Free Web NovelJiang Li looked up and around, the towering apartment buildings resembling colossal, silent stone tablets.
"Is this it? But..."
She murmured, her words cut short as her brows furrowed.
Logically, Mr. Rabbit is a C-level, almost B-level Weird tale. If he were nearby and preparing to attack, she should easily sense his approximate location.
But why was there no Psychic fluctuation exceeding the safety index at all?
Just as Jiang Li was puzzled, a sharp whistle, like a blade cutting through air, suddenly came from her ear. Following the sound, a white shadow arrived, treading on the wind.
Fine rain drifted down, and a sudden strong wind stirred up dead leaves. The leaves floated down, following the wind's trajectory, as a person in white walked through the rain, stepping on the fallen leaves.
Bai Kai? What is he doing here? Jiang Li frowned.
The moment Jiang Li saw Bai Kai, Bai Kai also saw her. Their gazes briefly met, and his steps paused for a moment beside her, leaving behind a cold, angry snort, before he continued to sprint towards Lu Yibei's house, quickly disappearing into the night.
Jiang Li's lips parted slightly as if to speak, but she hesitated. Just as she was about to chase after Bai Kai to ask something, a strange and violent Psychic fluctuation suddenly came from the complete opposite direction of Lu Yibei's house.
The restless Psychic gathered together, flowing through the air like boiling molten iron. A harsh shriek seemed to faintly echo in her ears, and suffocating negative emotions intertwined with a tremor from the depths of her soul, forming a vortex of pain.
Caught in the terrifying vortex, Jiang Li's face turned pale, her eyes filled with an unshakeable shock.
S-level Psychic fluctuation? When did Hua City...
The Night Watch usually categorizes Weird tale' Psychic fluctuations with simple English letters, but the S-level, at the very top of this pyramid, has another designation due to its immense destructive power, like earthquakes and tsunamis, and its unpredictable nature—Calamity!
The Night Watch's recorded Calamity Weird tale do not exceed five instances, each causing tens of thousands of casualties.
Jiang Li had never imagined that a Weird tale of this level would appear in Hua City. Hua City might be facing its greatest crisis ever.
In an instant, Jiang Li repeatedly weighed the life safety of Lu Yibei, the bait, against the outbreak of a "Calamity," and made her decision.
"Sorry! I'll visit you often from now on." Jiang Li whispered, then got up and rushed towards the direction from which the Calamity Psychic fluctuation came.
Between one person's life and the lives of hundreds or thousands, she chose the latter.
Bai Kai had already gone in Lu Yibei's direction. Although she didn't know how he got the news and arrived here, it should be fine with him there, right? Jiang Li thought. freewebnσvel.cѳm
Although she usually disliked Bai Kai's casual approach and shallow mind, in this situation, she still trusted her colleague more.
...
Outside the window, a brilliant blue light shone in, briefly illuminating the entire apartment.
The moment Lu Yibei saw "Mr. Rabbit," his mind went blank. His arms instinctively flailed, and the panic and timidity in his eyes seemed to be blown away like thick fog by the wind, replaced by a steely coldness.
The lightning receded, and the light in the apartment quickly dimmed.
"Duang!"
A dull thud of a blunt object hitting a head echoed in the darkness.
Immediately after, the silhouette of the tall figure in front staggered a few times, then fell backward with a crash, rolling down the stairs with a "thump, thump, thump."
"Clang—!"
Lu Yibei dropped the mingwang statue as if his hands had lost all strength. He walked to the stairwell, leaned on the railing, and peered down with half his head.
Only after vaguely seeing "Mr. Rabbit" twitch a few times, slowly relax, and stop moving, did he slowly exhale a turbid breath, sit down leaning on the railing, and then lie on the ground in a "big" character shape.
"Hoo—hoo—!"
He was gasping violently, greedily sucking air into his lungs. There was a buzzing in his ears, and little stars kept appearing in his eyes, which hurt as if two hot coals had been shoved into them.
His taut nerves suddenly relaxed, and the strength he had generated from his hot-headedness receded like a tide, leaving his whole body as limp as a puddle of mud.
In the darkness, a putrid smell of blood gradually wafted over.
Dead? Did I... did I kill someone?
Lu Yibei realized that "Mr. Rabbit," whom he had just knocked down, might be a stranger. He was surprised to find that he wasn't as overly terrified as he had imagined; a more distinct feeling was nausea and discomfort.
Intense discomfort!
His stomach cramped and convulsed in waves, as if he could vomit even his stomach if he opened his mouth.
I killed someone, and I'm not even screaming hysterically. Does this mean I have some potential for antisocial personality? Lu Yibei thought.
If I were antisocial, I should, by rights, be finishing him off!
If that blow just now didn't kill him, it'll be troublesome when he recovers and gets back up!
But I really can't move, I don't have any strength at all!
An unbearable sense of fatigue swept over him. Lu Yibei only felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness becoming hazy.
Just as he was drowsily about to fall asleep, an electric-effect scream entered his ears.
"F***~! Electric~ electric~ electric~!"
Who is it now?
Forget it, I don't care, I just want to lie down right now! Kill me, cut me up, do whatever the hell you want! Lu Yibei thought, closing his eyes and letting his consciousness sink into silence.
Ten-odd seconds later.
