The next morning, Monday morning at 6:30.

Bai Liu didn't want to sleep on the mushroom straw bed, so he used a book as a cushion to spend the night on the ground. When he woke up the next day, the pages of the book were stuck to the ground because the humidity in the room was too high. The pages were soaked and stuck to the ground. There were also many dewdrops on the wall, which made Bai Liu frown - the humidity created by the three humidifiers working non-stop was even more outrageous than the rainy season.

But the three humidifiers in the ward were ordered by the nurses and must not be turned off, just like high-intensity lighting cannot be used in the ward. This is one of the rules and regulations of this hospital.

He sat quietly on the pages of the book waiting for Xiao Bailiu's call - the kid would definitely call him in the morning for money, after all, the call was charged by the minute.

At 6:45 in the morning, Bai Liu's intercom rang. This time, Bai Liu did not run. Instead, his breathing and footsteps were very light, as if he had sneaked out on tiptoe.

"Mr. Investor, good morning." Xiao Bailiu said in a whisper, "The kid who chased us yesterday is gone. When I came out, I saw the teachers in the corridor discussing taking us to the church to bear witness today, symbolizing that we, the children who have suffered, have officially entered a place of protection. We are reborn."

This group of children entered the orphanage yesterday, and today happens to be Monday. Xiao Bailiu's words instantly reminded Bai Liu of the nursery rhyme "Born on Monday".

So according to the nursery rhyme - [Baptism on Tuesday], we should be baptized tomorrow according to the procedure.

"Then we will be baptized on Tuesday, which is tomorrow, to wash away the suffering we have endured outside." Xiao Bailiu said softly, "Parents must be present when children are baptized, but we don't have parents except Liu Jiayi, so investors will watch the ceremony. Tuesday is the parents' open day, and you can come in. I heard from the teacher that we will send invitations to those of you who invested in us, inviting you to come to the welfare home to watch us being baptized."

Bai Liu asked: "Did anything happen to you guys last night?"

"The kid who went out to make a phone call last night, there were only me and Xiao Miao Fei Chi in the room I was in, but we both made it back to the room. Xiao Miao Fei Chi cried all night, and it seems he's fine, he ran pretty fast. Although he kept crying, he wasn't caught." Xiao Bai Liu said calmly, "But something strange happened in the early morning, I heard the footsteps of a child walking through the corridor, following the sound of the flute."

"These children were humming nursery rhymes played by the flute. I got up and took a look. I felt that they should be awake, not sleepwalking. They were talking and laughing. They were like the children described in the fairy tale, jumping and hopping in a line in the direction of the flute. But so far, it's almost dawn, and I haven't seen them come back."

This is consistent with the information Bai Liu knew in reality. A group of children followed the sound of the flute in the early morning and disappeared into a closed children's welfare home. They could not be found anywhere.

"Do you think the sound of the flute has a hypnotic or confusing effect?" Bai Liu asked thoughtfully, "Will you want to follow it after listening to it?"

Without hesitation, Xiao Bailiu said: "No, it's terrible. It makes me want to go to the bathroom."

"..." Considering that he seemed to have a strong resistance to this kind of hypnotic suggestion, and that Bai Liu was rarely guided when he saw a psychiatrist in the real world, he asked one more question: "Are the other children in your room affected by the sound of the flute?"

There was silence for a while, as if they were reminiscing, and then Xiao Bailiu said, "Probably not. Except for Xiao Miao who cried all night, the other children in the room were all sound asleep."

Why would these children follow the flute if it had no hypnotic or confusing effect?

Bai Liu fell into deep thought. Could it be that there really was a monster with the setting of the Piper in this copy? But if it was a monster with this setting, why did it only lead away a few children each time? After all, the Piper in the story attacked indiscriminately with his flute and took away all the children at once. But the Piper in this children's welfare home version attacked with precision every time and only took away a few children, and it was the children who took the initiative. How did he do it?

Xiao Bailiu's voice suddenly lowered: "The teacher is coming to check on us. This call lasted 12 minutes and 37 seconds, which is rounded up to 13 minutes, a total of 1,300 yuan. Add the 1,700 yuan from last night, a total of 3,000 yuan. Thank you for your patronage. See you next time, Mr. Investor."

After saying this, the person hung up the phone very coldly.

This time Bai Liu was certain that Xiao Bailiu must have used a stopwatch to talk to him on the phone.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a notice was broadcasted in the wards and corridors:

"Good morning, patients. You can open the door after 9 o'clock. For patients who have found their own medicines, the nurses will deliver them to your wards in five minutes. For patients who have not found their own medicines, please go to the hospital restaurant on the first floor for dinner. After dinner, please speed up the pace of finding your own medicines. You are already in critical condition..."

Bai Liu opened the door, and he saw that other patients on this floor also opened their doors.

