Free Web NovelAfter watching Uncle Driver flee as if his life depended on it, silence fell over the surrounding hundred meters a dozen seconds later.
The sky was devoid of stars and moon, the clouds hung very low, and thin mist flowed through the empty, desolate streets, looking like a storm was brewing.
Lu Yibei shrugged, adjusted her posture, and changed the way she held the mingwang statue to one that was easier to swing.
Walking on the deserted street at night, quietly feeling her hunger slightly alleviate, she couldn't help but ponder.
“It really doesn’t feel as hungry as before. Could it be because the story I made up scared Uncle Driver?” Lu Yibei thought.
But as her mind turned, she felt something was not quite right; things might not be that simple.
If merely making up stories to scare people could replenish Ling Neng, then Uncle Driver, who constantly told such stories in his car and even hosted a midnight urban legend radio show, wouldn't his Ling Neng have already exploded?
Or maybe Uncle Driver's appearance was faked, and he was actually already invincibly strong! But this possibility shouldn't be very high.
“Coat, do you know what’s going on?”
The Coat gently shook twice, and then she heard a low “abba abba” murmur beside her ear, completely incomprehensible.
“Sigh—!” Lu Yibei sighed lightly, “Forget it, I knew asking you was useless!”
It seemed she could only wait until Jiang Li’s class tomorrow to subtly ask about it, but how to ask without her noticing would be a test of acting skills.
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a bit of anticipation for Jiang Li’s class.
The Coat shook twice again, as if refuting Lu Yibei’s words. She frowned slightly, rubbed her sleeve to appease the Coat, then concentrated, scanning her surroundings for traces of urban legend on the empty street as she walked forward.
Before the night grew long, Linjiang Avenue was an excellent choice for many people’s after-dinner strolls and night runs. The wide street had health running tracks and dedicated bicycle lanes, with kapok trees and gardenias planted on both sides, and benches for resting every two hundred meters.
But all of this was now completely abandoned. The benches were covered in a thick layer of dust, occasionally showing stains of unknown origin, and the health running tracks were strewn with withered yellow branches and fallen flowers.
Lu Yibei walked along Linjiang Avenue. Not long after, she suddenly felt something was wrong and stopped.
The surrounding fog had grown thicker at some point, its pale color like a light veil, reducing visibility to less than five meters.
The streetlights’ glow, filtered through the thick fog, became dim and hazy. The road ahead disappeared into the dense fog not far off, and looking back, the path she had come from was gone.
The fog grew denser, and a bone-chilling river wind blew, carrying a hint of muddy and dead fish odor. At some point, illusory bubbles began to drift in the air.
The next moment.
“Splash—!” From afar, a soft sound like a fish leaping out of the water came.
Lu Yibei paused for a moment, looked in the direction °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° of the sound, and then saw a group of strange fish, about half the size of a palm, with bodies so pale they looked like skeletons, flying out from the river surface diagonally ahead, stirring up turbid river water and arcing through the air along their flight paths.
They glided in mid-air, their bodies swaying, emitting a grating sound like bones rubbing together. At their highest point, they sharply turned downwards, diving towards the ground.
The imagined impact did not occur; the moment the school of strange fish touched the ground, the ground seemed to liquefy, rippling outwards and swallowing their figures.
“Eh?”
“Is that the urban legend I’m looking for?” Lu Yibei’s gaze sharpened, and her delicate little hand tightened around the mingwang statue. She walked forward to meet them.
Approaching where the strange fish disappeared, she slowed her steps, tentatively moving forward, then squatted down to observe.
Her fingertips brushed the ground, feeling hard and cold, without any damage, as if those strange fish had never existed.
Gone?
Lu Yibei frowned. Just then, a hurried footsteps approached from afar. Through the thick fog, it was impossible to see who was coming.
Night Watch? Or other urban legend? Better find a place to hide and see what happens first.
Lu Yibei thought, glancing around, found a dense bush, took a few steps forward, and squatted down. Her petite figure was immediately completely hidden by the bush.
“Hoo—hoo—! Someone save me!” A desperate scream came from the other side of the thick fog.
