"Ah? You want to..." Miao Xiaoqi's eyes widened. She sized up Lu Yibei for a moment. "Are you really planning to infiltrate the Eclipse Society?"
She knew that her Void, by imitating the growth trajectory of this Disaster Witch before her, had improved his strength, always escaping danger by a hair's breadth and reaping rich rewards.
And the Eclipse Society, as the largest illegal Spiritual Energy organization globally, possessed an astonishing amount of resources and various unknown secrets.
But...
Was infiltrating the Eclipse Society too risky? Lu Yibei nodded and replied without hesitation, "Yeah!"
Although she wasn't going immediately, she did have that intention, Lu Yibei added in her heart.
"I've told you everything about my Void, you can't lie to me!" Miao Xiaoqi still didn't quite trust Lu Yibei. freewebnσvel.cøm
She always felt that Lu Yibei was up to no good and planning to trick her Void.
"Why would I lie to you about something like this?" Lu Yibei shrugged. "When I take action, with your Void's methods, he should easily be able to tell if I'm telling the truth or not, right?"
"That's true!" Hearing Lu Yibei praise her Void, Miao Xiaoqi proudly lifted her chin. "Alright, I understand. I'll tell my Void truthfully!"
"However, if you really infiltrate the Eclipse Society, counting them up, you'll have triple identities: Night Watch agent, Huacheng Monster King, plus an Eclipse Society member. Aren't you afraid of being exposed someday?"
"To be honest, I'm quite afraid," Lu Yibei said, a hint of gloom flashing in her eyes as she spoke. "Therefore, I think it's necessary to eliminate everyone who knows to reduce the risk."
Miao Xiaoqi jumped back abruptly, her fur standing on end. She said warily, "What do you mean? Aren't I someone who knows? You can't do that. When you were still a rookie, I never bullied you!"
Facts prove that dogs are indeed the natural enemies of cats.
"I said people who know, not cats who know," Lu Yibei said.
"Okay, okay, then I'm going to sleep," Miao Xiaoqi said weakly.
"Then sleep!" Lu Yibei pursed her lips.
Miao Xiaoqi was silent, her little cat face drooping. Her gaze slowly shifted downwards, looking at the cat bed almost completely flattened under Lu Yibei's butt.
Woman, you need to lose weight!
Noticing Miao Xiaoqi's gaze, Lu Yibei froze for a moment. Following her line of sight, she looked down and said awkwardly, "Uh, sorry! I'll leave now."
Having said that, she crawled out of the cat castle, got on her little motorcycle, and drove out of the Happiness Community gate—
Svalbard Archipelago.
A group of Arctic islands whose sovereignty belongs to Norway, it is one of the most habitable areas closest to the North Pole.
Late at night, in the Barents Sea southeast of the Svalbard Archipelago, a large ship sailed on the deep, dark blue sea.
It was an orange-red whaling ship, like a monster, brutally tearing through the floating ice on the sea surface, leaving a string of surging pure white waves behind it.
Although due to ocean currents, most of the Barents Sea surface does not freeze year-round, and it was currently early summer, the floating ice that covered almost the entire sea area and drifted in the water was sometimes more deadly than a completely frozen sea surface.
Therefore, only this kind of monster-level whaling ship could sail in the Barents Sea so fearlessly. On the side of this large ship, a fiery red Phoenix was printed.
Although it was called a Phoenix, it was not the same creature as the king of birds in ancient Z Country legends. From its appearance, it should be the "immortal bird" originating from Assyrian legends.
And on the other side of the ship, a black sun totem was printed.
These two symbols proved that this ship belonged to the Black Sun Brothers Technology Association, a subordinate organization of the Eclipse Society. The main work of this whaling ship was not whaling, but capturing urban legend.
Within the Arctic Circle, there exist many urban legend with huge bodies but not very high Spiritual Energy fluctuation levels. These urban legend are often captured by the Black Sun Brothers Technology Association's whaling ships and sent to laboratories to become something like lab rats.
In fact, hunting urban legend in the ocean under the guise of whaling was an idea first conceived by the R Country people. R Country is a country with a history of whaling and eating whale meat for over four hundred years, and also the largest whaling nation in the world.
Since the International Whaling Convention came into effect in 1986, R Country announced its abandonment of commercial whaling, but the following year it began, under the banner of "scientific research," bypassing the international convention and once again sending whaling ships out to sea.
