Free Web NovelHearing the gunshots downstairs, Lu Yibei didn't rush to leave. Instead, he went to the corpse whose head he had cut off, held his hands together, and stabbed the chest several times. Only after confirming there was no possibility of resurrection did he go downstairs.
When he arrived downstairs, he saw from a distance the muscular Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team holding automatic rifles, suppressing a figure in a black robe in the distance.
These mighty and strong men looked like actors who had run out of action movies like "The Expendables" or "First Blood," and their style was clearly different from the enemy.
They looked like they were saying, "If you don't come back with us to eat in jail, then please go eat with the whole village!" They looked particularly reliable.
Lu Yibei even felt that if it weren't for the proximity to the urban area, making it inconvenient to use large-scale weapons, they might even bring in mortars or tanks.
Ancestor would be seriously injured under the attack of guns and cannons, let alone that black-robed urban legend whose Spiritual Energy fluctuations were far less than his?
Although the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team were less than one-thousandth the number of troops that besieged Qingji back then.
However, their weapons were much more sophisticated than those of the ragtag army under the warlords of the last century, and the bullets were specially made for urban legend and Psychic.
Therefore, seeing such a scene, Lu Yibei felt that there was no need for him to go up and help, so he waved his arms and started cheering them on.
"Power pulls mountains, spirit covers the world; the time is not right, and Zhui does not go..."
"Exploring the tiger's den, entering the dragon's palace; looking up to the sky and exhaling, turning into a white rainbow..."
"Comrades, keep going! Although the Soviet Union is vast, there is no retreat. Behind us is Moscow..."
Du Sixian, who had walked up, felt more and more that something was wrong the more she listened, and finally couldn't help but interrupt, "Staff Lu, are you cheering them on, or cursing them?"
Lu Yibei frowned and looked at Du Sixian, asking doubtfully, "How could that be? Aren't these classic mobilization speeches?"
"But..." Du Sixian looked at Lu Yibei with a strange expression and said, "Everyone who was mobilized by these speeches died."
Lu Yibei pondered for two seconds, cupping his chin with one hand, and nodded, saying, "Thinking about it carefully, it seems that's really the case? However..."
He paused, then said seriously, "I can't think of any other words right now. I can't just wish the Elder brothers a happy New Year in advance, can I?"
Du Sixian, "..." Can't you just not say anything?
"Thump thump—thump thump thump—!"
After a series of gunshots, the urban legend in the black robe was quickly forced into a corner.
Although he had some kind of Spiritual Energy ability that could hide Spiritual Energy fluctuations and cause people to lose their vision, it seemed unable to affect multiple targets simultaneously.
At this time, the tacit understanding among the members of the Special Operations Team and the results of their usual training were fully demonstrated.
Whenever a member was affected by the Spiritual Energy ability and lost vision, he would stop instantly, while other members would quickly fill his place and surround him for protection.
The whole process was smooth and seamless, showing no signs of awkwardness, like a precise machine with perfectly interlocking gears.
A machine for hunting urban legend.
Before long, the guy who had been stubbornly resisting was riddled with bullets, collapsing on the ground like a broken rag.
Seeing this, Qi Dong raised a hand and made a fist, signaling his team members to stop. The gunshots ceased instantly, and then he turned around, looked at Lu Yibei, and showed a smile.
His expression seemed to say to Lu Yibei, "Staff Lu, please? It's your turn."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei, who had been feeling cheerful and relaxed, suddenly became serious.
According to the rules of the Night Watch, if the Spiritual Energy fluctuations of a Psychic or urban legend exceed a certain level, confirming whether the urban legend or Psychic is dead is something that the main staff must do.
Individuals with stronger Spiritual Energy fluctuations more or less possess some unpredictable and strange abilities. It is not impossible for harmful substances to dissipate or for them to suddenly come back to life after death.
Although the members of the Special Operations Team, working in groups with powerful equipment and tacit cooperation, had no problem dealing with some urban legend and Psychic.
However, most of them were, after all, just Psychic with no rank, or even just ordinary people with high physical strength. If they were injured by a Spiritual Energy ability, the death rate would be extremely high.
