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Chapter 309 - Chapter 309 Chapter 309 Night Exploration

Chapter 309: Chapter 309 Night Exploration Chapter 309: Chapter 309 Night Exploration Night had fallen deep, and a faint autumn chill gathered from all directions. On the distant streets, only the dim streetlights flickered on and off, intermittently. Snippets of music mingled with other unclear sounds floated in the night breeze, and by the time it reached the ears, only brief, illusion-like notes remained. In this old district, far from the city center, time seemed to have forgotten to flow, bearing a silence and desolation of decades past.

The sky near the city was impure, and although it was nearly midnight, the ever-persistent city lights still cast a gloom in the heavy skies with only a few stars twinkling innocently like Passerby A, dulling even the not-so-full moon with a layer of dust.

And under this night sky, two shadows approached the dilapidated campus wall with agile steps.

“I really didn’t expect you’d take the initiative to come with me.”

Standing outside the tall perimeter wall topped with barbed wire, I exercised my wrists and ankles while speaking to the small figure beside me, who shrugged like an adult in response, “I just couldn’t stand to see you out here all alone, so pitiful, I had to reluctantly accompany the weird uncle…”

This Fake Lolita… certainly had a knack for precisely targeting vulnerabilities in her words and raising one’s temper to the max.

The daytime exploration hadn’t yielded much, as most of the information we had heard from Liu Fan was already within our grasp from previous investigations. This afternoon’s activity was simply a matter of “confirming the situation with the client” in person. To truly clear up the situation, we had to take action ourselves.

Well, in fact, just sending a few Commanders or some Advanced agents might have been enough to deal with the problem, but to be honest, the curiosity aroused by this school supernatural event was just too tempting. It felt like a huge loss not to get involved in such interesting matters. Surely, I hadn’t caught some incurable disease from that troublesome aggregation, Lin Xue… This self-inflicted perilous mindset just didn’t seem fitting for a slacker waiting to die…

Suddenly, Lilina muttered beside me, “I always feel like there are things more dangerous than a virus and filled with a decadent aura swirling in your mind, as if getting any closer will turn one into a pile of the Walking Dead, slowly growing hair…”

Since when did psychology study something as advanced as Mind Reading Technique?

Meow, this place is really desolate.

Looking around at the oppressive shadows of the buildings and the sparse lights flickering in the darkness, I sighed inwardly again.

Originally, Qianqian and Big Sister were both very enthusiastic about investigating the Ghost School at midnight. However, both girls kept a regular schedule and unless necessary, they would become yawningly tired after ten at night. And Big Sister had strictly ordered the younger ones, “Children must go to bed on time before ten,” leaving even the strongest ice mountain, Pandora, with no choice but to comply. As a result, for various reasons, the only ones left to seek out ghosts in the dead of night were my overheated self and the Fake Lolita who had found a loophole in Big Sister’s regulations.

A flapping noise came from the sky, and as I looked up, I saw a black shadow swiftly passing through the night.

Ah, and a certain ghost.

Getting Anwina out of the house was truly a difficult matter. Perhaps related to her own memories of death, this obedient but occasionally stubborn ghost harbored a great fear of everything “outside the door.” Every attempt to get her to go out for a walk ended with her tearfully clinging to the doorframe, refusing to budge. Up till now, our sole achievement had been to let Anwina leave the house at midnight in the form of a crow… and that too, only while I was by her side.

“Ugh…” Lilina suddenly yawned widely and then rubbed her eyes, “I’m getting sleepy, let’s finish up and head back–children should get enough sleep.”

“I wonder who begged so desperately to come along, even bringing out the invincible argument that ‘a loli with the heart of an adult is not a loli’ to debate with Big Sister for quite a while.”

“As a qualified individual who has crossed over, it’s my duty to remember the rule of securing the greatest personal benefit at all times… Ah, that hurts!”

Lilina, rubbing the corner of her eye, shamelessly voiced such amoral words, and so she was accurately KO’d by my chop.

“I haven’t mentioned it yet, but why are you so keen on coming along this time?”

