Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

"An outcast..."

Chen Xi silently repeated it once, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she kept her mouth shut and chose to agree.

"Outlier" is not a good word; it's usually used to describe villains.

He himself did nothing, yet he became an outcast.

But Zhang Wanyi's words also made him realize that many things are simply beyond his control.

"Although it's an organization, the world is so big and there are so few superhumans. In the past three years, I've only met two superhumans in total."

"I'm just giving you a general overview of this world today."

"I'll add you to a group later. There's a lot of detailed information there. Also, you can ask the other members if you don't understand anything."

"However, let me warn you beforehand that people like us are more or less outside the law."

"Because of my status as the school beauty, I've always stayed at school, which is why I seem more normal."

"Most of the people inside, whether good or bad, are more or less neurotic."

Chen Xi nodded in understanding.

Without rules to bind them, people can indeed gradually deviate from a certain path.

Zhang Wanyi didn't say anything more after that. Chen Xi felt that she wanted to give him some time to absorb the impact of this knowledge.

After all, what the other party is describing now is a different set of rules within the same world.

It's not wrong to say it's another world.

If it were Chen Xi yesterday, he might have needed some mental preparation to quickly accept these rules, but today he has adapted to them very quickly.

So he took the initiative to ask:

"There's an initial question that you seem to have never answered."

Where is Lin Fan?

Facing Chen Xi's gaze, Zhang Wanyi calmly replied:

"I think you already know the answer in your heart."

"really......"

"He's in the Black Tower!"

After all, it was the Black Tower that devoured Lin Fan, so the answer wasn't hard to guess.

Although she had given her answer, Chen Xi still longed for a negative response, but unfortunately, she didn't.

Is Lin Fan still alive?

"I don't know, but the probability of death is higher."

Chen Xi was somewhat disappointed by this answer, because Zhang Wanyi had previously said that she knew Lin Fan's whereabouts.

This misled Chen Xi into believing that Lin Fan was still alive.

Looking back now, what the other person said wasn't wrong; they did indeed know the whereabouts.

The whereabouts of the corpse is also a matter of whereabouts.

Then he pointed to a building in the distance that could be seen from anywhere in the world.

Black Tower!

"Is there any way to get into this place on our own?"

Although Lin Fan and Chen Xi were not related, Chen Xi was not a cold-blooded person. After so many years of friendship, he was willing to take the risk if given the opportunity.

"have."

Upon hearing this, a glint flashed in Chen Xi's eyes. He had always been interested in the occult, and the Black Tower was clearly one of the areas he had explored.

This was the first time he had ever heard of the Black Tower being accessible.

After all, the rule for this thing is a perpetually fixed distance, which means you can neither get close to it nor get far away from it.

"Don't be so happy yet."

Zhang Wanyi immediately poured cold water on the situation:

"Although I've never been inside the Black Tower, I know that one of the requirements for entry is to reach 'Transcendent Stage III'."

"You are currently in an awakened state. Your next step is to reach my current level, and this leap cannot be accomplished overnight."

"Moreover, there are still II and III to come, and the requirement to enter the Black Tower is too far away for you."

"Even if Lin Fan is still alive now, by the time you meet the requirements to enter, Lin Fan inside the Black Tower will probably be long gone."

"Don't blame me for being blunt, this is the truth."

"And did you think you were safe during this time?"

"What do you mean?"

Chen Xi countered with a question:

"Didn't you say that as long as you have an identity, you won't be swallowed by the Black Tower?"

"Furthermore, this identity can grant me power that transcends the physical rules of this world, which is a supernatural ability. Theoretically speaking, I should be safer."

"There is no absolute safety, Chen Xi. Ordinary people, people with extraordinary potential, and people in an awakened state that is not contaminated by cognition—all three of them are possible to be randomly devoured by the Black Tower, and they have no right to resist."

"And people like me, with status, are spied on by a monster called a 'false person.'"

"A fake?"

Chen Xi read it aloud. The word wasn't unfamiliar, but it depended on how the other person interpreted it.

"It means exactly what it says, something disguised as a human."

"These imposters are absolutely indistinguishable from normal people in appearance."

"All I can tell you is that they will try to steal our identities."

"So strictly speaking, no one can remain unaffected."

"The difference between superhumans and the previous three is that we can resist!"

Zhang Wanyi emphasized the last two words, and Chen Xiguang felt a bit of pressure just listening to them.

But to his surprise, he found that he wasn't afraid at all, and was even a little excited.

This was something Chen Xi herself hadn't expected.

"Um?"

"You don't seem very scared."

Zhang Wanyi was somewhat surprised, knowing that what she said could cost her her life.

"Maybe I'm just a crazy person at heart."

"Going to school, going to work, getting married, having children, turning into ashes—maybe I matured early on and became weary of this process very early on."

Chen Xi wasn't lying; he was indeed precocious. The immense memories caused by hyperthymesia forced him to mentally develop much faster than his peers.

"Really? You're quite interesting. You don't even have the slightest thought of running away. But fake people only target those with status. You won't be targeted at your current stage."

"And it won't be easy for them to find us."

"On a side note, the concept of a 'false person' is a bit beyond your current understanding. I'm saying this to remind you that you are now living in a crisis-ridden society governed by the rule of law."

"From now on, you must be more careful and cautious in everything you do."

"I can no longer think of myself as a senior in high school."

Zhang Wanyi spoke with the air of someone who had been through it all.

Although she appears to be 18, she is at least 24.

Why "at least"? Because Chen Xi knows that women love to lie, especially the prettier the woman, the more likely she is to lie!

They say age is a woman's secret, but I'm 18!

He hypothesized that if Zhang Wanyi were actually 50 years old, she would definitely use a coupon, offering a discount of 25 yuan off purchases over 50 yuan!

But whether it's true or false, he decided not to bother asking any more questions.

"Alright, it's getting late. Let's go back to school. On the surface, we're still students, and I want to continue being the school beauty to advance my status to the Extraordinary II stage."

"Regarding guidance on the awakened state, I'll add you to the group later. Please take a look at the information in the group first."

"Is everything alright?"

Chen Xi nodded. Zhang Wanyi's "Is there no problem?" was the final invitation.

If you refuse to join the group, you are giving up the possibility of striving and choosing to lie low. How long you live depends entirely on luck.

Rather than waiting for fate to decide whether he would be mercilessly swallowed by the Black Tower one day, Chen Xi would rather be a superhuman with the ability to resist.

His feelings were mixed at that moment, a mixture of nervousness and excitement.

A fake, isn't he?

I wonder if I have any of these around me?

Just as he was about to leave, something suddenly occurred to him:

"Wait a mininute."

Chen Xi squatted down, took out the tennis ball he had put away from his schoolbag, and briefly explained what had happened yesterday:

"You said earlier that all traces of the people who were devoured in this world would disappear. So what is this tennis ball?"

Zhang Wanyi was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly frowned, an expression she had never shown before.

Then he said something that Chen Xi found unbelievable:

"Chen Xi, what are you saying?"

"You clearly don't have anything in your hand."