Free Web NovelLu Yibei stiffly lowered her head, her eyes wide, staring at her hands as the scene unfolded before her. It was as if she had tinnitus; the sounds around her faded into a dead silence, leaving only the chaotic thumping of her own heart.
“Did my actions just now really affect her outcome?” Lu Yibei wondered.
In fact, when she first noticed that one of the embroidered shoes on the woman’s feet had inexplicably disappeared, a doubt had arisen in her mind. Later, when she saw the woman’s tongue vanish and many wounds appear out of nowhere on her body, she already had a faint inkling of a guess.
However, the idea that a person’s actions in the present could affect the past was too incredible for her to believe, even after experiencing many large-scale urban legend events.
But now, as her eyes burned and a scene from the distant past appeared before her, she saw with her own eyes that the woman, who should have hanged herself, was pushed by an invisible hand and fell to the ground... To disbelieve now would be self-deception.
This was like when the evidence is conclusive, no matter how outrageous the suspect’s identity, he must be the criminal.
When Lu Yibei realized this, the first thought that flashed through her mind was, “Is this really possible?” The second thought was, “Is it possible to tell the past Lu Yibei the winning lottery number for the fifth-anniversary grand prize of ‘love and magical girls’?”
While Lu Yibei was immersed in her ill-timed fantasy, the woman who had fallen from the white silk lay sprawled on the ground, staring blankly at the white silk on the beam, lost in thought.
Although she was still alive, perhaps she had already died the moment the white silk crossed the beam.
After an unknown amount of time, the sound of a door opening echoed, followed by a startled cry that pulled Lu Yibei’s attention back from her somewhat inappropriate fantasy.
“Ah—!”
Following the direction of the scream, she saw a girl, about fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed as a maid, standing at the doorway, flustered, her small face pale.
She seemed to have been terrified by the woman lying on the floor inside and the white silk swaying in the wind from the beam. Her body trembled slightly, and the white porridge and side dishes she held in her hands spilled into the tray as she shook.
The girl stood stunned for a long moment before rushing forward, placing the tray on the ground, helping the fallen woman up, and assisting her to sit by the bed. She stammered, “Sister Lianqing, what, what are you doing?”
The woman leaned against the bedpost, her eyes hollow as she gazed at the white silk hanging from the beam. Her voice was weak as she said, “I wish to be autumn grass that dies together with its roots, not a fallen flower that flies through the air... With General no longer guarding Yumen Pass, the Shaman King’s army is about to enter the city. This is all my fault. How can I have the face to continue living?”
“But...” The girl hesitated, then nervously glanced outside the room and leaned closer to the woman’s ear.
Whispering again? Why do you people love to whisper so much? Lu Yibei grumbled inwardly, then slyly crept closer to the two, pricking up her ears to listen, and heard the girl’s voice, as faint as a mosquito’s hum.
“...They came before dawn, about seventeen or eighteen armored soldiers. They said General is still alive. Oh, and Dragon Commandant was with them, heavily injured...”
Dragon Commandant? Was that the young man who had come to find the woman before, the one with the same surname as Nangling Commander? Lu Yibei wondered.
That young man bore a seven or eight-tenths resemblance to Nangling Commander Long Xiang, shared the same surname, and was already a Duwei at such a young age. He must be a close relative of Nangling Commander and someone he deeply trusted. If the news came from him, it should be true.
But...
Judging from that young man’s previous behavior, Nangling Commander should have died in battle, right?
Why would he suddenly come back from the dead?
Could this Little Girl be lying? But what would she gain from lying? Just wanting the woman to live?
Lu Yibei’s mind was a tangled mess from the girl’s words, unable to sort out the confusion. She could only temporarily stop thinking and look at the two, continuing ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) to observe the aftermath of the events.
Upon hearing the girl’s whispered words, the woman’s hollow, lifeless eyes instantly regained their luster, gradually widening. She sat up, looked at the girl, and asked in surprise, “Really?”
“Really,” the girl nodded earnestly.
“I knew it, I knew it! Everyone said Nangling Commander was immortal, how could he possibly die so easily in battle?” The woman muttered to herself, “He deceived me so cruelly...”
