Free Web NovelHua City used to hardly snow, and it was only after the first year that the nights began to grow long that winter gradually became distinct.
Snowflakes slowly drifted down onto Peony Street, where ancient alleys crisscrossed, wooden windows in every house were piled with snow, and the leisurely bluestone paths and rippling clear water painted a poetic and picturesque scene unique to winter.
Bai Kai sat alone in front of the Lu Family Old House, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. Red-hot charcoal in the brazier before him roasted sweet potatoes and small yellow fish, emitting enticing aromas.
"This dead girl, on such a cold day, instead of staying home, where did she run off to?"
Grilled fish and sweet potatoes were Nanling Yaohua's favorite foods. When she was in the Gobi Desert, food was scarce, and whenever Lu Ming brought her these foods, she would be happy for a long time.
In fact, Nanling Yaohua's obsession with Hua City and Lu Yibei was planted at that time. Lu Ming always coaxed her, saying, "There's even more delicious food at my house, and my son cooks even better than I do."
Bai Kai finally finished the work at hand today and came here to find Nanling Yaohua, wanting to have a nostalgic get-together. However, after waiting for a long time, she was nowhere to be seen, and the nostalgic get-together gradually showed signs of turning into a solitary one.
Taking one last puff of the cigarette, Bai Kai extinguished the butt, casting a resentful glance at the Old House behind him, and muttered, "Too bad. After that, I specifically learned grilling skills from Lu Ming."
Bai Kai didn't have any inherited cooking skills, but he was willing to learn any method that could be used to please girls.
However, he learned all sorts of methods originally just to please one person, but he never expected that they would all be used on other girls later.
Thinking of that woman, a surge of inexplicable anger rose in Bai Kai's heart again.
Back then, the two Senior Brothers had just emerged from the Gobi Desert, one with peerless Spells, the other with unparalleled swordsmanship. Traveling together, they were truly as the poem said, "Black hair untouched by sorrowful dust, leaving with a saber and wine." They were incredibly unrestrained.
It's just a pity that later, they both fell into the hands of women.
Lu Ming claimed he was knocked unconscious and kidnapped, but Bai Kai didn't believe him.
With his unique skill of triple Spell chanting, if he had just cast a few defensive Spells on himself, he wouldn't have been knocked out.
So even now, Bai Kai isn't sure whether Lu Ming fell for that crazy woman's trick, or if that crazy woman fell into his Senior Brother's trap, or perhaps both, and they were just acting.
Bai Kai himself was tricked. The process was roughly that a beautiful Older sister met a pure little boy, used a few tricks, and successfully achieved First Blood, Double Kill, Pentakill, Godlike...
However, Bai Kai's initial Spirit Mark was a pure Heroic Spirit Seed. To advance smoothly, he needed to be abstinent. But due to a single thought, he was forced to change his advancement path, becoming a mixed-breed Spirit Mark, and his strength was halved.
Originally, he could accept making a small sacrifice for love.
However, after he resolutely gave up a more powerful advancement path and used his Spirit Mark to assist that woman in advancing, not only did he not gain love, but he also ended up deeply in debt from purchasing various materials.
According to the current saying, Bai Kai was maliciously PUA'd by that woman.
If Lu Ming hadn't rescued him in time, Bai Kai, whose Spirit Mark was out of control and whose strength was severely damaged, would truly have been forced by his creditors to pay off his debts with his butt.
Afterward, Bai Kai even expressed his willingness to give himself to repay his good buddy.
However, Lu Ming refused without a second thought, saying, "Brother, quickly put your pants back on! You're not playing by the rules, are you? In this situation, shouldn't you be willing to work like a horse?"
Originally, Bai Kai thought he would never see that woman who left without saying goodbye again, but recently, that woman somehow managed to clean up her act and became his superior. He suddenly felt completely off.
If he fell into that woman's hands again, could his life be easy? Just thinking about the days ahead being constantly constrained by her made Bai Kai's head ache.