Lu Yibei felt something Weird approaching in the unseen thick fog. The next moment, her eyes felt hot and dry. She subconsciously blinked, and with a flurry of light and shadow, the thick fog and bubbles instantly vanished, and the scene before her began to clear.
Then she witnessed the scene of a delivery man being chased by a urban legend.
The urban legend chasing the delivery man had a human-like body, with gray-white, decaying, viscous liquid flowing all over it, and tiger stripes on its back.
White broken bones protruded from its abdomen, and the exposed flesh on its overall gray-white surface was full of grooves, like a human brain peeled of its “shell.”
Its body was bloated like a swollen piece of meat, and its running posture was very comical, yet it made one feel uncomfortable. With every step it took, its limbs twisted in a bizarre manner, as if its bones had been broken.
It ran, chasing the delivery man, sometimes plunging into the liquefied ground, only to quickly emerge, pushed up by a group of strange fish, scattering a foul-smelling mess of dead fish remains.
Some say the unknown is the most terrifying, but Lu Yibei felt that knowing too much was not necessarily a good thing!
Her mindset had not yet transitioned from human to urban legend; facing urban legend, feeling fear and disgust was inevitable.
When she discovered that her hunting target was such a creature, she hesitated.
However, as she hesitated, the delivery man, pursued by the urban legend, had already exhausted his strength and fallen backward onto the ground.
The moment the delivery man fell, those strange fish split and transformed into a pale arm, locking his body and slowly pulling him underground.
“Someone... save me...”
The delivery man let out his last weak wail. As Lu Yibei heard it, her heart felt like it was squeezed by an invisible hand, and her pupils constricted.
“I must save him!”
“In this situation, only you can save him!”
“Hurry! Move! It’s not your style to stand by and watch, Lu Yibei!”
Such a voice shouted in her heart.
Just as she took several deep breaths, clenched her fists, and finally prepared herself mentally to face that terrifying creature, a familiar face appeared.
Chestnut long hair, red scarf, overly developed figure...
The person who arrived was Gu Qianqian.
Witnessing Gu Qianqian smash open the ground with a single baseball bat swing and pull the rather burly delivery man out of the ground with one hand, Lu Yibei's hard-won courage instantly vanished.
Hiss—!
“Isn't this the girl I knocked out last time? Her combat power is actually so terrifying?!”
“Since the delivery man is already saved, maybe... I should just go back?”
“No, no, no, wait and see, wait and see, maybe they’ll fight to a mutual defeat later, and I can... Hehehe!”
“It’s okay to loot without harming anyone, right?”
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The moment Lu Yibei decided to be a “Voldemort,” the next second, Gu Qianqian was dragged underground by that ugly, disgusting urban legend.
Lu Yibei, “...”
“Can you do it? Hey!”
“You said a whole bunch of lines, acting like the protagonist of a hot-blooded anime, and then you got instantly defeated?”
“If I rush out to save her now, will it turn into Calabash Brothers saving their grandpa?”
After a brief thought, Lu Yibei suddenly realized that the ugly urban legend had already emerged from the ground and was walking towards the unconscious delivery man by the roadside.
Seeing this, her heart sank, and she inwardly cried “Oh no.” If this urban legend came out, didn’t it mean that silly girl had already been sacrificed in vain?
“What should I do? Is it only...?”
Thinking, Lu Yibei’s eyes narrowed. Without time to think further, she gritted her teeth, tensed her muscles, picked up the mingwang statue, and rushed out.
“Gah gah gah—!”
The ugly urban legend let out bursts of eerie laughter, its guttural voice seemingly mixed with an infant’s cries.
It slowly approached the unconscious delivery man, and as its bloated, decaying body trembled, many dead fish remains fell from it.
It stretched out its hand, its swollen fingertips caressing the delivery man's face, as if scrutinizing delicious food. Its large mouth, filled with fish-like sharp teeth, slightly opened, and viscous liquid dripped from its mouth onto the ground, immediately rising in a puff of green smoke.
After defeating the sightless fellow who appeared from who knows where, it was about to further enjoy its prey when an ominous premonition slowly rose in its heart.
