Free Web Novel“Then let's die together. A Hua should respect my choice...”
“Alright, then let's live and die together!”
Jiang Li heard Lu Yibei's reply, immediately raised the long saber in her hand, and with renewed spirit, charged forward alongside Lu Yibei, facing the strong wind and cold rain.
...
On the wasteland, the rhythm of the Jews Harp rippled, like a song hummed by a herdsman, occasionally off-key, but without masking its melodiousness.
Behind Lu Yibei, the Chi Huang Fire, amplified 29.382 times, blasted open a deep gully, and scorching flames rose from the gully, temporarily blocking the stones advanced by the “wolf pack”.
With the Alchemy Dirty Bomb depleted, Chi Huang Fire was the Spell she could think of that caused the greatest destruction to the surrounding environment. The Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon was fine for dealing with urban legend, but it wasn't as effective for splitting mountains or delaying time.
Leaning against the firelight, she slowly opened her eyes, watching Jiang Li's back, which seemed to be charging towards a vast army, until it disappeared at the end of her sight, and sighed silently.
“You fell for it once, and you still didn't learn your lesson the second time...”
A slender, pale tentacle extended from her fingertip, reaching above Jiang Li and A Hua's heads.
Just as Lu Yibei had thought, the “wolf pack” was coming for her, only symbolically attacking Jiang Li and barely hindering her departure.
“So silly. Even if A Hua respects your choice, she might not like this decision! She hates me so much, she definitely doesn't want to die with me.”
“Especially in a state where we're minced into meat paste, water and milk blended, indistinguishable from each other!” Lu Yibei muttered to herself.
“Rustle—!”
Accompanied by a light flapping of wings, Embroidery Ball slowly landed on Lu Yibei's shoulder, tilted her head to look at her profile, and mumbled, “I didn't expect you could do this? That's quite impressive!”
Unlike other types of Spells, which can be cast as long as one's Spiritual Energy reaches the standard and one practices diligently, Spells that can create illusions require a lot of talent and have always been difficult to learn.
Lu Yibei glanced at Embroidery Ball, not at all surprised by her appearance. As early as when they left the Dream Come True Entertainment City station, she had sensed Embroidery Ball's gaze secretly observing her.
After all, the predictive thought 【She is observing you in secret】 kept flashing in her mind, like a malicious pop-up plugin from a shady web game had been installed. It was hard for her not to notice.
“How could I know that thing! It's just a talent skill, temporarily borrowed from my Dependents.”
“...”
Embroidery Ball was silent for a moment, remembering Jiang Li's murmuring and abnormal behavior when she left, clearly showing she hadn't sunk too deeply into the illusion. She asked in confusion, “Since that's the case, why didn't you weave her a more lasting dream? As it is now, when she wakes up later, she might hate you.”
“I wanted to!” Lu Yibei said helplessly, “But, as I said, it's borrowed, and I'm not proficient with it. If I could use it freely, I would have used it on other guests at the Entertainment City long ago.”
“Letting them immerse themselves in dreams and obediently hand over chips would be much easier than racking my brains and taking risks to win them from them.”
Embroidery Ball recalled the scenes she saw when she snuck into the Entertainment City and secretly observed Lu Yibei several times, tilted her head, and complained with a look of disdain, “That's completely fraud, isn't it?”
“What's the difference?” Lu Yibei pouted, saying nonchalantly, “Ten gambles, nine frauds. Isn't gambling just fraud? Look, didn't that Big Boss deceive your Master quite badly?”
Hearing Lu Yibei mention her Master's “embarrassing incident,” Embroidery Ball glared fiercely at Lu Yibei and said coldly, “What do you plan to do now?”
“You take her away, I'll cover the rear. It's that simple,” Lu Yibei said lightly.
“Aren't you afraid of death?”
“I...” Lu Yibei opened her mouth, about to answer Embroidery Ball, when a sudden roar came from the front.
Along with the roar, figures blocking out the sky appeared above. The terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations seemed to solidify, attacking from the sky. Embroidery Ball was startled, flapped her wings, and quickly soared into the sky.
When she flew into the sky and looked down at the ground, she saw a giant crossing the defense line built by the Chi Huang Fire, leaping over.
