Free Web NovelA Little Hamster: "Guide Miss, may I ask what I should do next?"
What should she do next? Lu Yibei looked at the information on her phone screen, pondered for two seconds, and then lightly tapped the screen to type in a message.
Disaster: "Please don't rush. Just wait patiently in Da Chunyang Palace for the right opportunity. Once the time is right, I will notify you."
Lu Yibei had never even heard of that so-called 'learn' (society/organization), so how would she know how to join?
However, since the task description said it was an organization hidden within Da Chunyang Palace, staying within Da Chunyang Palace shouldn't be too far off the mark if one wanted to join.
As for the way to join...
Let me explore Da Chunyang Palace with the Paper Cicada Immortal tonight first, then we'll see? Maybe I can find something.
As Lu Yibei was thinking, her phone vibrated again.
A Little Hamster: "Huh? I need to stay in Da Chunyang Palace? But I've already left."
Lu Yibei looked at her phone and frowned slightly.
She's already left?
In other words, this person had been staying in Da Chunyang Palace all along?
Is she a Da Chunyang Palace disciple, or a member of the advanced training class?
Disaster: "Hello, considering that the opportunity to join the 'learn' (society/organization) may arise at any time, we recommend that you return to Da Chunyang Palace as soon as possible to wait. While waiting, you can inquire about information from Da Chunyang Palace disciples on your own. You might have unexpected gains!"
What if she just randomly stopped a disciple passerby and happened to meet a member of that 'learn' (society/organization) who enthusiastically invited her to join?
Although this possibility is quite small... Lu Yibei thought.
A Little Hamster: "Understood! I'll go back first thing tomorrow morning!"
Disaster: "Thank you for your cooperation."
"..."
Isn't she a bit too obedient?
She dares to accept such an ambiguous task, so her strength must be considerable. It's not impossible that she's playing the pig to eat the tiger!
To be safe, the information received later will probably need to be verified. Otherwise, if she is fooled by the other party's false information, she might end up being sold to Pattaya to work as a colleague with ladyboy dancers.
Lu Yibei nodded, put away her phone, and temporarily put aside the matter of guiding A Little Hamster to 'deliver' (deliver/send off).
After dark, the replicated Paper Cicada Immortal that had attended school in Hua City for her had long since returned home and was lying flat, no longer needing attention.
Now, she had enough energy to control the two Paper Cicada Immortals left in Da Chunyang Palace. It was time to start exploring.
If she hadn't had to split her attention controlling the replicated Paper Cicada Immortal before, the small Paper Cicada Immortal wouldn't have been caught by Fang Ji so easily.
Lu Yibei glanced at Fang Ji in the front row, shook her head, then closed her eyes, concentrated her mind, and began to control the Paper Cicada Immortals.
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After six o'clock, the sky around Zhenwu Mountain Scenic Area had completely darkened.
Although Da Chunyang Palace doesn't have curfews, there wouldn't be fierce dormitory supervisors warning disciples that they must return before 10:30 pm.
But by this time, the figures of disciples among the undulating pavilions and terraces of the few large halls were significantly fewer.
Under the cover of night, within Da Chunyang Palace, beside a slightly remote mountain path, there was a sudden rustling sound from the bushes.
Following that, only two "swoosh, swoosh!" sounds were heard, and then two clumsy, pale paper figures darted out from the bushes.
Accompanied by a faint Spiritual Energy fluctuation flowing through their bodies, their pale faces outlined eyebrows and eyes, and upon closer inspection, they bore some resemblance to Lu Yibei after her urban legend transformation.
They hid behind a stone platform, furtively looking around for a while. Seeing that there was no one around, they took advantage of the night and sped towards the directions of Qing Hui Hall and Chi Li Hall respectively.
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A moment later, Chi Li Hall.
This large hall has red walls and yellow tiles, and from the outside, it is roughly circular, similar in structure to the Tulou buildings that foreign intelligence organizations once mistook for nuclear missile silos.
There is a window every ten meters or so on the outer wall, and behind some of the windows that are still lit, flickering firelight can be faintly seen.
The long vermilion corridor is like a fiery dragon, winding and coiling around the outer wall of the hall, spiraling upward, reaching the high tower that protrudes from the top of the hall.
That high tower, which is about one-third the area of the circular building, stands in a corner of Chi Li Hall.
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The sound of conversation came from afar, and soon two disciples walked along the ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ corridor, talking and laughing.