After a night, it seemed that the patients who came out were more energetic, as if they had absorbed enough moisture from the humidifier and were not so dry anymore.

In the corridor, a nurse was pushing a food cart and running very fast in high heels to deliver medicine to patients in some wards. Bai Liu tried to follow and take a look, but the nurse moved too quickly. Bai Liu only saw that the medicine was in a sealed stainless steel container. When the nurse pushed the food cart past Bai Liu, Bai Liu could hear a gurgling sound similar to the sound of water sloshing.

It looks like this medicine should be a liquid. Bai Liu thought about it and took note.

Mu Ke and Bai Liu had exchanged secret signals before moving in. They both lived on the same floor, the ninth floor. Mu Ke came out, and the dark circles under his eyes were even darker than before, like two students who had stayed up all night to cram for their final exams. They were both yawning, and it was obvious that they had stayed up late to read.

As soon as Bai Liu came out, Mu Ke stared at Bai Liu with such eager and focused eyes that made people's scalp tingle. He was like a cat that was still energetic after staying up all night, with a look on his face saying "Come and pet me".

It looks like it's wagging its tail to ask for reward.

Bai Liu obediently asked Mu Ke: "Did you find anything?"

"This game requires us to look for prescriptions in medical books. Because of my illness, I have read a lot of relevant literature and I know a lot about it. Last night, I wanted to split the work with you and each read half, but the patient couldn't leave the room on the first day, so I just read first. I read twenty-one books last night."

Mu Ke slapped his lips and yawned as he spoke. He was so sleepy that tears came out of his eyes. He couldn't help but complain, "The game settings are too crap. The room is dark and humid and no lights are allowed. I'm almost blinded by it. Fortunately, I have a pen to help me locate my sight, otherwise I would have astigmatism."

After hearing the twenty-one books, Bai Liu was strangely silent for a while.

The books in this game are all very thick. How thick are they? Bai Liu never thought about reading them. Mu Ke could actually read twenty-one books in one night...

"Can you remember everything after reading it?" Bai Liu asked.

Mu Ke looked at Bai Liu in surprise: "If you can remember it after reading it, why can't you remember it?"

Bai Liu: "..." He just couldn't remember.

Bai Liu felt the contempt of the top students for the poor students.

"How many books have you read?" Mu Ke asked Bai Liu.

Bai Liu, the poor student, was silent for a while and answered honestly, "0.01 book." He flipped through two pages and closed the book.

Staying up late and overusing his brain had caused Mu Ke's reaction time to drop significantly. He pondered Bai Liu's words for a moment before repeating with a wooden face, "0.01 book?"

This is almost the same as not watching it!

Mu Ke reacted quickly. He approached Bai Liu anxiously, looked around to make sure there was no one else around, and then asked Bai Liu in a low voice: "You are not really going to the ICU to steal that life-saving remedy, are you? Bai Liu, if you don't want to read it, you can let me read it. I read very quickly. I can finish reading all the books in that bookcase in three days at most!"

"But even if you have finished reading it, do you know what the life-saving remedy you are looking for looks like?" Bai Liu turned around and questioned Mu Ke.

Mu Ke was stunned.

He really didn't know.

But even if Mu Ke read twenty-one books in one night and could remember every word in them, he really didn't know what the life-saving recipe he was looking for was, because the definition of what the system wanted them to find was too vague. Without a clear direction, it was difficult to determine what exactly they were looking for - a specific medicine, a treatment plan, or something else.

"Without specific instructions, it's hard for us to know what the life-saving remedy we're looking for is." Bai Liu glanced at Mu Ke and patiently reminded him, "Also, the system's task prompt is to find the life-saving remedy in the library in the hospital, not necessarily the library in our ward."

"But the bookcases in all wards are the same." Mu Ke looked at Bai Liu a little uneasily. "When I came up, I took a peek at the bookcases in other patients' wards before they closed their doors. All the wards here have bookcases. I have a good memory and I can clearly remember that the types of books in the bookcases in the wards I have read are almost the same. If the system wants us to read books to find a life-saving remedy, then when we break into the ICU, we will still see those books. It doesn't make much sense, Bai Liu."

"But what's the difference between other people's books and our books?" Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke, "What's the difference between the book you read last night and the book you didn't read?"

Mu Ke was stunned for a while. After thinking for a while, he realized what Bai Liu wanted to say.

"It's notes!" Mu Ke said in a sudden realization. "When you read under the light in the ward, you will definitely leave notes on the book, because without a pen to guide your vision, you can't find where you were in the last sentence in a blink of an eye."

"If there is no doctor in this hospital, everyone is self-medicating." Bai Liu explained slowly, "Suppose they are like us, entering the hospital, reading books, and looking for ways to heal themselves in the books. And this hospital prohibits bringing any large light sources, but the light is very poor, then these people should be reading with the help of the lights in the ward, so there are so many pens in our drawers."

