Chapter 492: Big Trouble

Lu Yibei stared expressionlessly at the PL girl. After a brief silence, she helplessly spread her hands and said, “So there’s no room for negotiation?”

“Yeah, for now that’s how it is…” The PL girl replied guiltily, patting Lu Yibei’s shoulder before changing the subject. “But don’t worry!”

“Didn’t I tell you before? If anything goes wrong, I’ve got your back!”

Hearing this, Lu Yibei frowned, feeling that things weren’t so simple. “By ‘got your back,’ you mean making me risk my life to cheat, right?”

“Uh… heh heh.” The PL girl gave a dry laugh, not giving a direct answer.

Lu Yibei, “……”

Although risking my life is better than losing it, why do I feel like I’ve been tricked?

It’s like falling into the trap of some unscrupulous merchant, forced to spend money step by step. The difference is, the merchant wants money, the PL girl wants my life…

Lu Yibei grumbled inwardly and finally compromised, “Alright, given the current situation, I can only do as you say.”

“But before we set out, I have two questions. Could you answer them for me?”

The PL girl straightened up and made a gesture of invitation. “Speak freely!”

“First question…” Lu Yibei organized her thoughts a bit before saying, “According to you, the deities in the special space, though born from Hua City’s projection, have relatively independent lives.”

“If that’s the case, why do people who come in from outside fuse with their projections? After the fusion, where do the original beings go?”

“Well…” The PL girl pondered for two seconds and explained vaguely, “Let’s put it this way! When the genuine article arrives, the counterfeit is no longer needed. If only one can remain, after the data from the counterfeit is read, it naturally gets scrapped, right?”

Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment and tentatively whispered, “Dead?”

“……”

The PL girl’s lips pressed tightly together, silent, but from the dimming of her eyes, Lu Yibei already got a definite answer.

“Alright, I get it.” Lu Yibei nodded and asked the next question, “Second question: you just said that if I successfully take control of this special space, it might bring big trouble?”

“Can you tell me exactly what kind of big trouble?”

Trouble isn’t scary; what’s scary is not knowing what the trouble is.

If I know what trouble to expect, I can prepare well.

Trouble I can solve, I’ll strike first and make it their problem. Trouble I can’t solve for now, I’ll think of countermeasures in advance. Trouble I can’t solve at all, I’ll plan my escape route. Lu Yibei thought.

The PL girl opened her mouth, sighed silently, and said, “First off, The Midnight Watchers Society will definitely keep an eye on you.”

“And unlike after you completed the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, when they only sent one Supervisor to contact you with loose monitoring, this time it’ll be secretive and strict, the kind of surveillance where they’d love to count every nose hair you have.”

“They might even prepare a big weapon to restrict you, like when they set up the Tang City barrier against Gou Meng.”

“Huh? Damn, why?” Lu Yibei said innocently, “I thought my persona at The Midnight Watchers Society was always a law-abiding haunting!”

Hearing the PL girl say this, Lu Yibei felt a bit panicked.

Isn’t it a bit much to start off with an unsolvable problem?

Although The Midnight Watchers Society misjudged Gou Meng’s strength, so the Tang City barrier could only seriously injure Gou Meng and couldn’t guarantee a kill.

But just thinking that The Midnight Watchers Society might prepare a ‘cannon’ near Hua City made her uneasy.

If they can’t kill me in one shot, won’t they follow up with another?

“Someone already on the Wanted List still dares to call herself law-abiding?” The PL girl retorted.

Lu Yibei, “……”

“It’s simple!” Seeing her silent, the PL girl spread her hands and said, “Didn’t I just say? In The Midnight Watchers Society’s eyes, this special space is an illegal building they can’t tear down for now, so they can only seal it off.”

“If someone or a haunting helps destroy this special space, The Midnight Watchers Society won’t pursue them; they might even give them a little banner as a reward.”

“But if you take control here, that’s different!”

“Not only have you claimed the sealed illegal building for yourself, but you’ve also gained a dangerous weapon that can destroy a city at any time, or even cause damage on a larger scale…”

Hearing this, Lu Yibei understood the PL girl’s point and nodded, “I get it, I get it. It’s like a local crime syndicate suddenly getting its hands on a weapon of mass destruction–the nature of things changes instantly, right?”

“Yeah…” The PL girl replied, “But as long as you don’t break the rules, I still hope you won’t go against them.”

“Got it!” Lu Yibei nodded.

Although The Midnight Watchers Society is a bit poor and unreliable, they’ve really been working hard to maintain stability all these years.

