Free Web NovelAs the sensation of falling ceased, Lu Yibei opened her eyes and looked around, startled by the sight before her.
On the dilapidated and crumbling rooftop, there were piles of mud figures, large and small, resembling mannequins from a shopping mall clothing store. They varied in age, some old, some young,
some fat, some thin.
On their brownish-gray faces, expressions were distorted and twisted, as if frozen in the last second before death.
Their strangely shaped bodies also showed varying degrees of mutilation: shattered chests, half-severed heads, and broken limbs scattered on the ground. Behind the jagged edges of the fractures were dark, hollow cavities.
The wind swept across the rooftop, passing through these hollow cavities, emitting a buzzing sound like a broken flute, as if something unseen was wailing.
“Master Lu? Why are you spacing out?”
A familiar voice came from behind her. Lu Yibei trembled slightly and spun around abruptly, seeing Chatterbox Girl, who had appeared behind her at some unknown time.
She was still wearing the apron from their last meeting, her hands dirty and covered in wet mud. There were also a few streaks of mud on her fair and delicate cheeks.
“You...” Lu Yibei asked, “What in the world are you doing? Why do I find it a bit scary?”
Could it be that Chatterbox Girl had been alone for too long and developed some mental issues, so she wanted to sculpt some dolls to keep her company?
As Lu Yibei thought this, images of Chatterbox Girl talking to cold, lifeless dolls, then suddenly falling into a frenzied state and cruelly destroying the dolls’ bodies, flashed through her mind, causing goosebumps to rise on her skin.
Chatterbox Girl rubbed her nose with her muddy hand, tilted her head, and looked at Lu Yibei, explaining, “Didn’t I already tell you last time? This is my hobby, it’s art. I’m just messing around with some artworks when I have nothing else to do.”
Lu Yibei looked at Chatterbox Girl, then at the eerie dolls around them, and said expressionlessly, “So, your preferred art style is dark?”
“Is there a problem?” Chatterbox Girl shrugged indifferently.
Fine! What style she likes is her business, and I have no right to interfere. Lu Yibei muttered to herself, then brought the conversation back on track.
“Getting back to the main point, I actually came to find you today because I have something to ask you.”
“Let me guess.” Chatterbox Girl rested her chin on one hand and scrutinized Lu Yibei. “I bet you want to ask why you couldn’t dispel the urban legend transformation this morning when you were basking in the morning sun, right?”
For her, Lu Yibei’s thoughts were simply too easy to guess.
And Lu Yibei also felt that it was not surprising that Chatterbox Girl could guess her thoughts.
“You know it, so quickly think of a solution!”
“A solution...” Chatterbox Girl pondered for a moment, then said seriously, “There isn’t no solution, but I’m just afraid you won’t be able to accept it.”
“What’s there to not accept? I’m going to Mountain City this afternoon. The high-speed rail security check can be bluffed through with the Rouge Transformation · Incantation-Stabilized Mask, but I can’t go see Miao Miao Jiang wearing a mask, can I?” Lu Yibei said eagerly. “Chatterbox Girl nodded thoughtfully. “In that case, we’d have to add one more thing: Jiang Hao might not be able to accept it either.”
“What do you mean?” Lu Yibei asked blankly.
“It means you can’t change back. Get used to your current state quickly!” Chatterbox Girl said earnestly. “In my opinion, doing more things that girls like to do, such as skin-smoothing SPA, aerial yoga, manicures, and hair styling, will help you adapt faster!”
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei’s face turned pale, her body trembled slightly, and she stared at Chatterbox Girl with wide eyes, wanting to speak but unable to.
Although there was no obvious expression on her face, the shock in her heart was almost palpable.
Her appearance was as if she had heard some terrible news, unable to withstand the impact, and could faint at any moment.
Although she had once imagined how she would cope if one day she couldn’t dispel the urban legend transformation, she had never thought that this day would come so unexpectedly.
And how did Chatterbox Girl become so adept at this?
Could it be that she willingly adapted to the urban legend transformation?
If that were the case, she wouldn’t have done something like “If you’re brothers, cut it off!” right? Lu Yibei thought with trepidation.
Chatterbox Girl, who was secretly observing Lu Yibei, rolled her eyes and spat, “Pfft, look at you! It’s just permanent urban legend transformation? Is it that scary? Besides, I was just trying to scare you.”
Just trying to scare me? Lu Yibei looked at Chatterbox Girl expressionlessly. “Is this how you treat a customer who gave you Human Fireworks? Look at how those other Dailian Xiaojie treat their top donors, and how you treat yours? Why is there such a big difference?”
