Free Web NovelAt five past three in the morning, cold wind rolled with tiny snowflakes drifting in the air.
On a small mountain two kilometers away from the Hua City Ceramics Factory, a petite girl stood at the peak of a towering tree, gazing towards the ceramics factory.
She held a hand-drawn simplified map in one hand and a pen in the other. In between gazing, she occasionally lowered her head and sketched something on the map.
After a long time.
Looking at the map covered in messy lines, Lu Yibei silently sighed and shoved the map back into the open gap of her guitar bag.
"That's about it. We can start now."
According to the list of urban legend incidents Jiang Li gave her, although there weren't too powerful urban legend inside the Hua City Ceramics Factory, the number of urban legend was quite large, even surpassing Yin Street.
Therefore, to avoid the situation where she was chased and beaten by urban legend emerging from the shadows after venting her energy on Yin Street last time, she had chosen a relatively hidden Spell release location in advance this time, and also planned the most efficient escape route in case of an accident.
Although the urban legend that burst out on Yin Street last time were no match for her and were killed one by one during the chase, it's always better to be prepared!
What if something terrifying burst out from inside the ceramics factory?
While contemplating, Lu Yibei had unknowingly arrived at her first planned location. fгeewebnovёl.com
Standing in the gap between two abandoned buildings, slightly over a meter wide, she used the buildings for cover and looked towards the pitch-black ceramics factory over five hundred meters ahead. Immediately after, she took out a dose of medicine from her jacket pocket and put it into her mouth.
"Ugh, Yiying—!"
The pain brought by swallowing the medicine made her let out a soft moan.
As the familiar whispers sounded in her ears and the power within her began to boil, she raised her hands, aimed forward, her gaze focused, and quickly chanted the spell.
"Water surges, fire blazes, wind and rain follow, vast and scorching... Flowing Bell Hurl Fire!"
Along with the chanting of the spell, dazzling light instantly filled the already narrow gap. Two abnormally thick beams of light, like two flood dragons fighting for life and death, tangled and flew, tearing through the deep night and heading straight for the roof of the ceramics factory.
"...Burn the rhinoceros to illuminate, to see the Disaster, Chi Huang Fire!"
"Dark sky, cold wind rises, tearing the cloud curtain..."
"..."
Before the beams of Flowing Bell Hurl Fire fell, Lu Yibei immediately chanted other Spells. For a moment, a huge fireball chased the two streams of light, like a miniature sun, and behind it, a piece of shimmering ice crystals floated.
However, just as the terrifying number of high-level Spells, dense as hail, were about to fall one after another, their speed suddenly slowed down.
A translucent hemispherical cover could be vaguely seen covering the top of the ceramics factory.
The few urban legend and Psychic left behind in the ceramics factory discovered this wave of unknown saturation bombing and jointly cast a large-scale defensive Spell.
The continuous bombardment on the opened light shield was repeatedly delayed, and the exploding airwaves could not destroy that thin shield.
But the entire ceramics factory still began to vibrate. The hemispherical light shield was like a rubber ball being abused by a naughty child, constantly being squeezed and deformed, with large cracks appearing and quickly being repaired.
However, even the most powerful defensive Spell cannot withstand attacks indefinitely; there must be a critical value.
Finally, as the phantom images of four strange beasts, shining all over as if they had fallen from the bright moon, struck down, that critical value was reached.
The Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon mixed with the shattered and dissipated energy of the defensive Spell, causing a violent explosion above the ceramics factory.
"Boom—!"
Accompanied by a violent roar, the ground shook, and the surging airwaves directly stirred up a hurricane above the ceramics factory, tearing apart the dilapidated roof. Several screams could be vaguely heard through the roar of the explosion.
The whole process took only about ten seconds. When Lu Yibei recovered her senses from casting the Spell and resisting the pain brought by the medicine and looked towards the ceramics factory, her eyes lit up slightly when she saw the building with its "head" blown off.
Hehehe, it's time for my favorite part again, looting the bodies!
She thought happily, just about to enter the ceramics factory to collect her labor income for the night, when she suddenly heard a loud shout from inside the ceramics factory.
"Who is it!? Who the hell is—!"
