Free Web NovelChapter 62: The Evil Man, Lu Yibei
"What the heck? Didn't you say you were going to fix my body? Why do I have to go into that monstrous thing's dream?" Lu Yibei asked in surprise after hearing Chatterbox Girl explain the process of repairing her body.
She wasn't interested in what the monster would dream about at all, and was even very resistant to the idea.
"To be precise, it should be its mental world," Chatterbox Girl explained. "If you want to use the Invasion Beast's flesh and blood to help you repair your body, you have to let it replicate you. Then, at the moment it finishes replicating and begins to restructure your body, you forcefully sever the connection with the part of its flesh and blood it used to replicate you."
"During the replication process, it's unavoidable that your consciousness will link with it and enter its mental world."
"I'm being kind by suggesting this plan, okay? The two of us, one is responsible for collecting the Invasion Beast's flesh and blood scattered in the special space to repair your body, and the other enters its mental world to resist mental erosion. It's like a two-on-one, a sure win!"
"That makes a lot of sense, but..." Lu Yibei pondered for two seconds, then looked expressionlessly into Chatterbox Girl's eyes. "Why don't I go collect the flesh and blood to repair my body, and you resist the mental erosion?"
Chatterbox Girl crossed her arms over her chest, squinting at Lu Yibei and saying, "Are you suspecting that I want to harm you?"
"Mhm mhm!" Lu Yibei nodded without hesitation.
Chatterbox Girl massaged her forehead, saying exasperatedly, "Can you please not always use your dirty little brain to speculate about the honest me?"
"Letting you resist the mental erosion isn't because you just inherited Ms. Wang Meili's Power and now have the capital to resist?"
I don't have the 'Royal Authority' derived from the human emperor's Power, Chatterbox Girl thought to herself.
Based on her experience with the Invasion Beast, which had been suppressed and enslaved by the Eclipse Society for a long time and used for various insane experiments, its mental world was quite chaotic and distorted. If you entered its mental world without special mental abilities, your mind would definitely be severely polluted.
If she were to enter the Invasion Beast's mental world, even if she could resist the mental pollution, she might not be able to leave its mental world quickly. At that time, she would inevitably miss the best opportunity to sever the connection with the Invasion Beast.
"..." Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then frowned and said, "Since you've said so, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and do it, right?"
"Tell me, when do we start?"
"Now!" Chatterbox Girl smiled.
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly reached out and pushed Lu Yibei, and Lu Yibei's vision instantly became hazy.
"Remember, don't believe anything you see in there..." Chatterbox Girl's voice sounded in her ear, gentle and low.
As if hallucinating, Lu Yibei felt her body tilting backward and falling.
She passed through what seemed like endless darkness and fell into the Invasion Beast's mental world.
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Slowly, Lu Yibei opened her eyes in the darkness, and a brilliant, pale golden light flashed in the depths of her pupils.
When she saw the scene before her, her eyebrows furrowed, and she looked around the scene with a strange expression.
"..."
In the sky, there were clouds of pale pink, pale purple, pale green, and other colors, hanging very low. The clouds gathered into shapes like kittens, puppies, and ducklings, looking like clumps of soft cotton candy.
A sweet scent, like a mix of fresh fruit and floral fragrance, wafted in the air.
Looking around, there was a wide street before her, with winding and undulating roads painted in seven colors, like a rainbow that had fallen to the ground. Cute pumpkin cars and corn cars hurried along the street.
The trees on both sides of the street had tender green leaves and were covered with various cakes and candies. The buildings were painted with brightly colored graffiti, giant colorful mushrooms, smiling sunflowers, round little bees... full of childlike fun.
The pedestrians on the street wore cute and gorgeous clothes, and each "person" had animal heads that looked like characters from a cartoon, fluffy and adorable.
Even the unreasonable limbs growing on them, after being cartoonized, no longer looked strange, but rather had a funny cuteness about them.
It was as if...
...the entire world looked like a fairy tale town arranged by a child.
Is this really the Invasion Beast's consciousness world?
How strange!
It feels like traditional Chinese medicine that tastes like a strawberry milkshake, or a muscular man wearing a pink princess fluffy dress.
It's not impossible for it to appear, but it always feels a bit awkward.
Could it be that beneath the Invasion Beast's ferocious and twisted appearance, it's actually the type with pink hair and hits really hard? Lu Yibei thought.
Just then, as if hallucinating, something suddenly flashed in her mind, similar to the feeling when Coat transmitted information to her through the Dependent Mark (family mark), but not exactly the same.
It was like a silent call coming from somewhere, stirring her heartstrings, gently pulling at her consciousness, wanting to bring her to its side and seek her help.
Lu Yibei frowned slightly, intending to ignore this sudden call that had intruded into her mind.
Just like helping an elderly Grandma who has fallen on the street might lead to being framed, some favors cannot be casually given.
At least she had to check if there were any cameras around, right? ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
And this ghostly place obviously has no cameras... Lu Yibei thought.
Chatterbox Girl had reminded her not to believe anything she saw here, and now that her memory was fully restored, she knew exactly how many family members she had.
