Free Web NovelLu Yibei had never imagined that one day she would be like an old man, meticulously studying a newspaper, and even more bizarrely, after transforming into a beautiful young girl.
This feeling was truly strange enough!
“Missing during a night run? Two days later, the body was found under the pier of the Kua Jiang Bridge, entangled in waterweeds, drowned! The death was gruesome, but a strange smile was on her face...”
Lu Yibei held the Hua City Daily from two days ago, which False Tooth had somehow acquired, studying it for a long time before turning her head to look at False Tooth beside her.
“Do you usually pay much attention to this kind of news? You’re really something!”
“Some people are alive but already dead, some people are dead but still alive. Paying close attention to current events and various news allows me to at least retain some sense of reality in this world,” False Tooth said melancholically.
Lu Yibei, “...” Alright, now I have a rough understanding of my companions’ personalities.
False Tooth is pessimistic and dispirited, Eyeball is a death-seeking chuunibyo, Furball is worldly and cunning, Sleeping Dress is introverted and shy, seemingly hiding some secret, as for Coat... it seems to be a simpleton.
“So, am I supposed to go to Linjiang Avenue to find the urban legend that attacked people, and then hunt it?” Lu Yibei asked, puzzled, “But how can you guarantee it will appear?”
“Of course it will appear, today is one of those few days that happen every month!” Eyeball said, hopping around, a hint of pride in its words.
Those few days every month? Elements detected! Lu Yibei slightly furrowed her brows. Could the few days mentioned by the mysterious girl also be these days?
After a brief thought, Lu Yibei pressed, “Is there anything special about these days?”
“Of course, during these days, the urban legend’ power will grow stronger, just like now, I feel full of power, for a stupid loli like you, I can take on ten of you! Heh heh, heh heh—!”
As Eyeball spoke, its movements were like throwing punches, flying in circles in mid-air.
“Puchi—!”
Lu Yibei irritably pressed Eyeball to the ground, saying expressionlessly, “You don’t need to say those last words. It’s only because you met me; any other urban legend would have eaten you long ago!”
Pressed to the ground by the scorching small hand, Eyeball struggled twice, then softened and gave up resistance.
Lu Yibei glanced at the seemingly dying Eyeball out of the corner of her eye, silently withdrew her hand, and got up to walk upstairs.
Even if she was going out to hunt urban legend, she couldn’t just run out naked, could she? No matter what... she still needed her dignity. Lu Yibei thought.
The urban legend watched Lu Yibei go upstairs, secretly sighing in relief that they had finally temporarily sent this great deity away.
However, just as they relaxed, they heard a scream from upstairs, “Ying!”
“Eh? Holy shit, holy shit—!”
Immediately following, a completely naked figure rushed down from upstairs, heading straight for the kitchen, continuously pouring several basins of water over herself, before her petite figure emerged in a cloud of steam.
Lu Yibei stood in the kitchen, her pinkish-white long hair clinging to her smooth back, wisps of steam floating in her hair, a slight blush on her delicate small face, several water droplets resting on her rounded shoulders. Accompanied by ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) heavy breathing, the water droplets playfully slid across her chest and dropped to the floor.
“What’s... what’s wrong with her?”
“Lost control? Should we run?”
Furball noticed Lu Yibei’s shorts, which were burned down to a few scraps of fabric, and said, “I think it might be related to that.”
Lu Yibei had gone upstairs intending to find some clothes to wear, but it wasn’t until she put on the clothes that she realized there were differences between male and female bodies.
Because of this difference, the sensitivity of different body parts was not entirely the same.
She accidentally touched an indescribable area, and a strong sense of shame erupted in her heart, her body temperature instantly rose, and she ignited the clothes she had just put on.
This is hard to bear! Lu Yibei felt a pang of sorrow. Going out in ordinary clothes, she might accidentally end up running naked, but due to hunger, she had no choice but to go out hunting...
The thought of potentially meeting a urban legend in the deserted streets at midnight, engaging in a fist-to-flesh combat, made Lu Yibei’s body temperature rise a few more degrees, and the remaining water droplets on her skin instantly evaporated completely.
As Lu Yibei thought, the hunger she had barely suppressed returned, her stomach cramping, filled with an uncomfortable sensation of excessive stomach acid, and her abdomen suddenly let out a soft “gurgle.”
“Gurgle—!” Lu Yibei glanced at the bewildered urban legend in the living room and swallowed hard.
Or... should I just eat them?
Anyway, I’m not human anymore, so being a little more cruel doesn’t seem to matter!
In the darkness, Lu Yibei’s stomach rumbling and swallowing sounds echoed. The urban legend immediately panicked and hastily began to offer her advice.
“Lady Witch, calm down, don’t be impulsive, don’t be impulsive!”
“Exactly, exactly, if there’s anything, we can discuss it! We will definitely help you!” free𝑤ebnovel.com
“If you can’t help yourself, just eat me, anyway I also...”
“False Tooth, you ♦ shut up!”
“...”
After a moment of silence, Lu Yibei said expressionlessly, “Do you... do you have a way to get that kind of, you know, unburnable clothes?”
