Yan Junze knew that the task level determination was influenced by the strangeness level within said task.
In other words, if the strangeness level was high, then generally, the task level would also be high. But there were exceptions.
For example, if the strangeness was difficult to deal with, or if the way to complete the task was very special, then the task level would likewise be high and not easy to complete.
Since the task "Reflection Under the Moonlight" has been upgraded to "hair-raising (low)", Fang Ning’s strength must have been increased accordingly.
Of course, it’s also highly possible that the task mode has changed, becoming no longer that simple; at least like the Back-faced Woman before her Bond Evolution with Ke’er, with Fang Ning fully approached, she could kill Yan Junze in one hit.
However, if this is what a "hair-raising" level task is, it sohow feels like sothing is missing.
At this mont, Yan Junze realized, this was not exactly a task punishnt, because as long as his performance satisfied Fang Ning, there was a certain chance of her growing fond (obsessed) with him.
No matter whether the object of her affection was Jiang Hao or soone else. In any case, this affection might fade away, or perhaps from this mont, it would find a new ho.
Now Yan Junze strongly suspected that Fang Ning’s affection had once again found its ho.
Like the promise she made before, she wished "to stay by his side every next second".
In fact, Yan Junze had deeply experienced the uncertainty after task completion, like the "Hair Washing" task, which didn’t specify that Ke’er would stay by his side, but in reality, Ke’er chose to stay of her own volition.
So for the "Reflection Under the Moonlight" task to eventually turn out like this, he could accept it, but emotionally... he was very resistant.
Now looking back, to successfully complete this task, there was a very high chance that Fang Ning would co to admire him.
And Yan Junze also rembered, the task prompt dared him to say a "no" to anything Fang Ning said.
Such a damn domineering woman!
If he said no now, he believed that what awaited him would definitely be a new round of being instantly killed.
"Sigh..." Yan Junze looked up at the bright moon and sighed. After a mont of silence, he looked again at Fang Ning.
"Okay."
The task prompt popped up at this mont.
["Reflection Under the Moonlight," hair-raising (low), completed, gained 1000 Different Dinsion Energy points.]
[Friendly Reminder: You have successfully gained the affection of Fang Ning; her love is crazy.]
[Fang Ning (Semi-Sculpting Spirit), current Favorability: Intimate (Abnormal)]
At the sa ti, Fang Ning, standing in front of Yan Junze, tilted her stiff head up blankly towards the bright moon in the sky.
At this mont, she suddenly laughed happily, "I like the moonlight."
Then she lowered her head as if looking at Yan Junze and said, word by word from her torn throat, "And... like... you..."
As soon as these words were spoken, right under Yan Junze’s eyelids, Fang Ning’s charred body visibly dissolved, a large amount of ink-like blackness rging into the ground, forming an eerie black shadow.
This shadow had no substance and was truly just like a person’s shadow, a person’s... reflection, visible but intangible.
The mont this black reflection ford, it flowed like water toward Yan Junze’s direction, and without any defense from him, the shadow rged directly into Yan Junze’s own shadow under the moonlight.
The entire event took no more than two or three seconds.
"What’s going on?"
Yan Junze was stunned, sensing sothing bad, he imdiately turned off the cara, rushed to the portable cara set on the stone bench, stuffed everything into the black backpack resting beside him, then took off along the path he had co.
After running to the path, he turned his head to glance in the direction of the electric fountain.
Everything was eerily quiet, the area surrounding the fountain was dead silent, as if Fang Ning had never existed.
"That’s not right, Fang Ning just beca the Reflection Under the Moonlight, and that reflection clearly entered her own shadow," Yan Junze thought rapidly.
Although the change had happened very fast, so fast that it caught him off guard, he still saw it clearly—the shadow that Fang Ning had turned into seed to have rged with his own shadow.
"Together, rged with my own?" As the thought arose, Yan Junze involuntarily shivered.
He turned on the flashlight he had taken out beforehand, the trees on both sides of the path were dense, and the canopy overhead was thick enough to block any moonlight from seeping through.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, Yan Junze sprinted through the path at top speed, arriving at the community road with the signpost.
He didn’t pause but quickly headed for the main entrance of the Flowery Paradise Garden Residential Area.
At this ti, without the obstruction of the trees overhead, the moonlight spilled down once again, shining on Yan Junze as he walked quickly across the ground, forming a small, shrunken reflection to the right in front of his feet.
About a dozen steps later, the shadow sinisterly began to grow, and then a slender black shadowy arm erged from the pitch-dark shadow, climbing up Yan Junze’s lower leg and seizing hold of it.
Yan Junze, who was in the midst of running, stumbled and plunged forward, crashing heavily onto the ground.
The shadow at his feet began to crawl up following his movents, and at the sa ti, a hoarse and eerie laugh rang out—it was the sound of Fang Ning who had just disappeared under Yan Junze’s very eyes.
Feeling an ice-cold sensation spreading up his legs, Yan Junze finally understood, and he looked up at the moon in the sky. Before the eerie chill had completely engulfed him, he imdiately rolled on the spot.
The next second, he rolled under the tree next to the road, a landscaping tree.
The branches and leaves of this tree were not very dense, but they were just enough to block the moonlight.
After he rolled under the tree, the shadow at his feet instantly vanished, and the cold feeling on his legs disappeared as well.
Yan Junze didn’t have ti to sit up yet, but his heart was pounding like a drum; he tried bending his legs a bit and there was nothing abnormal.
No abnormalities, that was good. After hiding under this tree, because the reflection at his feet disappeared, so did Fang Ning.
"It’s over."
Yan Junze murmured with a bitter smile, slowly sitting up straight, and looking at the moonlight on the ground outside, he ca to an unfavorable conclusion in his mind.
From now on, at least until he found a way to deal with Fang Ning, he feared he could no longer expose himself under the moonlight.
Could there be any more troubleso tactic than rging into one’s own shadow?
Yan Junze sat under the tree, leaning against the trunk, shaking his head with a wry smile.
From now on, it seed that he had to be very cautious before taking on tasks above the "hair-raising" level, and it was best to avoid them if possible.
He now believed that if it weren’t for the mother-daughter recognition and Ke’er’s extrely close relationship with him during the last encounter with the Back-faced Woman, she would have never let him remain intact as he was today.
This point was evident from the fact that the Back-faced Woman, taking Ke’er with her, showed no concern for Yan Junze when they left. Read new chapters at empire
After sitting under the tree for a while, Yan Junze finally ca to terms with this fact.
It seed that as long as he didn’t expose himself to moonlight and didn’t cast a shadow under the moon, he shouldn’t attract any of Fang Ning’s "love you to death" actions toward him.
He would just need to be careful in the future, and wait until he found a solution.
Thinking this, Yan Junze checked the ti on his phone; it was only half-past nine, not very late.
He called his father, Yan Daguo: "Dad, uh, I’m currently in the neighboring Flowery Paradise Garden Residential Area. Co and pick up, and rember to bring an umbrella—the largest one we have, the one with the Huang Feihong fighting handle. No, it’s not raining, just bring it over first."
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