Free Web NovelOnly those two large fish remained in the lake.
To be precise, only that one golden-red sturgeon remained. The body of the snow-white koi had long stopped expanding, but it was still continuously devouring the grass carp that kept surfacing from the bottom of the water. Its body almost filled the entire lake.
This place was almost unable to contain it anymore.
With just a gentle flick of its body, it would stir up astonishing waves in the lake.
The waves, carrying astonishing power, crashed against the sculptures around the lake shore. The sculptures instantly shattered, turning into massive rocks that plunged into ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) the water, erupting with deafening roars.
A figure stood beside the crumbling embankment, quietly watching all of this through the gaps of a bizarre mask.
That lake would soon burst its banks due to the continuously expanding body of the golden-red sturgeon.
And the misfortune that had accompanied him for thousands of years would also meet its end at that moment.
This was the ending that this 'Fish Keeper' had composed a long, long time ago.
Now, he was going to see his fish.
Under the mask, the corners of his mouth curved slightly upwards. He smiled, then turned and walked towards the vast, boundless pale sand dunes.
Just as he turned around, the golden-red sturgeon in the water raised its head. Its agile eyes seemed to be watching his receding figure...
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“Splash——!”
“Screech——!”
In front of the restrooms on the upper three floors of the Dream Come True Entertainment City, in front of the sink, the vanity mirror reflected Lu Yibei's pale face still dotted with water droplets, as well as the platinum and white decor of the Entertainment City.
At this moment, the chips in her hand had reached an astonishing over sixty-eight billion. This number far exceeded her previous estimate of the total chip amount in the Entertainment City.
As the chips in her hand accumulated, the frequency of her seeing hallucinations had become higher and higher. They appeared almost every ten minutes, forcing her to leave the private room after each gambling session and use the cold water face-washing method to stay calm.
Lu Yibei estimated that by the time she was completely lost in the illusions, the chips in this Entertainment City would be almost completely emptied by her.
However, given that Lu Yibei's hardware was not good and might not be able to handle the maximum amount of chips, Chatterbox Girl suggested that it was almost time for her to start taking action.
According to Chatterbox Girl, at this level, the Big Boss should be able to break free. Not everything can be done by us; he should also move himself a bit.
“Miss, are you alright?”
While Lu Yibei was staring blankly into the mirror, someone quietly asked beside her, and then handed her a neatly folded handkerchief. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
The handkerchief was made of silk, embroidered with two red carp holding copper coins. The workmanship was very exquisite, but the hand holding the handkerchief was even more exquisite, with long, slender, fair fingers, like they were carved from white jade.
Lu Yibei came back to her senses and turned her head to look, only then realizing that at some point, a young man in a tuxedo and top hat had appeared beside her.
He was a handsome young man with delicate features, beautiful golden curly hair, and skin so fair it reminded one of sunlight falling on snow. His blue-grey eyes seemed to contain a bay of water, rippling with warmth.
“Are you alright?”
The man asked again, and only then did Lu Yibei remember that she needed to reply. Staring at the handkerchief in his hand, she didn't take it, merely saying indifferently, “I'm fine, thank you.”
As soon as she finished speaking, accompanied by a strong burning pain and blurred vision in her eyes, Lu Yibei's body suddenly trembled slightly. In her eyes, she saw a scene completely different from what others saw.
The hallucination appeared again.
The light before her eyes quickly dimmed. The smooth mirror beside her could no longer reflect anything, falling into darkness. The surrounding walls seemed to have aged, their paint peeling rapidly. Not far away, as if a crack had opened in the gates of hell, a rotten and turbid wind suddenly blew, carrying chilling and bizarre screams. ƒrēewebnovel.com
“Crack-crack——Crack-crack——!”
The soft sound of bones rubbing continuously came from the young man's body in front of her. His figure grew nearly two meters taller in just a few breaths, forcing him to stand hunched over in this narrow area.
The hand holding the handkerchief seemed to be burned by high temperature, quickly turning charred black. The skin cracked inch by inch, and golden blood, like molten iron, flowed out.
Lu Yibei looked up and saw that at some point, a chillingly white, bizarre mask had appeared on his face, fitting snugly against his features, as if it had grown there naturally.
Lu Yibei stared motionlessly at the tall figure before her, holding her breath.
