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"I asked my dad to find someone to do it, a professional with an overseas address, so it shouldn't be that easy to track him down. My dad said there are ways to track him down." Mu Ke said to Bai Liu on the phone. He coughed a little guilty, "Someone here has a business competition relationship with my dad, so he deleted some unreliable facts, such as the part about blood ganoderma, vaguely exposing the fact that these investors used children for experimental treatment. You don't mind if it gets out of hand, right?"

Bai Liu used his computer to search for trending searches:

#□□Entrepreneur Group#

#The shocking inside story of the orphanage poisoning incident#

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"I don't mind." Bai Liu is the type who doesn't care much about the process as long as the result can be achieved. He leaned lazily on his sofa chair, "But they should be spending a lot of money to remove the trending search now, right?"

"Yes, but it won't be so easy for them to withdraw. We are also spending money to keep the trending searches stable. Before the police intervene in this matter, it will probably not be easy for them to withdraw," said Mu Ke.

"Thank you, Mu Ke." Bai Liu said, "Take a rest and recover first. The game will start at 12 o'clock tonight. I have something to deal with in the afternoon."

Mu Ke yawned, "Okay, Bai Liu."

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Liu brought a couple to the hospital again.

A couple sat opposite Liu Jiayi. They rubbed their knees nervously, looking at the little girl sitting on the bed with expectation and disbelief. Soon their eyes became moist. They looked at Bai Liu standing beside them in disbelief and asked with a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, can we really adopt her?"

"…Are we qualified to adopt her?"

Bai Liu leaned against the door and glanced at Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua calmly: "You meet the adoption requirements."

Their only daughter died tragically, they have a good reputation, their family is wealthy and they love children, and they are already at this age and have no plans to have more children. This fully meets the conditions for adoption. It can be said that Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua are the best type of adoptive family, much better than the young policeman at Lu Yi Station who is in a precarious situation.

For the children in the welfare home, if Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua wanted to adopt one, the children would probably have to fight tooth and nail for it - this was the best way out and choice for them.

Liu Jiayi was also aware of this. She leaned on the railing of the hospital bed and spoke with a somewhat alert tone: "Bai Liu, I said I can stay alone. It is completely unnecessary for you to find such a good adoptive family for me. I won't be grateful to you, and I don't want to keep pretending in front of others. You have to know that I am a game player. If they stay with me, they might..."

"They are also game players." Bai Liu interrupted Liu Jiayi in a neutral tone.

Liu Jiayi was silent, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

Bai Liu pulled a bench and sat down, interrupting Liu Jiayi's next words: "They know you are a little witch. I asked them to buy a small TV to watch all your game videos. They know what kind of kid you are. You don't have to pretend in front of them. Just play the game and do whatever you want."

"I recommended Lu Yizhang to you before, on the one hand because he likes you very much, and on the other hand because your brother really wants Lu Yizhang to adopt you. He also thinks Lu Yizhang is a good person and can give you a perfect family." Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Liu Jiayi, "But if you don't want to, I can make other arrangements for you so that you can move more freely without worrying about the consequences."

Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu were still a little nervous.

Xiang Chunhua kept rubbing her thighs, looking at the blind little girl eagerly: "My family also had a child before, but...something happened. Lao Liu and I are really not that good, not good in games, not good outside of games, otherwise we wouldn't have let Guoguo..."

She paused here, lowered her head and wiped her eyes with her palms, "Jiayi, I know you are a great girl. We can't help you much, but Bai Liu said you need a place to stay outside of the game, and it must be legal and reasonable. But you are a child, and there is no good place to go."

"We can still help a little bit with this." Liu Fu continued Xiang Chunhua's words. He leaned forward and spoke with some stammering and trepidation. "This adoption relationship is only a temporary measure. If you don't like us and don't want us to be your nominal parents, you can end the relationship after the game is over."

"If you need anything, you can always tell us. We will do our best to help you. Is that okay with you?"

Xiang Chunhua couldn't help but say something more: "Look at how thin you are. If you stay with us, at least you can have a hot meal after playing games. I may not be as good as you, Jiayi, but I am a good cook!"

"I'm also very good at making soup." Liu Fu said a little embarrassedly.

Although they were two middle-aged men, almost a hundred years old in total, when they spoke to an eight-year-old girl, they spoke in a very cautious tone, as if they were afraid of scaring her away, as if they felt that they had nothing to offer and could not keep her.

Liu Jiayi sat on the edge of the bed with her head down. She sat there for a long time, silently and motionlessly. Only her slender fingers slowly grasped the quilt and her toes hanging in the air curled up.

"Games, shelter, help with cover-ups, a safe place to rest and recover are all available. They are also my people, I promise not to harm you, and I can help take care of you. After all, you are still a minor, and many things are inconvenient. It will be much more comfortable to have two adults who support you. Do you have any other questions?" Bai Liu asked, "Raise them, I can think of a solution for you."

All the problems that Bai Liu mentioned have always been solved by Liu Jiayi herself. She has been stumbling and hiding all the time. She has been completely accustomed to solving all the problems she encounters by herself. No one has ever said to her, "Raise the problem and I will help you solve it."

