On the other side of the phone, Liu Huai's voice was heard as he tried to suppress some emotion. "Jiayi, can I pick you up now? I want to see you."
Liu Jiayi's originally indifferent expression visibly softened, and her soft voice filled with joy. "However, the welfare home will organize the matching and open the doors tomorrow. Brother, can you wait for me until tomorrow? We will meet tomorrow!"
"...Someone told me about a tunnel leading to the welfare home, and I came here through that tunnel." Liu Huai closed his eyes. His throat moved, and he couldn't help choking up. "I only have 1 health left. I might not be able to wait until tomorrow. Jiayi, I want to see you before I die."
Liu Jiayi's breathing paused, and she instantly looked like she had frozen into a block of ice.
She gripped the phone hard and didn't even notice that Liu Huai had used exploratory words and lied about his health when speaking to her. She directly and quickly asked, "How did it fall so low? Where are you now?"
Shouldn't Liu Huai stay at the hospital? Even if Liu Huai had given up on hunting her blood and reached a cooperation with Bai Liu to protect the children, Liu Huai's personal skill meant he shouldn't fall to this level when facing monsters and Miao Feichi. His skills meant he could run and hide.
Based on Liu Huai's personality, he hated being controlled by others. Due to her hints, Liu Huai understood that Bai Liu controlled people using goods and needed the consent of the other party. Liu Huai knew the multiple restrictions on Bai Liu's skill and shouldn't be easily controlled by Bai Liu.
What the hell happened last night? Why did Liu Huai's health fall to only 1?
Liu Huai, who had only 1 health left, was like bait deliberately made by an opponent who knew her well to catch her.
This idea flashed through Liu Jiayi's mind, but it was soon interrupted by Liu Huai's weak voice.
"I'm in the church."
If she didn't go and heal Liu Huai tonight, Liu Huai would undoubtedly die. Liu Jiayi quickly realized this.
"Okay, Brother. You stay in the church and don't move." Liu Jiayi took a deep breath. She walked around anxiously, forcing herself to calm down. Even so, her hand holding the phone shook badly. "You wait for Jiayi to come over, okay? Jiayi will be there soon!"
Liu Huai's voice became softer. "Can I really wait for you, Jiayi?"
Liu Jiayi's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth. "Wait there. Brother, believe in me. I definitely won't let you have an accident. I will come straight away."
Liu Huai was quiet for a long time before replying in a soft voice, so soft it was almost inaudible.
"I believe you, Jiayi."
Liu Jiayi took a deep breath.
After the phone was hung up, Mu Ke leaned in anxiously and asked Liu Huai, "How is it? Does Liu Jiayi suspect you? Will she come?"
Liu Huai shook his head slowly and woodenly. "She didn't doubt me." He paused before continuing, "She seemed... panicked."
"The panic shows that she cares about you. She should come, but she won't be completely unprepared. The church is a safe place for her, and she might be less vigilant here." Bai Liu touched his chin thoughtfully. "I think that, based on Liu Jiayi's vigilance, there might be variables when she arrives at the location, even if she is panicked."
Liu Jiayi hurriedly walked through the dark welfare home.
The black witch's robe that symbolized her identity was gone. It was replaced with the very ordinary clothes of the children in the welfare home.
Liu Jiayi opened her system panel and warehouse. The system screen was projected directly into her brain so it could be 'seen' by her. After cleaning up her system warehouse and personal panel, her brow furrowed even more.
[System warehouse: Player Liu Jiayi, your visualization function item will soon be emptied. Your demand for this tool is relatively great. It belongs to the daily necessities category. Please replenish it in a timely manner.]
[System notification: Player Liu Jiayi, your personal skill is special within Love Welfare Institute. After entering the game, the following restrictions have been placed on you to balance the game.]
[...The cooldown time of your personal skill 'Antidote' has been extended from one hour to six hours...]
[...You have universal blood...]
Liu Jiayi had often encountered this long list of restrictions when playing games because her personal skill was special. She would always be restricted by the dog system in various ways.
