Free Web NovelAs the saying goes, if you do not do anything shameful, you will not be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door.
Lu Yibei had done many shameful things, and there was truly a female ghost knocking on her door, so she was quite panicked.
“Bang bang bang—Bang bang bang—!” freewebnøvel.com
The knocking continued. Perhaps because no one had opened the door for so long, it gradually became faster and heavier, as if impatiently urging the person inside the dilapidated temple to open the door quickly, causing Lu Yibei's # Nоvеlight # emotions to become inexplicably tense as well.
“Take the sacrifices? Do you mean the things in the water tanks?”
“Didn't you say the sacrifices are urban legend from outside? Why would Hui婆 come here?” She pressed the cleaver against Meng Raoze's neck, lowering her voice to force the question.
Lu Yibei suddenly felt that she had become incredibly skilled at threatening others with a knife to their neck without realizing it. She could completely control the blade to a degree that caused Meng Raoze pain but wouldn't cut into his flesh and blood.
Realizing this, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. After setting fire to the mountain, going undercover in the Night Watch, and secretly learning Night Watch Spells, she seemed to have taken another small step forward on the path to becoming a criminal.
Under the double pressure of the cleaver and the Hui婆 outside the door, a clear look of panic appeared on Meng Raoze's face. He said weakly, “Yes, some are old. If there aren't enough living sacrifices, we can only use people from the village instead, but no one wants to die, so...”
Meng Raoze didn't continue, but Lu Yibei already understood what he meant.
So, they used the deformed babies in the water tanks, raised somehow, to die in place of those who didn't want to die.
“...” After a moment of silence, Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly and threatened in a low voice, “You, go deal with the Hui婆 quickly, or you'll regret it.”
As for those troublesome Hui婆, Lu Yibei had only heard their name once so far and had no idea what they looked like, how strong their Spiritual Energy was, or if they had any particularly difficult abilities to deal with.
Unless absolutely necessary, she didn't want to confront the Hui婆 head-on for now. It would be better to figure out their details before taking action; it wouldn't be too late.
“But I...” Meng Raoze opened his mouth, then his body struggled to move on the ground.
In the light of the bloody lantern, Lu Yibei noticed his posture was very strange when he moved. His whole body was soft, looking like a large human snake wriggling on the ground.
She was stunned for a moment, then quickly came back to her senses and said in a deep voice, “You can't move anymore?”
“Yes, broken. All my bones are broken,” Meng Raoze said with a pained expression. “This is the punishment the Adult bestowed upon me for telling you the village's secret.”
“Stop saying useless things!” Lu Yibei growled fiercely in a low voice. “What should we do now? You can't open the door. If they keep knocking like this, something will go wrong sooner or later, right?”
“Yes, yes...” Meng Raoze stammered a couple of responses, then suddenly his eyes lit up as if he had thought of something.
“You go! Wouldn't it be fine if you went to greet the Hui婆?”
“Me?” Lu Yibei's face darkened. She pressed down slightly with the cleaver in her hand, leaving a shallow bloodstain on Meng Raoze's neck. “Are you treating me like an idiot? If I go open the door for them, how is that different from giving them my head?”
Feeling the terrifying chill spreading through his body from the wound, Meng Raoze quickly said, “No, no, I didn't mean that! The Hui婆 don't care who greets them. As long as the person who greets them can understand snake language, there's absolutely no problem!”
“In the eyes of the Hui婆, there is no essential difference between anyone in the village; they are all servants of the Adult.”
“Really?” Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly, looking at Meng Raoze suspiciously.
“Really, really, how could I lie to you? If I neglect the Hui婆 and delay the sacrifice ceremony, I will also suffer. I won't lie to you!”
Lu Yibei pondered his words carefully, finding them somewhat credible. Only then did she slowly withdraw the cleaver, hide it in her inner pocket, and stand up.
“Coat, can you turn into a set of village girl clothes?” Lu Yibei whispered.
