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On the dirty old street next to the Tangcheng Four Seasons Hotel, the door of Tony Yang's Affordable Hair Salon was pushed open by a teenager.
The teenager swaggered into the hair salon, lifted the little girl engrossed in mobile games from his shoulder with both hands, placed her steadily on a chair, then glanced at the only hairdresser in the shop, who was dozing off. With a poker face, he pointed to the little girl's dark green long hair.
"Teacher Tony, could you please dye this thing black for her and straighten it!" fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
"Ah? Uh..." The hairdresser woke up, stared blankly at the teenager for a few seconds, then frowned and said, "I'm not called Tony, I'm called Zhao Tiezhu."
Ju Meng put down her phone and pouted her little mouth, "Damn! If you're not Teacher Tony, why open a Tony Yang's Affordable Hair Salon?"
Lu Yibei patted her shoulder, "Why are you talking so much nonsense, Little Girl? There's no wife in a wife cake, isn't it normal for Tony Yang's Affordable Hair Salon to not have a Tony?"
"Come on, Teacher Tiezhu Zhao, get it done for her!"
Ju Meng, "..."
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Two and a half hours later.
On the street in front of the Tang City Clothing Wholesale Market.
Ju Meng sat upright on Lu Yibei's shoulder, her small hands pulling back and forth at the big golden waves of hair on her head, her face filled with disdain.
"Lu Yibei, you're too stingy, can't you take me to a more decent hair salon? This hair dye smells like horse piss!"
"Isn't horse piss pretty good? Just consider it fertilizer for you, maybe you can recover some strength!"
"Bah! I'm warning you, if I get leukemia, I'll be relying on you for the rest of my life, you'll have to support me!" Ju Meng said angrily, her small hands pulling hard at a handful of Lu Yibei's hair.
"I've never heard of trees getting leukemia, less nonsense!" Lu Yibei looked up and glared at her, saying impatiently, "Does going to a proper hair salon not cost money? My money doesn't come from nowhere."
As he spoke, he lifted Ju Meng from his shoulder and placed her on the ground, pointing to the children's clothing wholesale store not far ahead, "Go, pick out an outfit, and your appearance modification plan will be complete."
After leaving Chunfeng Residence, Lu Yibei took advantage of Professor Ma being called to a meeting by the research project team, and snuck out of the hotel with Ju Meng, specifically to give her a comprehensive appearance makeover.
Ju Meng also agreed with Lu Yibei's plan. She was good at fighting and killing, but Lu Yibei was the master of being cautious and surviving. To get through her weak period smoothly and steadily, listening to Lu Yibei was more reliable.
According to Lu Yibei's idea, to collect cultural relics and help her recover her strength under the nose of the evil forces, besides hiding her Spiritual Energy fluctuations, modifying Ju Meng's appearance was very necessary.
Although her body had shrunk a lot after being seriously injured, even so, her appearance was still too eye-catching.
That head of dark green big waves like jade, a small face carved like warm jade, a pair of peach blossom eyes shimmering with watery brilliance that looked affectionately at everyone, coupled with a small cheongsam made of exquisite materials and superior craftsmanship, gave her a cold and gentle beauty like a fairy, while also carrying a few points of a child's unique innocent charm.
For this kind of Little Girl, people usually use the word "monster" to describe her, although she is indeed an old monster herself.
Walking on the street with such a Little Girl, several waves of people like Taobao children's clothing model scouts and Douyin cute baby operators came over. The eyes of the evil forces are not blind, they couldn't possibly not discover Ju Meng's whereabouts.
If it weren't for Lu Yibei's own rather handsome face, which could barely be disguised as her "failed" older brother, he might have been mistaken for a child trafficker and enthusiastically given a police report.
In this situation, let alone searching for cultural relics sealed with urban legend, it would be very difficult to even walk on the street without interference.
At that time, if another clueless evil young master who likes lolis popped up, it would likely lead to a plot spanning tens of thousands of words where beating the small one brings out the big one, and beating the big one brings out the old one, with endless descendants.
I, Lu Yibei, will never allow such a thing to happen!
