Free Web NovelSpecks of light streamed in from outside the window, outlining blurry shapes in the apartment, where dark shadows darted at high speed, stirring up clouds of dust, and a chilly aura spread along their flying trajectories.
“Hungry... So hungry...” The young girl whispered in the darkness, her childish voice mixed with a low guttural sound, like maddening murmurs.
The next moment, the temperature in the apartment suddenly rose, the chilly aura was dispelled, and a scorching, hot sensation enveloped the entire space.
In the darkness, the petite young girl slowly stood up, opening her eyes to reveal ethereal fiery clouds in her pupils, and her light red long hair swayed without wind, like boneless limbs °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° dancing behind her.
“Hoo—hoo—!”
She panted heavily, white mist from evaporating sweat swirling around her limbs, and as her meager chest heaved violently, sulfur-scented smoke billowed from her mouth.
She looked like a demon god that had crawled out of hell.
Strong Psychic fluctuations covered the entire apartment, a natural suppression from a higher-level urban legend over lower-level urban legend, like an invisible large hand, almost destroying the forms of the urban legend in the apartment.
“Pat-a—pat-a—!” A soft sound came from her pink little feet as they stepped barefoot on the ground.
She walked to the center of the living room, stopped, and stood silently, as if waiting for something.
The next moment, a slender arm suddenly shot out, quick as lightning, grasping in mid-air, and a pig-like shriek echoed in her ears.
“Hot, hot, hot! You ungrateful bunch, someone save me!”
“Please, don’t eat me, I’m all fur, no meat, I don’t taste good! Go eat them instead!”
The furball was suddenly grabbed by Lu Yibei, squirming in extreme terror.
The next moment, seeing the small, delicate face in the darkness gradually approach, its lips slightly parted, and a scorching airflow sprayed onto it, it immediately let out a mournful wail, like a dying cry.
“She’s going to eat me! She’s going to eat me! Ah! I’m dead!”
Lu Yibei, “...” Is this a urban legend? This must be a silly one, right?
Although the intense hunger forced her body to crave these urban legend, her rationality told her not to do that.
These silly urban legend, at least in a way, could be considered her neighbors, and if she even ate her “neighbors,” wouldn’t she be without any basic bottom line?
Even after becoming a urban legend, Lu Yibei wanted to be a five-virtues and four-beauties urban legend as much as possible, contributing her strength to the five-in-one and four-comprehensives.
“I say...”
She opened her mouth, just about to say something, when she heard a whooshing sound, followed by a passionate shout.
“True warriors never fear death, they never turn their backs on the enemy, they only die on the charge! I’ll fight you, demoness, take this!”
Where did this chuunibyou come from?
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a tennis ball-sized sphere flying at high speed. Lu Yibei, expressionless, tilted her body, raised a hand, and with a “pop,” intercepted it in mid-air, then sighed helplessly.
“Come on, you’re so weak!.jpg”
“Sizzle—sizzle—!” Another grating sound came, like something hard scraping across the smooth floor, stopping at her feet.
Lu Yibei looked down and saw a False Tooth kneeling before her.
Although a False Tooth probably couldn’t make a kneeling gesture, Lu Yibei genuinely felt that the small figure was indeed kneeling.
“Lady Demoness, if you must eat, eat me! Please spare them! Anyway, I’ve long wanted to cease existing in this world! I originally thought this world was full of malice, and only death could offer escape, but who knew that even after dying, this world wouldn’t let me go! Come on, please let me be free!”
Lu Yibei, “...”
Uncle, your life... tooth... urban legend outlook is so depressing!
“I said, didn’t I tell you before? I won’t hurt you,” Lu Yibei said helplessly, her eyes flashing like a hungry wolf, swallowing hard, “Gulp—!”
All the urban legend, “???”
Why don’t we believe your words at all?
“Uh...” Lu Yibei awkwardly scratched the back of her head, saying earnestly, “At least not for now, really!”
The urban legend observed her expression; there were no micro-expressions of lying on her delicate, small face, and their fear gradually diminished a bit.
Lu Yibei, “...” Why do they still not believe her?
Although her body strongly desired to devour them, who would eat food that smelled like a dirty rag!?
After a moment of silent staring, the furball was the first to break the silence. “Everyone, I think a higher-level urban legend like her wouldn’t need so much talk if she wanted to devour us.”
“Hmph! Who knows? Women’s words are the least trustworthy! You know, hearts are separated by... Ah, my Eyeball!”
Before the Eyeball could finish speaking, it was “squished” into a pancake by Lu Yibei, whose forehead veins bulged. The rest of its words turned into a scream.
As if to gain the trust of the urban legend, Lu Yibei released her hand, letting the furball and Eyeball drop to the ground, and watched them and the False Tooth quickly run away, hiding in the shadows.
“Gulp—!”
Lu Yibei swallowed hard again, suppressing the urge to pounce on the urban legend and take a few bites, then sat cross-legged on the ground.
They are all dirty rags, cannot eat! They are all dirty rags, cannot eat!
After hypnotizing herself several times in her mind, Lu Yibei opened her mouth and slowly exhaled a thick cloud of smoke. “Hoo—! Tell me, how many years have you all been urban legend?”
They have been urban legend much longer than me, so they should know what this hunger of mine is all about.
If I just ask them, I should be able to find a solution.
