Free Web NovelHumans are always full of fear of an uncertain future. After a series of operations, Lu Yibei successfully made some Eclipse Society members feel the uncertainty of their future, burying the seeds of fear in their hearts.
However, for the seeds of fear to take root, sprout, and influence the vast majority of Eclipse Society members, it still needs some time to brew.
After enough time has brewed, despair will be born in the hearts of those Eclipse Society members. Lu Yibei only needs to appear at that time and give them a chance to be reborn. Most of them will surely choose to follow with gratitude.
This kind of thing is like being born in a relatively traditional family. If you tell your parents you don't want to have children, your parents will definitely not allow it. But if you say you don't even want to have relations with humans, they will mediate, put the matter of having children aside, and let you try dating first.
When faced with the options of being tortured to death or following a seemingly good Leader, that rabble will most likely choose the latter. Even if a small number of people want to sing a different tune, they will be silenced by the majority who will cover their mouths and hold down their hands and feet.
This is the terrifying aspect of the “majority”...
After dealing with the carefully selected group of Eclipse Society members who were prone to emotional outbursts, Lu Yibei estimated that the thunderstorm created by Zixiao Platform had ended, so she left the God Kingdom Prototype and hurried to the underground station at Jiaochangkou.
She said she would collect the Maitian God Offspring's corpse, so she had to bury it herself! freewebnøvel.coɱ
If she went late, it would cause trouble for her colleagues in the Shancheng Si Ye Hui, and that would be bad, wouldn't it?
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Accompanied by dazzling golden light, passing through the passage of the God Kingdom Prototype, before she could clearly see the scene in front of her, a strong smell of charring entered Lu Yibei's nostrils. She composed herself, looked up, and saw the Maitian God Offspring's completely carbonized body, like a graphite statue, come into view.
Just as she had thought before hiding in the God Kingdom Prototype, the Maitian God Offspring was as dead as could be.
Without the protection of that twisted and strange giant shadow, enveloped in the lightning created by Zixiao Platform, and with Zhang Huainan and Ju Meng, two Calamity level Powerhouses, staring... Under the triple debuffs, even the Holy Child of the Miracle Order would probably find it difficult to survive.
Without her in the way, allowing Zhang Huainan and Ju Meng to unleash their full Power and pummel the Maitian God Offspring, wouldn't that be an easy matter?
This was the outcome she had guessed when she saw the giant shadow disappear and Zhang Huainan appear.
She spread her Spiritual Energy to detect any possible hidden Spiritual Energy fluctuations around, and waited for a moment. Seeing no premonitions flash through her mind, Lu Yibei nodded contentedly and stepped forward.
She took out the Xuanjing Luofu, infused it with Spiritual Energy, causing a light blade to condense, and carefully cut one, two, three... on the Maitian God Offspring's corpse.
When Lu Yibei, like a psychologically twisted dismembering maniac, cut the Maitian God Offspring's corpse into more than thirty pieces, a familiar voice came from behind her.
“You dog, what are you looking for? Sister will help you find it, okay?”
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, and looking towards the voice, she saw Ju Meng with a resentful face, holding a soccer-sized sphere made of various pathological tissues in one hand.
The Maitian God Offspring's urban legend core?! Lu Yibei's eyes lit up, and she quickly said, “Oh, isn't this my good Sister? You look a bit haggard after a short while. Did someone make you angry? Tell me, I'll help you get revenge!”
While speaking flatteringly, she walked forward, reaching out to take the urban legend core from Ju Meng's hand.
However, just as her fingertips were about to touch the urban legend core, Ju Meng's fingertips exerted a slight force, tossing the urban legend core into the air. Then, a wisp of clear breeze swept by, and the urban legend core was transferred from her right hand to her left.
“You dog, as soon as we meet, you don't even ask if Sister is injured, only caring about the urban legend core. Do you have any conscience left?”
