Free Web NovelAfter expressing her attitude to the man, Lu Yibei turned around expressionlessly, her hands on the wall, her head tilted slightly back, and then she slammed her head against the wall.
It was as if ancient ministers would smash their heads against the pillars in the Golden Throne Hall to commit suicide.
Perhaps, Mr. Zhong Huai, who possessed the Spirit Mark of the Great General Who Pacifies Ghosts, would feel a strange sense of familiarity with this act?
After all, the prototype of his Spirit Mark was said to have died in such a way in legends. Lu Yibei thought.
She was now suspected of being trapped in a dream within a dream constructed by the man; if the man insisted on playing some kind of imprisonment game with her, she definitely wouldn't be able to interrupt the dream and leave through normal means.
In desperation, she thought of using external means.
She vaguely remembered hearing somewhere that if one dreamed of particularly painful or terrifying things, the body, out of self-preservation, would forcefully awaken the person.
Although this seemed a bit foolish, and she didn't know if it would work against the man's monstrous methods, it was better than doing nothing.
Even if it couldn't stimulate her to wake up, what if that man softened his heart?
At worst, if she dreamed of being severely injured, her body would show some reaction, and Ju Meng, noticing her abnormality, should also find a way to wake her up.
The only slightly difficult part was that there were no sharp objects in this damned dream.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Dull thuds resounded incessantly. Watching Lu Yibei's suicidal behavior, the man's mouth twitched, and he continued to persuade, “Calamity Miss, please don't do this. I just want to tell you some facts that conform to the rules.”
“......” Lu Yibei remained silent, as if she hadn't heard the man's words, and continued to crash around.
Like a little bee trapped in a glass bottle.
The "Zuo Zhuan" recorded: "Human fire is called fire, heavenly fire is called Disaster."
The "Shuowen Jiezi" also said: "Calamity is harm. The gods do not bless it."
What good meaning could these two words together have?
Lu Yibei had long known that "Disaster" in some people's eyes represented things like natural and man-made calamities.
But why couldn't "Disaster" mean averting Disaster and avoiding misfortune?
If not, gloating or causing trouble could also work!
“If you refuse to accept your destiny, refuse to become a true Disaster, you are very likely to never advance to the Calamity level,” the man continued. “This is the rule...”
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei paused slightly, but soon began to crash around again.
Becoming a Calamity-level, or even the most powerful urban legend in the world, might have been very tempting to her a year ago, such as when she was almost used as a sacrifice, or when she was almost possessed, or when she was chased by wolves and fled in panic...
At that time, she just wanted to live.
As long as she could live, she would pay any price.
If someone told her there was a way to make her the most powerful urban legend, she would undoubtedly follow that person's guidance and then smash the dog heads of Miss Rabbit, the Great Serpent God, and the Big Boss.
But now...
Although she still wanted to live, there were some prices she was no longer willing to pay.
Did this count as inexplicably acquiring more weaknesses? Lu Yibei thought, and the figure of Chatterbox Girl suddenly flashed in her mind.
She vaguely remembered how Chatterbox Girl looked the first time she appeared before her: that seemingly slender and frail figure standing on a dilapidated and collapsing rooftop, saying nothing, doing nothing, yet exuding a strong sense of desolation and loneliness.
How to describe it?
Somewhat like an abandoned kitten, surviving alone in the dark corners of a concrete jungle, constantly snatching food from stronger, more experienced peers, escaping the fangs of stray dogs again and again, enduring wind, rain, and disease, finally becoming a very formidable old cat with a body full of scars.
But, no one could ever hold it in their arms and gently stroke its fur again.
Lu Yibei suddenly felt a bit curious if anyone had said similar things to Chatterbox Girl.
If so, what choice did Chatterbox Girl make?
Would she sever all her fated red threads of marriage?
If so, how would she do it?
Find each of those fated partners and break off the relationship, or... kill to prove the Way?
Driven by her mischievous nature, Lu Yibei's thoughts inadvertently started to wander again.
The image of Chatterbox Girl, like a demon, like a demon, erasing those beautiful girls one by one.
Doing so seemed to perfectly align with the core characteristics of a Witch Breed's true form?
Perhaps she could really advance quickly!
Lu Yibei's thoughts continued to race in an unhinged direction, her body constantly crashing around. The next moment, a faint sound of glass breaking seemed to ring out.
