Free Web Novel"Master, aren't you... Why are you doing this? The calamity you spoke of, it couldn't be that human, could it?"
"Impossible, he's just a Chou Didi, at most half a Psychic, he doesn't even have a complete Spirit Mark. Go to the entrance of our village in Taoyuan, grab a little kid, and they could beat him three times over!"
"Alright, stop talking. Look, hasn't this mark gone out? It means he was just acting on impulse." Ju Meng said, raising the back of her hand towards Magpie.
"But Master, before I came, Turtle Elder cast another hexagram for you. The reading showed that the calamity in your destiny hasn't been eliminated yet. If you ask me, why don't you go back and hide for a bit?" Magpie said worriedly.
"Everyone is very worried about you, staying out here for so long and not going back!"
The Turtle Elder that Magpie mentioned was one of Ju Meng's oldest dependents. Basically, ever since she awakened her self-awareness, he had always existed in the pond under the peach tree.
Perhaps because turtle and tortoise creatures have outstanding divination talent, after Turtle Elder became Ju Meng's dependent and transformed into a Strange Tale, he unexpectedly mastered divination skills, and they were exceptionally accurate.
As time went on, in Taoyuan, if a family had a child born and needed a name, if they needed to pick an auspicious day for a wedding or funeral, or if they couldn't find their keys... for these kinds of things, they would mostly go to Turtle Elder for a divination.
This time, Ju Meng received Lin Yiqi's summons and came out of Taoyuan. Before she left, Turtle Elder, as usual, cast a hexagram for her. As soon as he finished interpreting the reading, his seven orifices immediately bled, and then he tearfully begged her not to leave Taoyuan, saying that she would inevitably encounter a calamity on this trip.
But Ju Meng didn't care about these things at all. Don't look at her like a Little Girl; after all, she occupied the mountain and reigned as a high-level Strange Tale whose territory covered hundreds of miles. If she was afraid of things like this, how could she be the "Void"?
That's right, the reason Ju Meng was staying at Lu Yibei's house and not leaving wasn't that simple.
Besides the fact that there would indeed be some danger passing through the territories of those high-level urban legend on the way back to Taoyuan after she was injured, she also wanted to stay here and wait to see what the so-called calamity looked like, when exactly it would descend, and then...
...kill the calamity while she was at it.
...
Hearing Magpie mention Turtle Elder, Ju Meng's eyes trembled slightly, then she quickly composed herself, rolled her eyes at Magpie standing on the balcony railing, and said irritably, "What do you know? If you can hide from the first day, can you hide from the fifteenth?"
"When you encounter difficulties, finding a way to solve them is the correct approach! Alright, leave the things here, and if there's nothing else, you can go back!"
Ju Meng paused, thinking of the lovely people and urban legend in Taoyuan, and added, "Help me say hello to everyone and tell them I'm fine here. I'll go back once I've finished what I need to do."
Seeing Ju Meng's firm attitude, Magpie, who was called Xiaocao, no longer said much. After all, Ju Meng was her Master; she could only offer some advice and could not sway her will.
"Alright!"
Magpie responded with a sigh of compromise, then her abdomen began to writhe, performing the regurgitation behavior most birds exhibit. Before long, accompanied by a chirp, she spat out a cardboard box several times larger than her body from her mouth.
Ju Meng stepped forward, tore open the tape on the cardboard box, and checked the contents.
200g of pure silver, 150g of mica, cornelian cherries, Arisaema treated with bile... Everything was correct, the quality was excellent, and there were no issues with short weight.
Ju Meng was very skilled at Alchemy. Perhaps when she cooked, she also treated it as Alchemy. She could tell the quality of the ingredients just by looking at them, not to mention that these materials were produced by herself. ƒreewebɳovel.com
That's right, all of these came from Taoyuan. Ju Meng told Lu Yibei that she would purchase them on his behalf, and there would definitely be no middleman earning the price difference, but she didn't say she couldn't be the supplier!
Anyway, buying from others makes money, and buying from her also makes money. Why should the fertile water flow into someone else's field?
Making money in business, reasonable "deception" isn't embarrassing!
...
As the middle of the month drew closer, the anniversary of Huacheng Institute of Technology was approaching, and the campus was filled with a festive atmosphere everywhere.
The so-called anniversary was really just a matter of fact.
The Leaders would give a speech, successful alumni would come out and give a speech, the students would choose a representative to give a speech based on a script, then they would enter the donation segment that everyone loved to see, and finally, they would hold a cultural performance to show the Leaders and successful people from all walks of society that their money wasn't given in vain.
However, since the anniversary was a rare revenue-generating project, the school Leaders didn't want to let it go to waste, so they intensified the pressure on each college to prepare, fearing that something would go wrong in any part of the process.
In such an atmosphere, everyone in the school seemed to have their own work to do, so much so that in the class where a certain lecturer was substituting because Professor Ma was hospitalized, the number of students attending was scattered and intermittent, not even half of what it used to be.
Why are these people so uninterested in studying?! If Professor Ma saw this situation, wouldn't he be so angry that he'd have to stay in the hospital for a few more months? Looking at the empty classroom, such a thought arose in Lu Yibei's mind.
And then...
At the end of the small class, he took out the copper coin Professor Ma had lent him and tossed it into the air.
Heads meant no skipping class, tails meant skipping class.
Lu Yibei silently recited in his heart and caught the copper coin that landed heads up.
I don't even need to look, I know it's tails. Anyway, this copper coin only has tails.
This copper coin was lent to me by Professor Ma. Now it's telling me to skip class, so it counts as Professor Ma indirectly allowing it. No problem!