This person was completely different from the others she had seen in her hallucinations. His existence was like an indescribable black shadow. The invisible pressure was like a large hand reaching out from the shadow, firmly grasping the throat of its target.
If one were to try and investigate the existence under the black shadow, the black shadow would devour all curiosity along with its Master, leaving not a single trace.
This was a monster like an abyss.
“Miss, are you alright?”
The voice of inquiry sounded again. The hallucination before Lu Yibei's eyes quickly returned to normal, like frost and fog being dispersed by a spring breeze. But at this moment, she heard a hint of unpleasant pity in that voice.
It was like a high and mighty Emperor taking pity on a beggar about to starve to death on the street.
Looking at the young man in front of her, she raised an eyebrow, “I'm very well, extremely well! I'm so thrilled I can barely breathe! So please stay away from me. Be careful, I might suffocate and die suddenly later and extort you.”
The young man said nothing. He gently placed the handkerchief on the sink, smiled, turned, and walked away.
Watching the young man walk away until he disappeared at the end of her sight, Lu Yibei suddenly slumped against the sink like a deflated balloon, greedily sucking air into her lungs.
“Was that the Big Boss of the Entertainment City just now? You scared the hell out of me.” she muttered. “You're right, I also think you can't beat him.”
“But why did he come over and strike up a conversation with me for no reason?”
“Maybe he came to inspect the goods?” Chatterbox Girl's voice came from the reflection in the mirror. “Before killing the New Year pig, don't you have to weigh it first?”
“Do you think I look like a New Year pig?”
“Well, I don't.” Chatterbox Girl pursed her lips.
“Neither do I.”
“Then maybe it's him?” Chatterbox Girl looked in the direction the young man had left, narrowing her eyes slightly.
Lu Yibei picked up the handkerchief on the sink, wiped the water droplets from her hands, and said seriously, “It must be him!”
“Speaking of which, how good are your pig-slaughtering skills?”
“They're definitely good! I'm the most famous pig butcher in the ten-mile radius around our village. I've slaughtered more pigs than you've eaten meals,” Chatterbox Girl said, puffing out her chest proudly.
“Oh...” Lu Yibei responded indifferently, and casually threw the handkerchief into the trash can.
Since Chatterbox Girl had slaughtered so many 'pigs', she felt relieved.
“Then I'll leave it to you.”
“Don't worry!”
Chatterbox Girl responded. Lu Yibei suddenly felt as if her body had been violently struck by some force. She trembled uncontrollably, and then her vision fell into darkness.
Her consciousness gradually drifted and dispersed in the darkness, like falling into a pitch-black sea, sinking deeper and deeper.
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Jiang Li stood on the corridor outside the luxurious private room, watching the gradually deserted hall, lost in thought.
There were fewer and fewer guests in the hall. When their gambling session started in the morning, the gambling tables in the hall were surrounded by crowds of guests, but now most of the tables were empty.
An unsettling atmosphere was brewing silently in this Entertainment City, like storm clouds before a downpour.
Something terrible was about to happen... Jiang Li thought.
As she was thinking, in the distance, a pair of golden eyes were watching her. The rims of the eyes were slightly red, and the gaze trembled.
That feeling was like old friends who had parted ways reuniting after a hundred years, swallowing tears in silence.
As if sensing that gaze filled with complex emotions, Jiang Li suddenly turned and looked in the direction from which the gaze came, but saw only a row of empty stone pillars.
But Jiang Li felt that someone had seemingly stood there.
While she was staring blankly at the stone pillars, A Hua quickly came to her side and bowed slightly, “Miss, that fellow Lu Yibei is gone again. She must have run off somewhere to cause trouble for some Little Girl.”
“Miss, let me tell you, you absolutely must not believe her nonsense about tutoring mixed-blood Little Girls on urban legend by the roadside. It's obviously something she made up.”
“Miss, Miss?”
Seeing Jiang Li staring blankly, A Hua extended her palm and waved it in front of her eyes. Only then did she regain her composure and calmly said, “A Hua, since we can't find her, let's go to the lounge to rest and wait for her to come back!”
After speaking, she led A Hua and walked towards the lounge.
Just as Jiang Li left, from behind the distant stone pillar, Chatterbox Girl poked out half her head, secretly glanced at her back, and sighed silently.
Thus, after starting the power leveling and completing this small, unplanned wish, her gaze focused, and she quickly walked towards the exchange counter.
