Qilin, Danger!

Su Bai set down the lunchbox and walked over to the phone.

This was something Qilin had deliberately left behind before she left—an old phone she had used, fully charged, saying it would be convenient for him to contact her if needed.

At that moment, the phone rang.

Su Bai picked it up and pressed the answer button. Since it was a flip phone, the speaker was quite loud, so he didn't hold it to his ear.

As soon as he answered and turned on the speaker, Qilin's voice came through:

"Su Bai? Can you hear me?"

"Yeah, I can hear you, Qilin." Su Bai nodded in response.

"Good... Did you get the lunch the restaurant downstairs sent?" Hearing Su Bai's voice, Qilin smiled slightly and asked next.

"Yeah, I just got it. I did what you said—checked through the peephole for a while before opening the door to bring it in."

For some reason, Qilin felt his tone carried a hint of "mission accomplished, awaiting praise."

She couldn't help but picture Su Bai's handsome face in her mind, now filled with expectation, as if waiting for her to give him a reward.

Tch... a bit hard to handle.

Just then, He Weilan pushed the door open:

"Qilin, let's eat lun—"

Before she could finish, she noticed something off about Qilin—phone pressed to her ear, clearly on a call, but her face was flushed, and a faint, indescribable smile tugged at her lips.

He Weilan immediately wore an "I get it" expression and cleared her throat:

"So you're busy with something important, huh? I won't disturb you then. I'll pack your lunch and bring it back for you later."

With that, she backed out and closed the door behind her.

"Hey, Weilan!"

Realizing she'd been misunderstood, Qilin opened her mouth to explain, but the other woman was already gone. She could only sigh helplessly.

"Qilin?"

Su Bai's puzzled voice came from the phone:

"Weilan... who's that?"

Qilin explained with a smile: "She's my colleague. She just came to call me."

"Oh." Su Bai didn't react much to that.

"When I get back tonight, I'll take you to the snack street downstairs. Think of it as a reward for completing your task. How about that?" Qilin thought for a moment and said.

"Really?!" The words "snack street" instantly lit up Su Bai's tone.

"Of course it's true." Qilin couldn't help but chuckle softly, feeling he was like a child—his thoughts pure, his feelings written all over his face, with no pretense at all.

"Alright, go eat your lunch now, or it'll get cold. I need to eat too." Qilin said gently.

"Okay! Bye, Qilin!"

"Mm, bye."

After saying goodbye to Qilin, Su Bai happily ate his lunch.

In less than ten minutes, the food was completely cleared.

Then, he continued writing his diary.

[The lunch Qilin ordered for me arrived. It was delicious. But I think Qilin's cooking tastes even better.]

Qilin, who was eating lunch with He Weilan, felt the diary's fluctuation in her mind and immediately focused to check.

Reading what Su Bai had written, her heart trembled slightly, a wave of warmth surged through her, and her lips unconsciously curled up.

Seeing this, He Weilan couldn't resist teasing:

"Oh my, what good thing has our Miss Qilin run into? Your lips are practically reaching the sky."

"Weilan, what are you saying?" Qilin chided lightly, a bit embarrassed.

"Alright, alright, I won't say anything." He Weilan waved her hand with a smile, but then leaned in close and lowered her voice to ask:

"When did you start dating?"

Qilin pretended to be calm: "Started what? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Still pretending? I was wondering why you suddenly changed your hairstyle today, even covering your forehead. Turns out you're in love~" He Weilan wore an expression of "I saw through it long ago."

Qilin could only smile helplessly.

In truth, she covered her forehead because of that Sound Mark.

If she didn't, it would probably draw unnecessary attention at work. After all, she was "Qilin."

Compared to Qilin's sweet interactions, the other women reading the diary had varied reactions.

Angel Zhixin: (So you disappeared mid-writing to go eat...)

A Li: (Hmm, what an interesting little brother... but it looks like he's been "kept" by that girl named Qilin? So jealous.)

[Qilin said she'd take me to the snack street downstairs after work, hehe, Qilin's so good to me.]

[But, Qilin still has a long time before she gets off work...]

[Huh? Xiao Xue, what did you say?]

Since the diary was written by Su Bai with his mind, his conversation with Xiao Xue was unconsciously recorded as well.

[We can't get snacks today? Why?]

Seeing this, the women roughly guessed that this was Su Bai speaking to Xiao Xue, but what exactly Xiao Xue said, they had no way of knowing—they could only infer from Su Bai's reactions.

Qilin was also puzzled: why would Xiao Xue say they couldn't eat snacks tonight? She wasn't the type to go back on her word.

[Huh? Because Qilin will be in danger tonight?]

This sentence made Qilin's heart instantly tighten.

Danger? What danger? An ambush by an enemy? A sudden attack? Or a car accident?

[Taotie? But why would Taotie, a mythical beast, come after Qilin?]

Taotie!?

Qilin's heart sank halfway.

That was a legendary ferocious beast from myth... Why would it target her? Aside from becoming a "Resonator" with Su Bai's help, she had nothing special about her that would warrant the attention of such an existence.

And besides, the Four Evils from mythology... how could they appear in the real world?!

Compared to Su Bai's confusion and Qilin's panic, some of the women, upon seeing the word "Taotie," roughly understood the truth.

On a certain isolated island, the angel Azhui looked up at the sky, her gaze seeming to pierce through the atmosphere, reaching deep into the cosmos.

"The 'Taotie' he's talking about... should be the Taotie of the Netherworld Civilization... They're descending on Earth tonight, huh..."

Azhui, who had just returned to Earth, let out a soft sigh.

The reason she knew the Taotie would attack tonight was not only because she had already received relevant intelligence, but also because after obtaining the Diary Instance, she immediately recalled the order Queen Keisha had issued not long ago—

"Juxia City, Qilin, Su Bai."

Azhui instantly thought of Juxia City, where she had once stayed during her time on Earth, and immediately set off to return.

After activating the Eye of Insight to scan, she didn't find Su Bai, but she did discover Qilin—identical to the portrait the Queen had released. And in the Dark Plane beside Qilin, there existed a blurry, unanalyzable "mosaic."

Azhui speculated that it must be Su Bai.

As for why she couldn't analyze it, she simply chalked it up to the special shielding that came with being a transmigrator.

Before she could figure out how to report this to the Queen, the diary suddenly leaked such information...