Free Web Novel【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Sorry, I don't want to.】
Lu Yibei finished replying to 'One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats' with a bit of anger, resting one hand on her chin, staring at the phone screen, a cold laugh echoing in her heart.
Heh, this broken group is really good at messing with people's minds. To trick people into falling for it, they even did a pretty thorough background check. I was almost fooled.
It's just a pity, I know very well how Old Dad died. Whether from what I saw myself, the police station's files, or Shui Ge's recollection of arriving at the scene, it was all just an accident.
Just an accident caused by me.
Lu Yibei thought, self-blame and guilt surged continuously from the dusty corners of her heart, bringing a pain that made her feel a little suffocated, her hands unconsciously clutching the clothes over her chest.
If I hadn't insisted on dragging Old Dad along for a graduation trip with me, nothing would have happened, right?
She thought, her gaze deepening, her thoughts flowing upstream in the long river of time, until they reached the past.
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For the first two years of high school, Lu Yibei lived a life of 'extravagance and indulgence'.
It wasn't until the arrival of the first semester of senior year that she remembered the matter of studying hard and getting into a university that was at least decent.
However, people ultimately have to pay for their youthful ignorance.
In order to successfully get into university, she had a very tough and stressful senior year.
Fortunately, hard work pays off.
When she received her acceptance letter, the emotions she had suppressed for an entire year were released, and she excitedly started planning the graduation trip route with ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) her close classmates.
When a person is suppressed for a long time, they will want to seek excitement.
Since we're seeking excitement, of course, we have to see it through!
Therefore, in the graduation trip route planned by Lu Yibei, almost every attraction satisfied at least one of the three elements:'strange', '險', and 'weird'.
However.
Perhaps it was because the night was beginning to grow longer, and the effects on the world were starting to show, coupled with the fact that the route Lu Yibei planned was too 'exciting'.
Two days before departure, all the classmates she had arranged to go with ditched her under the orders of their parents.
Her and her Old Dad's father-daughter graduation trip began against this backdrop.
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On the day of the accident, the two of them had been to Xiling Rafting, which had a large water level drop and was thrilling and exciting, and returned early in the afternoon to rest at a hotel in Jin Guan City.
A light rain fell in the evening. The father and daughter, who had rested all afternoon, took advantage of the coolness after the rain and left the hotel for the streets.
After visiting several snack shops in a row, Lu Yibei had a sudden idea and suggested going to Emei to see the sea of clouds and sunrise.
Emei was not originally on Lu Yibei's planned route. It was a spontaneous idea, and unexpectedly, Old Dad was exceptionally in favor of it.
However, Old Dad suggested to her that if she simply wanted to see the sea of clouds and sunrise, there was another place that hadn't been fully developed yet. The scenery there wasn't overly sculpted by humans, allowing one to appreciate the grandeur of nature's original appearance even more.
Dawa Zhageng.
Located in the Qionglai Mountains, in Tibetan, it means 'Beautiful Sacred Mountain'.
At that time, Lu Yibei, like her father, had a personality type that was full of vitality and hot-blooded simplicity. If they said they were going somewhere, they would definitely leave that very night.
After determining the destination, Lu Yibei only took half an hour to buy the train tickets.
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The father and daughter left Jin Guan City on the 3 AM train. This time was very subtle; it was hard to say whether it was the earliest train of the day or the latest.
When the two of them arrived at the bus station, a light drizzle began to fall, and the breeze drifting through the city carried a cool, chilly air.
Seeing that the weather was bad, Lu Yibei suggested postponing the trip, but was shut down by Old Dad's few words, 'What a great senior year summer vacation!' and 'We're already here!', and got onto that somewhat old passenger bus.
For some reason, as the passenger bus gradually drove away from the city, Lu Yibei noticed a faint unease between Old Dad's brows.
Thinking about it now, that might have been the reaction people have when they vaguely sense death approaching.
When the passenger bus had completely left the city and the scenery outside the window was replaced by steep green mountains, the sky gradually darkened, dark clouds began to gather slowly, and distant thunder faintly rumbled.
