Author: Zhuli

The first night Xiao Di came to the orphanage was calm.

"I didn't even have time to ask you last night, what's your name? Where are you from, and why did you come to be a teacher in this poor place like ours?" Li Peipei always felt that Xiao Di didn't look like someone who lived in Xiacheng District all year round.

Whether it was the sharp and carefree look in her eyebrows or her temperament, she didn't look like someone who would be an honest teacher.

Li Peipei has a keen sense that she is very unusual.

Xiao Di only replied with his name and did not answer Li Peipei's second question.

"How long have you been here?" Xiao Di asked Li Peipei.

Li Peipei's attention was diverted, she thought for a moment and said, "More than a year."

"Have you ever encountered anything that couldn't be solved?" Xiao Di asked.

Li Peipei looked confused. She wanted to ask Xiao Di why she asked such a question, but a moment later, a red mole appeared between her eyebrows, and then Li Peipei's eyes became dull.

"Yes." Li Peipei nodded, as if she thought of something bad, and frowned unconsciously, "A child disappeared before. We checked the surveillance and found that he was just sleeping in the bed. He was not there the whole time.

There was no footage of him leaving the dormitory, but early the next morning, he disappeared."

Xiao Di nodded, and then calmly took back the puppet silk that was attached to her body.

"Well? What did I just say?" Li Peipei pressed her eyebrows, feeling a little strange.

Always seems to have forgotten something.

"You didn't say anything." Xiao Di said calmly.

The two of them didn't talk any more and went to take care of the children separately.

That night, Xiao Di still didn't fall asleep and monitored the entire orphanage very carefully.

However, neither that night nor the following night, anything strange happened in the orphanage.

Xiao Di was not in a hurry, and was patching up their torn clothes with a group of children.

Because Xiao Di kept her promise and distributed money to each child, she was quite popular with these children.

An Rong was sitting next to her. When he saw Xiao Di holding an embroidery needle and frowning and staring at the clothes in front of her for a long time, he put his head over and said, "Teacher, if you don't know how, just leave it alone."

Xiao Di didn't force himself at all and immediately put down the needle.

She hadn't seen needlework in years, let alone mended clothes.

But a group of children who live in an era of rapid technological development are very skilled in sewing. Even if the stitches are sometimes not pretty, they all sew up the tears in the clothes densely.

"How long have you lived here?" Xiao Di asked An Rong.

An Rong scratched his head, "The director said I was abandoned at the door of the orphanage not long after I was born, so it must have been 12 years now."

"They all grew up with you?" Xiao Di continued to ask.

An Rong nodded, and then he looked a little disappointed, "Actually, there were more than just this number of us at the beginning, but later, many people disappeared and never came back."

"Which teacher has stayed here the longest?" Xiao Di continued to ask.

An Rong thought for a while and said: "Apart from the dean, the one who has been with us the longest is Teacher Zou."

Zou Ping is a taciturn and good-natured man. Children like to go to him when they need anything.

Xiao Di nodded and remembered this person in his heart.

That night, Xiao Di still didn't fall asleep.

She closed her eyes slightly and allowed her consciousness to spread out. She could feel every human and inhuman movement in the entire orphanage at this time.

Nothing special happened in the first half of the night. In the second half of the night, three children got up and made a little noise.

One of the children came back and climbed back onto his little bed quietly.

Not long after, another child came back.

Xiao Di's consciousness was wandering around the orphanage, but fifteen minutes later, she suddenly sat up from the bed, opened the door and ran towards the bathroom. As she ran, she also laid a cloud around the orphanage.

Layer a barrier to prevent non-human beings from leaving with An Rong.

It's been fifteen minutes, why hasn't that child come back yet?

Xiao Di's steps were hurried, but he didn't make the slightest movement.

She didn't turn on the light, so she opened the bathroom door in the darkness and used the thin planetary light outside to look for someone in one compartment after another.

"Tick tock."

The faucet, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was still dripping water, and the faint echo sounded eerie in the quiet night.

Xiao Di didn't seem to be affected at all, looking for people one by one very calmly.

However, after viewing all five compartments, she could not find only the third child.

She immediately looked at the bathroom window.

There is only one window in this bathroom, which is open close to the ceiling, and there is nothing under the window that can be used to climb up.

Furthermore, even if you can climb up, how can any child get out of a small window with a height of only about fifteen centimeters?

Xiao Di frowned.

But when something happened here, she didn't feel any mental fluctuations anywhere.

It's so weird.

If this place hadn't been an interstellar place, Xiao Di would have even turned to the gods and ghosts.

Xiao Di reached for the window, but at this moment, she vaguely felt something flickering out of the corner of her eye.

She turned her head to look for the source of the reflection, and soon her eyes were fixed on the door of the last compartment.

She knelt down and reached out to touch the reflective object on the ground.

The moment the thing touched the skin, the cold and smooth touch made Xiao Di frown.

She held back the feeling of nausea and held the thing in front of her eyes, igniting a flame. Then she saw clearly that the reflective object was a fish scale that was gray overall with white edges.

Is it an aquatic beast?

Xiao Di speculated in his mind, but apart from this fish scale, there was no other residue in the bathroom, which made Xiao Di unable to start.

She did not stay here any longer and went directly back to the orphans' dormitory to check it out.

It's An Rong who is missing.

Xiao Di thought of An Rong's eyes and the vigilance he always had in his eyes.

She didn't alert anyone, erased the surveillance during her absence, and then returned to the dormitory and lay down again.

Early the next morning, the dean made rounds on the ward and found out almost immediately that An Rong had disappeared.

"Quick! Check the surveillance!" The dean's voice was shaking a little.

She knew that checking the surveillance would yield no results, but she still subconsciously wanted to know what happened in the early morning.

As soon as Xiao Di went out, he saw teachers and children standing outside the children's dormitory.

When the dean saw Xiao Di through the crowd, his eyes immediately lit up, he pushed aside the crowd and rushed towards her.

"Didn't you say you could help me! Quick, help me find An'an!" The dean's eyes were red, and his pained expression didn't look like he was faking it.

Xiao Di nodded, and in a rare gesture, he reached out and patted the back of the dean's hand, "Don't worry."

Li Peipei gave Xiao Di a strange look in the crowd.

But Xiao Di's gaze crossed the crowd and landed on Zou Ping, who was standing at the outermost edge of the crowd.
Chapter completed!