Only Du Sixian, Mengmeng, and Coat could transmit information to her mind through normal, non-dangerous channels. Anything else could be treated as having ulterior motives!
So, after a brief moment of contemplation, Lu Yibei frowned and released the newly acquired ability—【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】!—towards the unknown target that was calling out to her.
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The next moment, a pale golden ripple appeared in the air around her.
The ripple spread outwards in layers like waves on the water, extending two or three meters before disappearing into nothingness.
As the pale golden ripple stabilized and gradually disappeared, a strong sense of confidence quietly rose in Lu Yibei's heart, making her want to shout, "I can fight ten!"
At the same time, her petite figure, no more than one meter fifty, also seemed to become imposing in an instant, giving off an invisible, strong sense of oppression.
It was like the legendary person who is one meter fifty tall but has an aura of five meters one.
As a special ability carried by the lower-level Authority after the human emperor's Power was diluted, 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 is actually just an auxiliary ability.
Anyway, that's what Chatterbox Girl said.
And the ability it grants to the owner is actually only to deter enemies weaker than themselves or of similar strength, making them timid, and to form an invisible Psychic field within a certain range around the owner, repelling external Spiritual Energy fluctuations and suppressing the enemy's Spiritual Energy fluctuations to a certain extent.
Simply put, it's an aura skill that weakens the enemy's attributes in all aspects, with an intimidation effect.
Lu Yibei initially thought that the source of the call in her mind, being intimidated by 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】, would retreat in the face of difficulty.
However...
When she released 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 and attempted the first impact on the source of the call in her mind, it was silent for a few seconds, and then it became even stronger.
For a moment, it was as if she was hallucinating, hearing a soft murmur in her ear, "Come here, come this way, help me."
Lu Yibei, "..." What the heck? What's going on? Are you some kind of masochist?
Listening to the constant soft murmuring in her ear, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a very subtle feeling in her heart.
It was like finding an elderly Grandma lying on the side of the road, crying out in pain. She asked symbolically, and then she was framed.
Then she found that there were no cameras on the side of the road and sternly threatened the elderly Grandma, "No cameras, and you still dare to extort me? Be careful or I'll beat you!"
As a result, the elderly Grandma, not only wasn't afraid, but instead said with an expectant look, "Okay, okay, please hit harder when you do!"
...
The experience was utterly frustrating.
"I ♦ really don't believe it today!" Lu Yibei muttered to herself in a low voice, and after the initial attempt with her new ability, she increased her Spiritual Energy output, maximizing the effect of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 to the extent she could currently control.
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On the other side, Eclipse Society Outpost No. 4, the bottom of the Great Furnace.
Berses stood in front of the window of the main control room, looking at the large number of Alchemy devices operating in three-stage overfrequency mode below, his brows furrowed and his mood heavy.
Those Alchemy devices were clearly operating at overload, but for some reason, the efficiency of intercepting Authority had not significantly improved.
"..."
Where did something go wrong?
Could it be that when Qinan Bamboo constructed the special space, the Psychic and urban legend that served as the foundation were not as numerous as I imagined, so after intercepting a certain amount of Authority, the efficiency began to decline? Berses thought.
Before he could figure out the key to the problem, a series of roars suddenly erupted, interrupting his thoughts.
Berses looked in the direction of the sound and saw that in the laboratory below, more than ten Alchemy devices had exploded, broken Alchemy circuits were emitting sparks, and thick smoke was billowing from the damaged equipment.
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Seeing this, Berses quickly asked his subordinates, "What's going on?! Why are the devices exploding?"
"Reporting to Adult Berses, the Invasion Beast has been subjected to a mental impact from an unknown source, and its consciousness is fluctuating violently."
Berses frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Analyze the information carried by that mental impact!"
Mental impact, this extremely special Spiritual Energy attack method, is like saying harsh words. Either the language is fierce, intimidating the enemy, or the words are sharp, disrupting the enemy's mind. But since it is "saying harsh words", it will inevitably carry different thoughts and information at the moment of release, depending on the releaser.
Although it is very difficult to analyze the releaser's thoughts and information through a mental impact, the Eclipse Society possesses this technology.
"Understood."
So, after waiting for about three minutes, Berses's ear heard the voice of his subordinate again.
"Rep- reporting to Adult Berses, the analysis was successful, but the result..."
Listening to his subordinate's hesitant tone, Berses said impatiently, "What? Is the analysis result incomprehensible? Then forget it, reduce the equipment operating power and adjust to defense mode."
In his opinion, the urban legend or Psychic who could cause a mental impact on the Invasion Beast must be exceptionally powerful. It was within the understandable range that his subordinates could not analyze the other party's information based on the mental impact.
But...
"No, Adult, the result is out. The information carried by that mental impact is... is 【Today, I, your father, am going to be a great villain who beats up elderly Grandmas!】"
Berses, "..." Where did this ruffian come from?
While he was muttering to himself, a sharp roar echoed in the laboratory.
The suppressed Invasion Beast woke up and opened its eyes. Its body, which was full of Alchemy steel needles, struggled violently, and foul-smelling blood plasma mixed with dark red flesh fragments splattered everywhere...
