This actor is full of tricks.

In the swirling mist, two little ghosts hid in the shadows, smelling a wonderful aroma carried on the wind—the fresh, delicious taste of the living.

"I didn't expect there would still be people in the mist. They must have accidentally escaped because the mist was corrupting the present world. It just so happens that two of us got lucky."

"We'll split it in half and finish this quickly. We just need to make sure no one else finds out. I don't want any other weirdos sharing this hard-earned food."

The two ghosts whispered to each other, preparing to catch the living person off guard when he got close and then devour him.

Soon, they heard footsteps getting closer and closer.

"There were two footsteps, and they were two living people!"

"Perfect! Let's each have one!"

The two ghosts exchanged a glance and saw the excitement in each other's eyes. When the footsteps were less than three meters away from them, the two ghosts could no longer hold back and rushed out.

They blocked the road, activating the eerie resentment belonging to the E-level. One of them, with a fierce expression, said: "Stop! If you want to pass through here, you must leave your heart and limbs!"

Before he could finish speaking, he noticed his companion's expression change drastically: "I sense something's wrong! There's another aura, it's terrifying..."

Before he could finish speaking, the mist in the distance parted to both sides, and a figure in a white coat walked out. It was a handsome doctor with glasses and soft facial features, who looked like an easy target.

"How long has it been since you've seen a living person? Have you become too timid? This is just a walking meal!" The fierce-looking monster was very disdainful of its companion's cowardice.

But the other ghost felt something was off, because the living person in front of them was too calm. He just glanced at them indifferently, as if he were looking at a roadside animal. This was not how an ordinary person would react when encountering a ghost.

This made him instinctively sense the danger, and he wanted to pull his companion away to escape.

However, another set of footsteps sounded, and when they saw the figure following the living person out, their two eerie bodies instantly stiffened and turned ice-cold.

It was a terrifying-looking creature dressed in a raincoat. The raincoat was as dark and unfathomable as an abyss, and just one glance at it made their scalps tingle, as if they could hear the roars of countless evil creatures in their ears.

"Who did they say they wanted to eat?" Fu Yu stopped beside Lin Jue, staring expressionlessly at the two monsters.

“They said they would leave your heart and limbs behind,” Lin Jue added.

The two monsters were immediately terrified. By now, they knew that these two were not people they could afford to mess with.

"Spare me!!"

Amidst the terrified wails of the two ghosts, Fu Yu rolled up his raincoat, and wave after wave of ghostly figures appeared, engulfing the two ghosts. By the time the ghostly figures disappeared, the two ghosts had been swallowed up without a trace.

After doing all this, Fu Yu sighed: "I don't even know why I went to the real world with you."

After the incident at the Eternal Night Tower, Lin Jue tricked Fu Yu into leaving. He tried to put Fu Yu into his raincoat, but the raincoat couldn't hold Fu Yu at all, perhaps because he didn't want Fu Yu to get stuck in the infinite nesting bug.

He did not use the Netherworld Contract because he intended to use it on a strange being that was extremely powerful but whose reason was chaotic.

He Wen and some other rational residents went into his raincoat, while the rest of the less rational residents were all stuffed into Fu Yu's raincoat.

Fu Yu himself was not sure why he listened to Lin Jue so much. Perhaps it was because he was afraid of the other party’s strong strength, or perhaps it was because he was moved by the relationship between the other party and the shopkeeper and other ghosts, or perhaps it was both reasons.

Anyway, almost inexplicably, he agreed to return to Yangtao Street with Lin Jue. After dealing with the two clueless monsters, no other monsters dared to attack Lin Jue along the way. Fu Yu released all his resentment, enough to deter most of the monsters.

"He Wen, did the previous building manager tell you where he went?" Lin Jue asked He Wen, who was wearing a raincoat, on the way back.

He had asked about it before at Eternal Night Tower, but He Wen didn't seem to want to talk about the former tower manager, so he planned to pretend to ask casually in the future and probe little by little to find out.

"I don't know. He left in a hurry, as if something was urging him on," He Wen's childish voice came from inside the backpack.

After experiencing the resurgence of murderous intent, Lin Jue began to doubt the identity of this body. He had always thought that the predecessor was No. 1, who was the former head of the Eternal Night Tower.

However, the murderous intent completely undermined this speculation. If this body was not Patient No. 1, Lin Jue, then it was possible that the former building manager was not the original body either.

"Is it really a clone? Then is this body the original, or is Number 1 the original? Was the Lin Jue that Liao Fan saw in the mist this body or Number 1? Or was it another clone, like 160230..."

How many clones are there exactly?

The identity of "Lin Jue" is becoming increasingly mysterious. It feels like he has infiltrated many strange events, yet every clue points to a different person.

"What can be confirmed now is that 160230, number 1, and I are not the same person..."

"I can't understand..."

Despite the increasing number of clues, Lin Jue felt he was getting further and further away from the truth. Everything was very confusing. He had considered revealing his true appearance to He Wen, but ultimately gave up on the idea because his identity was too sensitive and involved too many secrets. The fewer people who knew, the better.

"What kind of person do you think the former building manager was?" Lin Jue then asked.

“He’s not human, he’s a monster.” He Wen corrected Lin Jue’s grammatical error, which also revealed that this body was not the former building manager.

"Okay, okay, weird, weird."

He Wen, who was in the backpack, was silent for a few seconds: "He is a very warm-hearted ghost, but I feel that he always looks preoccupied and often stands alone on the rooftop in a daze."

"And I always felt that he was very incomplete. I don't know how to say it, he was like a piece of a puzzle."

"How could you have such a feeling?" Lin Jue was taken aback. He Wen's words made his guess about his identity turn in another direction. Could it be that this body, Number 1, and that former building manager were actually incomplete? Only when they were all put together would they become the truly complete Lin Jue?

This is a bit too fantastical, like the clones of a powerful being in a fantasy novel, where all the clones must come together to become the true original body.

“I rely on my intuition.” He Wen revealed a bit of her ability: “I am blind, but I have awakened a strange ability. I have a vague feeling about some things, something like a soul. The former building manager gave me a feeling of being broken.”

Something like the soul?
Is this ability really that mysterious?

"What about me?" Lin Jue wanted to see if He Wen could see anything strange about him.

"You?" He Wen's voice was hesitant. "I don't have any special feelings about you. You're just a person."

I didn't feel anything special?

Lin Jue paused, was it because of the time travel? His body and soul had changed, which was why He Wen didn't feel anything strange. (End of Chapter)