Chapter 34: Members of the Plague Church
When I went to the classroom, I passed by Dong Nina's door, and I deliberately stood in place and looked at it, but there was still no movement, if it wasn't for Dong Nina's daily school, I almost thought that this house was uninhabited.
When they arrived at the classroom, the children were waiting outside.
The classrooms are no longer the place where they used to be with a few shabby desks, and of course don't worry about those books, no one in the town will be interested in this thing, but the rest of the stuff is not good, so in order to prevent things from being stolen by some malicious guys, a lock was specially put on yesterday afternoon.
The children were lying on the window, observing the new things inside through the window, and immediately ran to greet them warmly when they heard the sound of footsteps.
Dong Nina's eye bruise was much better, leaving a little scar, and after saying hello to the children one by one, Ronin opened the classroom door with the only key, and turned back to admonish.
"Declare in advance that the contents cannot be turned around without my permission, and if anyone does not follow the rules, they will be punished accordingly."
After the instruction was to open the classroom door, the children crept in and sat down in their seats, looking back at the novelties and books in the corner.
Today is Sunday, and it was supposed to be a holiday, but yesterday due to the lack of corresponding teaching tools, the teaching goal was not completed, so I could only make up the class today and complete the Saturday course.
Luo Ning stood in front of the books that had been placed on the shelves, reaching out and stroking the spine of the books on the shelves, full of a sense of accomplishment.
In a town the size of Crow Town, there must be very few classrooms with 500 books for children to read and some teaching tools, and it can be said that only this classroom can meet such teaching conditions.
Looking at the children who were looking at this side with anticipation in their eyes, Luo Ning waved his hand to signal the children to come over.
The children immediately rushed over and lined up.
"Next is the reading class, where you can pick out your favorite books, one at a time, not too many books, and if you want to get new ones, you have to put the old books back."
Luo Ning deliberately gave up the position in front of the bookshelf and stood aside, solemnly admonishing.
"Don't be crowded and noisy, handle it gently, if there are characters you don't know or something you can't understand, you can ask me for advice, and I will answer."
The children began to carefully select their favorite books, then returned to their places and began to read, and the only sound of "swish" could be heard in the classroom.
Luo Ning deliberately walked over to Dong Nina and sat down, and the girl chose a book dedicated to some magical plants and animals in nature, which usually has a lot of pictures, but it is very suitable for girls.
Flipping through the books, the girl was silent, and occasionally she was overjoyed to see something new.
Luo Ning looked at the satisfied look on the girl's immature face, and felt more and more distressed.
As you can imagine, growing up in that kind of family environment, she must have thought that she deserved to be punished no matter what kind of punishment she received for doing something wrong, such as being locked in a cage like a beast for a night and her eyes were swollen, so when asked about her eyes, she said that she was punished for making a mistake, and she didn't feel anything wrong.
It lasted until the end of the reading class, when the books were put back on the shelves, and the children were still reluctant.
Then there was the interest development class, where things like polo came in handy, Haaland was interested in sports, painting was popular with girls, sculpture and so on.
Dong Nina chose the only flute, and Luo Ning looked at the flute in the girl's hand, remembering some things in the previous life, and smiled helplessly.
At that time, his crush was a member of the school's musical instrument club, so he specially chose an instrument to learn in order to get close, which was the flute.
Looking back at Dong Nina fiddling with the flute, the sterling silver flute was slender and beautiful, and the girl couldn't put it down.
Learning the flute naturally starts with the simplest tones, and Donina's baby-fat white fingers are too short, so you can only start from these.
Luo Ning taught carefully, and the girl didn't learn anything at the end of a class.
"Teacher, am I particularly stupid?" Donina bowed her head in frustration, a little discouraged.
"Why, it will take at least a year to learn the flute before there are some results, and you have done a good job." Ronin comforted the girl and got up to take everything back.
At the end of the class, Luo Ning stood on the podium and announced the most important thing.
"I'm going to your house next to meet your parents."
The main purpose of the home visit is to verify the information provided by Benjamin and the rat about Donina, and to go to the rest of the students' homes just to keep Tonina's stepfather from suspicion.
On the way, Ronin tried to get some information from the girl, but he didn't have much hope that such an older girl would be able to provide.
"Donina, your mother is okay."
Donina's mind was entirely on the books and the flute, and she hesitated a little when she heard the question before she came back to her senses.
"Mom...... Very good. ”
There was a pause.
"She's always been angry lately, it must be because I've not done well enough lately to make her unhappy, I don't want to make my mother sad and unhappy, I'll try my best."
It seems that I really can't get any useful information, but it is also possible that there is a problem with my own question, which caused the girl to not understand what she meant, so she asked a different way.
"In addition to these, she has had any problems lately, such as being motionless at night."
Dong Nina took the young man's hand, as if remembering something, and raised her head with a suspicious expression.
"In the past, when I went to bed at night, my mother would kiss my forehead before turning off the light, but recently it doesn't, and at night my mother always goes to bed early, probably because she is too tired to even eat dinner, I have fed her a few times, but she always closes her eyes and does not open her mouth, maybe she is angry with me."
Speaking of this, the girl's voice was crying, and her eyes were a little red.
Ronin realized that this made the girl unhappy, and spoke of relief.
