Free Web NovelIn the morning, inside the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration.
In a pure white room, the smell of disinfectant mixed with blood wafted, and waves of heavy metal rock music echoed.
An Qing stood in front of the silver dissecting table, the corner of her mouth holding a lady's cigarette slightly turned up, revealing a smile, as if a lady who had remembered her lover, if she hadn't been injured and holding a chainsaw, and if there wasn't a corpse with a cut skull in front of her.
The dissecting room door opened, and someone pushed the door open and entered, standing behind her.
"How is it? Did you find anything?"
An Qing put down the bloody chainsaw in her hand, turned around to look at Bai Kai, and pouted, saying, "It's a Gancigu modified with the ability of Spirit Marks. The type of Spirit Mark should be related to the Five Plague Gods, but there are many people with this method in the Zhuang and Miao inhabited areas, making it difficult to determine their origin."
"There are still too few samples. If I could get a few more, I might be able to track down the murderer."
As she spoke, she picked up the cup filled with crimson liquid in front of the dissecting table, took a small sip, and her lips were stained a captivating scarlet.
"However, as you know, this kind of attack has happened before, and it's very likely they are transient criminals, so the possibility of them committing another crime is not high."
"I hope so," Bai Kai said calmly.
As he spoke, he looked at the corpse on the dissecting table that had been dismembered, and then looked at the drink in An Qing's cup, frowning slightly with a look of discomfort.
Drinking strawberry special juice in the dissecting room? How could she drink that! A man who ate instant noodles at a crime scene thought so.
Huacheng Institute of Technology, Liberal Arts Building.
With the final exam month approaching, the Teachers of various professional courses had already finished teaching this semester's classes, and the remaining one or two classes had almost all become self-study.
In such a situation, the Teachers turned a blind eye, and many people also chose to let loose. The students who should have filled the entire classroom seemed to have evaporated, with half missing.
Yang Yi and his small group were among the "evaporated" part of the people.
Lu Yibei did not choose to go along with them, but instead took advantage of this rare opportunity to diligently review in the classroom.
Although she had experienced many unbelievable things in the past three or four months, she had always been thinking about getting a degree certificate, going home to open a bar, and writing feel-good articles to make money.
A long class, nearly two hours, passed in the blink of an eye.
When the class dismissal bell rang, Lu Yibei got up, stretched, and took out her phone to send a message to Du Sixian.
Lu Yibei: "Comrade, how is the mission progressing?"
In less than a minute, she received a reply.
Du Sixian: "Don't worry! I've found the people you mentioned, and I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"
"......"
Lu Yibei looked at the determined aura subtly revealed in Du Sixian's message, and slightly frowned.
So confident? she muttered to herself, put away her phone, and slowly walked towards the library, wanting to continue reviewing for a while.
However.
Just after she sat down in the library, spread out her textbooks and materials, and read for less than twenty minutes, Comrade Du Sixian sent a good report.
Du Sixian: "It's done. Although I haven't asked them about the process of the urban legend game yet, they've invited me to their pre-final exam party tonight! I heard there's a test of courage game at the party."
Lu Yibei, "......"
Having a party before the exam is one thing, but why do they have to play a test of courage game?
Don't know, try it and you'll die?
Tsk, these college students nowadays! To avoid exams, they'll really do anything!
Lu Yibei thought, picked up her phone, and replied to Du Sixian.
Lu Yibei: "That fast? 【Black person question mark face】 How did you do it?"
Du Sixian: "It was simple! When I found them, they were taking pictures with a sports car parked at the entrance of the campus pedestrian street. I went up and chatted for a couple of sentences, and it was done."
Lu Yibei: "That simple? What did you say to them?"
Du Sixian: "I said, 'Excuse me, could you move? I need to move my car.'"
"......"
After reading Du Sixian's reply, Lu Yibei's eyebrow twitched, and her hands subconsciously clenched into fists, almost crushing her phone.
Tsk, is this the ugly face of the rich?
Meeting this kind of person...
Is there any other choice besides being friends with her? Lu Yibei thought.
......
After leaving school, Lu Yibei went to the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, holed up in her office, processing documents while reviewing for the exam.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, she got up from her seat, stretched her body, and then walked towards the Special Operations Team's training room.
