Red blood spread upward along the lotus leaf's stem, like an IV drip continuously injecting this leaf with the energy to keep growing.
Confrontational Sin Objects had always been domineering. The Black-clothed person could crush the campus rules, but he was also bound by the Sin Object.
Within the narrow corridor of the Fourteenth Floor, the green glow emitted by the lotus leaf clashed fiercely with the Black-clothed person's darkness.
One green, one black, clearly divided.
A third person arrived in this temporary safe zone Zhong Feiluan had created through Zhu Xiaoning.
Moran looked as she always did.
Her expression was as calm as ever, her posture relaxed and natural. She did not seem to show any signs of being bound to a ghost.
As for her overlapping pupils, they indicated that she had not activated that Sin Object.
Zhong Feiluan's next words completely confirmed that guess.
She was not particularly surprised to see Moran appear. Instead, she nodded kindly at her and said with a smile,
"You aren't bound to a ghost. Go on ahead. I'll handle Zhu Xiaoning."
When Zhu Xiaoning heard that, his heart sank to the bottom.
The moment he had seen Moran appear, his dead heart had stirred ever so slightly.
He had grown up in an orphanage, without family or friends. From childhood to adulthood, he had endured countless cold stares and bullying. There had been very few people in his life who had treated him well.
Moran truly counted as one of them.
Zhu Xiaoning and Moran had entered Branch No. 10 at the same time. There had been seven newcomers in their batch, but after the tides had washed away the sand, only the two of them remained.
Because of that connection, they had naturally become close in private.
Although Zhu Xiaoning