Free Web NovelIt was another night washed clean by moonlight. On the wasteland in the distant suburbs, the roar of explosions could be heard from time to time.
Today in Hua City, it was still a stable and peaceful day.
While Lu Yibei took advantage of the night to drop two Spells like a terrorist at various urban legend haunting spots throughout Hua City and run, a warehouse belonging to a transportation company in Hua City welcomed their guest.
A man dressed quite flamboyantly, with an evil and charming smile hanging on his lips.
He was precisely Bai Kai.
Within Hua City, excluding the female Psychic within the Night Watch, there were over one hundred. Ninety-two of them were adults, and among these ninety-two adults, more than half had intricate connections with Bai Kai.
So many Psychic uniting represented a terrifying network of influence. From the moment Bai Kai began investigating those black-robed individuals attempting to organize the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons with their help, it took less than a week to find important clues.
There was an Older sister who outwardly ran a beauty and wellness salon, who had once hosted a Psychic, suspected to be an outsider Psychic.
Bai Kai followed this clue and investigated all the way, quickly finding the entrance to this warehouse.
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"You said you work as a male escort?"
"I don't work as a male escort, I *am* a male escort, simultaneously holding positions as Section Chief of the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration and a core member of the Night Watch..."
In the guard room at the gatehouse, Bai Kai introduced himself sincerely, placing the exquisitely made black and gold-embossed business card from the Underground Human Realm on the table.
【Underground Human Realm Public Relations Department, Royal Quality, Aristocratic Experience, 180 young models for you to choose from...
Contact Person: Mr. Bai, Hua City Edison Chen Contact Number: 180xxxx7777】
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After reading the business card, the security guard looked up at Bai Kai with an expression like he was looking at an idiot. After a long silence, he couldn't figure out what this guy who suddenly showed up at the door wanted.
So late at night, how many dishes did you have to drink this much?
"Reason for visiting?"
The security guard said seriously, "You're coming here in the middle of the night, there must be a reason, right? Who are you looking for? I'll call them out for you."
Although there weren't many people in the warehouse at this time, and they were all men, the possibility of calling for a male escort wasn't high. However, it was best to ask clearly before driving someone away; that way, it was good for everyone.
What if some Elder brother couldn't bear the loneliness and wanted to try some flavorful midnight snack?
"If you can help call them out, that would be great." Bai Kai showed a friendly smile on his face. "I'm here to find a woman nicknamed 'Embroidered Shoes' and her accomplices."
"They have violated the regulations for managing lone Psychic by illegally entering Hua City, and have been officially approved for arrest by a core member of the Hua City Night Watch, which is me."
The security guard hadn't fully understood Bai Kai's intentions, and was made even more confused by his muddled words. In his daze, he saw Bai Kai pull out a gleaming silver longsword from somewhere and slap it on the table.
The security guard frowned.
What the heck? Why did he pull out a knife?
He looked at the longsword on the table, which was clearly sharpened and very sharp, and his expression suddenly became unnatural.
This effeminate male escort seems to be here to cause trouble?
If this isn't handled well, I'm afraid there will be trouble!
Cursing inwardly, the security guard's face sank. He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a wolf head tattoo on his arm. "Let me tell you, don't mess around! I've also... mixed... in the underworld..."
Before he could finish speaking, he saw the small red dots falling on him through the window, just like the infrared sights often seen in movies, but it wasn't just one point, but a dense cluster.
Under the lock of infrared sights, he looked up blankly and saw the faintly stirring figures in the open field outside the warehouse, as well as the faint glint reflected from long and short guns under the moonlight.
"May I ask which gang Elder brother belongs to? A famous gang in Hua City..." Bai Kai revealed a wild, evil, and charming smile at the corner of his mouth. "Humbly, I have directly or indirectly participated in the eradication operations."
"Don't kill me! I don't know anything! I'm just a temporary worker!" The security guard cried out with a trembling voice, his face full of terror, hands raised above his head.
"Don't worry, I'm not a bad person either. If you really have nothing to do with the people I'm looking for, I won't hurt you, but now..."
As Bai Kai spoke, he pulled out a tube of Durex lubricant from his jacket pocket.
The security guard, "???"
Looking at the security guard's terrified, confused, and slightly bashful eyes, Bai Kai was stunned for a moment. He looked down, then put away the lubricant.
"Sorry, I grabbed the wrong thing. This should be it."
As he spoke, he took out a palm-sized silver spray bottle from his jacket pocket, engraved with a copper pattern and the baogang cang owl badge, and sprayed gently.
"Whoosh—!"