After Bai Kai learned that Lu Yibei was starting to investigate He Liang's cause of death, requested the relevant files, and inquired about the situation with the Special Operations Team members who participated in the operation, he determined that the danger level was not high, and decided to let her complete the investigation independently.
In Bai Kai's opinion, Lu Yibei was new to the Night Watch and temporarily taking on the work of a main Staff. She still had a long way to go, and perhaps one day she would fill the vacant position in the Hua City Si Ye Hui. It was also good to find some easy targets to practice on.
And in order to successfully complete the investigation, it was very necessary to have a good relationship with the members of the Special Operations Team.
Isn't it just about getting along well with the musclebound Elder brothers?
What's so difficult about that?
Who isn't a musclebound man...
In front of the Special Operations Team training room, Lu Yibei muttered to herself. As soon as she pushed open the door, she froze in place.
Inside the training room, a dozen subwoofers in various corners of the vast space generated waves of tangible sound, carrying a certain blood-boiling melody that surged forward.
Immediately after, she saw, in the spacious training room, those burly men with bulging muscles, almost naked.
"What the ♦... is this?"
Lu Yibei was dumbfounded. The style of the Special Operations Team training room was completely different from the training ground Jiang Li took her to last time.
Under the slightly yellow light, the muscular men, wearing only shorts and tank tops, were exercising enthusiastically.
Bench press, rope swinging, weighted squats, boxing, wrestling, free combat...
This place was full of things that pure men loved the most: Smith machines, octagonal cages, and countless barbells of all sizes... everything was available.
Even those barbells didn't have small weight options; the minimum weight started at 20KG.
The muscular men were jumping, roaring, exercising together with the dynamic rhythm.
Muscles and sweat converged into a torrent, surrounding the weak, pitiful, and helpless Lu Yibei, emitting waves of dull roars at her—"You, too, dare to call yourself a musclebound man?"
Lu Yibei, "......" Sorry, I'm not worthy.
"Hmph hmph ah——!"
From afar, a scream came. Lu Yibei looked in the direction of the sound and saw in the octagonal cage, two muscular, glistening men bear-hugging on the ground, their limbs intertwined. Lu Yibei's heart tightened.
Mama mia, I shouldn't have listened to Shui Ge and come to this ghost place?
He likes it, but that doesn't mean I like it!
Can't afford to provoke them, leaving, leaving.
Lu Yibei, like a little white rabbit that had fallen into a brown bear's den, saw this scene and didn't want to stay for a moment. She turned around to slip away. Just then, a familiar voice came from behind her.
"Staff Lu? Where are you going?"
Lu Yibei turned around and saw the muscular man she had seen at the textile factory yesterday. Immediately after, just as she was about to say she had come to the wrong place, the muscular man interrupted her.
"Oh, I remember now. Staff Bai said you wanted to be friends with us and would come over to check it out when you had time," the muscular man said with a simple and honest smile. "By the way, my name is Qi Dong. Nice to meet you!"
As he spoke, he extended his hand towards Lu Yibei.
"......"
Why do I feel like he said 'wrestling friends'? Lu Yibei extended her hand, like a dragonfly skimming the water, shook Qi Dong's hand for a moment, and quickly pulled it back.
Seeing that Lu Yibei hadn't spoken for a long time, Qi Dong pondered for a while, then suddenly grinned, grabbed a barbell with fifty-kilogram plates hanging on it with one hand, and enthusiastically handed it to Lu Yibei.
"Since you're here, I don't have much to entertain you with. How about I just take you through twenty sets of deadlifts? I'm telling you, deadlifts are the best!"
Lu Yibei, "???"
What the heck is the best!
How could someone entertain guests with deadlifts? And 100KG weighted deadlifts...
If you want me dead, just say so!
Lu Yibei muttered to herself. Before she could resist, Qi Dong reached out and put the barbell in her hand, then turned around, picked up a 200KG barbell from the side, and started doing deadlifts on his own.
"Come on, Staff Lu, follow my movements... three, two, one, go!"
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"Again, be careful to protect your waist! Three, two, one, go!"
