Free Web Novel"Knocked out? This... doesn't make sense!"
Lu Yibei withdrew her gaze from the girl and looked at the toilet plunger in her hand.
The shape was very ordinary, a wooden handle, red rubber.
She was stunned for two seconds, as if suddenly remembering something, she turned sharply and looked towards the mirror beside her, her eye twitching.
Only to see that in the hand of the silver-haired girl reflected in the mirror, she was holding an ancient, clumsy-looking broken sword.
【This sword is named Lingtai Pure Karma. 'Lingtai' refers to the heart, 'Pure Karma' refers to a compassionate heart that does not kill. Lingtai Pure Karma is a heart sword, it cuts the heart and karma, not people.】 This was the information Lu Yibei obtained from the Strange Dream.
"..."
This is actually quite normal, right? My reflection in the mirror can turn into a beautiful girl, so it's reasonable for a toilet plunger to turn into an ancient sword... Like hell it is!
Lu Yibei rubbed her slightly throbbing temples.
She originally just wanted to give this guy who trespassed and scared her half to death a warning, she didn't expect such a mishap.
This world is too crazy.
Lu Yibei looked at the girl hanging on the window, rested her chin on one hand and pondered for a few seconds, then grabbed her hands and started trying to pull her into the room.
And then...
She found this was not an easy task.
This Miss looked small, but unexpectedly hid a strong force.
To pull her into the room, Lu Yibei almost didn't take the window apart.
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A moment later, the living room lights turned on.
Lu Yibei examined the girl's face, falling into contemplation.
This Miss, she had seen her, not at the crossroads during the day, but in that Strange Dream.
During the day at the crossroads, when the girl waved and called out to her from across the street, she had already recognized this girl named Gu Qianqian.
At that time, no one else saw Gu Qianqian, she just thought it was a hallucination caused by the Strange Dream.
Unexpectedly, she actually appeared at home now. Could this be a sign of her condition worsening in the dead of night?
Lu Yibei sat up and reached out to feel the girl's breath.
A faint breath puffed onto her finger, bringing a warm, damp feeling, silently telling the fact of the girl's real existence.
Withdrawing her hand, Lu Yibei leaned back onto the sofa again, holding her forehead and sighing.
"Damn it, that dream is almost making me doubt my life!"
The boundary between dream and reality seemed to be blurring because of Gu Qianqian's appearance.
For a moment, she couldn't judge what was real and what was fake.
If the dream memory was fake, yet Gu Qianqian actually appeared before her.
If the dream memory was real, wouldn't Xiao Hua become someone else's fiancée?
Thinking about it is a bit prickly... cough cough, how can that be!?
Lu Yibei slumped on the sofa and rested for a moment, then got up and went to the utility room to find some electric wires.
Acquaintance is acquaintance, but she still needed to be tied up...
After all, in the dream memory, Gu Qianqian was not a "good person" behind her.
Using a few wires as thick as a little finger, she tied Gu Qianqian up, three wraps to the left, three wraps to the right.
Lu Yibei waited bored for a moment, stood up, picked up a vase ornament from the living room, and walked straight towards the bathroom.
If a toilet plunger can turn into an ancient sword, then why can't a vase turn into a jade pure bottle?
Maybe other things at home have changed too, I think that sleeping mat looks quite like a jade burial suit. Lu Yibei thought.
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More than an hour later.
To control the uniqueness of the experimental variable, Lu Yibei took everything in the house she could move to the front of the bathroom and shone it once.
And then...
Her fantasy was shattered.
Except for the toilet plunger, nothing else in the house had changed at all.
She sat on the toilet, holding the toilet plunger in her hand, looking at the mirror, doubting her life.
Just then, a muffled whimper came from the direction of the living room.
Gu Qianqian finally woke up.
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"Ugh, my head hurts so much..."
Gu Qianqian mumbled, slowly opened her eyes, and after seeing the scene in front of her clearly, she was slightly stunned.
In her sight was a completely unfamiliar living room, the furnishings messy, as if it had just been ransacked by a thief.
Here... where is this?
Is it Lu Yibei's house?
