“It is still unknown why Russell Cemetery gave up the qualification for the mid-season game, but in short, this team is our number one enemy in the preseason.”

Wang Shun clicked on the panel, and a bloody lamb head popped up on the PPT:

“In addition to Russell Cemetery, another team we need to focus on is the Fanatic Lambs, which was the last place in the mid-season tournament last year.”

“This team was the first in the pre-season two years ago. In the challenge match, they faced Deer Hunter, and their tactician was still the Reverse God. As expected, Fanatic Lambs lost the challenge match, but still successfully entered the mid-season match last year.”

Wang Shun raised his head and said, “The reason why I specifically mentioned this game is because in this game, the Reverse God, a famous moderate tactician, killed someone for the first time in the game. He killed the opponent’s tactician.”

“However, since this tactician was a popular player that year and had a golden medal of immunity from death, he is still the tactician of the Furious Lambs and continues to be active on the field.”

“During the Fanatic Lambs Challenge, all the members of the Deer Hunters played with injuries, including the Reverse God. Later, I checked and found that their injuries were not in the game, but injuries brought in from reality.”

“Then I looked up the Lambs’ pre-season games and saw something very strange.”

“I found that as long as the opponent of the Fanatic Lambs is a very strong or reputable team, the players of this team will get into trouble in real life and participate in the competition with injuries.”

“There were even a few times when the core players of the opponents of the Furious Lambs died on the eve of the competition.”

Wang Shun said very seriously: “So I made a guess. There is an information collector with similar skills to mine in this fanatical lamb. He can get the player’s exact address information in reality through some means, and then attack the opponent in reality.”

Mu Sicheng couldn’t help but sighed: “How shameless, if you can’t beat him, just fight him in real life.”

“It’s really mean, but in real life you are not as powerful as you are in the game. You are just ordinary people.” Wang Shun emphasized, “You are already a very outstanding preseason team. You must pay attention to protecting your own safety in real life.”

“Especially Bai Liu.”

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu: “Mu Sicheng is a registered college student, Liu Jiayi has just experienced a major incident and is under multiple surveillance, Captain Tang has strong self-protection capabilities, Mu Ke’s family is an old money family, and only you.”

“You are now a marginalized person in society.”

Everyone’s eyes turned to Bai Liu.

“I’m talking to Bai Liu.” Mu Sicheng came over and held Bai Liu’s shoulders. “Do you want to live in my dormitory?”

Tang Erda frowned: “The security function of the university dormitory is not good enough, Bai Liu, your small rental house is not safe. I have a house near the base, why don’t you move in with me…”

“It’s not okay to live near the base. If something happens to your base, you can blame him.” Liu Jiayi rejected Tang Erda’s proposal. She looked at Bai Liu and said, “I think you can talk to Mu Ke and live with him. It’s convenient for money and transportation.”

Bai Liu thought: “It is indeed inconvenient to live alone.”

Several people came over at the same time and looked directly at Bai Liu: “Who do you live with?”

Bai Liu smiled: “My current idea is to bring Du Sanying over to live with me.”

Several people were silent for a while, and then Mu Sicheng was the first to ask a question: “Huh??”

After the meeting, Bai Liu logged out of the game from his rental house.

He took off his blood-stained white shirt and threw it into the laundry basket, unbuckled his belt, took off his pants and threw them into the laundry basket too.

Bai Liu walked into the bathroom naked, turned on the shower, unhooked his hair tie, closed his eyes and tilted his head back to let the warm water wash over his face, then reached out to take the shampoo next to the mirror.

The mirror was covered with water vapor, dimly reflecting Bai Liu’s upper body. Bai Liu paused as he looked at his own hazy reflection in the mirror.

Compared to when he first entered the game, his body had undergone some visible changes.

Bai Liu never orders takeout or milk tea after work because they are too expensive.