Accompanied by a soft sound, the spray with a faint silver light burst onto the security guard's face. His vision immediately blurred, and then he began to feel dizzy and lightheaded.
"You... what is this..." He widened his eyes, pointed at Bai Kai, and opened his mouth to say something, but found that his tongue had also lost sensation and no longer obeyed him at all.
Bai Kai looked at the spray in his hand, then at the security guard, and explained with a smile, "You're asking about this? As you can see, it's the amnesia water used in small restroom ads to poison innocent young girls!"
"However, the effect of mine is just a tiny bit stronger. Don't worry, after you wake up, you won't remember anything."
Male escort... not quite right in the head... amnesia water where you won't remember anything after waking up...
With various elements converging in his mind, Uncle Security Guard seemed to understand something. His backside felt cold, his features twitched, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed onto the ground.
Looking at the security guard on the ground, Bai Kai silently threw out a roll of rope solidified with Spells, skillfully applied rope art techniques on him, and then tossed him into a corner of the guard room.
Although he just performed the 'blame-shifting triple combo', who knows if what he said was true? After dealing with those guys hidden in the warehouse, he could investigate slowly.
"Swish—Swish—Swish—!"
As Bai Kai gave the signal to the Special Operations Team members ambushing outside, they immediately took action, climbed over the wall, infiltrated the warehouse compound, and found suitable positions to hide.
At that moment, Bai Kai, holding the longsword in one hand, slowly walked to the front of the warehouse gate. Just then, the baogang cang owl badge on his chest vibrated slightly, and immediately the voice of the Special Operations Team, which had secretly surrounded the warehouse, sounded in his ear.
"Old Bai, we are in position. When do we start the operation?"
"Wait for my signal."
After Bai Kai finished speaking, his gaze deepened. He lifted his foot and with a "Bang!", kicked open the heavy iron door in front of him, shouting loudly into the pitch-black warehouse.
"Underground Human Realm Male Escort Department delivery! Who's coming out to receive it?"
In the darkness, a pair of eyes watched the man standing at the warehouse entrance, wearing a clean white suit draped over his shoulders, holding a sword, surrounded by swirling silver light, his Spiritual Energy fluctuations almost condensing into mist. He gritted his teeth fiercely.
That person and his accomplices moved back into the darkness without changing expression, preparing to seize the opportunity to escape, when they heard the crisp sound of glass shattering from above.
The windows on all four sides of the warehouse were shattered almost simultaneously. One after another, burly black figures followed the trajectory of the falling glass shards and landed steadily.
"Click-click—!"
Accompanied by the soft clicking sound of firearms being cocked, under the illumination of the bright moonlight, gleaming muzzles were aimed almost simultaneously at the few people hiding in the corners.
"Older sister, we can't run! Why don't we fight them?"
"That's right! At this point, we can only fight to the death. Don't think we'll get leniency after surrendering. Do you think we have a chance of fooling the Night Watch?"
"Yeah, what we've done is enough to die dozens of times over. If we're captured alive, we won't even be able to beg for death!"
"..." After a brief silence, a slightly hoarse female voice responded from the darkness, "Alright, let's fight!"
As soon as the words fell, five Psychic and several urban legend transformed into swift black shadows and pounced towards the surrounding Special Operations Team members.
"Clock with broken hands, flowers blooming on the book, shattered dead sky, desolation, deathly silence, engulfment, Seal Spell Ninety-One, Silent Kingdom!"
The moment the group of illegal Psychic and urban legend moved, Bai Kai rapidly completed the Spell chant. Purple light pillars carrying an ominous aura appeared around them and crashed down in an ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) instant.
The light pillars were like tall walls building a siege, surrounding all the illegal Psychic and urban legend within them, leaving only a wellhead-sized gap above.
It was a forbidden Spell right from the start. The Spiritual Energy circulation of the guys sealed within the Spell was immediately suppressed to an extremely low level, sluggish as if filled with lead.
As for attacking, Bai Kai really couldn't do it himself; after all, they needed to leave survivors.
He was heavy-handed. Once his sword was drawn, he didn't have the habit of sheathing it without seeing blood.
It was different for the tough guys of the Special Operations Team and the weapons in their hands that had been modified through Alchemy.
Anyway, if one clip of bullets wasn't enough, they'd add another. If that still wasn't enough, they'd add some Alchemy grenades. The firepower was relatively easy to control.
Guarantee crippling, not killing!
The moment they discovered the gap above their heads, almost all the Psychic and urban legend sealed within the Spell scrambled upwards, eager to escape.
