Restricted Fantasy I Chapter 395: Who is Bai Yi?

"Wu... w-wait, Xiao Huan..."

On the beach, feeling Yan Huan's body growing increasingly hot, the look of fear on Ye Shiyu's face also deepened.

She stared with unfocused eyes at the hotel drawing closer in the distance. As if undergoing a battle between heaven and man, she tightened her grip around Yan Huan.

It was like taking a cat with social anxiety out of the house, only for it to coincidentally have a stress response from fear. It would pant with its mouth open, constantly burrowing into your arms while nervously watching the sights ahead...

"N-no... Xiao Huan..."

Hearing Ye Shiyu's fearful refusal, Yan Huan finally ca to his senses little by little.

He subconsciously glanced back at the phone that was still hanging up behind them, seemingly unconnected.

He couldn't help but think:

'If I really did that with Ye Shiyu right now, never mind An Le and Hitomi, how would I even explain myself to Aunt Ye?'

'Especially since I was just teleported out here. They must be frantically looking for

over there...'

'Once I...'

'I probably wouldn't be done until late at night...'

"..."

Thinking this, Yan Huan took another look at the trembling Ye Shiyu in his arms.

Seeing the unease and panicked and helpless feeling faintly surfacing beneath her indifferent expression, he was unable to help but laugh.

'Whatever. Getting to see Ye Shiyu make an expression like this is already worth the price of admission, isn't it?'

As if to salvage his pride, he once again ntally blad the currently absent Myau-chan and the fertility attribute points it had brought. On the surface, Yan Huan simply said naturally,

"The call didn't go through just now, so it looks like we'll have to use your mobile phone... I'll go into the hotel and look for a power supply to charge it, so we can at least tell them we're safe."

"..."

Hearing Yan Huan's explanation, Ye Shiyu mistakenly thought she was the one who had gotten the wrong idea.

Her expressionless face didn't change, but a slight blush crept onto her cheeks, and her gaze darted away slightly...

She appeared completely calm and composed, yet entirely forgot to ask why Yan Huan had suddenly picked her up in his arms.

"Click..."

Inside the hotel, the main doors slowly opened wide.

Yan Huan set Ye Shiyu down and began searching for a power supply. He quickly found a charging cable by the bar counter.

"Mhm... Type-C, this should work."

Yan Huan reached out and asked for Ye Shiyu's mobile phone, then plugged it in to charge.

"Buzz..."

"It'll take a little while to turn on."

"Mhm."

Looking at the flashing charging icon on the phone, Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu spoke one after another. Then, the atmosphere gradually grew peaceful once more.

Both of them seed to feel a bit awkward. After a second of silence, Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu spoke at the exact sa ti,

"Sister Shiyu, on your body..."

"Xiao Huan, about the Mod..."

After speaking, the two exchanged a glance.

Ye Shiyu looked at Yan Huan and stopped talking. He was unable to help but laugh and politely said like a gentleman,

"You go first. What did you want to ask, Sister Shiyu?"

"Buzz..."

"You ntioned earlier that we need to abandon the modifiers together. Do we all have to be in the sa place? Or is it enough to just abandon them at the sa ti..."

"Hiss, asking

that so suddenly..."

Right at that mont, the mobile phone finished booting up.

Ye Shiyu told Yan Huan the password. Unlocking the phone, Yan Huan imdiately saw the Hypnosis APP and the Yezi AI software resting on the ho screen.

"..."

Seeing those two things left Yan Huan utterly speechless.

Skeptical, he long-pressed the Hypnosis APP, but ended up accidentally opening it.

[Welco to the Tuner APP, Host Ye Shiyu]

[App Current Level: 1 — The level will increase with frequency and number of uses. As the level rises, attributes such as app effects and duration will be enhanced.]

'I can actually open it...'

Looking at the software's contents, Yan Huan couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea.

After confirming that the Index Finger had been completely formatted and was safe, he hurriedly closed the app and opened Plane.

Ye Shiyu's Plane interface was very minimalistic, with only him and Aunt Ye pinned to the top.

The rest of the chat boxes were school class groups and clubs. Not wanting to pry into Ye Shiyu's privacy, Yan Huan searched for Sakuramiya Hitomi's Plane account, sent her a ssage, and reported their location.

