Free Web NovelOn the edge of the dilapidated and collapsing rooftop, the hot wind blew through the girl's long silver hair, making it sway. Under the gently swaying long skirt, her slender calves were exposed, dazzlingly fair, but the burn marks on them were even more attention-grabbing.
Those burn marks made her look as if she had just escaped from a fire.
Lu Yibei stared at Chatterbox Girl, whose body was sparsely covered in burn marks, and after a few seconds of contemplation, asked expressionlessly, "Why do you need to rest for a while again?"
"Please, don't always have that look of a capitalist spreading blessings!" Chatterbox Girl patted her shoulder, saying irritably, "Dear, do you think these burns of mine don't need recovery?"
"We Chatterbox Girl have always sold our skills, not our lives. If it's a reasonable service, I will naturally serve you wholeheartedly, but you can't expect me to risk my old life, can you?"
"..."
Don't rely on me too much, Lu Yibei!
Some time ago, you handled things very well by yourself in Tang City, didn't you?
If you make all decisions according to my ideas, what is the meaning of all this?
Thinking this, Chatterbox Girl's head drooped slightly, almost imperceptibly, and her eyes dimmed.
"..."
After a few seconds of contemplation, Lu Yibei pouted and nodded, "Alright! Also, I have another question, about shaping the face... See, is there still room for discussion?"
Even if she couldn't regain her former glory, she still really wanted to shape the face. Just think, how many children her age don't like shaping faces?
Chatterbox Girl frowned, put her hands on her hips, leaned forward, and said sternly, "Let me tell you, don't even think about it! Quick fight, quick resolution! Do you know what quick fight, quick resolution means?"
"Oh," Lu Yibei replied lifelessly.
If you can't spend time meticulously carving and creating the most perfect model, then even a high-degree-of-freedom face-shaping system will be meaningless.
"I've said what needs to be said," Chatterbox Girl said, "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Lu Yibei nodded.
"Then let's go!"
Saying this, Chatterbox Girl suddenly reached out and pushed Lu Yibei's back, as if intending murder.
Caught off guard, Lu Yibei fell from the rooftop.
And then...
Time seemed to stop for an instant.
The next moment, she was swallowed by light.
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After a brief period of unconsciousness, a series of slight squeezing sensations awakened Lu Yibei from her slumber. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
It felt like being submerged in water; a clear and pure liquid enveloped her body, the temperature just right, making her feel completely comfortable.
Following that, an invisible force came, pulling her body upwards, like being lifted by the buoyancy of water, light and airy, drifting with the flow.
Soon, as if finally surfacing from the water, she gradually gained perception of her surroundings.
She felt a strong heartbeat and the familiar Spiritual Energy filling her limbs and the vast ocean.
She felt a breeze blowing, carrying a hint of dryness and heat, like a pair of slightly warm small hands gently ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) stroking her face, bringing a faint scent of blood mixed with a pungent smell of something burnt.
But she couldn't see anything, as if a thin film covered her eyes, and there was a dim light before her, a hazy expanse.
After a few seconds of stunned daze, Lu Yibei came back to her senses, realizing that she had entered the body that Chatterbox Girl had helped her reshape. She then, as instructed by Chatterbox Girl, began to outline her appearance when she became a Strange Tale in her mind.
Around thirteen or fourteen years old, petite but not frail, with a bit of baby fat, a small and delicate melon-seed face...
"Heavenly King Covers Earth Tiger, One Hundred Flowers One Point Five Meters!" As soon as Lu Yibei outlined the contours of her appearance, this sentence flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but recall White Little Flower's illustration.
And then...
She had only thought about something irrelevant for a moment, but her thoughts immediately scattered like a wild dog off its leash, becoming chaotic in an instant.
For a while, it felt as if two little people with differing opinions were pulling hair and tearing collars, arguing and fighting, neither giving way.
The little white person said: No, no, now is not the time to think about White Little Flower!
The little black person said: Then Miao Miao Jiang is also good...
The little white person said: Be careful, Miao Miao Jiang will kill you!
A little yellow person who popped out from nowhere said: What about the muscle golden wheel? Didn't you want to regain your former glory? Just shape your body according to that, guaranteed to be mighty and strong!
