Free Web Noveliang Li and Zhang Dexian's figures flashed past the pile of muddy flesh.
Fists wreathed in golden lightning and a long saber spitting azure flames landed on Li Weiyi's remains almost simultaneously.
As if after a long buildup, a roar erupted a few seconds later.
Blood gushed out like a waterfall, turning into inches of decaying flesh before hitting the ground, then spontaneously combusting.
Mosquitoes and flies growing out of the foul blood buzzed, scattering like thick smoke.
Pale flames rose from its chest, rapidly spreading and expanding. With a cracking sound, the massive body was burned into black smoke, vanishing in an instant.
A moment later, only a charred outline remained on the ground.
Silence.
Jiang Li and Zhang Dexian exchanged glances, as if asking each other how to deal with the urban legend that had exhausted its Spiritual Energy and lost its ability to move.
After a brief hesitation, their peripheral vision drifted towards where Lu Yibei was, and then they both froze.
They saw Lu Yibei, who had stood up at some point, staring at them, clapping her hands, and saying expressionlessly, "Wonderful, wonderful! The boss is dealt with, what should we do next?"
"Didn't you..." Jiang Li suddenly turned around, looking at Lu Yibei in surprise, her mouth twitching slightly.
"Couldn't move?" Lu Yibei smacked her lips and said as if it were obvious, "I couldn't move just now, but I can now!"
"Miss, your recovery ability..." Zhang Dexian frowned.
Lu Yibei waved her hand, "One cannot generalize about human physiques. Is it not allowed for me to recover particularly quickly?"
Tsk! If I hadn't seen you two exchanging glances, seemingly up to something fishy, I really would have wanted to lie down a bit longer... Lu Yibei added in her heart.
The Spiritual Energy exhaustion was, of course, faked by her. Although her Spiritual Energy consumption was huge, it wasn't to the point of being unable to move. She could even cast two more Spells.
However, it was only enough for two casts. If she included the Spiritual Energy needed to activate the Divine Steed Armor for escape in a bad situation, it might only be enough for one cast.
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Life is full of dangers. Without teammates around, isn't it perfectly reasonable for me to save energy for a big move?
What's more, that urban legend looked very sinister.
What if it was faking death? What if it went berserk at low health? What if it self-destructed before dying, wanting to take two people down with it? What if those two guys had malicious intentions after her Spiritual Energy was exhausted? Lu Yibei thought.
So she had kept a trick up her sleeve? Jiang Li gazed at the expressionless white-haired girl in front of her, hesitating to speak... If she truly was Lu Yibei, making such a choice in the face of danger was understandable.
However.
Further confirmation was needed.
While thinking, Jiang Li's willow-like eyebrows slightly raised. Just as she was about to step forward and talk to Lu Yibei, a cold and chaotic Spiritual Energy fluctuation suddenly entered the range of her spiritual sense.
Her expression changed slightly. Following the direction of the Spiritual Energy fluctuation, she saw a black figure flying quickly from outside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, landing in front of them.
A wide black cloak, a comical skull-shaped emblem, and a pair of fluffy ears shaking alertly from side to side. The person who arrived was actually a cute girl who looked like a ball of pink dough.
Seeing the three of them watching her with vigilant eyes, as if facing a formidable enemy, the girl grinned, "Hehe, you don't need to be afraid. I'm not your enemy. My name is Miao Xiaoqi. You can call me Xiao Qi, or you can call me One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats."
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, the assessment has ended early. Congratulations, you have passed the assessment ahead of schedule!"
So it was her? Jiang Li's eyes trembled slightly. She quietly observed the girl in front of her, deep in thought.
Lu Yibei stood to the side, watching Miao Xiaoqi, excitement flickering in her eyes. Her lips were slightly parted. After a long hesitation, she was about to ask the question she had been looking forward to, but then she saw a black figure flash past her side, taking a stride forward, blocking her and Miao Xiaoqi like an iron tower.
"Damn it! So you're One Hundred and Two-Thirds Cats? You're the one who added me to the group, wouldn't let me leave, and wouldn't let me report?" Zhang Dexian pointed at Miao Xiaoqi and said, "I've been putting up with you for a long time, I'm telling you."
