Bai Liu watched TV for a while, and Lu Yizhan followed him and watched. When he saw the issue of community psychologists being discussed on TV, he casually asked Bai Liu, "I recommended you to see that community psychologist before. Have you been going to see him regularly recently?"

Lu Yizhan might be the person in the world who is most worried about Bai Liu's health problems, fearing that he might become unhappy and do something unscrupulous to make money.

"I've been to see the psychiatrist twice, and I think I'm about to expose the psychiatrist's psychological problems, so I'll do a little charity and not go." Bai Liu retracted his gaze from the TV and turned to look at Lu Yizhan. He raised his eyebrows slightly, "I think you should also go see a psychiatrist now."

Lu Yizhan had an unshaven beard and a frown on his face. There was a lot of dark circles under his eyes and he reeked of cigarettes. His clothes were wrinkled and covered in cigarette ash. It was obvious that he had stayed here all night yesterday instead of going home. His eyes were bloodshot, making him look anxious and emotional.

Lu Yizhan was teased by Bai Liu and just smiled bitterly: "Why are you here?"

Bai Liu is the type who doesn't mind other people's business. The reason he was willing to come to the hospital for a visit was because he wanted to thank Lu Yizhan for his service.

But coming here so actively and proactively is totally not Bai Liu's style.

"Let's see when you're going to smoke yourself to death." Bai Liu glanced at the pile of cigarette butts on the lid of the trash can next to Lu Yi Station. "Why, you don't want to save money to marry a girl, but spend so much money to buy cigarettes?"

Lu Yizhan lifted the cigarette butt on his fingertips and shook it, then slowly exhaled a puff of smoke: "Cheap cigarette, don't complain to Sister Dian, I'm really upset and upset, a few kids got into trouble again last night."

Bai Liu followed up Lu Yizhan's question in a nonchalant manner and asked, "Oh, what happened?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a while, then took a deep puff of his cigarette: "The five children who managed to survive the orphanage started to faint one after another last night for some unknown reason, and were rushed to the hospital."

"But all the indicators were fine, except for severe anemia. They had checked just the day before, and the anemia was not that severe. As a result, in the early morning, these children began to show certain coma, shock, and even convulsion symptoms. The doctor said it might be caused by excessive blood loss, but the children were all well in the hospital, and the doctor could not find the cause of the excessive blood loss."

"Where's Liu Jiayi?" Bai Liu asked casually, changing the subject casually.

Lu Yizhan's frown deepened. "This child is also very strange. She suddenly slipped out yesterday morning following her brother. We only found her this morning. When we asked her what she was doing, she refused to tell us. The surveillance was also cut off halfway through. No one knows where this child went last night. We can only send someone to keep a close eye on her. After she came back, we asked the doctor to do a blood test and she is being sent for examination now."

"Her face looks much paler than yesterday. She looks very similar to the children who had accidents last night. She is likely to be severely anemic."

"Some police wanted to interrogate her because Liu Jiayi ran out so quickly and it was very suspicious, but her condition was really bad, so we decided to let the doctor take a look first."

Once Lu Yizhan opened his mouth, he would talk nonstop. He might have been holding it in for the whole night and couldn't find anyone to talk to. Finally Bai Liu came to him, so he kept complaining to Bai Liu.

Lu Yizhan sighed: "Also, it's not just this. There's something wrong with the welfare home. I still think it has something to do with those investors."

At this point, Lu Yizhan a little anxiously poked his forehead with his thumb, as if he could find a way to solve the case by poking a hole in his forehead with his thumb. "I asked around, and my colleagues investigating this case seem to have the same idea. They have already sent out the entire department to investigate, but it's still too difficult to find clues. The missing children in the welfare home all ran away on their own, and we don't know where they went. Also, the identities of those investors are special, so it's unlikely that we can investigate hard without key evidence."

Bai Liu nodded to show that he had heard it, but then he asked, "Can I see these children?"

Lu Yizhan thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, I can guarantee you. There are many kind-hearted people who want to adopt these children now. You should be able to take care of them."

