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Before entering the town of East Asia's H district, Eve turned her motorcycle into a dilapidated temple ruin.
Wild grass grew rampant among the broken walls and ruins, cobwebs covered the half-collapsed stable, and the rotten wooden beams creaked and groaned in the wind.
She turned off the engine, and the residual heat of the engine caused fine white steam to rise in the stillness.
Li Pu jumped out of the car and watched as Eve deftly pulled a tattered straw mat over the front of the vehicle, then used her feet to poke at the gravel and twigs, carefully concealing the tire tracks. She even pulled a small spray can from her cloak and sprayed a nearly transparent anti-scanning coating onto the car body—a faint smell of rust mixed with ozone filled the air.
Li Pu stretched like a kitten, kicked aside a loose brick, and said, "Night, desolate mountains, dilapidated temple..."
"It's a good place for ghost stories to happen."
He glanced again at Eve, who was kneeling on the ground, her jelly-like buttocks sticking out and wriggling back and forth. Her fingers tapped rapidly a few times in a hidden groove on the motorcycle's chassis. After a very faint hum, the metallic sheen of the entire vehicle seemed to dim, even the residual heat radiation from the engine quickly dissipated, completely merging into the desolate shadows, like a forgotten piece of cold scrap metal.
"Yeah, and there are beautiful women too."
All the essential elements are included.
Whether it's a rough-and-tumble hero or a ghost knight, he never utters a sound when he hears these kinds of ghost stories...
Eve didn't reply. He shrugged. Being with Miss Eve, this "dull beast," was still quite boring.
Then, his gaze was drawn to a small patch of dust on Eve's latex suit at the back.
With a quick glance, he casually pried a piece of dry, cracked mud from the broken wall beside him, rubbed it, and just as Eve stood up, he slapped it precisely onto her crystal-green latex suit on her hip—covering the unsightly grime perfectly.
Eve paused, then slowly turned around.
"Wha, what's the matter?"
"I'll fix your camouflage." Li Pu grinned, revealing two sharp little tiger teeth. "You're welcome."
Eve silently lowered her head, looked at the irregularly shaped "mud camouflage" with grass clippings on the edges, and then looked up at the human cub's face beneath her, a face that seemed "pure and harmless".
After a few seconds of confusion, she replied with a cute, slightly bewildered expression, "Oh, thank you."
Li Pu scratched his head, feeling that teasing Miss Eve was really pointless; she was so silly.
After finishing everything, Eve pulled down her hood and walked out of the post station.
Li Pu quickly followed.
But at that moment, a faint power of 'prosperity' and 'flying light' began to circulate in the dilapidated temple.
Li Pu caught a glimpse of something unusual out of the corner of his eye—a slender, withered bamboo-like shadow silently slid past the gap in the collapsed earthen wall of the post station!
The shadow was as thin as old Xuan paper torn by the wind, its edges glowing with a faint blue phosphorescent light, outlining an inhuman silhouette in the dim light.
It had no face, only a long, thin, twisted hand like a withered branch, reaching straight into the depths of the overgrown path outside the post station.
Ghostly Appearance!
It pointed out of the city!
Li Pu frowned slightly, tilted his head, and asked, "You're here to find Lashi, aren't you?"
Possessing the dual powers of "Flying Light" and "Golden Law," he is not afraid of such things.
In particular, the "Golden Law" is a natural counter to the undead and evil spirits.
Because their existence violates the natural law of birth, aging, sickness, and death in the "Golden Law".
Eve silently approached him, a few barely perceptible streams of data flashing across her eyes.
"Residual Energy: Low-level Spirit Projection".
"Directional: High probability of non-randomness."
Threat level: tentatively set as low.
Before Eve could finish speaking, the ghostly figure vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.
“Outside the city…” Li Pu stared at the direction where the phantom disappeared. “It was pointing outside the city just now.”
caveat?
You're not welcome? You want me to leave?
It's really baffling.
With the Demon Sealing Ceremony imminent, the city is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations to ward off evil spirits, but a ghostly figure appears outside the city.
Just now, besides the aura of 'prosperity,' there was also 'flying light.'
What kind of demon is being "sealed"?
Li Pu took a deep breath, the air, mixed with the smell of grass and the incense smoke drifting from the distant city, filling his lungs.
He glanced at the brightly lit East Continent H District.
I insist on going in!
Master Chunli is still there!
……
The ancient city was brightly decorated and bustling with activity.
The long street was lined with vermilion talisman lanterns, and the candlelight flickered in the gold-painted silk gauze, casting a warm yellow glow on the bluestone pavement.
"Candied hawthorn berries on a stick!"
"The booklet~ The booklet~ It includes all the young heroes and fairies who will be appearing at this Demon Sealing Ceremony~"
"We have them all!"
The teahouses along the roadside were filled with people, and the shouts of street vendors mingled with the aroma of caramelized sugar paintings and the smoke of sandalwood. The air was so thick that you could wring out sweet, oily sweat from it.
The crowd was shoulder to shoulder, the men had shiny braids hanging down their backs, and the women had velvet flowers in their hair.
“…” Li Pu frowned.
Not far away, on a high platform adorned with colorful ribbons, several actors with pale faces were swaying their flowing sleeves and singing something like "Sealing demons and suppressing evil, the universe is bright and clear." The audience cheered, their braids bobbing up and down with the applause.
Those swaying braids, like coiled black snakes, gleamed with a slippery sheen under the lamplight.
