Free Web NovelHua City, Linjiang Road, a remote small park by the river.
Since the black night disease began to lengthen, no one had visited here for a long time. The park workers who came for regular maintenance were clearly not very attentive, and the entire park presented a scene of dilapidation.
Within the green belt, shrubs and weeds grew wildly intertwined. The broad leaves of lush banana trees hung down, casting a shadow, and large rats scurried through the shadow.
In the gloomy corners, some dark things surged silently, twisting into various bizarre shapes.
The public restroom in a corner of the park had its two large doors tightly shut, with rusty chains and a large iron lock hanging on them. Faint sighs seemed to emanate from behind the doors.
Suddenly, a fire illuminated the dark and dilapidated park.
As if sensing something, the rats in the shadows scurried away in a panic, the strange shadows stopped twisting, and the faint sighs from the restroom also quieted down.
The next moment, a somewhat childish girl's shout echoed above the park.
“Ah—! Stop, stop, stop!”
“The World!”
“Damn it!”
The girl's shouts grew closer, a strong gust of wind swept through, and all the vegetation in the park rustled in the wind. Immediately following, a fireball descended from the sky like a falling meteorite, smashing a deep crater in the flowerbed in the center of the park.
Earth and rocks splattered, thick smoke with a sulfurous smell permeated the air, and fallen leaves and dead branches crackled as they burned.
When all the dust settled, a well-proportioned, slender yet fleshy calf appeared at the edge of the crater, twitched twice, and then retracted.
“Bah—! What kind of smell is that? So disgusting!”
Muttering in a childish voice, Lu Yibei crawled out of the pit, spitting out tree roots from her mouth, her face full of frustration.
At the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, the situation was urgent, and she only focused on following the mysterious girl's guidance to quickly get rid of Jiang Li and the incoming Night Watch reinforcements.
After leaving the resort hotel and her emotions had calmed down a bit, the first thing she thought of was to study the changes in her body.
After a brief thought, the perfect place she came up with was here, a small riverside park far from the city center. Only here could she satisfy both conditions: having a mirror and having no one else around.
After all, after the Weird tale began to become prevalent, at night, even homeless people dared not come to such a remote small park.
However, as she was about to arrive here, she encountered a very serious problem.
Just as she didn't know how she flew up, she also didn't know how to land. After multiple “attempts,” she was forced to choose a “face-first brake.”
In fact, when she was preparing to land, she found that she didn't know how to decelerate at all, and for a moment she thought that if she fell from such a high place, even if she didn't die, she would be seriously injured.
Fortunately, the strength of this body was much higher than she had imagined.
“Hoo—!” Sitting naked by the edge of the pit, Lu Yibei finally recovered, exhaled a cloudy breath with an earthy smell, and stood up, walking towards the mirror in front of the public restroom door.
Her purpose in coming here was to study her body from the beginning. Although the process had some unexpected setbacks she didn't want to see, but...
Since she was already here, she still had to do what needed to be done!
...
Lu Yibei stood in front of the mirror above the washbasin, raised her hand, and saw that tender little hand. She froze for a moment, then reached out to wipe away the accumulated dust on the mirror.
As the dust was wiped away, with the firelight behind her, the outline of a petite girl was reflected.
Lu Yibei composed herself, then her eyes seemed to gain night vision, gradually seeing the image in the mirror clearly. She was surprised for a moment, then leaned in closer.
In the mirror.
The girl's pinkish-white long hair hung down, and under her bangs, a heart-stirring, lovely melon-seed face was revealed. Her fair, flawless skin showed a faint rosy glow, and in her dark red eyes, a dazzling, molten glow seemed to flow.
Her figure was very petite, but not frail. Under her well-proportioned physique, there was a slight baby-like plumpness, adding a touch of cuteness to her beauty.
Lu Yibei carefully caressed her flat chest. The smooth and elastic touch made an indescribable sense of shame rise in her heart.
As that strange feeling emerged, her body trembled slightly, and immediately after, she felt the vibrant heartbeat beneath this body.
“She” was indeed alive, not a sculpture or a painting or some other work of art.
Perhaps because of that inexplicable sense of shame, which caused her whole body to feel slightly hot, the color of her long hair gradually turned red, the surrounding temperature suddenly rose by a few degrees, and then...
