Chapter 75: Chapter 69: The Incident
In the afternoon, as she watched Moke leave over the wall, Bai Jingxuan stood up from the shade and stretched herself gently. Patting her jeans a few times, she picked up the book in her hand, turned around, and left from the courtyard.
It was strange, it seemed like since noon today, she hadn't seen anyone in the orphanage.
The courtyard where she had met Moke was a bit secluded, but considering the number of people in the orphanage, there should have been someone passing by accidentally. On regular days, if she wanted to chat with Moke, she had to lower her voice and pay close attention to the movements in the corridor, shutting her mouth immediately if someone appeared.
That was because Moke said that ordinary people couldn't see fairies, and here she was talking to Moke, which would only make others think she was talking to thin air.
Bai Jingxuan didn't want to be misunderstood in such a way, she didn't object to life in the orphanage, but she was still somewhat hopeful to be adopted. If she was deemed to have mental issues for "talking to air," then that little hope would be dashed.
But today, she had been watching the corridor and had not seen anyone pass by at all.
This situation was somewhat abnormal, but not particularly strange, so Bai Jingxuan didn't pay it much mind.
Was today some special day, or was there some event?
She was just thinking that, holding her book in her arms, slowly walking through the corridor.
Bai Jingxuan's usual resting room was some distance away from this courtyard, requiring her to pass through an entire sanatorium building. The only advantage was that, considering her medical condition, her room was arranged on the first floor, so she didn't need to climb stairs.
Walking alone in the somewhat quiet corridor, her gaze passed through the glass windows beside her, looking towards the office building across the courtyard.
In a vague glimpse, she thought she saw a few dark figures flash by there.
"That floor, if I remember correctly..."
Looking in that direction, she finally felt something was off, and then, she quickened her pace.
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Liu Wenqin had been the director of Fangting City's First Orphanage for ten years.
She might not say she knew the orphanage like the back of her hand, but when it came to the equipment and staff distribution, she had it memorized.
With over 400 employees, she couldn't remember every single person's name, but she was very familiar with the heads of each department within the orphanage.
So, when she wanted the entire orphanage to grind to a halt, for everyone not to resist, she only needed a few phone calls to make it happen.
"Yes, Lan, exactly, don't resist them at all, right, just make sure the guys in your department stay calm, they won't get rough before then."
After finishing the last call and putting down her mobile phone, Liu Wenqin breathed a long sigh of relief.
Then she looked at the man who had been standing in front of the filing cabinet the whole time, pushing down the panic and fear in her heart and said as calmly as she could, "I've done as you asked, when exactly do you plan to leave?"
On hearing her words, the man in front of her slowly turned his body in her direction, revealing his full figure:
He was a tall, thin man with a pale face and a scar over his eyebrows.
He looked to be in his twenties, relatively young, with two wisps of mustache over his lip that gave him a somewhat sinister appearance; his hair, somewhat long, was tied in a small braid at the back of his head. For some reason, a few strands of his dark hair faintly shimmered with a purplish-red hue.
The man wore a long black robe, adorned with gold, sinister hieroglyphics made of strange characters that Liu Wenqin couldn't understand. Although she couldn't make out what they represented, from a distance, they were unsettling.
——"A wise decision, I want to applaud you, Ms. Liu."
He wore an inscrutable smile on his face and said with a somewhat strange voice, "Your several phone calls will save the lives of thousands, you truly are the epitome of a welfare director, and I respect you for that."
"Then could you please put your words into action and stop those under your command from troubling a group of helpless elderly and children?"
Liu Wenqin felt her hands trembling, but she still insisted, "They simply cannot resist you, and no one here has the ability to do so either. Take whatever you want, but why must you kill people!"
The reason she said this was that at that very moment, right at the door of her office, a sturdy man in a guard's uniform was leaning against the door frame. His head hung low, a baton lying at his side, and blood flowing down his uniform, leaving a hollow where his heart should be.
He was the security director of the welfare institution, who had hurried to the director's office as soon as he sensed something amiss, attempting to resist the man in the black robe.
He was brave and strong, those who caused trouble in the institution on normal days were no match for him, so even knowing the man before him was strange, he had not flinched and charged directly at him. However, his valor was futile before the black-robed man, and he got killed in an instant by some unknown force, collapsing at the doorstep.
Afterward, the group of black-robed people who had accompanied him dispersed on the spot and headed to various places in the institution, killing those who dared to resist in a bloody and brutal manner. They then coerced Liu Wenqin into sending a signal of "surrender without death" to all departments, quickly taking control of the entire welfare institution.
"For efficiency's sake, madam."
In response to Liu Wenqin's questioning, the man spoke very politely, but his words were unceremoniously blunt: "We need to eliminate potential dangers at the fastest pace—that is to say, the call you are about to make to the Abnormal Strategy Bureau on your phone, if not hung up immediately, will result in no more survivors in this welfare institution. Please believe me, we act faster than the Abnormal Strategy Bureau can arrive."
At his words, Liu Wenqin's heart tightened, and the hand behind her office desk paused. She looked at the man with uncertainty, then somewhat dejectedly at the mobile phone screen in her hand, reluctantly ending the call.
"You are all a bunch of devils!"
After giving up on seeking help from the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, she accused angrily, "You know very well what kind of people these elderly and children are here. How can you bear to lay hands on them if you have any conscience as a human being?"
"What kind of people? Of course, I know. To sum it up, they're all pitiful, aren't they?"
The man in the black robe spread his hands with a sneer, "Children who've lost their loved ones, elderly without anyone to take care of them, many among them are disabled, some even incapable of living independently, it's indeed sad."
"But, pitiful people, heh, pitiful people."
He changed his tone, as if chanting on a pilgrimage, "Who in this world is not a pitiful person? Those without glory are born fruitless, and in death they return to nourish the soil, giving thanks to the grace of the Lord. Even in true death, they should thank me, for at this moment, they share in the Lord's grace."
As he spoke these words, his expression was full of piety and loyalty, as if this was indeed what he truly believed, even though such beliefs seemed completely nonsensical to ordinary people.
"You expect them to thank you? Unreasonable, you are truly a lunatic..."
Liu Wenqin's eyes widened and her throat moved. She looked at the man before her in disbelief, as if she were observing some kind of monster, "What exactly do you want by coming here?"
This question made the man pause his lament.
He lowered his hands, looking at Liu Wenqin behind the office desk with a trace of disinterest, and in his strange voice, he said:
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"To speak the truth, although it would only cost us time to kill everyone here, you have met my demands by not disturbing our meeting with the interference from the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, so I don't mind showing a bit of what petty commonfolk consider goodness."
"Our people have already started searching this welfare institution, and it doesn't matter if you continue to hide it. But you should know that once we find the target ourselves, the answer you keep will lose its corresponding value."
"So, the question I asked you when we first met, I will ask again, and I hope this time you will give me a proper answer."
He walked slowly towards Liu Wenqin's office desk, ignoring her attempts to back away, he lowered his head, placed a hand over his left eye, and with an exaggerated motion, he pulled back his eyelid:
"This is the last time I will ask, tell me Ms. Liu, do you have a girl here who lost her left eye?"