Free Web NovelAccompanied by the hum of a taxi engine, Lu Yibei arrived alone before the fence outside the unfinished building. He looked around and found a gap in the wire mesh. Stepping forward, he crouched down and squeezed through.
After entering, he paused slightly, turned back for a look, reached out, and touched the wire mesh on the fence behind him, then frowned.
The wire mesh erected to prevent outsiders from accidentally entering the construction site, although appearing heavily rusted, was actually much sturdier than it looked and was far from being corroded to the point of damage. The gap in the wire mesh was highly likely man-made.
Upon closer inspection, the edges of the man-made gap, which were curled inwards, were already showing rust, indicating it had been there for a long time.
But.
What would a normal person do coming to this ghost place when they had nothing better to do? Lu Yibei grumbled inwardly, but then reconsidered, thinking that he himself often went into unfinished buildings, so perhaps he wasn't qualified to criticize others.
Moreover, there were plenty of people in this world like He Liang and Yang Yi who wanted to court death, enjoyed courting death, and dared to court death.
Gathering his thoughts, Lu Yibei looked up at the shadowy unfinished building ahead, silently extended his Spiritual Sense to its maximum range, tightened his grip on the broken sword in his hand, and walked forward.
Although he had locked onto the position of the urban legend boy within this unfinished building through the thousand night barn owl, the area of this unfinished building was not small, and the framework of the entire twenty-plus-story building had already been completed.
To find the exact location of the urban legend boy, he would have to search slowly.
Inside the building, which had been "abandoned," there was no light and almost no sound, completely a dead building.
Walking in the stairwell, the soles of his shoes scraped against the rough concrete floor and gravel, making a rustling sound that echoed in the vast, empty environment, always making one feel as if something was moving in the dark.
Lu Yibei lightened his steps, kept close to the wall, and went up the stairwell, which had not yet had railings installed, carefully observing his surroundings and being vigilant for anything that might dart out of the shadows at any moment.
Inside the unfinished building, almost every floor had not yet had walls built. Apart from the towering stone pillars, it was completely empty. Some woven bags containing construction materials were scattered on the ground, swaying gently in the breeze.
Other than that, there were no obvious Spiritual Energy fluctuations present.
He continued to go up two more floors. The moment Lu Yibei stepped onto the fourth floor, he suddenly stopped.
He smelled a noticeable scent drifting through the air, the unique smell of ashes from burning incense and candles.
Following the direction of the smell, he saw several bowls full of white rice with chopsticks inserted, placed in the center of the empty floor. Beside them were several apples with incense and candles inserted, covered in dripping wax. The apples and white rice had already spoiled and rotted, seemingly having been placed there for a long time.
Had someone performed a simple memorial here?
Who was being memorialized?
Could it be that urban legend boy?
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, carefully retreating back into the stairwell and continuing to go upstairs.
As he moved forward, just as he reached the stairwell entrance, he suddenly took a step back again.
Standing straight at the stairwell entrance was a child!
However, he immediately let out a sigh of relief; it was just a child's mannequin wearing children's clothing.
But the mannequin was made very realistically. It was smiling slightly at Lu Yibei, its eyes seeming to look at him, and also seemingly looking behind him, or somewhere else entirely.
At this moment, he seemed to faintly hear whispering laughter coming from upstairs, as if mocking his momentary panic caused by the mannequin.
He pricked up his ears to listen, but found there was no sound.
“......”
Lu Yibei stood in place, pondered for a moment, and gently touched the baogang cang owl badge on his chest, sending a message to Du Sixian.
“Du Sixian, how is the situation on your side?”
After waiting for a few seconds, Du Sixian's reply came.
“The aftermath work here is finished; they were very cooperative.”
It's quite hard for ordinary people not to cooperate when they see those burly elder brothers from the Special Operations Team... Lu Yibei grumbled inwardly.
“Now, we are rushing towards your location and should arrive soon.”
“Okay, I understand.”
Hearing that the Special Operations Team's support was on the way, Lu Yibei felt much more at ease. Only then did he pick up his broken sword, bypass the mannequin, and continue heading upstairs.
As he walked forward in the dark and eerie stairwell, he soon noticed another strange thing: the Spiritual Energy fluctuation of the urban legend boy did not appear within the range of his Spiritual Sense detection.
