Free Web Novel“Hiss—! It hurts, it hurts!”
Amidst the dust and smoke, in the darkness, Lu Yibei rubbed her backside and cried out in pain.
When she saw the woman with a birthmark on her face miraculously go from the first floor to the fourth, she already suspected there might be a secret passage or something similar hidden in the old building.
She just didn't expect Qin Dalin to dig the entrance right in the center of the room. Caught off guard, she stepped into thin air and fell down.
Damn it, wasn't he afraid of accidentally falling in himself? Lu Yibei cursed inwardly, leaned against the wall, fumbled in the dark to stand up, and began to survey her surroundings.
The hole she fell from was ninety degrees vertical, about three or four meters high, one and a half meters long, and about one meter wide. It was like a dry well, easily accommodating an adult of normal build.
In the air, the bloody smell that seemed to seep from the walls grew stronger. The air flowed at the bottom of the hole, and the wind carried a faint “woo woo” sound, which sounded like someone crying softly.
After using her Spiritual Energy to sense the two unknown Spiritual Energy fluctuations upstairs and finding that they entered Qin Dalin's home and hadn't moved since, Lu Yibei took out her phone, turned on the flashlight to illuminate her surroundings, and cautiously explored forward. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
Perhaps due to the dampness underground, the concrete walls around were wet, and there were dried bloodstains on the ground from dragging. On a protruding wire somewhere, a few strands of somewhat decayed clothing hung.
It seemed that after Qin Dalin knocked out those girls, he would bring them here for further disposal. Lu Yibei thought.
She had also heard the sound of Qin Dalin moving heavy objects in the bedroom in the living room of Room 401 earlier. She figured he was opening the entrance to the secret passage, preparing to bring her here too.
After observing her surroundings, Lu Yibei found a secret passage that continued forward. She walked along the passage, bending over, and after walking about three or four meters, a rusty iron door appeared in front of her.
The iron door was unlocked. She stopped in front of the door, somewhat expecting a urban legend to suddenly rush out after she opened it, so she silently tossed a coin, predicted the amplitude of the Spell amplification, and prepared a Red Flame Flash before reaching out to push the door open.
“Creak—!”
The door hinge turned, emitting a chilling sound. As the rusty iron door opened, a strange smell composed of mold, dust, spoiled food, and decaying blood that had accumulated in the enclosed space assailed her.
Behind the iron door was a secret room of about thirty square meters, which looked like it had been converted from a room on the third floor. The windows were sealed, the walls were replastered, a heavy anti-theft door stood in the corner of the room, and old tables and chairs were placed beside the door.
In the center of the secret room was a large iron cage with two stainless steel basins inside. One contained murky water, and the other contained food that had gone bad and turned black.
In addition, a large pile of dark things was accumulated in the cage. Lu Yibei shined her phone on it and saw what was in the cage, her face immediately turning pale.
It was a large mass of twisted and tangled hair, and faintly, some bones that hadn't been dealt with in time could be seen covered by the hair.
Those girls who were targeted and knocked out by Qin Dalin were probably imprisoned here after being brought into the old building, and then gradually turned into walking corpses with dull eyes and dirty bodies, and finally became cold corpses.
As for where those corpses were hidden, perhaps, as Lu Yibei felt, they were in the dark corners of this old building that ordinary people couldn't detect.
Beneath those bones, Lu Yibei finally found the source of the bloody smell seeping from the walls.
Some twisted and strange blood-red threads extended from the bottom of the cage, attached to the ground, and rooted into the hard and cold concrete.
They looked like dried bloodstains, or like plant roots, and faint Spiritual Energy fluctuations could be faintly felt from them. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Lu Yibei stared at the blood-red threads in a daze for a few seconds, softly chanted a spell, and threw a Red Flame Flash at them.
“Whoosh—!”
The crimson firelight illuminated the secret room that had never seen the light of day year-round. Accompanied by faint screams and the stench of burning flesh, the Spiritual Energy fluctuations quickly subsided.
