Free Web NovelOn both sides of the road, several large masses of liquid, emitting a strong smell of blood, were suspended beneath conical stalactites.
An invisible force enveloped their surfaces, causing them to coalesce into irregular liquid spheres about two meters in diameter.
In the center of these liquid spheres, a small mass of strange black shadows, constantly changing shape, slowly writhed.
Glancing sideways at both sides of the road, Miss Rabbit withdrew her gaze, a look of distaste flashing across her face.
She felt that the liquid spheres were somewhat familiar, but for a moment, she couldn't recall where she had seen them.
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A moment later, deep within the cave.
“Found it, VIII, this should be the clone Berses prepared in advance.”
After confirming the number on the nameplate beneath the stalactite column, Suo E took out three soul-attracting incense sticks of different colors, a porcelain plate resembling a wine cup, and a bottle of turbid, yellow corpse oil from his Pregnant.
Following this, he began the ritual according to the process left by Berses.
Miss Rabbit stepped aside, crossing her arms over her chest, watching with interest, not saying a word.
As a urban legend who had experienced “death” once, she was quite interested in knowing how a Psychic could be resurrected.
If it were really that easy to resurrect, the Night Watch would have long equipped every Night Watch member with a few “revival coins.” Then what would be the point of urban legend playing?
It would instantly change from a evenly matched, or even slightly urban legend-favored, PVP game, into a PVE game of unilateral slaughter by the Night Watch, a hack-and-slash without rivals, right? Miss Rabbit muttered to herself.
According to the Spiritual Energy fluctuation level and the popularity of the urban legend legend, a urban legend that is killed, without external assistance, would take two to three years at the shortest, or even decades at the longest, to resurrect.
This time span is roughly similar to the time it takes for a Psychic to grow to the same strength, which is how the long-standing dynamic balance has been formed.
Miss Rabbit even felt that even a urban legend, after reappearing from the urban legend legends that people strongly believed in, could no longer be considered the original urban legend.
As a urban legend who had personally experienced the entire process from being hunted to reappearing, she deeply understood this.
This is probably because people always like to exaggerate when urban legend legends are spread.
So, I ♦ hate people who talk too much the most!
This is not a hint, this is a clear statement, I'm talking about you, Disaster! Miss Rabbit thought mournfully.
“Whoosh—!”
The soft sound of flames rising came.
Suo E lit the first pale-colored soul-attracting incense, and a faint smell of locust flowers spread.
As the smoke curled up, he picked up the bottle containing corpse oil and poured the corpse oil into the porcelain plate.
Vaguely, Miss Rabbit felt a cold and weak Spiritual Energy fluctuation coming from the corpse oil, similar to the Spiritual Energy fluctuation she had detected when she had previously come into contact with Berses.
This corpse oil was refined by Berses using the body that Lu Ming had killed, and it contained his most original Spiritual Energy fluctuation.
“Soul, come back! Go from your constant support...”
Watching Suo E, who was shaking his head and muttering, Miss Rabbit frowned, “...” Isn't this just summoning a soul? What's the use of just summoning the soul back?
The soul summoning technique, while called soul summoning, actually summons unformed urban legend.
Miss Rabbit had never heard of a ritual that used unformed urban legend to resurrect humans.
Unless... some means are used directly to transform the unformed urban legend into a urban legend.
But that wouldn't count as resurrection, would it? It should be considered... Corpse Transformation? Miss Rabbit thought.
“Whoosh—!”
Just as she was thinking, Suo E lit the second soul-attracting incense mixed with willow wood core.
“Soul, come back! You are not in heaven...”
After a slight pause, Suo E did not light the third ordinary soul-attracting incense, but continued to hum the third sentence, “Soul, come back! You are not in this underworld...”
As the third sentence fell, he waited for about ten seconds.
“Whoosh—!”
The tip of the third ordinary soul-attracting incense actually sparked with a faint green light without any warning, and soon a wisp of smoke rose.
The three soul-attracting incense sticks surrounded the porcelain plate, and the scattered smoke gathered above, drifting like ghosts, and then...