This dog system needed the death rate to distinguish the difficulty. If the game had her healing skill, then the death rate would be very bad. Therefore, the system tried every means to kill the witch.
In order to give full play to Liu Jiayi's skills, the King's Guild racked their brains to think of many methods, including assigning various control players to Liu Jiayi. They hoped that controlling multiple players to share the death rate would reduce the limitations of Liu Jiayi's skill.
It was just hard to say how effective it was. They had barely practiced it before Puppet Zhang died.
Generally speaking, Liu Jiayi would skim past these restrictions without changing her expression because she was used to being blocked in the game.
However, this time Liu Jiayi wasn't so calm looking at these restrictions. Her eyes stopped on the first and third ones for a few seconds, and she couldn't help cursing. "Fuck the system!"
[System notification: Underage players are forbidden to use swear words. 'Fuck the system' has been shielded for you.]
Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and stopped looking at the system panel that made her angry. Due to the poisonous mushroom buff, she had used the antidote on herself at 5:30 p.m. The cooldown time of her skill was usually an hour.
Yet in this game, the health value was the core clearance data, so the system extended the cooldown time of the antidote to six hours.
This meant that the next time she could use it was 11:30 p.m. This was close to the early hours of Thursday morning, the day of serious illness.
Liu Jiayi was upset and worried, so she walked even faster.
After 9 o'clock, the deformed children would start wandering around the welfare home. These children were corpses and cold things. Liu Jiayi didn't have many vision items left, so she didn't use one for the time being. She might not be able to see, but her hearing was very good. Moreover, she had lived in the welfare home for some time and was very familiar with this map.
The sounds of these deformed children were very loud when they moved. Liu Jiayi relied on these sounds for positioning. She cocked her head and calmly evaded them. It wasn't like before, when she had looked very confused by these deformed children.
Once she was only 100 meters away from the church, Liu Jiayi hid in a corner to avoid a deformed child.
Liu Jiayi gasped as she leaned against the wall. She closed her eyes and calmed her heartbeat and breathing. In this short rest time before she arrived, she started to doubt the authenticity of the information she got from Liu Huai.
Did Liu Huai really have only 1 health? How did he find this tunnel that even she didn't know about?
Liu Jiayi had a very strong feeling of being lured into a trap. It was the same as what she felt when Hearts used a tool to lure her into entering the guild.
She knew it wasn't right, but it was her brother in the trap.
The designer of this trap knew her too well. Even if it was a trap, she would definitely jump in.
Yet compared to this trap, Liu Jiayi didn't want to see another situation. It was that Liu Huai wasn't the bait of the trap, but the participant and leader.
She didn't want to doubt Liu Huai, but she couldn't control it. The corrosive growth environment was rooted in her bones and blood. It had saved Liu Jiayi's life in many critical situations, and she was naturally suited to this bad game where she couldn't trust anyone.
Liu Jiayi was undoubtedly the person who wanted Liu Huai to live the most in the world. For this purpose, she could save Liu Huai by risking her life, and she could exchange her death for Liu Huai's life. However, this was on the premise that Liu Huai didn't take the initiative to harm her.
In the cold wind of the night, Liu Jiayi took deep breaths while frowning deeply. The serious expression on her immature face had a strong sense of disharmony. Liu Jiayi hesitated for a long time before finally placing her hand deep into the pocket of her clothes. She took out a teardrop-shaped glass bottle filled with transparent liquid. There was a line of fancy characters on the bottle.
[System notification: Does the player Liu Jiayi want to use the item Psyche's Tears? After using it, the item will guide you, who is hesitating on how to make a choice. It will guide you to the outcome of the gods.]
[Item rating: Extraordinary tool with the power of fate comparable to the gods.]
[The system has detected that player Liu Jiayi has already used the tool. If you continue to use it, you can strengthen the effect of the tool. Do you want to continue to use it?]
