Free Web NovelThat's right, the system just thinks that the Disaster is the easiest to deal with among the seven factors that destroy the world.
This isn't just because it has clashed with the Disaster more than once, knows her growth trajectory inside and out, and can deliver a fatal blow at a critical moment.
It's also because the Disaster is the only urban legend transformed from a human, which means her starting point is much lower than the other six.
In fact, the system also targeted other factors like the Nightmare, the Void, and Blasphemy, but the outcomes were all...
The ones that lasted barely made it to the finale, while the short ones didn't survive three episodes.
In the worst instance, it couldn't even confirm if the target was the one it was looking for before the host was captured by the enemy's subordinates, subjected to over thirty pages of 'Ora', and instantly turned to ash.
Compared to those lords who could casually unleash A-Level Spiritual Energy or higher from birth.
The Disaster, who requires a long time to grow and can only consume her own life or others' lives to exert full power, is clearly the easiest target to succeed against, isn't she?
What's more...
There's also a lingering obsession from a time when it almost succeeded.
That obsession is like the flag set while staying up late playing games – "I'll sleep after winning one game" – possessing an indescribable magic.
"System..."
After listening to the system's reply, Gu Qianqian was silent for a moment, then called out softly with a hint of melancholy.
"Huh?" The system pulled its thoughts back from reminiscing about the past and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Sigh—!" Gu Qianqian sighed, "You're really useless, you're even afraid of the weakest one."
"..." The system was silent for a while, then suppressed its anger and said, "Let me clarify, it's the easiest to deal with, not the weakest. The two are not interchangeable."
"System..."
"What is it again?! Gu Qianqian, I never noticed before, but you have so many problems!"
Gu Qianqian craned her neck, her eyebrows knitted together, and she swallowed hard several times with a contorted expression, while her lips were slightly parted, gasping for air.
Seeing Gu Qianqian looking like she could stop breathing at any moment, the system's heart skipped a beat.
Did the Disaster poison the grilled fish? Oh my, if Gu Qianqian is poisoned to death by the grilled fish, she'll probably become one of the most embarrassing hosts in history.
Worried that the host would die, the system silently floated to the scattered fish bones on the ground and sniffed.
There was indeed the aura of the Disaster, but there seemed to be no poison at all!
How could Gu Qianqian...
"Cough, cough, cough—! System, I think I'm choked by a fish bone..."
System, "..." You might as well just choke to death! This is even more embarrassing.
"System... think of something, help me!"
"Extremely sorry, your super beautiful girl demon-slaying system..."
Before the system's mechanical prompt finished, Gu Qianqian tilted her head and said in surprise, "Huh? Did it go offline?"
Why did it learn to answer prematurely... the system muttered to itself, and responded faintly, "Yes, it's offline."
After answering, it fell silent.
Before Gu Qianqian got up and left, stubbornly searching for more "delicacies," it sniffed the broken fish bones on the ground again, which carried a hint of the Disaster's aura, and couldn't help but feel a tremor.
But unlike before, it didn't feel fear this time, but something else.
Perhaps.
It was reminded of a delicious home-cooked dish it had eaten a long time ago, or something else entirely...
...
After resting for about an hour, Lu Yibei received the scheduled Coat wake-up service as promised.
As the Coat wriggled and returned to its original state, she also got out of bed, tucked over a dozen talismans into her pocket, hid the carving knife in her sleeve, and lightly set off to find that strange Old man, Meng Raoze.
When Meng Raoze left earlier, Lu Yibei observed carefully. He seemed to be living directly in the main hall of the dilapidated temple. There were no strange noises in the courtyard over the past hour, so she figured she could just go there to find him.
Leaving the thatched hut, she carefully avoided the large water Cylinder that looked quite strange and walked to the front of the dilapidated temple's main hall. Just as she was about to knock, she suddenly remembered Meng Raoze's nonsensical warning and withdrew her hand.
In horror novels, people who don't listen to the mysterious NPC's warnings usually don't survive three volumes!
The Old man said not to knock after dark, so...
"Cough, cough—!" Lu Yibei cleared her throat and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Old man, Old man, it's about time to get up and pee!"
"Old man, Old man, it's about time to get up and pee!"
"Old man, Old man..."
...
At that moment, inside the main hall, in front of the dilapidated statue, Meng Raoze was lying on a hard wooden board about two meters long and one meter wide, half-awake and half-asleep in a daze. Coupled with his old, sallow appearance and full head of silver hair, he looked like he was in a morgue.
Suddenly, a faint, pleasant but particularly annoying sound entered his ears, and he sprang up from the wooden board as if resurrected.
In the darkness, his turbid, bulging eyes scanned the direction of the sound in surprise and uncertainty. Seeing that Lu Yibei had no intention of stopping, he reluctantly got up and opened the door.
...
The essence of humans is repetition, and even though Lu Yibei is not human now, she hasn't lost this traditional skill.
She stood outside the door and repeated the same words for the seventeenth time when the wooden door of the main hall finally creaked open from the inside.
