Free Web NovelSeeing Li Xuan appear in Jiang Li's office, Lu Yibei almost couldn't help but laugh, but luckily he had a poker face.
Ju Meng was right, there was indeed something wrong with Li Xuan's eyes. He wore dark sunglasses on his nose, completely covering his eyes. Coupled with his signature smiling face, it gave people an inexplicably wicked and arrogant feeling, like an emoji Shiba Inu wearing sunglasses.
After the brief urge to laugh passed, Lu Yibei's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he inwardly cursed.
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He should know I'm having class here. Choosing this time to come, is he planning to expose me?
With no expression on his face, Lu Yibei knew that acting abnormal at this moment would be equivalent to panicking and giving others leverage. So he just quietly watched Li Xuan, regardless of the anxiety in his heart or the cold sweat dripping down his back.
In a word, just play dumb and you'll be fine. Showing off your power is a sign of dying young.
Lu Yibei didn't speak, and Li Xuan didn't speak either. The first to speak was Jiang Li.
With an displeased expression, she looked Li Xuan up and down and said coldly, "What are you doing here? I don't recall inviting you."
"Ah, I wanted to find a file, but I just can't remember the file number," Li Xuan said with a wry smile. As he spoke, his gaze drifted towards Lu Yibei, intentionally or unintentionally.
Lu Yibei slightly furrowed his brow. Besides their daily duty tasks, each main officer of the Hua City Si Ye Hui also had some other special responsibilities.
Just like An Qing is responsible for the autopsy analysis of urban legend' bodies and temporarily doubles as new recruit training, Miss Mushroom is responsible for transcendence and purification rituals, Jiang Li is responsible for file management...
These were things he already knew. Logically, it was understandable for Li Xuan to come to Jiang Li to inquire about files.
However, he didn't come early or late, but chose to appear precisely when I was having class. To say he didn't have any ulterior motives, only a ghost would believe it!
Lu Yibei thought to himself, and soon discovered that his respected, dear, just, and strict Leader Miss also had similar thoughts to him.
Jiang Li looked at Li Xuan with a frown. From her expression, it was clear she wasn't very satisfied with his answer.
"If you want to find information, you can ask A Hua, why do you have to come to me?"
"For the file I'm looking for, A Hua probably doesn't have enough permission to access it," Li Xuan said with a slight smile. "What I'm looking for is the file related to Taoyuan."
"Why are you looking for that?" Jiang Li's expression suddenly became serious.
She had naturally heard of Taoyuan's name. As one of the rare few quasi-urban legend organizations that have high-level urban legend but pose extremely low threat levels.
Although the Night Watch hasn't taken any action against Taoyuan, they have been closely monitoring all its movements.
"Do you remember the Calamity-level Spiritual Energy fluctuation a few nights ago?" Li Xuan said. "The analysis results from the technical team are out. They suspect that Spiritual Energy fluctuation came from that one in Taoyuan."
As Li Xuan spoke, his eyes hidden behind his sunglasses drifted towards Lu Yibei, intentionally or unintentionally, as if hinting at something to him.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Oh no, is Ju Meng really going to become a wanted criminal?
I thought we had bluffed our way through that night. I didn't expect the Night Watch to have been investigating all along.
That's right, they're not idiots, how could they be fooled so easily?
What should I do? Should I tell Ju Meng to run away quickly? Lu Yibei thought.
"I understand." Jiang Li nodded slightly, looked at Lu Yibei, and said, "After I finish things here, I'll send the file over to you later."
"Then I'll thank you in advance." Li Xuan smiled and said thanks, then turned to leave Jiang Li's office. Just as he reached the door, his steps suddenly paused, and he turned back, pointing at Lu Yibei, "This kid is really good, worth cultivating well!"
Jiang Li didn't respond to Li Xuan. Only after Li Xuan had left the office and gone far away did she look at Lu Yibei and say, "Why is he so interested in you? Logically, you two shouldn't have any connection."
"But not only did he speak well of you, he was also # Nоvеlight # secretly looking at you the whole time he was in the office just now."
Jiang Li had noticed all of Li Xuan's unusual actions in the office just now. In her opinion, he was sunny and handsome towards everyone else, but only passive-aggressive towards Lu Yibei. There must be something wrong here.
"Uh, this..." Lu Yibei mused for two seconds, his mind racing with quick wits, and then decided to confess proactively, "We actually do have a little bit of a connection."
He felt that what he was about to say contained not a single lie, just the omission of some subtle details, and Jiang Li would likely not become suspicious.
"How so?" Jiang Li folded her arms across her chest, tilted her head, waiting for Lu Yibei to give a reasonable explanation.
"Didn't a urban legend attack happen at our school before?" Lu Yibei said calmly. "After I found out, I followed your Leader's guidance and rushed over to understand the situation immediately. Before I could learn anything, Li Gan Yuan (Officer Li) arrived."
