Chapter 333: Guardian Rewards and Real Impersonators

Chapter 333: Chapter 333: Guardian Rewards and Real Impersonators

The reward panel appeared after the children of Floor 136 walked away from the closed road gate.

[Floor 136: The Guardian Who Was Not]

[Main Mission: Expose and defeat false guardian without destroying trust in true protection — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Identify 7 false guardian behaviors — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Rescue 30 children from protective captivity — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Prevent false guardian from opening road gate — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Preserve children’s ability to trust clean guardians — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Defeat the False Guardian — Completed.]

[Sub-Mission: Do not accept guardian authority transfer — Completed.]

[Additional Merit:

Protection Without Possession principle strengthened.

Guardian-space insight recognized.

False guardian authority transfer rejected.]

[Final Evaluation: SSS]

Rewards descended.

[SSS Evaluation Rewards]

EXP +83,000

Tower Coins x1,200,000

SS Grade False Guardian Trial Chest x1

SS Grade True Guardian Space Bell x1

SS Grade Protective Authority Verification Seal x1

SS Grade Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror x1

SS Grade Child Trust Preservation Crystal x1

SS Grade Closed Road Custody Chain Fragment x1

Special Mark: False Guardian Rejector

Hidden reward:

[Rejected Guardian Authority Transfer]

SSS Grade Protection Without Ownership Guardian Heart x1

When Qin Yuheng returned, Qin Wanshan read the item description and nodded deeply.

"This is not only for children. It is for the Qin family."

[SSS Grade Protection Without Ownership Guardian Heart]

[Effect:

Strengthens guardianship systems that protect without possessing.

Weakens attempts to transfer authority over dependents, disciples, children, patients, or protected groups without consent.

Improves detection of guardian roles becoming control structures.]

The Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror immediately became part of Northwest operations. If false guardians were the next phase, they needed to verify teachers, healers, escorts, family representatives, academy officers, and even local protectors.

The True Guardian Space Bell became Qin Xue’er’s favorite object from a distance.

She was not allowed to touch it, but she stared at it seriously.

"It rings when someone stands too close inside your future," she said.

Qin Mo blinked.

"That is not the official description, but it is better."

Mu Qinglan smiled.

Qin Yuheng chose Quantity Multiplication for the SS Grade Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror.

[Primordial Origin Evolution activated.]

[Target:

SS Grade Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror]

[Available Evolution Paths:]

1. Quantity Multiplication

- Possible Result:

Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror x???

- Useful for distribution across local councils.

2. Quality Enhancement

- Possible Result:

SSS Grade Sovereign False Guardian Revelation Mirror

- Supreme detection for one location or team.

3. Talent Evolution

- Locked.]

He selected Quantity Multiplication.

[Quantity Multiplication successful.]

[SS Grade Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror x64 obtained.]

These were distributed to local councils, academy teams, and child transport checkpoints.

The timing proved perfect.

Within one day, a local council near Broken Pine Way detected a "Heavenly Gate child safety officer" who was not from Heavenly Gate at all. He carried forged papers, a familiar voice token, and a mild protective aura copied from real inspection teams.

He was captured before approaching children.

A second false guardian appeared at a healer tent, claiming to relocate children for trauma treatment.

Detected.

Captured.

A third impersonator tried to enter the Qin-allied orphan shelter using the face of a known volunteer.

Detected.

He escaped by burning his borrowed face mask but left behind a Dawn Benevolence contact token.

The new tools worked.

But the pattern was worrying.

Mo Cangyan’s trust attack had evolved into protector impersonation.

If people stopped trusting guardians, children would be isolated.

If they trusted blindly, false guardians would take them.

The answer was verification without paranoia.

Yu Qingmei issued a simple public rule:

A true protector welcomes verification.

A false protector demands trust before proof.

This sentence spread quickly.

Zhao Tianyu added his own version during a village talk:

"If someone says ’trust me or you hate children,’ kick them first, verify after."

Yu Qingmei revised the official version without mentioning kicking.

Meanwhile, interrogation of captured impersonators revealed a target phrase:

[Guardian Choir Trial]

Qin Mo added it to the threat board.

"Choir again. They like synchronized authority."

Jiang Yuexuan sent a warning:

False guardians may gather to create legitimacy through numbers.

One false protector is suspicious.

Ten false protectors become an institution.

Lin Xian’er confirmed Dawn Benevolence had begun recruiting "independent child protection advocates" through shell charities.

The enemy wanted to create a rival protection system.

One that looked clean.

One that would accuse Qin’s coalition of overreach.

A battle of legitimacy was coming.

And then a message arrived from an unexpected source.

Madam Wen Suli, still imprisoned, requested to testify publicly against Dawn Benevolence.

Yu Qingmei distrusted it.

Lin Xian’er distrusted it more.

Qin Yuheng listened to the recorded request.

Madam Wen looked thinner, older.

"I told myself I was a guardian," she said. "I was wrong. If they are building more like me, I will speak."

Qin Mo looked at Qin Yuheng.

"Trap?"

"Possibly."

Lin Xian’er said, "Even if sincere, they may use her testimony to trigger old bindings."

Qin Yuheng nodded.

"Then we verify. If clean, we use truth carefully."

The next battlefield would not be a ravine or mirror hall.

It would be public testimony.

And false guardians would certainly come to silence or twist it.