"No... this can't be!" Li Yifei looked down at the gunshot wound in his chest, shaking his head repeatedly. "I can't possibly kill people, and I definitely can't be a monster..."
"Li Yifei..." Lin Qiye grabbed Li Yifei by the collar, pulled his head before him, and stared into those terrified eyes.
"Look into my eyes!"
Whoosh—!
Two golden furnaces ignited in Lin Qiye's eyes as Seraphim Divine Might poured forth, surging madly into Li Yifei's Mental World.
In mere moments, Li Yifei's eyes rolled back, and he cleanly passed out.
But the next instant, a powerful hand abruptly clamped around Lin Qiye's wrist, and Li Yifei's eyes suddenly flew open!
They were a pair of strange vertical pupils, tranquil as ancient waters and unfathomably deep.
"Interesting... How did you discover me?" Li Yifei's voice was low and calm. "With the perception of your 'Lantern' realm, you shouldn't have been able to see through my disguise."
"I really didn't see through it. Otherwise, you would have been exposed back when we were beneath the agency." The flames in Lin Qiye's eyes still had not gone out. "Ever since entering the school, everything that happened seemed reasonable, yet there was something strange everywhere."
"You mean... you deduced it?"
"More or less. You left far too many flaws."
"Oh?" Li Yifei narrowed his eyes slightly. "Go on."
"The first suspicious point was your medical leave slip." Lin Qiye spoke calmly. "When you entered the classroom this morning, you had that leave slip with you."
"So what?"
"According to your account, you realized after school last night that you had forgotten your homework, returned to the school, and witnessed Liu Xiaoyan eating someone. After that, you fled the school in panic and found us Night Watchmen..."
"So... when did you get your medical