Liu Jiayi's grip on the bottle slowly tightened. She lowered her head and watched the liquid in the bottle flowing like tears. Her breathing was very rapid as she remembered the hurt and tear-stained face of Liu Huai when he hurt Mu Sicheng after being controlled by Puppet Zhang. She also remembered what that woman, Hearts, had said to her when giving her this item.
Hearts leaned on the sofa, her arms and legs stretched out lazily as she looked at Liu Jiayi. [Ah, you said that after using this tool, it guided you to do things to hurt Liu Huai, so you suspect this tool won't help you achieve your purpose? Little Witch, this is an extraordinary item given by the system. The effect isn't wrong. Have you ever heard the story of Psyche?]
Hearts smiled and touched her cheeks. [Psyche was a beautiful woman with many suspicions. She was beautiful enough to make Venus, the goddess of beauty and love, feel jealous. Venus wanted to torture Psyche because she was jealous. She sent her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest beast in the world. Isn't she a terrible mother? Letting her child do such a thing.]
[With such parents, one has to wonder if this Cupid was also a bad person. It seemed he often turned a blind eye when Venus did bad things and even helped her.]
[Then Cupid seemed to suddenly change. He didn't want to do this to the innocent Psyche.] Hearts spoke softly. [He saved Psyche and hid her. He was very kind to her, but he covered Psyche's eyes and made her blind in front of him so she couldn't see what he looked like.]
[This made Psyche doubt whether the person who loved her was an ugly beast or a god who came to save her. She was tortured by this suspicion day and night. She didn't want to remove the cloth that covered her eyes and hurt Cupid, who loved and saved her, but she couldn't help wondering if he was a beast who pretended to be a normal person and lied to her.]
Hearts got off her seat. She still had a light and elegant smile on her face as she reached out to touch Liu Jiayi's blurred eyes. [Finally, suspicion defeated Psyche. She took off the cloth, blindfolding herself, and saw Cupid's true face. However, Cupid was hurt by Psyche's doubts. He flew back to Heaven, and Psyche cried as she was tortured by pain and guilt day and night.]
[Still, do you know how this story ends?] Hearts chuckled as she placed the glass bottle filled with tears in Liu Jiayi's hands, whispering as if to bewitch her. "Psyche went through hardships and flew to Heaven to bring Cupid back. Then they lived happily together forever."
Hearts lowered her eyes. She wrapped her white arms around Liu Jiayi's neck from behind and bent down to gently persuade Liu Jiayi. [Child, suspicion isn't a big mistake. Psyche and Cupid ended up together. Suspicion is a good method to reveal the other person's true face. In this way, you can be together without any doubts, right?]
[If you find your suspicions wavering, you can drink the tears and ask Psyche, who gained happiness through suspicion. Psyche, who has become a god, will tell you what to do.]
Liu Jiayi finally took the item, Psyche's Tears, that Hearts gave her. She just used it more carefully because using it would obviously hurt Liu Huai.
Although this type of damage seemed to narrow the distance between her and Liu Huai every time, it was exactly as Hearts said.
Nevertheless, Liu Jiayi didn't want to see Liu Huai's pained appearance. Liu Jiayi had only seen the dead look on Liu Huai once, and it was when he was forced to attack Mu Sicheng.
After Liu Huai came out of the game where he nearly killed Mu Sicheng, there was a type of nothingness in his eyes that made Liu Jiayi feel empty.
She felt very strongly that a part of Liu Huai's emotional world that had just blossomed had been permanently torn apart by her suspicions.
Liu Huai would no longer have any friends. Liu Jiayi had destroyed any possibility of him having friends.
Since then, Liu Jiayi had controlled the number of times she used this tool, and she had controlled her suspicion of Liu Huai. She hoped that she wouldn't have to use this tool again one day.
Yet this time, this time—Liu Jiayi pressed her lips together, and a visible struggle appeared on her face. Doubt and fear tormented her, just like the blindfolded Psyche. She wanted to know if Liu Huai, waiting in the church, was a god who would save her, or a beast who had put on human skin to tear her to pieces.