Gu Qianqian thought, and subconsciously moved her body, then felt a sense of tightness on her body.
Looking down, her head was instantly filled with question marks, even more than a teammate's pings when Yasuo flashes into a level 1 fight and dies.
Several wires were tightly wrapped around her body, even tied with two bows.
"Shasha—Shasha—!" Slippers stepped on the floor, making faint footsteps.
Gu Qianqian was stunned for a moment, looked in the direction of the sound, and her pupils contracted violently.
Only to see a tall silver-haired girl walking over, holding a broken sword gleaming with cold light, with no expression on her face.
"Sys, System, it's her, it's her!"
Lu Yibei, "..." What are you shrieking about? You snuck into my house like a ghost, I haven't even screamed yet!
After Gu Qianqian called out in panic a few times, she got no response, only then realizing that the System had been out of contact for a long time, and closed her mouth.
And then...
Her whole state automatically switched from happy and hungry to scared and hungry.
After wandering for a few days in this city where no one could see her, suddenly seeing Lu Yibei, Gu Qianqian was actually very excited and happy originally.
That feeling was like suddenly grabbing a lifesaver when she was most desperate, lonely, and helpless.
But when she was struck on the head with the broken sword, she suddenly realized that this lifesaver had thorns and was coated with poison.
I might have really been driven insane by hunger to come looking for her.
Just like how the System used Strange Tale core bait to capture those urban legend that had lost their minds from hunger before. Gu Qianqian thought.
Besides being the kind-hearted and good-cooking Lu Yibei, Lu Yibei could also be the moody and ruthless Disaster.
"..."
Gu Qianqian lowered her head guiltily, avoiding Lu Yibei's gaze.
Why is she still looking at me? She couldn't already know about that, could she?
Oh dear, I told the System a long time ago that I wanted to defeat her fair and square, not do such despicable things. Gu Qianqian thought.
Although the System had always emphasized the danger of the Disaster to her.
However, she always felt that before completely turning into a Strange Tale, Lu Yibei could still be friends and shouldn't lay a hand on her.
When she wrote the anonymous letter to the Night Watch before, she asked the System what would happen if their scheme was discovered by Lu Yibei?
...
The System said to Gu Qianqian, "Then you can only face it honestly and try to influence her with love."
"Eh! You can do that? Will everything be fine if you influence her?" Gu Qianqian asked.
Just as she was about to continue questioning the System why it didn't use the "influence" method earlier, she heard the System say, "No, but doing that will let you die a little more painlessly."
After all, the only people the Disaster won't torment are those she has loved or who have loved her... the System added in its mind.
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Lu Yibei paced over to Gu Qianqian's side, held the toilet plunger in front of her to guard herself, wary of sudden changes, and just as she was about to say something, she saw Gu Qianqian suddenly raise her head and say seriously, "I love you! Okay, go ahead and do it!"
"???"
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, and the toilet plunger in her hand fell to the ground with a "clang". The thought of "interrogating" Gu Qianqian immediately vanished.
My brain is fried.
What kind of development is this?
In the memory obtained from the Strange Dream, there wasn't a plotline about me dating her!
Just as she was feeling confused, she suddenly noticed that Gu Qianqian's gaze drifted to the side, seemingly looking at something.
Following her gaze, she saw the leftover roasted chicken rice takeout from yesterday on the coffee table.
Lu Yibei looked at the takeout, then at Gu Qianqian, narrowed her eyes slightly, and tentatively asked, "Are you really hungry? You came to me just to eat?"
"Gulp—!" Gu Qianqian swallowed her saliva, then nodded.
"Just to confirm, you eat human food, right?" Lu Yibei pressed.
Gu Qianqian hesitated for a moment, as if worried about upsetting Lu Yibei, and weakly said, "It, it doesn't necessarily have to be human food!"
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's gaze towards Gu Qianqian immediately became wary again, and she couldn't help but tighten her grip on the toilet plunger in her hand.
"If not, cat biscuits are fine too!" Gu Qianqian said with a serious face, "I ate them when I was wandering before, they were really delicious!"
"Uh, I didn't steal the cats' food! Someone put it on the street to feed the cats, but the cats didn't seem to like it."
