World of "Lies"

As if waking from a distant and long dream, Bai Zhi awoke from the deck chair on the balcony in the warm afternoon sunlight.

The moment he opened his eyes, a strange memory that didn't belong to him flooded into his mind.

After spending a little time reading through that new memory, Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow slightly and looked up at the Tian Kong.

The sun was shining brightly under a clear blue sky.

The afternoon sun shone lazily on him, giving him a unique, drowsy appearance.

In this story called Lies, he is a High School Student about to take the College Entrance Exam, named Xu Tingsheng, a very poetic name.

During this rare weekend break from school, Xu Tingsheng took a nap on his balcony at home.

This is a very ordinary, everyday world, without any supernatural Strength or Urban Legend. In the unfamiliar memories he inherited, the most prominent feature of this world is its ordinariness.

... Ordinary?

Slightly narrowing his eyes, Bai Zhi stood up from the recliner.

Xu Tingsheng's family is relatively well-off, belonging to the middle-class middle class. He is currently home alone, as his parents have gone to work and have not yet returned.

After washing his face in the restroom, Bai Zhi glanced at himself in the mirror.

The person in the mirror looked delicate and frail, yet possessed a Scholar air about them. If he had to describe them in one sentence... Bai Zhi thought they should be described as Unrivaled Young Master.

This isn't because he's narcissistic or anything; it's just that Xu Tingsheng's nickname at school. He's handsome and a top student, so having this Title is well-deserved.

"World of Lies... what exactly is World of Lies?"

Back in his room, Bai Zhi sat down at the table, resting his head on his hand, and began to ponder.

The First Story did have some clues, clearly pointing out the enemy and the development of events, but in the common world of this story, he was just a High School Student about to take the College Entrance Exam.

In what form will the story unfold?

Just as he was pondering this, a woman's voice suddenly came from downstairs.

"Tingsheng, are you awake? Come down for dinner. I left work early today to make you some chicken soup."

Based on the images in his memory, the person who made the voice was his mother, but according to his memory, she should still be at work.

"..."

Raising an eyebrow slightly, Bai Zhi didn't answer immediately. Instead, he quietly got up and went to the balcony, glancing down below.

A red car was parked in front of the house.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi lay back down on the recliner and closed his eyes.

At the same time, the God's Perspective is activated.

About two or three minutes later, footsteps came from the stairwell. The footsteps grew closer and stopped at his door, and then someone reached out and pushed open his door.

After a screeching sound as the door was pushed open, the noise completely disappeared, and the room fell into an unbearable silence.

The God's Perspective observes the surroundings from one's own perspective. The viewpoint is firmly fixed to one's own surroundings, so due to the obstruction of the viewpoint, Bai Zhi has no idea what is happening inside the room.

However, Bai Zhi always showed great patience in such matters, without revealing any extra emotions on his face, and remained sound asleep.

And so, in the silence, time quietly shifted forward by a little over a minute.

Then, under Bai Zhi 'God's Perspective, a woman's head silently slipped over the doorframe and looked in his direction.

It must be said that the woman was quite beautiful, and Xu Tingsheng clearly inherited his mother's good genes. However, the woman's current behavior was quite strange.

Ever since a head peeked out from behind the doorframe, it had been staring straight at him, maintaining that strange posture without moving for a full five minutes.

For five minutes, the other person kept staring at him, especially at his face, as if trying to determine whether he was asleep by observing changes in his facial expressions.

Because the woman's bangs were covering her forehead, Bai Zhi couldn't see her facial expression, but for a full five minutes, she didn't move an inch.

To be honest, this situation is actually quite bizarre.

However, Bai Zhi is a skilled actor and a powerful performer, so he didn't reveal any flaws, such as being unable to suppress a laugh...

Five minutes later, just as Bai Zhi was almost falling asleep, the other party finally made a new move.

From Bai Zhi's God's Perspective, a woman carefully placed a thermos of chicken soup under the eaves.

Then, immediately after doing all this, the woman pulled her head back inside. Then, the sound of a door closing, footsteps fading away, and faint sounds of someone going downstairs could be heard from inside the room.

Based on the description alone, this series of actions seems quite normal.

The mother, not wanting to disturb her son's afternoon nap because he was about to take the College Entrance Exam, carefully kept quiet and even placed the chicken soup in a thermos.

But in reality... not a single one is normal.

From Bai Zhi's God's Perspective, the other person's head remained at a position about 1.5 meters above the ground on the door frame the entire time, without moving an inch from beginning to end.

Even when that hand placed the thermos cup under the door frame, the head didn't move an inch, and the hand was only a few centimeters above the ground.

So this raises the question: is it really possible for the human body to achieve this level of functionality?

Besides, from the moment the other person's head was pulled back until the sound of the door to his room closing, less than a second had passed in that brief interval.

At a normal person's walking speed, it would take at least ten seconds to walk from the door to the balcony, but the other person covered the entire room in less than a second...

Regardless of the true identity of this person who is nominally Xu Tingsheng's mother, she is unlikely to be human.

A story called lies, and a World of Lies...

Is this world really as... "common" as it appears on the surface?