Free Web NovelInside the small conference room of the vacation homestay.
After explaining everything to the Psychic and urban legend who had come to support, Ju Meng bowed deeply to them.
Show weakness to the enemy, temporarily hide using Tang City's complex urban architectural network, seize the opportunity to recover from injuries, and wait for more support to arrive in Tang City.
In the last half day before the city barrier is activated, she will fight back, striking at the invaders in Taoyuan as much as possible, so that they don't have time to transmit the situation of the counterattack here, replenish sufficient combat power, and thus reduce the threat after the city barrier is activated.
This was the plan Ju Meng had thought of from the beginning, but what she didn't expect was that Mao Sanyou and Lu Yibei, these two uncertain factors, would appear in the middle.
Mao Sanyou's existence gave her confidence to increase the probability of success by 10%.
As for Lu Yibei...
Given that guy's current combat power and Ju Meng's understanding of her, who knows what kind of trouble she will cause, it's best not to let her participate in the operation.
Ju Meng thought, gently rubbing her temples, and turned off her phone.
"Everyone, if there are no problems, let's start the operation after dark? At that time, Turtle Elder and everyone from Taoyuan will meet you."
"Understood!" Everyone said in unison.
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Pain.
In a trance, Bai Kai felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, as if someone...
No! He was hit hard in the back of the head by someone, and they used a Spell.
A few minutes ago, after receiving the news from A Hua that Lu Yibei was in trouble, he didn't even have time for one last moment of tenderness with his female companion from last night before rushing to Amber House. As soon as he entered the door, he was hit from behind with a 【Spell Strike Forty-Two: Thunder Flower】 on the back of his head, instantly paralyzing his brain.
"Ugh, damn it, what kind of trouble is this crippled guy causing? Why did he ambush me?"
Bai Kai muttered to himself, slowly opening his eyes. He subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to check his injuries, but suddenly felt a sense of restraint on his body.
He was startled for a moment, looked down, and suddenly realized that he was sitting on the stone steps, leaning against a marble pillar, his body covered in dense, dark gray three-fingered hands, looking like a colony of barnacles growing on a reef.
As soon as he struggled, golden light shone through the gaps between the hands, absorbing his Spiritual Energy and growing wildly.
This is a sealing Spell, Jieshi Three Fingers.
"......"
Bai Kai was silent for a moment, connecting this to the situation where his permission was locked when he applied to participate in the Tang City Scarlet Owl signal support earlier. He came to his senses and frowned.
"Damn it! Crippled guy, are you there? Are you there? Hurry up and let me go, or you'll be sorry!"
"Let me tell you, I've already guessed that you have a crush on our Xiao Bei Bei. You'd better let me go immediately, otherwise, I won't agree to you two being together!"
Bai Kai shouted a couple of sentences with a hoarse voice, and the sound triggered the trigger-type Spell that Jiang Li had secretly left above his head. With a faint hum in the air and a light sound like shattering glass, a note floated down and landed right in front of him.
【You stay in Hua City, I will be responsible for bringing Lu Yibei back.】
Bai Kai rolled his eyes and said, "You bring her back? That sounds good, but what if you can't bring her back?"
As if responding to his question, as soon as he finished speaking, the note immediately flipped over.
【If I can't bring him back, I'll be buried with him. PS: Li Xuan recently bought a new car with plenty of horsepower, suitable for a road trip.】
"Poof—!"
Looking at Jiang Li's message on the back of the note, Bai Kai couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Without breaking the rules, you even helped others come up with excuses for doing bad things, that's interesting."
From Hua City to Tang City, a distance of over 2,000 kilometers, even Bai Kai would run out of Spiritual Energy if he were to rush all the way there, but with the help of a good car, the situation would be different.
So, half a day later, Li Xuan looked at the sticky note Bai Kai left on his desk, and his mind was instantly filled with vulgarities.
【Brother Li, your new car is good, let me borrow it for a drive. I'm taking the girl I just thought of on a road trip.
Left by Bai Kai.】
"Whoosh!"
Li Xuan grabbed the sticky note from the desk, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the trash can. After taking several deep breaths, he finally suppressed the anger he had nowhere to vent, and then silently took out his phone and sent a message to Bai Kai.
Li Xuan: "I'm afraid your road trip is going to pass through Tang City, isn't it? I warn you, first, you must drive the car back for me, and second, help me take care of my junior sister Fu Xinyi on the way."
