Chapter 2536: Rustling Down (31)

Raven walked towards downstairs on tiptoe.

It was late at night. Not long ago, the lights in Schiller's bedroom had gone out completely, which meant the professor had gone to bed. Raven wanted to go down and check the refrigerator.

The strange events that happened during the day were still fresh in her memory. She wouldn't think it was an illusion. Controlling violent power all year round made her very sensitive to power. There must be something wrong with the lower layer of the refrigerator, and she must check it.

Raven knew that this professor had many secrets, and blind prying was not polite, but the problem was that if this matter was related to demons, she was duty-bound, because this was very likely a conspiracy of Trigon.

From a long time ago, Raven knew that her father would descend on this world sooner or later. He would try every means to bewitch everyone, making them think they were doing the right thing, but in the end, this would only bring disaster to the earth.

Raven had no way to fully trust anyone around her, because her powerful and evil father might be hiding behind them, watching her, observing her, and asking her to fulfill her responsibility as a daughter.

Never accept all this, Raven thought. She still has to go to school, participate in the moving company, and go shopping. No one can destroy all this.

Walking down the stairs and coming to the kitchen, when she walked to the side of the refrigerator, Raven hesitated a bit, because this refrigerator was too ordinary.

She rummaged through the cold storage layer several times before and didn't find anything special. She couldn't expect the demon portal to be limited to the freezer layer. Could it be that demons have special hobbies and only like colder places?

With doubts, Raven reached out, her fingers hooked on the edge of the freezer layer. The faint light from the kitchen window shone on her face, making her expression look more solemn.

Click, a thunder in the rainy night startled her. At this time, Raven looked at the furnishings in the room again, only feeling that everywhere was very terrifying. Those strangely shaped statues seemed to have evil and strange expressions under the lining of the cold light from the curtain cracks.

God, why did she just discover it now? Who on earth would need so many strange decorations to hold a housewarming party? These things clearly looked like sacrifices used to summon demons.

Was the professor bewitched? Or was everyone around her actually bewitched? No one knew the truth.

If her father descended now, no one could help her.

Raven began to dare not face this fact. The strength of her fingers hooked on the refrigerator weakened. She gritted her teeth, hooked the door handle with her fingers, and pulled it outward.

With a whoosh, powerful power leaked out. She looked, and there was a huge black hole inside the refrigerator, and her father, that terrible demon, was standing in the center of the black hole, showing a triumphant grin.

Click, another thunder. Raven came back to her senses. Her hand was still on the refrigerator door. The refrigerator door was not opened. Everything was her illusion.

But she withdrew her hand as if she had been electrocuted, kept stroking her trembling fingertips with the other hand, stuck her fingertips into her lips, and couldn't help but look at the strange shadows under the faint light in the room.

Bang bang bang!!!

The light of the lightning flashed, Raven was scared and retreated to the side. Turning her head, she saw a black shadow standing in front of the window, and the other party had just knocked on the window forcefully.

Looking carefully again, that was not any demon, let alone a ghost shadow, but a person, a bald man holding an umbrella.

Bang bang bang!

The other party knocked on the window again. Raven didn't dare to lean over, because she recognized that this man was the Mr. Sivana she had seen when she went to the night market for dinner. At this time, his right eye was emitting a faint light in the dark night.

"Are you okay?" The other party leaned over very concerned, and then pointed to the door, indicating that he was going to knock on the door.

Raven was stunned, and then realized that if the other party pressed the doorbell, it would definitely wake the professor up. She couldn't explain why she didn't sleep in the middle of the night and stood in the kitchen in a daze.

If the professor was really related to demons, her behavior would definitely alert the enemy.

So Raven immediately rushed over, opened the window and shouted, "Sir, don't press the doorbell, it's too late now!"

Sivana stopped, turned back, held an umbrella for Raven who poked her head out, and said, "Of course I know it's very late. I just finished working overtime. My house is in front. When I walked over, I saw you standing in the kitchen alone in a daze, as if you were going to reach for something. You must promise me that you are not trying to get any sharp objects."

"Um, no, I was just hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to find something to eat."

"But you stood there for at least four or five minutes." Sivana expressed great concern, he said.

"You have to understand my mood. My car broke down on the way home from work, and I had to walk back to the house. As a result, I saw you standing in the kitchen alone on the way, as if you were going to reach for something. You must promise me that you are not trying to get any sharp objects."

"Although I am the principal of Gotham University, I was also a teacher. If you have a conflict with your parents, don't hold your breath alone, and don't have any extreme ideas. Maybe you can tell me."

Raven knew he had misunderstood as soon as she heard it, but thinking about it, seeing a girl standing in the kitchen for a long time in the middle of the night, it is easy to associate with dangerous items like knives. Teenagers who do this are not in the minority.

