Before Mu Ke could react, Bai Liu grabbed him by the back of the collar and made Mu Ke stand firmly. Then he turned and used that hand to half carry Li Huai, who had lost both arms. Bai Liu held the fish bone whip and quietly exhaled. He took shallow breaths as he said, "Open the door, Mu Ke. The game isn't over yet."
Liu Huai, whose face was as white as paper, suddenly interrupted Bai Liu's words. His shaky gaze stopped on Bai Liu's face for a few seconds. "Wait, do you promise that you will save Jiayi if you live?"
Bai Liu answered, "I promise."
Liu Huai closed his eyes, and a wrist brace appeared in front of him.
[System notification: The item 'Cynic Wrist Guard'. After being hurt, the cynic can delay the damage by 14 hours. However, if the player hasn't passed the instance after 14 hours, then the damage will be stacked on the player.]
"This item was originally for Jiayi to use when she ran away. Now it seems..." Liu Huai smiled bitterly. "She won't need it."
Little Witch had healing skills and truly didn't need such low-level items to delay damage.
Liu Huai turned to look at Bai Liu, the smile on his face becoming more bitter and relieved. "I also have no arms to use it. I will give it to you, Bai Liu."
Bai Liu didn't say much. He took the wrist guard directly and glanced at Mu Ke at the door.
Mu Ke looked back at Bai Liu. After confirming that Bai Liu didn't waver at all, he took a deep breath and opened the door with trembling hands.
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8:40 a.m., Wednesday.
The emergency stairs on the first floor.
The slightly cowering nurse stood at a fearful distance from the emergency passage. She didn't lean over and just gulped as she pointed to the dark passage. "Just over there. There is a tunnel entrance at the corner of the first floor. From there, you can go directly to the church of the welfare home. I won't go there."
After this, the nurse saw Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang approaching the passage without hesitation. She was unable to hold back and shouted, "Don't leave the ward until 9 o'clock. I'm just showing you. You can't just—"
Miao Gaojiang turned and approached the nurse. He took a few quick steps and arrived in front of her. Then Miao Gaojiang grabbed her neck and twisted it. There was the clear sound of the interlocking bones of the nurse's neck breaking.
She opened her eyes in shock, her pupils dilated as she fell down slowly.
"Dad?!" It wasn't only the nurse who was shocked before her death. Even Miao Feichi was surprised. "Why did you kill the NPC? It is easy to cause a backlash!"
Miao Gaojiang's chest moved violently up and down. His eyes were bloodshot, but there was no expression on his face. It was clearly very easy to kill someone, but sweat dripped down his jaw, and the muscles of his shoulders were still moving. This made Miao Gaojiang look irritable and aggressive. He turned his back to Miao Feichi and took deep breaths, his expression a bit horrifying.
Then Miao Gaojiang soon calmed down. He paused and cleared his throat. "We can't delay for even a minute. If this nurse NPC is here, we will have to wait until 9 o'clock. The children over there must be plotting to escape. We have to hurry over."
Miao Feichi was reluctantly persuaded by this reason. He drew out his double knives and moved to the emergency passage step by step. Just as he was about to step into the passage, Miao Gaojiang abruptly asked in a soft voice, "Don't you think this nurse looks like your mother?"
Miao Feichi paused and glanced at the dead face of the little nurse lying on the ground. This was completely different from the face of the woman who gave birth to him in his memory. Miao Feichi retracted his gaze and looked at Miao Gaojiang a bit strangely. "Dad, what's wrong with you? This NPC looks completely different from that dead woman."
"Is that so?" Miao Gaojiang muttered to himself. Then he looked back at the face of the nurse who had fallen to the ground. "Maybe I misread it."
The nurse's young body had strangely old, heavy bags under her eyes. She looked seriously ill as she smiled strangely at him. This was a face that he knew well. It was the face of his white, Miao Feichi's mother, whom Miao Gaojiang had slept beside for countless nights. He saw this face the moment he opened his eyes.