Lu Yibei thought this, and without even looking at the copper coin, he directly put it into his pocket.
The copper coin, "..."
...
Lu Yibei initially refused to skip class, especially since it was Professor Ma's class. Making such a choice was also a last resort.
If it weren't for the student union urging him so tightly for his speech draft, he absolutely wouldn't have skipped class... probably.
However.
When he, uncharacteristically, sat in the library and spread out the letter paper and pen on the desk, he sat there blankly for a full two hours. The letter paper only had the line "Distinguished Leaders, esteemed alumni, dear Teachers and students, hello everyone!" written on it, and his emotions broke down.
"I have absolutely no idea!" Lu Yibei rubbed his hair and muttered to himself softly.
In this world, there are always various misunderstandings between different majors.
It's like, some people always think that computer science majors can fix computers, food science majors can cook, physics majors can build atomic bombs, and some even think that law majors can conjure fireballs with their bare hands.
The people in the student union always thought that Lu Yibei, as a student from the School of Literature, must be particularly good at writing articles.
In fact, he wasn't!
Making someone who hasn't been stabbed eighteen times give a speech about bravely fighting a villain and unfortunately getting injured in the end is no less difficult than making him give birth to a baby on the spot.
I think you're tormenting me, the Flower City Torment King! Lu Yibei thought. Seeing that it was time for a meal, he angrily threw down his pen, packed his backpack, and left the library in a hurry.
There's still more than a day until the anniversary!
It's still not too late to come to the library to write tomorrow. Maybe after absorbing Lu Xu's memories, I'll suddenly understand?
I'll definitely finish it next time, definitely next time! Lu Yibei thought.
...
Although after swallowing the witchs egg and becoming a Strange Tale, Lu Yibei still felt like he was chewing wax when eating, thankfully the school cafeteria's portions were sufficient. After mindlessly stuffing himself with two liang of rice plus two meat dishes and one vegetable dish, the /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ feeling of fullness still made him very satisfied.
Since he had become a Strange Tale, whether the food tasted good or not was superficial. Not letting hunger control his will was the important thing.
After leaving the cafeteria, Lu Yibei strolled around the campus to digest his food while waiting for the afternoon class. Unknowingly, he walked near the Four Gate Main Street. Gazing at the dilapidated and desolate street from afar, he couldn't help but frown.
In fact, after Lu Yibei arrived at school today, the entire morning, besides thinking about how Ju Meng, that Smelly Girl, somehow managed to illegally swipe his bank card...
...he had been thinking about what happened last night and deliberately avoided walking in the direction of the Four Gate Main Street. He didn't even dare to listen closely when classmates discussed the big fire on Four Gate Main Street last night during class breaks.
There's a saying in criminal psychology that a real criminal will always return to the scene of the crime.
With the commotion last night, the people from the Night Watch couldn't possibly ignore it. If he was still lingering near the Four Gate Main Street at this time, he would inevitably be suspected.
Perhaps that fellow, Li Xuan, would come knocking again.
As Lu Yibei was thinking, someone suddenly patted his shoulder, and a familiar voice came from beside his ear. The scene of a certain girl chattering incessantly in his ear until he woke up, whenever he dreamt at midnight, flashed through his mind.
"Hey! You're Lu Yibei, right? I remember you!"
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment. Turning his head, he saw Du Sixian's face beaming with joy. In her hand, she was carrying two boxed meals from the cafeteria. freēwēbnovel.com
Damn it, did the Night Watch really come to investigate? It seems they not only investigated but also stationed people nearby. This Du Sixian, she wouldn't report me, would she? Lu Yibei muttered inwardly.
Seeing that Lu Yibei didn't speak, Du Sixian smiled and pointed to the tip of her nose, saying, "You don't remember me? We met before at the Si Ye, uh, the Hua City Folk Culture Administration Bureau!"
In her mind, she only saw Lu Yibei as a colleague from the Night Watch and wanted to build good relationships, so she spoke openly and generously without any concealment.
"Yeah, I've seen you, I have an impression." Lu Yibei replied expressionlessly, feeling panicked inside, afraid that she would ask why he was in this area.
"Hehe!" Du Sixian chuckled lightly and looked into the distance in the direction of the Four Gate Main Street. "Speaking of which, what are you doing around here? Are you here to help stake out?"
Did I get one less boxed meal then? Du Sixian muttered inwardly.
"No, I'm not." Lu Yibei heard this and quickly denied it, "I just heard from classmates that there was a fire here last night and was worried about a Strange Tale causing trouble, so I came to check. If I found any problems, I could inform my superiors in time."
"But, it seems like the people above already know now. As a temporary worker, there's no need for me to inquire further, right?"
Saying it like this shouldn't have revealed any obvious flaws, right? Lu Yibei thought.
Hearing this, Du Sixian put one hand on her hip and patted Lu Yibei's shoulder, saying, "Hey! Very promising! Sister Qing said that as a member of the organization, the most important thing is having a keen nose for Strange Tale incidents!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Of course! That's what I did, didn't you expect that?
"Oh right, since we're talking about this, do you want to tell you a little secret?"
I don't want to, forget about secrets. Just don't bother me in my dreams at night... Lu Yibei muttered inwardly. Just as he was about to shake his head and refuse, Du Sixian started talking to herself.
"Let me tell you, the Strange Tale that caused the fire yesterday wasn't found, but when we did a covert visit this morning, we found a photo sealing a Strange Tale. That Old man inside was really scary, but we searched the entire house and couldn't find the camera that took the photo. Don't you think that's strange?"
Lu Yibei, "..." This... Why is she telling me everything? She's way too unguarded, right?