And now, there were no main staff present, only acting staff, so the task of confirming death naturally fell on Lu Yibei.
Triple salary plus extra allowance, it really isn't that easy to earn!
Lu Yibei grumbled inwardly, walked up to Qi Dong, and said seriously, "Elder brother, I can check the body, but... I'm not sure I can keep the body intact. That should be fine, right?"
"No, no problem." Qi Dong didn't immediately understand what Lu Yibei meant and answered blankly.
The Night Watch also had no explicit rule stating that the body must be kept intact.
But isn't he already dead? Qi Dong thought, confused.
The next moment, his peripheral vision caught sight of a red fireball the size of a washbasin appearing in Lu Yibei's hand beside him, whistling towards the body on the ground.
"Bang—!" As soon as the fireball exploded on the body, before the firelight had dissipated, ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) two streams of light, one green and one red, followed closely.
Du Sixian and the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team watched with twitching mouths as Lu Yibei, as if showing off his skills, cast seven or eight Spells in a row, until the body on the ground was completely unrecognizable and could not be distinguished as anything, only then did he step forward and squat down.
After a careful examination, Lu Yibei turned his head and said seriously to everyone behind him, "Confirmed, completely dead!"
The members of the Special Operations Team looked at Lu Yibei's expressionless face, then at the body on the ground that had almost turned into charcoal, and were speechless for a moment.
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This Staff Lu looks delicate, but unexpectedly, he is so ruthless.
Qi Dong, "..."
When you said you weren't sure you could keep the body intact, you actually didn't intend to keep it intact, right?
When it's like ♦this♦, confirming whether it's dead is actually unnecessary.
Du Sixian, "..."
Some of the Spells he used, why are they so similar to what I learned from the dream?
Could it be that he also entered that dream?
Should I find a chance to ask him?
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While everyone was silent, Lu Yibei squatted in front of the charred corpse, holding a steel skewer he picked up from the ground. Like a naughty child squatting under a tree poking an ant nest, he poked and prodded for a while, found the core of its urban legend body, and then unconsciously frowned.
It was a bluish-black oval object, an organization like an insect's exoskeleton. When the steel skewer poked it, it made a crisp sound similar to glass crystals.
Combining the special abilities this black-robed urban legend had shown before, Lu Yibei thought for a while and immediately confirmed that his Spirit Mark type was related to Night Demons.
This Night Demon is not that Night Demon.
Night Demons usually refer to the descendants of Lilith, the wife of Adam, in legends, but the urban legend in front of him was a local product.
In fact, situations where two urban legend have the same or similar names due to translation issues happen from time to time.
Over time, as more people get confused, it's even possible for the Powers of two urban legend to merge.
According to the knowledge Lu Yibei interpreted from the memories of the Great Serpent God, this type of Night Demon is usually the deified existence of natural disasters that caused the daytime to become dark, caused by sandstorms or earthquakes in ancient times.
The Book of Han says: "Night Demons, clouds and wind rise together and become dark, so they have the same image as ordinary wind."
The Book of Sui · Treatise on the Five Elements (Part 2) says: "Great wind, daytime becomes dark, heaven and earth are dim. Close to Night Demons."
However, with the development of modern technology, natural disasters have been explained, and coupled with the dilution of their Powers by Lilith's descendants with the same name, very few people believe in their existence now, so their numbers and strength have significantly declined.
According to the memory fragments of the Great Serpent God, the Night Demons it encountered could do much more than just make one or two people lose their sight. With a little effort, they could even instantly turn half of Hua City from day to night.
That could already be considered combat power directly approaching Calamity level, not this kind of weakling that can be dealt with by one or two people.
The appearance of this rare urban legend in Hua City was already somewhat concerning, but what made Lu Yibei even more concerned was that in Jiang Li's urban legend catalog, he did not find any similar urban legend appearing.
Was it awakened by someone and newly born, or did it come from another place?
Lu Yibei thought, continuing to prod the charred corpse on the ground. Immediately after, with a series of "rustling" sounds, two pure white circular objects suddenly rolled off the corpse and fell at his feet.
