The dean took them to the 9th floor. There were much fewer patients on this floor than on the floors below, and they didn't look as seriously ill. Bai Liu felt that the patients on this floor were about the same degree of illness as him. The most intuitive thing was that they were all about the same height.
From Bai Liu's observation just now, the sicker the patients in this hospital are, the thinner and longer their bodies become, which means they look more like Slender Man.
Xiao Bailiu's description of him was actually very correct. The child's ability to perceive terrifying things made Bai Liu realize that he might have started to consciously pay attention to things in this area since he was fourteen years old.
There are a total of twenty-one wards on this floor. The dean arranged a room for Bai Liu and then said that she had to go back to pick up other investors.
Bai Liu lived in 906, a room on the left side of the corridor. Bai Liu observed the entire ward and felt that this private hospital was a bit strange.
This hospital is very well and exquisitely decorated, but the lighting is extremely poor. All wards are light-proof and the lights are so dim that you need to turn on the lights during the day. The brightness of the lights is very low and you can't see anything even if they are turned on. There are high-power humidifiers everywhere in the hospital, which spray mist all the time, making the whole hospital as humid as the return of the south wind, and the air is filled with haze-like water vapor.
A normal hospital would never be built like this to avoid light and increase humidity, as if they are afraid that the patients will not die if they live here.
Poor lighting and heavy fog resulted in very low visibility inside the hospital.
If the dean hadn't brought Bai Liu with him, it would have been very difficult for the player to find the various passages here because they couldn't see them, and because of the water vapor, the ground and walls were very slippery. Bai Liu was tall with long arms and legs, and it would be easy for him to fall when walking on such a slippery ground. This gave Bai Liu a bad feeling - if a chase took place on this map of the hospital, he would probably run very fast.
Bai Liu scanned the entire ward and found three humidifiers, but only one light, which was very dim.
The even more strange thing is the hospital bed. As I said before, this is a private hospital that is well decorated in every way. It looks very upscale. The faucets in the bathroom are all in the shape of gilded lions, but the bed -
——Bai Liu lifted the white sheets of his bed and raised his eyebrows at the pile of straw underneath.
This is actually a straw bed.
Bai Liu had only lived in this kind of bed when she was a child in a relatively poor orphanage. This bed was very uncomfortable and troublesome to live in, but the advantage was that it was cheaper than other beds.
Straw needs to be dry to be comfortable to sleep on. Once it is damp, it is easy for insects to breed and rot, which will bite people and leave various red spots on their bodies. In a very humid environment, the straw will even grow mushrooms.
For example, at the corner of Bai Liu's bed, after lifting the sheets, he saw a cluster of gray mushrooms growing densely, all the way to the wooden bookcase next to the bed.
A straw bed in a room with three humidifiers is little more than a fungus culture dish; the straw will rot quickly, and then it will be infested with worms, maggots, mushrooms, all kinds of decomposers, and the bodies of the people who sleep on it.
In short, during Bai Liu's childhood, during the rainy season, he would rather sleep on the floor than on a straw bed.
[System prompt: Please ask the player Bai Liu (investor identity) to complete the main task - find a life-saving remedy to relieve the symptoms of his terminal illness]
A life-saving remedy...
Where to find a life-saving remedy? If this was a private hospital with a doctor, Bai Liu would have gone to the doctor's office to look for prescriptions and then look for treatment drugs.
But there were no doctors here, only a group of nurses pushing carts back and forth in the corridor. And when Bai Liu walked in and took a look at the nurses' office, there were no IV bottles, no pills, not even syringes and IV tubes. It was completely empty, with only a few waist-high stainless steel carts that looked very much like the dining carts in Bai Liu's company cafeteria, probably used to deliver meals to patients.
How can a hospital with no doctors, no medicine, and nothing but patients find the life-saving medicine for a terminally ill patient?
Wait, there's nothing but patients...
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes slightly and began to search the library in the ward.
There was a bookcase behind the door of the ward, next to the bed. Bai Liu had glanced at it before and didn't pay much attention to it. There were some very old books inside. Because there were too many books, Bai Liu didn't think of these books as clues at all. Moreover, the books inside were too many and messy, including novels, geography atlases, and everything else. It was a big bookcase filled to the brim.
