Ch108 - Love Welfare Institute
Bai Liu’s ambush did make Miao Gaojiang panic for a moment. Then after he calmed down, he realized they couldn’t lose.
Miao Gaojiang patiently dangled the constantly attacking Bai Liu like a monkey. From time to time, he glanced at the battle between Miao Feichi and Liu Huai out of the corner of his eye.
Liu Huai was indeed a good assassin for attacking but Bai Liu wasn’t a competent thief.
Bai Liu didn’t steal anything that could allow them to retreat in time. Liu Huai was a player who wasn’t good at a head-on confrontation and he soon lost under Miao Feichi’s close range attacks.
Miao Feichi tore open the bag of mental bleach with his mouth. The attack and drop in mental value made him so manic that the double knives in his hands danced.
Liu Huai obviously had a lot of trouble dealing with Miao Feichi, a rampaging senior player. Miao Feichi didn’t have much intention of playing with him. He simply did a cross slash with his double knives, cutting off Liu Huai’s arms with a skill and turning to meet Miao Gaojiang.
[System notification: Player Miao Feichi has attacked Liu Huai with his double knives. The attack was successful. Player Liu Huai’s health has decreased by 17 and player Liu Huai has 20 health remaining!]
Removing the opponent’s attack limb was a very common and effective attack strategy in the game. In other words, cutting off an arm was a crude version of disarming and effectively preventing the player from using their weapon skills. This was why Liu Huai had cut off Mu Sicheng’s hands.
It was also the reason why the previous Bai Liu and now Miao Feichi would cut off Liu Huai’s arms.
A lot of blood spurted from Liu Huai’s shoulders and the arms and daggers fell to the ground together, making a clear ‘ding’ sound. Liu Huai knelt on the ground, his face as white as a piece of paper soaked in water. He was gasping for breath and it was obvious he had lost any attack power.
He tried his best but he could only drag Miao Feichi for this long.
[System warning: Player Liu Huai’s mental value is fluctuating violently and has decreased to 57. Hallucinations are about to occur. The player is asked to quickly restore their mental value!]
Generally speaking, Miao Feichi would directly kill Liu Huai but now time was urgent. It would take at least a while to kill Liu Huai, a player with an A-grade panel. Now there was someone he wanted to kill even more.
Miao Feichi gritted his teeth and turned around with the knives. “Bai Liu—!”
He crouched down and jumped across the wall, double knives filled with a violent destructive power as he attacked Bai Liu who was attacking Miao Gaojiang. The wall was cut by his double knives, causing the wallpaper and plaster layer to be damaged and burst out. The whole room was filled with flying debris. Bai Liu turned sideways in the air and blocked Miao Feichi’s descending double slashes with his claws.
Miao Feichi’s knives were blocked by Bai Liu with Mu Sicheng’s monkey hand skill for a moment. Most of the attack power was removed but it wasn’t completely blocked. Miao Feichi had completely exploded with anger and one of Bai Liu’s hands was cut off by Miao Feichi, blood gushing out.
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[System warning: Player Bai Liu’s health has dropped from 6 to 3! It is continuing to decline! Please get away from this dangerous scene quickly!]
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This look instantly pulled Liu Huai out of the slow-motion world. Liu Huai shook his head and struggled to get up.
It wasn’t over, everything wasn’t over yet.
In Bai Liu’s plan, this was just the beginning.
For Jiayi, Bai Liu must not die!
Liu Huai tried his best to focus on the ground and search. Finally, he saw the pair of arms holding daggers that had been cut off by Miao Feichi.
The daggers were held loosely by his hands. The tips of the daggers flashed with a bit of blood and Liu Huai’s eyes focused on that bloody light.
Bai Liu was fighting with Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang and no one noticed this bloody corner. Liu Huai’s eyes finally hardened. He knelt on the ground and stumbled forward on his knees. He crawled to where his arms had been cut off. Liu Huai looked at the face-up daggers, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and fell on the tip of one dagger.
[System warning: Player Liu Huai is attacked by the shadow dagger and your mental value has decreased… the mental value drop caused by your own skill weapon is being calculated… after the calculation is completed, player Liu Huai’s mental value has dropped to 7!]
[System warning: Player Liu Huai has opened the rage panel!]
[Player Liu Huai’s Personal Panel (Rage State)]
[Mental value: 57 → 7]
[Physical strength: 39 → 319]
[Agility: 1140 → 1510]
[Attack power: 731 → 2200]
[Resistance: 1003 → 2100]
[Comprehensive defense and attack power has increased. The total of the panel attribute points has exceeded 5000 and the player is rated as an A++ level player. The player Liu Huai’s level has increased from A to A++ level.]
