MTLNOVEL Chapter 475 The Instigator
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They couldn't handle it anymore, so that's why they sought her help!
The female reporter's eyes gleamed as she felt she had found an opportunity to leverage against this lunatic, only by placing their identities on an equal scale could she obtain more information!
Xu Shuo looked in her direction with a smile that was not quite a smile, "Haven't you already experienced the problems? Many rules in SOA-09 have changed, so we have to investigate again."
Upon hearing this, the female reporter was startled, "Ah... So?"
"Investigations must not draw the children's attention, otherwise the rules we uncover are likely to be misleading. Why else do you think Investigators must conceal their identity?" Xu Shuo said somberly.
"... Is that so?" The gleam of hope in the female reporter's eyes faded.
She had thought that she might have a chance for a counterattack.
But for the sake of information, the female reporter still mustered her enthusiasm, "If that's the case, I'll assist you in investigating the new rules, but you have to offer something in return, right?"
Xu Shuo pretended to contemplate, "What do you want?"
The female reporter immediately leaned in with a fiery gaze and said, "I want to know how Qiming Orphanage disappeared, I mean, the true nature of its catastrophe!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Shuo had already begun to consider—was this her mission?
Helping other players quickly complete their tasks didn't bother Xu Shuo.
Because his mission was a global one, in other words, if the game ended quickly enough, those brats wouldn't have time to escape! Continue your journey on My Virtual Library Empire
Xu Shuo stood up from his seat without using a white cane, his empty eyes fixated on the direction as he swiftly walked towards the last row of shelves in the archives.
The female reporter instinctively wanted to offer help but seeing the girl's undisturbed steps, she felt like the joker was herself.
[Special Skill "Bright Vision": Congratulations on possessing a sniper's excellent vision power, you can even see deeper things with it, like those cunning impostors. However, it is still an active skill, lest you accidentally see the darkness of the Abyss (Skill can be upgraded).]
So what if the blind girl is blind, I can see for myself!
In Xu Shuo's vision, the world was engulfed in a hazy black fog, with bookshelves burning eternal flames in front, and dilapidated walls all around.
The black fog permeated everywhere, viscous as tar oozing from wall cracks, violent and evil, twisted and terrifying monsters writhed and howled in every corner, just waiting for a chance to break through barriers and shred every being here!
What he was now seeing was the "True Phenomenon" of the orphanage.
Xu Shuo ignored the Evil Ghosts crawling out of the shelves trying to scratch him, stood on tiptoes to take down a folder from above, and at that moment, one of the Evil Ghosts was digging at his eyeball.
But it didn't manage to find anything.
Xu Shuo didn't even dodge, turned around and handed the folder to the female reporter coming towards him.
"There may be the information you want inside here."
The female reporter took it with curiosity.
What she didn't see was a monster opening its gaping maw, with countless worm-like tentacles licking her face from inside its mouth.
How should I put it, the scene was indeed disgusting.
Some things are indeed better not seen, for seeing them would test one's psychological endurance.
Xu Shuo lightly shook his head and turned his gaze to other parts of the orphanage.
The female reporter, however, was engrossed in the information, her expression growing more solemn as she read.
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"Qiming Orphanage."
Qiming Orphanage was established in 2002, founded by Director Zheng at the ripe age of seventy.
The orphanage's motto was "every child is a shining Qiming Star", thus naming the orphanage "Qiming".
The Qiming Star shines the brightest and most eye-catching in the sky before the dawn breaks, signaling the imminent rise of the sun.
It symbolizes light and hope!
The founding Director Zheng firmly believed that every child deserved a shining future; they would all be the rising Qiming Star of the future.
Over ten years, the orphanage took in hundreds of children who had been abandoned for various reasons or lost their parents and had no guardian, taking great care to tend and teach them.
Years later, Director Zheng passed away, and his son took over Qiming Orphanage.
As the son was not as concerned as Director Zheng, he merely renovated the orphanage, making the name of Qiming Orphanage known.
However, he did not care as much about the welfare of the children living there as his father did.
It wasn't until a scandal involving the mistreatment of children by caregivers broke out from the orphanage.
The incident garnered widespread public attention, which led to the Zheng Group facing pressure in the business world, prompting even less concern from the second-generation director.
So last year, Qiming Orphanage was taken over by the authorities and directly managed by the local office.
It was also since that year that children entering the orphanage started to behave strangely.
Children who committed grave mistakes or even crimes could not be sentenced, and when sent to other orphanages, most directors shunned them.
They could only be squeezed into Qiming Orphanage.
Perhaps since Director Zheng's death, Qiming Orphanage, once inspired to "make each child shine like the Qiming Star," no longer existed.
The little angels living there had turned into a group of demons.
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The female reporter was flipping through the history of the institution when she suddenly discovered a yellowing piece of paper with creases hidden among the pages.
She pulled out the paper, which bore a bold and forceful steel pen script in a paragraph of regular script.
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