As a "gossip king" who browses the intranet more than ten times a day to keep abreast of all kinds of first-hand information within the Night Watch, Li Xuan naturally saw the Scarlet Owl signal in Tang City and knew that his junior sister, who was highly expected by the sect, was also on the rescue list.
But...
Jiang Li left, Bai Kai slipped away, Gu Liuxi flaked, Gu Niang is a perennial shut-in who won't leave unless Hua City is destroyed. If he also went, Hua City would only have An Qing as an effective combat force. If something went wrong in Hua City at that time, who would be responsible?
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With her rich experience of failing the second subject of the driver's license test several times in a row, Lu Yibei drove the big truck around the open space of the winery # Nоvеlight # a few times and felt that she could barely get on the road. Only then did she park the car by the roadside.
She jumped out of the car, took out her phone and glanced at it. Seeing that Ju Meng still hadn't replied, she frowned.
"Something's not right! She's not replying to messages and her phone isn't off. What is this Smelly Girl doing?" Lu Yibei muttered, looking at the phone screen.
"Could it be that in the last moments of her Strange Tale life, she wants to find a deserted place to quietly watch the 'life review' and reminisce about her life?"
If you think about it, a Strange Tale like Smelly Girl, who has existed for over 5,300 years, must have experienced a vast amount of things. Will the duration of her 'life review' be a bit longer than others?
If so, will it delay the arrival of death?
Lu Yibei was lost in thought when her phone suddenly vibrated. It was a call from Professor Ma.
"Hello, Professor? Is something wrong?"
"Hmm? Your voice? You're having an episode again!?" Professor Ma said in surprise, with a hint of excitement he couldn't hide in his voice.
Lu Yibei, "......"
What are you so excited about? Is it something worth being excited about that I'm having an episode?
"Yes, Professor, I'm having an episode again."
"This..." Professor Ma on the other end of the phone paused and continued, "In that case, let's forget it. Your current appearance is probably not convenient to show in front of everyone."
Finally, he cursed fiercely, "Hmph, that old scoundrel Hou Jun, I will not rest until I'm dead!"
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Lu Yibei heard the anger in Professor Ma's words, as if he wanted to eat Professor Hou alive, and asked in a low voice, "Professor, what did Professor Hou do again? What made you so angry?"
"That old fellow actually sent the photos of me and Liu Xiaoyou together to your wife, saying that I was messing around with men and women under the guise of official duties." Professor Ma said through clenched teeth, "Last night, your wife wouldn't even answer my video calls!"
This Professor Hou is really... Lu Yibei's eye twitched slightly, and she inwardly muttered, so it seems she is indeed not suitable to appear in front of Professor Ma and the members of the project research group right now.
With Ju Meng before and Disaster after, changing every two days, the false accusation of Professor Ma messing around with men and women is likely to be confirmed.
Collecting her thoughts, Lu Yibei brought the topic back to the main point and asked, "By the way, Professor, what is it that you were so anxious to find me about?"
"Oh, it's like this." Professor Ma said, "Your senior, Mao Sanyou, the one who picked us up at the airport last time, do you remember?"
"I remember, what happened to him?"
"Something happened to him, just now." Professor Ma said in a serious tone.
"Earlier, he was alone in the empty classroom next to the conference room, re-examining the eliminated suspected fakes, just like the past two days. Not long after he went in, there was a sudden scream. When we rushed over, we saw him collapsed on the ground, with blood coming from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth."
"After everyone scrambled to send him to the hospital for examination, they found that he had large areas of high-temperature burns on his internal organs, even though there were no external injuries."
"Looking at him like that, I immediately thought of the student who was attacked by a Strange Tale in the literature building a few days ago. I tossed coins, and sure enough, it was related to mysterious power. So I wanted you to come and see, but everyone is gathered near the old building and hasn't dispersed yet, and you're having an episode, so it's probably not easy to perform." freeweɓnovel.cøm
Lu Yibei, "......"
My good Professor, he himself is a Psychic, so anything involving him must be related to mysterious power!
Even if you toss coins a hundred times, the result will be the same.
However...
Lu Yibei frowned slightly and asked, "By the way, Professor, which hospital is Mao Sanyou in now? If I can't go to Tangcheng University, I can go to the hospital first."
"Oh oh, that makes sense, it's good for you to go and see first. He's in the Intensive Care Unit of Tangcheng University Affiliated Hospital."
"......"
