Chapter 94: Love Welfare Institute (1/2)
Bai Liu saw the constantly crying Mu Ke and tried to make him stop but after several attempts, it didn’t work. Even if Bai Liu said something like ‘I order you not to cry,’ Mu Ke would just cover his mouth. However, there were still tears in his eyes. He pitifully said that he couldn’t stop and maybe it would take a few more minutes.
Mu Ke didn’t think he particularly loved to cry. He didn’t know why but every time he saw Bai Liu, he was like a wronged child seeing his parents. His parents allowed him to complain to them and Mu Ke felt like he had endless tears. He felt a bit embarrassed but he couldn’t help it.
Mu Ke lowered his head and felt ashamed, but also felt a bit of… subtle joy.
Bai Liu stopped caring about the crying Mu Ke. He turned to Liu Huai who had an indescribable expression.
Liu Huai’s face was saying, ‘You usually fool your teammates like this, right?’
Bai Liu didn’t see it and started another topic in a calm and serious tone. “Shall we talk about the next plan?”
Liu Huai controlled his expression, his gaze toward Bai Liu a bit complicated. He had seen the whole process of Bai Liu fooling Mu Ke and couldn’t help sighing. “I still can’t believe I was so easily persuaded by you to join your team. It means going against Miao Feichi’s group. Even if I clear this instance, there will be subsequent troubles.”
“Yes, if I didn’t join your team, it would be difficult for you and your sister to get through the instance.” Bai Liu raised his eyes. “Your sister Liu Jiayi will likely be a blood sacrifice or eaten by Miao Feichi.”
Convincing Liu Huai was a very simple thing for Bai Liu so finding Liu Huai and wooing him was an easy idea.
The monster in Mu Ke’s room had resurrected but Bai Liu had used up Mu Sicheng’s speed skill. If he wanted to rescue Mu Ke from the ICU, he had to get through the nurses and enter the ICU.
Bai Liu himself couldn’t do this alone. He couldn’t let Miao Feichi’s group do it again either. It wasn’t impossible to deceive them to break in once but Miao Feichi’s skill had depleted his physical strength. Like Bai Liu, this empty physical strength couldn’t be restored with a physical strength recovery agent. Therefore, Bai Liu would have to deceive Miao Gaojiang, a player with low movement speed.
The skills of Miao Gaojiang weren’t very useful for Bai Liu who needed to escape.
Bai Liu needed a player with high speed and who was good at concealment and escaping. Bai Liu knew his weaknesses and needed a player he could control. There was no person more suitable than Liu Huai.
Liu Huai and Miao Feichi’s group were on the fifth floor. Finding this person’s ward was very simple. The fifth floor only had three new patients: Miao Feichi, Miao Gaojiang and Liu Huai.
The signs for the new patients’ wards were different. It was easy to tell Liu Huai’s ward after removing Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang’s ones. He had the two heavy chips, Liu Jiayi and the life recovery medicine in his hands. Convincing Liu Huai didn’t even take him a minute.
Liu Huai fell back on the hospital bed and stared up at the foggy ceiling with somewhat distracted eyes. “You said that Jiayi will be the hunting target of our group of ‘investors’ because we need to water our bed with the blood of children to survive?”
“I will correct two inaccuracies in your words. First, to be precise, it isn’t that we need to pour blood on the bed to survive. It is that we need to eat the blood ganoderma lucidum that grows on the bed from the blood. It is the life recovery medicine for us terminally ill patients.” Bai Liu patted the bed that Liu Huai was lying on.
Liu Huai raised a hand to cover his eyes and pressed his lips tightly together as if trying to avoid something.
Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai, raised a second finger and calmly continued. “Second, I told you. Liu Jiayi isn’t the only hunting target of the investors but her blindness makes her vulnerable among the children’s team.”
Bai Liu’s tone wasn’t rushed or slow. “You know Liu Huai, there is the underage Miao Feichi who likes to eat children’s meat on the children’s side. My child said that Miao Feichi likes to follow behind Liu Jiayi while swallowing his saliva. As a blind child, Liu Jiayi is at an absolute disadvantage in all aspects. She is a very good target for little Miao Feichi.”
“It can be said that your sister Liu Jiayi is a double hunting target.”