The Night Watch's thousand night barn owl, except when damaged during pursuit, has almost never made a mistake in accuracy. This meant that the urban legend boy should be within this unfinished building.
And the range of his Spiritual Sense could detect the presence of Spiritual Energy fluctuations within at least seven or eight floors above and below.
But now, he had gone up five floors consecutively, yet hadn't detected even a trace of Spiritual Energy fluctuation. The situation was a bit subtle.
Could that urban legend boy be hiding on a higher floor?
Or, does it have some method to hide its Spiritual Energy fluctuations?
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, looking up. The gap in the stairwell, in the darkness, looked like a strange tunnel leading to another world.
With doubts, he continued to go upstairs. It wasn't until he was less than five floors from the top that a Spiritual Energy fluctuation suddenly entered the edge of his Spiritual Sense detection range.
It was the urban legend from earlier!
Although, that Spiritual Energy fluctuation was very weak, not even 0.1 rabbit.
However, Lu Yibei, who had recently had close contact with the urban legend boy, almost instantly recognized that the Spiritual Energy fluctuation that suddenly appeared within the Spiritual Sense detection range came from it.
It seems it has some special ability to hide Spiritual Energy fluctuations?
However, I finally found you!
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, his gaze sharp. He immediately quickened his pace and rushed upstairs, following the direction from which the Spiritual Energy fluctuation came.
In the darkness, Lu Yibei felt the wind rushing towards him, whistling in his ears.
With the exquisite muscle control techniques of the movement style accompanying the Taihe Gentleman Sword Illustration, he was like a swift feline with soft paw pads, speeding through the dark stairwell without making a sound.
It was as if he had merged into the darkness, indistinguishable from it.
About ten seconds later, he was approaching the floor from which the Spiritual Energy fluctuation was coming.
As soon as he emerged from the stairwell and reached the twentieth floor, seeing the scene on the empty platform, a chill immediately ran down his spine.
In the darkness, many dolls were piled up. Most of these dolls were in the shape of children, including children's mannequins and cloth dolls, varying in size, and all appeared to show signs of being deliberately damaged.
From a distance, they looked like a mountain of piled-up corpses.
Even more bizarrely, some of the dolls had their heads tilted, some were lying prostrate on the ground, some were leaning against the wall, but without exception, they were all facing the stairwell, their empty, lifeless eyes staring straight in the direction where Lu Yibei was.
Damn it, what kind of pervert would put a pile of this kind of creepy stuff in this ghost place?
If an ordinary person came here and couldn't check for danger with Spiritual Sense, they'd probably be scared half to death, wouldn't they? Lu Yibei cursed in his heart.
After a brief fright and confirming that those dolls had no Spiritual Energy fluctuations and were just ordinary dolls, he bypassed the dolls scattered on the ground and walked towards the direction from ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) which the Spiritual Energy fluctuation came.
Originally, in this unfinished building where only the framework was built and it was not yet completed, the only places to hide on each floor were the concrete load-bearing pillars standing in rows.
However, after a large number of dolls were piled up, the situation suddenly became complicated.
Limbs made of plastic, plaster, or fabric intersected and crisscrossed between the empty floors, dividing them into winding, narrow alleys. Walking through these alleys, almost every short distance, he would unexpectedly encounter a dilapidated doll that appeared abruptly, lying across the path.
This place seemed to have been built into a maze, or perhaps...
A perfect place for hide-and-seek? This thought suddenly flashed through Lu Yibei's mind, and his steps followed suit.
He suddenly realized a problem: the Spiritual Energy fluctuation from the urban legend boy that he was tracking had been staying in a place he couldn't see for a long time without moving.
Could it be...
It deliberately led me here?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei's heart tightened as if it had been squeezed, and he subconsciously gripped the broken sword in his hand.
Just then, his eyes suddenly felt a strong burning pain. Almost instantly, he pulled out the miscellaneous talismans he had recently collected from his pocket and scattered them generously around him.
Immediately after, the darkness seemed to come alive, extending from the broken limbs of the surrounding dolls and surrounding him. His vision instantly plunged into darkness.
At the same time, a premonition flashed through Lu Yibei's mind.
