It felt like a long time had passed. Lin Bai couldn't control his body or open his eyes, but could still sense everything around him.

"So warm~"

It was like lying in a big sister's embrace.

"Am I in heaven now?"

Lin Bai slowly opened his eyes. Before him was a vast starry sky with intricate lights interweaving together, as if time had stopped. He drifted slowly within it, unable to move, going with the flow.

"Where is this?"

A scene suddenly appeared before his eyes. At night, after the two came out of the restaurant, Chi Xiaoyu parted with him and went to a hospital. Soon after, pedestrians on the road and doctors in the hospital all began acting abnormally, with countless bugs under their skin devouring them.

Soon they became containers for bug reproduction, spitting out countless bug anomalies. In the sky, a huge head made of black threads fought against a mass of black indescribable matter with the Investigation Bureau Director, ultimately losing and announcing E City's destruction.

"This is what Chi Xiaoyu encountered after parting with me last night? At that time, I was sleeping?"

Just after watching this scene, he seemed to hear a distant, ethereal voice.

"Go back. It's not time yet."

Lin Bai felt a gravitational force from behind, being pulled by that force, continuously rotating, moving rapidly, slowly entering that whirlpool. He instantly lost consciousness, vaguely hearing familiar voices.

"Awake?"

Lin Bai felt the sensation on his head and slowly opened his eyes. He was lying on the two girls' laps, before him were the girls' chests. Beside them was an emerald green tree anomaly healing his body. The wound had mostly healed.

"Uh, cough cough cough."

Lin Bai coughed somewhat painfully, trying to get up, but gave up due to weakness throughout his body. Looking at the magnificent scenery before him, this angle was indeed somewhat beyond his control.

"Are you alright?"

"Is there anywhere uncomfortable?"

"I'm, I'm fine."

Lin Bai slowly turned his head to the side. If he kept looking, his little brother would be beyond control.

"You saved me again. Thank you~"

Su Wanying stroked Bai Ling's cheek and smiled gently.

"What do you mean 'again'? Have I saved you before?"

"Secret."

"Eh? I can't understand what you're saying."

Chi Xiaoyu had question marks above her head. When had Lin Bai saved Su Wanying?

Chi Xiaoyu's phone suddenly rang.

"What's the matter? Do you need me to come help?"

As Chi Xiaoyu prepared to get up and leave, Lin Bai suddenly grabbed her hand.

"What's wrong?"

"I'll go with you."

Lin Bai gripped tightly, as if afraid Chi Xiaoyu wouldn't agree.

"That's not impossible, but don't you really need to go to the hospital now?"

Lin Bai was afraid the scene he'd just witnessed would repeat. Having eliminated the bug anomalies early this time, had E City been saved? He needed to confirm personally.

"I can do it."

Lin Bai struggled to stand up.

Chi Xiaoyu brought Lin Bai to that familiar hospital. A pregnant woman with a big belly was vomiting continuously, with black little bugs crawling out of her mouth, very creepy. She muttered.

"Child, my child, coming out, hahaha."

"Can she still be saved?"

A nearby doctor asked.

Lin Bai observed the surroundings. Only very few people showed symptoms.

"No hope. Notify the family."

"This..."

The doctor helplessly shook his head, opened the door and walked out. A man's concerned voice came from outside.

"How is it, doctor? Can my wife be saved?"

"Sir, we did our best. Please accept our condolences."

"What, what? Please save her, doctor! Try again! My wife was fine yesterday, I don't know what she ate, but today she became like this. Doctor, you must save her, and my child."

"Sir..."

Inside the room, Chi Xiaoyu shook her head. This lady was already just a shell.

"Let's go."

She clenched her fists, thinking of her dead parents. 【Terminus Cult, someday I'll uproot you completely and make you pay】

Seeing no abnormalities among pedestrians on the road, Lin Bai recalled the scenes he'd seen in that space. The scenarios from the previous scenes didn't reappear. That head made of black threads—wasn't that the one they'd encountered in the cinema's anomalous domain? But it was much larger. Why would it protect E City?

【Although people still sacrificed, this should be a success, right?】

Unable to figure out the reason, Lin Bai shook his head. Chi Xiaoyu sent him home and left. Lin Bai waited for time to pass until 7 PM in the afternoon. His wounds instantly healed, and Bai Ling summoned Blood Princess.

"I am the Blood Witch. I grant you rebirth. From now on you are a dependent of the Blood Witch. Henceforth you shall be called—Blood Princess!"

"Eh eh eh? So sudden?"

"Don't mind it."

"Oh oh."

Blood Princess looked at the scythe in her hands with inexplicable familiarity. She shouldn't have used this one before, right?

"Knock knock knock."

The door was knocked.

Bai Ling had her contracted anomaly change her into an exquisite outfit and opened the door.

"Bai Ling, I'll take you to buy clothes~"

"Eh? This outfit you're wearing is nice!"

"Don't move, let me check your underwear."

"Eh? When did you develop such good taste?"

"Just the pink I like."

"Then I'll take you to eat something delicious!"

Tianhai Restaurant

"Do you have anything you want to eat?"

Chi Xiaoyu held the menu asking for Bai Ling's opinion.

"Five servings of 'A Red Apricot Peeks Over the Wall.'"

"Huh, that many? You've never eaten it—what if it's not good?"

"It's delicious, heh heh."

Chi Xiaoyu dubiously ordered five servings, then also ordered a dish of Emerald Tree Grass.

"..."

On the table were 5 red apricots with big eyes and a piece of wood with grass growing on it.

"Should I gnaw tree bark instead? These eyes are a bit disgusting."

"They're very delicious!"

Bai Ling eagerly picked up a fork, speared an eyeball and ate it with relish.

"Ew... how can you eat that!"

Chi Xiaoyu looked at the wood in her hands, gritted her teeth and took a bite. Unexpectedly, the wood wasn't as hard as imagined. The grass on it was slightly sweet and could be swallowed, but it wasn't particularly tasty either.

"Never coming here again!"

"Eh? No!"

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Walking on the road, Chi Xiaoyu pulled Bai Ling and was about to speak when Bai Ling preemptively asked.

"Are you going to say 'see you tomorrow'?"

"No, I don't have anything today. I'll sleep with you."

"Is that so? That's great!"

"Hm? When did you become so fond of sleeping with me?"

Only now did Bai Ling truly relax. It seemed the world line change had succeeded.

"Because I like you too."

"Is this a confession to me? And why 'too'?"

【This guy Lin Bai only dares to say such things while wearing Bai Ling's face!】

"Guess."