's hand was wearing a white shirt and suit pants, with a strange coin with a hole in the middle around its neck. Its head was twisted almost 180 degrees, and it had a strange and dull smile on its face as it looked up at Xiaobailiu together with Liu Jiayi.

Even though he had never seen Bai Liu from the future, Xiao Bailiu recognized that the crudely made doll in Liu Jiayi's arms was his future self through Bai Liu's description of himself.

Xiao Bailiu's gaze stopped on the doll in Liu Jiayi's arms. His breathing paused slightly, and his Adam's apple slid up and down due to his rapid heartbeat and breathing - so this is what the fear of death feels like when it's very close. Xiao Bailiu even thought absentmindedly for a moment that it might not be as scary as he thought.

Liu Jiayi spoke in a very low voice. She lowered her head and stroked the doll in her arms, as if talking to herself:

"Do you know why witches in the Middle Ages made voodoo dolls? When they started to curse someone or began to love someone, they would start to make a doll of that person, hoping that the doll could contain the other person's soul, so that the person they hated would die in a disgusting way, and the person they liked would stay by their side in a way they liked."

Xiao Bailiu had already retreated to the edge of the wall, his expression still calm: "Is there any difference between what you did and what Bai Liu did?"

Liu Jiayi was silent for a long time, then she suddenly tilted her head, blinked her eyes and smiled happily: "Essentially, there is no such thing, so I am also a very disgusting existence, and I deserve to be treated badly by my brother."

"But Liu Huai gave everything for you, and you got exactly what you wanted." Xiao Bailiu breathed softly, his toes pressed against the wall, and he looked at Liu Jiayi, who was already close to his face, "You got what you wanted, so what else are you dissatisfied with?"

Liu Jiayi finally raised her head. Her expression was dull and indifferent. The misty and gray eyes were embedded in her young and emotionless face. There was a weird, strange and sad sense of discord.

She curled her lips and eyes like a well-behaved child who knew nothing, but the words she spoke were as vague and floating as heavy mist:

"Because I never dared to truly believe in my brother, because I refused to believe, I never got it."

Xiao Bailiu is reflected in Liu Jiayi's eyes, with a very hazy texture, as if the soul has escaped from the body and is imprinted in her eyes:

"My brother is a very cowardly person. He will not and dare not give everything for me."

"Treachery is a bad habit of his, and he is a cowardly habitual offender."

Xiao Bailiu looked at Liu Jiayi and remembered what Bai Liu had told him about Liu Huai. Liu Huai really seemed to be accustomed to betraying others, from Mu Sicheng to Zhang Kui... If betrayal and cowardice are bad habits, then the people who are most harmed by this habit must be the people who have been with them day and night.

Xiao Bailiu suddenly understood something. He looked at Liu Jiayi and asked, "What did Liu Huai betray you about?"

The smile on Liu Jiayi's face finally disappeared, and she looked straight at Xiao Bailiu.

"He betrayed me... what?" She whispered softly, smiling, "You might as well ask when he stopped betraying me."

Everyone would speak to her in that hateful tone that made her hesitate to speak.

[Children born from incest, their intelligence will be low, right? ]

[He is indeed blind, and it is a girl, why didn't you abort it? ]

[…My mother said that you, a child born to close relatives, cannot be registered as a hukou, and you cannot even go to school. Your brother even said that he would cure your eyesight and send you to school so that you can take the college entrance examination. Haha, so funny!]

When the man got drunk, he would punch and kick her, slap her repeatedly, and force her, who was only a few years old, to go fishing in the pond, saying viciously that she would not be allowed to come up unless she caught a certain number of kilograms of fish.

The pond was very cold. When she, who was only a few years old, stepped into it, the water seemed to reach her throat. It was all mud and water. The fish in the pond were as slippery as dead bodies. They swam around her but were difficult to catch.

She was trapped in this pond just like her dead mother, where she would never be allowed to get up. Liu Jiayi could never catch enough fish to satisfy the man. She knew that he just wanted to drown her, a useless little girl who would only waste food, in the pond.

Like drowning her sister and her mother.

When Liu Huai was not around or in school, Liu Jiayi would hide in the chicken coop or pigsty with the animals, or hide in the closet and under the bed to prevent the man from running around the house to fight her when he encountered some unidentified anger.

Most of the time she was fine as long as she hid well and wasn't discovered, but she had to stay alert at all times, otherwise the man would grab her hair and throw her to the ground, beat her with a wet bamboo stick, or drag her into the pond to catch fish.

As long as Liu Jiayi can remember, she would hide in any dark place in the house, quietly hugging her knees, counting the time passing, waiting for Liu Huai to come home from school. She would feel the chill of the countryside when night fell, seeping from her skin to her heart.

