After hearing Chatterbox Girl's answer, Lu Yibei was stunned for a mont, pointing to her nose and making an incredulous sound, "Calamity? ? Are you sure?"
Although she temporarily didn't know whether the Calamity Chatterbox Girl spoke of referred to natural Disasters in the usual sense, such as earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions, or large-scale Disasters in a broad sense, she knew very well that her abilities were probably still lacking.
Creating a Calamity was not sothing that could be done just by talking about it.
Lu Yibei believed that with her current ability, she could cause a fire covering several kiloters, or use her charm ability to instantly drive thousands of people insane, but strictly speaking, that couldn't be considered a Calamity; it could only be considered an accidental event with a huge impact.
At the very least, it would have to reach the level of the Maitian God, who could shroud a city in dense fog, to be called a Calamity, right?
What's more...
"Why would I create a Calamity? Aren't we discussing saving people right now?"
What Lu Yibei longed for was a way for those who had been trapped and died in Yun Pass to find liberation; it was salvation, and creating a Calamity would only bring destruction.
"That's not how you say it." Chatterbox Girl waved her hand and held up a finger, saying, "For example, if there's a person suffering from a severe illness, enduring pain every mont, wouldn't pulling out their oxygen tube and ending their suffering also be a different kind of salvation?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei's pupils slightly widened, and she suddenly felt that Chatterbox Girl in her sight had beco sinister and terrifying.
Like a devil that bewitched people's minds and led them to depravity.
She vaguely guessed what Chatterbox Girl wanted her to do, but she still couldn't help but ask, "What do you an? Isn't that still murder?"
"Sigh!" Chatterbox Girl let out a heavy sigh, patted Lu Yibei's shoulder, and said, "I know it's hard for you to accept, but... the outco of so things cannot be changed. All you can do is change the perception of the people experiencing them."
If so people are destined to die and their fate cannot be changed, then at least one can find a way to let them die peacefully.
"..." Lu Yibei opened her mouth, wanting to refute Chatterbox Girl, but before she could organize her words, Chatterbox Girl interrupted her.
"You listen to first!" Chatterbox Girl said with a worried expression, "Just like Xia Lianqing... Haven't you tried several tis to change Xia Lianqing's fate? But what was the result? She still died, even more tragically than at first! Do you think that was saving her?"
"..." Thinking of how every ti she extended a helping hand to Xia Lianqing, it only made her suffer more before her death, Lu Yibei hesitated.
"Lu Yibei, people are very good at finding excuses to comfort themselves when enduring suffering. Among all kinds of excuses, bad luck and ill fortune are among the most comforting and easily accepted excuses." Chatterbox Girl continued.
Fabricating a false "Nightmare" and letting people die peacefully in the "Nightmare" was sothing she was very good at; she had done it more than once, and guiding Lu Yibei was also a familiar path for her.
"Now, those unford urban legend will wander in Yun Pass for thousands of years because they felt betrayed at the end of their lives and fell into a vortex of despair. If you can create a Calamity, although you cannot change their outco, you can change their perception."
"What's more, if you create a Calamity in the past, allowing people to associate your existence with that Calamity, even if they all perish, it will lay a solid foundation for your advancent to Calamity. Perhaps after this matter is over, you can directly beco a Calamity. This is a very cost-effective deal!"
After listening to Chatterbox Girl's explanation, Lu Yibei lowered her head, looking at her hands. After a long silence, she asked in a low voice, "Is... is there no other way?"
As for laying the foundation for advancing to Calamity, she felt it didn't matter. She just wanted to find a better, less cruel way to solve this matter.
"Probably..." Chatterbox Girl stopped mid-sentence and shook her head, "No."
Although she hadn't thought seriously, she had vaguely considered so other thods, and the results of those thods were basically unlikely to be better than the thod she told Lu Yibei.
"The power of a person or a urban legend has very limited influence on the past that has already beco history, just like a speck of dust falling into a pond, it will sink into the water and disappear in an instant. Even a Calamity is at most a small stone that can stir up a few ripples."
Unless this stone is large enough to directly smash through the pond... Chatterbox Girl added in her mind.
She knew this very clearly and had a deep, bone-deep understanding of it.
