A very strange scene was unfolding in the Louvre's painting galleries. A snow-white cat leaped like a ghost through the famous paintings hanging on the walls, while a white-furred, red-eyed dog ran through the galleries where pets were forbidden.
Jam had already entered Mist Form. Like a wisp of white smoke, he passed through one visitor after another in pursuit of the white cat. Thanks to the covering of [Presence Reduction] Mimesis, passersby would only feel a light breeze brush past them.
Why did the painting galleries feel so strange today? Could they be haunted?
Quite a few visitors vaguely sensed something strange about the Louvre's painting galleries that day, but they could not say what it was.
At that moment, hidden from the visitors' sight, a wolf-shaped white mist relentlessly pursued the ghost in the paintings. The only two people who could see this scene watched the chase thoughtfully.
"That cat moves through the paintings in a pattern."
Valente spoke to Xia Xiu beside him as he watched.
"Yeah. It can move to the frames on either side of its current painting, or to the frame directly opposite. It's extremely fast, jumping through about three paintings a second. It probably doesn't have any offensive abilities," Xia Xiu replied calmly, rubbing his chin with his right hand.
"Aren't you going to tell Jam?"
Valente glanced at the cat and dog still engaged in their chase, then turned to ask Xia Xiu.
"No need. Jam has already noticed. Haven't you realized he's been steering it? That white cat was moving however it pleased earlier, but now it's starting to fall into Jam's rhythm."
Xia Xiu's golden eyes followed the two figures ahead with interest, the corners of his mouth already curving upward.
"The white cat's next jump will be to the