"Not cold?"

Lin Xinyao looked at the man in front of her with confusion.

Seeing this, the man hurriedly put his hand in his pants and adjusted the remote control. The temperature dropped a few more degrees, reaching negative 25 degrees.

"Child, are you cold? If you're cold..."

"I already said I'm not cold. Where's my prize?"

Lin Xinyao said a bit angrily. After all, he had said he was taking her to get a prize but instead brought her to this cold storage room, and he kept asking if she was cold. Lin Xinyao looked at her shoes, which were already covered with frost.

"How is it possible? How can you not be cold? You're lying, you're lying!"

The man shouted frantically.

However, Lin Xinyao wasn't lying. Since childhood, she had been unable to feel temperature... whether cold or hot, and her body couldn't be scalded or frostbitten.

"Hey, old man, are you messing with me?"

Lin Xinyao revealed a frightening expression, her face gradually darkening.

"Since you don't want to join us, then die!"

The man's hands condensed a dagger made of ice as he attempted to charge at Lin Xinyao.

Seeing this, Lin Xinyao calmly raised her right hand. A black ripple began to gather in her palm. Just as she was about to attack the man, she heard familiar footsteps.

"Brother, save me!"

Lin Xinyao wiped her eyes, tears already streaming down her face.

"He, he tried to stab me with a knife. I don't know why, but this person has gone crazy!"

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Lin Bai patted Lin Xinyao's head to comfort her.

"Xinyao, are you okay?"

Chi Xiaoyu followed closely behind, already holding a folding knife in her hand.

"Damn, when did you start carrying such a long knife?"

"I've always carried it." The girl looked at her chest.

"Where did you put it?" Lin Bai was puzzled, unable to figure out where Chi Xiaoyu had pulled the knife from.

"You'd better not ask."

"Oh."

"Are you all... cold?"

"Not cold." Chi Xiaoyu said expressionlessly.

"N-not cold!" Lin Bai said with a shiver, feeling a bit cold.

"Not cold at all." Lin Xinyao said carelessly.

The man took out the remote control from his pants and fell into deep thought as he looked at the display showing negative 30 degrees.

"Monsters, you're all monsters."

"Please, old man, look in a mirror and see who the real monster is."

Now the man's skin had turned ice blue, looking like a frozen specimen. The ice dagger in his hand emitted a chilling air.

Chi Xiaoyu and Lin Bai coordinated their attack on the man. With Chi Xiaoyu's containment, the man was forced into a corner.

"Shoot his head!"

"Oh, okay!"

Lin Bai aimed at his head and pulled the trigger! A bullet flew out, accurately hitting the man's head, though not the big head, but the small head is still a head.

"What's this?"

Chi Xiaoyu was confused, wondering if Lin Bai had misunderstood or had just missed his aim.

"Just tell me if I hit it or not. Was it the head?"

"..."

The man's small head shattered along with the ice, making a crisp sound. Chi Xiaoyu then stabbed his chest with her knife, and a blue infection core emerged.

"Brother, what is this thing? Are there really monsters in this world?"

Lin Bai hugged Lin Xinyao and patted her back.

"Don't be afraid. As long as I'm here, just pretend none of this happened."

"Okay." Lin Xinyao smiled happily in Lin Bai's arms.

'Brother is still the same…'

"What is the D City Investigation Bureau doing?"

Chi Xiaoyu was angrily scolding someone from the D City Investigation Bureau.

"What do you mean you can't handle it all?"

"Are you saying there are hundreds or thousands of infected people?"

"I understand. Then I'll go to E City to find some help for you."

"What's going on?" Lin Bai walked over and asked.

"This is probably the second largest infection incident in D City's history."

"Is it that serious?"

"Yes, and it's very, very dangerous!"

"So now we..."

"Later, you go meet with the acting director of D City bureau, and I'll go back to get equipment and find people."

"Okay."

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At a coffee shop

"Hello, I'm Lin Bai from E City Investigation Bureau, belonging to Chi Xiaoyu's squad."

A girl about the same age as Chi Xiaoyu, but with silver hair, looked at Lin Bai without saying a word.

"Are you the acting director of D City...?"

"How did you get younger... don't you recognize me?"

The girl finally spoke, her voice mixed with confusion and a hint of unwillingness.

"This should be our first meeting, right?"

The girl looked into Lin Bai's eyes.

'He doesn't seem to be lying.'

"Have you lost your memory?"

"I've been from 3 years old to now, 18, and I'm sure I've never lost my memory or met you before."

"Wait, how old are you?"

"18?"

"Impossible! You should be 20 by now."

The girl seemed shocked. She hurriedly searched for something on her phone, then pulled out a photo. The person in it looked very similar to Lin Bai, but about a year older, like Lin Bai's long-lost brother. In the photo, a young man was holding a girl in a selfie, looking like a couple, both very happy.

"Found it. Look, isn't this you?"

Just as the girl handed the photo to Lin Bai, the Lin Bai in the photo began to shrink in age, becoming 18 years old.

"When did I take a photo with you? Huh?"

Lin Bai widened his eyes. The photo really was him. Had he really lost his memory?

"How... can this be?" The girl murmured, looking at the now 18-year-old Lin Bai in the photo.

"I, I don't think I've lost my memory."

Lin Bai still couldn't understand why such a photo existed. Did he really have a long-lost brother?

"Your name is Lin Bai, you like lolis, you encountered anomaly events starting on your 18th birthday, Chi Xiaoyu is your childhood friend... you wear blue..."

"Wait, how do you know all this?" Lin Bai looked at the girl in front of him with shock. Could she be a stalker?

"Listen, I'm your girlfriend. Something I can't understand has happened. I've been looking for 19-year-old you for a year. You should be 20 years old now, but I find that you're now 18."

"This, how is it possible?"

This was too fantastic. When did he get a pretty silver-haired young girlfriend? Wait, 19 years old? He was only 18 now.

"It's strange. I clearly came to D City to find you a year ago. You should have been 17 then, and you should have lived in D City, but I never found you or visited your home."

In her room, Lin Xinyao was holding a photo of 19-year-old Lin Bai. She took out a lighter and burned it...

'That was close.'