Chapter 259: The Demon beyond their reach
Old Master Mo had age on his side and was exceptionally good at maintaining his composure. He was not as impatient as the younger people. Of course, he had no work-related worries either.
To be honest, with Dawn's current influence, even if all these people were fired, finding them new jobs would be easy.
But waiting like this was no solution. His eyes half-closed, the old master considered whether they should break out of this deadlock of lying in wait.
There were two possibilities. One was that the Demon had yet to appear-this was a prediction, after all, so there could be some lead time. The other was that the Demon had been there all along, but had noticed the dozen or so "door guardians" and did not dare emerge.
And if it was the latter, things could be rather bad. Someone elsewhere might already have fallen victim.
Put plainly, Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei could not possibly have killed the Demon's father, nor did they seem to possess any special allure. The Demon had no reason to fixate on them. Switching targets upon noticing danger would be perfectly normal. If there was one thing Earth had no shortage of, it was people.
As the saying went, an old hand knows best. With all his years of worldly experience, Old Master Mo soon came up with a plan.
Hadn't the Witch given each of them a protective talisman? Those two objects might well be what had disrupted the predicted outcome. He intended to let everything "return to how it was."
At a little past two that morning, most of the students in the dormitories were asleep, aside from a few who stayed up scrolling on their phones.
A slender figure leaped nimbly from