Free Web NovelAt noon, the sunlight in early winter still held a bit of warmth, making people want to avoid it.
The students of Huacheng Institute of Technology, after finishing lunch, returned to their classrooms or dormitories, making the campus quite deserted for a while.
At that time, in front of a small warehouse near Four Gate Main Street.
"Here, eat! Although the amount is a bit small, it should be enough to relieve your hunger this time."
Lu Yibei said softly, pushing a small piece of urban legend core towards the slightly open crack in the door, then waited quietly for a few seconds before seeing a tender white hand reach out from the crack, grab the urban legend core, and quickly retract.
The urban legend hidden in this small warehouse, which hadn't been visited by anyone for a long time, was none other than the Headless Senior. During the time when the sun was strongest during the day, she would usually hide here.
Ever since Lu Yibei was "robbed" on the road by her when she was on the verge of extreme hunger, and he cooperatively gave her a small half piece of urban legend core, Lu Yibei had been coming here often.
This kind of thing was like feeding stray animals on campus; it was addictive. Before she knew it, she had embarked on the path of feeding the campus's "lonely ghosts and wild spirits."
In her opinion, there was absolutely no need to eliminate these urban legend, which were basically harmless to humans and animals. Existence was reasonable, and perhaps their existence had some special meaning.
Of course, the main target for feeding was the Headless Senior, but sometimes when she came at night, there would also be some miscellaneous Little Freaks, as well as the bronze statue of Rouxun, rumored to wander around the school at night.
Yes, the bronze statue of Rouxun at Huacheng Institute of Technology really moved, but it didn't curse heaven and earth without a single dirty word; it was just a lump of iron, which made Lu Yibei a little regretful.
If she could learn the language art of cursing from Rouxun "himself," that would be great!
Seeing the Headless Senior's timid appearance, like a stray kitten accepting food, a warm feeling rose in Lu Yibei's heart. If it weren't for her facial paralysis, the corners of her mouth would probably be uncontrollably rising at this moment.
Facts proved that she fed these Little Freaks in the school very well. For example, the Headless Senior, when first met, her entire body was like a highly decomposed corpse, and her pair of pale hands were covered with corpse spots.
But now, except for the terrifying scar on her neck, she was almost no different from a normal girl.
She would get her a high-necked sweater to wear later, so even if someone from the school accidentally bumped into her, she wouldn't scare others. If she wanted to, she could even attend classes.
Lu Yibei muttered to herself, leaning against the wall, spreading out her final exam review materials on her knees, and began reviewing accompanied by the fine sounds like "Yin Music" made by the Headless Senior and a group of Little Freaks sharing the urban legend core in the small warehouse.
For so long, she had been developing discreetly, being as timid as possible, but only when it came to studying, she had never been negligent.
After all...
Even though she had now ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) become a proxy agent of the Night Watch, she had not changed her dream of graduating successfully, renovating her old house, going back to open a small shop, and incidentally selling some spiritual swill.
Conquer the world? A harem full of beauties?
Compared to these, she hoped more that she could open a well-known tavern in her lifetime, and then use a broom to drive out the Michelin reviewers.
While her mind was wandering, she heard the voice of the Headless Senior from the small warehouse behind her.
"E-everyone asked me to thank you."
"It's nothing!" Lu Yibei said indifferently. "It's quite dangerous outside during this time. After you're full, find a place to hide well. Don't wander around if there's nothing to do."
"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll leave now. See you next time."
As she spoke, she got up, patted the dust off her pants, packed up her textbooks and review materials, and slowly left the school along Four Gate Main Street.
Calculating the time, the Alchemy potion, which was undergoing the final step of low-temperature constant heating at home, was also almost complete.
Thinking of her current state of comprehensive development in intelligence, physique, and aesthetics, Lu Yibei couldn't help but feel a little excited!
Why no morality?
Well... after all, immoral people live happier lives.
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Lu Yibei rushed home excitedly and retrieved the refined potion.
However, just as she was holding the bottle of thick, golden-red potion, preparing to take it according to the instructions to make up for her deficiencies, something went wrong.