It wore a grim and ferocious face mask, and violent flames flickered on its golden armor. It wielded dozens of muscular arms, descending from the sky, and slammed heavily onto the ground.
“Boom—!”
A deafening roar erupted, the earth cracked, and rocks and soil rose in waves.
Amidst the billowing dust, a small figure shot out, briefly airborne, staggering a few steps after landing, falling to the ground, and bouncing a few times like a rubber ball until it hit a protruding boulder, finally managing to stabilize itself.
“Cough cough, cough cough cough—!”
Covered in dust, Lu Yibei clutched her chest with one hand, coughing violently, looked up at the giant bathed in flames in front of her, and spat fiercely, “Tsk! I wasn't finished talking yet!”
A world where the battle doesn't start until both sides have finished their lines and harsh words, like in 《love and magic girl》, probably doesn't exist, right?
Lu Yibei grumbled, looked up at Embroidery Ball, who had turned into a white dot in the sky, and murmured, “Of course I'm afraid of death, I'm terrified of death...”
But what can I do if I'm scared? I can't drag Jiang Li down with me, can I?
Tsk, no matter what, gambling is truly harmful!
When I go back, I'll quit “gambling”. Even with gacha games, uh... after this White Little Flower Spring Festival Cheongsam Limited Up ends, I'll never pull again! Lu Yibei thought.
Just then, a pleasant bird's cry came from the sky, miraculously turning into human speech upon hearing.
“You hold on for a while longer. My Master has gone to find Jade Palace Immortal to team up against the Big Boss.”
“Hope I can last until then...” Lu Yibei murmured, before she finished speaking, a predictive thought flashed through her mind, and she moved again. The next moment, a pair of huge fists, like pendulums, swept fiercely across the spot where she had just been.
In Greek mythology, the Hundred-Armed Giant were the three children born to Gaea, the mother of the gods, and Uranus, the god of the sky. Their strength was something even the Titans could not resist.
This strongest among the undead urban legend commanded by the Big Boss, even with only a very weak Hundred-Armed Giant Power, carried a Power similar to a “crushing” effect with every blow. Its momentum was vast, and everything it touched turned to dust.
Although Lu Yibei didn't know the legend of the Hundred-Armed Giant, her intuition told her that those fists, like small hills, were very dangerous, making her dare not take them head-on. She could only keep running, hoping that Embroidery Ball's words were true and that Black Peony and Jade Palace Immortal could end the Big Boss's final revenge.
Fortunately, due to its immense size, the giant moved slightly slowly. With the exquisite coordination of prediction and Taihe Gentleman Sword Illustration, she could still barely dodge.
However, just as she was like a flea, jumping here and there, constantly “exploding” the giant's lower body using her talent skill and Spells to slow it down, the real killing intent had already emerged.
With the siege-beast-like giant clearing the way, it only took less than two minutes for the defense line built by Lu Yibei using nearly half of her Spiritual Energy with Chi Huang Fire to be declared broken.
In an instant, a crescent of dazzling light appeared at the edge of the wasteland, with ten thousand rays of golden light shooting into the dust. As the dust gradually dissipated, a vast army was revealed.
Following in the footsteps of the giant, in the firelight, tens of thousands of golden armored figures emerged in a mighty stream, stretching endlessly, their roars echoing, converging like thunder.
The “wolf pack” arrived with great momentum, but when they actually launched their attack on Lu Yibei, there was a deathly silence.
While the giant Strange Tale in front was pressing aggressively, two swift figures quickly darted out from the sides, each leading hundreds of golden armored soldiers, flashing like lightning across the grassland, drawing two arcs from the north and south sides. The decaying aura unique to the undead quickly formed a huge encirclement.
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However, the Big Boss's “wolf pack” charged almost silently, without a single roar or shout, every move silently interpreting in the most terrifying way...
The wolves are coming!
During the previous pursuit of Jiang Li, this “army” had not fully assembled. Only when all the dead had stepped onto this wasteland did their terrifying nature finally fully manifest.
In the waist-high wild grass, the golden-armored “wolf pack” sprinted, like hundreds of high-speed projectiles, the sound of breaking air “swishing” incessantly. Lu Yibei couldn't see their figures, but she could feel the shadow of death weaving into a large net closing in, making her so nervous she could barely breathe.
