Chapter 72.1

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[Didn’t Tour Guide IV-1 die?]

The bigwig tourists were concerned, and they were also confused. However, they quickly recovered from it and realized the problem. It stood to reason that if the tour guide died during the tour and everything fell into disorder, the livestream of the entire tour would be temporarily blocked, and it would not return to normal until a new tour guide entered.

After IV-1’s neck was sliced, his livestream split screen had indeed been blocked, but the split screens of the tourists were still normal! The conversations between the other tourists after Wei Xun arrived at the Ruins of Xiangxiong confirmed this.

“I’m afraid the news isn’t that IV-1’s corpse is missing, but that he escaped using a secret technique.”

After calming down, Mao Xiaole breathed a sigh of relief, and said miserably, “He had long since wanted to side with the Slaughterer Alliance. It seems that the other party gave him something to save his life.”

“Even I didn’t understand how IV-1 escaped.”

Wang Pengpai rubbed his chin and smacked his lips. “But looking at the current situation from the livestream, IV-1 is estimated to be dead. Tsk, props that can block the livestream room are rare props.”

It wasn’t that they were unaware that IV-1 had secretly been in contact with the Slaughterer Alliance, they just wanted to cast a long line to catch a bigger fish. So when everyone thought that IV-1 had been killed just now and when the other tour guides failed to enter the tour, they subconsciously thought it was because of the Slaughterer Alliance. Because the Slaughterer Alliance, who had ties with IV-1, was most likely able to accurately pinpoint the instant IV-1 died, and squeeze a tour guide in at the right moment.

“Live-saving props, escaping props, and props that can block the livestream room, the Slaughterer Alliance really spent a lot this time——It seems that they’re planning something big.”

Judging from IV-1’s strength and the information they knew about him, they could tell that he did not have such powerful items, and it was very likely that the Slaughterer Alliance handed these props over to him.

The Slaughterer Alliance wouldn’t truly try to recruit IV-1 because he was known as “Little III-9.” Perhaps they had some plans involving this tour to northern Tibet, but in the end, they hadn’t expected Wei Xun to come on this tour.

IV-1 didn’t get to do anything much before he used all the life-saving props.

“Anyway, it’s good that IV-1 didn’t die!”

Mao Xiaole was so happy that he couldn’t close his mouth. “He has even thrown his cloak away, he must be seriously injured.”

“It’s not too bad, he was just turned into this inhuman state by the black stone jade skull, and his throat was cut by Wei Xun,” Wang Pengpai exclaimed in amazement.

It seemed that he was still reminiscing the previous scenes he’d seen. “I didn’t expect Wei Xun to be so decisive. Goodness, did you see him slicing IV-1’s neck like he was killing a chicken? What does he do in reality?”

“The last time I saw a newcomer tourist who could kill so decisively, they were a butcher who killed pigs in reality.”

“Teacher Wei simply writes novels in reality.”

It was rare that Mao Xiaole hesitated. He spoke with a tone filled with a longing unique to how readers felt towards authors, “Maybe people who write novels are just this amazing.”

“Heh heh,” Wang Pengpai responded with a sneer.

If writing novels could make him so “amazing,” he would let all the newcomers of the Sunset Tour party write novels on the spot. At that time, there would be no need for year-round training and assessments. Only newcomers who were contracted to write novels could join the tour party. Wouldn’t that be simple?

Mao Xiaole said, “I remember that IV-1 did not activate his mutation state.”

Wang Pengpai wondered, “No, none of the IV-1-ranked tour guides are able to activate them. Why did you think of this?”

Mao Xiaole frowned in disgust. “I’m thinking about how IV-1 escaped. His points should have almost been emptied, his countdown to death was very low, and his throat was cut by Wei Xun——There is a possibility that his SAN value would drop crazily and he might mutate and run away.”

Wang Pengpai laughed and said, “Hahaha fuck, Mao Xiaole. Are you recalling the time the tour guide who turned into a bat ran away from your grasp? That happened so many years ago!”

“Hmph, I’ll remember it for the rest of my life,” Mao Xiaole said gloomily.

He always held grudges. He thought of the mission that had been given to him to kill a tour guide in the West region. Mao Xiaole had thought that he had killed the other party, and left with peace of mind. Who would have thought that the other party hadn’t died? The other party hadn’t fought Mao Xiaole with all his might, but had turned into a very small bat and survived. The bat had hid in the cloak and escaped in the end.

This incident was Mao Xiaole’s shame. No one dared to raise this taboo incident in front of him. Since then, every time he killed a tour guide, Mao Xiaole had to burn their body and cloak with several fire talismans to be at ease.

Seeing Wei Xun take the green cloak away, Mao Xiaole’s eyelids jumped, and he became suspicious. He always felt that there was something bad hidden in the cloak. After all, Wei Xun was a newcomer, and he didn’t know that tour guides could mutate. What if IV-1 was really hidden inside? Then he would really be hard to guard against.

