Free Web NovelJust past five in the afternoon, the sky quickly darkened. Above the firmament, the fiery red sun seemed shrouded in a layer of shadow, casting a hazy light tinged with red and gray.
After filling out a stack of relevant paperwork, Little Maid A Hua sat waiting on a long bench in the lobby of the Peony Street police station. When she saw Lu Yibei walk out of the interrogation room, the corner of her mouth couldn't help but twitch.
For someone eighteen or nineteen years old, getting caught by the police for something trivial like chasing cats and dogs was already baffling enough.
After finally being released, she actually had the nerve to pester the Officer for the groceries she had bought?!
This person... really has a lot of issues.
"Uncle Police, where are my groceries? Where's that big rack of ribs? And the fish and greens..."
"Let me tell you, meat prices are rising so fast now. Ribs are over ten yuan more expensive than last year..."
The Officer who escorted Lu Yibei out was perhaps annoyed by the pestering. He glared at her and said in a deep voice, "Shut up, your groceries aren't here!"
When the comrade who responded to the call went to the market before, they were only concerned with bringing people back. How could they worry about your groceries left in the frozen food store, God knows in which corner? the Officer thought irritably.
"Ah? They're gone?" Lu Yibei was stunned. So many groceries, they cost her nearly a hundred yuan! To be honest, she found this situation a bit hard to accept.
Lu Yibei opened her mouth, about to say something more, but at that moment, A Hua, who had deeply experienced how annoying it was to be pestered by her, finally couldn't stand it anymore. She hurried forward and rescued the Officer from the abyss of rambling that was about to descend.
"Alright, Lu Yibei, let's go quickly!"
Lu Yibei glanced at A Hua, scratched the back of her head, and said, "Uh, then my groceries..."
Before she could finish, seeing A Hua put her hands on her hips with a fierce expression, she immediately changed her tune and said, "Let's go! We'll go right away! Actually, there's no big difference between a feast of fish and meat and braised beef ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) noodles with shrimp and fish cakes. Young people should be a bit more frugal and simple, don't you think?"
"..." A Hua said nothing, turned around, and walked out of the police station.
I'm not going to talk to you, or your mouth will never stop.
...
Lu Yibei followed A Hua out of the police station. As soon as they reached the road, she saw a car parked by the roadside.
And the silver-haired girl looking at her from behind the rolled-down window.
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Lu Yibei was astonished, "I didn't expect anyone would come to pick me up from prison?"
"Strictly speaking, your situation was questioning and verification, not imprisonment," Jiang Li glanced at Lu Yibei and said lightly, "Get in the car, I'll take you back."
"Oh," Lu Yibei replied, and without thinking, pulled open the car door, got in, and sat down beside Jiang Li.
Seeing this, Jiang Li was slightly taken aback. She looked at the gap of less than a palm's width between herself and Lu Yibei and furrowed her brow slightly.
A Hua was in the driver's seat and saw this scene through the rearview mirror. Just as she was about to remind Lu Yibei to sit in the front, she heard Jiang Li say calmly, "A Hua, drive."
A Hua drove forward quickly. Lu Yibei was quiet for a moment, then couldn't help but break the silence in the car.
"Oh right, Leader, how has the Night Watch been recently? Are you busy with work?"
"Aside from the urban legend incident discovered at Shihekou Middle School after your last report, which is still being investigated, everything else is as usual, but it's basically unrelated to you," Jiang Li glanced at Lu Yibei and said lightly.
"As for the urban legend incident at Shihekou Middle School, the net is about to close. Only some aftermath matters remain, which you can't handle."
In fact, Jiang Li hadn't expected to obtain clues from the two samples An Qing brought back from Huacheng Institute of Technology.
Through An Qing's analysis and comparison with the recorded urban legend files, the two samples were found to be from Mr. Rabbit and a certain wanted Eclipse Society member, which could be considered an unexpected gain.
With those two samples, they could quickly pinpoint the location of that person and that urban legend. As long as they captured the Eclipse Society member lurking in Hua City, they would know what kind of sinister things they were up to in the shadows.
Of course, that Eclipse Society member definitely wouldn't confess honestly, but the Night Watch wasn't a charity organization either. There were at least a hundred ways to make him talk.
Although those methods were somewhat cruel, there was no need for humanitarianism when dealing with Eclipse Society scum.
However, none of these matters were things Lu Yibei could participate in. She couldn't contribute her combat power to the encirclement of Eclipse Society members, and as for the interrogation process, seeing it would likely leave a shadow on her young mind.
"Oh, oh..." Lu Yibei nodded thoughtfully. Jiang Li spoke vaguely, and she couldn't discern anything useful.
After chatting idly about various things, Lu Yibei finally told Jiang Li about her discovery in the frozen food store.
"...Leader, that's how it is. I suspected there was something strange there, so I went to check. I didn't expect that simple-minded stall owner would call the police, leading to this situation."
"I figured it might not be good to tell Uncle Police about this kind of thing, so I just made up an excuse."