He seldom participated in team-building activities, dinners or social events. At most, he would go to Heluyi Station with coupons every month to dine at a restaurant. He usually ate the cheapest eight-yuan set meal of one meat and one vegetable at the company, and the meat dish also included scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

From childhood to adolescence and then to adulthood, Bai Liu had never experienced a stage of food abundance. Due to insufficient intake, he always seemed to be the most backward in development among the crowd.

When Bai Liu was a child, he was the shortest among his peers. When he reached adolescence, he was the thinnest in his class. After he became an adult, he almost had trouble finding a job because of his height.

This year, Bai Liu is 24 years old. He looks at himself in the mirror and feels like…

He grew a little taller.

Tang Erda had been beating Bai Liu intensively for more than a month, and the changes brought to Bai Liu’s body were more than that.

Bai Liu’s skin color was originally pale due to working in the office without seeing the sun for years, but now it has a bit of redness. His shoulders, neck, waist and back are stretched backwards, and his originally skinny limbs and abdomen now have muscle lines.

Especially the shoulders, back and abdomen, a thin layer of muscle wrapped around Bai Liu’s body, making these parts look a lot stronger.

Although he still doesn’t have the neatly trained six-pack abs like Tang Erda, Bai Liu has shallow depressions on both sides of his rectus abdominis. It feels like if he exercises more, he will soon see formed abdominal muscles.

Mr. Bai Liu, who is nearly 25 years old, feels strangely that he looks as if he has grown older.

While drying his body after taking a shower, Bai Liu suddenly paused.

He felt the whip marks left by Spades on his back.

But there was only a brief pause, and Bai Liu put on his clothes as if he had not touched anything, still wearing a white shirt and suit pants – these were the only two types of clothes in his closet.

Bai Liu was going to the sanatorium to pick up Du Sanying later. In order to look more formal, Bai Liu put on a rarely worn tie.

After going to the sanatorium to go through a bunch of procedures and having Du Sanying sign them one by one, Bai Liu successfully took Du Sanying out amid the questioning and horrified eyes of the person in charge.

“I’m sorry, please pick me up.” Du Sanying scratched his head embarrassedly, “Because I was diagnosed as having no personal mobility, it’s very troublesome to pick me up from the sanatorium. Did Bai Liu find someone to help?”

Bai Liu hummed and took the suitcase from Du Sanying: “Captain Tang helped me find someone.”

Actually, it was Su Yang who helped.

Su Yang felt that it would not be good for either Du Sanying or the sanatorium for the children who would cause harm to people around them to stay in the sanatorium.

Originally, Su Yang was planning to apply to send Du Sanying to a training camp near the base, but after Bai Liu took the initiative to express his willingness to take care of Du Sanying, Su Yang was surprised and simply helped to get the matter done.

Du Sanying followed Bai Liu with his head down, occasionally stealing a glance at the suitcase in Bai Liu’s hand.

Bai Liu walked in front and said without looking back: “If you have any questions, just ask directly.”

Du Sanying hesitated for a while before asking in a low voice: “…If I live with you, will it really not affect you?”

“I’d better live alone in isolation…” Du Sanying’s voice became very weak.

Bai Liu pushed the suitcase and continued to move forward, saying calmly: “Do you want to live alone?”

Du Sanying lowered his head and looked at the corner of his clothes: “I have lived alone since junior high school. The people who lived with me…whether they were friends, parents, or my sister, something happened to them later.”

“Yes.” Bai Liu said calmly, “I have read your information and I know all these things.”

“So you want to live alone?”

Du Sanying shrank his head and said in a low voice, “I don’t want to.”

Bai Liu dragged the suitcase and turned around to glance at Du Sanying: “You living with me won’t hurt me, you can help me, you don’t want to live alone, I can solve all the problems you worry about, so do you have any other questions?”

Du Sanying straightened his chest with red eyes, and his voice suddenly became louder: “No, no more!”

“Thank you Mr. Bai Liu for arranging for me to live with you!”

