Chapter 39 : Chapter 39
Chapter 39. She Is My Dear Younger Sister
Zhao Mingyue gripped her solid magic staff, shaped like a pickaxe hammer, tightly in her hand.
After the strength increase she gained from perfectly completing the previous mission, the power this “weapon” could unleash in her hands had greatly improved.
“What exactly is that thing outside? It is not Lu Liangting, right?”
Standing to one side of the door, Zhao Mingyue asked Bai Yu in a low voice.
As for whether she was afraid or not, she only found the situation a little strange.
Fear itself was minimal.
After all, there was a female ghost in her home who gave her a great sense of security.
“Li Nan.”
“Huh? It is actually him? Then how does he have Lu Liangting’s account?”
“It is only an illusion technique. Once he is within a certain distance of you, he can use it. That is not the key point. The important thing is the thing on him that is producing the illusion.”
Bai Yu had a bad feeling.
Li Nan himself was weak.
The real problem was the person behind him.
That person was definitely not simple.
Bai Yu did not believe the thing attached to Li Nan had been placed there recently.
But whether that was true or not, they would find out after killing him.
“Get ready to open the door. I will deal with the thing on him. Li Nan is yours.”
“Okay!”
Zhao Mingyue nodded vigorously.
Her slender fingers tightened around the magic staff as she raised it high above her head.
Her thin, delicate arms hardly looked capable of producing much strength.
However, the “weapon” she held certainly looked vicious.
Bai Yu stepped back.
The door was suddenly pulled open by Zhao Mingyue.
Almost instantly, a long black shadow shot out from Li Nan’s body.
Upon closer inspection, it was actually a stretched shadow arm.
Bai Yu snorted coldly and casually raised her hand, firmly grabbing it in her palm.
Her situation was similar to Zhao Mingyue’s.
In fact, even more absurd.
With her slender limbs and doll-like beauty, she appeared delicate and harmless.
No one would imagine she possessed great strength.
In reality, Zhao Mingyue might indeed be like that.
But Bai Yu was the exact opposite.
Her slender arm suddenly erupted with terrifying power.
With a single hand, her five fingers crushed the shadow’s wrist.
Her expression barely changed.
Meanwhile, the shadow arm twisted violently.
The wrist had been crushed completely, as if the bones had been shattered, leaving only torn flesh connecting it.
The shadow trembled.
Yet Bai Yu did not release it.
She pulled hard, trying to drag the shadow toward her.
But unexpectedly, the shadow simply severed its own arm.
On Zhao Mingyue’s side, the scene was just as brutal.
The moment the door opened, she did not even care who was outside.
Whether it was Li Nan or someone else.
Her pointed magic staff came crashing down without hesitation.
Standing outside the door was indeed Li Nan.
When he saw Zhao Mingyue open the door, a cruel smile appeared on his face.
He could hardly wait to unleash the darkest and most twisted desires in his heart upon Zhao Mingyue’s delicate body.
He wanted to completely possess her.
However, the moment the door opened, a hammer with a red bird-beak-shaped tip and a pair of cute white wings attached behind it rapidly enlarged in his vision.
Li Nan’s pupils shrank.
The conical tip of the pickaxe-shaped magic staff slammed directly into his nose.
His nose instantly collapsed.
Blood sprayed everywhere.
The pain twisted his entire face.
Because it was a blunt weapon, the strike did not slice off his nose or cut open his skin.
However, Li Nan clearly heard a crisp cracking sound.
His mind went blank.
He had no idea what exactly had broken.
Tears streamed from his eyes.
Blood poured from his nose.
Li Nan fell onto the ground with a thud.
He was wearing a black hood and a face mask.
When he fell backward, his very obvious yellow middle-parted hairstyle was exposed.
Before coming here—More precisely, before the door of Room 404 opened—Li Nan had never imagined that Zhao Mingyue’s combat strength would be so high.
He had deliberately used the illusion to scare her.
First, he wanted the monster behind him to feed on her fear and grow stronger.
Second, he truly wanted to see Zhao Mingyue’s terrified expression.
He wanted to toy with her while she was afraid.
He had long grown tired of Zhao Mingyue’s usual aloofness.
He wanted to see fear in her eyes.
Behind the door, Bai Yu still held the shadow arm in her hand.
Threads of blood slowly emerged from her palm, swallowing the arm completely.
Bai Yu remained expressionless.
Her white dress was pure as snow.
Two low ponytails hung quietly behind her shoulders.
Her bangs were pinned with a red hair clip.
Behind her neck, two large red bows tied her ponytails.
Everything about her seemed perfect.
Like a masterpiece crafted by God.
Of course, that was only if one ignored her black eyes glowing faintly red.
It had to be said that Zhao Mingyue’s “careful styling” of Bai Yu had greatly reduced her sense of oppression.
However, anyone who underestimated her strength because of that would die very miserably.
Li Nan covered his nose and scrambled backward while sitting on the floor until his back hit the wall.
His mask had already been soaked red with blood.
Blood dripped from his chin.
In his eyes, Zhao Mingyue stood at the doorway holding the magic staff in one hand.
There was not the slightest trace of fear on her face.
Instead, she even wore a faint smile.
The fierce ghost behind her stood quietly like her shadow.
“Li Nan. So it really is you.”
“I do not understand. What exactly about me attracts you so much that you would even try to kill me?”
Behind Li Nan crouched a small black shadow figure.
It looked extremely horrifying.
Yet the creature remained curled up and did not even dare to show its head.
“I… I sacrificed everything to obtain this power. How do you also have such power?!”
Li Nan’s voice trembled with despair.
He had almost paid with his life to fuse with the shadow.
Yet the powerful shadow creature was now so terrified of the fierce ghost behind Zhao Mingyue that it dared not even move.
He refused to believe it.
This had to be fake.
This was the power given to him by his Master.
How could it possibly lose?
“How do I also have power?”
Zhao Mingyue blinked and glanced back at Bai Yu.
“You mean her?”
“She is my dear older sister.”
After saying that, Zhao Mingyue turned around and smiled at Bai Yu.
Then she pointed at Li Nan.
“What should we do with him? Should we call the police?”
Bai Yu shook her head silently.
Without saying a word, she disappeared into Zhao Mingyue’s shadow.
Zhao Mingyue found it strange.
Why had Bai Yu suddenly stopped taking action?
But when she turned her head again, she discovered that Li Nan had already gotten up and started running.
She had no idea where he found the strength.
Zhao Mingyue quickly chased after him with her magic staff.
After only a few steps, she saw Li Nan suddenly stop.
Because someone had appeared at the corner of the staircase.
“Lu Liangting?!” Zhao Mingyue recognized the figure coming down from the fifth floor.
It was the real Lu Liangting.
Earlier, Bai Yu had indeed said that Lu Liangting was confronting the female ghost on the fifth floor.
Otherwise Zhao Mingyue would not have been so frightened when she received Li Nan’s messages.
“Li Nan?” Lu Liangting stood in front of Li Nan and noticed the shadow clinging to his back.