Chapter 29 Saint Lan Monastery
"Does my sister want to go in? But I've never been in before. Daddy won't let me go in to play." Cooper said, his little face drooping with grievance.
Wen Qi thought for a moment, then covered her mouth and asked Cooper, "Aren't there a lot of kids living inside? Why doesn't your dad let you play with them?"
“Dad said they couldn’t play with me, that they could only stay at the monastery for a few days, but I’ve never seen them leave,” Cooper said, holding the can and observing.
“They were like this can of fruit. I saw them living in the box and being carried into Tower 2.”
Like canned fruit?
Living in a box?
Under what circumstances would you put a child in a box?
Wen Qi suddenly realized something and felt a chill run down her spine.
Was it soaked in formaldehyde?
Soaking in a transparent glass box or jar?
"Cooper? Does their box have water? Is the box transparent like a tin can?" Wen Qi asked, looking at Cooper at eye level and pointing to the tin can.
Cooper nodded seriously.
...
The Chinese viewers in front of the screen displayed a unified barrage of comments.
"Exterminate evil and retreat! Fencing retreat retreat.jpg"
"Good luck, go away!"
"Bless my Dragon Kingdom, bless my 7th sister."
Most viewers have probably guessed what state the children in Tower 2 are in now.
I can't play with Cooper the boy in the red shirt because those kids aren't even human.
They have most likely been killed, and the monastery has preserved their bodies in formalin to prevent them from decomposing.
However, some questions remained.
"If the body is preserved in formalin, the other organs can't be used for transplantation! They won't be viable."
"The monastery isn't just about organ transplants; its main business is MT Pharmaceuticals. Did you forget, upstairs?"
"Oh, right, right, the younger the child, the stronger the MT (Magic Tank) they create seems to be."
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"Cooper, do you like this?" Wen Qi took out a pack of compressed biscuits from the system space. "Here, have this too, it's delicious."
"Really?" Cooper quickly placed the can on the ground in front of him and took the cookies Wen Qi handed him with both hands.
"Um."
[The host has gained a new bonus talent: Sweet Talk, after noticing a key figure's increased favorability towards them (+15).]
[Sweet talk: Normal humans know that compressed biscuits don't taste good, and as a system, I don't believe they're delicious either. However, the host deceived a key figure, who is willing to believe you, increasing your favorability towards you. You gain +10 to Eloquence and +5 to Performance.]
Wen Qi: ......
rhetoric?
Damn it!!!
The system is slandering itself again!
He always comes up with all sorts of strange achievements and titles for himself.
Wen Qi rolled her eyes at the system in her mind, and then asked.
"Cooper, what should I do if my sister wants to find those children?"
"Have you seen anyone else go into the tower to look for the children sleeping in the boxes?"
Cooper's little eyes darted around a few times before he replied, "Daddy took some people inside. They were dressed very strangely, and I couldn't see their faces. It was so weird."
Upon hearing this, Wen Qi seemed to be deep in thought.
It seems the cloaked man can go in.
Getting their clothes is extremely difficult.
Since Wen Qi came here, she seems to have only seen the cloaked man once.
However, it seems that cloaked figures enter the monastery every day, but unfortunately Wen Qi just didn't see them.
Having gotten the answer she wanted, Wen Qi gave Cooper a very comforting smile.
[Announcement across the entire planet: Congratulations to Wen Qi, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, for discovering a hidden clue and receiving an additional random resource reward.]
[The overall physical fitness of the Dragon Kingdom's citizens has increased by 3, and the "baby cabbage" phenomenon has now manifested across 200,000 square kilometers of land within the country.]
...
"With so many resources acquired by our Dragon Kingdom, there shouldn't be any more starving people in the near future!"
"Haha, it's so lucky to be born in the Dragon Country."
"As long as we stay united, our current resources can sustain us for a long time until the next instance appears," Feng Hua from the Resources Bureau commented in the live stream.
"??? This is a leader from the Resources Bureau!"
"The official name is right after the name. We're not blind; we're just excited inside."
"The higher-ups are paying close attention to our Sister 7. If Sister 7 successfully passes through and comes back, they must let her eat Blue Star's hand-shredded chicken."
"Pfft~~~, no ambition at all, would Seventh Sister even want that?"
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Back in room 404, Wen Qi tried to find out if there was anything to talk about regarding Nora.
He would occasionally glance out the window at the monastery gate.
She was waiting for the next cloaked figure to arrive at the monastery.
Wen Qi waited until dark, but he still hadn't arrived.
Day 3
Wen Qi got up very early.
After praying and mopping the floor, she easily made her way to the changing room via the exhaust pipe.
Nora's clothes seem too easy to recognize; she needs to change into something different this time.
She still remembered the name of the monk who had served the cloaked man before.
As for her specific name, she had long forgotten it.
Wen Qi didn't have a very good memory; she only caught a glimpse of it at the time.
If you can get the cloak, you can enter Tower 2 to investigate.
Wen Qi guessed that Tower 2 must be entirely dedicated to making MTs, which is why the Dean was in charge of it all by himself.
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locker room.
Wen Qi listened carefully inside the exhaust pipe; everyone had already left.
She carefully climbed down from the exhaust pipe.
Then she took out her master key.
She opened each wardrobe, intending to take any crosses, monk's robes, or priest's robes that didn't have names written on them.
In the end, Wen Qi found two sets of monk robes, one set of priest robes, and a red mask.
The cross that comes with the red mask is named Allen.
As luck would have it, but Wen Qi couldn't be sure it was the person she was looking for, because the last name might not be the same.
However, Wen Qi still took the red mask, cross, and clothes with her.
What is the purpose of the red mask? What does it represent?
Perhaps only by wearing it out can you learn the truth from others.
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Back in room 404, Wen Qi closed the door and started the simulation.
"Simulation begins, mind astral projection."
"Leave the room and go to the bathroom on the third floor."
"You changed into Allen's priest's robes and put on a red mask."
"After you came out of the bathroom, you didn't encounter any priests or nuns."
You went straight to the first floor.
"Here, you see several nuns who look like they've just returned from the restaurant."
They looked at you with either envy or fear, and walked far away from you.
"You swaggered out of Building Number One."
"Since we can't wait for the cloaked man, let's try wearing the red mask."
"It's okay to try turning into a fleeting moment, since you're in a simulation state right now anyway."
...
"You are standing at the bottom of Tower 2."
"Looking up, the monastery cross on the rooftop now looks particularly ironic."
"You slowly stepped up the stairs, and one foot entered Tower No. 2."
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