Before Mu Ke could react, Bai Liu grabbed the back of Mu Ke's collar and helped him stand up. Then he turned around and put Liu Huai, who had lost both arms, on his back with his hand. He held the fishbone whip tightly in his hand. Bai Liu exhaled lightly and inhaled lightly with a clear look in his eyes: "Open the door, Mu Ke. The game is not over yet."

Liu Huai, whose face was as pale as paper, suddenly interrupted Bai Liu. His wavering eyes stayed on Bai Liu's face for a second or two: "Wait, you promise that if you are alive, you will definitely save Jiayi?"

Bai Liu: "I promise."

Liu Huai closed his eyes, and a wristband appeared in front of him.

[System Tip: Item (Cynic Wristband), after the unruly poor dog is injured, he can rely on his optimism to delay the damage for 14 hours. However, if the player has not cleared the level after 14 hours, the damage suffered will be added to the player.]

"I originally left this prop for Jiayi to use when she escaped. Now it seems..." Liu Huai smiled bitterly, "She can't use it anymore."

The little witch with healing skills does not need such low-level items that delay damage to protect herself.

Liu Huai turned to look at Bai Liu, the smile on his face becoming more bitter and relieved: "I don't have any hands to use either, I'll give them to you, Bai Liu."

Bai Liu didn't say much. He just took the wristband and glanced at Mu Ke who was at the door.

Mu Ke turned around to look at Bai Liu. After making sure that Bai Liu was not shaken at all, he took a deep breath and pushed open the door with his still trembling hands.

It is 8:40 AM on Wednesday morning.

First floor emergency passage.

The nurse stood a distance away from the emergency passage, shrank back in fear. She did not approach, but swallowed her saliva and pointed at the dark passage: "It's right there, at the corner of the first floor, there is an entrance to the tunnel. From there, you can go directly to the church of the welfare home. I won't go there."

After saying that, the nurse saw Miao Gaojiang and Miao Feichi approaching without any hesitation, and couldn't help but shout at them: "You are not allowed to leave the ward before nine o'clock! I just brought you out to take a look, you can't just -"

Miao Gaojiang turned expressionlessly and approached the nurse. With a few quick steps, he arrived in front of her. The tall and strong Miao Gaojiang grabbed her neck and twisted it, and there was a crisp sound of bones interlocking at the neck of the nurse.

She opened her eyes wide in shock, her pupils dilated, and she slowly fell down powerlessly.

"Dad!?" Not only was the nurse shocked before he died, but even Miao Feichi was shocked, "Why did you kill the NPC?! It could easily cause a backlash!"

Miao Gaojiang's chest was heaving violently, his eyes were a little red, but his face was still expressionless. He had obviously killed a man very easily, but sweat was dripping down his jaw, and the biceps on his shoulders seemed to be wriggling as if they had not stopped yet, which made Miao Gaojiang look full of irritability and suppressed aggression. He turned his back to Miao Feichi and took a deep breath, his expression was a bit permeable.

But Miao Gao soon calmed down. He paused and cleared his throat: "We can't delay for a minute. This nurse NPC will have to wait until nine o'clock. The kids over there must be plotting to escape. We have to go there quickly."

Miao Feichi was barely convinced by this reason. He drew out his two swords and moved towards the safe passage step by step. When he was about to step into the passage, Miao Gaojiang suddenly asked Miao Feichi softly, "Don't you think this nurse looks like your mother?"

Miao Feichi paused, and with the corner of his eye he glanced at the pale face of the young nurse lying on the ground with her eyes wide open. This was a completely different face from the woman who gave birth to him in his memory. Miao Feichi retracted his gaze and looked at Miao Gaojiang with a bit of weirdness: "What's wrong with you, Dad? This NPC looks completely different from that dead woman, okay?"

"Really?" Miao Gaojiang muttered to himself. He turned his head and glanced at the face of the nurse NPC lying on the ground. "Maybe I saw it wrong."

The nurse's young body strangely had an old, sickly face with heavy eyebags. The face was smiling strangely at him and was very familiar to him. It was the face of his wife, Miao Feichi's mother, who had slept beside Miao Gao's stiff body for countless nights and whom he could see as soon as he opened his eyes.

