"Mr. Lu, Doctor Lu..."
"Hmm?"
"Since that thing is so powerful, why didn't you bring more people with you?"
"I forgot."
Suddenly, the clown eased up a little on the gas pedal.
"Or should we go back first to call some more brothers over?"
Lu Yuan shook his head: "No need for that. Although I may not be able to kill it, it can't kill me either."
The Clown: "..."
"Mr. Lu, did you forget that there's still a living person in this car other than you?"
"Oh right...sorry I forgot about you."
"Then what about us?"
"Hmm, turn around."
Hearing Lu Yuan say this, the Clown turned the steering wheel to leave.
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop—
Just then, a clear sound of horse hooves suddenly rang out from behind the highway.
In the thick fog, a figure riding a horse slowly emerged.
Next—
"Woohoo!"
Vroom—
The Clown let out an exclamation, stepped on the accelerator, and charged straight ahead!
Bang!
A heavy, muffled boom rang out from the front bumper of the armored off-road vehicle!
It was followed immediately by a violent neighing of the warhorse!
"Whinny!"
The figure riding the horse was knocked flying by the Clown's full-throttle charge, horse and all!
Continuing to turn the steering wheel, the Clown muttered to himself with an exaggerated expression: "The old era of sailing giant ships that could fly has been extinct for who knows how many years already. You're riding some prehistoric beast here pretending to be all that with me?!"
Vroom—
With that said, the Clown floored the accelerator again, and the off-road vehicle roared forward!
Swish!!
A harsh screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground rang out.
The Clown slammed on the brakes with his foot.
The rider he had just knocked away slowly got up from the ground, controlling his warhorse and standing by the roadside.
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop—
New sounds of horse hooves rang out from the surroundings, and there was more than one.
"Hmm?!"
The Clown looked around, one, two, three...
Gradually, dense ranks of riders on rotting warhorses appeared, surrounding Lu Yuan's car completely.
The Clown glanced at Lu Yuan and mumbled: "Dr. Lu, it looks like we're not very lucky today."
Lu Yuan’s eyes were as calm as still water. He nodded and said slowly: "It does seem so. What should we do? Are we going to die here?"
"Oh no!"
The Clown shook his head vigorously, looked around again, and finally captured Lu Yuan's calm gaze from the rearview mirror.
"Mr. Lu! Stop pretending! These things that are neither human nor ghost...could it be that they're all raised by you?!"
Lu Yuan raised his hand, holding a syringe between two fingers.
The Clown immediately changed his words: "Doctor Lu, Doctor Lu, I was just too excited for a moment..."
Only then did Lu Yuan put his hand down and looked at the circle of "riders" gathered around the end of the car, murmuring: "These are the dead who were buried together with that Disaster Spirit Fetus."
The Clown was somewhat incredulous.
"Is that thing very precious? So many people still guard her even after her death? Could it be an empress?"
"Just an ordinary peasant girl from ancient times. Her lover was the commander of these eight thousand cavalries. The two had pledged to be together for life."
"The girl personally sewed a military uniform for her lover. Wearing that, he went to the battlefield, leaving her with only half a bamboo flute. There was no news from him since."
"The girl waited for her lover for over half a year, but never did wait for him to return. She traveled over mountains and rivers alone, and finally found the burial ground of the cavalry army where her lover had served."
"Facing the eight thousand unnamed gravestones before her, she said 'If I cannot be born on the same day as you, then I will be buried with you'. Then she stabbed that half bamboo flute deeply into her own heart..."
"Later, nearby residents collected the girl's corpse and built a grave for her among the resting places of those eight thousand soldiers."
As he listened to Lu Yuan's story, the Clown dabbed at his eyes very "movingly".
He secretly glanced at the riders who had walked up to the car with the corner of his eyes, shaking his shoulders very exaggeratedly.
"Woo woo woo, this story sounds so touching!"
"But Dr. Lu, I wonder if these ghostly things outside would find it touching..."
Lu Yuan went on: "However, the truth is that the girl's lover never went to the battlefield at all."
"He became a deserter, hiding for half a year before changing careers to become a graverobber. And the first target he chose was..."
"The burial ground of his former comrades."
"There were no spirits or ghosts in ancient times."
"But after he came to this graveyard, he never managed to walk out again."
"The bones of his former comrades made him shudder with fear. The girl's corpse and that half bamboo flute scared him to death alive."
Hearing this, the Clown could no longer keep up his exaggerated performance.
"So that Disaster Spirit Fetus is that girl?"
Lu Yuan looked at a rider standing outside his car window and said lightly: "No, the Disaster Spirit Fetus is that man."
The Clown: "......"
"Then what about the girl?"
"Dead."
"Who, who did it?"
At this moment, Lu Yuan's signature morbid smile appeared on his face: "Guess?"
A chill ran down the Clown's spine.
"No, no, that's not right. That song..."
At this point, Lu Yuan opened the car door. He got out of the car, straightened his white coat, "I only sent her off."
"She asked me to do three things before she died."
"Put her heart on the person she cared about most."
"So that he could always feel her longing for him;"
"Put her vocal cords on the person she was most reluctant to part from."
"So that he could always listen to her lingering affection."
"And to let her be his lover, giving birth to children for him, never separating."
"I'm a kind person. I hate to see loving couples unable to become families most."
"So I promised her."
"In addition, I also gave them a few interesting negative ability genes, free of charge."
"But something unexpected happened. I didn't expect that multiple negative ability genes together would derive a new comprehensive ability gene."
As he spoke, Lu Yuan adjusted the eyeglass frames on his nose which had no lenses.
The curved smile at the corner of his mouth grew wider: "Not bad. This Disaster Spirit Fetus was created by me unintentionally."
In an instant, the Clown, who had always fed on other people's fears, felt chills all over his body!
Behind Lu Yuan, all the riders who had gathered around reined in their horses and stood still in unison.
In great uniformity, these riders bowed slightly to Lu Yuan from atop their horses.
Lu Yuan leaned down a little, and an icy, creepy voice rang in the Clown's ears: "Do you know why I only brought you today?"
The Clown's whole body began to tremble slightly. He couldn't get a word out!
Then, a hint of disappointment slipped into Lu Yuan's tone: "Just this is enough to put you into extreme fear?"
"I thought it would take some effort..."
"Didn't you always want to see the power of the Middle Layer Fear Dimension? Come on then."
As he spoke, Lu Yuan lightly stroked the armored off-road vehicle with his fingers. Swish—
In an instant, the armored off-road vehicle turned into smithereens!
The Clown inside landed on his butt on the ground.
He was stunned for a moment before stammering in fright: "Mid...Middle Layer Fear Dimension?!"