Free Web NovelThe night was pitch black.
Under the vast sky, in the ruined and dilapidated city, dry bones and steel lay scattered everywhere. In the distance, a large fire was spreading, its flickering flames licking the sky, painting the distant horizon fiery red.
On a towering building reaching into the clouds, a young girl in a cyan dress sat on the edge of the rooftop. Her silver-white hair swayed gently behind her in the wind, which also lifted her skirt, revealing her slender legs tightly wrapped in bandages, dangling over the edge of the rooftop.
She frowned, gazing into the distance at the fire on the city's edge, seemingly deep in thought.
Suddenly, a fierce wind blew past, bringing with it hot air mixed with a burnt smell.
In the wind, large swathes of ash, influenced by the dense and destructive Spiritual Energy fluctuations, were imbued with life, transforming into butterflies that sparkled with fire and trailed long fiery tails as they flapped their wings and flew off.
As a butterfly flew past her, the girl slowly raised her hand, her slender fingertip gently touching it. In an instant, as if an explosion had occurred, the butterfly's wings shattered, and sparks of fire flew.
“......”
Watching the sparks fall from the rooftop of the building as if plunging into an abyss, the girl remained silent for a moment. Just then, behind her, accompanied by a distortion of light and shadow, a girl with long, pale pink hair appeared out of thin air on the empty rooftop.
Sensing Lu Yibei's presence, the girl took a deep breath, put away her sorrow, and forced a carefree smile.
“Little brother, it looks like your body reconstruction process went smoothly...”
The girl said as she turned around, pausing in surprise when she saw the empty rooftop. Her words came to an abrupt halt.
Immediately after, noticing the envelope lying quietly on the ground, she slightly furrowed her brow.
Stepping forward, she picked up the envelope, her face full of doubt as she looked around for a while but couldn't find any trace of Lu Yibei. The girl withdrew her gaze, lowered her head to look at the envelope in her hand, pondered thoughtfully for two seconds, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and silently read its contents.
As she read, her eyes turned red, and her hands holding the letter paper trembled slightly.
For a long time.
She put down the letter paper, wiped the crystalline tears from the corners of her eyes, placed the letter paper against her chest, and slowly squatted down. As if embracing herself, she buried her head in her arms and then muttered a sentence in a voice only she could hear.
“Mom...”
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Lu Yibei hid in the shadows, watching as Chatterbox Girl finished reading the letter left by Ms. Wang Meili. Her tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed. He withdrew his gaze, slowly sat down against the wall, and then let out a long sigh of relief.
“......”
It seems I'll have to wait a while before going out.
In this situation, it's probably better to let her be alone for a while.
Chatterbox Girl has her pride. If I walked out now and saw her crying her eyes out, wouldn't that be social death for her on the spot? Lu Yibei thought.
A moment ago, not long after she completed her body reconstruction, when she sensed her consciousness starting to blur, as if she was about to return to this place again, she frantically found the letter left by Ms. Wang Meili before she completely lost consciousness.
Although Lu Yibei wasn't entirely sure if she could bring the letter in this way, she had to at least try.
In her opinion, if her guess was correct and Chatterbox Girl was truly a being similar to her doppelganger, she would definitely want to see Ms. Wang Meili's final words.
If you don't care about yourself, are you going to wait for others to care? Don't be foolish!
Anyway, there was nothing unspeakable in the content of the letter, right? Lu Yibei thought.
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Hua City, on the street near the Li Gong University Teaching Staff Compound.
The rain had stopped, and the street, washed clean by the heavy rain, shimmered with a faint watery sheen.
The entire street, no, to be precise, the entire city was trembling. Along with the trembling, the earth and sky emitted deafening roars.
Countless streams of light flew rapidly, rising from the ground, carrying the scattered debris of shattered buildings, returning them to their original places, and merging them back together.
The photographs that had fallen from the sky with the wind and rain, like flocks of white doves, danced with the streams of light, merging into the huge cracks corroded by the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast. In an instant, they burst forth with strong light, and then as the light dissipated, the broken buildings were restored to their original state.
As Hua Sang used a secret technique to re-anchor the special space, the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast stopped their erosion, and Lu Yibei completed her body reconstruction, this massive creation gradually stabilized, and its operation began to return to normal.
And while all of this was gradually recovering, the only person unaffected was busy taking action.
“Quick, hurry up, Gu Qianqian, collect those, and those, put them all into the Bamboo Scroll. There's not much time left, we must leave before this place fully recovers.”
