Chapter 73 "You Yu": Your hand went through my entire chest?
"Don't worry, take a deep breath, calm your emotions, and then... describe the situation in detail."
Bai Ye's expression became serious. He faced You Yu without any defense. The oil lamp in his hand was held tightly, and the beautiful shadow of the light flickered as he swayed his movements.
"Huh... Linglan and I were born in the same place. This is the ancient Mo City temple complex in a large jungle. We are probably located under a stone statue not far from the street. Next to it is a huge stone statue that seems to be the feathered serpent, the god of the underworld in local mythology. Linglan and I started to explore the surroundings, but just after we took a few steps, strange vines suddenly appeared in the thick fog and took her away directly!"
You Yu took a deep breath. Witnessing the disappearance of his companions made him feel extremely bad. He was in a state of complete panic. Bai Ye took a deep breath and said, "A monster in the fog? Even someone as powerful as Ling Lan couldn't react?"
You Yu nodded and lowered her head: "Not only her, but even I didn't react. When I wanted to cut the thorns on her body with my sword, she had already disappeared. The whole person was suddenly pulled into the fog. When I chased after her, there was nothing there, only some withered vines, which shattered into ashes when touched."
You Yu's expression suddenly became stern: "... Just like those over there."
Bai Ye turned his head and saw that huge vines with green ghost orchids in full bloom had grown between the fire stands on both sides of the corridor. Those flowers were very similar to lily of the valley, only bigger and more luxuriant.
"When did they come here? I didn't hear any sound at all?"
Bai Ye took a step back, staring at the vines and flowers that suddenly grew out, his voice hoarse and trembling.
"I don't know either... [Good Luck] can't give me an answer..."
You Yu also took a step back. He was originally on the side of Bai Ye, so this step made him half a step behind Bai Ye. From Bai Ye's perspective, it was a complete blind spot.
That’s why…
He didn't seem to notice that although You Yu's voice behind him was fearful and serious, the corners of his mouth were raised strangely, and his expression became more and more distorted and outrageous, until the corners of his mouth cracked, like a snake's mouth.
He raised the sword high up without leaving any trace, and with the last word, he stabbed it fiercely at Bai Ye in front of him.
"brush---"
The sound of a sharp blade cutting through the night sky suddenly rang out in the quiet temple complex, but "You Yu" dropped his lips because no blood splashed out as expected.
Bai Ye seemed to have anticipated it. He simply took a step to the side and tilted his body, easily dodging the sword that was coming out at him at an extremely fast speed.
"...You, were prepared for this?!"
"You Yu"'s voice is no longer like that of the Night City detective who became famous at a young age. It is distorted like a monster's chanting, and has a "hissing" sound like a snake's murmur, like a double dubbing in a theater.
"Isn't this simple? From the moment we met, I didn't think of you as You Yu."
"You Yu": ...I thought I was pretending well, could it be that the president of your detective agency is actually a cold-blooded person who doesn't care about his companions at all in private?
"No." Bai Ye's expression was half illuminated by the shaking oil lamp in his hand, but one could still see his unquestionable firmness.
"To be honest, if something really happened to Linglan, he would definitely be more anxious and out of control than you."
"You Yu" looked even more puzzled, with a blank look on his face: "Then how could you..."
"Are you so curious about how I figured it out?" Bai Ye raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised at the other party's stubbornness: "Because they would never say that only you can help us now. Those guys are very rude."
Bai Ye sighed, as if he had recalled some very troublesome memories: "Besides... that guy You Yu, I can't remember where he has been. The locations you described are too detailed..."
“You Yu”: …So that guy has a poor sense of direction?
"Boring and uninteresting. You two can really recognize each other through all kinds of unimaginable methods."
The corners of "You Yu"'s mouth, which had originally fallen, rose again: "But it is still useless in this underworld, it just makes me less interesting. Since your words entertained me, I will let you go for now."
"You Yu" used You Yu's face to show a smiling expression, and that expression was so vivid that it almost made people mistakenly believe that the person standing in front of him was really You Yu himself.
"Goodbye, law enforcer criminal with special abilities. My sword just touched you and revealed its true nature...Your abilities are really great."
"You Yu" looked at the half-disappeared edge of his sword and shrugged his shoulders with an exaggerated expression: "See you next time, now I'm going to go play with your friends."
"See you next time..."
The boy, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head. His cobalt blue eyes flickered with special light waves under the lush lights, like fluorescent seaweed in a night prison.
"I'm sorry, although you let me go, I didn't..."
Bai Ye's mouth curled into a chilling smile: "I said I would let you go."