"The other children are fine, but Liu Jiayi may be a little troublesome. After we held her down and forced the doctor to draw her blood, she kept hiding under the bed and wouldn't come out. As soon as we entered, she started screaming and had an extreme reaction. I don't know if she was willing to let you in."

Lu Yizhang took Bai Liu to see these children.

These deformed children who had lost too much blood lay in bed with pale faces, weak breathing, low body temperatures, and even very slow heartbeats. The line between life and death seemed to have blurred for these children.

The blood ganoderma that breeds the desire for survival of adults is greedily and unrestrainedly absorbing the fresh blood from the bodies of these tender children. They are at the age when blood production is the fastest, and still cannot satisfy the blood-sucking speed of the greedy and dirty adults.

"They couldn't find out what disease they had." Lu Yizhan couldn't bear to look at these children lying on the hospital beds. His eyes would turn red at the sight of them. "They are suffering so much. They are just so young."

Bai Liu gently stroked the child's dry lips with her fingers. Her voice was very soft and it was unclear who she was talking to: "Don't be sad, it will be fine."

[System prompt: Does the player Bai Liu want to use the item (Blood Ganoderma) to heal the person on the bed? ]

[Warm reminder: There is only one blood ganoderma. Adults can take it three times, and children can take it six times. This item has dosage and usage regulations. Is the player Bai Liu sure to use this item? ]

Bai Liu: [Confirm]

[System warning: This item is not the core item desired by player Bai Liu, and cannot be used directly by player Bai Liu in reality! ... Zizi... Zizi... Abnormal bug data invasion...]

Bai Liu felt the cross on his chest begin to heat up, and the temperature of the coin also seemed to be overheating.

[…Unable to clear abnormal data…The item (Blood Ganoderma) is put into use…]

There was a strange bulge in the child's throat, as if he had eaten something, and he swallowed it consciously with a frown.

The face of the weak child on the hospital bed suddenly turned strangely red. In less than a few seconds, he slowly regained consciousness and opened his eyes with difficulty.

Bai Liu's emotionless face appeared in front of him.

The child was breathing weakly, his chest rising and falling gently. He stared blankly at the strange uncle in front of him whose face was blurry in his eyes. A warm feeling rose from his stomach that seemed to have digested something. He licked his lips, and a very mature and fragrant mushroom flavor spread in his mouth.

It tasted very similar to the mushroom he had eaten from his teacher, the one that poisoned all the children, but it was sweeter and not bitter at all. It was like the taste of a completely mature mushroom, with a full, evil smell that did not taste like human blood or children's blood.

——The smell from God, the smell of happiness of being saved.

"Let's go, next one." Bai Liu pulled Lu Yizhan away, who had not yet noticed that the child had woken up abnormally, pushed the still a little confused Lu Yizhan out, and closed the door.

When the child saw that the strange uncle had left, he felt a little regret and sadness for some reason. The thin fingers placed beside the bed moved, as if trying to grab the uncle who had left.

Then Bai Liu poked his head out from the crack of the door. He was very calm and said to the child on the bed without feeling shameful at all: "Little friend, uncle remembers your name. Remember that it was uncle who saved you."

"My name is Bai Liu. When you grow up, remember to pay me back for your medical expenses. You are too young to pay me back now, so I can let you pay the bill temporarily. I've put the IOU by your bed."

The child stared at Bai Liu in a daze as he closed the door after saying this. Then he suddenly, for some reason, felt like laughing.

Then he smiled happily but weakly.

From outside the door came Lu Yizhan's strange questioning voice: "What did you just look at when you stuck your head back?"

"…Nothing, I thought I forgot my phone…"

After walking through five wards, Bai Liu finally arrived at Liu Jiayi's ward.

Lu Yizhan was already beginning to feel a little strange: "Why are you suddenly so kind today? Are you tempted to visit the sick child?"

"Looking for clues, didn't you ask me to help you investigate?" Bai Liu said nonsense without changing his expression to fool Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan could not help but fall into deep confusion - he had seen these children many times, is there any clue he missed? This shouldn't be the case.

