Free Web NovelIn silence, Bai Kai looked at Lu Yibei. His face was still expressionless, and he was still that young man, but he felt a little unfamiliar to him.
When he helped Lu Yibei draw the Spirit Mark, he had already discovered that Lu Yibei had obtained the power of the Demoness Seed from somewhere, but until five minutes ago, he hadn't paid attention to this matter.
After all, a quarter urban legend bloodline is still a urban legend bloodline!
It's not uncommon for some urban legend power to appear in the body as one grows older.
For a long time.
Bai Kai suddenly burst out laughing, "No, Xiao Bei, you're doing well, why would you do that? Don't you know that I've been investigating this matter recently?"
"You can change it, change it to something else, and I can help you."
"Shui Ge..." Lu Yibei said seriously, "This time's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons may be much more serious than you know. The Night Watch alone may not be able to handle it completely."
Bai Kai frowned, then relaxed, smiled, and continued to perfunctorily say, "Xiao Bei, you should still stay out of it. When it comes to dealing with the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, the Night Watch is more experienced than you."
"Oh, right, what you just said is fine for you to tell me, but don't let other Night Watch members hear it, especially Li Xuan. If he hears it, he could report you to the Si Ye Hui Headquarters!"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Bai Kai, Lu Yibei pondered for a moment and had a sudden inspiration, "As for the Taishui, he is the Son of Heaven of the year, so he cannot be offended. Offending him will bring disaster..."
"Shui Ge, have you ever heard this description of a urban legend Power somewhere?"
Although Lu Yibei didn't fully repeat the description he heard in his dream, the low whisper of the Twilight Woman, doing so would likely attract the attention of a dangerous existence.
Last time, just casually reciting the description of the Purple Maiden made him feel uneasy for a long time, and it even attracted a "ferocious" great urban legend like Ju Meng. He didn't want to make the same mistake again.
But just this incomplete content was enough for Bai Kai to associate many things.
As soon as he finished listening to Lu Yibei, Bai Kai's expression changed slightly, and his eyes deepened, "X Tai Sui? Could it be that it is behind this Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?"
"X Tai Sui?"
Hearing the urban legend name that Bai Kai blurted out, Lu Yibei was stunned, "What kind of urban legend is this? Why does this name have a hint of cyberpunk?"
To be honest, when Bai Kai said the words "X Tai Sui", Lu Yibei's mind had already conjured up a strange-looking behemoth.
On its pink and slippery body, various futuristic metal instruments were intertwined, covered with neon lights that caused light pollution but were otherwise useless.
Could it be a creation born from the 瘋狂 experiments of the Eclipse Society?
Seemingly seeing Lu Yibei's confusion, Bai Kai explained, "Xiao Bei, for Calamity level urban legend, even if you don't fully describe their urban legend Power, just calling their name can cause a faint reaction."
"Although that level of reaction is usually not dangerous, to be safe, the Night Watch internally hides part of their names."
Lu Yibei, "......"
Ah, didn't Jiang Li just call the Maitian God, uh, Teletubbies earlier?
Isn't she afraid of being targeted?
Then if I keep complaining about Ju Meng, Ju Meng, she wouldn't have a reaction, would she?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei propped his chin and pondered for two seconds, then nodded slightly.
Probably not. Smelly Girl is just good with her mouth. Besides tricking people into buying her food and drinks, she doesn't have any real skills.
While muttering to himself, Lu Yibei pressed on, "Shui Ge, what is the origin of this X Tai Sui? Is it very scary?" Lu Yibei asked again.
"......"
Bai Kai was silent for a moment, looked around, and beckoned to Lu Yibei, "Xiao Bei, let's go, we'll talk somewhere else."
Since the black night became long, incidents of attracting urban legend by discussing a certain urban legend too much have been common. Discussing a Calamity level urban legend on the street, even without calling its name directly, is not a wise move.
Moreover, this is the intersection of Peony Street, less than five hundred meters from the Hua City Si Ye Hui Headquarters...
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The first time the Night Watch discovered the existence of the Plague Tai Sui was four years ago.
At that time, the black night had just begun to become long, and the daytime had only shortened by less than half an hour, which had not even affected people's lives yet.
The place where the Plague Tai Sui was discovered was a remote but large private sanatorium.
This sanatorium outwardly provided various recuperation services, but in reality, it mainly treated infectious diseases, tumors, and some unspeakable injuries, and incidentally...