This face appeared over the nurse's face. In Miao Gaojiang's eyes, the nurse would exaggerate every time she spoke. Her mouth was so wide open that it affected the mandibular joint and made a distorted displacement sound. Then the open mouth made it easy for Miao Gaojiang to see that there was no tongue in her talking mouth.
Miao Gaojiang retracted his gaze. He raised a hand to wipe the sweat flowing on his face and looked at the exit. "Feichi, you are the main attacker. I will defend from behind."
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8: 45 a.m.
Due to the bombing incident last night, the nurses didn't have the energy to patrol every floor and manage the patients. Bai Liu and the others took the elevator and rushed to the first floor, only to find that the emergency passage had been cleared, and there was only a mess left.
This represented good news and bad news.
Mu Ke sighed with relief. "We don't have to face those monsters."
Bai Liu's gaze fell on the chopped, deformed children and the syringes everywhere. His eyes twitched slightly. "The Miao Gaojiang duo has entered the tunnel."
He lifted up Liu Huai, who was sliding down his body due to a lack of energy. Then he quickly walked in. Mu Ke followed closer. In a corner of the first floor, there was a yellow trash can filled with medical waste. It was filled with all types of blood transfusion bags and syringes. There were also very simple, child-sized fixed bandage beds, which were used to prevent the children from moving when their blood was drawn.
It appeared that the children who were sent over in the early days had their blood drawn here. Then the corpse and blood-drawing equipment were thrown into the medical waste bin together.
Investors who drew the children's blood weren't willing to see this cruel process. They allowed the nurses to quickly deal with it in this dirty and small corner for the compassionate investors.
The trash bin had been roughly kicked open by someone. Below it was a square, cellar-like entrance. This wasn't big. Its size was around 40 cm by 40 cm. It was basically the size for a child to pass through. Fortunately for Bai Liu, they were all slender and thin right now. They could still pass through this entrance.
There were some messy footprints next to the entrance. This should be left by the Miao Feichi duo. Bai Liu asked Mu Ke to help hold Liu Huai. Then he stepped forward to grab the ring buckle of the door handle. He pulled it and opened the cellar door.
For a while, flying dust, soil debris, the strong smell of blood, and the warm and moist smell of fungal decay and fermentation spread. It wasn't known how long the door boards had been solidified and how many people's blood had fallen on it, revealing the thick, moldy wood underneath.
The dust was like tiny particles that could only be seen by people who almost drowned. It floated around the dark hole.
Bai Liu held his breath. He raised his head and glanced at the nervous Mu Ke. Then he jumped down without hesitation, not giving Mu Ke any chance to stop him.
"I'll go down first. Wait until I say there are no problems before coming down."
Mu Ke panicked and looked down.
It didn't take long to hear Bai Liu's reverberating voice. "There is no problem. Mu Ke, you put Liu Huai down first. Then you come down by yourself."
Mu Ke carefully moved the armless Liu Huai. He first transported Liu Huai down. Then he supported his arms on the narrow edge of the hole and went down.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then Mu Ke let go of his hand. He felt himself slipping through a wet and sticky passage before finally touching the ground. The texture of the ground was very strange. It was soft and swollen, and there was the strong, bloody smell of mushrooms. It felt like stepping on a mushroom field.
Mu Ke opened his eyes, and the sight in front of him made him take a breath.
The four walls of the tunnel were densely packed with various mushrooms. They were colorful, different in size, and fluorescent. They were like infected gastric mucosa. They were swollen and seemed like they would explode juices that would corrode a person's arm.
These mushrooms had blood-red threads mixed inside them, like the blood ganoderma lucidum hyphae growing abnormally. The whole tunnel was filled with the strong smell of secretions and fermented products. It smelled like mushrooms soaked in inferior wine for 20 years. It made people dizzy and want to vomit.
Liu Huai and Mu Ke both showed slight vomiting reflexes. Only Bai Liu was slightly better.
Mu Ke retched and covered his mouth. "Why are there so many mushrooms growing here?"
"It is damp and dark. In addition, this path has corpses discarded. The humus is very suitable for the growth of mushrooms." Bai Liu walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The soft and moist mushrooms didn't go past his ankle. He looked around the tunnel. "If I'm not mistaken, they are inferior blood ganoderma lucidum that were bred from those that weren't wanted by investors and dumped here."
