Xiao Bailiu paused for a moment, then continued to explain, "And you didn't say good evening to me last night. This is usually what I say to the sponsor when I take the money, but you are the sponsor, so you don't need to say this to me. You didn't say it last night, so it's a bit strange that you started with good evening tonight."

That's right, Bai Liu thought about it and realized that he would only be polite and courteous to strangers when he had money to pay. Bai Liu could say all kinds of strange words, similar to what he said to Zhang Kui's master, but he himself didn't realize it.

"How did you think of letting Mu Ke use your phone to talk to me?" Bai Liu asked with a smile. "And why are you with Mu Ke tonight? And how are you doing tonight?"

The player's phone is tied and cannot be exchanged, but the child's phone is not.

However, when almost all children are out and it is extremely difficult for them to make phone calls, Miao Gaozhuang, who has never received a phone call from a child, probably never thought of letting one child take another child out and handing the phone to the other child the moment the call is connected so that the other child can talk.

Children's execution and obedience are much lower than those of adults, especially compared to those adults who have already crawled around and fought in the game. Under the premise that it is difficult for these children to call them, a little lunatic like Xiaobailiu who stays up late at night for money and drags Mu Ke out to run around the yard, not to mention Miao Gaojing, even Bai Liu himself is a little surprised at Xiaobailiu's rare execution.

Although he knew that he would probably do anything for money, when he heard Xiao Mu Ke's voice when the call was connected, Bai Liu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.

Xiao Bai Liuping reported straightly: "Because there will be a baptism tomorrow, the teacher asked to notify investors and parents, so many children came out tonight to make phone calls. But so far, apart from me, there have been some children attracted by the sound of the flute, so the deformed children did not chase us, so the situation is not bad."

"As for why I'm with Mu Ke tonight, I think you're asking even though you already know the answer." Xiao Bailiu's tone was cold and contemptuous. "Didn't you ask me to look after two children for you last night? You said you gave me money to look after two children. One of them was a blind girl. I now know her name is Liu Jiayi, and the other is Mu Ke. I can't get in touch with the girls for now, but Mu Ke and I sleep in the same room. When I call you tonight for the money, I will definitely look for Mu Ke who is in the same room with me."

"My original intention was to let you hear his voice to test it out for you, to verify that this little brat was in good condition and could run and cry, but I didn't expect that something went wrong on your end, so I stopped talking and gave him the phone, asking him to pretend to be your investment child."

Xiao Bailiu's voice paused subtly, and then he questioned Bai Liu directly: "Actually, I think when you told me last night that you gave me money to help someone, it was just to let Mu Ke call you now, right?"

Bai Liu's voice contained a very slight smile, and he leaned lazily against the wall: "You can say that."

When he said to Xiao Bailiu, "I'll give you money if you look after Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi for me," he knew that Xiao Bailiu would definitely drag one of them out to call him tonight.

At the age of fourteen, his obsession with money was stronger than ever before. He could not give up such an opportunity to get money. However, Bai Liu had always been a person who abided by his transactions. So he would not easily deceive his trading partner. The best way to verify the success of the transaction was to let Xiao Mu Ke talk to Bai Liu directly and say that he was not bad.

And Xiao Bailiu really did so.

"You can just ask me, Tuomu Ke, to come out and call you tonight. You don't have to go through so much trouble with me." Xiao Bailiu's voice has a kind of youthful aura, but because it is too calm, it seems very indifferent. "Give me money, and I can do anything for you."

"But then you would know in advance my hostile plan against the other two investors." Bai Liu said slowly, "You would definitely guess what I was going to do and what kind of terrible threat I would face. You would know what this call means to me. You might even sell my plan to my enemy while you were on the phone and get more money from him. That's what you would do, wouldn't you?"

Xiao Bailiu over there fell into a long silence.

Bai Liu chuckled: "I can't let you guess what I'm going to do, because you are also a very dangerous guy."

"I even feel that you are more dangerous to me than anything else in this game, but fortunately I understand you, and based on my understanding of you, I tell you one fact, Bai Liu, the money I give you will definitely be more than anyone else in this world. I can even give you all my money."

Bai Liu slowly lowered his eyes: "No one will be more generous to you than me, Bai Liu."