Hearts appeared and whispered in her ear with a smile. [Suspicion is your antidote. Jiayi, drink it.]
Her hands trembled as she held the teardrop glass bottle. The tears were cold as they pressed against her hand, and it made her want to shake.
Liu Jiayi didn't hesitate for a long time. She took a deep breath, wrapped her hands around the glass bottle, and lowered her head so her jaw rested against her hand as she whispered, "I will use the tool."
Her thin and weak back was arched, and her lips rested on her thumbs. Her posture was reverent, like a girl praying for God's favor.
[System notification: Player Liu Jiayi has confirmed the use of the tool 'Psyche's Tears'. The tool is loading...]
The liquid in the bottle started to disappear. She couldn't help closing her eyes as tears automatically slipped down from them—they were Psyche's tears.
Once she opened her eyes again, Liu Jiayi had a strange sense of foreboding in her mind. She clicked on her system warehouse and followed her intuition to a vision item she had originally intended to keep until she ran away: Snake Night Vision.
[System notification: Player Liu Jiayi has used the tool 'Snake Night Vision'. You can use thermal imaging technology to view the surrounding creatures. The usage period is 12 hours, and it can only be used once.]
A layer covered Liu Jiayi's eyes like contact lenses. A snake appeared in the dark part of her pupils, and it was like wearing beauty contact lenses.
Using this tool, Liu Jiayi could see the church dozens of meters away. She was just about to go there, but the moment she raised her eyes, it felt like a needle had pierced them. Liu Jiayi stood there with her cold-blooded animal eyes wide open.
Psyche took off her blindfold and saw the handsome Cupid.
Liu Jiayi put on the lenses and saw Liu Huai, who deceived her.
She could clearly see the thermal images of four people in the church, dozens of meters away. This meant that Liu Huai wasn't alone in the church. In addition to Liu Huai, there were at least three other people. There was no obvious coercion between these individuals. They relied on each other, and it seemed to be a cooperative relationship.
Several players were waiting for her, but her brother had said nothing about this situation.
The cold night wind blew on Liu Jiayi's face. She felt that her breathing and expression were numb. Her originally hot mind was cooled down by the night wind, and Liu Jiayi noticed many previous abnormalities.
Liu Jiayi slowly took out her phone and blinked her dark eyes. She held back the liquid about to spill from her eyes and called Liu Huai's phone without any emotion on her face. Her frightened tone was completely different from her expression. "Brother, I'm almost at the church, but it is too dark, and I can't see... can you come out and pick me up?"
There was a long silence. Then Liu Jiayi saw a person standing up crookedly after her call. This person had no arms and was being supported by someone. Liu Jiayi's chest moved up and down fiercely. She couldn't help wanting to run to the church immediately, but she gritted her teeth to endure it, her nails piercing her palms.
Liu Huai had no arms!!
Liu Jiayi stared at the thermal image that was holding Liu Huai. Bai Liu—this was definitely Bai Liu.
"Brother, are you coming out?" Liu Jiayi asked in a low, agitated voice as she stood in front of the church.
The breathing sound from the other end of the line was faster before it slowed down again. "I am coming. Jiayi, where are you? I'm looking for you outside."
Liu Jiayi reported her location. She said deformed children were chasing her and cried for Liu Huai to come over quickly. Then she hung up the phone.
It was Bai Liu who helped Liu Huai hold the phone. After he put down the phone, Liu Huai turned to look at Bai Liu. Bai Liu thought about it. "Liu Jiayi guessed that something wasn't right about this church. Once she calmed down, she started to doubt you, Liu Huai."
"I know." Liu Huai lowered his head and looked at his missing arms. He slightly moved the stumps of his limbs and smiled bitterly. "I don't know if she will trust me a bit when I come out, and she sees me like this."
Bai Liu didn't reply to Liu Huai because he felt it was unlikely.