The little red person said: If it's mighty and strong... have you considered the style of "Baki"?
Lu Yibei, "???"
What the heck? Where did you ♦ come from? Why are you also causing trouble?
As various people, urban legend, characters from movies and anime, game illustrations, and even scenes of petting cats, teasing dogs, and raising lions flashed through her mind, Lu Yibei suddenly realized that the process of reshaping her body was much more difficult and dangerous than she had imagined.
This situation couldn't help but remind her of a story her Old Dad had told her.
The story goes that an immortal created a well full of gold in a certain village, but to obtain the gold, when fishing, they must absolutely not think of the crooked old tree at the entrance of the village.
After the immortal left, the villagers went to fish with joy, but they always involuntarily thought of the crooked old tree at the entrance of the village.
Finally, the villagers brought in excavators, dug up the well, and opened a gold mine, and everyone lived a happy life.
But...
Whether the villagers were happy was not the key. The key was that, just as the immortal told them not to think of the old tree at the entrance of the village, some things cannot be said. Once they are said, people cannot help but think about them, and once they think, it becomes uncontrollable.
Wait, can you think about gold?
Lu Yibei, "..."
Damn it! According to Chatterbox Girl, once you get distracted, there might be irreversible consequences.
But how can this matter be without any distractions?!
I've really given up on shaping the face, but I just can't help but think about it! Lu Yibei thought with grief and indignation.
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On the other side.
After undergoing the dual baptism of the Invasion Beast's flesh and blood and the Black Sun Fire Seed, in a dilapidated and collapsing city.
Nanling Yaohua followed the direction where the bizarre meatball had fallen, running wildly, crossing streets, jumping up, and flying into a building. She then passed through empty offices and stopped in front of a floor-to-ceiling window whose glass was completely shattered.
She looked down from above, far at the meatball that had created a deep pit in the asphalt road, the corner of her mouth twitching uncontrollably.
At this moment, the meatball was violently wriggling, constantly differentiating into various organs and changing into various shapes.
First, it grew a girl's face with a full anime style, followed by a thin and limping girl's body.
The existence of that body did not last long, and it quickly became strong after a violent wriggling of flesh and blood, the muscle lines becoming increasingly clear and beautiful.
"Gurgle - Gurgle - Gurgle -!"
Accompanied by a series of light sounds, a pair of orange ears sprouted from its head, and a Shiba Inu tail grew behind it, followed by the black horns of an unknown creature, colorful flowers and mushrooms, a chitinous shell, panda fur... In short, everything was growing out, making it unbearable to look at.
Then, that already quite bizarre body suddenly became lustrous.
At first, it was just like a bodybuilder who had oiled their body, the skin becoming shiny. Soon the luster became more and more obvious, showing a metallic texture, and after a few seconds, it completely transformed into an abstract golden statue.
Indeed, Lu Yibei obediently didn't shape the face, but she seemed to have accidentally embarked on another path, a path that challenged the graphics processor.
Later, the meatball was still constantly changing, but Nanling Yaohua had already quietly raised her slender jade hands to cover her eyes and turned away.
That thing was simply too bizarre, completely developing in the direction of a mental contaminant, and she couldn't bear to watch it at all.
If it weren't for the fact that the meatball had just saved this city she deeply loved, she would have probably rushed down with her sword and used the sharpest sword moves to eliminate the harm for the people.
But...
Just letting that thing continue to develop is not a solution!
It might cause other Disasters...
Thinking this, Nanling Yaohua glanced out of the corner of her eye in the direction where the distant meatball was, but quickly withdrew her gaze in just one second, raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, as if there was sand in them.
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Just then, the Spiritual Energy floating in the air suddenly vibrated.
A dull rumbling sound came from the sky, gradually spreading to the entire city, as if this small piece of heaven and earth was slightly trembling and humming.
The moisture suddenly became dense, the air hot and humid, sticky, as if a heavy rain was imminent.
Noticing this subtle change, Nanling Yaohua's willow-like eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she looked up at the sky.