“Hiss—!” The accumulated water on the washbasin boiled and then evaporated, making a soft sound that made Lu Yibei suddenly snap back to reality, and her mood immediately plummeted.
As her mood dropped, her original plan of “studying her body” was also thrown to the back of her mind. Compared to that, she was more worried about what would happen in the future.
“Is this... the price of surviving?” Lu Yibei murmured, lost in thought.
What to do about this!
To save my life, I can sacrifice my chastity, but I didn't say my integrity...
Tsk, actually, integrity can also be discarded, but this appearance is just too...
Too difficult! Too shameful!
She also wondered if what the mysterious girl in the illusion said, that bathing in the morning sun could temporarily restore her original appearance, was true.
What if it didn't work? Wouldn't she have to maintain this appearance forever?
Even if it did work, she didn't know what she meant by “a few days each month.”
Lu Yibei really wanted to confide in someone about the depression in her heart at this moment, but after thinking carefully, she suddenly realized that in this situation, she didn't even have anyone she could truly open up to.
If her dad were still alive, she could talk to him, but with his personality, if he encountered something like this, he would definitely suppress his laughter, or even laugh unreservedly and say, “Not bad, I didn't expect it, boys and girls are all the same.”
Shui Ge, as a good friend who shared the same interests as her dad, would definitely have similar thoughts.
Besides that, although Su Mi was a childhood friend, their relationship wasn't close enough for her to completely confide in him. The mysterious girl also said not to tell anyone her identity.
As for her other friends... during the two years she was hospitalized, they had already stopped keeping in touch.
“Sigh—!” After a long period of thought, Lu Yibei leaned on her forehead and let out a long sigh, suddenly feeling a bit like a failure in life.
Anyway, it's better to go back near the hospital first and wait until the sun comes out to see if she can really return to her original appearance!
If not, she probably couldn't follow what the mysterious girl said and go back to the ward as if nothing happened.
In this appearance, even if I could pretend to be foolish, the Night Watch people definitely wouldn't act as if nothing happened.
Looking at Jiang Li just now, it was as if she couldn't wait to die with me! Scared me to death!
Forget it, these things can't be solved in a short time, should I go back to the hospital first? Lu Yibei thought, then turned and left the washbasin in front of the public restroom.
As she turned, she completely failed to notice that the image in the mirror behind her hadn't changed at all. The girl in the mirror stood motionless, watching her retreating back, trembling.
It's so damn scary!
In such # Nоvеlight # a remote small park, it's fine if I don't find a single prey for a year or so!
Finally, a “person” came, and it's a high-level Weird tale! This is too difficult! the mirror ghost thought. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
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Leaving the washbasin in front of the public restroom, Lu Yibei walked to the open space in the center of the park, pondering expressionlessly with her chin in her hand for a while, then struck a Superman flying pose, stomped hard on the ground with both feet, and jumped upwards.
“Bang—!” With an explosive sound of earth and rock collapsing and cracking, she shot up into the sky like a cannonball, accompanied by firelight, and quickly disappeared from sight.
Dozens of seconds later.
“Ah—!” With a scream, she fell again, once more smashing a deep pit into the ground.
Her whole body ached, and her mouth was filled with an earthy taste. Lu Yibei lay in the pit for a long while before slowly crawling out.
Sitting by the edge of the pit, looking at the scorched blackness inside, Lu Yibei's face was full of worry.
She now felt like she was guarding a huge treasure with a shameful exterior, but she didn't have the key to open the treasure's door.
She couldn't fly anymore. She didn't know if it was due to improper operation or if her “fuel” or something had run out, but she just couldn't fly.
What to do about this! If I can't fly, do I have to run back to the hospital naked?
Actually, it's not impossible? Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly, as if weighing something.
Imagining a white-haired girl, running wildly naked on a deserted street at midnight, and that girl, seemed to be, probably, herself...
Lu Yibei's cheeks instantly flushed crimson and hot, and the dirt under her buttocks hissed, emitting puffs of white smoke.
No, no! Absolutely not!
Lu Yibei shook her head fiercely, shaking the strange thoughts out of her mind.