This face appeared on the nurse's face. In Miao Gaojiang's eyes, the nurse would open her mouth exaggeratedly wide every time she spoke, so wide that her jaw joint would be pulled and a distorted displacement sound would be made. Then, she smiled at Miao Gaojiang with her mouth wide open, and Miao Gaojiang could easily see that there was no tongue in her mouth when she was speaking.

Miao Gaojiang retracted his gaze, raised his hand to wipe the sweat that flowed from his temples to his cheeks, and looked towards the exit after calming down: "Fei Chi, you take the lead, and I will cover the rear."

Eight quarter to five.

Because of the explosion last night, the nurses did not have the energy to patrol every floor and manage the patients. Bai Liu and his friends took advantage of the opportunity and hurried to the first floor by elevator, only to find that the emergency passage had been cleaned out and was in a mess.

This represents good news and bad news.

Mu Ke breathed a sigh of relief: "We don't have to face these monsters head-on."

Bai Liu's eyes stopped at the children who were chopped into pieces and the syringes flying everywhere, and his eyes moved slightly: "Miao Gao and the others have entered the tunnel."

He shouted at Liu Huai who was sliding down from his body due to exhaustion, and Bai Liu quickly walked in, followed closely by Mu Ke. At the corner on the first floor downstairs, there was a yellow trash can full of medical waste, which was filled with various blood transfusion bags and syringes. There was also a very simple, child-sized fixed bandage bed next to it, which was probably to prevent children from moving around when drawing blood.

It seems that the children who were sent here earlier had their blood drawn here, and then the bodies and the blood drawing equipment were thrown into the medical waste bin together.

Those investors who sucked the children's blood were not even willing to see these cruel processes, and only allowed the nurses to quickly process these [raw herbs] in a dirty and narrow corner and give them to the compassionate [investors] for use.

The trash can had been roughly kicked open, revealing a square entrance that looked like a cellar. The entrance was not big, Bai Liu estimated that it was only about 40cm by 40cm, basically the size for a child to pass through. Fortunately, Bai Liu and the others were now thin and tall, so they could still pass through this entrance.

There were some messy footprints next to the entrance, which should have been left by Miao Feichi and the others. Bai Liu asked Mu Ke to help support Liu Huai, then stepped forward, grasped the ring of the door handle, pulled it up and opened the cellar door.

In an instant, flying dust, dirt, a strong smell of blood, and the warm and moist smell of rotting fungi filled the air. The blood scabs on the door panel, which had been solidified for who knows how long, fell off, revealing the thick, moldy wooden board underneath.

The dust was like tiny particles that only people who were about to drown could see, floating and lingering in the dark cave entrance.

Bai Liu held his breath. He looked up at the nervous Mu Ke and jumped down without hesitation, not giving Mu Ke any chance to stop him.

"I'll go down first, and you can come down after I say it's okay."

Mu Ke looked up and down in panic.

It wasn't long before Bai Liu's voice echoed from below: "No problem, Mu Ke, put Liu Huai down first, and then you come down."

Mu Ke carefully moved the armless Liu Huai, first sent Liu Huai down, and then he used his arms to support the edge of the narrow cave entrance and carried him down.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Mu Ke also let go of his hand. After he felt himself sliding diagonally through a wet and sticky passage, he finally landed on the ground. However, the texture of the ground was very strange, soft and bulging, with a strong smell of blood and mushrooms. It felt like he was stepping on a mushroom field.

Mu Ke slowly opened his eyes, and the scene before him made him gasp.

The walls of the entire tunnel were densely covered with various kinds of mushrooms, colorful and of varying sizes, glowing with a gleam of light, just like the gastric mucosa of an infected person, covered with swollen, moist spots that seemed like they could burst with juice that corroded a person's arm if squeezed.

There were blood-red threads mixed in these mushrooms, like some deformed blood Ganoderma mycelium mixed in. The whole tunnel was filled with a strong smell of secretions and fermentation products, which smelled like mushrooms that had been soaked in low-quality wine with sand for twenty years. It made people dizzy and wanted to vomit.

Liu Huai and Mu Ke both had mild vomiting reflex, only Bai Liu was slightly better.

Mu Ke covered his mouth, trying to vomit: "Why are there so many mushrooms growing here?"

