Chapter 69: Dead but Not Completely Dead [4K]
The patch of minty fish from Luxianbei was filled with negative energy, but it wasn’t enough to harm a Cataclysm Grade urban legend. Jumeng just collapsed on the bed for over ten minutes before regaining her composure.
“Fortunately, my resistance to toxins is high, or I might have been knocked out by your cooking today,” she said.
As she spoke, she glanced at the minty fish beside her, disgustedly nudging it away with her toes as if it were some kind of filth.
“So, this is the dish learned from Liao Zhai Tavern last night?” “That’s right!” Luxianbei replied flatly, “Not tasty, right?”
Jumeng stared at Luxianbei, her eyes wide, “You dog! You know that? And you still made me eat it?” Knowing it was bad makes it entirely different.
“Of course!” Luxianbei rolled her eyes, “Let me ask you, if you had a dish on par with alchemical poison in your hands, what would you do?”
At this, Jumeng’s spiritless eyes, dulled by the awful taste, sparkled immediately as she answered without hesitation, “What’s there to ask? Of course, I’d make you eat it!”
“Then it’s settled!” Luxianbei shrugged.
After a pause, she changed the subject, continuing, “Stinky sister, I’ve prepared my cooking to this level, and yet Hu Boss still said I have talent. Whatever I ask him, he agrees to…”
“Do you think that’s reasonable? I even feel that if he had a daughter, he might even offer a dowry to marry her off to me.”
Jumeng was stunned for a moment and responded seriously, “Of course not! He doesn’t owe you anything, why should he be so nice to you?” “Hmm.” Luxianbei nodded thoughtfully, agreeing with Jumeng’s words.
It seems that when they go to Liao Zhai Tavern tonight, besides getting tools and methods to collect materials for human fireworks, they need to think of a way to probe Hu Boss’s true intentions!
Sometimes, ambiguous goodwill is scarier than clear malice!
At such times, if one is not careful, they might be sold off and might even have to help count the money for someone else!
However, someone like Luxianbei could be sold off, but if she were to “count money,” she would likely seize the opportunity to grab the “money” and run away when the person isn’t paying attention!
After thinking for a moment, she asked Jumeng, “Stinky sister, do you think Hu Boss could be a romantic interest for me? Or is he interested in me?”
“Hah!” Jumeng chuckled coldly, glancing sideways at Luxianbei, “You dog, are you losing it? Does everyone seem like your wife to you?”
Luxianbei didn’t respond and just stared intently at Jumeng, her gaze piercing, as if trying to see every pore on her face.
After being looked at like that for a while, Jumeng felt inexplicably shy, turned her face away, and groaned impatiently, “Dog! If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you staring at me?”
“I’m checking if it looks alike,” Luxianbei replied expressionlessly.
“Look like what?” Jumeng instinctively asked, but as soon as she spoke, she realized, turning red, she lifted Wang Ying and flung it at Luxianbei with all her might.
“Get lost! You dog, now you’ve gotten brave enough to tease me, huh?!”
“Wait! Don’t be impulsive; the kid is innocent!” Luxianbei said, hurriedly catching the trembling Wang Ying.
After catching the shaking Wang Ying, she glanced outside the window, then turned her gaze back to Jumeng and raised an eyebrow, “It’s about time, shall we go?”
“Go where?” Jumeng said sullenly.
“Let’s check if Yu Jianqiu is true love!” Luxianbei carefully placed Wang Ying on the desk and shrugged, “Didn’t we agree on that before?”
Jumeng rolled her eyes and spat, “Tsk, let’s go!”
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For some reason, staying up late has been humorously referred to by foolish netizens as “cultivating immortality.”
The reason is probably that after staying up to a certain extent, one stops feeling sleepy, and instead, due to the normal compensatory mechanism of the nervous system, becomes inexplicably energized.
At this moment, Huaxie Yu was in just such a state.
Holding a mysterious flyer, she focused intensely on the computer screen, and after staying up all night, she felt not the slightest drowsiness but rather an unexpected rush of excitement.
When the morning sunlight filtered through the gap in the curtains and shone on her cheek, she finally resolved to grip the strangely textured flyer tightly.
It felt like grasping the last straw; she crumpled the flyer into a ball.
Huaxie Yu thought that a person like her should have already become indifferent, without anything worth missing in her life.
However, when she noticed those children disappearing from her life, she couldn’t let go, even if they had almost become the most familiar strangers to her.
