Free Web NovelAlthough Wang Bu Liu Xing and Genius Mahjong Girl claimed that their affectionate gaze at the entrance of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse was just a friendly exchange between newly made friends after a bitter battle.
However, Zhang Dexian absolutely did not believe their nonsense and politely declined their invitation to have morning tea together.
Those two Misses, at first glance, weren't easy to deal with!
Their smiles made people shudder.
Leaving the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, walking alone on the empty road on the outskirts of Hua City, the scattered old residential buildings on both sides of the road were silent under the night sky.
Zhang Dexian rubbed his extremely clever head, took out his phone with the shattered screen once again, opened the private message sent by Miao Xiaoqi, stared at it for a long time, and let out a long sigh.
"Ah—! A true beast indeed needs to walk alone, it's better for me not to hope for companions on this path!"
Now that I know the whereabouts of the first holy item, I just need to keep moving towards the set goal, and one day, I will be able to restore the glory of my Vajra Pagoda Sect.
No matter how dark the night, dawn will eventually arrive!
Thinking this, Zhang Dexian looked up at the starry sky in the distance, and in a trance, an old monk with a benevolent face appeared before his eyes, and thus, the tough guy shed tears.
"Master—!"
"Creak—!"
"What are you making noise about in the middle of the night!? Are you trying to die!"
"Crash—!"
Zhang Dexian, "..."
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When leaving the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, Lu Yibei walked very slowly, her attention focused on the core of the urban legend entity in her hand, which looked like premium pork belly but was incredibly hard.
She liked this thing the more she looked at it.
She didn't expect that bald guy to look weird, but he was actually quite nice. He was clearly the one who got rid of those three urban legend, yet when she shamelessly asked him for a urban legend entity core, he actually gave her one.
Perhaps this was what they called, being thick-skinned gets you a full meal? Lu Yibei thought.
Lu Yibei walked ahead, and Jiang Li followed silently behind her like a ghost, looking down at the encrypted file read from her phone, her peripheral vision occasionally glancing at the figure in front.
【July 14th. Although Big King's food intake has been decreasing recently, its weight is still increasing, its weight is catching up to last year's "Hormone".
I reported this strange situation to the factory director, but he warned me to get out of the Slaughterhouse if I meddled any further.
Damn it! He's really gone mad!
Someone died, and the family members of the person sent by the pig farm even came knocking, yet he only cared about investments, and even sent people to threaten that person's Grandma to shut up, truly...
Perhaps, I really should leave here.
July 21st.
Big King's weight has far surpassed "Hormone", its body is like a small mountain.
The factory director almost got the investment he wished for.
Unfortunately, something happened in the afternoon when the factory director took the investor to see Big King.
To please the investor, the factory director even said in front of Big King that after the Pig King competition ended, he would kill the best pig in the entire factory to make a whole pig feast for the investor! freewebnovёl.ƈom
Who else could be the best pig in the entire factory if not Big King?
As soon as he finished speaking.
The originally calm Big King in the pigpen suddenly let out a terrifyingly loud howl, desperately ramming its head against the pigpen fence, scaring the investor pale.
Finally, the fence fell.
The seven-millimeter thick steel plates, like after an explosion, scattered outwards in pieces, and Big King rushed out from factory building number two.
While everyone's attention was on the terrified and pale investor, only I noticed that Big King looked back before rushing out of the factory building.
Looking at it from afar, in those dark, round eyes, I saw anger and malice.
I've dealt with pigs for over ten years, and it was the first time I've read such emotions in a pig's eyes.
I always felt that the glance it gave back was to remember everyone's appearance, for future revenge.
I hope I'm just overthinking it?
The investor left in the end, and the factory director killed the best pig in the Slaughterhouse and made the most lavish whole pig feast, but still couldn't keep them.
In the end, a large table of dishes was wasted. Before dumping it, everyone tasted a little, and the taste was very good.
It truly was the best pig in the entire factory.】
After reading a document, Jiang Li was slightly in a daze when she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. She suppressed the urge to give that hand an over-the-shoulder throw in that instant, and when she turned her head, she saw Lu Yibei's expressionless face.