Above the gloomy sky, dark clouds gathered, and lightning flashed, creating ripples of light blue halos, oscillating with wave-like disturbances, as if an ocean was floating in the sky, enveloping the entire city. One could even vaguely see schools of fish swimming by.
"..."
That seemed to be some kind of sealing, a very clever sealing, and also like some kind of anchoring used to stabilize this special space...
But who cast it? Nanling Yaohua noticed some clues and thought in confusion.
"Splash—Splash—!"
The rain suddenly started.
The curtain of rain instantly engulfed the entire city. Under the shroud of dense raindrops, aside from the gentle sound of rain breaking, the entire city fell silent.
The rain seemed to extinguish all the unrest from a short while ago.
Even Nanling Yaohua felt that the special space, which had become extremely unstable due to the dark red flesh and the black fire falling from the sky, gradually stabilized under the nourishment of the rain.
In the rain, everything became misty, and in this hazy rain, something else drifted down from the sky, white and numerous, piece by piece, like snowflakes.
Looking out, in the ravaged city, with rain drifting, fog enveloping, and snow falling, there was a strange sense of sorrow.
Nanling Yaohua took a few steps forward, walked to the window, reached out her hand to catch a'snowflake', brought it to her front to look, and immediately froze in place.
In her palm was a small instant photo, printed with two children, a boy and a girl, sitting on a stone pier in front of an old-fashioned large iron gate. Above them, a large tree was lush with branches and leaves, and bright sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, scattering on the ground.
The boy had several large bumps on his head, panda eyes, and a smile on his bruised lips, while the girl was crying, using a handkerchief to wipe the bleeding abrasion on his arm.
Nanling Yaohua remembered this scene. It was from her memory, the time when she was bullied as a child, and Lu Yibei stood up for her and got into a fight.
But...
Back then, no one was taking pictures of us!
Where did this photo come from? Nanling Yaohua wondered.
The next moment, a dazzling light erupted from the photo, engulfing her figure.
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On the other side.
Covered in a thin mist, on the empty street, several cars were involved in a chain collision, twisted and deformed. On the asphalt road, covered in terrifying cracks, a girl in simple silver armor lay unconscious.
Cold raindrops continuously hit her cheeks. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.
Looking at the rain scattered on the muddy ground, in a trance, Jiang Li felt as if she had returned to the day many years ago when two Eclipse Society members broke into her home and abducted her.
"......"
To think I actually fainted, how ridiculous...
Was it because of that black fire?
The black fire from the hands of the Eclipse Society's high-ranking, most core members. Jiang Li thought.
When the huge dark void appeared in the sky, the tattoo on her back seemed to be suddenly activated, vibrating intensely, causing countless terrifying illusions to appear in her mind, as if to crush her sanity, making her faint instantly.
Even now, she could still feel the bursts of burning pain from the tattoo on her back and the terrifying images lingering in her mind.
Only when she completely broke free from that state and fully grasped her own attention did she realize that what was drifting down from the sky mixed with the rain was not'snowflakes', but photos.
She steadied herself, picked up a photo that had drifted down in front of her, looked at it, and frowned.
The first photo showed her sleeping on her office desk in the early morning, with Lu Yibei standing beside her, sneakily holding her enamel mug.
Jiang Li, "......" Who took the picture?
As she was thinking, the image on the photo suddenly moved.
She saw Lu Yibei tiptoeing, pouring out the overnight tea in the enamel mug, putting in new tea leaves, brewing hot water, then taking the Coat from the hanger and gently placing it on her shoulder.
Jiang Li, "......"
That's strange, when did this guy do these things?
Why do I have absolutely no impression of it? Jiang Li wondered.
Normally, with her alertness, even if she fell asleep in the Night Watch office, as long as someone approached, she would wake up immediately. For someone like Lu Yibei to do a bunch of things without her noticing even a little bit, it should be impossible.
Just as Jiang Li was feeling puzzled, she caught sight of the continuously changing image on the photo, and a blush suddenly spread across her cheeks.
She saw that after Lu Yibei draped the Coat over her, he actually leaned down, his face getting closer to hers bit by bit. Just as his lips were about to touch hers, he suddenly stopped, covered his face, and jogged out of the office.
