Free Web NovelXiao Mu Ke staggered back after being shoved aside by Xiao Miao Feichi, but immediately moved to shield Liu Jiayi again.
At his age, he had already been taught that boys were supposed to protect girls. And right now, Xiao Miao Feichi was obviously behaving abnormally.
Forcing himself to stay brave, Xiao Mu Ke spread his arms protectively in front of Liu Jiayi.
“Miao Feichi, I already told you! It’s not our fault you failed to escape!” Xiao Mu Ke shouted. “If you dare touch Jiayi, I’ll tell Six-ge!”
After going through the failed escape attempt together, Xiao Mu Ke’s sense of distance toward Liu Jiayi had rapidly diminished. In his eyes, Liu Jiayi had become a weak little meimei who needed protection just like he did.
He knew perfectly well that he couldn’t physically stop Xiao Miao Feichi. But he had also realized something during this time: whatever agreement existed between these two and Six-ge, Xiao Miao Feichi was clearly afraid of Six-ge.
So Xiao Mu Ke instinctively resorted to the most childlike method available to him—
Reporting him.
Xiao Mu Ke glared fiercely, trying to sound calm and reasonable despite his fear.
“You don’t dare disobey Six-ge, right? If he sees you treating us like this tomorrow, do you really think you’ll end well?”
Xiao Miao Feichi paused briefly.
But the next second, his expression twisted violently.
“I won’t end well either way!” he snarled.
He flung Xiao Mu Ke aside with one arm.
“Get lost!”
“Tonight I’m definitely tasting this little blind girl! And if you keep getting in my way, I’ll eat you too!”
Seeing the bloodshot madness in Xiao Miao Feichi’s eyes, Xiao Mu Ke involuntarily shuddered.
At that exact moment, Liu Jiayi suddenly shouted loudly:
“Teacher! Teacher!”
A teacher passing through the hallway on her way to the restroom heard the noise and impatiently shoved open the door.
“What now?”
Xiao Mu Ke immediately tried to point at Xiao Miao Feichi and complain, but Xiao Miao Feichi reacted faster.
He instantly changed expressions, straightened up, and flashed the teacher a lazy grin.
“Teacher, Mu Ke and Miao Gaojiang got into a fight with me,” he said casually. “We were just arguing a little.”
Xiao Mu Ke froze in disbelief.
Then his face flushed red with anger.
“That’s not true!” he shouted. “We weren’t fighting with him at all! He was trying to bully—”
“We WERE fighting,” Xiao Miao Feichi interrupted loudly.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, one corner of his mouth curling upward maliciously as he looked toward the teacher. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
“Teacher, if you keep locking me together with them, we might keep fighting.”
“That wouldn’t be good if someone got hurt, right?”
His smile widened.
“You know Mu Ke has heart disease.”
“What if I accidentally kick him too hard and something happens?”
The threat was naked and obvious.
Xiao Mu Ke was so furious his face turned scarlet.
The teacher, however, only frowned irritably.
“So troublesome,” she muttered. “Then I’ll separate you.”
Xiao Miao Feichi immediately grinned in satisfaction.
“Oh, right, Teacher,” he added lazily. “Miao Gaojiang was bullying Liu Jiayi during the fight too. But I don’t hit girls.”
Xiao Mu Ke nearly exploded.
“Bullshit!!”
It was the dirtiest curse word he knew at his age.
“A bunch of brats having internal conflict.” The teacher swept her gaze lazily across the room before making a decision. “Fine. Then you and Liu Jiayi will stay in another room.”
“Behave yourselves and stop causing trouble.”
Xiao Mu Ke finally found a chance to speak.
“Teacher, it’s HIM who’s bullying—”
Xiao Miao Feichi turned toward Xiao Mu Ke with a false smile.
“Think carefully before you speak, Mu Ke.”
“If I’m not locked up with Miao Gaojiang, then I’m either locked up with you...”
“Or with Liu Jiayi.”
His gaze was naked with hunger.
Bloody.
Predatory.
Xiao Mu Ke felt his scalp go numb under that look and instinctively stepped back two paces.
But when he glanced at Liu Jiayi—still weakly panting against the wall—he gritted his teeth and prepared to insist on staying with her.
At that moment, Liu Jiayi slowly stood up.
