Sensing Liu Jiayi's uneasiness, Liu Huai forced himself to control his tone. He hugged Liu Jiayi and patted her, forcing himself to calm down: "No, Jiayi did nothing wrong, it was just a game."
"Yes, it's just a game." Liu Huai closed his eyes, as if he was hypnotizing himself or Liu Jiayi. When he opened his eyes again, his tone was much calmer, "Brother will take you to play games, Jiajia."
Liu Jiayi was held in Liu Huai's arms. She grabbed the corner of Liu Huai's clothes and asked in a low voice: "What game is it, brother?"
Liu Huai opened his mouth. He thought of Bai Liu who wanted to control Liu Jiayi's soul, and Miao Feichi who liked to eat children's flesh. Finally, Liu Huai hugged Liu Jiayi tightly and smiled helplessly: "This is a game where everyone except you and your brother are bad guys. Jiajia must follow your brother closely and don't run around, okay?"
"Okay." Liu Jiayi nodded obediently, "I won't run around."
The audience in front of the multiplayer area were also whispering. It was the first time they saw a player entering the game for the first time skip the single-player game in the novice area and be directly dragged into the multiplayer area.
However, the core of this game is human desire. If the girl's desire is to see her brother, and it is extremely strong, the system may directly drag the girl into the game where her brother Liu Huai is.
This little girl's small TV should obviously be in the [Newcomer Area], but in a multiplayer game, it should also be logged in to the multiplayer area. There has never been a precedent for small TVs to be logged in to multiple areas. Perhaps considering this, the system directly turned off the little girl's small TV.
But Kaimenhong is just a second-level game. Even if this girl is protected by Liu, she is likely to be in danger.
After all, Liu Huai could hardly protect himself in the level two game. The only players who still had any strength left in the level two game were Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang. These players had heard about Bai Liu's skills a long time ago and were on guard. They were estimated not to be easily controlled by Bai Liu.
Therefore, it is very likely that there are no other powerful players in this game for Bai Liu to control and use to block the attack, leaving Bai Liu with very little room to perform.
An audience member who had some goodwill towards Bai Liu sighed: "We can only hope that Mu Sicheng can cooperate well with him this time, so that there might still be a glimmer of hope."
There were also spectators who rushed over and sneered, "Mu Sicheng's support is amazing, Bai Liu's main output is also useless, and the output of the scavenger zombie is Miao Feichi, a player with an S- panel, are you comparing an elementary school student to a graduate student?"
But soon, a viewer looked through all the small TVs in confusion and asked in confusion: "That's not right, among the five small TVs in this game, there is no Mu Sicheng?"
"Bai Liu entered the game alone?!"
After confirming that there was indeed no Mu Sicheng among the players in this game, everyone, whether they were fans who had rushed over to worry about Bai Liu, bystanders who were watching the excitement, or Bai Liu's haters, were all stunned.
After a few seconds, this group of onlookers with different standpoints all said the same thing about a plant: "Fuck!!!"
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Bai Liu logged into a room on the second floor of an orphanage that was slightly backlit. It was locked, so Bai Liu broke the door open and searched the map room by room. However, Bai Liu's behavior of not following the game process soon paid off. He walked around the second floor from beginning to end, forming a circle. Bai Liu returned to the room where he started.
There was no doubt that he was stuck in a maze, or the game forced him to complete this plot before he could leave this floor.
Bai Liu walked into the room he had just entered.
There was a small bench in the dark and gloomy room. The evening light cast a long shadow on the chair on the ground. Some small benches were piled up in a mess on both sides of the room. This seemed to be a classroom during the holidays. The tables, chairs and benches were all put away, and the bench placed in the middle of the room looked particularly abrupt.