【They are behind me, quietly watching me】
Behind? They? There are other urban legend or Psychic hiding in this unfinished building!
When did they appear, and why didn't my Spiritual Sense detect them? Lu Yibei thought in horror.
It was pitch black all around, with no light visible, as if a huge black curtain covering the sky and moon had suddenly descended, plunging the world into eternal night.
In the darkness, nothing could be seen.
Lu Yibei, who had temporarily lost his vision and Spiritual Sense detection ability, stood in place and slowly squatted down. He gripped the broken sword in one hand and placed the other hand on his guitar bag, listening intently to the sounds around him.
However, gusts of chaotic strong winds, blowing from who knows where, whistled through the gaps between the puppets, making a "woo woo woo" sound like a steam whistle, disturbing his hearing.
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The two guys lurking in the dark quietly watched Lu Yibei. He could even feel the two unknown sources of malicious gazes roaming back and forth on him, but they just watched and didn't take any action, perhaps hesitant because of the talismans around him or something else.
Getting used to light and then suddenly losing sight can make people very uneasy, which is also a normal phenomenon.
However, seeing that the two unknown guys were slow to act, Lu Yibei slowly calmed down after overcoming his initial unease, and then slowly squatted down, simply sitting on the ground.
Although his situation was very bad now, he couldn't see anything, didn't know the surrounding situation, and didn't know who the enemy was.
But as long as the enemy was slow to act and dragged it out, it wasn't a bad thing for him at the moment.
Fortunately, I prepared a backup plan in advance!
The muscular Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team are already on their way for reinforcement and should arrive soon. Lu Yibei thought.
Just like that, Lu Yibei and the two enemies he couldn't see fell into a brief stalemate. Lu Yibei could feel that the two gazes were gradually becoming anxious.
And Lu Yibei, while holding the mentality of staying still if the enemy doesn't move, self-comfortingly thought that the Special Operations Team would arrive soon to support him, but as time passed, sweat slowly appeared on his palms.
After about ten minutes, the members of the Special Operations Team had not yet arrived, but Lu Yibei's two invisible enemies couldn't hold back.
The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, and the next moment, a premonition flashed through Lu Yibei's mind.
【Its hand reached from behind and clamped my neck】
Just as the premonition flashed through Lu Yibei's mind, in the impenetrable darkness, a pale, withered arm, like a dried corpse's, appeared as if generated from thin air in the gaps of the puppet's broken limbs, shooting towards the back of his neck.
"Whoosh!"
Amidst the booming sound of talismans being detonated, the sharp whistle of the arm's surprise attack and the sound of the wind raised by Lu Yibei turning and swinging his sword sounded one after another, with a very short interval, almost overlapping into one sound.
The next moment, a muffled groan from Lu Yibei sounded in the darkness.
At the moment of drawing his sword, although he successfully hit the attacking arm, due to a moment of hesitation, he did not completely neutralize the enemy's attack, only deflecting the trajectory of the attack, causing the hand that should have gripped his throat to land on his chest.
That blow was fast and heavy. Even though he was prepared and used Spiritual Energy to wrap and move his muscles for defense, a sharp pain came from his chest, and he was still sent flying, with the crisp sound of puppets breaking continuously in his ears, until he hit a load-bearing pillar and stabilized himself.
"Cough cough cough!"
Lu Yibei coughed violently, a sweet, metallic taste filling his mouth, and a surge of thoughts welled up in his heart.
The enemy is in the extreme dark, as dark as Jacob's crotch, and I am in the extreme light, exposed like a Little Girl with no clothes on. How can I fight this ♦?
Seemingly sensing that the attack had taken effect, before Lu Yibei could adjust his state, he felt the sound of wind Attack.
In the darkness, an arm emerged from the ground, lifted from bottom to top, and slammed into his opened jaw.
"Whoosh!"
Terrifying power suddenly erupted.
【Its hand came from below and shattered my jawbone】
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The premonition flashed through his mind. This time, Lu Yibei didn't hesitate. Without thinking, he took a step back and fiercely drew an arc towards the ground with the broken sword in his hand.
"Splish!"
The sound of flesh being torn by the blade and a strong foul smell sounded almost simultaneously. A muffled groan of pain came from a distance, and Lu Yibei's heart rejoiced.