"Inferior blood ganoderma lucidum? Isn't this thing treasured?!"
"It is the blood ganoderma lucidum grown from the blood of 'pure' children that is cherished." Bai Liu's eyes glanced over a slightly pulsating blood ganoderma lucidum on the wall that was around the size of a heart. "Our current timeline is 10 years ago. This group of investors hasn't perfected their child screening mechanism, or it is in the early/mid-stage of screening. Failure will inevitably occur in this process. The failed product might be ineffective or toxic. It can't be used by the investors, so it was thrown here."
Bai Liu looked toward the other end of the tunnel. "If I'm not mistaken, this tunnel should be the location of the 'buried on Sunday' part of the song."
The tunnel was like a corridor growing and proliferating inward that carried a strange vitality. Along with Bai Liu's breathing, it slightly stretched and closed. A closer look showed that it was these blood ganoderma lucidum beating slowly. There were also the bodies of the deformed children lying on the ground with their eyes open, phones scattered by their hands.
Bai Liu came forward to pick up a phone. The system notified him that it was unusable due to the owner's death and loss of energy.
Many of these deformed children were cut into incomplete chunks by Miao Feichi's double knives and scattered among the mushrooms.
Some mushrooms on the ground were cut or trampled. Bai Liu looked down at the trampled traces. "Go, they are already inside. We have to hurry up."
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's. 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 back 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 will have 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 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?"
Mu Ke hurriedly found a place to hide Bai Liu (6)'s blood bag. He covered himself with mushrooms, took a deep breath, and lay face down on the mushrooms.
Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang finally reached this section of the tunnel. Miao Feichi frowned as he flicked the blood from his knives. "What was that sound? It sounded like someone was talking just now? It isn't like the voices of the children were killed before. It was more like two living people talking?"
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 everywhere. One entrance was the church, and the other 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' return.
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 anxious restlessness in Miao Feichi.
The second reason was that 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 by 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 lets 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."
At this point, they found living children who escaped. Miao Gaojiang was stunned, but he quickly responded. "This is Bai Liu's group of children!"
It was bad!
Mu Ke's heart was cold, and his brain moved quickly. After weighing things in his mind, he suddenly hugged the blood bag in his arm and jumped up, running crazily toward the exit of the hospital. Miao Gaojiang also climbed up from the mushrooms and ran after Mu Ke.
Miao Feichi laughed and drew his double swords. "Fuck, I was almost killed last night. If I don't drain your children's blood and eat all your children's meat today, I will lose face even if I pass the instance."
Then he narrowed his eyes and whistled. "Yes, it won't take much effort today. The blood has been brought to us. Dad, your child is also here."
Miao Gaojiang sighed with relief when he saw his child, and his face calmed down. "I see him. Feichi, please avoid the aorta when killing him. Don't waste any blood."
"Yes." Miao Feichi crossed his arms and wiped off the mushroom slime and blood from the knives. He licked his pale mouth, and his eyes shone with a red and bloody light. "I just have to kill them, and the game will be almost over."
Mu Ke ran quickly. His heart had never felt so painful before. He could clearly feel the blood pouring into his heart like a bomb and exploding with a 'thump.' The bright red blood passed through the ventricle and atrium again, making him feel sharp pain. It rushed to every blood vessel in his limbs in a numb way.
He breathed in and out with all his strength, but he could feel that the air was separated by an invisible, wind-like filter member. His limbs couldn't absorb the oxygen in the air and burned.
Mu Ke had ever run so fast. In his limited life, he more frequently crouched down and looked up at others because it was easier for him to regain blood in this position. Mu Ke had never used a posture where he strode with his own legs, running at such a speed that he turned into a small bug in the wind. He never knew he could actually run so fast.
Mu Ke hugged the bag containing the blood drawn from Bai Liu (6)'s body. He felt like he was going to vomit blood into this bag in the next second.
