Free Web NovelLu Yibei stared at her phone in silence for a long time, thinking for a while, but couldn't come up with a proper solution to the current problem.
The train station, the Gu Wan Street, and the abandoned winery are in three different directions in Tang City, with a distance of at least nearly ten kilometers between any two.
At her speed, it would take at least ten minutes to get from one place to another. There was no way she could be in two different places at the same time in half an hour.
In this situation, perhaps only a Psychic with extreme speed like Shui Ge, who can break the sound barrier, would be able to manage time effectively?
What's more, I can't see Jiang Li looking like this! Lu Yibei thought.
Mao Sanyou, who was standing nearby, noticed Lu Yibei's expression changing several times after looking at her phone. At times she was silent, at times she sighed, and he asked curiously, "What's wrong? Did you run into some trouble?"
Lu Yibei looked at Mao Sanyou and pondered for two seconds before saying, "Suppose, and I mean suppose! Suppose two people asked to meet you at the same time. On one side is your future fiancée who thoughtfully sends you COS photos, and on the other side is a good female friend who is about to die. Who would you choose?"
Mao Sanyou looked Lu Yibei up and down strangely, rolled his eyes, and said, "Do you even need to choose? Of course, you choose death! You might as well ask me who I would save first if my mother and my wife both fell into the water!"
"Then if your mother and your wife both fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first?"
Mao Sanyou thought for a moment and said seriously, "Generally speaking, my mother is a crocodile."
Lu Yibei, "..."
Seeing this, Mao Sanyou patted Lu Yibei on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Older sister, honestly, even though you are a Witch Seed, it's wrong of you to flirt around. Even a urban legend or Psychic with the Power of the Headless Horseman wouldn't dare to mess around like this!"
"Anyway, you're on your own! Since I'm awake, I won't stay here and worry with you. I should go take care of my own business. After getting some information from Taoyuan, I still have to go to Lao Xu's place to help activate the city barrier!"
Although the Spiritual Energy infusion process for the Tang City city barrier to change from defense to offense only requires one person to complete the operation, after the form conversion is completed, activating the city barrier still requires the participation of all Tang City agents.
Without the special talismans required for activation, this is an essential step for almost all city barrier activations. This is also to prevent a certain agent's Spirit Mark from losing control and going insane, and using the city barrier to create terrorist incidents while unconscious.
Seeing Mao Sanyou getting up to leave, Lu Yibei suddenly remembered something, raised her eyebrows, and asked, "Oh right, just one more question, when will the city barrier be activated?"
Mao Sanyou's steps paused slightly. He turned to look at Lu Yibei and pouted, "Exactly at two in the morning, which is about eight hours from now. I've already told my aunt this time."
Two in the morning... Lu Yibei repeated it in her heart and secretly noted the time.
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The high-speed train from Tianjin South to Tang City was speeding along the tracks towards Tang City.
Above was a sky filled with dark clouds, and below were the silent, remote urban areas. The train traveled through the night, like a cheetah making a full-speed charge towards its prey.
The entire journey from Tianjin to Tang City is nearly four hundred kilometers. The high-speed train takes one hour and twenty minutes, and when it had traveled about half the distance, it had already entered the area under Ju Meng's command.
After Jiang Li sent the message to Lu Yibei, she switched contacts during the waiting period and carefully read the message sent by a certain "anonymous agent."
Although she had been receiving the information compiled by Li Xuan for several hours, in her opinion, that information was somewhat time-sensitive.
A few hours ago, neither Li Xuan nor the agents who posted on the Night Watch intranet forum had actually investigated the situation in Tang City and Taoyuan. They only made inferences within a reasonable range based on the movements of illegal Spiritual Energy organizations and intelligence from informants.
Now, as time passed, more and more Night Watch agents arrived in Tang City, and the intelligence transmitted after on-site investigation was more detailed and reliable.
After a quick scan of the information sent by Li Xuan, Jiang Li's attention fell on the latest few pieces of information. The content of that information was not much, only a few infrared thermal images taken from a distance and a few brief text descriptions.
The infrared thermal images were taken from near Queqiao Mountain, showing the interior of Taoyuan. The photos clearly showed a huge high-temperature heat source deep within Taoyuan. From its shape, it somewhat resembled a strangely shaped bird.
Furthermore, the posture of that huge bird in the several pictures had changed, which meant it was not a dead object, but had awakened and was lurking deep within Taoyuan, ready to move.
