"Holy smokes, for real? Zhou Bin's face got painted without anyone noticing?"
"For sure, you heard his screams too, right? Hilarious, the whole building must've heard it. No idea which supernatural fellow did it, or how it was done."
"I heard someone took advantage of his nap at noon and used those pens that delay in showing color. It felt so awesome... Hey, wasn't President Yan in that classroom?"
The noise in the hallway after the exam was unending, with math being the last exam of the spring term. The atmosphere was already like a spring compressed to its limit ready to release its energy, and now the hilarity of Zhou Bin getting his face painted added joy throughout the building.
However, Yan Huan, who had witnessed everything, quietly slipped away with his bag just as the test ended. Close to the end of school, he casually found an empty classroom on the higher floors that no one usually visited and snuck in.
"Click."
He turned to close the door, shutting out the noise from below, and casually tossed his bag onto the chair behind him before sitting down.
Taking a deep breath, he looked around the empty classroom and tentatively spoke out,
"That voice speaking in my head just now... are you there? Whether you're a system or some kind of Golden Finger, isn't it about time you explain the situation to me?"
"Meow~"
As if responding, an ethereal meow suddenly echoed in the empty classroom.
Yan Huan turned slightly and saw a long-haired black cat sitting by a desk in the aisle, cocking its head, waving its tail, and staring at him with eyes as green as emeralds.
A stray cat that sneaked in?
Just as this thought came to him, the black cat bounded gracefully - first hopping onto the chair in front of him and then leaping onto the desk in front of Yan Huan.
The black cat turned its chubby body around, licked its paws, and then sat upright in front of Yan Huan.
Along with that were the echoes of the same voice in his mind,
"Hello, Yan Huan."
Great, a black cat that can talk inside his mind, just another touch of fantasy.
But having just experienced Bai Yi's bizarre incident, Yan Huan's capacity for acceptance was terrifyingly high. He just leaned in to the plump cat face to face and asked,
"What are you? And what was that just now?"
"I am the deity of this world. As for what happened earlier... please allow me to introduce the current situation to you."
The black cat cutely looked up at him as the voice in his head continued,
"In short, this world is being invaded. I need your help."
Yan Huan was taken aback by the black cat's serious tone,
"The Three Body People are really attacking?"
"No, it's a fantastical power from another world that is invading the world you live in presently."
The black cat shook its head, and a phantom light suddenly bloomed in front of Yan Huan's eyes.
First, a clawing crab apparition appeared, seemingly also a deity from some other world.
Then the apparition dissipated, revealing more introductions about yet another world,
[Invading world number: 114514, definition: Female-oriented fantasy world, name: Cruel Meat X Training...]
"Stop, hold on!"
Before more risky words popped out, Yan Huan grimaced and waved away the light before him, making the text above dissipate like smoke.
He took a deep breath, then suddenly remembered the odd voice that had come from Bai Yi.
He seemed to recall something suddenly, about Bai Yi's superpower of doing whatever and still being ignored by others.
[Carefree]...
No wonder it sounded so familiar!
At this moment, the grimy memories in his mind began to assault Yan Huan, the gentleman.
Good grief, it must be a deity in charge of lascivious matters from Ancient Greece that's attacking!
The black cat "meowed" adorably again, speaking to Yan Huan in his mind,
"The invading force is causing abnormalities in this originally normal world, eventually giving birth to five very dangerous 'modifiers,' where what happened to Bai Yi just now is one of them. They dwell within women blessed with fate, grow with their desires, and will eventually mess up the world's timeline, and also completely ruin your life."
Yan Huan blinked, wanting to say "What does this have to do with my life?"
But then suddenly recalling how Bai Yi, whom he barely knew, suddenly and inexplicably wanted to scribble on his face and said something as cryptic as "we'll have plenty of time," he choked back what he was about to say.
And if he had a superpower like "Carefree" that could break free from the rules of reality, he'd probably do more than just draw on Zhou Bin's face.
Putting himself in their shoes, he didn't think they would keep playing such small pranks...
Combining what Bai Yi said, she probably just got that modifier not long ago and was still in the thrill of tasting forbidden fruit, hence her behavior was somewhat within reason.
If given time...
The black cat blinked its green vertical pupils as if it could see through his current doubts and gloominess, and while grooming its fur, it explained,
"Over the past decade or so, thanks to your self-discipline and diligence, you now possess an unimaginably handsome appearance, a super-smart brain, an extremely good social network, and you are the only transmigrator in the world, the only existence with whom I can communicate. In other words, fate is also with you, perfectly satisfying the desires of that world's power, you should understand."