Dreams are a truly magical existence.
When you're in them, no matter how bizarre the content, you can't tell it's a dream.
But after waking up, it's hard to remember the details.
The blinding sunlight poured onto his face.
Chen Lusi's eyelids twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes. He had barely opened them halfway before he couldn't help but raise his hand to block the sunlight.
Too dazzling.
He felt like he had just had a very long, long dream.
But after waking suddenly, he couldn't remember any of it.
...No.
Chen Lusi gradually adjusted to the sunlight, moved his hand from his eyes, looked at the blue sky, thought for a moment, and then sat up abruptly.
"Hey... awake?"
Just as he was sitting up.
He heard a familiar voice. Turning his head, he saw a simple, fitting white shirt, and an astounding chest encased within it.
Chen Lusi paused, then his gaze slowly moved upward.
A beautiful, graceful face came into view.
Carrying a natural charm.
Lin Ying looked down at him, flicked her casually tied ponytail, and smiled lightly, "Not going to look a little longer?"
"Why are you here?"
Chen Lusi ignored her, asking while lifting his shirt to look at his chest.
No wounds.
That's not right.
There's a scar... extending from the right shoulder all the way to the left abdomen.
This meant everything that just happened wasn't a dream.
But if it wasn't a dream, a wound that nearly split him in two, now only left a scar... how long had he been asleep?
Thinking of this.
Chen Lusi raised his head, "Did I sleep for a long time?"
"It shouldn't be long."
Lin Ying seemed to know what he was thinking. She raised her arm to let him see the old watch on her fair wrist.
3:40.
Less than an hour had passed.
After seeing the time clearly.
Chen Lusi fell silent, and once again looked down at his chest.
"What are you thinking?"
"I was thinking, the atmosphere was building up so well, but I didn't end up dying, it's a bit awkward..."
"Mm—"
Lin Ying elongated her voice, looked down at Chen Lusi's profile for a while, then pulled over a high chair to sit beside him, sighed and said, "Sorry, I didn't think asking you to sweep the grave would cause trouble, and drag you into this... Have you paid respects to my parents?"
Chen Lusi instinctively replied, "Yeah, helped uncle and aunt clear the weeds, did everything necessary..."
He had gone up the mountain precisely because of her request.
But he soon realized something was off, turned his head, and curiously asked, "Why are you apologizing?"
"...Actually, I don't work at a foreign trade company, I lied."
Lin Ying's friendly, fair face showed an apologetic expression.
As she spoke, she raised her hand, untied Chen Lusi's small ponytail, and while tying his hair, turned his head to look in another direction.
At this moment.
Chen Lusi noticed.
A group of people were staring straight at him on the other side.
And the leader was a tall man... very tall, nearly two meters by estimation, although not burly, just his height alone gave an overwhelming pressure.
Beside him stood a girl.
Wearing simple casual pants and a T-shirt, looking young, with a pair of round-framed glasses, and a short hairstyle that just covered her neck.
Quite pretty.
Possibly because of the tall man beside her.
She seemed especially petite.
Of course, conversely, she also made the man appear even taller.
Behind the two, over a dozen people stood.
They were dressed in Security Army uniforms, the same ones Chen Lusi had encountered when he descended the mountain.
But now they weren't as nice as they were then.
Each of them held guns.
Glaring at Chen Lusi vigilantly.
"I thought you'd be chatting for a long time... hi, I'm Xia Yue, you can call me Ah Yue."
The tall man noticed Chen Lusi's gaze, raised his head, and revealed a sunny smile.
Like meeting like-minded friends during a street basketball game, he naturally introduced himself.
"Ah Yue?"
Chen Lusi looked up at the sky.
"Xia, the Yue in knife, saw, axe, and 'yue'... never mind, as long as the pronunciation is right."
Ah Yue explained, but he seemed to have encountered this many times, so halfway through he waved his hand and didn't continue, instead saying, "Could you tell us about today's events, especially what you experienced an hour ago, any strange occurrences, the specific process... just be as detailed as possible."
"Is it really a superpower unfolding?" Chen Lusi couldn't help but ask.
"You can consider it a superpower unfolding, the specific situation we'll inform you later, but for now..."
Ah Yue smiled and made a please gesture, "It's better if you start first."
Beside him, the petite girl took out a thick notebook from somewhere and also looked at Chen Lusi.
"Alright."
Chen Lusi took a deep breath, although he hadn't figured everything out, he planned to explain to these seemingly professional people, "When I was coming down the mountain after sweeping the graves, I encountered..."
"Whose child is this?"
But just as he started, Lin Ying, who was tying his hair, interrupted him.
Chen Lusi couldn't help but turn his head, then froze.
Not far away, a little girl in a white dress was slowly walking over.
She had a cute, doll-like face that was almost sculpted from pink jade, and long black hair that almost reached her ankles.
Even though she was expressionless.
Anyone who saw her would say she was cute.
Except for Chen Lusi.
Although she was completely miniaturized.
Turned into a little girl.
But as someone who had just shared an intimate encounter as adversaries, Chen Lusi recognized her at once.
The young girl who had just slashed him.
"Ah Yue... the person in question is here."
Chen Lusi quickly grabbed Lin Ying, who wanted to get up to meet her, and then looked back at the tall man who called himself Ah Yue.
"Oh?"
Ah Yue looked at the steadily approaching little girl, a bit surprised.
Everyone else turned their gaze to her as well, then... all simultaneously turned their heads, looking at Chen Lusi with suspicion.
They didn't believe it.
Until.
The young girl reached Lin Ying, and as Lin Ying was about to speak, raised her hand.
She raised her arm as if to caress Lin Ying's face with her small hand.
But the next second.
Whoosh.
A lock of hair fell.
Her seemingly harmless little hand suddenly turned into a blade gleaming with cold light, the edge gliding past Lin Ying's face and appearing before Chen Lusi.
"..."
The little girl raised her arm, which, though upper halves were still arms, had its lower half turned into a thin blade, staring coldly at Lin Ying.
Seemingly blocked by her.
In an instant.
The people who had been doubting Chen Lusi treated it as a serious threat, quickly raising their guns and releasing the safety.
The petite girl beside Ah Yue reacted the fastest.
The moment the blade appeared.
"Blade?"
Her expression changed, she immediately tossed her notebook to Ah Yue, then charged like a cannonball towards the young girl's position.
The gust of wind swept up the edges of Ah Yue and the others' clothes.
Before Chen Lusi could react.
The next instant.
The petite girl appeared above the young girl, reaching out to grab her small head.
In the near-frozen moment of time.
The young girl's pitch-black eyes shifted slightly, glanced upward, then shifted her gaze to Chen Lusi, her body suddenly dissolving into faint starlight, slowly merging into Chen Lusi's body like dust.
The petite girl in the air relaxed her hand, somersaulted back, gracefully landed, her eyes sweeping past Lin Ying, frowned slightly as she looked at Chen Lusi.
Chen Lusi's body froze, suddenly releasing Lin Ying's hand, jumped off the round table, and raised his right arm.
Whoosh.
The fore-end of his arm transformed into a thin, long blade.
Very strange.
Yet carrying a peculiar beauty.
But Chen Lusi didn't care about beauty, he widened his eyes and shouted aloud.
"Holy crap... my body is moving on its own!"