Chapter 3: Senior, Save Me!
When Du Sixian was driving back to the town, it hadn’t been long before night completely fell.
She had made a rough mental map of the ten miles or so from Baiyanzi Village to the town, confident that she could return by retracing her route.
However, once darkness fully set in, the scenery along the way changed completely, and everything she had noted to recognize her way back had vanished without a trace.
In this relatively remote area, there were no street lamps along the roadside, and the entire road was tightly wrapped in darkness, with the car’s headlights illuminating only a limited distance ahead.
A crescent moon hung in the sky, silently following the moving vehicle. Although it was only a new moon and half of it was missing, it shone surprisingly bright, casting pale light on the small rivers and forests along the way, creating a dim atmosphere.
And those dim stars, as the vehicle moved slowly, drew a short trajectory in the line of sight, wriggling densely like insects across the dim sky.
There were no passersby or vehicles on the road.
As time passed, Du Sixian felt increasingly isolated, a sense of being abandoned by the known world quietly rising in her heart, making her feel inexplicably anxious.
She gripped the steering wheel tightly, her gaze darting nervously across the scenery outside the windshield.
Thick fog had begun to creep onto the road at an unknown time, growing denser the further she drove, and her visibility became increasingly blurred.
That eerie white mist, as if containing some ominous power, blocked the light, and the car’s headlights could illuminate less than two meters ahead.
Du Sixian was completely unaware of when a graveyard appeared ahead.
“Bang——!”
A sudden dull thud came, and the car crashed into a mound. Du Sixian’s body jolted violently.
Strangely enough, at this critical moment, the surrounding thick fog seemed to part like a curtain gently drawn back, suddenly dispersing, and the moon peeked out, dyeing the scattered graves ahead a ghastly white.
Du Sixian was certain she hadn’t deviated from the main road; in fact, the road ahead still extended straight until it was swallowed by darkness.
But those desolate graves lay quietly in the middle of the road, as if “migrating” to block the way.
The grave that Du Sixian crashed into appeared to have been there for some years, with dried yellow weeds growing all over it.
However, it was an empty grave, its dark opening facing the windshield, as if waiting for its owner, beside which stood a soul-raising banner, its yellowing paper money fluttering in the wind.
“Sasa——Sasa——!”
Immediately after, as if disturbed by the sound of the soul-raising banner, countless ghastly green ghost lights, carrying very weak spirit energy fluctuations, flew out from between the graves, densely surrounding Du Sixian’s car, as if welcoming their guest.
Upon seeing this, Du Sixian’s pupils shrank slightly, a chill running up her spine, exploding in her mind with a “buzz.”
“Gululu——!” She gulped hard, and after several failed attempts to start the car, she silently took out her pistol, held it in her hand, and chambered a round.
Shooting practice was a crucial part of the training plan An Qing had given her.
Although the number of spell formulas she mastered was unparalleled by ordinary spiritual ability users, her B-grade spirit energy level severely limited her spell-casting speed.
A qualified marksmanship combined with powerful alchemical bullets could buy her enough time to cast spells.
At this moment, a faintly eerie melodious tone drifted in from outside the car window.
“One, the detestable parents’ hearts are too cruel… Two, detestable Shanxi Shen Yanlin… Three, detestable…”
The voice was ethereal and mournful, as if drifting from an old radio, echoing through the deserted valley at night.
Du Sixian broke out in a sweat, took out her phone to check the origin of that eerie voice, only to find it completely without signal.
After sitting anxiously in the car for a few minutes, she furrowed her brows, gritted her teeth, rolled down the window, and fired three shots into the night.
“Bang, bang, bang——!”
With the three gunshots resounding in the valley, three alchemical bullets trailed faint silver flames, breaking open into vibrant bursts of light in mid-air, and then the eerie voice disappeared.
At that moment, her phone signal restored to full strength.
With a sigh of relief, Du Sixian wiped her palms of cold sweat with a handkerchief, and after backing the car up a bit, she parked it along the roadside.
By now, it was late, and it was difficult to discern the road. Coupled with the eerie experience earlier, she didn’t dare proceed any further.
Besides this main road, she didn’t know where the other nearby roads led, and recklessly advancing would risk encountering more terrifying things.