Sometimes she would cry uncontrollably or scream miserably, and like the mentally retarded, crazy, or insane people said, she would beat the animals that were kept with her, as if this could vent the resentment and pain in her heart that she could not get rid of.

She never dared to let Liu Huai see this side of her. In front of Liu Huai, Liu Jiayi was always gentle, well-behaved, innocent and knew nothing. Whenever Liu Huai came home from school, she would look up and smile sweetly, calling him "brother and sister".

Even though she had just crawled out of the muddy pond where she had struggled for an entire afternoon, barely breathing, and even though she had screamed madly and almost strangled a goose to death ten minutes ago.

A bad child who doesn't behave well will not be loved. Liu Jiayi has known this since she was a child. She has always known that all the affection Liu Huai gave her was earned by her disguised appearance. So no matter when, she would remain alert as if hiding under the bed or in a dark closet, not wanting her true face to be pulled out by Liu Huai in the same rough way as that man, and then severely whipped, asking in disappointment, "Why are you such a bastard?"

Maybe not. Even if she showed her true face and stood in front of Liu Huai, Liu Huai would shrink away and dare not look at her.

Because her brother is a coward who is afraid to face his true face.

Memories and consciousness sank into the dark, bottomless mud. Liu Jiayi stood in front of Xiao Bailiu. She looked at Xiao Bailiu's questioning dark eyes. Liu Jiayi vaguely felt as if she had returned to that small, shabby house in the countryside.

She had just learned to hide under the bed and in the closet to avoid the man's drunken beatings, and would only sneak out after Liu Huai came back or when the man fell asleep and snored.

One day, the man had no idea what happened and was extremely angry. He searched everywhere for her but couldn't find her. He kept looking for her until Liu Huai came back from school.

The sound of dishes and chopsticks breaking on the ground was heard. Liu Jiayi covered her mouth with both hands, not daring to breathe loudly. She held her breath and listened to the insults the man said to her.

"...This little bastard is getting better and better at hiding! I can't even find anything to kill time with, Liu Huai! Liu Huai, get out of here!"

Then there was a crisp slap sound, and the boy's suppressed cry rang out in fear. The man sweared and gulped down two gulps of wine. The sound of the big gulps of wine seemed to pour into Liu Jiayi's ears. Her breathing became rapid, and a bitter taste that made her dizzy began to rise in her mouth.

Then, like a routine, the rough, drunken, middle-aged man's hands and feet hit Liu Huai's back, sounding ventingly, and soon stopped with Liu Huai's trembling sobs.

"Fuck." The man cursed drunkenly, "Fuck, you are the only descendant of the Liu family. I don't want to hit you, but my hands are itchy after I got drunk, and the little bitch is not here. This bitch will hide and only come out when you are around. I pretended to be your voice to trick her out...hiccup, she didn't come out."

"Go!" The man kicked Liu Huai incoherently, "If you trick that little bastard out, I won't beat you."

Liu Jiayi waited for a long time, until she thought it was daybreak, and then she heard Liu Huai's crying and trembling voice:

"Jiayi, my brother is back, can you... come out for a while?"

"Can you please come out for a moment? Outside, Daddy is gone! Come out! No one will beat you!"

"Come out! It's really only me outside! I want to see you!"

Liu Jiayi was silent for a long time. Those sounds blurred into a tinnitus in her sensitive, dirt-covered ears that she could not understand. Then she trembled and crawled out from under Liu Huai's bed, where she had been hiding for the whole day.

The man pulled her hair and threw her to the ground, slapping her with a refreshing and drunken slap. He whipped Liu Jiayi, who was curled up on the ground, with a whip as thick as his little finger, and kicked her soft abdomen. Every time he kicked her, Liu Huai, who was standing next to her, would tremble with his eyes closed.

But Liu Huai did not dare to step forward. He just leaned against the wall cowardly, silently waiting for the end of this torture.

After the torture was over, Liu hugged the dying Liu Jiayi and cried, saying, "Brother will definitely take you out, brother will definitely get into a good university!"

If you help me endure it a few more times, I will definitely take you out! It will be soon! It will be soon!

Liu Jiayi just stared blankly with her eyes closed. She listened to the voice of Liu Huai, which was gradually becoming similar to that man's. Liu Jiayi curled her fingers and then slowly dropped them.

"Okay, Jiayi will help brother bear it." She said weakly and gently. She knew that Liu Huai needed her to use the appearance of "well-behaved sister" to soothe his guilty heart.

Liu Huai, her brother was always so cowardly that he dared not resist the man who betrayed her and deceived her. He stood beside the dim living room where she crawled out for him and was beaten, closing his eyes and not daring to watch all this.

Her brother is an out-and-out, cowardly assassin who doesn't even have the weapons to hurt anyone.

But the best thing she ever got in her life was such a cowardly brother.

Betrayal and suspicion are a natural pair of siblings.