Xiao Mu Ke was a little confused: "...Why weren't we taken away on the baptism day?"

Xiao Bailiu: "According to my common understanding of baptism, we should not be qualified to have our blood drawn before we are baptized, because we are sinful before we are baptized, and only the blood of the Lord can wash away our sins."

Xiao Bailiu yawned lazily as he spoke. He had been staying up late for two consecutive days and was really a little sleepy. “And haven’t you noticed yet? These [flute-playing kids] are saving people.”

Xiaomuke was startled: "Rescue people?"

"Yes, to save people." Xiao Bailiu closed his eyes again, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and lay quietly, as if he would fall asleep in the next second. "They are carrying IV tubes and IV bags. They should be from a private hospital. So I guess they know which children the terminally ill investors there will draw blood from next, so they are taking away the children who are selected to have their blood drawn."

"For example, the child who was taken away from our room, I saw the director take him to register today, saying that an investor wanted to adopt him." Xiao Bailiu said calmly, "I believe you have seen clearly in your dreams what will happen after he is adopted, Mu Ke."

Xiao Mu Ke couldn't help shuddering when he thought of the blood-drawing tortures in his dream.

Xiao Bailiu continued calmly, "And it is precisely because of this that, if I am not mistaken, the children who were taken away first saw what might happen to them in the future under the hypnosis of the [Flute Sound], and then saw this group of children with strange appearances who looked exactly like the ones in their dreams after their blood was drawn."

"The group of [flute-playing children] must have told them that they were victims of blood-drawing and that they would be taken to a safe place and would never have to come back. That's why the group of children took the initiative to follow the group of strange-looking [flute-playing children] soberly and happily."

Xiao Bailiu paused and said, "And our [investors] have given up on drawing our blood, so we are safe even after being baptized."

"Because we don't need saving, they won't take us away."

Xiao Mu Ke was lying on the bed. He turned his body to look at Xiao Bailiu who seemed to be asleep. He couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "...Xiao Bailiu, how can you be so sure that your [investor] won't secretly register to take you away and draw your blood?"

Xiao Bailiu breathed evenly and did not answer Xiao Muke, as if he had fallen asleep. Xiao Muke sighed sadly and muttered a few words, "Xiao Bailiu, you trust your [investor] so much, who is the more naive one?" Then, as he thought about it, he fell asleep in worry.

At the last moment before Xiao Mu Ke fell asleep, he seemed to hear Xiao Bailiu's calm answer in a half-awake state: "If he lies to me, I will kill him."

In the darkness of the child's bedroom, there were two pairs of eyes staring stiffly.

Xiao Miao Fei Chi and Xiao Miao Gao were hiding in the quilts trembling. They listened to the conversation between Xiao Mu Ke and Xiao Bai Liu, and saw the terrifying "Flute-Playing Child" who broke in. It seemed that because they were both awake, the flute-playing child hovered above them for a long time.

Now, the children of these two S-rank players who have not yet experienced various horror events in the game and then achieved success are now sweating profusely and dare not move. In the final analysis, these two people had just ordinary childhoods.

Perhaps he cannot be considered an ordinary person. After all, when he grew up, he had the courage to kill his mother and allow his children to kill his wife and eat her corpse.

But the person who was killed was his terminally ill mother (wife), a useless woman. How could that be the same thing as being killed himself?

Xiao Miaogao's clothes were all wet with cold sweat. He could only maintain his composure with difficulty. He was terribly frightened.

Xiao Miao Fei Chi, who had the guts to scald his terminally ill mother to death with boiling water and liked to eat children's flesh, could not accept being treated like this - the thought of having his blood drained out to the point of being dry and dry with only skin and bones made Xiao Miao Fei Chi so scared that he almost collapsed and his legs couldn't help but twitch a few times.

Even though he covered his head with the quilt and tried his best to suppress it, he could still hear the frightened sobs.

Hearing two heavy breathing sounds and a little crying coming from the bedroom, Xiaobai Liu'an Ning, who seemed to have been asleep for a long time, suddenly had a strange smile on his face.

——————

At 6:15 on Tuesday morning, Bai Liu's phone rang on time.

"Good morning, Mr. Investor." Xiao Bailiu greeted politely, "Last night I discovered..."

"A kid playing the flute?" Bai Liu opened his system panel and asked with interest.