Liu Huai slowly clenched his fists and put down the hand covering his eyes. He turned to stare straight at Bai Liu.
Bai Liu continued calmly, “As for me, I promised my friend to protect your sister. Your sister’s successful call tonight was the result of my child protecting her. I said I would protect Liu Jiayi because she is the child my friend wants to adopt.”
Liu Huai took a deep breath and sat up. He sat cross-legged on the bed and watched Bai Liu. “I believe this now. Then tell me, what shall we do next?”
“The logical thinking of this game is basically clear.” Bai Liu leaned back, opened the drawer of Liu Huai’s bedside table and took out a pen from it. It wasn’t known where he got it from but he pulled out a book’s blank title page and wrote on it as he started his analysis.
Bai Liu was accustomed to writing simply when analyzing. He tapped the pen on the paper and started to write the key words: Level 2 game, 50-80%.
As he wrote, Bai Liu spoke. “Love Welfare Institute is a level 2 game with a mortality rate of at least 50%. This game divided up our health and gave us two identity lines, an adult and a child. We each respectively occupy 50% of our health value.”
Bai Liu wrote two ‘50’s on the paper and drew a confrontational arrow between them. “Our two identity lines aren’t a cooperative relationship from the beginning because this game has the setting that only 50% of players can survive. A more reasonable setting is that we should have a confrontational relationship with this group of children who share our health bar.”
This was why Bai Liu always had a type of vigilance against little Bai Liu (6). In a way—
“We are enemies with these children.” Bai Liu glanced up at Liu Huai who had a heavy expression and continued. “The life recovery medicine finally verified my thoughts.”
“Our investors group has to draw the blood of the corresponding child to survive. Based on the timing from the Mother Goose nursery rhyme that says ‘Born on a Monday, christened on a Tuesday, married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, grew worse on Friday, died on Saturday, buried on Sunday’, we have to draw the blood of these children before we become seriously ill, i.e. before Thursday in order to smoothly survive. Otherwise, we will die from the disease after a day.”
Bai Liu wrote the words ‘ddl (deadline): three days later’ on the paper.
“It is the same for the group of children. It is only by fleeing the Love Welfare Institute before Thursday that they can avoid their blood being drawn and survive. Their main task is to escape the welfare home.”
Bai Liu’s finger tapped the pen like he was thinking. “In fact, I think little Bai Liu (6), my child, has noticed the confrontational relationship between us. The act of me handing my weakness over to him earlier made him realize what I was trying to do and gave him the ability to wipe out my life at will. This delivery made him ultimately choose to enter a cooperative relationship with me.”
Liu Huai stared at Bai Liu who only had 6 points of health. The moment he met Bai Liu’s ancient, calm eyes, he shivered as he understood what Bai Liu was going to do.
“I want to confirm again. You are willing to give your life for your sister, right?” Bai Liu gazed at Liu Huai, his tone so calm and quiet that he didn’t seem to be talking about his own life or death. “Mu Ke and I are nearing the bottom of our health points. I believe you can see the approach on our side.”
Bai Liu declared calmly, “We will protect the small, not the big.”
The reason why little Bai Liu (6) was finally willing to trust him was because Bai Liu was willing to sacrifice himself for little Bai Liu (6), letting little Bai Liu (6) live. Therefore, Bai Liu willingly offered his weakness that would allow little Bai Liu (6) to easily kill him.
Little Bai Liu (6) also understood this and was curious about Bai Liu’s total dedication and sacrifice without any reason. This was what Bai Liu wanted. No one knew better than him what it took to win the trust of his 14 year old self. It was to become Lu Yizhan, who would sacrifice himself without any reason.
The 14 year old Bai Liu had trusted Lu Yizhan because between hurting himself and hurting Bai Liu, he knew that Lu Yizhan would choose to hurt himself. Now the 14 year old little Bai Liu (6) would trust the current investor Bai Liu, who turned into his own Lu Yizhan—an investor who would selflessly give to Bai Liu (6), even if it meant his life.
Liu Huai’s face was cloudy and uncertain.
Bai Liu didn’t seem to see Liu Huai’s expression. He withdrew his gaze and continued looking at the paper in his hand.