His eyes were full of physiological tears as he ran and suffocated. He was like a noble cat with congenital defects that was finally awakened by the stimulation of a natural enemy. Mu Ke knew his knees were weakening, and his brain was blank due to a lack of oxygen. Even so, he was still running mechanically with his legs.
"Don't stop if you want to live, Mu Ke." Bai Liu (6) lay weakly in his arms and spoke weakly, like praying or begging, as he calmly told Mu Ke what to do. "Mu Ke, you must save my investors. You must live, Mu Ke."
He must, he must. Mu Ke's eyes were becoming hazy. It wasn't because he was crying, but because he was becoming dizzy from his extreme movement speed.
Mu Ke's nose started bleeding. The blood dripped onto the back of his hands that tightly hugged the blood bag against his chest. He had no perception of any of this. Mu Ke was just running with empty eyes, completely unaware that MIao Feichi, behind him, had caught up with him.
Miao Feichi held the double knives as he looked at Mu Ke, who was still running wildly. "Damn, this bastard ran so quickly that I almost missed it."
He lifted the two knives that shone with a cold light. The thin, shaking shadows were reflected on the walls like a god of death holding a scythe. Miao Feichi aimed at Mu Ke's shoulders as he kept running, unaware.
Mu Ke's eyes became dark, and he felt himself being pushed into someone else's by a wide from another exit. Mu Ke was held by someone and buried his head in the hospital gown. His ears rang for a long time before he felt the temperature on his forehead.
Someone had rescued him, and he was now in the arms of the person who rescued him. The other person's heartbeat was completely different from his own. It was slow and calm, like regular drops of water on a remote cliff where no one went. No one could disturb this heart rate.
Even if the person holding the machete was enough to kill him, this wasn't enough to disrupt his breathing and heartbeat.
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has used Mu Sicheng's personal skill Thief Moving Stealthily. Movement speed +3700 and your physical strength is rapidly declining...]
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has used Mu Sicheng's personal skill Thief's Monkey Hand to block player Miao Feichi's attack.]
"Fuck, it is you again, Bai Liu!" Miao Feichi instantly exploded. He gritted his teeth and pressed the knives down. "Liu Huai's arms are gone, and you sent yourself to the door. Let's see who else can help you today?!"
Miao Feichi snapped, and his two knives danced wildly. The silver light of the blades flashed in the tunnel. Bai Liu threw Mu Ke back and pushed him on the shoulder to signal for Mu Ke to continue running forward. Then he moved sideways to avoid Miao Feichi's knife that was aiming at his shoulder with force. Miao Feichi tried the same trick again. He didn't know how long Bai Liu's health could last and wanted to quickly kill Bai Liu.
Bai Liu used high speed to avoid Miao Feichi's powerful knives. Then he turned around and used his monkey hands. He stepped back while trying not to let Miao Feichi's knives touch him. How could Miao Feichi easily let go of Bai Liu? His attacks became so fierce that it seemed like Bai Liu couldn't hold on.
Mu Ke had run two steps. His heart was still pounding, and it wasn't calm. As he ran, he suddenly turned his head and glanced at the investor who saved him and was still fighting.
This was an investor who would save children. 'He won't kill you because he is a strange man. He will save you.'
Little Mu Ke burst into tears while laughing. His lips shook as he ran, tears filling his small face like an outburst of emotions. He did save me. Bai Liu (6), your investor is really too strange. He clearly isn't a good person.
He killed you but saved me. I can't figure out what he is trying to do, just like I can't figure out what you were trying to do.
It is clear that neither you nor he is a good person, but in the end, you both tried your best to save me. However, we only met on Sunday, and today is Wednesday. You and your investor seem like you are going to die for me.
I don't want this.
Little Mu Ke stopped running. As a result, he was pulled by a person hiding in the mushroom. He almost screamed with fright, but the other person covered his mouth.
The other person lowered his voice while looking little Mu Ke up and down strangely. "...What are you running back for? To give your head? Don't mess with him!"
Little Mu Ke's face was full of tears. He hugged the blood bag in his arms and sobbed as he looked at the man. "However, I don't want to see him die for me. I promised Bai Liu (6) to save him."