Now I’ve suddenly become a huge destabilizing factor. The fact that they haven’t sent three or five catastrophe-class psychics to take me out directly, but are just monitoring me, is already pretty friendly. These days, who isn’t living under surveillance anyway?

Lu Yibei thought for a moment and pressed on, “Actually, The Midnight Watchers Society isn’t that big of a problem. There must be other troubles, right?”

“…” The PL girl hesitated, her lips slightly parted. After a few seconds, she said, “Did you know that before you were born, you almost died three times?”

“Huh? Before I was born?” Lu Yibei looked at the PL girl in confusion, unable to figure out what mastering this special space had to do with almost dying before birth.

“Simply put, someone had a grudge against your parents, or maybe they just didn’t want to see you born, so they tried to kill you,” the PL girl explained.

“Later, your parents spent a lot of time reasoning with those people, and then resorted to physical force. That’s how you managed to come into this world.”

“Before, those people might have turned a blind eye to your existence, but once you take control of this special space, I can’t guarantee they won’t come after you.”

As the saying goes, the tiger’s power lingers even after its death.

In fact, as long as this special space and Wang Meili’s remaining power exist, those people will still fear Wang Meili and won’t dare to lay a hand on Lu Yibei.

Although this special space doesn’t actually provide her with any real protection, those schemers don’t know that!

In this situation, even if someone brings up old grudges, they’ll definitely pretend to be magnanimous and say, “She’s dead, the past is like smoke, let’s just let it go!” Or act righteous and say, “I’m generous, I’ll let that little brat live.”

However, for Lu Yibei to master this special space, she must inherit Wang Meili’s remaining power.

After that, it will take her a long time to fully integrate the newly acquired power.

During this process, not only will it be hard for her to wield Wang Meili’s remaining power, but even her own original strength might be weighed down by this huge “inheritance,” making it impossible to fully unleash.

At that time, those who were once intimidated by Lu Ming and Wang Meili might start scheming again–it’s hard to say.

So, kids without parents really do have it rough.

“Damn?! That vicious? Three times in a row–how badly did they want me dead?” Lu Yibei fumed. “Tell me who they are. Next time I see them…”

“Uh, I’ll definitely take a detour! If that doesn’t work, I’ll go mess with their kids, let them know just how dangerous the road home from school can be!”

“After beating up their kids, hey, I’ll run straight to The Midnight Watchers Society. They wouldn’t dare come after me there, right?”

The PL girl, “…”

That’s so you. When I heard the first half, I thought you were going to confront them head-on!

Turns out you’re just going to bully their kids?

Excellent, so despicable–I love it! the PL girl thought.

“I can tell you, but I only know that some members of the Eclipse Society were involved, though they were just a small part. As for the others, I don’t know what factions they came from.”

Hearing this, Lu Yibei frowned in annoyance, “Why even say anything if you don’t know? I hate you anxiety-mongers the most.”

It’s like when a teacher tells you there’s a test next week but won’t say what it covers or when it’ll be–knowing the challenge is coming, but all you can do is worry.

“I…” The PL girl hesitated again.

Where am I supposed to find out?

Should I tell you that when I first found this special space, I’d already killed too many people and hauntings, and accidentally wiped out those guys? the PL girl thought.

In fact, she had so many enemies that sometimes she didn’t even know why they attacked her.

Who knows if it was because they had a grudge against Lu Ming and Qi Nanzhu, or if they vaguely sensed the threat of a Calamity, or maybe because she helped a granny scam people by faking a fall and swindled someone’s pension?

But if you can’t solve your doubts, just get rid of everyone who causes them, right?

In the end, when she infiltrated the Eclipse Society and became a member of the Council of Elders, and learned that there had once been such a hidden threat she hadn’t known about, none of the remaining people dared to step forward.

The PL girl rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei and said, “Alright, Q&A time is over. You should be heading back soon.”

“Are you ready?”

“Yeah!” Lu Yibei’s gaze sharpened, and she nodded.

“Good, then I’ll send you on your way!” said the PL girl.

“Wait!” Lu Yibei instinctively raised her hand in protest. “Hold on, is that it? Isn’t there any kind of extra bonus or something?”

Trying to freeload? The PL girl tilted her head, ignored Lu Yibei, and simply snapped her fingers.

“Snap—-!”

With a crisp sound, an invisible psychic energy fluctuation spread out.

The next moment, a pitch-black vortex appeared beneath Lu Yibei’s feet.

Suddenly, a sense of weightlessness hit, and she plunged into darkness.

The ruined, crumbling rooftop returned to silence once more.