They would take some small things from some unclaimed corpses and earn some extra money.
...
In a luxurious private room in the Underground Human Realm entertainment club, which was completely sealed by Bai Kai using a Spell.
Lu Yibei listened to Bai Kai speaking for a while, then couldn't help but interrupt, "Wait a minute, Shui Ge, it seems that hospitals treating infectious diseases cannot be privately operated, right?"
"That's why they used the name of a sanatorium!" Bai Kai pouted, "Besides, if there weren't some issues, how could such a luxurious hospital be built in such a remote place."
"In this world, there are always some people who, because of the type or cause of their illness is difficult to speak of, are concerned about the eyes of others and don't have the courage to seek treatment in a regular hospital."
"And, later investigations found that the hospital was also secretly selling organs from corpses."
"Understood!" Lu Yibei nodded.
Just like those fraudulent black clinics, or the underground hospitals that often appear in gangster movies helping the Void take out bullets, or the quick folk remedies that cancer patients turn to when they are desperate.
Rich people would also need similar places to exist, right?
It's just that one is about killing for profit, and the other is only about making money without killing. Lu Yibei thought.
...
Where there is demand and profit, there will be supply. Thus, a hospital claiming to be able to "perfectly protect patient privacy" came into being.
That private hospital was located on the mountainside next to a small town that can no longer be found on the map.
That small town had beautiful mountains and clear waters, a pleasant climate, and a legend that was quite psychologically comforting to the sick.
Legend has it that in ancient times, a Taoist priest had studied the art of ghosts and gods, and was later recommended to become an official in the imperial court. Before long, he gained the Emperor's trust.
One day, the Emperor asked the Taoist priest about the method of immortality, and he told the Emperor about the various elixirs recorded in ancient books, as if they were his family treasures.
The Emperor was overjoyed upon hearing this, and immediately bestowed a thousand taels of gold, ordering the Taoist priest to find the materials for refining the elixirs for him.
The Taoist priest did this job for six years, during which he visited countless famous mountains and great rivers and collected a large amount of treasures that could prolong life, but there was still no result for the elixir of immortality.
Six years is a long time, enough to wear out a person's patience. Coupled with the Emperor's old age and deteriorating health, his desire for immortality became increasingly strong. Finally, he gave the Taoist priest a death order: if he could not bring back the elixir of immortality within a year, he would have to present his head.
The imperial power was mighty, and the Taoist priest did not dare to delay. The next day, he left the capital with a team of more than a dozen people and embarked on the journey to find the medicine.
Later, during a search for a spiritual mountain, the horse team he led encountered an earthquake while traveling overnight. Amidst the collapse of mountains and the cracking of the earth, the horses were startled and ran wildly in all directions, losing their supplies, and there were casualties among the personnel, so they could no longer move forward.
In desperation, the Taoist priest had to order his subordinates to find an open area to set up camp, reorganize, and bury the dead, while also sending people to the surrounding area to find towns to purchase supplies.
After setting up camp and burying the dead, about half a day later, the attendants sent by the Taoist priest to buy supplies brought back a strange thing.
That thing filled a clay pot to the brim. It was entirely like red jade, a round mass, feeling like meat but softer, with a layer of wet and sticky substance attached to the surface.
What surprised the Taoist priest the most was that when he cut a piece off with a knife, there was no blood, and within an hour, the cut area was completely restored.
The Taoist priest carefully studied and examined it for a while and suddenly remembered that ancient books mentioned a strange object called "Taishui" that was very similar to the thing in the clay pot.
And judging by its color, it was even more likely to be the ultimate "Blood Taishui" among the flesh ganoderma.
He thought of the description recorded in the book: "Taishui, if eaten, it will regenerate after being consumed. Eating it can change one's body and bones."
The Taoist priest immediately ordered the injured in the horse team to be brought over, cut off a piece from the Blood Taishui brought back by the attendants, and fed it to them. Within half an hour, the injured were completely healed and could run as before.
Seeing the injured recover, the Taoist priest knew that he had found the substance of immortality that the Emperor wanted, and he was overjoyed. He found the attendants who had brought back the Blood Taishui and asked them where they had found this object.
The attendants replied that twenty miles away from the camp, there was a mountain village, where white clouds filled the air, surrounded by peaks, and the flowing water was like a mirror, like a human paradise. Yesterday, during the earthquake, the small mountain at the entrance of the village collapsed, and the villagers went to investigate and found this object in the cracks of the mountain.