"It's damp and dark, and this tunnel is where corpses were dumped. The humus is very suitable for mushroom growth." Bai Liu walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. These soft and moist mushrooms could cover his ankles when he stepped on them. He looked around the tunnel. "And if I'm not mistaken, there are also low-quality blood ganoderma that were cultivated by those investors and no longer wanted, and they were also thrown here."

Mu Ke was stunned: "You don't want the Blood Ganoderma?! Isn't this something very precious?!"

"The blood ganoderma cultivated from the blood of a child with a 'pure' blood relationship is precious." Bai Liu's eyes passed over a slightly pulsating blood ganoderma the size of a heart with alternating black and red on the wall. "The timeline we are in now is ten years ago. This group of [investors] have not yet perfected their child screening mechanism, or they are in the early or middle stages of the screening. This process will inevitably produce failed products. These failed products may be ineffective or poisonous and cannot be used by these [investors], so they are thrown here."

Bai Liu looked at the other end of the tunnel and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this tunnel should be the place where the song "Sunday was buried in the ground" is sung."

The tunnel was like a corridor that grew and expanded inwards, with a strange vitality that expanded and contracted slightly with the breathing of Bai Liu and the others. But if you looked closely, you could tell that it was the slowly beating blood ganoderma lucidum, and there were also some deformed children's corpses lying on the ground with their eyes open, with phones scattered around them.

Bai Liu went forward and picked up a phone, and the system prompted him that the phone could not be used because the owner had completely died and had lost energy.

Most of these deformed children were cut into incomplete pieces by Miao Feichi's double knives and scattered among the mushroom bushes.

Some mushrooms on the ground had been cut open or trampled on. Bai Liu lowered his head and looked inside along the traces of trampling: "Let's go, they are going inside, we have to hurry."

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At the other end of the tunnel, Xiao Miao Gao Jiang, who was carrying Xiao Mu Ke on his back, was panting as he walked. Children's physical strength is still not as good as that of adults. He kept walking and running with two people on his back. Although Xiao Bailiu and Xiao Mu Ke were not heavy, Xiao Miao Gao Jiang's speed and pace were still slow. He was walking on the soft and slippery ground with sweat on his forehead and heavy breathing. This difficult road doubled his physical consumption.

Xiao Mu Ke, holding Xiao Bailiu's blood bag on his back, glanced at the time anxiously - Bailiu told him that he must get there before nine o'clock, otherwise when nine o'clock comes, all the investors will come out, and they will be caught as soon as they go there, and they will all be doomed!

But what they didn't know was that two investors who had set out before nine o'clock - Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang - were already coming through the tunnel.

Xiao Mu Ke watched the time go by, and he began to get anxious: "Miao Gaojiang, hurry up! If the investors come out to catch us after nine o'clock, we won't be able to escape!"

"I don't think we need to wait until after nine o'clock." Xiao Miao Gaozhuang wiped the sweat dripping from his face. He turned his head with fear and ugliness and looked at Xiao Mu Ke who was lying on his shoulder. "I heard the sound of someone stepping on mushrooms and approaching. They were walking very fast."

Xiao Mu Ke was stunned for a moment, and his face darkened: "How fast is it? Can we run back to the church in time?"

The church prohibits the killing of children and is a safe zone. Although it is not known how long it can last, but - Xiao Mu Ke gritted his teeth unwillingly and hugged the blood bag of Xiao Bailiu in his arms tightly.

I failed to successfully deliver Xiao Bailiu's blood bag. I hope that his crappy investor can hold on a little longer and not die so easily.

The sound of splashing juice coming from the tunnel was getting faster and faster, approaching them as fast as a snake in a mushroom bush.

Miao Gaojiang swallowed in fear, took two steps back, and shook his head slowly: "...I think it's too late. They are walking very fast. They will catch us before we reach the church."

"We can't let them catch us." Xiao Mu Ke lowered his voice. At this critical moment, without Xiao Bailiu as his leader, he seemed calm and composed. "Miao Gaojiang, take out the extra IV bags that Bailiu gave us. We can put them on our bodies to hold those monster children playing the flute. The lighting in this tunnel is not bright, and there are dead bodies of children everywhere. If you don't get close, you can't tell the difference between us and those monsters."

