Chapter 51: Take Me Out!
“Remove the plague and ward off misfortunes…”
What is this feeling… is it a description of power?
After hearing the whispers from below, Luxianbei was momentarily taken aback, then turned to look at the six people in the room who were on edge. His eyes darted around as his mind began to race.
From that incomplete description of power and the whispers he heard, it seemed to be related to plagues.
These six people must have been affected by that power to break free from the state of enchantment.
A power that can eliminate the effects of enchantment within a short time… at least it approaches the level of calamity. It’s just unclear whether that guy is imprisoned below or if he was originally part of the Angel Rose theater.
Thinking of this, Luxianbei glanced down at the floor, frowning. At that moment, the condition of the other six people suddenly became a bit strange.
Their breathing grew heavier and more urgent, their lips turned pale and cracked, and a sickly flush spread across their cheeks… they looked like they had a high fever.
However, the abnormal state of their bodies did not alleviate the tense atmosphere. For some reason, their emotions instead became more agitated, their grips on their guns tightened, fingers continuously on the triggers, as if they were ready to sh**t at any moment.
“Give the money back! Anyway, we’ve already come in, and you’ve violated the rules. If you don’t want to be punished by your boss, obediently return the money to us!” shouted a boy in a red hoodie.
Upon hearing this, the Black Man’s face darkened several shades instantly. “You son of a b*tch, dreaming! Once it’s in our pockets, it’s our money. No one can take it away!”
“Exactly!” a strong man echoed. “Do you think threatening us with rule violations can work? Ridiculous! If the boss finds out, we’ll just get punished, and at most lose our jobs, while you’ll most likely end up as a corpse floating in the canal.”
“If you ask me, you bunch of little bastards should pay us to live and beg us to take you out!”
The few of them argued loudly back and forth, saliva flying, with bloodshot eyes.
Luxianbei thought, “Why are you all so caught up over that little money? Just a few hundred bucks, is it worth fighting for? Doesn’t this world have anything else you care about?”
With such a beautiful woman standing beside you, don’t you want to take a second look? Oh, right, she’s not in witch form now? Then it’s all good.
Just as Luxianbei was lost in thought, Nanling Yaohua’s notebook quietly floated into her line of sight.
【Someone’s coming.】
After a two-second pause, seemingly worried that Luxianbei would not understand, Nanling Yaohua wrote another line in the notebook to explain.
【When they started arguing just now, I went outside to keep watch.】
Is that so? Luxianbei nodded and looked back at the other six, intending to remind them that someone would be coming outside soon. If they continued to confront each other like this and caused such a ruckus, they would all be finished. At this moment, a premonition flashed through her mind like a current.
【He pulled the trigger】
Luxianbei’s pupils quivered slightly, and her figure flashed, arriving among the six confronting each other.
Then, the God Realm Prototype activated sequentially, the semi-virtual, semi-real light golden roots of the banyan tree spreading out.
Starting from the boy in the red hoodie who was about to sh**t, the six people disappeared in order, as if they had evaporated from the scene…
Since they wanted to sh**t so badly, then let them roll into the God Realm Prototype!
The honest and naive members of the Solar Eclipse Society would take good care of them.
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“I really heard someone arguing just now! Shall we knock and see?”
“Are you crazy? Do you not know who William is?”
“Uh, that’s true…”
Leaning against the door, overhearing the conversation between two women outside, Luxianbei breathed a sigh of relief when their voices faded. Turning back, she looked at the empty waiting area and frowned.
With the other people in the room sent to the God Realm Prototype, and with no more sounds of their arguments, the whispers of power from below seemed to grow clearer.
The voice came from below, deep and resonant, seemingly right beneath her feet, yet also rising slowly from the depths of the earth, carrying a distant and elusive echo.
As she listened to the voice, her consciousness was immediately affected, causing a moment of daze, as if a hallucination appeared before her eyes, with vague images flashing.
A youth covered in pus, an elderly person coughing violently, and a shroud stained yellow-brown with pus and corpse oil.
Then, as another part of the power description whispered into her ears, the hallucination that appeared before her suddenly changed.
“…In business, seek wealth, it is advantageous to unite…”
Mountains of gold piled up, rolling pearls and gems like flowing rivers, banknotes flying through the air, digital numbers in red and green on screens, and endless fertile land.
What’s going on? Shouldn’t that guy’s power be related to plagues?
Why did symbols associated with wealth suddenly appear?
Thinking this, Luxianbei instinctively wanted to activate the North Spirit Seal to use the special abilities of her eyes to try to probe the source of that power description’s whispers, but the discomfort she faintly felt from her eyes made her abandon that thought.