Just like this time applying to activate the Huacheng Barrier, he could have solved it by submitting an application through a relatively simpler method.
But because of that woman's appearance, he forcefully stopped Li Xuan and An Qing, who were preparing to submit the application. Within two days, alone on two legs, he ran through half of Z Country, visiting four of the five S-class Spiritual Energy users who set up barriers.
Only then did he successfully obtain a one-time talisman for activating the barrier from a certain big shot.
If I can't afford to offend you, can't I afford to avoid you?
Dead woman, times have changed, you won't get a single bit of benefit from me again! Bai Kai thought angrily.
While thinking, he clenched his fist hard, and with a 'crunch!', he crushed the sweet potato he had just roasted in his hand, the heat pressing against his palm.
"Hiss—! Hot, hot!"
Lu Yibei, carrying luggage, passed by the front of his Old House and saw Bai Kai fumbling, splattering the yellow, sticky substance on his hands everywhere. He was completely shocked.
"Good heavens! Shui Ge, what are you doing? In broad daylight, playing with shit in front of my house? That's too disgusting!"
"..."
Hearing the familiar voice by his ear, the corner of Bai Kai's mouth twitched, and he threw the half-eaten sweet potato onto the ground with force.
"Sweet potato, it's sweet potato!"
Bai Kai explained loudly, then turned to look at Lu Yibei, only to find him carrying large and small bags of luggage. He couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Xiao Bei, with your luggage, are you..."
Mid-sentence, he seemed to suddenly remember something, looking back at the Lu Family Old House behind him, "Could it be that you plan to move back in?"
How can that be!
I know the layout of your house. Downstairs is a restaurant, and in the attic, there's only one bed.
It's fine for you two father and son to squeeze together and sleep, but you can't squeeze together and sleep with Xiao Hua! Even if there's an engagement, it's too early. Bai Kai thought to himself.
"Isn't it not very peaceful outside recently? It's safer to live at the Night Watch!" Lu Yibei said.
I'm already injured, and it's impossible for the dark forces to take such a huge risk just for such a small grudge and find their way to the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, right?
Even if they were truly that audacious, there are still five main operatives blocking them. If they want to kill me, they would probably have to step over their corpses first!
It's just that there are still three doses of the potion that I haven't had time to take. With this disruption, I don't know how long it will take to fully compensate for the defects. Lu Yibei thought to himself.
"That makes some sense." Bai Kai nodded in agreement. "However, it's getting cold recently. Have you prepared warm clothes? Do you want me to bring some over for you later?"
"Also, if you're bored at night, give me a call, I can come over and keep you company!"
Seeing Bai Kai winking and making faces, Lu Yibei's heart tightened, and he quickly waved his hand, saying, "No need, no need! I'm not a child anymore, you don't need to worry about these things."
Calling a male escort to my room to play with me late at night, if someone saw it, it would be as hard to explain as Shui Ge splattering roasted sweet potatoes in front of my house.
Lu Yibei thought to himself, tightening the bundle on his back, and walked forward, saying, "Alright, Shui Ge, you take your time. If there's nothing else, I'll be going first."
"I still need to go back later and bring some toiletries."
Before the Huacheng Night Parade of One Hundred Demons incident calms down, Lu Yibei was prepared for a long-term battle.
He had only walked a few steps before he stopped again, turned his head to look at the sticky sweet potato on the door panel, and said expressionlessly, "Oh right, Shui Ge, before you leave, remember to clean it up!"
"I don't mean anything else! I trust your character, but that doesn't mean others do. I still have to come back later to open for business! Also..."
"Those... those... on your hands have dried."
Bai Kai lowered his head to look at his bright yellow palm, then subconsciously brought it to his nose to sniff.
Lu Yibei, "???"
Seeing Lu Yibei's gradually disdainful look, Bai Kai, "..."
No! Why did I smell it?
I'm innocent!
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Winter nights seemed to arrive faster than usual. As soon as the sun dipped below the horizon, Hua City was once again shrouded in the veil of night.
