Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 543: Chapter 0543: Fissure (Seeking Subscriptions)

“Death… Death?”

For a girl in her flowers’ prime, this was a somewhat distant term.

Who could imagine that it would suddenly arrive, unveiling the brutality of life?

“This… This may not be true. I’m just an apprentice. The omen I have received may not be accurate…”

Bai Ling stuttered in consolation.

In fact, she was also scared inside.

This divination proceeded smoothly, and she was almost certain that it was the most real divination result.

‘Could I be a divination prodigy?’

A thought surfaced in Bai Ling’s heart.

If Su Lu had witnessed this, he would have just laughed it off.

It wasn’t that Bai Ling’s divination ability was strong, it was just the effect of the protagonist’s aura.

Most divinations were revelations acquired from the Dream Spirit World. What in this world could be hidden from the world’s will?

Bai Ling had higher ‘privileges’ in the world and would naturally be advantageous in divinations of this nature.

He deliberately taught her, curious to see how far the world could go.

“You don’t need to console me, ever since Jiajia went missing, I knew her chances of survival were slim… now I just want to catch the perpetrator…”

Mi Jiaying grappled Bai Ling’s hand: “Divine again, who is the murderer?”

“I understand.”

Bai Ling took a deep breath, recited the divination statement, and closed her eyes.

She felt as if her body had taken flight, plunging into a mist.

All around was darkness, only the flickering candlelight.

‘Is this…the school hallway?’

Bai Ling walked towards the corridor, looking at the vivid oil painting beside her: “Is this the same path Jiajia disappeared on? What happened to her?”

Suddenly her senses were triggered, and she looked at an oil painting.

From the painting, a figure twisted its body, crawled out, and reached out to her!

“The murderer is you!”

Bai Ling seemed to have understood.

But the next moment, a pair of pitch-black hands emerged from behind and tightly choked her neck!

Bai Ling’s eyes bulged, looking at the shadow across struggling.

“No…there’s more than one monster in the painting?”

If she could look back, she would find that from the wall, a painting with a gloomy theme, a pair of big black hands reached out, constantly draining her life!

“Ergh, Ergh…”

Bai Ling struggled violently, her legs flailing, her hands desperately prying the black hand, but the palm was cold and hard, like it was made of steel, with unparalleled strength, making her consciousness gradually dim.

…

“Bai Ling! Bai Ling!”

From her ear, there came Mi Jiaying’s calls.

Bai Ling snapped back to her senses and found herself lying in her dormitory. She couldn’t help but take deep breaths, greedily inhaling fresh air.

“What happened to you just now? You suddenly started choking yourself…I was afraid you were going to strangle yourself to death.”

Mi Jiaying cried at her side.

“I… choked myself?”

Bai Ling asked in surprise.

“You don’t believe me? Look!”

Mi Jiaying grabbed a mirror. On Bai Ling’s white delicate neck, there was a pair of bright red handprints, and from the elegant print, one could tell it was a woman’s hand.

“This is a recoil of divination…”

“I… I almost choked myself to death!”

Bai Ling exclaimed in shock.

“I’m sorry… I didn’t know divination could be so dangerous.” Mi Jiaying seemed on the verge of crying again.

“It’s okay, I also forgot what the teacher said.”

Bai Ling waved her hand, sat down solemnly: “However… I have found the truth about Jin Jiajia’s disappearance…she was devoured by the ‘Cannibal Corridor’!”

“That corridor, it really eats people?”

Mi Jiaying exclaimed.

“Not only does it eat people, but it is also very dangerous.”

Bai Ling nodded.

“What should we do? Should we tell the teachers or principals?” Mi Jiaying asked hesitantly: “This is already an event of high mystery level, we ordinary people would likely die just by getting involved…”

“No… We can’t tell my uncle.”

Bai Ling blurted out.

Bai Jing had issued an order prohibiting night walking, apparently knowing something yet not doing much about it.

This ‘cold-blooded’ performance filled Bai Ling’s heart with coldness.

Mi Jiaying looked at Bai Ling strangely, feeling that her best friend had changed a lot: “What’s wrong? Isn’t your uncle your idol, and the person you trust the most?”

“It has been… a long time since then!”

Bai Ling answered with a grim expression.

…

The next day, at noon.

Su Lu was pacing in the school hallway, his hands behind his back. Everyone he met on the way, whether teachers or students, respectfully greeted him.

He smiled, elegantly nodding back to each one.

Before he knew it, he had walked to the location of the ‘Cannibal Corridor’.

As there was no window and no candles were lit, even during the day this section of the path was very gloomy.

The wind blew through the hallway, bringing a slight chill.

“Oh, isn’t this our Little Bailin? Why are you here?”

Su Lu saw Bai Ling, as she stood in front of an oil painting, gazing at the colors on the painting. In her eyes flickered a flash of determination.

“Uncle… where did you buy these paintings?”

“These? I drew them myself…” Su Lu’s smile remained gentle.

“Yourself… Drew them?”

Bai Ling almost blurted out, do you know that they can kill people?

But after thinking for a bit, she held back: “Do they have any meaning?”

“No, they only feel suited for the atmosphere here.”

Su Lu shrugged.

“Recently…there have been students disappearing in the school.” Bai Ling drew a deep breath, staring intently at Su Lu: “You knew, didn’t you?”

“Jin? Yes, I knew…” Su Lu sighed: “A very lively and cheerful girl who just was a little too brave, she loved wandering about at night, thinking she could uncover some secrets. She simply read too many novels… She didn’t know that the academy at night is very dangerous.”

“Very…dangerous?”

Bai Ling was stunned. She thought Bai Jing would do everything possible to hide the truth, but she didn’t expect him to reveal everything.

“I know that in Heaven’s network, there is a standard, linking mystery level with danger level… I can tell you, this academy’s mystery level is continuously increasing! So… behave yourself. Don’t wander around at night, especially this hallway. It connects to another space at midnight and releases many terrifying evil spirits. Even if these paintings were burnt, it wouldn’t help.”

Su Lu warned solemnly.

“Why has the school become so dangerous?”

A doubt was resolved, but more doubts surfaced.

“It’s a mysterious academy, isn’t it normal for its mystery level to rise?” Su Lu said: “I just pushed it a bit.”

“…”

Bai Ling was silent. Suddenly, she bowed: “I will take my leave, Headmaster.”

She held back her tears, turned around and jogged away.

The uncle she had in her heart was dead, transformed into a cold-blooded executioner!