Decades passed. As whale meat consumption within R Country continued to decrease, R Country's "scientific research" whaling fell into deficit after 2005, but the national treasury still provided a large amount of tax money annually to fill the gap.
All of this was to cover up their hunting of ocean urban legend, in order to continuously obtain massive amounts of urban legend core entities and Alchemy materials each year. This was an astonishing amount of huge profit that was difficult to give up.
So, from a certain perspective, those whales were just scapegoats, and under the cover of that shocking bloody scene, the number of dead ocean urban legend was no less than that of whales, and possibly even more.
After Adelaide Phoenix discovered the secret hidden behind R Country's "scientific research" whaling, he invested heavily in purchasing several super-large whaling ships and began hunting ocean urban legend in the same manner.
The difference was that their goal was very clear: they would only hunt urban legend and other whaling ships.
In fact, in recent years, the Black Sun Brothers Technology Association's whaling ships have frequently clashed with R Country's "scientific research" whaling ships.
If that "scientific research" whaling fleet disappeared silently on the vast ocean, besides encountering powerful urban legend in the deep sea, it was highly likely that they were sunk by the Black Sun Brothers Technology Association.
By late night, the temperature on the surface of the Barents Sea had already dropped below zero. The deck was swept by a biting wind, carrying some fine snowflakes.
However, at this moment, a man wearing a thin business suit stood at the very front of the deck, gazing at the dark sea ahead, motionless.
If it weren't for the condensation of white frost from his mouth and nose when he breathed, one might even think he had frozen into an ice sculpture.
One wonders what his supervisor would think if he knew that he took leave to visit his hometown and ended up on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, cosplaying an ice sculpture.
The large ship continuously sailed on this pitch-black sea surface. Time seemed to lose meaning, flowing slowly.
After an unknown period, a strange glint suddenly flashed in the man's listless eyes. He muttered softly, "Finally here."
As his words fell, ahead, on the sea surface that had been empty just a second ago, a huge island, like a mirage, silently entered his field of vision.
On the island, majestic peaks stood tall. At some point, the aurora appeared in the sky. The continuously rolling clouds outlined a vague and ethereal other side.
A hazy and dreamy light poured onto the sea surrounding the island. Terrifying Arctic gales swept across the sea intermittently. The wind carried a kind of wailing sound, making people inexplicably anxious and uneasy.
From a distance of several kilometers, one could see the dense jungle on that island, towering ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) into the clouds.
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If not seen with one's own eyes, it would be difficult for ordinary people to imagine the existence of such a "ghostly" island within the Arctic Circle, an island covered with giant redwood trees that only grow in high mountain areas far from the coast.
Even more bizarrely, those redwood trees, from their trunks to their leaves, were entirely an unsettling dead gray color.
That island was like a world that would only appear in a dream, or like a huge gate standing on the desolate sea surface, connecting to a forbidden world full of unknowns.
And the man on the ship knew that on that huge island, deep within that eerie gray forest, there was also a dilapidated small wooden house.
That place was the Eclipse Society's No. 2 stronghold—Gray Forest Cabin.
Although there were many other ways to enter the Gray Forest Cabin, the man still chose this method. After all, to the Eclipse Society Elder Council, he, the Chairman, was definitely an uninvited guest.
If he were to be teleported to the Gray Forest Cabin through other means, he would inevitably be detected by the Elder Council in advance, and they would have various countermeasures in place. Only by taking a ship and landing on that small island could he catch the Elder Council off guard and unprepared.
From a certain perspective, his behavior was like a bandit who didn't come in person but climbed over the wall into someone else's house.
And this bandit didn't rob for money, nor did the Elder Council have anything worth coveting. He just wanted those old fogeys to stay on the island obediently for the time being, together with the person they hated the most.
"Does this count as pure torment?" the man muttered to himself, a smile playing on his lips. At this moment, he inexplicably thought of Lu Yibei—
—
Although Lu Yibei did want to infiltrate the Eclipse Society, telling Miao Xiaoqi that her next plan was to "infiltrate the Eclipse Society" was purely a casual remark.
She hadn't even found a way to infiltrate the Eclipse Society yet, and she had a lot of other things to do. Infiltrating the Eclipse Society was not a high priority.
Furthermore, she didn't think Void would be so foolish as to actually go and join the Eclipse Society. Why would he go?
