Chapter 38: Guess Why I Want to Stack Up? [4K]
“Oh no!”
“Huh?” Uncle Zhang Shan was deeply engrossed in the story when he suddenly heard Lu Yibei’s light exclamation, and a string of question marks popped into his mind.
He had heard many tense and thrilling horror urban legends, and occasionally switching it up to collect some love stories was interesting; but now…
What the heck? What’s going on? Wasn’t it said that the paper person disguised as a college student had flirted with several beautiful girls?
Logically, the next should be the agony of a campus romance story, right?
Why did it all go wrong? Did it skip straight to the scene of a heavenly Shura battlefield without any romantic development?
Uncle Zhang Shan was completely puzzled when Lu Yibei, sitting in the back row, suddenly patted his shoulder. “Uncle, hurry, there’s a situation, it’s urgent!”
Since she received the message from Lin Yiqi, she had been closely monitoring the status of Paper Cicada Immortal. Just less than a minute ago, she suddenly sensed a familiar ominous aura emanating from Paper Cicada Immortal.
That aura was filled with chaos, disorder, and a chilling coldness contrary to the living. It was the aura of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit!
A situation? Upon hearing Lu Yibei’s words, Jumeng’s eyes trembled, and she turned to look at Lu Yibei, casting a questioning glance.
Noticing Jumeng’s gaze, Lu Yibei shook her head lightly and whispered, “Don’t worry.”
For the time being, it’s fine, but if it drags on any longer, who knows what will happen, Lu Yibei added silently in her heart. After calming Jumeng down, Lu Yibei looked outside, feeling increasingly anxious.
What the hell is wrong with that old man Zhang Hainan?
Wasn’t it said that the Pink Fluffy Rabbit had been sealed away by Zhang Hainan?
How could Paper Cicada Immortal still be corrupted by the power of the Pink Fluffy Rabbit? Is Zhang Hainan competent or not?! Lu Yibei thought darkly.
She knew that a Disaster-Class Spiritual Energy Manipulator like Zhang Hainan would sense it even if she didn’t speak his name aloud in her heart.
So, she was doing it intentionally!
If she couldn’t beat him or talk back to Zhang Hainan, why not find a way to annoy him? Who told these Disaster-Classes to have this monstrous setup of indiscriminately receiving “signals”?
I want to spam Zhang Hainan’s mind! Who made it so that Zhang Hainan, at his age, is still so unreliable? Lu Yibei thought fiercely. Just as she was pondering, Uncle Zhang Shan noticed the atmosphere in the car had suddenly become tense and instinctively quieted down. As a veteran taxi driver, it’s essential to read the room: chat when passengers need it and be quiet when they don’t.
In a hurry? Running late, huh?
Then you must see my incredible driving skills, the second best driver in Huacheng!
From now on, my car will no longer be a taxi, but a yellow-green Ferrari! Uncle Zhang Shan thought to himself and said in a low voice, “Hold on tight, both of you!” As he spoke, he gripped the steering wheel tight with one hand and smoothly shifted gears with the other. “Vroom!”
Accompanied by the roar of the engine, the speed surged, and the streetlights outside blurred in an instant. Lu Yibei, ????
She found herself experiencing something quite surreal.
She was feeling the legendary push-back effect in a taxi. And it was quite strong!
Lu Yibei’s peripheral vision darted towards Jumeng, and the moment their gazes met, she saw the same shock reflected in Jumeng’s eyes. For a moment, Jumeng even doubted that her speed, transformed into a magpie, could match that of this veteran driver.
What does ‘stunning’ mean? This is stunning! At this rate, your car will definitely turn into an urban legend!——
Pain; a sharp pain shot through her skull, as if her cranium were about to shatter.
Lin Yiqi was not weak; her spirit energy fluctuation level was C+, which placed her well within the mid-range among a multitude of spiritual ability users and urban legends. However, she and her baby were completely unaccustomed to combat.
Thus, the Paper Cicada Immortal, covered in fluffy pink fur, used just one strike to render her completely incapable of resistance.
d*mn it, how did this guy suddenly become so strong? Like a rampaging bull.
Why was I even dragged into this? Lin Yiqi complained inwardly.
At first, when Jumeng handed her the task of luring the Paper Cicada Immortal, she thought it was an easy job. To her, the Paper Cicada Immortal’s alluring methods and spirit energy fluctuation level were inferior to hers. Once completed, she could even gain some benefits from Lu Yibei.
However, once the Paper Cicada Immortal suddenly rampaged and nearly crushed the ghost baby’s physical form in an instant, Lin Yiqi suddenly remembered that this “little matter” had Lin Yibei as the true client, the Calamity Witch that instilled fear in urban legends throughout hundreds of miles around Huacheng.
