Chapter 156: Who Can’t Falsify Facts?
Shen Baiwei had actually met Lu Qingyi a long time ago, when she was ordered by the third elder of the Elders’ Council, the Elder Tuo Te, to investigate what the Solar Eclipse Association President had been doing in Huacheng at that time, while also rescuing the seriously injured Cicada to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Siye Society.
Although that time, what she saw at the Flower Language Sunshine Resort Hotel was merely a glimpse into the past through the powers she had, it still deeply impressed upon her the horrors of calamity.
Raging flames engulfed the huge resort hotel, and before her eyes was nothing but dazzling scarlet. The charming figures hidden within the fire ruthlessly took down one by one the people blocking her path, like demons crawling out of a fiery hell.
Later came the Hundred Demons Walk in Huacheng, the Dream Come True Entertainment City overthrowing the Big Boss’s gambling scheme, and the flashing sword shadows on the highway in Shizhou City…
She followed in the steps of the Solar Eclipse Association President, capturing useful information for the Elders’ Council from his past, but time and again witnessed the “atrocities” committed by calamity.
Now, standing about 100 meters away from calamity, feeling the residual spirit energy fluctuations around her, Shen Baiwei’s heart rate noticeably quickened.
Previously, her understanding of calamity had all come from glimpses into the past; she had never truly come into contact with it. Even before, when she had led Kuerban Rihanman into the trap laid by Fang Ji, it had been under a relatively well-planned premise and at a distance.
But now, to stop calamity from further touching the past, she must engage with it up close—the situation was completely different.
It felt like discovering a thief had broken into her home at midnight, retrieving weapons for self-defense, and following the sounds, only to find the thief was a solid 180 cm tall and weighed 180 kg, with no excess fat and holding a shotgun, wearing a menacing grin.
What more could she say? It was just too gentle of her to be a thief instead of robbing outright… really heartbreaking.
“……”
Lost in thought for a moment, Shen Baiwei shook her head, recollected her focus, and silently activated her spirit patterns power.
There were some things she deemed necessary to confirm.
As an illusory “tick-tock” sound echoed in her ears, shadows flickered before her, and the scene within her line of sight quietly shrouded in a layer of darkness.
In an instant, it felt as if all sounds had retreated from this world; silence abruptly descended, the breeze ceased to blow, while nearby twisted tree branches maintained their posture as if stirred by the wind.
It was as if the pause button had been pressed, and everything within her view froze in an instant.
Shen Baiwei could even see minuscule dust particles caught by the breeze, suspended before her, motionless.
Then…
With a shift in her thoughts, everything before her started moving again, as if time, which had been still, began to flow once more.
Looking toward the small courtyard not far away, she saw “Lu Qingyi” walking back and forth around the annex, while softly chanting spells, rapidly setting up defensive spells around the annex, then entered the annex, repeating a similar act.
It felt like dragging a video playback back to watch “Lu Qingyi”‘s actions a moment ago several times, and Shen Baiwei’s lips twitched slightly, letting out a breath of cold air as if she had a toothache.
“Ow—! Good thing I checked in advance; calamity really is as sick as ever…”
She had confirmed once again that before her arrival, calamity had deployed over thirty different types of defensive spells outside that annex.
After entering the annex, judging from the flashing spells visible through the window, calamity had also set up at least a dozen defensive spells inside the annex.
Moreover, about thirty minutes after entering the annex, calamity had reinforced and solidified the spells inside…
Stopping the activation of her spirit patterns power, Shen Baiwei patted her chest and let out a long sigh.
“Uh—!”
She was relieved that her guesses were accurate and that she had not impulsively rushed into that annex to confront calamity.
Under layers of thirty defenses inside and outside the spells, it felt like only the Crazy Shaman Queen could directly crash into that annex and come out unscathed.
But after feeling relieved, she quickly furrowed her brows and muttered to herself, “But if that’s the case, then I’ll have to wait for her to come out before making any plans…”
“Thinking carefully, isn’t there still a way to approach calamity?”
After experiencing the tension of meeting calamity for the first time, a somewhat calmer Shen Baiwei glanced down at the notebook in her hand and found terms like “contradiction” and “soft rather than hard” within the section about calamity’s nature.
While she had witnessed the horrors of calamity during her glimpses into the past of the Solar Eclipse Association President, she had also seen the gentle side of calamity.
It was very contradictory; sometimes, it would torment its enemies to the point of wishing for d*ath, while at other times, it would step up for people who had little to do with it.
Even against Huaxie Yu and Fang Ji, who obviously posed potential danger to it, it had not delivered a fatal blow.
Perhaps this could be exploited?
Shen Baiwei thought, gradually closing her notebook and adjusting her glasses…
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Inside the annex.