Accompanied by a phantom-like shriek, all the smoke suddenly plummeted, merging into the corpse oil.
The Spiritual Energy fluctuation suddenly intensified, and in an instant, the corpse oil seemed to boil, rolling violently.
At this moment, Suo E picked up the porcelain plate, stood up and walked forward, carefully pouring it onto the irregular liquid sphere.
Thus, the true resurrection ritual began.
In the center of the irregular liquid sphere, the viscous, gelatinous black shadow, with a nauseating smell of decay, began to writhe violently. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Large amounts of bubbles, like boiling water, surged and rolled inside the irregular liquid sphere.
Spiritual Energy was inhaled and exhaled, mass changed, and the black shadow continuously expanded, split, iterated, and transformed at an alarming speed...
Watching the gelatinous black shadow gradually become like a fish, a monkey, and finally evolve into a human outline, Miss Rabbit suddenly remembered what this ghostly thing resembled.
It was like an undeveloped embryonic cell.
After absorbing the complete Spiritual Energy fluctuation of Berses and the memory contained in the unformed urban legend, it began to develop.
From an embryo to an infant, and finally revealing Berses' feminine face.
Then...
He opened his eyes, and a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
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An hour later, at the other end of the huge cave.
A huge Alchemy matrix was inscribed at the bottom of a large rock pool, emitting a crimson glow in the darkness. freewebnσvel.cѳm
Melted Alchemy materials, like mercury, slowly flowed along the grooves of the Alchemy matrix incantations, looking like small snakes writhing and crawling there from a distance.
In the center of the pool, a giant beast with a body like a skinned wild cat was coiled up, its eyes tightly closed, its life unknown, and hundreds of long metal needles were firmly pinning it to the bottom of the pool.
This is where the Eclipse Society imprisoned and studied the Invasion Beast.
At this moment, beside the altars around the rock pool, unlike the usual emptiness, countless cables were temporarily set up, crudely exposed, connecting to large instruments.
Eclipse Society members wearing special black protective suits moved between the instruments and altars, working in an orderly manner, looking like a group of worker ants surrounding a queen ant from a distance.
As they nervously adjusted the instruments and operated the altars, mists of various colors gradually began to fill the vast space.
In more than a dozen huge ventilation ducts, the fans were turned to their maximum power, but they could not quickly extract these pungent toxic gases with Spiritual Energy fluctuations.
The mist gradually thickened, and was continuously inhaled into the trachea and throat, and soon some people showed signs of poisoning.
“Night Erosion level has risen to 3.8, and is still rising, everyone prepare!”
The Eclipse Society member in a red protective suit, who was checking the data, suddenly shouted, and the vast space was filled with his slightly hoarse echo.
“Night Erosion level 4.0, Spiritual Energy pollution level three warning!”
The red-clothed Eclipse Society member let out a light cry, and the next moment, all the Eclipse Society members present almost simultaneously took out and put on special gas masks, and quickly returned to work.
In the observation room, Berses looked down at everything, and seeing that everything was ready, he took a deep breath, mobilized the Spiritual Energy in his body, and shouted, “Spiritual Energy cutting blade ready, start charging! Ten seconds later, perform a craniotomy on the test subject!”
“Ten, nine, eight... one!”
As the words fell, a roaring sound came from above the cave.
Along with the roaring, Alchemy matrices inscribed with incantations and mechanical structures emerged from the top of the cave, and in the blink of an eye, they spewed out slender, dark golden flames.
From top to bottom, like a sword of divine punishment descending from the sky, it pierced towards the head of the Invasion Beast.
The ground trembled, and the ground rippled like a water surface.
It seemed like only an instant had passed, and yet it seemed like a long period of brewing, the Invasion Beast, which had been pinned to the bottom of the rock pool and had been sleeping for a long time, suddenly woke up under the unimaginable pain.
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It opened its eyes and looked around, and in those clear and bright eyes like a child's, there was pain and confusion.
“Adult Berses, it, it's awake!”
His subordinate's slightly trembling voice came from the headset, Berses slightly frowned, and growled in a deep voice, “Ignore it, the Spiritual Energy cutting blade is ready for secondary charging, increase the power this time!”