[System notification: Does player Liu Huai want to use the skill One Hit Flash? After fully opening it, the individual skill will be upgraded to the A++ level but the player’s physical strength will be affected due to overdraft and it can’t be restored with a physical strength recovery agent for 24 hours.]
Liu Huai crawled up. He was covered in blood and his arms had fallen to the ground. He grabbed a dagger with his mouth, his eyes filled with a type of inorganic coldness. There was a type of desperation and sadness that made him seem like a real, deadly assassin trained to kill others at all costs.
Bai Liu was the user of this assassin and was likely to be the last user.
There were tears in Liu Huai’s eyes.
[I am sure.]
[System notification: Player Liu Huai is certain to use it. The dagger attack +6037, comprehensive panel attack data +2200. The total attack data is 8237. Player Liu Huai’s physical strength is declining rapidly…]
The double knives held high by Miao Feichi were about to fall fiercely when his back seemed to be approached by a dark wind. It seemed like something that made him feel danger and alertness suddenly appeared behind him. Miao Feichi’s alertness from his many battles made him turn back quickly.
He saw Liu Huai, with a dagger in his mouth and no arms. Liu Huai’s eyes contained a sinister determination and he stabbed at Miao Feichi who couldn’t dodge in time.
“Feichi, be careful!” Miao Gaojiang pulled Miao Feichi over but Liu Huai reacted very quickly. He lowered his body while biting down on the dagger. The moment Miao Gaojiang tried to pull Miao Feichi, he changed the target of his attack. Liu Huai bit the dagger and with a distorted and ferocious expression, he silently roared as he viciously and tearfully plunged the dagger into Miao Gaojiang’s abdomen.
“How can you…” Miao Gaojiang stared at the dagger plunged into his abdomen. “…Break through my defense?”
[System notification: Player Liu Huai has used the skill One Hit Flash. The skill’s critical hit has broken through player Miao Gaojiang’s defense, causing player Miao Gaojiang to become stiff for 30 seconds. The mental value has fallen to 51 and hallucinations are about to appear. Due to the mental shock, player Miao Gaojiang’s defense value is falling…]
The moment when Miao Gaojiang stiffened and fell into a trance, Bai Liu clearly felt that Miao Gaojiang’s originally hard skin had become softer. He quickly used his only intact monkey’s hand to grasp this gap and grab at Miao Gaojiang.
Miao Feichi, who was pulled over by Miao Gaojiang, saw Bai Liu’s actions. His eyes were red as he roared, “Don’t fucking think about moving against my father!”
Miao Feichi’s double knives were raised high. One was preparing to attack Bai Liu while the other slashed at Liu Huai.
Liu Huai bit the dagger and pulled it out of Miao Gaojiang’s abdomen. His physical strength was almost exhausted and he had no strength to deal a blow. He could only narrowly dodge Miao Feichi’s attack. However, he couldn’t prevent Miao Feichi from attacking.
Meanwhile, Bai Liu simply didn’t care about Miao Feichi’s knife that was about to cut him. His eyes were extremely focused and he didn’t care about his own life or death. The monkey hand was still extending toward Miao Gaojiang as he entrusted his back to Liu Huai, who had no arms.
This was what they had discussed from the beginning.
[…I don’t think I can stab Miao Gaojiang once and then block Miao Feichi’s attack on you. This plan is too risky. Bai Liu, if you give me your back then you will die!]
[You have cooperated with Mu Sicheng so many times and he handed over his back to you. You didn’t let him die.]
[…Still, I let him lose his hands.]
[You betrayed Mu Sicheng with that dagger in your hand but once the time comes, you will have no arms to betray me. Liu Huai, my style is that before things happen, I always assume that the other person can do it. You can do it, right?]
The decline in mental value caused Liu Huai’s eyes to be somewhat unfocused. He looked at Bai Liu stretching out the monkey hand and finally stared at Bai Liu’s face.
In this world where Liu Huai’s mental value was low, the familiar cooperative attack caused the faces of Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu in front of him to overlap repeatedly. It was as if the man who skillfully stole with him and trusted the rear to him without the slightest doubt was Bai Liu as well as the friend he hadn’t contacted for a long time.
‘Brother Si,’ Liu Huai muttered silently.
The betrayal was like a dagger stuck in Liu Huai’s heart.
Liu Huai’s body struck Miao Feichi, his face full of unknowing tears. He blocked the way for Bai Liu but he couldn’t tell if the person behind him was Bai Liu or Mu Sicheng. He just did what the assassin in the thief and assassin combination should do.
—Stand at the rear and do everything possible to clean up all obstacles for the wildly stealing monkey thief.
Miao Feichi was unable to recover the knives and slashed the double knives into Liu Huai’s body, who was screaming as he covered for Bai Liu. At almost the same time, Bai Liu turned his head and his monkey hand finally hooked onto Miao Gaojiang’s body.
