She twisted the muscles in her back.

"It's not concern—" Lin Yi's word "concern" had not yet been completed when he abruptly stopped because his attention was entirely captured by the horrifying scene before him.

He saw wisps of smoke, like those from an incense burner, seeping out of Li Huiyuan's back. The smoke was very thin, resembling the incense one burns during festivals in tribute to ancestors.

Very fine, it rose slowly, then lingered above her head, refusing to dissipate for a long time.

What frightened Lin Yi was that the smoke was an eerie shade of green!

As Li Huiyuan unconsciously twisted her back due to the itch, exceeding a certain range of motion, a fine slit opened up on her skin!

And as the slit healed, what it resembled was a hair-thin scratch mark!

That scratch mark, was not actually a scratch mark, but a wound, a strange wound!!!

A strong sense of discomfort and eeriness rose in Lin Yi's heart. To him, Li Huiyuan seemed like some humanoid creature wearing a "Li Huiyuan" skin and flesh shell. A cut had opened on the shell's back, and when the cut was not tightly sealed, a green breath leaked out!

He suddenly realized another key point!

Below Li Huiyuan's black sports vest, there seemed to be an even larger "cut"!

"That green light spot!"

Lin Yi thought of the bright green light spot he had seen through the exposed Vision on Li Huiyuan's sport vest earlier.

"Li Huiyuan!" Lin Yi called out to her, "Bear with me, I think I've found something!"

Li Huiyuan's body stiffened suddenly, and Lin Yi took the opportunity to grab her sports vest and gave it a strong tug.

"No offense!"

With that tug, a thick green smoke momentarily billowed from beneath the sports vest, like a firecracker going off on her back!

The smoke shot straight towards Lin Yi's face, similar to a weasel's spray or a squid's ink, threatening to catch him off guard. Almost reflexively, he exhaled, instinctively trying to blow away the dark green dense smoke.

However, he had no idea what the substance was, so his reflexive action naturally could not achieve the expected effect. Fortunately, however, because the back seat Lin Yi had chosen was bathed in sunlight, the moment the dark green smoke erupted, it was instantly scorched by the sun and "poof"— it separated into green and white powder particles that scattered separately.

When the green breath completely dissipated, Lin Yi discovered a tiny white granule within the interior of Li Huiyuan's sports vest.

He pinched it out with two fingers, showed it to Li Huiyuan: "This thing has been inside your sports vest, pressing against your back. Do you feel it?"

Li Huiyuan took the white fragment, about the size of a fingernail, and her brows gradually furrowed.

"It's been on my back the whole time? Weird, it's not thin at all... but I really couldn't feel it there. It looks like a piece of plaster..."

She tried squeezing it, and the white granular substance immediately crumbled into powder and scattered away.

Lin Yi glanced at her back again, and at that moment, the hair-thin line had faded considerably and was no longer emitting green smoke. However, it had only faded a bit and showed no sign of disappearing completely.

"That scratch mark is still there," Lin Yi said. "It looks like Green Hat scratched your back and left a piece of his broken fingernail on it."

"But there's one thing I don't understand. Even if it broke off, the fragment shouldn't have gotten stuck in your vest. What's going on?"

While talking, Lin Yi couldn't help but pull the sports vest back to check again. There were no traces where the plaster fragment had been, no impressions on Li Huiyuan's back where the tight sports vest could have pressed... Everything was as if it had never existed.

Lin Yi smacked his lips, frowning and releasing his hand unconsciously, causing the sports vest to snap back and take Li Huiyuan by surprise.

Li Huiyuan rubbed her back, blushing slightly, turned around with a hint of discontent, and was about to mutter something when she suddenly saw Wei Liang's gaping mouth and his helpless, deeply aggrieved expression.

Wei Liang, in shock, released his grip, and the carefully selected adult comics he was holding fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Damn, are you guys... practicing the 'Jade Maiden Sutra' or something?!"

"Old Lin, you've got such a thing going on and you don't call your bros! Sneakily offering a back rub and massage!!!" Wei Liang feigned crying, portraying the agony of being left out by a friend who came into some good fortune.

Lin Yi secretly applauded Wei Liang's masterful acting, vowing to ignore the next Oscars if Wei Liang wasn't attending.

"..." Lin Yi spread his hands helplessly. Faced with Wei Liang, the champion of big talk who lied about feeling up silk stockings, he decided to explain in the simplest of terms. So he said, "Yes, we are practicing the 'Jade Maiden Sutra'."

"Get lost! I don't buy it!" Wei Liang didn't believe a word but seeing Li Huiyuan's slightly flushed cheeks, he felt like he was witnessing a scene straight out of a day-time drama, reminiscent of famous scenarios like "I'm cutting vegetables in the kitchen while my best buddy is having a whirlwind romance behind the kitchen door and I'm clueless..."

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