Thus, painful roars erupted, and the high-pitched roars seemed to be mixed with the roars of thousands of beasts, almost tearing everyone's eardrums.
Even through thick soundproof earmuffs, one could feel the sharp sound piercing into the brain.
The Eclipse Society members by the pool couldn't help but step back.
The cruel sound caused by the strong Spiritual Energy fluctuation drilled into their bodies, echoed in their bones, and ruthlessly ravaged every inch of flesh and blood.
The Invasion Beast struggled, the metal needles piercing its massive body vibrated violently, buzzing, but didn't budge an inch.
Soon, cracks gradually appeared on the Invasion Beast's head after bearing the immense power of the Spiritual Energy cutting blade. Its skin cracked and shattered like cardboard, and blood gushed out, staining the pool red.
Just as Berses had predicted, the Spiritual Energy cutting blade, condensed with the Eclipse Society's most advanced technology, easily broke through the Invasion Beast's skull.
Its smooth brain, which constantly changed shape like a mass of mercury, was immediately exposed to everyone's view.
Watching its brain, the members of the Eclipse Society unconsciously held their breath.
Each of them saw their own reflection on the Invasion Beast's mirror-like brain.
It inexplicably gave people the illusion that it was both its brain and its eyes.
It instinctively tried to copy everyone's Power, but unfortunately, the hundreds of metal needles inscribed with complex spells suppressed all Spiritual Energy fluctuations within its body.
“Hmm...”
Looking at the Invasion Beast's constantly twitching body, Berses let out a playful snort.
“It's time. Everyone retreat, release the Soul Devouring Worms, and begin analyzing the test subject's memory!”
With his command, the members of the Eclipse Society in the cave showed expressions of horror and quickly retreated like a receding tide, leaving the cave.
Just as they didn't want to get stained with the Invasion Beast's flesh and blood, they also didn't want to have any contact with the Soul Devouring Worms.
The Soul Devouring Worms, like the Invasion Beast, were urban legend unfortunately captured by the Eclipse Society. This urban legend, born from the legend of "illusory parasites that devour human memory," would initially enter the human body in the form of eggs.
The infected person would not notice any abnormality at first, and would even become very self-disciplined and full of confidence. But soon after, as the eggs hatched within the host and reproduced into a large number of individuals, the infected person would experience intermittent memory loss, and then become an empty shell with no memory at all.
After being captured, and undergoing a series of unscrupulous experimental modifications, the Soul Devouring Worms quickly became a tool used by the Eclipse Society to forcibly read the memories of Psychic and urban legend.
When the last member's figure disappeared into the lower passage, a roar echoed in the cave. The altar and countless instruments sank underground, followed by large and thick metal plates rising from the ground, connecting and merging together.
Then...
A mass of constantly wriggling flesh and blood, branded with a black sun totem, was thrown from the top of the cave into the sealed space.
That mass of semi-illusory, pale flesh and blood immediately transformed into finger-sized, human-faced worms upon landing, scattering, and then converging together towards the Invasion Beast's brain. They then opened the hook-like barbs at their tails and fiercely plunged them into the mercury-like tissue.
In the blink of an eye, the Invasion Beast's skull was filled with pale worms, densely packed, constantly wriggling, and greedily sucking its memory.
In the observation room, Berses and a group of red-clothed Eclipse Society members sensed the Spiritual Energy fluctuations transmitted by the Soul Devouring Worms and began to record all the changes.
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Miss Rabbit quietly watched the entire process of Berses cutting open the Invasion Beast's head and using the Soul Devouring Worms to read its memory, her expression becoming increasingly solemn.
She paced to the window of the observation room, gazing at the dying giant beast below, and subconsciously extended her hand.
On the giant beast's exposed, constantly changing mercury-textured brain, she saw her own reflection.
Those figures silently wailed, wept, and pleaded... Intense loneliness and helplessness invaded Miss Rabbit's mind like a tide, leaving her absent-minded.
“Uh...”
When her fingertips touched the cold glass, Miss Rabbit's body trembled slightly, as if electrocuted, and she quickly withdrew her hand.