"This is..."
Looking at the two circular objects with a somewhat familiar shape, Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, picked them up, and spread them in his palm. After a careful examination, he immediately frowned.
"Isn't this..."
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The two chips in his hand, except for having a value of "1" and being white, were almost identical in shape to the chips he found on Qin Dalin.
And Jiang Li had told him that these chips were very dangerous!
What the hell is going on here?
So many Spells were unleashed, yet they didn't burn these chips. What material are they made of?
Could it be that some mysterious big shot from a higher dimension, without my knowledge, added the setting of dropping "gold coins" when killing urban legend to this world? Lu Yibei thought.
He had always felt that the setting of monsters dropping currency in those RPG games was somewhat unreasonable.
Whether it was gold, silver, or currency made of other metals, they could still remain intact after being bombarded by the game character's skills? That's just ridiculous!
After complaining a few times, he weighed the chips in his hand and quietly put them into his pocket.
I'll just throw them in Jiang Li's office later. Since she knows the origin of these chips, I'll let her handle it when she comes back. Lu Yibei thought.
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A few minutes later.
Lu Yibei, Du Sixian, and the members of the Special Operations Team came together to the floor of the unfinished building where the dolls were piled up, to investigate the scene.
The scene, scattered with the severed limbs and broken arms of dolls, still gave off a sinister aura even when illuminated by flashlights.
The person whose head Lu Yibei had cut off was unexpectedly not a Strange Tale, but a Psychic with a Tree Elf Spirit Mark.
The Tree Elf Spirit Mark is a common C-level Spirit Mark. Although it doesn't have the side effect of reducing intelligence like the Lost Spirit Mark, it has a significant impact on appearance.
Judging from his thin and tall body, and his skin being rough like tree bark, it was easy to make a judgment. These characteristics would basically not disappear before he completed the Spirit Mark defect and advanced his Spirit Mark.
However...
In the urban legend directory, there didn't seem to be any Psychic with this kind of Spirit Mark.
In other words, this Psychic also came from out of town?
The Night Demon's ability causes blindness, and the Tree Elf Spirit Mark Psychic uses limb proliferation ability to attack silently in the dark. The division of labor is clear, and there seems to be coordination.
It's a good thing I wasn't wounded when I was ambushed in the dark just now. This thing's hands seem to be poisonous.
Lu Yibei muttered to himself, then patiently searched the corpse of the Tree Elf Psychic for a while, and quickly found a Strange Tale core of unknown origin, and also found that strange chip.
One yellow chip with a value of "5", and two white chips with a value of "1", a total of three.
There really are some? And even more than the Strange Tale just now... Lu Yibei muttered to himself while playing with the chips in his hand. Just then, Du Sixian's call suddenly came from a distance.
"Come and look! I found the Strange Tale that killed He Liang!"
"But..."
But what? Lu Yibei frowned and followed the direction of Du Sixian's voice, and saw an unexpected scene.
That Strange Tale boy was dead, his chest was hollowed out with a hideous hole, the edge of the wound was greenish, and some places had even grown a few tender sprouts, which was a typical poisoning phenomenon caused by Tree Elf toxin.
It seems that he was likely killed by the combined efforts of that Strange Tale and a Psychic.
According to the relevant records in the si ye shu, if a target affected by the toxin does not receive timely treatment, they will quickly turn into a twisted tree. The Strange Tale boy's corpse was already developing in that direction.
In fact, when Lu Yibei saw the content related to the Tree Elf at that time, he also asked Jiang Li why such a good ability wasn't used for environmental protection. So many death row inmates every year could be sent to the Gobi Desert, given some Tree Elf toxin, and it would be a benefit to humanity.
And Jiang Li's answer was, "Do you think no one has tried? The Night Watch had a project like this two years ago."
"It's just that, in the end, the project was stopped because the cost was too high, the trees grown under the influence of the toxin easily turned into urban legend, and it was considered inhumane."
...