"What kind of skill is it to sneak attack in the dark? If you have the guts, come out and fight me head-on, your Grandpa!"
A Strange Tale with a body like an ape but the head of an eagle leaped out of the ceramics factory, stood among the ruins, howled towards the sky, and swung huge stones, smashing them around in a fit of rage. There were still a few wisps of fire floating on the oily feathers that spread from its head to its waist and abdomen, which it hadn't had time to extinguish.
Immediately after, several figures in black robes flew out and stood behind it, searching for something.
Meanwhile, Lu Yibei, who saw this scene from a distance and sensed the strong Spiritual Energy fluctuations from those urban legend and Psychic, had already slipped away according to the planned optimal escape route.
"Looking at their attire, they seem to be with the black-robed people I encountered in the unfinished building on Fuchun Road last time?" Lu Yibei muttered as she ran.
The thought that she might be targeted by that group of evil forces because of this made her feel panicked.
"Wdnmd, how did I blow out such a bunch of tough guys? What kind of cursed fate is this♦!"
"I'm scared, I'm scared. If I can't provoke them, can't I hide? I'll report the strongholds of these bastards to the Night Watch later!"
However...
This was not the cursed fate Lu Yibei thought it was.
As the saying goes, if you walk the night road enough, you will encounter ghosts.
In the past two days, she had blown up all the Strange Tale-infested locations in Hua City that had no Master and were located in remote areas, big and small. Meeting these guys was bound to happen sooner or later.
Even if she didn't blow up the ceramics factory, she would have blown up another stronghold.
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At the same time.
In a remote villa area in the suburbs of Hua City.
Netizen Laosepi sat in front of the computer, tinkering with the newly downloaded cloud translation program for eroge while chatting and GHS with a big shot from a certain H-anime localization group.
Just then, a retro avatar in the lower right corner of the screen flickered. When he clicked it open, he saw a video of a Spell bombing filled with special effects, and the figure appearing in the video was Wang Bu Liu Xing.
"..."
After a brief silence of a few seconds, Netizen Laosepi quickly forwarded the video to his Void.
Netizen Old Pervert 00: "Void, look at this quickly!"
Void: "I've already seen it, at the same time you received the video."
Void: "Stealing homes? I didn't expect this to be Wang Bu Liu Xing's way of dealing with the Twilight Woman's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons organization? When the enemy advances, I retreat; when the enemy is stationed, I harass... As expected of her!"
Void: "Each attack deliberately only uses Spells, not the innate abilities of urban legend, to avoid the enemy tracking based on residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Tsk tsk, clever!"
Netizen Old Pervert 00: "Then Void, what should we do now?"
Void: "You guys also imitate her method and steal homes! Take the opportunity to gain some benefits. Anyway, if something happens, just blame it on Wang Bu Liu Xing, after all, she started it."
Void: "She eats the meat and bears most of the risk, you drink the soup and bear a small part of the risk. That's reasonable!"
Netizen Old Pervert 00: "Void is wise!"
Thus.
After this day, Lu Yibei temporarily stopped her "explosion maniac" behavior, and the urban legend who had joined the Twilight Woman's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons also briefly breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, a group of guys who inherited her will appeared.
Their methods were relatively less violent, but their whereabouts were more bizarre. Explosion attackers who robbed after bombing appeared in Hua City, making those black-robed people and urban legend tense up again.
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Two days later, in the early morning.
Last night's snow was very light, but it fell all night long, coating the alley entrance of the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration with a thin layer of silver.
"Creak—creak—!"
Li Xuan, who had finished his night shift and eaten breakfast, walked from a distance, stepping on the accumulated snow, with a hint of melancholy between his brows.
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He couldn't contact his Master anymore. After sending the video clip of Lu Yibei casting the Spell that day, he tried to contact his Master several more times and finally confirmed that he had indeed been blocked.
"Ah, after the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons incident is investigated, when Jiang Li comes back, I might have to take a leave of absence to go back and ask Master properly," Li Xuan said to himself.
As an excellent talent sent by Da Chunyang Palace to the Night Watch, he had always thought he was his Master's pride. The current situation made him very sad.
