Free Web Novel“Miss Blue Yi, please... please hurry! If we’re any later, I’m worried that guy might actually do something drastic.”
After teleporting from the ring-shaped mountain island to Peony Street and walking on the way back to the Old House, Ji Yunpei, seeing Lu Yibei’s unhurried pace, mustered up all her courage and urged her in a low voice.
“No rush, no rush.” Lu Yibei waved her hand expressionlessly, “It’s not as serious as you think.”
Just as she said, she wasn’t worried at all that Paper Cicada Immortal would actually end his own life.
Firstly, although that guy was a paper figure, he was also a urban legend-transformed paper figure, not that easy to burn.
Secondly, there was only one stove in the Lu Family Old House, and Paper Cicada Immortal would have trouble even fitting his head in, let alone his entire body.
Lastly, and most importantly, there was still a child-terrorizer, a legendary terrifying figure from Jinnan, and the previous King of Torment living in the Old House...
If Paper Cicada Immortal really wanted to end his own life, he’d probably be hung up and beaten by the Old Ancestor, right? Lu Yibei thought.
One minute later.
After changing her appearance and removing her disguise, she pushed open the back door of the Lu Family Old House and entered the courtyard. As Lu Yibei expected, she saw Paper Cicada Immortal hanging upside down from the pomegranate tree, his hair having just been singed by firewood, a patch of his forehead burned away and deeply caved in.
Two tear streaks ran down his pitch-black cheeks, their paths clear.
Qingji sat on a bamboo chair under the pomegranate tree, one hand supporting Wang Yingying who was sitting on his lap, and the other holding a fire tong. He pointed at Paper Cicada Immortal and said to Wang Yingying, “Wang Yingying, when you grow up, «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» you mustn’t be like this guy, who wants to live or die over a little bit of emotional stuff.”
“Of course, if someone wants to live or die because of you, that’s their business, it has nothing to do with you. Don’t meddle, understand?”
“What is emotion? Is it tasty?” Wang Yingying looked back at Qingji, blinked her large eyes, and asked with a serious expression.
“It’s...” Qingji was momentarily speechless. After holding it in for a few seconds, he rolled his eyes and said, “Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eating all day! It’s pointless for me to tell you all this!”
“I know, live or die, I know!” Wang Yingying pouted her small mouth, a little unconvinced, “Living is delicious, dying is not delicious, so live, don’t die.”
Qingji, “...” Although the conclusion wasn’t wrong, how did the process of reaching that conclusion feel so off?
“Old Ancestor...” Just as Qingji fell silent, Lu Yibei came up behind him and called out softly. Only when Qingji turned around to look did she speak, “I’ve caused you trouble. Shall I take over here?”
“No trouble at all, no trouble at all!” Qingji waved his hand and said, “Last time, when I saw that old fellow Zhang Huainan beating this guy, my hands were itching. Today is a good day to get my fill... Since you’re here, I’ll leave it to you. I’m taking Wang Yingying to her cucurbit flute lesson.”
“Wait a minute?” Lu Yibei tilted her head, “You argued with some old man again, didn’t you? Wang Yingying was just learning the violin last time, how did it change to the cucurbit flute so quickly?”
“Isn’t it because she couldn’t learn it?” Qingji spread his hands, “So she could only switch to something else!”
“How long has she been learning... Isn’t it normal not to be able to learn it? With these things, you have to persevere more to achieve success.” Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
“We can’t persevere any longer.” Qingji looked at Wang Yingying in his arms and said, “If she perseveres for a few more days, she’ll get exasperated and eat the teacher...”
“You don’t know, those few days when she was in class, the way she looked at the teacher was all wrong, just like a wild dog seeing a sausage blown off the side of the road by the wind... Her eyes glowed green! It scared the teacher silly.”
Lu Yibei, “...”
No problem, in Wang Yingying’s cognition, for things she couldn’t learn through effort, there was always the fallback option of directly devouring and replicating.
However, shouldn’t she find some suitable authorities for Wang Yingying to replicate? Letting the child continue to be “hungry” like this was not a solution.
What if she got too hungry one day, she might just start directly gnawing on the God Kingdom Prototype.
——
After seeing Wang Yingying and Qingji leave, Lu Yibei strolled over to the bamboo chair under the pomegranate tree and sat down. She raised her hand and pulled out the rag Qingji had stuffed into Paper Cicada Immortal’s mouth. The next moment, Paper Cicada Immortal’s wailing pierced her eardrums.
“You finally appeared, Disaster! Do you know how I’ve spent the better part of this day? Every minute, every second, my heart aches!”
“It’s all because of you! Why, how dare you break me and Miss Annie apart? I’ve already confirmed her heartbeat, she truly likes me!”
“Damn it, you clearly said that as long as I helped you, you would give me maximum freedom...”
Lu Yibei listened to Paper Cicada Immortal’s loud complaints, expressionlessly dug in her ear, then silently took off her shoe and slapped Paper Cicada Immortal’s face with the sole.
“Are you done making a fuss?!”
With a crisp, loud “snap!”, Paper Cicada Immortal’s cheek rotated 32.758 degrees in response, his expression dazed, his words abruptly cut off. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
After waiting a few seconds and seeing Paper Cicada Immortal temporarily quiet down, Lu Yibei nodded with satisfaction, bent down to put on her shoe, and continued, “Since you’re not talking, I will! First of all, if you want to see that Miss Annie, I don’t object, I can even send you there right away...”
