Bai Weiran: …………

Movies and TV shows are indeed all lies.

People who have known each other since childhood can be recognized in a second when they put on a mask.

He was stunned for a moment, and now he just felt both amused and exasperated.

"No, I just remembered something."

"…………? Oh, what is it? That you could think of something while chatting with an invincible, cosmically-level beautiful girl? I'm warning you, it better be very important."

"Yes, I was thinking about my sister." He said calmly.

"My sister is a prankster and a lazy person, so she often gets bored halfway through a prank, gets lazy, and doesn't want to continue playing. She just blows up the truck. So I never like to play puzzle games with my sister, because she will most likely reveal her identity halfway through, making the game end quickly."

The masked girl chuckled.

"Solving mysteries is exhausting, but revealing spoilers is so much fun. I like to write movie reviews online every day, without even noting in the comments that there are spoilers, so that unsuspecting people can click in, get spoiled, and then leave."

"I also like to circle the murderer's name in pencil when it first appears in the detective novels in the library, and write next to it: 'This is the murderer.' Ah... God, I'm so kind. I let everyone know the answer immediately, so they don't have to read the novel, saving readers who open that novel three to five hours."

The masked girl spoke with conviction.

“Your sister is so kind. I suggest she take it a step further, learn from me, and do more good deeds. Good people are rewarded.”

"........."

Bai Weiran didn't hold back and gave her a disdainful look.

"007 said that the examiner who will come to see me is you?"

“…Hey, you’re not following the proper procedure!” she accused.

"Shouldn't you be feeling conflicted and hesitant right now? Oh my god, who is this person? I look a lot like someone... but it might not be her. Maybe she's someone the platform created to mislead me. She might be the person 007 was talking about, or she might not be. Maybe she's someone else."

"...Why am I thinking about these things?" It's completely inexplicable.

"This is usually how it goes according to procedure. There are all sorts of things left unsaid, all sorts of suspicions, and a lot of internal monologues can be added in between."

"...Watch your words, I suspect you're implying something."

The masked girl shrugged, chuckled, and stretched out her hand.

"Alright then, since you've seen through the only truth, I won't hide my identity anymore."

"Evil that embodies love and truth, a cute and charming villain, I am the examiner who never travels between worlds—the Wasteland Witch. Hello, user Wei Ran."

Just as Bai Weiran reached out to grasp it, he noticed that the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

He turned his head and saw that all the pedestrians had stopped moving and stood still, like a movie scene that had been paused.

"........."

He turned his head and met the eyes of the masked girl.

In this stillness, she is the only living, breathing person.

She smiled with her eyes narrowed.

"I was afraid you wouldn't believe me, so I had to show you my strength. Were you scared?"

"This is the examiner. I can easily stop world time. Isn't that amazing?!"

"Oh, it's just so-so."

"...?"

"Hey, I froze time in the entire world, and you don't even think that's amazing? You're way too greedy!"

"You're not really freezing time in the whole world," Bai Weiran chuckled.

"...The only thing you're interfering with is my personal sense of time passing."

The masked girl's eyes widened, and she exclaimed, "Oh!"

"When I have free time, I test the energy supplied by the platform to what extent. Later I found that when it runs in accordance with the laws of physics, it can achieve the greatest efficiency in the most streamlined way, while interfering with the operation of living organisms will consume energy very quickly."

He always found it quite interesting and would take tests from time to time.

"Interfering with the flow of time involves a huge amount of information. It's difficult to even stop the flow of time for one person. If you were to stop the flow of time for so many people at the same time, it wouldn't be surprising if the energy required could trigger a world-ending catastrophe."

“But I can’t feel any fluctuations, everything is calm and peaceful—” Bai Weiran pointed around.

"The answer is simple: because you are not targeting other people in this world, but me. You are interfering with my own perception of the flow of time in this world."

Ultimately, it wasn't that time stood still or slowed down, but rather that his perception slowed down.

The masked girl remained silent for two seconds, then suddenly made a gun out of her fingers and pointed it at him.

"Biu~biu~, that's a great answer, very good, very good."

"Oh dear, you actually found out. Usually, I can fool you."

“User Wei Ran, it seems your intelligence is only slightly below my brother’s.”

Bai Weiran: …………

"Oh right, I have an older brother who's rather strange. He often wavers between rationality and emotion, unable to extricate himself. Our whole family thinks he's odd; he's the one in the family who likes to drain himself internally the most, but doesn't know how to drain others externally."

"Your brother sounds like a nice guy."

"He's a nice person, but he's a bit ugly, which is a shame."