"I'll go out alone." Liu Huai was about to leave when Bai Liu stopped him.
Bai Liu looked at Liu Huai. "We'll go out with you."
Liu Huai was taken aback and was about to object when Bai Liu explained the reason in a lukewarm manner. "It is now after 9 o'clock, and the children playing the flute will soon exit from the statue. These monsters won't hurt children, but they will take away the children."
His eyes fell on little Mu Ke, who was hiding behind a seat and secretly looking at him. "The church is no longer safe for little Mu Ke. They were previously attracted by the investors in the tunnel, but now that our phones are all busy and we can't be called to attract the attention of these deformed children, their target will likely be little Mu Ke."
Little Mu Ke bit his lip and retorted, "Bai Liu (6) is now the same as those deformed children! The children can climb out of the tunnel, which means that Bai Liu (6) will come out of the tunnel. I can stay with him!"
"He is already a monster." Bai Liu lowered his eyes toward little Mu Ke. "You are a normal person. If you stay with a monster for a long time, there is a risk of mental decline and alienation. I also don't know how he is now. So it is better if you... stay with us."
The longer the alienation, the more severe the effect. Bai Liu didn't know how long it would take his past self to completely become an irrational monster, so the safest way was to take Mu Ke directly.
Little Mu Ke was dragged out of the church by big Mu Ke. He wanted to stay in the church, but Bai Liu didn't allow it. So in a situation where he could be suppressed with force, Bai Liu didn't hesitate to use force.
Bai Liu and the big and small Mu Ke went out through the bushes on the other side of the church's back door. Bai Liu's group went around the side of the church and hid behind the side door, where they could see Liu Huai, who came out from the front door.
The loss of both arms made Liu Huai's movements a bit unbalanced. He staggered as he walked out the door into the night. There was the sound of faint laughter from children, as well as small footsteps, as something moved closer to Liu Huai's side.
Mu Ke's hand covered little Mu Ke, who was still struggling to resist. Mu Ke was a bit frightened when he heard this, and he approached Bai Liu, speaking in a very low voice. "Bai Liu, I remember that there are deformed children wandering the welfare home at night. Won't Liu Huai be killed by these deformed children before reaching Liu Jiayi?"
"No," Bai Liu answered very softly and firmly. "Liu Jiayi won't let Liu Huai die."
A deformed child was closely approaching Liu Huai's back. Mu Ke couldn't help wanting to call out to get Liu Huai's attention. Liu Huai was currently in a daze, and it seemed he didn't notice anything was wrong around him as he continued to walk forward.
However, someone called out to Liu Huai faster than him.
A little girl's voice, full of tears and fear, came over. "...Brother, is that you?"
"Jiayi! It's me!" Even if he knew that Liu Jiayi had deceived him, Liu Huai still followed his years of habit after hearing this voice and instinctively turned his head. He responded to Liu Jiayi in a somewhat eager tone as he searched around for Liu Jiayi's shadow. "Brother is here, Jiayi!"
Liu Jiayi was pressed against a wall. She carefully raised her head and looked over at Liu Huai. The moment Liu Huai had turned his head to answer, the deformed child behind him jumped up and pounced at Liu Huai's back!
Mu Ke couldn't help wanting to give a reminder to Liu Huai, but Bai Liu calmly stopped him. "Look."
At the moment Liu Huai was about to be jumped on by the deformed child, Liu Jiayi cried and stumbled toward Liu Huai. She rushed forward, held Liu Huai, and hugged him tightly. Then her originally fragile and panicked expression disappeared instantly.
She placed her chin on Liu Huai's shoulder and rubbed it affectionately, her tone soft and obedient as she called out to her brother. It was just that there was no expression on her face as a black medicine bottle appeared out of nowhere in her hand.
Liu Jiayi tilted her wrist in an expressionless manner and poured the potion from the bottle onto the deformed child that was about to pounce on Liu Huai.
The little monster opened his mouth wide and melted into a pool of black liquid without even screaming. He silently dissolved into the ground.