Meng Raoze's face was dark, his gaze swept up and down Lu Yibei, and he said grimly, "Outsider, go to sleep quickly, otherwise something bad will happen. You don't need to worry about this Old man."
After being rejected, Lu Yibei didn't take it to heart, just responded expressionlessly and indifferently, "Oh, okay!" and turned to leave.
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Meng Raoze watched her return to the thatched hut, close the door, and fall silent, then gently shook his head, returned to the main hall, and lay back on the hard, coffin-lid-like wooden board.
This is fine, it's always better than those outsiders with excessive curiosity who try to explore the secrets of the village. He muttered to himself, looking at the dark ceiling.
But...
What he didn't expect was that this was just the beginning.
...
Half an hour later, when Meng Raoze was about to fall asleep again, Lu Yibei's voice sounded outside the door again.
"Old man, Old man! I suddenly remembered that my family has an ancestral secret recipe for treating rheumatism and bone pain, would you like to hear it?"
"Old man, Old man..."
Hearing Lu Yibei's call, Meng Raoze quickly got up, came to the main hall door, and warned fiercely, "Outsider, I advise you not to shout and scream. If something unexpected happens, this Old man will not be responsible!"
"Oh, okay!"
...
Half an hour later.
"Old man, Old man, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?"
Perhaps due to listening to Meng Raoze's warning, Lu Yibei's voice ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) was very low this time.
However, her clear and melodious voice, when lowered, sounded like some eerie whisper in the ear, like a haunting, which was truly unsettling.
"Old man, Old man..."
"No! Get lost!" Meng Raoze was too lazy to get up and roared from the bed.
"Oh, okay!"
...
Another half an hour later.
"Dormammu I am, uh, no..."
"Old man, Old man, are you asleep? It's so dark in the thatched hut, and there seem to be some bugs crawling around in the corner, rustling. I'm so scared!"
Meng Raoze, "..." Damn it, why is this girl so annoying?
Why are you here? Don't you know?
An outsider who can come here is afraid of the dark? Only a ghost would believe you!
Ignore her, ignore her, ignore her...
...
After who knows how many half-hours.
"Old man, Old man, are those fish in your Cylinder? I brought some food, can I feed them?"
Hearing Lu Yibei mention the water Cylinder in the small courtyard, Meng Raoze's face changed, and he sprang up from the wooden board, pointed in the direction of the main door, and shouted.
"Shut up! What do you want to do?!"
"Old man, this, please don't be angry. I, I'm just, just scared. If it's inconvenient for you, I, I'll go back first."
Such a response came from outside the door, and Meng Raoze was choked with anger.
Go back first, and then come back later? Or mess with the water Cylinder and wake up those sleeping things?
He knew what Lu Yibei wanted to do, nothing more than to explore the secrets hidden behind this village, this mountain forest, this hopeless place, just like those outsiders whose souls had long since vanished.
Since she is so eager to know those secrets, it doesn't matter if he tells her, anyway, she can't leave here Lived.
This thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately got up, opened the door, and welcomed Lu Yibei in.
I had good intentions, letting you live a few more days, but you don't appreciate it! This, if a person wants to die, can they be stopped? Meng Raoze thought angrily, looking at Lu Yibei who was walking into the main hall.
...
As Lu Yibei walked into the main hall, the air immediately became turbid, and an indescribable strange smell entered her nostrils.
The roof tiles perfectly blocked the sky, and there were no windows on the walls. Cold, turbid air drifted, like an underground cave, with darkness all around, making it unclear until Meng Raoze lit a blood-red lantern.
Under the slightly eerie diffused light, the bizarre full appearance of this dilapidated temple slowly revealed itself before her.
The structural style of this temple greatly deviated from the traditional aesthetics of Z Country people, replaced by a strange construction method.
Simple pillars and beams were erected, then mud was piled up, and the four walls were built, making this temple resemble a closed wooden box.
On the gray walls, gloomy and eerie mountain forests and flowing black rivers were depicted. In the mountain forests, some strange shadows wearing full armor, holding sacrificial vessels high, moved in a uniform, wriggling posture with their lower bodies, whether they were legs or tails.
The simple shrine did not worship any deity Lu Yibei was familiar with, but a winding, coiled black great snake. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
The great snake held its head high, and in its eerie green eyes, supported by some kind of gem, a faint light flickered, looking into the distance with anger and malice.
The lifelike, detailed craftsmanship, down to the pale fangs, scarlet tongue, and even every black scale, seemed out of place with this simple and dilapidated temple.
This didn't look like something that could be made with the simple craftsmanship possessed by those villagers. A modern lathe might be able to replicate the shape, but it would definitely lack that eerie charm. Lu Yibei thought.
If someone told her that this statue would breathe at some point, she wouldn't find it strange.
Just as Lu Yibei was lost in thought, Meng Raoze's voice suddenly sounded behind her.
"Speak, what do you want to know?"
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then turned around and said expressionlessly, "Old man, no rush, no rush, let's talk slowly, the night is still long!"
Hearing the word "slowly" come out of Lu Yibei's mouth, the corners of Meng Raoze's wrinkled mouth twitched, and something akin to fear slowly rose in his heart...
