"Recently, a cult group has appeared near the Egyptian pyramids..."

"Ah, brother, you're awake." Lin Xinyao sat on the sofa watching TV.

"Sister, since when did you start watching the news?"

"This is trending! Of course I want to see it."

Lin Bai also shifted his attention to the TV.

"The group claims they can turn the desert sand into gold and transform the pyramids into gold. Under their influence, many tourists, including some from our country, have joined them. Please don't believe such fantastic claims in this civilized society..."

"This can trend? Are there still cults these days?"

"Brother... I'm watching yesterday's replay. Guess why it's trending?"

"What? Don't tell me..."

"They really have golden sand!"

Lin Xinyao took out her phone and handed it to Lin Bai. There was a video on it.

"It's all mine! I've struck it rich, hahaha..."

"Don't fight! Yesterday when I asked you to join, you didn't believe me. Look, the ground is covered with golden sand. We're rich!"

"Quick, honey, get me a bucket!"

In the video, countless people were using various containers to collect golden sand. The desert had turned into a sea of gold, and the pyramids were also tinged with a bright, shining yellow.

"Where did this video come from?"

Lin Bai looked at the spectacular scene in the video in disbelief.

"It's spreading everywhere now. With so much golden sand, many people have set off for Egypt after watching the video!"

Just then, Su Wanying came out. The girl carefully examined Lin Xinyao, constantly moving around her, occasionally checking Lin Xinyao's hands and legs, thoroughly inspecting every part of her body.

"Who are you? When did you come in? What are you doing?" Lin Xinyao looked at her with confusion. Had a pervert entered their home?

"I'm your sister-in-law." Su Wanying, not finding anything unusual, held Lin Xinyao's face with both hands and stared intensely at her eyes for a long while before letting go.

"Lin Bai, I was probably wrong. Your sister seems to be human."

"Of course my sister is human..."

"What are you two talking about? And when did you get a girlfriend? Are you giving up on Sister Chi?"

Lin Xinyao innocently puckered her lips, standing up for Chi Xiaoyu.

"It's a long story. I don't even know when I got a girlfriend. Maybe she's not even my girlfriend yet—just self-proclaimed."

"So childhood friends really can't beat fated encounters?"

"..."

"Let's not talk about this. Today is Qingming Festival. Let's go to the cemetery first."

"Okay!"

"Can I come along?" Su Wanying tugged at Lin Bai's sleeve.

"Don't you need to go pay respects to your ancestors?"

"No need."

"Huh? Fine, then come with us."

Lin Xinyao led the way, buying paper lanterns, spirit money, and incense at a paper offering shop. They took a taxi to a small cemetery outside the city. The surroundings were filled with tombstones and weeds, looking a bit eerie even in broad daylight...

"How did your grandparents die?"

"Why are you asking this? They died of illness."

"There was no record of them in the information I found about you. A lot of information about you has been hidden, I don't know why."

"Is that so? What about information on my parents?"

"I couldn't find that either. I only know a small portion of useless information. I don't even know what work your parents do."

'Come to think of it, my parents always said they were in the service industry, but why have I never seen them working?'

"I'm not too clear either. I'll ask them when I get the chance."

Pushing aside bushes that blocked their view, they came to a grave. Lin Xinyao carefully cleared the surrounding weeds, set up the items they had purchased, laid out a piece of cardboard, knelt down, and earnestly kowtowed three times.

"Alright, done. I hope our ancestors will bless me to get into a high school in the city!"

Lin Xinyao put her hands together. The girl was praying.

'I hope I can stay with brother forever.'

"Your turn, brother."

"Oh, coming!"

Lin Bai followed suit.

Actually, Lin Bai had never met his grandparents. Since childhood, only his parents and sister had accompanied him. After he turned 16, only he and his sister would come here during Qingming Festival.

'I want to know the winning lottery numbers for the next draw. Please send them to me in a dream!'

Seeing this, Su Wanying also came over.

"I'm your girlfriend, so I should kowtow too, right?"

The girl also imitated Lin Bai, earnestly kowtowing three times.

"Bless Lin Bai and me with a long and happy life together."

But after she finished, Lin Bai felt as if something was staring at him, as if something was examining him. After a long while, that gaze disappeared, as if it had never been there.

"Did you feel like something was watching you?"

"No?"

"Is that so? It must have been my imagination then..."

"What should we do next?"

"Before Chi Xiaoyu arrives, let's go eat first?" Su Wanying suggested.

"I'm not hungry. Can we not go?"

"I'm not hungry either. Can we not go?"

Su Wanying looked at them with confusion. We haven't had breakfast, it's already noon, how are you both not hungry? Do you have a genetic predisposition to not feeling hunger?

"Then where do you want to go?"

"Let's browse the supermarket."

"That works." Lin Bai quickly nodded in agreement.

After all, he didn't want to eat human food again.

"Alright then." Su Wanying smiled and took Lin Bai's hand. After trying unsuccessfully to break free, Lin Bai let her hold his hand.

Su Wanying held a cup of milk tea in one hand and Lin Bai's hand in the other. His sister was ahead, browsing through stores, selecting various clothes, and occasionally borrowing Lin Bai to buy clothes for him.

"Want some?" Su Wanying put the straw she had drunk from into Lin Bai's mouth, indicating he should take a sip.

"No, thanks." Lin Bai hurriedly refused, though he really wanted to drink it. But in his mouth, it probably wouldn't taste sweet.

"Before, you really liked this! Yellow Peach King!"

"Ahem, what 'before' do we have?"

"Oh, then when you were 19, you really liked to drink this!"

"But I'm only 18 now, maybe I haven't reached that age yet."

'So, the me she knows could eat normal human food? Or does it mean I didn't become an anomaly?'

"Let me ask you, in your memory of me, what do I usually do at night?"

'This way I can know if I had become an anomaly in her memory. Clearly, she doesn't know about Bai Ling.'

Hearing this, the girl's face flushed. She put her mouth close to Lin Bai's ear and whispered shyly.

"At night? At night, you're basically doing me..."

"...?"

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Egypt

A man in black respectfully bowed to a man holding a scepter and covered in gold.

"High Priest, as per your instructions, the embryonic form of the anomalous domain has been created over there."

"Very good."

"We've released the information. Although the authorities control it strictly, and initially, the information spread slowly, over time, those who saw the news began to forward it. Now most people should know that we have gold here!"

"Well done. First day, bestow wealth!"

"Have you found those rats who infiltrated our church?"

"High Priest, I will definitely root them out before the Day of Divine Bestowal!"

"I'll give you two more days. Go."

"Yes, sir."