Free Web NovelLeaving the police station, Professor Ma drove Lu Yibei back home, repeatedly urging her to familiarize herself with the cultural relic information he had sent her earlier.
Upon returning home, just as Lu Yibei took out her key to open the door, she saw Coat standing upright on the coffee table, leaning slightly forward, fiddling with something.
Getting closer, she saw Eyeball, on the verge of death, surrounded by a crowd of Little Freaks.
"Stink... Smelly Girl, you finally... finally came back..."
Seeing this, False Tooth stepped forward and rubbed against Eyeball, "Everyone must die eventually, and urban legend must also die eventually. Brother Eyeball, may you have a good journey."
"Devil Woman, please save it quickly?" Maotuan (Hairball) said sadly.
"Shut, shut up! I don't need this Smelly Girl's pity!" Eyeball shouted as if in a final burst of energy, then its pupils dilated, and it collapsed onto the coffee table like a puddle of mud.
Lu Yibei frowned, pointing at Eyeball and asked, "What's wrong with it?"
"Devil Woman, you may not know," Maotuan (Hairball) explained, "Not long after you left, it inexplicably started having bad luck. It was hit by a car, electrocuted by leaking appliances, criticized by its Leader for work errors, and when it tried to scare humans, it was grabbed by a bear child as a toy and locked in a sardine can for three whole hours, three hours! We don't know how it survived..."
"Hold on!" Lu Yibei interrupted when she heard this, "I know what's going on."
Before, it seemed to have swallowed a chip, and it didn't pass it or digest it?
Presumably, it was infected with the world's malice.
Although it was only a chip with a face value of "1", it was still the world's malice from the Extinction-Bringer of Old Days. Torturing a D-level urban legend is easy, right? Lu Yibei thought.
"Then can it still be saved?"
"It can be saved," Lu Yibei nodded.
"Then please Devil Woman..."
"But I can't help with this," Lu Yibei shrugged, interrupting, "Just leave it like that!"
With that, she turned and walked towards the stairs upstairs, stopping halfway up the stairs to look at Coat.
"Oh, right, Coat, I'm going on a long trip tomorrow. Can you help me pack my things if you have time?"
Hearing this, Coat stood upright on the coffee table, twisting its body, looking at Eyeball, then at Lu Yibei, seeming a bit hesitant.
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"Don't worry, it won't die, it'll just suffer a bit. Letting it suffer more is a good thing, so it won't have too much energy," Lu Yibei comforted Coat.
"Wicked woman! You are so malicious, you won't even save it! I... Holy crap--!"
As soon as Lu Yibei finished speaking, Eyeball jumped up as if resurrected.
However, before it could finish speaking, its hopping figure suddenly stepped on the accumulated water dripping from Sleeping Dress on the coffee table, slipped, and flew out, hitting the kitchen trash can.
The trash can rolled forward, knocking over the broom leaning against the wall, hitting the cabinet, the cutting board shook, the cleaver flew up, and with a "clang!" it nailed itself beside Eyeball.
At this moment, the blade was only 0.002 centimeters away from its body.
All the Little Freaks, "..."
"What did I tell you?" Lu Yibei shrugged, saying nonchalantly, "It won't die."
The existence of world malice is key to giving the target eternal pain; it's not that easy to die.
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Early morning, Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration.
Office V was quiet, time seemed to be frozen here, only the sunlight filtering through the wooden window, illuminating the dust in the air slowly rising and falling, proving the passage of time.
Jiang Li arrived at her office early in the morning, sitting at her desk, looking at the computer with a deep frown. freewёbnoνel.com
The computer screen displayed the Night Watch wanted list she had pulled from the intranet. On the 92nd position of the list, the words "Disaster" were clearly written, and a symbol ↑7 was marked after the name.
For some reason, "Disaster", which was originally at the bottom of the wanted list, had risen seven positions in terms of danger level in just over a month.
Clicking on the name "Disaster" to enter the details section, several more potential dangers were listed below.
Who was secretly investigating her and constantly transmitting the investigated information to the Si Ye Hui Headquarters?
Jiang Li sighed silently, exited the intranet interface, and then buried herself in reviewing the documents one by one.
She had been away from Hua City for nearly a month, and coupled with the salary-stealing work style of a certain acting agent, the accumulated tasks were overwhelming.
After all, as an acting agent, Lu Yibei's authority was not enough to fully take over Jiang Li's work. In addition to some routine tasks, there were a large number of documents that required her personal handling.
For example, organizing information on the movements of organizations like the Eclipse Society, summarizing the data on the length of day and night in Hua City, summarizing the data on changes in Spiritual Energy fluctuations around Hua City...
Besides the weekly night duty mission, almost all the main agents of the Hua City Si Ye Hui had their own individual missions.
