Free Web NovelEarly morning, Tang City, Chunfeng Residence.
A graceful woman lay lazily on a chaise lounge, playing with her Switch, fully absorbed.
Suddenly, her body stiffened for a moment, then she frowned, looking out at the bright morning sun through the window.
"Again? I'll see what's being prayed for this time!" she muttered angrily, sensing the target of the prayer, her face darkened.
The prayer was directed at... someone who didn't exist at all.
"..." Ju Meng thought for a moment, her eyes lit up, "Oh~ I get it! This is some damn shut-in praying for his paper wife to have children soon, right?"
"Tsk tsk, although I understand how you feel, I really haven't tried this..."
How about giving it a try?
If it actually works, Taoyuan could develop a new revenue stream!
Ju Meng thought sneakily, a glint of cunning flashing in her emerald-like eyes.
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Lu Yibei finished reciting the description of the Power from her dream memory, and muttered, "Okay, that should make it soul-scattered, right?" She then walked towards the depths of the factory.
Although she wasn't sure if that Power description was effective, "transcendence" was also an important part of finishing the job.
Wasn't it common for things to reanimate even without a physical body?
Walking through the silent abandoned factory.
Although Lu Yibei had a few more bricks on her back, her steps were much lighter.
However, she didn't relax her basic vigilance. As she moved forward, she still cautiously observed the surroundings and loosened the manhole covers along the way.
Although she was tricked by a loosened manhole cover just now, before that, the other manhole covers had also done a good job of providing warnings, hadn't they?
She didn't know how that monster was born. If it was created by the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society, there might be more than one.
Better be careful!
After finding the thing that is calling me, I will leave here immediately. Lu Yibei thought.
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The three workshops of the West City Lime Factory are arranged in a 'pin' shape, with workshops one and two side by side, and workshop three standing alone at the back. The comprehensive building used for offices and staff dormitories is located deeper in the factory, near the mountain.
Lu Yibei bypassed the second workshop. When passing the third workshop, she found that the heavy iron door of the third workshop was locked with a new large lock, and the windows on all sides were also tightly closed, making it impossible to climb in and check like the first two workshops.
After circling the front of the third workshop, she saw the scene inside the workshop through the gap of a slightly old window.
Through the window gap, under the pale light of her phone, she could vaguely see that the machinery in the workshop had long been moved out, replaced by rows of chairs, about a thousand seats.
In the dim and empty workshop, turbid air drifted. Under the pale light, the chairs cast strange shadows, looking like they were filled with people at a glance.
In the depths of the workshop, on the wall behind the podium, there was also a giant oil painting.
"..."
A chaotic city, raindrops and stones flying upwards, old banyan trees growing in reverse... The content of the painting was exactly the same as the paintings that had appeared in Half-Mountain Apartment.
This should be some kind of auditorium.
Perhaps members of the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society often held meetings here. Lu Yibei thought.
After observing for a while, she felt a chill. She felt that if she looked for a little longer, she might "see" two figures in the empty workshop. Without staying too long, she quickly walked towards the comprehensive building behind the third workshop.
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The iron gate in front of the comprehensive building was tightly closed but not locked. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
Lu Yibei tried pushing the iron gate. With a slight creak, the iron gate opened a gap. She took a deep breath, passed through the gate, and came to the small courtyard in front of the comprehensive building.
Standing in the overgrown courtyard, she looked up at the building in front.
A four-story building, with eight rooms on each floor. Most of the doors of these rooms had been removed, leaving dark door openings, which, under the cover of darkness, looked like nests inhabited by some strange creature.
After some observation, Lu Yibei found that only the basement and two rooms on the third floor of the entire comprehensive building had doors. After thinking for a moment, she stepped forward and walked upstairs.
According to common sense, the upper floors should be inhabited, relatively safe, and easy to find useful things.
The basement, on the other hand, might be used for storing things or have some other special purpose, making it more dangerous. She could go later, and if the situation was wrong, she could abandon the exploration... Lu Yibei thought.
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Perhaps it was the deterrence caused by killing that monster before on other monsters hiding in the abandoned factory, or perhaps there was only that one monster in this abandoned factory.
As Lu Yibei went from the first floor to the third floor, she didn't even encounter a single insect. Only the sound of her footsteps echoed in the empty and deserted corridor.
The door near the stairwell on the third floor was a security door. It was impossible to open it without making a big noise, so she had to give up.
