Free Web NovelRainwater and stones flew back towards the sky.
Stars were underfoot, and the city was in the sky.
The old banyan tree inverted, absorbing nutrients with its branches and leaves, allowing its root system to flourish.
In a distant place, countless people were whispering, bringing faint echoes, like waves crashing against rocks.
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Lu Yibei didn't know what she was seeing and hearing at this moment.
Everything was as absurd as a bizarre dream.
Countless dreamlike bubbles surrounded her, and brilliant streams of light outlined a illusory yet real torrent.
Three people, two men and one woman, screamed as they flew past her, were swept into the torrent, and disappeared.
Suddenly, a gust of wind, blowing from who knows where, like a breeze dispersing the morning mist, scattered everything before her eyes.
In the only remaining golden, brilliant light, a figure in the distance quietly gazed at her, seemingly smiling, making her feel warm and comforted, as if... freёwebnoѵel.com
...she had come home.
Suddenly, a strange realization dawned on Lu Yibei, and her brows immediately furrowed.
Could it be that I'm about to transmigrate?
Damn it, which idiot wrote this script? If you wanted me to transmigrate, you should have done it earlier!
Now, three years after three years, I've even ended up on the Night Watch's wanted list, and only now I'm suddenly transmigrating? Don't you think it's a bit too late?
Lu Yibei thought, full of complaints, and then the golden light from the front suddenly intensified, radiating over and enveloping her body.
In an instant, her head seemed to suddenly crash, her vision went black, and her consciousness fell into silence...
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Two twenty-one AM.
An earth-shattering spring thunder echoed over Hua City.
Layer upon layer of dark clouds, as if a hole had been poked through them, caused tens of thousands of tons of water to pour down. The originally fine and silky spring rain suddenly became violent, sprinkling down like steel needles on roofs, streets, and windows, making a "thudding" sound.
In Amber House, deep within the courtyard, inside the large study, Jiang Li was sleeping on the desk amidst piles of documents.
Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, a few beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and from time to time, she let out soft, bone-melting mumbles in her sleep, clearly sleeping restlessly.
"Rumble—!"
The thunder outside the window rumbled again, coating every corner of the dilapidated manor with a layer of silvery-white. Jiang Li suddenly woke up, sat up, and stared blankly at the hazy rain outside the window.
"Tap tap tap—!"
The light tapping of heels on the marble floor approached from a distance down the corridor. The brass doorknob of the study gently turned, the dark solid wood door was opened, and A Hua hurried in.
"Miss, something big has happened!"
Jiang Li slightly furrowed her brows. "Oh? What is it? Tell me in detail?"
"The news just came in, there was a serious collapse in the old mining area of the cement factory..."
Jiang Li glanced at the rain outside the window, which seemed to be intensifying, calmed herself, and calmly asked, "What level of Spiritual Energy fluctuation alert?"
Normally, after disasters like collapses occur, one should contact relevant departments like land or water resources. Since the Night Watch was notified, it must involve a urban legend incident.
"The Spiritual Energy fluctuation alert is..." A Hua hesitated, her expression becoming a little strange. After hesitating for a few seconds, she continued, "Miss, no excessive Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue was detected at the scene."
"Uh, Miss, although it wasn't excessive, there was Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue throughout the entire mountain where the mining area is located, and many strange phenomena also appeared on that mountain," A Hua added, explaining.
Hearing this, the ripples in Jiang Li's watery eyes trembled slightly, lost in thought.
Just like discussing toxicity without considering the dosage, discussing the harm of Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue without considering the black night erosion level is also being unreasonable.
According to the Night Watch's standards, it is only considered excessive when the black night erosion level caused by Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue exceeds 0.1.
But even if it wasn't excessive, having an entire mountain covered by weak Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue is a bit too bizarre, especially since A Hua said there were many strange phenomena at the scene.
Jiang Li rubbed her forehead and said, "I remember Gu Xiliu was on duty tonight, right? She must have found a bunch of excuses to ditch, right? Has anyone contacted her?"