If Bai Liu designed the game himself, he would not hide the game clues in such overly complicated information, because it would be very boring to ask players to find a two-meter-high bookcase full of books without any prompts.
But there is one exception - there is more than one piece of information in this bookcase for the player to discover.
Instead, except for a small part, it is all information that players should discover.
[System prompt: Congratulations to the player for triggering the side quest - Search in the medical book (life-saving prescription)]
really.
Bai Liu made a simple classification of the books in the bookcase. He threw away some that he felt were obviously irrelevant to the copy, such as pornographic women's magazines. The rest were some medical magazines and books, which were piled heavily on the ground. Bai Liu took them out and weighed them, estimating that they must have weighed several dozen kilograms.
They were all medical books, including Chinese and Western medicine, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and pediatrics, as well as some medical thesis magazines published entirely in England. Bai Liu felt that it was impossible to find a book in so many medical books that Bai Liu had no idea what it was used for (a life-saving prescription) as he had no medical knowledge.
But when he narrowed his eyes and looked at this pile of medical books that had never been read by anyone, he felt a sense of incongruity.
There are no doctors in this private hospital, so these books cannot be read by doctors, but it is obvious that these books are intended for people with a certain level of medical knowledge.
These books are for the patients living in this ward, or in other words, investors.
So it’s not that there are no doctors in this private hospital, but the patients living here are the doctors.
They were reading books and treating themselves - strange patients.
These investors are obviously wealthy, but why don't they trust doctors and treat themselves? Is it because doctors can't treat the disease? But if doctors can't treat the disease, then there is little value in reading these books, because after all, they are all things that doctors have read.
Bai Liu thought for a while - it was obvious that all the investors here had some terminal illness, so someone besides Bai Liu must have started treatment, that is, started using that life-saving prescription, but these new patients could not get this (life-saving prescription) for free, but had to find it themselves from this pile of books.
But for someone who was not very obedient and did not like to do homework when he was a student, Bai Liu's reading and comprehension efficiency for things that he was not interested in was very low. His grades in many subjects when he was a student were also average. So when Bai Liu didn't want to read and couldn't figure out the answer, he quickly and shamelessly decided to copy other people's [homework]. When he was in school, he usually copied Lu Yizhan's homework because Lu Yizhan, a good student, had the highest accuracy rate in his homework, but in this game——
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and thought for a while - the key now is whose [homework] to copy?
Now in this hospital, who can solve the [answer] to this pile of books the fastest and most correctly?
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Mu Ke was also brought to this private hospital by the dean. He also triggered the task of finding a life-saving prescription in medical books by searching the library. Now he was sitting by the bed looking at this pile of medical books.
It has been a long time since he graduated, let alone a big book like this. The room is so dim that he can't even see someone walking around one meter away from him, let alone reading. Originally, Mu Ke was going to buy a desk lamp or something for lighting, but before buying it, the system reminded him that the ward needs to be away from light and high-brightness lighting is prohibited. Are you sure you want to buy the relevant props?
This means that the props can be sold to you, but you cannot use them in the ward.
Mu Ke originally planned to try to see if he could take the book outside to read, at least the lighting would be better than in this room.
But as soon as he walked out of the ward with the book, he was shocked when he opened it. An expressionless nurse was patrolling in the corridor pushing a stainless steel cart. Seeing Mu Ke preparing to come out with the book, the nurse warned him not to walk around with things in the ward, and that patients were not allowed to walk around on the first day of hospitalization, so they should stay in the ward.
It seems that I can’t take it out. Mu Ke frowned and turned back.
Mu Ke had to try reading with this underworld light.
But after reading for a while, Mu Ke felt overwhelmed. He read very fast, but in this kind of light show, his efficiency was too low and the direction was too confusing. It was difficult to come up with an effective treatment plan from it, or in systematic terms, a life-saving remedy.
Mu Ke also realized that it would be difficult to find the correct answer by reading the book alone, but he couldn't think of any other ideas for the time being.