"Is this something that happened at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse before? Where did you find it?"
Jiang Li said coldly, "It's none of your business."
"Don't be so cold! Aren't we friends now? We should communicate more and help each other in the future!" Lu Yibei said.
"Who's friends with..."
"What's more, I might even know that old Grandma written about in here."
Jiang Li paused mid-sentence, then asked in confusion, "You know her?"
"That's right!" Lu Yibei nodded sincerely, raised her hand and pointed to the old house in the distance that was almost swallowed by the night, leaving only a vague outline, saying, "She lives there."
"When I came before, I met her. She told me her grandson got lost at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse and never came back."
"Then you..."
"Me? I thought she looked gloomy and scary, so I told her that if he's been missing for several years, I suggest she report him as a missing person death at the police station."
"..."
For some reason, Jiang Li actually wanted to say 'well done', but given the subtle relationship between her and Lu Yibei at the moment, she chose to remain silent.
She pushed away Lu Yibei's hand, ignored her, and continued to study the encrypted document.
【August 6th. The situation at the factory has been very bad for the past half month.
The factory director's plan to attract investment fell through, but he still had to pay for the equipment he ordered in advance, and there were obvious problems with cash flow.
While everyone was worried about the impending layoffs, I was more concerned about where Big King went.
Big King disappeared after running out of the factory building that day, and no one knows where it went.
Some say it ran into the mountains outside during the chaos, but I don't think it left, I think it's hiding somewhere in the Slaughterhouse, in an unknown corner. freewebnσvel.cøm
Because ever since that day, I've felt that there is a pair of eerie eyes in the factory area.
Those eyes are neither bright nor cloudy, they float in the sky, open day and night, never closing, occasionally blinking slowly, without much emotion.
I have seen those eyes, they are Big King's eyes.
It is observing everyone, it wants revenge.
While washing up last night, I saw a large amount of pig hair in the public bathroom, that must have been left by Big King.
August 13th.
I said long ago, Big King is still in the factory area!
A series of strange things that have happened in the factory area recently can prove all of this!
Many people have already heard fragmented and strange sounds in different parts of the factory area.
That sound is very faint, always hovering uncertainly at the edge of audibility, sounding like a pig's squeal, and also like someone muttering to themselves, but it is too faint to distinguish the content at all.
Someone saw a huge black shadow appearing near the dormitory building in the middle of the night. It is said to have quietly watched the sleeping person outside the window until that person woke up from a nightmare and saw a furry big face outside the window.
Like a dark grey cloud mass, like some kind of wriggling giant beast.
Soon after, the pigs in the Slaughterhouse became agitated, and incidents of attacking people occurred from time to time, as if being guided by some force.
Everyone attributed these strange situations to the dry and hot weather, but I think it must be Big King causing trouble.
What made me even more uneasy was that I found the pigs in the factory had increasingly strange eyes.
Their eyes held fear, anger, and a hint of pleading, that feeling was like living people.
August 15th.
Big King appeared!
It attacked an employee, that employee was one of its feeders.
When we found him, blood was gushing from his mouth, several bloody holes on the right side of his face were bleeding, his right ear was gone, and a strip of flesh was torn off from his ear to his cheek.
His right hand, three fingers, were also cleanly broken off, with white bones exposed.
After much effort, he was rescued. Someone asked him what he had encountered.
He was silent for a long time, then shouted, "Pig, pig, pig!"
He was sitting on the hospital bed when he shouted, looking at everyone present as if his soul had left him.
No, what that fixed gaze was looking at, perhaps wasn't those people.
But something else, something invisible to the naked eye.
Perhaps Big King?
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But later, he changed his story, saying that what he saw might have been a particularly tall person.
So, was it a pig or a person?
August 20th.
After several consecutive days of employee disappearances, the factory director finally decided to secretly send people to search for Big King hiding within the factory area.
Hua City has many air raid shelters built during the Anti-Japanese War, hidden underground. Many were unearthed when the subway was built a few years ago.
It is said that the Slaughterhouse's sewage system can lead to one of them.
