Chapter 2 (1/2)
The female voice rang in Zhou Bai’s ears, “How is it? Did you succeed? Primordial Spirit power can be used to move things in the air and to attack people without a trace. You can do whatever you want with it…”
“Isn’t this just telekinesis?” Zhou Bai twitched his will and felt a shapeless power sprawl out from his consciousness, extending into the real world.
Boom! The big metal door finally rammed open. A monster that looked like it was pieced together from rotten flesh walked in. It locked its white pupils in Zhou Bai’s direction.
Zhou Bai subconsciously started Primordial Spirit power and saw the air distort slightly. A shapeless power had already swept onto the monster’s body with a light breeze, tightly binding the monster before him.
Zhou Bai said gleefully, “Success?”
But the next moment, the monster’s body paused for only a bit before it charged toward Zhou Bai against the Primordial Spirit power. Its movement was somewhat slower, but it continued to close in on Zhou Bai step by step.
Zhou Bai’s face fell, and he immediately came to a realization. Looking at the board in his mind, he added all the remaining 9 points of Laziness onto Primordial Spirit Value.
He saw the number behind Primordial Spirit Value quickly change. In a blink, it had gone from 1 to 10.
Boom! Primordial Spirit power rose sharply. The strength it asserted on the monster compressed the air, creating a light thump, followed by an explosion. It sent the monster flying outward like a toy.
Zhou Bai watched this scene unfold in excitement, but before he could give it more thought, his vision went black, and he passed out.
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Zhou Bai opened his eyes in a daze. Waves of pain came from his brain.
Before him was an unfamiliar ceiling, and he seemed to smell disinfectant.
He heard the sound of chewing. Zhou Bai raised his head intuitively to look, and he saw a blond girl wearing a white dress.
The little girl held a cookie on the side of the bed, crumbs all over her mouth. Her sapphire-like eyes were wide open. She put a hand over her little mouth and looked at Zhou Bai in panic.
“I didn’t eat your cookies!”
Looking at the foreign environment and the person in front of him, Zhou Bai went blank for a second, then asked out of instinct, “Who are you? Where am I?”
But the little girl acted like she hadn’t heard what he said. She ran out of the room in a flurry and yelled, “He’s awake! The person you picked up is awake! He ate all the cookies!”
Zhou Bai pursed his lips, slowly sitting up on the bed, and felt the change in his body.
“My body…”
He abruptly lifted the white robe, and an unfamiliar body appeared before him. It looked thin and lanky. He turned to look at the mirror on the side and saw a younger, 17- or 18-year-old version of himself.
“What the heck…how did I become so much younger?” Zhou Bai intuitively felt his face and was bewildered. “But frankly, I was handsome when I was younger.”
Right then, the door opened again. The little girl dragged a black-haired, black-eyed, middle-aged man into the room. The middle-aged man was tall and thin, but he looked gloomy.
He looked at Zhou Bai with a cold expression and said, “You’re up? Then come check in…”
“Wait…” Zhou Bai got up from the bed and asked, “Where is this? How did I become like this? Do you have a phone I can borrow? I want to make a call…”
The gloomy man frowned, “Check in and get an inspection first…” As he said this, he turned to leave, muttering to himself, “Another one gone mad…”
Zhou Bai could only follow him. The blond girl studied him curiously. She walked all around Zhou Bai, “Big brother, did you come from the outside?
“Big brother, do you have any more cookies?
“Big brother, why aren’t you saying anything?”
Zhou Bai wasn’t in the mood to answer the little girl’s mutterings. His head was a mess. He’d suddenly arrived at an unfamiliar place, met unfamiliar people, in this unfamiliar body, and the things that happened before he fainted—