chapter 98

Chapter 98

Fenny stood on Mirella’s shoulder, quietly parting the feathers near his ear with his wing to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two.

Lu Li thought for a moment. “Let’s attend the wedding.”

Luo Jia Bai cried out, reaching forward with both hands to catch, “Hey! Mirella, your cat demon slipped and fell off again!”

“You really should buy him four shoes to wear! He keeps falling off like this-it’s not right!”

Mirella caught Fenny and placed him back on her shoulder, asking in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”

Fenny tapped his head with his wing.

What’s wrong? He almost fainted from shock just now!

Only he knew that the one bound to Lu Li’s Wristband might be the Underworld King.

But… a wedding!

The Underworld King got secretly married!?

The biggest breaking news in the Underworld!

This could make the front page of the Underworld Daily for days and nights!

Fenny paced back and forth on Mirella’s shoulder.

The King’s name was a taboo in the Necromancer Game-no one could say it.

Having to swallow such a secret, being the only ghost who knew, was so suffocating!

“So you get a holiday if you get married. I was wondering, what else could it be…” Luo Jia Bai suddenly turned to look at Lu Li. “But you can’t do this! Can you call off the wedding? You’ve only known the Evil God for a few days! How can you-how can you give your body… huh? What do you say!?”

Lu Li pushed his head away. “Attend someone else’s wedding.”

Luo Jia Bai was dazzled by the light from the Gray Brooch, his eyes hurting. He tried to stop him, “Don’t touch me yet!”

But it was too late.

With a “thud,”

He sat down, completely unprepared, into a pit that suddenly appeared in the ground.

“You didn’t check my Personal Homepage.” Lu Li opened his Wristband and scrolled the screen to show the seated Luo Jia Bai. “I even uploaded a photo.”

“Hiss-I’ll check right away!” Luo Jia Bai grimaced, clutching his butt. “My ancestor, I think you’d better change out of these clothes first.”

He tapped on Lu Li’s avatar and was shocked. “Did you just open your Personal Homepage? How do you already have thousands of followers? And so many comments and likes! This is totally different from the style I see on other Heavenly Ranking Streamers’ pages in the Forum-those are all knife blades and bloody handprints!”

[Reward: Spirit Money *9999. Backlit, obstructed, clear scenery but blurry person, shaky hands, mysterious focus-every beginner’s pitfall is here. All in all, it’s a pretty good photo, with a kind of serene beauty before the end of the world. But! At least I got to see the Streamer’s hazy face.]

[Reward: Spirit Money *15000. Nice shot! The more you practice, the better you’ll get! As expected of the Streamer I follow. For now, I’ll just enjoy the screenshots sent by sisters in the Live Stream Room! Keep it up!]

[Reward: Spirit Money *10000. The Streamer opened the Personal Homepage feature?! Big spender, do you still have enough Points? Followed!]

[Reward: Spirit Money *5000. Everyone in the Necromancer Game only has three follow slots. I had them all filled, but I specifically unfollowed a Heavenly Ranking Streamer to follow you. Post more updates, I’ll like them. I’m rooting for you!]

[Alright, alright, alright, opened! The photo looks good, but what’s with the big black patch on the left? It’s blocking the Streamer’s face! Did the Camera break right after you exchanged for it?]

When Lu Li took off the Gray Brooch, his fingertip paused between the gem and the base.

He picked up the brooch and held it to the light.

He slowly pulled out a droplet-shaped hard piece from the tiniest gap where the two joined.

It felt icy cold and very thin.

At first glance, it was a chilling black.

But under the light, every angle shimmered with brilliant, lustrous colors.

Lu Li murmured, “So beautiful.”

But it was too small.

If he hadn’t looked carefully just now, he never would have found it.

“What is that?” Luo Jia Bai finally climbed out of the pit, clapping his hands excitedly. “Did you take that out of the brooch? I told you the Evil God is so devious! Full of bad ideas! This thing must be for a curse!”
Mirella examined it. “There’s no Magic Circle on it, and no magic flow either. It’s not a curse.”

