"Mm... That night, I fell asleep in a daze while holding my picture book. In my dream, I felt like I had entered the world inside the book... Then, at two in the morning, I woke up freezing from a bone-deep chill. When I tried to get up, I accidentally fell straight off the bed. Only then did the servant responsible for looking after me discover that my fever had reached forty-two degrees Celsius, and hurriedly called a doctor."
Bai Lingqiu continued, "The doctor gave me medicine and an antipyretic injection, but my temperature never went down... While the entire family was panicking, the only thing my remaining hazy consciousness could think about was why my picture book had disappeared."
"A persistent high fever is a classic symptom following Anomaly Meme infection," Sun Hang said. "According to Tianshu Tower's statistics, over a third of infected people experience this symptom after their first exposure to an Anomaly Meme."
"But back then, no one around me thought I had been infected by an Anomaly Meme... After all, in my father's eyes, I had never had any chance to come into contact with one. How could I possibly have been infected?"
"Back then, Dragon City wasn't like it is now, with infected people all over the streets," Bai Lingqiu's avatar added from the side.
"Including that doctor, they all thought I had simply caught some kind of bacterial or viral infection. They never connected my abnormal condition to an Anomaly Meme. The doctor told my father that I might have pneumonia and needed to go to the hospital for a CT scan... But just as they were about to put me in the car, I used my ability for the first time."
Bai Lingqiu paused for a moment before continuing. "I saw that