“......”
This Qin Dalin is truly a beast. If he were allowed to continue, a terrifying urban legend might be born in this old building.
No wonder that Older sister warned me not to enter rooms in the old building casually.
Was she worried that I would accidentally enter a room and happen to encounter Qin Dalin finishing dealing with a girl he had imprisoned, and encounter danger? Lu Yibei thought.
Thinking carefully, for a girl to venture alone into a long-abandoned residential building and suddenly encounter a big man who had just killed someone and was covered in blood, it would indeed be terrifying for an ordinary person.
After those blood-red threads were completely burned to ashes, Lu Yibei was ready to leave.
Before leaving, she walked towards the table and chairs in the secret room, pulled open the drawers one by one, searched carefully for a while, and found a notebook with yellowed and moldy pages inside.
“Rustle.”
Lu Yibei casually opened a page and illuminated the notebook with her phone, only to find that only a number 【277】 was scribbled on it.
“277? What does that mean?”
She frowned slightly, flipped through the pages, and found that only a number was written on each page.
【181】, 【205】, 【229】...
Those numbers seemed unrelated, with no obvious pattern. The only thing that was certain was that they were constantly increasing.
Lu Yibei continued to flip through the notebook in confusion for a while, until she turned to the first page, and only then did she suddenly understand.
On the first page of the notebook, the crooked handwriting read “100 days left”.
“......”
It seems the numbers might be the change in the number of days Qin Dalin could survive after handing those girls over to a certain urban legend?
But why did the numbers change inconsistently? Some could increase by more than forty days, while others could only increase by a few days.
Is it judged by appearance, age, or Spiritual Energy potential?
Lu Yibei thought, and muttered to herself, “I wonder how many days I'm worth?”
After saying that, she put down the notebook and prepared to leave this cursed place.
“Ah—! You, you...”
A pig-like scream suddenly came from the other end of the secret passage. It sounded like Qin Dalin.
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Qin Dalin was woken up by a gust of murky, cold wind.
He woke up groggily, found himself tied to a chair, and remembered the female ghost from before, his body shivering violently.
Opening his eyes and seeing that the female ghost was no longer in the dark room, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, his heart, which had been hanging, hadn't had time to completely settle before it jumped into his throat again.
The light overhead suddenly flickered. Through the fleeting light, he saw two terrifying figures standing in the dark corners of the room.
One was completely naked, with pale skin exposed, clustered together in wrinkled piles, looking like a very fat person who had suddenly been drained of all their fat, or like many pieces of Peeling Skin stitched together on a skeleton.
The other was very short, possibly less than one meter forty, with a dirty Burlap Sack Face on its head. Dark red threads were sewn onto the sack to form eyes and a mouth, making it look like a crude, maliciously humorous scarecrow. Maggots crawled and wriggled in the gaps of the sack.
Looking at the two dark figures, Qin Dalin's body suddenly stiffened. Fear was like swarms of insects frantically gnawing at his nerves, his heart pounded, and his whole body tingled as if he had been electrocuted.
“Ah—! You, you...”
Watching the two dark figures approach little by little, he let out a scream. Before he could finish speaking, he twitched in the face as if he had suffered a stroke, and fainted again.
How tragic, I am truly tragic. Not only did that female ghost not intend to let me go, but she also called her companions to torture me together! This is retribution!
This thought flashed through Qin Dalin's mind the second before he lost consciousness.
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Inside the secret room.
Lu Yibei had just heard Qin Dalin's scream and didn't know what was happening upstairs. She suddenly felt a surge of inexplicable Spiritual Energy, and many little question marks popped up in her mind.
What the heck? What's going on? Is there really such a good thing as getting something for nothing in this world?
Lu Yibei thought, cautiously crept to the hole leading to Qin Dalin's bedroom, and was about to use her Spiritual Energy to secretly observe the situation above, when suddenly, a conversation came from upstairs.
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“Peeling Skin, are you sure this is the guy Li wanted us to take care of?”
