Chapter 97.2: Love Welfare Institute (2/2)

The children received the command of the dean and stood in a horizontal row on the stage. Little Bai Liu (6) raised his eyes. There were many identical faces under the stage. They were thin, pale and smiled strangely. Under the shaking candlelight in the children’s hands, their faces seemed to distort and twist in the hot air, turning into crying shapes that lunged at them with open mouths.

Little Mu Ke was standing next to little Bai Liu (6) and raised his head secretly, only to lower it again in fright. Meanwhile, little Bai Liu (6) scanned the people below. Finally, his gaze fell on Bai Liu’s body and he didn’t move it away. It was obvious he had found Bai Liu among the group of investors.

Bai Liu raised his eyebrow slightly in surprise. All the investors now looked like ghosts. How did this little kid recognize him?

Someone brought in a bathtub, or what looked like a bathtub. The dean explained that this tub would be used to baptize the children. It was filled with shaking water and a ring of residual blood around it that couldn’t be wiped off.

The bathtub was placed in front of the children.

The dean stood in front of the children. She raised her hand and made a gesture to make the children look up at her.

She smiled very kindly. “Now children, let’s sing the hymn once. Then I will start baptizing you one be one. Remember to add your own name to the hymn at the end.”

The uneven children’s song rang out. They sang with childlike and clear voices, the flame of the candle they held in their hands leaping brightly in front of their innocent eyes.

“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.

This is the end of Bai Liu (6) (the name of each child).”

“Very good.” After the weird opening song, the dean opened the register in her hand. She lowered her head and started to read out the names. “Next, I will let every investor baptize his sponsored child. It is very simple. You just need to immerse your child in this clear water tank. However, the water can only wash off the bacteria these children brought from the outside world. Oh, sorry, it isn’t bacteria. My mistake. It is sin. This water isn’t enough to wash off the sin on them—”

The dean looked up, her eyes sweeping over the children while her smile became grim. “After washing with the water, you will take a portion of the child’s blood to cleanse them of their sin. The blood will be taken to the hospital to identify if there are other sins on them. If not, you can come and take them away on Wednesday, adopting these children.”

Bai Liu’s eyes moved slightly.

No wonder why there would be a ritual like a baptism here. It turned out that these investors were afraid of other viruses in the children’s body. They had to use this ritual to wash away the ‘disease and filth’ from the children at the spiritual level. Then some of the blood would be taken back for examination to confirm from a physical level that there was no problem with the blood of these children—for example, bacteria or infectious diseases.

These investors were quite careful. They thought that these children from the outside world were dirty from a spiritual and physical level. This was why they set up this baptism to screen the blood quality of the children in the welfare home.

This was equivalent to a pre-matching test. Then the children could officially be taken away on Wednesday.