Chapter 9 - Crossed Wires
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Underworld Player Chapter 9 - Crossed Wires

"It's been a while since I met someone so warm-hearted..."

After sending off Mr. Chen, Bai Zhi cast an approving look at the sparkling clean room and his completed homework. Suddenly, he couldn't help feeling moved.

Whatever Mr. Chen was, Bai Zhi was sure he wasn't human. Most likely, it was like something out of the recent explosion of urban legends—a supernatural entity. Who in their right mind would travel from far away to personally deliver some money, help do someone's homework, and clean their room, all without any promise of a reward?

They would need to be as selfless as Mother Teresa herself!

If everyone in the world could be just like "Mr. Chen". By sharing just a little bit of love, what a wonderful world this would be.

Bai Zhi peeked into the envelope at the stack of cash within, and said wistfully, "I wonder if Mr. Chen will ever come back..."

All the problems plaguing him in the beginning had been handily resolved, and he momentarily forgot all the suspicion he had toward this world. Hallelujah!

Every city had the odd urban legend, brought up in idle conversation now and then to tickle the imagination. However, three months ago, the internet began to explode with a host of urban legends, rumors and reports of strange activity.

Ever since witnessing the Scuttle Crab in real life, Bai Zhi had been preparing himself for a close encounter with the creatures from such stories, but he never expected that his first encounter with a supernatural entity would turn out quite like this.

Although he did not know how or why "Mr. Chen" had been the one he saw, the encounter had left him with solid clues as to the traits and powers of the entity he had just met.

Supernatural entities could be fearsome, of course, but that did not make them invincible. Most operated under a specific set of conditions unique to them. Once you knew what they were, surviving an encounter with such bizarre creatures was none too difficult.

If every encounter with such entities was inevitably fatal, then there would never be any stories on

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