The villagers saw birds and beasts in the mountains eating this object, so they all took it home and cooked and ate it.
Later, the Taoist priest ordered people to go to the mountain village to search for the Blood Taishui, and a total of seventy-two jin, three taels, and six qian were found. All of it was transported to the capital and presented to the Emperor, helping to extend his life by more than eighteen years.
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Hearing this, Lu Yibei couldn't help but complain, "The Emperor ate that kind of ghostly thing and didn't die? Even more ridiculous, someone actually believed it!"
"If this kind of legend spreads, won't it really create a Strange Tale?"
"Who knows!" Bai Kai shrugged, "Up until now, there are still two viewpoints within the Night Watch regarding the birth of the original form of the Plague Tai Sui."
"Some people believe it was born entirely from that legend."
"Others believe that the alchemist back then didn't completely clear out all the Blood Tai Sui, and the remaining parts regrew over thousands of years, then were nourished by the sewage containing a large amount of viruses, bacteria, and organ fragments discharged by that hospital, eventually becoming a Strange Tale."
"In fact, based on the records, a large portion of the people who went to that private hospital for treatment back then heard that legend and went specifically for the Blood Tai Sui."
Under the slogan "Protecting patient privacy, restoring your health," coupled with the boost from folk legends, the reputation of that sanatorium, operating in a legal gray area, quickly spread.
Initially, quite a few people who came here for treatment miraculously recovered, which also solidified the belief among some that the sanatorium held the Blood Tai Sui.
Before long, the sanatorium gathered many wealthy and powerful individuals who would soon lose their lives to enjoy their riches, as well as many people with ulterior motives attempting to find the Blood Tai Sui.
At its peak, the entire sanatorium had as many as five hundred patients and over a hundred medical staff.
This situation continued until a patient went missing, after which changes gradually began to appear.
That was a man suffering from a rare lung disease; his lungs were filled with strange tissue resembling leaf fragments, and he could only cling to life through repeated lung lavage surgeries.
Sometimes, when conventional medical methods are no longer able to provide treatment, people always want to try more mystical medical approaches.
Thus, the man came to the sanatorium.
"Leaves growing in the lungs?" Lu Yibei frowned, "Why does that sound like black night disease to me?"
"There's indeed a high probability it was black night disease." Bai Kai pursed his lips, "But a few years ago, this term didn't exist, and people didn't understand black night disease well enough; they just treated it as a rare strange illness." freewёbnoνel.com
"What about later?" Lu Yibei pressed.
"Later..."
The man's illness was too severe, and he died on the very night he arrived at the sanatorium.
According to an insider who used to work at the sanatorium, that day the man's terrifying groans, caused by the desperate and painful torment of suffocation, continued until past midnight.
Soon, the man's death caused panic throughout the sanatorium.
In the past, for patients who were about to die, those with family would have their family notified to take them away before death. If there was no family and the body was unclaimed, the sanatorium would dispose of it through some unknown means.
But the man's situation was too special. After learning of his death, his son and remarried wife got into a dispute over property distribution and caused a huge scene at the sanatorium, yet no one proposed taking the body.
Thus, the man's body, which was acknowledged but unclaimed, was temporarily placed in a small room specially cleared out next to the waste disposal room.
Then.
On the night of the second day, his body disappeared...
Following that, the night shift nurses often heard someone running in the corridor in the middle of the night, with strange footsteps, as if stepping on something wet and sticky, as well as sounds like many people gathered together whispering. However, when they followed the sound, there was nothing there.
Even stranger, the food and medical supplies in the sanatorium often inexplicably grew large amounts of mold.
The mold grew exceptionally fast; sometimes it wasn't there one moment, and in the blink of an eye, it would appear on food or sheets as if it were an illusion.
However, while the sanatorium was busy arguing with the man's family, they were also busy covering up their malicious act of privately disposing of unclaimed bodies. These abnormal details were not initially given importance.
It wasn't until a caregiver died in the sewage treatment pool. No one knew why she went to the sewage treatment pool deep in the basement in the middle of the night, only that her body was already highly decomposed within two or three days of her disappearance, as if corroded by acid.
After the caregiver's death, a Strange Tale began to circulate in the sanatorium: anyone who came into contact with that mold would be targeted by the Strange Tale and die in the sewage treatment pool.