Rain in midsummer always comes without warning. In the blink of an eye, the heavy rain started pouring down with a 'whoosh'.
The bus was exceptionally quiet. No one spoke, but the oppressive atmosphere was clearly palpable.
Everyone was scared, including the driver.
The rain was too heavy and too sudden. The visibility was terrifyingly low. The world outside the window had turned into a world of water. If a school of fish suddenly swam past the window, it wouldn't feel too strange.
However, there were two exceptions. One was Lu Yibei's Old Dad. Ever since he got on the bus, his hands and eyes hadn't left his phone.
Heaven knows where his phone got the signal to support him continuing to play that beautiful girl mobile game that Lu Yibei couldn't name, on this kind of mountain road in this kind of terrible weather.
The other person was a man sitting in the seat diagonally in front of the father and daughter.
That was a tall and burly man, wearing a set of traditional Tibetan clothes, a pair of very old sunglasses. He was unkempt and dirty all over, even the skin on his face was indistinguishable in color, and he emanated an indescribable strange smell.
He had been sleeping ever since he got on the bus, his snores shaking the heavens, as if the strong wind, heavy rain, thunder outside the window, and the potential landslides that could happen at any moment, had nothing to do with him.
The passenger bus continued forward. The darkness and heavy rain obscured everything. The high beams could only illuminate a very small area ahead.
Under such circumstances, the driver had to slow down the speed. In some rugged mountain areas, it was even slower than walking.
The passenger bus continued forward slowly like this for an unknown amount of time. By the light of the high beams, they suddenly saw a young man and woman by the side of the road not far ahead, dressed like cycling tourists and completely soaked.
The driver slowly pulled the bus over to the side of the road and said to the people on the bus, 'It's bad luck to encounter such terrible weather when you're traveling. Let's help them out if we can. Does anyone object?'
After getting the approval of most passengers on the bus, the driver picked up that young man and woman.
Perhaps it was because the heavy rain came too suddenly, leaving everyone unprepared and caught off guard.
Or perhaps the place where they picked up that young man and woman was close to a town hidden deep in the mountains.
After picking up that young man and woman, they successively encountered many more people.
There were dark-skinned, simple-faced herders, sisters wearing Hanfu with pale faces from the cold, and rural'Shamat' youths with colorful hair.
Soon, the scattered seats on the bus were filled with people.
Among these people, the one who left the deepest impression on Lu Yibei was a man with a hunched figure, a highly protruding back, wearing a pitch-black raincoat.
There were three reasons why Lu Yibei had such a deep impression of him.
The first reason was that while others were seen by the driver and the bus stopped to pick them up, he was the only one who suddenly jumped out from the bushes by the roadside and flagged down the bus.
Fortunately, the passenger bus was moving very slowly then, otherwise, in such rainy and slippery conditions with low visibility, the man would likely have been hit and sent flying on the spot.
Secondly, that man was very scary. On his already somewhat ugly face, a cut had been made on his right cheek from the corner of his eye to the corner of his mouth with a sharp object. From a distance, it looked as if he had two mouths on his face, one vertical and one horizontal.
Furthermore, that wound must have been recent. It hadn't completely healed yet, and the stitches hadn't been removed. Under the soaking of the rain, its color was pale, slightly raised, as if that 'mouth' could open at any moment.
The last point was that the moment that man got on the bus, the scruffy big man who had been snoring loudly suddenly woke up, stood up, took out a prayer wheel from his wide sleeve, and while shaking it, shouted loudly at the driver in Tibetan, insisting on getting off the bus no matter what, and no amount of persuasion worked.
Seeing this, the ugly man cursed at the scruffy big man for a while, and then simply sat down in the seat he had vacated.
The moment he sat down, he suddenly turned back and glanced at Lu Yibei, sticking out the tip of his tongue to lick the wound at the corner of his mouth. The pain made his entire face convulse, but he forced himself to put on an expression of enjoyment.
