Chapter 120.2: Love Welfare Institute (1/2)

On the other side of the road, little Miao Gaojiang was carrying Mu Ke. A child’s physical strength wasn’t as good as an adult. He had to carry two people in a row while running. Little Bai Liu (6) and Mu Ke might not be heavy but Miao Gaojiang’s speed inevitably slowed down. He walked on the soft, wet and slippery ground while sweating and this difficult road doubled his physical consumption.

Little Mu Ke was holding Bai Liu (6)’s blood bag on his back and he looked at the time anxiously. Bai Liu (6) had told him to be there before 9 o’clock. Once it was 9 o’clock and those investors came out, they would be caught and it would be over!

The thing they didn’t know was that there were already two investors who set off before 9 o’clock. They were Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang.

Mu Ke watched the time pass bit by bit and he started to be anxious. “Miao Gaojiang, hurry up. The investors will come out after 9 o’clock and we won’t be able to escape!”

“I don’t think we need to wait until after 9 o’clock.” Miao Gaojiang wiped the sweat dripping on his face. His expression was horrified and ugly as he turned to look at Mu Ke lying on his shoulder. “I heard the sound of someone stepping on the mushrooms nearby. They are walking very quickly.”

Mu Ke was stunned and then his expression sank. “How fast? Do we have time to run back to the church?”

The church prohibited the killing of children and it was a safe zone, although it wasn’t known how long it would last. Mu Ke gritted his teeth and gripped Bai Liu (6)’s blood bag in his hands.

He failed to successfully send over Bai Liu (6)’s blood bag. He just hoped that the garbage investor could hold on a bit longer and not die casually.

The sound of juices splashing in the tunnel became more rapid. It approached quickly like a snake swimming through the mushrooms.

Miao Gaojiang gulped in horror. He took two steps back and slowly shook his head. “…I think it is too late. They are walking fast and will catch us before we reach the church.”

“We can’t let them catch us.” Mu Ke lowered his voice. In this critical moment of survival, he had lost Bai Liu (6)’s leadership but he was calm. “Miao Gaojiang, take out the extra infusion bags that Bai Liu (6) gave us. We will attach them to our bodies and pretend to be the monster children playing the flute. This tunnel isn’t brightly lit and there are the corpses of children everywhere. If they don’t look closely then they won’t see the difference between us and monsters.”

Mu Ke quickly jumped off Miao Gaojiang’s body and started to hang the infusion bags around Miao Gaojiang’s neck.

Miao Gaojiang was also busy hanging it but his face was pale and uncertain. “Can this disguise trick the investors? We look very different from these deformed children!”

“Even if we can’t pretend well, we have to pretend.” Mu Ke’s breathing was very fast. His face was expressionless and there was a type of amazing determination in his dark eyes. “After thinking about it, I think we are just waiting to die if we run back to the church. By the time we go back, the teachers would’ve already woken up. If we meet teachers near the church, we will be imprisoned to wait for Thursday’s matching. If we can’t escape from them today then we can never escape.”

“We can only make a bet once.”

Miao Gaojiang gritted his teeth. He looked at Mu Ke for a second before finally nodding.

The sound of footsteps got closer. The plump mushrooms under the soles of the adult human’s feet made a squeaky sound like juice being squeezed out from ripe fruit. This resounded strangely in the passage.

The smell of decay and blood became stronger. Mu Ke took a deep breath and lowered his voice. “Don’t make any sound. Lie under the mushrooms and pretend to be dead, okay?”

The more agile Miao Feichi had a higher sound perception. He looked around and found no strange movements. Soon, Miao Gaojiang urged him, “Don’t look. Come on. This place is obviously the home of those deformed children.”

The deeper they went, the more sure Miao Gaojiang was about this. This passage was narrow and dark with mushrooms everyone. One entrance was the church and the other entrance was the emergency passage for discarding the corpses of children. The nurse had told them about this passage. As the number of investors increased, the investors started selecting children through the form of matching and this path was abandoned.

Then when Miao Gaojiang entered this abandoned passage, in addition to the deformed children at the entrance, there were traces of deformed children when walking inside. This proved that children lived here in this abandoned passage.

Miao Gaojiang’s face became gloomier when thinking of the deformed children who weren’t seen during the day. “This group of deformed children should come out from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. They will stay in this tunnel for the rest of the time. Feichi, don’t waste time. It is almost 9 o’clock. We must get out soon or this group of monster children will return to the nest. The passage will be blocked by these monsters returning.”

Miao Feichi heard Miao Gaojiang’s reminder and looked down at the time. It was 8:51 a.m. and it was almost 9 o’clock. There really was no time to waste here. He retracted his searching gaze and continued to move forward while holding his double knives doubtfully.

There were two main reasons for his doubts. The first was that Miao Gaojiang was very impatient since waking up from the explosion. His father was usually a very calm person so this created an anxious restlessness in Miao Feichi.

The second reason was—Miao Feichi’s eyes swept over the corpses of two children buried in the mushrooms on the ground. He had come all this way and had seen the corpses of many children in this passage. According to reason, Miao Feichi shouldn’t be surprised about bodies appearing in this place.

After all, investors didn’t allow the hospital to have unlucky existences like an incinerator or morgue.

The hospital didn’t have a place to dispose of the children’s corpses so the nurses used this passage as a waste passage. The fungi in this passage could survive by breaking down the bodies, thus breeding more mushrooms to break down more bodies. This was an excellent ecological waste disposal channel for the corpses of children.

However, these two corpses gave him a sense of disobedience like they shouldn’t be here. Miao Feichi’s agility was relatively high but players with average intelligence usually believed in their intuition accumulated in the game. At this time, he normally let his more intelligent father take a look at the situation.

However, now Miao Gaojiang was in a bad state. If this path was indeed the nest where the deformed children lived during the day as Miao Gaojiang said then time was indeed very short. Miao Feichi finally took back his eyes and stepped forward.

Mu Ke heard them continue to move forward and sighed with relief. Before this breath was completely released, the walking Miao Feichi abruptly stopped.

Miao Feichi turned his head, his neck making a loud sound. He looked at the ‘two corpses’ with a fanatical, terrifying and excited expression.

There was a small patch of water on the back of the ‘corpse.’ Miao Feichi slowly licked his mouth while watching the water stain.

Miao Gaojiang knew that Miao Feichi had a meat addiction. He was just about to interrupt Miao Feichi’s actions when he heard Miao Feichi speak in an incredibly light voice that trembled slightly with surprise. “Dad, these two children’s clothes are wet. They are sweating. I smell fresh sweat.”

“They are living people, living children who escaped.”