On the podium in the classroom opposite was an old-fashioned radio that looked like a version from ten years ago. There was a tape in the radio that was spinning on its own, making a buzzing sound that was not very smooth. The sound of a little girl humming a nursery rhyme came out of the radio:
"Born on Sunday (Monday)
Baptism on Tuesday
Get married on Wednesday
Sick on Thursday
The illness worsened on Jin Yao day (Friday)
Died on Saturday
Buried in the soil on Sunday
This is Bai Liu’s life——”
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows. He recognized it the first time he heard it. It was a nursery rhyme from the famous dark nursery rhyme "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes", called "Solomon's Seven Days". It tells a tragic story about a man's life experience. The last sentence of the nursery rhyme says - [This is the life of Solomon Grandi], but it seems that the name here has been changed to his.
As he listened to it countless times, as the nursery rhyme was sung over and over again, a human figure gradually appeared in the shadow of the chair reflected by the dim sunlight. From the shadow, it seemed that there was a person sitting on the chair, but when Bai Liu looked from the side, there was nothing there, just an empty little chair with nothing on it.
Suddenly, the shadow stood up from the chair and flew towards Bai Liu. Bai Liu did not hide. He thought this should be the same as the previous game, an opening animation to introduce the game content. He watched his shadow being merged into the rapidly approaching shadow.
The shadow of the white willow continued to extend and extend in the setting sunlight, all the way to the crack in the door and then to the outside of the door, and then suddenly stopped outside the door.
At this moment, the nursery rhyme stopped abruptly, and at the same time, there was a knock on the door.
"Hello, are you the investor of this welfare home?" A boy knocked on the door politely and asked with a hint of teenage hoarseness, "I am the child who came to report today."
But Bai Liu was keenly aware that the politeness of the person outside the door concealed coldness and impatience.
Bai Liu recognized this voice, or rather, it could not be said that he recognized it, but he was familiar with it, so familiar with it that he could detect all the emotions behind the person's seemingly calm tone the moment he opened his mouth.
After all, ten years ago, Bai Liu was accompanied by this voice every day.
Bai Liu stepped on his deformed shadow and slowly opened the door.
"Hello, I'm a new sponsored child." Outside the door was a young boy who was only as tall as Bai Liu's chest. He looked at him with a pair of calm black eyes, with a hint of scrutiny that was not very well hidden. The boy seemed to be sizing up Bai Liu as well, and finally extended his hand with consideration and courtesy, "Hello, investor, my name is Bai Liu, and I'm a new child who was notified to move into this private welfare home."
"Let me think about it. In this state, I am..." Bai Liu stroked his chin and looked up and down at the overly calm young boy. "I should be about fourteen years old."
[System prompt: Player Bai Liu successfully met and talked with the secondary identity line, successfully triggered the child identity line, and player Bai Liu entered the dual-line operation mode]
[System Tips: In "Caring Welfare Home", players have two different identity lines, one is the adult you, and the other is the child you. The adult you is the main identity line, and the child you is the secondary identity line. You are different halves of the same person. The secondary identity line is a child NPC generated by the game. The memory and setting system has made certain corrections based on the game background. It is a character that fully conforms to the game background. It has a similar personality and roughly similar memories to the child players in reality. Please explore and communicate on your own for specific situations.]
[Player Bai Liu's secondary identity name: Bai Liu]
【Age: 14 years old】
[Identity: Child without parents sponsored by investors to enter Aixin Welfare Home]
[Features: They have 50% of the player's health and are the pure half of the player. They have no memory or skills related to the future. They will enter the orphanage full of dangers. Please make sure to protect them from monsters! ]
[Main Mission: Escape from the Orphanage (Unfinished)]
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[Player Bai Liu's main identity: Player Bai Liu]
【Name: Bai Liu】
Age: 24
[Identity: Investor of a welfare home for children with terminal illnesses]
[Features: Enjoy 50% of the player's health, but because of the terminal illness, the health will decrease with the passage of time after the illness becomes serious. After the illness, he invested in Children's White Six.]
[Main Mission: Find a way to survive and survive (unfinished)]
Bai Liu looked at the system interface with a bunch of panels popping up and raised his eyebrows slightly.
