Free Web NovelHuacheng Folk Culture Research Administration, inside the "V" office.
Lu Yibei met Jiang Li's gaze across the table, immersed in the sweet atmosphere, but came back to her senses after only a few seconds, "Wait, did you just say there's a new task for me?"
Sending me a task so quickly, do you think I'm a beast of burden? You didn't even give me any grass!
Hearing Lu Yibei's question, the faint hint of fondness in Jiang Li's eyes instantly receded. She nodded slightly and said, "Hmm, not bad! It seems your hearing has reached the average human level."
"No..." Lu Yibei scratched her hair and said resentfully, "Leader, you know what I've been doing these past few days!"
Where is that heartwarming Miao Miao Jiang? Where did she go? Give her back to me, you bastard!
While muttering inwardly, Lu Yibei winked and made faces at Jiang Li, but...
【Lu Yibei initiated an eye contact invitation with Jiang Li】
【Jiang Li rejected Lu Yibei's invitation and blocked her message】
Jiang Li gave Lu Yibei a look, her face stern, taking on a business-like attitude, "Yes, I know. Are you referring to taking that Miss home last night, and almost holding her hand when emotions were running high, right?"
Lu Yibei, "..." Was there such a thing? No, that's not right, she was following me! So she wasn't letting me go freely, but secretly observing and planning to settle accounts later?
Seeing Lu Yibei remain silent, Jiang Li said expressionlessly, "If not, then it must have been acting bravely for a just cause, getting injured by a thug, and being hospitalized for a week."
As she spoke, she leaned over and took out a hospital medical record and a police statement from the office desk drawer, placed them on the table, and pushed them towards Lu Yibei.
"Here! If you have time, remember to take these to school and give them to the Counselor. Huacheng Institute of Technology is quite strict with management. If you miss classes for 10 days without reason, you might have to retake certain subjects."
Lu Yibei's eye twitched, "..." Why is it 'acting bravely for a just cause' again? Can't we find a fresher excuse? Some people at school still call me Lu Eighteen!
Looking at Lu Yibei, who was staring at the medical record and statement, secretly complaining, Jiang Li gently raised an eyebrow and said, "If there are no other questions, shall I brief you on the task?"
After speaking, without giving Lu Yibei a chance to refuse, she quickly leaned over and took out a thick stack of documents from the drawer on the other side of the desk, placed them on the table, and pushed them towards Lu Yibei.
"These are the relevant documents and materials for the black night disease epidemic in Hua City this time, as well as the documents for the Qinan Bamboo special spatial anomaly event. The task of writing the investigation report is assigned to you. After you finish writing it, send it to my intranet email before 2 PM tomorrow."
【Be good, I'm doing this for your own good! 【Heart gesture emoji】】
Seeing the message conveyed by Jiang Li's eyes, Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood.
So, she wasn't trying to persecute me after all, but was worried that if someone else wrote this investigation report, too much information would be leaked, causing me to be targeted?
In that case, with this investigation report assigned to me, can't I just make it up as I please?
As if sensing Lu Yibei's little thoughts, Jiang Li reminded her, "You'd better write this investigation report seriously. Make sure there are absolutely no fictional elements."
"The person in charge of auditing the Night Watch database is a Calamity-level Psychic with a special Spirit Mark. In just a short time, they can detect whether the content of the uploaded electronic document is true and reliable."
Lu Yibei, "..." What kind of Psychic is that? With such a Psychic existing, what's the difference between having me write the investigation report and having me write 'My Sinful Life'?
"However..." Jiang Li paused and added, "That Psychic is only responsible for verifying the truthfulness of the content, not the completeness of the content."
In fact, the abilities of urban legend are bizarre and varied, and their actions often lack any logic. Even if a urban legend incident has been dealt with by the Night Watch agents and the danger eliminated, there may still be unresolved mysteries that cannot be temporarily deciphered. This is unavoidable.
"Only responsible for truthfulness, not completeness..." Lu Yibei savored Jiang Li's words, her eyes lit up, "Oh! Now I understand, I completely understand!"
Even if it's the truth, with missing content, rearranging and combining it can yield completely different results.
With such a mechanism in place, I just need to ensure that every sentence in the investigation report is true and reliable. As for some things that need to be hidden...