Thus, Lu Yibei thus offered his first precious experience of shopping with a girl in his life.
...
Lu Yibei stood on the street, lost in thought, chewing on a spicy stick. When he came back to his senses, he found that Ju Meng was sitting on the ground with a thud, her arms crossed over her chest, looking at him angrily, not saying a word.
"What's wrong with you now? Didn't we talk about it nicely just now? You also agreed to my makeover plan, didn't you?"
Ju Meng looked at the children's clothing store ahead with a sign that read 【Big Loss Children's Clothing, 39 yuan/KG, No Bargaining!】, then looked at Lu Yibei, turned her head away, and snorted coldly.
"Hmph! My delicate skin can't stand that kind of black-hearted children's clothing with excessive toxic substances. I won't wear it, I won't wear it! Buy me something else!"
When have I, Ju Meng, ever suffered such a grievance?
I used to wear satin woven from golden silkworm threads mixed with peacock feathers and white crane feathers. Although I'm down and out now, I should at least get a set of Uniqlo pure cotton series, right?
"Don't think I don't know how much your Night Watch salary is, you definitely have money in your pocket. If you don't buy it for me, I'll shout 'indecent assault' right now and tell the police over there that you molested a minor and trafficked children!"
Looking at Ju Meng's childish face, which showed a ruffian-like expression, Lu Yibei rubbed his slightly throbbing temples.
"What kind of crazy things are you saying? Didn't I tell you to act more like a child in your behavior? Are these things a child would say?"
As Lu Yibei spoke, he suddenly felt his thigh tighten. He looked down and realized that Ju Meng had somehow gotten close, hugged his thigh, and was looking up at him with teary eyes, saying sweetly, "Brother, I don't want to wear that kind of clothes, I'll get lots of little red bumps on my body."
"Buy me a pretty little dress, I haven't worn a new dress in a long, long time."
"I promise I won't make you angry again in the future, and I'll do my homework properly when I go back. I won't tell Mom that you used the money for my dress to play games either."
This time it seemed more like it, but...
What kind of tantrum is she throwing all of a sudden?
Why is she suddenly acting? Is there some conspiracy?
Lu Yibei was full of doubts and his heart was pounding when a sudden whisper from passersby entered his ears.
"Tsk tsk, what kind of brother is this? The sister is so sensible, what's wrong with buying her a dress?"
"Oh dear~ Didn't you hear? That little brat used the money for his sister's things to gamble in games!"
"Bah, he's really not acting human, is he?! If that were my sister..."
...
"..." Lu Yibei looked at Ju Meng in silence. Although she looked pathetic and pitiful now, upon closer inspection, between each blink, pout, and frown, her face was filled with cunning.
Facts have proven that the cuteness of children lies in their innocence. If a child knows how to use her appearance as a weapon, she will become very terrifying.
A Little Girl with a loli appearance and the heart of a green tea old monster has a hundred ways to make you fulfill all her wishes.
Lu Yibei had not yet crossed the threshold and understood the profound mysteries of this path, but Ju Meng was already extraordinary and saintly.
"Buy, I'll buy it for you, I'll buy whatever you want!" Lu Yibei said through gritted teeth, picking up Ju Meng and walking towards the shopping mall across the road like he was escaping, accompanied by the pointing fingers of passersby.
Ju Meng lay on his shoulder, smiling sinisterly. Just as Lu Yibei had walked a few steps, she shouted loudly, "After buying the little dress, is Brother going to take me to eat Haidilao too? Yay! Yay!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
"Ah? After eating Haidilao, are we going to the aquarium too? Brother, you're too gentle today, I almost don't recognize you, I'm so happy!" Ju Meng said sweetly, "Will you be this good to me from now on?"
"Damn! Don't go too far!" Lu Yibei couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Can you act like a deity? This Ghost, aren't you afraid of your followers seeing you?"
Ju Meng twirled a strand of her dark, smooth hair around her finger and pouted dismissively, "Don't worry, I've dyed this thing black, and my Spiritual Energy fluctuations are well hidden. Even if Turtle Elder came, he wouldn't recognize me immediately."