Lu Yibei, "..."
Tie up a girl and feed her cat biscuits? Do you think I'm some kind of perverted monster?
Wandering, living under a bridge, eating cat biscuits...
Damn it, what's going on? I suddenly feel a little sorry for her.
Lu Yibei took a deep breath and said, "You can eat if you want, but before that, you have to answer a few questions for me."
"Mm-hmm." Gu Qianqian's eyes lit up, and she nodded her head like a chick pecking rice, but then she lowered her head again, stealing glances at Lu Yibei's expression while muttering softly, "Some questions can't be answered." freewebnoveℓ.com
Although she really wanted to eat, she wasn't willing to betray the System for it, that was her principle.
Lu Yibei pondered for a few seconds, and said lightly, "I understand. If it involves violating your principles, you don't have to answer."
Lu Yibei relaxed the conditions, and Gu Qianqian showed joy, "Okay, okay!"
According to the System, being able to make the Disaster make such a tiny compromise was a huge success.
Lu Yibei nodded slightly and said, "First question, what's your name, and how do you know me?"
First, confirm if there's any deviation in the memory.
Gu Qianqian was stunned for a moment, showing surprise.
Why would the Disaster ask this kind of question? Is there a trick?
"I, I'm Gu Qianqian, we met at school, Huacheng Institute of Technology."
Worried about what dirty trap was hidden behind the Disaster's question, Gu Qianqian deliberately omitted a lot of details when answering.
This is a lie!
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According to the development in the dream memory, we clearly hadn't met yet at Huacheng Institute of Technology! Lu Yibei thought.
"Second question, are you a ghost?"
"How is that possible!"
"Then why can't others see you?"
"I, I..." Gu Qianqian opened her mouth, held it in for a long time, and finally said aggrievedly with a crying tone, "I don't know either!"
This time it seems to be the truth? Lu Yibei pondered for a moment and continued to ask, "In your eyes, am I male or female?"
Although in the dream memory, she did possess the strange ability to turn into a Demoness at night.
But memory can be deceiving.
Gu Qianqian was stunned, looked at Lu Yibei with a confused gaze, her sight slowly moved down, finally resting on her chest, and then looked at her own chest.
It seems...
Besides a slight difference in size, there isn't much difference, so she should be female, right? Gu Qianqian thought.
In fact, she had always been very confused about whether the Disaster was a boy or a girl, but when she asked the System, the System's answer was, "Depends on her mood."
Lu Yibei, noticing the change in Gu Qianqian's eyes, understood. "Okay, you don't need to say it, I know."
Although she knew, she still didn't want to hear someone say in a slightly emotional tone of affirmation, "Of course you're a girl!" such words... Lu Yibei muttered inwardly.
"Then... why did you say you loved me just now?"
Gu Qianqian was stunned for a moment, looking troubled. "This... can I not say?"
This question involves the system. Even if the Disaster goes back on its word and tortures me, I can't say!
"Okay!" Lu Yibei nodded. "Then, do you know who Jiang Li is? Or rather, do you know her?"
"Hmm..." Gu Qianqian sized up her expression and whispered, "Jiang Li is an agent of the Hua City Si Ye Hui! I know of her, but I don't know her personally."
Strange, Lu Yibei is so familiar with her, why is she asking me this?
Hua City Si Ye Hui... Lu Yibei nodded thoughtfully. "Last question, why were you following me? And you even followed me home?"
As she finished speaking, Gu Qianqian's face suddenly turned red, and she stammered, "Want... I want..."
"Want?"
"Want, want to freeload a meal!"
"It's that simple, just wanting to freeload a meal?"
Gu Qianqian, like a startled little animal, shrank her neck guiltily. "If, if possible, I'd also like to stay the night..."
Midway through her sentence, Gu Qianqian paused, worried that Lu Yibei would refuse, and quickly added, "Just one night, I'll leave first thing tomorrow morning."
After eating her fill and resting for a night, she still had to continue looking for the system and her brother.
"How did you know I would give you food and let you stay?" Lu Yibei pressed.
"Didn't you just say that was the last question?"
Lu Yibei frowned. "..."