The hiding Mu Ke was dumbfounded. "This child is an A-grade monster, and Liu Jiayi killed him so simply. Does she have an S-grade panel?"
"No. I heard Mu Sicheng say that Little Witch's attributes panel is only A-grade. It isn't even A. She is worthy of being first on the rising stars list." Bai Liu's lips slightly curved. "Her skills have huge potential. No wonder the big guilds rushed to grab her."
After Liu Jiayi killed the child, her eyes moved, and Bai Liu saw her looking at him.
She cocked her head and held Liu Huai's neck tightly while shaking the bottle of poison in her hand, staring at Bai Liu with no emotion in her eyes.
It was a threatening look, and the meaning was obvious: the fate of this monster will happen to you next.
"Can she see us?" Mu Ke was surprised. "Didn't Liu Huai say that Liu Jiayi really is blind? Normal actions are a problem for her."
"It is a visualization item. Bai Liu (6) mentioned it to me before. Even so, she shouldn't be able to see our hiding place so clearly in the night. It shouldn't be a conventional item used to restore vision." Bai Liu's tone was still very calm. "Then I can understand why she suddenly called out Liu Huai. She saw more than one person in the church."
Mu Ke reacted quickly and looked at Bai Liu anxiously. "What should we do? She knows that Liu Huai was lying to her. How can we coax her to heal you?"
Bai Liu's eyes narrowed. "I'm afraid it will be difficult. This Little Witch should want to kill me with poison more than use the antidote to save me."
Liu Jiayi hugged Liu Huai like he was a doll. It was very possessive and controlling. Her eyes swept over the red patches that represented living people in the distance and finally fell on Liu Huai's empty shoulder. She touched the place where Liu Huai's arms were cut off, and Liu Huai hissed in pain.
This sound made Liu Jiayi's expression slightly distorted for a moment.
Liu Jiayi buried her head in Liu Huai's shoulder and took a deep breath. She tried her best to suppress the uncontrollable emotions in her voice. "Brother, how did your arms turn out like this?"
"Brother was trying to save you," Liu Huai comforted Liu Jiayi in a low voice as usual.
Liu Jiayi couldn't see Liu Huai's empty expression, and Liu Huai couldn't see Liu Jiayi's struggling expression. They hugged each other so closely, and their heartbeats became tense and quick due to the other person's proximity. They kept away from each other while saying words that pierced through the layer of warmth that didn't exist.
"Brother, you just wanted to ambush me in the church, right? Are you trying to draw my blood?" Liu Jiayi asked.
"Jiayi, are you the Little Witch?" Liu Huai asked.
Liu Jiayi's pupils shrank, while Liu Huai fell into a strange silence. Liu Jiayi's breathing was so rapid that it was like she was suffering from asthma. She stepped back several times like she had stepped on thorns and looked up at Liu Huai with disbelief.
Meanwhile, Liu Huai half-kneeled on the ground. He looked at Liu Jiayi with a sad silence, as if he had accepted everything.
"Jiayi, when did you become a witch?"
Liu Huai's voice was soft. "I underestimated you, Jiayi."
Liu Jiayi shook her head frantically, tears slipping down from her eyes as she staggered back in horror. Liu Huai's disappointed tone, as he knelt in front of her, almost made Liu Jiayi go crazy.
The current Liu Huai was like a wild animal that made her afraid, even though she had just snuggled up in Liu Huai's arms to keep warm.
"I'm not, Brother," Liu Jiayi retorted reluctantly. "I don't know who the Little Witch is. Who told you that?"
"Don't call me Brother, Jiayi. I don't deserve to be your brother." Liu Huai swayed as he stood up. He shook his head lightly and smiled in a trance. "You are smarter than me when I was young. Everyone said that you were born to be a university student. It would be good if you weren't blind. I always felt that way."