Lu Yibei paused, his eyebrows furrowed, and his eyes began to look a little wronged, "After he arrived..."
Hearing this, Jiang Li seemed to understand something. She waved her hand at Lu Yibei, interrupting him, "After he went, did he act all passive-aggressive towards you and threaten you to be careful in the future and not reveal anything?"
"Wow, Leader, you're truly my idol! You know all this? Are you the roundworm in my stomach, no, are you the little fairy in my brain?" Lu Yibei said in surprise.
"Save your nonsense. I naturally have my reasons for knowing, not to mention he's just that kind of person. He seems friendly to everyone, but he's very suspicious," Jiang Li said.
As she spoke, she recalled the time when she had just been rescued and joined the Night Watch. At that time, Li Xuan was already a main officer. After she joined, Li Xuan investigated her for almost two years.
Although Li Xuan's investigations were all carried out in secret, and most people didn't know the details, as a relatively intelligent person who experienced it, how could Jiang Li not know what he was doing behind her back?
If Jiang Li's attitude towards hunting urban legend was cold and aggressive, then Li Xuan's was pathologically twisted, as if he was using the hunt for urban legend to satisfy his perverse voyeuristic desires.
"Alright, let's not talk about him anymore." After a moment of silent thought, Jiang Li steered the conversation back on track, "Let's talk about your Spirit Mark, shall we?"
"Oh, my cheat, no, what exactly is the Spirit Mark? You stopped halfway just now, I was about to die of anxiety," Lu Yibei asked.
Although he pretended to ask Jiang Li with great anticipation, in reality, he was panicking internally.
He already had two forces within his body now. If another force were to come, and something went wrong, exposing his identity, wouldn't he be finished?
Jiang Li thought for a moment and replied, "Have you heard of Ifrit?"
"Little Fire Dragon?" Lu Yibei tilted his head.
Jiang Li frowned, looking at Lu Yibei with a puzzled expression, "What?"
Lu Yibei's inexplicable answer left her somewhat bewildered.
Was this some obscure niche joke?
"Uh, don't mind that, it's just a tool for garbage game developers to swindle money. You continue, you continue."
Thinking of those foolish netizens who spent thousands or tens of thousands, their eyes red from microtransactions, Lu Yibei felt genuinely envious from the bottom of his heart. An unemployed wanderer like him, living off his Old Dad's inheritance, simply didn't dare to squander money like that.
The lines she had prepared were interrupted by Lu Yibei. Jiang Li also lost interest and just gave a rough introduction, "In short, Ifrit is a legendary high-level energy-based urban legend that can control fire. The raw material used to draw your Spirit Mark is taken from it."
After Lu Yibei finished listening, he suddenly felt a bit subtle. His body already contained a terrifying power related to fire, and now Jiang Li said that the core of the urban legend body the Night Watch prepared for him to draw his Spirit Mark was also related to fire. This...
Isn't this giving me a reasonable and reliable way to hide my secret? Lu Yibei thought. Is it really such a coincidence? Could it be that after being unlucky for more than ten years, I'm finally going to turn my luck around?
After a brief thought, Lu Yibei said excitedly, "Leader, is that Ifrit you mentioned powerful? After I use it, will I be able to live a glorious life and go wherever I want?"
"No," Jiang Li said slowly. "Ifrit's power is indeed strong enough, but whether you can survive the process of drawing the Spirit Mark, I can't guarantee. You can only have glory if you survive; if you don't, you can only have a grand funeral."
To be honest, Jiang Li also somewhat didn't understand why Bai Kai would find such a highly dangerous urban legend body core for Lu Yibei, and even got himself seriously injured in the process.
Didn't he know that the higher the level of the urban legend body core, the more severe the rejection reaction would be when drawing the Spirit Mark?
As Jiang Li thought, her peripheral vision subconsciously drifted towards her prosthetic limb.
He kept saying he wanted to find the most suitable urban legend body core for Lu Yibei to draw his Spirit Mark. Ifrit is indeed very powerful, but in Jiang Li's opinion, being able to withstand it is what makes it suitable.
Lu Yibei propped his chin and was silent for a while, then looked at Jiang Li and said, "Leader, what did you say earlier?"
"I said, during the process of drawing the Spirit Mark, you might not be able to withstand it."
"Not that, the bad news from the beginning," Lu Yibei said.
"Oh, I said the courier responsible for transporting the raw material to you encountered some trouble on the way, got injured, and won't be able to make it back for a while."
"Right, that's the line." Lu Yibei said expressionlessly and in a serious tone, "Leader, can you tell me where that courier is now? I'll go right now and figure out a way to kill him so he can never deliver it!"
"I thought he was bringing me a cheat, but hearing you say that, I feel like he's bringing me to my end. Isn't that a scam?"
Jiang Li, "..."
