Chen Xi and Zhuang Anping wound their way around several turns until they were behind the Briefcase Freak, then watched him walk on, muttering to himself and craning his head to look around.
As the Briefcase Freak walked forward, a few drunken young people happened to approach from the opposite direction. They met him head-on, yet seemed to see nothing and sense nothing strange. Their calmness sent chills down Chen Xi's and Zhuang Anping's spines as they stood behind him.
Even when they bumped into the head the Briefcase Freak was carrying, and even when that head began swearing after being struck, the young people still showed no reaction. The Briefcase Freak did not charge at them in an attacking stance as he had done with Chen Xi and Zhuang Anping, either.
Instead, the Briefcase Freak simply continued on his way.
Perhaps having his head bumped had put him in a bad mood, though, because just as Chen Xi and Zhuang Anping were about to turn and leave, they heard the Briefcase Freak suddenly shout in anger-
"A bunch of damned bastards! You don't even know you've been turned into puppets on strings, you idiots! I'll teach you a lesson once you're dead!"
Neither Chen Xi nor Zhuang Anping understood what he meant. They could only turn and leave, avoiding Briefcase Head, whose abilities were still unknown, before heading to their next destination.
"Looks like that thing can only see people who have already 'died'?" Something seemed to occur to Zhuang Anping. When he turned and saw a large screen a short distance ahead displaying "1%," he fell into another daze. "I remember the Administrator saying that Eerie beings and mutated humans both count toward the Eerie revival level. Does that mean our current state is a Mutation?"
"Then counting