Hearing her Miss ask about Gu Xiliu, A Hua sighed with a bitter expression. "It's precisely because that ancestor was on duty tonight that the members of the Special Operations Team asked me to contact you."
Completely opposite to Gu Xiliu, the Pigeon King of Hua City, Jiang Li is practically a model worker in the Hua City Si Ye Hui. If a sudden incident occurs and the main agents can't resolve it, finding her is definitely the right choice.
Of course, you could also find another model worker, Mr. Li.
However, Li Xuan has encountered a massive number of urban legend sightings every time he's been on duty in recent months, which is very strange.
He's almost been tormented into neurasthenia, and even the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team feel a bit sorry for him. So, they try not to bother him at night if it's something that can be avoided.
"I understand. I'll change clothes and go over. You go to the garage and get the car ready, okay?" Jiang Li nodded.
"Understood, Miss." A Hua replied, bowed slightly, and exited the study, quickly walking towards the garage.
Watching A Hua walk away, Jiang Li then rummaged through the piled documents on the desk to find her phone and sent a message to Lu Yibei.
Jiang Li: "Sudden incident, get up and work! 【Location】"
After waiting for a moment and seeing that Lu Yibei didn't reply, she gently shook her head, got up, picked up her cane, and limped towards the cloakroom.
It seems she might have turned into a urban legend, making it inconvenient to show up, right? Jiang Li thought.
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Twenty minutes later, Hua City, old cement factory mining area, at the foot of the mountain.
After the severe collapse, the road leading to the mining area was almost completely destroyed.
The Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team, after driving the car halfway up the mountain, could only temporarily set up camp and then split up to begin a thorough investigation of the entire mining area.
On a sheltered open space halfway up the mountain, in the makeshift tent, Jiang Li looked at the animal and plant samples collected by the Special Operations Team during their investigation on the table, her expression solemn.
In a sealed plastic bag, an unripe wild jujube, as if eroded by some foul and corrupting power, was twisted in shape, covered with dense, uneven bumps piled together, making its smooth surface look as if it had a malignant tumor.
On the other side, on a white porcelain tray, lay the corpse of a sparrow. Its feathers were messy and split, its head looked as if a third of two heads had been cut off and the cuts then stitched together, and one of its eyes even had double pupils.
In the adjacent tray, a mountain toad's body had swelled into a sphere, with some nerves and blood vessels breaking out of its body, becoming thick and long, hanging down like aerial roots of a plant.
...
There were many similar cases, with various deformed and twisted creatures presented before her eyes, making her feel as if she was facing a nightmare head-on.
If it weren't for the fact that these strange creatures suddenly appeared tonight, and the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team found neither radioactive substances nor excessive Spiritual Energy fluctuation residue in the mountain.
Jiang Li would even suspect that they had been subjected to nuclear radiation or severe black night erosion, causing their bodies to mutate.
However, she still associated some things with these twisted creatures.
"..."
It's too strange, how could it become like this?
The tissues have all shown varying degrees of abnormal growth, seeming somewhat similar to the symptoms of the three black night disease patients' corpses found before?
But have animals and plants actually shown black night disease symptoms as well?
Jiang Li thought, and sighed heavily.
Since the night became long, although it's not that no non-human creatures have been found to contract black night disease.
However, up until now, the number of human black night disease patients is in the hundreds of thousands, while among animals and plants, which have a much larger base population than humans, less than ten thousand cases of black night disease have been found, which is quite rare.
However, tonight, the Elder brothers of the Special Operations Team collected a large number of animal and plant black night disease samples in just ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ over an hour. What Jiang Li saw was only a portion, but the sample count had already reached eleven, which was shocking.
Is it because the daytime has recently shortened again, leading to some terrifying change of unknown cause? Jiang Li thought worriedly.
As the agent responsible for monitoring the changes in daylight in Hua City and keeping records, she knew very well that compared to the same period last year, the duration of daylight this year was about fifteen seconds shorter.