Mu Ke breathed quietly and was silent for a moment. Then he said, "I also don't want to see him die, but he promised me. He won't die, so we have to believe in him and wait."
Mu Ke and Liu Huai were hiding in a corner of the tunnel. Neither of them had any significant combat power, so Bai Liu asked them to hide while he went out alone to meet the enemy. Mu Ke fiercely opposed it first. He said that Bai Liu only had 0.5 health. Could his fighting ability be better than theirs? This might be the first time Mu Ke refuted Bai Liu, but he soon stopped under Bai Liu's eyes. Even so, he didn't apologize.
Soon, Bai Liu proposed a plan that could temporarily control Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang. This plan barely convinced Mu Ke.
"This tunnel is where the deformed children monsters live during the day." Bai Liu said. "Once it is 9 o'clock, they will come back. If those monsters come across us, then they will definitely attack us. However, if they find people by phone, we—"
Mu Ke exclaimed, "We have two phones that can avoid being located! We grabbed them from the deformed children. As long as our phone stays on, they won't find us and will attack the Miao Feichi duo."
Bai Liu nodded. "This attack might not be able to hold them for long, but it will allow us to escape with little Mu Ke. We can't go to the hospital side. After 9 o'clock, the investors and nurses will start to move. It isn't safe. We can only go to the church side. That side has the children's safety zone."
Mu Ke took a deep breath and looked at Bai Liu. His body leaned forward, and his tone was even a bit aggressive. "Bai Liu, your plan seems to have no problem, but I have a question for you. We only have two phones from the deformed children, while we have three people on this side. In other words, there is no way for one person's phone to constantly be busy. Thisperson will be attacked like Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang. Who are you going to let be attacked?"
Bai Liu looked indifferently into Mu Ke's eyes before looking down. "Once little Mu Ke is there, we will have a third phone that can call my phone. Otherwise, we can pick up a phone from a dead child, or I can steal one."
"Don't try to fool me." Mu Ke's chest was slightly heaving as he calmly refuted Bai Liu's words. "The child's phone can't be used after 9 o'clock, and the dead children's phones can't be used. You are going to steal a phone. This method—"
Mu Ke's eyes fell on the broken arm, and his breathing and tone became urgent. "You only have one arm to use. If you are trying to steal, then you won't be able to resist the attack. We don't have anyone to cooperate with your stealing. Liu Huai is out of his mind, and I have no attack power. The method you mentioned can't be used at all. In the end, we only have two children's phones that can be used."
"This means that one person out of three must have their phone ringing." Mu Ke stared straight at Bai Liu. "Bai Liu, who is this person?"
Bai Liu quietly watched Mu Ke, his eyes calm and clear like a lake.
"Haven't you already guessed? That person is me."
Mu Ke let out a mouthful of turbid gas. He twisted his hands together and tried his best to say this sentence peacefully. "Bai Liu, I don't agree. Your health is only 0.5. Liu Huai and I don't have any attack power. We have no way to protect you when the phone rings in the chaos."
"No one can protect you. You really will die." Mu Ke paused. He saw Bai Liu's unmoved expression, and his voice became begging. "...Don't do this. Please, Bai Liu?"
Bai Liu paused before suddenly chuckling. "Who said that no one will protect me?"
Mu Ke was startled. "Who else can protect you?"
Bai Liu spread open his hands. He shrugged and smiled indifferently. "I can protect myself."
In the end, Bai Liu convinced Mu Ke with a very risky plan.
Mu Ke closed his eyes and ended the memory. He looked down at his wrist. He had picked up a watch from the ruins of the explosion last night. The second hand moved slightly and finally reached 0.
It was 9 o'clock.
Mu Ke's breathing slowed down, and he quickly became anxious. He took out his phone and called Liu Huai's phone to make sure that it was busy. This way, he wouldn't be found by a deformed child returning to the nest.
Then Mu Ke held the only remaining child's phone and didn't move. He raised his head to look at Bai Liu, who was still struggling with Miao Feichi. He gripped the phone in his hand and hesitated a few times before pressing a phone number. Finally, he leaned against the wall and took a deep breath. His fingers trembled as he pressed a phone number.