I suggested going to check the sewage system, and then, they all disappeared.
September 13th.】
There were fewer and fewer people in the factory, and it was lifeless.
Several farms lacked management, the pigs were starving, and they were killing and eating each other. A bloody smell permeated the factory area all day long.
I suggested to the factory director that we quickly recruit some new people.
The factory director tacitly agreed, so I went and recruited three new people. They were all very burly, clearly capable workers.
September 21st.
Only the factory director and I were left in the entire slaughterhouse.
It's time...】
Jiang Li finished reading all the documents and was about to click on the last audio file when Lu Yibei's voice suddenly drifted faintly into her ear.
"I think the person who wrote this stuff has issues!"
"He said earlier that the pig named Big King was the best pig in the whole factory, then later said they killed the best pig in the whole factory for a whole pig banquet to keep investors, and then later said Big King was hidden in a corner of the factory."
"Isn't that contradictory? If it's been eaten, where could it be hidden? Hidden in their bodies..."
Lu Yibei stopped halfway through her sentence, suddenly remembering the urban legend she had seen earlier in the slaughterhouse, the one covered in human-faced tumors, half-human, half-pig. Her voice stopped abruptly.
"Your guess is very likely. After all, that pig was raised with Alchemy potions. It's hard to guarantee that people who ate it wouldn't have problems. If one of the people who ate it also had some particular obsession, it would be even easier for problems to occur," Jiang Li affirmed.
After speaking, she finally noticed Lu Yibei, who had said she was leaving a long time ago, had been quietly following her and peeking. After a moment of surprise, she looked at her with a dark expression.
"Didn't you say you had other things to do and needed to leave first?"
Lu Yibei shrugged and said, "Don't look at me like that. I wasn't trying to do anything wrong. Isn't this on my way?"
"On your way?"
"Mm, on my way."
"Is it really that convenient? I'm going to Peony Street, Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration. Want a ride?"
"Uh..." Lu Yibei scratched the back of her head. "Thanks for the offer, but it's not actually that convenient."
Jiang Li rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei and silently clicked on the audio file.
"Drip—!"
"Stop being crazy! That damned pig died a long time ago, three months ago it was already dead. Didn't you eat that whole pig banquet too?"
"No, Factory Director, Big King has always been here, always been here. It's just hiding in an unknown corner, you just can't see it."
"Bullshit! Don't think I don't know, that's all your doing, kid! There aren't that many in this world... Wait! What is this... You, don't come over, don't come over!"
Amidst a series of piercing screams and the slick sound of flesh and blood spraying, the audio file turned into a burst of harsh static. The static lasted for about half a minute, followed by a loud howl.
"Awoo—!"
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After listening to the audio file, Jiang Li frowned. While she was deep in thought, she suddenly heard Lu Yibei exclaim beside her.
"Holy crap! I get it. Did the 'I' in the diary turn into a urban legend after eating the poisoned pork? So, in a way, these texts and audio files were created by the urban «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» legend?"
"But..." She paused, then continued, "Didn't they say that the birth of urban legend is related to whether humans believe in their existence? Is a few months, plus some employees in the slaughterhouse believing, really enough?"
Jiang Li glanced sideways at Lu Yibei, who looked like she was playing a deduction game, and said faintly, "If there's Alchemy potion as a catalyst, this time and the number of people needed will be greatly reduced."
"What's more, the urban legend born here should not have had a high Spiritual Energy level at first. It only developed to this point later, as the rumors about the South Suburb Slaughterhouse gradually spread throughout the city."
"Also, urban legend being born through belief is a theory of the Night Watch. It's not accepted by everyone and isn't particularly widespread. You know this too?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Ah, this... There's something wrong with you, woman!
Didn't we just reach a consensus?
Why do you still try to trip me up every chance you get?
Lu Yibei thought, then said calmly, "My Teacher taught me. Is that not allowed?"
Jiang Li's eyes seemed to hold a smile. She narrowed her eyes slightly, resting her chin on one hand, and said, "Oh? Interesting! urban legend have Teachers too? I'd like to hear what kind of existence a urban legend's Teacher is."
