Bai Liu didn’t stay at the welfare ho for long. He was going to play the ga with Mu Ke soon. He simply went for a brief sweep around the welfare ho before being ready to leave. Yet before Bai Liu left, he needed to have a brief discussion with Lu Yizhan.
Therefore, Bai Liu asked Mu Ke to go ho first to wait for him. The young master looked back reluctantly when he left and asked when Bai Liu would be back. Bai Liu simply had Mu Ke take a key to his house and go back first to wait. This made Mu Ke’s father look at Bai Liu in a slightly strange manner.
The mont Bai Liu ca out, he saw Lu Yizhan leaning against the entrance of the welfare ho and waiting for him. Lu Yizhan saw Bai Liu and couldn’t help teasing him. “What about the young master? He drove a 10 million yuan luxury car to follow you around and kept glaring at . Since when did you have this type of charm?”
Bai Liu’s expression didn’t change at the teasing. “What is the use of being charming? I turned him down for you and had him go back first.”
Lu Yizhan couldn’t help laughing. Then he soon cald down and spoke seriously. “You took a look inside. How is it?”
Bai Liu wasn’t in a rush as he answered. “In addition to the poisoned children, there are also children missing from this welfare ho. I know about all the poisoned children. As for the missing children, my guess is that this isn’t the first incident at this welfare ho, right?”
“How did you know?” Lu Yizhan was surprised.
“The attitude wasn’t right.” Bai Liu calmly analyzed it. “The teacher gave a wrong feeling. Normal people would avoid places where disappearances have occurred. anwhile, the teacher was afraid but still walked through the location, the children’s playground.”
“This shows it isn’t the first ti that a disappearance has occurred. It has probably happened a few tis for this type of attitude that is ‘afraid but used to it’ to form.”
“Yes.” Lu Yizhan took out the cigarette he had put away again with a bit of annoyance. “We learned from the dean that it has happened every year for 10 years.”
Bai Liu wondered, “So many disappearances annually should have a record. Why haven’t you heard about this before?”
“It is because they aren’t missing. The children ran away by themselves. Even if it was reported in the past, it was treated as a runaway case.” Lu Yizhan’s teeth rubbed against the cigarette, his eyes dull. “It was probably just a passing ntion in the records. It would be inconspicuous unless one paid attention.”
The children went missing from a private welfare ho and it was thankless to waste ti looking for them. There were no parents or relatives to scold and urge them. Missing cases reported intermittently like this would be shelved and only a few lines left behind in the records. The disappeared children all vanished into a sea of people.
“Previously, I found out that the entrepreneurs who invested in this children’s welfare ho all recovered from their illnesses and I checked out the welfare ho.” Lu Yizhan let out a puff of smoke. “However, a private welfare ho isn’t as strict as the public ones. It is more private and self-administered. It isn’t easy to say if the records I have obtained are the true records and how many children there are.”
“For example, if a child is missing and the dean doesn’t report it for a few years then we probably won’t know.”
Lu Yizhan was silent for a mont. “I suspect that these entrepreneurs have problems but now their reputation is too high. It has also been many years and we have no evidence. There is no way to investigate further.”
Bai Liu told him indifferently, “Suppose even if the entrepreneurs did sothing to so of the children every year. They used such a disappearing trick to make these children disappear silently from the orphanage. You have no idea on how to investigate it.”
“Yes.” Lu Yizhan took a deep puff of the cigarette and coughed a bit. “However, these are human lives Bai Liu.”
Lu Yizhan stared at Bai Liu with red eyes. “I’m not reconciled. The deaths of these children have been classified as accidents. Even if they truly are accidents, all possibilities that this isn’t the case must be ruled out. I am willing to do so but—”
“You have no proof.” Bai Liu watched Lu Yizhan very calmly. “You can’t rule it out and this isn’t in the scope of your work. You coming to the scene to investigate is just nosiness.”
Lu Yizhan was quiet. However, he would soon talk about the disappearances with Bai Liu as if nothing had happened.
Lu Yizhan had a peculiar resilience about him. Bai Liu wouldn’t touch a thing when he knew it couldn’t be done but Lu Yizhan would try to do it as long as he could help others. He would spend his ti in vain. He would also pull Bai Liu to do it with him.
Lu Yizhan and Bai Liu talked about the specifics of the missing cases that he had learned and showed Bai Liu the photos of the children who went missing every year. The photos were taken on June 1st every year. Lu Yizhan had taken photos of them with his phone and showed Bai Liu the missing children.
When the first one ca out, Lu Yizhan was strangely silent for a while. It was because there was Bai Liu among the missing children in the photo.
“You think he looks like the 14 year old , right?” Bai Liu directly touched the face of Bai Liu (6) on the phone and comnted plainly. “I also feel he is very similar.”