Liu Jiayi finally raised her head, her eyes red, but her tone was cold: "Okay, how do I return these things to you?"

Xiang Chunhua was a little confused: "Give me back...what?"

"Just a place to stay, hot meals, soups you made, and stuff like that." Liu Jiayi thought it was natural to pay back debts. "What do you want me to pay back with? Money or points?"

Xiang Chunhua's eyes turned red. Just as she was about to say that she didn't need to pay back the money, Bai Liu spoke first: "I will ask them to make a list of the money they spend on you every day, and I will settle it all at once when you come out of the game. Do you have any other questions?"

Liu Jiayi shook her head slowly and dully. She felt as if she still owed something.

But she didn't know what these things were, nor did she know how to repay them.

Xiang Chunhua stared at Liu Jiayi with eyes full of emotion, as if she wanted to hug her. After hesitating for a long time, this middle-aged woman with a sad face reached out her hand and gently touched Liu Jiayi's face, her voice choking with sobs: "Why are you so thin? You are so small. When Guoguo was eight years old, she was twice as big as you..."

Liu Fu's eyes also turned red, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Go back and take good care of it, fatten it up, feed it more braised pork and bone soup, and it will grow up in a while."

"Eat more like Guoguo. You're growing so fast. You'll be a big girl in a few seconds."

Liu Jiayi seemed to have no idea what to say and she remained silent.

Bai Liu glanced at her and said, "I will find you a place that is most suitable for you to live. You don't have to think too much. Just do what you need to do. I will enter the game tonight. If you want to enter, just follow me. If you don't want to enter, it's okay. After Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua adopt you, it will be much more convenient for you. You don't have to hide from everything like before."

After a long silence, Liu Jiayi said softly, "Yeah," indicating that she understood.

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After walking out of the hospital, Liu Fu didn't know what to say so he squeezed Bai Liu's arm tightly. Bai Liu looked over and saw Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu both looking at him with tears in their eyes.

"Thank you, Bai Liu, thank you so much." Liu Fu blew his nose. He didn't know what to say, so he just talked about business. "You're going to play games tonight, right? Should we go in too?"

They were ready to die, and never thought that they would have a little girl as a daughter before they died. When they were in the most pain, they thought about adopting a child, but after entering the game, they dared not have such thoughts at all. They were very careful when interacting with people, for fear of influencing someone into the game.

"Well, you guys have to come in too. I'll let Mu Sicheng continue to guide you. It might be a level two game. Is that ok with you?" Bai Liu asked.

Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua shook their heads decisively: "No problem."

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After dealing with Liu Jiayi's affairs, Bai Liu returned to his small rental house.

It was still early, and Bai Liu, who was very tired, prepared to rest for a while before entering the next game. He set the alarm clock, put on his pajamas, lay on the bed, and closed his eyes.

Bai Liu has always been a good sleeper and rarely dreams.

But this time, whether it was because he consumed too much energy or was too tired, Bai Liu had a very strange dream. He felt his body covered with a layer of white frost starting from his fingertips, and he was frozen without resistance. A cold corpse appeared on his body and pressed heavily on his chest. Bai Liu felt as if he had dreamed of sleep paralysis.

This ghost is quite good-looking.

Tawil leaned on him, looking down at him, his pale eyes devoid of any human emotion: "Your doom is coming."

Bai Liu could feel Tavel's forearm against his ear, and it was a very cool touch.

He looked up at Tawil in a half-awake state, wanting to say that he seemed to have never had any good luck, but was accustomed to bad luck.

But Bai Liu's throat seemed to be stuck with a piece of sticky glue. She could not make any sound at all. She could only utter short, sticky sounds that sounded a bit strange. Combined with this body position... Bai Liu obediently stopped trying to make sounds and signaled Tavel with his eyes to continue speaking.

Tavel leaned over and hooked his fingers around Bai Liu's neck to pick up the cross hanging on his chest. He bent down and kissed the cross, then placed it on Bai Liu's forehead and pressed it lightly with his index finger.

"When the clock on the wall reaches 9:15, the revenger from another timeline will come with hatred and his doomed death upon you. Then the gods will appear here to enlighten you, bless you, and protect you."

Tavel lowered his eyes and looked at Bai Liu, who was frowning and struggling in the nightmare. There was an indescribable indifference and solemnity in his tone, which came from the gods.

He said: "My evil followers, remember to avoid the hunter's suicide bullets and do not use your right eye to indulge in desires. Before true death comes, the time in you is unique and irreversible."

Tavel covered Bai Liu's eyes with his hands, lowered his head and kissed the inverted cross on Bai Liu's forehead, and then said in a tone as cold and holy as the cross: "The key to everything lies in the hands of the witch. Poison or antidote is the key to your choice."

"God is everlasting, and the soul lives forever."

Tavel put the cross back into Bai Liu's clothes. He stared at Bai Liu, his pupils reflecting a light pink rose whose leaves were gradually spreading and blooming: "Be careful, rose."