If I really can’t find one, I can eat... No, no! Lu Yibei, be normal, you can’t eat them! Lu Yibei thought.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!” A flurry of dark shadows flew and surged, and the urban legend formed a humanoid shape according to the sequence of “I’ll form the head! I’ll form the eyes, gums...” and so on.
Wearing a Sleeping Dress, draped in a Coat, with long hair disheveled, exposed gums, and a large single Eyeball peeking through the messy hair tips.
Lu Yibei, “...”
Why do they look so creepy? I feel like they’ll suddenly pounce on me and choke me?
Lu Yibei thought, just about to tell them to change their posture, but they spoke first, the entire humanoid outline speaking from top to bottom, making it even more bizarre.
“This is already the seventh year,” the furball said wistfully.
“Hmph, three years! Don’t let the short time fool you, I’m very strong!”
“One, one year,” the Sleeping Dress said in a very small voice, like a shy and introverted girl.
“A long, long time, so long that I can no longer remember my time as a human.”
Perhaps because it hadn’t been a urban legend for long, the Coat made no sound.
“Hmm! Very good.” Lu Yibei nodded. “Then do you know what’s happening to me now? Specifically, I’m hungry, very hungry, so hungry I wish I could eat you all...”
As she spoke, her will was again somewhat swayed by hunger, and a greedy light flickered in her eyes.
All the urban legend, “!!!”
You’re lying to ghosts! You can’t do that!
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“I know, I know, this is...” “This is Psychic...” “Psychic my ass! It’s the darkness...”
The urban legend chattered away, and Lu Yibei listened for a long time without understanding anything, only finding them noisy. She frowned slightly and interrupted, “Alright, alright, you don’t need to explain what’s happening.”
She paused, then once again suppressed the surging hunger, letting out a long breath.
“Hoo—! You just need to tell me how to solve this situation!”
To Lu Yibei’s surprise, the urban legend suddenly reached a consensus and said in unison, “Absorb Psychic!”
Psychic? Lu Yibei’s brows furrowed for a moment. “How do I absorb it? For example? How do you usually solve it?”
“A higher-level urban legend like you certainly cannot satisfy your Psychic needs by devouring floating spirits like us. Uh, floating spirits are the small light clusters that humans occasionally see flying around in front of their eyes.” freewēbnoveℓ.com
“Then...”
“Hmph, nonsense, a hard-to-satisfy little thing like her, of course, needs to eat people!” the Eyeball said.
“Like that fat old woman downstairs in the next building, although her Psychic potential isn’t enough to become a Psychic, the source spirits in her body are much higher than ordinary people! I recommend her, and it’s not because she hit me... Ah—!”
Before the Eyeball could finish speaking, it was once again “squished” flat by the exasperated Lu Yibei. Under the high temperature, it fell to the ground like a soft fried egg.
“Methods that require harming others are out, all excluded,” Lu Yibei said in a deep voice.
“Alas! Then there’s only hunting urban legend,” the False Tooth sighed. “Many higher-level urban legend do this.”
“Hunting urban legend?” Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes thoughtfully. “This method might work, so what do I need to do?”
“You just need to...”
...
9:57 PM.
Hua City, Linjiang Avenue.
The pitch-black night sky, like ink, and a thick fog spread over the deserted riverside street, with two or three specks of light faintly visible through the gaps in the fog.
A young girl with chestnut long hair and a red scarf sat on the riverside embankment, a matcha-flavored Pocky in her mouth, her slender legs encased in white over-the-knee socks, wearing a pair of deerskin ankle boots, gently swaying them.
【Midnight, Linjiang Avenue.
Strange, comical movements, always carrying an ominous aura.
Therefore, one must not encounter it.
When it gazes at you, exhausting any means will not suffice to escape.
Sleep, in the murky water.
Mission: At midnight, kill the River Ape Ghost near Linjiang Avenue.
Reward: 200 points, one portion of Marrow Cleansing Essence.】
After reading the mission description, Gu Qianqian pouted, “System! Can that essence be exchanged for points! It really doesn’t taste good!”
“...” The system didn’t want to bother with her.
“System? Are you there? System? If not, I’m going back!”
“I’m here!” The system gritted its teeth and responded, “Gu Qianqian, don’t you love reading novels? Look at the protagonists in those novels, then look at you!”
“They can’t wait to get more treasures to transform their bodies, and you’re complaining! What a bad habit! If this continues, when will your Spirit Mark advance to Calamity level?!”
“But it really tastes bad!”
“Even if it tastes bad, you have to eat it. Only then can you become stronger and save the world! Understand?”
“System...”
“Hmm?”
“I’ve always been curious, you know so many advancement paths and have so many treasures to strengthen Spirit Marks, why don’t you use them yourself?” Gu Qianqian poked her lip with a finger, deep in thought.
“Speaking of which, if you had used all those treasures yourself, you would have been invincible long ago, right? Saving the world wouldn’t even need me!”
“Uh...” The system was momentarily speechless. Oh no! This question is a bit sharp! I need to find a way to bluff my way through!
“In the coming disaster, everyone has a role they must play, doing what is fated, irreversible. And my destiny is to assist you, to become the one who reverses the disaster!”
“...”
Gu Qianqian, “System, you’re so chuunibyou!”
System, “???”
“But, I will try my best!”
System, “...” You scared me, I thought I hadn’t bluffed my way through!
