Chapter 13: When Kings Meet

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Chapter 13: Kings Face Kings

Lu Li decided to test her.

“Miss Luo, could you stop using your powers? Things are getting so chaotic that I can barely handle it.”

[No.]

Luo Qian Ning suddenly opened her lace folding fan to cover the lower half of her face. A hint of inexplicable amusement glimmered in her mismatched pink-and-purple eyes.

[I have to eliminate Bai Mu Li, so this is necessary. I must monitor every living creature to prevent her seeds from sprouting.]

Lu Li wanted to laugh, but he could not.

“Miss Bai has dragged me into dreams before, and more than once. Does that mean I’ve been infected by the Dream Seed too?”

[I checked. You haven’t.]

Luo Qian Ning continued struggling with her phone.

[Though even without checking, it wouldn’t matter. Bai Mu Li would never hurt you, Mr. Lu. In fact, most great monsters wouldn’t hurt you either.]

[Still, you need to be careful. Before long, monster after monster may come after you. So, Mr. Lu, stay with me. I can protect you.]

Lu Li fell into a quandary.

He glanced at Luo Qian Ning.

She was beautiful, with an excellent figure. Anyone who saw those two teardrop-shaped mounds would understand.

A slender waist, long legs, white stockings, and mismatched eyes.

Most importantly, she was a “tsundere who wasn’t actually tsundere”!

In other words, she was not tsundere in her heart, and what she wanted to say was not tsundere either, but somehow everything that came out of her mouth had that exact flavor.

It was utterly irresistible!

But Miss Bai was appealing too.

Gentle and considerate.

Like an older sister.

Of course, to Lu Li, even a twenty-seven-year-old woman was younger than him.

Still, Miss Bai possessed the temperament and figure of a mature, gentle woman, while looking barely over twenty.

As for age, that could be ignored.

It was completely meaningless.

But according to Luo Qian Ning, Bai Mu Li was like Agent Smith from The Matrix.

That was terrifying.

Lu Li did not want the world to end with only himself and seven billion copies of Miss Bai remaining.

He had friends and family too.

But to monsters…

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Especially considering what Miss Luo had said: “You are the only thing in her eyes. She distinguishes all other things and creatures through hearing and smell.”

Lu Li did not dare imagine what Miss Bai might do.

Still, that was only Miss Luo’s side of the story.

She was hiding plenty from him as well.

Lu Li was especially good at reading people’s expressions and reactions. He believed that part of what Miss Luo said was true.

But she was also holding back a great deal.

So he did not completely believe her.

At that moment, fear once again defeated lust.

Before his lust could make a comeback, Lu Li quickly made his decision.

“Miss Luo, I think you’re wonderful, but I also admire Miss Bai.

“Besides, we’ve only just met. This is our first time seeing each other, and I can’t make a decision so quickly. Could you give me a little more time?”

“Of course not. But you still have plenty of time, Mr. Lu,” Luo Qian Ning blurted out.

Immediately afterward, she began typing on her phone.

[Of course you can. But you don’t have much time left, Mr. Lu. The rate at which Bai Mu Li’s Dream Seeds spread increases exponentially. One becomes two, two become four, four become eight.]

[Besides, she won’t scatter only a single Dream Seed.]

Lu Li frowned slightly.

“Then how much time do I have?”

[Two days. At most, you have two days.]

Luo Qian Ning stared at Lu Li earnestly with her mismatched eyes.

“Mr. Lu, stay away from me.”

Oh. She meant that he should stay with her.

Lu Li opened his mouth.

“I think we should first—”

Before he could finish, Lu Li vanished with startling abruptness.

The entire café vanished with him, along with the three members of the Xing Tian trio waiting outside.

They disappeared without a trace.

Luo Qian Ning froze, then looked around.

Skyscrapers towered on every side. She was standing in a plaza.

Times Square, New York.

It was not Lu Li and the others who had disappeared.

It was Luo Qian Ning.

Miss Luo stood up, folded her fan, opened her parasol, and surveyed the crowd gathering around her.

“How frightening…”

The surrounding crowd was packed together so densely that there had to be at least a hundred thousand people.

They wore every kind of clothing imaginable.

Hoodies, police uniforms, Marine combat gear, bunny-girl costumes, ordinary tourist attire, and hotel-staff uniforms.

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They came in all shapes and styles, as though a hundred thousand people had truly gathered here.

No.

There really were more than a hundred thousand people here.

It was just that every one of them had the same figure and the same face.

Bai Mu Li.

“Well… you almost succeeded~~”

Wearing a black suit and white gloves, her hair tied in a single ponytail, Bai Mu Li approached until she stood ten meters from Luo Qian Ning, a smile playing across her face.

“I couldn’t possibly stand by and let you take Mr. Lu away from me~~”

Her voice was still light and airy.

But the ferocity and madness in her scarlet eyes could no longer be concealed.

At that moment, she was nothing like the gentle and considerate woman she had been before Lu Li.

“How frightening.”

Luo Qian Ning opened her pink-and-white lace-trimmed folding fan to cover the lower half of her face. The mismatched eyes that had looked so innocent and almost foolish before Lu Li now narrowed slightly, giving her an unfathomable air.

“It must have been terribly hard for you to act so gentle in front of Mr. Lu~”

“Likewise.”

Bai Mu Li’s golden eyes, empty of focus, “looked” in Luo Qian Ning’s direction.

“You’re clearly a sinister old crone, yet you insist on pretending to be a clueless young girl. Don’t you find that disgusting?

“And even though you can speak normally, you deliberately say the opposite of what you mean. Are you trying to establish a persona so that Mr. Lu will remember you?

“Don’t worry. I will erase you from Mr. Lu’s side completely and utterly.”

Luo Qian Ning kept the lace fan over the lower half of her face, but her voice carried a hint of teasing.

“Actually, I’m not pretending. The only reason I can speak normally is because of this fan.”

She could speak normally whenever she wanted, provided she opened the fan, which possessed a special ability, and held it over her lips while speaking. That way, she would not say the opposite of what she meant.

Bai Mu Li said nothing. She merely continued to “look” at her with a smile.

But Luo Qian Ning could feel it.

A suffocating demonic aura was spreading wildly through the air.

“Your ability is already bizarre enough to make you difficult to deal with, and you’re a close-combat fighter on top of that. As expected, dealing with someone like you is what I’m worst at.”

After a brief pause, Luo Qian Ning narrowed her eyes.

“Still, it’s not as though I’ll lose.”

Before the words had even faded, the demonic aura condensed into tangible power. It transformed into a cannon blast that tore through the air and hurtled toward her.

“What the hell?!”

Lu Li and the three members of the Xing Tian trio immediately crouched beside the vehicle, grabbing hold of the MPV’s door handles.

Only after a long while did he shakily rise to his feet.

“What the hell was that? Did an earthquake just hit?”

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