The noodle shop owner gave Bai Liu two one-yuan coins in change, and Bai Liu put the coins into his old wallet. The kind-looking noodle shop owner hesitated for a long time, and finally told Bai Liu the couple's phone number and address. He said in a sighing tone that if you can help, please help them, life is not easy.
It was drizzling when Bai Liu left the noodle shop. He held a pure black umbrella and took a bus to the cemetery that the noodle shop owner mentioned. Among the silent tombstones, he quickly found the parents who appeared on TV.
They didn't hold umbrellas. They stood in front of their daughter's tombstone in the rain with red eyes. The only umbrella in their hands was placed on the tombstone, covering the black and white photo of Guoguo smiling happily on the tombstone.
"You are... Bai Liu?" The mother's voice was hoarse because she had been crying all morning. She looked at Bai Liu with a look full of anger. "You called and said you have a way to bring Li Gou to justice? What do you have? Or what do you want? Money?"
Bai Liu smiled in the rain, the mist on his face tinged with a strange sense of holiness, "I want to make a deal with you, but I don't want money."
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This might be the first time in Bai Liu's life that he said "I don't want money".
He said, "I will help you realize your wish and cut Li Gou into pieces, and you will sell your soul to me."
My mother sneered as she had expected: "Soul, another liar."
She turned her head woodenly and looked at the black and white photo of Guoguo on the tombstone, her eyes welling up again.
The father looked at Bai Liu warily. Because of Guoguo's matter, they had sought help from many people during this period. They had tried all kinds of methods and had encountered many scammers.
When they came to meet the man who was said to bring retribution to Li Gou, they were prepared to think that he was a liar. But they were still ready to try their luck. However, they did not expect Bai Liu to speak so outrageously at the beginning. It was the first time they had met such a liar who wanted to buy their souls.
This is simply playing with their feelings.
The father warned coldly: "Get out, liar!"
Bai Liu knelt down on one knee unmoved. He looked straight at the picture of Guoguo on the tombstone and read, "Li Gou, 47 years old, killed female student Liu Guoguo at the entrance of Majia Alley a few months ago. He was imprisoned and tried. Because of the serious circumstances and the serious impact, he was sentenced to death. A week ago, the evidence and all the documents related to the evidence suddenly disappeared mysteriously. The relevant personnel also had vague memories and said they did not remember whether they had seen the evidence. The case was re-examined."
After hearing these facts, Liu Guoguo's parents' eyes became full of resentment. Both of them gritted their teeth, clenched their fists, and looked at Bai Liu fiercely.
Bai Liu seemed not to notice that the two men were already enraged by the facts he described and were about to hit him. He continued to speak calmly: "If I am not mistaken, this Li Gou said before that he would definitely be acquitted and the evidence would disappear."
"How do you know?" Mother looked at Bai Liu in surprise and suspicion.
They have been closely following Li Gou's reactions in prison. When he was first imprisoned, Li Gou was irritable and crazy. After knowing that he might be sentenced to death, he yelled all day long and said angrily that he would take revenge on them.
But not long ago this man's attitude suddenly changed. In the past week or two, this Li Gou would even hum songs in a good mood, and say things like he would get out of this hellhole sooner or later, that all the evidence would disappear, and that God would not wrongly accuse a good person.
It seemed that she had already expected that she would be jailed, so she suspected that someone was sheltering this beast.
"Well, you can understand that this Li Gou made a deal with some kind of devil and sold his soul, so he could erase the evidence without anyone noticing." Bai Liu stood up with his knees propped up. He looked straight at the parents who were looking at him hesitantly and apprehensively, "I guess I'm here to compete with this devil for business."
Liu Guoguo's parents looked at Bai Liu doubtfully, as if they didn't quite believe what he said, but their eyes were filled with a hint of despair and hope, as if they were desperate and had made a last-ditch effort.
People who are more informed can indeed find out about these things about Li Gou. It is not ruled out that Bai Liu is a liar who knows some things and is trying to deceive them.
But they really tried all the methods they could. They even asked immortals to perform rituals for Guoguo to be liberated, something they used to laugh at as feudal superstition, but they had done it several times.
"What are your conditions?" Liu Guoguo's mother asked cautiously, "Do you want money? But we don't have much money."
Bai Liu smiled: "I said it at the beginning, I don't want money, I want your soul debt rights, complete."
He was just curious, what would happen to the system if he purchased the souls of these [players] before you entered the [game]?
Is it possible that in the [game] I have a higher level of authority over these players than the system?
If Bai Liu has a higher soul authority over the parents than the system, can he manipulate the parents' system by manipulating them? Ultimately, can he dominate the system?
Bai Liu likes money, but hates being forced to make money by others. This makes him feel like a low-level office worker in the company, so he wants to try to control the system and have the highest authority.
As if sensing Bai Liu's dangerous thoughts, the coins on Bai Liu's chest began to heat up, and the alarm sound of a bad current signal rang in his ears:
[System warning: Zila - player Bai Liu is prohibited from purchasing the soul debt rights of reserve players first! Player Bai Liu is prohibited from trading with non-players outside the game! ]
[System warning: Player Bai Liu's old wallet skill will be sealed soon! ]
Bai Liu sighed with regret. Is it really impossible to snatch the soul of a reserve player that the game has chosen while the real world is being monitored by the game?
That's right, the [game] should not allow the existence of players with higher authority than it. If Bai Liu were the game designer, he would also stop it. However, Bai Liu still gave it a try. It doesn't matter if he fails.
Just when Bai Liu was about to give up, the fish scale hanging on his chest together with the coin began to slowly grow and extend to wrap around the coin.