Immediately after, it was as if she had accidentally run into a strange bug in a game that disabled collision detection; she watched herself pass through the ground, her vision swallowed by a profound darkness that felt as if it was glowing and radiating heat, and then she began to fall.
Even without the sound of wind or a sensation of weightlessness, she still felt her body falling.
Falling back into the dream she had woven for Zhang Yu.
Lu Yibei, “......” Did I just smash the dream within a dream that man wove?
Soon, as her body fell, the man's voice sounded in her ears.
“Calamity Miss, I apologize, it was rude of me to keep you in that manner just now.”
Lu Yibei, “......” That man, it seems, finally couldn't stand it anymore and decided to let me go.
“Now, you may not yet realize the importance of what I said, but one day you will understand.”
A forced melon isn't sweet. He felt that Lu Yibei didn't recognize what he said now because she hadn't experienced certain necessary things, just as he hadn't jumped from the rooftop yet.
“If you don't follow the rules, you won't be able to advance to the Calamity level, and if you can't advance to the Calamity level, you won't have enough power to do what you want to do, such as protecting the people around you...”
“If someday in the future, when your power is no longer sufficient to do those things, I hope you remember what I told you today; it might be of a little help to you.”
After the man finished speaking, his lingering voice circled in Lu Yibei's ears for a long time, as if he wanted to engrave these contents deep into her consciousness.
After a long while, the man's lingering words finally dissipated. The next second, the darkness before her eyes suddenly opened up, as if countless black mists quickly dispersed, and Lu Yibei saw light again.
As she left the dream within a dream created by the man, she was also forcefully expelled from Zhang Yu's dream...
That man seemed to have truly left just like that.
Lu Yibei looked up at the stark white light from the lamp on the hospital room ceiling, lost in thought for a long time, until a hand quietly grasped her wrist.
The knuckles of that hand were rather thick; it seemed to be a man's hand.
Wait, a man's hand?
That man?
Holy crap! He chased me out of the dream?
Lu Yibei's heart jumped in alarm, and she instinctively cried out.
“Ah—! No, don't mess around. Miss Rabbit and Suo E were the ones who deployed the Parasitic Kindred Abomination, Hua Xieyu herself was the one who ruined your plan, and it was Yinghuo's idea for me to investigate Li Gate! Everything has nothing to do with me!”
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“......”
Ju Meng squinted at Lu Yibei, her gaze lingering on Lu Yibei's pale, greenish face for a few seconds before slowly moving down to Zhang Yu's hand, which was tightly wrapped in bandages. She then sighed silently, patted Lu Yibei's shoulder, and pointed at Zhang Yu, whose lips were moving.
She understood Lu Yibei's feelings about being targeted by the Eclipse Society President, but so much time had passed; wasn't this reaction a bit too intense?
Seeing Ju Meng's actions, Lu Yibei finally snapped out of the fright that man had given her and looked at Zhang Yu in the direction Ju Meng indicated.
He seemed to have something he wanted to say to Lu Yibei. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
Lu Yibei, “......”
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Zhang Yu thought he was already dead.
Perhaps killed by the Maitian God Offspring, or perhaps infuriated to death by the last voice he heard before losing consciousness...
Anyway, after hearing that voice, he couldn't catch his last breath and fell unconscious.
Even during a period of his hazy ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) consciousness, the rumored deathbed panorama, a series of scenes from his youth, had already flashed before his eyes.
However, he soon discovered that for some unknown reason, he was still alive.
Immediately after, as he tried to perceive everything around him, he heard terms like "Li Gate" and "Yinghuo."
Li Gate was an important stronghold of the Eclipse Society, and Yinghuo was the codename for an Elder Council member... Almost instantly, he determined that the speakers were members of the Eclipse Society.
They might even be members of the Elder faction.
So, their presence here... was it to take advantage of the chaos?
This indeed seemed like the modus operandi of Eclipse Society members.
Upon realizing this, a bold idea suddenly popped into his mind.
Actually, if it weren't for the strong conviction to stop the ritual that was supporting him, he probably should have died long ago...
Now, someone had appeared at the ritual site, and they might even be from the Eclipse Society. He felt that he needed to try again, to seek help from these two figures to fulfill his last wish, even if one of these two figures was very likely the person whose single sentence almost caused him to die prematurely.
So, he struggled, using his last ounce of strength, and grabbed the hand of the figure closest to him.
“Do you have something to say?”
Vaguely seeing that figure lean down and ask him, his originally dim eyes rekindled with a glimmer of light.
“You’re so injured, isn’t it better to die quietly?”