Seeing this, Miao Xiaoqi showed a business-like smile and explained, "Please don't get agitated. I can understand your feelings. The reason we..."
"Actually, you can report it..." Lu Yibei said softly to Jiang Li beside her, as if explaining it to her.
Miao Xiaoqi was only halfway through her sentence when she heard Lu Yibei's voice drifting over. She suddenly recalled some unpleasant memories, her mouth twitched, and she paused for a while before continuing to explain to Zhang Dexian.
"The reason we do this is for the organization's secrecy, and also..."
"Although reporting is always unsuccessful..." Lu Yibei continued to mutter softly.
Miao Xiaoqi, "..."
She was silent for over ten seconds, suppressing the anger in her heart, and said through clenched teeth, "Also, it's to verify everyone's strength. If your strength is insufficient..."
"And, if you're bold enough, you can even tease the administrator..."
"Also, I used that group to forward small ads and earned over twenty yuan! You should try it too?"
"Are you done yet!?" Miao Xiaoqi said furiously.
As if not noticing Miao Xiaoqi's murderous gaze, Lu Yibei patted Jiang Li's shoulder, "I'm talking to you! Don't interrupt!"
Her serious expression made it seem as if the person who had been whispering just now wasn't her at all.
Jiang Li tilted her head, looking at the sincere and earnest eyes of the girl beside her. There was great confusion in her large eyes.
"..."
After a short interlude, Lu Yibei finally stopped talking, and Miao Xiaoqi also finally patiently finished the opening speech she didn't know how many times she had given, and briefly introduced what kind of existence the Monster Story Chat Group was.
"...That's all I wanted to say. The questions you each want to know, I will send them to you via private message later. I will also provide the urban legend Website address. In the time to come, I hope everyone can get along happily."
"Now, you may leave."
As Miao Xiaoqi spoke, a business-like smile appeared on her face again. She nodded slightly towards the three of them, then turned around, tapped the ground with her toes, and quickly left.
Lu Yibei watched Miao Xiaoqi's retreating figure, slightly furrowing her brow.
I don't know when they will send someone to form an alliance contract with me. It definitely can't be now. Forming a contract requires using one's real name. There's a Miss next to me who is suspected to be Jiang Li. If she overhears the contract oath, it might be over.
While Lu Yibei was thinking, she only noticed the girl standing beside her had been secretly watching her the moment she withdrew her thoughts. A pair of clear eyes were fixed on her, as if wanting to see the dirty little secrets hidden deep within her heart through her body.
"Cough cough..." Lu Yibei cleared her throat, avoided Jiang Li's gaze, and muttered, "It's getting late. It's about time to go back to sleep."
As she spoke, she was about to leave when a slender, fair hand suddenly rested on her shoulder.
Lu Yibei subconsciously turned her head and saw that terrifying smiling face, as if from hell.
"Don't go yet. I want to talk to you."
Lu Yibei, "..."
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When Miao Xiaoqi found the tall, thin man in the bushes near the South Suburb Slaughterhouse gate, he was completely inhuman.
He lay by the roadside like a puddle of mud, his clothes disheveled, covered in bruises, his head full of large bumps from crowbar strikes, and his mouth so swollen it looked like a pair of spicy oil sausages hanging on his face.
He looked as if he had been hit by a vicious move like the 'Face-Destroying Kick', a gruesome sight.
"Cat... Cat... I'm here!"
Seeing Miao Xiaoqi pass by, the tall, thin man struggled to get up, shouting incoherently. As he spoke, a few flecks of bloody foam sprayed from the corner of his mouth.
When Miao Xiaoqi followed the direction of the sound, pushed aside the bushes, and saw the tall, thin man, she stepped back half a step in shock and said, "Ah! You... how did you end up like this?"
"Can't you tell? I got beaten!"
"..."
Miao Xiaoqi was silent for two seconds, then looked sideways at the tall, thin man with a look of disgust, and said coldly, "If you walk the night road often, how can you not run into ghosts? You deserve it!"
"This ghost you mentioned, is it a male ghost or a female ghost?"
Miao Xiaoqi, "..."
The tall, thin man covered his face, which was swollen by two sizes, sat up, and muttered, "Are things done?"
"It's done, but it's a pity..."
