Novel Full Chapter 308: The Teacher Node
Chapter 308: Chapter 308: The Teacher Node
The red thread sample did not point to a place immediately.
It pointed to a pattern.
Qin Mo spent two sleepless nights analyzing it. Lin Xian’er provided market-route data. Yu Qingmei provided academy child-sponsorship records. Jiang Yuexuan sent a short technical note through formal channel:
Red-thread child-path marks often resonate with repeated instruction sites, not storage sites.
Search where children are taught to be grateful before being moved.
Qin Mo read the note and whispered, "She is annoyingly precise."
The pattern led to a hidden facility called Red Thread Lesson Hall.
It was not the Red Thread Charity House itself.
It was a teacher node.
Children passed through it before transport. There, they were given lessons:
Gratitude to unknown benefactors.
Obedience to chosen teachers.
Fear of returning to poverty.
Shame toward original families.
Pride in being selected.
Silence about special tests.
In other words, emotional conditioning.
The Lesson Hall was located under a closed rural academy building.
This time, Qin Yuheng did not rush immediately.
They planned.
The previous operation saved children but lost records. This time, they needed children, teachers, lesson scripts, and living handlers.
The operation would be harder because teacher nodes specialized in destroying trust. If attacked openly, they might trigger children to fear rescuers.
Mu Qinglan gave crucial advice.
"Do not enter as warriors first. Enter as proof."
Qin Yuheng understood.
They needed to show children that the false lessons were lies without terrifying them.
The strike team changed composition:
Qin Yuheng.
Qin Mo.
Qin Lian.
Yu Qingmei.
Two child-path healers.
Lin Xian’er’s agent Shu Yan.
Silent Heaven outer containment.
Qin Yuchen remained on external guard with local forces.
The rural academy looked abandoned.
Broken gate. Empty classrooms. Dusty courtyard.
But beneath the main hall, the True Voice Soul Resonance Bell detected faint repeated phrases.
"Chosen children must be grateful."
"Teachers know the road."
"Old families cannot protect you."
"Fear the outside."
Qin Yuheng’s eyes cooled.
Qin Mo placed the Sovereign Network Command Suppression Crystal before entry.
"No remote wipe for at least thirty breaths after breach."
"Only thirty?"
"Maybe forty if reality is kind."
They entered through a hidden stair.
Below was a clean underground classroom.
Twenty children sat at desks, eyes unfocused, repeating lessons after three red-robed teachers.
At the front hung a red thread symbol.
The teachers turned.
One smiled.
"Visitors. Children, what do we say to strangers?"
The children answered together.
"Strangers steal chosen roads."
Yu Qingmei’s face hardened.
Qin Yuheng did not draw his sword.
He stepped forward slowly and placed the Public Truth Resonance Mirror on the floor, facing upward.
The mirror did not show blood or horror.
It showed Li Wen sleeping safely.
It showed rescued children eating warm food.
It showed a red thread being removed.
Then it showed the false teacher projection’s mask burning away.
The children’s voices faltered.
The lead teacher’s smile vanished.
"Close your eyes!"
Some children did.
Some did not.
Qin Mo rang the Dream Boundary Recognition Bell.
"Children, a command to not see truth is not protection," Yu Qingmei said gently.
The teachers attacked.
Not with blades first.
With lesson scripts.
Red words flew through the air, trying to brand children’s minds.
Qin Yuheng activated Chosen Road Banner Field narrowly around willing adults, then extended a protective non-command barrier around the children using Child Path Protection Bell resonance.
Qin Lian moved.
One teacher’s shadow was pinned before he could trigger memory wipe.
Shu Yan sealed document cabinets.
Qin Mo locked the red thread symbol.
The lead teacher revealed her true form: not a high Blood Sun disciple, but a Red Nursery Chain indoctrination specialist.
[Red Thread Lesson Teacher]
Combat Equivalent:
Level 58
Specialty:
Gratitude binding, shame conditioning, child-path obedience scripts.
She pointed at Qin Yuheng.
"You break roads and call it rescue."
Qin Yuheng answered calmly.
"A road chosen after lies is not choice."
She laughed.
"Children need stories."
"Yes," Qin Yuheng said. "Not cages."
The battle became delicate.
Every attack near the children risked panic. Every harsh truth risked emotional collapse. Qin Yuheng fought the lead teacher away from the classroom, forcing her toward the empty lower courtyard. Qin Lian and Yu Qingmei subdued the others.
The lead teacher used familiar voices.
"Brother, save me."
"Mother, I am chosen."
"Teacher, I am afraid."
The True Voice Soul Resonance Bell exposed each false voice.
Qin Yuheng closed distance.
She tried one final script:
If you are rescued, you owe your rescuer your future.
That line ignited Qin Yuheng’s killing intent.
The Clean Exchange Road Seal, Self That Cannot Be Owned Core, and Innocent Guarantor Liberation Seal flared together.
"No."
He struck.
Not killing her.
Crushing the script core embedded in her chest seal.
She collapsed alive.
The Lesson Hall fell.
Records were captured.
Children were stabilized.
Teachers alive: two.
Lead teacher alive but sealed.
This was a much cleaner victory than White Reed Ferry.
But as Qin Mo reviewed the captured lesson scripts, his expression worsened.
"These scripts are copies."
Lin Xian’er’s agent asked, "From where?"
Qin Mo pointed to a repeated seal in the corner.
Golden Bud Talent Garden.
The next node was confirmed.
And it was not merely a transport site.
It was where Red Nursery Chain tested and cultivated stolen futures.
Qin Yuheng looked at the seal.
Then at the rescued children.
The campaign’s next battle would be larger.