Because I am you and you are me, money flows strangely between you and me across time and latitude, but its essence belongs to the identity of "me". The money I have is owned by you and me at the same time, but the money owned by Bai Liu will not decrease in the slightest.

"All the money?" Xiao Bailiu's tone was still cold, but his words were full of inexplicable irony. "Then you are really a rare and kind person who is not selfish at all, Mr. Investor."

"I am indeed very selfish and greedy, so I am definitely not like this to others." Bai Liu was not angry after being ridiculed, and his face remained unmoved with a friendly smile, "But anyway, you are the most special person to me in this [world], so I will definitely be unreserved to you."

Xiao Bailiu did not answer Bai Liu's question, but just maintained a subtle and indifferent suspicious silence.

Bai Liu continued calmly, "But I can understand what you are thinking. You must be thinking that humans are selfish animals by nature. As an investor, why should I go against my instinct and do this for a stranger like you? There must not be such a person in this world. Even if there is, they must be pretending to be so in order to gain more benefits - after all, there is no such thing as a free lunch, right?"

Xiao Bailiu on the opposite side fell into a strange silence again. It was obvious that Bai Liu knew very well what the fourteen-year-old was thinking.

"I thought the same when I was your age." Bai Liu leaned against the wall, his head tilted back with his eyes slightly closed.

Because of his weak body, the orphanage, a copy that held a special meaning to him, and the existence of the game NPC Xiaobai Liu, Bai Liu rarely immersed himself in memories of the past.

What was he like when he was fourteen? Bai Liu thought he didn't remember much.

Because humans are indeed very forgetful creatures. Perhaps human memory really only lasts seven seconds, and the rest of the memory is just something that humans construct based on their shallow sensory memories to deceive, fool and comfort themselves.

But the moment he heard Xiao Bailiu's cold and emotionless voice, the moment Bai Liu closed his eyes, he was able to remember what kind of person he was at the age of fourteen.

He was aloof, cold, and out of tune with everything around him. No one could understand this skinny little boy who spent all day reading horror stories and all kinds of horror stories and games he could get in the orphanage.

When Bai Liu was fourteen, he was not as good at concealing his expression and disguising himself as he is now. When he looked at people, his eyes were naturally a little bit repulsive, and he exuded a cold aura that kept strangers away. Therefore, no children were willing to approach him.

Of course, this is also a big problem with Bai Liu himself.

While other children in the welfare home played with trains or building blocks donated by kind-hearted people, Bai Liu's favorite toys were creepy dolls with missing arms and legs. While other children were reading comics and story books, Bai Liu was reading books like "Slender Man" that had been donated to the welfare home for some unknown reason.

But at that time, when these human cubs had not yet entered society to be poisoned and influenced by various adult rules, every child in the welfare home would fight desperately for good toys, delicious food, the chance to be adopted by their parents, and even a less damp straw bed.

No one taught them to do this. Trampling on others in order to live a better life is something like a biological instinct. Bai Liu realized this very early, so he stayed further and further away from these people.

But in the welfare home, there are two people who would not fight for these things at all, one is Bai Liu and the other is Lu Yizhang.

Bai Liu didn't need these things, he liked money more, and welfare homes generally don't give these things to children. Lu Yizhang gave them up because he thought other people needed them more, so this fool took the initiative to give them up.

Lu Yizhan foolishly gave up better food, better toys, and the chance to be adopted. He looked at the happy smiles of others who were using the fruits of his exploitation. At this time, the other party only needed to say a simple and shallow thank you to Lu Yizhan, and this fool would tilt his head to reveal a smile that was even more brilliant than the other party's.

"I used to think that there really aren't people in this world who give everything for others." Bai Liu's voice was very soft and calm. "Even if you give for others, it's for the self-sacrifice and self-satisfaction that comes from being brainwashed by secular moral standards. The essence is still to please yourself."

"There are no purely good people in the world, only purely bad people."

Xiao Bailiu's breathing could be heard rapidly from the other side. He was running in the children's welfare home late at night, pulling Xiao Mu Ke, who was still sobbing softly, but Bai Liu knew he was listening.

The young guy hasn't hung up the phone yet because the payment is by the minute. He is really a hard-working chat companion - even though he is a child laborer.

Bai Liu's voice carried a lazy and idle smile, as if he recalled something funny: "Then when I was firm in my thoughts, I met a fool who volunteered to be my friend."