This is the downside of a monopoly. If there were a few more Dailian competing, would Chatterbox Girl dare to treat me like this? Lu Yibei thought indignantly.
Chatterbox Girl squinted at Lu Yibei and probed, “Then do you want me to come to Hua City and sleep with you? I guarantee you’ll be so pleased you can’t breathe!”
“Who wants you to sleep with them, you scoundrel?!” Lu Yibei said with slight anger. “You’d better explain to me why I can’t dispel the urban legend transformation!”
To what extent does one’s XP system need to be strange to say such a thing to another self?
“Oh, that!” Chatterbox Girl shrugged. “It’s a side effect of merging with the God Kingdom Prototype!”
“Side effect?” Lu Yibei tilted her head.
“That’s right!” Chatterbox Girl nodded. “Although Human Fireworks eliminated the corruption of your Power from bearing massive emotions, that thing isn’t omnipotent. There are always some things that aren’t negative but still have a real impact on you that remain.”
In fact, there have been cases where the urban legend entity core itself was directly purified by Human Fireworks.
“Simply put, it’s like taking medicine when you’re sick. Although the medicine can cure the illness, the toxicity of the medicine will still affect your body. These effects need to be slowly digested by your own body.”
At this point, Chatterbox Girl paused, her gaze sweeping over Lu Yibei’s high-rising chest, finally resting on her silvery long hair behind her. She then asked, “I guess when you saw that you couldn’t dispel the urban legend transformation today, you had almost no emotional fluctuations, right?”
I really hate this feeling of being completely seen through. Lu Yibei thought, then nodded reluctantly.
“That’s right!” Chatterbox Girl said. “What else would this be if not a side effect? So, your urban legend entity core is still constantly operating, in a way similar to how an immune system works, digesting the remnants of Human Fireworks. Of course, it’s impossible to dispel the urban legend transformation automatically by basking in the morning sun.”
“Don’t worry, top donor! Once the remnants of Human Fireworks are digested, you’ll be able to dispel the urban legend transformation!”
“That’s good, then that’s...” Lu Yibei breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously asked, “So, how long will it take to digest it?”
“It won’t take long.” Chatterbox Girl said in a relaxed tone, “As little as two or three days, as much as two or three years!”
Time had long lost its meaning in her eyes; two or three years and two or three days were just numbers.
“Ah?” Lu Yibei’s eye twitched. “What’s the difference between that and saying your monthly income is between two thousand and twenty million?”
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“No difference.” Chatterbox Girl shrugged. “There’s even a bit of similarity: if you’re lucky, you can also digest it early due to some special experiences, just like winning twenty million in the lottery.”
Lu Yibei, “So it depends on luck? Then I’m screwed, aren’t I?”
Mountain City, Xi Yang Yang Hotpot Restaurant.
When Jiang Hao’s phone rang for the third time, Mai Mai temporarily stopped speaking and looked at her, asking softly, “Officer Jiang, why don’t you answer the phone first? I’ll wait for you, and we can continue talking later?”
If it wasn’t really urgent, who would call again and again? Mai Mai understood this.
“Sorry.” Jiang Hao said, then stood up, bowed slightly to Mai Mai, and quickly walked out of the hotpot restaurant. As soon as she exited the main door, she picked up her phone and answered the call.
Immediately after, she heard a soft voice from the other end of the phone, and her expression immediately became strange.
“Is this Miao Miao Jiang? This is Wang Bu Liu Xing. Are you free to talk on the phone right now?”
Jiang Li, “What in the world is Lu Yibei doing? Why is she still in urban legend transformation during the day?”
Thinking this, she suppressed the doubt in her heart and said indifferently, “I am, but I might have to go investigate soon. Please keep it brief.”
“Okay, okay.” The girl on the other end of the phone said, “To put it simply, I’ll be in Mountain City tonight. Do you have time to meet?”
Tonight? Jiang Li frowned, recalling briefly the action plan for today that she and Lin Kele had temporarily discussed while listening to Mai Mai explain the situation.
Around nine o’clock, they would depart for Mountain City Medical University to conduct an on-site investigation. Before ten o’clock, they would go to the Special Operations Team to retrieve Wang Han’s information and call records. Then, they would screen personnel who had recently had close contact with Wang Han to see if they could find any anomalies. After nightfall, they would go to Nine Street in Mountain City to contact the Night Watch informant embedded in the Eclipse Society.