"Take one'shake' at a time? One shake, what the ♦ kind of unit is this?!" Lu Yibei couldn't help but complain.
As someone with inherited cooking skills, she knew the unit'shake' very well.
This unit was usually used for relatively thick seasonings like oyster sauce, and its quantity didn't have a precise number. A gentle shake, depending on the situation, could range from one drop to half a bottle.
The entire process of Lu Yibei refining the potion according to the recipe, although she failed a few times, didn't have any major problems until now.
At first, her attention was entirely on the precise usage of various Alchemy potions and various details, and she completely overlooked the issue of the dosage.
Who would have thought that such a relatively rigorous recipe would have such an imprecise dosage instruction.
As expected of an ancient recipe from the Great Serpent God, there were always loopholes and flaws in strange places.
After all, the real world was not like what was written in novels, where the older something was, the more powerful it was.
At least in terms of technology like Alchemy, which continuously advanced with people's understanding, tools and equipment, and the richness of materials, it wasn't the older, the more powerful.
For example, some ancient Alchemy recipes would contain terms like "phlogiston," but if you refined them exactly according to those recipes, the failure rate was usually quite high.
Lu Yibei stared at the completed potion in her hand and pondered for a long time.
Now that she was becoming more skilled in using her precognitive thoughts, a slight chill told her that this stuff was definitely not some urban legend happy water, but something that would cost her half her life if taken in excess.
After all, many of the materials used in the process of refining the potion to make up for deficiencies contained destructive fire attribute power, and some were extracted toxins.
As the saying goes, you can't build without breaking. Just like the essence of anaerobic exercise is actually tearing muscles and waiting for them to grow back, making up for deficiencies also involves a similar process.
But if, in this process of breaking to build, you break too much and can't repair it, the situation becomes serious.
However, taking too little is also not good. Taking it in small amounts multiple times will make the body gradually adapt to the potion.
Over time, it's likely that the deficiency won't be completely made up before the potion is no longer effective, and then she would have to spend a fortune to switch to a different potion.
Therefore, whether it was ascending to immortality or kicking the bucket, whether it was covering the body with a white cloth and the whole village waiting for the meal, or one person achieving enlightenment and their chickens and dogs ascending to heaven, it all depended on this one gulp.
Whether talking about toxicity without considering the dosage, or talking about dosage without considering the toxicity, both were hooligan behavior.
Otherwise, why did so many ancient emperors and alchemists overdose and die?
That wasn't entirely because their recipes were problematic, but because a large part of the dosage and method of taking it was problematic.
The reason for the increasingly lower mortality rate from taking Alchemy potions in modern times is largely thanks to those "Divine Farmers" who constantly used their lives to try out reasonable dosages.
So...
"Maotuan (Hairball), False Tooth, Eyeball, Sleeping Dress, where are you?" Lu Yibei shouted hoarsely, "Come here quickly, I have something good for you to taste!"
Let them try it first, there shouldn't be any problem, right? Anyway, I can't use it all myself. Lu Yibei muttered to herself.
In fact, considering the inaccuracy of the ancient recipe's description of the medicinal effect, the loss due to failure during the refining process, and the possibility of unforeseen force majeure influences, etc.
To be safe, when preparing the raw materials, she prepared enough materials to refine ten portions of the potion. After some failures, she finally successfully refined about five portions.
This kind of thing, the more the better. If she couldn't use it all, she could sell it back to recoup her costs!
After waiting for a moment, seeing no urban legend respond, she shouted again, "Hurry up, hurry up, it won't taste good after it cools down!"
Immediately after, Lu Yibei called out a few more times, and still didn't see the Little Freaks at home appear, only then did she confirm that they were probably really not at home.
But.
In broad daylight, where could they have gone?
If it really doesn't work, I can only wait until I become a urban legend at night and try it myself. After becoming a urban legend, my physical strength should be a bit higher, and it won't be so easy to die. Lu Yibei thought. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
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Meanwhile, in the suburbs of Hua City, at the Hua City Ceramics Factory.
This was a ceramic firing factory that was once very famous in Hua City, affiliated with the Hua City Steel Plant.
