Since The Red Moon Appeared Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Red Moon Elementary School

Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
For those whom others could not see and hear, except she herself, who could see, hear, talk, communicate, touch, and would even be protected by them, should she consider these people to exist or not?
Chen Jing had seen and dealt with many psyche mutants.
The crazy ones, evil ones, she had seen them all. However, at this moment, she felt very strange.
She felt that Lu Xin, who said these words, appeared to be very serious and sober.
Calm and madness, normal and strangeness, these completely contrasting feelings appeared on one person at the same time.
The voice urged again from the earphones. “Team leader Chen, armed and ready. You should make a final assessment of him as soon as possible!”
Chen Jing kept silent. Lu Xin, sitting opposite her, was also silent.
Both of them seemed to have thought about many problems.
Chen Jing soon had an idea. She had seen many psyche mutants and dealt with many similar incidents of getting out of control. She was very experienced in this. Therefore, after thinking seriously for a while, she looked at Lu Xin and said, “I only have one question. If all your abilities came from your family, can you guarantee that they will not affect you?”
She did not deny Lu Xin’s question about the existence of “family members”, but only asked whether these “family members” would affect him.
Lu Xin looked up at her and said, “You’re worried that they will take control of my body, right?”
Chen Jing did not deny it.
To her, the most dangerous thing about the person in front of her was that no one knew if he would suddenly become another person.
Lu Xin thought seriously about this question.
In fact, he knew his current state very well. When this symptom first appeared, he went to the library for a long time.
He read all the books about “mental illness”.
From these books, he learned that there were many problems with the human psyche and mental state. Be it the Personality Transformation Disorder, Capgras Delusion Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, claustrophobia, and more. He could understand some of them based on their names, but he did not understand some of them and had to analyze the symptoms carefully.
From what he had read, he made a diagnosis for himself.
Family members were created by himself?
It was similar to that, but Lu Xin also vaguely felt that he was not considered a normal person suffering from a split personality disorder.
He had been quite interested in figuring out what was going on with him, and whether he could get his symptoms cured.
Therefore, when he first saw the woman and heard her mention things like “psyche mutation” and so on, he looked forward to it. Maybe they could cure themselves, or perhaps his state was explainable in their view and was not considered a mental illness but was normal in another point of view. However, after seeing her reaction…
Lu Xin knew that his hope was dashed.
If it was normal in her opinion, why would she be so wary?
He didn’t like to be looked at with such wary eyes.
So, he just deliberated and slowly replied, “Actually, you don’t have to worry about it. My family members are all nice people.
“My sister is a lovely child, she loves toys and likes to run and play.
“Father likes to cook, is very honest, and always stays in the kitchen.
“Mother is gentle, never argues with people, and only likes to reason with them…”
“…”
Chen Jing looked at his serious expression and felt extremely complicated.
This person was too normal…
He was able to describe a few people who actually did not exist at all with a very serious and normal state of mind.
The clearer the description, the more nervous Chen Jing felt.
She lit a cigarette to hide her emotions while the voice in her earphones rushed her.
There were also many options in front of her. She could immediately withdraw the decision to recruit or she could raise the level at which this person was being monitored. She could even use her ability to kill him in this small bar with few people.
However, thinking about his performance and the current situation in the High Wall City, she hesitated for a moment.
In the end, she came to a decision. She took out an envelope beside her, pushed it in front of Lu Xin, looked him in the eyes, and said, “The test against you was arranged by me because the test results are the most objective when the person being observed is unaware. That’s why the test was hidden from you before. Nevertheless, you passed the test and also helped us to get rid of that Level One psyche monster.
“So, you can be regarded to have completed a mission. This is your payment!”
Lu Xin froze for a moment, picked up the envelope, opened the bag, and took a look. Rolls and rolls of paper bills were inside.
The denomination of each bill was 50 yuan.
Lu Xin’s initially disappointed face brightened up suddenly.
“There’s 10,000!”
Chen Jing said it directly so Lu Xin did not have to count individually.
“10,000?”
Lu Xin’s face changed.
After the Red Moon event, the monetary system reshuffled, and now, he was in a company with a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan.
He was still the company’s model employee!
“It’s what you deserve.”
Chen Jing looked at Lu Xin’s slightly surprised face and smiled. “And with these abilities, it shouldn’t be hard for you to make money!”