Lu Yibei thought, her gaze slowly shifting to the pit beside her.
How about... try again?
Let's try! Anyway, I won't die from falling!
...
“Flames that burn endlessly! Magical Girl! Change of clothes, transform!”
“Bang—!”
“I want to fly higher! Ah~ ♪”
“Bang—!”
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“Great elemental spirits of air! Hear my call! Levitation!”
“Boom—!”
...
Falling from a high altitude once again, Lu Yibei lay sprawled in a pit, her chest exposed, like a salted fish that had lost its dreams.
She realized something: in games, after a level-up, you could instantly learn a skill with just a tap, but this simply didn't exist in reality.
This won't do! It's almost dawn! I'm afraid I really will...
Lu Yibei pondered, her peripheral vision catching the burning banana leaves above her head, and a bold idea suddenly sparked in her mind.
A few minutes later.
Looking down at her body wrapped in banana leaves, Lu Yibei nodded in satisfaction.
This should be fine, right?
A little cover is better than wearing nothing at all!
Even if someone accidentally saw her, at most they'd consider it performance art, not think she was a pervert.
Having finally resolved a “major concern,” Lu Yibei let out a long sigh of relief and turned to walk out of the park.
Not long after, as if remembering something important, she rushed back, stood in front of the mirror, stared at the young girl in the mirror, tried to force a smile, and then her eyes gradually darkened.
Such a big hole in her chest had healed, but this facial paralysis, it really couldn't be cured, could it!?
Even mysterious powers couldn't cure it, could they!?
“Damn it!”
Lu Yibei suddenly let out a low growl, and the next moment, the reflection in the mirror trembled violently, screaming and running away, disappearing from sight.
“...”
The figure in the mirror ran away, and Lu Yibei, outside the mirror, was stunned for a few seconds, her pupils suddenly constricted, and she shrieked, sprinting away in almost the exact same posture, the banana leaves on her body burning up as she ran.
Amidst her fear and panic, it was as if some potential within her was unleashed, her speed increasing, leaving two trails of flames on the road, and then...
She flew.
That night, with the help of the mirror ghost, Lu Yibei learned to fly.
...
At 6:37 AM, Hua City Central Hospital was quiet under the night sky.
“Whoosh—!” A figure flew from the horizon, stirring up gusts of wind in the sky, then descended, getting closer and closer to the rooftop of the inpatient building.
Just as Lu Yibei was still two or three meters from the rooftop, she suddenly crashed into something.
Above the inpatient building, it was as if an invisible barrier had opened up; Lu Yibei flew at high speed, caught off guard, and slammed into it head-on.
With a “Boom—!” she hung naked, spread-eagled above the rooftop, her long hair behind her rising, then slowly falling like a thin blanket.
The violent impact caused her mind to go blank for a brief moment, and before she could recover, a dazzling sea-blue light bloomed before her eyes. freēwēbnovel.com
Countless playing cards flew out from the light, striking her body like a torrential downpour, like a pair of powerful hands grabbing her petite body and throwing her out.
“Boom—smash—crack—crash—!”
Lu Yibei traced an arc in mid-air, landed on the fifth-floor terrace of the outpatient department in the distance, bounced once, flew out again, and crashed into the dense tree canopy not far away, her speed slowing, breaking countless branches, and hanging upside down on a thick tree fork.
“...”
What the hell? What happened? What just happened?
Hanging upside down on the tree fork, Lu Yibei only felt stars exploding before her eyes, her bones felt like they were falling apart, and everywhere hurt.
“The patient I admitted two days ago, I'm afraid it's black night disease again. Fish eggs growing in the blood vessels—I've never heard of such a symptom! How pitiful!”
“Sigh—! You're right, aren't you? We want to help him, but we're powerless. We can only try to alleviate his pain a little.”
Conversations sounded in her ears, and through the window ahead, she saw two figures approaching in the corridor. Lu Yibei was stunned, then quickly came to her senses, sat up with a “whoosh,” climbed a certain distance along the tree fork, and hid.
“Wait! What was that?”
“What, what is it! Don't joke around!”
“I just saw... gulp! I saw a person hanging outside the window, a head, like a baby, head down, white, white-haired... I hadn't seen it clearly, and it disappeared with a whoosh!”