"I'll think about it later. Anyway, there's no rush right now..."

Yan Huan mainly wanted to find Myau-chan to ask about it, but his own modifier was currently out of funds, effectively banning his own modifier avatar.

"It would be great if we just had to abandon them at the sa ti..."

Hearing Ye Shiyu say this, Yan Huan looked over at her.

'She probably doesn't want to et the other hosts.'

'Co to think of it, among the group, other than Sakuramiya Hitomi, the only one she can get along with is Bai Yi.'

'Right now, I actually still haven't figured out how to handle the relationships between them...'

Whether it was the dynamics among the girls themselves, or the external pressure from their elders in reality.

"It's fine, we'll talk about it when the ti cos."

"When the ti cos? I think as long as Xiao Huan asks, everyone else will be more than happy to abandon their modifiers. Do we need to prepare so kind of ceremony?"

"...We probably don't need to. The problem is Bai Yi. She doesn't even know that I'm aware of the modifiers."

Now that Ye Shiyu had cald down, Yan Huan finally started considering the extrely urgent matters at hand,

"Besides, in the eyes of everyone else, I'm practically dead right now. I still don't even know what to do about that."

"Buzz!"

Just as he said this, Yan Huan received a reply from Sakuramiya Hitomi.

"President! It's great that you're okay... I'll tell Aunt Ye and the others right away, they'll be there soon! Earlier, we didn't even know if you were still in Linn, Aunt Ye even went to dispatch a helicopter."

'Aunt Ye?'

'Wait a minute, Aunt Ye knows I'm not dead?!'

'Hiss...'

'Then the matter about the modifiers...'

Hearing this, Yan Huan felt a wave of dread in his heart. He froze for a long while before typing out an "Okay."

However, at this mont, Yan Huan noticed that Ye Shiyu had suddenly stopped talking.

"..."

Yan Huan raised his head to look at Ye Shiyu, only to see her staring at him with an expressionless face. The only difference was that she was blinking slightly faster than before...

This was her way of expressing confusion.

After staring at Yan Huan in silence for a second, she quietly tilted her head, leaving Yan Huan feeling even more baffled,

"W-what's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just... this Bai Yi you ntioned. Who is she? Is she very important for resolving the modifiers?"

"Huh?"

Yan Huan stared blankly, utterly failing to understand Ye Shiyu's words for a mont.

The main point was...

Ye Shiyu wasn't the type of person who liked to make jokes.

"Bai Yi... is just Bai Yi..."

"?"

Ye Shiyu tilted her head, her expressionless face looking increasingly confused.

eting her direct gaze, Yan Huan suddenly felt as though a basin of cold water had been poured over his head, making him subconsciously swallow saliva.

Because he realized sothing:

Ye Shiyu wasn't joking.

"Sister Shiyu, are you serious? Do you really not know who Bai Yi is?!"

"Mhm."

"She's also a modifier host!"

"...But, aren't there only four modifier hosts? , An Le, Spencer, and Sakuramiya Hitomi?"

"??"

'No...'

'Huh?'

'Did we skip a level?!'

'No, what do you an skip a level!'

'This, this, this...'

Hearing this, Yan Huan was incredibly shocked. He truly felt an inexplicable sensation creeping over him.

"Wait a minute, Sister Shiyu, I'll find her for you."

He found it incredibly hard to bear. He imdiately lowered his head and reopened Ye Shiyu's mobile phone.

He opened Ye Shiyu's contacts in Plane and searched up and down, but couldn't find Bai Yi on her friends list.

"..."

Refusing to give up, Yan Huan opened the browser and searched for Bai Yi's na.

This ti, the browser finally brought up search results for Bai Yi.

Singer and actor from Linn...

"Here, Sister Shiyu, look!"

"Hm."

Ye Shiyu's gaze drifted over. After looking at the screen for a few seconds, she turned back to Yan Huan with an expressionless face.

It was as if she was silently saying:

'Do I know her?'

"...Are you serious?"

Realizing that things had gone horribly wrong, cold sweat broke out on Yan Huan's back. He subconsciously wanted to call out for Myau-chan to ask, since it was a deity and would definitely rember this...

'But Myau-chan got banned!!'