Although the vessels they fired were not as aesthetically pleasing as those from large factories, they were superior in quality and practicality.
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Many Hua City residents used the vessels they fired in their homes, some for more than ten years.
However, such a conscientious enterprise has been closed for a long time. frёeωebɳovel.com
A few years ago, when the Hua City Ceramics Factory was firing a batch of divine statues, an accident occurred. One of the statues "came alive," and several workers were burned to death in the kiln that day. Since then, the ceramics factory has been shut down.
Passing through the rusty iron gate locked with chains, the ceramics factory was desolate. Weeds grew rampant in the green belts, and the open spaces were piled with statues that hadn't been shipped out yet. These statues, with their heads cut off or eyes gouged out, were covered in dust.
In the silent, dark factory warehouse, dozens of figures sat in silence at their positions, looking up and staring ahead.
Behind these Psychic or urban legend who had rushed here from various places and infiltrated Hua City to organize the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, were the urban legend they had successfully recruited in recent days.
Those urban legend were old or young, fat or thin, ugly or beautiful... Elites in suits and ties, farmers with sunburned faces, and workers with callused fingers squeezed together, looking particularly strange.
And directly in front of them, a lazy and enchanting woman in a red dress sat on the shoulder of a three-person-tall divine statue, looking down and softly saying, "Tell me about the current situation."
Hearing this, a person in a black robe stepped forward and said in a hoarse voice, "After several days of running around, we have now visited about one-third of the Strange Tale haunts in Hua City..."
Pausing, the black-robed person glanced at the dense crowd of urban legend behind him and continued, "Over seventy percent of the urban legend chose to surrender, and the rest have been completely annihilated."
The woman in the red dress nodded slightly, looked at two of the black-robed people, and pressed, "I heard you met my little bunny? Did she surrender?"
"No, we have already annihilated her," a muffled voice responded from the darkness.
"Heh, ridiculous! It seems you still don't understand my little bunny's abilities very well?" The woman in the red dress sneered, "If only she were that easy to annihilate!"
"But it doesn't matter, just let her be. After I finish dealing with things here, I'll go take care of her. You continue reporting!"
Thus, a group of black-robed people took turns verbally reporting the progress of subduing urban legend recently to the Twilight Woman, until a discordant voice suddenly interrupted at the end.
"There's another issue. Our actions may have been targeted by the Night Watch. During a previous operation, one of their agents even caught us in the act.
"According to reliable sources, three agents from the Hua City Night Watch are secretly investigating this matter."
Upon hearing the words "Night Watch," the Twilight Woman's Spiritual Energy fluctuations showed a momentary, obvious shift. A bloody and violent aura spread throughout the factory, causing the urban legend to tense up.
"The Night Watch again? What a bunch of annoying pests!" The Twilight Woman said, "Since that's the case, starting tonight, you will change from acting in pairs to acting in three groups! If you encounter people from the Night Watch..."
"Just kill them directly!" As she spoke, a ruthless glint flashed in her eyes.
"But..." Someone in the darkness hesitated.
"But what?"
"But if we do that, the Spiritual Energy fluctuations will be too obvious. It will make the urban legend in the city think we are doing the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. Isn't it a bit too early to do this now?"
"Think? Heh!" The Twilight Woman sneered, "If they really think it's the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, then we *are* the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons!"
"It's also time to let them know who the most terrifying Strange Tale in this city is."
"..."
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Night had just fallen.
Under the Hua City Kua Jiang Bridge, inside the third bridge arch from the left.
"Thank you all for your support, the goods are sold out. Today's live stream ends here, see you at the same time tomorrow!"
After saying this to the camera, Gu Qianqian turned off the live stream, packed up her props, and walked towards the tent.
The Condensed White Jade Dew she sold today was a new type of potion she accidentally obtained during an Alchemy mistake. After some slight modifications, its effect was better than any skincare product sold on the market.
It must be said that Gu Qianqian's sense for money was still very sharp. If it weren't for the chance of ordinary people contracting black night disease after using it, she felt she could easily get rich and escape poverty just by relying on this potion.