Mu Ke's phone rang and was picked up by him. Now both phones were useless. Mu Ke leaned against the wall, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes, not daring to look at the situation behind him.
If things didn't go as Bai Liu expected, then Bai Liu would die.
There was a rustling sound at the end of the passage on both sides, like the sound of mice running on the ground. The sound came from all directions like mice smelling food. There was a richer smell of blood and decay in Mu Ke's nose that was getting closer to Mu Ke. Strangely, he didn't see anything coming, but the sound passed by him.
Little Mu Ke, in his arms, pulled his sleeve and pointed up.
Mu Ke looked up at the tunnel and couldn't help holding his breath. There were many strange deformed children with sharp heads, small deformed limbs, bulging bones, abnormally white skin, unusually large mouths, eyes at the temples, and crippled limbs. These deformed children were covered with all types of infusion bags, hanging on the ceiling of the tunnel like bats at a light. They moved forward, their eyes reflecting a green light like a variant of a blood-sucking bat.
The light in the tunnel was extremely dim. In addition, these children were moving around the mushrooms. They were covered with colorful bags that were the same background color as the mushrooms. For a moment, Mu Ke hadn't realized that this group of children 'came over' from above.'
"Feichi, it is 9 o'clock. I hear sounds coming over. The deformed children are back!" Miao Gaojiang lowered his voice. "Don't care about Bai Liu! It is no use killing him! Catch the children! Be careful not to disturb the monster children. It will cost us a lot of health to kill them..."
Before Miao Gaojiang's voice finished, Bai Liu didn't hesitate to pull out a white fluorescent whip and swing it.
The fishbone whip wasn't strong enough to damage the monster children, but his weapon was very powerful. It instantly attracted the aggro of the monsters. The deformed children all stopped, their green eyes wide open as they stared at the investor.
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has angered the deformed children, who went back to sleep in the tunnel. They have decided to severely punish this bad guy!]
"Damn! Bai Liu, are you crazy?! These deformed children will attack you!" Miao Feichi looked up to see many monster children, and his expression changed. "How can there be so many monsters? How many children did this hospital kill?"
The children looked up and screamed sharply. They wriggled along the wall and spread out their sharp nails like disturbed bats. They crawled down the wall and approached Miao Feichi and Bai Liu.
However, in such a dark tunnel, it was impossible to accurately locate the target they wanted to attack with their eyes. Just like bats that rely on ultrasound, these deformed children who lived in the tunnel for a long time were like bats. Their eyes and vision had deteriorated, and they located things by sound.
Miao Feichi, Miao Gaojiang, and Bai Liu's phones rang. These children were like bats smelling something fishy. They immediately raised their syringes and rushed to where the phones rang. They laughed and smiled innocently as they rushed forward. There were overly naive expressions on their faces, but they held huge syringes that seemed like they were going to pierce a person's head. They kept waving the syringe to attack, and the strength wasn't small.
Bai Liu put the phone between his shoulder and chin. He didn't hesitate to press the connect button to answer the first call. The person on the opposite side responded with a sharp smile. "Mr. Investor, I found you!"
A child suddenly sprang out from the pile of deformed children. He smiled darkly and fiercely as he leaped toward Bai Liu with a huge needle, only to be whipped away by Bai Liu. From then on, the child stuck to Bai Liu and moved around Bai Liu like a child coveting candy. He was ready to rush up and stick the needle into Bai Liu's neck to get a full meal.
At the same time, Bai Liu's phone rang again. He picked it up without changing his expression. There was another laugh from a deformed child. "I found you! Blood! I want blood, Mr. Investor!"
A child rushed from a wall full of mucus and was about to bite Bai Liu's shoulder. After being caught by Bai Liu's monkey hand, he was thrown away by the whip. Bai Liu's face was pale as he bit and sucked an empty physical strength recovery agent. He quickly answered the third call while dealing with these two monster children.
"Blood!"
"Give me blood!"
"Kill you!!!"
