Free Web NovelIt felt as though her eyes were being scorched by something, the pain unbearable, yet Lu Yibei couldn't help but stare at the tattoo on the black-clad person.
The tattoo seemed to be calling to her, urging her to see its form clearly, to imprint its shape into her mind.
That tattoo contained a strange power!
It drew people into a hidden temptation, from which they could not escape.
Suddenly, a tremor, as if from her soul, erupted within her, forcing Lu Yibei's small body to tremble along with it, and screams echoed in her ears.
The screams grew louder, as if many people were suffering agony.
Immediately after, she saw a burning passenger bus falling into a valley, and the bus, tumbling and bouncing between the cliffs like a stone, gave her a strange sense of familiarity.
“This is the scene of the car accident from two years ago!” A thought suddenly popped into Lu Yibei’s mind.
Under the night sky, the peaks were like silent, pitch-black giants, and through the pale, thick fog in the mountains, a twisted, bizarre, and colossal figure, like a mountain, could be seen.
That figure, seemingly from a nightmare, was clearly not human-shaped, twisted and bizarre, yet it made one feel that it looked so beautiful.
Perfectly terrifying!
From its massive body came maddening screams, converging into a roar in an unknown language.
Listening to that roar, Lu Yibei, for a fleeting moment, understood its meaning—"The black sun is in the sky, tomorrow will fall!"
But soon, as her consciousness sank into silence, she forgot it.
...
Cold, fine raindrops hit her face, and Lu Yibei suddenly woke up, lying on the road soaked by the autumn rain; the black-clad person who had snatched the Eyeball hadn't harmed her but was already gone.
The anomaly triggered by the black sun totem was like a nightmare, washed away by the drizzling autumn rain.
She tried hard to recall, but only remembered seeing the car accident from two years ago and that incomprehensible roar.
All images were blurred, as if covered by a thick fog.
Lu Yibei suddenly felt that the car accident two years ago might not have been as simple as an accident.
Could it be related to those people with black sun totems tattooed on them?
But why can't I remember any of these details?
Regarding the [N O V E L I G H T] car accident two years ago, her memory only contained fragments of the vehicle losing control, rushing off the road, and plunging down the cliff; after that, she was already blind and in the hospital.
With a mind full of doubts, Lu Yibei tried to recall for a while longer, and then her head began to twitch and throb, as if someone had inserted a steel rod into her temple and stirred it, feeling as if her head was about to explode, her thoughts tinged with an illusory, unreal quality.
Just as the nerve in her mind, enduring the pain, was about to snap, all the strangeness and discomfort receded, and the surroundings became very quiet.
She didn't know when, in a state of confused consciousness, she had returned to the front door of her own apartment.
...
The next day, early morning.
Lu Yibei endured a headache that felt like a severe cold and a hunger as if she hadn't eaten for days, climbed onto the rooftop, bathed in the morning sunlight, and returned to her original state.
Fortunately, he returned to normal; he had been a bit worried that because his hunger hadn't been satisfied, some undesirable situation might arise.
Returning home, after a simple wash-up, he changed into clean clothes that quite effectively showcased his masculine vigor.
How did he showcase it? Did you see the large characters printed on his clothes?
That's right, it was “Peerless Hero”!
Lu Yibei didn't consider that a Peerless Hero could also be a girl; he slung his guitar bag, which contained the mingwang statue, said goodbye to his companions at home, then took the various certificates issued by the Night Watch and headed straight for Huacheng Institute of Technology.
Under the traditional influence of “at least get a bachelor's degree,” Lu Yibei was still very serious about going to school.
Although the recent events were incredible, he believed that everything would get better, and after that, he still wanted to successfully obtain his degree, become a bar owner, or a regular office worker.
As he left the apartment complex, passing the bun shop at the entrance, Lu Yibei bought a basket of steamed buns, tried to alleviate his hunger again, and then...
He vomited again, the violent dry heaves feeling as if his stomach would be expelled.
Feeling the horrified gazes of the customers in front of the bun shop, Lu Yibei, after regaining his composure slightly, quickly left the scene before the bun shop owner could rush out with a cleaver.
Upon arriving at Huacheng Institute of Technology, after handing various certificates to the Counselor, Lu Yibei walked out of the Counselor’s office, thinking to himself, “Night Watch is awesome!”
At first, when he saw that thin stack of certificates from the hospital and police station, labeled “Proof of Eighteen Stabbings for Heroic Act, Hospitalization Due to Injury,” he was worried that Jiang Li was just giving him fake documents.
He didn't expect those certificates to be real and valid!
When he walked out of the office, he felt that the Counselors looked at him with a hint of admiration.
“That student, he’s certainly very brave, but it seems he has some issues with his mind.”
“Exactly, he performed a complete set of military combat moves on the assailant... I guess the assailant felt his intelligence was insulted, which is why he stabbed him so many times, right? And every stab avoided vital points, tsk tsk!”
