Chapter 90

Wu Pifu prepared carefully.

There were four hours left until the weekend.

And this was a life-or-death test!

Every weekend was a life-or-death test, with absolutely no exceptions!

Admittedly, Wu Pifu was already very formidable now; his martial arts had reached the Dan Jin rank. Although the "Hundred Days of Condensing the Dan" was not yet fully complete, his control over the Qi Jin within his body had at least doubled. Coupled with the Human Immortal Martial Dao and his trump card—controllable demonization—his strength was now at least four or five times greater than it had been last weekend.

However, the weekend could not be measured by how much base reality it possessed. It might be very safe inside, or it might be very dangerous—the kind of danger where one careless move meant total annihilation.

"It's a good thing I established a Level 5 shelter."

Wu Pifu earnestly placed Jiu Jiu in his palm and said to her, "I'm not yet sure if my shelter can protect you along with me, but there's a very high probability it can, because you should count as one of my items."

Jiu Jiu was furious and was about to spread her wings to fly over and peck Wu Pifu, but Wu Pifu gave his hand a slight shake, and Jiu Jiu actually couldn't fly up. This made her even angrier, and she began to peck wildly at Wu Pifu's palm.

Wu Pifu let her peck; his palm felt itchy and tingly, not painful at all. He continued solemnly, "So, just like last time, at critical moments, I will lure away those terrifying existences, and you must survive as best you can. Survive for twenty-four hours, understand?"

"If you die due to irresistible factors, then you must hide, evade, and stay still at the first opportunity, instead of running out to find me. I will be fine; you must not worry!"

Jiu Jiu grew tired of pecking, shot Wu Pifu a glare, and seemed to hum silently without saying a word.

Wu Pifu didn't mind and said again, "Also, anything can happen during the weekend. If you and I aren't in the same place at the start, or if we get separated, you must hide well. Absolutely do not come out casually. Even if you hear my voice or see someone who looks like me, absolutely do not come out, because it might be a falsehood created by monsters or certain phenomena. Understand!?"

Jiu Jiu nodded vaguely. Wu Pifu finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Or let's agree on a code word. As long as there's this code word, it'll be me."

Jiu Jiu chirped curiously.

Wu Pifu thought for a long time, then said, "How about this: once I call you 'Dog Egg,' that will be me."

"Chirp!"

Jiu Jiu was wild with rage and was about to fly up to peck Wu Pifu, but then she was shaken, and she didn't fly up again...

For the remaining few hours, Wu Pifu kept making preparations; in fact, he was just rolling meat balls.

His healing power was now very strong and could fully serve as a skill to deal with combat, but the prerequisite was having enough food, calories, and nutrition.

These meat balls were made over the last few days. After being made, they were air-dried and compressed. They contained pork, lard, ginseng, and the like. Each was the size of a ping-pong ball, and one was equivalent to the effect of a large bowl of meat soup and meat chunks.

Wu Pifu prepared ten of them, wrapped the outer layer in leaves, and put them all in a leather pouch to be taken whenever needed.

After all, since he would return in just twenty-four hours, preparing too much would be a waste.

Besides this, he was considering whether to bring the wild boar tusk knife.

This wild boar tusk knife hadn't been fully polished yet, but it had already shown its extraordinary nature.

When Wu Pifu used this knife, it was almost invincible. With one slash, even the deck alloy would have fine cracks several millimeters deep, yet the wild boar tusk knife remained unscathed. Although the deck was quickly repaired by the metal nano-units, it was enough to show the extraordinary nature of the wild boar tusk knife.

In martial arts, the fist corresponds to the spear, the palm to the hammer, the finger to the sword, and the claw to the knife.

These skills are interchangeable and complementary. Generally, martial arts experts have a set of weapon techniques that correspond to their own martial arts, and Wu Pifu's Tiger Demon Art claw strikes could naturally be replaced by the knife, instantly increasing their power!

"... Forget it, better not bring it."

Wu Pifu thought for a long time and decided not to bring the wild boar tusk knife.

The weekend's mission was to survive, to endure for twenty-four hours, not to find some powerful enemy to fight. Carrying this huge wild boar tusk knife was too conspicuous, and he feared it would be inconvenient for movement or get lost.

"Then, the basic preparations are complete."

Wu Pifu placed all items, including the magic conch, onto Gaia, carrying only a leather pouch tied to his waist, which contained the condensed meat balls. At the same time, he wore two sets of clothes and wore the Huang Lian fragment around his neck. These were all his items.

As for Jiu Jiu... naturally, she couldn't bring anything, as she was still just a bird now.

The two sat silently, waiting for the weekend to arrive.

As time passed second by second, the surrounding world disappeared, the cosmic space enveloped everything, and an unimaginably huge eyeball appeared in his field of vision...

When Wu Pifu woke up, he found the surroundings noisy with people coming and going, which forced him to roll over and stand up immediately. At the same time, he immediately looked around to search. Very quickly, he saw Jiu Jiu lying about twenty meters away. Jiu Jiu had transformed into human form, and she was still stark naked.

