Free Web NovelThe crimson light before her eyes began to dissipate, and reality exploded like a bubble under the sun, shattering into pieces. The darkness and desolation hidden beneath the mask of truth gradually emerged.
In the midst of intense dizziness and pain, Lu Yibei felt her body grow cold, as if she had fallen into an endless, pitch-black cold pond, constantly sinking.
Under the assault of the surging currents in the cold pond, something was being stripped from her body, or rather, abandoning her.
She sank to a deeper place, and then she felt many blurry and distorted figures approaching her, carrying auras of curiosity, concern, greed, urgency, or gloomy coldness. Then, as if sensing something, they scattered and fled quickly.
"You are about to die," a voice said to her, sounding like a young girl.
Hearing that voice, Lu Yibei clutched at it like a drowning person grasping a last straw, her emotions becoming urgent.
"About to... does that mean not completely dead yet? Then I think I can still be saved!"
"It's hopeless, your soul has withered," the voice said indifferently.
"But I don't want to die, no, I can't die! I still..."
"Heh! Why can't you die? Everyone can die!" the voice said, with a hint of disdain in its tone. "Some people self-righteously believe that the world cannot function without them, but in reality, it's all the same. Without them, tomorrow will still be a beautiful day."
"Human life has its limits. The more life and death one witnesses, the more one realizes this. Death is destined for everyone."
"Then can I just not be human?! As long as I can live!"
"Although I don't know who you are, you should be some big shot, right? Could you save me? I can accept selling my soul or anything, as long as I don't sell my chastity, because I haven't had a girlfriend yet, and I want to save my first time for true love."
"Seriously, I really want to live. Give me a chance, big shot!"
The voice was silent for a few seconds, as if embarrassed by Lu Yibei's shamelessness.
When a normal person knows they are about to die, shouldn't they be panicking, crying, and begging for mercy? How did it come to her bargaining!?
So annoying! She was originally here to show him a not-so-bright path, but now she suddenly doesn't want to save him. What to do?
"If it's really not possible, you can have my chastity too. Then we can try dating afterward, like getting on the bus first and buying the ticket later!"
"Shut up! Get lost!" the mysterious voice roared.
The next moment, Lu Yibei was swallowed by light, as if some force was dragging her body. She felt herself rapidly ascending, passing through the "pitch-black cold pond," breaking through the surface of the water, and returning to reality.
"Swallow the witchs egg, and you will live."
Like an illusion, a ethereal voice drilled into Lu Yibei's ears. She suddenly woke up, gasping for air. As her chest heaved, blood mixed with internal organ fragments spewed from the massive, bloody, penetrating wound on her chest.
She struggled to stand up, looking at the strange stone egg in front of her, which occasionally flickered with crimson light.
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The mysterious voice sounded again in her ear. Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment. They? Were they those hairs?
The next moment, she suddenly felt as if something was staring at her. That gaze seemed to come from dark shadows, from the distant sky, from every inch of space within her sight, carrying intense malice, stirring up a sense of suppression and trembling from the depths of her soul.
Lu Yibei instantly realized that "they" were far more terrifying than the hairs. Without time to think, she gritted her teeth and stumbled towards the stone egg not far away.
She couldn't be caught by "them"!
I don't want to die!
To live, I...
"I! Will! Not! Be! Human! Anymore!"
Lu Yibei let out a shout with her last bit of strength, grabbed the witchs egg, and frantically stuffed it into her mouth.
The next moment, her eyes turned into a surging, churning sea of blood. In the sea of blood, countless human-shaped outlines emerged, extending arms with sharp claws, tearing at her body with malevolence.
As those blood-condensed hands swept over her, her body rapidly withered and decayed, her skin peeled away, her flesh rotted, and soon only a skeleton remained, a heart that had almost stopped beating, and a pair of eyes filled with pain and bloodshot.
Immediately after, even her bones shattered with a crisp sound.
The witchs egg floated before her heart, instantly disintegrating into blood-red rock needles the size of fingers. The end of each rock needle was carved with a female face.
Crimson light burst forth from them, permeated with strong negative emotions: anger, violence, sorrow, suspicion...
The rock needles pierced into her heart from different places, trembling restlessly, as if they wanted to crush her heart.
The pain of her physical destruction almost caused Lu Yibei's consciousness to collapse. In the instant before falling into a coma, she seemed to hear an ancient voice whispering in her ear.
"There is Zhong Mountain. There is a woman in green clothes, wherever she appears, there is a great drought, a thousand miles of scorched earth..."