"Rumble!!"

Just as Yan Huan's eyes widened and his face turned pale...

From outside the hotel, the rumbling sound of a helicopter could be heard.

Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu looked outside, realizing that soone had co to pick them up.

Right now, Yan Huan was anxious to verify the situation with Bai Yi, so he had to hurry back. "Let's go, Sister Shiyu!"

"Okay."

Ye Shiyu didn't understand what he ant, but she still stood up and followed Yan Huan out of the hotel.

Outside the hotel, a helicopter slowly descended from the sky, landing on a flat patch of ground to the side.

While the rotor blades were still spinning, the helicopter door was thrown open.

"President!!"

"Hitomi! Aunt Ye, you..."

Yan Huan heard Sakuramiya Hitomi's voice first, but as the door pushed open, the first person to step out was Ye Lan, dressed in a sharp white suit.

"Xiao Huan!"

"Aunt Ye..."

As soon as he saw Ye Lan, Yan Huan instantly felt a headache coming on.

He forced a smile onto his face, but couldn't help glaring secretly at Sakuramiya Hitomi. He obviously had no idea why she would let Aunt Ye know about this...

'Great. How am I supposed to explain this now?!'

But feeling Yan Huan's gaze, Sakuramiya Hitomi rely blinked at him in confusion.

In front of him, Ye Lan was already speaking nervously,

"Xiao Huan, when did you wake up from the hospital? Why aren't you resting properly in the hospital? Why did you run all the way out here?"

"Huh? Hospital? Wasn't it the funeral ho?"

Hearing this, Yan Huan was completely dumbfounded.

"Pah, pah, pah! What nonsense are you spouting? You were knocked unconscious by a car, your mind still isn't awake!"

The mont she heard Yan Huan say "funeral ho," Ye Lan imdiately scolded him to ward off the bad luck.

"And Shiyu, why were you running around yesterday instead of properly taking care of Xiao Huan in the hospital..."

Ye Lan continued to speak in front of him...

But the more he listened, the more shocked Yan Huan beca.

Because he vaguely realized sothing...

It seed that certain things in the past had changed.

He hadn't yet had the ti to carefully think through the specifics of what exactly had changed and what remained the sa...

Right now, there was only one very simple question in his mind.

"W-wait a minute, Aunt Ye!"

"Huh?"

The gazes of everyone present were drawn to him. Seeing this, Yan Huan hesitated for a few seconds before finally asking,

"Do you guys... know Bai Yi?"

"..."

Hearing this, Ye Lan blinked. Along with Sakuramiya Hitomi behind her, they both revealed baffled expressions.

"Who is... Bai Yi?"

Hearing everyone reply in perfect unison, Yan Huan's pupils couldn't help but shrink bit by bit.

A sudden, overwhelming sense of fear gripped his heart, making him desperately scramble to recall everything about Bai Yi in his mory.

In his mory, that stunningly beautiful girl stood in the sunlight with her hands behind her back, turning her head to look at him.

"Yan Huan!"

She was smiling like a flower. Yan Huan raised his eyes to chase after the sight...

Yet he only saw a face that was gradually blurring away in the radiant light.

...

...

"Pitter... patter..."

"Tick... tock..."

Ti rewound bit by bit. Earlier, at 4:43 PM.

The curtain of rain covering Linn gradually synchronized with the illusory, ticking clock sound. In the gloomy twilight, it outlined an eerie concerto.

Opposite the villa in the North Sea District that had previously been struck by the ambulance, Bai Yi's figure suddenly materialized.

Her small face was pale, and teardrops still glistened in her eye sockets.

"No, no... Yan Huan... wu..."

Bai Yi's breathtakingly beautiful face was covered in teardrops. She clutched her pocket watch in one hand and tried to raise the other to wipe her tears.

But the tears seed impossible to wipe clean; the more she wiped, the more they fell.

"Thud!"

"Wuwuwuwu..."

After taking a few steps, her body slowly went limp, and she slumped onto the ground.

Unable to bear it any longer, she covered her face and began to sob. Her mind constantly replayed the scene from that mont...

Yan Huan, trying to save her, was brutally struck and sent flying by a car right in front of her eyes.