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Things were the same, but people were different. Looking at it once was enough. If she really had contact with Jiang Li, maybe it would change Lu Yibei's fate? Chatterbox Girl thought.
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A moment later, in front of the exchange counter on the upper three floors of the Entertainment City.
Chatterbox Girl, with a "clatter!", poured over thirty full chip storage cards onto the counter, and tilted her chin towards the Rabbit Girl behind the counter.
"I want to exchange!"
The Rabbit Girl's eyes widened, she repeatedly looked at the storage cards on the counter and the familiar face in front of her, and didn't dare to breathe.
That feeling was like a convenience store owner watching a customer drop dozens of gold bricks in front of them.
What the hell!
What was she trying to do?
Could it be that she simply wanted to show off her storage cards in a Versailles-style manner?
The Rabbit Girl really couldn't figure out the thoughts of the Miss Wang Bu Liu Xing in front of her.
"Then, then what would you like to exchange?" the Rabbit Girl asked nervously, her soft voice trembling.
"Everything." Chatterbox Girl blurted out, shocking the Rabbit Girl for a hundred years.
Although Chatterbox Girl's statement was a bit boastful, but with so many chips, it was indeed enough to clear out eighty to ninety percent of the items on the exchange list.
"Miss Wang, I'm just a regular employee, could you... please let me off?"
Making guests' "Dreams Come True" has always been the motto of this Entertainment City, and being able to make such a promise means that under normal circumstances, the Entertainment City would absolutely not default on its debts.
But exchanging eighty to ninety percent of the items on the list, such a wish was simply too exaggerated.
Although the Rabbit Girl wasn't sure why this Miss Wang Bu Liu Xing wanted to do something like this, she had already vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
This was probably not something she could handle.
"I said, exchange everything, didn't you hear?"
Chatterbox Girl ignored the Rabbit Girl's pleas, as if she had contracted facial paralysis again, her face was cold as if pulled from a freezer, her gaze fixed on the Rabbit Girl's eyes, terrifyingly numb.
Then.
Like a hallucination, a hoarse, low voice sounded in the Rabbit Girl's ear.
"Exchange it for her!"
That voice, like a hallucination, was like some kind of irreversible command, causing the Rabbit Girl's eyes to lose focus for a moment, her body began to move uncontrollably, she gathered the storage cards on the table, and quickly completed the exchange.
And so, the exchange was completed.
Chatterbox Girl clearly felt a familiar sense of oppression surging from all directions, tightly wrapping around her, as if wanting to merge into her body, large patches of burn marks quickly appeared on her skin, and an expression of extreme pain appeared on her face.
Soon, as if she had adapted to the pain that seemed to want to destroy her, her brows gradually relaxed, and the burnt blackness on her body peeled off inch by inch, revealing skin as tender as a newborn baby's.
The next moment, the light before her eyes dimmed, accompanied by waves of light and shadow distortion, the scene before her eyes quickly changed into what Lu Yibei had seen in her hallucination, an aura of decay, ruin, and corruption was everywhere.
The Rabbit Girl's body burst with a "puff!" sound, turning into an expanse of pale quicksand scattered all over the ground.
Faint, almost imperceptible maniacal laughter echoed in the Entertainment City, accompanying the laughter, the entire building was violently shaking, thick dust mixed with rubble was falling down with a rustling sound, as if it were disintegrating.
Terrifying life force and Spiritual Energy fluctuations were entrenched at the highest point of the Entertainment City, like a giant embryo, a powerful heartbeat pounded rhythmically, growing stronger and stronger, like the God of Thunder striking His war drum.
Amidst the booming sounds, fragmented whispers arose, as if a sacred ritual was taking place.
"Whenever a game of dice ends, the loser is always heartbroken.
He throws the dice back and forth, heartbroken but not learning the lesson."
With his rebellious hand, he searches his mother's insides,"
carving a huge wound, digging out golden ribs, and seizing the treasure within."
Old wicked wolf, you should be cursed,"
How many lives have you captured, more than all other beasts..."
Chatterbox Girl squinted her eyes slightly, looking in the direction of Wu Hui Land, her gaze seemed to penetrate layers of walls, seeing that wicked wolf making a final struggle to break free from the world's malice, then she murmured meaningfully, "A Strange Tale led by a demonic Plutus, mixed with Mammon's Power?"
"Interesting!"