"Because in this kind of light, it is impossible to read a book without a pen. If you have a pen, there will be all kinds of handwriting or traces left on the book. They will definitely circle some important information to make it easier to find next time."

Bai Liu glanced at Mu Ke calmly. "According to the way the song goes, if you get sick on Thursday, you become seriously ill on Friday, and die on Saturday, the disease should get worse over time. The patients in the ICU are the sickest and have been here the longest. They are obviously receiving treatment, so the handwriting in their books is most likely to reveal what the system calls the "life-saving remedy." "

Mu Ke frowned: "But even so, we can't get into the ICU."

With so many nurses watching, and Miao Feichi standing by, going to the ICU would definitely attract Miao Feichi's attention! And that thing in the ICU... obviously no longer had a human form, so it was most likely a monster.

Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke and said, "I was worried that I wouldn't be able to read and remember all the notes. I feel relieved now that you are here."

"I can help you remember!" Mu Ke nodded, but he was a little worried, "But Bai Liu, how do we get into the ICU?"

Bai Liu touched Mu Ke's head. He lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "You are willing to do everything for me, right, Mu Ke?"

Mu Ke raised his head hesitantly and looked at Bai Liu. Bai Liu's eyes were deep and unfathomable. When he looked at people calmly, his dark eyes gave people a chilling feeling like a deep well, which made Mu Ke a little uneasy. But he bit his lower lip and said, "I am willing, Bai Liu."

"Then are you willing to kill me?" Bai Liu asked Mu Ke with a gentle smile. He took out a snow-white bone whip and placed it on Mu Ke's trembling palm, and said in a gentle and coaxing tone, "Use my fishbone whip to strangle me until I bleed profusely, will you, Mu Ke?"

Mu Ke was stunned.

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Ten minutes later, an emergency bell rang throughout the private hospital.

At this time, Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang were eating on the first floor. They were not in a hurry to find Bai Liu and kill him. The most important thing was the clues to pass the level. But when they suddenly heard the emergency bell, they thought it triggered some game plot. Miao Feichi stood up vigilantly and drew his weapon. In another corner, Liu Huai, who was eating worriedly because of his sister, also reflexively drew out his hidden sword, or shadow dagger.

A patient covered in blood stumbled down the emergency stairs, holding a snow-white bone whip in his hand. He ran out in a panic. Such a recognizable prop instantly caught Miao Feichi's attention.

He jumped over several tables in the cafeteria and stood in front of the player at a very fast speed with double swords in hand. Miao Feichi dropped the double swords and smashed them to the ground, which immediately scared the player.

The patient who was running fast while crying all the way lost his balance on the wet ground and slipped and fell to the ground. Tears started to flow from the player's eyes. He dropped his things and screamed: "Bai Liu, don't look for me! It was that monster that killed you! I just gave you one more blow to make up for the loss!"

This player's body and face were covered in blood, and his breathing was difficult. He seemed to be frightened by the scene he just saw. Now his hands were shaking and his pupils were dilated. He knelt on the ground, holding his head, and cried loudly as if he was terrified.

"You useless bastard." Miao Feichi had no interest in this ordinary player. He kicked the player, sending him flying and hitting his back against the pillar of the dining table. "Stand up and answer me."

The player was hit by the pillar behind him and bounced back, and he screamed in pain.

Mu Ke's eyes were filled with tears, he was filled with fear. The huge guilt after hurting Bai Liu and the uneasiness of hurting the guardian deity with his own hands almost made Mu Ke lose control, and his mental state began to fluctuate.

When Bai Liu personally held his hand and used the sharp bone whip full of fish bones to wrap around his snow-white and slender neck, Mu Ke kept shaking his head wildly, almost begging Bai Liu not to torture him like this.

He cried and begged for mercy, saying, Bai Liu, "Just kill me. You can still put me in the ICU, right? Then I will be the injured person, okay?"

Bai Liu smiled and said no, he said that I have a bad memory and can't remember so many notes, so the only one who will be hurt is me, you are the one who needs to stay awake, Mu Ke.

If you want to play in the league with me, you can't always rely on me, Mu Ke, you need to grow up, and the first step to growth is to try to do things independently.

Bai Liu held Mu Ke's hand and retracted the bone whip on his neck. The fish bone pierced his skin, and blood gushed out of the hole and soaked onto the straw bed, staining the snow-white sheets.

Mu Ke collapsed and screamed hysterically like a chick that was forced to leave its nest, and blood was oozing from the corners of Bai Liu's mouth. He chuckled absentmindedly, and a large amount of blood bubbled into Bai Liu's trachea, making him cough. This man was still stroking Mu Ke's head, as if a teacher was giving his last will to his students before he died - Mu Ke, whether in this game or the next one, we must win, and we must win to the end.