Strictly speaking, she and the other six world-destroying factors were those absurdly large "stones" capable of destroying the entire pond.
But even so, she couldn't make the pond change in the direction she wanted while ensuring its integrity.
What's more, if the current Lu Yibei wanted to beco that special "stone," she might be smashed to pieces by the pond's manager, ground into powder, and scattered by the wind.
"Let think about it!" Lu Yibei pondered for a long ti, then said to Chatterbox Girl in a tired voice, "I need to think about it carefully."
"Alright!" Chatterbox Girl nodded, turned around, and pointed at Shen Baiwei, saying, "If you've thought it through and decided to do it, just release her and tornt her severely. Just vent all your resentnt and dissatisfaction on her."
"You should be good at this, right?"
Lu Yibei, "..." Why do I feel like Chatterbox Girl's words have so personal grudge against Shen Baiwei?
Chatterbox Girl, "..." Yes, there is a personal grudge!
Players with ti-based abilities have always been particularly disgusting and dirty. Nightmare was a terrifying existence that almost devoured Disaster, making her suffer a lot!
Now that she finally had the chance to catch Nightmare before she advanced to Calamity, how could she not let Lu Yibei tornt her to death?
In silence, Lu Yibei looked at Shen Baiwei lying on the ground, then withdrew her gaze, paced back to the window, and looked out. As Chatterbox Girl appeared, the sky, which seed to have pressed the pause button, beca thoughtful.
Should she listen to Chatterbox Girl or not? Lu Yibei wondered.
So far, Chatterbox Girl had never hard her, and the things she asked her to do had always turned out well. If she went by past experience, listening to Chatterbox Girl this ti should also be the best choice.
But...
Is there really no other better way?
She hadn't even tried yet. Lu Yibei thought with a heavy heart.
If possible, this ti she wanted to try and see if she could get a better outco by not listening to Chatterbox Girl.
As she pondered, the fixed, magnificent crimson light in the sky suddenly moved again.
She was startled, turned around, and found that Chatterbox Girl had disappeared, replaced by Nanling Yaohua, who had appeared behind her at so unknown ti.
Nanling Yaohua stood there anxiously, as if holding sothing in her hands.
Looking closely, Lu Yibei saw a familiar figure in her hand.
It was a small, white, tender worm glowing with crystalline luster.
Lu Yibei, "???"
Isn't this Void? ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) When did it enter Yun Pass? And why is it with Xiao Hua?
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"Lu... This guy says it has sothing important to tell you!" Seeing the doubt in Lu Yibei's eyes, Nanling Yaohua explained, "So I brought it over."
"Thank you, Miss Nanling." Void thanked Nanling Yaohua, then looked at Lu Yibei and said, "Disaster, Naless Book asked to bring a ssage..."
Lu Yibei, "..."
Naless Book? Night Watch Guardian? Holy crap! Why did you bring the Japanese here?
----
Twenty minutes ago.
After parting with Void, Naless Book returned to Si Ye Hui Headquarters and walked along the corridor on the ninth underground floor. Before she could return to the front of Observation Room No. 2, she encountered Zhang Huainan, who had just co out of the remote eting room.
Seeing Zhang Huainan approaching with a dark face, she frowned slightly and couldn't help but ask, "Old friend, the result of the discussion with those few seems unsatisfactory?"
"Hmph!" Zhang Huainan stopped and snorted coldly, "A bunch of scoundrels! If I weren't in the wrong, I'd rush to the Dripping Blood Resurrection Cathedral and Kasuga Grand Shrine right now and drag them out for a beating!"
Naless Book, "..." You actually feel in the wrong sotis?
In her perception, one of Black Emperor's greatest strengths was pulling rank and relying on his powerful fists to twist logic. In the past, Zhang Huainan might already be on his way to the Dripping Blood Resurrection Cathedral or Kasuga Grand Shrine, instead of just talking about it.
Not going to India was probably out of respect for his old friend who had recently passed away.
"Then the result of the discussion..."
"Forty-eight hours..." Zhang Huainan sighed silently, "This is the ti I fought for. If Yun Pass hasn't gotten rid of the risk of losing control after forty-eight hours, they will act."
