Free Web NovelThe person who died at the Mountain City train station was precisely Wang Han, who had gone missing last night.
Agent Tan of the Shancheng Si Ye Hui, after dissecting Wang Han's body, discovered that he suffered from severe lung cancer, and the cancer cells had spread throughout
his entire body. The cause of death, just as the train station broadcast stated, was a series of complications caused by the cancer.
What was strange, however, was that when Mountain City Medical University organized physical examinations at the beginning of the year, Wang Han's various health indicators were still quite healthy,
and as a doctoral student specializing in oncology, he surprisingly didn't notice any abnormalities in his body until the cancer cells had spread throughout his entire body.
"Sister Wan, have you read Old Tan's autopsy report?" Lin Kele asked Jiang Li. "That person named Wang, his lungs actually became like that. It's
too terrifying."
"Yes, I've seen it." Jiang Li nodded, her expression solemn.
On the surface, determining Wang Han's cause of death as illness doesn't present a major problem. The only thing that could potentially link it to urban legend incidents
is likely his highly diseased lungs.
Both of his lungs were twisted, as if grasped by a pair of large hands and forcibly rotated several times. Alveoli, nerves, muscles,
blood, and various other tissues were entangled like twisted ropes, and all the tissues showed a high degree of calcification. The entire lung was as brittle as wax,
shattering upon impact.
With both lungs diseased to that extent, even if he hadn't died from cancer complications at the station, he would eventually suffocate to death from being unable to breathe.
Besides the deformed lesions that caused difficulty breathing just by looking at them, what was even more suspicious was the large amount of black substance filling the space between his lung lobes.
This black substance was moistened by the mucus in the lung lobes, condensing into lumps of black mass, resembling peat dug up from underground. freēwebnovel.com
After examination, the black substance was initially determined to be inhalable particles such as dust, sulfides, and nitrates – in simple terms, the main components of smog.
However, to accumulate such a large amount of inhalable particles in the lungs, it would require holding Wang Han's head and inserting two tubes into his nostrils,
forcefully pumping in harmful gases like car exhaust and industrial gases, and continuing for a long period of time, for it to be possible.
"This is murder to silence him!" Lin Kele said indignantly. "That person named Wang must have been eliminated because he knew the specific details of the dirty dealings between the Eclipse Society and the x god."
"My intuition tells me that as long as Zhang Yi is arrested, we'll get results quickly."
Zhang Yi, whom Lin Kele mentioned, is the son of the chairman of Shancheng Rising Sun Biotechnology. According to the Special Operations Team's investigation, before Wang Han disappeared,
he had contacted Wang Han and given him a metal box, entrusting Wang Han with its research.
"It's useless," Jiang Hao shook her head. "If we forcibly bring him in for questioning, as long as he refuses to speak, and we don't have crucial evidence,
after twenty-four hours, we'll have no choice but to send him back."
After all, judging solely by Zhang Yi's actions, he was merely representing his father's company, entrusting Wang Han with research, and the item given to Wang Han for research
was burned to charcoal in the fire.
Although there's suspicion of destroying evidence, it's just suspicion.
As long as he insists it was just a normal research commission, we can't determine that Wang Han's death, and other matters, are related to him.
Perhaps only someone like Lu Yibei would get slightly scared and reveal their home address, bank card password, and even recently browsed
Websites without any reservations, right?
Moreover, even if Zhang Yi's mouth is pried open, given the Eclipse Society's style of operation, they would likely just abandon him as a disposable piece. At that
point, it would merely mean one more body needing to be dissected. Jiang Li thought.
"At a time like this, it would be much easier if we used forces outside of the Night Watch to secretly investigate Zhang Yi," Lin Kele mumbled.
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's figure suddenly flashed in Jiang Hao's mind, but she quickly shook her head, shaking Lu Yibei's figure out,
and refocused her attention on work.
Why do I always think of Lu Yibei?
Lu Yibei's matter can be discussed later; work is more important now. Jiang Li thought.
When she withdrew her attention and looked at Lin Kele again, a smile suddenly appeared on Lin Kele's face. "However, even if we don't
investigate Zhang Yi, it's not impossible to find clues elsewhere."
Lin Kele began to display her almost supernatural special ability.
"Oh?" Jiang Li tilted her head.
"Didn't we arrange to meet the informant embedded in the Eclipse Society tonight in Nine Street?" Lin Kele explained. "My intuition tells me that tonight,
when we meet the informant, we'll find a new breakthrough!"
Sizing up Lin Kele, Jiang Hao nodded thoughtfully.