Xiao Mu Ke quickly jumped off Miao Gaojiang's body and began to hang infusion bags around his own and Miao Gaojiang's necks.

Miao Gaojiang was also frantically trying to hang up the phone. His face turned pale and uncertain: "Can this disguise fool those investors?! We look very different from those deformed children!"

"We have to pretend even if we can't do it well." Xiao Mu Ke breathed quickly, his face expressionless, and there was a kind of stunning determination in his dark eyes. "I thought about it and felt that we would just be waiting for death if we ran back to the church. The teachers would have gotten up by this time. If we met the teachers near the church, we would be detained and wait for the matchmaking on Thursday. If we can't run away from here today, we will never be able to run away."

"We can only gamble once."

Xiaomiao Gaojiang gritted his teeth and looked at Mu Ke for a second, and finally he nodded.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. The plump mushrooms under the feet of adults made a chirping sound, like ripe fruits being squeezed to extract the juice, which echoed strangely in the passage.

The smell of decay and blood became stronger. Xiao Mu Ke took a deep breath and lowered his voice: "Don't make any sound. Lie under the mushroom bush and pretend to be a corpse. Do you understand?"

Xiao Mu Ke hurriedly found a place to hide Bai Liu's blood bag, picked some mushrooms to cover himself, then took a deep breath and lay face down in the mushrooms.

Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang finally reached this section of the tunnel. Miao Feichi shook off the blood on his knife and frowned as he looked around: "What's that sound? It seemed like someone was talking in front of us just now? It didn't sound like the voices of those children we killed before, but rather like two living people talking to each other."

Miao Feichi, who was more agile, was more aware of all aspects of the sound, but he looked around and found nothing strange. Soon Miao Gaojiang urged him: "Don't look for it anymore. Let's go. This place is obviously the nest of those deformed children."

The further they went in, the more certain Miao Gaojiang was of this. This passage was narrow and dark, with mushrooms everywhere. The entrance on one side was the church, and the entrance on the other side was a safe passage for discarding children's bodies and medical equipment. The nurse told them that this passage was abandoned after the number of investors increased and the [investors] selected children in the form of [matching].

But when Miao Gaojiang and his friends entered this abandoned passage, in addition to the deformed children at the entrance, they could also see traces of the deformed children's activities as they walked inside, proving that these children usually lived in this abandoned passage.

Thinking of those deformed children who disappeared during the day, Miao Gaojiang's face became even gloomier. "The activity time for these deformed children should be from 9pm to 9am. The rest of the time they stay in this passage. Feichi, don't waste time. It's almost 9pm. We have to go out quickly, otherwise those monster children will return to their nest and we will be blocked in this passage by these returning monsters."

When Miao Feichi heard Miao Gaojiang's urging, he looked down at the time. It was already 8:51, almost 9 o'clock. There was really no time to waste here. He withdrew his inquiring gaze, raised his two swords and continued to walk forward hesitantly.

There were two main reasons for his suspicion. The first was that Miao Gao had been very impatient since he woke up from the zombie explosion, but his father was usually a very calm person, which made Miao Feichi feel anxious and uneasy.

The second is - Miao Feichi's eyes swept across the two children's corpses buried face down in the mushroom cluster on the ground. He had seen many children's corpses in this passage along the way. Logically speaking, Miao Feichi would not be surprised to see these two corpses in this place.

After all, the [investors] would not allow such unlucky things as a crematorium and a morgue to be in the hospital.

The hospital had no place to deal with children's corpses, so the nurses used this safety passage as a garbage disposal channel for children's corpses. The fungi in this passage could survive by decomposing these corpses, and thus reproduce more mushrooms that could decompose corpses. It was an excellent ecological corpse waste disposal channel.

But these two corpses gave him a sense of incongruity, as if they shouldn't be here. Miao Feichi, a player with relatively high agility but average intelligence, usually trusts the intuition he developed in the game. At this time, he would ask his father, who has a relatively higher intelligence, to check out the situation.

But now Miao Gaojiang seems to be in bad condition, and if this tunnel is the nest of these deformed children during the day as Miao Gaojiang said, then time is indeed very tight. Miao Feichi finally withdrew his gaze and took a few steps forward.