Lu Yibei frowned deeply, looking down at the barbell that made her arms ache, then looking at Qi Dong's large hands, full of calluses, like cattail fans...
With a pair of hands like that, one slap could kill a Strange Tale!
If it were me, I'd probably be lying on the ground for a long time, right?
Lu Yibei thought nervously, bracing herself to try, imitating Qi Dong's movements, and successfully completed a deadlift.
...
Hmm? It doesn't seem that hard?
Is it because her body was strengthened by the Spirit Mark?
Lu Yibei's eyebrows raised slightly, and she suddenly felt a little smug.
It looks like I can barely be considered a tough guy!
And so...
Just like that, she followed Qi Dong and trained in the training room of the Special Operations Team for an entire afternoon.
It wasn't until the sky gradually darkened that she secretly left the training room, took a taxi out of Peony Street, found a remote and deserted place, and interrupted the Strange Tale transformation process.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but after that high-intensity workout, she actually felt that when interrupting the Strange Tale transformation, after the Spiritual Energy circulated throughout her body, her limbs were slightly more agile.
This should be what the Great Serpent God's knowledge mentioned: strengthening the physical body helps to make up for deficiencies?
Was it because of this that Shui Ge asked me to go to the Special Operations Team's training room? Lu Yibei thought.
----
Eight o'clock in the evening.
Lu Yibei went to the Special Operations Team cafeteria for a workout meal, and shortly after returning to the office, she received a text message from Du Sixian.
Automatically filtering out the content about Du Sixian taking Yang Yi and others on an afternoon of luxurious spending, she quickly extracted the key information from the message.
Jinsha Hotel... Presidential Suite... Strange Tale game starts at half past ten...
Lu Yibei silently repeated the key information, then glanced at the time and quietly dialed the Special Operations Team's number.
"Hello? Elder brother Qi? Yes, I'm Lu Yibei. There's an operation later, could I trouble you to bring the brothers and come with me?"
"Yes, it's the same Strange Tale that killed He Liang last time! Equipment?"
The strong men of the Special Operations Team were all straightforward, hot-blooded tough guys; as long as you could show enough strength, you could earn their respect and rapidly increase their favorability.
Therefore, after some fitness, Lu Yibei only used three "small red bottles for healing" that she experimented with while practicing Alchemy and five spicy strips to quickly become friends with Qi Dong.
Naturally, she triggered the hidden plot—【Friendship of Tough Guy Qi Dong ♦】, and politely declined the invitation to participate in combat wrestling practice, which would have turned friendship into a wrestling bond, adding the phrase "I have something else to do, next time for sure!"
Although she finally triggered a hidden plot for favorability, she could do without this strange kind of strategy!
...
Hearing the Elder brother from the Special Operations Team ask if she needed a set of equipment prepared for her, Lu Yibei pondered for two seconds and said, "Then I'll trouble Elder brother!"
Anyway, it's fleecing the Night Watch's wool; it's a waste not to take it.
What's more, in the current situation where it was inconvenient to fully use her Spiritual Energy, Lu Yibei also wanted to enjoy the exhilarating feeling of mowing down urban legend with an automatic rifle.
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On the other side.
Shortly after night fell, inside a mall near Hua City's University City that had just closed.
As the security guard locked the door and left, and the last light was turned off, the entire mall suddenly plunged into darkness and silence. The winding corridors were full of shadows, and the closed shop doors seemed to hide ghosts.
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"Click—click—!"
A faint clicking sound echoed in the darkness, like something moving stiff joints. Along with this sound, the door of a men's clothing store suddenly opened with a creak, and several white figures quickly darted out.
They were several mannequins without facial features or clothes.
They ran through the mall in strange postures, and soon arrived before the miniature fountain in the center of the atrium. Just then, a low growl suddenly came from the darkness.
"Stop! You are surrounded! We officially inform you now that this place has been occupied by us through the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. You either join us or become our late-night snack tonight!"
"Roar, roar, roar—!"
The Mannequin Strange Tale let out low growls from its chest, looking around, and soon saw dense, crimson eyes appearing from all directions.
Immediately following, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, a group of short-statured urban legend walked out from the darkness.