The Cat-Eared Girl thought of the opponent she had fought earlier, and her gaze gradually turned cold.
Although the Eclipse Society higher-ups summoned by Li Weiyi couldn't save his life, they created an excellent escape opportunity for Suo E.
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Not long ago, just as she was about to achieve victory, Suo E sensed the arrival of a projection from a high-level member of the Eclipse Society. Without hesitation, he removed the wall of bones, revealing the black sun totem on his back.
As the black sun totem resonated with the power of Li Weiyi's Eclipse Society high-level projection, Suo E's body shifted between solid and ethereal.
Only a reflection remained in his original spot.
The next instant, Miao Xiaoqi arrived in pursuit. The phantom shattered, and he also vanished without a trace.
"He ran away?" Seeing that Miao Xiaoqi hadn't spoken for a long time, the tall, thin man pressed.
"Yes."
"Ah! Forget it, it's fine. Didn't Void say? We're still in the early stages. We can't possibly compete with giants like the Night Watch and the Eclipse Society in terms of foundation."
"If we meet their people, it's great if we win, but it's not embarrassing to lose."
"Oh, right, lend me your phone..."
"What for?" Miao Xiaoqi glared impatiently at the tall, thin man.
"Of course, to search for some spicy pictures to look at and recover some health! Otherwise..." The tall, thin man's eyes, peering through his swollen sockets, leered at Miao Xiaoqi for a moment before muttering, "Otherwise, can I pet a cat to recover?"
"Ugh! You're disgusting! Why didn't that Strange Tale kill you just now?"
Hearing this, Miao Xiaoqi shivered. With a red face, she fumbled for her phone and threw it at the tall, thin man, then flashed away and ran off into the distance.
"Hey! Where are you going?!"
"Of course, I'm going back first!"
"I have to quickly notify that Miss about the news that Li Weiyi is completely dead! She paid such a huge price just to get revenge on that scumbag. If I delay any longer, she'll fall into depravity!"
"What's more, if I don't leave, am I supposed to stand here and watch you... you... DIY?"
The tall, thin man, "..."
What are you talking about! How could I do something like that in front of a Little Girl?
Furthermore, as a high-level, sophisticated lecher, what I pursue has never been physical pleasure, but the enrichment of artistic aesthetics and the satisfaction of spiritual culture!
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And so, a disturbance came to an end.
The review for the Monster Story Chat Group also finished early.
The answers to the questions the participants in the review wanted would be sent to them via private message by Miao Xiaoqi shortly.
However, there is no wall that is completely airtight in this world. The changes at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse should soon be detected by the Night Watch. It probably won't be long before the open ground at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse is filled with members of the Special Operations Team.
However, what happens after that has nothing to do with Lu Yibei.
Lu Yibei just wants to leave here as soon as possible. She doesn't know anything, nothing at all...
"Lu Yibei! I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me?"
Oh dear, this is bad... Lu Yibei's heart tightened, but her expression remained unchanged, her pace steady, and she continued forward.
Just as she was preparing to play dumb and pass through the gate to leave the South Suburb Slaughterhouse area, a long leg wrapped in black cotton stockings suddenly inserted itself from the side. With a "bang!" it stepped onto the stone pillar, blocking her path in a leg-split stance.
Lu Yibei looked expressionlessly at the girl blocking her way, her eyes innocent. "Ah? Were you talking to me just now? Sorry! I was thinking about something just now and didn't hear you."
Jiang Li narrowed her eyes, pondered for a moment, and probed, "It's alright, I just wanted to ask you something."
Please tell me.
If a person's special ability is Spell amplification, with a range lower limit greater than zero and less than one, an upper limit greater than fifty, talks excessively, is possibly poker-faced, what is the probability that she is Lu Yibei?
Jiang Li's answer was ninety percent. If it weren't for the fact that the person standing in front of her was a girl, and a powerful one at that, she wouldn't even have that ten percent doubt.
Someone with characteristics as obvious as Lu Yibei would be the first to be caught if they were a criminal.
However, for personal reasons, she couldn't expose her identity temporarily. She couldn't let the Night Watch know what she was doing, and she also needed the Monster Story Chat Group to continue existing.