“Damn it! Don't talk anymore, I'm going back!”
“Didn't you say we'd go to the restroom together? Why...”
“I have a urinal in my duty room!”
Hearing the conversation between the two doctors, Lu Yibei, “...” I'm truly sorry, I didn't mean to!
However...
You're the baby! You should look more closely!
Even though I've become like this, and I'm a bit tender, at least I'm a young girl, right?
After muttering a few complaints, she turned to look in the direction of the inpatient building, her eyes slightly narrowed, her face thoughtful.
What was that situation just now? A formation? A seal? A restriction?
Lu Yibei's delicate brows furrowed as she searched her mind for terms from various novels, anime, TV shows, and movies, but she couldn't figure out what those flying cards accompanied by blue light were.
But, whatever it was, its purpose was probably to prevent Weird tale from entering the inpatient building.
At this thought, a slight sense of displeasure arose in Lu Yibei's heart—a displeasure at being treated differently.
It wasn't until this moment that she truly realized she had indeed become a Strange Tale.
What to do?
With something like that existing, wouldn't I be unable to get in?
Then how can I pretend nothing happened and return to the ward?
Sitting on the tree fork, her petite body hidden in the dense tree canopy, staring at the inpatient building in thought for a while, Lu Yibei thought of another very serious problem.
If she couldn't even enter the inpatient building, how did the man who controlled the cicada swarm bring her out from inside earlier?
Did he bribe someone in the hospital?
But...
When I woke up, I was already very far from the hospital. Even if I was sleeping soundly, it's impossible that I wouldn't have noticed being kidnapped from the ward and carried so far, right?!
It's too strange!
...
“There's a problem! There's a big problem here!” The car sped along, and Bai Kai's puzzled words came from inside the vehicle.
Fifteen minutes earlier, Bai Kai had arrived at Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel and found An Qing and Jiang Li unconscious in the fire. He immediately led them to a safe area and administered purified silver.
It was a type of mimetic source spirits, secretly made through Alchemy using high-purity silver and special spices. It looked very much like mercury and had the effect of healing injuries for Psychic.
After the two woke up and described what had happened, Bai Kai's mind was filled with questions.
Bai Kai cupped his chin, muttering to himself with a serious expression, “You mean, after that Witch Seed awakened, she not only didn't kill you, but she also ran away?”
“That makes no sense! You two, one has nearly A-rank Ling Neng, and the other has already barely reached A-rank. With a little refinement, that's hundreds of source spirits!”
“Isn't a newly born Witch Seed precisely when she needs source spirits to consolidate her power? She just let you go?”
“This is like winning a few million in the lottery and not claiming the prize! Could she be an idiot? Or else, there's some shady deal going on!”
Hearing this, Jiang Li, still a bit weak, sat up straight, her face turning cold, “Are you suspecting me?”
“This...” Bai Kai scratched the back of his head, “No, not really, it's just that this matter is too strange.”
Bai Kai naturally didn't suspect Jiang Li, because of her personal experiences, among the entire Night Watch, she was the most hostile towards Weird tale. If she had the chance, she would wish to kill all Weird tale.
“Alright, alright.” An Qing, seeing the atmosphere was a bit off, quickly tried to smooth things over, “Currently, it seems there are no casualties, which is the greatest fortune, isn't it?”
At this moment, Agent Li Xuan, who had been driving, also turned slightly and laughed heartily, “An Qing is right, facing that level of Weird tale, it's already good to be alive.”
“As for what that Witch Seed's goal is...”
“We'll slowly investigate and figure it out later, and we will never tolerate it!”
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of the four agents in the car instantly became solemn, and they all nodded in unison.
The next moment, An Qing felt a vibration from the badge on her chest. Her fingertips gently stroked the badge, reading the information contained in the fluctuation, and then her lips twitched.
“Everyone, I'm afraid we have to turn back.”
“What?” Bai Kai frowned, “What new trouble has popped up?”
“No.” An Qing rubbed her forehead, “It's that girl Gu Xiliu. She left Qingyuan Ferry and just arrived at the resort hotel. Seeing that no one was there... she cried.”
“...” Everyone was silent for a few seconds, and then a collective sigh echoed in the car.
