chapter 138

The moment he met Lu Li’s “friend,” Luo Jia Bai guessed who it was.

From head to toe, the figure was wrapped in darkness. The hat clearly didn’t cover the face, yet not a single facial feature could be seen.

The oppressive presence was so strong there wasn’t the slightest sense of intimacy-only the urge to get as far away as possible.

Luo Jia Bai looked fearfully down at the ground.

There was no shadow.

Completely different from an ordinary human.

This had to be the Evil God bound to Lu Li.

The ** who’d existed only as a topic of conversation until now.

Luo Jia Bai looked at Lu Li standing side by side with the Evil God, and for a second he could’ve sworn the black on that robe was flowing. It felt aggressive.

The Neck Collar on Lu Li’s neck, stark black against his skin, looked like a tiny piece of territory that the darkness flowing off the Evil God had just occupied.

And there would be more dangerous territorial expansion to come.

Luo Jia Bai was very worried. With such an unimaginable disparity in power, wouldn’t Lu Li end up being controlled by this Evil God during Game Night?

Was there a more violent struggle and contest going on in the shadows?

The reason the Evil God insisted on appearing together with Lu Li today…

Was this a show of force? Or perhaps a provocation?

He stared at Lu Li for too long.

The Evil God turned toward him, “looking” at him.

It was not particularly friendly.

It was more like an appraisal.

That piercing feeling climbed to its peak when Lu Li, delighted to see him walk over, grabbed his wrist and said, “Let’s take a group photo!” then leaned in close.

Every hair on Luo Jia Bai’s body stood on end. Alarm bells screamed in his head, but he had absolutely no idea what to do.

“Mirella stands on Luo Jia Bai’s left, ** stands on my right.” Lu Li raised the Camera and realized he couldn’t fit everyone into the frame-especially Bosi, who was basically out of the picture.

So he let go of Luo Jia Bai and instead tugged the main problem, Bosi, closer to himself. “You’re standing too far away.

“Get closer to me.”

Luo Jia Bai suddenly felt the pressure around his neck disappear.

The crisis seemed to be over.

Just as inexplicably as it had appeared, it vanished.

Cold sweat soaking his back, he listened to the conversation on his right.

“It’s still not working. Mirella’s not in the shot, but we’re already squeezed together. What do we do?”

“I want to get the setting sun in the background too. The color looks so beautiful, but the frame is so small from here.”

“**, your arms are longer than mine. If you hold the Camera, won’t you get it farther out?”

“Hold it higher.”

“Now lower it a little. Good, to the left-little more to the left.”

The Evil God didn’t speak once from beginning to end, but followed every one of Lu Li’s instructions, adjusting the Camera position with extraordinary patience.

Luo Jia Bai: ?

Once the photo was taken, Lu Li’s eyes shone as he looked at the result, lavish with praise.

“How did you do that? Amazing. Your hands didn’t shake at all, and the picture isn’t blurry. It’s so much better than the last one I took!”

“**, I’ll send you a copy of the photo too. They’re my friends-remember their faces, and don’t pick the wrong people next time during Instance Vacation.”

The Evil God even had the audacity to nod.

Luo Jia Bai: ??

He suddenly couldn’t make sense of it.

Why did it feel like the one being controlled wasn’t Lu Li?

–

On the second day of their stay in this Instance.

Early in the morning, Lu Li took them onto a large bus.

He sat in the corner of the back row, pushed open the window beside him, and explained, “This is the city sightseeing bus. We got on at the starting stop, so we can see the whole city. It’ll make three loops today, and we can stay on the whole time.”
Mirella sat in the first row with Fenny.

Luo Jia Bai sat in the second-to-last row.

When the bus started moving, Lu Li gripped his clothes tightly.

In those gray eyes as he looked out the window, people and things swept past at high speed.

“This is my first time riding in a car.”

Lu Li stretched a hand out to the window, smiling despite himself. “The wind’s blowing in.”

At this hour, the city was only just waking up. Some people hurried off to work, some walked their dogs while yawning, some carried bags upon bags as they set out on a long trip.

There were so many people here,

far more vivid than the people in the Necromancer Game.

They were so close to this bus-close enough that Lu Li felt like he’d melted into normal human life.

He watched, transfixed, and whispered, “Bosi, having a vacation is really nice. Thank you.”

–

The sightseeing bus drove on steadily.

It was Mirella’s first time on a bus as well.

In her original world, there was no such thing.

The window was open. The wind ruffled her hair and fluttered the band she’d taken off and placed across her knees.

Mirella stroked the Crow’s head and asked, “The wind is stronger than when we walk. Is this what it feels like for you when you fly?”

Fenny almost laughed. When you flew, the wind was nothing like this.

Then he stiffened.

Fly? How did Mirella know he could fly?

Shouldn’t she be seeing him as a cat?

He lifted his head in shock.

Fenny kept dodging, not wanting to accidentally poke Mirella with his beak, but she still brushed it with her hand.

“Isn’t your true form really handsome? Why do you always use illusions to turn into a Black Cat?”

“There are too many irrelevant people in the Instances. The desires on them are so ugly it makes me want to vomit. I can only see what you truly look like when I take off the band, and that means there’s far too little time.”

“Lu Li said we might be lacking communication. I think so too. What do you think, Fenny?”

–

By the time they’d ridden the sightseeing bus for the third round, it was already afternoon.

Luo Jia Bai was tired of sitting and wanted to sleep. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced back and realized Lu Li had already gotten there first!

Not only was he asleep, he was leaning against the Evil God’s shoulder with absolutely no sense of boundaries.

He was using the other party as a pillow!

The Evil God had been lowering his head to “look” at Lu Li for a long time now. He wasn’t plotting something nasty, was he?

The Evil God was the most dangerous existence in the Necromancer Game.

Any move could be an attempt to tempt a human into the abyss.

Lu Li’s guard was way too low!

The fright chased away more than half of Luo Jia Bai’s sleepiness. He moved at once, reaching a friendly hand toward Lu Li. “Hahaha, how did this kid fall asleep? Way too careless. I’ll wake him up-”

A Tentacle formed from Black Mist very “kindly” shoved him away.

Luo Jia Bai vaguely sensed a surge of anger and hurried to fix things. “Isn’t it kind of not great for Lu Li to sleep leaning on you? How about he leans on me instead? We can switch seats. I’ve been hitting the gym and lifting every night lately…”

More Tentacles of Black Mist packed him up and delivered him straight to the bus door where people could get off.

Luo Jia Bai crashed down onto the floor in front of the first row and greeted Mirella.

The moment he opened his mouth, a huge patch of ice froze across the floor.

The bus stopped at a red light.

With one brake-

Luo Jia Bai slid along the ice from the first row all the way to the middle rows.

Luo Jia Bai: ? Where am I supposed to go?