After all, the game's hints were too specific, and it was obvious that players were being asked to look for answers in the pile of books in the bookcase, which happened to be Mu Ke's strong point.
Mu Ke sighed as he looked at the book in his hand a little anxiously. It had been a long time since he had felt unable to find the answer while reading. Mu Ke had been a top student since he was a child. After entering junior high school, he even skipped several grades. His IQ was also quite high after entering the game, at 85 points.
His reading and memory comprehension skills are very good. If he is given a relatively bright environment, it will not be difficult to read this pile of books and integrate knowledge clues to come up with the answer within three days. He is eager to quickly come up with a life-extending prescription to give to Bai Liu, but the dim reality makes him more and more irritable.
It took him an hour to finish reading a book. This is not his true level at all!
Mu Ke was thinking about how to operate when his system panel suddenly vibrated and he saw an extra item in his item list.
Mu Ke didn't buy any props now, and it was obvious that the person who just bought the prop was Bai Liu - Bai Liu could control his panel to buy props remotely, which was also one of their ways of communication.
Now that they are all in the ward, communicating with each other by purchasing props is extremely secretive and can be avoided by others.
Mu Ke opened his system panel to see his own props in the warehouse. The audience can see the system store, but the warehouse interface is invisible. In order to protect the safety of players' property, the warehouse will be censored, so the private communication between Mu Ke and Bai Liu will not even be noticed by the audience in front of the small TV. It can be said to be extremely secretive.
The only way that the communication between Mu Ke and Bai Liu could be exposed is if Mu Ke is suddenly killed, and the item they used to communicate is exposed to the player who killed Mu Ke, and the other party notices something is wrong. For example, if Bai Liu and Mu Ke use a notepad or a mobile phone recorder to communicate by writing, then after Mu Ke dies, the item used for communication will fall in front of the player who killed him.
If Mu Ke was suddenly killed during the communication process, or if Mu Ke was killed before he had time to erase all traces of the communication, then the item dropped from Mu Ke's body would very likely expose the traces of communication between Bai Liu and him to other people.
Of course, you can also use a password to encrypt the communication process to prevent the other party from easily deciphering it, but how can you be sure that the password will not be easily deciphered by others and can be quickly understood by Mu Ke?
Bai Liu didn't like exposing himself to his opponent, so he didn't choose a very common communication tool.
Bai Liu bought Mu Ke a black keyboard.
The keyboard is a tool that Mu Ke and Bai Liu are very familiar with. Compared with notebooks, papers, recorders and other props that will leave obvious traces of communication, putting the key caps back on the keyboard is relatively more traceless. After the communication is completed, it can be said that compared with other communication tools, no traces are left.
And the "password" on the keyboard is a password that Mu Ke and Bai Liu, the two people who made the game, can quickly understand.
Even if Mu Ke was killed and a keyboard dropped, the enemy would not easily associate it with a communication tool, let alone think about what information was hidden in the keyboard.
Of course, another reason why Liu chose the keyboard was that when this person was browsing the system discount promotion store, he saw this keyboard that cost less than ten points. Liu thought it could be used, so he bought it.
Mu Ke was stunned when he saw this keyboard.
The [ctrl] and [c] key caps on the keyboard have been removed. This is a very commonly used shortcut key combination. [ctrl] + [c] means [copy], which means copy.
Copy? Copy what? What can they copy now? Shouldn't the most urgent task be to find a life-saving remedy?
Wait! Mu Ke quickly understood Bai Liu's meaning - Bai Liu wanted to copy (the life-extending recipe)!
Did Bai Liu want to copy this? ! But how could this be copied? Where could he copy it? There were so many wards here, did Bai Liu know which ward had the life-saving remedy?
Mu Ke looked at the keyboard, thought deeply, then hesitantly removed the [?] and [numlock] keycaps on the keyboard and put them in his own storage. He waited anxiously for Bai Liu's reply, and was a little worried that the other party would not understand what he meant.
[Numlock] is a numeric lock key on a keyboard, but its literal meaning can be translated as [lock number]. Combined with the [?] keycap, what Mu Ke wants to express is - [Bai Liu, what number should we lock?]