He took a step forward and borrowed another soul tag of [Miracle Magician] to improve his melee ability. In addition, "You Yu" had no time to react, and with a push and a pull, the strange swift sword fell into Bai Ye's hands.
"After the Swift Sword began to disappear, you were so eager to run away. It seems that your existence is just a lie."
The blade began to disappear quickly, but Bai Ye didn't care. With his quick eyes and hands, he stabbed the blade into "You Yu"'s chest. The sword blade composed of soul particles came into contact with Bai Ye's black halo soul particles infused through the sword blade. The former began to disintegrate crazily. "You Yu"'s expression was even still lingering in confusion. This puppet soul particle body created by the soul tag ability was like a lie and completely dissipated under Bai Ye's attack.
The golden brilliance spread along the outline of the physical existence just now, like fireflies around. Bai Ye shook his wrist, which was a little painful from using too much force just now. The soul particles of the Swift Sword in his hand completely collapsed and dissipated under the effect of his ability.
Bai Ye was already feeling aggrieved because the DM system and t173 treated him, an innocent high school student, as a battlefield. Now this guy who looked like a devil's apostle was deliberately using his abilities to cause trouble, so he could only fulfill his wish and satisfy his need for fun.
But this fun belongs to Bai Ye.
After getting rid of the fake Youyu, Bai Ye felt a lot more relaxed, with a real smile on his lips. He stood up and rubbed his wrist, because he was now in the Dionysus space, where there was no soul tag suppression ring of the Sun Enforcement Bureau.
Bai Ye turned around and was about to continue checking those strange vines, but suddenly he was met with a pair of frightened eyes.
At the end of the corridor where "You Yu" had just appeared, there were now blue ripples on the water.
Shuise was standing there.
"When did you come?"
Bai Ye raised his eyebrows. Half of his face was shrouded in shadow in the temple under the night sky, making him look particularly gloomy.
Shuise's throat moved, and his voice trembled a little: "It started from the time you killed Youyu."
Bai Ye continued to raise his eyebrows: "Oh? Since you have seen it, then I can only choose--"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Shuise, whose voice was already trembling: "The environment here is already quite scary!... Can you please stop talking like villains?"
Shuise rubbed her fingers together secretly: "It took me a lot of effort to find you."
His voice was trembling quite badly. It was obvious that the fear brought to him by this group of temple buildings was no less than that of the Yellow Springs Town. Bai Ye couldn't bear to tease him anymore. He quickly changed his expression and turned himself back into the Bai Ye that Shuise was familiar with, who didn't talk much but was surprisingly reliable at critical moments.
"Where are they?"
Bai Ye looked at Shuise. The light blue-haired boy's fingers were trembling. It was obvious that he was not someone else pretending to be him, but the real deal.
"I don't know. I was born in a small stone room at the end of this corridor. There are some incomprehensible murals painted inside. I just wanted to come to you to see if I could tell what they were -"
When Shuise mentioned his birthplace, he became visibly excited and quickly pulled Bai Ye and ran to the end of the corridor.
Bai Ye: ...I feel like this scene looks familiar. Did "You Yu" do the same thing just now?
"Those murals should be related to the past of this complex. This complex is strongly related to the City of Ink. Maybe we can find important clues before Youyu and Linglan. Although it is basically impossible with Youyu's luck, but... be careful!"
Shuise was just imagining a future where he would crush Youyu, but the next second his movements suddenly stopped. The rippling water waves formed a barrier that created a certain amount of space. He clenched the sharp bow formed by the condensation of water waves in his hand, and without even looking, he swung it fiercely backwards, while using his other hand to pull Bai Ye back to a safe position.
The slow-motion sonata notes shone above the shadow that flashed by behind him at high speed, just enough time for Shuise to use the sharp bow to cut off the attacker's vines - those vines that were just suspected to be controlled by "You Yu" still had strong activity and attacked the two people at an extremely fast speed.
Even though Shuise used [Sonata], those vines that were frozen in mid-air were still very close. It was not difficult to see what the consequences would have been if Shuise was not an auxiliary type with sensitive senses.
"You really welcome us. New game map."
Bai Ye raised his eyebrows.
Shuise used the bow to cut off the two nearest vines, revealing a tearful expression: "Don't be so easygoing at a time like this, what should we do!"
"Don't worry."
Bai Ye's sight fell on the shadow of the temple building at the end of the corridor not far away. The vines covered the area around the fire platform, but did not extend into the building at the end of the fire platform.
"At least it's safe over there. Let's go to a safe place first."
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