In a supermarket in a remote location in Hua City that had long ceased operations, eerie figures flashed by from time to time.
After the Hua City Ceramics Factory was attacked, Twilight Woman moved her base here.
In the unmanned underground cold storage, old lighting fixtures weakly cast dim yellow light. A peculiar smell, formed by the putrefaction of meat in a confined space, hung in the air. A bronze mirror of ancient design stood in the center of the vast space.
"Creak—!"
Accompanied by a grating sound, the heavy door of the cold storage was opened. A woman in red came in from outside and walked directly to the bronze mirror.
She stopped in front of the bronze mirror, but the perfectly smooth surface failed to reflect her figure. All that was there was a deep darkness.
Between that deep darkness and countless swirling dark auras, a distorted, massive figure, seemingly constantly splitting and proliferating, could be vaguely seen seated in the deepest part.
Even through the darkness and layers of mist-like dark aura, one could feel the terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanating from it and its extremely vigorous vitality.
Subdued by that powerful Spiritual Energy fluctuation, Twilight Woman knelt respectfully on one knee before the bronze mirror. A strange and complex mark on her forehead glowed with a crimson light.
"Following the Master's summons, Twilight Woman has come to see you."
The massive shadow in the darkness asked sternly, "How have you done with the task I assigned you? Have you encountered any obstacles?"
"..." Twilight Woman was silent for a moment, biting her pearly teeth lightly, and said, "Everything is going smoothly."
"Oh? How come I heard someone is causing trouble?"
The massive shadow questioned sharply, and the Spiritual Energy fluctuations surging from the bronze mirror let out bursts of shrieks. The ice blocks around, frozen for who knows how long, were instantly crushed into powder.
"..."
Twilight Woman dared not respond. As she heard the question from the mirror, she also felt that on the other side of the mirror, countless eyes were collectively fixed on her. Those strange, twisted emotions conveyed negative emotions that were almost solidified, driving her to the verge of madness.
Just then, the bronze mirror suddenly trembled. Something passed through the mirror's surface, rippling it layer by layer, and then dropped in front of Twilight Woman.
"Go, go plant my flesh and blood in the land of Hua City. That will make your actions smoother."
It was a strange, dark green substance, about the size of a fist, roughly spherical in shape, with a smooth surface, no protrusions, and no visible organs or limbs. It somewhat resembled a composite spore body of some ancient slime mold, easily reminding one of something called Tai Sui.
But after Twilight Woman examined it carefully, she found that the thing, which resembled Tai Sui but was abnormally colored, was covered with a layer of transparent jelly-like substance.
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Beneath the gelatinous substance, there were faint traces of something flowing, and as those things flowed slowly, a thin layer of dark green mist scattered around.
The Twilight Woman felt a strong, vigorous, and evil vitality from the mist, as if it wanted to seize Spiritual Energy from everything around it.
"..."
If this kind of thing is planted on the land of Hua City, will it really not cause big problems? The Twilight Woman thought.
She suddenly became a little curious about what kind of urban legend this Master of unknown origin, whom the black-robed people called the "Plague Tai Sui," was born from.
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When the Twilight Woman came out of the ice storage, a black-robed man rushed in from outside, stopped in front of her, cupped his fists, and said, "Devil Woman, there is a new discovery in the search operation."
"New discovery?" The Twilight Woman frowned slightly and asked, "Tell me about it?"
"We discovered a group of urban legend that are also secretly organizing the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and they have occupied an area within ten kilometers radiating from the University City as the center. I suspect..."
"You suspect that they are the ones who are secretly causing the destruction?" The Twilight Woman coldly glanced at the black-robed man in front of her and interrupted.
"Exactly," the black-robed man replied.
But what kind of urban legend Night Parade of One Hundred Demons would have a range of only ten kilometers?
Isn't this a thankless task?
The Twilight Woman muttered to herself, her eyes slightly cold, and said, "Alright, do you have their latest movements? I will go and see for myself if they are the ones who have been causing trouble recently."