[Refresh of "Love Welfare Home Monster Book" - Deformed Children (1/3)]

[Monster name: Deformed child (becoming violent after blood was drawn)]

【Features: Likes to go out late at night and take children away】

[Weakness: ? ? ? (to be explored)]

【Attack method: blood drawing by injection (A+), phone location (A+)】

[Trigger new attack method: Little Flute Playing Boy, A-level skill, can use the sound of the flute to lure away the player's secondary identity]

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for gathering all the attack methods of the deformed children]

Xiao Bailiu was silent. He did not ask why Bai Liu knew what happened here, but continued to report calmly: "Yes, it appeared at about two o'clock in the morning. It was in the mode of sleep hypnosis. It can see investors drawing blood from themselves in the future..."

Bai Liu listened quietly to Xiao Bailiu's report, thinking: "It seems that the deformed child is on the same side as you. That's right, you are all victims. The deformed child who chases you every night is probably the same as the child playing the flute. Even if he makes you disappear, his main purpose is to take you away and hide you to protect you. In fact, it is to prevent me from finding you."

But where were they hidden - a group of ghost children could hide a group of real children so that living people could not find them at all, so it was hard to say whether they were hidden in the underworld or the world of the living. Bai Liu felt that the children taken away by this group of children might have died on another level, which was just euthanasia.

Judging from the scene in "The Pied Piper" where the child is taken away, the child should have been drowned as well, but he died happily to the sound of the flute.

Xiao Bailiu's viewpoint was the same as Bai Liu's. He said coldly, "I don't think it's protection, it's probably death. If you take away the children every night, I don't think you wealthy [investors] will be able to find such a large number of children. I also don't think one group of dead children can provide shelter for another group of children."

"Yes, but there are indeed places where they can be used." Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, "These flute-playing kids should know how to escape from your completely closed welfare home."

Xiao Bailiu was silent again: "Do you need me to escape from this [Love Welfare Home]?"

"Yes." Bai Liu said, "But the problem now is, if you follow these flute-playing kids out of the orphanage, how can you protect yourself from them? And not only do you have to run, you also have to take others with you."

Bai Liu tapped his fingers on the bed twice, his eyes concealing a lot of obscure emotions: "All of these people, including Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang, you have to take them out, and then-"

"Kill them and then give you their blood, right?" Xiao Bailiu added calmly, "That's no problem. I can let them follow me, but they'll have to pay extra."

"One hundred thousand per person."

Bai Liu paused slightly, then raised the corner of his mouth lazily: "Deal."

"But there are two key points to note in this deal. If you violate one of them, the deal will be void—" Bai Liu added leisurely, "First, the core mission is to escape, but the first priority is your personal safety, and the second is the safety of Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi. If you can't guarantee that, don't act rashly."

"Secondly, killing Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang is not your mission." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and said softly, "If possible, I hope you can leave them to me, Xiao Bailiu. After all, you are only fourteen years old, and I am twenty-four years old. Maybe I am more suitable for this kind of thing than you. Of course, I will still pay you two hundred thousand."

This time, Xiao Bailiu was silent for a long time, and then asked, with a hint of genuine doubt in his voice: "Is there any difference between doing this at the age of 14 and at the age of 24?"

"There is no difference in essence." Bai Liu paused, "But I just don't want you to do it. Wait until you are an adult and can take responsibility for your own actions before deciding whether you want to be a bad person."

"Now let me, a grown-up, be the bad guy, kid."

After Xiao Bailiu hung up the phone, Bai Liu looked up at the dark window outside his ward and let out a breath, thinking that he was really reacting to the conditions that Lu Yizhan had read out.

Just a moment ago, Xiao Bailiu said that he wanted to kill someone. Bai Liu's first reaction was that he was instigating a minor to commit a crime, which was a felony. Lu Yizhan was most afraid that he would do this. After all, Bai Liu was indeed very good at it.

Therefore, Lu Yizhang reminded him eight hundred times every day not to work with minors in pyramid schemes and pyramid selling, so that even in the game, Bai Liu subconsciously avoided such situations.

But it is indeed better for him to come. After all, Xiaobailiu's mission is already troublesome enough. Killing Miao Feichi is not an easy task for a child like Xiaobailiu. Xiaobailiu's core mission is to escape, so it is better to give him this mission that is prone to accidents during the escape.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

An announcement was made in the ward to inform all patients that they could come out for activities and to notify new patients to come and watch their children's baptisms.