After all, private participation in urban legend organizations' activities by Night Watch members is a serious crime.
Until.
She has obtained enough information and found the long-lost gamble.
"Ask away. We've fought together, so we can barely be considered friends, right? As long as it's not too much of a question, I can answer you," Lu Yibei said calmly.
Jiang Li looked straight into her eyes and said coldly, "Are you Lu Yibei?"
Damn! Is it this excessive right from the start? Lu Yibei cursed internally, but she quickly calmed down.
Lu Yibei was now a hundred percent certain that the girl in front of her was Jiang Li.
Otherwise, was she bored and just testing her for fun?
And if she was Jiang Li, facing a Strange Tale, logically speaking, she should have pulled out her four-meter-long saber and started hacking by now.
But she didn't. Even inside the South Suburb Slaughterhouse just now, she had so many opportunities to backstab, but she didn't act. This indicates that she has a reason not to act.
And the fact that she came here and used some unknown method to disguise herself as Miao Miao Jiang also indicates that she has a reason not to reveal her identity.
Since that's the case...
We're all actors, let's test our acting skills against each other, shall we? I won first place in the Hua City Sunflower Kindergarten drama competition!
Unlike Jiang Li, Lu Yibei simply wanted to muddle through, avoid being sent to Yun Kang Mental Hospital, and continue living a precarious life.
Thinking this, she tilted her head with a confused look, "Who?"
"Lu Yibei," Jiang Li said seriously, "A member of the Night Watch, gender male, a poker-faced trash-talk machine in human form, with many pending investigations into his questionable actions, and perhaps several murders on his back!"
"If you know him, you need to be careful!" Jiang Li said, deliberately emphasizing the words "be careful."
Trying to trick me? When did I ever have suspected issues? Why don't I know? Lu Yibei muttered to herself, shaking her head. "Night Watch, you say? I do know about that. I have a colleague who works there part-time. But as for that person named 'Bei' you mentioned, I've never heard of them at all."
"Oh, right, when I went there last time, I also met two Misses. One looked like a mushroom, and the other was quite pretty, but unfortunately, she was a cripple."
"Okay, I've answered your question. Can I leave now?"
As Lu Yibei spoke, a hint of impatience flashed in her eyes at just the right moment. Without waiting for Jiang Li's answer, she casually slung her guitar bag and turned to walk away.
I've said all this, and she hasn't flipped out. That means she won't expose me today. As long as she doesn't expose me today, she'll have even less of a chance in the future, Lu Yibei thought.
She hadn't walked far when she heard a sudden call from behind.
"Lu Yibei, do you want me to give you a White Little Flower Summer Celebration swimsuit figurine?"
Lu Yibei's body stiffened for a moment. A "Yes" almost slipped out, but she bit down hard on her teeth, forcibly resisted the desire in her heart, and continued walking forward.
Watching the girl's retreating figure, Jiang Li narrowed ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) her eyes slightly.
Are you determined to keep up the act?
Just as Jiang Li was slightly lost in thought, the girl in front suddenly turned her head and asked, "Oh, right, want to play a game of mahjong together?"
Hearing this, Jiang Li bit her tongue hard, swallowing the words "Okay!" back into her stomach.
The two stood in silence for a long time, looking at each other, and both saw admiration in the other's eyes, as if saying, "You're good! You could even resist that?"
And also as if teasing each other, "I know who you are, and I know you know who I am, but I'm not going to say anything. Let's keep our distance for now, it's better for everyone."
And also as if warning and threatening each other, "If you dare to talk about this, you're finished!"
After a brief, tacit, and very complex exchange of glances, both of them suddenly burst into laughter.
Just at this moment, Zhang Dexian, who had finished reading Miao Xiaoqi's private message and bandaged his wounds, walked out of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse. As he walked between the two girls' intersecting gazes, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
Then he looked left and right, and his body suddenly shivered, almost tearing open the wound he had just treated.
What the hell is going on?
Late at night, two Misses, one smiling like a stiff plaster statue, one smiling like a ghost crawled out of hell, two people looking at each other with strange expressions in front of the gate of a Strange Tale-infested slaughterhouse. Are they trying to scare people to death?
I thought a new Strange Tale was coming to kill us! Zhang Dexian thought.