Before Lu Yizhan could figure out what he had left behind, Bai Liu had already opened the door of Liu Jiayi's ward.

The shrill screams of the girl inside were so deafening that the policeman who was guarding the ward could not help but cover his ears with a grimace and gestured to Bai Liu to close the door quickly.

Bai Liu remained unmoved and said, "Liu Jiayi, I am Bai Liu, let's talk."

The girl's screams suddenly stopped.

The guarding police and Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu with surprise.

Under the suspicious eyes of the guarding police and the strong guarantee of Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu finally entered Liu Jiayi's ward as he wished, but only if he turned on the surveillance camera and brought a recorder connected to the outside.

Less than a minute after Bai Liu went in, a policeman came over with a phone in his hand and an ugly look on his face: "Liu Jiayi's brother Liu Huai has died. The transportation department just notified us. It was a traffic accident this morning. Now it seems to be an accident. If her brother didn't come, whoever came would scream, and she fainted without saying a word. What should we do now?"

Lu Yizhan turned on the speaker connected to the recorder with a complicated look, and Bai Liu's voice came out clearly: "Liu Jiayi, can we talk?"

After a long time, a hoarse little girl's voice came out: "What do you want to talk about?"

The police officer holding the phone looked at the recorder in astonishment: "Who is that person? Why is Liu Jiayi suddenly willing to speak?!"

"My, no, he should also be considered one of Liu Huai's...net friends." Lu Yizhan said with an increasingly complicated expression.

Although he had no idea how Bai Liu became friends with Liu Huai.

In the ward, Liu Jiayi crawled out from under the bed and curled up in the corner.

Her head was still buried in her knees, a very insecure and self-defense posture. Her exposed skin and fingers were frighteningly white, without even a hint of blue from the blood vessels.

It was obvious that Liu Jiayi was also in a state of excessive blood loss, which Bai Liu could completely guess - because the detoxification item [Blood Ganoderma] can only be rewarded by collecting the page "Caring Welfare Home - Plant Patients", but Liu Jiayi basically stayed in the welfare home from beginning to end and had no time to collect this page.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Liu Jiayi asked hoarsely and indifferently, still without raising her head.

Bai Liu always liked to get straight to the point: "You know Liu Huai is dead, right?"

Liu Jiayi's whole body began to tremble uncontrollably. She shrank smaller and smaller, almost shrinking herself into an inconspicuous balloon on the quilt. Her breathing became rapid.

She ran out this morning to look for Liu Huai.

But she still failed to prevent Liu Huai's death.

"His soul is with me, or rather, part of it is with me and part of it is in the system." Bai Liu changed the subject and continued slowly, "If you want to revive him, you need his soul. I won't give it to you for free. You need to bring something in exchange."

Liu Jiayi was silent for a moment and asked, "What do you want?"

Bai Liu squinted at her and said, "You should be able to guess what I want. I want your soul. I need you to accompany me to participate in this year's league. Then, if you win the league, you can use your points to reward your brother. At the same time, you can also use your wish to exit the game. I also promised Liu Huai that I would take you out of the game. This is how I will take you out."

Liu Jiayi finally raised her head. Her gray eyes stared at Bai Liu. There was a noticeable redness and swelling around her eyes, which showed that she had been crying.

She said, "You are really ambitious. If I want to win the league, why don't I just follow the King's Guild? They have a much higher chance of winning. And even if you have my brother's soul, as long as I win the league, I can directly wish to take my brother's soul from you. The system will help me do anything."

"Does it include being brother and sister to Liu Huai forever without any grudges?" Bai Liu said calmly, "I thought you had suffered enough from this lying system."

Liu Jiayi clenched her fists. She remembered Hong Tao's frivolous smile and the system's item called [Pushuke's Tears].

God-level items are already the highest-level items in the game, but her wish still has not been fulfilled.

"You can make a deal with me. I can show you all my skills. I can't break the deal. If I break the deal, my soul will be imprisoned." Bai Liu looked directly at Liu Jiayi. "At least you can trust me on keeping my word."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, and then she asked softly: "If I agree to trade souls with you, how will you arrange for me? Do I need to continue to stay in the welfare home? I need to disappear for one day every week to enter the game, or you can let me go back to the countryside, which may be more convenient."

