Free Web NovelLu Yibei's expression was solemn as he stared at the wardrobe, which was large enough to hide an adult.
Should I open it?
Will some strange thing suddenly jump out and yell, “Surprise Motherfucker”?
His fingertips touched the brass ring, feeling a cold sensation. As Lu Yibei gripped the ring and gently pulled it back, the dark red wooden door creaked open. It was empty inside, with only a rusty, blood-stained pair of scissors lying quietly there.
The moment the wardrobe opened, the musty smell in the room lessened, and the scent of blood gradually became stronger. There was no wind, but a chill ran down his neck, and his back felt cold, as if someone was leaning on his shoulder and blowing on his neck.
A pale figure pressed against Lu Yibei's back, its messy black hair falling onto his shoulders. It stretched out a ethereal hand, passed through his body, grasped his hand, and slowly guided it towards the scissors in the wardrobe.
Lu Yibei suddenly had a very strange feeling, as if his hand was being pulled by some force, involuntarily moving closer to the brass ring on the wardrobe.
He tried to resist the force, but his stomach suddenly began to ache faintly. The force pulling his hand forward also strengthened, and in a daze, he had the illusion of his wrist being gripped.
The familiar sharp pain sent a chill through Lu Yibei's heart, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Is Zhu Linglong causing trouble?
Damn it, does she really have some ulterior motive?
As Lu Yibei thought, the pain in his stomach suddenly intensified, making his body go limp. He could no longer resist the force on his wrist, and his body swayed forward. His hand was pulled, pressing onto the eviscerating scissors.
In an instant, a pain he had never felt before erupted in his abdomen. Under the intense, tearing pain that felt like it was ripping apart his internal organs, he clearly felt a bone-chilling coolness slide across the skin of his abdomen.
His legs gave out, and he fell to his knees. His mouth was open, but he couldn't make a sound due to the extreme pain. His vision began to blur, and a buzzing sound filled his ears. Amidst the buzzing, he vaguely heard the voices of two men talking.
...
“Mr. Rabbit, have you still not been able to activate the witchs egg? The Night Watch's investigation into you has become increasingly strict recently! If you can't succeed soon, I'm afraid I can't continue to help you!” a hoarse voice said, with a cicada-like guttural sound mixed in.
“Although I really like Hua City, if the Night Watch targets me, I can't stay here anymore!”
“Just one more, the last one...” a voice with no emotional characteristics responded, “I've been looking for targets these past two days, but as you know, people with spiritual potential are not that easy to find.”
“Damn it, it's all that kid Lu Yibei's fault. Wouldn't it have been better if he had just obediently become a sacrifice?!”
Lu Yibei, “...” How absurd! Why should I obediently become a sacrifice?! If you want to die, go do it yourself!
He grumbled to himself for a couple of sentences, and then the scene before his eyes began to clear.
Inside the sealed warehouse.
A large iron hook, piercing through the lower jaw, suspended a blackened corpse, like slaughtered livestock. Putrid blood dripped steadily, landing precisely on a stone platform below, soaking an object the size of a goose egg.
The object looked like a fossilized egg, yet it seemed to “breathe” like a living thing, slowly wriggling. Its rocky surface was a grayish-black color, interwoven into twisted female faces.
With each drop of putrid blood that fell onto it, a faint crimson glow would flash within the cracked fissures. The human faces, activated the moment the crimson light appeared, emitted faint whispers barely audible to human ears, some painful, some anxious, some panicked, some depressed.
Those whispers roared, incited, sometimes sternly ordering, sometimes patiently coaxing, immersing people in an indescribable state of excitement, making it difficult to extricate themselves.
Lu Yibei heard and saw it, his gaze unable to move for a long time.
Desire and greed sprouted wildly in his heart, as if the entire world was left with only him and that strange stone egg.
It should have belonged to me! This thought slowly rose in his heart.
“I'll find a way. I've already found the target; I'll act tonight!”
“Oh? Is that so? Then I'll wish you success in advance.”
The sound of conversation echoed in his ears again, and Lu Yibei's consciousness suddenly pulled away from the world where only he and the strange stone egg remained.
He looked in the direction from which the voices came.
Mr. Rabbit, dressed in a black cloak, leaned against the wall, his crimson eyes seemingly unfocused, staring at the shadows in the corner, his furry rabbit mouth occasionally twitching slightly.
Across from Mr. Rabbit, a shirtless man squatted on a dilapidated shipping container. His mouth was sewn shut with wire, and his exposed chest was covered in grotesque scars. Amidst these scars, a black sun-shaped tattoo was etched.
Upon seeing the tattoo on the man's chest, Lu Yibei felt his brain tremble, as if something fragmented and ethereal was surging up.
Lu Yibei vaguely felt that it was something very important to him.
I think I've seen that tattoo pattern somewhere before!
But where was it?
Lu Yibei tried hard to search his memory for anything related to that pattern, but at that moment, he suddenly noticed that Mr. Rabbit and the Mysterious Man had stopped talking.
He froze, then looked up at the two of them. The next moment, their gazes met.
Mr. Rabbit and the Mysterious Man seemed to be staring at him, then exchanged glances, and silently stood up and walked towards him.
They found me! Lu Yibei's heart jumped, his pupils contracting violently. Although the two were just looking at him, he had a feeling that he had been targeted!