Though the flyer appeared strangely, it might be her last hope to resist that even stranger man. Therefore, she planned to explore the address noted on the flyer and prepare in advance for the evening’s meeting.
In her awareness, strange occurrences wouldn’t happen during the day.
Just like most ordinary people’s perception of urban legends—
At ten o’clock in the morning.
At Huacheng University, on the bench near the pedestrian street on Sakura Avenue, two beautiful girls with entirely different styles sat side by side, attracting frequent glances from passersby.
It was unclear whether it was because the two girls were stunningly beautiful, complementing the scenery of Sakura Avenue, astonishing everyone, or if their lazy sitting posture seemed all too bizarre.
“Wow! This lemon chicken feet dish tastes pretty good!”
“Yeah, I think so too. I’ll buy some later; I can eat it while playing games tonight.”
“And this milk tea, it’s from that place where Zhipianxian previously poured it all over Yu Jianqiu. The taste was great, and it got wasted because that brat poured it out.”
“Exactly!”
“Wait!” Luxianbei suddenly frowned, turning to Jumeng, “Something doesn’t seem right?”
Jumeng looked Luxianbei up and down, her gaze landing on the spicy strips dangling from her mouth, “What’s wrong? Did your infinite spicy strips go bad?”
“That’s not it!” Luxianbei sat up straighter and said seriously, “Aren’t we here to find Yu Jianqiu to see if she is true love? Why are we sitting here eating like this?”
“Because we’ve been looking for over an hour without finding anyone!” Jumeng shrugged, “If she’s not at school and we can’t find her, what else can we do besides killing time?”
Luxianbei thought for a moment, her frown easing as she nodded, “That makes some sense!”
That’s what good friends are like—able to step up for you when needed and pull you into laziness and daydreaming on other occasions.
“How much longer should we sit here?”
The thought flashed through Jumeng’s mind, but what she said was, “As long as we can, I don’t feel like leaving.”
“What I mean is, we might as well head home.” Luxianbei said, “It’s so hot. Staying at home with the air conditioning on, drinking something refreshing, and playing games together is much better, right?”
“Yes!” Jumeng’s eyes sparkled, “Deal!”
“Only limited to console games,” Luxianbei added, “I really can’t handle other games with you.”
“Shut it!” Jumeng scolded, “Sure, I used to get scolded by teammates when I played those games, but it’s not like that anymore!”
“Oh, really?”
“Absolutely!” Jumeng lifted her chin slightly, “Now teammates can’t scold me anymore!”
In the silence, just as Luxianbei intended to say something to Jumeng, her phone suddenly vibrated. She took it out and looked; it was a message from Du Sixian.
Du Sixian: “High Person, that batch of goods has been successfully tested, you can come over to check anytime.”
Luxianbei: “Okay, got it. I’ll swing by later.”
Seeing Luxianbei staring at her phone in silence for a long time, Jumeng stretched her neck, peeking over and mumbling, “Let me see, which girl’s messaging you now?”
“Go ahead and look!” Luxianbei handed her phone to Jumeng.
However, to her surprise, Jumeng’s expression suddenly became serious at that moment. “You dog, you’ve changed!”
“Huh?”
“You never used to let me see your phone; what has caused such a change? You’re making me feel scared, you know?” Jumeng said earnestly.
Luxianbei, “”
Isn’t it because of that video?
If you keep this up with your strange comments, I’ll show you the video! At worst, we’ll all d*e together—
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Old Gymnasium of Huacheng, Swimming Pool.
This swimming pool has long been abandoned due to aging water treatment equipment, with repeated water quality tests showing severe contamination back over three years ago.
In fact, the staff of the swimming pool felt very innocent; they had spent a lot of money upgrading the water treatment equipment in an attempt to help this swimming pool, which had carried the summer memories of generations in Huacheng, to stay alive.
However, before last winter, the remains of Mu Se were still suppressed beneath the pool; no matter how they treated the water, they couldn’t clear away the harmful substances in it.
The water cleaned just the day before, which was clear and bottomless, would turn into a rusty dark red color the next day, exuding a nauseating stench.
Shortly after this situation arose, the relevant departments ordered the closure of the swimming pool, which remains shut to this day.
With the closure of the swimming pool, the locker rooms quickly accumulated thick dust, and the already old wooden slats appeared to be corroded by some force, showing extensive damage in a short period.
