"Hallucination?"
Liu Yusa opened her eyes curiously while tasting the small cake that Gu Xun brought back.
"I actually saw Xiaoxun during my lunch break outside at noon!" Yan Xiaoqian's eyes were full of disbelief.
"Not only did I see him, Xiaoxun also came to talk to me, saying that Master Ye had something to do, so he came back early. He also petted Xiaohua (the calico cat's name) with me."
"ah?"
"Um?"
Liu Yusa and Gu Xun were shocked at the same time.
"Am I having a mental problem?" Yan Xiaoqian covered her head in panic.
"Are you too tired, Xiaoqian? You still have to think of inspiration at noon. It's so tiring!" Liu Yusa rubbed Yan Xiaoqian's head with concern and fed her a piece of cake.
Gu Xun frowned and thought calmly.
Logically speaking, even if he was too tired, it wouldn't be so exaggerated...
"By the way, the Xiaoxun in my hallucination feels different from usual?"
Gu Xun glanced at Yan Xiaoqian, "What exactly is different?"
Yan Xiaoqian swallowed the cake and thought for a moment.
“I can’t really put it into words, it’s just… a feeling that’s different from usual, and Xiaohua isn’t as close to you as usual.
If it weren't for the fact that they were exactly the same, I would have thought it was a different person."
Feeling like a different person...
Gu Xun pondered over this sentence and began to think.
Suddenly, she remembered that before class, Mo Han also looked at her with strange eyes.
Gu Xun suddenly turned around to look at Mo Han, but found that he was looking at her.
Their eyes met immediately.
Mo Han seemed to have not expected Gu Xun to suddenly turn around. He was staring at the back of Gu Xun's head, wondering what was different, and his eyes met his before he could avoid him.
Then he drank some water awkwardly.
And Gu Xun did not miss the doubt in his eyes just now.
"Mo Han, come here." Gu Xun waved to the man behind him.
"Oh, okay." Mo Han put down the water bottle and sat down in the seat behind Gu Xun.
"Why did you look at me strangely when you came in just now?"
Gu Xun was not vague and went straight to the point.
Mo Han didn't expect Gu Xun's ball to be so straight, and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
"I...did the way I looked at you make you uncomfortable...I'm sorry."
Gu Xun shook his head, "No, it's just different from usual, which makes me feel strange."
Mo Han thought about it for a while and finally expressed his doubts.
"I saw you outside during lunch break today. You were walking towards the school gate. It might have been my imagination, but I suddenly felt that you were a little different than usual. I couldn't put my finger on what was different, but... it just felt like that."
"Besides... you should have gone out on a date at noon, right? Seeing you at that time feels a bit strange..."
Mo Han touched his nose as he spoke the second half of the sentence, and his voice gradually became smaller and smaller.
Apparently, the word "date" stung him a little and made him not want to say it out loud.
Gu Xun really didn't pay attention to that last detail, because the first half of his words shocked her even more.
"About what time did you see me?"
"Maybe a little faster."
Gu Xun frowned and looked at Yan Xiaoqian, "What time did you say you saw me at noon?"
Yan Xiaoqian recalled, "Probably around twelve forty."
Liu Yusa and Gu Xun looked at each other.
"We finished class at 12 o'clock. I remember you left right after class, Xiaoxun. How could I have seen you leaving the school so quickly?"
Liu Yusa thought it was outrageous!
"Mo Han, could it be that you recognized the wrong person?"
Mo Han shook his head firmly, "Lidya Su and I both saw it, and we won't make a mistake."
Liu Yusa thought about Mo Han's feelings for Gu Xun and concluded that he would not admit his mistake.
Gu Xun's brows furrowed even tighter.
She was sure of it now.
They were not mistaken.
There was indeed someone pretending to be her and was approaching her friends!
Yan Xiaoqian tilted her head in disbelief. "So, I wasn't seeing things? I wasn't hallucinating? But that doesn't make sense. Who did I see at noon? She really looks exactly like Xiaoxun! Even the smell is the same!"
Gu Xun thought about it and shook his head.
"No, humans aren't that good at distinguishing smells, but cats have a much more sensitive sense of smell. You said Xiaohua just sniffed 'that person' and didn't get close. This means Xiaohua has already determined that person isn't me."
"So... the person we saw at noon really wasn't you, but someone else?" Mo Han frowned, obviously realizing that the problem was not simple.
"Then... that person is dressed like Xiaoxun and deliberately comes close to Xiaoqian. What's his purpose?"
Liu Yusha's scalp suddenly went numb and she became nervous for Gu Xun.
Gu Xun sorted out the clues in his mind.
"I guess that person pretended to be me and chose the noon time to approach Xiaoqian. Obviously, they knew that I was not in school at noon, so they must have known that I would not be away for long and would be back in the afternoon. As long as Xiaoqian told me, her presence would be immediately exposed."
Liu Yusa was a little confused by what she heard.
"Then... then why did she show up like this? Wouldn't that give her away?"
Gu Xun nodded, "Yes, it would be easy to be exposed this way. That means she is willing to get close to Xiao Qian even at the risk of being exposed."
Yan Xiaoqian’s eyes suddenly widened.
Are you willing to get close to her even if it means exposing yourself?
Is Zundu fake? oO
She doesn't have any important secrets, right?
Mo Han seemed to suddenly think of something and suddenly raised his head to look at Gu Xun.
"Perhaps... this person wants to use Yan Xiaoqian as an experiment?"
After listening to Mo Han's speculation, Gu Xun suddenly had an idea.
She snapped her fingers, “Very likely.
Xiaoqian, you said you were sitting outside alone at noon, right?
"Oh, yes, it's on the bench where we usually feed Xiaohua."
Gu Xun turned around and looked at Liu Yusha, "Yusha, you are resting in the classroom, right?"
"Yeah, yes. I'm afraid that being outside will disturb Xiaoqian's search for inspiration."
"That's right."
Gu Xun immediately sorted out his thoughts.
"This person must have secretly observed me beforehand and would have known that Xiaoqian and Yusha were closest to me, so they came to Xiaoqian to conduct an experiment. If she can't even recognize me as them, then it means she can almost make the fake look real."
Liu Yusha blinked, "Then why didn't she come to see me?"
"Maybe she didn't come because there were too many people in the classroom and there were surveillance cameras. And outside, there was no one around Yan Xiaoqian and no surveillance cameras. Even if something went wrong, it would be easy for her to escape."
Mo Han touched his chin and made a guess.
Gu Xun nodded, she thought so too.
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