"Tap tap—tap tap—!"
Urgent footsteps outside the tent approached on the muddy ground.
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A member of the Special Operations Team lifted the tent flap and walked in. Without even pausing to rest, he took out a night vision camera from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Li.
"Agent Jiang Li, these are photos our team just took at an abandoned elementary school on the mountainside. It's too bizarre, we didn't dare go in to investigate. Anyway... please take a look?"
"Okay, alright, I'll take a look." Jiang Li nodded, took the night vision camera, operated it for a while, and brought up the photos taken earlier. After only looking at two, her pupils slightly contracted.
The two photos were of the school's playground and the teaching building.
In the first photo, on the playground under the thick night, lumps of earth of varying sizes and cracked surfaces bulged up, looking as if something was growing out from under the ground after it had been saturated with rainwater.
In the second photo, a two-story building stood alone on the mountainside. On the wall surface of the small building, various types of architecture were "growing".
Either the roof of a gray pointed tower building, or ancient red stone pillars, or golden abstract sculptures... It was as if a corner had been cut off and pieced onto the old, cracked outer wall of the small building, looking twisted and grotesque.
Staring at the two photos, the words "black night disease" quietly emerged in Jiang Li's mind.
If the old building were compared to a dying old man, it was now covered in strange parasitic tissues, undoubtedly terminally ill.
But...
There had never been such a precedent before, right?
How could a building contract the black night disease? Jiang Li thought.
Subconsciously, she felt that something terrible was about to happen in Hua City.
Putting down the photos in her hand, Jiang Li looked at the Special Operations Team member and said seriously, "Notify everyone to dispatch a few more Special Operations Teams. Immediately seal off the mountain. Absolutely no information about what happens here tonight must leak out!"
"In addition, notify the Special Operations Teams investigating in the mountain that no matter what information they collect, they must inform me immediately. I need to write reports for my superiors in real-time here."
A large mountain completely covered by weak Spiritual Energy fluctuations, plus a large number of suspected black night disease patients in the mountain...
If the anomaly here formed a legend and spread, it would probably become a urban legend breeding ground before long.
"Understood."
The Special Operations Team member also knew the seriousness of the situation. He responded and hurried out of the tent.
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Under a large tree shrouded in darkness in the distance, Qi Dong watched Jiang Li in the tent, his eyes full of meaning.
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On the other side of Hua City, at the Underground Human Realm entertainment club, at the end of that tunnel which seemed to lead to another dimension, behind the half-closed soundproof curtain, it was peak revelry time.
On the dance floor, Bai Kai wore a flashy deep purple slim-fit suit with a green shirt. Accompanied by electronic music with a strong rhythm, under the psychedelic lights, he swayed his body freely with a group of young men and women.
Not long after, on the other side of the dance floor, a handsome blonde man in a white suit squeezed through the crowd to Bai Kai's side, leaned in and whispered a few words. Bai Kai frowned and walked towards the edge of the dance floor with the blonde man.
Bai Kai left the dance floor and came into a luxurious private room. He took the phone handed to him by the blonde man and quickly called back the missed call that was not saved in his contacts.
"Hello? This is Bai Kai, may I ask..."
Before Bai Kai could finish speaking, he heard Qi Dong's rough cursing from the other end of the phone.
"Damn it, Bai Kai, didn't you say Lu Yibei didn't know anything and wouldn't find anything? Now look, something happened at Banshan Elementary School, and he actually ran to that godforsaken place!"
Upon hearing this, Bai Kai's face instantly turned pale, as if he had heard something extremely terrifying.
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Hua City Fifth People's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, First Consulting Room.
The morning sun shone in from the window, casting light on the young man's fair, delicate, slightly haggard profile. He stared blankly at the cluster of brightly blooming African daisies on the windowsill.
Not long after, the metal doorknob turned, the door opened, and a Doctor in a white coat walked in and sat opposite the young man.
"Sorry for the wait, shall we begin?"
"Okay." The young man nodded obediently and responded.