Flowing white dresses, enormous Eyeballs, sharp False Teeth, and Maotuan (Hairball) whose body had expanded several times, the newcomers were precisely the urban legend from Lu Yibei's home.
And behind them, closely followed many weak urban legend from unranked to D- rank: hairy cockroach-rats, cats with dog heads, hands hidden under the bed, little elves stealing change... A dense, large mass, looking out, their number was no less than a hundred.
Facing such a large number of enemies, and feeling the weak but numerous Spiritual Energy fluctuations, the Mannequin Strange Tale stubbornly persisted for a few seconds, then knelt on one knee towards the four Little Freaks leading the group and lowered its head.
Seeing this, the four Little Freaks from Lu Yibei's home quickly combined into a human shape and nodded towards the Mannequin Strange Tale, "Very good, welcome to join the big family of our 【Messengers of Love and Peace · Models of Morality and Conscience · Demoness Warrior Group of Handsome Guys and Beautiful Girls】!"
"Now I announce that following the Jingyi Apartment Complex, the Normal University Affiliated Primary School Cafeteria, and the Li Gong University Family Area Vegetable Market, our territory has expanded to the Jialele Mall! This is a great victory!"
"Tomorrow at the same time, everyone will gather next to the Normal University Affiliated Primary School Canteen, under the third manhole cover. We will advance together towards the University of Finance and Economics' underground parking lot!"
"Ohhhh—!"
"¥#%@&*¥—!"
Amidst a series of strange Strange Tale cheers that no human could understand, the Little Freaks gathered in the mall dispersed in a rush and quickly disappeared.
Meanwhile, on the top floor of the mall, a pair of eyes was staring at the scene unfolding downstairs.
----
Gu Qianqian quietly watched the Little Freaks from Lu Yibei's home occupy the mall by launching the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, her small mouth pouting, and her eyebrows twisted into a knot.
"System, is this the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons? Why do I feel... it's not as dangerous as you said?"
system, "..."
How would I know that the Disaster's subordinates would be so lacking in presence?
A Night Parade of One Hundred Demons on such a small scale, in all my ♦ lives, this is the first time I've seen one.
The marching distance didn't even exceed a hundred meters. Was it necessary to use the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons for such a distance? A slightly stronger Strange Tale could completely cover this area just by releasing their Spiritual Energy fluctuations, okay?
The system grumbled inwardly, cleared its throat, and said, "Gu Qianqian, this ultra-ultra-ultra-ultra-small-scale Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is just an exception, it's not usually like this."
"If we were to make a comparison, theirs can only be considered a group fight among primary school students, while a typical Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is at least a modern weapon warfare on a scale of ten thousand people or more."
"..." Gu Qianqian pondered for two seconds and said, "So, does that mean Lu Yibei is actually the leader of primary school students? Then why did you say I couldn't beat her?"
"I'm super good at beating primary school students!"
Gu Qianqian said, swinging her fists twice with full momentum.
The system spat disdainfully, "Tch! You were tricked by a third-grader into beating up a fifth-grader, and you still have the nerve to talk about such a thing? I'm embarrassed for you!"
"I didn't want to go originally, but he gave too much," Gu Qianqian said weakly.
"Only ♦ twenty yuan!" The system was slightly angry, then calmed itself down and said, "Forget it, Gu Qianqian, I don't have time to dig up old scores with you here. Hurry up and proceed according to the plan!" fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
As long as these guys become stronger and the range of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons becomes larger, the Disaster will be dragged down sooner or later! the system thought.
"Hmm..." Gu Qianqian pondered for a moment and said, "Okay!"
After speaking, she put on the Rouge Transformation · Incantation-Stabilized Mask, leaped up from her hiding place, flew down from the fourth floor, and landed steadily in front of the Little Freaks who were preparing to leave.
"Do you... desire power?" Gu Qianqian said, lowering her voice.
...
After two seconds of silence, the Little Freaks all said in unison, "No!"
Following that was a flurry of responses.
"I desire freedom!"
"I desire Sakurajima Mai!"
"I desire Nako rua!"
...
Gu Qianqian, "???"
"Huh? How is this different from what you said would happen?"
system, "..." How would I know that even the Little Freaks raised by the Disaster are just like her?