Sunlight streamed through the broken windows, scattered across the floor like it had been dismembered, twisted into bizarre shapes.
Leaves and moisture-loving insects entered the locker room through the broken windows, dying and rotting inside, resulting in stains on the off-white tiles, resembling dried bl**d.
At this moment, in the dimly lit corner of the locker room, a series of soft chirping and creaking noises echoed.
It sounded like someone was sitting in a decrepit chair, swaying back and forth in this abandoned locker room.
Followed by that, a woman’s voice rang out in the empty changing room.
“You say, your Elders’ Council and the president obviously pursue the same things. Why must they behave in a way that could lead to each other’s destruction? Even if they can’t get along, they shouldn’t always trip each other up, right?”
The pale-faced man, who had been gazing down at the dark-gold polyhedron in his hands, lifted his head to look at the woman reclined on the old bench across from him and said blankly, “I don’t know, the Elders’ Council hasn’t told me.”
“Yeah!” Miss Rabbit rolled her eyes, “Even if you don’t say, I know! After observing for so long, I’ve figured it out.”
“To put it bluntly, their purposes are completely different. The Elders’ Council does whatever they want under the name of that deity. There’s a saying—oh right, ‘gods without self-awareness who won’t truly descend to the world are good gods!’”
“Those dispatched by the president probably truly want that deity to descend, right?”
In a certain sense, it’s a difference between posing as crazy evil and pure madness, Miss Rabbit silently supplemented herself.
Hearing this, Shuo E’s expression became somewhat displeased as he said in a low voice, “The Elders’ Council’s actions must not be lightly criticized; one must not be disrespectful to the elders!”
“Alright, alright!” Miss Rabbit shrugged, “If I can’t say it, I won’t. You get all anxious every time this comes up; so petty.” After a pause, she glanced at the exquisite little thing in Shuo E’s hand, raising an eyebrow and asking, “By the way, what exactly is that? I’ve seen you studying it for a long time.”
Shuo E tightened his grip on the polyhedron slightly, hesitating for a few seconds as if he had made a massive decision, and looked at Miss Rabbit, saying, “This is a key item to disrupt the president’s plans and needs to be handed over to the girl he chose.”
After a pause, he added, “I shouldn’t have told you about this.”
Shouldn’t have told me but went against orders to tell me anyway, huh? Miss Rabbit felt a thrill of joy, “A key item to disrupt his plans, huh, what is it?”
“I say, why not just k*ll that girl and be done with it? Why go through so much trouble? Isn’t that just a waste of time?” Miss Rabbit said, swinging a massive axe in the air.
“Can’t k*ll her.”
“Huh?” Miss Rabbit showed a puzzled expression, “Isn’t she just a nobody among nobodies? How can she be unkillable?”
Shuo E looked at Miss Rabbit and said seriously, “Do you know? The president hasn’t stayed in any base of the Solar Eclipse Society for a long time; in the past, the Elders’ Council has organized over a hundred assassination attempts.”
“All failed?” Miss Rabbit asked, “What you mean is, someone from the president’s side is secretly protecting that girl?”
“No, all of them succeeded.” Shuo E shook his head, “Each time, the president died but didn’t quite d*e.”
“Now that girl is already influenced by the president’s power, the Elders’ Council suspects that she won’t be so easy to k*ll. If she isn’t killed in one go, it will be discovered by the president, and all previous efforts will be in vain.”
“What the hell?” Miss Rabbit was confused, “Dead but not really dead? What kind of nonsense is this?”
“How should I put it?” Shuo E scratched his head, “In short, as long as the majority of people in this world aren’t wiped out, the president won’t d*e; this is the original statement from the Elders’ Council.”
Miss Rabbit, “Forget the original statement! The Elders’ Council? Old riddlers!”
“However, recently the Elders’ Council has also found a way to deal with it, which is this thing.” Hearing this, Miss Rabbit looked at the polyhedron in Shuo E’s hands, frowning.
It was a palm-sized dark-gold dodecahedron that shimmered with a metallic sheen, covered in dense, peculiar fine lines, emitting faint spirit energy fluctuations, appearing to be a low-level core of an urban legend.
Could a core of this level truly affect that president?
It gave a strange feeling, like holding a toy water g*n in an attempt to sh**t an elephant. Miss Rabbit thought. (Taking a day off tomorrow to get married.)