But she still had reservations about Sivana. She pointed to Sivana's eyes. Sivana touched his eyes and said, "An accident many years ago, I lost my right eye. This is my prosthetic eye. Did it scare you?"

Raven instinctively felt something was wrong. When she was at the night market before, she could feel the subtle flow of power in this eye, but at this moment, she couldn't feel anything.

Is it her illusion? But the reason the other party said is reasonable. There is only one main road in this community. If you want to go to the house in front, you will inevitably pass here.

This is a wealthy area. There will be no all-night parties, and the folk customs are relatively conservative. It is normal to see a little girl standing alone in the house in the middle of the night and come over to ask.

"If you are okay, I will go first." Sivana said, "I will talk to Professor Schiller about your situation tomorrow during the day. You should indeed go to school."

"No, don't..." Raven said instinctively. She didn't want Schiller to know that she got up in the middle of the night and wanted to open the refrigerator he didn't want her to open.

In the limited time, she got along very happily with this professor. She thought he was a good person and could teach her many things, so even if she had money and survival ability now, she didn't want to leave this house.

"Are you really okay?" Sivana asked very worriedly, "You look trance-like. Did Professor Schiller say anything to you?"

Raven naturally knew that her mental state was trance-like. She just had such a terrifying hallucination, and the atmosphere in the house now cannot be called quiet, which is completely different from the day. The strange decorations scattered everywhere in the house distracted most of her attention. She felt that the Batman doll lying next to the bookshelf had been staring at her.

"What is your name?" Sivana asked.

Raven, who still maintained a certain vigilance, was unwilling to tell her name, only saying her mother's surname—"Ross."

"You are Professor Schiller's relative, but your surname is not Rodriguez, so you are his relative on his mother's side?" Sivana inferred.

Raven didn't want to talk to him anymore. She just wanted to go upstairs to sleep quickly, and then pretend that nothing happened tonight. But she must ensure that this meddlesome guy wouldn't tell Professor Schiller about this tomorrow during the day.

Should she use magic?

Raven can perceive the emotions of people around her, and even swallow them. To some extent, she can also distort others' thinking and modify others' memories, but she has never used this move.

The other party is not necessarily an ordinary person. Once the other party has the ability to resist, if they fight here, the house will definitely be destroyed.

But if she just turns and leaves, this meddlesome guy will definitely tell Professor Schiller about her situation tomorrow during the day.

Raven didn't know what to do. Anxiety made her grab the window tightly, but this seemed to be misunderstood by Sivana as something else.

"You seem to be very afraid of Professor Schiller? Is he not good to you?... Oh, I see, there are some things you dare not say here. It doesn't matter, this is my business card. If you need help, call me or come to the office to find me. I will try my best to help you."

Sivana looked at Raven with sincere eyes. Raven knew that if she didn't accept the business card, he wouldn't leave, so she took the business card back to her clothes with some hesitation and said, "Okay, good night, sir."

"Good night, Miss Ross."

Watching Sivana leave, Raven let out a long breath, but I don't know if it was her illusion, she seemed to see a black shadow in the alley that Sivana had just walked through, and followed him along the shadow of the street.

Raven went back to sleep. Before going back, she specifically looked at Schiller's bedroom. The light didn't turn on, and there was no sound. The professor should be sleeping very soundly, which is good news.

Today, the sky just darkened. Schiller was assembling the barbecue grill and table football in the backyard. This is not an easy job, but he is even less willing to go to the kitchen in front to listen to Jonathan and Valentin tell those hell jokes derived from the body structure of cows and sheep. That is a completely cold joke to him.

The barbecue grill is relatively easy to assemble. Just support the charcoal stove with a bracket and put the grill net on it. But this table football is too complicated. First, you have to assemble the table disk, then support the table legs, and finally string the little people one by one.

The front part is finished, but there is a problem with stringing the little people. Schiller is not completely ignorant of football, but table football is a bit different from ordinary football, it is a completely different system.

The spacing of the little people seems to be adjustable, but Schiller doesn't know what to adjust to be fair to both sides. This thing is an old antique, there is no manual, Schiller studied for a long time, until the sky was completely dark, he decided to do it tomorrow morning.

But just when he was walking into the house, he heard a sound outside the wall. He pushed open the back door of the courtyard and went around to see that a smiley face was drawn on the corner of the side of the outer wall.

Schiller sighed. Of course, he knew who did this. Sure enough, it was not an illusion that he became more like Batman. Even the Joker was lingering on him.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Schiller saw the light in Raven's bedroom go out, confirming that the girl had gone to sleep. He picked up his umbrella, jumped from the balcony to the courtyard, and left along the back door of the courtyard.