Free Web NovelLu Yibei was still a bit dazed when Jiang Li kicked her out of the office.
Standing in front of the gate of the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, Lu Yibei looked back, a slight frown on her brow.
Miao Miao Jiang is with me?
Is she implying that she will go with me to complete the mission?
But if she plans to complete the mission with me, why use the identity of Miao Miao Jiang?
Wait, could it be...
As Lu Yibei pondered, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed her mind, and she immediately quickened her pace, heading out of Peony Street.
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Sitting in the taxi that was gradually moving away from Peony Street, estimating that she had left the Night Watch's surveillance range, Lu Yibei finally took out the A4 paper with the urban legend case written on it from her pocket.
On the A4 paper, written in elegant small script, was information about the mysterious deaths of residents in Happiness Community.
After noting down a few keywords, Lu Yibei refolded the paper and put it back in her pocket, then naturally pulled out her phone from the other side.
Holding the phone, she secretly glanced at the taxi driver through the rearview mirror, then set her phone to silent mode, opened the browser, entered the Website, and skillfully found the secret entrance amidst the flood of online gambling and adult product ads, entering the Monster Story Chat Group's reward Website.
Her gaze lingered on the reward Website, Lu Yibei took a silent deep breath, clicked the search bar, entered "Happiness Community", and clicked search.
As the page jumped, a reward announcement appeared on the phone screen.
Looking at the reward announcement, the last trace of doubt in Lu Yibei's mind instantly dissipated.
If her guess was correct, Jiang Li's intention was indeed to complete the Monster Story Chat Group's reward with me.
She wondered how those guys from the Monster Story Chat Group had gained her trust, to actually make a Night Watch operative temporarily acquiesce to their existence.
The Hua City Si Ye Hui only had a few capable fighters in total, and there were still quite a few internal spies hidden among them. Now, with an additional main operative who was mingling with urban legend, it was truly quite difficult.
Speaking of which, I haven't even decided whether to accept their cooperation invitation yet!
Jiang Li pulled this stunt, so I don't have a choice anymore?
As Lu Yibei was thinking, her phone suddenly vibrated, and a notification popped up from a certain goose software.
【Genius Mahjong Girl requests to add you as a friend】
Lu Yibei, "......"
Agree.
【You are now friends with "Genius Mahjong Girl", say something quickly!】
Genius Mahjong Girl: "Are you there? Is it convenient to act together tonight? 【Heart emoji】"
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "I have a toilet at home."
Genius Mahjong Girl: "I mean to claim the reward and complete it together in cooperation."
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "I don't want to act with the fake Miao Miao Jiang."
Genius Mahjong Girl: "What silly things are you saying? I am Miao Miao Jiang. 【Heart emoji】"
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Really? I don't believe it! Unless you send a selfie!"
Genius Mahjong Girl: "It's not convenient now, I'm using a landline."
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "? 【Old man looking at phone on subway emoji】"
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Then it's not convenient for me now either, let's talk about it another day."
Lu Yibei had already planned to go to the night market tonight to sell calamity water and incidentally purchase the materials for completing the defect, so she didn't have time to accompany Jiang Li to complete the reward.
What's more, can you just go to a urban legend event with unknown Spiritual Energy fluctuation levels? At least some preparation should be made, right?
For example, first let me complete the first defect completion, purchase some Spiritual Energy items for self-defense, then take on one or two simple rewards to test the reality of the urban legend reward Website, then visit the area around Happiness Community, and finally accept the reward.
This was already the simplest and fastest process. Lu Yibei thought.
Genius Mahjong Girl: "Which day is another day?"
Lu Yibei frowned and thought for a moment, then typed the content and clicked send.
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "At least three days later."
Genius Mahjong Girl: "Okay, I'll wait for you! 【Heart emoji】"
Lu Yibei looked at the message from Jiang Li and tilted her head.
Is the Leader more lively and cheerful online than in reality?
Also.
Why does she always send this emoji? Does it have any special meaning? It always feels strange.
Thinking of the restless soul residing within that cold, beautiful girl's shell, Lu Yibei actually felt a sense of contrast Moe.
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Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, Office V.
Jiang Li stared at the chat box on her phone screen, waited for a moment, and finally received Lu Yibei's reply. Seeing that she agreed, a faint smile unconsciously appeared on her lips.
