“There are only two places left on the first floor: the office and the nurse’s office. Which one should we go to first?”
Bai Yue tugged at Xia Xi’s pants leg and asked, feeling a bit frustrated.
They had turned the first floor upside down but hadn’t found a single thing. All that effort for nothing. Honestly, wouldn’t anyone be super frustrated in a situation like this?
But there were still two rooms on the first floor they hadn’t searched yet. Maybe the special item was hidden in one of them.
“Let’s go to the office first.”
The office was much smaller than the nurse’s office, so searching it would be quicker. We can finish up there and then head to the nurse’s office. That way, we can also take a little rest on the nurse’s office bed afterward.
“Mm-hmm.”
Right now, Bai Yue was acting super obedient, listening to everything Xia Xi said. Wherever Xia Xi went, she followed. Whatever Xia Xi wanted to do, she did. Aside from her appearance, she seemed completely different from the Bai Yue in the real world.
…
The office was a total mess. Papers were scattered all over the desks, and even every desk drawer had been pulled out—clearly, someone had already searched through here.
“Looks like someone beat us to the office.”
Xia Xi glanced at the state of the office and lost the urge to search it again. Even if there had been a special item in here, it was probably already taken by someone else.
But Bai Yue had already started wandering around the office. And wouldn’t you know it, she actually found something.
“Xia Xiaocha, come quick! Look, there’s something carved into this wall.”
Hearing this, Xia Xi quickly walked over to Bai Yue’s side and looked in the direction she was pointing.
[God said: Let there be light.
Places with light must be very special.]
Places with light? The entire hallway was bright, every room was bright too—aren’t all these places with light? But nothing seemed particularly special about them.
“Did you figure anything out?”
Bai Yue looked at Xia Xi with an expectant expression.
But Xia Xi was bound to disappoint her. Just from this carved message, there was no way to deduce much—after all, there were way too many places with light.
“I can’t tell much from this. Let’s just go check the nurse’s office first.”
Xia Xi shook his head, turned around, and walked toward the door.
The nurse’s office was the furthest room on the right side of the first-floor hallway. Even further right than the nurse’s office was the restroom at the end of the hall.
In this school, the restrooms on every floor were at the far right end. And according to Xia Xi’s exploration, the far left end held enough food and bottled water to last more than a week.
Just as they reached the nurse’s office door, they heard voices coming from inside.
“Th-this… someone’s in there?”
Bai Yue froze for a moment.
According to the game’s introduction, there were five participants in total, including that big pervert. Listening to the voices inside the nurse’s office, there were at least two people. She wondered if one of them might be the big pervert.
“Senior Xinyu, it’s me, Bai Yue! When I woke up, I somehow ended up looking like this underclassman!”
This voice sounded pretty young—most likely a student at the school.
“Hmph, tell the truth—are you that big pervert?! I don’t even know you, but you just called out my name. Other than the big pervert arranged by the game, I can’t think of anyone else who would know other people’s information.”
This voice belonged to someone older, kind of like a big sister next door.
It seemed like the two people inside were arguing about their identities.
Xia Xi didn’t plan on eavesdropping any longer. He simply reached out, pushed the door open, and walked in.
Beside him, Bai Yue’s expression flickered but quickly returned to normal.
The main thing was: that person inside claimed to be Bai Yue. But she was Bai Yue. So who was she?
“Who’s there?!”
Luo Xinyu tightened her grip on a syringe and looked at the doorway warily.
“Bai Xi!”
“Big brother!”
As soon as they saw the face of the person walking in, the two girls who had just been arguing both gasped.
Hearing how they addressed him, Xia Xi’s mouth twitched slightly. Earlier, when he met Bai Yue, she had also mistaken him for someone named Bai Xi.
But…
This little blue-haired girl in front of him—she seemed to be the one who actually belonged to his body, Xia Xiaocha’s body, right?
She claimed to be Bai Yue and called him “big brother.” So between this person using his body and the Bai Yue who had been following him the whole time, one of them had to be lying.
“I’m not Bai Xi.”
Xia Xi walked up to the two of them, shook his head, and took out his student ID from his pocket.
“I’m Xia Xiaocha. In other words… the original owner of the body that this person who claims to be Bai Yue is using.”
Luo Xinyu and Bai Yue #2 looked at the photo on the student ID. It indeed matched the appearance of Bai Yue #2’s body exactly.
Just then, Bai Yue #2 noticed the girl behind Xia Xi.
“That’s MY body!!!”
Bai Yue #2 gasped again.
“What do you mean, ‘your body’?! You’re not trying to steal my body, are you?!”
Seeing that Bai Yue #2 looked like she was about to lunge at her, Bai Yue #1 quickly hid her whole body behind Xia Xi.
“What are you talking about?! That’s MY body! I’m the real Bai Yue!”
“You’re full of crap! I’m the real Bai Yue! Xiaocha, we’ve been together for so long—you believe me, right?”
Bai Yue #1 shot a vicious glare at Bai Yue #2, then turned to look at Xia Xi with a pitiful expression.
But Xia Xi didn’t take a side. Clearly, one of them was lying. And right now, the one who seemed more likely to be lying was the one who had been sticking by his side all along.
Because if the Bai Yue #2 inside his little girl’s body was the big pervert, then he had already gotten himself a pretty girl’s body. There would be no reason to risk exposing himself by running around talking to people.
Of course, it was also possible that the pervert’s task was to obtain a specific body.
As for Bai Yue #1, who had been following him around—Xia Xi couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but he always felt like her behavior was a bit off. Plus, she was way too familiar right from the start. The way she stood at the entrance of the teaching building, it was almost as if she had been deliberately waiting for someone.
“Stop right there. Let’s set the identity issue aside for now. Once we find the big pervert’s body, all these problems will solve themselves.”
If someone had gotten their body swapped by the big pervert, they would definitely say who they had been swapped with—unless that person’s memory had been altered by a special item.
Luo Xinyu had been watching for a while. She thought it over briefly.
“So that means, among the four of us here, two claim to be Bai Yue, one is Xia Xiaocha, and then there’s me.”
She paused for a moment, then continued.
“Since no one says they’re Bai Xi, that means one of the four of us must be the big pervert!”
Xia Xi nodded.
He didn’t know whether this Luo Xinyu in front of him had any issues, but the two Bai Yues were clearly problematic.
“So what do we do now?”
After setting aside the identity squabble for a bit, the few of them had gotten fairly familiar with each other.
“Since everyone thinks there’s something wrong with the two white moons, let’s split into pairs of the four of us and look for special items to get Xia Xiaochai’s body back first.””
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