The room numbers here are all numbers. Bai Liu only needs to tell him which number to lock, and he will know which ward Bai Liu is going to.
But soon, the keyboard that Mu Ke put into the warehouse disappeared, and it came back after a while. When it came back, the [ctrl] + [c] keycaps on the keyboard were back, but three keycaps were missing.
"1, 7, 0."
Mu Ke was immediately confused. As for the house number, the number 0 cannot be placed in the first position, so the number before it can only be one or seven.
There are only three ways to arrange these three numbers: [701], [710], and [107].
The seventh floor is the operating room, there are no wards.
And [107] is even more ridiculous. It is an "empty ward". There is no ward [107] in this building. It should have been vacated and used as a warehouse or something like that, so it occupies this number, but in fact there is no such ward.
There are wards [106] and [108].
Mu Ke was a little worried, he couldn't understand what Bai Liu meant. He scanned the three numbers, thought about the six arrangements of the three numbers in his mind, and then he slowly sat up straight.
This private hospital does not have ward numbers with English letters, but it does have a special care room without numbers - the ICU ward.
The ICU ward on the first floor does not have a number mark, and except for this place, the first floor is full of wards, so this [ICU] ward is most likely the [blank ward] occupying the [107] number!
Bai Liu didn't directly use the ICU ward to describe it because there is more than one ICU ward in this hospital. Not mentioning the clear ward number might cause misunderstanding of the information. Mu Ke directly asked what number it was, so Bai Liu simply used a more specific number to refer to the ward number - this guy never considered that the person in front of him might not be able to keep up with his speed of thinking and equate ward 107 with the ICU ward on the first floor.
Fortunately, Mu Ke is a player with a good memory and information collection ability, and he successfully got what Bai Liu wanted to express.
Bai Liu wanted to go here to copy the treatment method for this critically ill patient! !
"Shit." Mu Ke couldn't help but swear - the person living in the ICU was an original aboriginal investor of this hospital, a patient over two meters tall, who looked like a ghost! It was very likely that he was a monster in their copy!
Moreover, the nurses here said that the patients in the ICU ward will not leave the ward all day, so how can they get the life-saving prescriptions inside?
And they don't know for sure whether there is any so-called "life-saving formula" in it!
Bai Liu was quite sure that the ICU must have the "life-saving remedy" that the system mentioned.
If all the patients here are doctors, then for a group of [new doctors] who have just moved in, the ones who are more likely to come up with treatment plans in the ward must be the older doctors who have been sicker, longer and have done more research.
In summary, Bai Liu felt that there was probably what the system called a "life-saving remedy" in the ICU ward.
But whether you can get it is another matter.
The patients in the ICU don't look like human beings, and they will not leave the ward all day. Bai Liu has no chance to enter, and he doesn't know if he will cause violent attacks from patients or monsters after entering. After all, Bai Liu is not going to do any good deeds, but to rummage around, which is quite risky.
But the corresponding benefits are also very high. If successful, Bai Liu will be the first among all players to get the [Life-saving Recipe]. This will give Bai Liu a lot of initiative, and he can use it to trade many things with other players. However, there are two obvious difficulties in breaking into ICU:
First point: How to get in?
There are circulating nurses in the hospital corridors. Patients who do anything that violates hospital rules and regulations will be caught and corrected. Not to mention forcing their way into the ICU, if players insist on forcing their way in, they will have to take advantage of the nurses' patrols. The more troublesome thing is that these nurses have very fast detection capabilities and movement speeds. At least Bai Liu estimated that on this slippery ground, he could not outrun these nurses in high heels.
Second point: How to search after breaking in?
The patients in this ward are very weird. They are most likely monsters. If I break in and look for something in front of them, it would be really annoying.
Before Bai Liu could come up with a specific solution, night fell.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the nurse announced a curfew in the ward and all patients were prohibited from going out.
The only sound you can hear in the corridor is the creaking sound of nurses pushing carts back and forth. These nurses are patrolling the corridor during their shift change, and when they see a dim light coming through the crack of the ward door, they will knock on the door and tell you to turn off the lights and get some rest, just like the dormitory manager at Bailiu High School.