Jiang Li glanced at the information below the pictures, which was a Night Watch internal investigation regarding the entanglement of Cuan Yang's and Ju Meng's Power, and murmured to herself, "Cuan Yang... Could this be a large-scale urban legend event triggered by a Power dispute?"
Because mythological legends have usually been passed down for a long time and are easily influenced by local culture and beliefs after being spread to different regions, leading to errors and changes in the legends, among all types of urban legend, the Power of mythological species is the most prone to disputes.
Sometimes, Power pointing to the same urban legend can even give birth to several urban legend.
Just as Mao Sanyou is burdened with the Power of the Bennu bird, in some corner of the world, there may also appear a urban legend with the Power of the sun god Ra. As the core of the two urban legend bodies is continuously completed, a life-and-death outcome is inevitable.
In fact, historically, the Night Watch has dealt with no less than five Calamity level urban legend events triggered by Power disputes. As for the handling method, of course, it is to be impartial and hunt down all the urban legend that caused the dispute.
Jiang Li continued to scroll up the information, and after seeing a few paragraphs of text, she frowned slightly.
Some of the information obtained through Night Watch informants came from illegal Spiritual Energy organization channels, proving from multiple aspects the fact that Ju Meng was about to fall and that many forces were gathering towards Taoyuan, preparing to plunder her and Cuan Yang's "inheritance." The other part...
"A Night Watch member lurking among Ju Meng's forces, unwilling to reveal their name?"
On one hand, helping Ju Meng counterattack Taoyuan, and on the other hand, sending information to the Night Watch without revealing their name, not offending either side...
Could this person be Lu Yibei?
Being a double agent is indeed her style of doing things.
Thinking of Lu Yibei, Jiang Li, who was engrossed in studying the information, suddenly realized that more than ten minutes had passed, but she had not yet received a reply from Lu Yibei.
Did something unexpected happen?
Or is she in a situation where it's inconvenient to reply?
In that case, I'll just go find her myself. If the situation is urgent, I can also provide necessary support.
Jiang Li propped her chin and thought for a moment, her peripheral vision silently drifting towards the small suitcase on the luggage rack.
She always liked to be prepared with two hands. She had already anticipated that she might not be able to contact Lu Yibei after arriving in Tang City.
So, before setting off, she specifically went to Lu Yibei's home, took the cover of the White Little Flower body pillow from Lu Yibei's bed, and applied to the equipment department for a Thousand Night Barn Owl.
Jiang Li had long seen how Lu Yibei slept with this body pillow every day. It was impossible for there to be no residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations from Lu Yibei on it.
Therefore, as long as the Thousand Night Barn Owl tracked the residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations on the body pillow cover, it would be easy to track Lu Yibei's location.
Not only were there residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations from Lu Yibei on it, but according to Jiang Li's occasional observations, when Lu Yibei slept with the body pillow, very strong Spiritual Energy fluctuations would occasionally emanate from it.
She didn't know what strange, indescribable dreams she was having.
As for why Jiang Li would observe Lu Yibei sleeping...
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Is that important?
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Fifteen minutes later, Tang City Train Station, near the exit.
Jiang Li, who was walking with the sparse flow of people, dragged her small suitcase and turned left into the restroom next to the exit. After waiting for a moment, she entered one of the cubicles and took out the body pillow cover, the Thousand Night Barn Owl, the Zhu Yan Gai (Rosy Cheeks Change) mask, and a set of clothes in the style of "Miao Miao Jiang" from her small suitcase.
That's right, she had also considered the possibility that Lu Yibei might be in a urban legend state when she arrived in Tang City, making it inconvenient to meet.
So, five minutes later.
A girl wearing a dark blue belted mid-length trench coat and super short shorts, and deep brown Chelsea boots, walked out of the restroom.
As she walked, her golden big wavy curly hair swayed gently, paired with her wheat-colored skin, her overall temperament was both clean and sharp, with a hint of a wildcat-like Charm, attracting frequent sideways glances from others.
Leaving the train station, the flow of people gradually thinned. Under the dim yellow streetlights, on the side of the street where light snow was falling, Jiang Li slowly took out the Thousand Night Barn Owl from her coat pocket and injected Spiritual Energy into it.
With a faint glow flowing across its seemingly paper-like surface, the Thousand Night Barn Owl flapped its wings and soared, circling around Jiang Li a few times before hovering in front of her, its beak trembling slightly, pointing forward.
Jiang Li's gaze narrowed slightly. Following the direction pointed by the Thousand Night Barn Owl, she quickly walked forward.