The agents of the Hua City Night Watch are either fools, playboys, or salary thieves just getting by. Even with the existence of someone as diligent as Li Xuan, it's just a drop in the bucket.
It's perfectly reasonable for one person to overlook certain details during the investigation, right? Lu Yibei thought sneakily.
At the same time, she felt deep self-reproach for finally leading Jiang Li astray and onto the path of a traitor.
"Creak—!"
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking, the office door opened.
Speak of the devil, Li Xuan walked in with an indignant expression. Seeing Lu Yibei in the office, he was startled and said in surprise, "Why are you here? Have you been here all along?"
As he spoke, his face showed a strange expression, like someone who mustered the courage to take a bite of fermented herring, only to suddenly find it delicious.
"Yes!" Lu Yibei said with a blank look, "Is there something you need me for?"
Li Xuan looked at Lu Yibei suspiciously for a while and probed, "So, you're saying my car tire wasn't punctured by you?"
"Are you crazy?" Lu Yibei rolled her eyes and threatened, "If you slander me like that, watch out, I'll puncture your tire!" freewebnσvel.cѳm
Li Xuan's mouth twitched, and he muttered, "If it wasn't you, then it must have been that bastard Bai Kai."
Hearing this, Lu Yibei frowned and asked doubtfully, "Why would he puncture your tire for no reason? Did you go to his club for free and not pay?"
"How would I know!" Li Xuan roared angrily, "Alright, I'm not wasting any more time with you guys, I'm leaving."
After saying that, he left the office in a rush, just as he had arrived.
Judging by his demeanor, he was likely rushing off to fix the punctured tire.
I know... Watching Li Xuan's receding back, Jiang Li narrowed her eyes slightly, muttered something to herself in her heart, and then her gaze swept over Lu Yibei.
If I didn't find something for Li Xuan to do, how would the task of writing the investigation report have smoothly landed in your hands?
"..." Lu Yibei read some clues from Jiang Li's eyes and was momentarily speechless.
A moment later.
After hearing Jiang Li's simple instructions regarding the investigation report, Lu Yibei left her office and returned to her temporary office.
She pulled open the creaking chair and sat down, opened her laptop, right-clicked, and created a new DOC document...
And so, after experiencing a commotion, without getting a moment's rest, Lu Yibei once again plunged into the miserable life of writing.
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Late night.
Inside the temporary office of the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration.
Lu Yibei sat upright in front of the worn wooden desk. A thick stack of documents was piled on the table, a cup of steaming coffee, accompanied by the intermittent sound of keyboard typing, presenting a picture of an exploited office worker.
Aside from spending an hour in the evening leaving Peony Street to find a quiet, deserted place to stop her urban legend transformation, she had been sitting here for a full eleven hours.
《Investigation Report on the Beginning and End of the Hua City black night disease Epidemic》
I. Basic Disaster Situation: In early April this year, the first case of black night disease was confirmed in Hua City. Three days later, it developed into 12 cases, and within the following 20 days, it reached 271 cases. By the end of the epidemic, a total of 352 people were infected, and 289 died.
...】
After a long while.
After forcefully typing the final period at the end of the investigation report.
Lu Yibei took her hands off the keyboard, looked at the screen, slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Phew—! Done!"
The several-thousand-word investigation report, written in a flowing style, analyzed in detail the entire process from Gu Qianqian being pursued by various illegal Spiritual Energy organizations due to personal grudges, to getting caught up in a special space along with a group of Eclipse Society members carrying the flesh and blood of an Invasion Beast during the chaos, triggering the black night disease epidemic.
The latter half expressed gratitude to Secretary Silver Horn for his outstanding contributions in controlling and eliminating the epidemic, and to Hua Sang, a disciple of Da Chunyang Palace, who arrived in time to support and re-anchored the special space, fully affirming the crucial role they played in the incident.
As for how the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast that invaded the special space were dealt with...
It's none of Bei Bei's business, you know. The investigation report isn't nonsense. Things that haven't been clearly investigated shouldn't be written carelessly! Lu Yibei thought slyly.
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"This is great. I can guarantee that not a single sentence in here is false!"
"Time to get off work, time to get off work!"
After muttering a couple of sentences to herself, Lu Yibei logged into the Night Watch intranet, sent the completed investigation report to Jiang Li's email, then shut down the computer, put on her small bag, and walked out of the office, completing her day as an office worker.