But these nurses were far less friendly than the aunt. Bai Liu opened the door and took a look. The nurses were walking back and forth in the corridor at night in high heels with frozen faces in the mist coming out of the humidifier. Bai Liu was instantly reminded of the nurse monster in "Silent Ridge".
The eyesight of these nurses was surprisingly good. In this low visibility scene, Bai Liu only opened the door slightly to peek, but was soon discovered by them. The nurse's eyes glowed a cat-like fluorescent green in the night. She looked at Bai Liu from afar, pushed the cart quickly towards Bai Liu, and ran towards Bai Liu with high heels clattering. Bai Liu quickly closed the door and locked it.
Soon, the cart squeaked and stopped in front of Bai Liu's door. The nurse knocked on the door twice and said in a low voice: "Patient in Room 706, did you just open the door? Have you not read the hospital's rules and regulations? You are strictly prohibited from going out after 9 pm, and you can only open the door of the ward after 9 am."
The nurse sternly questioned Bai Liu while banging on the door, which made a loud banging sound in the middle of the night.
Of course Bai Liu wouldn't open the door for her.
The nurse banged on the door for a while, then said in a drawn-out, slightly weird tone: "If you insist on opening the door of your ward during these two hours, and if something gets into your ward, the hospital will not be responsible for your personal safety."
After saying that, the nurse pushed the cart away from Bai Liu's door.
What is it? When Bai Liu heard what the nurse said, he frowned. It seemed that something strange was wandering outside at night.
But during this time period...
The door of the ward is not allowed to be opened after 9 pm and before 9 am, which is equivalent to prohibiting patients from going out, but this time period coincides with the time when children make phone calls (6 to 9 am and 9 to 12 am).
The time when the child came out to call the investor happened to be the time when the investor could not go out, and the "something" that the nurse mentioned earlier sneaked into your ward - assuming that the "something" mentioned by the nurse is a monster, then the time when this monster came out and moved around happened to be the time when the child came out to make the phone call.
It seems that Xiao Bailiu would be taking a big risk if he called him.
At half past nine, just when Bai Liu thought he would not receive a call from Xiao Bailiu tonight, his intercom rang.
Bai Liu picked up the phone. This version had a sound like bad contact coming from an old walkie-talkie, and the sound of someone panting while running at full speed. It felt like someone was running with the walkie-talkie, and running very fast, gasping for breath.
Bai Liu did not say anything until the panting on the other side had almost subsided. Then the other side said, "Wait a minute, something is chasing me."
After Xiao Bailiu finished speaking, the system interface on Bai Liu's side popped up:
[System prompt: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for triggering the monster book through his secondary identity line]
[Refresh of "Love Welfare Home Monster Book" - Deformed Children (1/3)]
[Monster name: Deformed Child]
[Features: Faster movement speed (350-600)]
[Weakness: ? ? ? (to be explored)]
[Attack method: likes to play with the player's secondary identity line, and will make the player's secondary identity line disappear in the welfare home]
After about five minutes, the sound of rustling fabrics came from the other side. Xiao Bailiu seemed to have hidden somewhere. He lowered his voice and said, "Okay, it didn't catch up for the time being. You can talk now."
Although Xiao Bailiu's voice had some ups and downs, it could be heard that there was no obvious emotional fluctuation. He was not afraid of the things chasing him.
Bai Liu asked, "What is chasing you?"
"A kid," Xiao Bailiu said, his breath still a little uneven. "He squatted on the ground, and chased me on all fours like a monkey. He was very thin, and was laughing with drooling eyes. He looked very strange, like a congenital idiot with low intelligence."
As soon as Xiaobailiu described it, Bai Liu understood. He had been in an orphanage before. The patients with Down syndrome there had very distinctive looks: squinty eyes, flat noses, long mouths, fat and bulging cheeks, short necks, and widely spaced eyes. Their eyeballs always liked to look diagonally upwards. Bai Liu had seen some children in the orphanage nickname these idiots "Frogs" because they looked like frogs.