Thinking carefully, her entire day’s work schedule was packed. Where would she find time to meet someone who not only didn’t reply to emails but also took several days to call?
As Jiang Li was pondering, Wang Bu Liu Xing’s voice, sounding somewhat like a spoiled child, came from the other end of the phone: “I miss you.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Hao’s heart trembled slightly, and the accumulated grievances of two or three days instantly crumbled.
She frowned, pondered for two seconds, sighed silently, and said calmly, “Yes, but it will have to be after midnight at the earliest.”
It proves that when someone is angry with you, no matter how free they are, they will always have some inexplicably “unavoidable matter” and won’t come to see you. But if they want to see you, no matter how busy they are, they will make time.
“No problem! Then I’ll just wander around on my own for a bit and call you again after midnight!”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Li’s expression changed imperceptibly.
When she heard Lu Yibei say that, she felt a slight fluctuation in her Spirit Mark.
That meant Lu Yibei was lying!
What exactly was wrong with that sentence?
Jiang Li thought, then nodded
and said, “Okay, let’s talk about it when we meet tonight.”
Once they met, with a little probing, she would be able to determine what lie Lu Yibei had told her.
Although she didn’t have a cleanliness fetish for the mind and didn’t mind Lu Yibei lying to her, after all, not all lies were malicious.
What’s more, that phrase “I miss you” was 100% genuine, verified by the Spirit Mark. freeweɓnøvel.com
However, as everyone knows, she has that stubborn personality that loves to uncover the truth.
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Killing two birds with one stone!
If she didn’t practice on Lu Yibei, was she going to wait until she faced an enemy to make last-minute preparations?
Lu Yibei had no idea what hardships awaited her in Mountain City. She only knew that after talking to Jiang Hao on the phone, she was overjoyed, as if she was floating, and even her steps on the way home became lighter.
So, at exactly three o’clock in the afternoon, with more than an hour left before the high-speed rail departed, she eagerly left home and rushed to the train station.
To her surprise, she had thought Ju Meng would not go to Mountain City with her because of their spat, but when she was about to leave, Ju Meng still followed.
Of course, from the moment they left home until they passed security and sat down on the train, Lu Yibei kept trying to coax Ju Meng, but Ju Meng didn’t respond a single word the entire time.
Sitting in her seat, Lu Yibei stole a glance at Ju Meng, who was pouting silently, engrossed in her game. Lu Yibei sighed soundlessly.
After friendship soured, things indeed became difficult.
Between brothers, anger couldn’t last this long, and even spouses didn’t hold grudges overnight. What was most agonizing was the state caught between two emotions.
However, Smelly Girl seems to be suffering quite badly, so she should start talking to me soon, right?
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Lu Yibei thought, wisely choosing not to disturb Ju Meng’s suffering further. Instead, she turned to look out the window, quietly recalling the information about the Eclipse Society stronghold in Mountain City that she had obtained from Chatterbox Girl, as the scenery outside began to change.
In fact, she hadn’t originally intended to ask Chatterbox Girl about the Eclipse Society in Mountain City. After all, she had previously used Blue Yi’s identity to connect with Miss Rabbit and Suo E, and had initially obtained some intelligence on the Eclipse Society strongholds. It didn’t seem difficult to progress further.
However, when she had just decided to go to Mountain City, she tried to contact Miss Rabbit and Suo E, but they didn’t answer her calls at all. A few times, the call connected, only to be ruthlessly hung up by the person on the other end.
Clearly, Miss Rabbit and Suo E were deliberately avoiding contact with “Blue Yi”!
Could “Blue Yi” tolerate this? Of course, she would ask the Monster Story Chat Group for help and arrange a “Call You to Death” service for Miss Rabbit!
Even changing phone numbers wouldn’t work; that was someone’s Power, born from unscrupulous online loan collections, and its target was Miss Rabbit, unrelated to phone numbers or contact methods.
Even if Miss Rabbit held a child’s toy phone, the ringtone would keep ringing.
Don’t carry a phone? If you don’t carry a phone, aren’t there still contact methods like letters, carrier pigeons, or messages relayed by passersby?
Anyway, there would always be a way to make Miss Rabbit unable to bear the torment and finally reply.
Before that, she would use the information obtained from Chatterbox Girl to slightly advance the process of infiltrating the Eclipse Society. Lu Yibei thought.
As Lu Yibei pondered, a pair of small hands silently handed a phone to her, followed by Ju Meng’s voice in her ear.
“Help me pass this!”