[System prompt: A side quest has been triggered. Players who have received a phone call from a child are invited to go to the Love Welfare House to watch their invested child being baptized.]

Bai Liu is now in Mu Ke's ward. Today is the baptism day, but Bai Liu has died. There must be one less of the five investors who are going to attend the baptism. One of Bai Liu and Mu Ke must give up this side quest, and it is obvious that it is Mu Ke who gave up.

Mu Ke was in a very bad mental state. He hadn't slept for two consecutive nights and had been memorizing things. He had also been sucked blood and chased, and he had cried all night. So now the young master's eyes were swollen like a goldfish, and he lay on his back on the bed motionless.

The young master didn't really like the wet and sticky straw bed, but he didn't have the energy to think about it right now.

It was obvious that this young master who had overused his brain and eyes needed a rest, and Bai Liu decided to attend the baptism as an investor of Mu Ke.

But Mu Ke needs to rest is one thing, but whether he can rest is another.

He simply couldn't fall asleep. Even though he was so tired that he didn't even want to talk, as soon as Mu Ke closed his eyes, his mind was filled with all kinds of chaotic images and information. His cerebral cortex, which remained active due to all kinds of excessive emotions, gave him a splitting headache. Even though Bai Liu gave him the bed and slept on the floor herself, he couldn't fall asleep at all.

Mu Ke saw Bai Liu standing up from the ground and preparing to go out. Mu Ke also struggled to get up from the bed. He looked at Bai Liu with some worry: "Why don't I go? After all, I'm the real Mu Ke. If they have any other lie detector props or tricks, I can handle it."

"No need." Bai Liu tidied up his hospital gown. He slept on the floor last night and used a book cushion as a cushion. He didn't sleep very well and looked very tired.

Bai Liu turned around and looked at Mu Ke on the bed: "I have something to ask you to do in the hospital. It's something only you can do."

Mu Ke was startled: "What's the matter?"

"I need you to help me check some medical records for me." Bai Liu said.

The timeline of the orphanage in this copy is ten years ago, which is exactly the time when those entrepreneurs in reality invested in the children's orphanage and began to arrange for the first batch of children to enter school.

These two orphanages are two manifestations of the same dungeon. Referring to [The Last Train] and [Mirror City Explosion Case], although the game dungeon and the real event are presented in different forms, the core events are generally the same - it is very likely that these seriously ill entrepreneurs also did the same thing to these children, extracting their blood to nourish the blood and cure the disease with Ganoderma lucidum.

However, Lu Yizhan was driven crazy by the investigation but could not find any clues about these entrepreneurs' attacks on children. After all, it had been ten years, and many ideas that could lead to their crimes had been completely abandoned. Most of the children whose blood was drawn were already dead, so it was very difficult to find any clues.

Another reason is that Bai Liu believes that even if there were clues, they would have been cleaned up by these powerful people long ago, otherwise this group of people would not give up funding the welfare home and let this place where they committed crimes out of their control.

In the end, even if Bai Liu got out of the game and told Lu Yizhang what happened in the welfare home case, Lu Yizhang believed Bai Liu's weird and superstitious statements. However, without any concrete evidence or clues, they could do nothing even with a bunch of well-known and reputable entrepreneurs.

But Bai Liu agreed to help Lu Station investigate the matter, and he also accepted compensation from Lu Station - he liked to do deals from beginning to end.

Things that cannot be done outside the game may not be impossible within the game, and clues that do not exist outside the game may exist within the game.

Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke and said, "Mu Ke, I'll write down a few names for you later. The nurses are very lax in supervising the patients during the day. See if you can sneak into the file room where they store the patient information, find the medical records of these people, and then help me remember them all."

"Especially the names of the children they used as the medicine, and the time of each blood draw. It would be best if you could remember them all, and then tell me when I come back."

The medical records were quite complicated, and there were several of them. It was difficult for others to remember these galaxies while sneaking into the file room without being discovered by the nurses.

But for Yu Muke, this was a very simple matter. He nodded without hesitation: "Okay, tell me the patient's name."

Bai Liu mentioned a few names and asked Mu Ke: "Do you remember their names?"

Mu Ke nodded, then frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "These are entrepreneurs in real life. They should be ordinary people, right? How come their names appear in the archives of this game?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyelids: "They may not be ordinary people. They should be like monsters in this game. And, if possible, Mu Ke, try to remember the names of all the investor patients registered in the medical records room."