Such a frog-like child was lying on the ground with his limbs and head tilted back, drooling, giggling and chasing Xiao Bailiu... Fortunately, Xiao Bailiu was very obsessed with money and was willing to call him for money. Otherwise, a normal child would have been scared and cried a long time ago. Who can guarantee that he can keep running without hanging up the phone?
"Did he leave?" Bai Liu asked.
"No." Xiao Bailiu had just answered this sentence when Bai Liu heard a child's voice and the sound of crawling on all fours, the fabric of pants and the dirt and gravel coming from the other end of the phone, but the sound was very fast, forming a hissing sound effect like a snake swimming. It could be heard that the child chasing Xiao Bailiu was moving very fast.
After Xiaobailiu replied "no", he fell silent again.
Bai Liu could only hear his rapid breathing and footsteps as he ran, the innocent laughter of the child who followed him like a shadow yet barely visible, and the hissing sound of his pants rubbing against the ground.
The sound was getting louder and louder, and it felt like the contact area between the fabric and the ground must be very large. It seemed that the kid chasing Xiao Bailiu was dragging his lower body, and would soon catch up with him.
Bai Liu didn't say anything. He waited quietly so as not to disturb Xiao Bailiu who was in the chase.
After waiting for about another five minutes, Xiao Bailiu spoke breathlessly: "It's OK."
"Did you avoid him?" Bai Liu asked.
"No, he went after someone else." Xiao Bailiu's tone was devoid of sympathy. "Another kid came out to make a phone call, and was chased as soon as he came out. Now he's crying and running, so that kid didn't chase me anymore."
Bai Liu understood that there should be only one strange child wandering around and chasing outside the orphanage. Now that he transferred his hatred to chase others, Xiao Bailiu would be relatively safe.
He asked, "What's going on with you? What happened after you were taken in by the dean?"
"After we were brought in, everything went as normal. The people from the welfare home assigned rooms to us. I lived in a room with three other new boys. There was a blind little girl who lived in another building, opposite us. We all lived in rooms on the first floor." Xiao Bailiu explained things very clearly. He first briefly talked about the overall situation, and then began to talk about the points that Bai Liu would be concerned about.
Xiao Bailiu was still panting, "Our child phone was originally going to be confiscated. The teachers at the orphanage had forbidden us to bring this kind of communication tool. But later they said we were new here and they would give us a period of adjustment. They said we were allowed to bring it for a week, but they set a time limit for us to make calls, just like you said, and we were not allowed to make calls in the room, because it would disturb others' rest."
"All the teachers and caregivers I met at the orphanage warned me not to follow the sound of the flute at night and not to go out if I heard it. They said that people who play the flute will kidnap children." Xiao Bailiu said in a calm tone. "As a result, at 9:3 pm, I heard someone playing some messed up nursery rhymes on a vertical flute outside."
"I didn't want to go out, but the flute player was so slow to leave. It was exactly one past nine. But there was nothing I could do. You said I would be paid per minute for every call I made, so I came out anyway."
Don't follow the sound of the flute, Bai Liu thought thoughtfully, there is also such a scene in the orphanage in the real world. It is said that the four children went out on their own initiative after hearing the sound of the flute and then disappeared.
Bai Liu thought of a fairy tale at that time.
"Don't follow the sound of the flute. It is said that the sound of the flute will kidnap children. What do you think of when you hear this?" Bai Liu asked thoughtfully.
Xiao Bailiu was silent for a while: "You mentioned this, so you should be thinking of something similar to me, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. I remember that's the name."
"That's the name," Bai Liu said. "It's an English children's poem."
The poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" tells a story about a town that was once plagued by rats running around. The townspeople were tortured to death by rats running around everywhere. They tried many methods but none of them worked. At this time, a piper in flowered clothes came to the town. He said that his flute could drive away the rats, but he asked the townspeople to pay him a reward.
The townspeople agreed, and as the flute player played his flute, the mice came out from every corner of the town and lined up behind the flute player and walked away on their own initiative. The flute player kept playing and walking, and the mice seemed very happy to follow him, following him closely.
