Bewilderment

The night was too dark, and even from a dozen meters away, Lü Shu couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but he could still feel the tension in their muscles. Their posture seemed like they were ready to attack at any moment.

However, vaguely, he could already see the black windbreaker swaying in the wind on the two figures, and the chilling aura of winter, like an invisible wall warning outsiders to stay away.

It seemed like the other party was also a bit uncertain about Lü Shu's background. It was not normal for someone to be standing on the roof in the middle of the night...

Lü Shu hesitated for a moment and decided to climb down the ladder again. After all, the other person seemed skilled, and it seemed a bit abnormal to be jumping around on the roof in the middle of the night...

And most importantly... the black windbreaker.

This touched a nerve in Lü Shu. Although many people wore them, encountering one at this time and place made him involuntarily recall the scene from the afternoon.

It seemed that the other party hadn't expected Lü Shu to react so timidly, and they were momentarily stunned...

Being timid was just inevitable. Lü Shu now knew he had his limitations. From birth until now, the time he was closest to that strange world was just a moment ago.

If there was anything different about Lü Shu now, it was the shop system in his mind, the tree in his hand, the fire in his heart, and the dim star map in his chest.

And if you delved further, you could count his body that had consumed the marrow-washing fruit.

But besides all this, he really had no combat ability at all. Although all these things might sound intimidating, in reality, if a fight were to break out, he would be a hundred percent a pushover.

Self-confident counterattacks were just non-existent for Lü Shu. Running away when unable to fight was the norm. Who knew what had happened to the person taken away backstage after the acrobatics performance this afternoon? Lü Shu didn't want to end up like that.

He wasn't a hero or someone with grand dreams of being a superhero. He was just a high school senior who was trying to peek into a broader world from the edge of a well.

Lü Shu still had to investigate the secrets inside his body and take care of Lü Xiaoyu until she had independent abilities. It felt somewhat cool to think of himself as the older brother nurturing his younger sister, even though Lü Xiaoyu never admitted they were siblings, even when she gave him a name with "Lü."

So Lü Shu couldn't afford to have trouble tonight. There were still many things he had to do.

Lü Shu climbed down from the roof with the bamboo basket in his arms and looked at the two people confronting him, shaking his head.

The other side seemed a bit puzzled, wondering what he meant by that gesture.

Lü Shu felt a bit helpless. Brothers, just leave already. It's making me nervous with you standing here... He pointed in the direction they had originally come from, indicating they should leave, and he would step aside.

At this point, Lü Shu was already prepared to run away at any moment. Who knew what kind of person this was?

There were just too many strange things happening tonight, and Lü Shu felt like he couldn't keep up.

First, a fire lit up the sky of Luo City, and then he encountered the black windbreaker from this afternoon again.

However, although Lü Shu had stepped aside, the problem was that the other side didn't seem to intend to leave it at that. They cautiously moved step by step towards Lü Shu, then agilely crossed over two rooftops.

In the black night, the moonlight turned the snow on the roof into silver, creaking underfoot. The footprints on the roof were black, looking extremely abrupt.

Wait, could this person have something to do with the fire? Lü Shu recalled the person's actions just now, and they seemed to be fleeing!

"Who are you?" One of them stood on the roof, looking down at Lü Shu from a high vantage point. The black cloak fluttered in the chilly wind like a cape.

"I live here. Who are you?"

The two people on the roof looked at each other. "What are you doing on the roof in the middle of the night?"

"It's snowing... collecting dried radishes..." Lü Shu raised the bamboo basket in his hand, brushing off the snow to reveal the dried radishes inside...

The two people on the roof looked at each other in confusion. Was he really up here to collect dried radishes?! He remembered to do it only after the snow had stopped. Wasn't this guy a bit stupid?!

"Go home. It's not safe here." One of them spoke from the roof.

Lü Shu inwardly thought, It's not safe with you guys here! He just muttered an agreement and turned to open the door with his keys.

It wasn't until he opened the door that he suddenly felt the pressure from above lift.

The other party seemed to finally believe that he was just an ordinary person.

After closing the door, Lü Shu breathed a sigh of relief. This world was truly abnormal.

He had been worried before about whether everything happening to him could be sensed by others. He had this concern because when the fire broke out, he could vaguely feel something abnormal in that direction.

It wasn't intuition, but a feeling, something tangible.

At this moment, the white flame in his heart was flickering incessantly, and the star map in his chest was slowly moving in a mysterious trajectory. If it were sensed by others, Lü Shu feared he wouldn't be able to escape being taken away.

But as it appeared now, the other party seemed not to possess that ability. Or perhaps, they couldn't perceive everything happening within him?

During these two encounters, Lü Shu noticed that although the other party's actions were strange, they hadn't resorted to violence against him.

Lü Shu leaned back on the sofa, contemplating. What kind of world was this?

At this moment, the two people rushing into the distance were conversing in low voices. "Are you sure he's fine?"

"No fluctuations detected. Just an ordinary person."

"That's good."

...

"Lü Shu, who were you talking to outside just now?" Lü Xiaoyu stepped out of her room, holding her slippers.

Lü Shu didn't know how to explain to her. After all, he hadn't even had a chance to tell her about everything happening to him. He planned to find an appropriate time to let her know that he wasn't an ordinary person anymore. She shouldn't be disrespectful anymore!

Lü Shu was considering how to respond to Lü Xiaoyu when suddenly, there was a loud thud in the yard outside, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.

Lü Shu abruptly turned his head. There had been too many strange occurrences tonight, and he couldn't help but be alert.

Quietly, he moved towards the door, peering through the peephole. Outside, he saw a person lying in the snow!