Striding proudly down the corridor outside the office, Lu Yibei suddenly stumbled upon hearing the discussions behind him.
“...”
Damn you, Jiang Li!
...
Although the daytime in Hua City's autumn was no longer as hot as before since the nights began to lengthen, Li Gong University humanely avoided this period and scheduled military training for the end of the semester.
But this also meant that Lu Yibei perfectly missed the opportunity to get to know other classmates.
Blushing, he handed a “Certificate of Heroic Act” to his professional course teacher, then, under the teacher's strange gaze, Lu Yibei found a corner seat and sat down.
Perhaps because he was carrying a guitar bag and had a “cold face” that kept people at a distance, making others mistakenly think he was some wild, unruly rock youth with a hint of bad influence, no one came to talk to him during the two class breaks.
He was happy to have the peace and quiet, sitting alone in the corner, trying to sort out his memories of the car accident and pondering how to extract the information he wanted from Jiang Li that afternoon.
But his condition was not good; in less than a class period, he began to feel drowsy.
That's how men are! After excessive exertion, they become mentally exhausted, unable to concentrate, as if their bodies have been hollowed out.
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Lu Yibei was in a daze in the corner, almost sleeping through the entire class, not even moving during the break, and not being disturbed by the professional course teacher.
Lu Yibei even suspected that his father understood his personality too well, knowing that he was a slacker who just wanted to muddle through, which was why he semi-forced him to choose this major so he could smoothly obtain his degree.
After the nights began to lengthen, almost all school classes were concentrated in two periods: 9 AM to 12 PM and 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
Under such circumstances, almost all students in all majors had highly consistent class dismissal times; when Lu Yibei walked out of the classroom, stretching leisurely, the corridor was packed with people, noisy, shoulder-to-shoulder, surging towards the cafeteria or dormitories.
Standing amidst the bustling crowd, Lu Yibei's eyes suddenly felt slightly warm, and a faint sound of a baby crying vaguely reached his ears, followed by his attention being drawn by the scent of “food.”
The temptation of food made Lu Yibei temporarily put aside seeing the car accident scene and extracting useful information from Jiang Li.
Following the faint scent of blood, he saw the girl with long, flowing hair; an incompletely formed infant was perched on her neck, standing out remarkably among the dense figures.
Seemingly sensing Lu Yibei’s intense gaze, the infant’s crying stopped, and it slowly turned its head, its body unmoving, its head rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, twisted to its back.
Upon seeing the infant's front, Lu Yibei felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
The incompletely developed infant, without fully formed skin, was entirely a purplish-blue color, as if deprived of oxygen, with dark red blood vessels bulging beneath its tender flesh.
Its unformed facial features were slightly distorted, its Eyeball protruded, and its eyes were not open, yet Lu Yibei felt that it was looking at him.
“That girl is entangled with a urban legend! Should I report it to the leader?”
This was the first thought that popped into Lu Yibei’s mind, but in a flash, a darker thought emerged.
“But if I conceal it and seize the opportunity to hunt, wouldn’t the food problem be solved?”
Driven by both thoughts, Lu Yibei decided to follow the girl.
It was peak dismissal time, and the school was bustling with people coming and going, bicycles and electric scooters shuttling back and forth; the girl, as if driven by some force, walked very fast.
Lu Yibei followed behind her, stopping and starting, sometimes close, sometimes far, until he had crossed half the campus and arrived at the female dormitory building, where he barely managed to catch up, just about to step forward when he was pushed back by a strong hand.
“Stop! What are you doing? Can’t you read, kid?”
An old man with white hair but a robust physique, who inexplicably reminded one of Master Roshi in his power-up state, blocked Lu Yibei, pointing to the large characters on the wall that read “Female Dormitory, No Males Allowed!”, his expression unfriendly.
“Uh...” Lu Yibei was momentarily speechless, glanced at the old man’s nametag, and said expressionlessly, “Tai Dàye, I...”
“What kind of eyesight is that? My surname is Tai!” Tai Dàye’s face darkened as he corrected him.
“Tai Dàye, I just wanted to go in and find a friend,” Lu Yibei continued expressionlessly.
“What finding a friend?” Tai Dàye rolled his eyes at Lu Yibei and said, “I find that you look so upright, yet you show no expression when you lie, do you?”
Lu Yibei, “...” I wish I did! No, I’m not lying!
“Alright! Scram, scram! Don’t I know you young people? Sneaking into the female dormitory, it’s nothing more than wanting to turn the noun ‘love’ into a verb!”
“As expected of a university dorm caretaker, even his driving is so skillful!” Lu Yibei thought, and then he was roughly driven out by Tai Dàye.
Standing on the road in front of the female dormitory gate, Lu Yibei looked back at the building behind him with a heart full of frustration, his gaze lingering.
If I can’t go in, then I can’t; I’ll just wait until after dark, then I’ll...
Hiss—!
“Is this behavior a bit perverted?” Lu Yibei thought, “But...”
“What’s wrong with a man being a little perverted!?”