"However, you did remind me. You saw me like this, and if it gets out in the future, I'll lose a lot of face. Although killing people to silence them is a bit cruel and I can't do it, but..."
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“To avoid things neither of us want to see happen, how about I plant something inside you? Then, if I tell you to go east and you dare go west, I’ll make your life worse than death. How does that sound?”
"Are you Tianshan Tonglao? You want to put a Life-Death Talisman on someone at the drop of a hat?" Lu Yibei cursed fiercely.
"Believe it or not, I'd sacrifice myself to tie you up in a pretty bow and personally deliver you to the evil forces to end your sinful life?"
"Maybe the boss of the evil forces will take a liking to me and even give me a reward!"
"..."
Ju Meng was hesitant, she pondered for a few seconds, gently squeezed Lu Yibei's shoulder, and said with a smile, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, let's talk things over nicely!"
"Then go buy children's clothing for thirty-nine yuan a jin right now," Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
Ju Meng reached into Lu Yibei's top pocket, pulled out ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) a spicy stick, put it in her mouth, and said with a straight face, "Kid, if you're like this, then there's no room for discussion?"
"Do you think you have a choice?"
"Tch, stingy! You won't get a wife like this! Blech—!" Ju Meng pouted, made a face at Lu Yibei, then lowered her head and fell silent.
After a long silence, she sprawled lazily on Lu Yibei's shoulder, like a little kitten sleepy from the warm sun, and mumbled, "If it's really not possible, we won't go to the aquarium, but just eat at Haidilao, okay? I always hear the young people in Taoyuan say it's delicious, but I've never had the chance to eat it myself."
When she was in Taoyuan, although she seemed to be slacking off and playing games all the time, looking very idle, in addition to guarding Taoyuan, she also had to be ready at any time to listen to the prayers of her dependents and subjects, so she rarely had the opportunity to leave.
Only relatively fragmented forms of entertainment like games, anime, and manga could help her pass the time.
In fact, the nearly month-long stay in Hua City could already be considered the longest time Ju Meng had been away from Taoyuan since her consciousness fully awakened.
Lu Yibei glanced out of the corner of her eye at Ju Meng on her shoulder, seeing on her childish face a pair of eyes like emeralds that were exceptionally deep, but upon closer inspection, she also found a hint of lingering coldness hidden deep within those eyes, making it feel as though she was right beside her, yet also very far away.
Is she playing the pity card?
But her tone sounded somewhat genuine...
Forget it, it's just a few hundred yuan she might scam out of me anyway.
Thinking this, Lu Yibei asked casually, "You haven't been to the aquarium either?"
"No..."
"Didn't you say you caught... uh, seafood urban legend in the sea? Why go to the aquarium?"
"That's different!" Ju Meng pouted.
"Want to go?"
Hearing this, a glimmer of light rekindled in Ju Meng's eyes, but she quickly suppressed her excitement and shook her head.
"Although I haven't been, I don't really want to go that much! I just said it casually."
"Oh..." Lu Yibei replied, pondered for a few seconds, and said indifferently, "Then I'll take you when I have time later? There are only a little over four days left, so it's not very convenient."
As if reborn, a smile suddenly bloomed on Ju Meng's face, her eyes filled with excitement, "Really?"
"A promise made..."
"Even the Long March 12 can't catch it!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Tsk, how much do you want to go? Isn't it better to just say it frankly?
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Evening.
As the sun gradually sank below the horizon, the light and shadows in Tangcheng University also turned dim and hazy.
Inside the School of Literature building.
After the police finished their investigation of the 【Cultural Relics and Museology 1】 laboratory in the morning, they quickly evacuated the students, teachers, and project members who were watching. The floor where the laboratory was located, as well as the adjacent floors, were sealed off, and almost the entire day passed without anyone setting foot there again.
"Whoosh—!"
At the moment the sky completely darkened, a gust of wind suddenly sounded outside the School of Literature building. Along with the wind, a figure was seen quickly climbing up the outer wall of the building, then the figure blurred and passed directly through the glass, entering the 【Cultural Relics and Museology 1】 laboratory.