If you say she's smart, she does look genuinely silly.
If you say she's silly, she suddenly becomes sharp at times like this...
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"Ding ding ding—ding ding ding—!"
A knocking sound rang out, followed by a shout from outside the door.
"Hello, McDelivery!"
"Creak—!"
"Thank you."
Lu Yibei opened the door a crack, reached out to take the delivery from the delivery person, and quickly closed the door before the delivery person could notice anything unusual inside.
Carrying several family buckets, she returned to the living room. Lu Yibei cleared a space on the coffee table to put them down, then sat opposite Gu Qianqian.
Smelling the aroma wafting from the packaging bags, Gu Qianqian, who had just been listless, instantly became energetic as if injected with chicken blood, stretching her neck like a giraffe.
"Lu Yibei, thank you, you're really a good person!"
Gu Qianqian said with a smile. As she spoke, she noticed Lu Yibei's cold expression and suddenly felt something was slightly off with the atmosphere. The smile on her face gradually stiffened.
Lu Yibei, it seemed, had no intention of untying her.
"You... aren't you going to untie me?"
Lu Yibei glanced sideways at Gu Qianqian and said faintly, "You wish! I only said I'd give you food just now, did I say I'd untie you?"
You can know a person's face but not their heart. Although what you say sounds nice and you appear harmless, who knows if that cute and silly exterior, when cut open, is filled with unspeakable horrors?
If I untie you, you might not eat the chicken leg and turn around to eat me instead!
To be safe, it's better to keep you tied up. Lu Yibei thought.
Gu Qianqian looked at Lu Yibei, then at the McDelivery family buckets on the table, and said weakly, "But, but, if you tie me up, how can I eat?"
"It's fine, I'll feed you. Of course, if you mind and are willing to go hungry, that's fine too." Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
Gu Qianqian said without thinking, "I don't mind at all! As long as I can eat, I don't mind anything at all!"
As she spoke, her eyes shining and her head bobbing, she looked exactly like a little kitten acting cute and waiting to be fed.
Lu Yibei pressed Gu Qianqian's head, which was straining forward, back to its original position. "Don't be in a hurry. Since I promised to give you food, I will definitely give it to you. But before that, you still have to do one thing..."
She was still halfway through speaking when she saw Gu Qianqian staring intently at the family buckets on the coffee table, her attention completely off her words. Lu Yibei pursed her lips, then took out a chicken leg from the packaging bag, held it up with one hand, and dangled it in front of Gu Qianqian.
Smelling the aroma of the fried chicken, Gu Qianqian's nose twitched slightly. She stretched her neck, and her pink tongue, like a wet, soft, and flexible little snake, licked back and forth on the golden crispy fried chicken skin several times. Still unable to actually eat the fried chicken, her eyes gradually became anxious.
Finally, she chose to compromise.
"Then, what else do you want me to do? Tell me quickly, tell me quickly!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Where's your dignity? Where's your reserve and dignity? If you're like this, you'll be screwed if you fall into someone else's hands, do you know that?
Although Lu Yibei couldn't be sure yet whether Gu Qianqian was dangerous or not.
But one thing was certain: this young lady would sell her soul for the temptation of food.
Lu Yibei had no doubt that if she just took a bamboo pole and a cotton thread, tied a fragrant chicken leg to it, and hung it in front of Gu Qianqian, she could run dozens of kilometers in one go, like a mule with a carrot dangling in front of it.
Putting down the chicken leg, Lu Yibei turned and went to the bedroom to get a mobile phone, a piece of paper, a pen, and an inkpad, then sat down in front of Gu Qianqian again.
"Before I feed you, you have to make a statement proving that you are staying at my place voluntarily, and that I am not holding you captive."
"Given the situation where others might not be able to see you or hear you speak, I will first attempt to record a video. If your figure and voice cannot be recorded, it will be presented in written form."
This was something Lu Yibei suddenly thought of when the delivery person came to the door just now.
Although others couldn't see Gu Qianqian and she was only staying for one night, it was better to draft a statement to be cautious.
In case a neighbor or someone else noticed something abnormal and called the police, having this statement would at least prevent her from being charged with violent illegal detention.