Lu Yibei met his gaze and felt a wave of nausea and discomfort. This feeling of discomfort was only relieved after Old Dad put down his phone and gave the man the middle finger.
Lu Yibei faintly remembered that Old Dad glared fiercely at the ugly-looking, somewhat neurotic man for a moment, then gently patted her head, telling her to lean on his shoulder and sleep for a while.
Lu Yibei didn't know what was wrong with her at the time. Facing Old Dad's 'Shui Ge behavior', she didn't refuse. She tilted her head and leaned on his shoulder, feeling only warmth and security, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
At that moment, she had no idea that it would be the last time she would experience her father's warmth.
If she had known earlier, she definitely wouldn't have fallen asleep so quickly.
Lu Yibei didn't know what happened after that. When she woke up, her eyes had already plunged into darkness, and she was lying in a hospital in Rain City, her whole body in severe pain.
She only learned later that shortly after she fell asleep, the passenger bus encountered a large-scale landslide, was swept away by the debris flow, and rolled into a hundred-meter-deep ravine outside the highway guardrail.
The Officer told her that the car accident was extremely tragic. The entire vehicle was riddled with holes by rocks falling from the mountain, and everyone on board except her had died, without exception.
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Afterward, Shui Ge, who had rushed over, told her a version of events that was not much different from the Officer's.
Lu Yibei once thought that separation by death must be a particularly painful thing, involving crying, throwing tantrums, and finally falling into self-isolation and depression.
However, when she actually experienced it herself, she found that it didn't seem like a big deal at all. Her mood was very calm, and she didn't even feel like crying at all.
She just responded calmly to Shui Ge, who had come to help her father with the funeral arrangements, "Got it, then I'll leave it to you."
This indifference lasted until she returned to Hua City, moved into the old house, and then one morning, woke up in the darkness, yelling, "Old Dad, I want steamed dumplings and tofu pudding for breakfast!" but received no response for a long time. It was at that moment that she completely fell apart.
Self-blame, pain, sadness... all sorts of negative emotions surged out of the darkness, utterly destroying her strong facade, leaving no trace.
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Lu Yibei carefully recalled her past experiences, her brows unconsciously furrowing into a knot.
There were indeed many things about her Old Dad's death that felt unusual to her, such as why they would encounter a Miss wearing Hanfu on the mountain road in such weather, why that scruffy man suddenly insisted on getting off the bus, and why that strange man who looked like a urban legend was there.
What made her feel even stranger was why she saw some terrifying scenes when she first came into contact with the Eclipse Society's totem?
Judging from that forgotten elementary school memory, her Old Dad should have been a hidden Psychic, and quite capable. Was it really that easy for him to die in a car accident?
Also, if there were factors of urban legend attack in that car accident, did Shui Ge find out? If he did, why did he hide the truth?
After coming into contact with the world of Psychic and urban legend, Lu Yibei felt that there were too many suspicious points in that car accident.
But.
She felt that even if there were suspicious points, she couldn't easily trust a group of people with unknown origins who were likely urban legend.
Even if she were to get information from them, she would at least need to figure out their background.
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On the other side.
The Cat-Eared Girl waited for a long time without receiving a response from Lu Yibei, and couldn't help but start to get anxious. She scurried back and forth on the windowsill, table, chair, and floor next to the tall, thin man, with her limbs on the ground.
Finally, the tall, thin man couldn't stand the figure darting back and forth in front of him and interrupted, "Can you stop spinning? You're making my head spin!"
The Cat-Eared Girl stopped, glared at him sideways, and said unhappily, "Wang Bu Liu Xing hasn't replied to me for so long, I'm too anxious, and you won't even let me spin around?"
"But you're a cat!" the tall, thin man said with a bitter face.
"Hmph!" The Cat-Eared Girl couldn't find anything to retort, let out a cold snort, grabbed her phone from the table, and was about to send another message to "Wang Bu Liu Xing."
"Wait a minute!" Seeing this, the tall, thin man stopped her and said, "Are you sure you want to send her another message?"
"Otherwise?"