His true identity was an investor, and the child in front of him, Bai Liu——Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked over slowly.
The fourteen-year-old Bai Liu didn't seem to like being stared at too nakedly. He turned slightly to avoid Bai Liu's gaze.
Bai Liu obediently withdrew his gaze, thinking that it was really troublesome. He hated himself the most at this age, arrogant and difficult to deal with.
Bai Liu stood in the corridor outside the classroom and looked around. After taking a look at the layout, he confirmed that this was indeed the welfare home he had visited before.
This place also has three buildings, but the architecture is brand new and beautiful, not old at all. The paint on the walls painted by various children has not fallen off. The children's park in the center of the three buildings has relatively large facilities such as slides. A separate cafeteria can be seen in the distance. These are all missing from the dilapidated children's welfare home that Bai Liu had seen.
Bai Liu looked at the dates on the various children's award certificates hanging on the walls of the classroom and determined that this should be the orphanage from ten years ago. It seemed that just as he had guessed before, the main storyline of this copy was indeed ten years ago, when this orphanage was just completed.
Seeing Bai Liu looking around as if he was looking for something, Bai Liu gently reminded him, "Today is Sunday, a routine checkup day. The children and teachers are not here."
"Sunday is inspection day?" Bai Liu turned and looked at Bai Liu, "Does your welfare home conduct inspections every week? What do you inspect?"
Bai Liu shook his head. "I don't know. I just came in and haven't been examined yet. But it's written in my admission rules that every Sunday all children must leave the welfare home for a full body checkup. Children who fail the checkup must stay there for treatment."
"However, many children who come here every week have been receiving treatment there, so there are empty seats in the welfare home." Xiao Bailiu looked up at Bai Liu, "But empty seats in the welfare home are wasted, so they accept new children into this welfare home every week. I came here this week."
Sunday was the inspection day, and there were many children who failed the inspection and simply stayed there for treatment and did not return...
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and recalled the nursery rhyme that goes "Sunday is buried in the earth."
It seems that most of the children who stayed there were "buried in the ground."
While Bai Liu was still thinking, the system suddenly issued a reminder:
[System distribution props: Each investor and his or her child has a one-to-one walkie-talkie that only allows single-line conversations]
[Guidelines for use of walkie-talkies: Only one-way communication from children to investors is allowed using the walkie-talkie. Players are prohibited from purchasing other communication tools to communicate with children, and investors are prohibited from calling children.]
[Intercom dialing time: 21:00~24:00, 6:00~9:00. If children call outside of these time periods, the line will be busy and investors will not be able to get through. Each child can call during these two time periods every day. Players are requested to communicate with children appropriately and give children space to grow independently.]
As soon as the system announced it, Bai Liu saw a huge mobile phone with an antenna on it in his hand.
Xiao Bailiu's was a children's cell phone, only half the size of his palm, hung around his neck with a pink Hello Kitty strap, and looked like a toy.
Bai Liu smiled and said, "It suits you very well." He shook the mobile phone in his hand and said, "From 9 to 12 every night and from 6 to 9 in the morning, if you have anything, you can call me. I'm always here."
"I won't call you." Bai Liu said expressionlessly, "It's a waste of my time."
Bai Liu had expected this to happen. His forehead twitched, he sighed, and without hesitation offered a solution: "I'll pay you. You can call me by the minute."
Xiao Bailiu's expression, which had been expressionless until now, showed obvious signs of trembling. He turned to look at Bai Liu and asked hesitantly, "How much?"
"Billed by the minute, one hundred dollars a minute, how about that?" Bai Liu said slowly.
Xiao Bailiu quickly agreed: "Deal."
As soon as Bai Liu finished speaking, the bell at the gate outside rang, and the tightly closed iron gate of the orphanage opened. Many children chattered and rushed into the orphanage behind their teacher. The teacher was busy arranging these children who were like little birds returning to their nests.
