The moment Zhong Xueran arrived, she brought bad news.
Bai Yang dared not delay. He immediately stepped on the accelerator and sped away.
He had barely left when a dense chorus of crawling sounds came from behind.
Everyone in the car looked back. A mass of twisted humanoid figures was frantically chasing the vehicle.
"What happened?" Bai Yang asked, glancing at the rearview mirror.
"Exactly what you see. She and I haven't mutated. Everyone else has."
Zhong Xueran offered no further explanation.
The version of her in this world was no ordinary person. She had noticed many strange phenomena and had even begun to vaguely sense that something was wrong with this world.
But just as this world's Zhong Xueran arranged to meet Xi Wutong for a talk, everything changed.
"You'd better drive faster. They're speeding up," Shen Hai said.
"Then let's head straight to Lower River Village. Miss Xi..." Bai Yang suddenly asked, "You're alive too, right?"
The atmosphere inside the car suddenly grew a little strange. Strictly speaking, everyone here knew one another's backgrounds. Only Xi Wutong was an exception, and Qin Manjiang knew a little more about her than the others did.
Apart from Qin Manjiang, the others knew almost nothing about her.
And that question, "You're alive too, right?" seemed to mean something else.
"We can sense her presence. Isn't that obvious?" Shen Hai said.
Bai Yang shook his head.
At that moment, Xi Wutong herself spoke instead. "What Mr. Bai Yang means isn't whether I'm a human from the real world. He's confirming whether I'm still alive in the real world."
She smiled. "Please rest assured. I'm different from the other twenty people. I didn't come to this world by killing myself. Like you, I passed through a gap in space and time. I... am