Even the system was impressed by the feat of independently inventing a potion, but it didn't say it out loud in front of Gu Qianqian.
This thing, apart from being able to make money from female urban legend or Psychic, was useless.
After all, in a sense, Disasters are not considered female and do not need skincare.
It was still looking forward to when Gu Qianqian could refine an Alchemy potion that could cause lethal damage to Disasters.
As soon as she opened the door, the Little Freaks who were gathered around her table and arguing appeared before her eyes.
They were holding the twelfth pre-battle discussion meeting of the 【Messenger of Love and Peace · Model of Morality and Conscience · Demoness Warrior Group of Handsome Men and Beautiful Women】.
"No, the Four Gate Main Street at Huacheng Institute of Technology won't work!" Maotuan said seriously, "That place is right under the Devil Woman's nose. What if she finds out?"
"So what if she finds out? We're organizing the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons in her name, what does it have to do with her? With that Smelly Girl look of hers, does she dare to object? I'll slap her right there, and she won't dare to say a word, believe it or not?!"
"Yes, she won't say a word to you, she'll just destroy you directly," Maotuan said faintly.
"She dares?!"
System, "..."
What does it mean to be a newborn calf not afraid of tigers? This is it!
Aren't these little guys a bit too bold?
It's probably because they are too weak and the level gap with the Disaster is too large, so they can't experience her terror, which is why they can say such things, the system thought.
"Brother Eyeball, you're getting more and more arrogant recently..." False Tooth said, "Besides, you don't have hands."
"Less ♦ nonsense, those who achieve great things don't bother with trivial details!" Eyeball looked at False Tooth and said, "Besides, if things develop like this, I'll be able to grow hands before long."
False Tooth secretly sized up Eyeball for a while and didn't speak, but it still couldn't figure out where hands would grow on Eyeball's round body.
"If Four Gate Main Street, or even the entire Huacheng Institute of Technology, won't work, then there's no place we can go near University City!" Maotuan said, looking troubled.
"Within University City, the places where urban legend appear are basically already our, uh, our dear, respected Devil Woman's territory."
"Then let's expand outwards, must our goal be limited to University City?" Eyeball said loudly, "What's the difference between a Strange Tale without ideals and a salted fish? One day, our, uh, the Devil Woman's banner will be planted across mountains and rivers, stars and seas!"
System, "..." She really almost reached that level.
Muttering inwardly, the system quickly reminded Gu Qianqian, "Gu Qianqian, the time is almost right, hurry and complete the mission!"
"Oh oh!" Gu Qianqian responded to the system in her mind, then looked at the Little Freaks around the table and said, "If you can't think of a better option, I do have a suggestion."
"Oh?" Maotuan wriggled its body to face Gu Qianqian, "Why don't you tell us first?"
"Yin Street Building 14, have you heard of it?" Gu Qianqian nodded and said, "Isn't it quite close to University City?"
"No, no, the urban legend there are too powerful, we are not their match yet." Maotuan rejected Gu Qianqian's suggestion without thinking.
"Not that powerful, are they?" Gu Qianqian tilted her head, puzzled, "I think I can handle it alone, not to mention with all of you there!"
"You? What can you do with those thin arms and legs?" Eyeball squinted at Gu Qianqian, teasing, "Before saying such things, at least beat me first!"
As it spoke, it bounced on the table, making several upper and lower hook punch trajectories in mid-air as it leaped.
"Oh, well, alright, since you insist..."
As a farming-type protagonist, Gu Qianqian disliked fighting a bit. She reluctantly agreed, and then...
A metal club that appeared out of nowhere whistled through the air, hitting Eyeball square on. Accompanied by a burst of air and ripples of invisible Spiritual Energy, Eyeball was instantly sent flying out the window and disappeared.
All the urban legend, "..." Oh my god, we thought we picked up a little cat, but how did it turn out to be a fierce tiger with striped forehead and piercing eyes?
What should we do now? If we don't agree to her, we'll be beaten to death, right?
Or, should we just agree to her?
And so...
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This voice echoed in Gu Qianqian's mind.