“Oh right, pick up those building remnants too!”
The system's Urge continued in her ear. Gu Qianqian, like a donkey driven mad by a carrot, sprinted with all her might through the empty jungle of reinforced concrete.
Whenever she encountered scattered dark red flesh and blood remnants on the street, she would briefly stop, take out the ancient and simple Bamboo Scroll she carried, and collect them into it.
“System, why are we collecting those things?” Gu Qianqian complained discontentedly. “They're sticky and slimy, so disgusting!”
“Isn't this all for you?” The system said in an annoyed tone.
“Eh?”
“Didn't you say that the Bamboo Scroll Illusion was always lifeless? Didn't you complain that the only things you could plant in the Bamboo Scroll Illusion were potatoes and radishes? And didn't you say that you had to find a way to let the residents of the Bamboo Scroll Illusion eat meat?” The system questioned.
“......” Gu Qianqian recalled for a moment and nodded. “I think I did say that, but what does that have to do with these disgusting things?”
“Wait, you're not thinking of letting everyone eat these things, are you? That's not allowed! Didn't you say? Don't pick up strange things to eat. I've already corrected myself, why are you still making mistakes?”
Yes, she had picked them up before.
“What do you know!” The system said. “These are the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast. Although they are just dead flesh, they are the flesh and blood of one of the seven factors of world destruction with the strongest adaptability.”
“As long as these flesh and blood are collected and cultivated using Alchemy, we can create plants and animals that can adapt to the environment of the Bamboo Scroll Illusion and transform the Bamboo Scroll Illusion.”
Although transforming the Bamboo Scroll Illusion using the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast might leave terrible hidden dangers if not careful, couldn't we just be careful?
What's more, we can't consider such long-term matters now.
The Disaster has taken control of this special space, and things have begun to deviate from the known trajectory. Without using some extraordinary means, it will probably be difficult to kill her.
As long as the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast and the fragments of Qinan Bamboo's special space are integrated into the Bamboo Scroll Illusion, the Bamboo Scroll Illusion will undergo earth-shattering changes. At that time, the residents within the Bamboo Scroll Illusion will surely worship Gu Qianqian to several higher levels.
Perhaps it can help her make a breakthrough in a short period and complete her Spirit Mark advancement! The system thought.
“Eh! Really?” Gu Qianqian said in surprise. “To what extent can it be transformed?”
“To what extent? It's easy to have **pigs as fat as elephants and corn yielding eighteen thousand catties per mu!**” The system said with full confidence.
“Then... can it create pigs with ten trotters?” Gu Qianqian pursued.
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Why are you always thinking about those broken pig trotters! The system muttered to itself, “Of course!”
“Then can pigs grow chicken wings?”
“Yes, they can.”
“Steak?”
“Then why not raise cows?”
“Oh oh, then can pigs grow crawfish?” Gu Qianqian asked weakly.
Although there were many stalls selling crawfish around when she set up a stall at the night market, and she also wanted to try them, the price of a portion of crawfish was still a bit expensive for her, and she ultimately couldn't bear to spend the money.
System, “......”
Gu Qianqian, I beg you, spare the pigs! Are you creating a delicious fusion monster?
Although it was complaining in its heart, in order for Gu Qianqian to work hard, it still answered perfunctorily, “Yes! They can. As long as you can think of the meat, it can grow on pigs!”
“Yay!”
Gu Qianqian cheered, as if she had suddenly been injected with a stimulant. Her speed increased sharply, and her figure instantly turned into a whirlwind, sweeping across the street, leaving not a single scrap of meat in her wake.
As a ruthless person who once contracted all the empty beverage bottles in Hua City's University City, causing countless elderly men and women to curse, picking up trash was something she had always been good at.
Speaking of which...
Becoming a Psychic capable of resisting factors of world destruction by picking up trash.
Gu Qianqian is probably the first person in history, and even across countless times and spaces, right? The system thought.
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Hua City, Banshan Elementary School.
On the dilapidated teaching building, the building protrusions that had “grown” out of thin air were collapsing, crashing to the ground with loud bangs.
Under the old banyan tree with dense branches and leaves, Hua Sang, whose clothes were soaked with cold sweat, lay on the moss-covered open space, her face pale, her eyes tightly closed.
She had thought that re-anchoring that special space would be an easy task.
After all, according to Zhang Huainan, this was how he described the process of anchoring that special space.