Two Bai Lius, one big and one small, stood on the corridor of the building, overlooking the innocent and carefree children running and jumping downstairs, with the same indifference in their eyes.
Xiao Bailiu suddenly turned his head to look at Da Bailiu and said, "You don't look like you like children. Why did you sponsor me to enter this private welfare home with good conditions?"
"What kind of investor am I in your eyes?" Bai Liu asked, looking at his younger self with interest. "Why do you think I don't like children?"
Although he really didn't like it.
"You look a lot like Slender Man, with an expensive suit, shirt and tie, and a pale face. According to rumors, Slender Man hates children. He kills children and then digs out their organs and eats them."
Xiao Bailiu calmly described Bai Liu in his eyes.
Xiao Bailiu's description reminded Bai Liu. He looked down at himself and found that he had changed from the appearance of a high school girl to a man wearing a formal suit and a black top hat.
Bai Liu found a mirror in the bathroom in the classroom and discovered that her face in the mirror had been altered.
His current appearance was exactly as Xiao Bailiu had described, his face was thin and pale, with two huge eye bags drooping under his eyes, his fingers were long and thin, as if there was only a layer of skin covering his bones, and it was obvious that he would not live long. Moreover, Bai Liu found that he had grown a lot taller, and his hands and feet had become uncoordinatedly longer.
It really looks like the legendary child killer, the terrifying creature Slender Man.
"All the investors here look exactly like you." Xiao Bailiu added calmly, "They all wear suits and are short-lived. They don't look like the type who would like to do good deeds before they die."
"Little boy, you have a really bad mouth." Bai Liu turned to look at Xiao Bailiu and raised his eyebrows. "Why do I not look like someone who did good deeds before dying? Isn't investing in you a good deed I did?"
Xiao Bailiu glanced at Bai Liu with his eyes, unmoved, and said, "Are you sure it's a good deed to send me to this orphanage where children keep going missing?"
[System reminder: The inspection day is about to end, the children and teachers have returned, please bring your sponsored children to the registration office on the first floor of Boai Building to register for residence]
"Come on, kid, I'll take you to the first floor to register." Bai Liu was on the third floor of the Bo'ai Building, and he was just about to go downstairs.
He saw a man who looked like a "slender ghost" on the second floor opposite him, staring at him sinisterly in the classroom.
The man was holding the hand of a little boy with long hair in his other hand, and was staring at Bai Liu in the other building. The little boy in his hand looked quite cute to Bai Liu, but he looked a little gloomy and withdrawn with his head down, which was similar to the grown-up Mu Ke.
This investor is Mu Ke.
On the floor above Mu Ke, an investor holding two knives was also staring at the child in his arms. The man was patrolling back and forth on the corridor with the long two knives in his hands, like a murderer in Texas Chainsaw who was dragging a chainsaw across the map.
Bai Liu stood in front of Xiao Bailiu and looked at the investor opposite with a smile. The [Slender Ghost] opposite looked for a while and found that Bai Liu had been blocking his child. The man crossed his hands and sharpened the knife twice as if to intimidate Bai Liu, and walked downstairs. It was unknown whether he went to register or to find Bai Liu.
The weapon is a pair of swords. If Bai Liu guessed correctly, this should be the famous Miao Feichi.
This person was obviously looking for who Bai Liu was. After all, all the players who logged in had the same identity, and they all looked like a [slender ghost]. If Miao Feichi wanted to kill him, he must first find who Bai Liu was among a bunch of investors who looked like a [slender ghost].
So how do we identify who is Bai Liu among a bunch of [investors]?
The most standard approach currently seems to be to look at the children that the other person is carrying.
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiao Bailiu behind him.
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When Miao Gaojiang was dragging his teenage self downstairs, he saw an investor waiting at the exit of his building. This made Miao Gaojiang want to draw his weapon subconsciously, but the next sentence of this person made Miao Gaojiang quickly relax his vigilance. He only heard the investor on the opposite side gritting his teeth and cursing: "Dad! I saw my teenage self! What's going on?"
