Taking the file, Su Wuming opened it and began reading.
The moment he saw the photo on the first page, his mind jolted.
He flipped through four more pages in quick succession, then stopped.
"An'an!" Lin Pangpang leaned over at that moment and shouted the name as soon as he saw the photo.
He then snatched the file over and flipped ahead.
"Pingping, Zhuangzhuang, Lele!"
The four names Lin Pangpang called out belonged to the four orphanage children who had survived and come with them from Dry City.
"Weren't they under Instructor Mo Lan's protection? How could they..."
"Pangpang, I called Instructor Mo Lan last night. She was seriously injured and unconscious. Instructor Second Chrysanthemum and the others were there too." Su Wuming cut him off and told him the result of last night's call.
At that, Lin Pangpang quickly calmed down as well.
Instructor Mo Lan had been seriously injured. That explained it.
But that raised another question: was this really a mission they could accept?
Even a B-rank difficulty rating seemed too low.
At that moment, Su Wuming took the file back from Lin Pangpang and began reading it again.
He felt that he might have overcomplicated things. Elder Gu could not possibly give him a mission they had no hope of completing.
Su Wuming soon found the answer.
Starting from the fifth page were photos of people wearing ghost-face masks. There were seven of them in total. Their leader wore a red ghost-face mask, while the rest wore gray ones. Beneath the photos were detailed descriptions of their abilities, none of which Su Wuming had ever heard of.
Yet they shared three things in common.
First: all seven were Demon Type Spirit Martial Practitioners, meaning they had awakened through malignant mutations, similar to Tu Tu.
Second: all