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However, just as the first person showed their head at the gap, they heard Bai Kai, who was maintaining the Spell's operation, let out a low shout, "Brothers, move! Except for those few Psychic, don't leave any of the other urban legend alive!"
As soon as the words fell, accompanied by a burst of dense gunfire, the first figure that flew out was riddled with silver-plated bullets engraved with Spells.
"It's a trap!"
"It's a trick, don't go out!"
"Damn it, the Night Watch are a bunch of mad dogs!"
Seeing their companions' limbs fall back like a pile of mud, the figures sealed within the Spell momentarily dared not act rashly, cursing and scrambling in disarray.
Just then, dozens of fist-sized, dark objects suddenly flew in from the gap above their heads, hitting the walls formed by the surrounding light pillars. The gap above their heads also instantly closed at this moment, and their vision plunged into dead silence and darkness.
"It's an Alchemy grenade!"
Someone in the darkness shouted, and the Alchemy grenade that landed by his feet immediately cracked open, exploding with a bang. Dazzling firelight erupted from the darkness, and everyone's feet suddenly shook.
The intense explosion carrying Spiritual Energy fluctuations surged within the Spell seal. Accompanied by countless cracks growing on the ground and concrete debris falling from the ceiling, under the effect of the Spell, aside from a slight violent tremor, the loud bang and firelight of the explosion, and even the thick smoke, did not escape at all.
After a long while.
Bai Kai sensed through his spiritual awareness that all the Spiritual Energy fluctuations within the Spell seal had weakened, and only then did he lift the Spell.
With a soft "Ding--!", the purple light pillars cracked into tiny crystal fragments, then turned into powder and dissipated invisibly. Several charred, dying figures appeared in their line of sight.
Seeing this, Bai Kai's eyebrow twitched slightly. He took out a rope solidified with a Spell from his inner clothing and, under the gaze of the Special Operations Team's tough men, displayed astonishing rope-tying skills, tying them up one by one. He then turned to look at Qi Dong, who had come up behind him.
"Brother Qi, tell the Elder brothers, we can wrap up." Bai Kai said, "Send the urban legend to An Qing, take the Psychic back, and lock them in the interrogation room!"
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1:30 AM, Hua City, Bainiu Town, Hongqi Reservoir.
On the long-abandoned, weed-covered embankment, a brand new, cool-looking small electric scooter was parked under a large tree, secured with three locks.
By the water, a young girl wearing a large windbreaker held a ten-meter-long bamboo pole, stirring diligently in the steaming, hot spring-like water, carefully pushing the corpses of the water Monkey towards the shore.
While retrieving the corpses, she kept muttering something incessantly.
"Made a fortune, made a fortune this time! Not bad, really not bad, fishing pond bombing is really good!"
Lu Yibei counted carefully. This time, after consuming the potion and unleashing her power at Hongqi Reservoir, she had killed at least twenty-something water Monkey urban legend hidden beneath the surface, as well as one mutated urban legend not on the urban legend list, possessing a trace of Water Yaksha Power.
Although they were all lower-level urban legend with Spiritual Energy fluctuations ranging from D+ to C-, the urban legend core bodies couldn't fetch a high price, but the sheer quantity was overwhelming!
Lu Yibei calculated that after sending this batch to Fat Er Ye for disposal, her potion refining costs would recover by a little less than half.
She could already imagine Fat Er Ye's horrified expression when he suspected her of smuggling urban legend core bodies again, after already suspecting her of smuggling calamity water.
Thus, she genuinely started to like the feeling of limitless mana, no cooldown, and continuous Spell casting when her power went berserk after consuming the potion.
Even the pain of consuming the potion, which felt like all her bones were being disassembled, was significantly diluted by the excitement of the great harvest.
In a normal state, after the first Spell, killing two or three urban legend, the other urban legend would have long run away. How could it be this satisfying?!
Unfortunately, she had already taken the defect-completing potion, which has a maximum of nine doses, five times. More than half the doses were used, and she had become shorter by more than half a head. She figured this process probably wouldn't last much longer.
Taking potions has limits, so cherish each dose.
Crouching on the embankment that hadn't been visited by anyone for a long time, Lu Yibei, holding Lingtai Pure Karma, repeated the process of cutting open the urban legend corpses, taking out the urban legend core bodies, and putting them into her guitar bag. Just then, her phone suddenly rang. It was Bai Kai calling.
"Xiao Bei, what are you doing now? If you're not busy, hurry over to Peony Street." Bai Kai said urgently.
Caught seven or eight Psychic in one night.
"Late at night, why go to Peony Street? It's not my Night Watch duty today." Lu Yibei mumbled.