“Oh no!” Du Sanying suddenly slapped his head and asked nervously, “I have another question, Mr. Bai Liu, can you keep a parrot at home?”

Bai Liu thought for a moment and said, “It should be possible. The landlord didn’t say no.”

Du Sanying’s eyes widened: “Mr. Bai Liu, do you live in a rental house?”

Bai Liu hummed: “Don’t you like the rental house?”

Du Sanying waved his hands hastily: “No, no! I also rented a house when I was in junior high school, but I felt that people like Mr. Bai Liu…”

Du Sanying racked his brains to describe how he felt when he heard that Bai Liu lived in a rental house: “Living in a rental house is weird.”

Bai Liu glanced at Du Sanying and asked, “What’s so strange?”

“It’s not strange…” Du Sanying changed the way he asked, “Why does Mr. Bai Liu want to live in a rental house?”

Bai Liu answered naturally: “Because I can’t afford to buy a house, I rent one.”

Du Sanying was shocked: “Isn’t Mr. Bai Liu very rich?”

“I’m a laid-off worker and don’t have much money.” Bai Liu squinted at Du Sanying, “Although I saved some money in the game later, I would feel unhappy if I used it to buy a house.”

Du Sanying asked curiously: “Why?”

Bai Liu said: “Because I don’t like to spend money on highly premium products.”

Du Sanying said “oh” as if he understood what was said, then looked at the suitcase in Bai Liu’s hand and said, “Mr. Bai Liu, let me take it myself.”

“Mr. Bai Liu will take a taxi home later.” Du Sanying asked cautiously, “I don’t like taking a taxi. Can I walk back by myself?”

Bai Liu asked calmly, “Is it because you’ve experienced a lot of traffic accidents?”

Du Sanying nodded, his expression downcast again: “…I’m prone to accidents when I’m in a car, and drivers who encounter me are unlucky, so I usually walk.”

“I don’t like taking taxis either. Let me walk back with you.” Bai Liu said.

Du Sanying’s eyes first lit up, and then they couldn’t help but turn into wavy eyes, and he looked at Bai Liu with tears in his eyes: “Woo woo, Mr. Bai Liu, please take care of yourself.”

Bai Liu glanced at Du Sanying and said, “I really don’t like taking taxis because they are too expensive.”

Du Sanying: “…”

Bai Liu said that he would not take a taxi and would walk with Du Sanying, so he really accompanied him all the way. On the way back, Du Sanying consciously walked on the small paths with few people, and became very nervous when he had the slightest contact with others.

Because of this, Bai Liu and his friend walked along older streets with very old stalls on the side of the streets.

For example, Du Sanying saw a height and weight measuring machine. An old man was sitting next to it with a sign at his feet that read “One dollar for three measurements.”

“It’s really cheap.” Du Sanying said to Bai Liu, “I saw it was only one dollar per time before.”

So Bai Liu suddenly stopped in front of the stall.

Du Sanying reacted for a while, then asked in surprise: “Mr. Bai Liu, do you want to take the test?!”

Bai Liu hummed, took out a dollar from his pocket, bent down and handed it to the old man next to the scale, then stood on it without hesitation.

The measuring rod of the measuring instrument slowly descended, touched Bai Liu’s head, and then slowly moved up.

The big speaker on the measuring instrument emitted a flashing red light and loudly broadcast the report: “——Height 176 cm, weight 58 kg, normal thin!”

Bai Liu stood on the scale for a long time, until the loudspeaker finished broadcasting three times, then he slowly walked down.

There were three measurements. Seeing Bai Liu coming down, Du Sanying subconsciously thought whether he should go up and take the measurements himself.

But that was not the case. After Bai Liu walked down, he slowly walked up again and took the test again.

Du Sanying: “????”

After the three measurements were completed, Du Sanying followed Bai Liu, whose steps he inexplicably felt lighter, in confusion: “Mr. Bai Liu, why did you have to measure three times?”

Bai Liu said calmly: “Confirm the established fact that my product has increased in value.”

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