“It’s still pretty hard…”
Lu Xin thought about it silently, took the paper bag over, clutched it, and said, “I happen to be short of money.”
Chen Jing was deep in thought. He likes money, the danger index can be lowered a little more…
Lu Xin obviously looked a little nervous. He hesitated and asked softly, “Do you always award so much money?”
“It will be more than this!”
Chen Jing said, “This time the psyche monster has been investigated and blocked well. Prevention and control have been done well. Even if you didn’t strike, we could have easily eliminated it. That’s why we only gave you 10,000 yuan. However, under normal circumstances, when an action team member has completed the investigation and finished the task, we usually pay him about 30,000 yuan…”
“30,000…”
Lu Xin didn’t take note of the rest.
He was evidently shocked and excited.
“Yes!”
Looking at him, Chen Jing was even more relieved. She replied with a smile, “You won’t be short of money afterward!”
Lu Xin loved that sentence!
…
When they came out of the bar, it wasn’t dark yet. The red sunset was spread over the abandoned city.
In the southern sky, the faintly red moon was already hanging in the sky.
“10,000 yuan, just like that?”
Lu Xin still felt that it was unbelievable.
Previously, he didn’t know that he already could earn so much money at once.
However, he liked the money and needed it.
With a gentle sigh of relief, Lu Xin picked himself up and went to the bus stop sign, and waited for bus number two to come. Then, he wandered around on the bus and sat for an hour, arriving at the east side of Satellite City, in front of a low and dilapidated building. After walking through several streets and alleys, passing by the tired and emotionless vendors around him and the drunken men leaning on the corner holding bottles of wine, he reached a house.
Compared to the surrounding dilapidated buildings, the house looked very eye-catching.
Perhaps it was because its walls were blue- and yellow-colored, and it was spray-painted with many cartoon images.
It was a small orphanage.
The rusty iron sign on the iron door read: “Red Moon Elementary School”!
Lu Xin untangled the barbed wire and entered the elementary school. The security guard sitting in the security booth reading the newspaper heard the movement and saw Lu Xin, but he didn’t stop him. He only nodded and lowered his head to continue reading the newspaper.
There was only one classroom in the elementary school. The other rooms were dilapidated and piled with miscellaneous items.
In fact, it was just a small orphanage, but it used the name of a school.
Lu Xin entered the classroom and looked around. He saw a girl sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a white sweater, playing games with a dozen children. Amongst the children inside, the oldest was seven or eight years old while the youngest was only two or three years old. They were dressed in plain clothes, but their clothes were very clean. They also had bright eyes.
They were playing Eagle and Chicks1?
How childish!
Lu Xin didn’t interrupt them and placed the paper back into the rusty mailbox in the classroom. Worried that the girl in the wheelchair wouldn’t be able to notice the bag, he took some flowers growing in the wild and placed them on top of the mailbox to catch her attention.
Then, he left the classroom silently.
When he passed the security counter, the security guard said without looking up, “Why can’t you just tell her directly? You always put flowers on top, do you think it’s easy for me to grow flowers? Almost all of them are gone because of you…”
Lu Xin laughed awkwardly. “I will drop by again on the weekends to treat you to a drink!”
“It’s fine!”
The security guard said without looking at him, “When you come, I will treat you to a drink. We also have peanuts to go along with it!”
“Alright!”
Lu Xin laughed and walked out of the school to the bus stop.
“Come, I’ll give you a ride!”
A jeep stopped by beside him, and Chen Jing opened the door for Lu Xin.
“Sure!”
Lu Xin agreed. Or else, he would take at least 30 minutes to get back home.
After getting in the car, Chen Jing threw him another bag.
Lu Xin opened it excitedly. However, to his disappointment, it was filled with documents.
Chen Jing looked ahead and said to him naturally, “From now onwards, the action group will accept you!”
“Uh, okay…”
Lu Xin froze for a moment and did not manage to react.
Meanwhile, Chen Jing, who was driving the car, did not bother explaining too much.
The first thing that people who got an “enormous sum of money” did often reflected one’s nature. If Lu Xin took the money to eat and drink, her assessment of him would be a very ordinary one. If he did something more indulgent, her assessment of him would be reduced to a very low one, and she would have never accepted him.
However, he gave the “enormous sum of money” to the elementary school.
Chen Jing couldn’t imagine how he would be like if he got out of control.