The giant's attacks in front became more violent, as if deliberately trying to force her into the encirclement.
Just then, the rustling sound from the south suddenly stopped, falling into a deathly silence.
【It cast Red Flame Flash】, 【It cast Blood Whirlwind Spell】, 【It cast Reverse Star Cross】...
Countless predictive thoughts flashed through Lu Yibei's mind, like a video played at thirty-two times speed.
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Just as her mind was muddled by the thought of prediction, a harsh, piercing shriek erupted.
A dense mass of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, Spell streams between standard Spells and precise Spells, rose from the southern wasteland, like an army's volley of arrows, weaving into a brilliant curtain of light in the sky, flying directly towards Lu Yibei.
At this critical moment, her eyes were fixed on the giant in front ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ of her, repeatedly rehearsing the prediction of its movements in her mind, until its movement trajectory appeared before her eyes like an illusion.
Then.
The moment before countless Spells fell, she moved, unleashing her footwork to the extreme, charging towards the giant. At the same moment, the giant also swung its dozens of thick arms, launching the most violent attack on this "prey" that had thrown itself into the net.
It's okay, I've rehearsed its predicted movements many times in my mind, I can definitely dodge all of its attacks...
Lu Yibei thought to herself soothingly, constantly jumping, sidestepping, sprinting, shifting, and flying low, weaving between the thick arms that swung from all directions like giant pendulums, her Spiritual Energy fluctuating violently.
In almost every instant, even the slightest mistake would cause her to collide head-on with the giant's fists carrying strange abilities, shattering her body.
As she moved forward, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a sense of unreality. The whistling wind, the icy rain lashing her face, the dust swirling with the strong wind, rapidly spun and changed in her vision, as dazzling as a kaleidoscope.
It seemed as if time slowed down for her at this moment, until she finally stopped on the wasteland behind the giant.
...
In the silence, her gaze slowly lowered, falling upon her hand holding the broken sword. Her willow-like eyebrows furrowed, and then a helpless sigh escaped her heart.
Just a little, just that little bit... I could have dodged all of them.
Damn it, I really am not suited for doing heroic things, am I?
Damn, this guy is so strong, even stronger than I imagined. With this kind of ability, doing demolition work would definitely be profitable, right?
In just a few seconds, Lu Yibei dodged nearly a hundred of the giant's fierce attacks. The only time she was hit, she used Lingtai Pure Karma to block it.
But it was this single mistake that made her pay a heavy price. The arm holding the sword was broken into five sections, twisted and deformed. The wound extended from her wrist all the way to her shoulder and collarbone. White bones pierced through her skin and Coat, protruding and dripping with bright red blood, distinct like individual red beans.
Her flesh and blood constantly wriggled, emitting waves of Spiritual Energy fluctuations, attempting to repair the injury. However, the Power transmitted to her arm through the broken sword was continuously destroying her bones and blood, as if to shatter them.
The result of this struggle between new growth and destruction was immense pain.
The weakness from Spiritual Energy depletion slowly rose, the brief numbness after the injury gradually faded, and the long-simmering intense pain suddenly erupted, instantly breaking Lu Yibei's last bit of stubbornness. She let out a muffled groan, lost all strength, and collapsed softly onto the ground.
Just then, the second volley of Spells arrived.
Lying on the soft grass, looking up at the gloomy sky, Lu Yibei heard the roar of Spells tearing through the air again in the wind and rain.
In the next instant, thousands of streams of light shot up from the wasteland, their colors brilliant, trailing long tails of flame, falling towards the ground, towards her...
"It's so beautiful! I wish someone could watch it with me..." Lu Yibei murmured, watching the streams of light gradually enlarge in her eyes, and then slowly closed her eyes.
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In Dream Come True Entertainment City.
The girl didn't know how long she had been buried under the mud and stones. Only when the sounds of fighting and loud noises outside finally stopped did she laboriously push away the wooden board covered with thick earth and stones, crawl out from her hiding place, and then saw the ravaged streets and rotten corpses.
Between fear and terror, she held her head, tightly gripping the pair of small horns on her head, and ran desperately towards the most dilapidated cluster of buildings in the city.
