Abyssal Invasion, I Wield Dark Authority – Chapter 10

Ch 10: Family

In a large group of over five hundred people, and with the signal just restored after the Night of the Blood Moon…

It’s normal for the chat history to instantly exceed several thousand messages.

Qin Jin-Nian was just about to click in.

But his phone rang.

A call was coming in.

Looking at the contact name…

It was ‘Mom’.

Yes, the original owner had a family; he wasn’t an orphan.

It’s just that the original owner didn’t live with them.

Naturally, it was because he was attending high school in the city center, while the original owner’s home was in a relatively remote area…

The distance was too far.

The Fifth High School, where the original owner studied, was over seventy kilometers in a straight line from the original owner’s old home. Driving on the highway would take one to two hours each way.

If he lived at home, he would have basically no time to rest. He would barely arrive home from school before it was almost time to leave again.

There was no other way; his parents could only rent him a single apartment near the school for him to live in.

As for why they didn’t buy a house…

Did they understand the housing prices in the city center?

However, to be honest, this greatly benefited Qin Jin-Nian.

Qin Jin-Nian transmigrated here at the beginning of this year’s school term, more than three months ago.

In these three months, he rarely contacted the original owner’s family.

When he was forced to contact them, it was only a few hurried words before hanging up.

He was just afraid of being noticed for anything unusual.

Although he had the original owner’s memories, the original owner’s personality was completely different from his own.

This was an extraordinary world filled with the weird…

If his personality suddenly changed drastically for no reason… who knew what kind of trouble it would cause?

He could still hide and pretend a little when answering the phone.

But if they were together day and night… he would probably be noticed for the huge change in personality nine times out of ten.

Fortunately, not often contacting his family was something the original owner would do.

Because of his poor talent, the original owner had been taciturn and withdrawn since he was a child, not only having few friends at school but also having very little interaction with his family.

So far, there hadn’t been any problems.

Yesterday was the Night of the Blood Moon, and the original owner was here alone. It seemed that his family had been worried all night. Now that the signal was restored, they must have been eager to call and check on him as soon as possible…

Thinking this, Qin Jin-Nian took a light breath and answered the phone.

“Hello…”

“…He’s not answering. Could something have happened?… Hmm? It’s going through, it’s going through! Hello, hello, is this Xiao Nian? Is this Xiao Nian?”

As soon as he answered, before Qin Jin-Nian could speak, he heard a worried woman’s voice from the other end of the phone, seemingly anxiously talking to someone nearby.

But when Qin Jin-Nian’s voice came through, that voice immediately changed, becoming excited.

“Mom, it’s me.”

Qin Jin-Nian exhaled and turned around, walking towards the balcony while holding the phone and speaking.

“It’s Xiao Nian, it’s Xiao Nian… Xiao Nian, how are you? Is everything alright?”

Seeming to recognize that it was indeed Qin Jin-Nian’s voice, the original owner’s Mom clearly breathed a huge sigh of relief. After saying something to the person next to her, she quickly asked with concern.

“I’m fine… Uh, what about home?… Are you, Dad, and Xiao Mian all alright?”

The original owner’s family consisted of four people: his parents and a younger sister. However, his sister was three years younger than Qin Jin-Nian and was currently attending junior high school.

There were also junior high schools in the old residential area. After all, junior high schools were not like high schools. The stored Transcendent resources were also far inferior to those of high schools, so there was naturally no need to move to the city center… Of course, they couldn’t move even if they wanted to.

There wasn’t that much land in the city center.

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“Everything’s fine, everything’s fine… It’s just that your Dad has a bit of a headache right now. He’s planning to go to the hospital after calling you. Xiao Mian and I are both fine; nothing happened to us. What about you? Do you have a headache?”

A headache was one of the typical symptoms of being mentally corrupted.

But what Qin Jin-Nian encountered was more than just a headache.

If it weren’t for the panel and the shadows… he might not have been able to answer the original owner’s Mom’s call…

However, Qin Jin-Nian naturally wouldn’t say these things. Instead, he said, “It doesn’t hurt, Mom. I’m fine… Dad has a headache; you should take him to the hospital to get it checked out quickly. If mental corruption lasts too long, it will cause even greater damage to the body…”

“Alright, alright, I’m relieved that you’re alright… By the way, do you have a few days off these next few days? Are you coming back? If you’re coming back, I’ll have your Dad pick you up later?”

“Let’s not, shall we? The vacation is only for three days, and the roads aren’t safe these days. I won’t be coming back.”

“Is that so…”

Mom was clearly a little disappointed, but in the end, she still said, “Alright then, take care of yourself over there. The weather is getting colder now, so you should add more clothes…”

Mom babbled on for a while, and it wasn’t until Qin Jin-Nian urged her to quickly take Dad to deal with the mental corruption that she reluctantly hung up the phone.

After putting down the phone, Qin Jin-Nian took a light breath.

Then he was a little dazed.

After transmigrating, he wasn’t an orphan.

Before transmigrating, he wasn’t an orphan either.

But now…

Thinking of his parents, Qin Jin-Nian’s eyes dimmed slightly. In the end, he sighed softly.

In this life… he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his filial duties.

“Fortunately, at least there’s still a younger brother. It won’t leave the two elders without anyone to rely on…”

Taking a light breath, Qin Jin-Nian quickly cheered himself up.

It had been three months, and he had already sighed all the sighs he needed to sigh. His personality had always been tough. Thinking too much about things he couldn’t solve was useless.

At least now, in this dangerous world, he could be considered to have a certain foundation to stand on.

Thinking of this, he looked at his shadow.

After being depressed for only a short while, he exhaled, raised his head, and saw the bright sunlight.

But at the same time, he was stunned again… He saw the damaged burglar bars.

That’s right, it was caused by that Good Sister Weird yesterday.

He subconsciously looked at the gap. These burglar bars had bought him a lot of time. He wondered what material they were made of that they could hold off the weird for so long…

But when he looked at the break, Qin Jin-Nian was stunned.

Because this thing was really hollow.

After hesitating slightly, he reached out and pinched a broken end. After feeling it, he used a little bit of force…

Judging from the strength it showed yesterday in defending against the weird, the strength of this break should be astonishing.

But unexpectedly, after Qin Jin-Nian exerted a little force, this break actually bent slightly…

This?

Qin Jin-Nian was stunned.

Recalling how that weird smashed the window yesterday… no matter how you looked at it, the material of this window shouldn’t be so soft.

Frowning slightly, suddenly, a tentacle protruded from the shadow under his feet and wrapped around one of the burglar bars.

The next moment, as Qin Jin-Nian’s mind moved, this burglar bar was like a noodle, easily bent by the shadow.

At this, Qin Jin-Nian frowned, a little dazed.

What was going on?