Ch 34: Darkness
The Sunshine Kindergarten wasn’t far from the Tongmuqi Community; after all, Lin Yun worked nearby, so it wouldn’t be convenient if it was too far.
Qin Jin-Nian had only used less than ten minutes to return to the kindergarten’s entrance.
He saw the kindergarten gate was tightly shut from afar, but the headmaster’s car was still inside the yard.
After a slight moment of thought, Qin Jin-Nian walked into an old alley… it was the alley right next to the kindergarten, separated by a wall, and without any surveillance cameras.
After standing by the wall and listening for a moment, and after making sure no one was around, he put the newly bought mask on his face…
This was a cartoon raccoon mask, a plastic product, and the material was very poor, but it was quite childlike.
But at this moment, Qin Jin-Nian, who was all in black, put it on, and then put on the hood, and this childlike innocence was mixed with a trace of eeriness…
Only a pair of jet-black eyes were vaguely exposed…
And after putting on this mask, Qin Jin-Nian inexplicably felt a strong sense of security welling up in his heart.
This made Qin Jin-Nian stunned, and then, a hint of a wry smile appeared on his face…
The sense of unease of a stranger was really too strong.
Just having an extra layer of mask at this moment actually made him feel a long-lost sense of relaxation…
Although it was clearly just a layer of plastic, and in such an extraordinary world, whether it really had the effect of concealing his identity was still debatable.
But he just inexplicably felt a sense of ease.
Qin Jin-Nian knew that in psychology, this was called the placebo effect…
He smiled wryly at his self-deception, but Qin Jin-Nian didn’t have time to pay attention to the changes the placebo effect brought to his mentality. After confirming that no one was around, he saw the shadow under his feet suddenly stretch out. The next moment, Qin Jin-Nian’s figure suddenly swelled, and he actually rose quietly with the support of several shadow tentacles.
The shadow tentacles turned into what seemed like several slender, invisible feet, which looked eerie no matter how you looked at them.
I’ve wanted to try this for a long time.
Now it seems the effect is not bad.
Qin Jin-Nian thought with satisfaction.
Crossing the wall, the shadow naturally retracted, and he landed lightly without making any sound.
This was where Ningning had finally disappeared.
The surroundings were completely quiet.
Qin Jin-Nian didn’t stay, and walked directly to the side of the teaching building.
As he walked, several shadow tentacles merged into the night, naturally extending for more than ten meters… The target was the surveillance cameras nearby. He had just deliberately memorized the positions of all the cameras.
He didn’t destroy them, but only twisted the lenses to face other places before walking out of the darkness.
Then he saw at a glance the only room on the first floor of the teaching building with a light on.
Qin Jin-Nian didn’t stop, and quietly approached the room. But then, a chewing sound came from inside the room.
Qin Jin-Nian’s heart suddenly jumped in alarm, and he found an angle in the darkness to see the situation inside the room…
And then he was stunned, but then he breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn’t the bloody scene he had imagined, but only the headmaster with the black-framed glasses and Teacher Xiao Wang were eating inside.
Qin Jin-Nian’s eyes flickered, and then he hid in the darkness, patiently waiting.
After a moment…
The headmaster’s voice came from inside.
“Be smart these two days. The police will definitely come again tomorrow. Remember what I said today, don’t let any flaws show.”
The headmaster’s voice no longer had the kind of politeness and gentleness from before, but was replaced by a kind of calmness and tranquility.
“I know.”
In Teacher Xiao Wang’s voice, there was even less of the previous timidity and unease, but instead, it revealed a few hints of eeriness. After a pause, she said again: “The Holy Artifact was taken away by her younger brother, is that okay?”
“It’s just that it was stained with a trace of God’s aura, what kind of Holy Artifact is it? After using it once, the aura of God will quickly dissipate, it’s fine.” The headmaster sneered, not taking it to heart at all.
Speaking of this, she paused again, and then her voice couldn’t help but have a trace of fanaticism: “I didn’t expect that we would be so lucky this time, that in the area we are responsible for, there was actually a Holy Seed… The Holy Envoy sent a message, this time the Holy Seed has excellent aptitude. With a little cultivation, perhaps we can let the Church bring down another True God… By then, our contributions will be great, and maybe we will be granted Divine Blood and obtain eternal life!”
When she said the words “eternal life,” her voice was trembling, indicating the excitement in her heart at this moment.
Teacher Xiao Wang heard this, and also raised her head. Qin Jin-Nian, outside the door, saw the fanaticism and anticipation revealed in her bright eyes at this moment…
And Qin Jin-Nian, outside the door, was stunned after hearing their words.
Holy Artifact, Holy Envoy, True God, Divine Blood…
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“Could it be…”
Two words jumped out of his mind.
His eyelids couldn’t help but twitch.
Even in his previous life, this kind of thing was an absolute taboo… the kind that couldn’t even be mentioned.
The extraordinary world?
Qin Jin-Nian’s brows gradually furrowed.
If it was before yesterday, he probably wouldn’t have cared so much.
But, since last night, when he was glanced at by something unspeakable, and almost died on the spot… he knew that this world really had some existences that were beyond the scope of common sense.
Then this world… I’m afraid it will never be the kind of existence that completely fools the masses like in his previous life…
Qin Jin-Nian felt that things were a bit tricky.
To be honest, if possible, he didn’t want to get involved with this stuff at all!
Eerie?
If it was really what he guessed, then this group of people was even more eerie than eerie…
Darkness, bloodiness, cruelty, madness, distortion…
These were their synonyms.
Getting involved with them would definitely not bring any good things.
But…
Qin Jin-Nian’s expression changed several times, and in the end, Ningning’s bright big eyes appeared in his mind.
He sighed softly in his heart.
Okay, it wasn’t that he wanted to provoke them, but that they provoked him…
Then there was no way.
No matter what, Ningning couldn’t be ignored.
He gently exhaled, and then the light in his eyes gradually cooled down.
If it was such a group of people, then his next actions would have to change.
What was the best way to deal with darkness?
It wasn’t light.
But to be even darker than them.
In the black shadow, Qin Jin-Nian, under the cartoon raccoon mask, Qin Jin-Nian’s eyes emitted a dark light.
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Inside the room, after the headmaster and Teacher Xiao Wang finished their conversation, the headmaster finally said: “Alright, remember my words.”
“Mm.”
Teacher Xiao Wang responded, and the headmaster nodded, and then left the door.
Walking out of the room, the headmaster used her middle finger to push up the black-framed glasses on her face. After standing in place for a moment, she walked towards her car.
The black high heels walked on the plastic floor, making a ‘da-da’ sound. The headmaster walked to her car, pressed the remote control, and with two beeps, the car lock opened.
‘Click’……
With a light sound, she pulled open the car door and sat inside.
She skillfully fastened her seat belt, started the car, and slowly drove to the gate. She pressed a remote control again, and the iron gate slowly opened. Not long after, the car drove out of the kindergarten and merged into the traffic…
The headmaster drove all the way, occasionally glancing at her phone, which seemed to have some messages.
The neon lights of the city reflected on her black-framed glasses, making it impossible to see her eyes.
But she also didn’t notice that during this process, in the extremely spacious back row, a pair of jet-black, cold eyes slowly emerged from a black mist, quietly watching her back…