"......" After watching Lu Yibei's social death replay, Jiang Li was silent for a few seconds, then softly spat, "Tch, coward!"
As her voice fell, a dazzling light emitted from the photo, engulfing her figure.
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Teaching Staff Compound, Lu Yibei's home.
Gu Qianqian hugged the ugly, pitch-black Strange Fish, rubbing against it.
"Heh hey, system, you're finally back. I've been looking for you so hard!"
"Hmph! Looking for me hard?" the system said sarcastically, "You've been freeloading at Disaster's place... Oh, and you even successfully conned some roasted pig trotters! I don't see you suffering at all."
"I... Isn't this just being insincere?" Gu Qianqian said weakly.
"That's called 'xu yu wei she'!" the system corrected. "Alright, just this once, but you can't do this anymore in the future. You know she'll lead you astray, right?"
"Oh right, system, why didn't you look for me?" Gu Qianqian suddenly asked. "You didn't think I was dead, did you?"
The system, "......"
"No, no! I was looking for you too! We must have missed each other, right? Well, this city is so big, and Spiritual Energy fluctuations are restricted, so it's normal not to find someone for a while!"
Absolutely cannot let Gu Qianqian know that I've already carved her name onto a memorial stone tablet, otherwise I'll be socially dead! the system thought.
"That's true!" Gu Qianqian nodded. While talking, she suddenly caught sight of the'snowflakes' drifting down outside the window, her eyes immediately lit up, and she rushed to the window. "Wow, it's snow!"
"System, look, it's snowing on a hot day!"
The system drifted swayingly by the window, extended a slender fin, grabbed a photo, took a look, and its fierce, dead fish eyes suddenly widened.
The photo recorded the scene where Gu Xinian's family, when escaping the special space, accidentally caused Gu Qianqian's parents' deaths...
"System, system, what's in your photo? Mine shows Disaster at the Ghost Market, swiping things from my stall. Why is she like that? So annoying!" Gu Qianqian said through clenched teeth.
Hearing Gu Qianqian's voice ring in its ear, the system didn't even think and opened its big mouth, putting the photo from its fin into its mouth.
If the truth is too cruel, it's better she never knows... the system thought, composing itself, and looked at Gu Qianqian, saying, "Didn't expect this photo to taste pretty good... Oh right, what were you saying just now?"
Hearing the system say the photo tasted good, Gu Qianqian immediately forgot what she had just asked, reached out, grabbed a few photos, and stuffed them into her mouth.
Then, the photos seemed to explode, emitting intense light in her mouth.
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In the heavy rain.
Lu Yibei dragged her body, which was already indescribable and constantly changing, wriggling forward, staring at the sky with over two hundred big, bright eyes, and opening over forty mouths, feeling that both life and monster-life had a bleak future.
I was wrong, I was really wrong. I shouldn't have thought about White Little Flower in the first place. If I didn't think about White Little Flower, I wouldn't have thought of Miao Miao Jiang who cosplayed as White Little Flower. If I didn't think of Miao Miao Jiang, I wouldn't have thought of cosplay streamers. If I didn't think of streamers, I wouldn't have thought of Muscle Golden Wheel. If I didn't think of Muscle Golden Wheel, I wouldn't have thought of a bunch of inexplicable strange things, and I wouldn't have become like this now.
This monstrous appearance is even more bizarre than a mutated urban legend. Even if I recover my memory and return to Hua City, I won't be able to live!
If there were even one or two eyewitnesses who reported my current appearance to the Night Watch higher-ups, my threat level would probably rise several grades based on looks alone, after all, I could scare people to death without doing anything.
"Splash—!"
Just as Lu Yibei was rambling psychologically like a resentful woman, incidentally causing her body to continue developing in an indescribable direction, a photo drifted down in front of her.
She extended an arm from the 30.23° angle on her left side, picked up the photo, took a look, and all two hundred-plus eyes simultaneously teared up.
On that slightly yellowed photo was printed Ms. Wang Meili when she was young, one hand resting on her slightly bulging belly, the other arm linked with the equally young Lu Ming, smiling very sweetly...
