Chapter 96.2: Love Welfare Institute (1/2)

It was 9 o’clock in the morning. The broadcast in the ward notified all patients that they could come out for activities as well as informing new patients to watch their children’s baptism.

[System prompt: A side task has been triggered. All players who have been notified by their child’s phone call are invited to go to the Love Welfare Institute to watch their investment child get baptized.]

Bai Liu was currently in Mu Ke’s ward and today was the baptism day. However, ‘Bai Liu’ was dead. Five investors would go to participate in the baptism and there would inevitably be one less. One of them, Bai Liu or Mu Ke, had to give up this side task and it was obviously Mu Ke.

Mu Ke was in very poor condition. He hadn’t slept for two consecutive nights and kept memorizing things. He also had his blood sucked, was chased and cried for a whole night. Now the young master’s eyes were swollen like a goldfish and he was lying dully on the bed, motionless.

The young master really didn’t like this wet straw bed very much but he currently didn’t have the energy to care about it. Obviously, the young master who overused his eyes and brain needed a rest. Bai Liu decided to participate in the baptism as ‘Mu Ke’. Still, it was one thing for Mu Ke to need a rest and it was another thing to actually rest.

He couldn’t sleep at all, even if he was so tired that he didn’t even want to talk. As long as Mu Ke closed his eyes, his mind would be full of messy scenes and information. His cerebral cortex remained active due to his excessive emotions and it made him have a headache. Bai Liu let him sleep on the bed but he couldn’t sleep at all.

Mu Ke saw Bai Liu stand up and prepare to go out. Mu Ke also struggled to get up from the bed, looking at Bai Liu with a bit of worry. “Or should I go? I am the real Mu Ke. If they use any items or tricks to detect lies, I can handle it.”

“No.” Bai Liu tidied up his hospital clothes. He had slept on the floor last night with the books as a pillow. He hadn’t slept well and his face was tired.

Bai Liu turned to look at Mu Ke on the bed. “I have something for you to do in the hospital. It is also something that only you can do.”

Mu Ke was startled. “What is it?”

“I need you to help me check some medical records.”

The timeline for this instance was 10 years ago. It happened to be the time when the entrepreneurs invested in the children’s welfare home and started preparing the first batch of children to be enrolled.

These two welfare homes were two manifestations of the same instant. Based on Exploding Last Train and the Mirror City Bombing, the game instance and actual event had different manifestations but the core event was generally the same. It was very possible that those sick entrepreneurs did the same thing to those children, drawing their blood to nourish a blood ganoderma lucidum and cure their disease.

In addition, Bai Liu thought that even if there were clues, they would’ve been swept away by those powerful people a long time ago. Otherwise, this group of people would’ve given up funding the welfare home, letting the place where they had committed a crime go out of their control.

Finally, even if Bai Liu got out of the game, told Lu Yizhan about what was going on and Lu Yizhan believed Bai Liu’s strange claim, there was no concrete evidence or clues. They wouldn’t be able to do anything against a bunch of prestigious and reputable entrepreneurs.

Nevertheless, Bai Liu had promised to help Lu Yizhan investigate this matter and he also took Lu Yizhan’s pay. He liked to go through with transactions from beginning to end. Things that couldn’t be done outside the game might be possible inside the game. Clues that were absent outside the game might not necessarily be absent in the game.

Bai Liu stared at Mu Ke. “Mu Ke, wait for me to write a few names down for you. During the day, the nurses are very lax in taking care of patients. See if you can get into the file room where they store patient information and find the medical records of these people. Then help me remember all the details.”

“In particular, the name of the child they used as the medicine and the time the blood was drawn. It is best to remember it all. Then once I come back, tell me.”

The medical data records were quite complicated and there were several medical records. It was very difficult for other people to remember these details in the time when they could enter the file room without being detected by nurses. Yet it was a simple thing for Mu Ke and he nodded without thinking. “Yes, tell me the patients’ names.”

Bai Liu mentioned a few names before asking Mu Ke, “Do you remember the names of these people?”

Mu Ke nodded. Then after nodding, he frowned slightly and asked in confusion, “These are all entrepreneurs in reality. They should be ordinary people. How can their names appear in the archives of this game?”

Bai Liu lowered his eyelids. “They might not be ordinary people. In this game, they should be a monster-like existence. If you can Mu Ke, remember as many names of the registered investor patients as possible.”

“…You want me to remember everything? Why?”

“A large children’s welfare home that was in operation for 10 years recently started losing investments…”