She reached out uncertainly until her hands found the teacher’s palm.
Then she lowered her head quietly.
“Teacher,” she said softly, “let’s go.”
“Jiayi!” Xiao Mu Ke panicked. “Don’t go with him!”
Liu Jiayi turned her head in Xiao Mu Ke’s direction.
Then she smiled.
Her crescent-shaped eyes curved gently, and her voice sounded almost cheerful.
“Don’t worry about me,” she said lightly. “I have a way.” fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
Xiao Mu Ke froze.
A chill suddenly crawled up his spine.
That smile...
It felt as though Liu Jiayi had anticipated Xiao Miao Feichi’s actions from the very beginning—
And deliberately allowed herself to be locked in the same room with him.
She had indulged his behavior.
Xiao Mu Ke suddenly remembered something.
Back when Liu Jiayi proposed escaping from the welfare home, her first suggestion had been to kill the teacher to delay discovery. Later, when Xiao Bai Six objected, Liu Jiayi had calmly suggested framing Xiao Miao Feichi and the others if something went wrong.
Liu Jiayi possessed a terrifying sort of innocence.
She was intelligent, decisive, quick to act, and frighteningly calm. Aside from her blindness, she was almost another Bai Liu.
The plan to escape the welfare home at night had been created jointly by her and Six-ge.
The teachers’ patrol schedules.
The location of the keys.
The escape route.
Liu Jiayi had gathered all of it in a single day.
She had even tricked the teacher away in under a minute.
And while escaping, she had wanted to kill the teacher outright to prevent pursuit.
Only Xiao Bai Six had stopped her after a brief silence.
Although I think the same way too, he had said quietly, it won’t work. Killing people wastes too much time.
Watching the teacher lead Xiao Miao Feichi and Liu Jiayi away, Xiao Mu Ke couldn’t stop the anxiety rising in his chest.
No matter how clever Liu Jiayi was, she was still a little girl.
And right now, she was terrifyingly weak.
The difference in physical strength between her and Xiao Miao Feichi wasn’t something intelligence alone could overcome.
Ahhh, what do I do?!
Xiao Mu Ke nearly lost his mind with worry.
If only Six-ge were here...
—
The teacher locked Xiao Miao Feichi and Liu Jiayi inside another handicraft classroom.
Liu Jiayi silently crouched down in the corner beneath the right-side wall.
Yesterday, she had spent the entire day there making dolls, so scraps of cloth still remained inside the nearby box.
She quietly sorted through the fabric pieces one by one.
Suddenly—
“Ah.”
A needle pricked her fingertip.
A bead of fresh blood welled up.
“I’m bleeding,” Liu Jiayi murmured softly.
She lowered her finger into her mouth and lightly sucked away the blood.
Her lowered lashes concealed the faint mist in her eyes as she spoke vaguely, almost regretfully:
“What a waste...”
“This blood could’ve saved Gege.”
Ever since entering the room, Xiao Miao Feichi had been swallowing repeatedly.
Now he slowly approached Liu Jiayi from behind.
His expression had become warped and fanatical, like a starving beast finally seeing food.
The sight of bright red blood beading against Liu Jiayi’s pale fingertip stimulated him intensely.
His breathing grew rapid.
His heartbeat accelerated.
Step by step, he moved behind her.
“What are you looking at, Jiayi-meimei?” Xiao Miao Feichi asked with forced friendliness, leaning down toward the cloth box.
Yesterday, Liu Jiayi had stayed crouched in this corner all day, smiling while fiddling with the box. In the end, she had only managed to make an ugly little doll.
The stitching had been rough and crooked.
The limbs looked ready to fall apart at any moment.
Come to think of it...
Yesterday Liu Jiayi had asked the teacher for a sewing needle.
But the teacher had refused, saying sharp objects were too dangerous for a blind child.
Then—
Where had she gotten the needle she used?
The moment Xiao Miao Feichi looked into the box, his pupils constricted violently.
Liu Jiayi turned around smiling brightly.
Tilting her head innocently, she said:
“If I don’t have a sewing needle...”
“Then I have to use syringe needles to sew Gege’s doll.”
Inside the cloth box lay countless bloodstained syringe needles pinned into scraps of fabric.
One needle had pierced straight through the head of a half-finished doll.
And the doll was dressed in clothing identical to Xiao Miao Feichi’s.
