Free Web NovelAlthough Jiang Li noticed that the strange young girl was lying to her, she didn't expose her on the spot. Instead, she acted as if nothing had happened and walked in the opposite direction of the young girl.
After walking a distance and turning a corner, Jiang Li suddenly flashed and stopped.
She pressed herself against the wall, peeked out an eye, and looked down the ancient street towards the strange young girl. Then, she saw the girl's back as she turned into a narrow alley.
After waiting in place for two or three seconds and seeing that the young girl didn't come back, Jiang Li started to move.
She took out a swan feather from her backpack, held it in her hand, and chanted in a low voice, "The silent night is deep, the floating light is misty, the phoenix is without shadow, the person is without sound..."
As the Spell finished chanting, the feather in her hand glowed, then seemed to vaporize, scattering and merging into her body.
The next moment, her Spiritual Energy fluctuations and all sounds made while moving were covered by an invisible Spiritual Energy barrier.
After casting the Spell, she didn't delay for a moment and quickly walked in the direction the Miss had left.
Jiang Li determined that there were three reasons why the Miss she had never met before was lying.
First, although the Miss just now acted as if she had no connection to Lu Yibei or the Lu Family Old House, her tone and demeanor when speaking were arrogant, as if she were the Master of that Old House.
Second, there was a faint Spiritual Energy fluctuation coming from the Miss, and people born and raised in this special space should not have Spiritual Energy fluctuations, which made her identity suspicious.
Third, and most importantly, when the Miss appeared, she showed strong hostility towards her.
Putting herself in the other person's shoes, Jiang Li felt that if she held hostility towards someone, unless she had other intentions, it would be impossible to say a single truthful word when answering their questions.
A few seconds later.
When Jiang Li followed the strange young girl to the entrance of the alley, she saw the empty alley, paused slightly, and frowned.
"She's gone? Did she notice I was following her?"
Jiang Li muttered to herself, observing the surroundings to find the path the young girl had taken. Just then, a woman's scream suddenly came from deep within the alley.
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What's going on? Jiang Li's gaze sharpened, and she quickly ran towards the depths of the alley following the scream. Soon, at the entrance of a dead end alley, she saw a middle-aged woman and a stray cat "wrestling" together.
It was a stray cat with pure black fur, and its size was clearly abnormal, a whole circle larger than a normal stray cat. It didn't look like a stray cat, but rather a medium-sized wild cat like a lynx.
It seemed to have a severe skin disease, with several areas all over its body where the fur had fallen off, revealing dark red skin that looked inflamed and ulcerated.
It pounced on the middle-aged woman's face, frantically tearing and scratching her head, face, and neck. The woman struggled desperately, hitting its body with the vegetable basket in her hand, but she couldn't shake it off and could only roll on the ground screaming.
Seeing this, Jiang Li didn't think much, stepped forward quickly, and delivered a side kick to the stray cat's body.
"Meow—!"
With a pained howl, the stray cat was sent flying sideways, hitting the bluestone brick wall. But it quickly rolled over, got up from the ground, and stared fiercely at Jiang Li, its cold eyes emitting an abnormal red glow.
Its entire body was arched, its mouth open to reveal sharp white fangs, and it let out unpleasant growls.
Her spiritual sense detected a faint Spiritual Energy fluctuation emanating from the abnormally sized and behaving stray cat. Jiang Li immediately became alert, and without a change in expression, she reached into her backpack and took out an amber, while also activating her Spirit Mark.
With a distortion of light and shadow, a silver long saber immediately appeared in her hand.
Only then did she realize that the bald spots on the cat's body were not skin diseases at all, but masses of dark red flesh that were constantly wriggling.
As the dark red flesh wriggled and moved constantly on its body surface, she could even see the sharp white ribs exposed beneath the decayed flesh on its left flank.
urban legend?
Looking at the stray cat, which resembled a "zombie cat," Jiang Li didn't hesitate at all. She raised her hand, and the amber in her hand shot out like a bullet towards the stray cat.
"Play the python flute, strike the turtle jar, the moon shoots coral, the pine produces amber... Seal Spell Fifty-Three, Python Turtle Amber Evolution!"
Although the Spiritual Energy fluctuation emanating from the stray cat was probably only around D-level.