In a panic, he tried to retreat but found his body seemed to be fixed, unable to move an inch.
Mr. Rabbit and the Mysterious Man approached steadily, exuding an unsettling aura.
The aura gradually intensified, as if condensing into whispers in his ear.
“Must die, must die...”
...
A few minutes ago.
Outside the suite, in the dimly lit corridor, the girl in the striped plaid shirt held a metal baseball bat in her hand, cautiously moving forward, her large eyes vigilantly scanning her surroundings.
“System? Are you there?”
“Host, I am.”
“Oh!” The girl responded, hearing the System's voice in her mind. She felt much more at ease and continued to walk forward.
Although hearing the System's voice in her mind was also a very strange thing.
But when the System talked to her, the girl only felt the presence of an invisible person beside her. When it wasn't there, it was different. Walking down this corridor, which was full of strange auras, she always felt that invisible people were everywhere.
“System? Are you still there?”
“Host, I am.”
“Oh!”
“System? You...”
“Don't ask! This is the eighth time! Don't ask, just assume I'm here! As long as you don't die, I'll always be here!”
“Why are you so fierce!” The girl pouted, “Besides, I wasn't trying to ask if you were here this time.”
“Then what do you want to do! Say everything at once!” the System growled.
“It's my first time completing a task related to evil spirits, and I'm a little scared. How about you tell me a Guo Degang crosstalk?”
“Sorry, Host, I am not a smart speaker and do not have this function,” the System said seriously, its voice seemingly suppressing anger.
“System?”
System, “...”
Seeing that the System did not respond for a long time, the girl quickly asked, “System? Are you still there? Don't stop talking, I'm a little scared alone!” Her voice trembled slightly.
“Here!” the System said, “Don't be afraid! There seems to be someone ahead, behind the corner of the right corridor!”
The girl froze at the words, her expression instantly changing.
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“I... I'm not going! I'm a little scared!”
“Ah—!” The System sighed helplessly, saying earnestly, “Gu Qianqian, you are the protagonist of this world! Do you know what a protagonist is?”
“I know, it's someone whose parents die first, or relatives if they don't have parents, then they get into an accident, they're usually short on money, they hold grudges, they'll kill your whole family if you step on their foot, and after winning by luck, they shamelessly deny the strength others gained through hard work.”
“In short, a protagonist is a terrible, unlucky person. I don't want to be like that!”
System, “...”
“Hmm...” The girl, called Gu Qianqian, pouted, “System?”
“Hm?”
“I mean, how about we go back first?” Having received a response, Gu Qianqian said weakly, “I've already gained a lot of points downstairs, and the points for the final mission objective can actually be skipped!”
“Stop whining and get your ass moving!”
“Don't be angry!” Gu Qianqian mumbled aggrievedly, “Last question, if I can't 100% complete this mission, you won't erase me, right? If you can't complete the mission, you'll be erased; that's what all the books say.”
“Heh!” The System let out a 'kind' cold laugh, “How could I erase you? I'll only punish you! Like deducting all the money from your campus card, that's all!”
“A wonderful girl like you, Gu Qianqian, wouldn't care about such a small amount of money, right? Oh dear, what should I do? This way, I won't be able to effectively supervise you, Host, to complete the mission!”
“Eh!? No! Absolutely not!” Gu Qianqian froze, /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ let out a shout, then quickly covered her mouth, saying weakly, “I'll complete the mission well!”
“That's a good girl! Work hard, and you'll definitely win a big prize when this mission is completed!”
“Hm?” Gu Qianqian narrowed her eyes, her expression like a small fox, and said in a deep voice, “System, didn't you say the winning probability of the lottery is random? How come I feel like you're hiding something from me?”
“No, no! Ha, haha!” The System's voice rose a few decibels, “Our lottery system is absolutely fair, open, and transparent, with no so-called shady dealings whatsoever!”
“Is that so? Then what's the winning rate?”
“This... this...” The System was momentarily speechless. When did she become so clever? What to do, I need to find a way to muddle through! Just make up a number?
“Roughly... 10%! Yes! That's right, it's 10%!”
Gu Qianqian's eyes lit up. She swung the metal baseball bat twice in the air and said confidently, “It's that high! That's great! I suddenly feel full of motivation!”
System, “...” Is that all it takes? Seeing that you're still so easy to fool, no, so understanding, I feel relieved!
Reinvigorated, Gu Qianqian, carrying the metal baseball bat, quickly rounded the corner. Seeing the corridor in front of the suite empty, a look of disdain appeared on her face.
“What the heck! There's no one here at all! I worried for nothing!” Saying that, she continued to walk forward, but soon stopped again.
She saw a human face!
On the corridor wall, the human face glared, its expression ferocious, subtly exuding a brutal emotion.
The face was sunken, its features seemingly stretched by some force, presenting an extremely distorted shape, as if a person had been sealed into the wall. Vaguely, one could even hear its painful wailing.
Gu Qianqian looked at the face on the wall, her voice slightly tearful, “Sy-System, I'm a little scared.” freēwēbηovel.c૦m
System, “I... I'm a little scared too...”
(Emmm, this is the first time I've been recommended in the past two days, and I also want my new book to have a good start, so I'll set a simple rule for extra chapters! It's... an extra chapter for 50 monthly votes or 5000 reward points! I'll also post the old book's group number 256782902. Students who are interested can join!)