It's acting, so of course, you have to go all out!
Although Meng Raoze said that in the eyes of the Hui婆, there was no concept of appearance and everyone in the village was the same, Lu Yibei felt it was hard to guarantee that everything he said was completely true.
As if responding to Lu Yibei, the Collar of the Coat turned up and gently rubbed against her cheek. Then, after a wriggle, it transformed into a set of dusty coarse cloth clothes.
Lu Yibei felt a chill in her lower body, whether it was an illusion or not. She looked down and saw her two fair legs exposed beneath the wide clothes.
“Where are the pants?!” She gritted her teeth, lowering her voice.
Coat, “...”
The Demoness Adult is so fierce!
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Prompted by Lu Yibei, the Coat wriggled again, and the coarse cloth clothes extended a section, becoming a long coarse cloth dress similar to a cheongsam.
Feeling the Coat trembling, Lu Yibei, “...” Forget it, this will do!
...
It had started raining sometime in the sky. The falling rain seemed to have followed the Hui婆 outside the door.
In the rain, a faint white mist spread through the small courtyard filled with water tanks.
Raindrops fell into the water tanks, making soft, fragmented sounds. Ripples spread out irregularly on the surface, and beneath the water, bizarre figures occasionally flashed past.
Lu Yibei looked at the dark wooden door at the end of the small courtyard. Although she couldn't see what the scene outside the door was like, her eyes were already beginning to burn slightly.
The intensity of the burning was stronger than when she met the Headless Senior, but it hadn't reached the level of the Shihekou Middle School death-seeking quartet...
The source of the burning came from three...
After a brief calculation, she felt that if a direct confrontation occurred, her chances of winning head-on were high. After all, she was no longer in the state of knowing nothing when she snuck into Shihekou Middle School.
The cleaver, talismans, and the Spells learned from Du Sixian were all means to harm urban legend.
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If all else fails... didn't I learn a Spell from Old Dad before entering the Bamboo Scroll Illusion?
I don't know if it works, but it looks a little bit powerful, and I've been wanting to find an opportunity to try it!
Thinking this, Lu Yibei reached into her embrace and gripped the cleaver. With her other hand, she grabbed the bolt on the main door of the dilapidated temple, took a deep breath, and pulled hard. The door opened with a “creak!”
Outside the door stood three women of almost identical build, wearing large red wedding dresses. On their pale, corpse-like faces hung a piece of red cloth, covering their eyes and foreheads.
The lanterns they carried glowed with a scarlet light. The light seemed to have a life of its own, winding and crawling, quickly dyeing the entire small courtyard a deep, dark red. ƒreewebɳovel.com
The moment she opened the door, Lu Yibei realized that her method of judging the strength of the enemy based on the burning sensation in her eyes was flawed.
Her gaze fell on the Hui婆, and she suddenly found something hidden behind them, something composed of several chaotic black lines.
Those semi-illusory, semi-real lines twisted and surged together, like a swarm of bizarre venomous snakes, spreading extremely oppressive and negative emotions.
At this moment, Lu Yibei knew that she saw the power of the already insane mythical Strange Tale hidden behind these Hui婆.
Fortunately, I didn't directly confront them. If I had attacked directly, I might have attracted that Strange Tale.
However, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Once I officially become a member of the Night Watch, I can not only use the Night Watch's methods to judge the strength of urban legend but also see their hidden power, minimizing the chance of being ambushed by guys pretending to be weak! Lu Yibei thought.
Just as she was secretly alarmed and contemplating whether to suddenly burst out and use the Spell she learned from Old Dad, which looked a little bit powerful, to achieve a preemptive strike,
The Hui婆 opened their mouths, and a hissing snake language came from their small, crimson-painted lips.
“We have come to take the sacrifices.”
Seeing the leading Hui婆 speak, Lu Yibei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
At least Meng Raoze hadn't lied to her. In the eyes of these Hui婆, an old man with one foot in the grave was no different from a beautiful girl with delicate features.
