Chi Xiaoyu was running while calling out Lin Bai's name.
"Hey, Lin Bai? Please respond if you hear me!"
At this moment, Lin Bai found himself in a classroom.
"Huh?"
Lin Bai looked at his body—he was wearing a school uniform. He had turned into a middle school student...
What's going on? I was just at the dormitory door, then the device kept flashing, and now I'm here?
Lin Bai tried to move, but his viewpoint seemed fixed, unable to move... His eyes couldn't move either. It was as if he was watching a movie from a first-person perspective, witnessing a girl's school life...
The girl was attentively listening to the class, occasionally taking notes. After class, she diligently worked on test papers.
A tearful girl walked over and grabbed Lin Bai's hand.
"Li Jiayu, I confessed to my desk mate, but he refused. Although I knew the chances of success were low, I just can't accept it..."
"It's okay to fail. Studying well is the most important thing. Keep it up!"
After comforting the girl, Lin Bai's viewpoint followed Li Jiayu as she stood up.
'Oh, so I'm now seeing things from Li Jiayu's perspective.'
In the school's back garden, Li Jiayu was feeding a small black cat with a chicken leg. The cat's eyes flashed—it was the anomaly Lin Bai knew...
'So Li Jiayu was its so-called master.'
A figure walked over. Zhou Zhiqiang sat down nearby and smiled.
"Your best friend actually confessed to me. Why didn't you tell her we're together?"
"I didn't know she had fallen for you. I was afraid telling her would affect her exam performance..."
"Fine, but she'll find out sooner or later..."
Li Jiayu shook her head.
"Then I hope she finds out later."
Li Jiayu got up and returned to the dormitory.
Zhou Min angrily rushed over and pinned Li Jiayu against the wall.
"Li Jiayu, were you just with Zhou Zhiqiang?"
Li Jiayu winced in pain:
"Let go first, it hurts..."
Zhou Min kept shaking Li Jiayu's shoulders.
"Were you? Were you? I considered you my best friend, and you betrayed me!"
A girl walked over from the side, smiling maliciously.
"Look, she's panicking. I told you, they planned this all along, just waiting to make a fool of you."
"I didn't! Although I am in a relationship with Zhou Zhiqiang, I only asked him to take care of you more..."
"Great, so you were indeed in cahoots!"
The girl smiled and added fuel to the fire.
"Someone like this doesn't deserve to be your friend. You're the top student in the class! And actually, you're very pretty too—they just don't know how to appreciate it!"
Watching through Li Jiayu's perspective, Lin Bai felt a surge of anger.
'What a manipulative girl.'
The scene shifted to the foot of the teaching building. Zhou Min's body lay on the ground. Li Jiayu looked at her former best friend, now a corpse, in shock. The girl walked over angrily.
"It's all your fault. She jumped off the building!"
"How could this happen? She was fine yesterday."
"It's all your fault. What's the point of denying it?"
"No, it wasn't me!"
Li Jiayu ran away. Over the next few days, Lin Bai felt that the girl would appear from time to time, attacking Li Jiayu's psychological defenses from various angles...
Gradually, the surrounding classmates and teachers all began saying:
"It's all your fault!"
"You caused her to jump off the building!"
Finally, amid these voices, Li Jiayu could no longer bear it and jumped from the building...
Before the vision disappeared, Lin Bai saw the instigating girl's mouth begin to split open, continuously elongating, dripping blood, and laughing.
"The second one! Hahaha, it's almost done."
At this moment, a hand landed on Lin Bai's shoulder.
"Are you okay?"
"Huh?"
Lin Bai came back to his senses and looked at the device in his hand, which was frantically flashing red light...
"Let's go in and take a look."
Chi Xiaoyu took out her thunder blade and kicked the door with a "bang," but the door didn't budge at all...
Just as Chi Xiaoyu was about to kick again, Lin Bai walked over and pulled the door open.
"Uh, it wasn't locked."
"..."
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
"..."
Entering the room, it was a standard 6-person dormitory with three bunk beds. The officers gathered at the door. Chi Xiaoyu used the device to scan items in the room until she found a jar.
The device emitted a series of vibrations.
"What is this?"
"It looks like a soul jar? I need to take it back for examination."
Lin Bai thought for a moment.
"Get me a class photo of their class. I might know who the anomaly is."
"How do you know?"
"Premonition."
"Haha, sure, I believe you."
"Really."
"Oh, I'll just pretend it's true."
"You know the 'mei' in 'chi mei wang liang'?"
"Yes, it refers to demons skilled at bewitching people's hearts. Why?"
"This anomaly is very similar to 'mei'..."
(tl/n: chī mèi wǎng liǎng - each character is a kind of mythical monster, together are just "demons and monsters".)