"Creak—!"
Lu Yibei, not treating himself as an outsider at all, pushed open the door to Office “V” Number Five and poked half his body inside.
He glanced around for a while, didn't find Jiang Li's trace, sighed silently, and dispelled the idea of “incidentally” inviting her for a late-night snack, then “incidentally” watching a movie, then “incidentally” taking her home, and if possible, “incidentally” staying over for a night.
He actually always wanted to have a proper date with Jiang Li, it's just...
Taking the initiative to invite is impossible, he can only see if there's a chance to do it “incidentally”.
Lu Yibei walked out of the office building with light steps, greeted the Gu Niang who was staring blankly at an ant nest, turned left upon exiting, and found his beloved little motorcycle in the garage near the Special Operations Team's gym.
Since the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, every now and then he had to submit an application to the Elder brother of the Supply Department to replace his assigned vehicle, with endless and bizarre reasons.
The Elder brother of the Supply Department, unable to bear the annoyance, finally got him a brand new little motorcycle, the same model as the Ghost Fire Youth, the day before yesterday, taking advantage of a Pinduoduo discount and paying out of their own pockets.
Spending money for peace and quiet was still very worthwhile.
Inserting the key, he rode his beloved little motorcycle, Lu Yibei hummed a tune, drove out from the back door, and left the Huacheng Folk Culture Research Administration.
“Riding my beloved little motorcycle~ It never gets stuck... Huh?”
Accompanied by a light exclamation, Lu Yibei suddenly slammed on the brakes, stopped the vehicle by the roadside, and then looked at the girl lying motionless at the entrance of the alley, narrowing his eyes slightly.
A narrow alley shrouded in night, a woman lying face down on the ground, if you could add a sharp knife and a pool of crimson blood, it would be a qualified crime scene.
However, Lu Yibei was very sure the girl was alive.
He recognized that girl. He heard Jiang Li say that she was Li Xuan's Junior Sister, and the work of re-anchoring the special space was completed by her on behalf of the legendary 【Black Emperor】. Her strength should not be underestimated.
Psychic of this level, although their vitality is not comparable to urban legend of the same level, they aren't that easy to die either.
However, even if she's alive, lying on the roadside for so long is probably not normal, right? Lu Yibei thought.
Before he reported to Jiang Li's office in the morning, Hua Sang was already lying there. When he briefly left Peony Street in the evening to find a place to stop his urban legend transformation, she was also there. Now several hours have passed, it's already late night, and he didn't expect her to still be there, without even changing her posture.
Hmm, definitely hasn't changed! Even a normal person lying on the ground, who would just stick their butt up for no reason?
Speaking of which, this Miss looks sloppy, but her butt is quite round and perky...
Cough cough, that's not the point. The point is she's just lying there like that, and nobody is managing it? Where's her Senior Brother? Went to fix a tire? Then it's fine. Lu Yibei thought.
After muttering to himself for a while, following the principle of “If nobody else is bothering with this, I'd better not either!”, Lu Yibei pushed his beloved little motorcycle and carefully bypassed Hua Sang.
After bypassing Hua Sang, he didn't stop for a moment, quickly got on the little motorcycle, revved the engine twice, and was just about to accelerate from a standstill and make a quick getaway, when suddenly something strange happened.
The Lingtai Pure Karma in his backpack seemed to be touched by something, and it trembled slightly. Immediately after, before he could notice the abnormality of the Lingtai Pure Karma, his vision became blurry.
As if it were a hallucination, patches of gray-black appeared before his eyes, covered with moss-like dark green. An inexplicable chill spread throughout his body, a strong sense of hunger struck, and his stomach churned.
That feeling of hunger was different from when the urban legend main body core needed Spiritual Energy replenishment, causing chaotic Spiritual Energy fluctuations, a burning sensation in the abdomen, and the urban legend main body core stirring restlessly, feeling as if his body had been hollowed out.
It was just pure hunger, the kind of hunger you feel as if you haven't eaten for a day. Lu Yibei hadn't felt that way for a long time.
But... why would I suddenly have such a feeling? Lu Yibei, who hadn't been fully human for a long time, felt such doubt in his heart.