Holding her phone, she typed "Then it's a deal", then clicked on the emoji option, selected the only emoji from the empty list, and then clicked send.
It's not difficult to pretend to be a cute girl online!
Just send some cute emojis when chatting. Jiang Li thought.
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The night was deep.
Above the gloomy sky, dark clouds drifted from afar. Under the shroud of large shadows, Hua City seemed to be asleep, everything was silent, and in the darkness, the lurking demons waiting to hunt were stirring.
On the dilapidated streets in late autumn, thin mist drifted. Merchants who had rushed from all corners of the city moved through the streets, their figures hazy, like wandering ghosts.
This was a rare lively place in Hua City after dark.
The closing of the night market and the opening of the Ghost Market happened almost simultaneously.
Gu Qianqian packed up the large iron pot, gas tank, and various stir-fried items for sale, and casually flipped the wooden sign on the handcart that said 【Stir-fried rice, stir-fried noodles, stir-fried rice noodles】 to the other side, revealing the side that said 【Qianqian's Grocery Store】, and pushed the handcart into a deep, narrow alley nearby.
Her small business had been doing well these past few days. With the materials exchanged for various recipes in her pocket, her "artificial little sun" finally successfully "launched" into the Bamboo Scroll Illusion, and the sun disc dispersed the haze that had enveloped it for thousands of years.
As she pushed the small cart forward, the system couldn't help but chatter in Gu Qianqian's ear.
"Gu Qianqian, you have to think carefully. It will cost a lot of resources to transform that land that has been barren for thousands of years to the point where crops can be planted. I think it's a bit of a loss."
"I think it's already pretty good to be able to plant potatoes. What else do you want? Tomatoes, rice... green beans?"
"Huh?!" Gu Qianqian was stunned for a moment and asked in return, "Didn't you say that I should show miracles to my people and gain their faith?"
"The miracle I told you to show was to learn the story of 【Five loaves and two fish】, create food out of thin air, and feed them. Why do you insist on farming?"
The system could never understand why Gu Qianqian had an inexplicable obsession with farming. The funds exchanged by selling recipes and Spiritual Energy items could completely solve the survival problem of the less than two thousand people in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion by purchasing ingredients.
"But I can learn from Shen Nong. Bring life back to the barren land, and then give them modern advanced farming, irrigation, and harvesting techniques, so that from then on they can be self-sufficient and thrive. Isn't that a greater miracle?" Gu Qianqian said.
System, "......"
It actually sounds very reasonable?
Perhaps this is because her Spirit Mark attribute is closely related to mountains and the earth?
Or is this simply a racial talent BUFF engraved in the genes of Z Country people?
"Such a miracle takes a long time to complete, I'm worried there's not enough time!" the system said.
"How can there not be enough time? In those bamboo slips, aren't there Alchemy potions that speed up plant growth?" Gu Qianqian said, "As long as I buy enough materials, I'm still very confident in Alchemy! It doesn't feel much harder than making those handicrafts."
The system was once again convinced by Gu Qianqian, after all, Gu Qianqian's talent in Alchemy was visibly high.
The system had never let Gu Qianqian come into contact with Alchemy before, and was originally worried that she would make mistakes when making the lieyang bronze orb, so when preparing the materials, it actually prepared enough materials to make five lieyang bronze orbs.
But who would have thought that when Gu Qianqian first came into contact with making this medium-to-high difficulty Alchemy item, she would barely succeed on the second try? After that, when she made the fifth one, the production process of the lieyang bronze orb alone was even close to perfect.
This situation was truly surprising to the system, and it regretted not discovering Gu Qianqian's talent in this area sooner and choosing a Spirit Mark that could assist in Alchemy for her.
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Thinking about the possibility of Gu Qianqian refining Calamity level Alchemy potions that could kill Disasters someday in the future made the system feel particularly excited just by thinking about it.
Just as the system was immersed in the fantasy of spraying Disasters in the face with Alchemy potions and couldn't extricate itself, Gu Qianqian had already pushed the small cart to a secluded corner.
She glanced around, pulled out the Bamboo Scroll from a pocket sewn inside her pants.
As Spiritual Energy was injected into it, a stable and controllable teleportation channel, about the size of a manhole cover, appeared before her.