"Name?"
"Lu Yibei."
"Age?"
"Eighteen."
"Gender?"
"..."
Strange, why was there an uncontrollable urge to complain or say something sarcastic?
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, and following his true thoughts, he answered honestly, "Sometimes male, sometimes female."
"..."
Sometimes male, sometimes female?
The Doctor put down his pen, looked up at Lu Yibei, tilted his head, looked him up and down for a while, then buried his head in the notebook in front of him, scribbled a few lines of messy writing, and continued to ask, "Can you tell me about your situation first?"
As a psychiatrist, he had seen many psychological problems similar to gender identity disorder, so he was not surprised by Lu Yibei's answer.
"..."
Lu Yibei looked into the Doctor's eyes, was silent for a few seconds, and began to recount the story he had already told twice today. "This has to start with the dream I had last night..."
Lu Yibei had a very strange dream last night. He dreamed that he was born and grew up in a city that looked almost exactly like Hua City.
The difference was that whenever night fell in that city, the pedestrians on the streets would disappear.
The darkness and ominousness hidden in the city's corners would awaken, countless twisted and evil figures would appear in the streets and alleys, grinding their teeth, sucking blood, waiting for opportunities, and hunting humans.
He also dreamed that his mother, with whom he depended on each other, had passed away early, and the one who raised him was his father, whom he had never met, and a strange man named Bai Kai.
Later, his father also died in a bizarre car accident, and from then on, he lived alone...
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"Wait," the Doctor interrupted, "You mean you were kidnapped by a monster wearing a rabbit head and a man who controlled cicadas to kill people, and then forced to swallow an egg..."
"It was a witchs egg, condensed from all the Spiritual Energy and Power of a Witch Breed whose lifespan had reached its end," Lu Yibei corrected.
"So, after you swallowed that egg, you completely turned into a female, is that right?" Apparently, the Doctor didn't remember the long string of prefixes, only the word "egg."
Although Lu Yibei felt somewhat embarrassed answering such a question face-to-face, in order to figure out what had happened to him, he still answered with a slightly flushed face and a thick skin, "Not completely turned into a female, but male during the day and female at night."
The Doctor nodded thoughtfully and wrote a few more lines in the notebook. The handwriting was the standard "Doctor's script," and Lu Yibei could only vaguely make out words like "rabbit," "cicada," and "father."
"Okay, you may continue."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei withdrew his gaze from the Doctor's notebook and continued to recount his long and terrifying dream.
Two minutes later.
When Lu Yibei described Lin Yiqi killing Zhao Ke with her own hands, dismembering his body into pieces, and sewing them into a vent doll, the Doctor's forehead slightly beaded with sweat.
Five minutes later.
When Lu Yibei spoke of the one entrenched in the distant dark mountain, who had cast a curse on his former subjects, making them lose their human form for generations, the Doctor's hand holding the pen began to tremble slightly.
Seven minutes later.
When Lu Yibei talked about the animals raising humans at the South Suburb Slaughterhouse, the Doctor finally couldn't help but interrupt, "May I ask, did you come alone?"
As he spoke, the way he looked at Lu Yibei was as if he were looking at a demon that had climbed out of the abyss.
Although, as a psychologist, he shouldn't have any discrimination or prejudice against any patient, the dreams Lu Yibei described were simply too terrifying, and so real that it seemed as if he had experienced them himself.
The Doctor even suspected that the person sitting in front of him was a dangerous, cunning, highly intelligent, and extremely warped individual who was expertly disguising himself as harmless and innocent.
If there wasn't a lack of concrete evidence, the Doctor would definitely call the police immediately and have Lu Yibei arrested, to prevent him from harming himself or others after leaving here.
"No, I came with my girlfriend. Is there a problem?" Lu Yibei said calmly.
"Then please ask her to come in?" the Doctor said with a heavy expression.
Lu Yibei shrugged, got up and walked to the door, pulled it open, and called out, "Rao Hua, the Doctor is calling for you!"
