Free Web NovelSeeing Ju Meng's terrifying expression, Lu Yibei's forehead broke out in a sweat. His mind raced, and countless excuses and lies surfaced.
Facing a high-level urban legend like Ju Meng, a head-on confrontation was definitely not an option. He could only try to bluff his way through.
Last time, Ju Meng had no intention of killing him, yet he had gone to great lengths to inflict only a minor injury on her.
"I, what did I do? I didn't do anything!"
"Hmph!" Ju Meng narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at Lu Yibei askance. "Still playing dumb? Do you need someone else to remind You of the good deeds You've done?"
Lu Yibei's face turned slightly pale, and he quickly said, "Damn it, don't ask me that. That's the question I fear most."
"Helping Grandma cross the road, stuffing money into poor girls' piggy banks, helping elementary school students surrender in internet cafes while they're in the bathroom..."
"I've done so many good deeds, where should I even begin?"
"Don't know where to start?" Ju Meng tilted her head, sneered, and suddenly lifted her clothes, pointing to her flat, fair lower abdomen. "Then let's start from here!"
Lu Yibei covered his eyes with his hands, peeked through his fingers at the perfectly curved lower abdomen that made one blush, and then quickly covered his eyes again.
Hiss—! What does this mean?
Did this Smelly Girl run off and mess around, get pregnant, and now wants Void to be the fallback guy?
As Lu Yibei was thinking, he suddenly noticed a wisp of black mist on Ju Meng's lower abdomen, wriggling under her fair skin as if alive. He couldn't help but frown.
"You, are You referring to that black mist?"
"What else?" Ju Meng rolled her eyes impatiently. "I've long felt that You are a bad kid. I didn't expect You to use something containing the blood of corrupted deities to harm me!"
Lu Yibei was stunned. Blood of corrupted deities? What is that? Never heard of it!
"Don't You know, if I'm contaminated with this filthy, impure stuff, I might fall? By then, don't think You can escape. Everyone in Hua City won't be able to escape! Hmph!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Sounds serious. Well, I'm truly sorry!
"Didn't I just stay at Your place and ask You to help collect urban legend core bodies? Although this is a bit dangerous for a normal person like You, I haven't mistreated You! Besides, aren't You happy seeing such a great beauty all day?"
Bah! Shameless! Lu Yibei spat in his heart, suddenly feeling less guilty.
He cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, I really don't know where that stuff You call blood came from. I just casually hunted a urban legend, split half with Headless Senior, and then brought the core back. There were no middlemen making a profit."
It's not possible that Headless Senior is some kind of corrupted deity, is it? She doesn't look like it either! Lu Yibei thought.
"You really don't know?"
"Really don't know."
Hearing this, Ju Meng looked at Lu Yibei askance, raised her hand, glanced at the back of her hand, and saw that the contract mark hidden beneath her skin hadn't lit up. Only then did she temporarily put aside her suspicion.
"Then what kind of urban legend did You hunt, and where did You encounter it?" Ju Meng asked Lu Yibei with a serious expression.
"I think, judging by the amount of corrupted deity blood contained in the urban legend core body, the urban legend You hunted is very likely a corrupted deity's kin."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's mind flashed back to that thing under the sinkhole in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion. He suddenly felt a sense of realization.
Lu Xu became a urban legend because of the bamboo scroll. Isn't there a high probability that he became the kin of that thing in the bamboo scroll?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei didn't directly reveal the source of the urban legend core body. Instead, he asked Ju Meng, "Since You asked, of course I'll tell You the source of that urban legend, but You must at least tell me first, what is the blood of corrupted deities?"
Ju Meng frowned, looked at the mark on the back of her hand again, and only after confirming that Lu Yibei's question posed no harm to her, did she begin to explain.
"In Your Night Watch's terms, corrupted deities are fallen mythical beings. That is, like me, they mess up and lose their minds. Do You understand?"
Lu Yibei nodded. From what he saw in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion and the information revealed in Ju Meng's words, he had already made this guess.
"The blood of corrupted deities, in a narrow sense, doesn't just refer to the blood of fallen myths, but everything that contains their Spiritual Energy fluctuations."
"Those things have a great impact on upright deities like me. After coming into contact with a certain amount, we will also lose our minds, like a virus that makes urban legend go crazy."
"I understand, I understand." Lu Yibei echoed, "Meaning, after those guys go crazy, their minds become twisted, they can't stand to see others doing well, and they want to drag people down with them, retaliating against society, right?"