The living room window shattered with a crash. The transparent crystals, as if cut by some force, turned into neat, uniform rhomboid fragments, scattered across the floor.
Immediately after, a faint, almost imperceptible shriek suddenly intensified, rapidly approaching. A white figure, like a sharp blade, pierced through the air and landed steadily in the living room, then...
Shook his right hand, which was numb from the electric shock.
"Tsk! You brat, I don't know who taught you this kind of thing!" Bai Kai muttered under his breath. As soon as he got up, he saw the corpse lying at the stairwell and smelled the strong scent of putrid blood in the air.
He froze for a moment, then became alert. He turned on the light and cautiously approached, confirming that the corpse had no vital signs whatsoever. Then, he looked up the stairs, and after vaguely seeing Lu Yibei's figure, his expression changed, and he vanished from his spot in a flash.
Bai Kai reappeared beside Lu Yibei.
He channeled a silvery light to his fingertip and touched Lu Yibei's forehead, using a simple Spell to confirm he was not injured, merely unconscious from extreme physical and mental exhaustion. Then, he let out a long sigh of relief.
If Xiao Bei had suffered any mishap, when I die and meet those two, I'd definitely get a mixed double beating!
Bai Kai thought, his peripheral vision inadvertently sweeping over the mingwang statue. Then he sharply turned back, frowning at the bronze statue stained with blood and with bits of flesh clinging to its sharp protrusions, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.
After a long while, he held his forehead and sighed helplessly, "Oh, you silly child, this thing, it's not used like that..."
...
Under the night sky, fine rain silently fell on the rooftop, gathering together, mixing with the foul-smelling blood, and slowly flowing into the drain at the edge.
The water tank and solar panel brackets were covered in mottled rust, the wall plaster had peeled off, creating an uneven wall surface, and black-green mold grew in the depressions on the ground, emitting a cold, damp, musty odor.
Five Special Operations Team members lay on the ground in the corner, sleeping soundly. The Little Maid's shoulder was soaked with blood, and she was unconscious.
Jiang Li followed the Calamity Psychic fluctuation all the way here and saw this scene. Yet, that Calamity Psychic fluctuation had vanished without a trace in just a few seconds, as if it had never appeared.
She stood silently in place for a moment with a solemn expression, then turned to look at the rooftop of another apartment building not far away, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes.
In the same complex, the rooftops of different apartments presented a scene as if decades of erosion had separated them. What exactly happened here just now?
Thinking this, she quickly confirmed that the Special Operations Team members were unharmed, then took out a finger-sized test tube from her jacket pocket and walked towards the Little Maid.
Jiang Li helped the Little Maid up, leaning her against the wall. With one fingertip, she gently pried open the Little Maid's pale lips, and with the other hand, she poured the mercury-like medicine from the test tube into her mouth.
Her slender, long neck, throat slightly wiggling, as the wound through her shoulder stopped bleeding and slowly healed, the Little Maid suddenly woke up, opening her mouth wide, breathing in large gulps of air as if she had been rescued from drowning.
"Gasp—! Gasp—!"
Jiang Li let the Little Maid rest in her arms until she had completely calmed down, then said faintly, "A Hua, do you feel better?"
"Mi-Miss?" The Little Maid froze, tears welling up in her eyes, and said, "Waaah, I'm sorry, Miss, we failed our duty, we couldn't protect the target!"
Upon seeing Jiang Li, the Little Maid subconsciously assumed that the mission had failed, Mr. Rabbit had escaped, and Lu Yibei, as the bait, was probably already dead.
Jiang Li gently shook her head and said, "This is not your fault. Tell me, what happened here just now?"
A Hua plus a Special Operations Team would definitely be more than enough to deal with Mr. Rabbit, but facing a Calamity Weird tale, even ten times more would not be enough. So, blaming the Little Maid was completely pointless.
Now, figuring out the source of the Calamity Psychic fluctuation was the top priority.
"Miss, you're so good to me, I'm so touched! Waaah!"
"Get to the point." Jiang Li said calmly, looking down at the hand that was secretly unbuttoning her shirt, her voice suddenly turning several degrees colder, "Also, take your hand off my chest."
The Little Maid stuck out her tongue, turned her face away, pretending nothing had happened, and ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) quietly recounted what had just occurred.
One minute later.
Jiang Li stared at the Little Maid, her brows tightly furrowed, and interrupted, "You're saying that while you were staking out, you were suddenly ambushed by more than ten mutated Weird tale with Psychic fluctuations between D and C level?"
Strange, why were there only a group of D to C level mutated Weird tale? I clearly felt such a strong Psychic fluctuation. And there are no corpses of mutated Weird tale here either? Jiang Li wondered.
The Little Maid nodded and said, "Mhm, mhm, at the time, I was caught off guard and got injured, and several Special Operations Team members were struggling to hold on. If that girl hadn't suddenly appeared, who knows what the outcome would have been!"
"Girl?" Jiang Li tilted her head. "What kind of girl?"
Could that Calamity Psychic fluctuation have emanated from her?
"Um..." The Little Maid recalled, "She was small, but had a good figure, chestnut long hair, wearing a lace mini-skirt, and a very long red scarf that covered half her face. Her eyebrows looked a bit childish, and then, then... Oh, right, she called herself 'Red Scarf who prefers not to reveal her name.'"
Jiang Li, "..."
It seems the strange Psychic in Hua City have increased again!