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After Lu ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) Yibei simply tidied up the temporary residence in the temporary office, the sky had gradually darkened.
In winter, night falls without knowing when.
To avoid the embarrassing situation of sudden urban legend transformation during the process of moving daily necessities, Lu Yibei left the area of Peony Street in advance, returned to the unfinished building in the University City, waited until the sky was completely dark, stopped the urban legend transformation, and then strolled towards Jingyi Apartment.
As soon as she took out the key and opened the door, she was so shocked by the scene in front of her that she jumped back a step.
What the hell? What's going on? When did so many urban legend come to my house?
Looking around, in the originally spacious apartment, there were monstrous hands stretching and retracting under the sofa, tongues like a group of slugs in the kitchen, plaster statues covered with moss and graffiti... All kinds of urban legend were like dumplings being dropped, almost in every corner.
Those urban legend were rolling on the carpet wantonly, licking the water outlets of the water dispenser and the sink, and several urban legend that looked like mannequins even tried to assemble her MG Red Astray Gundam model that she hadn't had time to unbox.
This is too much!
Finally, after staring blankly at the genuine chaos for a few seconds, Lu Yibei's emotions exploded.
"Damn it! Someone explain to me what the hell is going on? Otherwise, all of you will become the core of the urban legend body tonight for me."
The urban legend, who were laughing and playing happily, instantly became silent when they heard this roar, stiffly turned their bodies, looked towards the direction of the door, and after an awkward two-second stare with Lu Yibei, they all let out terrified screams. freewebnoveℓ.com
"Help! Killing urban legend!"
"He can see us, that human can see us!"
"Mom, I'm scared!"
"I'm scared too..."
So, the apartment became even more chaotic, with countless messy shadows flying around the room, and the sound of furniture and cups being knocked to the ground was incessant.
A few minutes later.
Maotuan (Hairball), False Tooth, Eyeball, and Sleeping Dress all knelt in front of Lu Yibei, and behind them, a dense crowd of Miscellaneous fish urban legend were prostrate.
After briefly explaining the situation to Lu Yibei, Maotuan (Hairball) choked and said, "Devil Woman, this is what happened. We also brought them back because we saw that they were homeless and too pitiful."
Lu Yibei crossed her arms, squinted at Maotuan (Hairball), pondered for a while, and then frowned, "So, these Little Freaks were brought back by you because someone was secretly organizing the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons and destroyed their dwelling places?"
"Yes, yes, yes! That's exactly it!" Seeing that the excuse she made up had worked, Maotuan (Hairball) hurriedly replied, "We also had good intentions! Please forgive us, Devil Woman."
Although the reason Maotuan (Hairball) told Lu Yibei was made up, what she said was not entirely false.
Among these urban legend, apart from 40% that they subdued through the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, another 40% were Little Freaks who came to seek refuge because their survival was threatened by the Twilight Woman's repeated attacks on urban legend gathering places when she organized the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and the remaining 20%...
Were urban legend who were displaced due to the "accidental injury" of the Explosion Maniac and his will inheritor.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Although they are indeed quite pitiful, they can't be brought home!
Look, what has the house been turned into?
It would take at least a day or two to clean it up...
Today, Lu Yibei finally understood why her Old Dad's face turned as green as a bitter gourd when she brought her friends from the old street home to play when she was a child.
What's more, this is much more serious than me bringing friends home, okay?
There are no family members at home, how should I explain it if someone hears the noise?
If the neighbors find out, not only is there noise, but there are also mannequins and plaster statues walking around the house. Even if they are not scared to death, they will call the police, and then it will be reported to the Night Watch. Lu Yibei thought.
Seeing that Lu Yibei had not spoken for a long time, "What are you talking nonsense with him for? I've seen it for a long time, this woman has no sympathy!"
"Since things have come to this, it's death anyway. It's better to fight her! If everyone unites, there may not be a fight..."