Die? No, not yet! Zhang Yu thought, struggling to squeeze out a hoarse, painful groan from his blood-filled teeth.
“Can't die yet... I haven't... stopped...”
“Stop the ritual?”
Lu Yibei scrutinized the dying man on the hospital bed, deep in thought.
She felt a strong power of conviction emanating from this man.
Then, as if she suddenly thought of something, a foxy cunning glinted in her eyes, and then she subtly activated her charm ability.
“I'm sorry, I can't help you, but I can tell you how to stop the ritual.”
As soon as she said this, Ju Meng looked at Lu Yibei, her eyes slightly widened, her lips slightly parted.
What kind of trick is this scoundrel up to now?
The core of the Maitian God Offspring's urban legend body has almost been taken back to Taoyuan by me to fill the deficit in the small treasury, so what ritual is there to stop?
Ju Meng thought, just about to say something to Lu Yibei, when Lu Yibei's hand quietly covered her mouth, and then gave her a look, signaling her to be quiet.
Don't speak, just watch my performance quietly!
This is what I just learned from his superior...
Lu Yibei thought secretly, then spoke to Zhang Yu, “If you want to stop this ritual and protect the city you deeply love, I can grant you power and let you live.”
“Price, price...”
“Very sensible!” Lu Yibei nodded slightly. “Indeed, this opportunity is not given to you for free; you need to pay a price. As long as you become my dependent, you can accomplish everything you want to accomplish!”
In fact, Zhang Yu was not necessarily doomed to die; even if his life force was severed, he could extend his life by becoming a urban legend dependent.
When Coat was severely injured by Twilight Woman and nearly died, wasn't it through this method that he survived?
However, the premise for using this method was that Zhang Yu himself had to be willing.
“Dependent...” Zhang Yu's voice trembled, and he hesitated, clearly caught in an intense ideological struggle.
However, Lu Yibei wouldn't let him figure it out; of course, she had to take advantage of his confused state of mind to continue to mislead him!
“Think carefully, you are dying. If you don't accept my terms, you won't live. Even if you miraculously survive, you won't have enough power to do what you want to do, such as protecting this city...”
“Or are you willing to just let go and let this city fall into chaos, letting the righteousness you uphold completely collapse?”
As she spoke, Lu Yibei slightly increased the output of her charm ability.
Her limited glimpses into Zhang Yu's past revealed that he deeply loved this mountain city and had inherited a so-called righteousness from his deceased father.
Coupled with Zhang Yu being so injured yet still desperately wanting to stop the ritual, she felt it might be possible to sway his mind.
In fact, after a brief consideration, she thought that taking Zhang Yu as a dependent would be very beneficial to her. Not only could she gain an undercover agent within the Eclipse Society, but Zhang Yu could also personally tell her information about Li Gate, and she could even borrow Zhang Yu's ability to summon vehicles in the future!
That would be incredibly cool!
If she was lucky, she might even summon a Gundam? That's one of a man's ultimate dreams!
Most importantly, Lu Yibei respected him as a true man.
If every land had people willing to risk their lives to protect it, there would be no such thing as natural or man-made Disasters...
You want to brainwash me? Watch me poach your subordinate first! Lu Yibei thought fiercely.
Such behavior had a certain element of deliberate retaliation.
After listening to Lu Yibei's words, Zhang Yu was silent for a moment, then slowly said, “I... am willing to sign the dependent contract...”
He wasn't afraid of death at all originally, otherwise he wouldn't have faced Zhang Shuisheng and the soon-to-be-born Maitian God Offspring alone. But after hearing Lu Yibei's words, the fear of impending death and the constantly emerging regrets made him feel so lonely and sad, and at this moment, he suddenly feared death.
So, he chose to agree to Lu Yibei's terms.
Anyway, he had already acted as a lackey for the President's faction for the things he upheld, so he didn't mind being a lackey for the Elder faction again.
“Wait, correction, not a dependent contract, but a servitude dependent contract.” Lu Yibei said expressionlessly, “What I want is everything except for those things you uphold!”
Upon hearing this, Ju Meng stared at Lu Yibei with wide eyes, as if looking at a monster.
“???”
What the hell? Where did this come from, a demonic cult that bewitches minds and tempts people to fall?
Such outrageous terms, even I, your sister, didn't dare to propose when I beat up those urban legend who tried to invade Taoyuan, how dare you?
Where is Night Watch? Night Watch, quickly control her!