Lin Kele's "intuition" is quite reliable. After all, she's a bizarre talent who can get a flash of inspiration while strolling down the street and randomly grab someone who turns out to be
a key figure in a urban legend incident.
In fact, Jiang Hao had previously considered making Lin Kele her partner and going with her to Dream Come True Entertainment City. freewebnσvel.cøm
With Lin Kele's intuition, she would definitely be able to dominate at the gambling table.
Unfortunately, when it comes to gambling, Lin Kele's talent points are in the negative. Jiang
Hao taught her several times but couldn't teach her how to play mahjong.
Perhaps this is the price of gaining that strange ability?
"However, not yet," Jiang Hao said calmly.
"Why?" Lin Kele frowned.
"At least we need to disguise ourselves, right?" Jiang Li pointed to her own clothes and then to the small suit Lin Kele was wearing. "Going to a nightclub dressed so
formally is too conspicuous and will attract unnecessary attention to your informant."
"However, if the informant you've placed in the Eclipse Society is disposable, you can ignore what I just said."
"Ah, yes, yes, we should disguise ourselves," Lin Kele nodded.
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Are you angry?"
Miao Miao Jiang: "No, I'm working. Let's talk about anything else later."
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Then, are we still meeting later?"
After waiting for a moment, Jiang Li didn't reply.
So, departing from Mountain City train station, riding in a taxi, and heading towards the guesthouse owned by Ju Meng's acquaintance, Lu Yibei, who had been reclusive for a long time, put away her phone and suddenly blurted out a sentence.
"Smelly Girl, do you ever feel that living is sometimes quite meaningless?"
Ju Meng glanced sideways at Lu Yibei and said irritably, "Then how do you want to die? Do you need me, your Sister, to help you?"
Just because of that limping Miss, she became so emotionally low. Honestly, Ju Meng was a little jealous, and under the influence of jealousy, her tone of voice couldn't help but become passive-aggressive.
Of course, she also knew that Lu Yibei wasn't someone easily defeated; she was most likely just talking nonsense right now.
Lu Yibei glanced out the window at the brightly lit Kua Jiang Bridge spanning the wide river.
Withdrawing her gaze, she said expressionlessly, "This bridge is so beautiful. You can also hear the roaring river below. If I jumped down from here, it wouldn't be a bad
ending, would it?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her phone vibrated again. She looked down and saw a message from Jiang Li.
Miao Miao Jiang: "Meet."
Although it was just a single short word, it was like using a revive coin, instantly bringing Lu Yibei back from a "near-death" state, fully recovered and in
full spirits.
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As long as they can still meet, things will be easy. Is there anything in this world that she can't handle?
"Want to jump into the river?" Ju Meng pouted. "Then do you want me, your Sister, to help you grab the driver's steering wheel?"
Are you two discussing something like this here without considering my feelings? The taxi driver, breaking out in a cold sweat, thought, and forced out
a smile, saying, "Two beautiful ladies, there are actually many wonderful things in this world worth experiencing. Why think negatively?"
"I know several quite interesting nightclubs not far from the guesthouse you're going to, right over in Nine Street. How about this, I'll lead the way and take
you there to relax?"
It wasn't that the driver was timid; the key was that on this Kua Jiang Bridge, there had indeed been incidents where passengers snatched the taxi driver's steering wheel and plunged into the river.
There was even a legend circulating about a urban legend specializing in snatching taxi drivers' steering wheels haunting the vicinity.
Facts proved that taxi drivers were inherently incompatible with Lu Yibei, completely countered!
Isn't the nightclub in Nine Street where the Eclipse Society stronghold is located? Lu Yibei thought, and said, "Okay!"
Smelly Girl had long been appeased, and the crisis on Jiang Li's side was temporarily resolved. She suddenly felt that she could start causing trouble again.
It was just past nine in the evening, and there were still about three hours until Gao Lingzhan. This was enough time for her to first go to the Eclipse Society stronghold and scout it out.
Can't you tell she had an argument with her girlfriend? Why go to a nightclub at a time like this!
Ju Meng thought, and almost simultaneously with Lu Yibei, said, "Not going!"
Lu Yibei, Ju Meng,
In the silence, their eyes met, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Driver:
If she wants to go, just let her go. How are you even being a best friend?
So, do harmful best friends like this really exist?
"You scoundrel, weren't you just acting like you wanted to die?" Ju Meng asked.
"I suddenly realized that living isn't just about love; there are many other meaningful things to do..." Lu Yibei said weakly.
"Like what?" Ju Meng rolled her eyes.
"Like..." Lu Yibei was about to speak when she suddenly realized she was still in a taxi with ordinary people inside. She paused, leaned in,
and whispered something into Ju Meng's ear.