Just as Li Xuan was feeling downhearted by his Master's indifference, accompanied by the sound of heavy objects being dragged, a shout suddenly came from the alley entrance.
"Brothers, be careful, don't let the engine oil splash on you, that stuff is poisonous!"
Following the sound, they saw a trailer with a bus shell parked by the roadside at the alley entrance. Several members of the Special Operations Team, under Bai Kai's command, were pulling it inside through the freight channel at the back door of the Hua City Si Ye Hui.
The Liche Jiang's remains were discovered this morning at a car recycling plant. An Qing received a tip from an informant at the hospital that the managers of that remote car recycling plant, a total of seven people, had successively developed the bizarre symptom of their skin turning into hard cardboard last night.
In this world, it's not strange for someone to contract the black night disease for inexplicable reasons, but if multiple people develop symptoms of °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° the black night disease at the same time in the same location, there must be a "source of infection".
An Qing received the notification, brought her tools, and carefully searched through the car recycling plant where "corpses" were piled up like mountains. She then found the Liche Jiang's remains, which looked no different from scrapped vehicles.
When the remains were found, black blood resembling engine oil flowed all over the ground, clearly the source that caused multiple people to suddenly contract the black night disease.
After simply handling the scene, An Qing contacted Bai Kai and asked him to bring people to retrieve the Liche Jiang's remains.
A urban legend remains with a Spiritual Energy fluctuation of A- and toxic blood like this, if not properly handled, would at best cause frequent black night disease outbreaks in the surrounding area. At worst, it could fuse with a Psychic or a urban legend, giving birth to a new urban legend.
And the Liche Jiang's remains are not the first high-level urban legend remains discovered in Hua City recently.
Twilight Woman has gone berserk with killing.
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Looking at the bus completely splashed with black engine oil and missing all four wheels, then looking at Bai Kai, Li Xuan was stunned. The first thought that flashed through his mind was actually, "He even poked a bus?"
Infringing on private property is one thing, but damaging public property is a serious matter.
Immediately after, upon carefully examining the bus, he realized there was a faint Spiritual Energy fluctuation on the vehicle, and his expression instantly became solemn.
He had heard about the major urban legend in Hua City that was active in the early morning hours, disguised as a bus, luring and killing urban legend and Psychic. However, he never expected that the first time he saw it, he would see its remains.
Muttering to himself, Li Xuan stepped forward.
At the alley entrance, an old Grandpa who lived on Peony Street and was out early buying groceries passed by them, couldn't help but stop and ask curiously, "Xiao Bai, what are you guys doing?"
"Oh, Uncle Weng? This vehicle is a cultural heritage. We're dragging it back for protection, research, and restoration."
"Ah? Isn't this just an old bus from the 1950s or 60s? That can be a cultural heritage too? Xiao Bai, then what about my Phoenix bicycle? When are you going to collect it?"
"..."
Just as Bai Kai didn't know how to explain to the old Grandpa that they were a cultural heritage protection unit, not a waste recycling station, Li Xuan came up beside the two of them.
A cunning light flashed in Bai Kai's eyes, and he took the opportunity to put his hand on Li Xuan's shoulder, "Yo, Section Chief Li, good morning. Have you eaten? If not, how about we grab breakfast together?"
Seeing him suddenly so friendly and enthusiastic, Li Xuan's heart tightened, secretly wondering if he was up to no good again, but then a cold sneer appeared in his heart.
Heh, I walked here today! Didn't expect that, did you?!
"By the way, is your car repair place the Jinrong Repair Shop?"
Li Xuan, "???"
Seeing his expression change, Bai Kai smiled, "Don't panic, I just asked casually, let's talk about serious matters."
"Speaking of which, when the Huacheng Barrier was set up, it seems the Sect Master of Da Chunyang Palace participated? If possible, could I trouble you to ask the old gentleman to handle it?"
"..."
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then understood Bai Kai's meaning, and said with a solemn expression, "You want to apply to the higher-ups for a city lockdown? Has the situation become that serious?"
The barriers set up by the Night Watch between cities, in addition to acting like independent fortresses to isolate the urban legend between various cities and prevent cross-city Night Parade of One Hundred Demons events from occurring.