The major Spiritual Energy organizations intended to intervene imdiately in the Yun Pass operation. Zhang Huainan's ability to secure forty-eight hours already showed his deterrent power.
Anyway, Naless Book felt that if another Guardian had held this remote eting, the result would not have been so good.
This kind of thing is like hiding so dangerous item that could blow up the entire building in your ho. When your neighbors find out, their first thought is definitely to break in and eliminate the threat.
Normally, they wouldn't give you forty-eight hours to deal with it yourself.
But, this old Black Emperor, would he actually accept such a humiliating condition? And, forty-eight hours... is that really enough? Naless Book wondered.
As soone who had been monitoring various data for Yun Pass, she felt that forty-eight hours would probably be difficult to eliminate the hidden dangers of Yun Pass, unless Void could find the key factor that could reduce the night's erosion of Yun Pass in a short ti.
If the threat of Yun Pass cannot be lifted after forty-eight hours, allowing foreign Spiritual Energy organizations to enter Z Country may not be a good thing. Although everyone's intentions regarding urban legend are consistent, other aspects are hard to say.
Just as Naless Book was pondering, Zhang Huainan suddenly snuck up beside her and whispered, "Old friend, quickly go find your little follower! It should be able to deliver ssages to the people inside, right?"
"After it contacts the people inside, quickly tell Disaster and the Eclipse Society mbers around Disaster that if they can't solve the ss in Yun Pass in forty-eight hours, they'll all be dood. Of course, this is to scare them. Oh, right, you can't let your little follower tell them that!"
"Hehe, when I was in the eting just now, I secretly cast a divination. The key to breaking the situation is on them. Although forty-eight hours is a bit tight, it's not entirely insufficient. Otherwise, would I indulge those scoundrels?"
Naless Book, "..."
Looking at the smile on Zhang Huainan's face, she suddenly rembered a saying from the Analects of Confucius—"An old man who does not die is a thief."
This ti, Zhang Huainan compromised with the major Spiritual Energy organizations, only gaining forty-eight hours. It seed like a huge loss, but next ti, the other party would definitely try to compensate Night Watch.
When these Spiritual Energy organizations interact, it's never one-sided; even if they don't want to, they have to put on a show.
In the future, after they compensate Night Watch, if they know that these forty-eight hours were also within Black Emperor's calculations, calling him an "old thief" would certainly not be excessive; not physically beating him would be considered light.
Wait! How did he know that I still had contact with Void?
I shouldn't have told anyone about this...
Naless Book suddenly realized sothing was wrong. She turned to look at Zhang Huainan, only to see Zhang Huainan, who had already walked away, turn his back to her and raise the compass in his hand, gently shaking it.
That look seed to say, "Sorry, being proficient in divination ans you can do whatever you want!"
----
A mont later, in a small apartnt far from Si Ye Hui Headquarters.
This was Naless Book's ho.
Although she spent most of her ti in the archives of Si Ye Hui Headquarters, and from a certain perspective, did not need a ho, having a ho, occasionally cooking a al during breaks, or curling up on the sofa to read a book all day, made her feel more like a flesh-and-blood person.
At this mont, all the curtains in the small apartnt were drawn. In the dimly lit living room, Naless Book was curled up on the sofa, holding a phone that emitted a strong light, as if it would explode at any mont, her eyes tightly closed.
In the darkness, a voice sounded in her mind.
"Current intrusion progress 89.2%, system operating normally, everything is fine."
Hearing Void's report, Naless Book asked, "What about the target coordinates?"
"Lord Huaiyuan's location unknown, Nanling Yaohua locked, no movent detected currently."
"Very good, maintain."
"Understood."
After a pause, Naless Book added, "Report every minute. I will constantly monitor your status. Rember, absolutely do not make contact with anything outside of the three targets, understood?"
"Understood." Void responded and then entered the one-minute reporting cycle.
"..."
"Intrusion progress 94.7%, about to enter Yun Pass. Signal interruption may occur next, reconnection ti unknown."
"Mm." Naless Book responded faintly.
A minute later, Void's voice sounded for the last ti.
"Intrusion progress 99%, I'm going then, Sister, rember to miss !"
Naless Book, "..."
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