If it’s the Calamity Witch, then there are no “little matters” to speak of, Lin Yiqi thought.
Although she hadn’t directly participated in the events that took place in Huacheng over the past six months, she had witnessed how Lin Yibei had gradually become the embodiment of calamity and ascended to the position of the King of Urban Legends in Huacheng.
To her, it was like Lin Yibei had some special ability that always turned small matters into big troubles. It seemed like, as long as Lin Yibei was present, disaster was inevitable.
“Bam, bam, bam!”
As she contemplated, Lin Yiqi heard the hurried and heavy footsteps of the Paper Cicada Immortal, along with its strange growl mixed with its weird throat sound. She tried to turn her head to locate the Paper Cicada Immortal.
Creak—!
She had just made a slight movement with her neck, and suddenly felt a sharp pain as her cervical spine twisted. At that moment, a loud popping sound resonated through the air.
The cervical vertebra seemed to have been misaligned from the Paper Cicada Immortal’s previous strike. Just then, a blast of air horned through the space.
Lin Yiqi’s peripheral vision caught sight of a pink figure soaring toward her from a distance, landing beside her with a jolt. In the next moment, the Paper Cicada Immortal’s face was forced into her sight, its head tilting at a bizarre angle as it stared into her eyes.
That face had the unique wrinkled texture of paper, pale in color, with exaggerated rosy cheeks, and its watercolor-painted eyes wide open and hollow.
Although it had pink fur at its temples and bunny ears, making it look somewhat comical, Lin Yiqi couldn’t find it in herself to laugh and even felt an urge to cry.
It might sound ridiculous, but she was indeed getting beaten up by something that looked like it was wearing a pink rabbit suit and might even d*e at its hands.
It’s over!
Lin Yiqi felt a chill in her heart as she struggled to get up, only to feel her ankle grabbed by the Paper Cicada Immortal’s incredibly strong grip, pulling her body and throwing her into the air.
The feeling of weightlessness hit her, and everything before her immediately grew blurry.
Realizing her mother was in danger, the baby, which had originally dispersed into an ethereal form, reappeared with a semi-solid semblance, swirling around Lin Yiqi and forming a thin mist with a faint crimson glow to protect her.
Below, the Paper Cicada Immortal arched its back like a beast, with its limbs on the ground, staring up at the sky, following Lin Yiqi’s body that was plummeting like a falling leaf.
Rip—!
With the sound of crumpling paper, it slowly opened its “mouth.”
In fact, the Paper Cicada Immortal, having revealed its true form, did not possess a physical “mouth.” Instead, it had a mouth outline drawn with watercolor on its face, but at that moment, it did indeed open its mouth.
As the paper that formed the Paper Cicada Immortal’s face writhed, a sinister crack appeared on its pale visage, extending down to the roots of its pink bunny ears.
It was as if the mask had been lifted, and the paper forming the Paper Cicada Immortal’s face was completely pulled upwards, revealing a boiling, viscous substance that was black and shiny, rolling and squirming like tar.
The torn paper, with jagged edges, resembled its sharp teeth. “Roar—!”
A roar erupted, mixed with a screech like a steam whistle.
A dazzling, colorful ball of light began to gather in the Paper Cicada Immortal’s mouth, followed by countless radiant points that flew in from the void like gathering fireflies, merging into that ball of light.
Thus, that grain-sized light ball grew rapidly to the size of a jade plate, emitting an aura of destruction and causing the surrounding air to shiver, creating pale whirlwinds.
In its descent, Lin Yiqi had no room to dodge; sensing the terrifying power of that light ball, her heart raced, her complexion turned pale, and she cried out, “Baby, come back!”
The baby had already been struck clean once; taking another hit like that, it was hard to imagine what kind of severe injury it would suffer. Yet…
“Bee, bee!” The baby babbled, not only failing to heed Lin Yiqi’s command but also swirling even faster around her body, exerting more spirit energy to protect her.
In the next moment, a dazzling pillar of light shot into the sky.
Then, she heard a thunderous boom; her vision was engulfed by a chaotic swirl of colors. After the crash, there was silence, and Lin Yiqi found herself in a daze.
Is it over?
Has it ended just like that?
But why can’t I feel any pain?
Lin Yiqi thought, and the next moment, she heard another loud crash. It was like a great hammer slamming down on a steel plate—
A distance of several kilometers vanished in an instant. “Screech!”
With a screeching sound, Uncle Zhang Shan’s taxi completed a perfect drift and came to a stop in front of Gate Four.