Eyeball's words of inciting a rebellion were not finished when it felt a chill behind it, wriggled its body, turned its pupils to look back, and saw a broken sword with jagged teeth pressing against its back.
"Who told you I have no sympathy?" Lu Yibei held the sword against Eyeball's back with one hand, and poked it with a finger with the other hand, "It's just that you brought them back and made the house so messy, it's really annoying, you know?"
"And you!" Lu Yibei said, pointing the Tai sword at the few mannequin urban legend who were secretly assembling models, and roared, "I'm giving a lecture! Can't you be serious?"
As soon as Lu Yibei finished speaking, the few mannequin urban legend looked at each other, as if they had made a decision, nodded, and fell to the ground with a "clatter," pretending to be dead.
"..."
I've never seen such a perfunctory acting... Lu Yibei muttered to herself, and continued, "In short, none of you are allowed to stay at home. I'll find a place for you to go!"
After all, they were really too miserable. When Maotuan (Hairball) was telling what happened, the contents that those urban legend occasionally added were almost comparable to a vulgar emotional reality show that sells misery.
"Devil Woman is wise! May your good fortune be boundless, last for thousands of generations, expand your territory, and unify the martial arts world!"
"Shut up! Do you want to die?" Lu Yibei glared at the cheering Maotuan (Hairball) and said, "Every inch of land belongs to the country and the people. Z Country has its own national conditions."
"Yes, yes, yes, Devil Woman's teaching is right!" Maotuan (Hairball) said repeatedly, "But, can you tell us in advance where we are going later?"
"Hmm..." Lu Yibei stroked her chin and pondered for two seconds, "Go to the underground parking lot of Happiness Community and find a urban legend wearing a Qingyi opera costume. She will settle you down."
She had long since asked Mengmeng where she usually hid.
Deeper underground than the underground parking lot of Happiness Community, the cellar of the former theater is still hidden somewhere, and Mengmeng usually hides there.
As for whether these Little Freaks will be able to withstand Mengmeng's zither music, which is like a pig being slaughtered and has a certain hallucinatory effect, that is not something she can control.
Hearing Lu Yibei mention Happiness Community, many urban legend showed fear. They knew that there was a very terrifying urban legend in that community.
"De-Devil Woman, can I ask what your relationship is with the urban legend in Happiness Community? We are a little scared," a childish voice asked.
Lu Yibei looked in the direction of the voice and saw a urban legend whose body was pieced together from a plastic Pleasant Goat head and a David plaster statue. Her eyes twitched, and she silently covered her eyes.
"She is my subordinate... You can go without worry! Nothing will happen. I have other things to do, so I won't see you off."
After saying that, Lu Yibei got up and quickly walked towards the bathroom to pack her toiletries. The moment she turned around, the Little Freaks in the living room began to whisper.
"I didn't expect Devil Woman to be so powerful! Even the urban legend in Happiness Community are her subordinates. You don't know, I was driven out of Happiness Community by that terrifying guy."
"You know the what but not the why. The strength required to defeat a certain urban legend and subdue a certain urban legend is not the same. It is said that to forcibly subdue a certain urban legend as a subordinate, your strength must be at least ten times, or even more, than it!"
"Then... isn't Devil Woman the strongest and most terrifying urban legend in Hua City?"
"..."
Anyone who hears someone speaking well of them behind their back will be very pleased, and Lu Yibei was no exception. However, as she listened, she felt something was wrong.
"You say, does Devil Woman like muscular men? I heard that Witch Seeds all like muscular men," a childish voice asked.
"It's very possible!"
"Another question, why does Devil Woman want to turn into a boy?"
"Maybe she has some special fetish?"
"..."
Lu Yibei, "..."
Damn! As expected of urban legend, your brains can't hold anything from the human world!
She thought angrily, reached for the toothbrush on the washstand, and then grabbed a sticky substance. She turned her head to look and found that some urban legend had laid a few eggs on her toothbrush.
"..."
Damn... I'd better go back to the small supermarket and buy a new set of toiletries. Lu Yibei thought.