As the Strange Tale legend spread, causing widespread panic, the once-thriving sanatorium quickly became deserted, leaving only dozens of unclaimed patients and a dozen medical staff.
Before long, those dozens of people also went missing...
When the families of those dozens of people contacted the police, the police then notified the Night Watch. When the local Night Watch brought people to investigate, they discovered the Plague Tai Sui in the sewage treatment pool beneath the sanatorium.
That twisted ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) and bizarre Strange Tale terrified the Night Watch agents who went to investigate. Its existence was like a blasphemy against nature's creations. They immediately annihilated it and sealed its remains.
"That's not right! Shui Ge!" Lu Yibei interrupted again, "Wasn't it annihilated and sealed? How did it develop into a Calamity level Strange Story? Did something go wrong in between?"
"If that thing were so easy to annihilate, it would be great!" Bai Kai said seriously, "Although it's only ranked twenty-sixth on the Night Watch's wanted list, it's definitely one of the most troublesome urban legend. This can be seen from its rise of two to three positions in the evaluation every year."
"I heard that as long as you leave behind a piece of its tissue the size of a grain of rice, it can recover its strength in a very short time."
"And when that agent discovered it in the sanatorium, its tissue had already grown into the sanatorium's underground water layer and spread throughout the entire city with the water flow."
"Less than three months after that agent annihilated it, a dark green poisonous mist appeared covering the entire city. Everyone who inhaled the poisonous mist became a breeding ground for the Plague Tai Sui."
"Before long, the Night Watch in that city... was completely wiped out!"
Having said this, Bai Kai paused, picked up the wine glass on the table in front of him, drained the amber liquid in one gulp, and then said faintly, "Xiao Bei, do you still dare to oppose it now?"
What's there to be afraid of, anyway? Nothing happened after offending the Maitian God, right?
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, looking directly into Bai Kai's eyes, and said seriously, "Shui Ge, I heard someone say that as long as I connect my aura to the Hua City earth veins through the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, I can stop the Plague Tai Sui."
"Is this statement reliable?"
"Who did you hear that from?" Bai Kai asked in surprise.
"A friend." Lu Yibei said expressionlessly, "Don't worry about who it is, just tell me if it's reliable or not?"
"It is possible, but..." Bai Kai hesitated.
"What time is it, stop with the 'but'!" Lu Yibei quickly said, "Since it's possible, why don't you let me try? Besides me, which other Strange Tale is suitable for this task?"
"This..." Bai Kai massaged his forehead and said earnestly, "But Xiao Bei, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is not as simple as you think."
"First, you need to have at least one or two dependents."
"I have them, two." Lu Yibei said.
"..."
Bai Kai stared at Lu Yibei in silence for a few seconds, then continued, "Secondly, you need a large number of Strange Tale followers, and most urban legend in the area of your Night Parade of One Hundred Demons need to know of your existence. This is very difficult..."
"I probably meet this requirement too." Lu Yibei nodded.
I am Wang Bu Liu Xing, formerly known as Lu Yibei, the Hua City Bomber. As long as this name is spoken... many urban legend should know, right?
Bai Kai, "..."
What on earth has Xiao Bei been doing when I didn't know?
How does it sound even more terrifying than the things Xiao Hua has done?
He stared blankly at Lu Yibei, his emotions complex, his whole person seeming to age dozens of years in an instant.
That feeling was like being shocked to inadvertently discover that your child, whom you thought was a well-behaved, harmless child with excellent grades and character, just occasionally a little mischievous, had secretly become a big boss of an evil force.
"Finally, and most importantly." Bai Kai stared straight into Lu Yibei's eyes, "You might have to face the challenges of all the urban legend in Hua City. Do you think you can win?"
"This..." Lu Yibei frowned, analyzed calmly, thought for a moment, made a bold assumption, and then said seriously, "What are you thinking! Of course I can't!"
Bai Kai, "..." As expected of my Bei Bei!
After a moment of silent thought, as if having made some kind of decision, he clenched his fist, "Then there's only a clever way to do it, and this way I can also help you!"
If the power of the Huacheng Barrier is used, Xiao Bei's safety should be barely guaranteed, but afterwards... Bai Kai thought.
"What method?"
Hearing Lu Yibei's question, Bai Kai regained his composure and blurted out, "Intercept!"
