Underworld Player Chapter 10 - Elementary, My Dear Watson

"This world is getting more dangerous..."

Bai Zhi was on his way to the campus to attend the early morning self-study period with some books under his arm. He frowned slightly as he recalled the supernatural entity that had brazenly accosted him yesterday.

People are wont to cling to things they have lost. Having lost his life once before, Bai Zhi was not keen to lose it again.

In truth, the fact that it had approached him openly was quite unexpected, but he could not fathom what the entity had hoped to achieve. His best guess was that it was simply mad about how it had been foiled the previous day.

It had spoken in such a roundabout manner... what was it trying to say?

Bai Zhi stroked his chin as he mulled it over in his mind.

All fear stems from the fear of the unknown. He might have been more wary of the entity if it had continued to remain in hiding, but that brainless stunt it had pulled off this morning... it was completely incomprehensible.

As Bai Zhi walked along, lost in thought, a pale figure emerged from a thicket of jade-green bamboo where few people ventured. The figure made a beeline for Bai Zhi, its face set in a stony expression.

"Studying so early in the morning, huh? Among the bamboo, too." Bai Zhi muttered, silently cursing in his heart as he recognized the figure. It was the same person he had encountered at the café a few minutes earlier… Nevertheless, he made some room on the sidewalk as he kept walking.

Before his all-seeing eagle eyes, there could be no hidden secrets; discerning the genuine article from a fake was easy-peasy.

Take the one who approached him at the café this morning. The way she acted all smarmy with him, one glance was all it took for him to know that she was clearly the fake. This one, however, who stiffened up as soon as they saw him, as if afraid that he would pester her again, was obviously the real deal. Only a fool would mix up the two, you know?

While he was caught up in his thoughts, the figure of Lin XiaoYi who had emerged from the bamboo thicket was fast approachi

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