Hearing them continue to move forward, Xiao Mu Ke slowly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Before he could completely breathe a sigh of relief, Miao Feichi, who was walking forward, suddenly stopped.

Miao Feichi turned his head backwards, and the joints in his neck made a twisting sound as they loosened and returned to their original positions. He looked back at the two "corpses" with a fanatical, terrifying, and inconceivable look of excitement.

There was a small water stain on the shoulder of the "corpse". Miao Feichi looked at the stain and licked his mouth slowly.

Miao Gaojiang knew from the look in his eyes that Miao Feichi was addicted to meat. Just as he was about to interrupt what Miao Feichi was about to do, he heard Miao Feichi ask him in an incredibly light voice that was trembling slightly with surprise: "Dad, the clothes of these two children are wet. They are sweating. I can smell the fresh smell of sweat."

"They are living people, living children who escaped."

A living child who would find ways to escape at this point - Miao Gao was stunned, but his eyes flashed and he reacted quickly: "This is the child of Bai Liu's group of players!!"

Oops!!

Xiao Mu Ke felt a chill in his heart, and after several thoughts flashed through his mind, he suddenly hugged the blood bag in his arms and jumped up from the ground without saying a word. He ran towards the exit of the hospital like crazy. Xiaomiao Gaozhuang also crawled out of the mushroom field, and ran after Mu Ke with a pale face.

Miao Feichi laughed twice in a low voice, and then he drew out his two swords: "Damn it, you almost blew me up last night. If I don't drain the blood of you little bastards and eat all your flesh today, I will be embarrassed even if I pass the level."

After he finished speaking, he squinted his eyes for a while, and suddenly whistled: "Not bad, it's easy to get it. I brought blood here today. Dad, your child is in it too."

Miao Gaojiang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his child. His expression became calm and he said, "I see. Fei Chi, be careful to avoid the aorta when killing him. Don't waste blood."

"OK." Miao Fei bent the knife over his elbow and casually wiped the mushroom mucus and blood off the knife. He licked his bloodless lips, his eyes flashing red and bloody. "Kill you, and the game will be over soon."

Xiao Mu Ke was running very fast. His heart had never hurt so much before. He could clearly feel the amount of blood that exceeded his heart's load was poured into his heart like a bomb, and then exploded in his heart with a "thump". The bright red blood then passed through the ventricles and atria and rushed into every blood vessel in his limbs in a way that made him feel extremely painful and his hands and feet numbed.

He tried his best to breathe in and out deeply, but it felt like the air was separated by an invisible, wind-like filter, and his lungs were burning as they could not absorb the oxygen in the air.

Mu Ke had never run so fast before. In his limited life, he mostly squatted with his head raised and looked at others, because it was easier to recover health in that position. Mu Ke had never run at such a speed that made him feel like his legs were going to explode in the next second, like a small insect in the wind. He also never knew that he could run so fast.

Mu Ke hugged the blood bag that was taken out of Bai Liu's body. He felt that he would spit blood into the bag in the next second.

His eyes were filled with physiological tears. He ran and suffocated, just like a valuable cat with congenital defects, which finally awakened the instinct to run from the greenhouse under the stimulation of its natural enemy. Mu Ke knew that his knees were weakening and his brain was blank due to lack of oxygen, but he still mechanically moved his legs and ran.

You can't stop, you have to survive, Mu Ke, Bai Liu said weakly while lying in his arms, as if praying, as if begging, and as if calmly telling him what he must do - Mu Ke, you must save my investors, you must survive, Mu Ke.

I must, I must - Mu Ke's vision began to become blurry. It was not because he was crying, but because he was starting to feel a little dizzy due to the extreme movement.

Mu Ke's nose began to bleed, and the blood dripped onto the backs of his hands that were tightly holding the blood bag on his chest, but he was no longer aware of any of this. Mu Ke just kept running with empty eyes, completely unaware that Miao Feichi behind him had caught up with him.

Miao Feichi held the double swords and looked at the still running little Mu Ke in silence: "Damn, you little brat ran pretty fast, I almost didn't catch you."

He raised his two swords that were shining with cold light. His thin, swaying shadow was reflected on the wall of the tunnel like the god of death holding a sickle. Miao Feichi aimed at the shoulder of Xiao Mu Ke, who was already unconscious but still running, and slashed down hard.