"Fei Chi?" Miao Gaojiang glanced at him hesitantly. He was a little wary and suspicious. "Are you really Fei Chi?"
In this game where everyone has the same identity, it is too easy to pretend to be someone else. The only way to identify the other person is to look at the other person's child.
But Miao Feichi is not a person who likes children. He only likes to eat children, but Miao Feichi is not a pervert who would eat himself.
However, the teenage Miao Feichi had just awakened to his cannibalistic habit. He wanted to eat but had nothing to eat, so he wanted to take a bite of everyone he saw. So after Miao Feichi logged in and saw his own child, he probably had only one reaction -
"When I opened the door, I saw a teenager like me standing guard at the door. I was shocked." Miao Fei complained, "He followed me. The pervert looked at me in a strange way. I felt like he wanted to eat my flesh, so I just told him to get out."
Miao Gaojiang would not easily believe someone who came to his door, but what this person said was indeed what would happen to Miao Feichi.
Miao Feizhi has a frivolous and impetuous personality, and his extremely high combat power allows him to do whatever he wants in this second-level game.
When Miao Feichi suddenly saw his teenage self, his first reaction was definitely not to have a friendly conversation to trigger the mission, but to drive the other party away in a vicious manner. The two parties did not reach a friendly meeting between the [investor] and the [investment child], and naturally could not successfully trigger the sub-identity line mission set by them in this weird game.
Miao Gaojiang was also very troubled by Miao Feichi's personality, but considering that there was another person in the game, Bai Liu, who had a relatively high intelligence value, who might use the setting that everyone looked the same to play tricks on someone else's identity, Miao Gaojiang hesitated for a moment and did not let his guard down. However, he still briefly introduced the rules of the game to the other party and tried to find out some information that only they knew.
After a few probing words, Miao Gao was more or less resolute, but he still insisted: "I want to confirm that you are Miao Feichi. Tell me some key things about you?"
Miao Feichi asked impatiently: "For example?"
"For example, how did we enter the game in the first place..." Miao Gaojiang's seemingly honest face had a dark look in his eyes, and his tone paused slightly, "For example, after you ate human flesh, who was the first person you ate?"
Miao Fei licked his teeth, as if recalling the taste. He narrowed his eyes and said, "The first person I ate was the woman who gave birth to me."
"She was seriously ill and her family couldn't afford to support her. After she was taken back from the hospital, she was still spending a lot of money on medicine. That was all the money that was supposed to be left for me, but I spent it all on this dead woman. She asked me to pour her some water at night. I poured her a cup of boiling water. After she drank it, her lips and esophagus gave off a boiled aroma."
"She died the next day." Miao Feizhi said with a click of his tongue. "Before the burial, I told you that I wanted to eat her body. You were scared, but I know you always wanted her to die sooner. I am your son, and she was just someone you slept with. I don't understand why you spent so much money on her. After she died, I fasted for a few days, and you cut a part of her for me to eat."
"But it's not very delicious." Miao Feichi said with some disdain, "She's too old. Because of her illness, the meat is dry and tough, and it smells like medicine."
"As for entering the game..." Miao Feichi said a little unhappy, "Isn't it because of that kid? You took me to dig mass graves for a while, and I ate dead human flesh for a while. It was too disgusting and rotten. I wanted to eat fresh tender human flesh. That kid was a homeless child who ran out from somewhere. He cried and said that someone in their welfare home was doing bad things and begged me to call the police."
"I thought that if I ate a kid who had escaped from an orphanage, no one would know. But you let him go. The police found him. I was under surveillance and entered the game because I was extremely hungry. I had just eaten a finger of that kid, and he cried so hard that you were attracted to me. And you..."
"Okay, you are indeed Fei Chi." Miao Gaojiang sighed deeply and interrupted Miao Fei Chi's unfinished words, "Everyone in this game looks the same. Let's have a secret signal to connect."