Upon hearing this, Paper Cicada Immortal’s eyes lit up, and he blurted out, “Then let me go! Let me go!”
As soon as his words fell, Lu Yibei lightly flipped her hand, and using her control over the God Kingdom Prototype, instantly created a mirror and held it in front of Paper Cicada Immortal. “In your current ghostly state, are you sure you want to see Miss Annie?”
“Don’t blame me for not reminding you, looks, for most girls, while not necessarily the most important, are at least ranked second or third in importance.”
“You’re talking nonsense! Miss Annie isn’t the type of person you think she is!” Paper Cicada Immortal retorted, “You don’t understand her at all. A girl with a tragic background, pure and kind like her, wouldn’t care about my appearance at all.”
Lu Yibei squinted at Paper Cicada Immortal, raising an eyebrow, “Are you sure?”
After a pause, she continued, “She must be a very important person to you, right? Even if there’s only a one percent chance she’d distance herself from you because of your current appearance, would you dare to gamble?”
“I don’t care, though! Anyway, I don’t care about any Miss Annie.”
Upon hearing this, Paper Cicada Immortal fell into a long silence, staring at himself in the mirror, his gaze deepening.
The face in the mirror was terrifyingly distorted; even among the mutated urban legend, there were few existences that looked so “unconventional”...
A delicate girl like Miss Annie probably couldn’t accept it, could she? Paper Cicada Immortal thought.
Seeing Paper Cicada Immortal fall silent, Lu Yibei knew her persuasion had already succeeded halfway; she just needed to add a little more fuel to the fire to seal the deal.
“Actually, after coming back last night, I also thought it over carefully. At the Angel Rose Theater, I did act a bit excessively. I originally wanted to apologize to you and then arrange a date with Miss Annie for you, but I didn’t expect you to... Sigh, impulsive, wasn’t it?”
What Lu Yibei said was true, at least the part about arranging for Paper Cicada Immortal to meet Annie was true.
Now, she had already agreed to Old Man Zhang Huainan’s request to rescue Caishen (God of Wealth), so she definitely wouldn’t be leaving Free City in the short term. Since she wasn’t leaving Free City, there was no need to hastily “reclaim” Paper Cicada Immortal.
“Yu Yinchuan” had already been targeted by the Trademark Monster, the Black Hand Mafia, and that mysterious man in white. If she continued to investigate under the “Yu Yinchuan” alias, she would surely hit a dead end!
Fortunately, those guys probably didn’t know yet that besides the already missing “Yu Yinchuan,” there were two other “Yu Yinchuan” in Free City.
At this time, if Paper Cicada Immortal could operate under the “Yu Yinchuan” alias within their sight, it would definitely buy a lot of time for the investigation before they discovered anything unusual.
Therefore, Lu Yibei now completely didn’t mind Paper Cicada Immortal continuing to date some Miss Annie, although during their brief contact, she had already smelled a strong “green tea” scent on Miss Annie...
She actively persuaded Paper Cicada Immortal to leave, even chasing after him to give him a contact method written on lipstick, just like a considerate good sister, many levels above Paper Cicada Immortal.
In short, if they’re going to date, let them date with a bang!
It would be best if they frequented the Angel Rose Theater, splurging money, openly flaunting their affection and showing off, or even getting married on the spot and holding a wedding of the century that would shock Free City. It didn’t matter, because the more commotion Paper Cicada Immortal caused and the more attention he attracted, the more time could be gained for the investigation.
“Re... really?” Paper Cicada Immortal eyed Lu Yibei back and forth, a hint of hesitation in his eyes, “You’d be that kind?”
“Why wouldn’t I be?” Lu Yibei rolled her eyes, “I find you have a deep prejudice against me! Think about it carefully, although I always torment you, when have I ever truly wanted to kill you? Never, right? If I were a cruel person, I would have killed you back at Huacheng Institute of Technology, wouldn’t I?”
“There’s... some truth to that?” Paper Cicada Immortal said weakly, “Then now...”
“Now?” Lu Yibei interrupted, “I’ll help you repair your body right now. Once it’s repaired, you can go on your date with Miss Annie.”
“However, before that, you’ll also have to do something for me.”
“I knew it!” Paper Cicada Immortal’s face changed, and he cried out, “I knew it, you definitely wouldn’t be that kind!”
“Do you need to react so strongly?” Lu Yibei said irritably, “I just want you to help me look after a few people while you’re hanging around the Angel Rose Theater recently.”
“They live near Garden Street, about sixteen or seventeen years old. One of them is a boy named Jay Garner, with brown curly hair, blue eyes, and some small freckles next to his nose... You don’t need to do too much, just make sure they don’t die.”
Although Lu Yibei didn’t have too much hope for the three teenagers, including Jay, they were, after all, sent by her to interact with the many gangs on Garden Street. It wouldn’t be good if they lost their lives because of it.
Upon hearing this, Paper Cicada Immortal hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and agreed, “No problem! When will you help me repair it?”
“Now, of course!” Lu Yibei shrugged, and with a flip of her hand, she retrieved her tool—an iron shovel.