"Then what are you planning to send her? She doesn't even care how her dad died, which shows how cold-blooded she is. Plus her strange actions and trash talk, I think if you send her a message now..."
The tall, thin man hesitated.
"What do you think?"
"I told you, don't scratch my face! I'm counting on this face to pick up girls!"
"Speak!"
"I think if you send her a message now, she'll just treat you as an object of teasing, give you away immediately, and make you half-dead with anger."
As soon as the tall, thin man finished speaking, a cold light flashed, and three more bloodstains appeared on his face, three on the left and three on the right, quite symmetrical.
"Damn it! Didn't you say you wouldn't scratch me?" the tall, thin man said aggrievedly, covering his face.
"Which ear heard that?" The Cat-Eared Girl raised her chin slightly, and changed the subject, "So what do you say we do now?"
"Wait. I think she'll be unable to resist and reply to you soon."
As soon as the tall, thin man finished speaking, the Cat-Eared Girl's phone vibrated twice, receiving a message from "Wang Bu Liu Xing."
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: I can cooperate with you, but you have to answer a few questions first.】
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【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: No problem, as long as it's something I can tell you, I'll tell you everything I know.】
Lu Yibei read the message from "One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats", frowned and thought for a moment, then lightly touched the input field.
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: First, is my Old Dad's death related to urban legend?】
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: Yes.】
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Then is it related to the Eclipse Society?】
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: Sorry, I can't tell you that for now.】
Lu Yibei, "..."
Can't tell me for now? With that tone, it's highly likely yes.
It seems this question can only be answered after certain conditions are met.
She thought for a moment, then picked up her phone again.
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Last question, how do you prove that what you say is true?】
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be considering something. Lu Yibei waited for a while before receiving a message.
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: We have our own special channels to obtain this information, and the source is real, but we can't prove it to you now. The decision to choose the truth or continue to be kept in the dark is yours.】
Lu Yibei furrowed her brow slightly.
Why did this reply suddenly become so official?
From this, it means believe it or not, right?
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Since you can't, then let's use my method? We'll both take a step back. I'll continue to complete your review on my end, but after the review is completed, you have to come over and form an ally contract with me. After that, you'll answer a few more questions for me.】
In the past month, Lu Yibei had been very idle, so idle that she had ample time to study the ally contract with Ju Meng.
Through her observation, when she wanted to kill Ju Meng, the mark on Ju Meng's hand would glow particularly brightly, and when she wanted to deceive Ju Meng, it would also glow, but the light was relatively weak.
Therefore, she felt that, to some extent, the ally contract might be used as a lie detector.
As for the spell, it was just a few simple sentences. Lu Yibei remembered it after hearing it once, but she just hadn't found a target to experiment on.
A moment later, Lu Yibei's phone vibrated twice.
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: We can agree to this, but the premise is that after you pass the review, you have to join us.】
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Don't worry.】
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: If you lie, be careful of the curse!】
【Wang Bu Liu Xing: Yes, I will definitely cooperate with you.】 freewebnσvel.cѳm
Joining is impossible, at most I can cooperate, and I didn't lie to her... Lu Yibei was muttering to herself when her phone vibrated twice again, receiving a message.
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats: Dear Wang Bu Liu Xing, tomorrow night you will undergo the second review for joining the group. Please go to the South Suburb Slaughterhouse at midnight and stay with the others undergoing the review until dawn.】
South Suburb Slaughterhouse? Is that the slaughterhouse where the legendary large black pig eats people?
Others undergoing the review? Besides me, are there others?
Lu Yibei read the message and slightly furrowed her brow, immediately followed by a system notification.
【One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats has added you to "104th Review Discussion Group"】
Besides that cat admin, there are four other people?
Humble Little Li Begging for Mercy? This person must have been scared by those guys, right?
Genius Mahjong Girl, Invincible Master Wang, Brother Li Outdoor Live Stream...
Lu Yibei silently noted down the IDs of the few people, replied "Received" to "One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats," and put away her phone.