Just like, Bai Kai was responsible for monitoring the movements of Psychic and urban legend in Hua City, An Qing was responsible for the disposal of urban legend remains, Gu Niang was responsible for the security of the Hua City Si Ye Hui Headquarters...
Jiang Li also had her own work; she was responsible for information summary and archive management.
She would have to work overtime for a long time to come.
Not long after, the office door opened.
Lu Yibei walked into the office and saw Jiang Li busy at her desk. She slightly parted her lips, then walked straight to the sofa nearby and sat down, waiting quietly while gazing at her affectionately, lost in thought.
Jiang Li, immersed in her work, didn't notice Lu Yibei's arrival at all until A Hua brought her a cup of strong tea and reminded her softly, only then did she come back to her senses.
"Sorry, I entrusted the wrong person before my vacation, and there are many things to deal with at work."
She said calmly, looking at Lu Yibei, "What's wrong with you?"
"Me? I'm fine."
Jiang Li sized up the dispirited Lu Yibei and said flatly, "If you're fine, what are you doing here? If you want to practice Body Technique, you'll probably have to wait until I finish these tasks at hand, which will take at least three to five days."
Lu Yibei, "..."
Wow, is this woman so cold?
Yesterday she was snuggling in my arms and crying, but today it's as if nothing happened.
Why do I feel like I've been played with and dumped by a scumbag woman?
Muttering to herself, Lu Yibei scratched the back of her head, "This... Leader, I'm actually here to cancel my leave. Didn't I take half a month off before? According to the rules, I should come to cancel the leave, right?"
"Mm," Jiang Li nodded, "You do need to."
As she spoke, she leaned down and rummaged through the drawer of her desk for a while, took out a form, then took a pen from the pen holder, got up, walked over, and handed it to Lu Yibei.
"Here, and here, you fill in your name in these two places, and I'll handle the rest."
Lu Yibei took the pen and the form, quickly wrote her name on the coffee table, and handed the form back to Jiang Li, "Leader, does this mean I've successfully canceled my leave?"
"Mm," Jiang Li nodded, "If there's nothing else, you can leave."
"Don't be in such a hurry!" Lu Yibei said, "Does successfully canceling my leave mean I can take leave again?"
Jiang Li looked at Lu Yibei, her expression becoming somewhat complex. After a long silence, she nodded, "Theoretically, yes..."
"Then I'll take a leave!" Lu Yibei blurted out.
Are you playing credit card cash advance with me? Jiang Li muttered to herself, rubbing her temples, and said flatly, "What kind of bad things are you planning to do again?"
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"Tsk! Leader, look at what you're saying, how could Bei Bei have bad intentions?" Lu Yibei said solemnly, "This time I'm going to deliver, no, protect human cultural treasures, preserve precious ancestral heritage, defend..."
"Speak in plain language," Jiang Li interrupted.
Lu Yibei shrugged, saying expressionlessly, "My professor who teaches my class planned to take me to participate in a research project, remember?"
"Now there's a tomb raiding incident at the project site, and the Professor has been invited to assist in recovering the cultural relics. I'm going along to help out."
Even if it's helping out, it's still being a helper.
That's right, Huacheng Institute of Technology, School of Literature' Red Flower Double Stick, that's me. Lu Yibei muttered to herself.
"So, last night you were role-playing as a tomb raider to understand their psychological activities in advance, to facilitate your work?" Jiang Li teased, "You didn't dig ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) up anything, did you?"
Lu Yibei's cheeks flushed slightly, "..." Damn it, how did she know?
As if seeing through Lu Yibei's thoughts, Jiang Li picked up the strong tea and took a light sip, saying calmly, "The stonemason at Lion Mountain Cemetery is Sister Qing's informant. Before you came, she had already been laughing at me here for half an hour."
"Uh..." Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, and tentatively asked, "Well, then, will you approve this leave?"
It's best not to approve it, that way I'll have an excuse not to go with the Professor.
"Of course I'll approve it," Jiang Li took a deep breath, her expression becoming serious, "Go, go!"
"Really?"
Lu Yibei looked at Jiang Li sideways, lost in thought.
Jiang Li agreed so easily, she always felt something was not normal.
That feeling was like she was saying, "Go, go, if you have the guts, don't come back once you're gone!"
"It's a good thing to go protect cultural relics, why would I stop you?"
These are all positive deeds; if your identity is exposed in the future, it can even help reduce your sentence. Jiang Li muttered to herself.
"Then I'm really leaving, okay?" Lu Yibei tentatively asked.
I came straight from the police station early in the morning, without even eating breakfast, just to report to you. Aren't you even going to make a symbolic effort to keep me?