Having finished the conversation with the Proxy Player Sister, Lu Qingyi awoke from her drowsy state, suddenly opening her eyes wide, as if startled awake from a nightmare, hand clutching her chest, breathing heavily.
No matter how many times she experienced it, she still couldn’t adjust fully to the feeling of detaching her consciousness from her body before meeting the Proxy Player Sister on that rundown rooftop, and returning to reality felt like a near-d*ath experience.
After taking several deep breaths to adjust her state, wiping the sweat from her forehead, Lu Qingyi turned to look at Nanling Yaohua, finding her still asleep. She gently shook her head, stood up, and checked carefully around the room for the defensive spells set up.
Upon confirming that the defensive spells had not been triggered, she returned to the bedside, focused her mind, and activated the kin mark.
While Nanling Yaohua was still not awake, she wanted to try contacting Wang Ying…
Though the difficulty of making Wang Ying understand her intention to help her open a passage from within the God Realm Prototype was very high, how would she know without trying?
After all, it wouldn’t cost anything to try, and there was no harm in it.
Even if Wang Ying couldn’t understand, she could have her relay it to the Ancestor; the Ancestor was so smart, perhaps she would understand? Lu Qingyi thought.
In her eyes, someone who could draw the map of Dachunyang Palace so abstractly being able to resonate with Wang Ying’s brainwaves wasn’t impossible.
However…
Just as she established contact with Wang Ying through the kin mark and hadn’t even begun to converse, she witnessed a shocking scene.
Wang Ying was beating up a kindergarten child.
One against three, she held her ground without losing any ground.
Lu Qingyi, “……”
Though seeing her own child not being bullied was a happy thing, just thinking that Wang Ying had previously been comparable to the Cataclysm Grade urban legend like X Tai Sui made the scene hard to describe.
It was as if she had seen a champion boxer beating up kindergarteners.
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Inside the God Realm Prototype, at Little Red Flower Kindergarten, in the teacher’s office.
A plump middle-aged woman was cradling a bruised little boy, fiercely yelling at Qing Ji.
“What’s wrong with your child? A little girl acting like a savage! Look at what she did to my child!”
The kindergarten teacher caught in the crossfire wore an awkward expression, wanting to say something but hesitating.
Qing Ji glanced at Wang Ying, then at the middle-aged woman, silently sighed and said, “Look, ma’am…”
“Big Sister?” The middle-aged woman’s expression changed.
“Uh, Big Sister?” Qing Ji revised, “This Big Sister, shall we talk sense? The teacher already said that three children were involved in the fight with Wang Ying. How did you come to the conclusion that our Wang Ying bullied your child?”
“You think that with your child plus two other boys—three boys all together—would be bullied by a girl of the same age? That’s unreasonable, isn’t it? Or is it that your child has some sort of physical defect?”
“How can you speak like that?” the middle-aged woman retorted angrily, “Your child is the one with the defect!”
“Well, if that’s the case, then there are no defects, right?” Qing Ji retorted calmly, “Then how can you prove that it was Wang Ying who injured your child, rather than him getting hurt by accident?”
Before the middle-aged woman could respond, Qing Ji leaned down to ask Wang Ying, “Wang Ying, why did you fight?”
“Um…” Wang Ying pouted, thought for a moment, then replied seriously, “They think Ultraman is strong, I think Bai Xiaohua is strong, so… I possessed them… to settle it!”
The kindergarten teacher, “？？？”
The middle-aged woman, “？？？”
“Oh, I see!” Qing Ji nodded, looking at the kindergarten teacher and the middle-aged woman across from him, “Understood? The situation is just that the kids were discussing which character in the animation is stronger. They were role-playing and playfully roughhousing a bit, and then one of them accidentally got hurt.”
“Since it’s all clear now, why not take a step back?”
After saying that, Qing Ji gave Wang Ying a thumbs up.
Although he wasn’t clear on who Ultraman and Bai Xiaohua were, it was obvious they were from different animations.
The simplest way to compare strength between characters from different works was of course to let the two people who wanted to compare each embody their roles and have a little duel!
Wang Ying’s approach was completely fine.
“……” The middle-aged woman fell silent for a few seconds, looking fierce yet inwardly cowardly, “What do you mean, take a step back? I don’t care; this matter isn’t over! I’ll take the child to the hospital later, and if anything happens, you have to take full responsibility.”
So she won’t let go, huh? Qing Ji frowned, gently patted Wang Ying on the shoulder. Once Wang Ying looked up at him, he subtly signaled her.
In the next moment, Wang Ying suddenly fell to the ground, hugging her head with both hands, her body slightly trembling.
“Ugh, my head hurts, I want to puke…”
The kindergarten teacher, “!!!”
The middle-aged woman, “!!!”
Who can’t falsify facts? Qing Ji thought with a cold laugh.