"Use all your strength, struggle towards that false hope! The moment you break free from your shackles and are exhausted, you will know what despair is! And now..."
"Lu Yibei, Lu Yibei, you're online!"
With a soft call, Lu Yibei woke up with a start, staring blankly at the disintegrating building in front of her, a pile of question marks popping up in her mind.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
"Stop spacing out, quickly go find Jiang Li, and take her and run!" Chatterbox Girl scolded in a low voice, "Quickly leave this cursed place, before that guy notices something is wrong, if you can't escape, just wait for death!"
"Holy crap! Didn't you say there was no life danger?" Lu Yibei exclaimed.
Although she had doubts, she still followed Chatterbox Girl's instructions and ran towards Jiang Li's direction.
"Let me correct you, I said there was no life danger during the Dailian process." Chatterbox Girl said seriously, "But, the Dailian is over now!"
Running wildly, Lu Yibei took out her phone and glanced at it, then pointed at the phone screen and said, "Holy crap! It's only been less than thirty minutes of Dailian, and it's over?"
Feeling the terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations constantly coming from above the Entertainment City, Lu Yibei felt that Chatterbox Girl, had only done a charge, taunt, and boss fight, and then just dumped the deadly mess for her to deal with herself.
"What kind of black-hearted Dailian are you! Didn't you do anything?"
"You don't know anything, just watch carefully and it'll be fine! I'm going to cut off contact with you now, otherwise this plan won't work, alright, that's it."
"Ding dong—! Your Dailian service has ended, bye-bye!"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Lu Yibei asked, confused.
No one responded.
Lu Yibei, "..."
"Damn it! With this after-sales service and attitude of yours, it wouldn't be too much for me to give you a five-star bad review!"
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When Lu Yibei found Jiang Li, she and A Hua had already reached the exit of the upper three floors' hall, completely unleashing their Spirit Marks.
The dim yellow light flickered on and off, deformed and mutated Rabbit Girls, like devils, wandered around, huge spikes, as if cast from molten iron, constantly broke through the ground, piercing through the crowd who couldn't dodge in time, charred corpses were swept up by the howling wind, carrying waves of foul stench.
In such a chaotic scene, Jiang Li, clad in silver-white armor, holding the unconscious A Hua, stood out particularly.
While rapidly weaving through the panicked guests, her eyes were searching around for something.
The moment she caught sight of Lu Yibei, her eyes beneath the armor slightly narrowed, stepping on a huge stone pillar that had crashed down in front of her, she leaped into the air, her body spun around in mid-air, and landed steadily in front of Lu Yibei, looking at Lu Yibei out of the corner of her eye, she said coldly, "Get on!"
Looking at the "white horse" that suddenly appeared in front of her, Lu Yibei hesitated for a moment, then she flipped over and sat on Jiang Li's back, but she was too embarrassed to wrap her arms around the slender waist so close to her.
Having settled herself, to prevent Jiang Li from asking about her whereabouts, Lu Yibei preemptively said, "Teacher Meow, what happened? I just went to the restroom and came back, why did the building collapse?"
"This is really, deadly!"
"..." Jiang Li hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping herself, she had originally thought that such a big commotion was caused by Lu Yibei, but now it seemed that wasn't the case?
"I don't know either, I can't worry about that much anymore, we need to leave this cursed place first!"
In any case, under these circumstances, this Entertainment City will probably cease to exist soon, and my wish can be considered fulfilled. Jiang Li thought to herself.
"Right, right, let's run!" Lu Yibei clapped her hands in agreement, immediately after, seeing Jiang Li running straight towards the floor-to-ceiling window not far away, she widened her eyes and let out a cry of surprise, "Hey hey! You..."
"Hold on tight!" Jiang Li interrupted sharply.
The next moment, the sharp sound of glass shattering rang out in Lu Yibei's ears.
The disintegrating glass shards poured out of the building like a downpour, and that figure, as if shrouded in moonlight, flew out of the building.
The strong wind howled, as if wanting to pull and fling Lu Yibei towards the sky, she instinctively wrapped her arms tightly around Jiang Li's waist.
Feeling the force coming from the waist through the armor, Jiang Li's cheeks slightly flushed, her body trembled for a moment, then she landed steadily on the outer wall of the building which was almost ninety degrees to the ground, paused for an instant, and ran forward with all her might...