Amidst the chaotic wind, although the muffled groan was very faint, he did indeed hear it.
Hit it!
From the looks of it, there seems to be a way to deal with it?
Hmm, let's try. I can do it! Lu Yibei thought.
The next moment, he suddenly took a big step and ran wildly in the direction from which the faint muffled groan came, while premonitions constantly flashed through his mind.
【Its hand came from the left and hit my shoulder】
"Splish!"
Lu Yibei slashed out with his sword, and the muffled sound of flesh breaking sounded again. A sticky liquid with a bloody smell like ice water splashed on his face, but he didn't stop for a moment, distinguishing the direction of the painful moan while continuing to run forward.
【Its hand came from above and hit my head】
"Clang!"
Responding to the attack from above, the sword movement was relatively complex. Lu Yibei's blade was a moment slower and collided with a hard part of the pale arm, making a clear sound.
【Its hand came from the lower left...】
"Clang!"
【Its hand...】
"Splish!"
...
Several successful defenses against the enemy's attacks gave Lu Yibei great confidence and also allowed him to slightly grasp some of the enemy's attack patterns. Coupled with his gradual adaptation to the darkness before him, his subsequent defenses or dodges against attacks gradually became skillful.
In the next few minutes, he was like a wild beast completely disregarding the rules, crashing around in the maze built of puppets, adding to the endless trash talk, even subtly causing the enemy's attack rhythm to become somewhat flustered.
"What kind of attack is this? Is this even a urban legend? It's so soft, like toilet paper!"
"No, I need to apologize for what I just said. Your attack isn't like toilet paper, it's a puddle of diarrhea!"
As Lu Yibei's words fell, he was met with a storm of fierce attacks.
However, the storm was chaotic and without any pattern.
"They're broken! He's anxious, he's anxious! Didn't expect that, did you? Your young master here has a cheat code!"
"Impossible..." A light exclamation full of surprise was carried by the wind, followed by a quick closing of the mouth, as if realizing that speaking would reveal their position.
The moment the enemy's words fell, Lu Yibei suddenly stopped, raised his hands in a straight line, gripped the long sword tightly in his left hand, and condensed a fist-sized crimson fire ball in his right palm in the space of a breath.
"Red Flame Flash..."
As the final incantation softly fell, the Red Flame Flash, amplified by more than twenty times, shot out to his right. At the same time, he himself leaped into the air, using the force to fly to the left.
"Taihe Gentleman Sword · Jun Tiansou Youth Version!"
Accompanied by a low roar, in the blink of an eye, sword energy became chaotic.
The whistling wind by his ears stopped abruptly, falling into silence.
"Thump thump thump!"
In the silence, there was a light sound like a rolling ball.
Immediately, the darkness scattered like a piece of cloth cut by a sharp blade, and Lu Yibei's vision gradually returned to light.
When the curtain of darkness was torn apart, what was revealed was not an exquisite stage setting, but a tragic blood red.
An ugly head rolled in a pool of blood, finally stopping, its dull eyes staring at the ceiling. A headless body draped in a black robe lay not far away.
Beneath countless splatters of blood, the stone pillars, floor, and the maze built of puppets were all beyond recognition.
Lu Yibei stood in place. On one side were the chaotic gullies plowed by his sword, and on the other were the raging flames caused by the ignited puppets.
Looking down, the path he had crashed through was made up of several not-so-regular circles, and his position was roughly on a straight line connecting the intersections of those circles.
Yes, he wasn't just running around randomly, but was constantly determining the enemy's position through their muffled groans.
However, without that surprised exclamation, it might have taken him a long time to find the enemy.
In a sense of emptiness brought by the intense consumption of Spiritual Energy, Lu Yibei withdrew his thoughts, looked at the body lying on the ground, and frowned.
Why is it a black-robed monster instead of the urban legend male child?
Is it an accomplice?
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking, a burst of dense gunfire and explosions suddenly came from downstairs, followed by the shouts of the Special Operations Team Elder brothers.
"Thump thump thump!"
"Boom!"
"Catch it, catch it!"
"Brothers, don't let it escape!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Is there one more fish that slipped through the net? Is it that urban legend male child?
(emmm, I got a bit carried away writing today and almost went over the limit. Seeing that time is almost up, I can only stop...)