"This orphanage probably can't continue to operate." Bai Liu didn't mention that Mu Ke was already collecting evidence and making an anonymous report. "I can't let you go back to your biological father's village. I do have a friend who wants to adopt you."

Liu Jiayi seemed to have expected this. She asked, "Is it the policeman who was guarding me?"

Bai Liu: “Yes.”

Liu Jiayi hugged her knees again. She turned her head and "looked" out the window with her opaque grey eyes. Her window faced the street. At this moment, the window was open and she could hear the shouts of some breakfast vendors downstairs. The noise was full of the worldly atmosphere and was totally out of place with the numb expression of Liu Jiayi curled up on the hospital bed:

"Red bean cakes, sweet and fragrant red bean cakes! Three red bean cakes for ten yuan!"

"Tofu pudding! Five yuan a bowl!"

“Beef noodles…”

"This morning, this policeman bought me some red bean cakes," Liu Jiayi said suddenly. "Because I had my blood drawn, he seemed to have seen me looking out the window from the surveillance camera. He probably thought I wanted to eat something sweet, so he went downstairs and bought it for me."

Bai Liu noticed that there was a paper bag of red bean cakes on the bedside table of Liu Jiayi's bed. It was cold but unopened.

"He is the first good person I have ever met." Liu Jiayi turned her head slowly again, her expression very calm, "So a bastard like me should not harm him."

"I'm a gamer. If you get in touch with me, you might get dragged into the game. So forget it, Bai Liu."

After she finished speaking, she turned her head and looked out the window.

The morning breeze blew gently and warmly, mixed with the sweet aroma of baked red bean cakes, blowing on Liu Jiayi's cold forehead. The golden sunlight shone on her pale face, and flashed around her body in a dark yellow halo outline. She closed her eyes in a trance.

She doesn't even deserve worse goodness, let alone something as purely good as Lu Yizhan.

There are very few people in this world who are willing to spend ten dollars to be nice to her. Even though she is a bitch, there is no need for her to hurt every person she meets.

"It is indeed possible, but considering the special circumstances of my friend, it is unlikely that your influence on him would draw him into the game." Bai Liu analyzed objectively and calmly.

"After all, even I can't do this, and adopting a child requires his own subjective decision." Bai Liu's tone was very calm, "He likes you very much. He likes you so much that before you even opened your mouth, he had already made all the preparations for your arrival. I think he is also ready to face all the possibilities you will face in the future."

"Are you really determined to reject him, Liu Jiayi?"

"Lu Yizhang will be the best father in the world." Bai Liu said firmly, "He will spoil you to the heavens. If you want, Lu Yizhang can run five kilometers from his home every day to this hospital to buy you red bean cakes, send you to the best school for the disabled, and stay up late to make dolls for you. He will be happy to give everything for you."

Liu Jiayi wanted to laugh at you for describing your friend as really stupid, but the moment she opened her mouth, her tone was a little unclear and choked: "No more."

"Bai Liu!!" Lu Yizhan opened the door with a red face. He winked at Bai Liu madly, "What are you talking about with that little girl!"

Lu Yizhang was outside and burst into tears when he heard Bai Liu say in a decisive tone, "Lu Yizhang will be the best father in the world." Under the strange gazes of his two colleagues, he quickly pushed the door open and interrupted Bai Liu.

Lu Yizhan scratched his cheek in embarrassment, walked up and pulled Bai Liu out, while walking he scolded Bai Liu in a low voice: "Bai Liu, how can you talk to a girl directly about her brother's affairs and then act as a lobbyist for me? Are you a human being? Look, you made the girl cry. I asked you to come here to check something, but if you make such a mess for me, I will send you away!"

Having said this, Lu Yizhang glared and was about to criticize Bai Liu again.

But Liu Jiayi called out softly, "Bai Liu? Are you gone?"

As she spoke, Liu Jiayi's hands were clawing in the air. Coupled with her fragile expression, as if she was about to cry but not cry, Lu Yizhan felt his scalp tingling.

