Chapter 75.1: Childrens Welfare Home (1/2)

Bai Liu glanced at Lu Yizhan. “First talk about the specific situation yesterday night.”

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes. He took a deep breath, sucked in the smoke and blew it out. “At 3 a.m. in the early hours of the morning, there were 37 children who experienced serious vomiting…”

“These children vomited out whole mushrooms but when they were admitted to the hospital the day before yesterday, all these children had been induced to vomit and received gastric lavage. Yesterday, they fasted the whole day and received transfusions. None of them had anything to eat. There was no way they could have anything in their stomachs.”

Lu Yizhan paused here and shook his ash into the trash can in the corridor. “This incident scared the nurses and doctors. They immediately called the police and prepared to conduct blood tests on all the children…”

Lu Yizhan slowly let out a puff of white air mixed with smoke. “However, apart from the child who survived, the nurses pierced a needle into the blood vessels and could only draw out a light green translucent liquid from the bodies of the vomiting children. They couldn’t extract blood at all. The result of the test on the liquid showed it was mushroom juice.”

Bai Liu wasn’t scared. Things like the antique mirror that could hide huge bombs and escape the security check were loaded into this reality by the horror game. In the horror game, it was possible for anything strange to happen. Bai Liu thought it was a normal trend of games to extract mushroom juice.

Bai Liu thought for a moment before asking, “What about the living child? Her blood is normal right? Did her blood test result come out?”

“It’s out. She is a bit anemic but it is generally normal.”

Bai Liu pondered on it. “Then have you found any key information to solve the case from this child?”

“No.” Lu Yizhan sighed with a bitter smile. “This girl is blind. She doesn’t know our voices and refuses to communicate with us. She only nods or shakes her head occasionally to respond to us. Moreover, she can’t see and probably doesn’t know anything. Due to her eyes, she didn’t even know that what she ate that day were mushrooms.”

“The little girl is called Liu Jiayi and she has a half brother called Liu Huai. She won’t speak until her brother arrives.” Lu Yizhan sighed. “The main thing is that the little girl doesn’t want to talk. Otherwise, I would’ve taken you in to have a chat with her. You are great at deceiving children.”

Bai Liu showed a slight pause before he slowly looked up at Lu Yizhan. “What did you say was her brother’s name?”

Lu Yizhan was taken aback. “It is Liu Huai. He is a student of a famous university and has been working to raise this little girl. Then half a year ago, he suddenly fostered the little girl at the welfare home where the accident happened. He will come to see Liu Jiayi once a week but he doesn’t have the obligation to support his sister who comes from the same father and a different mother. Do you know her brother?”

“We’ve had a passing acquaintance.” Bai Liu smiled. “He played online games with me. He should still remember me. Maybe he will let me talk to his sister.”

Liu Huai sat stiffly in the ward. The hospital bed had a thin girl curled up into a ball holding her knees. This little girl was Liu Jiayi. However, this wasn’t the main reason for Liu Huai’s stiffness. The thing making him stiff was Bai Liu sitting in front of him with a kind smile.

Liu Huai didn’t understand why he could meet this demon king, Bai Liu, outside of the game. The moment he arrived, Bai Liu placed an arm around his shoulder in a familiar manner and said he wanted to talk to Liu Jiayi. Liu Huai bemoaned his bad luck in his heart but still brought Bai Liu in.

Liu Jiayi couldn’t accept the environment of too many people. It made her scream so Liu Huai refused to let anymore people enter the ward. The police guarded the door and didn’t come in. They first had Liu Huai try to persuade Liu Jiayi. Then Liu Huai brought Bai Liu in under the name of his friend.

So at present, the only people in the ward were Liu Huai, Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi.

Bai Liu and Liu Huai sat on the right and left sides of Liu Jiayi’s room respectively. Liu Jiayi was sitting in the middle of the hospital bed, her arms around her knees. Her face was buried in the gap created by her hands and knees. She wore a hospital gown that was a bit too wide for her and it hung from her skinny and weak skeleton.

This little girl was just like Lu Yizhan said. She was skinny and a bit deformed. It was like her skeletal frame hadn’t developed well. She was different from the contemporary children who were over-nourished due to fast food restaurants.

Liu Huai couldn’t stand this heavy atmosphere. He blocked Bai Liu’s sight of Liu Jiayi with a quilt and stood in front of Liu Jiayi. Liu Huai stared at Bai Liu vigilantly like a beast protecting his cub. “Bai Liu, what do you want from me?”

Bai Liu had always been straightforward. “I didn’t come here for you. I’m here to find your sister.”

“My sister?” Liu Huai wrapped the quilt tighter around Liu Jiayi and held her in his arms as he gazed at Bai Liu with hostility. “Why are you looking for her?”

“Liu Huai, how old is the youngest player you have ever seen in the game?” Bai Liu suddenly changed the subject.

There might be surveillance of the ward that was being watched by the police but the shielding mechanism meant that bai Liu’s words were likely to be changed. He spoke this sentence without hesitation.

“Why are you asking this?” Liu Huai wondered.