"Have you heard? Today, Senior Sister Fu actually got a divine beast to recognize her as its master!"
"What's that? I heard today that when Senior Sister was in Tang City, facing three A-level Spirit Ability Users, she retreated unscathed by fighting one against three. How terrifying!"
"Tsk, the gap between people is really bigger than the gap between people and dogs... But speaking of which, with Senior Sister's talent, why does she rarely practice those new techniques? With her talent plus advanced practice techniques, she should be able to improve faster, right?"
"Who says it isn't? If this continues, that guy Gu He will almost catch up to Senior Sister Fu. Recently, I keep hearing him say that only those who can keep up with the times should be called geniuses, which is clearly him bragging!"
Lu Yibei, "..." Right! If there are advanced techniques, why not use them? Is Fu Xinyi an idiot? Or is she a stubborn classicist?
After a moment, the voices of the two disciples gradually faded away, and the corridor outside Chi Li Hall became quiet again.
After the figures of the two disciples completely disappeared into the corridor, a little cutie cautiously lifted the glazed tile covering its body, peeked around furtively, and then flapped its wings and flew up.
From a distance, it looked like an extra-large, plump moth.
Lu Yibei didn't intentionally make the Paper Cicada Immortal look like this. The main reason was that to fit a Alchemy Dirty Bomb with sufficient 'dosage' inside a tiny Paper Cicada Immortal, she could only shorten their limb length and fatten their torso volume.
Of course, if someone is fooled by the two-headed 'Disaster' appearance and gets blown into a spiral ascent, they can only be said to be too young.
In this world full of urban legend, the cuter something is, the more dangerous it often is. If you don't even understand this basic principle, you'll be finished sooner or later.
After a brief flight in the night, the Paper Cicada Immortal landed on a window on the second floor outside Chi Li Hall.
It perched on the windowsill, observed the movement inside the room, and after confirming that there was no one in the room, it jumped up, crossed the window, and landed steadily on the ground.
The room behind the window seemed to be a drafting practice room. Drawing tables were lined up with some simple drawing tools and blueprints for making Spiritual Energy items that disciples had drawn during practice.
What a coincidence? As soon as she snuck in, she found the blueprints for making Spiritual Energy items?
Lu Yibei searched around the practice room with anticipation, but the result greatly disappointed her.
None of the blueprints left in the practice room were usable. Most of the blueprints were not completed, and the few that were completed were drawn messily. Making things according to those blueprints would likely cause major problems.
What a waste!
The two-headed little person stomped its feet in anger.
In her exasperation, she randomly selected two lucky individuals, erased the blueprints they had already drawn, and thoughtfully placed a mushy love letter that a certain disciple had forgotten to take on the podium, giving it to their lovely and respected teacher.
You can't even draw such simple blueprints, and you still want to fall in love?
Study hard, you hear! So you don't harm others when you take a position in the Night Watch!
It's just a small favor, no need to thank me. If you have to ask for my name, just call me Little Angel!
Thinking this, Lu Yibei controlled the Paper Cicada Immortal, flapping its snowy white little wings, and flew towards the practice room door.
With a soft "creak," the door of the drafting practice room opened a crack. The Paper Cicada Immortal squeezed out from the gap, leaned against the door panel, and observed cautiously.
On both sides of the antique corridor, heavy metal doors were tightly closed, and faint sounds of metal hammering and machinery running could be heard.
After distinguishing the surrounding environment and determining the direction, Lu Yibei controlled the Paper Cicada Immortal and walked deeper into Chi Li Hall along the corridor, following the locations of the various formation cores and warehouses in her memory.
The predecessor of Chi Li Hall was the forging workshop and warehouse for storing Spiritual Energy items of Da Chunyang Palace. Perhaps because the original space was sufficient, the architectural layout did not change much; only the entire hall was renovated, mixing a few modern elements into the ancient-style buildings.
Qingji's map finally came in handy for the first time.
Who said the map given by the Ancestor was less useful than Ma Bing?
I, Lu Yibei, am the first to disagree. Don't you understand that having an old person at home is like having a treasure?
His elderly visits to Chi Li Hall are incredibly frequent. Over time, each visit is like coming home.
That is to say, Lingtai Pure Karma is just a pure Spiritual Energy item, unlike the Coat, which is a special existence between a Spiritual Energy item and a urban legend.
Otherwise, every time Qingji came to Chi Li Hall, she would probably 'borrow' a few good weapons to let Lingtai Pure Karma strengthen them by ten or eight levels.