Bai Liu turned around, shrugged his shoulders and mouthed to Lu Yizhan, "Looks like I can't leave for the time being."

Under Lu Yizhan's sullen and speechless gaze, Bai Liu walked back and sat next to Liu Jiayi's bedside table. Liu Jiayi gently grabbed the corner of Bai Liu's clothes, as if she was extremely attached to and trusted Bai Liu.

"Lu Yizhan, please buy me three red bean cakes." Bai Liu ordered naturally, "I didn't have breakfast either."

Lu Yizhan: “…”

Lu Yizhan held his breath, raised his hand and waved it at Bai Liu, and cursed him with his mouth. But when he saw Liu Jiayi's small hand nervously grasping the corner of Bai Liu's clothes, Lu Yizhan let out his anger helplessly. He touched Bai Liu's forehead with his hand and rolled his eyes at Bai Liu angrily: "Just wait for me, Bai Liu!"

"Bai Liu wasn't popular with kids when he was little, so why is this little girl so nice to him..." Lu Yizhan muttered as he closed the door and walked downstairs, as if he was really going to buy red bean cakes for Bai Liu, "...old masters are still eating red bean cakes, and they don't even think it's too choking."

After Lu Station closed the door, Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi and asked, "Are you really unwilling to be adopted by Lu Station?"

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and shook her head gently: "No, I can follow you in the game, but there is no need to be adopted in real life. I can go back to my biological father's hometown as a cover. No one in that village will pay attention to my life or death. Then I can stay in the game all the time. I can afford the points for staying in the game all the time."

"That's a waste of points. Are you sure you want to follow me in the game?" Bai Liu asked again, "Lu Yizhan is a rare good fool among 7 billion people. If you miss him, it will be hard to meet him again. I am sincerely promoting my friend to you because he really likes you, otherwise I would not save you in the game."

Liu Jiayi was startled, then shook her head slowly and firmly, chuckling as if to mock herself: "It's just a way of thanking him for the three red bean cakes. I won't hurt him anymore."

Bai Liu leaned forward and sat on the stool next to Liu Jiayi's bed: "Lu Yizhang and I are completely different types. He gives you everything without asking for anything in return, but even if I buy you a red bean cake, I will remember it until you give it back to me."

"If you agree to trade your soul with me, I will squeeze your value to the last minute. Of course, I will also give you corresponding rewards. Have you thought about it, Liu Jiayi?"

Liu Jiayi could sense Bai Liu's location. She stared at Bai Liu for a while, then suddenly pointed at the door and said, "Then go down and buy me some red bean cakes now."

——————

Lu Yizhang came up with three red bean cakes. He was delayed downstairs as he answered a call from a salesperson. The red bean cakes were a little cold when he came up. As a result, as soon as he came up, he saw Liu Jiayi holding a red bean cake and eating it by blowing on it in small bites.

He subconsciously glanced at the red bean cake he had bought earlier on the bedside table - it was still there, unopened.

"Jiayi, who bought it for you?" Lu Yizhan asked curiously, "Another policeman?"

Liu Jiayi took small bites on the edge of the red bean cake. The sweet and glutinous cake slid down her throat and warmed her whole body. Liu Jiayi took two bites and suddenly she started to cough and choke, and tears came out.

She ate a small piece of mushroom in the red bean cake, which tasted a bit like blood - it was blood ganoderma.

It tastes terrible. She doesn't like the taste of mushrooms in red bean cakes.

"Bai Liu bought it for me." Liu Jiayi lowered her head and clenched the red bean cake.

Lu Yizhan was shocked: "He would spend money to buy things for other people?!"

Liu Jiayi shook her head: "It's not free."

Lu Yizhan's expression was hard to describe: "I knew it, did he ask you for money, Jiayi? No, you don't have any money either..." Lu Yizhan was puzzled, he scanned a piece of paper on the bedside table, Lu Yizhan picked it up and took a look, his face instantly cracked.

[IOU: Today Liu Jiayi asked Bai Liu to buy three red bean cakes for ten yuan each. The payment for the product is three yuan and three cents.]