A mourning hall... an ice coffin... and a cat of unknown origin? As Jiang Li listened to Lu Yibei's description, something suddenly flashed through her mind, and her expression changed slightly.
The cat she mentioned, could it be...
No, no, perhaps it's just a similar urban legend. That guy has been out of sight for a long time. Maybe it lost control long ago and was devoured by other urban legend.
Speaking of which, how does this person always get involved with these dangerous things?
Is this the fate of reconnaissance-type Psychic?
It's the kind of fate where various urban legend actively seek them out, troubles keep coming, and then one day, sensing a terrifying existence they can't handle, they inexplicably die.
Jiang Li thought as she subtly glanced at Lu Yibei, quickly composed her fluctuating emotions, and said lightly, "Okay, I'll go take a look later, but don't expect to find anything."
"Huh?" Lu Yibei was puzzled.
"Didn't you say you asked An Qing to go look before and found nothing? This indicates that the frozen food store is likely not that urban legend's permanent location."
"Even a urban legend with a little strength won't have just one hiding place. The one with the most... has so many you can't imagine."
Speaking of which, Jiang Li recalled one of the most difficult urban legend to deal with, which was the source of the singing in the toilets. Almost everyone in the Night Watch knew about the existence of that urban legend, but they just couldn't resolve it.
After all, it had too many hiding places, so many they were countless. No one knew where it would appear next.
To solve it, either more than half of the toilets worldwide would need Psychic staking them out, or they'd have to find a way to expel it to India.
Thinking of this, Jiang Li couldn't help but sigh inwardly once again at the Night Watch's shortage of personnel.
The total number of Psychic in the Night Watch, as well as the speed at which they were trained and produced, was less than one-tenth compared to the urban legend hidden in the dark corners of the city.
It seemed like they could do a lot, but in reality, it was very little.
While they were planning and rushing around for one urban legend attack incident, it was very likely that another ten, or even more, urban legend attack incidents were occurring in corners they didn't know about.
...
Jiang Li dropped Lu Yibei off near the Jingyi Apartment Complex and told A Hua to drive towards the 96 Cai Market.
Lu Yibei got out of the car and watched Jiang Li drive away. Then, as she walked towards the unfinished building where she usually dealt with her evening urban legend transformation problem, she pondered what Jiang Li had said about urban legend with some strength having many hiding places.
Speaking of which, I'm also considered a urban legend now. When I become stronger in the future, should I also get a few more hiding places?
But how do I get these hiding places? Should I buy houses? It seems not impossible.
As Lu Yibei thought, she suddenly felt that if she developed well, she might become a landlady, no, a landlord urban legend or something similar in the future.
Just as she was calculating how to make more money to buy houses and where to buy them cheaply, her phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated.
She nonchalantly took out her phone and glanced at it. Immediately after, her pupils contracted, and she couldn't help but look around nervously.
However, as far as her eyes could see, there were only sparsely populated streets under the shroud of dusk.
She withdrew her gaze and focused on her phone again. On the screen was a notification message from a certain goose chat software.
The message was sent by someone with the ID 【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats】, and the content was an invitation to join a group.
【"One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats" invites you to join "New University Town Ghost Story Chat Group Review Group"
Confirm/Cancel】
Lu Yibei stared blankly at the phone screen in silence for a long while before taking a deep breath and gently tapping the 【Confirm】 option. Immediately after, the screen changed, switching to a certain chat group.
【You have successfully joined the New University Town Ghost Story Chat Group Review Group. You can now start chatting with everyone.】
After joining the chat group, no silly group members popped out asking Lu Yibei for photos or cross-dressing pictures. She just stared at the screen, silently waiting, wanting to see the group members' chat content first.
However, the entire chat group was dead silent. Over two hundred people, their avatars were all gray, with only her avatar and the person whose ID was One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats lit up.
After waiting for a few minutes, seeing that the sky was about to turn completely dark, Lu Yibei quickly put away her phone and hurried towards the unfinished buildings near University City, then slipped into the dark, cavernous building.
Before long, a series of moans came from the darkness, sometimes low, sometimes shy, finally gradually returning to normal...
...
Over ten minutes later.
When Lu Yibei stopped her urban legend transformation and walked out of the unfinished building, she took out her phone again, and there were already two more messages on it.
【17:44 One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: @White Little Flower is not short Congratulations on passing the initial offline review and joining the second review group. Please change your ID to one that matches your identity.】
【17:50 One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: @White Little Flower is not short We will organize your final group entry review soon. Please be prepared to wait. Currently, there are 217 people before you.】
One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats? Initial offline review? Lu Yibei carefully savored this ID and the events she experienced today, feeling a sudden realization.
It seems An Qing's previous investigation results might not have been wrong. There really wasn't a urban legend there. The urban legend that appeared today was probably specifically targeting me.
But how did they find me? Lu Yibei pondered for a moment, feeling a bit confused, so she put away her thoughts and changed her ID according to One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats' instructions.
"Hmm... hmm..."
Staring at the screen, she pondered for a few seconds, then typed in the four characters "Wang Bu Liu Xing" and clicked Confirm.