And what Lu Yibei really didn't expect was that less than a meter away from the Strange Tale boy's corpse, there was also a dried-up adult male corpse. Judging from his clothes, he seemed to be a homeless man.
Such a corpse lying quietly among a large number of dolls would not have been found at all if it weren't for people like the Special Operations Team and Du Sixian searching carefully.
Moreover, would anyone really come to such a haunted place? Lu Yibei thought.
More than ten minutes later.
After receiving notification from Qi Dong, other Special Operations Teams from the Night Watch who were specifically responsible for handling the aftermath quickly arrived.
After a careful search of the floor piled with dolls, besides the adult male, a total of seven human corpses were found under those dolls, all of them minors. From the bone age, the oldest was about thirteen or fourteen, and the youngest was only about five years old.
Looking at the corpses being put into body bags and carried away one by one, Du Sixian, standing beside Lu Yibei, frowned and said, "You say, are these people all like He Liang and Yang Yi, people who played the one-person hide-and-seek game?"
Lu Yibei imagined the process of the Strange Tale boy collecting dolls to play hide-and-seek with at first, then later directly grabbing living people to play hide-and-seek with him, and finally locking onto the victim through the Strange Tale game, and nodded, "Probably."
"Oh!" Du Sixian responded thoughtfully, secretly glanced at Lu Yibei's profile, then her eyes rolled mischievously, and she pressed on, "By the way, have you had any strange dreams recently?"
"..."
Trying to trick me?
After a moment of silence, Lu Yibei glanced at Du Sixian out of the corner of his eye and said lightly, "Yes, I've dreamed of you, often."
I wasn't lying about this... Lu Yibei muttered to himself.
Hearing this, Du Sixian's face turned slightly red, she pursed her lips, and ran away.
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It was past four in the morning when Lu Yibei returned to his temporary office, but the night shift work had to continue until dawn, before the next main Staff arrived to take over.
Taking advantage of this time, he found the urban legend incident directory that Jiang Li had left him and carefully flipped through it.
Soon, he confirmed that he hadn't remembered incorrectly, that there were indeed no Night Demon urban legend and Tree Elf Psychic in Hua City. Following that, after seeing a urban legend incident overview, he realized that he had thought incorrectly about one thing.
【urban legend Incident Number 3101
Strange Tale Alias: The Child Who Was Not Found, Spiritual Energy Fluctuation Level: Unknown
First Incident Date: Around this year's Lunar New Year's Eve
Case Overview: A left-behind child on Fuchun Road mysteriously disappeared while playing with classmates. Three days later, a urban legend incident occurred, and all those attacked received an invitation to a hide-and-seek game.
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Jiang Li had once asked Lu Yibei to investigate this urban legend incident, and he had some impression of it.
When he flipped to this point, he suddenly found that the photo of the missing left-behind child was eight or nine parts similar to the Strange Tale boy who appeared tonight.
"He disappeared around Lunar New Year's Eve, but those bones basically died before last year's Lunar New Year's Eve, the longest time is almost two years, how could..."
Lu Yibei murmured to himself, before he finished speaking, his pupils trembled slightly, and his voice came to an abrupt halt.
He suddenly thought that among those bones, only the homeless man died after Lunar New Year's Eve.
Immediately following that, a bold guess outlining a scene appeared in his mind.
He saw, on a cold evening, on the old street of Fuchun Road.
A lively, chubby-faced boy was playing hide-and-seek with his friends.
In that round, he was the 'ghost', and all his friends were hidden very well. He searched for a long time but couldn't find them, and unknowingly, he found himself near that unfinished building.
Just then, he saw the homeless man standing inside the unfinished building.
The homeless man was holding tempting snacks or novel toys, or something else that interested him, and was smiling kindly at him.
Then, the homeless man waved at the boy, and he ran into the dark stairwell of the unfinished building and never came out again.
...
As Lu Yibei thought of this, as if in approval of his guess, a warmth came from his eyes, and then subsided...
After sitting in a daze for a moment, Lu Yibei shrugged and muttered to himself, "Tsk, anyway, they're all dead, who knows what happened? It's all just wild guesses."