Gu Qianqian threw the cooking tools from the handcart one by one into the teleportation channel.
Then, she leaned forward slightly, poked half her body in, fumbled around for a bit, and then threw out Spiritual Energy items one by one from inside, as if they were cabbages.
Rouge Transformation · Incantation-Stabilized Mask, Wisdom Potion, Replicated Bamboo Scroll, the Great Serpent God's skeleton...
Yes, it's the Great Serpent God's skeleton.
Ever since Lu Yibei killed the Great Serpent God and the sinkhole collapsed and buried it, the System was always a bit worried that it would somehow resurrect.
So, it had Gu Qianqian spend some time digging up its "grave" and excavating the skeleton to sell.
In the true sense, it achieved scattering even the ashes to prevent resurrection!
"Oh, right System, yesterday a villager with a very flat head told me he found a glowing bronze statue in his house, it seems to be a Spiritual Energy item."
"Someone delivered it to me during the day today.
Should we also take it to sell?"
Gu Qianqian's words interrupted the System's thoughts.
It retorted, "It seems there was something like that.
Where's the bronze statue?
Let's take a look at it before deciding."
"Wait a minute!
Let me look!"
Gu Qianqian said, leaning into the teleportation channel again.
Her legs, wearing small boots, kicked up and swayed gently.
"Where is it?
Where is it?"
"Hehe, found it!
Huh?
System, this bronze statue seems to have a problem..."
"A problem?
What problem?"
"Hmm..."
Gu Qianqian mused for two seconds and said, "It looks very familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere."
"Seen it?
Take it out and let me see?"
the System said.
"Okay!"
Gu Qianqian replied, then crawled out of the teleportation channel carrying the bronze statue.
With a "Duang!" sound, she placed the bronze statue on the ground.
The bronze statue had a coppery texture, outlining muscular lines.
Its solemn face had eyes wide open in anger, and its arms were raised high, steadily carrying a nuclear warhead on its shoulder.
System, "..."
Of course, Gu Qianqian would find it familiar.
If she hadn't been knocked unconscious before, she would have found it even more familiar!
Isn't this the bronze statue Disaster always carried with her before?
"System, System, are you there?"
"Yes."
"Did you notice?
This looks like Lu Yibei's bronze statue!"
Gu Qianqian's small hand was circling and rubbing on the head of the mingwang statue.
"It's not like it, it is it!"
the System said in a deep voice.
Damn it, why did Disaster leave her bronze statue in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion?
Does she have some special intention?
Could it be to anchor coordinates through secret techniques for covert observation and teleportation when necessary?
She has already devoured the Jumang Power Inheritor, she should be able to do this much.
This is bad!
If that's the case, since the bronze statue has been in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion for so long, everything Gu Qianqian and I have done for the past month or so hasn't it all been under her nose?
"Huh?
Is this Lu Yibei's bronze statue?"
Gu Qianqian glanced at the mingwang statue and frowned, "Then shouldn't we return it to her?
Didn't you always tell me to return lost property?"
System, "..."
I was worried about you, little money-grubber, getting greedy and being tricked by someone after picking up Ghost Coins!
This bronze statue is clearly a backup plan left by Disaster.
Just taking it back to her wouldn't that be equivalent to explicitly telling her that we've discovered her scheme?
Now that we've finally gotten back on track and seen a glimmer of hope, if we provoke her, all our efforts will be in vain!
The System thought for a moment, organized its words slightly, and then said solemnly to Gu Qianqian, "Things belonging to humans and urban legend cannot be treated the same."
"Since this is something belonging to Disaster, we cannot keep it with us, and even less can we return it to her!
Do you know what it's called to return a lost weapon to your enemy?"
"What is it called?"
Gu Qianqian asked in confusion.
"Aiding the enemy!"
the System roared in frustration.
"So, not only can we not return it to her, we have to quickly get rid of it at a low price!"
"When we set up the stall later, put the bronze statue in the center.
As soon as someone is interested, sell it immediately, understand?"
"Oh, okay," Gu Qianqian pouted her little mouth and replied reluctantly.
She picked up the mingwang statue, placed it on the handcart, and pushed the little cart towards the Ghost Market.
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"This should be it!"