"You are indeed very powerful and excellent. I didn't notice at all when you played me." Liu Huai kept shaking his head while looking at Liu Jiayi as if he was seeing through her. His tone was so light that he seemed to be talking to himself. "It would be good if you weren't my sister."
"It would be good if you were someone else's sister."
Liu Jiayi froze in place. The words she heard from Liu Huai made her ears ring, and she became unsteady on her feet.
The night wind blew on Liu Huai's face, and he felt very cold. His eyes and expression were cold and desperate, but in Liu Jiayi's eyes, they were hot and red.
Then the red color gradually turned blue in Liu Jiayi's eyes. It was a sign that Liu Huai's temperature was slowly falling.
This meant that Liu Huai might be dying.
Liu Jiayi squeezed out a smile. She reached out to grab Liu Huai's clothes, but halfway through her action, her keen senses caused her to turn her head. "Who is over there? Come out!"
There were two looming red shadows walking in the distance while dragging a child's red shadow. One of them was dragging something in his hands, and there was the sound of knives rubbing against the cement ground.
Bai Liu followed Liu Jiayi's gaze, and his eyes narrowed. "It is Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang."
"Why did they come to the church?" Mu Ke's expression faintly collapsed. "We haven't tricked Liu Jiayi to our side yet! If they come, then we can't resist at all! All of us have single-digit points of health!"
"I originally expected to rely on the deterrence of Bai Liu (6) to prevent them from easily coming to the church. After all, there is a hidden side to counter their attacks." Bai Liu stood behind the side door and watched the constantly approaching Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang. "They really didn't come to the church during the day. It should be for this reason. I just don't know why they changed their minds."
Bai Liu's eyes were fixed on Miao Gaojiang's face. Once Miao Gaojiang got closer, Bai Liu's eyes narrowed. "Miao Gaojiang's state isn't right. He and Miao Feichi are far apart."
The closer they got, the more he found that Miao Gaojiang's state wasn't right. It was past 9 o'clock, and Miao Gaojiang's physical strength had been restored. However, he was walking with the highest level of defensive skill despite only Miao Feichi being around him. His eyes were also a bit scattered and trembling. He seemed to be afraid of his teammate, who had been cooperating with him all this time—his only son, Miao Feichi.
Bai Liu was very familiar with Miao Gaojiang's state. It was because, not long ago, Liu Huai had also experienced this.
"The aftereffect of a sharp drop in mental value can make people immersed in their subconscious fear," Bai Liu spoke with no emotion. "Liu Huai was controlled by this subconscious fear before. This aftereffect has only two outcomes—suicide or homicide."
Liu Huai was obviously the first type, while Miao Gaojiang—Bai Liu's eyes fell on his clenched fists.
It seemed that Miao Gaojiang was the second type.
A Miao Gaojiang with full defense and the crazy tendency to hurt people... Bai Liu frowned when he recalled what Puppet Zhang had said to him in the last game.
[Players who hurt people due to abnormal mental value have a name. They are called boundary monsters. They are already reserved monsters. Due to their emotional madness, their attack power is even crazier and more powerful than monsters.]
Miao Gaojiang's eyes stared straight forward and were filled with a disturbing redness. Miao Feichi had noticed that Miao Gaojiang's state was wrong, but Miao Gaojiang was unwilling to tell him what was going on. Miao Gaojiang's mental value had decreased in the explosion last night, but Miao Feichi had been knocked out at the time. He didn't know that his father was in a very dangerous state.
Miao Feichi gritted his teeth and tried to stop Miao Gaojiang. "Father, didn't you say we can wait until after midnight for Bai Liu to die before going to the church to get rid of the others?"
"Why are we going to the church when it is only 9 o'clock? What if little Bai Liu (6) is still there?"
Miao Gaojiang looked at Miao Feichi's face that shifted between a man and a woman nonstop. His eyes became redder, and his breathing was short. "No matter how strong, we have to fight! Feichi, I can't wait that long!"
If he didn't pass the level soon, he would eventually attack Miao Feichi. The mental outbreak was becoming more serious, and his mental value was currently fluctuating between high and low.