The piper walked into a creek, where the water reached his waist. The mice also walked into the creek, and they were all drowned in the waist-high water, floating on the creek.
The plague was over and the townspeople were happy, but they regretted their decision and were unwilling to pay the flute player.
The flute player then blew his flute again, and when the sound of the flute rang out, it was the children of the townspeople who came out from all corners of the town.
The children laughed and made noises, and just like the mice before, they lined up behind the piper, jumping and skipping with joy. No matter how the townspeople cried and tried to dissuade them, they refused to turn back. The piper took them out of the town and was never seen again.
Some said that the Pied Piper took the children back to the waist-high river and tried to drown them to avenge the townspeople. Others said that the Pied Piper turned the children into mice and went to the next town to let the mice cause trouble so that he could continue to collect his rewards.
"Did you see who was playing the flute?" Bai Liu asked.
Xiao Bailiu recalled: "No, the flute sounds were coming from all directions. I felt like there was more than one person playing the flute. However, the flute player's skills were not very good. He made several mistakes. He played the same nursery rhymes over and over again for half an hour. I felt like he was a beginner."
"Did any children come out after hearing the flute?" Bai Liu asked.
"No." Xiao Bailiu replied quickly this time. "Except for the rooms where we newcomers sleep, there are no teachers to accompany us. All other rooms have teachers or nurses to accompany us, so we are the only ones who can come out to make phone calls."
On the other end of the line, there was the shrill cry of a child, and the ethereal and silly laughter of the child chasing him. At this time, Xiao Bailiu seemed to have just remembered and asked, "By the way, the one being chased is Xiao Miao Fei Chi, the child of another investor."
"Xiao Miao Fei Ya?" Bai Liurao asked with interest, "Why did he come out to make a phone call? Oh, yes, this kid has a bad habit, stay away from him."
Xiao Bailiu asked: "What is your hobby?"
Bai Liu: "He likes to eat human flesh."
There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then Xiao Bailiu's calm and rational voice came to mind again: "Then I understand why he came out to make a phone call at night. He saw the child crawling on the ground and wanted to come out on his own initiative. I thought he came out to make a phone call. After you said this, I think he might have used the phone call as a cover to come out to eat."
But unfortunately, the person I met was a tough guy.
"I have some grudge against this kid's investor, so you should avoid interacting with him," Bai Liu said.
"Then do you need me to do something for you? Like trip him, make him fall to the ground, be caught up, and then kill him?" When Xiao Bailiu talked about doing such bad things, his tone was very calm, not like a teenage boy at all. "But if I help you do things, you have to pay me."
"Well, not for now. Just protect yourself. You are more important to me than him." Bai Liu touched his chin and chuckled. "I don't remember being so brave when I was your age. I dared to do such outrageous things."
Xiao Bailiu replied nonchalantly, "Maybe it's because you haven't met an investor at my age who dares to offer you a price for chatting with others and who obviously isn't a good person?"
When Bai Liu heard this, he paused subtly and recalled his own fourteen years old.
...I have to admit that if Lu Yizhang had not firmly led him to the path of living according to the law when he was fourteen, and if he had met an investor who gave him money to do evil, he would have really done such a thing.
"You don't have to worry about Xiao Miao Fei Chi, but if there are two kids who encounter any problems, you can help them if you can." Bai Liu changed the subject as if nothing had happened. "One is called Mu Ke, and the other is the blind girl. Of course, I will reward you for helping them."
Xiao Bailiu asked back in a slightly strange tone: "You want to save these two little boys and girls too? What's your relationship with them? Give me money to save them? They are pretty..."
"What are you thinking about? She's a child that a friend of mine wants to adopt." Bai Liu immediately understood what Xiao Bailiu meant. He was a little speechless. Xiao Bailiu underestimated his moral standards as an adult. "I'm not as bad as you say. I'm not interested in children."
Quickly considering his own nature of always putting money before life, Bai Liu added, "But the premise of everything you do for them is to ensure your own safety. You are the most important to me, remember this."
Xiao Bailiu was silent for a few seconds and did not give him a direct answer.