The deformed children roared wildly while laughing. They raised their heads and screamed at Bai Liu. There were more and more monsters around Bai Liu. His face was so white that there was no color. He wasn't injured, but he was obviously struggling more to deal with it. He could block it with the strong judgment of the fishbone whip, but as he answered more calls, it was only a matter of time before Bai Liu would be unable to hold on.
Even Miao Feichi was surprised by Bai Liu's self-destructive behavior. "Is Bai Liu crazy? Why does he keep answering the phone? As long as he picks up, the deformed child will lock onto him completely, and he can't run away!"
Miao Gaojiang had a very strange feeling as he saw Bai Liu being overwhelmed by the monster children who were attracted by his answering the phone.
This method of answering the phone could effectively reduce the efficiency of the group attack, but the drawback was that he would be entangled with the children all the time. Therefore, Miao Gaojiang would never use this method. His game experience told him that it was very troublesome to be entangled by monsters all the time.
Miao Gaojiang could withstand it with his high defense, but Miao Feichi's health was already being consumed by the children's group attack! Miao Gaojiang didn't want to waste his time dealing with Bai Liu.
"I caught my child. The child who ran away is Mu Ke." Miao Gaojiang gripped the young Miao Gaojiang's hand and roared, "Feichi, let's break out first. Don't care about that child and Bai Liu!"
Miao Feichi reluctantly looked back, but he couldn't help sneering when he saw the stubbornly resisting Bai Liu. "Forget it. In any case, you will die in this tunnel. The difference is that I'm not the one killing you." He raised his two knives to cut the children besieging him and chased after Miao Gaojiang.
Behind him, Bai Liu was covered by the children gradually pouring over. Just as Miao Feichi thought they would leave the tunnel like this, Bai Liu suddenly laughed.
He answered the phone, and his face finally showed a relaxed smile of relief. "You've finally called."
The voice on the other end of the phone was hoarse but still calm. "It's me."
Something was moving fast from the church end. This thing stepped on the bodies of the deformed children piled up like hills and stepped on them as if it were flat ground.
It was like a breeze blowing from the entrance of the church, like the wind that God used to save the world. It steadily swept away the children who were attacking Bai Liu before landing lightly but steadily. The swift wind blew his blood-stained clothes up before they fell down again.
It seemed wrong to call him a person. This was a little monster falling from the sky.
He fell into the circle around Bai Liu like falling willow leaves, standing in front of Bai Liu like a protector.
The sound of Bai Liu's phone stopped. The children who lost their prey started to back away at a loss, as if they were shocked by this sudden appearance.
Little Mu Ke, who was hiding in the darkness, looked at the monster who suddenly appeared. He forgot to breathe as he blinked, concentrating only on the child in front of Bai Liu. His expression was so serious and stiff that he seemed ready to cry in the next second.
Bai Liu seemed to be familiar and had a tacit understanding with this person. He threw his fishbone whip over and stood back to back with his monkey hand stretching out.
The child, who was only Bai Liu's shoulder height, was pale, blood-stained, and his face was wet. The back of his hands and feet were covered with pinpricks. These were the traces left by having his blood drawn. His lips were dry and cracked while the clothes in front of him were black from vomited blood. The ends of his hair were stained with water from the baptismal pool and hung over his thin shoulders.
Little Bai Liu (6) was holding the phone, and Bai Liu also raised his phone. He could hear little Bai Liu (6)'s voice passing through the phone and the air, falling in his ears like a beautiful duet.
He heard little Bai Liu (6) say to him, "Good morning, Mr. Investor. I don't seem to be late."
Little Bai Liu (6) waved his bone whip. He didn't breathe and had no heartbeat. Even his voice was strangely quiet and hoarse. "You are letting me take care of these things after death. Mr. Investor, I want to double the money. It is 200 yuan a minute."
Bai Liu laughed lazily. "Yes, you can add whatever you want. All my money is yours."
[System notification: Player Bai Liu's secondary identity line has died due to blood being drawn. The corpse was thrown in the tunnel, causing the body to be alienated. The alienation has finally been completed.]
[The player's secondary identity has become a deformed child in the monster book.]