Chapter 71.2

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After searching for clues for so many years, no one would let go of the slightest opportunity. Besides, even if it was not a 30th Parallel North Tour, any information about tours of ancient civilizations, ancient countries, ancient ruins and such was extremely precious and should be cherished. The number of viewers in IV-1’s livestream room increased sharply for a while, and everyone wanted to see what clues Wei Xun would obtain in the branch scenic spot.

[Even if Wei Xun took the human skin thangka and headed to the Dragon God Waterway at the ruins of Xiangxiong Kingdom, he will not find the thangka that can seal the devil]

At that time, some viewers saw through Wei Xun’s thoughts and mercilessly pointed out: [This is only a Difficult-level tour after all, and it will not involve supernatural elements, demons, Buddhas, and other existences that are too advanced. The restrictions laid by the Travel Services are very powerful after all.]

[Unless Wei Xun kills IV-1. Otherwise, at the end of this branch scenic spot, it is estimated that Wei Xun can only obtain a piece of Gusin thangka]

The person who posted this comment in the commentary barrage seems to be a high-ranking bigwig. The commentary barrage was automatically placed on the top of the screen, sparkling.

But now it looked like a public execution scene.

At this time, the comments on the screen are frantically swiping [Wei Xun is really going to kill IV-1!]

[Is the bigwig still here? Let’s see what he’s going to say now?]

[It’s so exciting, so exciting. It’s truly so exciting! I didn’t even go to eat dinner when my wife told me to eat, it’s much more exciting than a ball game!]

[Can’t Wei Xun just make a move, I’m super worried for him, AH, just do it!!]

[You guys are just onlookers, so you won’t feel much when you encourage Wei Xun. But what will you do next on the tour if you kill the tour guide]

[That’s right, I think Wei Xun is just trying to scare him, and he doesn’t dare to kill someone. He’s not a murderer. Besides, who would change their mentality so quickly, and accept that they could kill someone]

[Now Wei Xun has to kill him, as he has completely offended IV-1. If IV-1 is allowed to survive, it will be like letting the tiger return to the mountain]

[Who cares, Lao Tzu is a person who’s watching this purely for fun. You have to know that us tourists have been suffering for so many years. Someone should be able to vent their anger on behalf of us. Let us have the time of our lives by watching this happen!]

[Can someone explain what the bigwig said, why can’t I understand]

[What will happen after Wei Xun kills IV-1?]

“It’s better not to kill IV-1.”

In the theater room of the Homeward tour party, Wang Pengpai instantly grew serious. He sat up straight and stared at the livestream intently. His chubby fingers that looked like little radishes fluttered on the phone, replying to news from the Sunset Tour group.

“Control IV-1, don’t kill him,” Wang Pengpai said, “Otherwise, the tour will fall into complete chaos and descend into disarray.”

As the bigwig claimed, unless Wei Xun killed IV-1, even if he completed all the tasks from the branch scenic spot, he might not be able to get more clues, because the tasks he would have to accomplish to get these clues would be above his rank.

Tourists in particular were limited by the difficulty of the tour. However, this was also a form of protection for the tourist. Just like when Wei Xun had faced the aquatic reptile, he had gotten a gold-plated silver-inlaid skull and a wet corpse that had a carved golden head stuck on it. But if IV-1 had done it, the wet corpse would’ve probably risen up, and there might have been a curse on the gold-plated silver-inlaid skull.

This was because the task of opening up new scenic spots he had to do was theoretically beyond the current tour level, and it could reach Dangerous-level or even higher, so he would be in danger due to supernatural elements.

Like the black stone jade skull that was full of radiation and virus strains. If Wei Xun had obtained it, his current state wouldn’t be as bad as IV-1’s current state.

However, once the tour guide died during the tour, the whole tour would fall into a state of chaos and disorder. That was to say, the difficulty “cap” of this tour would be completely released.

At that time, gods, Buddhas, ghosts, demons, and resentful spirits might appear on the tour, and the tourists would fall into an unprecedented crisis. For example, the secret passageway full of headless mummies discovered by the young fox—On a Difficult-level tour, those headless mummies were suppressed by the power of the Travel Services, and they were just ordinary headless mummies.

Once the tour fell into disorder and there was no suppression at all, those mummified corpses might revive, there might be burying beetles beneath the mummies, and the numerous mummified corpses might form corpse catacombs. Everything would fall into uncertainty.

In the past, there were cases where the tourists were unwilling to be bullied by the tour guide and killed the tour guide during the tour. However, those tour groups had basically been destroyed in the end, and no one could survive.

Because even if the tourists did not randomly move about when the tour fell into disarray and they all holed up in the lodgings to avoid danger, they would be killed by the next tour guide sent by the Travel Services.