Lu Li exchanged his top-tier Points at the shop for a small bottle, which had functions like breathability, preservation, and moisture retention.

He then put the hard lump-which had come from the center of the brooch-inside the bottle.

Lu Li said, “I don’t know what it is.”

But it should be Bosi’s.

The brooch was a gift from Bosi, and no one else had touched it in the meantime.

It’s so beautiful, it must be important.

Maybe it was left behind by accident?

Fenny stared hard at the black lump, growing more and more shocked the longer he looked. After a bout of dizziness, a completely absurd idea popped into his head.

No way?

Impossible!

To avoid slipping up again, he immediately tore open a spatial rift and darted through it in a panic.

Suddenly, there was something urgent he had to confirm with his colleagues.

–

After putting away the small bottle, Lu Li could feel several gazes falling on him. In the noisy, bustling hall, his name kept cropping up in the mixed conversations.

“Is that him? Lu Li.”

“That’s right. Silver hair, silver eyes, and a collar around his neck like a dog. Hahaha, in the Original World, was he somebody’s pet? He looks so naive and harmless-not like some bigshot at all!”

“He’s the one who drew out the Evil God. If anyone’s got skills, it’s the Evil God. Feng Shan just bound an ordinary Evil Spirit; it’s no wonder he was killed by him. His eyes look empty, maybe he already sold his soul to the Evil God!”

These people speculated recklessly and maliciously, itching to make a move.

“This is worth two million Points. The Feng Family really pulled out all the stops! What a pity about his face.”

“Posts are all over the Forum. There are so many people here, we’re not the only ones who want him dead. Let’s act soon!”

“Be sure to cut off his head completely. Someone in the Feng Family has the Eye of the Undead ability-they want to figure out exactly how Feng Shan died.”

Lu Li lowered his eyes.

Luo Jia Bai put away his smile and suddenly stepped close, handing him a familiar-looking knife. “This knife has a life-saving item attached. Keep it on you.”

“A new post appeared on the Forum. The Feng Family is looking for someone to chop off your head across the whole game. I saw a comment saying Lyle even gave up on a high-level Instance he was about to start, just to come to a low-level Instance to find you.”

In the crowded throng of Players in the hall, quite a few had exchanged for Weapons.

“Boom-” a deafening crash.

The light screen parted, and an angry roar came from within:

“Impatient humans! I haven’t even announced the rules yet! Who dares to kill before I do?”

A Giant Deer over ten meters tall with blood-red eyes charged out of the smoke, its head crowned with enormous antlers.

Its hooves crashed heavily onto the ground, sending rubble and dust flying.

Startled by the flash of blades, the Giant Deer charged straight into the crowd. Many people didn’t even have time to react, nor did they try to dodge.

“Ah-! Help…”

“What is that?!”

Amid the panic and screams, it skewered three people’s stomachs with its antlers, then threw its head back.

Fresh blood flowed down the Giant Deer’s antlers. The hall instantly fell dead silent.

The antler tip transformed into a wide-open maw, its sharp teeth tearing chunks of human flesh and chewing them.

“Who else is holding a knife?”

The Giant Deer flung the half-eaten corpse off its antlers and, roaring furiously, charged at Lu Li. “Why are you still holding a knife? Didn’t you hear what I said?”

Lu Li gave Luo Jia Bai an apologetic gesture, then placed the knife on the ground.

Amid the thunderous pounding of hooves, the Giant Deer suddenly skidded to a halt right in front of Lu Li.

Its red eyes pressed close to Lu Li’s face, mucus streaming from its cracked eye corners. It sniffed Lu Li uncertainly, then, agitated by the scent of flowers, sneezed. “On you… you…”

“Is this the blessing from a C Grade Instance?”

The Giant Deer suddenly picked up the knife with its mouth and tossed it into Lu Li’s arms. “Keep it!”