Running faster and faster, she passed through the lifeless city and quickly returned to the front of the small hut built with wooden boards and iron sheets.
Driven by curiosity, she looked towards the faintly visible giant wolf in the city center, only to see that on the giant wolf's huge head, two fingernail-sized figures had appeared at some point. One was wearing a black dress, and the other was green-skinned, fat, and bloated all over.
From a distance, the figure in the black dress seemed to sense her gaze and suddenly turned its head to look this way. The girl was startled, quickly withdrew her gaze, pushed open the door, and slipped into the hut.
"Dad, little brother, I'm back."
In the dead silence, the girl waited for a few seconds with trepidation. Then, a faint sound came from the corner of the hut. The entrance to the tunnel hidden under the floor was slowly opened. A gaunt, pale human man coughed violently, holding a bull-headed youth, and climbed out from it.
"Cough, cough, it's Ling'er, you're finally back. The city is in such chaos, it's scary... cough, cough, cough! It scared me to death! Hurry, hide inside, we'll come out when the situation calms down."
"Cough, cough, luckily you bought a lot of food last time, otherwise..."
Facing the man's rambling, the girl suddenly seemed to remember something, stepped forward, and said with a serious face, "Dad, do you know what learning is?"
The man, "..."
After a long silence, he slowly said, "Although I don't know if the learning you're talking about is the learning I understand, I have a copy of 'Three Years of Spells, Five Years of Assessment' here. Do you want to take a look?"
As he said this, he seemed to recover some of his color, and unusually, he didn't cough.
"Yes!" The girl nodded with a face full of excitement.
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In complete darkness, Lu Yibei's consciousness was silent.
She thought she was dead, but in a daze, she heard someone arguing.
A woman sneered, "Heh, she is the person I want to protect. Even if you die, I will bury you..."
A man said resentfully, "Since that's the case, then forget it. Anyway, I've already got what I wanted. Speaking of which, how do you plan to deal with that guy? If you ask me, keeping him is a disaster, why not..."
"Do you think everyone is like you, content to stay in this damned place and be a coward for all eternity?" The woman's voice rose slightly. "I still have use for him. Just let him continue producing mediums for me."
"Hmph! Whatever you want. Anyway, if he dares to have a next time, I will definitely chop him up and use him as flower fertilizer. If you dare to stop me, I'll chop you up too!"
"You don't need to say it. If he dares to have a next time, I'll be the first to get rid of him."
...
Lu Yibei listened to the man and woman's conversation, trying hard to open her eyes for a look, but in the next moment, she exhausted all her strength, and her consciousness fell into silence again.
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One day later, late at night.
Hua City, Jingyi Apartment Complex, a silver-white stream of light descended from the sky, entering Lu Yibei's home through a window that was not tightly closed.
As soon as she found her footing in Lu Yibei's living room, Jiang Li sensed four Spiritual Energy fluctuations of around D-level. Following the direction of the Spiritual Energy fluctuations, she saw four Little Freaks that looked like they were petrified.
"Who is she? What's she here for? Should we run?" Maotuan (Hairball) asked in a low voice.
"She's very strong, we can't escape, just wait to die!" False Tooth remained pessimistic.
"Damn it, looks like a thief at first glance. Watch your Eyeball Grandpa take down this beautiful female thief in three seconds and teach her a good lesson!"
Eyeball grumbled, just about to pounce towards Jiang Li, but was frantically held down on the table by the other three urban legend with their hands, feet, mouthparts, and tentacles.
"Don't seek death!"
"If you want to die, don't drag everyone down with you! Didn't you see the bao sang cang xiao badge on her chest? She's from the Night Watch!"
...
Listening to the Little Freaks' whispers, Jiang Li seemed not to notice their existence. Despite the bao sang cang xiao badge on her chest vibrating violently, she walked straight past them, went upstairs, sat down by Lu Yibei's bed, then hugged his pillow, curled up her knees, took out her phone, and started playing the movie "Thelma & Louise" which she had already prepared.
After a long time, when she saw the movie's ending, as the two protagonists drove towards the canyon, rushing towards death, she turned off her phone, lay on the bed, slowly closed her eyes, and said faintly, "This lousy movie, the ending is really bad..."