Xiao Mu Ke's eyes went dark and he felt himself being lifted into someone's arms forcefully and lightly by a gust of wind that blew in from another exit. Xiao Mu Ke was held by the back of his head and buried in the chest of the man in the hospital gown. It took him a long time to feel the warmth coming from his forehead after his ears were ringing.

Someone saved him, and now he was leaning against the heart of the person who saved him. The other person's heartbeat was completely different from his own. It was beating slowly and calmly, one after another, like the regular dripping of water on the rocks of a remote cliff where no one would go. No one could disrupt the frequency of his heartbeat.

——Even if this man now held a curved knife in his hand that was powerful enough to kill him, it would not be enough to disrupt the rhythm of his breathing and heartbeat.

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu uses Mu Sicheng's personal skill (Thief Stealth), movement speed +3700, physical strength is rapidly declining...]

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu used Mu Sicheng's personal skill (Thief Monkey Claw) to block the attack of player Miao Feichi]

"Fuck you, it's you, Bai Liu again!" Miao Fei's teeth exploded instantly. He gritted his teeth and pressed the knife down, "Liu Huaishou is gone, and you came to me on your own. I wonder who will help you today!"

Miao Feichi shouted loudly and swung his two swords wildly. The silver light of the blades flashed in the tunnel. Bai Liu threw Xiao Mu Ke back and pushed his shoulder to signal him to keep running forward. At the same time, he moved sideways to avoid Miao Feichi's powerful chop into his other shoulder - Miao Feichi was using the same old trick again. Not knowing how long Bai Liu's health could last, he wanted to end the battle quickly and disarm Bai Liu.

Bai Liu used his high speed to dodge Miao Feichi's powerful knife by leaning sideways, then turned around and quickly used his monkey claws to fight Miao Feichi a few times. He stood and retreated, trying his best to avoid being hit by Miao Feichi's knife, but how could Miao Feichi let Bai Liu go so easily? His attacks became more and more fierce, and it seemed that Bai Liu could not hold on any longer.

Xiao Muke ran back two steps, his heart was still beating wildly, and while he was running, he suddenly turned around to look at the investor who had saved him and was still fighting.

This is an investor who will save children - [He won't kill you because he is a strange good person, he will save you].

Xiao Mu Ke suddenly started laughing while crying. He stuttered as he waved his limbs and ran. Tears flowed down his little face like an outflow of emotions. He did save me, Xiao Bailiu. Your investor is really weird. He is obviously not a good person.

——He killed you but saved me. I don’t understand what he wanted to do, just like I don’t understand what you want to do.

It was obvious that neither you nor he was a good person, but in the end you both tried your best to save me. However, we only met on Sunday, and on Wednesday, it seemed that you and your investors were going to die for me.

I don't want this.

Xiao Mu Ke stopped running and wanted to turn around, but was pulled by a person hiding in the mushroom bush. He was so scared that he almost screamed, but the other person quickly covered his mouth.

The other party lowered his voice and looked at him strangely: "...Why are you running back? Are you trying to get yourself killed? Don't go and cause trouble for him!"

Xiao Mu Ke's face was covered with sticky tears. He hugged the blood bag in his arms and looked at the man with sobs: "But I don't want to see him die because of me. I promised Bai Liu that I must save him."

Mu Ke was silent for a while, breathing lightly, and then said, "I don't want to see him die, but he also promised me that he would not die, so we trust him and just wait."

Mu Ke and Liu Huai hid in a corner of the tunnel. Neither of them had any significant fighting power, so Bai Liu asked them to hide and he went out to fight the enemy alone. Mu Ke objected fiercely at first, saying that Bai Liu's fighting ability of 0.5 couldn't be much better than his. This might be the first time that Mu Ke refuted Bai Liu sarcastically, but soon he stopped his sarcasm with red ears under Bai Liu's gaze, but did not apologize.

But soon Bai Liu came up with a plan that could temporarily control Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, father and son, and this plan barely convinced Mu Ke.

"This tunnel is the habitat of the deformed child monsters during the day." Bai Liu said, "At nine o'clock, they will come back from outside. If these little monsters encounter us, the outsiders, they will definitely attack us, but they rely on phone positioning to find people, and we--"

Mu Keton Wu: "——We have two phones that can avoid being located! They were snatched from the deformed children! As long as our phones stay connected, they won't be able to find us, and they will attack Miao Feichi and his group!"