"Maybe it's just sick, I'll see when I visit my home."
Delivering the girl to the door, Ronin watched as the arm that came out of the crack in the door dragged Donina in roughly, and then the door closed, and then he went to the rest of the houses.
The parents of several children are very welcoming, although the family's financial situation is not very good, but it is very warm.
Finally, I returned to Donina's door, remembering what the girl said, Tonina's mother was acting a little abnormally, and some information basically verified the facts that Mouse and Benjamin said, and in any case, I had to confirm the facts that sounded a little weird.
Fixed, he stepped forward and knocked on the door.
There was no movement for a while, and after a moment he raised his hand and was about to knock again, when the door opened a crack.
It was Donina's father, who glanced at the young man at the door and came out of the crack in the door, bowing respectfully.
"Mr. Austin, is there anything going on?"
Luo Ning explained the intention of the home visit, looking at the stepfather in front of him who looked elegant but was actually vicious and vicious, and his heart suddenly accelerated when he looked at the right arm that the other party was exposed because he did not put down his sleeve in time.
Dong Nina's stepfather obviously didn't realize it, and frowned after a moment's thought.
"I'm sorry, Donina's mother is angry, she must not like to be disturbed at this time, and I don't want anyone to disturb our family at this time."
Ronin looked at the tightly closed door and didn't insist.
"Okay, then I'll come back another day."
Turning back to his room, he found that his back was already wet.
"The Awakened ......"
Tonina's stepfather is not an ordinary person, but an Awakened One, as he has that black texture on his arm that resembles the roots of a plant, which is a sign that the Wheel of Fortune is activated.
And there is a striking pattern on the black texture like the roots of the plant.
It is a skull pattern.
As seen in "A Study of the Origin, Faith, Development, and Relationship of Religion and Magical Organizations", the skull pattern is a unique symbol of the Plague Church organization.
Tonina's stepfather is not just an Awakened One, but also a member of the Plague Church organization.
The Plague Church originated in the First Age, they believed in the god of plague, excelled in cursed magic, and once spread the plague around the world for expansion, resulting in the death of a large number of people.
After the members of the Astrologer Society and the members of the Mother Earth Church joined forces to develop a suppression potion with the help of the tips they received from their respective gods, they were able to prevent the plague from continuing to expand and spread, and then the Flame Knights organization, which had been ravaged by the plague, launched a campaign to completely destroy the Plague Church, most of the members of the organization were thrown into the furnace, and only a few members of the Plague Church escaped.
In order to avoid memory errors, Luo Ning opened the book and confirmed that it was correct.
I didn't expect that there were still members of the Plague Church in a place like Crow Town, and he was also an Awakened One.
The wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows the rhythm of rebirth.
"Wait, my dream reminds that the inevitable event has something to do with Donina, Cheryl said that the inevitable event will inevitably involve the awakened or the cursed, I always thought it was Cheryl, but now it seems that it is not, the awakened person involved in my inevitable event is Tonina's stepfather, Cheryl is just an accident."
Thinking of this, Luo Ning realized that his inevitable event might be to help Dong Nina get out of danger, but even if the inevitable event had nothing to do with Dong Nina, he had already made up his mind to get the girl out of the sea of suffering.
The only way to get the girl out of his stepfather is to send Tonina's stepfather to hell.
In order to deal with Donina's stepfather, who is both a member of the Plague Church and an Awakened, it is necessary to ensure that one blow is a hit, otherwise it will not only bring great danger to himself, but also make Tonina's situation even more dangerous, which requires more information about Tonina's stepfather, such as what abilities he has gained as an Awakened One.
Home visits were denied and other options had to be found.
The previous plan, which had been postponed because Dong Nina's stepfather's elegant appearance was difficult to associate with the image of domestic violence, had to be relaunched.
Glancing up at the roof, a rat on the roof shrunk his head and observed the situation inside the house.
Ronin waved his hand.
"Come down."
The rat came down from the roof to the table to introduce himself.
"Mr. Austin, I'm a mouse who specializes in spying on Mr. Duke, and I came early when there was a new situation just now."
Duke...... Although it was a new name, it was able to think that it was Dong Nina's stepfather, looking at the mouse in front of him, Luo Ning motioned to continue.
"Donina came home and was put in a cage, and Tonina's mother collapsed in the kitchen, and then Mr. Duke wiped something on the lady and carried her to the bedroom."
This information is the same as yesterday, no different, Luo Ning frowned.
The mouse paused, looking frightened.
"Next comes the point...... Mr. Duke went out when I heard the knock on the door, and I took the opportunity to climb up to Donina's mother and take a look, her heart was not beating, she was not breathing, she was not even warm, and she was cold. ”
Ronin knew that it was he who talked to Duke at the door and gave the mouse a chance.
"When Mr. Duke returned again, he drove Donina out of the cage, tied her with rope, hung her on the beams, lit a circle of candles on the ground below the girl, and finally cut off his fingers and drew some strange patterns on the ground, and Mr. Duke was still laughing......"
Ronin had a premonition that something was going to be wrong, and his sudden home visit annoyed Duke, making Duke angry with Donina, and the things that the mouse said should be some kind of curse ritual, in short, Tonina is quite dangerous now.
You have to find a way now!