However, the door at the end of the third floor was just an old wooden door with a small padlock.
Lu Yibei took out a brick from her backpack and smashed it twice with force. The padlock clanged and fell to the ground.
Pushing the door open, after her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she could see the furnishings in the room, Lu Yibei was slightly stunned.
The scene before her was too familiar. The structure and layout of the room were almost identical to the rooms she had seen in Half-Mountain Apartment.
"It seems that the owner of this place must have lived in Half-Mountain Apartment before. If that's the case..."
Lu Yibei muttered to herself, raised her hand to shine her phone towards the study area of the room, her gaze slightly focused, and walked quickly forward.
"Creak—!"
Along with the slight sound of the door axis turning, as soon as she pushed open the study door, Lu Yibei saw three pale, vacant faces enter her field of vision.
The study was not lit. In the dark room, a long-burning lamp flickered with a dim yellow light. The air was filled with the smell of incense and candles, and a few bright yellow paper offerings were carried by the breeze from opening the door, floating to Lu Yibei's feet.
There were no book shelfs or desks in the study, only a memorial hall.
"Excuse me..."
Being watched by three pairs of eyes, Lu Yibei said emotionlessly, trembling as she backed out of the study. Just as she was about to close the door, she suddenly noticed that one of the three black and white photos on the altar was somewhat familiar.
Round face, chestnut long hair... Was it a childhood photo of Gu Qianqian? ƒrēewebnovel.com
No...
Along with a twitch in her brow, a figure flashed in Lu Yibei's mind from her dream memory: Gu Xiliu, whom she had met once at an internal meeting of the Hua City Si Ye Hui.
Not Gu Qianqian, but Gu Xiliu!
The two looked seven or eight parts alike, but their temperaments were very different. Gu Qianqian always looked a bit simple-minded, with a stubbornness between her brows, while Gu Xiliu was quiet and gentle, giving off a sickly feeling like Lin Daiyu. If viewed separately, it would be difficult to connect the two.
Only someone like Lu Yibei, who had had multiple contacts with Gu Qianqian and had suspected that Gu Qianqian and Gu Xiliu were the same person, could so quickly discover their similarities.
"What the hell, are they two different people...? That's not right either! What in the world is going on? It's got me completely confused." Lu Yibei muttered to herself, her thoughts a tangled mess.
If Gu Qianqian and Gu Xiliu were two different people, then some of her previous conjectures were immediately overturned.
She had originally thought that if this world was illusory, then everything she saw and experienced must also be an illusion.
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However, both Gu Qianqian and Gu Xiliu existed in her dream memory, and there was a high probability that one of them went from this fake Hua City to the real Hua City.
But if it was an illusion, it should have dissipated after going to the real Hua City! Lu Yibei thought.
Just as she was racking her brain, a strange noise suddenly came from the small courtyard of the comprehensive building.
Lu Yibei frowned slightly, quickly left the room, came to the corridor, and listened intently.
The sound came from the direction of the basement. It sounded like a heavy object being dragged, mixed with the slight clinking of chains, as if something imprisoned was struggling.
The thought that had been calling to her also became stronger at this moment.
Demoness Adult, you're here~!
|´・ω・)ノ
Lu Yibei, "..." Is it starting again? Can't a person think quietly for a while! Damn it, if only I could send bullet comments to it too.
As Lu Yibei thought this, her vision suddenly went black, and her brain seemed to short-circuit, falling into a blank state.
Immediately after, she felt as if her soul had left her body, extending into the void, connecting with some unknown existence, and establishing a strong connection with its consciousness in this way.
Is this... lifting the ban, so I can send bullet comments?
Feeling this indescribable state, Lu Yibei pondered for a moment, and tentatively sent a thought to that unknown existence.
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
Mm-hmm, Demoness Adult, let's hug~~
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Sensing the other party's response, Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then the smile on her face gradually became distorted.
"Hug my ass! Good heavens, I can finally send you bullet comments, right? Do you know how I've spent the past two hours?"
(´｀;)?
"Do you know? **'s postpartum care should start before delivery. ** Four or five days before delivery, gradually reduce the feeding amount. The purpose is to reduce abdominal pressure. Eating less before delivery allows you to eat more after delivery. If you eat too much before delivery, it will not only prolong the labor process but also cause postpartum gastric stasis."
"You don't know, you don't care, you only care about yourself!"
"..."