It was a primal sense of danger, similar to that of a beast. The next moment, a domineering, fervent Ling Neng fluctuation, carrying a hint of glorious light, suddenly enveloped it.
Under the shroud of this Ling Neng fluctuation, it could feel all its tissues trembling in fear.
“This feeling, could it be a Psychic!”
Its heart startled, it abruptly turned its head and saw a dazzling golden light filling its vision. Buddhist chants echoed in its ears, and through the golden light, a cold-blooded face could vaguely be seen.
The next moment, the source of the golden light violently exploded.
“Boom—!”
A loud bang echoed through the midnight street.
Where the urban legend’ head met the mingwang statue, a miniature mushroom cloud, over two meters high, rose. The impact of the explosion caused its body to suddenly tilt, its feet leaving the ground, and it flew sideways along the ground.
When it landed, smoke was still rising from its head.
Lu Yibei had absolutely not expected the mingwang statue to explode.
A powerful impact struck her, her hood flew off, her long hair streamed behind her, and then her feet left the ground. Her petite body, holding the mingwang statue, spun two or three times in mid-air before falling.
Fortunately, when she landed, the Coat timely absorbed air, inflating like a pufferfish, cushioning the impact, so she wasn't completely disoriented.
Lu Yibei bounced twice on the ground, breaking a kapok tree, and finally came to a stop.
“Hiss—!”
The Coat slowly deflated. She sat up, looked at the urban legend struggling and groaning, temporarily unable to get up, then looked at the mingwang statue in her hand and scratched the back of her head.
“That’s not right, is it? What’s going on? What happened?”
“You might not believe me, but the mingwang statue really made the first move!”
“It was sucking me! It’s clearly not a proper mingwang statue!”
When Lu Yibei smashed the mingwang statue towards the urban legend, she clearly felt a huge suction force coming from the mingwang statue.
That suction force was like an invisible, giant vortex, pulling a warm current from her body, through her arms, into the mingwang statue, and then...
It exploded.
After recovering slightly, Lu Yibei stood up, looking at the urban legend struggling to get up in the distance, a cold glint flashing in her eyes. Then, she shouldered the mingwang statue and walked forward.
With her personality, she would absolutely not let go of such an excellent opportunity to finish it off. Even if she hadn't killed it with one blow, even if she had, she would still offer a complimentary cremation service to feel at ease.
The urban legend struggled, shakily rising. It looked up and saw a young girl's face, devoid of any emotional fluctuation on its delicate features.
“Demon, Demoness-sama, spare my life! I am willing to become your familiar!” the urban legend said in a panic.
“Familiar? What is that? Sounds like some kind of follower?” Lu Yibei paused. “Although I’m completely clueless about urban legend right now, having a strategist by my side wouldn’t be bad.”
But...
“No, you’re too ugly.”
“Honestly, when I first saw you, I was scared. When I saw you chasing the delivery man, I hesitated whether to come out and save him. Fortunately, I just hit you, and you don’t seem very powerful, otherwise I wouldn’t dare to come over and finish you off.”
“If I let you follow me, wouldn’t I be constantly on edge every day? Moreover, you also harmed people; this cannot be easily forgiven!”
urban legend, “???” “How did she say so much in an instant without pausing for breath?”
“No, that’s not the point!”
“Damn it! If you’re going to kill me, just kill me, why talk trash? Is this what a human does?!”
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Just as Lu Yibei raised the mingwang statue, preparing to smash it towards the urban legend, a muffled shout faintly came from behind her. Immediately after, the ground began to shake violently, as if an earthquake had struck.
A thunderous breathing sound came from beneath the ground.
Violent tremors erupted, and waves of earth swept in all directions.
Lu Yibei turned back in shock, only to see the phantom of a giant arm, like a mountain, rising from underground. Every line on its black iron-colored skin seemed to radiate terrifying power.
The phantom flashed and disappeared.
The next moment, the ground was blown open by something, dirt and rocks splattered, and a graceful figure shot into the sky.
“Monster, prepare to die!”
Lu Yibei, “???”
“Is she talking about me?”
urban legend, “...”
“She’s talking about me...”