"He kept asking me why I was alone, and why he saved money to give me food. When he found me reading some bloody and strange books, he was stunned for a moment, and then secretly went out to get them for me to read." Bai Liu said in a very calm tone, "But I was very cold to him from beginning to end. He was giving without any satisfaction, and I thought he would give up soon."

Xiao Bailiu over there finally spoke up. He asked, "Has he given up?"

"He walked away from me for a while, and I thought he had given up." Bai Liu paused, "Then one day at noon, I saw a Slender Man doll behind the yard."

It was a very clumsy, tall and thin ghost. The doll costume on its body was made from discarded bed sheets from an orphanage. The hat was tattered, and it looked like a failed handicraft by a primary school student. The tall and thin ghost was waving his ragged clothes and saying hi to Bai Liu in a foolish manner.

During that time, Bai Liu often read The Story of the Slender Man, because the welfare home did not donate any other books of this kind.

But Lu Yizhan may have misunderstood that Bai Liu liked this strange legendary creature very much. The teenage Lu Yizhan secretly stayed up late and hid in the quilt to make such a doll. Then he put it on his head and jumped in front of Bai Liu. He jumped and panted and sweated profusely. The eyes in the low-quality puppet suit were clean, but the eye sockets were red because of staying up late.

Lu Yizhang thought Bai Liu was one of those kids who liked cartoon characters, and he simply hoped that Bai Liu would be happy because of this.

But he didn't mean to ask Bai Liu to thank him. Of course, Bai Liu didn't mean to thank him either, because this was really...

"...He's so stupid." Xiao Bailiu complained expressionlessly.

"Yes, I felt the same way at that time." Bai Liu chuckled. "I looked at him like he was an idiot, and then politely explained that I was not a fan of Slender Man. I just liked to read these horror stories, watching these strange and terrifying creatures eat stupid and errant humans. I like such horror stories."

Xiao Bailiu was silent for a while and said, "I like it too, but he probably... doesn't like it."

All I can say is that normal children wouldn't like it. Bai Liu was a freak in the orphanage at that time, because the books he read and the paintings he drew were not normal and were very bloody. He was the type that the teachers would pay special attention to, as they thought he had anti-social tendencies. Soon, under the strict supervision of the teachers, they threw away all the things that Bai Liu liked.

Books, games, and even the stuffed toys that Bai Liu looked at twice. They were wary of Bai Liu as if he were a potential prisoner.

In fact, to some extent, this kind of defense is correct.

Bai Liu restrained his blatant hobby and pretended to be a good child who had returned to the right path.

Lu Yizhan doesn't like this kind of unconventional horror stories and games.

But just because he doesn't like it doesn't mean he can't make Bai Liu like it. He knows Bai Liu likes it, but he just pretends not to like it.

"He really didn't like it, but this guy has always been popular. He found a lot of horror games and horror story books from somewhere." Bai Liu's eyes were still closed. He recalled, "There were really a lot of them, and he secretly sent them to me without telling the teacher, letting me play and read them."

Xiao Bailiu was silent for a long time this time. He asked, "Why did he do this?"

"That's what I asked him." Bai Liu's voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible. "He said, aren't we friends? This is what I can do for you, so I did it."

Xiao Bailiu was deeply puzzled: "When did you become friends with him? I remember that you didn't agree to this, right?"

"I don't know either." Bai Liu said, "But Lu Yizhan was so willing to admit it. I told him that I was probably a freak and might do bad things in the future. He told me very seriously that if I was going to be a bad person, he would act like a policeman and arrest me."

Bai Liu chuckled: "So he assured me that he would not let me be a bad person, because the police's friends cannot be bad people."

"He played a lot of horror games with me for many, many years, and then he gradually realized that I was not a normal person, but he still insisted on being my friend."

"Why?" Xiao Bailiu asked again, he was a little confused this time, "You two can't understand each other at all. What good will it bring to him to be friends with you?"

"There is no benefit at all. I am a troublesome person in every aspect." Bai Liu admitted this very readily. "I am not good at being a human being, but my friend is not befriending me for any benefit."

Xiao Bailiu: "Why is that?"

Bai Liu: "He just wanted me to have a friend."

Lu Yizhang's reason was so simple, he wanted to be friends with Bai Liu, he wanted Bai Liu to be happier, he wanted Bai Liu to have a friend who did not sympathize or pity him, he just thought so, so he did it.