Coat's already not-so-smart brain tried very hard to understand what its dear Demoness Adult was saying, and then its brain crashed.
"Also, do you know..."
"@!#@&1..."
So, after Lu Yibei's brain overclocked, outputting content at high power continuously, with C-language and elegant and gentle language flying together for nearly ten minutes, the other side sent back a string of garbled characters and then fell silent.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei nodded with satisfaction and turned to walk downstairs.
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A moment later, Lu Yibei arrived on the first floor of the comprehensive building, pried open the lock of the basement door, and plunged into the darkness.
Entering the basement, the moment darkness enveloped her vision, she had a very ominous feeling.
Is it starting again? Lu Yibei frowned.
That feeling was the same as when she was being secretly spied on in the Hua City Library before, as if she was being targeted by some terrifying monster.
What made her even more uneasy was that the moment she stepped into the comprehensive building, she smelled an unbearable stench, similar to the smell emanating from the monster earlier.
Lu Yibei switched from holding the toilet plunger with one hand to gripping it tightly with both hands, her muscles tensed.
She had made up her mind that if something suddenly rushed out of the darkness, she would immediately use the toilet plunger to stab it into a pulp and then finish it off with the Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon.
Lu Yibei thought, fiercely swinging the toilet plunger in her hands.
Walking down the stairs, the moment her feet touched solid ground, she hurriedly used her phone for light. The moment darkness was dispelled by light, she immediately discovered something abnormal.
The bottom of the basement was a narrow corridor about five meters long, at the end of which was a rusty, slightly low iron door.
Pale light swept across the white walls of the corridor, revealing walls covered in dark red, water-like stains.
Lu Yibei leaned in slightly to examine, her pupils suddenly constricted, her scalp tingled, and she abruptly took a step back.
That was not a stain at all!
Although the large patches of dark red attached to the walls and ceiling looked like water stains spreading from within the wall, a closer look revealed that they were dense clusters of something resembling blood vessels or mycelium.
Searching carefully for the source, Lu Yibei quickly found that in the small cracks in the wall, there was darker colored, foul-smelling sticky flesh wriggling in the gaps of the wall, as if parasitic within the building.
"Squeak squeak squeak—!"
As she was observing the dark red flesh, a piercing sound, like that of a rodent, suddenly came from inside the wall in front of her, followed by a light sound like a reptile stealthily moving.
Everything happened in less than a second.
After noticing the strange sounds coming from within the wall, before Lu Yibei could react, the dark red flesh bloomed from the wall cracks like a scarlet flower.
A strong stench rushed at her face. Lu Yibei's heart was startled, and she jumped back abruptly, creating distance.
After steadying herself, she found that the wall crack she had just been observing was covered by a football-sized mass of foul-smelling, fibrous flesh.
It was covered with constantly twitching small eyes, and at the ends, there were densely packed things that looked like small baby hands constantly wriggling and waving.
It looked as if something terrifying was parasitic within the wall.
"F*ck! F*ck! What the hell is that?!"
Lu Yibei got goosebumps and couldn't help but curse. Just as she was about to raise her hand to reward this unique little thing with a Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon, a sound suddenly came from behind the iron door at the end of the corridor.
"Bang bang—bang bang—!"
Thudding sounds echoed in the corridor, sounding like fish struggling on a cutting board, but much more intense, like a giant beast.
"Gulp—!"
Lu Yibei swallowed, hesitated for a moment, walked forward, and from a distance, reached out with the wooden handle of the toilet plunger to poke open the iron door at the end of the corridor.
Then...
She froze in place.
An extremely evil aura poured out from behind the door like a tidal wave.
Lu Yibei's breathing paused slightly, as if she had entered a blood-colored fog. Everything in front of her was covered with a thin layer of blood-color, faintly glowing.
Masses of semi-illusory, dark red flesh adhered to the walls and furniture «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» of the building, wriggling and crawling, emitting low squeaking sounds like rodents, while constantly evolving various bizarre organs and tissues.
Looking around, Lu Yibei felt as if she had broken into a factory condensed from flesh and blood, and at the center of this factory was an operating table covered in flesh and blood.
A scarlet, tattered garment floated above the operating table, bound by several rusty iron chains, swaying back and forth in the air, emitting eerie sounds.
Lu Yibei, "..."
What the hell is this! Is it an evil god's equipment storage? Was I ♦ being lured into a trap?