Mu Ke was stunned: "…Do I have to remember everything? Why?"

"A large children's welfare home that has been open for ten years and has only recently begun to lose investment..."

Having said this, Bai Liu paused subtly, and then continued:

"The investment cost of large private orphanages is huge. If there is no relatively large interest chain behind it to support it, I think it is unlikely to be able to maintain such a long period of time, with multiple groups making uncompensated investments, unless a commodity industry chain is formed."

Bai Liu calmly analyzed and explained, "It is obvious that the products that a children's welfare home can provide are children and their by-products. Normally, I am more likely to guess the situation and the color chain, but here it should be blood."

Bai Liu's attitude was almost inhumane and cold. He stated without emotion: "In an orphanage that has been open for ten years and can accommodate hundreds of children at a time, the number of children circulating can provide blood - I think more people can be saved than the ones I mentioned, so I think when this orphanage opened, the number of terminally ill patients waiting in line was not just the few entrepreneurs on the surface."

Bai Liu looked at him with a calm expression that made Mu Ke shudder. "If my guess is correct, the data in that archive room, in addition to the players who have logged into this game before--"

"——They are probably all [investors] who have sucked children's blood to treat diseases in real life."

[System warning: The content of the player Bai Liu's discussion involves the core of reality and the game. The player Bai Liu's small TV has blocked and muted this conversation.]

Mu Ke was completely confused. He was a little bit unable to recover from his slumber. He got off the bed in a panic with a chill on his back: "Wait, Bai Liu, you mean - no, wait, if I have to remember all the medical records of all the patients, I may not be able to remember so much in a short time! I, my brain is not working well now, and what exactly did you mean by what you just said..."

"I'll explain the details to you later." Bai Liu interrupted Mu Ke's questioning. He glanced at the panicked Mu Ke calmly, "If you can't remember all of them, just remember the ones I told you about. For crimes of this level, there should be a relatively close connection between them. As long as we catch a few of them, it will be easy to pull out the radish and bring out the mud."

Bai Liu pushed open the door. He turned to Mu Ke, who was sitting beside the bed in a daze, and nodded calmly, "Take a break. I need you to keep your memory highly accurate at all times. There is still a lot of information that you need to remember."

"I don't need to rest. I can't sleep. I'll go and help you record the medical records... the information... I can't remember it in a short time. I'll remember it for a while..." As he spoke, Mu Ke blinked slowly twice. He shook his head twice, but his head seemed to suddenly become heavy and fell on the straw bed with a bang. He breathed a little hurriedly as he looked at Bai Liu who was holding the door handle and looking down at him.

Bai Liu looked at Mu Ke lying on the bed without any expression on her face: "You need to rest, Mu Ke."

[System prompt: Player Bai Liu uses a high-strength inhalable sleeping pill on player Mu Ke]

Mu Ke's eyes went dark and he felt the whole ward spinning. He struggled to open his eyelids, only to see Bai Liu turn around, close the door, and disappear between his curtains that were about to fall. He reached out his hand to catch Bai Liu's departing figure, but he only moved his fingers twice and closed his eyes unwillingly.

"I don't want to rest...I want to do something..."

Before Mu Ke completely lost consciousness and fell asleep, the last thing Bai Liu said was, "The sleeping pills will take effect around 11:30 noon. The nurses will be eating at that time, and no one will be in the file room. It would be a good time for you to wake up."

"Sleep well, Mu Ke."

Mu Ke curled up into a small ball on the straw bed, his eyes closed, breathing evenly, and sleeping soundly.

After taking a look, Bai Liu turned around and locked the door - Mu Ke was in a very bad mood. He had been in a state of excessive shock since last night. He was like a trembling cat. Not being able to get a good night's sleep would affect his memory.

There aren't many safe time periods in the game for Mu Ke to rest, so Bai Liu can understand why Mu Ke is in such an overly alert state.

Only today, Miao Feichi is not here. The density of nurses patrolling during the day is very high, and the probability of monsters appearing is very low. There is no better time than now for Mu Ke to rest and recover.

But Bai Liu's absence would greatly deprive Muke of his sense of security. As expected, Muke immediately sat up from the bed as soon as Bai Liu stood up. His eyes were bloodshot and he followed him. It seemed that he couldn't sleep at all. Bai Liu simply used medicine to knock out Muke.

At half past nine, all the [investors] who wanted to watch the baptism gathered at the hospital entrance.