“Disaster, Nameless Book asked me to bring you a message...” freēwebnovel.com
Void had only spoken half of his sentence, and before he could tell Lu Yibei the full story, Lu Yibei noticed Nanling Yaohua’s gaze towards her had become subtle.
Although Nanling Yaohua had previously seen through her disguise via the pomegranate scent emanating from the God Kingdom Prototype, and she had almost confessed to Nanling Yaohua, Void’s sudden reveal of her identity still filled the room with an awkward atmosphere.
“Wait! Let’s talk privately, privately!” Lu Yibei took two steps forward, took Void from Nanling Yaohua’s hand, then darted to the corner of the room in a few steps, squatted facing the wall, and whispered, “I say, little brother, next time you speak, can you first check the situation?”
“This...” Void’s soft white head, like pixel blocks, reformed and distorted, revealing a sweating expression like a soybean. “Next time for sure, next time for sure! But you have so many identities, how would I know what to call you? You can’t blame me entirely, can you?”
“You’re still arguing?” Lu Yibei glared fiercely at Void, then secretly glanced at Nanling Yaohua who was looking over, pouting, “Forget it, it’s not important! Tell me, what did the little devil... no, what did Nameless Book want you to tell me?”
Listening to Lu Yibei repeatedly call her “little devil,” Void couldn’t help but defend Nameless Book, “Actually, she’s not a bad person, not as bad as you think.”
“Hey! Whose side are you on?” Lu Yibei demanded.
This kid, isn’t he brainwashed by Nameless Book?
“This...” A comical expression appeared on Void’s head. “Didn’t you know already? Our Monster Story Chat Group has always been neutral!”
As he spoke, Void’s gaze intentionally or unintentionally drifted towards Shen Baiwei.
Huh! Could it be... another one? Should I think of a way to get her to join the Monster Story Chat Group too? After all, I’ve always been neutral! Void thought.
“Tsk!” Lu Yibei rolled her eyes, a little impatiently, “Too lazy to argue with you, let’s get to the point!”
If Void has always been neutral, then Disaster has always been law-abiding!
“Alright! To the point, to the point!” Void responded twice, and the next second, his plump white head suddenly wriggled, then with a soft “pop,” two miniature speakers appeared on either side of his head.
Immediately after, a miniature light curtain appeared before his eyes, faintly showing various file names. As his gaze moved downwards, the file list quickly scrolled.
“Mediterranean Wanderer’s Poetry Society Thirteenth Tea Party.FLAC,” “A Fallen Priest’s Confession about Twelve Little Boys.FLAC,” “Ju Meng’s Confession to Drunken Disaster, Complete Unedited Version.FLAC”...
Wait? What was that? How does it have such a thing?
Lu Yibei was secretly observing the audio file names of Void, and suddenly caught something extraordinary. Her eyelids ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ twitched violently. Just as she was about to interrogate him severely, that bastard Void, when did he sneak into her house to record such a ghostly thing, Nameless Book’s voice suddenly sounded in her ear.
“Cough cough, this is Night Watch Guardian Nameless Book. It is now defaulted that 【Archive No. #10003】 and 【Archive No. #10006】 are listening to this recording...”
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei suddenly froze. When Plague Tai Sui controlled Twilight Woman to create the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons in Hua City, she had applied to retrieve Plague Tai Sui’s archive for research. She clearly remembered that Plague Tai Sui’s archive number was #10001.
“...”
Nameless Book had Void deliver the message to me, so one of the two archive numbers Nameless Book mentioned should refer to me, and the other... refers to Void, Xiao Hua, or Shen Baiwei?
It’s not strange for Night Watch to have an archive for “Disaster,” but why does my archive, like Plague Tai Sui’s, have a ‘#’ sign in front of it? And the numbers are so close...
Logically, I wouldn’t have been noticed by Night Watch more than a year ago. Even if Night Watch were to create an archive for me, the number should be very late, close to the urban legend numbered 70607, which was established because of the cooking of Human Fireworks. Lu Yibei thought.
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As Lu Yibei pondered, Shen Baiwei, lying on the ground, subtly changed her expression, then frowned deeply.
She also noticed the special nature of Night Watch’s archive numbers for Disaster and herself.
But she thought of more things than Lu Yibei.
When she was at Tethys Laboratory, she had accidentally come across a new research project related to “special individuals,” and both she and Disaster were on the list of candidate research subjects for “special individuals.”
That was also one of the reasons that prompted her to escape Tethys Laboratory and infiltrate the Miracle Order.
Although Shen Baiwei didn’t know what exactly that so-called “special individual” research project would do to its research targets.
However, she had experience being a research subject and had also served as an assistant for a period to the Seventh Elder of the Elder Council, who was keen on research. She knew that none of Tethys Laboratory’s research projects were tolerable for ordinary people.
