While Bai Liu was holding her doll and thinking deeply, the teacher had already called the remaining five children over.

The five remaining children in the orphanage stood in a row awkwardly and with numb expressions. None of them dared to look up at Mu Ke. Their eyes seemed to be on the tips of their feet. Some of these five children were lame, some had crooked spines and hunched backs, and some had some disabilities. They were like a group of cubs that had not yet left the nest, pushing and shoving each other.

They are like cheap goods being scrutinized by others. They know they are not worth much and thus appear humble, timid and taciturn.

Bai Liu frowned as he approached these children. The smell of mushrooms on these children was even stronger than the one he smelled on the corpses in the hospital.

Mu Ke couldn't stand it anymore and waved his hand over his nose: "Do you guys eat mushrooms all the time here? Why does it smell so strongly of mushrooms?"

The teacher hugged the five children awkwardly and said, "Actually, they don't eat much."

Bai Liu glanced at the teacher and the five children and asked, "Did you eat a lot of mushrooms that day?"

The teacher was stunned: "We and these five kids all ate, and it was quite a lot."

"Were there any poisoned children who ate little? For example, some who only drank a sip of mushroom soup?" Bai Liu asked.

The teacher thought about it for a moment, and then replied to Bai Liu affirmatively: "Yes, because some children like the mushroom flavor and some don't. Some children only ate a little bit, but still got poisoned."

Bai Liu retracted his gaze. Some people who ate more were not poisoned, while some who ate less were poisoned. It seems that poisoning has nothing to do with dosage.

But why are they mushrooms? Why are there always mushrooms when something happens in this welfare home?

And what are the conditions for this strange mushroom to be fatal?

Lu Yizhan said that the blood tests and other results of the children who survived the orphanage showed no obvious abnormalities. Like Liu Jiayi, they only had mild anemia.

On the surface, these five surviving children and Liu Jiayi who survived in the hospital have only one thing in common - they all have congenital genetic defects. Liu Jiayi is blind, and these five children also have various disabilities.

Bai Liu fell into deep thought.

The teacher continued to take Bai Liu and the others to visit the interior of the orphanage and walked into a room filled with various photos, trophies, and children's paintings.

The teacher leaned over to introduce Bai Liu and the others, saying, "This is the exhibition hall of our welfare home."

This is an exhibition hall that no one has visited for a long time. Many of the trophies and certificates displayed on the cabinets are covered in dust. It can be seen that this was a children's welfare home that developed quite well in the past. There are many children's paintings and some awards hanging on the walls. The annual Children's Day performance group photos are also hung on the walls. The colors of the photos have changed from distorted to clear. In the last photo, more than 40 children smile sweetly and gently, but only five of them survived. These five children are following their teacher with numb expressions.

This feeling that most of the things on display come from the dead gives the exhibition room a lingering sense of melancholy.

After taking a quick look at the whole place, Bai Liu seemed to have discovered something and looked at the teacher: "Can I take down the photos and some paintings?"

Originally these things could not be moved easily, but now that the orphanage has become like this, there is no need to be so particular, so the teacher nodded in agreement.

Mu Ke watched curiously as Bai Liu took down some of the children's paintings hanging on the wall and placed them on the ground for observation. He walked over and whispered to him, "Bai Liu, did you find anything?"

"Yeah." Bai Liu responded softly, without looking at Mu Ke, fiddling with the children's paintings in her hands.

Mu Ke followed Bai Liu's hands with his eyes. These children's paintings were quite good, and it could be felt that they were drawn by children with a certain level of painting skills.

The paintings include figure sketches and still life, some are drawn with colored pencils and crayons, and some are simple black and white sketches. The styles vary greatly. The colors of most paintings are very strong, so saturated that they make people feel uncomfortable, and the paintings seem to have no logic.

A little girl who looked extremely thin was sitting on a hospital bed with a white cloth covering her eyes, a beautiful little fish with silver-blue scales in a jar, and a broken wooden mirror placed on a burnt and melted toy train.

The paintings look like they are all things found in this orphanage.

Mu Ke stared at them for a while and discovered something. He asked in surprise, "Were all these painted by the same person? They are all signed with W."

Although the styles of the paintings that Bai Liu took down are very different, the "W" in the signature of each painting is a very peculiar cursive script with curls on both sides, and each painting remains consistent.

Bai Liu finally gave Mu Ke a look. His voice was low and soft, as if he was whispering: "This is my signature."

Mu Ke was shocked: "Yours?! Why is your signature here?!"

Bai Liu didn't explain much. Although Mu Ke wanted to know, seeing that Bai Liu didn't seem to be ready to say it, he just shut up.

The first letter of white, [W], is a common signature for Shirayanagi's paintings.

Bai Liu could tell at a glance that these were his paintings. Although his painting style was green and immature compared to his current style, they were indeed his paintings.