However, considering that her own Spiritual Energy fluctuations were limited and the power of the Spell cast with Alchemy materials was not as strong as when cast normally, Jiang Li used a precise Spell upon their first encounter to be safe.
As the incantation finished, a dazzling light burst forth from within the amber.
The crystal-clear gem, as if imbued with life, grew rapidly under the light, slithering like a snake in mid-air and attacking the stray cat.
The stray cat, sensing danger, retreated repeatedly, then used its four limbs to leap violently, climbing onto the eaves by stepping on the cracks in the wall bricks.
It looked around for a moment, its gaze falling on the beam not far away, and then it ran wildly, as fast as a gust of wind.
At this moment, behind it, a tea-colored light flashed and disappeared.
The snake-like crystal that had arrived, with a curved hook like a turtle's mouth at its end, shot forth like lightning and locked onto its body.
The next moment, a large number of crystals that followed closely wrapped tightly around it like a python.
In the blink of an eye, the stray cat was as if sealed in amber, with only one vital area exposed.
"Meow—!"
Its body squeezed by the crystals, its limbs and bones in excruciating pain, the stray cat couldn't help but let out a series of mournful screams.
At that instant, Jiang Li's figure suddenly flashed in front of it.
The silver long saber arrived with a whistle, piercing through the gaps between the crystals and penetrating its body.
Hydra venom, released.
The stray cat's body twitched and convulsed a few times, its head tilted, and it stopped breathing. Immediately after, its body swelled up like a balloon at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then...
With a "pop!" it exploded, spraying foul pus and blood, leaving only a deformed skeleton that fell to the ground as the crystals created by the Python Turtle Amber Evolution dissipated.
Without the slightest carelessness, Jiang Li took a few steps forward, held her long saber horizontally, swept the back of the blade, and with a tremor of the blade, instantly shattered the deformed skeleton into pieces.
After briefly handling the carcass of the urban legend-transformed stray cat, Jiang Li quickly turned around and squatted down to examine the middle-aged woman's injuries.
The middle-aged woman was frightened and had lost a lot of blood. She was already lying face down on the ground, having fainted.
Jiang Li carefully turned her body over and found that her face had been bitten several times, the skin and flesh turned back. Although the wounds were not too deep, they would definitely leave scars.
There was also a gruesome bloody mark on her neck. Based on Jiang Li's experience of recording An Qing dissecting corpses multiple times, if that wound had been slightly deeper, it would have cut the carotid artery.
Jiang Li frowned, looked at the empty alley, and then at the middle-aged woman ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ on the ground who was not lightly injured.
With this sudden incident causing a delay, it was clearly impossible to continue tracking the strange young girl.
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Sighing silently, Jiang Li took out two cloth bags from her backpack, tore them up, and simply treated the middle-aged woman's wounds. Then she took out her phone and dialed the emergency number.
Killing people and killing urban legend, she was good at that, but unfortunately, she wasn't skilled at healing. The two or three healing Spells she knew were also not something a normal person's body could withstand.
"Hello? Yes, I have an injured person here, she was probably attacked by some kind of wild animal..."
"What kind of wild animal? I'm not quite sure! When I arrived, I saw her lying on the ground..."
"Location?" Jiang Li looked up at the house number not far away, "In the alley near Peony Street No. 96."
"Okay, okay, my name is Jiang Li, I know, I'll wait for you here, keep in touch, bye."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Li looked at the unconscious middle-aged woman on the ground with a serious expression and fell into thought.
According to Bai Kai and Qi Dong, there are no urban legend in this special space.
However, according to the news from Secretary Jin Jiao, Berses may have already controlled the Invasion Beast in some way.
Before, she didn't know if the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast had successfully invaded this special space under Berses's control. Now it seems that even stray cats are affected and have become urban legend. Even if it hasn't succeeded, it's probably not far from success, Jiang Li thought.
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Hua City Central Hospital is not far from Peony Street, only about two kilometers away.
Jiang Li didn't wait long before the siren of an ambulance sounded outside the alley, and then she received a call from the emergency personnel. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
"Yes, the injured person's condition is stable. Yes, just turn into the alley from the Old Street... Okay, okay!"
After a brief exchange with the emergency personnel, Jiang Li hung up the phone.
