The figurine-sized Evil Spirit locked inside the lunchbox was still thrashing about with all its might. It was probably jumping up and down inside, anyway—the lunchbox was bouncing noisily on the coffee table. After watching for a while, Doudou suddenly got excited and ran over to bounce around with it.
She probably thought it was her new toy after the Data Terminal.
Meanwhile, "Roll" crouched beside the coffee table with her eyes wide, keeping watch. She still insisted that she had caught a rat earlier, and considered the rat in the lunchbox her spoils of war. So she did not even blink, determined to stop her spoils from escaping.
The others had no time to slack off and play with the cats. They were discussing Vivian's sudden splitting.
According to the birth time of the Evil Spirit determined by the Data Terminal, the most likely explanation was that Vivian had just split again. However, this split was completely different from what Hao Ren had discovered before. Not only had what emerged been a weakling barely the size of a palm, one that could not even beat Roll or Doudou, but Vivian herself did not seem to have been affected at all.
"Are you sure this was something Vivian split off recently?" Hao Ren was still a little doubtful. He glanced at the enamel lunchbox wobbling on the coffee table and poked the Data Terminal. "Vivian's been with us the whole time these past two days."
The Data Terminal wobbled its body. "The timing matches. That's the only explanation."
Vivian frowned slightly. Splitting herself had long been a source of anxiety for her. She had always worried that one day she might lose control of her power again and release another Evil Spirit. Yet now that it had really happened, she