This sort of thing wasn't like searching for a God Kingdom Prototype, which had obvious potential for profit.
It's not like his Old Dad's residual soul was also suspected of being imprisoned somewhere in the Eclipse Society's strongholds, right? He doesn't have a father!
The Eclipse Society is a terrible place, calling it a dragon's den and a tiger's lair is no exaggeration. urban legend of the level of Wang Yinglou, without external help, would enter but never leave.
If Void really went there to court death, he might end up as a test sample, being manipulated into eighteen different shapes. He isn't that stupid, is he?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei pursed her lips. She skillfully parked her little motorcycle, walked into the apartment building, and took the elevator home. There was still a long time until dawn.
Why sleep during a long night? A fierce man like me should cultivate immortality!
Taking advantage of this time, she decided to carefully study the memory of the Great Serpent God and look for a way to merge Lingtai Pure Karma and the God Kingdom Prototype.
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Lu Yibei thought as she took out her key and opened the door. As soon as she entered the house, she heard a conversation that made her very concerned.
"What? It can even do math problems?"
"Yeah! That woman often makes it listen to online courses on 'Advanced Mathematics'."
"Tsk, you dog! Wang Yingying is still a child! Shouldn't a child grow up happily? Why put so much pressure on it?"
"If you ask me, it should be playing games! Come on, Wang Yinglou, look at this, it's the latest compilation of exciting team fight plays! Study hard, and you can go pro and make a name for yourself in the future!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Smelly Girl, do you know how many times harder it is to become a professional player and make a name for yourself than to study hard and achieve certain results? Wait, that's not the point!
What the hell are you doing to my Wang Yinglou?
Lu Yibei thought, quickly walking into the house.
Then she saw a scene that messed with her mood.
In the living room, a ball of flesh with a pair of anime girl eyes drawn on it, wearing a lace-trimmed little skirt, was placed on the coffee table. Ju Meng was holding a phone playing a game video and muttering to the ball of flesh, surrounded by a group of Little Freaks.
The scene looked exactly like a little girl playing with a doll, surrounded by her little friends watching.
Hearing footsteps, Ju Meng looked over and saw the gloomy-faced Lu Yibei. She was stunned for a moment, then chuckled awkwardly, "Uh, hehe, you, you're back? I thought..."
"Uh, I just remembered how to pass that boss that was stuck earlier. I'm going upstairs first!" With that, Ju Meng stood up and quickly ran upstairs.
Following her steps, the group of Little Freaks scattered.
Lu Yibei looked at Ju Meng's retreating figure, then looked at Wang Yinglou on the table, and called out softly, "Wait! Aren't you going to explain what you were doing just now?"
Just before, you looked at Wang Yingying as if it was a disgusting snot, and after only a few hours, you're playing with a snot? Lu Yibei thought.
"What's the matter!" Ju Meng rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei. "Isn't Sister here helping you educate your child? Ungrateful dog!"
"Is that how you educate a child?" Lu Yibei said angrily. "What's the difference between your behavior and those bad older sisters who lead children astray?"
"Huh! What bad older sister?!" Ju Meng said indignantly. "What a child wants to do when they grow up should be decided by themself! You make Wang Yingying listen to those things, did you ask for its opinion?"
"What can it understand? I'm doing it for its own good!" Lu Yibei argued forcefully. "In this era, urban legend must also have culture and knowledge!"
Lu Yibei and Ju Meng argued back and forth, while the group of Little Freaks in the shadows whispered among themselves.
"You guys say, doesn't their situation look like parents arguing over their child's education?" Maotuan analyzed seriously.
"Like! Very much like!" False Tooth echoed. "I've long thought their relationship wasn't ordinary."
"Tsk!" Eyeball said indignantly. "Bringing back different girls every few days, did she ask for our opinion?"
"I'm going to tell Big Boss Ju Meng about that limping girl crying in that woman's bed later, and then tell that limping girl about Big Boss Ju Meng's matters!"
"People who straddle two boats should sink and drown in the water!" Maotuan, False Tooth, "..."
In silence, they quietly distanced themselves from Eyeball.
They really wanted to advise Eyeball not to court death, but they knew it was useless to advise it.
Anyway, being entangled by the world's malice, it wouldn't die that easily, so let it continue to act up! We'll just stay away from it.