Chapter 36: Reality (2/2)
The mother took the lead in collapsing to her knees while crying. “As long as you can kill Li Gou, you can take whatever you want! Take it all! I can give you all my money!”
This was treating Bai Liu like a gangster.
Bai Liu smiled. “No, I’m not going to ask you for money. On the contrary, I will give you money.”
He took out the two coins that the noodle restaurant owner had given him and placed them on his spread open palm. Bai Liu looked down. “I will use one coin to buy your soul. Are you willing to make this deal with me?”
The mother gritted her teeth and took the coin. The father hesitated for a few seconds before also taking a coin from Bai Liu’s hand.
“I want to.”
It didn’t matter what this person did or if he was a madman speaking nonsense. As long as he was willing to help them get revenge for Guoguo then they were willing to give it a try.
[System reminder: Player Bai Liu has used two yuan (RMB) to buy Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua’s souls.]
[System reminder: Player Bai Liu is the first purchaser of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua’s souls. You have the highest authority and can transfer part of Liu Fu and Xiang Chunhua’s soul debt.]
The moment Xiang Chunhua said these words, she felt a strange sensation in her body like something heavy had been taken from her heavy body and stored somewhere. She looked at the smiling young man in front of her and felt a sense of trust and sincerity in her heart that she couldn’t express.
Xiang Chunhua was stunned before asking, “You are Bai Liu right? What do you do? Where can we find you?”
“I am unemployed, a poor wanderer.” Bai Liu looked down at the new coin in his wallet. “You will find me in a game. I hope that when we meet, you will have survived the first game.”
On the coin, there was an image of Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu standing to the left and right of the gravestone while crying desperate tears. The two people gently stroked the top of the gravestone like they were stroking the top of their child’s head. The photo of Liu Guoguo was smiling while covered by an umbrella to block the rain. The lower right of the coin said ‘2 yuan’ and the back said ‘soul coin’, followed by a small line of words: Issued by a non-system bank. The highest authority belongs to the owner Bai Liu, not the system.
The corners of Bai Liu’s mouth rose slightly.
[Hey new system, good job.]
The system was silent for a few seconds. [Thank you for the compliment.]
The fish scale wrapped around the coin on Bai Liu’s chest warmed slightly before becoming cold again.
There were still two days remaining until the deadline of a week to enter the game as stipulated by the system but Bai Liu was ready to enter the game.
He sorted out his things and sent a message to Mu Ke that he was going to enter the game. Then he called Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu several times but no one answered. They also didn’t pick up the landline. Bai Liu roughly had a guess. These two people should’ve entered the game and must’ve fallen asleep.
Bai Liu took a bath and put on his favorite and most comfortable clown nightcap with pompoms and his pajamas. He covered his chest with a quilt and held the coin around his chest.
[Login to the game.]
[System: Does the player Bai Liu want to confirm that he is logging into the game?]
Bai Liu closed his eyes. [Confirm.]
[System: Logging in…]
[Wait!] Bai Liu suddenly opened his eyes again. He got up to go to the bathroom and turned off the electric switch, natural gas valve and water of the house before lying down in a satisfied manner. [While I am logged in, these valves might leak some water or electricity when I’m sleeping and I will lose money.]
[System: ……]
[System: Logging into the game…]
Bai Liu fell into a whirlpool of black sleep. Once he woke up again, he was already standing in the hall where people were coming and going.
[System: Since player Bai Liu has some popularity, do you want to use some of the appearance value to hide your identity?]
[You can also adjust my appearance data?] Bai Liu became interested. [Can I design my own appearance?]
He was quite good at transforming his face.
[System: Yes, you need to pay 300 points to enter the face adjustment program. Does player Bai Liu want to pay it?]
[It requires money?] Bai Liu quickly gave up. [Then you can adjust it for free as you want.]
[System: Entering the random facial adjustment program: eye color changed (black→blue), hair color changed (black→colorful), lip color changed (fleshy color→black)…]
Soon, a person with colorful, messy hair and painted black lipstick that made people think of ‘Ai Shi ① A Kind of Sorrow’ wandered around the game hall with a casual attitude, attracting dull and shocked gazes.
Cheap wasn’t good. Bai Liu had expected that the face he changed for free wouldn’t be too good-looking so he calmly accepted this non-mainstream shamate appearance. In any case, he couldn’t see what he looked like. Bai Liu didn’t care if it was terrible in someone else’s eyes.