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into a bunch of gorgeous rose petals and scattered on Bai Liu's body. A strong and stimulating rose scent that made Bai Liu uncomfortable rolled out from the rose petals, and then these petals instantly shattered into a burst of pink light mist. The mist hovered over Bai Liu's quilt, and finally fell under his bed like ashes after a burnt product, and was blown away by the wind.

Bai Liu suddenly opened his eyes.

There were no roses, petals, or tavels. He slept on an old bed with springs at the legs in his low-rent apartment that was less than three meters high. Bai Liu sat up and took out the cross from his neck.

The cross he had been keeping close to his body had a strangely cool touch. Bai Liu put the cross to his nose and sniffed it.

There was a lingering rose scent on the cross that made him uncomfortable.

"Misfortune and death are about to befall me..." Bai Liu stroked the cross in his hand and narrowed his eyes, "...be careful of hunters and roses."

Taweel is God, and the identity he gained through the cross is "Taweel's follower." So the suggestive information he just received from Taweel can be called "oracle" in layman's terms.

The [oracles] from ancient times to the present seem to be ambiguous and do not speak human language, including the one given to him by Tawil. Many things are vague.

If one were to use Bai Liu's previous knowledge of the worldview to explain these ambiguous [oracles], Bai Liu would say that because God does not exist, these [oracles] believers and charlatans are all made up by themselves, and they have to be vague so that they can have a greater margin for error in their foresight about what is going to happen.

But this time, Tawil's [Oracle] gave him a very familiar feeling.

"It's a bit like what I said after being blocked. Because some things can't be said directly or they will be blocked, I have to use other ways to express the same meaning..." Bai Liu thought thoughtfully, "So it is very likely that Tavel is also being blocked by a higher-level existence. He can't tell me directly what to avoid, but can only hint at me in this way to make me careful and vigilant."

The witch is easy to guess, it refers to Liu Jiayi.

But what do roses and hunters suggest?

Bai Liu clutched the cross that was soaked in the scent of roses, looked at the time on the shabby clock on the wall, and squinted his eyes.

It's exactly a quarter past nine.

Bai Liu heard footsteps coming from the corridor in front of his house. The air conditioning in this rental house was not good, so Bai Liu could clearly hear the footsteps outside. They were not dense, and they all walked directly past the door and went upstairs. It seemed that they were all normal residents of this building.

But when the fourth sound of footsteps appeared again in a very regular manner, Bai Liu breathed lightly, got out of bed, put on his clothes and shoes, opened the window and looked outside, and rationally assessed the possibility of his survival if he jumped from the fifth floor, and finally chose to give up.

The building he lived in was all low-rent housing from top to bottom. Bai Liu lived on the fifth floor, and there were only four tenants on the fifth floor. This meant that these people were not normal residents of the building. Moreover, Bai Liu was very familiar with this well-trained footsteps. He had only heard it from one person -

——That is Lu Station.

The footsteps finally stopped in front of Bai Liu's door. The door behind Bai Liu was kicked open, and a group of people shouted at him with their guns raised, "Police! Don't move! Put your hands up!"

Bai Liu quickly lowered his head, took the coin hanging around his neck, put it into his mouth and pressed it under his tongue.

In the night breeze blowing in through the window, Bai Liu slowly turned around and raised his hands slowly.

The wind blew his hair in front of his forehead. Although Bai Liu did nothing, he had a sense of calmness as if he had expected to be arrested. He obediently let the police twist his hands and tie him up. He didn't ask anything and didn't look scared.

Although Bai Liu still didn't understand why he was arrested, these policemen were very afraid of him. The policemen who broke into his room at 9:15 were all fully armed, wearing leather gloves and protective clothing, as well as some shields that Bai Liu estimated were about 2 to 3 cm thick. He didn't know what metal they were made of, but they looked very strong.

The equipment made the officers look like riot police about to defuse a powerful bomb.

Bai Liu, who had no idea when he became as threatening as a bomb, dozed off in the car on the way to the police station.

The car Bai Liu was riding in was also special. The front and the back were separated by a thick metal plate, leaving only a small window of 15cm by 15cm. Through the window, one could see a young policeman pointing his gun at Bai Liu while swallowing nervously, as if he was afraid that this young man with his hands and feet tied up would suddenly attack.

The light from the street lamp flashed through the small window in the front and shone into the back compartment of the car where Bai Liu was. On the wall, there was a red triangle symbol with an octopus twisting its tentacles fiercely on it. Next to it was a stick figure with scattered limbs and blood all over the ground. Then, there was a big red X on the octopus.

Below the sign it says:

[This contains unknown supernatural dangerous items that may cause harm! Please stay alert and keep your distance! ]

The light flashed across Bai Liu's emotionless face, scaring the policeman who was watching him through the small window so much that he almost dropped his gun. The policeman who was driving nearby was also startled by the movement: "What happened to it?! Did it change?"

The young policeman cried, "It! It's breathing!"

"Calm down!" The policeman driving the car took two deep breaths. "It's the first humanoid heretic monster captured by our police station. It can breathe normally. Don't get startled."

Volume 2: Dangerous Heresy Bureau