He subconsciously touched the neat short hair at the back of his head, and an inexplicable sense of unease welled up inside him.
Are they filming a scene with queues (braided hairstyle) here?
As expected, Dongzhou is indeed another world with a clear...
However, this is not the fault of these ordinary people. Let's continue to observe.
Eve, born from "Little Xiba," remained unfazed. She shook her head at an old woman who squeezed in to sell "evil-repelling and peace knots," the hem of her cloak brushing against the poorly woven red rope knots in the woman's bamboo basket.
Li Pu rubbed his temples and bought a booklet about the upcoming Demon Sealing Ceremony from a street vendor using Eagle Capital Coins.
To be honest, he still doesn't know what this Demon Sealing Ceremony is all about.
After flipping through a few pages, I quickly found a familiar face on one of them.
Jin Bao'er.
That martial arts fanatic from the Eastern Continent who had previously chased after me in the R District prison, begging to become my disciple.
However, apart from the name, there was absolutely no resemblance between them in the portrait!
Li Pu could basically conclude that the money spent on this booklet was wasted...
He sighed, thankfully he had found the homepage.
Sure enough, the origin of the Eastern Continent Demon Sealing Ceremony was recorded in traditional Chinese characters.
"To quell the evil miasma and pacify the ghostly forces plaguing the border city of Dongzhou, the Governor's Office has specially established a once-in-a-century Demon-Sealing Ceremony. The incense offerings of the people will be gathered to strengthen the yang energy of humanity, and the courage and blood of heroes from the martial world will be assembled to bolster the sealing ceremony's majesty. This centennial period is approaching; we rely on the collective strength of the people to once again lock the netherworld beneath the abyss."
Li Pu roughly understood that this was to take advantage of the festive atmosphere to seal away demons and give them free refills.
The only thing that could be called a demon in the Eastern Continent was probably the 'Prosperity' destiny; here it seems to be called the 'Plague'.
Since it's a celebration for sealing the "Prosperity" monster in the Eastern Continent's border city...
What's that silly old woman Chunli with her big breasts and big buttocks doing rushing over here?
Chapter 138 Mother's Filter
“I warned him outside the city, but that little boy insisted on coming.”
On the top floor of the most luxurious inn in Dongzhou Border Town, the transparent gauze curtains fluttered slightly in the night breeze, reflecting the city lights outside the window.
Tifa Bahamut leaned back on a soft couch covered with ferret fur, her fingertips twirling an ice jade wine glass, the scarlet wine inside remaining motionless, frozen in frost.
As soon as she finished speaking, Chun-Li across from her suddenly stood up!
A voluptuous, mature woman in a cheongsam slammed her celadon teacup on the table with a "crack," splashing hot tea onto the lotus embroidery on her sleeve.
Her beautiful, almond-shaped eyes seemed to blaze with two flames, fiercely piercing Bahamut opposite her:
"My disciple is intelligent, kind, and innocent! How did you come to call him a mere newborn?!"
Bahamut was somewhat speechless.
This is probably what they call the "mother's filter"...
Chun-Li in front of us is like this, and so is Emma in the agency.
Ever since that brat suddenly appeared out of nowhere, these two ruthless women, who used to fight their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood without batting an eye, have both degenerated into protective mother hens.
absurd!
It's absolutely heartbreaking!
Although... at the end of those reincarnations, she had personally snapped the necks of these two "older sisters" no less than a hundred times.
But that didn't stop her from feeling that the "older aunties" were being incredibly protective and devoted to their children.
Shockingly stupid!
Despite the complaints, after so many reincarnations, the "plastic sisterhood" still exists.
She wasn't angry; she just continued coldly:
"Alright, your little apprentice is catching up. Think of a way to shake him off, Chun-Li."
Chunli crossed her arms over her chest, her jade-like arms gleaming warmly in the candlelight.
She snorted coldly, her chin slightly raised, but a hint of unconcealed worry crept into her eyes and brows: "Why should I hide from my disciple?"
"Moreover……"
"If that child is outside... he won't have enough to eat or wear, and he'll be bullied by others..."
As she spoke, her phoenix eyes lowered slightly, her gaze sweeping across the dimly lit street outside the window, and her voice unconsciously softened.
"I should have kept him by my side," she murmured, as if speaking to herself, "I should have stayed by his side every step of the way..."
"Foolish child..."
"Followed me for so long..."
"I don't know how this little thing survived."
Bahamut glanced sideways at the tears welling in Chun-Li's eyes, a smirk playing on his lips:
"Sister Chunli, you're so biased."
Why don't you care about Xiao Lifen?
"Shut up!" Chun-Li whirled around abruptly, her phoenix eyes instantly flaring with rage! Her full lips pouted sharply. "Don't mention that little slut to me!"
"If I hadn't found out today, she could have kept it from me until I died!"
"Last night I was toasting and smiling at her, my back was almost bent over!"
"I said all the nice things, practically begged for mercy, and almost kowtowed to her on the spot!"
Her chest heaved violently, and the gold-threaded lotus blossoms on her cuffs trembled and twisted into a tangled mess.
"Years! Years of complete silence!"
"It's made me wear through more than a dozen pairs of shoes!"
The last half of the sentence was almost squeezed out through gritted teeth, each word seemingly imbued with sparks:
"When we get back, I'm going to whip her buttocks into eight pomegranate petals!"
Bahamut maintained her wicked woman persona, lowering her eyes to sip her wine, the rim of the icy jade glass concealing a silent sneer at the corner of her lips.