The little girl with a bandage on her eyes is obviously Liu Jiayi. The hospital gown is the same style as the one he saw in the hospital this morning. The beautiful silver-blue fish in the jar should refer to the Siren King in the first game "Siren Town". The broken mirror on the melting toy train is from Bai Liu's second game "The Last Exploding Train".

However, the inscriptions on these paintings were all from ten years ago, and Bai Liu ten years ago was not in this private welfare home at all, and it was impossible for Bai Liu ten years ago to know this information.

There is only one possibility, that Bai Liu from ten years later went back to ten years ago in some form, and then drew these things on these children's paintings and left them in this private children's welfare home.

Ordinary people would definitely panic if they encountered such an incredible thing, but this only made Bai Liu further certain that this children's welfare home must be an [official game copy] of some [real world].

The only reasonable explanation for these timeline errors is the official plot development time of this game copy. Judging from the signatures on these paintings he left behind, it is probably not now, but ten years ago.

Bai Liu's fingertips brushed across the signatures of these paintings, his eyes slightly gloomy.

It is very likely that he will enter this game in the future and leave some traces in the [Children's Orphanage Game Copy] from ten years ago. As this [official version of the game copy] is loaded into the [real world], the traces that Bai Liu once left in the game will be loaded into the orphanage in the current timeline.

This is not a good thing.

The player's traces will remain forever in a certain game copy. This usually happens when a level is failed, just like Zhang Kui died and was transformed into a charred corpse monster and remained forever in the "Last Train to Explosion" copy. These marks left by death and failure will become part of the game and be loaded into reality as the copy is loaded.

But this inevitable death did not scare Bai Liu. He thought calmly.

At present, Bai Liu still has two things that he is confused about. His eyes slowly fell on the face of a boy in the corner of the first children's photo in 200X.

There was no emotion on the boy's face. When he squinted at people, he looked as if he was asking for a beating, "You stupid mortals." He had a sense of being out of place and lonely. He was fourteen years old. Bai Liu took another look at the paintings with sharp brushstrokes and exaggerated colors.

This feeling of taking photos and this style of painting are indeed what he liked to do when he was fourteen years old, and it is the posture he usually used when taking photos.

Bai Liu had long since stopped using this colorful style of painting because it was too ostentatious. After being blocked several times by his superiors who criticized him for being mentally polluting, and seeing low market acceptance, Bai Liu decisively gave up this style and never painted again.

These paintings and the photos taken by Bai Liu in them are indeed the style he used to use when he was fourteen years old. The strange thing is that the information revealed in these paintings is indeed information that Bai Liu only knew when he was twenty-four years old. Now the problem is - if it was the twenty-four-year-old him in this game, then Bai Liu is very sure that he would not paint like this.

And if the setting of this game made Bai Liu's memory and physical aspects regress to ten years ago, then it would be impossible for him to know the information he knows now.

This is Bai Liu who has the memory of a 24-year-old, but the style and personality of a 14-year-old. Logically, Bai Liu finds this unlikely, because memory is an important factor in determining a person's style and personality. If he has the memory of the next ten years, he will definitely not be the same as he was ten years ago.

The fourteen-year-old and twenty-four-year-old Bai Liu exist separately in the game copy of [Children's Welfare Home Ten Years Ago], which is the first point of Bai Liu's confusion.

The second point of doubt was - Bai Liu looked at the character sketch, which was a black and white character sketch. A girl was sitting on a hospital bed holding a doll, curled up and hugging her knees, with a white cloth covering her eyes. It was a very detailed character sketch.

But Bai Liu clearly remembers that when he was fourteen, he hated sketching because he liked things with strong colors at that time. Sketching, which has a strong documentary style, was something that Bai Liu rejected. He rarely sketched, and if he did, he would usually draw still life for practice, and basically never drew people.

Why did the fourteen-year-old Bai Liu draw a sketch of a person that he hated for Liu Jiayi? Liu Jiayi had not even been born at that time, so there should not be any trace.

Could it be that Liu Jiayi will also enter this copy?

But even if Liu Jiayi entered the game, she was still a newcomer. Normally, her first copy should be a single-player game, but this copy was obviously a multiplayer copy. Unless Liu Jiayi quickly completed her first game and then immediately entered the multiplayer game where Bai Liu was, she would not appear in the painting.

But Liu Huai, an experienced veteran, would not allow his sister to be so aggressive.

So why is this kid here?

Bai Liu scanned the entire painting thoughtfully, and finally his eyes stopped on the doll held in Liu Jiayi's hand in the picture -

——The doll in the painting was wearing a white shirt and black pants, and was held in the little girl's hand. Its face was turned back and smiling outside. At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it, but Bai Liu noticed something was wrong after staring at it for a while.

The doll's head turned too far. It didn't look like it was turning back, but more like its head was twisted 180 degrees.

Bai Liu looked at the painting, fiddled with the coin hanging on his chest, and his eyes froze slightly.