At the same time, Hua Sang on the ground seemed to suddenly have an epileptic seizure, her body convulsed and twitched, and then she woke up from her state of suspended animation, suddenly opened her eyes, glanced at Lu Yibei, and then reached out and firmly grabbed his ankle.
Perhaps because she had maintained the state of suspended ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) animation for a long time, lying motionless on the ground, her hand was as cold as a corpse. Her five fingers slowly tightened, like five cold venomous snakes silently wrapping around his ankle.
Feeling the chill from his ankle, caught off guard, Lu Yibei's heart jumped, his body shivered, and he subconsciously twisted the motorcycle's handlebar.
As the saying goes, when the Ghost Fire roars, parents raise their children in vain.
Accompanied by the roar of the engine, the little motorcycle completed the acceleration from 0 to 50 km/h in just a few seconds.
Thus, the faint sound of fabric dragging on the ground, mixed with weak and pathetic screams, echoed in the narrow alley.
“Ah...”
“Ouch...”
“It hurts...”
Hearing the scream, full of perfunctory meaning, resounding in his ears, Lu Yibei's heart jumped, he slammed on the brakes, and stopped the little motorcycle by the roadside.
However, the little motorcycle stopped, but Hua Sang didn't. Her body was pressed against the ground, without any struggle at all, letting her body slide out for a full dozen meters until she hit the stone wall at the corner of the alley, and only then did she stop with a dull thud.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei's eye twitched slightly, he cautiously walked forward, and asked in a slightly trembling voice, “Uh... are you okay?”
Hua Sang seemed not to have heard Lu Yibei's words, she slowly raised her head, looked him in the eye for two seconds, and leisurely uttered two words, “Hungry.”
In the past, her three meals a day were delivered to her by Li Xuan. She didn't know what had happened today, but after Li Xuan bought breakfast, he disappeared. Having missed two meals and remaining hungry until late at night, she was now famished.
Lu Yibei, “...” What does that mean? Are you trying to extort me? You were the one who made the first move, there are cameras at the alley entrance!
“Then... I'll treat you to a meal? However, it's hard to buy anything around here at this time, probably only the 7-22 convenience store at the entrance of Peony Street is still open.” He asked tentatively.
Nobody wants something like this to happen, let's both take a step back. I'll treat you to something cheap, and you don't try to extort me!
Don't ask why convenience stores dare to open in the middle of the night, just know that Du Sixian opened them. In the past period, she has used the convenience of her identity as a Huacheng Monster King's dependent to open more than a dozen similar stores that operate at night.
“Mm.” Hua Sang responded, slowly rolled over, and lay on the ground in a spread-eagle shape. Her old Daoist robe was broken in many places, and one pant leg was torn off, revealing a slender, fair calf wearing HelloKitty flip-flops.
“Alright! Let's go, we'll go together. Just take whatever you like.” Lu Yibei said.
Du Sixian's is mine, freeloading is not a big problem.
After speaking, he turned around, pushed the little motorcycle parked by the roadside over, and then found that Hua Sang was still lying on the ground, not moving.
Seeing that Lu Yibei didn't understand her intention, Hua Sang glanced sideways at Lu Yibei and said indifferently, “Three jellies, two cups of original flavored yogurt, thank you.”
Jelly and yogurt were the easiest foods she could think of to eat in a convenience store.
Lu Yibei stared at Hua Sang's face, covered in dust and mud, was stunned for two seconds, then came back to his senses, pointed at his nose, and asked in surprise, “You mean, you want me to buy them for you?”
“Mm.” Hua Sang responded indifferently.
“No...” Lu Yibei opened his mouth, just about to complain about Hua Sang's slightly shameless behavior, but upon hearing Hua Sang's words, he forcibly swallowed the trash talk that was about to come out.
“Can't move.”
Lu Yibei, “...”
Can't move? Injured?
Right, after that whole operation just now, an ordinary person probably wouldn't even make it to the hospital for emergency treatment.
Even a high-level Psychic getting a little injured is reasonable.
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei pursed his lips, “Then you stay here and don't move around, I'll be back soon.”
As he spoke, he bypassed Hua Sang and stepped towards the convenience store at the entrance of Peony Street.
However...
He had only walked a few steps when a sharp pain came from the top of his head, as if someone had violently struck his crown from above.
His brain was concussed, a strong sense of dizziness struck, Lu Yibei's body went limp, and he fell to the ground.
