Tower of Origin: I Evolve All Rewards

Chapter 335: Chapter 335: White Sun Orphan Hall

White Sun Orphan Hall stood in a respectable city.

Not a ruined valley.

Not a hidden mountain road.

A clean, wealthy, well-patrolled district where officials liked to be seen donating blankets during winter ceremonies.

The building itself was beautiful: white stone walls, gold-edged windows, gardens full of medicinal flowers, classrooms, dormitories, and a central prayer hall where children supposedly learned gratitude, discipline, and civic virtue.

It had passed inspections for years.

Because the inspections were guided.

The patron merchant house behind it was House Ren, a respected logistics power with ties to academies, trade routes, and regional charities. Lin Xian’er knew them well.

"They are not top-tier," she said, "but they are connected enough to make noise."

Yu Qingmei frowned.

"A direct raid requires overwhelming evidence."

Madam Wen’s testimony and captured agent records were enough for preliminary investigation, not forced entry into all sealed areas.

Qin Yuheng asked, "What does White Sun do?"

Lin Xian’er answered, "It trains orphans to become ’public service talents.’ Administrators, aides, guards, healers, clerks."

Qin Mo’s face darkened.

"Guardian Choir."

Exactly.

Dawn was not only stealing children.

It was building future protectors loyal to benefactor authority.

False guardians grown from childhood.

This was worse than one operation.

It was long-term institutional capture.

The plan required patience.

Lin Xian’er arranged entry through donor inspection. Yu Qingmei applied legal pressure for child welfare review. Qin Mo prepared hidden detection tools disguised as routine safety upgrades. Qin Lian and Silent Heaven watched exterior routes.

Qin Yuheng again did not enter first.

He remained nearby.

The first inspection found nothing obvious.

Children were disciplined but not terrified. Teachers were strict but not openly cruel. Records were clean. Food was good. Dormitories were orderly.

Too orderly.

Qin Mo’s hidden bell detected synchronized nightly recitations:

A guardian gives self to duty.

A child saved by the white sun becomes a shield.

A shield does not ask where it is placed.

Not direct binding.

Training ideology.

Qin Yuheng listened to the recording and felt cold anger.

They were not making children into keys.

They were making them into future tools who would call ownership duty.

The Protection Without Ownership Guardian Heart resonated strongly.

White Sun Orphan Hall was not a child transfer node.

It was a guardian factory.

The second night, Qin Lian found the hidden hall beneath the prayer room.

Inside were rows of white masks.

Child-sized.

Each mask had a role written inside:

Kind Inspector.

Loyal Escort.

Gentle Teacher.

Grateful Healer.

Smiling Witness.

Emergency Guardian.

Road Protector.

Qin Mo whispered, "They are training identities."

The hidden hall contained no children at that moment. That made evidence harder. But the masks carried emotional imprint residue.

Lin Xian’er’s agent found contract language in House Ren funding documents:

Graduates of White Sun Orphan Hall may be assigned to benefactor-approved service routes for twenty years in exchange for upbringing debt forgiveness.

Debt.

Soft slavery.

They had enough.

Yu Qingmei triggered sealed legal intervention.

White Sun Orphan Hall locked down.

The director, Ren Shuyun, greeted them calmly in the central prayer hall.

"You are frightening children," she said.

Yu Qingmei replied, "Then open the sealed basement."

Ren Shuyun smiled.

"Of course. Transparency is protection."

Too easy.

The basement opened.

Empty.

The masks were gone.

Qin Lian’s eyes sharpened.

"They moved them."

Qin Mo checked hidden dust.

"Minutes ago."

A leak.

Someone inside the inspection team?

No.

The Guardian Impersonation Detection Mirror flared at one of the local legal clerks.

False identity.

The clerk crushed a tooth and died before suppression reached him.

First death of the operation.

The leak had warned Ren Shuyun.

But Qin Yuheng had prepared for partial failure.

Silent Heaven tracked the moving masks through city drainage routes.

Qin Yuheng entered the field.

The chase led to an underground training chamber beneath a warehouse.

There, twenty older children and young teens stood wearing white masks.

Not fully controlled.

Conditioned.

Ren Shuyun stood before them.

"Defend the hall that raised you."

This was cruel.

If Qin Yuheng fought hard, he would hurt victims.

If he hesitated, Ren Shuyun would escape.

He activated the Gratitude Without Chains Heart and Protection Without Ownership Guardian Heart together.

"Children," he said, voice steady. "You can protect without obeying hidden debt."

The masked youths trembled.

Some lowered weapons.

Some did not.

Ren Shuyun snapped, "Ungrateful shields break."

The masks activated.

The youths attacked.

Qin Yuheng did not strike them.

He moved through them, using nonlethal deflection. Qin Yuchen blocked without injuring. Qin Lian cut mask straps. Qin Mo rang Trusted Voice Severing Bells.

One by one, masks fell.

Under them were frightened faces.

Ren Shuyun tried to flee.

Lin Xian’er appeared at the exit.

"No."

Ren Shuyun’s smile vanished.

She revealed a hidden white sun seal.

A remote burn signal.

Qin Mo suppressed most of it.

Not all.

Again, partial data escaped.

But Ren Shuyun was captured.

White Sun Orphan Hall was exposed.

The Guardian Choir Assembly was disrupted before completion.

Yet the enemy had preserved some training records and warned higher patrons.

Qin Yuheng looked at the masks on the floor.

Children raised as tools.

Guardianship twisted into servitude.

This would require long healing.

Not just victory.

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