Zhang Dexian stood # Nоvеlight # at the entrance of a winding, quiet alley that seemed to lead nowhere.
He looked ahead, his gaze slightly narrowed, and clenched his fists.
An hour ago, he received a message from the Monster Story Chat Group saying that a member had found someone selling the inherited holy artifact he had been painstakingly searching for at the Hua City Ghost Market, so he rushed over without stopping.
Now, this incredibly solemn and sacred moment was finally approaching.
The nervous and excited feeling made him want to laugh up to the sky.
Standing at the alley entrance, he slightly adjusted his emotions and managed his facial expression before finally taking a step and walking towards the Ghost Market.
I absolutely must not let the seller see how desperate I am to acquire the holy artifact, otherwise the price will definitely be inflated!
Zhang Dexian thought.
He had experienced such bitterness countless times during the period just after he came down the mountain.
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As the night deepened, the Ghost Market gradually became lively, with various strange and peculiar Spiritual Energy fluctuations coming from the roadside stalls.
It wasn't until this time that Fat Er Ye finally had his employees slowly open the shop door.
If it weren't for someone having reserved something today and coming to pick it up later, he originally didn't really want to open the door today because his right eyelid had been twitching non-stop since the afternoon, which was a bad omen!
As an old hand dealing in the resale of Spiritual Energy items, Fat Er Ye had always been very thorough when it came to seeking good fortune and avoiding Disaster.
No one could say for sure when a seemingly ordinary but actually ruthless person might walk into his shop.
With just a little carelessness, having the shop smashed would be a minor issue, but losing his life would be troublesome.
Thinking of this, he looked at the crowds coming and going outside the shop door.
His mung bean eyes gradually became hazy, and his thoughts uncontrollably drifted back to the time when he used to run errands for people in the Ghost Market.
At that time, he met a woman, a terrifying woman.
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Wait!
When Fat Er Ye noticed the white-haired girl floating towards him, his stout body suddenly trembled, and beads of sweat immediately seeped from his oily forehead.
After seeing the newcomer clearly, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn, you scared me!
So it was her, I thought it was her mother!
I was wondering why my eyelid kept twitching today, so it was because of her?
Something like reanimation is terrifying for ordinary people.
For Psychic and urban legend, it's even more terrifying.
Psychic and urban legend who die and come back to life are highly likely to become corrupted and lose control.
Seeing Lu Yibei walking to the shop entrance, Fat Er Ye withdrew his thoughts, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a smile, "Young Master, what makes you think of coming to my place today?
Did you come alone?"
"Yes!
Shui Ge wasn't free today, so he let me come by myself.
He just told me to tell him when I finish the transaction," Lu Yibei said, using Bai Kai's name.
According to her observation, this Fat Er Ye seemed to be quite wary of Shui Ge.
Mentioning Shui Ge's name a couple of times before selling things would at least prevent her from being cheated, as this was only her second time here and she didn't understand the tricks of the trade.
"Oh?"
Fat Er Ye said with a smile, "Young Master, did you come here today to buy something or sell something?"
"Sell something."
Hearing this, Fat Er Ye struggled to sit up straight, his eyes slightly narrowed as he asked, "May I know what you are selling...?"
Lu Yibei's large eyes darted furtively left and right.
She whispered, "Boss, do you buy calamity water?"
"calamity water?
It depends on how much there is, I don't buy small quantities."
"Is that so?"
Lu Yibei frowned slightly, reached into her jacket, pulled out a bottle of calamity water, and placed it in front of Fat Er Ye.
"Do you think this much is enough?"
Looking at the crystal bottle of about 2L filled with calamity water, Fat Er Ye was stunned for a moment.
He looked at Lu Yibei in confusion, "Isn't this...?"
Isn't this a bit too much?
Lu Yibei slightly furrowed her brow, "Do you think it's too little?
Indeed, compared to your reserves here, it's much less.
It's okay, I still have..."
As she spoke, she quickly pulled out two more bottles of calamity water from the backpack behind her and pushed them in front of Fat Er Ye.
Looking at the three bottles of calamity water on the table, Fat Er Ye's face, full of fat, twitched uncontrollably.
You call this a little?
My shop has a lot, but that was accumulated after running the shop for seven or eight years!
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