The urban legend called Peeling Skin glanced at Qin Dalin in the chair and said, “There's no mistake. I saw the photo. He has no Spiritual Energy fluctuations on him, so he shouldn't have any Spell to change his appearance.”
As it spoke, its voice sounded like a mixture of several voices, buzzing and unclear.
"Then..." the Burlap Sack Face urban legend scratched the back of its head, its palm bringing up a cluster of maggots that fell to the ground like rain, "Why is he tied up?"
"Do we even need to make a move? Li could just call two ordinary people to deal with him!"
"This..." Peeling Skin pondered for a few seconds and said, "Could it be other urban legend who arrived here before us? After all, Li knows more urban legend than just us two brothers?"
"Did that guy knock him out, tie him up, and prepare to starve him to death? Or slowly torment him to death?"
"Huh? That's twisted, but too low-level," the Burlap Sack Face urban legend said dismissively.
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Inside the secret passage.
You're the twisted and low-level one, your whole family is twisted and low-level! Lu Yibei rolled her eyes at the entrance of the cave. After calming down slightly, she carefully analyzed the content of their conversation.
They just mentioned Li. Before Qin Dalin fainted, he also said the ancient sword was in the hands of someone surnamed Li...
Could this Li be the one who took the ancient sword?
Did he somehow know that Qin Dalin was going to reveal the whereabouts of the ancient sword to me, so he sent two urban legend to kill him and silence him?
But, isn't this reaction speed a little too fast?
As Lu Yibei was thinking, the conversation between the two urban legend upstairs came through, interrupting her thoughts.
"What now? Just kill him directly?"
"I think so! An ordinary person can't squeeze out much Spiritual Energy."
...
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's heart tightened, and she secretly cried out, 'This is bad'.
She hadn't confirmed the whereabouts of the ancient sword yet. What if the Li mentioned by the two urban legend wasn't the one who took the ancient sword, and they killed Qin Dalin? Wouldn't all the clues be gone?
If worst comes to worst, she can only...
Without time to think further, Lu Yibei held onto the cave wall with both hands, exerted force, and like a gecko climbing a wall, she scrambled up in a few moves.
After standing firmly in the bedroom, she immediately released her Spiritual Energy fluctuations and walked out of the bedroom in a grand manner.
Although she still couldn't use all her power without being harmed, after drawing Spirit Marks and frequently using Spells, she had figured out some ways to use Spiritual Energy.
Take the release of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, for example. The principle is actually similar to casting Spells, except that you don't need to chant spells. You just need to continuously gather Spiritual Energy and keep it contained...
Holy crap! Why can't I stop?
Wait, could it be that this fake Spell also enjoys the amplification effect?
This... won't cause any problems, will it?
Lu Yibei was startled by the inability to stop the release of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, and then she was stunned by the scene outside the bedroom.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw a chilling wind blowing, a strange smell filling the air, the light bulb on the ceiling flickering, and the shadows cast on the four walls seemed to be distorted by some force, swaying non-stop, ready to move as if they would turn into malevolent spirits at any moment, break free from the walls, and pounce on Qin Dalin with bared fangs and claws.
And in the center of the room, stood two terrifying figures that were clearly not human.
My goodness, this is too scary!
I should have stayed in the secret room and waited for them to leave before coming out.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Lu Yibei was scared by the display created by the two urban legend. Her heart suddenly jumped, but she still gritted her teeth and walked forward with a brave face.
The act you chose, you have to finish it, even if you have to kneel!
At least I'm slightly stronger than them individually. Let's see if I can scare them off first. If not, with the Imitation Divine Travel Armor, I can at least run away...
Lu Yibei thought, raised her hand, pointed, and shouted, "Beasts! What are you two trying to do?!"
The two urban legend were attracted by her voice and terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations and looked over. Immediately, the core of the urban legend' bodies trembled.
The girl in the tattered white dress stood in the doorway, her silver-white long hair fluttering behind her. Her exquisite face had a cold expression, and her pupils seemed to be frozen.