After sitting in the car for a while, her panic gradually subsided, and then she seemed to recall something, her eyes brightening slightly as she gently touched the d*ath-Owl Badge on her chest, sending a rescue message to Luxianbei.
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Meanwhile.
Under the deep night sky, in the Huacheng New District.
Luxianbei leaped down from the rooftop of an apartment building, followed by nearly a hundred urban legends forming a long line behind her, moving their terrifying bodies as they descended from the heights with the moonlight.
After flying a short distance, she turned her body and landed steadily on the balcony of a nearby house. She cautiously pulled open the glass door, looked around like a thief, and tiptoed inside the house, moving through the living room toward the bedroom.
This was a bedroom of about twenty square meters, with various posters on the walls, including “Gundam THE ORIGIN,” “Love and Magical Girls: Rise of the Marine Clan,” and “Bishoujo Mangekyou 5”…
In one corner of the room, a display case was filled with various figures, and a slightly plump man in Pikachu pajamas lay on a single bed, hugging a Yukino swimsuit body pillow sound asleep.
As Luxianbei stepped into the room, everything changed, filled with twisted flesh that was invisible to the n*ked eye, a sinister grayish-white aura swirling around.
She stared at the slightly plump man, curled her lip, and walked up, whispering in his ear, “You’re settling accounts tonight, paying the balance tomorrow, a brat is messing with your figures, your goddess is asking you to dinner tomorrow, but your boss wants you to work overtime all night…”
As her whispers entered the slightly plump man’s ears, his brow furrowed, and he began to squirm uneasily in bed, on the verge of waking up.
Seeing this, Luxianbei quickly turned to wave at the urban legends, swiftly retreating from the bedroom. Just as she reached the balcony, a scream rang out from the bedroom.
“Ah! No! Don’t—!”
Then came the heavy thud of a body falling from the bed.
“!!!”
Master Disaster is amazing!
Just whispering a few words in that guy’s ear scared him so much.
I wonder what the Witch said to him? the urban legends thought.
Feeling her spiritual energy slightly surge, Luxianbei raised her eyebrows, leading the urban legends into the air, returning to the rooftop above.
A moment later.
Luxianbei, dressed in a deep blue fitted suit transformed from her coat, stood in the open space of the rooftop with her fiery red hair tied in a bun at the back of her head, holding what seemed to be a teaching baton she had found, looking stylish and somewhat intimidating.
Before her, ominous gray mist swirled.
A group of terrifying-looking urban legends either coiled several arms together, or stacked numerous heads into a small mound, or carefully held onto rotting intestines about to drop from their burst-open bellies, trying to avoid making a mess on the ground.
Each one obediently looked like students waiting for the teacher to give a speech.
“Did you see that? The most important part of a scare is understanding human hearts, and setting different scare strategies according to different targets is the way to go!” Luxianbei said angrily.
She couldn’t understand why these urban legends couldn’t do such simple frightening tasks.
Not only could they not do it well, but they also caused her so much trouble.
So, in frustration, she organized tonight’s teaching session.
“Let’s see how you all did? Hiding behind someone while they look in the mirror and smiling with your rotting mouth, hanging a bl**d-soaked head above someone while they wash their hair, suddenly stretching out a pale face from under the table while someone bends down to pick something up…”
“I won’t enumerate them all, but I want to say that what you’re doing is just brute force! That absolutely won’t work!”
“At the beginning, due to the intense visual shock, people may feel instinctual fear, but over time, when they realize you won’t really harm them, what then?”
“Report to the Witch! Then find a few criminals and torturously k*ll them in the cruelest and most evil way, setting an example!”
One urban legend with a dog’s body and a human face raised its hand and shouted, shaking a bunch of ticks all over the place.
Luxianbei frowned slightly, releasing spiritual energy fluctuations that caused the temperature around her to suddenly rise. The ticks fell to the ground, quickly filling the air with a burnt smell.
“That’s one way, but it’s not the best approach!” Luxianbei waved the teaching baton in her hand, “What makes someone human is not instinct, but they have hearts and thoughts!”
“The best way to scare is to grasp their thoughts, find their deepest fears, and present them before them.”
“Well then, Master Disaster…” a round, white urban legend that looked like a cream slime weakly asked, “What is humanity’s innermost fear?”
“Is that so?”