Fresh blood had splattered across her face. Even now, the tallic stench of blood refused to dissipate.

"Ugh..."

Her stomach convulsed uncontrollably, bringing a wave of nausea and the urge to vomit. But she hadn't eaten anything recently, so naturally, she couldn't throw anything up.

However, amidst this agonizing tornt, she panted and raised her eyes once more.

Within those eyes, tiny specks of starlight flickered.

"Th-there's still a way... There has to be a way!"

Yesterday, in the hospital, she had seen it...

Those bizarre visions.

She had seen visions of Yan Huan in what seed like other worlds, or perhaps the past, or even the future!

He was still alive!

Through the pocket watch in her hand, she could feel that those worlds were real. They seed to be eagerly waiting for her to enter.

Facing the aurora-like projections of those worlds, sothing inside Bai Yi—sothing akin to a talent—began to cheer with joy.

It was an even more distinct feeling than the first ti she had ever sung.

'As long as... I enter inside...'

'Maybe I can save Yan Huan!'

"Tick... tock..."

At this mont, as Bai Yi lost herself in thought, the ti drew closer and closer to 4:44 PM in the afternoon.

When that mont arrived, the surrounding space warped once again, revealing a bizarre spectacle that it seed only Bai Yi in the entire world could see.

Countless visions, like massive doors thrown wide open, were welcoming Bai Yi's arrival.

The pocket watch in her hand began to spin frantically, seemingly reacting intensely to the open "doors of space and ti" for the very first ti.

"Buzz!!"

"Click-click-click-click!!!"

Just as the completely inexperienced Bai Yi timidly watched the "doors" showing different faint landscapes around her...

One of the doors suddenly rippled like the surface of water.

It looked as if sothing was about to co out.

"Tick... tock..."

The pocket watch in Bai Yi's hand spun crazily, and then, the ripples beca even more pronounced.

"Pop!!"

In the next second, under Bai Yi's astonished gaze, the ripples gradually materialized, condensing into a phantom image glowing with a pure white light. It burst forth and slowly landed right in front of her.

"ow~"

Bai Yi stared blankly as the figure bathed in holy light descended and gradually ca into focus.

Finally, it transford into a completely pure white, long-haired cat enveloped in a soft, glowing aura.

"A cat?"

Bai Yi's hoarse voice rang out, catching the attention of the white cat, whose eyes were still closed.

Soon after, the white cat slowly opened its eyes, revealing a pair of brilliantly glowing golden irises.

"Bai Yi..."

The white cat looked at Bai Yi and spoke in a childlike voice that made it impossible to tell its gender.

"A-ah! The cat spoke!!"

This scared Bai Yi half to death, causing her to scramble backward.

But seeing Bai Yi continuously retreating, the white cat simply shook its body, looking both ethereal and real at the sa ti.

It wore a speechless expression, glanced at the continuously spinning pocket watch in Bai Yi's hand, and explained,

"I am the modifier you possess—the avatar of the pocket watch in your hands, ow!"

"Avatar?"

"That's right. You can call

Yan Yeh."

"..."

Hearing this, Bai Yi finally stared blankly at the white cat claiming to be "Yan Yeh".

Soon after, she swallowed saliva and raised her eyes to look at the myriad of worlds blooming like a flower behind the white cat.

A faint light flickered in her eyes, gradually shifting into a look of unwavering determination.

"...Then tell , what exactly are those things behind you?"

"ow?"

Hearing this, the white, long-haired cat looked back at the flowing lights behind it.

Then, it turned its head back to Bai Yi, its golden cat eyes staring directly at the young girl,

"Bai Yi... do you want to change what happened in the past, ow?"

Hearing the cat's words, Bai Yi's eyes widened.

She seed to be half-believing, half-doubting, but...

The mont she recalled the tragic sight of Yan Huan dying right in front of her, the mont she thought of his pale, motionless corpse she had seen in the morgue, Bai Yi couldn't help but want to cry.

That intense wave of emotion not only made the pocket watch in her hand spin wildly, but it also caused the look deep in her eyes to grow increasingly resolute.

"Change... the past?"

Seeing this, the white cat blinked. It subconsciously licked its paw pads, then said nonchalantly,

"That's right. And it just so happens..."

"...I can help you~"