Free Web Novel"Clang clang—clang clang—!"
Silver light flashed, the knife rose and fell. The core of the urban legend body was meticulously cut into tiny particles under Lu Yibei's knife.
As she cut the core of the urban legend body, her father's figure unconsciously appeared in her mind.
Although Old Dad hoped she would become an artistic worker, he never hindered her from learning culinary skills. Every summer and winter vacation, when she helped out in their kitchen, he would also take the time to teach her one or two ancestral secret techniques.
This knife skill, precise down to the millimeter, was learned at that time.
Thinking of Old Dad, Lu Yibei felt a heavy sigh in her heart.
...
Lu Yibei spent a few minutes cutting the core of the urban legend body into dozens of particles of almost completely uniform size.
After carefully wiping the knives to ensure no stains remained, Lu Yibei looked at her masterpiece on the cutting board and couldn't help but let out a slightly inflated sigh in her heart.
Look at this knife skill, isn't it quite impressive?
If this were in a setting where culinary skills were paramount, I could at least get a title like XX Ten Greats!
It's just a pity that this world is full of urban legend.
Lu Yibei thought, bent down and took a clean porcelain bowl from the cupboard, put the cut core of the urban legend body into it, crushed a clove of garlic, chopped it into minced garlic and put it in to stir evenly, then drizzled a little sashimi soy sauce, and it was done.
When Lu Yibei walked over with the bowl and chopsticks, the urban legend were still pressing their Eyeballs firmly on the coffee table.
She looked at the Eyeballs and the urban legend, frowning slightly, "I see you don't have mouths? How do you usually eat?"
"Like this."
Maotuan (Hairball) responded, its body began to squirm, the messy fur rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound, followed by a "pop!" sound, like a bursting bubble, and then a large mouth full of sharp teeth grew out from amidst the dense fur.
"Hiss—!"
Seeing this slightly horrifying scene, Lu Yibei couldn't help but take a deep breath to calm herself down. freewёbnoνel.com
Before this, she had almost treated these little guys at home as harmless pets.
It wasn't until this moment that she realized that even if she could treat them as pets, they were still genuine urban legend.
However...
Taking advantage of Maotuan (Hairball) opening its large mouth and waving its sticky tongue as if showing off, Lu Yibei picked up a piece of the urban legend body core with chopsticks and put it into its mouth.
"Hmm—!?"
Suddenly, a foreign object entered its throat, and Maotuan (Hairball) let out a muffled grunt of confusion.
The urban legend, "???"
Wasn't it the Eyeball that was being pressed down? Why was it Maotuan (Hairball) that was fed?
Is it really as rumored outside, the Demoness's mouth is a lying ghost? Scared, scared.
The urban legend thought, and the next moment, they were distracted by Maotuan (Hairball)'s painful groans.
"Ugh ah—!"
Its body convulsed and twitched, with tiny electric arcs running across its surface, its already dense fur rustled and grew wildly, and its originally somewhat ethereal body was gradually solidifying.
Lu Yibei observed Maotuan (Hairball)'s physical changes, and a sense of guilt and worry subtly rose in her heart.
Could I have just killed it like this? Lu Yibei thought, should I have cut the particles even smaller?
After waiting anxiously for a few minutes, Maotuan (Hairball)'s physical changes stopped.
Its original football-sized body had swollen several times in just a few minutes, looking from a distance like a medium-sized dog whose fur hadn't been trimmed for a long time.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei quickly asked with concern, "How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
Lu Yibei's voice asking the question sounded in its ears, and Maotuan (Hairball) finally emerged from the intoxicating comfort of being filled with Spiritual Energy.
"Thank You, Devil Woman, for the reward. I don't feel anything abnormal; on the contrary, I feel full of power, but..."
"But what?" Lu Yibei pressed, after learning that Maotuan (Hairball) was fine, she eagerly wanted to know all sorts of information about devouring the urban legend body core.
"It's just that the taste of that thing is a bit strange, how should I put it?" Maotuan (Hairball) paused, as if savoring the taste in its mouth just now, "It tastes like a mixture of fermented herring and spoiled aged vinegar."
"And it also seems to have a certain activity; before being absorbed, it felt like countless tiny, cold tentacles were whipping at my esophagus."
Lu Yibei tried to imagine the strange taste that Maotuan (Hairball) described, her mood complex.
Although she had long guessed that the taste of the urban legend body core wouldn't be very good, probably on the level of dark cuisine, she didn't expect it to be so terrifying?!
However...
Lu Yibei looked thoughtfully at the porcelain bowl in her hand filled with fragments of the urban legend body core.
Since Maotuan (Hairball) eating a small piece didn't cause any harm to its body, that means at least I can eat a particle a few dozen times smaller than that at once without a problem.
Hmm, let's start then! Lu Yibei thought. After that, if there are no abnormal reactions in my body, I'll try increasing the dosage.
While thinking, she used chopsticks to pick up the first particle of the urban legend body core, her red lips slightly parted, and put it into her mouth, beginning her first act of devouring.