[System warning: Player Liu Huai has been attacked by Miao Feichi’s double knives. Your health has fallen to 17… 16… 14. There are 4 points left! Please leave the dangerous scene as soon as possible! Your health value is falling!]
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has used the skill Thief’s Monkey Hand to successfully steal the Siren’s Fishbone, Ghost Mirror (has been pierced together completely)… and so on.]
Bai Liu pulled out a white, fluorescent whip from Miao Gaojiang’s body. Miao Gaojiang was still in the stiffened state and could only watch Bai Liu pull out the whip without hesitation and aim it at Miao Feichi’s double knives.
Siren’s Fishbone couldn’t exert much power in the hands of the F-grade panel Bai Liu but it had a special bug—the attack judgment was extremely strong.
A strong attack judgment meant that regardless of whether the item’s attack caused damage or not, it was judged to be true. Bai Liu’s whip snapped at Miao Feichi’s double knives and immediately knocked away the double knives, Liu Huai, who was being slashed by the double knives, felt his legs softening. His eyes were unfocused as he knelt on the ground stained with his own blood.
[System warning: Player Liu Huai only has 2 health left! Please leave the dangerous scene as soon as possible!]
Miao Gaojiang’s 30 seconds of stiffness was almost over but he was filled with an inexplicable uneasiness as he looked at the completely unresponsive Liu Huai and Bai Liu whose health was almost exhausted. As long as Miao Feichi dealt one hit, Bai Liu and Liu Huai would be resolved quickly.
These two people might’ve successfully stolen something but it was impossible to overturn the situation. There were no items in that pile of things that could turn defeat into victory.
So where did this sense of crisis that made him breathless come from?
Miao Gaojiang quickly thought about the items that Bai Liu took away. They were all the items dropped by Bai Liu when he pretended to be dead.
This guy did such a big move to get back the items he abandoned when he played a trick?
Wait, this was wrong!
Miao Gaojiang’s eyes froze as he thought about a very peculiar item. There was an item that was from Bai Liu but also wasn’t from Bai Liu.
That Ghost Mirror.
After getting all the broken lenses last night, they put together the Ghost Mirror. However, this Ghost Mirror had no special use. The system didn’t give any specific functions and the attributes were unknown. They needed to explore it on their own and it could only be used once in each instance.
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However, the mirror didn’t react when they put it together. It was just an ordinary mirror that could store things.
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Miao Gaojiang hadn’t cared about this bomb because with his skills, this bomb wouldn’t kill him so easily. Under his protection, Miao Feichi naturally wouldn’t die easily either. His inference was correct. There was indeed no item in the backpack that could kill them in one hit.
Miao Gaojiang just hadn’t expected there would be someone in this instance who could let him stand frozen for 30 seconds.
He was frozen in place and wouldn’t be killed with his skills, but Miao Feichi was a player with very low resistance to damage. He would definitely be killed in a close-range explosion!
Miao Gaojiang never thought that Bai Liu would use the bomb. It was because after using this thing, he and Miao Feichi might not be killed but Bai Liu and Liu Huai who had very low health would definitely die.
These two lunatics weren’t cooperating in an ambush of a thief and assassin. This was a completely desperate suicide attack!
Bai Liu was playing a two for two trick!
From beginning to end, Bai Liu wasn’t trying to steal but to kill them!
“Feichi! Don’t go and attack! Stay away from them!” Miao Gaojiang broke through the shackles. His eyes were red as he roared hoarsely, “Hide behind me!”
Bai Liu had one foot on the bookcase and the other on the frame of the stolen Ghost Mirror that was as tall as the bookcase. He crouched on the bookcase and mirror, his intact hand (or scarred monkey hand) casually placed on his bent knee, blood dripping down and hitting the mirror.
He held the fishbone with a mild white fluorescence. His forehead was scratched in the struggle and blood flowed down to wet his eyes and long eyelashes. Even so, he kept his eyes open. There was a peaceful smile on the blood covered face as he looked down at Miao Feichi, who hadn’t recovered yet, and Miao Gaojiang who was screaming with fear. Bai Liu’s hand entered the mirror as if to pull something out with force.
“It’s too late, Father Miao,” Bai Liu said with a smile. “Isn’t it good to see your son die? Still, I want to tell you something. I won’t do a bad thing like separating father and son. You and your son won’t be separated. You will both die together. Oh, it isn’t exactly together. Your resistance is higher than your son’s. You will watch your son die first before accompanying him.”
Miao Feichi had already hidden behind Miao Gaojiang. He didn’t know what was going on but Miao Gaojiang had roared like it wasn’t a small matter. Therefore, he obeyed the order.