At this moment, Suo E stepped forward and said expressionlessly, “Let's go, our mission is complete, it's time to go back. There are many other tasks waiting for us!”
As if she hadn't heard Suo E's words, Miss Rabbit still stared blankly at the giant beast.
Suo E followed Miss Rabbit's gaze, his face showing a look of confusion. “What are you looking at?”
“Looking at it...”
“It? The Invasion Beast?”
Miss Rabbit nodded. “Yes, the Invasion Beast... It's crying for help.”
It was crying for help all the time, but no one noticed.
It was like a kitten trapped in an invisible cage, with no air, no food or water, no nutrients essential for life.
It could see people constantly passing by outside, but no one could see the pain of its impending suffocation.
Miss Rabbit, who happened to pass by and had a similar experience, heard its cry for help, but...
Sorry, I can't help you... Miss Rabbit murmured in her heart.
Suo E repeatedly examined the Invasion Beast's body for a while, then frowned and looked at Miss Rabbit. “You're thinking too much, aren't you? That's just muscle spasms and twitching caused by reflex arc stress response.”
“Brother, don't be so sentimental. If you're too sentimental, you'll become gay!”
Miss Rabbit, “...” Who ♦ is your brother?
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Half an hour later.
The preliminary report obtained by analyzing the Spiritual Energy fluctuations of the Soul Devouring Worms was placed in front of Berses's experimental table.
Berses held the report and read it line by line, word by word, trying to decipher the source of the Power the Invasion Beast was recently copying from its chaotic, fragmented memory.
Finally, after highlighting several paragraphs, he put down the report and frowned.
Qinan Bamboo, high-level mythical species Power, a city exactly like Hua City...
“I didn't expect that legend to be true?” Berses murmured to himself.
He never fought unprepared battles. When he decided to go to the area around Hua City to find an opportunity to capture Gu Qianqian, Disaster, or test subject number eleven, he had reviewed almost all the information about Hua City within his authorized scope.
From those materials, he knew about the turmoil that occurred in Hua City nineteen years ago, centered around Qinan Bamboo's "legacy."
However, he didn't take this matter seriously at first.
Although the Eclipse Society's data implicitly mentioned that the things Qinan Bamboo left behind were terrifyingly valuable, and even the Chairman and the Elder Council had maintained close attention to them.
But how could something that hundreds of thousands of urban legend and Psychic spent one or two years searching for be so easy to find?
It even included the previous Holy Child of the Miracle Order.
Although Berses completely disregarded the remnants of the Miracle Order, he was still very interested in studying the Holy Child of the Miracle Order.
According to the Eclipse Society's records, every Holy Child of the Miracle Order was a person blessed by a miracle, no, they should be called human lucky charms.
They were the kind of bizarre existence that could casually buy a bucket of instant noodles at the supermarket and find two noodle cakes and three seasoning packets inside.
Logically, such a person, if they went to Hua City and walked on the street, might pick up Qinan Bamboo's Relics, but in fact, they found nothing.
This made people suspect that what Qinan Bamboo left behind was not in Hua City at all, and the rumors that spread nineteen years ago were just a deception set up to cover up the truth.
But now, after reading the analysis report obtained from the Soul Devouring Worms reading the Invasion Beast's memory, he suddenly felt that what Qinan Bamboo left behind was probably hidden in the "city" she constructed using {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} her Power.
“Constructing a special space in the dark side of Hua City, and continuously improving it by pulling in the projections of everything in the city... What a powerful method! No wonder the Invasion Beast was attracted by her Power.”
While marveling at Qinan Bamboo's miraculous methods, Berses's gaze lingered on the last highlighted paragraph.
“But... Isn't this Lu Yibei a reserve member of Hua City? How could she be related to Qinan Bamboo?”
Based on the Spiritual Energy fluctuations intercepted during the Invasion Beast's current attempt to copy Qinan Bamboo's Power, Berses obtained a very important but strange piece of information.
【Do not harm Lu Yibei!】
This rule, like the most fundamental and core instruction, was hidden in all the Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanating from that city...