“I’ll owe you the story for the fare and tell you later!” Lu Yibei told Uncle Zhang Shan, hurriedly pulling Jumeng out of the car, rushing past the dilapidated fence at Gate Four, and charging ahead.
When they arrived at the scene, they saw Lin Yiqi plummeting from the air, along with the Paper Cicada Immortal crouched on the ground, gathering a menacing ball of light in its mouth.
Just a glance was enough for Lu Yibei and Jumeng to roughly estimate the power of that light ball. It was no less than a level 95 spell.
With Lin Yiqi’s spirit energy fluctuation level, there was no way she could withstand a blow that rivaled the Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon! Without a moment’s hesitation, Lu Yibei and Jumeng acted in unison.
The two figures raced forward almost at the same time, but as Lu Yibei summoned Ling Tai Purification and Xuan Ying Luo Fu from the God Realm Prototype, Jumeng froze in place.
Lu Yibei sprinted forward, her white-pink hair flying behind her, and as her spirit energy surged, it began to turn crimson, engulfed in flames. Then, with a thought, two swirling shadows formed above her head.
From the distant reflection of Huacheng, metal fell from the sky, creating a fierce flame as it scraped against the air.
Then, when Ling Tai Purification exited from the God Realm Prototype and made contact with Lin Yibei’s body, a brilliant light burst forth, and the sharp sound of metal colliding echoed.
In the blink of an eye, the light dissipated.
That petite figure became encased in all-encompassing armor, wielding an oversized fiery greatsword and a silvery tower shield relative to her height, as her iron boots crushed the concrete beneath her, causing a series of booming sounds.
In this fully armed state, Lu Yibei’s speed didn’t slow down at all; instead, it increased.
With the inhumane terror propelling her forward, the armored figure seemed like a moving fortress speeding ahead continuously.
With Ling Tai Purification, she didn’t have to worry about getting hurt, screw it! Lu Yibei thought.
Jumeng, …
What kind of ridiculous form is this?
From her perspective, this clearly suited a mage route more, so why is she dressed like a knight? Are you the legendary plate armor mage?
As Jumeng pondered, that armoured mage before her instantly executed a “shield throw.”
The thrown tower shield stirred up a fierce wind as it swirled through the air, drawing a silvery arc, and at the moment the light pillar shot up into the sky from the Paper Cicada Immortal’s mouth, it perfectly spun beneath Lin Yiqi’s body.
“Boom—!”
The light pillar crashed into the tower shield, unleashing a deafening roar.
Colorful sparks exploded, raining down like a magnificent and vibrant firework display.
Seeing this, Jumeng snapped back to reality, flew forward, caught the falling Lin Yiqi, and quickly distanced themselves from the Paper Cicada Immortal by stepping on the dense pear trees.
On the ground, Lu Yibei continued moving forward; the sparks splashing onto her armor rang out with the sounds of metal colliding and grinding, unending.
Bathed in the torrential downpour of destructive energy, she closed in on the Paper Cicada Immortal, two meters away, and unleashed Xuan Ying Luo Fu.
The fiery greatsword whizzed toward the Paper Cicada Immortal, but it appeared as if the creature had anticipated the move, lowering its body and stepping forward with a stride, moving into Lu Yibei’s face through the gap of the sword’s light.
“k*ll her, k*ll that monster!”
The whisper echoed in her mind, causing confusion and madness. The Paper Cicada Immortal’s eyes glowed red, and that sinister mouth opened once more, the light ball coalescing rapidly.
The close-range, unreserved strike poured onto Lu Yibei’s body, engulfing her figure. However, in the next moment, the Paper Cicada Immortal’s red eyes began to tremble.
“Is that it? Can you guess why I stack armor? Well, from a certain perspective, calling me daddy wouldn’t be out of place, right?” Lin Yibei’s voice emerged amid the rainbow-like brilliant light.
Then, a small hand, wrapped in silver armor, slowly reached out from the blazing light, delicately and gently placed on top of the Paper Cicada Immortal’s head.
Then…
Suddenly pressed down hard.
The monstrous mouth snapped shut, and the light ball that had yet to fully erupt exploded within the Paper Cicada Immortal’s mouth, creating a series of muffled explosions akin to firecrackers bursting in a steel barrel.
“Bang, bang, bang—!”
With the explosions, the Paper Cicada Immortal’s face twisted and deformed as though it were being pulled by some relentless hand, and the last remnants of thick smoke slowly drifted out from the gap in its gaping mouth.
As Lu Yibei released her grip, the Paper Cicada Immortal’s body slumped to the ground, as if it had lost all strength, collapsing helplessly.