Soon, several medical personnel in white coats hurried over and lifted the fallen middle-aged woman onto a stretcher.
While quickly escorting the middle-aged woman out of the alley, the two medical personnel pushing the stretcher looked at her injuries and couldn't help but exchange words in a low voice.
"What's going on today? How many wild animal attacks have there been?"
"Seventh, or eighth... I'm not quite sure. Old Wang and their car have also received a few cases."
"I'm just wondering, how can there be wild animals in Hua City? Even if there are, why did so many suddenly appear!"
"This... who knows?"
Hearing the conversation between the two medical personnel, Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, and the news she had heard at home earlier flashed through her mind.
If only a small number of animals were affected by the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast and became urban legend, the situation would not be too serious.
But if the traffic accidents and substation equipment failures in the city are also related to the invasion of the Invasion Beast, then the situation is serious.
If that were the case... not only would this special space be destroyed, but the real Hua City would also be finished.
According to Qi Dong, if this special space, which is constructed based on the projection of Hua City, is destroyed, and its shattered fragments rise from the shadows and pour into Hua City, the entire Hua City will suffer a catastrophic disaster.
Just like the mine where Banshan Elementary School is located.
There are only two solutions.
First, find Berses and the Invasion Beast he escaped with, kill the Invasion Beast, and solve the problem fundamentally.
Second, find Lu Yibei and wake him up.
"But... why is it that guy?" Jiang Li murmured.
In fact, Qi Dong didn't tell Jiang Li what would happen after waking up Lu Yibei. He even once thought that Jiang Li, like Bai Kai, would be "forbidden to access."
After pondering for a few seconds, Jiang Li cursed in a low voice, "Damn it, you bastard Lu Yibei."
Then, she quickly took action, took out the Alchemy materials prepared in her backpack, and began divination.
Both methods of contacting through social media and visiting his residence failed, and the strange young girl who was suspected of knowing Lu Yibei's whereabouts was also lost.
Now, she could only use this "stupid" method.
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While Jiang Li was busy performing divination to locate Lu Yibei.
On the other side, in an Old House courtyard on Peony Street that had been uninhabited for a long time.
Strands of dark red smoke drifted in the air. The long-neglected pavilion in the courtyard looked as if it had been torn apart by a storm, with "broken limbs and arms" scattered all over the ground.
Above the "mountain of corpses and sea of blood" formed by the remains of the pavilion, a young girl in a white linen dress stood barefoot on the topmost chair, Tingting standing tall and graceful. Her black hair moved without wind, unfurling behind her like flowing clouds. In her slender hand, a three-foot-long green sword gleamed with a piercing cold light.
In front of her, more than a dozen rats as large as buckets, with large amounts of wet and sticky flesh and blood gushing out from their corpses, wriggled creepily, emitting waves of dark red smoke.
The young girl was Nanling Yaohua, and the rats that had been cut in half were the urban legend she encountered when she dodged Jiang Li's tracking and accidentally entered this abandoned Old House.
"Dingling—!"
Nanling Yaohua lightly tapped her toes, and the antique bronze bell on her ankle collided, emitting a clear and pleasant sound like a spring.
As the sound of the bell rang out, the young girl's graceful figure floated down from the remains of the pavilion.
In an instant, the dark red flesh and blood that had been in a stalemate with her seemed to be startled by her action and suddenly surged, rolling up two curtains of flesh and blood several people high and falling down fiercely.
"Hmph!"
Seeing this, Nanling Yaohua let out a cold nasal sound, and an invisible wave of air burst forth from within her body.
The long sword, struck down!
Sword shadows followed one after another.
Nanling Yaohua stepped forward, swinging her long sword at an absurdly unreasonable speed to meet the oncoming dark red flesh and blood, weaving a dazzling arc of green light in mid-air.
The next moment, a shrill sound suddenly erupted.
The dark red flesh and blood were swept into the continuous sword dance and shattered by the overwhelming force.
Thus, the sound of flesh and blood tearing apart suddenly appeared, echoing endlessly.
Nanling Yaohua stood in the rain of foul-smelling blood plasma, not a speck of dust on her, and looked up at the boundary of the reinforced concrete forest vaguely visible outside the courtyard, frowning.