Yes, the Travel Services would not let a tour group fall into disorder for too long. After all, the tourists were all the Travel Services’ “wealth.” If a tour guide died in the tour group, no matter what the reason was, the Travel Services would determine that the tour guide was too weak to protect the tour group at the tour’s current level.

Therefore, it would send a more powerful tour guide. Basically, they would send a tour guide more powerful than the previous tour guide.

Even if the tourists were lucky enough to survive the period where the tour group descended into chaos, they would be slaughtered by the new tour guide.

There were also unspoken rules among the tour guides—Any tour guide who joined the tour because it was an “emergency” understood that the tourists in this tour group had killed the previous tour guide.

Tourists who killed the tour guide couldn’t be allowed to live.

In the tours, only a rare few tourists would kill the tour guide. The tour guide had great power and received preferential treatment from the Travel Services. Even if a pig became a tour guide, it might not necessarily die. Besides, the tourists had never experienced a tour without a tour guide, and they were always afraid of the unknown. There were also some who did not want to be hunted down by a tour guide alliance in the future. Except for the tourists who perished with the tour guide, there were very few people who would kill a tour guide.

Because they knew that when a tour guide died in the middle of the tour, the tour would be thrown into disorder. And once the new tour guide arrived to “clean up” some of the tourists, there would be even fewer tourists left in the tour group. However, except for those bigwig tourists, no one knew about this.

The people who knew this insider information silently blocked the spread of the news. No one could find out about it even if they used various methods to attempt to do so. However, the reason why people who knew this insider information blocked the spread of the information was that it would be too depressing to know about it.

“The Slaughterer Alliance will definitely send someone to target Wei Xun.”

Mao Xiaole also frowned. He quickly folded various paper men, and each paper man disappeared as soon as he folded it. Mao Xiaole was contacting people from all sides, but the news he got was not optimistic.

“There are too many viewers in IV-1’s livestream room, and it’s impossible to block the news.”

“Don’t worry too much.”

Wang Pengpai comforted, “On the bright side, if the tour becomes disordered and there are no level restrictions, the captain will be able to come out. With the protection of our captain, even if a I-ranked tour guide was sent over, I won’t be worried.”

“Are you an idiot? Why would this tour descend into such a state!”

Wang Pengpai’s words of comfort were counterproductive. Mao Xiaole gave him a stern glance, and the corners of his lips pursed tightly. “The captain has a seal on his body, and if the tour descends into such a state that the captain can come out, then it would at least be something similar to a 30th Parallel North tour!”

“Even if it involved gods, Buddhas, and demons, this tour can only descend into a Dangerous-level, or a Extremely Dangerous-level tour at most.”

Mao Xiaole bit his nails and muttered anxiously, “For the Extremely Dangerous-level, the tour guide who can be dispatched may be someone from the II-rank.”

What he was worried about was not the tour falling into chaos. Mao Xiaole had full confidence in Wei Xun and with the rose-tinted glasses he had as Wei Xun’s reader, he believed that Teacher Wei could make great achievements even in Dangerous or even Extremely Dangerous-level tours.

What Mao Xiaole was worried about was the replacement tour guide sent by the Travel Services! The Slaughterer Alliance and even the Shepherd Alliance would definitely act again. It was very likely that they would make use of the acceptable range of tour guide rank for the tour and insert the highest-ranking tour guide, maybe even a II-ranked tour guide!

The II-rank was a clear dividing line separating the tour guides of II-rank and those below the II-rank. This was because the II-ranked tour guides were the lowest among the Gold-rank tour guides. Furthermore, all of them had passed the tour guide assessment and were “leaders” among the tour guides!

They were completely different from ordinary tour guides. Even if it was II-49, who had led the Intoxicating Xiangxi tour and was called worse than III-9, the really knowledgeable tourists and tour guides would think that II-49 was pretty stupid. Others would think II-49 was simply unlucky, but few would feel that in terms of strength alone, III-9 was stronger than II-49.

Even if III-9 had a promising future, he was unlikely to be better than an II-ranked tour guide until he passed the tour guide assessment and got the “Tour Guide Certificate.” This was despite the fact that his mutation form at the end of the tour seemed to be an abyssal type with great potential.

This was because all the tour guides who had passed the tour guide assessment had mastered “falling to zero,” and had a complete mutation form! All those tour guides who lost their resolve to commit suicide, couldn’t sink into a low SAN state and devoured the enemy to complete their transformation died.

It was truly the survival of the fittest. Only the strong could survive!

III-9’s mutation form was still in his infancy, and he had not even grown his wings. Even if his potential was great, there was absolutely no comparison between a tour guide’s childhood and adulthood forms. Of course, once III-9 passed the tour guide assessment, his strength would not be the same, and this was just a comparison between tour guides.