She noticed that from the moment she appeared, Lu Yibei's gaze had not left the Maitian God Offspring's urban legend core for a moment.
This made her very unhappy!
Her mood was like spending a lot of money and painstakingly preparing a gift for someone she liked, but after the person received the gift, they never looked at her again, only caring about the gift itself.
“My good Sister is right...” Lu Yibei echoed, “So, are you injured?”
Ju Meng pouted, “No.”
“That's great! Now, can you give me that thing?”
Seeing Lu Yibei reach out her hand again, Ju Meng hugged the urban legend core to her chest, “No! I have to take this back to Taoyuan.”
A nascent Calamity level urban legend core, whether used to extract source spirits or sold to Psychic as the main material for drawing Spirit Marks, could bring in a large fortune and somewhat offset some of the losses of Taoyuan's citizens.
If she didn't get the person, at least she should keep some of the wealth, otherwise, wouldn't it be a double loss of both person and wealth?
Hearing this, Lu Yibei anxiously said, “No, this is Xiao Mai's payment to me. Why should you take it back to Taoyuan? We can't bully people like this!”
“Bah, is there anyone here? I only see a dog!” Ju Meng rolled her eyes.
Although she could directly tell Lu Yibei that she had spent a lot of Taoyuan's money to fight against that giant shadow, just like most Little Girls turn into riddlers when quarreling with their boyfriends, she just didn't want to now.
You can't even notice such a small thing, and you have the nerve to say you like me?!
Lu Yibei, “...”
Something's not right! Why is this Smelly Girl suddenly acting like she ate dynamite? Did I offend her somewhere?
It couldn't be that she's angry because I didn't show her how I was tortured, could it?
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In the end, Lu Yibei still didn't get the Maitian God Offspring's urban legend core.
Although that was the tutoring fee Maitian God had promised her, since Ju Meng wouldn't give it, she couldn't force it.
It wasn't a matter of whether she could win or not, the problem was that she didn't want Smelly Girl to be unhappy.
What's more, wasn't Ju Meng's hers anyway?
“You really gave it to me?” Seeing that Lu Yibei still didn't know the reason for her unhappiness, but actually directly gave her the Maitian God Offspring's urban legend core, Ju Meng looked surprised, “Aren't you going to ask me what I'm going to use it for?”
“Do I need to ask?” Lu Yibei shrugged, “If you really need it, for whatever reason, I will give it to you.”
“Actually, I...” Looking at Lu Yibei's sincere and passionate gaze, Ju Meng's cheeks flushed slightly, and she shyly turned her head away.
After dodging Lu Yibei's gaze, she subtly let out a sigh of relief, then quickly regained her usual carefree demeanor. She looked back at Lu Yibei, extended her pink tongue to lick her lips, and a mischievous smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, “If I want you, will you give yourself to me too?”
If she could gain both the person and the wealth, that would naturally be the best!
Lu Yibei, “???”
This Smelly Girl, please control yourself!
If you act like this, I won't be able to say my next lines. Lu Yibei thought.
She originally wanted to tell Ju Meng, “If you don't really need it, give the urban legend core back to me, because I really need it.” She intended to use this to trick the urban legend core back.
But now...
“Well...” Lu Yibei dodged Ju Meng's gaze, which seemed to want to devour her alive, and scratched her cheek, “I suddenly remembered, Zhang Yu hasn't been dealt with yet!”
“Didn't you say before that even if you extended his life, he wouldn't live long?”
“Then I have to hurry up and read his memories, otherwise he might die suddenly.”
When she rescued Zhang Yu, she planned to use his memories to find clues about Li Gate. If Zhang Yu died, she would have wasted her efforts.
Lu Yibei said, opening the passage to the God Kingdom Prototype, and scurried inside as if escaping.
Watching Lu Yibei's back gradually swallowed by the golden light, Ju Meng rolled her eyes and followed closely behind, entering the God Kingdom Prototype.