What does that mean? Can't you speak in human language? I don't understand! Lu Yibei thought.
The next moment, her eyes ignited, bursting forth with a fiery, brutal force that rushed towards the witchs egg.
The two forces clashed and fought, emitting high-frequency screams that humans could not hear. In the process of their mutual conquest, the scarlet energy belonging to the witchs egg gradually fell into a disadvantage, but it was not annihilated. Instead, it went into Hibernation, reaching a subtle balance with that fiery, brutal force.
The disintegrated witchs egg re-condensed, forming the shape of half an egg. The other half had already merged with her heart, and fire flowed in the rock-like grooves on its surface.
Silence for a few seconds.
Soon, her heart began to beat again, emitting heavy, thunder-like sounds.
With each beat, a lava-like liquid spewed from her heart, instantly igniting the surrounding churning sea of blood. Under the calcination of the flames, the «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» blood condensed into dazzling fine lines, outlining complex contours in the air, forming a human shape, and finally regenerating blood and flesh.
...
In the underground boiler room.
A petite, naked girl was curled up, like an infant in the womb, suspended in mid-air.
Beneath her snow-white skin, firelight flickered in and out. Her slender, delicate limbs seemed to contain terrifying power. Her fiery red hair hung down from her smooth back, gently swaying without a breeze.
A black shadow emerged from the void, floating around her for a while. Like an illusion, a sigh drifted by, and the black shadow dissipated.
The girl slowly descended from mid-air, waking from a state of muddled consciousness, and opened her eyes.
In an instant, as if some fierce beast had awakened, terrifying psionic fluctuations suddenly spread from her tiny body, surging in all directions.
Her long hair fell, and as the tips touched the ground, the terrifying high temperature instantly evaporated the blood accumulated on the ground. Wisps of white smoke, like threads, drifted out from the concrete cracks.
"Gurgle—gurgle—!"
The water stored in the steam boiler began to boil, violently hitting the metal casing, making a drum-like sound.
The fire sprinklers on the ceiling were activated, and the water they sprayed vaporized instantly before it could even fall.
In the darkness, thick black hair scurried in all directions, but their escape speed was far slower than the spread of the high temperature. In an instant, they ignited, emitting a foul, burnt smell.
For a time, fire erupted in every corner of the underground boiler room.
...
The black hair fled in a panic.
The man confined by the black hair suddenly awoke under the assault of the high temperature, opening his eyes with a fierce, malevolent glint.
He knelt on the ground, growling through gritted teeth.
"Damn Mr. Rabbit, if I don't avenge this, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, a fiery, brutal psionic fluctuation hit him. He instantly felt as if the psionic energy within his body was about to be assimilated and burn along with it, causing him to freeze.
"What... what's going on? This psionic fluctuation..."
The man was completely bewildered, forgetting to flee for a moment.
Mr. Rabbit's witchs egg was found with his help, and he knew very well what kind of power slumbered within that witchs egg.
Even if Mr. Rabbit had succeeded at this moment, what she should be emitting would be bloody, cold, and brutal psionic fluctuations, and the intensity wouldn't be this high!
But...
What was going on with this scorching psionic fluctuation, like a volcanic eruption, carrying a destructive aura?
Did another Weird tale come while I was imprisoned and kill that damned Mr. Rabbit?
Was this a case of the hunter becoming the hunted, becoming the hunted, becoming the hunted?
Before the man could figure out what went wrong during Mr. Rabbit's advancement that caused such an anomaly, the hair around him suddenly exploded, and the psionic flames instantly left a charred mark on his body.
A sharp pain shot through his body, bringing him back to his senses. He immediately turned and fled.
Behind him, violent explosions erupted, and faintly, a young girl's wild laughter could be heard. Although the laughter was ethereal and pleasant, like a song, the man felt a chill run down his spine when he heard it.
"Hahaha—! Burn, burn! Let the great fire burn everything!"
What the heck? What's going on! Never mind, I'd better run!
The fire spread behind him. In a state of terror and panic, the man directly abandoned his body, letting the cicada swarm within him fly out, scattering and flying, searching for any passage or gap to leave this place.
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A few minutes later.
Not far from Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel.
On a manhole cover of a sewage well, three to five scorching hot cicadas crawled out from the cracks in the manhole cover.
Their pea-sized compound eyes reflected the fiercely burning resort hotel. As if startled, their bodies trembled, and then they did not linger for another moment. With a rustling chirping, they flapped their wings and quickly disappeared into the night.