"This... anyway, not like you." Lu Yibei rolled her eyes at Jiang Li and said, "My Teacher, ah, she's like a piece of chocolate, well-behaved, cute, and beautiful. She's definitely a show-off piece when Goddess Nuwa created humans. She could wear a sack..."
"Hmm?"
"Uh, she could wear a sack without clothes and lead fashion trends. With a raise of her eyes, it's like the misty rain of Mount Hua, sword energy touching my brow, splashing spring breeze. She's broad-minded, clear on right and wrong, good and evil, knows when to advance and retreat, deals with matters not people, sticks to her principles, understands others' principles..."
"......"
Over the next two minutes or so, Lu Yibei racked her brain, showering Jiang Li with every flattering phrase she knew, praises constantly bubbling out.
I just said something bad, so I should balance it out a bit! To avoid her making things difficult for me later, Lu Yibei thought.
However, she was saying it until her own face was almost red, but Jiang Li didn't react at all.
Jiang Li just watched her quietly, waiting until she stopped, then nodded slightly and asked calmly, "And?"
Act, keep acting, I'll just watch you act quietly!
Lu Yibei, "..."
And?
If I keep going, I can only say she has a big butt and is good for having children.
But saying that would probably get me killed, right?
Lu Yibei thought, then shrugged. "That's it."
"Mm, she sounds like a good Teacher. I hope you learn well from her in the future and do fewer bad things," Jiang Li nodded.
Lu Yibei, "..."
She had to add a sentence herself?
I have never seen such a shameless person!
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After midnight, time moved little by little towards dawn, and the temperature dropped to the lowest point of the day.
This should have been the most active time for urban legend, but in the countryside one kilometer away from the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, a cold wind blew, deserted and empty, with only withered leaves tumbling in the air.
Lingering in the intricate alleys, with old buildings on both sides, under the street lamp closest to the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, the pale light fell upon the white-haired, emaciated old woman.
She held the lamp post with one hand and leaned on a cane with the other, standing alone in the cold wind, her cloudy eyes gazing at the outline of the South Suburb Slaughterhouse in the distance.
From afar, she looked like she was waiting for her grandson to come home from school.
Lu Yibei frowned. As soon as she walked up to the old woman, she asked the familiar question, "Have you seen my grandson?"
She raised her hand, pointing to the South Suburb Slaughterhouse in the distance. "He went there. If you see him, tell him to come home early."
Somehow, when Lu Yibei saw this old woman again, she felt none of the eerie horror from their first meeting. Instead, she felt a little pity.
She parted her lips, hesitating for a long time. It was as if something was stuck in her throat. She couldn't tell her that her grandson had passed away years ago, that she was just waiting for someone who would never return.
Just then, Jiang Li stepped forward, extended her hand with a faint glow at her fingertips, and touched the old woman's brow. Then she said softly, "Grandma, your grandson passed away a long time ago. You don't need to wait anymore. He won't be coming back either."
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment. She looked fiercely at Jiang Li and said, "What are you doing? How could you just..."
Jiang Li gave her a cold glance and said calmly, "Look at her again."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei turned to look at the old woman.
She saw the old woman murmuring sadly to herself, "Oh, is that so? Is that so? Thank you! Then it's time for me to go back too, go back..." As she spoke, her body went limp and she collapsed onto the ground like mud.
She instinctively reached out to help the old woman up, but when she found her body stiff and cold, her hands trembled and she pulled them back.
The old woman seemed to have been dead for a long time, without a trace of breath.
Immediately after, purplish-brown corpse spots appeared on her wrinkled, aged face at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This..."
Jiang Li patted Lu Yibei's shoulder and said lightly, "She should have died a long time ago. She was only hanging on by a thread of obsession, hoping for her grandson's return. This is also a type of unformed urban legend."
"If I hadn't told her, over time, once she turned into a urban legend, the residents in this area would all suffer."
"Kindness is a good thing, but sometimes foolish kindness is counterproductive. It seems you haven't learned very thoroughly from your Teacher! You should keep working hard in the future!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