And now, Night Watch also seemed to have specially marked her and Disaster in their archive numbers, which was quite intriguing.
Could it be that Night Watch also wants to do something to us?
This might be exploitable!
After all, Disaster doesn’t seem to know this information. Shen Baiwei thought.
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The unexpected discovery made Lu Yibei vaguely smell an ominous aura, but she temporarily suppressed the unease and doubt in her heart, because a more serious matter had already appeared before her.
It was the kind of seriousness where you’re halfway through using the restroom, realize you don’t have paper, your phone is at 5% battery, and there’s no one next door.
“What the hell? If I can’t solve it in forty-eight hours, I’ll die? And it has to be the two of us? Who stipulated that? Can’t someone else do it? Is Nameless Book deliberately trying to screw me over?” freewebnøvel.coɱ
This is just ridiculous!
She was clearly just looking for clues about Jiang Li’s disappearance and helping Inspector Xing Yuan with a small task, only to be tricked by that bastard Fang Ji and dragged into a perilous place like Yumen Pass. Well, there’s an unreliable godfather here too, she has to get him out.
Now, Shui Ge hasn’t even been found yet! Suddenly, she’s told that she’s involved in the grievances of several large Spiritual Energy organizations, and if she can’t resolve the crisis within forty-eight hours, not only is there a risk of sudden death, but she might also be targeted by several large overseas Spiritual Energy organizations similar to Night Watch?
Doesn’t this mean that if she’s not careful, she’ll have to flee for her life?
Lu Yibei felt she had reason to suspect someone wanted her dead!
Perhaps... that man?
And just as Lu Yibei threw out a string of questions in one breath, Void silently played “Nameless Book’s Words Part 2.FLAC.”
“I know you might be surprised by the sudden task, but this wasn’t my decision. It was the result of Black Emperor’s divination. You should trust Black Emperor’s words, right?”
Lu Yibei, “...” Although this man was not that man, it really was “that man.”
After a brief silence, she stood up, walked to Nanling Yaohua, and placed Void back into Nanling Yaohua’s hand, saying seriously, “I understand. Go back and give Nameless Book a message...”
“You say it,” Void said.
“Just say...” Lu Yibei gritted her teeth and said fiercely, “Go to hell with him!”
If it was Zhang Huainan speaking, she would indeed believe it, but believing and being annoyed were two completely different matters.
Besides, this place was far from the Emperor, so even if she greeted Nameless Book’s ancestors eighteen generations back, she wouldn’t know. Just letting Void take back an expletive was already quite good.
With that, Lu Yibei left a stunned Nanling Yaohua and a 【surprised expression】 Void, turned and walked towards Shen Baiwei, grabbed Shen Baiwei’s collar, and pulled her close.
Although the matters Nameless Book and Zhang Huainan had instructed were pressing, before that, she had one more thing to do.
She had to free the tens of thousands of unformed urban legend outside, which shouldn’t take much time.
And by the way...
If she could go back to the past, she might be able to observe and understand up close the reasons why Yumen Pass had fallen to its current state.
After knowing the reasons, applying the right remedy might allow her to prevent Yumen Pass from losing control faster and better, right? Lu Yibei thought.
Lu Yibei thought, lowering her voice to Shen Baiwei, “I already know you have the ability to reload, and I also know that my previous appearance at Xia Lianqing’s time is most likely related to you. Now I need to go back to that time, and I’m giving you two choices!”
“Either actively help me, if you’re willing, nod three times, or...”
Before Lu Yibei could finish speaking, Shen Baiwei’s head shook like a rattle-drum.
What a joke! How could she actively help Disaster?
“Why are you shaking your head?” Lu Yibei frowned, as if completely unaware of Shen Baiwei’s thoughts. After a two-second pause, she continued what she hadn’t finished saying, “If you’re unwilling to help me, then within five minutes, create a forbidden Spell, draw the manufacturing blueprint for a perpetual motion machine, and then...”
“Prove P versus NP!” Void suddenly interjected.
Lu Yibei glanced at Void from the corner of her eye and nodded, “Yes, what he said. If you complete these three things within five minutes, I won’t make things difficult for you. Alright, choose!”
Shen Baiwei, “???”
However, just as she was dazed, her consciousness suddenly blurred, and she felt dizzy, as if she was having a hypoglycemic attack.
In a trance, she saw a hint of cunning flash in Disaster’s golden eyes, then quickly a touch of blood red appeared.
The next moment, she felt a force crash into her body, carrying her soul, soaring into the clouds, tearing it to shreds, and then scattering each fragment into different abysses...
When pain beyond comprehension surged, Shen Baiwei realized that although Disaster seemed to give her a choice, even if she could complete those three almost impossible tasks, she had no choice.
The choice before her was merely a smokescreen used by Disaster to divert her attention...
Despicable, too despicable!