My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 73 - 67: The Person Holding the Black Umbrella

Chapter 73: Chapter 67: The Person Holding the Black Umbrella

"Congratulations."

Near the front desk.

Chen Lusi felt it wasn’t right just standing there, so she moved to Xia Panqiu’s side and congratulated her.

"Thanks to you."

Xia Panqiu slightly raised her snow-white chin: "Although I haven’t experimented yet, I feel I’ve become much stronger..."

Chen Lusi casually asked, "Seem to have gotten a bit taller too?"

"Hmm... I was worried at first that after the Cloud Ascension Authority got stronger, the ability to change my body would also become stronger."

Xia Panqiu’s expression became somewhat strange: "But the reality was completely different from what I thought. The authority got stronger, but the ability to change the body actually got weaker. It took me a long time just to barely recover this appearance. It might take some more time to adapt."

"Got it."

Though she was a bit roundabout.

But Chen Lusi understood.

Her Cloud Ascension Authority did get stronger, but the accompanying compression ability didn’t grow proportionally stronger... rather, it got weaker.

This led to her being unable to compress to her previous height.

Honestly speaking.

It’s quite magical.

Some ZIP.

Chen Lusi thought of this, couldn’t help but laugh a little, then softly said, "Maybe one day, your authority will evolve to a point where you won’t even need to deliberately compress your body to become lighter."

"That would be too troublesome."

Xia Panqiu immediately shook her head: "I don’t want that."

"I see."

Chen Lusi nodded, understanding it, after all, he knew a woman who also found a woman’s body very troublesome.

"..."

Xia Panqiu didn’t hear a response, looked at Chen Lusi’s side face, hesitated for a moment, and softly said, "I thought you would say ’Actually, your original look is great too,’ and I was ready to retort and give you a rundown on how troublesome it really is."

"Not really necessary."

Chen Lusi shook his head, then said, "I can understand your struggle, after all, someone complained to me about it before."

"...Woman?" Xia Panqiu curiously asked.

"Yes, someone you know, Lin Ying."

Chen Lusi looked towards the exit, showing a nostalgic expression, lightly laughed: "Back when she was studying, she complained every day, saying it was troublesome and wanted to swap bodies with me. Because she found it troublesome, every time there was a gym class or something similar, she would use the excuse that her body wasn’t well to skip it, and the teachers would believe her every time.

If she didn’t skip every time, the person at the bottom of the class would’ve been her, not me."

"...Yes, Lin Ying’s figure is indeed good."

Xia Panqiu glanced again at Chen Lusi’s side face, then, after a silent moment, replied, and similarly turned to look at the exit.

Hands clasped behind her back, fingers interlocked.

At this moment.

Wu You’s figure finally appeared.

As soon as he entered, he immediately cast his gaze upon Xia Panqiu, rubbed his chin: "Panqiu... you’ve grown taller?"

"No, just an illusion!"

Xia Panqiu directly retorted: "Mission’s here... don’t look at me."

"..."

Wu You, seeing Xia Panqiu snapping at him right from the start, looked at her standing postured, amusingly shook his head, didn’t mind, and instead approached Si Yujie.

"You guys come over too, I’ll explain the situation to you briefly."

Si Yujie turned around to look at Chen Lusi and Xia Panqiu, called out once.

The two walked over.

"This time you need to head over to Changxu District."

Si Yujie picked up the phone on the table, opened the map app, searched for the specific location, then showed it to the three: "Later, I’ll send the exact location to you, first, let me tell you the known information."

"Here, at the intersection of Kai Feng Road and Yimin Street, there’s an alley about two meters wide between this noodle shop and hardware store."

"Last night... more than one person reported seeing someone with a black umbrella walk out from inside."

"And there was no rain last night, but that’s not the main point, the main point is, every witness said they saw someone walking out with a black umbrella and then suddenly disappear in front of them."

"Clearly saw someone come out one second, and then the next second, they were gone."

"It was nighttime after all, and someone holding a black umbrella really draws attention... so quite a few people saw it, and even two witnesses, just ten minutes apart, saw the same scene."

"A presence holding a black umbrella, wandering in the alley... that’s all the known information for now."

"..."

The three listened and all started pondering.

Xia Panqiu was the first to react, asking: "Anyone hurt?"

"No related reports for now."

Si Yujie lightly shook her head, then hesitated for a moment, said, "But... although this doesn’t sound like a very dangerous legend activation, nowhere near as severe as last time when someone was hanged, Kunlun still hasn’t issued a warning, so I hope you can be a bit cautious, don’t relax your guard."

"Okay."

Xia Panqiu took a deep breath, nodded.

"Also, this time you will be heading alone... Jixing Brigade’s team needs to handle two other legend activations, they’re having an even harder time."

Si Yujie thought for a moment, added, "So when you arrive at the location, observe first, if you’re very confident, handle it quickly, and see if you can assist Jixing Brigade, after all, they’re here to help.

If not confident, don’t rush."

"Understood."

Wu You took a final glance at Si Yujie’s phone, memorized the location, then nodded.

"Then get ready and set off."

Si Yujie put away the phone: "Bring what you need, be careful on the way."

Having said that.

He looked down and fiddled with the phone, preparing to send the location to Wu You.

Wu You glanced at Chen Lusi and Xia Panqiu, thought for a moment, asked, "Should we bring firearms this time, but... bring the rope?"

Deciding on firearms was easy.

In most cases, they’re brought along.

After all, in some situations, modern weapons are quite useful.

For instance, last time Chen Lusi shot and killed an imposter...

But the new Ancient Object ’Hanging Rope’ obtained by the logistics team was a more difficult choice.

"Bring it."

Xia Panqiu didn’t hesitate for long, quickly replied: "Better to have it even if it’s troublesome, than wanting to use it and not having it at hand."

"Alright."

Wu You thought for a moment, felt this made sense: "Then I’ll go get it... but carrying a blood-stained rope is still troublesome, this kind of Ancient Object has this bother."

He said this while heading inside the company.

Chen Lusi watched him leave, then looked at Xia Panqiu, remarked, "I thought you’d have something like a spatial Ancient Object..."

"We do, but..."

Xia Panqiu understood what Chen Lusi was concerned about, explained: "But this type of Ancient Object is generally quite large, just like the gourd we’ve been training with. If you put something in it and then bring it out with you, it’d be even more troublesome, so in most cases, we don’t do it."

"For the same reason, within the Celestial Strategy Mansion, there’s an unwritten rule for classifying Ancient Objects."

"That is — under similar power, the smaller the Ancient Object, the greater its value, and vice versa, the lesser its value."

"After all, Ancient Objects need to be used outside, and for most teams, the kind of Ancient Object you can slip into your pocket is considered most valuable, so stamp-like Ancient Objects are particularly popular."

Chen Lusi realized, "I see."