"Just the finger." Miao Feichi made the final decision. He didn't seem to think this cruel code had any meaning, but rather a bit of regret. "That was the last bite of human flesh I ate before entering the game."
Miao Gaojiang didn't like this code, but in teamwork he usually gave in to his son Miao Feichi on such harmless matters and didn't take the dominant position. He was extremely tolerant of Miao Feichi, otherwise Miao Feichi wouldn't have done all kinds of things in response to his impatient attitude and turned a blind eye to him.
So Miao Gaojiang shut up awkwardly, and after a while he asked, "Where is the child you invested in? Where is the place where you chased him away?"
"That kid was following me after I chased him away, but there are too many children in this yard, and they all look so tender." Miao Feichi narrowed his eyes in a wicked way, "I guess he was taken away. This kid has never had sex before, and being attracted by these walking human flesh should be very attractive to him."
Seeing that Miao Gaozhuang was about to say something, Miao Feichi waved his hand irritably and skillfully: "That's enough, is it not okay for me to eat the children and opponents in this game? In reality, I just don't eat, can't I touch this pile of game data? They are not real people, I think you want to starve your son to death, you think my father can't even take care of my food and drink, and you still want to hinder me."
Miao Gaozhuang looked at this group of lively children who looked like statistics at all. He opened his mouth and finally closed it again.
These children were so vivid that for a moment he even felt that they were not NPCs in a game, but real people, no different from the children in real life.
"Go find your child first, and then go to the first floor to register." Miao Gaojiang said.
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The registration room on the first floor requires players to enter individually. When Bai Liu went there, Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang had not come yet. This is also normal. The two people must first find each other and confirm each other's identity. Miao Gaojiang should be okay because he is with his children and his identity is easier to confirm.
Miao Feichi estimated that it was difficult, and this person probably didn't take the kid who suddenly appeared seriously at all.
When Bai Liu was upstairs, he saw Miao Feichi's cub wandering around the welfare home by himself, following different children with green eyes, like a wolf that had never eaten raw meat.
Bai Liu brought Xiao Bailiu into the registration room and found that two people had already registered before him, one of whom was Mu Ke, and the other was - looking at the name above, Bai Liu's eyes dimmed.
[Due to blood ties, players Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi activated (brother and sister identity line), registered as brother and sister, and became each other's clones and another identity line, activating a special two-line operation mode]
[Player Liu Huai (Brother’s identity): Investor of a children’s welfare home with a terminal illness]
[Identity Features: Enjoy 50% of your health points, but because you are suffering from a terminal illness, your health points will decrease over time. Players are requested to find a way to prolong your life quickly! ]
[Player Liu Jiayi (sister identity): a child sponsored by investors to enter the Ai Xin Welfare Home]
[Identity features: Enjoy 50% of the health value, is a pure and innocent sister, will enter the orphanage full of dangers, players must protect them! ]
[Note: For each player in the siblings' line, death will occur when 50% of the health points are reduced to zero]
The last time Bai Liu saw this little girl Liu Jiayi, he said that Liu Jiayi would be entering the game soon. Unexpectedly, they would meet in the game this time.
But how could Liu Jiayi, a new player, directly enter a multiplayer game? Shouldn't new players start with single-player games?
Is there any special connection between Liu Jiayi and Liu Huai? So the system directly pulled Liu Jiayi, the newcomer, into the game Liu Huai is in? Bai Liu thought - the pattern of these two people is obviously different from Bai Liu and the others. It is no longer one person taking care of his own childhood, but a brother taking care of his sister.
Bai Liu saw that Liu Huai wrote "blood-related siblings" in the column for registering the relationship model, while Mu Ke wrote "investor and sponsored child".
However, Bai Liu noticed that although it was a two-player mode, the health bars above their heads were still at 50%. It seemed that if the 50% was cleared, the player would die directly. Bai Liu and the others had their health points divided, so the total health points were actually still 100.
But Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi simply cut it in half, which is even less advantageous.
Moreover, Bai Liu felt that the game was not fair enough.