He told Hua Sang, “Recalling that day, I got up in the morning, practiced a set of punches, finished my breakfast, spent an hour going to Hua City, and perfectly solved the matter. On the way back, I also visited an old friend and conveniently dealt with a few petty criminals.”
The entire process sounded as easy and leisurely as an old man going out for morning exercise in the early morning and picking up some groceries on the way home.
However, it wasn't until her Spiritual Energy was drained to the point of almost causing her Spirit Mark to collapse that she realized she had been greatly deceived by the Sect Leader.
Most importantly, the moment she completed the special space anchoring, she sensed that the long-dormant red string of fate had become abnormal.
It felt as if an invisible hand had gently plucked the red string, causing it to tremble.
This was something she had been avoiding all along.
Not long after, a sound of footsteps came.
Hua Sang lifted her eyelids and saw that the person who had come was Li Xuan. She closed her eyes again.
She was too tired to deal with this cheap Senior Brother.
Seeing this, Li Xuan slightly furrowed his brow, squatted down, and said softly, “Junior Sister, the Sect Leader is on the phone.”
Hua Sang lifted her eyelids again and said weakly, “Tell him I'm out of the service area.”
Li Xuan, “......”
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Lu Yibei waited {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} for a while, until Chatterbox Girl's emotions seemed to have stabilized, before walking out from where she was hiding.
Chatterbox Girl followed the direction of the footsteps and saw Lu Yibei's figure. She crossed her arms over her chest and rolled her eyes. “I say, little brother, when did you get here? You didn't even say anything?”
“Not long ago, not long ago.” Lu Yibei waved her hands with an unperturbed expression. “I just arrived.”
Chatterbox Girl narrowed her eyes slightly and tilted her head. “Really?” ƒreewebɳovel.com
“Really!” Lu Yibei nodded and said seriously, “I completely didn't see you feeling melancholic, weak and helpless, holding the envelope and crying ‘Mom’. I really don't know anything.”
“......”
Watching Lu Yibei say these extremely annoying words with a poker face, Chatterbox Girl's mouth twitched. She took several deep breaths before finally suppressing the urge to kill and silence her.
It was only because the person who saw that scene was Lu Yibei that she could barely accept it by changing her perspective slightly.
If it were anyone else, whoever caused her social death, she would definitely cause their physical death.
“Alright, let's talk about something serious!” Chatterbox Girl said. “Do you think that by absorbing Ms. Wang Meili's remaining Power, gaining control of the special space, and completing the reconstruction of your shattered body, everything is fine?”
“What do you mean?” Lu Yibei said in surprise. “Even at this point, do I still have things to do?”
“It's good that you have this awareness!” Chatterbox Girl's face showed an unsettling smile. “This matter is like the Royal Authority has just been transitioned. There are rebellious vassals in the east, peasant uprisings in the west, and foreign invasions in the north. To have a peaceful and prosperous country, comrades still need to work hard!”
Lu Yibei glanced at Chatterbox Girl sideways and retorted, “You're talking about comrades and Royal Authority, does that really not conflict?”
“Also, you'd better speak in plain language, otherwise I'll write a story, draw a comic, make a hand-drawn animation, and post it online about you feeling melancholic, weak and helpless, holding the envelope and crying ‘Mom’!”
“Honestly, I've wanted to be a UP master on Bilibili for a long time. I've already bought the equipment from Du Sixian!”
“This... Young people shouldn't be so impulsive!” Chatterbox Girl said with a fawning smile. “Think about it, although this special space is stable now, don't we need to replenish the Power that the Eclipse Society plundered through the Invasion Beast to construct the special space?”
“After the special space resumes operation, there will definitely be a large number of missing people, and there will definitely be turmoil within the special space. Do you need to go and settle this?”
“Finally, after causing such a big commotion, the Night Watch and other miscellaneous forces will definitely send people. Don't you have to find a way to muddle through?”
“......” Lu Yibei was silent for a few seconds, then tilted her head and said, “Then tell me, how do we solve these problems?”
“Replenishing the missing Power is simple, just use the Hua City's ley line energy to temporarily replenish it. Calming the unrest within the special space is also simple. As for finding someone to take the blame, aren't you the best at that? As for how to muddle through, you'll have to use your ability to speak human language to humans and ghost language to ghosts.”
After listening, Lu Yibei sensed that something was wrong and couldn't help but frown.
After putting in so much effort, almost losing her life, she originally thought the outcome would be quite fruitful, but instead, she even involved the ley line energy...
What is this? Selfless dedication? It's too frustrating!