After the figure stabilized, her reflection appeared on the window glass.
It was a young girl wearing a complete set of black sportswear. Her long golden hair was tied up high, and a white silk scarf with "Dao Fa Zi Ran" printed on it covered her face, revealing only a pair of deep eyes. frёeωebɳovel.com
Entering the laboratory, she looked around, her gaze fixing on the corpse sprawled on the long table, its head completely disappeared into the computer screen. She silently sighed, then quietly took out a pair of white gloves from her top pocket and carefully put them on her hands.
"Honestly, I've been waiting here all day and no one has come to deal with the body. The members of the Tang City Si Ye Hui are unreachable, could they have already been killed?"
"The person who controlled that puppet last night was probably the evil force that attacked the agents who came to support. To actually use the resonance of the bao sang cang xiao badge as bait, how shameless!"
"Fortunately, Master gave me enough treasures when I went out, otherwise I would have fallen into his trap."
"There's nothing else I can do. Tang City is clearly in chaos now. Before new reinforcements arrive, it can only rely on me, Fu Xinyi, to save the humans who are in dire straits!"
Fu Xinyi muttered to herself as she approached the corpse, paced around it twice, stopped at the northeast direction, and reached into her small satchel to pull out four sections of beige spermaceti candles, a yellow paper filled with strange talismans drawn in cinnabar, an antique bronze bell, and a porcelain bowl.
She placed the spermaceti candles in various corners of the room and lit them, used the porcelain bowl to get a bowl of clear water from the laboratory's restroom and placed it in the center of the room. Fu Xinyi returned to the corpse, held the yellow paper between two slender fingers and shook it gently, muttering incantations.
"Wandering souls, where do you linger? Three souls descend quickly, seven spirits arrive... The gate of heaven opens, the gate of earth opens, a thousand-mile child sends the soul back, as urgent as the law!"
After softly chanting the incantation, the yellow paper between Fu Xinyi's fingers 'poof!' ignited with a ball of deep blue flame, floating in front of her as it burned. Seeing this, her eyes narrowed, she quickly picked up the bronze bell from the table, shook it gently, then put it back and closed her eyes.
"Drip—drip—drip—!"
Like water droplets falling into a porcelain bowl filled with clear water, a light sound echoed. Fu Xinyi's eyes were tightly closed, her spiritual perception fully extended, carefully sensing the ripples in the water in the porcelain bowl caused by the fluctuations of Spiritual Energy.
"Splash—!"
Suddenly, a strong ripple surged in the clear water in the porcelain bowl, making a clear splashing sound. Feeling the Spiritual Energy fluctuation approaching, Fu Xinyi suddenly opened her eyes, looked in the direction of Li Ziqi's corpse, and let out a delicate shout, "Li Ziqi, I command you to return quickly!"
"Ding dong—!"
After shouting, a faint light flickered in her eyes. The bronze bell on the table shook violently without being touched, emitting a light sound.
Then...
The candlelight suddenly went out, and the laboratory plunged into darkness.
Through her spiritual perception, Fu Xinyi felt something had arrived, a dark, blurry presence, lurking in the darkness, approaching step by step, watching her with an exceptionally cold gaze.
The darkness lasted for less than a second, and the candlelight gradually lit up again. A grotesque, terrifying face with torn and rolled flesh, as if scratched by sharp claws, appeared out of thin air before her eyes like an illusion, a bloody mess.
Stared at by those numb, empty eyes, like those of the dead, Fu Xinyi's heart also felt a chill.
However, the basic qualities of a Night Watch genius reserve agent allowed her to suppress the fear in her heart. She cleared her throat and asked, "Ahem, Li Ziqi, I ask you, who killed you? Those with grudges seek revenge, those with grievances seek justice, tell me quickly!"
As her voice fell, the body of the ungraded urban legend in front of Fu Xinyi trembled. Its cracked lips numbly said, "The one who killed me, the Lord of the Eight Hundred Li Peach Garden, Ju Meng..."
