"Little one, did you get separated from your owner?"
Su Bai had initially been perfectly comfortable letting the kitten out for some fresh air. Small as the little one looked, there were still plenty of mysteries about the kitten that even he did not understand. Usually, though, the kitten stayed in the shop, eating and sleeping, with the only exercise being rolling around on Su Bai and begging for pets. There really had not been much room for those abilities to shine.
Soon, however, Su Bai heard a vaguely familiar voice outside the shop. Familiar as it sounded, the speaker was not an old acquaintance like Feng Ling, whom he had often chatted with in his previous life. It sounded more like a voice he had heard somewhere recently.
"Meow, meow-"
Hearing the kitten eagerly interacting with the stranger, Su Bai looked out through the shop's display window and saw a girl who looked like a high school student crouching by the roadside, playing with the kitten.
Only when the girl stood up and looked around, apparently searching for the kitten's owner, did Su Bai recognize her. She was Qiu Lei, the high school student he had encountered a few times during the game at the Happiness Residential Complex. She also attended his school and was a year below him.
The last time they had met in a game, Qiu Lei had been accompanying her older sister, Qiu Man, who had a more commanding presence. Throughout the game, she had followed her sister and Mr. Lan Xingchen, contributing little and barely even speaking.
Perhaps because he had briefly traveled with Qiu Lei while in disguise, Su Bai knew that she was like most ordinary people who had only just fallen into the Nightmare World. She had yet to give off