The system had made various crazy plans to weaken players for the sake of fairness and game balance. Bai Liu, who had experienced being weakened by the system twice, did not think that the system would present an unfair horror game to the players.
This shows that the plan of reducing Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi's health by half should be relatively fair to all players involved in the entire game, and the gameplay is relatively balanced.
But for Liu Huai and Liu Jiayi, two brother and sister players who unfortunately triggered the special mode, their health points were directly cut in half. Liu Jiayi is a blind child and a newcomer, so the unfairness is obvious.
Moreover, although they are also related by blood, the father and son Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang did not trigger any father-son identity line, because Bai Liu saw the little Miao Feichi, but this father and son definitely did not trigger this special form of blood relationship identity line.
This estimate is related to Liu Jiayi.
The first time Liu Jiayi, a blind child, entered a game was a multiplayer game. It was unknown what the child's wishes and desires were. Bai Liu felt that Liu Jiayi's wish was not to see this again.
When Bai Liu first came into contact with the child, he actually felt that Liu Jiayi's desire to regain her sight was not as strong as Liu Huai's. From his intuitive emotional inclination, Liu Jiayi seemed to think that it didn't matter that she couldn't see, and she was more attached to her brother. If Liu Jiayi's desire was tied to her brother, in this game where everything is tied to the player's desires, this situation might have occurred.
But there are other possibilities. Liu Jiayi is a very special child in every aspect, and Bai Liu cannot jump to conclusion.
Bai Liu temporarily noted the part that he felt was inappropriate.
After Xiao Bailiu finished registering, he was led in by the dean.
Before leaving, Xiao Bailiu turned around to look at Bai Liu. The kid raised his thumb and index finger expressionlessly, rubbed them at Bai Liu, and signaled Bai Liu in a very tactful way with his eyes, which made Bai Liu want to laugh - this was a money gesture.
Because Bai Liu told him to call and give him money, the kid still remembers it now.
This kid hasn't done anything yet, but he's already very good at keeping accounts.
The child was taken to an orphanage, and Bai Liu, the investor, was taken by the director to a building near the orphanage. The building looked a bit like a ward, with nurses and nurses' offices inside, but no registration desk and no doctor's office. There were only floor after floor of inpatient wards.
The director told them that most of the investors were in poor health, so they all lived here and would occasionally visit the children during the orphanage's open days.
Bai Liu looked for a while and confirmed that this place was a private hospital that was not open to the public.
In other words, it is not a private hospital. It is more like the elderly nursing home rehabilitation buildings that Bai Liu has seen where wealthy retired people live. It only needs nurses to manage and serve them, and doctors are on call at any time. There is no need to have many doctors stationed in one rehabilitation building.
But the people living here are not healthy retired wealthy people, but a group of terminally ill patients who urgently need treatment. It is strange that there are no doctors in such a critical hospital.
Without doctors, who will treat them?
This private hospital was filled with patients who looked exactly like Slender Man. Some were lying on their beds, emaciated, while others were walking slowly in the corridors supported by chairs. Their faces were tightly bandaged, with even their eyes not showing. No one knew how they could see the road.
Only the airflow from the patients' weak breathing slightly inflated the bandages on their faces, showing that they were all living people, not monsters in urban rumors.
The further they went inside, the thinner and longer the arms and legs of the patients lying in the wards. Bai Liu estimated that the patients lying in the intensive care unit should be more than two meters tall, with their legs hanging weakly outside the bed, and their skin was purple with a few spots, which reminded Bai Liu of the poisonous mushroom-like skin of the dead children he had seen before.
These stiff and slow-moving dying investors moved slowly in the corridors and wards, turning their faces as if they were staring at Bai Liu who was walking through the corridor. His long, thin, spider-like arms and legs hung on both sides of his body, and someone was grabbing Bai Liu's neck.
The patient who had grabbed his ankle and neck seemed to be teasing him and quickly let go, emitting a strange and neurotic chuckle.