Chapter 104: Love Welfare Institute (1/2)

They turned back and had to carry Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi. The three children’s speed obviously wasn’t more than an adult but fortunately, Bai Liu (6) took them to run at 9:30. This still had a certain time advantage. The teachers behind couldn’t catch up with them in a short time.

After seeing that they were approaching the gate, Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang showed ecstatic expressions on their faces. Yet Miao Feichi’s expression soon stiffened like a drop of wax solidifying in cold water.

He froze in place, stopping at the edge of the open gate and not going outside. He even took two steps back.

Outside the gate, there were countless Slenderman-like investors with hats and bandages wrapped around their faces.

Their mouths chewed on the bandages used to bind them, exposing their mouths. Their sharp teeth were wide open as if they were grinning all the way to their ears. Their noses were tilted into the air as they kept sniffing, smelling the fresh prey approaching them. Sticky saliva dripped from their mouths.

They were dressed all in black and couldn’t be seen clearly in the night. It wasn’t until he reached the gate that Miao Feichi could see the white spots floating outside the gate weren’t moonlight.

It was the bandaged faces of this group of people.

They blocked the welfare home’s half open and half closed gate, stretching out their long and slender hands through the gate to reach the children beyond it. The sharp teeth in their mouths clicked as they opened and closed them, seemingly imitating chewing on something. Saliva dripped down continuously.

The children saw the monsters outside the gate and couldn’t move. Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang sat on the ground with Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi on their backs, their faces full of shock.

Bai Liu (6) also sat on the ground. He adjusted his breathing and calmly looked out the gate. “We failed. Sure enough, it isn’t that easy to escape.”

These monsters should be those who were seriously ill and died because they couldn’t get the right child’s blood. They wandered outside the children’s welfare home at night and the children who escaped were likely to be split up by these investors.

The teachers behind them caught up and scolded the children who dared to escape. Bai Liu (6) was slapped by a teacher and fell to the ground.

He was beaten hard with a broom but there was no expression on his face. It seemed that he had expected these actions. The dean locked the gate before turning to look at these children in a gloomy and condescending manner.

Her face was so gloomy that it was about to drip off. She turned to look at the children and spoke in a deep voice, “Tell me whose idea it was to escape right now. The children who speak don’t have to be punished so severely. If you don’t tell me…”

“You need to be washed cleaner.” The dean smiled kindly but there was no smile in her eyes. “Tonight, before you are sent to the hospital on Wednesday to be paired with other investors, I will thoroughly wash away your sins.”

“The other children will be locked up together for a day of fasting. I will take Bai Liu (6) to the church alone for confinement.”

The moment Bai Liu (6) stood up, he was carried away by the dean by the back of his collar, dragged rudely in the direction of the church.

He had run all night and he had no strength. He was dragged away by the dean without any resistance and was thrown into the church in a disorderly manner.

Fortunately, the dean just used the old technique to punish him. In other words, he was repeatedly forced into the pool and suffocated. This seemed to be the only trick the dean had to torture children.

However, Bai Liu (6)’s escape this time seemed to have completely angered the dean. She took the trouble to push his head into the water of the baptism pool and recited some words. In fact, Bai Liu (6) didn’t actually listen to the words.

“Disgusting little animal.”

“How dare you do such a thing when you have lived this far thanks to the kindness of the investors?!”

Bai Liu (6) feebly half-opened his eyes. Droplets of water dripped from his eyelashes as he struggled again and again to rise from the sensation of drowning and being held down again. The water rushing in through his nose made him want to choke and cough but before he could do so, he was held down again by the furiously angry dean.

“Do you know how much trouble you would’ve caused by running away?” She roared hysterically, dragging Bai Liu (6)’s hair as she shook him in the water. “You are an inhuman little monster. Your parents really made trouble for us by throwing you away. They should’ve drowned you at birth for the good of society…”

Bai Liu (6)’s eyelids gradually drooped down as he lost interest in playing the ‘mole in water’ game. He also lost strength.

On the next occasion when Bai Liu (6) floated up to take a breath before being pushed into the water, he didn’t get enough air and choked.