When necessary, they can also be actively activated to seal off specific areas, minimizing damage to the city during large-scale urban legend hunts.
However, only those who participated in setting up the barrier know how to actively activate it.
"Of course!" Bai Kai pouted, "Those high-level urban legend have been attacked several times. I estimate that Twilight Woman will take action during the next moonless night."
"But..." Li Xuan frowned, "Why don't you directly submit the application to the people above? That should be much more reasonable and compliant than asking our Sect Master, right?"
"..." Bai Kai stared at Li Xuan in silence for a few seconds, then sighed, "Xiao Li Zi, it's not that I don't want to, but do you know who the current superior in charge of Hua City is?"
"It's..." Li Xuan was about to say the woman's name when he suddenly realized something, and a look of understanding flashed in his eyes.
He had long heard that when Bai Kai was young, he met a female Psychic who cheated him out of money and sex, and finally used him up and dumped him.
He also heard that the woman later joined the Night Watch, and he heard again that the woman now seems to be in charge of the southwestern region, including a large area encompassing Hua City.
Seeing Li Xuan's expression of understanding, Bai Kai raised an eyebrow, "Understand what's going on now? I knew you, Xiao Li Zi, as the most gossipy agent in the Hua City Si Ye Hui, would understand immediately." freёwebnovel.com
Hearing this, Li Xuan said angrily, "You're the most gossipy one, you..."
"Stop the nonsense!" Bai Kai interrupted, "For the sake of me changing your tires every couple of months, just say whether you'll help or not!"
Who asked you to change them for me? I ♦ thank your whole family! Li Xuan cursed fiercely in his heart, and continued, "It's not that I won't help you, it's just..."
"Just what?"
"It's just that I've recently been blacklisted by my sect members, and I can't contact them for a while," Li Xuan said with a bitter expression.
"What the heck?" Bai Kai said in surprise, "I used to think that our personalities clashed because I had a problem, but now it seems you have the problem?"
"How annoying does a person have to be to get blacklisted by the sect they've lived and studied with for almost ten years? Xiao Li Zi, can you please be a decent person?"
"Well, if that's the case, I'll just have to think of other ways. Alright, I'm leaving."
Watching Bai Kai chase after the departing Special Operations Team members, Li Xuan hesitated to speak.
"..."
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In the early morning hours.
On a vast and desolate hillside, a captivating woman in a red dress stood before a mine shaft, gazing ahead.
In the pitch-black mine shaft, darkness flowed slowly like a colloid, as if hiding something terrifying that was remotely locked in a stalemate with her.
This was a small coal mine in the distant suburbs of Hua City that had been closed for a long time after a serious gas explosion accident.
Twilight Woman had searched almost every high-level urban legend in Hua City capable of causing explosions before coming here, ready to target the urban legend that caused the gas explosion here.
In fact, if she hadn't been unable to think of any other high-level urban legend capable of causing such large-scale explosion events, she wouldn't have wanted to come here.
The urban legend hidden in the underground labyrinthine mine shaft had a natural geographical advantage. If she went deep inside, she wasn't guaranteed victory in a fight.
However, just as she made up her mind and was about to enter the mine shaft, a stream of black light flew from a distance and landed beside her, transforming into a black-robed figure wearing a golden eagle mask.
"Devil Woman, something has happened."
"What happened?" Twilight Woman frowned.
"Several more strongholds were blown up. One of the stronghold brothers was injured by the explosion and his Spiritual Energy items were also looted."
"According to observations, the methods of these sneak attacks are the same as the previous ceramic factory incident, and two locations were attacked simultaneously."
"I suspect they are not just one group, but organized and premeditated! It's possible there's also a huge organization behind them."
Although the casualties caused by these explosive attacks were not many, they seriously affected the progress of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons preparations, causing great trouble for Twilight Woman.
She looked at the dark mine entrance ahead, then looked at the black-robed figure in front of her. She had thought the last suspicious target had been found and the trouble would soon end, but unexpectedly, she had once again found the wrong urban legend. The anger that had been suppressed for a long time finally erupted.
"Let's temporarily halt the rec