“You dog, don't run! Did you forget what you promised Sister before?”
“Huh? If I remember correctly, I didn't promise to let you sleep with me, did I?”
“I'm talking about five 648s, plus a one-day amusement park trip for two!”
Lu Yibei, “...” It was just something she said casually, why was she so serious about it?
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A moment later, inside the God Kingdom Prototype, in a room that looked like a hospital ward.
The monotonous ticking of instruments echoed in the smell of disinfectant. Under the pale ceiling, Zhang Yu lay quietly on the hospital bed, his breath gradually weakening.
Lu Yibei, standing by the bed, observed Zhang Yu for a moment, then stepped forward, activated her Spiritual Energy, and 'borrowed' Mengmeng's ability through the dependent mark. Then, she reached out and touched Zhang Yu's forehead with her fingertips.
In an instant, Spiritual Energy fluctuations spread, disturbing the air and rippling out in circles like water.
Pale tentacles, imperceptible to the naked eye, slowly rose from behind Lu Yibei, extended forward, and, following her slender fingertips, submerged into Zhang Yu's glabella.
Thus, dreams began to construct, and yesterday gradually reappeared.
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Lights and shadows flickered before her eyes, as if she had fallen into a crack between reality and darkness.
One after another, yellowed images began to flash before Lu Yibei's eyes.
She saw the subway train, enveloped in Spiritual Energy, roaring towards the evil altar, violently colliding with the statue.
She saw a figure riding a motorcycle, unleashing powerful ammunition at the relentlessly pursuing twisted blood shadow.
She saw a ghostly figure walking through the air-raid shelter tunnel, holding a twisted painting.
“I didn't expect there to be a Power that could summon vehicles. How cool!” Lu Yibei thought.
Soon, all of Zhang Yu's experiences from the subway station to this place were read, and her vision immediately entered a brief darkness.
As her vision gradually cleared, she saw a middle-aged man, who bore a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to Zhang Yu and was about forty years old.
The man sat upright behind the desk, staring intently at her, with what seemed like a hint of anger in his eyes. He said in a deep voice, “How many times have I told you, when we do things, there are some rules we can't ignore...”
Lu Yibei was initially startled by the man's gaze, but then she heard another voice, sounding from a place she couldn't see, and she finally understood.
“Didn't Third Uncle and Eldest Uncle all do it that way? If we stick to the old ways...”
Hearing this voice, Lu Yibei understood that this was a scene of Zhang Yu being lectured by his father.
“Bastard! They are them, and we are us. Perhaps you think that since we're seen as bad guys, we should act without scruples. But today I'm telling you, even bad guys have a bottom line. If we lose even that last bottom line, we'll become monsters!”
“I don't want to see you right now. Go back and think about it yourself.”
“But...”
“Get out!”
The hot-headed Zhang Yu, like most teenagers in their rebellious phase, argued with his father.
The young him couldn't understand why his father refused to do small things like reselling source spirits, which could bring enormous profits in a short time, as long as no one else knew.
His Third Uncle and Eldest Uncle had already accumulated vast wealth and built considerable influence through such dealings, while his father's meager income from completing Eclipse Society missions was barely enough to support even his subordinates.
Lu Yibei, “......”
“I didn't expect this guy's father to be this kind of person?”
“It's a bit like the traditional gangsters in movies. To put it nicely, they're righteous outlaws.”
“However, such people easily end up pleasing no one and ultimately come to a bad end, right?”
As Lu Yibei was thinking, a loud slamming door suddenly echoed in her ears.
As the figure of the middle-aged man was completely obscured by the rapidly closing door, the scene before her eyes also changed.
Black and white photos, elegiac couplets with black text on white backgrounds, an altar covered with black cloth... The entire world seemed to be left with only black and white, the only vivid color being the yellow globe chrysanthemums placed around the portrait of the deceased.
Someone was faintly sobbing in her ears, and someone else was faintly arguing loudly.