Her pearly teeth bit down, slightly resisting. A strong sour and foul smell, mixed with a hint of garlic and burnt odor, exploded in Lu Yibei's mouth.
The slippery and sticky texture between her lips and teeth, and the slight struggle with some activity, made her feel like she had swallowed a half-dead octopus whole, causing a wave of nausea and revulsion.
Just as she was about to spit out the contents of her mouth reflexively due to nausea, something strange happened.
Her body temperature rose slightly for an instant, and the urban legend body core in her mouth immediately melted into a cold current that drilled into her body along her esophagus.
The cold current was like a small stream with ice shards, flowing through her body, bringing waves of tingling and painful sensations.
Lu Yibei carefully felt the changes in her body, but just then, that strange feeling disappeared.
It was like a small stream merging into the sea, only managing to cause a few ripples before disappearing without a trace.
How could it be so fast? Lu Yibei frowned slightly. Is it because my level is higher than Maotuan (Hairball), so my tolerance is also stronger?
Lu Yibei thought, and once again moved her chopsticks. This time, she increased the dosage to three small particles at once.
Accompanied by a tingling sensation, something continuously filled her body. Like sweet dew after a long drought, her limbs, bones, and every pore cheered.
"More, more, we want more!"
But this kind of exhilarating feeling quickly ended, and the feeling of dashed expectations was regrettable, just like the description in that profound dialogue.
【It's in!】, 【Is it starting?】, 【No, it's already over!】...
It seems that three small pieces at once isn't my limit either, so should I add a little more?
Lu Yibei thought, increasing the dosage from three small pieces to five small pieces, then to ten small pieces, twenty small pieces...
During this process, the strange feeling of comfort within her body diluted her vigilance and her nausea towards the strange taste of the urban legend body core.
When only more than half of the urban legend body core was left in the bowl, she took a deep breath, just like taking medicine while holding her nose as a child, shoved all the urban legend body core into her mouth at once, tilted her head back, and swallowed it with a gulp.
A cold and slippery sensation quickly filled her mouth, then passed through her esophagus, instantly feeling like long, thin tentacles had grown, the coldness and stimulation instantly piercing into every cell of Lu Yibei.
The next moment, her vision began to blur, her thoughts drifting but clear, like a survivor standing on an ice floe, drifting on the sea, living alone with an uncertain future, a cold and illusory mist faintly spreading.
Following this, a massive amount of information began to flood into her mind. Fragmented pieces were like an old movie being edited, laughter and pain, sunlight and darkness. The emotions contained within each fragment were so intense, so clear.
As the massive information poured in, Lu Yibei's forehead tingled, and she saw an incredibly long dream before her eyes.
This dream was completely different from the illusions she had seen before. She was no longer an observer but had become a participant.
She gradually fragmented, spreading out like invisible gas and rainwater, completely merging into the dream.
In the dream, she was no longer Lu Yibei, but a young girl named Xue Qi.
The first time she opened her eyes, what she saw was life adhering and combining in blood and flesh, something called an embryo.
The second time she opened her eyes, she saw a cradle and nurses in white. They carried the smell of disinfectant, skillfully changed her diaper, and a beautiful woman gently breastfed her.
Immediately after, countless fragmented pieces flashed by: studying diligently at a desk in school, strolling ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ leisurely in a sunny park, sweating profusely in a dance studio filled with mirrors.
This was the growth experience of the young girl named Xue Qi, and it was also her life.
All of this was too real. For a moment, Lu Yibei's thoughts became confused. She felt like she really was Xue Qi. freewebnøvel.com
Knowing her happiness and pain, knowing her likes and dislikes, knowing her knowledge and abilities, knowing everything about her!
This feeling was like she had suddenly gained a personality with nearly twenty years of growth experience, clear, real, and eerily deeply embedded in her soul.
Like a performance, an immersive performance.
But she, the actor, had no room for free expression, only able to perform according to the script like a marionette.
Unable to change the predetermined trajectory, as if her soul was imprisoned within the character.
The next moment, the growth process seemed to be omitted, flashing by quickly, like a movie playing at thirty-two times speed.
Immediately after, the scene paused for an instant, freezing in a room decorated with a very girlish feel, filled with pink everywhere, a faint fragrance wafting through the room, the gentle warm lighting pervading with a sleepy atmosphere.
Lu Yibei found that the young girl she was playing was wearing SpongeBob pajamas, her long hair was coiled up, and the strands of hair hanging down by her temples still had some water droplets on them, as if she had just taken a bath.
She sat in front of the computer, moved the mouse, and gently clicked on the blinking icon of a certain chat software in the lower right corner of the screen, and a dialogue box immediately popped up.
Before she could read the content in the chat box, Lu Yibei saw the young girl's ID on the dialogue box, her heart tightened slightly. Immediately after, she saw the avatar of the person the young girl was chatting with, and she was even more shocked.
That was a black sun totem, the mark of the Eclipse Society!
And 【Yun Meng】 was the young girl's online name...