After listening, Ju Meng's eyes widened slightly. Looking at Lu Yibei again, her gaze immediately held a hint of surprise.
She had thought Lu Yibei was going to say something nonsensical again, but unexpectedly, Lu Yibei said she was here for work and actually had something serious to
do?
Lu Yibei said to her, "I suddenly remembered that a long time ago, in a hospital in Hua City, I saw a patient with similar symptoms to the person who just died.
Thinking about it this way, that person's death might not be so simple. I need to go and gather some information."
"According to internal Night Watch intelligence, there's an Eclipse Society stronghold in Nine Street. I plan to go and see if I can gather any useful information."
"Didn't you say you wanted to help before? How about we split up? You go ask your acquaintance who opened a guesthouse near Nine Street
to see if you can find out anything. How about that?"
"Don't worry, I have a way to prevent the Eclipse Society from seeing through my identity and they might even treat me as one of their own."
Regarding the Eclipse Society, Lu Yibei genuinely didn't want Ju Meng to be too involved. After all, she wasn't sure how strong the Eclipse Society entrenched in Mountain City was.
Although Ju Meng is a tianzai level strange story, when it involves the Eclipse Society, being Calamity level is still not 100% safe.
She has a pirated black sun totem and can bluff her way through when necessary, but Ju Meng doesn't.
Wasn't Wang Yingying also a tianzai level strange story before?
Didn't the Eclipse Society somehow manage to imprison her and torment her like a rag doll?
So, since Ju Meng is here in Mountain City to play, it's better to keep her trip simple.
Lu Yibei thought, seeing that Ju Meng still looked hesitant and worried. She straightened up, and through the family imprint, made her
Coat briefly change form, revealing the black sun totem on her back, showed it to Ju Meng for a glance, and then turned to give Ju Meng a "you know what I mean"
look.
Ju Meng, "???"
When did this person get involved with the Eclipse Society?
She's a Night Watch agent, has a black sun totem, and is also the King of Weird Tales...
What exactly does she want to do? Unify the jianghu and rule for eternity?
Ju Meng suddenly felt that being placed in the top three of the Night Watch's red wanted list was somewhat unfair to her. After all, she was so harmless to humans and animals,
whereas dangerous individuals like Lu Yibei should be ranked so high...
After parting ways with Ju Meng, Lu Yibei came to Nine Street in Mountain City alone and walked down the lively street. Even though the night had become long
and the number of urban legend had surged, it seemed to have temporarily had no significant impact on this large city. This street still looked as
bustling and prosperous as ever.
It was even a bit excessively lively.
There were many people on the street, men and women, giving the illusion that everyone in the entire city had come out.
Some of them were gathered in late-night snack shops by the roadside, some were crowded at the entrance of KTVs, and some were directly on the street, making noise and constantly
pouring alcohol into their mouths. The air seemed to be filled with the scent of hormones.
However, Lu Yibei felt that this situation was also normal.
The situation here was actually similar to Bu Ye Street in Shizhou City. The only difference was that Bu Ye Street was guarded by Da Chunyang Palace, while here it was the
Eclipse Society.
After Ju Meng left, Lu Yibei walked alone on this lively street and only then subtly sensed that something was not normal about it.
Although the entire street looked clean and tidy, it gave her a feeling of being polluted, as if a pair of huge and
turbid eyes were observing everything from above at any moment.
And the source of that feeling likely originated from the overall geomantic energy of this street.
As the King of Weird Tales who had successfully completed a Hundred Nights Walk, her perception of geomantic energy was indeed much stronger than that of ordinary urban legend.
That feeling is probably like certain things where you feel strange and unaccustomed the first time, but once you experience it, you gradually become
proficient.
However, Lu Yibei wasn't sure if a urban legend had controlled a portion of Mountain City's geomantic energy, or if it was the surrounding atmosphere,
environment, living habits, etc., that had caused the overall geomantic energy to be affected.
Just as after a urban legend controls geomantic energy, their Power will affect the environment of an area, the environment of an area can sometimes also conversely affect the geomantic energy.
While secretly observing the surrounding environment and moving forward, Lu Yibei quickly ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ arrived at the nightclub where the Eclipse Society stronghold was located—CH
ARMCLUB.
Stopping before the entrance, she briefly sized up the uniquely shaped door flashing with psychedelic lights. Lu Yibei slightly furrowed her brow.
She inexplicably remembered a game she had played before.
It shouldn't be the case that once I go in, I can't come out, right?
Thinking this, she walked through the entrance. Instantly, deafening music poured into her ears.
Thus, Lu Yibei's first action to scout the Eclipse Society stronghold began.