Then... the arguing became clearer, and Lu Yibei heard the content of the dispute.
“Zhang Shuisheng, you old beast, do you still have the nerve to come here?”
“Yu'er... is there some misunderstanding between us?”
“No misunderstanding. It's you, you killed my dad, just because he stopped your and Third Uncle's plan and contacted the Night Watch. To prevent more things from being leaked, you killed him to silence him!”
In front of the mourning hall, the young Zhang Yu roared at his Eldest Uncle like a wild beast, his eyes bloodshot.
“It seems there really is some misunderstanding between us,” Zhang Shuisheng said with a cold expression. “Sheng'er, your brother is a bit agitated right now. Take good care of him. I have things to do, so I'll be leaving first...”
Saying that, he forcefully pushed away Zhang Yu's hand that was gripping his collar, then, as if he had just touched something filthy, he pulled out a handkerchief from his suit pocket and wiped his hands.
“Zhang Shuisheng, you just wait!” Zhang Yu, held back by Zhang Sheng and two men in black, watched Zhang Shuisheng's departing back and said viciously, “From now on, you won't be able to pull off any of your dirty tricks! I'll stop you, I'll stop you!”
When Zhang Yu uttered these words, Lu Yibei clearly felt the anger in his heart, and even the scene she saw in his dream was tinged with blood red.
Hearing his roar, Zhang Shuisheng's steps paused slightly. He turned his head to look at him, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
He didn't care about Zhang Yu's threat at all.
Because he knew very well that it was almost impossible for Zhang Yu to gain enough power to contend with him.
Zhang Yu understood the contempt in Zhang Shuisheng's gaze, the unspoken message, and froze in place, as if petrified.
At that moment, many things flashed before his eyes—ordinary yet profoundly meaningful things.
They were the clear waves and gentle breeze by the Langshui River, the unique old buildings and small alleys of Mountain City, the misty breakfast stalls at the school gate every morning, and in the scorching summer, two or three friends holding ice-cold happy water, sitting in front of the television, waiting for the animation to start...
And Zhang Shuisheng's gaze silently told Zhang Yu that these things Zhang Yu loved and cherished, if necessary, he could easily take them away, just as he had taken away Zhang Yu's father.
Seeing these memories of Zhang Yu, feeling the strong emotions of wanting to protect something and the guilt towards his father conveyed in those memories, Lu Yibei's emotions, which had become indifferent due to devouring Human Fireworks, showed a faint tremor, and her eyes quivered slightly.
She suddenly understood Zhang Yu's feelings a little. When Twilight Woman brought the Plague Tai Sui's clone to cause trouble in Hua City, she also held similar feelings, raised her broken sword, launched the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and became the King of Weird Tales.
Zhang Yu's choice, however, was to join the Eclipse Society, and with his decent talent, he became a pawn of Phoenix Adelaide.
Although neither of them was entirely willing, their choices were not wrong...
Immediately after, a tall man appeared before her eyes, taking Zhang Yu away as if adopting an abandoned puppy. Before Lu Yibei could remember his appearance, she interrupted the memory reading as if she had seen a ghost, in a hurry.
Next to Phoenix, she saw a pale-faced, listless, slightly hunched, seemingly unremarkable office worker.
“Holy crap! Is that man?!”
“Why is he here? Does ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ he have a weird Hobbies of secretly watching his subordinates take on new recruits?”
“What should I do now?”
And just as she saw that office worker, the office worker also seemed to notice her, cast his gaze towards her, waved, and grinned, revealing a smile that sent chills down her spine.
When reading others' memories through a dream, that man's figure could actually move on its own, uncontrolled by her, the dream creator, and even greeted her...
“This is absolutely preposterous!”
“Can't anyone control him?”
“What if that guy targets me again through this dream encounter?”
As Lu Yibei was thinking, the man suddenly took a step, slowly walking towards her.
In an instant, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, shivering from head to toe in the middle of summer.