“Doesn’t it look nice?” Liu Jiayi asked sweetly.
“The doll I made.”
She slowly stood up.
Her pale face carried a gentle, innocent smile.
Behind her back, she held the doll.
In her other hand—
A syringe.
Step by step, she approached Xiao Miao Feichi.
“According to the fifty percent mortality rate of a Level 2 game,” Liu Jiayi said thoughtfully, “it takes at least the blood of 1.6 children to save a single player.”
“My blood alone probably isn’t enough to save Gege.”
“So...”
“I’ll have to trouble Feichi-gege to lovingly donate some blood too.”
Xiao Miao Feichi stumbled backward in terror until he crashed onto the floor.
He frantically kicked backward, trying to crawl away while screaming hysterically:
“TEACHER!!”
“TEACHER SAVE ME!!!”
[System Notification: Player Liu Jiayi has used the item (Silent Silence). No sound from within this space can be heard externally. Player, please enjoy your creation.]
[Item Duration: One hour]
[System Notification: Player Liu Jiayi has used the item (Magic Space). This is your exclusive domain. Only those you permit may enter, and only those you permit may leave. You are the magician who rules this space.]
[Item Duration: One and a half hours]
[System Notification: Player Liu Jiayi has used Muscle Relaxant Potion.]
[Player Miao Feichi’s sub-identity line is losing bodily strength. Muscles relaxing...]
Liu Jiayi calmly activated items from her system panel one after another.
The system notifications continuously flashed before her eyes:
[System Notification: Player Liu Jiayi, due to the special nature of your personal abilities within “Love Welfare Home,” the following restrictions have been applied for balance purposes:]
[1: Your health points are bound to your desire-core character, player Liu Huai.]
[2: You are currently under the Poisonous Mushroom Poisoning debuff. Your health will continuously decrease. Please restore your health promptly.]
[Note: This debuff was not forcibly imposed by the system, but brought into the game from reality. The system has only slightly amplified its effects for balancing purposes.]
[3: The cooldown of your personal skill “Antidote” has been increased from 1 hour to 6 hours.]
[4: Among all child players in this game, your blood is the most suitable for nourishing Blood Lingzhi. Even without blood {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} relations, your blood can cultivate Blood Lingzhi capable of curing any investor’s terminal illness.]
[Your blood is designated as the game’s “Universal Blood.”]
[It may serve as the core blood source for any investor’s Blood Lingzhi.]
[Note: After other investor players uncover relevant background clues, the system will provide appropriate guidance informing them that your blood possesses the highest nourishment value. Naturally, your identity will remain protected.]
[5: ...]
At the very bottom of the panel—
Just before it closed—
A shimmering silver crown emblem flickered briefly across Liu Jiayi’s attribute screen.
[Kings Crown Guild Senior Member]
[Rookie Rankings: Rank 1]
[Skill Identity: The Cursed Forbidden Witch]
Liu Jiayi closed the panel and lowered her eyes toward Xiao Miao Feichi.
He lay collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud.
Tears streamed uncontrollably down his face as he struggled weakly, producing only thin, rasping sounds.
“No one can hear you calling for help, Feichi-gege,” Liu Jiayi said softly.
She crouched down beside him and tilted her head.
Her blind eyes “looked” quietly toward the crying Xiao Miao Feichi.
“I’ve listened to your TV interviews before,” she said sweetly. “You said you like eating children piece by piece, didn’t you?”
“I also enjoy drawing blood out little by little.”
Her smile deepened.
Tiny dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth.
“Have you ever seen a rabbit being drained through its ears?”
“At the end, if you inject air here...”
She lightly tapped the syringe.
“...they die slowly from suffocation.”
“It’s supposed to be very painful.”
“I used to have a little hamster Gege gave me.”
“I originally wanted to experiment on it.”
“But it was too fragile.”
“I accidentally played with it until it died.”
“I cried for a very long time.”
Liu Jiayi gently stroked Xiao Miao Feichi’s head.
Her tone remained light and tender.
“Would you like to be my little hamster?”
Xiao Miao Feichi stared at the enormous syringe in her hand, trembling violently as tears covered his face.
He shook his head desperately.
Liu Jiayi smiled.
“Little hamsters don’t get to refuse.”
“I’m starting now.”