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Guided by the map drawn by Qingji, Lu Yibei quickly explored the second floor of Chi Li Hall roughly.
After some exploration, a hint of doubt gradually arose in her heart.
The second floor of Chi Li Hall is almost entirely practice rooms for drafting, woodworking, smelting, etc. These crafts are necessary steps in making Spiritual Energy items.
However, from Lu Yibei's exploration results, the completion level of the Spiritual Energy item production blueprints, wood carvings, and even semi-finished weapon blanks in those practice rooms were ridiculously low.
Occasionally, there were one or two decent works, but they could only be considered barely passing.
Something isn't right! This is different from what the Ancestor said?
Could it be that when the Ancestor was a guest Elder at Da Chunyang Palace, his drawing style had reached the level of thought imprinting, leaving a deep legacy of harmful influence? Lu Yibei thought, puzzled.
According to what Qingji said, the disciples specializing in object manipulation within Da Chunyang Palace are all skilled at making Spiritual Energy items, so their skills shouldn't be this poor.
Lu Yibei continued her exploration, filled with doubt, and quickly found the answer on the third floor of Chi Li Hall.
The layout of the third floor of Chi Li Hall was roughly the same as the second floor, consisting of practice rooms, but the difference was that Lu Yibei saw CAD-drawn blueprints, 3Dmax models and 3D printers, and high-precision fully automated lathes in these practice rooms.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Looking at it this way, it's understandable that the Da Chunyang Palace disciples have abandoned the skill of making Spiritual Energy items purely by hand?
But do I have to memorize the CAD blueprints and 3D modeling data?
While it's not impossible to memorize them, wouldn't I have to learn two types of software after returning to restore the blueprints and give them to the urban legend in Hua City to make?
After thinking for a moment, unable to come up with a better solution, Lu Yibei could only grudgingly memorize the production blueprints for two or three types of Spiritual Energy items. She then thoughtfully helped those careless disciples by turning off their computers.
These young people nowadays! They don't know how to save energy at all.
Global warming is all your fault!
Lu Yibei thought fiercely, skillfully clicked 【Do Not Save】, then left the practice room and continued exploring deeper into Chi Li Hall, following the map given by Qingji.
Searching for Lingtai Pure Karma within Chi Li Hall was the most important thing; there was no need to linger too long in the disciples' practice rooms and production rooms.
According to Qingji's speculation, if the fragments of Lingtai Pure Karma were preserved within Chi Li Hall, they should be stored inside the high tower on the top floor.
And the real test would only begin after entering that high tower. As the warehouse where Da Chunyang Palace stored Spiritual Energy items and various materials, the security there was far stricter than the area of Zhenting Hall and those practice rooms.
Simply put, upon entering the high tower, the open-world exploration game would immediately turn into a horror game with jump scares around every corner.
To avoid the disciples who occasionally appeared in the corridors and improve exploration efficiency, Lu Yibei controlled the Paper Cicada Immortal, left the interior of Chi Li Hall, and returned to the outer wall. Using the hovering ability provided by the Paper Cicada Immortal's small wings, she controlled the Paper Cicada Immortal to speed along the outer wall.
Thus, a white dot sped across the crimson outer wall, drawing a winding trajectory on the wall surface, skillfully dodging the trigger-type solidified Spells attached to the wall.
No one would have thought that the old thief who once entered and exited Chi Li Hall as if it were an uninhabited place would, after more than a hundred years, actually instigate a young thief to return here.
It was like a game of "do as one pleases" idiom charades, doing as one pleases frantically!
In just over ten seconds, the Paper Cicada Immortal had traversed a hundred meters, arriving outside a production room on the fourth floor of Chi Li Hall. By simply passing through the production room and then down a long corridor, it could enter the high tower.
Easy and pleasant, five-star review!
With a vigorous leap from the Paper Cicada Immortal's chubby body, its short, thick arms grabbed onto the protruding windowsill outside a window, and then it flipped itself over and jumped into the unmanned production room.
However, before the Paper Cicada Immortal could pass through the production room and enter the corridor, a faint sound of footsteps came through the iron door. The next moment, the soft click of the door lock turning rang out.
Without time to think further, Lu Yibei immediately controlled the Paper Cicada Immortal to squeeze into a nearby toolbox and hide.
Immediately after, through the slightly open gap in the toolbox, she vaguely saw two figures walk in...