She withdrew the hand holding the cleaver from her embrace, cupped her fist towards the three Hui婆, and bowed slightly, adopting a respectful posture. “Please follow me.”
After speaking, she turned around, her gaze sweeping over the water tanks in the small courtyard, then randomly locked onto one. She walked up to it in a few steps and stood in front of the water tank.
How am I supposed to scoop this thing out? I should have asked that Old man!
Staring at the water tank and muttering inwardly, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a chill behind her. When she caught a glimpse in her peripheral vision that the three Hui婆 had arrived behind her and were waiting silently,
Although their eyes were covered by red cloth, Lu Yibei could feel the cold stares from those eyes hidden behind the red cloth, scanning her body like reptiles.
Seeing this, she gritted her teeth and could only bite the bullet and put her hand into the water tank.
“Splash—!” The water in the water tank overflowed, making a light sound as it spilled onto the ground.
As soon as Lu Yibei put her entire hand into the water, large patches of goosebumps appeared on her body.
The water in the water tanks looked very clear and clean, but the texture was abnormally slippery, feeling like a tank full of mucus from amphibians.
Damn it, they said they were raising deformed babies for life extension. Will I pull out a big toad from inside?
Lu Yibei cursed fiercely in her heart, suppressing the nausea. She stood on her tiptoes, leaned forward, and plunged her entire arm into the water tank.
After stirring her arm around inside for a while, she suddenly felt something. With an inspired grab, she pulled upwards and scooped out a deformed monstrous infant from the water tank with bluish skin, a bulging abdomen, and legs fused together.
The moment it was pulled out of the water, the monstrous infant, whose head was also somewhat deformed, instinctively curled up its body. Its boneless lower body wrapped around Lu Yibei's arm, and it opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, about to bite the fair arm.
However, just as it was about to bite Lu Yibei, it seemed to sense something, convulsed all over, its body went limp and hung down, and then it began to cry loudly.
“Waaah—!”
The ear-piercing cry was like some kind of monster roaring. Lu Yibei covered one ear with one hand, carried the monstrous infant with the other, and presented it to the three Hui婆.
The three Hui婆 tilted their heads, examined the monstrous infant, then turned their heads to look at Lu Yibei, as if wanting to figure out from her why the monstrous infant wasn't biting her.
Their neat, mechanical movements, like those of marionettes, coupled with their bride-like makeup, were inexplicably eerie.
After a long while, just as Lu Yibei was starting to feel uneasy from being stared at, they all nodded in unison and said, “Alright.” They took the monstrous infant from her hand and held it in their arms.
No unexpected situations occurred. Lu Yibei let out a long sigh of relief in her heart, turned around, and walked towards the next water tank.
...
As the old saying goes, the first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar, and the third and fourth times are like a warm bed.
With the experience of the first time, Lu Yibei quickly became familiar with the water tanks and the things inside them. In no time, she had explored half of the courtyard's water tanks.
Except for the first time, most of the monstrous infants she scooped out did not satisfy the Hui婆. It wasn't until the seventeenth or eighteenth time she scooped out a monstrous infant that the last Hui婆 finally held a chubby baby.
Just then, they all said in unison to Lu Yibei, “That's enough.”
“Whew—!” Lu Yibei exhaled a Turbid air, shook the mucus off her hands, and bowed slightly to the three Hui婆. “Then the three of you take your time leaving! I won't escort you.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the three Hui婆, who had already taken the monstrous infants and turned to leave, stop in their tracks. Their heads suddenly rotated 180 degrees to look at her, and waves of malice, almost solidifying into substance, emanated from behind the red cloth covering their eyes.
Lu Yibei, “...”
What's going on? What is this? Did I say something wrong? Should I just kill them to silence them?
As she was thinking in a panic, the Hui婆's bizarre-toned words suddenly sounded in her ears.
“You, aren't you going to attend the sacrifice ceremony?”