“You aren’t similar at all.” Lu Yizhan’s voice was low. His eyes were focused on Bai Liu as in a rare manner, he stubbornly refuted his friend. “It is because he is dead while you are still alive.”
“Have you ever encountered such a situation, Mu Sicheng?” Bai Liu called Mu Sicheng as he walked ho. “In the future, as a player, I will definitely die in the ga 10 years ago. However, 10 years later, I am still alive.”
“This sounds like the grandfather paradox?” Mu Sicheng’s voice ca from Bai Liu’s phone, his tone startled and suspicious. “Bai Liu, your luck is really against the sky. Don’t ntion encountering it, I’ve never even heard of such a situation in the ga.”
The grandfather paradox was a ti paradox proposed by a science fiction writer. It ant that if a person went back in ti and killed his grandfather, he would obviously no longer exist in the future. Then how did he go back to the past?
This was the sa situation Bai Liu was facing now. If he entered the ga in the future and died in the instance that had a tiline of 10 years ago, how was he still alive to enter the ga?
“Is it the parallel universe theory?” Mu Sicheng tried to explain. “This is the most common explanation for the grandfather paradox. Assuming that the parallel space-ti that you are in is A, the ga instance you see loaded in A Space-ti is likely the Bai Liu from the B Space-ti who failed to pass the instance.”
“Then you better not enter this welfare ho ga.” Mu Sicheng’s voice beca serious and he advised Bai Liu, “As long as you don’t enter this ga, you won’t die in the ga and form another space-ti parallel.”
“I don’t think it is the parallel universe theory.” Bai Liu was very sober as he calmly reminded Mu Sicheng. “Our ‘reality’ is the official version of the ga. The results presented are from the ‘open beta’ in the ga world. The results presented are the final result of all existing ga algorithms from the beta version of the ga world. Theoretically, there is no parallel universe derived from various events going differently.”
“The reality we are in is already the result of all possibilities. It is impossible for it to be a parallel world.”
“That’s true.” Mu Sicheng confird it before quickly responding, “No wait, if the result presented is unique then doesn’t it an you will die in the ga instance 10 years ago?!”
“However, I’m still alive now. It proves I didn’t die in that instance.” Bai Liu’s thinking was clear. “Otherwise, the two propositions of ‘I’m alive’ and ‘I’m dead’ will form a paradox in the only space-ti that can’t be a parallel world.”
“Then…” Mu Sicheng was puzzled. “What is going on?”
Bai Liu didn’t care about Mu Sicheng’s question. He had already walked to the door of the house and was taking out his key to open the door. Bai Liu held the phone between his shoulder and his head and asked, “When are you going to enter the ga?”
“Why?” Mu Sicheng felt like he was going bald when talking about this. “Fuck, I’ve had insomnia since agreeing to participate in the competition with you. What are you doing? I can work hard to play 26 gas in two months but shouldn’t you at least arrange people to play with ?”
“That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. I want you to help bring a pair of newcors.” Bai Liu spoke quickly. “Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu tied for first in the last batch of newcors. They both have personal skills and the panel quality is C . Take them through a level one instance to practice their skills and teach them so basic knowledge of the ga. Don’t protect them too much.”
After Bai Liu ca back from eating hotpot yesterday, he talked to Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu. He asked the two middle-aged people if they wanted to participate in the league and honestly inford them of the danger.
However, Xiang Chunhua and Liu Fu didn’t even hesitate. The two of them held hands and agreed tearfully. They only asked Bai Liu two questions from beginning to end.
The first question was, “We can resurrect Guoguo as long as we win, right?”
“Theoretically, yes.” Bai Liu answered. “Still, you can slowly realize your wish by accumulating points in the normal ga. The league is risky but your speed at gaining points is faster. You can consider it clearly and reply to tomorrow.”
Xiang Chunhua glanced at Liu Fu awkwardly, hands holding her apron tightly. The news about Li Gou’s death sentence was being broadcasted on the TV behind her. The news was being replayed and the sound was loud. The entire room was filled with the male announcer stating that ‘the suspect in the dismbered corpse of a senior high school girl has been sentenced to death.’
Xiang Chunhua looked at Bai Liu earnestly.
“What type of competition is it? Can we help you?” This was the second question they asked.
Bai Liu paused for a mont. “Yes, but the death rate in this competition is very high. You might want to think more about it….”
“We will go.” Xiang Chunhua smiled, wiping the tears in her eyes with the back of her hand. “Don’t think about it anymore. We believe in you, Bai Liu. In addition, where else can we accumulate points? Isn’t it just playing gas? I belonged to my school’s female volleyball team, right Liu Fu?”
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