[Liu Jiayi instructed Bai Liu to pay five yuan for her errands. Liu Jiayi chose to use other items to pay off the debt, so Liu Jiayi actually owed Bai Liu five yuan.]

"What a jerk!!" Lu Yizhan was really convinced. "He charges you five dollars for running errands for a cake worth three dollars. He knows how to do business. How can you use the red bean cakes to pay off your debts? Don't trust him easily! He is a good swindler. He probably took more than three dollars from you. Tell the police and they will help you get it back later!"

After Liu Jiayi finished her last bite of red bean cake, she clapped her hands, and as if she remembered something, she turned her head to look out the window, squinting her eyes and smiling innocently like a little girl: "I used something worth one red bean cake to pay off my debts. He didn't charge me more."

Lu Yizhan became more and more confused: "What is it?"

Liu Jiayi replied nonchalantly: "It's not a very important thing, it's not worth much money."

"No matter how worthless it is, don't exchange it with Bai Liu..." Lu Yizhan said with a headache, "He is so cunning, he wants to exchange everything with others, he is very calculating."

"Isn't this good?" Liu Jiayi looked up at Lu Yizhan, her tone innocent and vague, "I can trade for anything I want, he will never betray me, and he won't give me good or bad things for no reason, isn't this good?"

She can no longer trust anyone else, so she might as well just exist as untrustworthy as she is.

Bai Liu was her best choice, because Bai Liu understood her, understood her meanness and evilness, and understood everything about her that was neither like a child nor like a normal person.

She would never worry about hurting Bai Liu, nor would she worry about Bai Liu hurting her. The transactions between them were just like bank transaction data, which were always so clear and reasonable, without any betrayal or suspicion.

Lu Yizhan was stunned by Liu Jiayi's expression, but after a while, someone came to call him:

"Post, the other five kids are awake!"

Lu Yizhan's eyes lit up, he put down the red bean cake he bought for Bai Liu and hurried away.

Bai Liu bit into a red bean cake. He looked at the extra Liu Jiayi soul banknote in his old wallet, took a big bite of the red bean cake in his left hand, and frowned: "Too sweet, this thing can be sold for three yuan? I should have bought only one."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang. Bai Liu wrapped the red bean cake and picked it up, then took out the cell phone from his trouser pocket. He scanned the screen - it was a call from Lu Yi Station.

"Where are you?! Come and eat what I bought for you!" Lu Yizhan's tone was full of excitement. "Let me tell you, the five children have woken up! The doctor said the situation has improved! You can ask anything you want to ask!"

"No, I've already sorted this out." Bai Liu said slowly, "You should be able to solve this problem right away."

Lu Yizhan was shocked: "?! When did you figure it out? What do you mean we should solve this matter right away?!"

Bai Liu raised his phone and looked back at the hospital. He did not directly answer Lu Yizhang's question, but sighed without thinking: "Lu Yizhang, I found that when I was 14 years old, I really fell for your tricks."

"Luckily I'm over fourteen now, so I won't fall for your tricks." Bai Liu took another bite of the red bean cake, frowned and swallowed it, "Remember to treat me to a meal after the matter is resolved, otherwise I'll be at a disadvantage and my phone bill will be gone. Bye."

“?!?!” Lu Yizhan was confused. “Weren’t we discussing the case? Why did you bring it up again? Hey!! Damn it, I’m really dead! Bai Liu! Bai Liu!!”

Lu Yizhang was cursing as he topped up Bai Liu's phone number that was said to be in arrears. As soon as he finished, he turned around and saw the police officer who was guarding Liu Jiayi with him looking up in a daze: "Yizhang, someone posted our case online..."

"?!" Lu Yizhan opened his phone in doubt and searched, "Doesn't the Cyber ​​Security Department have a card? Didn't they say that this case doesn't allow random postings?"

The police officer shook his head in a daze: "It's not about the circumstances of this case, but the clues of this case. Someone compiled and published what happened to these children and the medical records of those investors. Now it has become a hot topic..."

Lu Yizhan: “?!”