Wu Pifu immediately stepped forward, drove away a few men and women who were looking at Jiu Jiu, and then took off one of the clothes he was wearing and covered Jiu Jiu with it.

Only then did Jiu Jiu blink and wake up. She looked around nervously. Seeing Wu Pifu at first glance, a look of relief immediately appeared on her face. Then, seeing people coming and going around her, her face immediately flushed with shame. She reached out to pull her clothes, wanting to put them on but fearing to do so now. In her shame and annoyance, large teardrops rolled down.

Jiu Jiu came from the Song Dynasty. Although she was not old, she was intelligent, and she seemed to listen to storytelling and the like. Her moral values were similar to those of the Song people, and she seemed to value chastity very much.

Wu Pifu was neither angry nor impatient. Instead, he tore open his own clothes, unfolded them, and wrapped them around the spot where Jiu Jiu was lying, shielding her from all sides.

Jiu Jiu was stunned for a moment, then immediately put the clothes on with a blushing face. Although she looked a bit disheveled and her feet were exposed, she stopped crying, and her face carried some relief.

When Wu Pifu casually draped the tattered cloth over himself, Jiu Jiu gently held his palm and looked down at the surroundings.

Wu Pifu shook his head and was about to take off his shoes, but Jiu Jiu shook her head, so in the end, he kept his shoes on.

At this time, both of them looked around and saw that the sky was pitch black, the lights of ten thousand homes were bright, and there were shops and vehicles around. They were standing on the side of the road, and not far from them was a subway station.

Jiu Jiu found it strange; these things didn't exist in the Song Dynasty, and naturally, they didn't exist in the late Qing Dynasty. Although she had seen many machines last weekend, she had never seen modern society.

!

Wu Pifu held Jiu Jiu's hand with one hand while looking around constantly.

"Wu Pifu, what place is this?" Jiu Jiu asked.

Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "I can't tell, but it should be an era after the end of the twentieth century. I don't know the location or anything else."

Although Jiu Jiu didn't understand what the twentieth century meant, she obediently didn't ask.

Since Wu Pifu knew what time point this was, it proved that he had a plan in mind. Previously, Jiu Jiu had learned from the conversation between Wu Pifu and his teammates that it seemed only Wu Pifu knew the history before the Third War, and this was a huge advantage.

Wu Pifu looked at the surroundings carefully at this time. As he looked, he touched the Huang Lian fragment on his chest, increased the surface area of contact between his body and the Huang Lian fragment, and then looked around again.

He saw ruins!

This modern city with its bright lights and bustling crowds turned into a ruin in the next layer of reality, and these seemingly normal crowds all turned into bubbles. The entire city ruin was quiet, with only explosions and firelight visible in the far distance.

"Are they ghosts of the dead?"

Wu Pifu muttered, and then he continued to peer at the surroundings, looking at the deeper truth.

The truth of the third layer was actually still this city ruin, but many black torrents appeared in this city ruin. They seemed like gas and also like matter, almost spanning the entire city, forming a scene like a web. Looking into the far distance, one could vaguely see these black torrents gathering densely onto a super giant object in the distance.

This super giant object towered over the world, and even when Wu Pifu looked up, he couldn't see the end of its height.

Visually, it was at least at the distance of the horizon, and it was unimaginably high, at least breaking through the atmosphere. Moreover, its size was unimaginably huge, almost as if it had swallowed the entire continent.

Just as he was looking at this behemoth, Wu Pifu's heart suddenly tightened. He immediately averted his gaze and only looked at the ground. After at least ten seconds, the sweat on his body dared to emerge.

Just at that moment, the moment he averted his gaze, countless eyeballs seemed to open on the giant object. But fortunately, he reacted very quickly, and he averted his gaze before the moment the line of sight opened. Some intuition allowed him to do it in advance.

(Is it so terrifying just at the third layer of truth? Even the enhanced Huang Lian fragment cannot avoid the two-phase peeping... This weekend is very terrifying!)

Wu Pifu's vigilance increased instantly. He looked up, controlled his inspiration, looked at the bustling city night scene in front of him, and said to Jiu Jiu, "Let's go."

Jiu Jiu obediently held Wu Pifu's hand and moved forward, but after walking only a few steps, Wu Pifu suddenly stood still and held Jiu Jiu back.

In the crowd in front of the two, a humanoid figure about 2.2 or 2.3 meters tall was walking towards them from the crowd.

What Jiu Jiu saw was completely different; she saw nothing, neither the 2.2 or 2.3-meter humanoid nor any other abnormality, so she looked at Wu Pifu with a face full of confusion.

But in Wu Pifu's eyes, this humanoid figure about 2.2 or 2.3 meters tall was so conspicuous. It looked like a person, but its eyes were pitch black and huge, its mouth was full of sharp teeth and a bloody maw, and its skin was as pale as a corpse, with a kind of abstract, twisted terror. No matter how you looked at it, it couldn't be a human.

"So... it's a False Person!?"

(End of chapter)