She narrowed her eyes and gave a mischievous smile, leaving Bai Weiran speechless.

Only close relatives could so viciously insult their own people.

You've taken all the bamboo shoots from this mountain.

The next second, his vision blurred, and the world returned to normal, with a bustling crowd rushing towards him.

She looked around and suddenly sighed.

"It's not what I imagined—"

"When I first saw this city, I thought it was a place where four major families were entrenched and fighting each other to the death. I imagined it would be a place where people would fight in the streets from time to time, with Gatling guns firing everywhere, a hail of bullets and a sea of ​​blood. I imagined walking towards you through the bullets, unharmed, and saying hi to you."

"In the end, we were able to celebrate the holiday peacefully. Ahhh, this was truly my mistake!"

She complained under her breath as she lightly jumped over the drain cover on the ground with both feet together.

It was less of a jump and more of a gentle drift.

"The story of this festival is also very interesting. The fairy queen actually fell in love with a villager wearing a donkey mask because of the influence of the love potion."

"Hey! User Wei Ran, do you think... there's such a thing as a love potion in this world?"

It's really a bit magical and absurd.

The siblings, who grew up together and were very close, are now strangers in another world, each wearing a mask.

But the tone of their conversation was no different from how they usually talk at home.

"It doesn't exist in my world, but it might exist in other worlds—but I don't really believe it."

"Oh, why don't you believe me?"

"In this story, the love potion itself is no different from the infatuation potion. You become infatuated with someone and completely lose your mind—these two feelings are not the same to me. If you like someone without reason, then it is not love."

"Whether it's being infatuated with someone or enjoying being infatuated with, it's just a form of narcissism," Bai Weiran shrugged.

"People who are infatuated with others are moved by the feeling of 'I would do anything for true love,' while those who enjoy being infatuated with are moved by the feeling of 'I am always invincible.' If that's not narcissism, what is it?"

The masked girl rolled her eyes and smiled mischievously.

"So rational, so clear-headed, it's really frightening."

The two gradually left the bustling street center and arrived at the quiet outer area, where there was a wall that was being demolished and was half collapsed. The masked girl floated up and sat on the wall, while Bai Weiran sat on another protruding wall. The two looked up at the sky together, which was full of stars.

"...When will you join this platform?"

"...What kind of attitude is that? Call me 'Examiner'."

"Examiner, when did you join this platform?"

"How could you ask about someone's secrets? Don't you know that women need their own secrets? Once a woman's secrets are known to everyone, she will lose her charm."

"It doesn't matter, I don't care whether you're charming or not."

He's not a sister-obsessed brother.

As soon as Bai Weiran finished speaking, he immediately felt a strong force from directly above him, as if an invisible hand was pressing down from the sky, forcing him to lunge forward. He tried to resist immediately, but found that his energy was immobilized, although his superhuman physique had not been removed.

He could only watch helplessly as gravity pressed him down, crushing the wall and burying him vertically into the ground.

Finally, only its head remained above ground, turning left and right.

The culprit sat on the wall, chin in hand, and chuckled at him.

The identical masks gave him a subtle sense of justice and retribution.

"...Because you offended the examiner with what you said, you've been punished by the gods! My goodness, you must be careful what you say next time, understand?"

"But since the kind examiner doesn't mind, I forgive you." She said, taking out her phone.

"...Let me see. Turn on the flash, turn on night vision mode, and turn on burst mode!"

Satisfied with the direct shot, I put my phone away.

"As for the question you asked—it's not that I can't tell you, but can you promise me you'll keep it a secret?"

"no problem."

"Especially, my brother can't know. He's the only one in our family who's naive and doesn't know anything."

Bai Weiran: …………

Silence enveloped me.

"Actually, you should know that my dad is one of the system's managers, the kind of person who's related to royalty! I've never actually done any tasks, but I can be an examiner and bully you, the top performer, you understand? The evil parachuted-in party."

“But my dad likes to live a leisurely life. He doesn’t like management, he only likes to create. Now he’s very lazy and thinks about retiring every day. Unexpectedly, his own company hired his own people, my brother, and he did a great job. It’s like the flood washed away the Dragon King’s temple. My dad thought, why don’t we just give him the position?”

“People from other districts are writing to him every day to complain about him. He’s annoyed and too lazy to deal with these things.”

"He feels that if he works an extra hour, he will lose 3,600 seconds of leisure time. You see, would you choose to work for an hour or lie down for 3,600 seconds?"

"One hour of work," Bai Weiran replied instantly, without hesitation.

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