"Humans also have such people, don't they? Like those virus carriers who not only don't actively cooperate with treatment but also frantically infect others everywhere."
"Although this process isn't spontaneous for them, it's pretty much that idea!" Ju Meng crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.
"So, now can You tell me where You got this urban legend core body from?"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Lu Yibei was about to speak when he suddenly remembered something and quickly changed the subject. "Last question, if this stuff is really as serious as You say, then I split half with Senior (female). Won't she be finished?"
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Hearing this, Ju Meng's face darkened, and her eyebrows furrowed.
"Roar—! You heartless wretch, Sister I was almost killed by You, and You're not asking if I'm okay, but worrying about some other woman outside? Huh?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
What kind of sour jealousy is this?
"Okay then, are You okay?" Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
"No, if I couldn't even digest this level of corruption, Sister I would have turned into a black mountain demon long ago."
"What about Senior (female)?"
Ju Meng pouted, "She's fine too. That kind of low-level urban legend is too weak to even feel the influence of the corrupted deity blood."
This setting is really strange. Being weak isn't the original sin, but has become a hidden benefit? Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then continued, "Last question."
"Speak!"
"Logically, since You're fine and Senior (female) is fine, why are You throwing a tantrum?" Lu Yibei said expressionlessly, thinking, I thought You had discovered my secret!
Yeah, besides being a little angry at first because I thought I was poisoned, what is this unnamed anger I'm feeling? Ju Meng frowned, thought for a few seconds, couldn't come up with a reasonable answer, turned around and gave Lu Yibei a flick on the forehead that almost made him pass out.
"You talk too much!"
...
As agreed, after Ju Meng answered his questions, he had to tell her the source of Lu Xu's urban legend core body.
So, after dealing with the large bump that had risen on his head, Lu Yibei went upstairs and retrieved the bamboo scroll he had taken over from Professor Ma.
Lu Yibei placed the wooden box containing the bamboo scroll on the coffee table, unlocked it, and as soon as he lifted the lid, he saw Ju Meng shrink back, covering her nose and saying with a look of disgust, "It smells so bad! What is this stuff?"
"Smells bad? No, it doesn't?"
Lu Yibei leaned closer and sniffed. Besides a cloyingly fragrant camphor wood smell, where was there any bad smell?
"Of course You can't smell it, You're human. The bad smell I'm talking about is the smell of corrupted deities," Ju Meng explained.
"Is that so?"
Lu Yibei frowned, thinking, But when I transformed, I didn't smell any special smell on the bamboo scroll either? Is there something wrong with me, or something wrong with her?
As he was thinking, he cupped the bamboo scroll in his hands, placed it on his lap, and gently patted it. "This is the set of bamboo scrolls I asked You to translate last time. The urban legend I hunted last night most likely came out of here."
"I originally thought that if I got the bamboo scroll from the Professor and kept it at home, any urban legend that ran out of it would be available for You to use freely. I didn't expect..."
"You didn't expect the luxurious buffet to turn into a toilet buffet, did You?" Ju Meng said with a pout.
"I say, can't You consider Your identity as a beautiful girl and not say such vulgar lines? Don't You think it damages Your image?" Lu Yibei said impatiently.
"No!" Ju Meng said nonchalantly. "Sister I am thousands of years old. Are You still expecting me to be like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old fairy? It's not realistic, little brother! At my age, I just want to keep it real!"
As long as Your elder self is happy! Lu Yibei shrugged noncommittally, picked up the bamboo scroll in his hand, and shook it at Ju Meng. "Want to see?"
Ju Meng frowned, pondered for a few seconds with a look of disgust, and then reluctantly said, "Then let's see?"
As she spoke, she took the bamboo scroll from Lu Yibei's hands, holding it with a pair of orchid fingers as if handling something very disgusting, and carefully untied the rope binding the bamboo scroll.
The moment she unfolded the bamboo scroll, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a sharp burning pain in his eyes, and intense unease impacted his nerves.
The special characters on the bamboo scroll glowed with a bloody light, like dancing little figures, twisting their strange bodies and clawing their way out of the bamboo scroll. Like piranhas smelling blood, they swarmed towards Ju Meng.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei's pupils slightly contracted. He quickly lunged forward before those special characters could land on Ju Meng, snatched the bamboo scroll from her hand, then tilted his body and pressed down on her. At this moment, the distance between their noses was only one and two-thirds centimeters.
Lu Yibei, "..."
"Let me explain..."
"Don't say anything, I understand." Ju Meng smiled charmingly and wrapped her arms around his neck...