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After entering the room, the two didn't turn on the light, letting the darkness swallow their figures. After casually locking the main door, the two immediately began arguing in low voices.
"Damn it, tell me, why did you let Wu Yutang get away? If he goes back to Da Chunyang Palace and tells those old fogeys what he knows, we're all finished, do you understand?!" a man with a slightly gloomy voice growled.
"So you're blaming me? You'd better understand one thing, if you hadn't been too hasty and let Wu Yutang come into contact with that Adult, he wouldn't have discovered the anomaly!" a woman retorted coldly.
"Alright, alright, I won't argue about this with you for now. I'm asking you what we should do now?" the man said in a deep voice, his voice mixed with strange clicking sounds as he spoke.
Judging from the outline of his figure raising his hand to his mouth, it could be determined that he seemed to be biting his nails due to excessive tension, each bite making a faint clicking sound.
"Now... we can only silence him."
Lu Yibei, "???"
Holy crap! It seems I've stumbled upon something incredible?
What are you guys doing? My Paper Cicada Immortal is still young, why are you making it endure these terrifying things?
If it gets scared, it will explode on the spot!
Lu Yibei muttered in her heart, off-key, but at the same time, she noted the details in the conversation between the man and the woman.
Wu Yutang, that Adult, and the man bit his nails during the conversation.
If it becomes necessary to single him out from among the many Da Chunyang Palace disciples, this detail can serve as a basis for judgment.
However, just as she was about to eavesdrop for more details, she suddenly realized that the two people had stopped talking and had suddenly disappeared from the spot. The entire room abruptly fell into dead silence.
There wasn't a sound in the room, and an unsettling atmosphere permeated the air.
In the darkness, a pair of cold eyes stared at the toolbox on the workbench in the corner. After a few seconds of contemplation, she turned and made a silencing gesture to her companion, then walked forward silently. One hand gently rested on the lid of the toolbox, while the other hand took out the short sword from her waist.
After waiting for a couple of seconds, a fierce look flashed in her eyes. As one hand lifted the lid of the toolbox, the short sword in her other hand stabbed into the toolbox quickly and fiercely.
With a "Splat!" sound, the exquisite indigo short sword accurately pierced the Paper Cicada Immortal's head.
"This is... a Paper Cicada Immortal?"
How could someone make a Paper Cicada Immortal like this?
Such a small Paper Cicada Immortal, perhaps it's only useful for eavesdropping?
Seeing the Paper Cicada Immortal pierced inside the toolbox, the woman was startled. Before she could recover, the two-headed little fellow suddenly moved. Disregarding its head being split in half by the short sword, it leaped up directly, flapping its small wings, and quickly fled towards the window.
However, the Paper Cicada Immortal's flight speed, which wasn't much faster than ordinary birds, was completely insufficient in front of a Psychic.
Just as it took flight, a fair hand reached out from behind it, swift as lightning, and instantly gripped it firmly.
"Still trying to escape?" the woman said fiercely.
The next moment, she saw that the Paper Cicada Immortal, whose head was split in half, had turned around. On its damaged face, simply outlined with eyebrows and eyes, it revealed a smile that made her uneasy.
"Yi xi xi!"
Accompanied by an unsettling cackle, a fierce crimson light suddenly burst forth from the woman's fingertips.
"Bang—!"
A loud bang erupted, deafening. freёwebnoѵel.com
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At the same time.
On the bus traveling from Zhenwu Mountain Scenic Area to Shizhou City.
Hua Sang, who was lightly sleeping by the window, suddenly woke up with a start, letting out a faint and rapid gasp from her small mouth.
Just now, she had originally only intended to close her eyes and rest, but she had unknowingly drifted into a light sleep.
After falling asleep, she had a dream. She dreamed that she seemed to be in some cramped and dark space, and vaguely heard two people arguing.
Due to the dream being too blurry, she couldn't hear the specific details of the two people's argument, only managing to remember a few keywords.
Wu Yutang, that Adult, and silencing...
Immediately after, before she could hear more details, she was jolted awake by a flash of strong light.
Hua Sang, "..."
According to the Old man, Senior Brother went to Shizhou City early in the morning, but I saw him inside the mountain gate in the afternoon...
Now I've inexplicably dreamed that he's involved in things like murder and silencing...
This is too strange!
After a brief silence, Hua Sang secretly made up her mind to first contact her Senior Brother—Wu Yutang.
