One second.
Zheng Fan suddenly opened his eyes, threw off the quilt, and got up: "Holy crap!"
The quilt was flung aside, skillfully absorbing the force, then bounced twice to stabilize itself, lying there suspiciously watching Zheng Fan. What was wrong with this Fan Laoda just now?
Zheng Fan looked at the quilt with a mix of surprise and uncertainty: "What did you just do?"
The quilt immediately gesticulated wildly.
The general meaning it conveyed was that when it covered someone, besides providing excellent warmth, it could quickly induce sleepiness, aid in falling asleep, and improve sleep quality.
Aside from being slightly addictive, making people not want to get out of bed even after waking up, and easily causing them to oversleep, there were actually no other downsides.
It had originally meant well for Ye Mao, liking the little girl and wanting her to have sufficient sleep during the days leading up to her exams. It was just a pity that it had overlooked what season it was.
Now, the little girl's final exams would probably need a miracle to go well.
Zheng Fan clutched his head with one hand: "Your effect works on me too..."
The quilt: "?"
It had never actually used its ability on an Illusion, after all, the only Illusion it had ever truly seen in its life was Zheng Fan. Moreover, Phantasms with their own consciousness were generally quite afraid of those abstract and erratic Illusions.
However, Zheng Fan currently behaved almost like a human, which made the quilt less afraid.
Just as the quilt was pondering, Zheng Fan directly sprang up from the ground: "This is great! I can sleep again!"
He rushed out the door, giving Lin Yilin, who was sitting at the computer typing a report, a big hug. Then, while Lin Yilin was stunned, he had already let go and was darting up and down the Banmu Office.
"I can sleep! I can sleep again!" He cheered repeatedly.
Lin Yilin was bewildered for a long time, and after confirming that Zheng Fan had no ill intentions, she quickly returned to her normal expression.
"Sleep? Is it the quilt's ability?" She quickly thought of the reason.
Zheng Fan flew upside down in mid-air, looking down at Lin Yilin: "Yes, if I cover myself with it and don't resist, I can even fall asleep!"
Lin Yilin thought for a moment: "But if not sleeping has no impact, then adding sleep time for no reason is completely unnecessary and a waste of time, isn't it?"
Just like eating and other activities.
If it's not needed, then there's no need to do it.
Illusion is an existence that has far surpassed humans, and even surpassed over ninety percent of Illusions by conservative estimates. From Lin Yilin's rational perspective, these things were completely unnecessary.
But Zheng Fan would pretend to be a normal person for hunger and other strange reasons.
Making his actions match some of his thoughts as much as possible.
Lin Yilin guessed that this might also be a way for Illusion to maintain his highly similar personality?
Of course, although Lin Yilin found these things unnecessary, in some other aspects, she still hoped that Illusion could retain a little something.
When she first met him, she was relieved that Illusion was merely a formalist in that regard, rather than a true pervert.
But now, she had probably truly started to depend on Illusion.
Her thoughts had changed.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Binary Little Sister, you don't understand this. When I can't sleep at all, my mind occasionally comes up with all sorts of random thoughts. It's very lonely to not interact with people for too long. Besides, if I couldn't sleep before and now I can, isn't that a luxurious step forward?" Zheng Fan said with a smile, wagging his finger.
Lin Yilin's eyebrows twitched slightly: "Although I don't quite understand, as long as Illusion is happy, that's fine."
The quilt quietly crawled out, having also heard Zheng Fan's words just now. It wondered if its current state meant it had been accepted?
Integrating seemed quite easy...
Suddenly, it looked at Lin Yilin, and Lin Yilin had already shifted her gaze to it.
The quilt felt a cold sweat run down its back as Lin Yilin stared directly at it. It always felt like it was looking at an Illusion when it looked at this female head of the household.
"Shouldn't you put on a duvet cover?" Lin Yilin suddenly asked.
The quilt: "?!"
Zheng Fan fell from the sky: "It definitely needs one."
For a moment, the quilt felt overwhelmed by their kindness, leaving it somewhat flustered.
Finally, Zheng Fan bought it a duvet cover with a cartoon face pattern in the center, which looked quite cozy. The quilt, flattered, put it on and, at Zheng Fan's urging, got up to show itself off.
Hmm...
Looking at the somewhat distorted human face that moved with the quilt's cheerful actions—more accurately, when it moved and the light was dimmer, it looked more like a ghost face—Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin both fell silent.
"I just wanted it to have a face," Zheng Fan explained.
"Well, at least it definitely has a face," Lin Yilin sighed imperceptibly.
The quilt: "?"
The people in this place are really strange, but it doesn't matter, they are really good to it!
It got new clothes as soon as it arrived. You know, even at the home of its favorite little girl, Ye Mao, it was stripped of its duvet cover for cruel reasons, put into cold storage, sealed away, and placed into eternal darkness...
Although it was just a change of season, a change of quilts, and it was put into the closet.
The quilt went to show off its new skin to Lu Lu Shoes. However, Zheng Fan felt that Lu Lu Shoes wouldn't provide it with much emotional value.
Because compared to the quilt, which couldn't create its own skins, Lu Lu Shoes came with a complete shoe skin store.
"Illusion, remember to tell Qingye Heshi about the Banmu Office secretly trading Phantasms lost by the Processing Bureau." The quilt's matter was over, and Lin Yilin reminded Zheng Fan.
When they went to find Toast and them, Lin Yilin had already found out the history of their gang by looking at Karaero's face.
Such small groups acting as intermediaries and logistics would certainly have their reputations spread, so it wasn't difficult for Lin Yilin to investigate.
Thus, the origin and destination of their batch of goods were also discovered by Lin Yilin.
As for the black scorpion found decapitated by Toast at the scene of the accident, it was merely additional proof.
"Why me?" Zheng Fan pointed to himself.
"Because if necessary, you might need to cooperate with Qingye Heshi's actions. This is a good opportunity to stir up trouble for the Banmu Office. Soon, the Processing Bureau will know that the batch of goods they lost previously went to Banmu, and after Banmu's continuous provocations of the Processing Bureau's nerves recently, it might now become a fuse," Lin Yilin said indifferently.
"So you let Lu Lu go," Zheng Fan couldn't help but say, "It wasn't giving him a reward for reporting, but using someone else's hand to clean yourself up."
"Please don't make me sound so evil, Illusion."
Lin Yilin was a little helpless: "If I wanted to, I could just grab any homeless person to achieve this effect. I was indeed helping that young man, just going with the flow."
Hmph, evil Binary Little Sister, do you think I, the righteous Illusion, would believe your wicked words?
"Anyway, you definitely had a plan after discovering the relationships between those people's upstream and downstream, right?" Zheng Fan affirmed.
Lin Yilin clasped her hands and rested her chin lightly: "This is a very ordinary consideration. The main reason is that the studio responsible for this transaction at Banmu is from Su Hongyuan's faction, so I thought it was an opportunity. After all, although they have been very quiet recently, it's only temporary."
"Alright, then I'll go. It sounds quite interesting," Zheng Fan still agreed.
"Thank you, Illusion."
"Leave it to me."
"And remember to wear and mend Cheng Fei's body's clothes."