"Woo—!"
Accompanied by distortions of light and shadow and the sorrowful sobbing of a young girl, streams of illusory dark red airflow appeared around her, like tiny rivers of blood flowing around her.
Those blood rivers emitted a faint glow, like magma.
Deformed, morbid, yet full of eerie and evil vitality, as if to pollute and scorch the darkness.
That was simply an evil god walking through blood and fire!
The two urban legend were truly frightened by her and froze on the spot, not daring to move.
Although the Spiritual Energy fluctuations of this suddenly appearing Demoness Seed urban legend were not much stronger than theirs, the quality of her Spiritual Energy was too high, creating a natural suppression of rank difference invisibly.
It was like a predator facing its prey.
Even more terrifying was that they had not detected her presence at all before.
But, this level of urban legend is one of the best in the entire Hua City. Why would she be interested in an ordinary human?
Peeling Skin muttered to itself and weakly said, "He is your, no, he is your prey?"
"..."
Did I get away with it?
Lu Yibei was silent for a moment, then said coldly, "No, I was entrusted by someone."
"This..." Peeling Skin stammered for a while and said, "Actually, we brothers were also entrusted by someone. If, if your purpose is the same as ours, we will escape, uh, leave immediately."
Of course I know you were entrusted by someone. If it's ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) really the person who took the ancient sword, I even want to blend in... Lu Yibei muttered to herself, slightly parted her lips, and was about to say something when Burlap Sack Face, who had been silent on the side, looked at her for a while and suddenly shouted.
"I know you! So it's you!"
Lu Yibei, "???"
What is this? What's going on? How can a urban legend know me?
Peeling Skin was startled and wanted to pull Burlap Sack Face, but it shook off its arm at once. "You're the Demoness Seed urban legend that Uncle Zhang Shan talked about on the radio, right? I'm your fan!"
"I didn't expect you to be real!"
"..."
If I'm not real, am I a paper person?
Lu Yibei wanted to retort, but looking at that Burlap Sack Face, which dropped large white maggots when it got excited, she just felt her scalp tingle and was speechless for a moment.
Lao Zhang urban legend Radio...
Hiss—! Is it talking about Uncle Zhang Shan's radio station?
What exactly did Uncle Zhang Shan talk about? Does he know that there are urban legend among his listeners?
Thinking that there might be a group of urban legend in dark corners late at night, eagerly waiting for Zhang Shan to tell stories, Lu Yibei felt a little creepy.
After a moment of silence, she didn't respond to Burlap Sack Face, but looked at Peeling Skin coldly, bit the bullet, and pretended to be imposing, "Speak, who sent you? Tell me, and this Empress will spare your lives!"
Peeling Skin trembled under her gaze and quickly replied, "Li, Li Tanghan!"
"Yes, yes, it's that Li Tanghan from Tanghan Art Transaction and Transportation Company!"
Surnamed Li, and runs an art transaction and transportation company...
It seems likely that he really did take the ancient sword!
Lu Yibei was silently thinking, and the Spiritual Energy fluctuations that had stopped somehow were still rising steadily. The two urban legend felt a surge of fear and their cores trembled.
What's going on?
Did we say something wrong to make her angry?
Or does she have some old feud with Li?
Lu Yibei didn't know that she had intimidated the two urban legend in front of her, after all, they didn't provide her with Spiritual Energy fluctuations.
After thinking for a moment, she nodded and said lightly, "Don't be afraid, we are all on the same side."
Peeling Skin, Burlap Sack Face, "..."
Ah, this...
Amazing, Li! He's so resourceful that he can even invite this level of urban legend?
After a brief thought, Peeling Skin glanced at Qin Dalin, then looked at Lu Yibei and said, "Since you were also invited by Li, we'll leave him to you to handle."
Although it didn't completely believe Lu Yibei's words, her Spiritual Energy fluctuations were still climbing. If it probed too much and made her unhappy, the consequences would be unimaginable.