Bai Liu nodded. "Although this attack may not last long, it will allow us to escape with Xiao Mu Ke. We definitely cannot go to the hospital. After nine o'clock, the investors and nurses there will start to move around. It's not safe. We can only go through the church, which is a safe area for children."

Mu Ke took a deep breath and looked at Bai Liu. He leaned forward, looking at Bai Liu with a slightly aggressive tone: "Okay, Bai Liu, your plan seems to be fine, but I have a question for you. We only have two phones that we snatched from the deformed children, and we have three people here, which means that one person's phone cannot be busy. This person will be attacked just like Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang. Who are you going to let be the one who will be attacked?"

Bai Liu's eyes touched Mu Ke's eyes lightly, and he lowered his eyes: "When we have little Mu Ke, we will have a third phone that can call my mobile phone. Or we can pick up a phone from those dead deformed children, or I can steal one. There is always a way."

"Don't try to fool me." Mu Ke's chest rose and fell slightly. He refuted Bai Liu's words calmly, "Children's mobile phones cannot make outgoing calls after nine o'clock. The phones of dead deformed children cannot be used. And you want to steal a phone. This method——"

Mu Ke's eyes fell on the broken arm, and his breathing and tone began to become anxious: "You only have one arm to use. If you steal, you will have no way to resist the attack. We don't have anyone here who can cooperate with you in stealing. Liu Huai is unconscious, and I have no offensive power. The plans you mentioned are simply useless, so in the end we only have two usable child phones."

"This means that one of the three people must have a phone call." Mu Ke stared at Bai Liu, "Bai Liu, who is this person?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Ke calmly. His eyes were very calm, as if they were clear enough to see the lake at the bottom at a glance.

"Haven't you guessed it, Mu Ke? That person is me."

Mu Ke slowly exhaled a thick breath, clasped his hands together, and said this calmly: "I disagree, Bai Liu, I disagree. Your health is only 0.5. Liu Huai and I do not have the offensive power. We have no way and no ability to protect you from the ringing phone in the chaos."

"No one can protect you. You will really die." Mu Ke paused for a word. He looked at Bai Liu's expressionless face and pleaded in a harsh voice, "...Don't be like this, okay, Bai Liu?"

Bai Liu paused for a moment, then he chuckled, "Who said no one would protect me?"

Mu Ke was stunned: "Who else can protect you?"

Bai Liu spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders and smiled nonchalantly: "I can protect myself."

But in the end, Bai Liu convinced Mu Ke with a very, very risky plan.

Mu Ke closed his eyes and ended his recollection. He looked down at the watch on his wrist that he had picked up from the rubble of the explosion last night. The second hand slowly turned and finally aligned with 0.

It's nine o'clock.

Mu Ke's breathing slowed down and then quickly became anxious. He took out his cell phone and dialed Liu Huai's number, making sure that Liu Huai's phone was busy so that the deformed child who had returned home would not call and find him.

But Mu Ke held the only remaining children's phone in his palm without moving. Mu Ke looked up at Bai Liu who was still dealing with Miao Feichi, and clenched the phone in his hand. His fingers hesitated for a few times on it, wondering which phone number to press. Finally, he leaned against the wall, took a deep breath, and pressed his own phone number with trembling fingers.

He picked up Mu Ke's phone before it rang. Now both phones were useless. Mu Ke leaned against the wall, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, not daring to look at the situation behind him.

——If things don’t turn out the way Bai Liu expected, then Bai Liu will definitely die.

There were rustling sounds at the ends of the passages on both sides, like the sound of mice scurrying on the ground. The sound came from all directions, as if a group of mice were smelling food from underground and were drilling out. A stronger smell of blood and decay flowed between Mu Ke's nostrils. The smell was getting closer and closer to Mu Ke, but the strange thing was that he didn't see anything approaching, but the scurrying sound had already passed him and moved forward.

The little Mu Ke in his arms tugged at his sleeve and pointed upwards with a strange look on his face.

Mu Ke looked up at the top of the tunnel - he couldn't help but hold his breath.