An Anomaly Formed from Obsession

As Qingyi and the others were about to arrive home, Bai Zhi was cooking in the separate kitchen on the first floor of the villa.

With the Night Owl gone and the Campus Belle gone, and the only two people who can cook absent, Bai Zhi is the Unique left who can take on the responsibility of being the Chef.

Bai Zhi had initially held a tiny bit of hope for Tian Huo, but when he rushed into the kitchen and found the other party preparing to pull the gas valve up by force, causing him to shout "Spare the valve!", he completely abandoned that idea.

Although he wasn't particularly good at cooking, Bai Zhi did have a few special skills of his own.

In less than five minutes, he prepared several delicious dishes that were perfect in color, aroma, and taste.

Braised Beef, shrimp and fish rice, Mushroom Chicken Stew, and braised pork ribs with scallions.

--Four buckets of instant noodles were lined up on the cutting board.

Instant noodles are actually quite strange. One bowl isn't enough to fill you up, but two bowls can make you feel nauseous.

When he lived alone in that rented room with Qingyi, they basically ate instant noodles and takeout. It wasn't until the Night Owl joined them that their meals improved completely.

Bai Zhi hadn't eaten instant noodles in a long time and missed them terribly, so he specially prepared a bucket for Qingyi.

However, just as he finished preparing his instant noodles, a loud, clear knocking voice came from outside the villa's gate.

"... Have other people arrived?"

A slight thought crossed his mind. After staring at the instant noodles in front of him for a moment, Bai Zhi untied his apron and walked out of the kitchen, decisively picking up a bucket of instant noodles.

After gesturing to Anna, who was sitting on the Sofa in the living room engrossed in watching SpongeBob, and Tian Huo, who had been dragged into the fantasies by Anna, to open the door, Bai Zhi, while stuffing noodles into his mouth without any regard for appearances, turned and hurriedly went upstairs amidst Tian Huo's slightly dazed gaze.

About three minutes later, "he" came up the stairs in a hurry.

"... How did you run into her?"

Looking at the White-haired loli who had returned to her original form, Bai Zhi's expression became slightly strange.

"Also, you haven't used my identity to do anything strange, have you?"

"This is a long story, go take a shower first."

Feeling inexplicably guilty, his face involuntarily flushed red as a White-haired loli pushed him towards the room with hands.

"Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble. I ran into that guy on the road. He said he needed to talk to you about something, something about New Humans organization... Anyway, hurry up and finish washing up and come downstairs. I'm going to eat something first!!"

After pushing the bewildered Bai Zhi into the room in one swift motion, Qingyi left these words behind and turned to run towards the stairwell, giving Bai Zhi no time to speak.

"Remember to hurry up and finish washing up before you come down, otherwise the takeout I ordered will get cold!! And remember, your favorite food right now is the KFC Kids Deluxe Meal!!"

Bai Zhi: "..."

So you really did use my identity to do something strange or say something strange, right?

Five minutes later, Bai Zhi came downstairs, drying his hair with a towel and changing into casual home clothes.

On the Sofa in the living room on the first floor, two little girls sat obediently in the middle, eating the takeout food spread out on the table while their eyes were fixed on the TV Screen in front of them.

On either side of the two little girls sat Tian Huo and Dead Zero, respectively. It was unclear whether the two had interacted, but their eyes were also fixed on the TV Screen.

Noticing him getting down, the Dead Zero stood up from the Sofa, turned his gaze toward him, and took the initiative to speak to him.

Do you have time now? I have something very important to tell you.

"Uh... I'll take one first..."

Before Bai Zhi could finish his sentence, the White-haired loli, looking slightly pained, placed a beef burger in his hand, while blinking her eyes at him.

"Here, this is your favorite food. I saved it especially for you."

"... Thanks."

With a barely perceptible twitch at the corner of his mouth, and under the watchful gaze of Dead Zero behind the White-haired loli, Bai Zhi reached out and took the beef burger.

"This is information and intelligence regarding the [New Humans] organization."

In the Gazebo outside the door, the Lights were turned on, and after sitting down at the table, the Dead Zero, handed over a file.

"Although it was a failed operation, we did manage to capture several key members and extract this information from them."

"Uh... why are you showing me this? Shouldn't this be top-secret information?"

Looking at the file in front of him, Bai Zhi couldn't help but look slightly puzzled.

"I've wanted to ask this question for a long time. I haven't joined the system, even if I were..."

"Although you haven't officially joined the Night Watcher, because of Elder Xu, you are considered a member of the Night Watcher as well. There's no conflict between the two."

The Dead Zero, shook his head.

"As for your first question... do you recall ever asking someone to help you find out someone's identity?"

"I remember."

Bai Zhi seemed slightly confused.

"Didn't you just tell me before..."

"He's dead. During our operation to wipe out the [New Humans] organization, some problems arose, and we suffered some losses."

The Dead Zero, spoke calmly.

"Previously, I was directly in charge of handling matters related to [Noah's Ark], and I also know about the matter you asked him to investigate. The one you need to find..."

When did he die?

Interrupting the other person's words, Bai Zhi frowned deeply.

This afternoon, the other party clearly came over to deliver some documents to him.

"Last night."

The Dead Zero, calmly gave his answer.

"During the operation, a total of 15 people died, including those in the _book_ library, and he was one of them. Because I was busy dealing with these matters, I only had time to come to you now. We have already investigated the identity of the person you needed to investigate earlier..."

He came to my place once this afternoon.

Bai Zhi exhaled slightly, interrupting the other person.

"No wonder he said back then that he would never need a car again..."