Lu Yizhang was the first strange human being that Bai Liu knew. His existence almost overturned Bai Liu's three views - this person was advanced, had no personal purpose, had extremely high moral standards, but was not very smart, a purely good person. In Bai Liu's worldview, he was simply a textbook-level self-devoted fool.

He is Bai Liu's only friend in his life.

"There are still some purely good people in this world. Their existence goes against evolution and human instinct, so they live a hard life." Bai Liu said softly, "But they exist, and you will meet them soon."

Yes, Bai Liu, you will meet this friend who is willing to play games with you, pretend to be a tall and thin ghost to make you laugh, and accompany you through many years, Bai Liu said softly in his heart.

"People like this are rare, aren't they?" Xiao Bailiu's tone was still so indifferent, "It's a miracle that you can meet one of them. I won't meet such a fool who is willing to give his all."

"You will." Bai Liu smiled, "You will meet me again, right?"

"I know you're a bad kid, Bai Liu, and I know you might betray me, but I still told you my plan in the end." Bai Liu's tone was gentle, with a strange hint of temptation, "You are really important to me, more important than the plan, even more important than me."

"You are the most important person in this place to me." Bai Liu smiled, "I promise that I will be your strange and reliable friend."

This time, Bai Liu was silent for a very long time, so long that Bai Liu thought he would hang up the phone. Then, Bai Liu changed the subject in a very stiff tone: "You like horror games too? Have you played any fun ones?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes absentmindedly, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he chatted with Bai Liu slowly and leisurely: "Yes, I have played two very good games, one is called "Siren Town" and the other is called "Last Train to Explosion"."

At the age of fourteen, he was still very gullible and would be slightly moved by a self-sacrificing fool like Lu Yizhan.

But if he had met the 24-year-old Bai Liu, things would have been much more complicated.

Bai Liu did not have much leisure to provide psychological counseling to his fourteen-year-old self, and he felt that Xiao Bailiu did not need it either. He said that this long string of stories was just to pave the way for persuading Xiao Bailiu to cooperate with him wholeheartedly - because unfortunately, the best tool to seduce Xiao Bailiu - his points, or money, Bai Liu had already thrown all of them to Miao Feichi and the others.

This is also a very dangerous point. The total points of all the players controlled by Bai Liu, that is, the total money, is lower than that of Miao Feichi and others. The total number of props that Xiao Bailiu has a lot of control over is less than that of his enemies.

And soon after Xiao Bailiu saw them the next day, this very sensitive child quickly realized one thing - that is, Bai Liu was not as rich as Miao Feichi and the others.

This is very embarrassing. When Xiao Bailiu knows that they are enemies, based on Bai Liu's understanding of him, Xiao Bailiu will definitely side with the side with more money. He is likely to sell his information to Miao Feichi and his son. Bai Liu knows very well that he is not a very obedient child at the age of fourteen. At present, Xiao Bailiu is only obedient to his money.

Even if this would lead to his own death, Xiao Bailiu would not care. When he was fourteen years old, his desire for money over life was much stronger than it is now.

Therefore, Bai Liu needs a point other than money that can restrain Xiao Bailiu from doing evil things for money. This point must be as important as money. From Bai Liu's known experience, a powerful weapon to restrain himself is Lu Station.

Lu Station was able to restrain the money-hungry Bai Liu from committing crimes for so many years. In addition to this man's unusual stubbornness and his determination to be friends with Bai Liu, there was another very important reason - Bai Liu was very curious about Lu Station.

Bai Liu is a very curious person, full of desire to explore all kinds of bizarre inhuman behaviors. His curiosity about Lu Yizhan has never diminished over the years.

Bai Liu was curious about how long Lu Yizhang, a freak like himself, could become a good person. He was curious about what drove his behavior. When this curiosity was strong enough, it could even offset Bai Liu's desire for money to a certain extent.

Lu Yizhan does not exist in this copy, so Bai Liu tells Xiao Bailiu that such a person exists, and he plays the role of Lu Yizhan himself. Bai Liu extracts the most restraining element from Lu Yizhan - this curiosity.

Xiao Bailiu began to feel curious about him and wanted to explore the logic behind his behavior. That was the beginning of the whole story.

Just like what he did to Lu Post Station.