The cold scales wrapped around the hot coin, and the coin instantly cooled down. The system emitted a hissing sound like a scream:
[Warning—sizzle—abnormal data in fish scales is invading—bug data is invading—clearing abnormal data—abnormal data clearing failed—occupied by abnormal data—sizzle, sizzle, sizzle]
After a chaotic sound of electric current, a brand new, cold and magnetic electronic male voice sounded:
[System: Hello, player Bai Liu, are you using your personal skills? ]
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows slightly at the sound. His system voice became a little familiar. Although it still had an inorganic quality with electrons, it was much colder than the previous system voice. It was also very pleasant to the ear. Bai Liu felt that this voice was a little like the voice of the NPC [Siren King] he met...
Bai Liu smiled: [Of course I use it]
Liu Guoguo's parents didn't understand some of Bai Liu's words. They hesitated, but they really had no other choice.
Even if Bai Liu is a liar, a pyramid schemer who is here to deceive them, please give them, please give Guoguo some hope! Even if it's fake, it's fine!
The mother was the first to collapse, covering her face and kneeling down. She cried, "As long as you can kill Li Gou, you can have anything you want! Take it all! I can even give you all my money!"
This is treating Bai Liu as a gangster.
Bai Liu curled her lips and smiled: "No, I won't ask you for a penny. On the contrary, I will give you money."
He took out the two coins that the noodle shop owner had given him as change from his old wallet, spread them out in the palm of his hand and passed them over.
Bai Liu lowered her eyelids and said, "I will buy your souls for one dollar. Are you willing to make this deal with me?"
The mother gritted her teeth and took the coin. After a few seconds of hesitation, the father took the coin from Bai Liu's hand.
“Yes.”
No matter who this person is, as long as he is willing to help them avenge Guoguo, they are willing to give it a try even if he is a psychopath who talks nonsense.
[System prompt: Player Bai Liu used two yuan (RMB) to purchase the souls of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua respectively]
[System prompt: Player Bai Liu is the priority purchaser of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua, and has the highest authority. He can transfer part of the soul debt rights of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua.]
After Xiang Chunhua said that, she felt a strange sense of steaming in her body, as if something heavy was pulled out of her tired body and stored somewhere else.
She looked at the young man in front of her with a smile on his face, and she felt an indescribable sense of trust and admiration in her heart.
Xiang Chunhua asked in shock: "Your name is Bai Liu, right? What do you do? Where should we go to find you?"
"I'm unemployed and a poor wanderer." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at the new coin in his wallet. "You will find me in a game. I hope that when I see you, you will have survived the first game."
On the coin, Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu stood on the left and right of the tombstone with tears on their faces and despair. They each put a hand on the top of the tombstone and stroked it gently, as if they were stroking the head of their own child. Liu Guoguo on the tombstone was protected from the rain by an umbrella with a big smile on her face. [2 Yuan] was written on the lower right corner of the coin, and [Soul Coin] was written on the back, followed by a line of small characters [Not issued by the system bank, the highest authority does not belong to the system, but to the owner Bai Liu].
Bai Liu curled up the corners of his mouth slightly.
[Hey, new system, good job]
The system is silent for two seconds: [Thank you for the compliment]
The fish scales on Bai Liu's chest that were wrapped around the coin warmed up slightly, then returned to being cold again.
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There are less than two days left before the countdown for the game that must be played once a week as stipulated by the system, and Bai Liu is ready to enter the game.
He packed his things and sent a message to Mu Ke saying that he was going to enter the game. He then called Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu, but no one answered the phone after several attempts. No one answered the landline either. Bai Liu had a rough idea in his mind - these two people should have entered the game and fallen asleep.
Bai Liu took a bath, changed into his favorite comfortable nightcap with fluffy balls and Benny pajamas, and covered himself with the quilt. He held the coin on his chest and silently recited twice in his heart:
【Log in to the game】
[System: Player Bai Liu, do you confirm logging into the game? ]
Bai Liu closed his eyes: [Confirm]
【System: Logging in...】
[Wait! ] Bai Liu suddenly opened his eyes again, got up abruptly to go to the toilet, and closed the power valve, natural gas valve and water valve in the house, and then lay down with satisfaction, [Start logging in now, otherwise if these valves are open when I fall asleep, some water and electricity will leak, which will waste money]
【System: ……】
[System: Logging into the game...]
Bai Liu fell into a whirlpool-like black dream, and when he woke up again, he was already standing in a busy hall.
[System: Since the player Bai Liu is somewhat well-known, should we adjust some of his appearance values to hide his identity? ]
[Can I also adjust my appearance data? ] Bai Liu became interested, [Can I design and draw my own appearance? ]
He is quite good at drawing faces.
[System: Yes, you can enter the self-shaping face program. You need to pay 300 points. Will the player Bai Liu pay? ]
[Does it cost money?] Bai Liu quickly gave up, [Then you can do whatever you want, just adjust it for free.]
[System: Enter the random facial adjustment program - eye color change (black → blue), hair color change (black → colorful), lip color (flesh color → black)...]
Soon, a person with a colorful dirty braided hair and black lipstick, who made people think of words like "This is a kind of sorrow" at the sight of him, was wandering around the game hall with a calm attitude, attracting countless stunned and shocked gazes from the people around him.
There is no such thing as a cheap product. Bai Liu anticipated that the face he had adjusted for free would not be very good-looking, so he just accepted his non-mainstream Killer Matt look.
Anyway, he couldn't see what he looked like, and it was other people's eyes that were hurt, so Bai Liu didn't care.
The author has something to say:
Brother 6 has started to develop non-game business ahead of the system. His friends complained that this part was like Brother 6 engaging in pyramid schemes to develop downlines.
This may be the only sentence in the book that comes from Brother 6: I don’t want money anymore