As her voice faded, she appeared thoughtful, then as if making an important decision, she pursed her pale lips, a look of determination flashing in her eyes. She stood up, tidied her messy long hair and clothes slightly, and then strode towards the door. freewёbnoνel.com
After only a few steps, her body swayed, and she nearly fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the girl rushed forward to support the woman, concerned, “Sister Lianqing, why don’t you eat something first before you go see them? You haven’t eaten a single grain for four or five days since Dragon Commandant came that day.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve found a place and hidden them. Those barbarians won’t find them for a while.”
With that, the girl stood up, picked up the tray from a nearby table, and offered the white porridge and side dishes she had brought to the woman.
The woman glanced at the white porridge and side dishes offered to her, hesitated for a moment, then took them and began to eat in large mouthfuls.
As she ate, she mumbled, “Now the city is full of people from various tribes. It won’t be easy to get them out. We need to plan this carefully...”
Lu Yibei had not heard the full content of the girl’s whispered words earlier. Now, listening to the woman’s murmuring, she made some deductions and reconstructed what she had missed in her mind.
“...”
From the sound of it, these Long Xiang Army soldiers who came seeking the woman’s help wanted to leave the city?
If you add the precondition that Nangling Commander is still alive, then they should be going to rendezvous with Nangling Commander, and then...
Form a pincer movement against the Shaman King’s army, attacking from both inside and outside?
At this point, Lu Yibei suddenly had a guess. Although she didn’t know if it was correct, she felt that if she were Nangling Commander, there was a high probability she would do that.
Yumen Pass, besides being a city gate, is also a large God Kingdom. It was built to suppress urban legend and hostile Psychic who tried to invade the Central Plains. From the legends passed down through generations of Half-Guitan, the Shaman King was indeed eventually suppressed within Yumen Pass.
But the problem is, the Shaman King is not an ordinary urban legend, and suppressing him is not an easy task. It is only possible when he is close enough to Yumen Pass, or even inside Yumen Pass.
Lu Yibei felt that the most important prerequisite for getting the Shaman King close to Yumen Pass should be to kill Nangling Commander.
Nangling Commander is a Calamity-level Psychic and controls a large God Kingdom...
With him present, the difficulty of breaking through Yumen Pass would be no less than breaking through Da Chunyang Palace, where Zhang Huainan and Zixiao Platform are located.
The reason Nangling Commander faked his death by using this woman named Lianqing to transmit information to the Shaman King was to “lure the king into the urn,” to trick the Shaman King into the city gate, suppress him, and completely eliminate the crisis created by the Shaman King.
While Lu Yibei was deep in thought, the woman finished her white porridge and side dishes, then turned to the girl and asked, “Oh, by the way, didn’t that demonic monk say a few days ago that he had a way to solve our predicament? Now that the Shaman King’s army is at our doorstep, why has he suddenly gone silent?”
“Saint... uh, that one? Ever since rumors spread that Commander was ambushed and killed in battle, he’s been hiding in his dilapidated temple and hasn’t come out,” the girl said with a strange expression.
Within Yumen Pass, many people once regarded Hong Bian Monk as a deity, and she was one of them. But now, at a critical moment of life and death, Hong Bian Monk had hidden himself, and she couldn’t help but feel a bit shaken.
“Then he’s just all talk, isn’t he?” The woman frowned, “It seems General’s suspicions about him were entirely correct...”
With that, she put down her bowl and chopsticks, stood up, and said, “Let’s go. Follow me to meet the various Long Xiang Army soldiers.”
“Sister Lianqing, you...” Seeing the woman’s still weak appearance, the girl looked worried. “Why don’t we rest a bit more?”
“No more resting, let’s go now!”
With that, the woman quickly walked out the door, with the girl close behind her.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei paused, then jogged to follow them.
They passed through a long corridor, descended a long staircase, and walked through a large hall that was now empty.
When Lu Yibei followed the woman all the way to the front door of the brothel, she suddenly stopped, looking at the woman’s receding back, lost in thought.
What should I do? Should I follow them?
Although I really want to know what happened next, do I really have to leave this place?
“Although what I’m seeing now are illusions, I’m still in a safe place. If I leave this building, who knows what I’ll encounter?” Lu Yibei thought.
