Siwei and I were walking on the road when two people suddenly rushed out and stood in front of us. They said they wanted the “Jade” on our bodies.

But we didn’t have any—it was all with Uncle Wan.

I thought we were going to get beaten, but at that moment, a big brother suddenly appeared. This big brother threw out several playing cards, then suddenly generated a ball of flame in his hand. Very quickly, he scared the two bad guys away.

He was so amazing, like Superman.

Sister Siwei held my hand and stood before that person.

That person also looked at us both with some curiosity, then discreetly put his small cloth bag into his pocket.

“Women and children shouldn’t be moving around alone. Find a place to hide,” he said.

I saw he was wearing black clothes and had very long hair. I had never seen a big brother with long hair before.

He casually nodded at us both, then was about to leave.

The scent on his body was somewhat different from others. Apart from the “clear fragrance,” there wasn’t much “despair”—instead, there was more “doubt.”

“Sister…” I squeezed Sister’s hand, and Sister understood what I meant.

“Um… can you wait a moment?” Sister asked.

The big brother in the distance stopped in place when he heard this and turned his head to look at us. “What is it?”

Sister turned back and called to me. “Yingxiong…”

I nodded, raised my nose to smell, and those two characters appeared clearly.

“It’s the clear fragrance of ‘Concealment’…” I said.

Sister nodded, then walked forward and asked, “This handsome guy… have you recently discovered that you’ve… acquired some kind of strange ‘ability’?”

“I…”

This big brother’s body first emitted a scent of “vigilance,” but after looking at Sister and then at me, he probably felt we weren’t bad people, so that scent quickly faded.

“Who are you two?” he asked.

“My name is Li Siwei, and this little brother is called Zheng Yingxiong. We’re both just ordinary ‘Participants’ like you.”

Hearing Sister introduce me, I said quietly from the side, “I’m called ‘Yingxiong,’ with the fourth tone.”

The big brother nodded. “Hello, I’m called Guyu… The strange ability you just mentioned…”

After hearing this, Sister Siwei scratched her head. “This matter is a bit metaphysical to explain… I don’t know if you’ll believe it…”

“We’re already here…” Big Brother Guyu smiled bitterly and shook his head. “What is there left not to believe? I did indeed feel something unusual in that ‘game’ just now… But I don’t know what this ‘Concealment’ you mentioned is…?”

Sister Siwei organized her words and roughly explained this matter to Big Brother Guyu.

She said I seemed to be able to smell the names of superpowers on other people’s bodies, and she tried her best to make him understand this concept.

Big Brother Guyu seemed to accept it quite quickly. He kept listening earnestly to Sister Siwei’s explanation, nodding continuously.

“So that’s how it is…” After listening to Sister Siwei’s explanation, Big Brother Guyu nodded silently. “Just now in that ‘Man-Monkey’ game venue, I made a card disappear from my hand without a sound…”

He looked down at his hand, then moved his finger, conjuring a playing card out of thin air.

This action startled Sister Siwei.

“Eh…? This is your ‘ability’?”

“Oh… no, no…” Big Brother Guyu shook his head. “Don’t misunderstand. I was originally a magician. I’ve tried many methods to make cards disappear, but none were as thorough as today… It wasn’t hidden on the back of my hand or in my palm. Instead, it completely disappeared.”

Sister Siwei nodded after hearing this. “So the fireball just now was also a magic trick? Your ability is to make something ‘disappear’?”

“Saying it ‘disappears’ isn’t quite appropriate…” Big Brother Guyu answered. “This is indeed hard to understand… I could touch that card, but neither the ‘Man-Monkey’ nor I could see it… So from an observer’s perspective, that card no longer existed.”

“Indeed a bit hard to understand…” Sister Siwei reached up to scratch her head. “In other words, you made that card ‘invisible’?”

“Right… that’s the meaning.”

Big Brother Guyu moved his finger again, and the card in his hand disappeared again.

I didn’t know whether he had made that card vanish or made it “invisible.”

“This really is a bizarre place…” Big Brother Guyu slowly raised his head. “I thought I was special… I didn’t expect that other people in this place have also acquired this kind of ‘clear fragrance’?”

“I don’t know about that either.” Sister Siwei smiled and looked at me. “Only little brother Yingxiong can distinguish whether others carry this kind of ‘fragrance’ on them. Perhaps others aren’t special—he’s the special one.”

After hearing this, Big Brother Guyu pondered for a while, then suddenly thought of something. “By the way, do you two have a team?”

“Ah…?” Sister Siwei was stunned. “You mean…”

“According to what those referees said, there are still two days left… The people in our room decided to split up and act separately from the start. Now I’ve completely lost contact with them. I should have kept everyone together.” Big Brother Guyu sighed. “So do you have a team? Do you want to go together?”

After hearing this, Sister Siwei looked at Big Brother Guyu, then looked at me, as if waiting for me to say something.

I seemed to understand what she meant, so I raised my nose to smell. Very clean. Big Brother Guyu’s scent was also clean, but it had a trace of something else. He seemed to carry a hint of “ruthlessness” within his “cleanliness.”

But overall, the scent on this big brother’s body was a thousand times, ten thousand times better than Uncle Wan’s, so I nodded at Sister Siwei.

Sister Siwei also understood what I meant. “We don’t have a team. Let’s go together.”

I turned to glance at Sister Siwei but didn’t contradict her.

I never liked Uncle Wan to begin with. If I could avoid living with him, that would be a good thing for me.

The three of us had just formed a team and were about to leave this place when we suddenly heard that voice that made my hair stand on end.

“Yo, Little Li, you have a new friend?”

The three of us turned around and discovered Uncle Wan was walking over from the distance. It seemed he had been following us all along.

“Wan… Brother Wan.” Sister Siwei smiled with effort. “What a coincidence, you’re here too?”

“You two haven’t come back after so long. Wasn’t I worried…”

Seeing Uncle Wan appear, I suddenly felt a bit afraid. Just now, Sister Siwei had told Big Brother Guyu that we didn’t have a team, but once Uncle Wan appeared, wouldn’t Big Brother Guyu know we were lying?

I looked at Big Brother Guyu fearfully, but saw Big Brother Guyu smile as if nothing had happened, then walked forward to shake hands with Uncle Wan.

“Siwei, is this the Brother Wan you mentioned? He really does look reliable.”

After hearing this, Sister Siwei was slightly stunned, then quickly nodded. “Yes, Guyu, let me introduce you. This is Wan Cai, Brother Wan.”

Uncle Wan, carrying a heavy scent, nodded with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Young man, you’re a very smart person. Do you want to join our big family?”