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Hearing the girl's soft voice coming from this end of the call, Bai Kai on the other end was silent for a few seconds, then cleared his throat.
"Ahem, Beier, it seems you're not available there. Then you should come tomorrow morning, no no, wait until your physical condition is better..."
Lu Yibei interrupted angrily, "What the hell is 'Beier'? What kind of weird name is that? Speak properly to me! Stop with that nonsense you use to coax Misses in the club."
"Uh, okay, anyway, come over when you're free. We've caught a bunch of people here, and I can't interrogate them all by myself, so I'll leave it at that for now!"
Hearing Bai Kai say this, Lu Yibei was about to hang up when she heard him add, "Oh right, Xiao Bei, if a girl goes out at night, she should protect herself!" Then, before Lu Yibei could get angry, he hung up the phone.
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After a few seconds of silence, Lu Yibei's hand rose and fell with her sword. With a "Puff!", she fiercely plunged her sword through the corpse in front of her.
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It turned out that those guys in black robes, whose origins were unknown, had varying levels of skill. At least the one caught by Bai Kai wasn't particularly high in quality, and his bones weren't particularly hard.
The two of them, a lone man and woman, were together in an interrogation room.
Before Bai Kai could even fully go through the Night Watch's usual routine of carrot and stick, the interrogation Spells and Alchemy potions, Embroidered Shoe confessed.
In this regard, the Eclipse Society members seemed much more professional. It's said that there was once an Eclipse Society member who endured various "truth serum" potions and Spells throughout the interrogation and ultimately performed the "feat" of brainwashing the Night Watch agent in return.
Embroidered Shoe spilled a lot of information, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube. Although a large part of it was skillfully trying to clear herself, she at least revealed some useful things.
In summary, there were only four points.
She and her accomplices were hired by someone and crossed the Huacheng Barrier by riding a strange train.
After arriving in Hua City, they did participate in organizing the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
Now that group of black-robed figures had nominated Twilight Woman as the leader of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.
Also, there were three places where those guys gathered, and she only knew that one of them was in the warehouse of the Hua City Ceramics Factory.
Bai Kai dealt with Embroidered Shoe for a long time. Only after the results from the Night Watch database comparison came out did he have the tough men of the Special Operations Team escort her to Yun Kang Mental Hospital.
From the database comparison results, she was indeed a lone Psychic who was often hired by others. Several heinous incidents were indirectly related to her, and she had also participated in many Spiritual Energy item smuggling activities, with at least dozens of lives on her hands.
She could be considered a heinous criminal. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
However, looking at this Night Parade of One Hundred Demons incident, she was just a fringe figure.
However, thinking about it, this is also quite reasonable. The core members among the villains who dared to organize the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons are not that easy to catch. The path of investigation is long and arduous.
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After submitting Embroidered Shoe's transcript, Bai Kai sat on a bench in the small garden of the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, smoking a cigarette and gazing thoughtfully at the sky.
Just then, An Qing, her hands covered in blood after dealing with the urban legend, walked over and sat beside him.
"Give me one too. It's really been a busy time lately, I'm almost getting a nervous breakdown."
As Bai Kai fumbled for a cigarette to give to An Qing, he quipped, "Can zombies also get nervous breakdowns?"
An Qing took the cigarette, rolled her eyes, and ignored him.
Seeing this, Bai Kai continued to press, "Speaking of which, you just said it's been a busy time? Have you also tracked down any clues related to the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons? Care to share?"
"I'd like to share with you, but unfortunately, what I'm dealing with isn't the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons." An Qing said as she lit her cigarette, "The news I got yesterday is that a lunatic has appeared in Hua City."
"A lunatic?" Bai Kai frowned.
"Yes, a lunatic who carries out bombing attacks everywhere." An Qing took a puff of her cigarette and nodded, "They've already attacked five locations frequented by urban legend. They just plant a few Spells and run, and their methods are extremely cruel."
"Furthermore, there's no connection between the attack locations, as if they were chosen randomly and indiscriminately."
"Do you know what the people under me call that guy? The Bombing Maniac!"
"Isn't it a good thing that there are environmentalists helping us clean up the city?" Bai Kai said dismissively.
"If it were just that, it would certainly be a good thing, but I'm afraid..." An Qing said, narrowing her eyes slightly, "I'm afraid that kind of lunatic, whose actions have no logic, won't just attack urban legend later on."
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There seems to be some truth to that...
Seriously, what's going on with Hua City lately?
It's almost as chaotic as half the time when that bad woman was still alive. Bai Kai muttered to himself.