Unburnable? The urban legend were silent for a moment, then looked at Coat, who was in the corner like a simpleton, playing the game of hitting its left hand with its right hand.
“It!” The urban legend said in unison.
...
The night was deep.
At some point, rain began to fall from the sky, unseen threads of rain descending from above, and through the gaps in the thick fog, two or three points of light faintly appeared.
In Hua City, on Linjiang Avenue, a man in a delivery uniform, appearing to be in his early twenties, was running for his life.
Even though he had lost his shoes, stumbling and nearly falling.
Even though protruding stones on the road surface cut his skin, and muddy accumulated water on the ground entered his wounds, causing a knife-like pain.
He had no intention of stopping.
He dared not stop.
Because there was a monster behind him!
Although he hadn’t seen the monster’s actual form, he had truly and tangibly felt its presence.
It was pervasive, as if existing in every shadow within his sight.
It brought a bone-chilling cold and intense malice, pressing closer step by step.
The terrifying pressure made the man almost suffocate.
He cried out for help, but received no response from anyone.
The streetlights cast a dim, yellow light, and an impenetrable thick fog enveloped the seemingly endless street.
The cold autumn rain drifted down, pattering, and in the wind, there was a faint, furtive, maddening whisper.
The man began to blame himself, repeating the advice his friends had given him in fragmented, chaotic, almost frantic words.
“Don’t go out delivering orders at night! It’s not worth risking your life for that little money!”
“Try not to go out after dark, if you see them, you’ll be eaten!”
In a flash, he thought of the indifferent eyes and perfunctory sighs of his friends at the upcoming funeral, and he fell silent.
“Hoo—hoo—!”
Approaching his physiological limit, he breathed heavily.
With every breath, an intense, foul stench entered his nostrils, the smell like ten thousand rotting strange fish, emitting a fishy odor, traveling along his nasal cavity, respiratory tract, and into his lungs.
Sharp scales and pointed bone spurs shredded his lung lobes, leaving them bloody.
The unbearable discomfort made the man cough violently, and with each cough, turbid river water mixed with fish scales and waterweed debris gushed from his mouth.
Gradually, his vision began to blur.
Before his eyes, the streetlights flickered as if with a bad connection, their erratic light being pulled and transformed by some force, casting various twisted and eerie shadows.
Cold, terror, exhaustion...
The man could no longer hold on, and his body tilted backward.
However, the anticipated violent impact of his back against the cold, hard ground did not occur.
The waterlogged road was pitch black, and the man fell onto his own shadow, as if falling into a silent quagmire.
Suddenly.
The shadow beneath him seemed to come alive, surging. A pale hand reached out from the shadow, trembling incessantly, constantly splitting into countless new entities, covering his eyes, mouth, and nose, locking the joints of his limbs.
Pulled by those pale arms, the man plunged into the ground with a “thump,” disappearing without a trace.
As if falling into a pool from a height, “water” rushed into his nasal cavity, and that “water” instantly reverted to its original form.
Stones, mud, and debris instantly rushed into his respiratory tract, and a suffocating sensation more terrifying than drowning struck him. The intense stimulation made him cough violently, and with each cough, countless tiny fragments spewed from his mouth and nose.
In a daze.
As if in a hallucination, the man heard a loud crack of rock, followed by a piercing shriek echoing in his ears.
“Screech—!”
The sound was like the hoarse cry of some bird.
“Wh-... who’s there?”
“Kukuku! Since you’ve asked so sincerely, I shall mercifully tell you!”
“I am the embodiment of justice born in darkness, walking beneath the night sky, the sword of light that purifies filth, the wielder, the owner of the Super Beautiful Girl Demon Slaying System, the one who wields the power of Kua’e! You can call me Red Scarf!”
“Ugh... So noisy!” The man opened his mouth, expressing his final thought, then fainted.
“Mmm...” Gu Qianqian’s cheeks were slightly flushed as she observed the unconscious man on the ground, pouting. Although it wasn’t her first time, the catchphrase she left before each rescue still made her feel a bit embarrassed.
This feeling of shame didn’t last long. A system notification appeared in her mind: 【Daily Quest Completed: “Always Leave Your Name When Doing Good Deeds!” (1/1), gained 10 points】, and a smile immediately bloomed on her face.
10 points! She could draw a prize again! Gu Qianqian thought excitedly, when a nauseating stench of dead fish suddenly assailed her nostrils.
Following the direction of the stench, the road ahead was enveloped in a thick fog. Faint, strange shrieks came from within the fog, and the asphalt road suddenly seemed to boil, surging with wave-like ripples that rapidly approached her, reaching her feet in an instant.
The next moment, with a soft “thump,” Gu Qianqian’s body sank, falling below the ground and vanishing.
...
In the distance, a figure wearing a loose red and white color-blocked Coat squatted in the corner, the bushes effectively concealing her delicate and unusual presence.
She gazed for a long time at the ground, which gradually returned to stillness, and expressionlessly uttered, “Holy crap! Is hunting urban legend this dangerous? Looks like I need to plan carefully before I act!”