She had already used the special abilities of her eyes many times today. Frequent use had caused discomfort, and a careless glimpse at some powerful existence through those eyes could lead to damage.
Moreover, what if that guy hidden below was Cataclysm Grade?
Just mentioning it could draw the attention of a Cataclysm Grade being, let alone probing with special abilities.
It was basically like initiating location sharing with the other party while adding a line saying, “Dare to come and meet me in person!”
The same thing had already happened earlier today when Luxianbei experienced it in Zhonglu Shen’s underground rental.
Having just had her cover Yu Yinchuan blown by the trademark monster, she didn’t want to have her cover Lan Yi blown so soon.
How about… just pretend she didn’t hear anything?
The situation is already tough enough. According to what that guy just said, taking advantage of the intermission to blend in, quickly find the Zhipianxian, and leave the Free City was the right path!
At this time, provoking some unknown powerful existence wouldn’t end well.
As Luxianbei contemplated, Nanling Yaohua seemed to see her thoughts and quietly floated in front of her, raising the notebook.
【Do you want me to go down and take a look? You seem very concerned about what’s down there.】
After one reconnaissance experience, Nanling Yaohua seemed to have developed a sense of duty as a scout.
However.
Having Nanling Yaohua follow her was to help her find a way back. If it weren’t for her current sensitive identity, making it inconvenient to act, she probably would have already been on her way to find Gu Qiqi to try and communicate with that strange fish beside her…
So how could she let Nanling Yaohua do such a dangerous thing?
Thinking of this, Luxianbei resolutely refused, “No! Absolutely not.”
“This place is different from Vivienne’s apartment. If you go down alone, what will you do if you encounter danger? At that time, there won’t even be anyone to help you.”
Is she really that concerned about me? Hehe! Nanling Yaohua smiled lightly and raised the notebook again in a self-recommendation.
【It’s okay, they won’t notice me. If I encounter danger, won’t I just run?】
Luxianbei still shook her head.
【In that case… I’ll just sneak down then? Anyway, you can’t stop me.】
“This…” Seeing Nanling Yaohua so persistent, Luxianbei felt a bit worried that she would really sneak away to investigate underground. After hesitating for a moment, she sighed silently and compromised, “Alright, but once you sense something’s off, leave immediately.”
【Rest assured!】
Nanling Yaohua held up the notebook to Luxianbei, her body floated lightly upwards, spinning in mid-air for a moment, then dove headfirst into the ground as if diving.
Absolutely no splash, perfect!
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Nanling Yaohua felt she was continually going down.
Continuously downward.
Around her, only rocks and soil were visible, seemingly endless.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps two or three minutes, or maybe half an hour later, she heard a clamor.
Amidst the shrill wail of the fire alarm, flames and smoke danced under the torrential rain of the fire suppression system.
In the empty corridor, severed cables swayed, dazzling sparks splattered.
In the distance, five figures were scrambling and rolling away, continuously emitting terrified shouts.
“Quick, run! That guy’s spirit energy fluctuation is going berserk, it’s about to go out of control!”
“Go inform the board lady, quickly inform the boss!”
“d*mn it! Don’t block the way!”
“…”
They seemed to be avoiding something, traversing the dimly lit, lengthy corridor like dry grass blown down by the wind, falling one after another, leaving only one person, gasping, to board the elevator to the ground.
But what exactly were they avoiding? Nanling Yaohua thought as she floated toward the direction the five fled. Soon, after passing through a tightly shut door, she found herself in a spacious, spherical space.
The walls of that space were engraved with dense incantations, with dim green light flickering, and along with the flickering light, vague shadows as if they didn’t exist in the world were patrolling the walls.
It was as if this was a prison holding ghosts.
On the ground, a dark, metal-forged chair resembling a surgical table was where a figure lay quietly, shrouded in shadows.
Getting a bit closer, Nanling Yaohua could see that the figure was cut in half at the waist, the lower half missing, and several pitch-black long nails as thick as a person’s fingers pierced through its essential joints, pinning it firmly to the chair.
That bloodstained face, with eyes seemingly ripped of their eyelids, stared at the ceiling, the icy pupils filled with darkness and ferocity, and the lips were pierced with a pitch-black metal wire, as if they were sewn together, repeatedly pierced through.
Horrific spirit energy fluctuations radiated from his body, coalescing into dirty azure mist that surrounded him.
And just as Nanling Yaohua was secretly observing him, he suddenly twisted his neck and directed his gaze toward Nanling Yaohua.
“Take me out!”
These words, carrying a commanding tone, suddenly exploded in Nanling Yaohua’s mind.