Anyway, back to the current topic, it was very likely that the tour group would have to deal with an II-ranked tour guide. This was a tour group with three newcomers, and the highest rank of the other tourists was only Middle-rank One-star!

The more Mao Xiaole thought about it, the more anxious he became, and his mouth grew drier. He forcibly rolled the paper in his hand into a ball and threw it out.

The difficulty level of this disordered tour would make it almost impossible for the captain to truly wake up. If the tour guide sent into this tour was really an II-ranked tour guide from the Slaughterer Alliance or the Shepherd Alliance…

Then Wei Xun and the whole tour group would be in extreme danger.

The main point was that Wei Xun and the tourists in their tour group obviously didn’t understand this. One was afraid even IV-1 didn’t know about it!

“Don’t kill him, just control it, don’t kill him.”

Mao Xiaole wanted to pinch his fingers to predict the future. He couldn’t calm down at all, because no matter how he imagined himself to be in Wei Xun’s shoes, he would still find IV-1 annoying and would feel that it would be better for him to brutually kill IV-1.

After all, what kind of means could control a person absolutely? Except for unique exceptions due to a tour guide’s identity, the tourists couldn’t completely control someone’s body, mind, and soul.

In the end, Mao Xiaole’s tangled brows almost knitted together. He couldn’t stop muttering, “Don’t kill him, don’t kill him on the tour. I’ll kill him a thousand times for you when you come out, or ten thousand times.

“Don’t kill IV-1.”

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“Kill him, quickly kill him, do it now, quickly, quickly——”

In a private base somewhere in the virtual hall, an eight-square-meter base had been set up to be dark and damp. It was pitch-black everywhere, and densely covered with intricate black filament-like cobwebs. If you looked closely, you would find that these filaments were all hair!

Countless black hairs had formed a huge hairball, and it almost filled the entire station. Those hairs wriggled and tangled as if they were alive. Sometimes, strands of hair gathered together to form hair puppets full of resentment. They sometimes scattered and sometimes gathered. Because it was too humid, water vapor seemed to be floating around the base. This was why every strand of hair was black, flexible, and shiny, as if conditioner had been applied on it.

A few strands gathered, the thickest of which were as thick as an average human’s hands, feet, and limbs, and the end of the strands held a fluorescent screen. At the center of the strands was a series of ball-sized, round, pitch-black eyeballs.

This string of eyeballs stared intently at the livestream screen. Countless hairs fluttered wildly in excitement, and the voice which was being emitted from an unknown direction was hoarse and terrifying.

“KILL HIM, KILL HIM——WEI XUN——”

The hair tapped the screen hard, sending out a series of “KILL HIM, KILL HIM” comments on the commentary barrage.

Hair Ghost II-49 had not expected this opportunity to come to him so quickly!

Originally, with his strength, it would definitely take a lot of energy to dive into the tour. But in order to complete Puppeteer’s order and make up for his previous two mistakes, II-49 had already decided that he had to sneak into the tour, even if he had to pay a costly price.

But even so, there was not much time left for him. It was impossible for two tour guides to appear on a tour at the same time, and the tour would likely collapse and end early due to this. Even if II-49 snuck in, he would have less than a minute to strangle Wei Xun.

But things were different now! II-49’s hair trembled with excitement. If Wei Xun killed IV-1, then according to the rules of the Travel Services, the Travel Services would definitely choose a tour guide to enter the tour.

Looking at the branch scenic spot task he had triggered that involved devils, gods, and Buddhas, the disordered tour was likely to reach the Dangerous-level, or even Extremely Dangerous-level. Coupled with II-49’s means, the tour guide who would be selected to enter this tour would most likely be II-49!

No, it was not very likely, it was 100%, it would definitely be him, II-49. This was because he had sacrificed everything, so only success was allowed. Failure would never be allowed to occur.

“Hoho, hahaha——”

Every strand of hair was laughing. He had simply gotten this opportunity effortlessly. It seemed that there was always a way out. It seemed that even God was favoring him, II-49!

“Quick, kill IV-1, quickly kill him!”

II-49 couldn’t wait, and countless black hairs twisted frantically. If “paying to win” would have made Wei Xun obey his orders, one was afraid that he would directly reward Wei Xun with tens of thousands of points. But no, II-49 cut off the strand of hair that wanted to reward the livestream room. This was IV-1’s livestream room, and the reward points in the livestream room would be earned by IV-1.

If IV-1 obtained points, strengthened himself, and made it difficult for Wei Xun to kill him, that would be bad.

“IV-1, die. Die quickly.”

II-49 piously and viciously cursed IV-1. He hoped that IV-1 would make himself an easy target for Wei Xun to kill, and allow himself to be killed quickly. It was best if he could be directly killed by Wei Xun. II-49 couldn’t wait, and every strand of hair coursed with excitement. He couldn’t even wait another minute!