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yibei looked at her phone with a complicated expression and fell into thought.
Last night, after she sent Ju Meng back to Chunfeng Residence, she contacted Mao Sanyou and confirmed that he was not injured at all when he counter-ambushed the ambushers during the day yesterday, and even wanted to invite her for a drink.
According to Professor Ma, the members of the project research group saw a lively Mao Sanyou this morning, which indirectly proved that he was not injured.
He was able to deal with those ambushers alone, so his strength should be considerable, and there's no reason why he would be injured by the dying pickles sealed in the cultural relics.
And injuries like large areas of internal organ burns...
"So it seems he suddenly encountered something else this morning?" Lu Yibei murmured, "Could it be retaliation from the companions of those guys from yesterday?"
"Forget it, I'll go to the hospital first."
In any case, Mao Sanyou's sudden injury must be related to Smelly Girl. Since she can't contact Smelly Girl, perhaps she can start with him to find some clues, Lu Yibei thought.
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The sky was dark, as if sensing that something was about to happen, dark clouds silently accumulated above the sky, scattering white snow.
Tangcheng University Affiliated Hospital, Intensive Care Unit.
The corridor, filled with a faint smell of disinfectant, echoed with the monotonous ticking of instruments.
In the ward, the unconscious Mao Sanyou lay on the hospital bed, connected to various tubes.
He slept restlessly, as if having a terrible nightmare, his eyelids trembling constantly, and large beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.
"......"
Vivid and exaggerated images flowed through his mind, and a constant buzzing sound echoed in his ears. His resistance was futile. Like a ship that had lost its anchor, he was slowly being drawn into an amorphous vortex of dreams.
In that strange illusionary dream, Mao Sanyou vaguely saw himself stepping into that mysterious yet familiar large cave again.
The space inside the cave was inverted and strange, pitch black, and the narrow passages that were accessible in all directions but twisted and steep seemed not to have been built for humans at all. The dark gray paths were extremely slippery, making it impossible to walk, and the jagged stone walls on both sides were covered with decaying bird's nests that emitted a musty smell.
Mao Sanyou wandered repeatedly through circles of identical scenery, unable to see the beginning when looking back and unable to see the end when looking forward, as if trapped in a huge maze.
In this despairing darkness, he suddenly felt the presence of some low-screeching living creatures. They flapped their wings, stirring up heat waves in the passages, surrounding him, and crowding together with him.
Listening to the howling-like singing drifting in the darkness, he suddenly "saw" paintings on the stone walls on both sides.
Not seen with his eyes, but with some other organ he didn't even know he had.
The murals were absurd and distorted, the paint used for painting had not yet dried, and a foul odor that was difficult to describe flowed constantly, like the body fluid of some kind of creature.
Suddenly, in front of the passage, a strong golden light shone, as if to illuminate the entire world brightly.
In that captivating light, Mao Sanyou saw a terrifying sight that he would never forget in his life.
He saw his father, his father who had passed away many years ago.
But not in the gentle appearance he was familiar with, but as a corpse, a rotten corpse.
Cuan Yang's massive corpse, like a building, stood at the end of the "maze", completely rotten, and the completely lifeless black blood of decay was slowly seeping out from its remains, soaking the dark feathers, and falling into the abyss along the drooping wings.
But it was still alive, emitting astonishing heat and dazzling golden light that inspired awe.
Suddenly, the corpse opened its eyes. Those twisted, malicious, non-human eyes stared at Mao Sanyou motionlessly, as if to pierce his body, and showed a sinister smile at him.
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"Quick! Rescue, rescue, the patient in the ICU has had a cardiac arrest!"
A scream echoed in the corridor, pulling Lu Yibei's consciousness back from Mao Sanyou's dream. She activated her Spiritual Energy, silently withdrew the pale tentacles generated using Mengmeng's innate skill, and her face was solemn.
Just now, while trying to probe Mao Sanyou's dream, she discovered two astonishing things.
First, Mao Sanyou was actually the offspring of the great Strange Tale called Cuan Yang, who possessed the Power of the Golden Crow.
Second, his father was already dead, but for some unknown reason, he suddenly came back to life.
Simply put, someone wants to be his father!
But what does this have to do with Smelly Girl? As Lu Yibei was thinking, a familiar figure suddenly flashed in her peripheral vision at the end of the corridor.
Looking closely, that person was the visiting professor who came to Tang City on the same flight as her, Hu Yue...
