Xu Kai took a step back, his gaze fixed tightly on Lu Lu.
Lu Lu was dressed in a white skirt, her appearance possessing the softness unique to the water towns of Jiangnan. Yet now, no one would think she was weak and easily bullied.
At this moment, Xu Kai looked at her with suspicion and uncertainty, not understanding why Lu Lu would know about this matter.
He moved his lips. “It was in that abandoned laboratory building.”
There was nothing to hide; he admitted it frankly.
Lu Lu frowned, recalling the laboratory building in the far corner.
Seeing her expression, Xu Kai was afraid she would go there alone out of desperation, so he quickly added, “That place is very dangerous. There are ghosts everywhere now. You must not go there.”
As he spoke, Xu Kai was also a bit puzzled.
There were indeed many ghosts there, but that was after he took the death list.
In the beginning, there were no ghosts in that building at all; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to leave safely.
He didn’t quite understand the mystery behind it, but this wasn’t something a dying man like him should worry about.
Lu Lu glanced at Xu Kai and didn’t speak.
That gaze was simply too cold.
Xu Kai laughed awkwardly, suddenly realizing that Lu Lu must have had a relative die here to come to this place.
Thinking of this possibility, his smile disappeared. He didn’t know how to comfort Lu Lu and felt a bit guilty.
In this world where Urban Legends reigned, dying at the hands of humans was far more tragic than dying in an Urban Legend.
He could only change the subject. “Dr. Jiang asked me to peel walnuts. You come peel them too. That way, she might not hurt you later.” He handed Lu Lu a walnut.
Instead, Lu Lu noticed the mark on Xu Kai’s palm and asked, “What is this?”
Xu Kai looked down. The eerie black rune still remained on his palm, and the black color seemed a bit deeper.
He was slightly dazed for a second. If Lu Lu hadn’t mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about this thing.
“It was… put there by Dr. Jiang.” Xu Kai put his hand behind his back somewhat uncomfortably, hiding it from Lu Lu.
“I was about to die, but that Dr. Jiang saved me, and then this mark appeared on my hand.” He whispered to Lu Lu, “I probably won’t make it out, so if there’s danger later, just leave me behind.”
Lu Lu sat on the sofa to peel walnuts. “I didn’t plan to save you anyway.”
She came here to find her brother.
“People in Urban Legends aren’t someone I can save just because I want to.”
As the son of the Ning City mayor, although Xu Kai was mediocre, he hadn’t committed any major wrongs, so Lu Lu didn’t need to target him.
If possible, Lu Lu wouldn’t mind taking him out, but the problem was it wasn’t possible.
Her gaze fell on the door, asking, “You said the ghost inside… Dr. Jiang saved you?”
Xu Kai nodded hesitantly. “Yes. I’m sure I was dying at that time, from excessive blood loss and cold all over.” If not for Jiang Ning, he would have completely died within a minute.
This realization made Xu Kai’s feelings toward Jiang Ning a bit more complicated.
Lu Lu looked thoughtful.
To think a ghost possesses such ability… but it makes sense. With Xu Kai’s injuries being that severe, he definitely wouldn’t have survived until now if he hadn’t been saved.
Ghosts actually save people?
This fact shattered Lu Lu’s long-held cognition.
Lu Lu shook her head. Even if ghosts could save people, they couldn’t save her brother who was already dead.
“Let’s peel walnuts.”
She lowered her head, not wanting to talk to Xu Kai anymore. She quickly peeled a pile of walnuts and pecans, avoiding the thought that if only Jiang Ning had appeared earlier, her brother might have survived.
She wanted to wait for Jiang Ning to wake up, then find an opportunity to go to that abandoned laboratory building to find her brother.
Xu Kai sat down, looking at her expression with some curiosity. “How were you sent here?”
This place wasn’t easy to enter, and what was Lu Lu doing here?
Moreover, Lu Lu 90% likely came here on her own initiative.
Too crazy.
Xu Kai couldn’t imagine she had such guts.
Lu Lu said casually, “I came here myself. After seeing you earlier, I felt that Dr. Jiang’s death rules shouldn’t be easily triggered. I came here solely to ask you where you found the death list.”
Xu Kai was stunned. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.
The two sat opposite each other in silence, peeling walnuts together without talking further.
Jiang Ning slept for the entire afternoon, not waking up until 5:30 PM.
While Jiang Ning was sleeping, the System had been observing the situation outside for her.
Seeing Jiang Ning wake up, the System immediately told her that another person had arrived outside who provided almost no fear value.
[ She’s like a wooden block. Xu Kai still provides two or three hundred Heartbeat Points every few minutes, but she gives none! ] The System was very dissatisfied. [ Too hateful. ]
The medical record was on the table.
After telling Jiang Ning about Lu Lu’s situation, the System asked in confusion: [ Why can this human be so calm and not afraid at all? ]
Even Bai Qianqiu, a member of the Special Guard, intermittently provided some Heartbeat Points for Jiang Ning. Lu Lu looked like just an ordinary girl; why did she have such strong mental resilience?
Other people provided a few Heartbeat Points even just reading Jiang Ning’s novel.
The System couldn’t understand.
It suddenly missed the days when it and Jiang Ning dominated the Survival Game, scaring humans everywhere.
Jiang Ning calmly flipped through the medical record.
It contained information on everyone who entered the Urban Legend this time, naturally including Lu Lu. Jiang Ning turned the medical record to Lu Lu’s page.
Lu Lu: Human
Age: 28
Ability: Copy
There was a line at the bottom evaluating Lu Lu’s freshness level, which Jiang Ning ignored directly.
Jiang Ning: “She doesn’t fear death, so she has no fear.”
Lu Lu and her brother Lu Xing’s parents died in an Urban Legend when they were very young, leaving the two children to depend on each other.
For Lu Lu, nothing was more important than the brother who raised her.
Also because of her childhood experiences, Lu Lu’s psychology wasn’t healthy. She was overly dependent on her brother, even to the point of paranoia.
Jiang Ning couldn’t quite understand Lu Lu’s feelings.
She closed the medical record and checked her Heartbeat Points in the backend.
[ Heartbeat Points: 56,389 ]
Over fifty thousand Heartbeat Points was still too little compared to the energy needed to create a game dungeon.
Jiang Ning stood up and looked at the blood moon outside the window.
Under the chilling moonlight, even the grass on the lawn emitted an eerie aura.
A scream rose from the hospital building, then vanished at once.
It seemed the hunting activity belonging to the ghosts in this Urban Legend had begun.
At this rate, the few remaining survivors might be gone soon.
The difficulty of Urban Legends in this world was similar to that of Survival Game dungeons, but the strength of humans was far lower than that of game players.
Most people couldn’t leave the Urban Legend alive.
She lowered her eyes in thought.
Should I go meddle?