And all this depends on you, Mu Ke.

You have to deceive Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang and win their trust, otherwise we will all be dead.

Mu Ke gritted his teeth to control the pain in his back that was almost broken by Miao Feichi's kick. His heart was extremely contracted due to the violent emotional ups and downs and movements, making Mu Ke almost vomit, but he still did his duty, holding his head and trembling, pretending to be an ordinary player who knew nothing and was picking up leaks.

All the nurses hurried upstairs, and a few were pushing emergency beds, talking to each other as they walked:

"Which patient is in emergency? What's their name?"

"The patient's name is Bai Liu! He pressed the emergency bell himself. The nurse came over and confirmed that he had a laceration on his neck. He had lost too much blood and needed emergency treatment!"

"How did the laceration appear?! Didn't he open the door last night?"

"...We checked with the nurse on that floor last night, and it seems that he did open the door last night. It is very likely that something was placed in his ward for this reason..."

"Send him to the operating room quickly for blood transfusion and suturing! Are there any nurses or patients in our hospital who can suturing?"

"Yes! The bed in the ICU ward is ready. Go directly to the ward after leaving the operating room!"

Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang glanced at each other, and both saw the unbelievable in each other's eyes. Miao Gaojiang frowned: "Bai Liu opened the door last night and was attacked? Is this really Bai Liu?"

"That should be the case. NPCs won't mistake players for players." Miao Feichi sneered with an ambiguous tone. He looked at a group of nurses running upstairs in a hurry, saying that the patient was in urgent condition. Miao Feichi couldn't help but feel a little schadenfreude: "Oh, it looks like Bai Liu is going to give us a chance for free."

After saying this, Miao Feichi sighed in a hypocritical manner: "What should I do? I was planning to use him for a live broadcast. It will be ineffective if he dies." After saying this, Miao Feichi lifted up the chin of Mu Ke, who was lying on the ground and trembling, with his toes, and looked down at Mu Ke's blood-stained face with his double swords.

"Stand up, we want to ask you a few questions, answer honestly." Miao Feichi laughed evilly, "Otherwise you will be in trouble."

After saying that, Miao Feichi took out a scale from somewhere.

Mu Ke had seen this prop in the VIP video of Bai Liu's "The Last Train to Burst", it was called "Judge's Scales", and it was a common prop used for lie detection. Mu Sicheng had used it on Liu Huai.

This is a very common item among professional league players. Zhang Kui had one before, but it was stolen by Mu Sicheng. When they are sure that their opponent likes to play all kinds of tricks and schemes, such as the intelligent type like Bai Liu, many professional players will carry one with them.

Miao Feichi brought this prop specially this time to prevent fire, theft and Bai Liu.

Mu Ke's pupils couldn't help but shrink when he saw the prop, but he quickly slowed down his breathing - calm down, calm down, this prop can only answer yes and no, and he remembered that the answer can be controlled by emotions, Mu Sicheng was fooled by Liu Huai's answer.

"Don't even think about lying. I'm not as stupid as Mu Sicheng to be fooled. Of course, if you are Mu Sicheng, I'm sorry to offend you." Miao Feichi squatted down with a smile, and his curved sword surrounded Mu Ke. "You'd better not play tricks. This scale will indeed make some mistakes when answering some very complicated questions, but it will definitely not have any problems with simple questions. If you lie, I will kill you, and it won't take me even a second."

Miao Feichi's eyes were cold as he put the knife around Mu Ke's neck: "First question, did you really kill Bai Liu as you said?"

"Yes, yes." Mu Ke had to raise his head as the knife pointed at him. His voice trembled, "I used the fish bone in his hand to cut his neck with my own hands!"

As Mu Ke spoke, he held up the bloody white fish bone for Miao Feichi to see.

The scale swayed and tilted decisively towards Cheng.

"Well, even if you stabbed him, Bai Liu, who likes to play dirty tricks, can still use the tactic of self-sabotage as a counter-espionage tactic. Now, the second question is, are you Bai Liu's accomplice..."

Mu Ke's heart was in his throat. He looked at Miao Feichi nervously, and he could hardly breathe. He had already clenched the Siren's bone whip in his hand.

Then Miao Feichi said the next three words coldly: "——Mu Sicheng?"

The author has something to say:

Miao Feichi: Are you Bai Liu's accomplice...

Mu Ke: I am

Xiang Chunhua: I am

Liu Fu: I am

Miao Feichi: - Mu Sicheng, damn, when did he get so many accomplices!

Mu Sicheng: I was thrown into another game to train new players. I am Bai's crazy partner. Please don't cue me.

The upcoming accomplice 5:)