This puzzled me greatly. Although Lilina claimed she wanted to join our group, the strongest abnormal human organization in history, (perhaps that title could be overlooked…), in reality, she had never shown the awareness of being an employee. It was highly unusual for her to take initiative today and follow me to investigate.

Confronted with my question, Lilina first went silent, then suddenly shrugged her shoulders, saying in a calm tone, “I studied here.”

I immediately felt awkward.

Memories of Lilina’s past life had essentially become a taboo topic by default.

“Ah, so you went to high school here. I never imagined that even a genius psychology graduate student had a gray high school life… Ahahaha…”

“That change of subject is just as idiotic as your character, but… thanks.”

“Flap flap…”

A flap of wings sounded from above us, and then a big, dark crow gracefully landed on my shoulder. Its sharp beak came close to my ear and, in an ethereal and soft girl’s voice, said, “Master, we can go in now.”

“Time to get to work–Lilina, be careful, this isn’t a game.”

“I know–,” the petite girl drew out her words, then suddenly a few light blue runes flashed beneath her feet. Accompanied by the release of anti-gravity magic, Lilina lightly leaped onto the three-meter-high fence, “No matter how you look at it, I’m a priestess personally blessed by the gods. Besides, having spent so much time, I’m fairly familiar with this body imbued with divine power, and I can still cast a bit of magic… Woah!”

Could you not fall back down so promptly and tidily after confidently finishing that speech?

Watching Lilina, who had just jumped atop the wall and now sat neatly beside my feet with a dazed look of confusion, I could only feel cold sweat trickling down my forehead.

“Okay, first we head toward the laboratory building!”

With a whoosh, Lilina, who the second before looked like a lifeless body on the ground, jumped to her feet without warning and pointed ahead, enthusiastically declaring her intent.

Hey, hey, hey! You recover way too fast! Falling from a three-meter-high wall, at least show some semblance of a normal recovery! Also, the direction you’re pointing in seems off, don’t you think? You fell back outside, not inside the fence!

Thirty minutes later, what was probably the least professional stealth duo in history finally arrived at the laboratory building, after getting lost, getting lost, getting lost, and yes, getting lost again. Staring at the three big characters “Laboratory Building” prominently illuminated by a beam of light against the darkness, the two directionally challenged critters were moved to tears.

Seriously, the crow Anwina, who was supposed to be our scout, has been utterly useless!

“I’m so sorry, Master,” Anwina, the ghost resting on my shoulder, earnestly apologized, “the view from up there is quite different. I didn’t see those big letters…”

“It looks, unremarkable.”

Lilina jogged to the side of the laboratory building’s outer wall. She observed the movements across the windows, hopping up and down, muttering to herself.

“Reporting, Big Boss! The corridor is really silent, no lights, and no ghosts!”

The little girl bounced around by the window for a while, then came over to inform me in a hushed tone.

Would you stop acting like an actual child, for goodness’ sake, you’re almost a whole cycle older than me!

“Anwina, take a look upstairs.”

I shrugged my shoulders slightly, and the crow version of the ghost maid immediately took off–only to crash into a streetlamp and clumsily tumble back down.

After hopping twice on the ground, Anwina shook her head and, figuring out the correct direction, fluttered into mid-air.

“Master, this is what I see.”

Anwina’s voice echoed in my mind, and a tighter spiritual connection instantly formed, reflecting the unique perspective of a crow in my left eye.

“Anwina, could you please stop circling?”

The bird’s-eye view was indeed bizarre. In just a moment, I was feeling dizzy.

“It does look pretty normal,” I shared Anwina’s view, “apart from being darker than a regular school. Anwina, fly a bit higher.”

The vertical view in my eye rose again, bringing more information into my brain through my left eye, and then, finally, a discovery.

“Anwina, descend–towards the left, do you see it?”

“I see it, Master. There is a shadow rummaging through that pile of trash.”

“Stay invisible in the sky, Lilina and I will go take a look.”

Upon receiving my command, Anwina immediately turned into an unseen spiritual being, while Lilina and I quickly ran towards the large scrapyard situated between the laboratory building and the dormitory area. (To be continued. For what comes next, please visit www.NovelFire.net. More chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)