Jiang Li nodded, "Go."
Lu Yibei frowned as she looked at Jiang Li, and after a long while, scratched her head, "But if I leave, what will you do?"
Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, she closed her eyes and shook her head with a bitter smile.
"I'll do what needs to be done, just like the past nineteen years."
Love is important, but it has never been the whole of life.
"Go, have a safe journey, and come back soon."
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Not long after Lu Yibei left, A Hua came into Jiang Li's office with breakfast, stopping at her desk, hesitant to speak.
Noticing A Hua's unusual behavior, Jiang Li looked up and asked, "A Hua, is there anything?"
"Miss..." A Hua hesitated several times before finally speaking, "Are you really planning to do that? Won't it be a bit too..."
Jiang Li picked up a fried dough stick from the plate, brought it to her mouth, tore off a piece, and showed a playful smile, saying meaningfully, "What Miao Miao Jiang does, what does it have to do with me?"
Hearing this, A Hua seemed to understand something, her eyes lit up, "Then Miss, shall I get it for you now?"
"No hurry, let her wait a bit, we can talk about it after we go back tonight," Jiang Li said flatly.
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That night, in the Jingyi Apartment Complex, at Lu Yibei's home, in the makeshift Alchemy workshop.
After arranging "Qiu Guniang" in eighteen different poses and finally stuffing her into the metal box, Lu Yibei used the remaining little calamity water and the Alchemy residue she bought from Fat Er Ye last time, mixed with the blood she "asked" Eyeball for, to produce more than twenty Alchemy Dirty Bombs 3.0.
Although she didn't know if this method could bring even a trace of the world's malice to the target when detonating the Alchemy Dirty Bomb, it was worth a try.
After packing her luggage, Lu Yibei carried the metal box to the express station at the entrance of the complex and sent an expedited delivery to the hotel the Professor had booked, estimating it would arrive at the same time as her.
This trip to Tang City is very likely to result in conflict with Psychic or urban legend.
When in poor physical condition, Lu Yibei always felt uneasy without making more preparations.
However, those Alchemy Dirty Bombs, filled with glowing viscous liquid, definitely wouldn't pass airport security. After thinking it over, Lu Yibei felt that only express delivery was feasible.
Returning home, with nothing else to do, Lu Yibei, finally free, came to her desk and opened the documents sent by Professor Ma on her laptop.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but after Professor Ma compared those cultural relics to figurines, she felt that as long as she looked at those pictures, she could remember them completely.
If that didn't work, couldn't she still ask Ju · Smelly Girl · Cultural Relic Manufacturer · Miss Meng for help?
Looking at the map, Tang City is quite close to Taoyuan, only seventy to eighty kilometers in total.
Just as she thought of Ju Meng, a familiar object suddenly flashed before Lu Yibei's eyes. She was stunned for a moment, quickly scrolled the mouse wheel, and found the picture she had just seen.
"Isn't this..."
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, carefully looked at the pattern on the bronze vessel in the picture, suddenly raised her hand, looked at the back of her hand, then looked at the bronze vessel again, and finally let out a simple and clear exclamation, "Holy crap!"
How is the pattern on this bronze vessel the same as Ju Meng's mark?!
Could it be that she's picked up some bad habits, causing Taoyuan to be unsustainable, and she's started selling off her family property?
If it's Smelly Girl, she's highly likely to do something like this!
Lu Yibei thought, picked up her phone, and dialed the contact information Ju Meng had left her - the landline phone of the forest ranger's cabin on the back mountain of Taoyuan.
Just then, her phone suddenly vibrated twice, and then, the certain goose social software popped up two message notifications.
The message was from a familiar ID, and the content of the message was a picture and a paragraph of text.
Miao Miao Jiang: 【Picture】
Miao Miao Jiang: I heard you're going on a long trip recently? Here's a protective charm for you, wishing you a smooth journey. 【Heart eyes emoji】
In the picture.
Miao Miao Jiang was wearing an off-the-shoulder dress like a pure white wedding gown. Under the sheer fabric of the dress, faint patterns of large white flowers were visible.
A white headpiece wrapped her golden hair, styled into a neat bun. Below the knee-length skirt, a pair of slender legs wrapped in white stockings were visible, and a pair of crystal shoes shimmered with a faint light.
A long weapon that looked like both a sword and a spear was held in her hand, its sharp point extending from a blooming giant snow lotus, revealing a glittering cold light.
Lu Yibei, "!!!"
This... this... this...
Is this 【Flower of Parallel Time-Space Disorder】 COS?!
Holy crap, did "Miao Miao Jiang" finally remember her main job?
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Are you there? More?"
Miao Miao Jiang: "Gone, next time. 【Heart eyes emoji】"
