Defusing the Situation

Kristine scanned the room.

Although the guest room was spacious, the furniture was simple.

Besides a large bed, there was a dresser and a chair. There weren’t many places to hide.

Except for the solid wood wardrobe against the wall.

For some reason, Kristine’s gaze lingered on the wardrobe for a moment.

As if driven by an invisible force.

She walked towards the wardrobe, step by step.

This action made Mona, who was standing at the side, break out in a cold sweat.

Her breathing almost stopped.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something to stop her daughter.

But the more she explained, the more suspicious it would seem. Her mind was a complete blank, unable to come up with a reasonable excuse.

Kristine stopped in front of the wardrobe.

She reached out and slowly gripped the brass handle of the wardrobe door.

Just as she was about to pull the wardrobe open.

“Kristine.”

Black’s voice suddenly sounded, breaking the suffocating silence.

His tone was calm and concerned as he said.

“I see that your aunt’s face is very pale, and she’s sweating. She was probably frightened by the fight just now.”

“She might not be feeling well. Why don’t you take her home to rest first? It’s not suitable to stay here any longer.”

Mona hadn’t expected this unfamiliar young man to speak up and help her out.

It was like grasping a life-saving straw.

She immediately went along with Black’s words, holding her forehead and pretending to be weak.

She said in an exaggerated tone.

“Oh, now that this young man mentions it, I realize my head is getting dizzier, and my chest feels tight.”

“I was sleeping soundly just now, but who knew there would be such a commotion, with doors being broken down and screaming.”

“My heart is still pounding so hard.”

Hearing this, Kristine’s hand on the doorknob loosened.

She looked at her mother’s indeed pale face.

Then she looked at Black.

The doubt in her heart was temporarily overcome by her concern for her mother.

“Black is right.”

Kristine turned away from the wardrobe, walked to her mother’s side, and supported her arm.

“Mother, you look very pale. I’ll take you home to rest first.”

“It’s too chaotic here. It’s not suitable for you to rest.”

Seeing this, Jianye, at the side, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Irena still looked bewildered, blinking her large eyes.

She felt that these people’s reactions were all a bit strange.

But she couldn’t quite put her finger on what was wrong.

And so, Kristine first took her mother Mona and left.

Black, along with Jianye and Irena, went to meet up with Leon and Land.

Leon and Land had also successfully finished their battle.

The evil spirit that had possessed the other student had also been exorcised and purified.

That student had also returned to his human form and was now slumped on the ground.

Compared to the previous student who had had a mental breakdown.

This male student was in much better shape.

Although his face was pale and there was still fear in his eyes, and he was not very stable.

But his mind was basically clear.

Seeing this, Leon squatted down.

He asked in a serious tone.

“We are the Dragon-Slaying Guard.”

“Tell me, what did you encounter? What happened?”

After the male student confirmed Leon’s identity as a Dragon-Slaying Guard, he was as if he had found his backbone.

He excitedly grabbed Leon’s sleeve, his voice trembling and tinged with a sob as he shouted.

“Lord Dragon-Slaying Guard! Go save Mills! He’s still there! He was taken away! Go save him!!!”

Mills was clearly the third missing student.

Hearing this, the few people present exchanged a look.

And all felt that the matter was probably more complicated than they had imagined.

Irena stepped forward and tried to make her voice sound as gentle and trustworthy as possible.

“Classmate, don’t worry, speak slowly.”

“We are volunteers from Dragonheart Academy. We’re here to ask you to come back to school. Please tell us in detail what happened, so we can find a way to save your friend.”

Seeing the familiar academy uniforms on Irena and Jianye.

The male student’s emotions stabilized a little.

He took a few deep breaths, trying to calm his trembling body.

He began to recount the events intermittently.

“A few days ago, the three of us bought… bought some Blood Rose…”

As he said this, he glanced at Black and the other Dragon-Slaying Guards.

Although he hesitated whether to mention the Blood Rose, in the end, he still did.

“Then, we arranged to… enjoy it… with another group of people…”

“In order to… to avoid being caught, or being seen, we deliberately chose a very remote place…”

“…In… in the ruins next to the orphanage in the west of the city…”

“That place is remote, and it’s close to the back mountain…”

“If anything happened, it would… it would be convenient for us to escape…”

When he said this, Irena couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air.

Using Blood Rose was already a serious crime. Doing it in a group was an even greater crime!

Black and Leon were not surprised by this.

They knew very well that after using Blood Rose, a person’s mind would be extremely excited, and they would fall into a hallucinatory state.

In pursuit of an even more extreme pleasure, these addicts would often, while taking the drug.

Gamble, engage in promiscuous sexual acts, or even fight.

This would cause a frantic release of dopamine in a short period of time.

That illusory ecstasy would make them feel like they were in heaven.

And because of this, there were often people who overdosed and died in such group drug use situations.

The male student continued.

“At that time… it was after midnight. At first, we were quite normal over there, but…”

“Around midnight, things… things suddenly became a little strange!”

Fear appeared on his face, and his voice became even more shaky.

“I don’t know where they came from, but a lot… a lot of black shadows appeared!”

“They… they pounced on us! Attacked us!”

“I saw them clearly! They were… they were evil spirits! Everywhere!”

“The two of us were closer to the exit and ran faster… so… so we barely escaped.”

“But Mills! And the others were not so lucky!”

“They… they were all captured by those evil spirits!”

“We kept running… and running. We were originally thinking of going to the Knight Order to… to explain the situation.”

“But we were scared… scared that our use of Blood Rose would be found out… then we would be completely finished.”

“So we just came back to the tavern first, wanting to hide.”

“But after we came back, we… we don’t know anything. We lost consciousness!”

After listening to his account.

Everyone except Black was quite shocked.

They hadn’t expected this matter to be so complicated.

These two students thought they had escaped by luck, but they didn’t know that they had long been possessed by evil spirits.

Which led to what had just happened.

At this moment, Kristine had also settled her mother down and hurried back.

When she heard the full story, her expression suddenly changed.

“The orphanage!”

She murmured, her tone urgent.

“If there are really evil spirits around the orphanage, those children will be in danger!”