The bright orange tangerine nestled in Qin Tan's palm.

She applied a little pressure and could feel the juice soaking into her palm. The unique fragrance of oranges lingered around her nose, making her more alert.

"where are they?"

Qin Tan spread her hands, letting the orange fall to the ground.

Juice splashed everywhere.

There was regret in the old man's eyes.

"I have no idea."

"I never interfere in their affairs."

"All I need to know is that my child is doing well."

"Perhaps those people were wrong, but they were the ones who stood up for us back then, which is why so many children in our orphanage were able to survive."

"As for what the children do, I won't ask them either, because that's their choice as adults."

"Whether it's repaying a debt of gratitude or seeking revenge, that's their life..."

"Child, you are the same."

The old woman gently and delicately wiped the juice from Qin Tan's palm with a handkerchief.

Perhaps in the old man's eyes, Qin Tan was no different from those children who came out of the orphanage.

"Let's go back."

The answer you seek is in front of you, not behind you.

After glancing at Qin Tan, the old man walked into the house with his hands behind his back, his back extremely hunched.

The moment the door closed, Qin Tan heard the old man coughing violently inside, and smelled the stench of blood that her sense of smell detected.

The other person is coughing up blood and can't stop.

In the late stages of lung cancer, life is as fleeting as a mayfly, with only one day left.

This is the information Qin Tan received about the former dean.

Those people might have had a way to help the old director, but she gave up and stayed here.

She toiled here her whole life, and she would rather die here.

Knowing that he couldn't find anything useful here, Qin Tan had no choice but to leave.

The sunlight slowly fades, and dusk has fallen on earth.

Qin Tan leaned back in her chair, looking at the painting on the table.

It was left behind by the painter.

She opened the drawer again and found a medical record.

It's a record she left behind from her treatment at Hospital No. 13 years ago.

The building in the oil painting is the Thirteenth Hospital.

This view appears to be from a hospital room, looking out the window at the sign for the 13th Hospital.

The room was quiet.

Under the influence of the other party's extraordinary abilities, Qin Tan could hear the ticking sounds of the instruments in the room.

Those things are sustaining the lives of people lying in hospital beds.

At the foot of the bed, a corner of a medical record sheet is sticking up, revealing a blurry name.

"Qin Tan".

Qin Tan muttered her own name, her fingers gripping the object with a slight pressure.

This is a picture of her when she was unconscious.

According to the painter, the Torch Society at the time didn't pay any attention to him at all, so what does this perspective mean?

Is there anything about a painter's abilities that I don't know?

She rubbed her forehead and thought for a long time before finally putting the two items in the drawer.

Thinking about these things now is useless.

A few days later, Qin Tan received news that, as the painter had said, the members of the Firewood Society had withdrawn from Wangcheng.

Qin Tan had a strange feeling, not that a storm was brewing, but rather that Wangcheng had been abandoned.

Those organizations are leaving one by one, heading to more important battlefields.

I don’t know if it was just my imagination, but for the next few days, Qin Tan had much less work to do.

But the rest of the third team members were all very busy.

It's not just the third team.

Even the two captains of the first and second teams are so busy that they are dizzy and overwhelmed every day.

There were some unfamiliar faces in the Dawn Central Office.

All of this suggests that Dawn's headquarters is undergoing a major reshuffle.

"You need to handle this matter. After you've finished dealing with it, find some time to discuss something with me."

In the office, Xia Shuang handed over a file.

Upon seeing the record inside, Qin Tan almost thought the other party had seen right through him.

It's only because the cases inside are related to a curse.

Thinking of Black Crow, Qin Tan nodded.

She didn't seem to care about the deeper meaning behind Xia Shuang's statement about discussing things.

This happened in a circus, a circus that travels from place to place and had only recently arrived in Wangcheng.

They said it was their first time here.

A few days after arriving here, some members of the circus developed red rashes.

At first, I thought it was some kind of allergy or something like that, but who knew that the rash would start to break out on a large scale in the circus.

The experts at the hospital went there and found that the rash was not contagious.

The outbreak of the rash was not contagious; its unexplained appearance led people to associate it with the supernatural, and the matter was sent to Dawn's Mansion.

Experts at Dawn Pivot believe it to be a curse.

These people were infected because they had all come into contact with the cursed object, or rather, a special forbidden object.

Unfortunately, the people in the circus had no clue what to do, so it was necessary for Li Mingshu's men to go to the scene to handle the situation.

Qin Tan drove ahead.

The circus is located in a fairly good area, in a park, where a plot of land has been fenced off and all kinds of performance equipment have been set up.

When Qin Tan arrived, he heard someone complaining.

"How can we perform like this? We can't just cover ourselves in foundation, can we?"

The person speaking is dressed as a clown.

He wasn't very tall, and he was playing with his bright red nose.

In front of him stood a tall woman with perfect proportions that made people envious.

However, both of them had red rashes on their exposed skin.

According to the information, this type of rash is neither painful nor itchy.

"I'll be in the water for several hours. No matter how expensive the foundation is, it's hard to guarantee it won't come off."

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