And incidentally... she might also find out something else. Lu Yibei thought to herself slyly.
Although doing this felt somewhat excessive towards Gu Qianqian, Lu Yibei vaguely felt that she seemed to have done something even more excessive to her.
For example, poisoning the potion.
And this vague feeling came from that strange dream...
Gu Qianqian looked at Lu Yibei and said angrily, "But, this is lying! I was originally..."
"So, are you willing to lie, or are you willing to eat?" Lu Yibei interrupted, her expression merciless.
"I, I..." Gu Qianqian's chest rose and fell for a moment. As the hunger in her stomach surged, she suddenly deflated. "I want to eat."
"Then write the statement!"
"Oh..." Gu Qianqian responded weakly.
Lu Yibei nodded in satisfaction, picked up the paper and pen, wrote for a moment with her head down, then held it up in front of her and said indifferently, "Read after what's written."
As she spoke, her other hand picked up the phone, opened the recording mode, and aimed it at Gu Qianqian.
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Gu Qianqian pouted, deciphered the text on the paper, and began to read haltingly, "I, I, Gu Qianqian, ID number, uh, long dash..."
"What long dash?" Lu Yibei lightly tapped her head. "That's where you fill in your ID number!"
"Say your ID number aloud, and I'll fill it in for you later."
"Oh, oh!" Gu Qianqian nodded. "510...29."
Lu Yibei filled in Gu Qianqian's ID number in the blank space, held the paper up in front of her. "Okay, let's start again."
"I, Gu Qianqian, ID number 510...29, hereby solemnly declare that my presence at Lu Yibei's home is not due to violent detention by Lu Yibei, but is for the purpose of, for the purpose of... Hey, what does this letter game mean?"
"Children shouldn't ask questions they shouldn't ask!"
"Oh..."
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As Lu Yibei had expected, the phone couldn't record Gu Qianqian's figure or her voice. However, she was able to touch the inkpad and successfully leave a fingerprint on the statement.
Images couldn't be left, but fingerprints could. What did this mean?
Gu Qianqian's existence is somewhere between half-real and half-illusory?
Isn't that a ghost?
Lu Yibei shook her head, casting aside the conjectures that surfaced in her mind. After properly keeping the statement close to her body, she began feeding Gu Qianqian.
It wasn't until this moment that she realized just how hungry and how much Gu Qianqian could eat.
A whole fried chicken leg was brought to her mouth, and in and out, in less than five seconds, only the bone was left.
Not even a shred of meat was left, making one unable to help but sigh, "Hua City has a skilled mouth performer, from now on the king will not attend court early."
One hour later.
As she watched the petite figure devour five McDelivery family buckets and prepare to eat the sixth, Lu Yibei couldn't help but ask, "Don't you feel stuffed?"
"I haven't eaten for several days, hehe!" Gu Qianqian smiled shyly and continued to eat diligently.
Lu Yibei pouted. "You, you're this hungry, why didn't you figure out a way to get something to eat yourself first? Anyway, others can't see you."
If it were someone else that couldn't see me, I probably would have already changed into a Rabbit Girl outfit and wandered around the library (not!). Lu Yibei thought.
For a moment, Gu Qianqian looked at Lu Yibei with her mouth slightly open and eyes wide, as if she had heard something incredible.
"You, you mean, steal things? Even if others can't see me, I can't steal things! Taking without asking is stealing, and it's not allowed!"
"Sorry..."
Being stared at by Gu Qianqian's innocent gaze that seemed to burn into one's soul, Lu Yibei felt her cheeks flush. She raised her hand to her forehead, conveniently covering her eyes, and hesitated to speak further.
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A moment later.
"Click—!"
Lu Yibei was feeding Gu Qianqian when the sound of the front door lock turning rang out without warning.
The door opened.
Nanling Yaohua's voice came from outside the door.
"Xiao Bei, are you up? You haven't had dinner, right? Grandpa made some braised pork tonight, I warmed some up for you and brought it."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's body stiffened slightly. She turned her head towards the direction of the front door, saw Nanling Yaohua's figure, and her mind went blank...