They had searched everywhere else in the welfare home and couldn't find Liu Jiayi. She was most likely in the child safety area of the church. He needed to get Liu Jiayi's blood as soon as possible so he could clear the instance with Miao Feichi. Then he would go to the guild's warehouse to find any items to alleviate the aftereffects.
Miao Feichi still wanted to dissuade his father because he felt that this plan was very impulsive. However, Miao Gaojiang sent him a terrible look, and the blue veins on Miao Gaojiang's forehead bulged.
Miao Feichi became numb, and he closed his mouth.
Miao Gaojiang generally followed his decisions, but if Miao Gaojiang was determined to do something, Miao Feichi had no choice but to follow, no matter how unreasonable.
Seeing the red-faced Miao Gaojiang's mechanical approach getting faster, Bai Liu quickly gave an order to Mu Ke. "Take little Mu Ke back to the church and go to the tunnel to find Bai Liu (6). If his state is okay, then take him out. If he isn't okay, go back to the church to hide."
Currently, Bai Liu hasn't received Bai Liu's (6) call. This child was usually very punctual. It was past 9 o'clock, and Bai Liu (6) hadn't called for so long. This could only indicate that Bai Liu (6)'s state...
Bai Liu's expression sank, but he had no better way.
He needed a core attack power to break through Miao Gaojiang's defense. They couldn't hold this Miao Gaojiang at all. Even Liu Jiayi couldn't hold out against him. Add the top combat power of Miao Feichi, and they would be wiped out.
Mu Ke gritted his teeth and took little Mu Ke's hand to return to the church. He approached Bai Liu and said in a low voice, "Don't act recklessly before we deceive Liu Jiayi's healing skill from her. Wait until I find Bai Liu (6)."
Bai Liu nodded in a noncommittal manner.
As a result, Mu Ke had just walked around the side door toward the front door when little Miao Gaojiang took advantage of Miao Gaojiang's abnormal state and Miao Feichi's focus on the surrounding environment to break away from Miao Feichi in a panic. He ran frantically toward the church.
Little Miao Gaojiang's running speed broke out to its limits. Before anyone could respond, he had reached the church. He gasped and locked the church door from the inside, blocking little Mu Ke, who had just reached the door.
Once he had done all of this, he collapsed and knelt on the ground with trembling hands. The zombie investor was so terrible.
After seeing that a safe area like the church was close at hand, little Miao Gaojiang's desire to survive drove him to run in and lock the door, although he didn't know how long it could last.
Mu Ke looked at the locked door of the church and knocked twice. He was locked out of the church by little Miao Gaojiang!
Miao Feichi chased after the fleeing little Miao Gaojiang. He saw the locked door and wanted to curse. He was about to violently break down the door using the two knives. As a result, he found that Liu Huai, the two Mu Kes, and Liu Jiayi were all in front of the church.
He raised his double knives vigilantly and looked around. Then he raised an eyebrow with disbelief and whispered to Miao Gaojiang, "Father, the little monster isn't here!"
Mu Ke alertly pulled little Mu Ke behind him and confronted Miao Feichi in a protective posture. Even so, his eyes couldn't help drifting to Bai Liu's hiding place, and his heart beat so fast that it felt like he couldn't breathe.
In a time when there was no core power to fight, Bai Liu couldn't come out! His 0.5 health meant one cut would kill him!
"We've been tricked. That little monster can't leave the church at all." Miao Gaojiang stared at the closed church with a gloomy and distorted expression. "Still, it seems like we've come at the right time. Everyone is here. It is just right for us to catch them all."
Miao Gaojiang looked very aggressively at little Mu Ke, hidden behind Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi, standing in front of Liu Huai with a solemn expression. He smiled like a normal, middle-aged man, but his smile was creepy. "Everyone is here."
"Feichi, open your S-grade skill," Miao Gaojiang commanded without any emotion on his face. "Quickly fight and catch the children."