As it spoke, it stood upright, showcasing its two-meter-tall body, its muscles bulging, and a face resembling a bioengineering monster.
I™ just wasted my breath? Luxianbei pinched her forehead, hesitant to speak.
At that moment, the d*ath-Owl Badge on her chest trembled slightly, and Du Sixian’s voice rang in her ears.
After hearing Du Sixian recount the events and send a distress call, Luxianbei furrowed her brows.
What the hell?
A grave suddenly appeared on the road and crashed into her car?
Is grave robbery a thing now?
While pondering, Luxianbei tightened her throat to imitate a male voice as best as she could and replied to Du Sixian, “Okay, I’ll be there soon.”
As soon as she said that, she straightened her posture, focused her mind, and with a gentle wave of her hand, summoned the earth’s energy in Huacheng.
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A few minutes later.
Fine, invisible golden threads, like rivers hidden in the void, suddenly emerged from the corners of the city under the night sky, swirling around her petite figure.
The girl floated in mid-air, her brow slightly furrowed, her eyes tightly closed, waves of heat radiating from her body.
Then.
She opened her eyes, her golden eyes swirling with fiery red light, her eyelids low, her pupils icy and not human-like.
Suddenly, the golden threads surrounding the girl shattered into pieces, turning into golden powder that fell like a starry river, disappearing before hitting the ground.
After confirming Du Sixian’s exact location through the bond mark, Luxianbei immediately began to search for nearby urban legends using the earth’s energy, and upon checking the positions of the urban legends around Baiyanzi Village, her expression turned grave.
There were no urban legends in Du Sixian’s vicinity.
“How strange! How could this be?”
Luxianbei had initially wanted to find the urban legends that Du Sixian encountered and have them cooperate with her to conclude the “performance” and resolve this issue.
In her current state, it wasn’t convenient for her to meet Du Sixian, and even using the d*ath-Owl Badge to contact her was troublesome.
The most appropriate situation for her rescue would be to wait until dawn when she could bathe in the morning sun and return to her normal form.
However, after confirming that there were no urban legends, Luxianbei found them all quietly staying in their territories, and none went to cooperate with Du Sixian in “acting.”
The situation suddenly became subtle and perplexing.
Could it be that they weren’t urban legends from Huacheng?
But if that’s the case, how did they enter Huacheng? Luxianbei thought.
Rationally speaking, Luxianbei had already completed the Hundred Demons Walk, and with the existence of the Huacheng Barrier, the entire Huacheng seemed to have a fortress-like wall made of spirit energy protecting it.
Any urban legends rashly intruding into Huacheng, even if they managed to evade the barrier’s interception, would find it hard not to be detected by Luxianbei due to the fluctuations in the earth’s energy.
From Du Sixian’s description, it seemed she encountered more than one urban legend, and if they were indeed outsiders, how did they manage to sneak in?
These intruding urban legends needed to be dealt with! If they caused trouble, I’d have to take the blame, and that’s not happening! Luxianbei thought.
Just as she was about to reach out and touch the d*ath-Owl Badge to inquire about Du Sixian’s situation, the badge suddenly flashed with silver light, lightly trembled, and Du Sixian’s voice rang in her ears.
She only said four words, “Senior, save me!”
d*mn, something happened? Luxianbei’s expression changed abruptly; she hadn’t expected that Du Sixian, with her level of skill, would encounter danger so quickly. In a moment of panic, she instinctively wanted to take off and go to the rescue, but just as she took a step forward, she stopped.
It might be too late to rush over now; while traveling, she needed to keep an eye on the situation there and provide suitable support from the shadows.
Thinking this, Luxianbei reached out into the air, using the earth’s energy to notify the urban legends around Baiyanzi Village, and then she lightly propelled herself off the ground, soaring through the high-rise buildings shrouded in moonlight, heading toward Baiyanzi Village.
If it wasn’t Huacheng’s urban legends that could put a super-skilled B-grade spiritual ability user in danger and dare to attack a Siye Society member, the situation seemed serious!
However…
Sending the urban legends to support the Siye Society’s reserve members feels too™ strange! Luxianbei thought, feeling complicated.
(Today in the morning, while walking my dog, I was approached by a lost little dog that started bothering me and wouldn’t leave, causing me a lot of trouble, so I didn’t have time to type much today; I apologize for the shorter update!)