Miao Gaojiang looked up at Bai Liu who was barefoot on top of the mirror and tried his best to maintain his composure. “The explosive power of this bomb can’t kill me.”
To be precise, it would normally take five large explosions from this type of bomb to kill Miao Gaojiang.
Bai Liu opened the eyelids that were dyed bright red and he looked down at the father and son without any fluctuations. He was like a god who arbitrarily sanctioned the lives of others because of boredom.
“You might think this bomb can’t kill you as a player with high resistance, but you have forgotten something. You aren’t only a player. You are also a monster.”
“—A terminally ill monster that sucks blood from children. You have weaknesses.”
Miao Gaojiang’s breathing paused for a few seconds and his pupils shrunk to small dots.
Yes, this was correct. If players had the status of a monster then they would be affected by the monster’s weaknesses. The impact wasn’t serious but once it happened, this usually small impact would be the last straw to overwhelm them.
This was a damp place with no light in order to grow mushrooms. The weaknesses of the patients here were obvious from the beginning but the system didn’t sell them any related items.
“You can’t see the light.” Bai Liu leaned into the mirror as ripples spread on the surface of the mirror. He pulled out a large black bomb from the mirror and smiled lightly as he threw it to the ground. “There can’t be fire or dryness.”
The bomb on the ground exploded with great heat and light.
The face of Bai Liu standing on the mirror and Liu Huai’s hollow eyes as he lay on the ground were gradually covered by the red light bursting out of the bomb.
Miao Gaojiang’s eyes seemed like they were about to pop out. “Stop it!!!”
The entire building shook with a loud bang and huge smoke and fire broke out.
[The Love Welfare Institute Monster Book has refreshed—Plant Patient (2/3)]
[Monster name: Plant Patient]
[Features: 500 movement speed, needs a lot of water for growth, likes humid environments.]
[Weaknesses: Blood ganoderma lucidum, dryness, light (3/3)]
[Attack method: Sucking body fluids, poisonous fog pollution.]
[Congratulations to player Bai Liu’s main identity line for collecting the Plant Patient page of the monster book.]
[System notification: Player Bai Liu has used the Ghost Mirror item once. The item has entered the cooldown state in the ‘Love Welfare Institute’ instance and can’t be used again…]
“So? How did you survive?” Bai Liu (6) felt rare interest and asked as he read the interface of the monster book. “I listened to what you said before. Liu Jiayi’s brother, Liu Huai, also survived. How did you survive the explosion?”
Bai Liu answered lazily, “In the last moment of the explosion, I dragged Liu Huai with the whip and hid in the mirror. The Ghost Mirror is an item that can clearly resist explosions so I was lucky enough to survive. In fact, I thought I would die because my health was too low. Just a small touch from the explosion would kill me. In the end, I was lucky. However, I fainted due to the bombing and just woke up.”
“Is that Miao duo dead?” Little Bai Liu (6) asked.
“Unfortunately, they aren’t dead either.” Bai Liu didn’t feel any frustration despite his plan failing. He gave a very objective and plain evaluation. “It was my calculation error. I don’t know what method Miao Gaojiang used but he attacked himself to let his mental value fall below 20. The rage panel allowed him to resist the explosion.”
“Still, their health was also depleted. After the explosion, the nurses came up quickly and dragged them both down. They are currently in the surgery room and at the very least, they won’t be able to make things difficult for you tomorrow. The nurses won’t allow it and the welfare home won’t be opened.”
“Many investors and their rooms were damaged in the explosion. The blood ganoderma lucidums on the beds are also being rescued. Therefore, the hospital has canceled tomorrow’s matching. Generally speaking, my goal was achieved.”
Bai Liu (6) was quiet for a long time. He could only hear the sound of Bai Liu’s gradually weakening breathing.
In fact, it was a bit disgusting. He wanted to ask about Bai Liu’s situation but asking was too disgusting. Thus, there was a silent standoff.
“Hello? If you aren’t speaking anymore, I want to report you for passively chatting and cheating me of money.” Bai Liu casually opened his mouth.
“How are you?” In the end, Bai Liu (6) still asked in an expressionless manner. “It is a bit disgusting but I think I need to understand your situation. After all, you are dying in order to give me an opportunity.”
Bai Liu, who had one hand cut off and was lying on the ground, unable to move, held the phone he had difficulty answering in his other hand. He stared up at the ceiling that had a big hole blown in it by himself.
There were no stars in the night sky outside, only the deep night. The ground he was lying on and the sky were the color of burned coal, making him feel like he was dead for a moment. He felt like he had become a floating soul and was calling his 14 year old self in a sky without stars.
“It’s fine.” Bai Liu smiled as he spoke wearily, “Everybody is still alive. We did a good job tonight.”