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Lu Yibei struggled for a while and finally decided to go to the Chunfeng Residence to see Ju Meng first.
Although, Miao Miao Jiang is the best in the world!
However, there wasn't much time left. Before the city barrier was activated at exactly two in the morning, she had to take Ju Meng's people and sneak into Taoyuan several hours in advance to have enough time to operate.
Furthermore, she was not in a convenient state to see Jiang Li right now, and she hadn't thought of a proper way to meet.
Lastly, she admitted that she held a certain degree of luck. However, Jiang Li hadn't been able to contact her for such a long time before, so contacting her a little later shouldn't cause any major problems.
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In the depths of winter, after nightfall, there were almost no pedestrians on the streets of Tang City, and very few vehicles came and went. A large truck sped along the highway leading to Peach Blossom Road, sometimes drawing an S-shaped trajectory on the road, and sometimes performing a lightning drift.
Lu Yibei's understanding of her own driving skills was actually quite accurate. Although she didn't have a driver's license and had failed the second subject several times, she even had some psychological trauma from that car accident.
But she finally managed to drive the large truck loaded with Paper Cicada Immortal out of the abandoned winery without incident, traveled about ten kilometers, and arrived in front of the Gu Wan Street.
And she was lucky enough not to hit anything, thus avoiding detonating the Paper Cicada Immortal filled with Alchemy Dirty Bomb, and preventing the large truck from turning into a nuclear explosion truck.
Getting out of the car, Lu Yibei walked along the old street paved with bluestone slabs, walked to the end, squeezed into an alley, twisted and turned for a while, and stopped in front of a small building surrounded by green plants and full of ancient charm.
She looked up at the peach wood plaque hanging in front of the small building, confirmed that the three large characters 【Chunfeng Residence】 were written on it, and then walked forward and gently knocked on the copper ring on the door.
"Dong dong dong—dong dong dong—!"
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"Strange... haven't arrived yet?"
Lu Yibei muttered, took out her phone and checked the time. There were still two minutes until half an hour after she agreed to meet Ju Meng.
Wait a little longer? Maybe she's almost here... Lu Yibei grumbled to herself, walked to the stone pier at the entrance and sat down, and took out a spicy strip from her pocket.
Just as she was about to put the spicy strip into her mouth, a hand with fair, slender fingers reached out in front of her.
"Give me one too."
"Okay."
Lu Yibei subconsciously handed the spicy strip to that hand, but the other party just played with it after taking it, and didn't put it in her mouth.
When Lu Yibei came back to her senses and looked up, her eyes widened when she saw that familiar yet unfamiliar face.
"Holy crap! You, why are you here?"
"Hmm? Let me think."
The beautiful girl with wheat-colored skin thought for a moment and said seriously, "Probably because I heard that something big happened in Tang City, and I couldn't get in touch with a certain heartless person, so I was a little worried and came to check?"
As if sensing the panic that Lu Yibei couldn't hide in her eyes, Jiang Li added, "Why do I feel like I came at the wrong time, you don't seem to welcome me?"
"No, no such thing." Lu Yibei stammered, quickly got up, and pulled Jiang Li's hand, wanting to walk out of the alley.
"This is not the place to talk, let's find another place to talk slowly."
Ju Meng is coming soon.
One of them is a Night Watch official agent full of justice, and the other is a thousand-year-old urban legend who has done who knows how many illegal and disorderly things. If these two run /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ into each other.
That would definitely be several times more tragic than a comet hitting the earth, strong acid and strong alkali, or pouring ice water into a hot oil pan!
Lu Yibei thought to herself. Just then, a soft sound of flapping wings came from overhead. A sleek Magpie descended from the sky and lightly landed on her shoulder. Then, with a flash of emerald green light, the Magpie turned into a "facehugger."
"Quick, let this old lady get into your clothes to warm up, I'm freezing flying all the way here..."
Ju Meng was saying, when she suddenly noticed the golden-haired beautiful girl behind Lu Yibei, she paused for a moment, and then whispered in Lu Yibei's ear, "What's going on? I seem to have come at the wrong time?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Jiang Li watched the Little Girl with a pair of big eyes peeking from Lu Yibei's shoulder, raised her chin provocatively, and said calmly, "No, you came at just the right time."
Lu Yibei, "???"
The snow falling from the sky had somehow gotten heavier, and the cold wind was blinding.
In a daze, Lu Yibei seemed to feel a bright red "Danger" character slowly appearing above her head, and then gradually twisting into a "Death" character.