If he had to comment on this incident, he would say that Teacher Wei was still too soft-hearted!

“Don’t worry, it’s impossible for a tour guide of IV-1’s rank to have a mutation form, unless a bigwig tour guide spared no effort to activate his mutation form for him.”

Wang Pengpai pondered what Mao Xiaole said. Deep in thought, he frowned deeply and asked, “If this is the case, then what exactly does the Slaughterer Alliance want to do?”

They gave IV-1 an escape prop and a life-saving prop, and also provided him with a prop to shield himself from the livestream room. And if IV-1’s mutation state was also activated——

Could it be that they were targeting their captain?

Did they know about the captain entering this tour?!

Wang Pengpai was horrified and couldn’t sit still. “I’m going to stare at the Slaughterer Alliance, you can continue watching the livestream.”

“Since Wei Xun said that the Travel Services has informed him that Tour Guide IV-1 is seriously injured, and the responsibility of leading the tour will be handed over to the captain for the time being, IV-1’s injury will definitely not heal during a short period of time.”

There was indeed such a situation. If the tour guide was seriously injured and couldn’t guide the tour party, the Travel Services would delegate appropriate authority to the captain, and they wouldn’t provide the tourist with just a Tour Guide Brooch to help them. In fact, they would provide more help. For example, the tour guide’s cloak in Wei Xun’s hand, and the ability to “sense the tour guide” that he said, were all conveniences given by the Travel Services to the tour group.

It could be said that to the tourists, the Travel Services were really considerate, and they considered all aspects. However, as long as tour guides existed, the mortality rate of tourists would never be low. The tension between the tour guides and the tourists was permanent and couldn’t be eased.

Of course, there was also tension between many tour guides.

For example, the Shepherd Alliance, which was packed with pig-raising tour guides in the Asia region, despised the Slaughterer Alliance, and thought that slaughterer tour guides were a group of lunatics who didn’t understand sustainable development. They also felt that slaughterer tour guides had antisocial personalities, and that they could not be considered to be human beings.

Coldblooded tour guides and other neutral-oriented tour guides despised the Shepherd Alliance and the Slaughterer Alliance, thinking that neither of them were normal. It was just that one hypocritically disguised themselves as normal, and the other acted as “lunatics.”

And in the Slaughterer Alliance…it was true that a large number of their members were lunatics. They respected people with mutation forms and despised all human beings. They simply did not regard themselves and humans as the same species. Furthermore, they advocated for mutation. During the tours they led, they almost always maintained a low countdown to death and a low SAN value to maintain the mutation of their bodies.

Therefore, they killed people swiftly, without feeling much about it. Slaughterer tour guides not only killed tourists, but they also killed tour guides who did not have a mutation or maintained a high countdown to death when they went mad.

The Slaughterer Alliance was definitely an outlier among the tour guide alliances in the world, and was boycotted by most tour guides and tourists. There was even a saying that “harmonious coexistence between tour guides and tourists depends on slaughterer tour guides.”

If there was a terrible and appalling tragedy, it was usually done by the Slaughterer Alliance.

However, the paradox was that the slaughterer tour guides were all really powerful. However, for all tour guides, the extremely powerful “falling to zero” self-preservation technique would cause their SAN value to plummet, and they may go crazy one day. It could be said that all high-ranked tour guides were slaughterer tour guides “in reserve.”

Therefore, the attitudes of the tour guide alliances towards the Slaughterer Alliance were actually very ambiguous. On one hand, they would look down, boycott, suppress, and look on coldly as they watched powerful tourists kill Slaughterer tour guides. On the other hand, when the Slaughterer Alliance was really facing a crisis, they would render assistance.

After all, the tour guides were not sure when they would become a slaughterer tour guide. And they might obtain the most legendary title a tour guide could ultimately obtain, [A Crazy Devil That Led A Thrilling Tour].

As a senior slaughterer tour guide in the West region had once said:

The final destination for tour guides was madness.

The Slaughterer Alliance was the ultimate home for all tour guides.

However, II-49 was upset, he was very upset.

Obviously, he had mutated to the point that he would definitely be praised and worshiped by countless slaughterer tour guides if he headed to the Slaughterer Alliance. They would say, “You’re so beautiful, your hair is so smooth.” However, II-49 was proud that he was able to maintain his senses and belong to the Shepherd Alliance.

Especially now, he simply hated Slaughterer Alliance to the bone!

“Slaughterer Alliance, Slaughterer Alliance—”

A lot of hair was squirming and wriggling, making a screeching sound similar to metallic friction. They were on the verge of madness, and it took a lot of time for II-49 to calm down. He tried his best to restrain himself and not carve IV-1 on the voodoo puppet he had weaved using hair.

Why was IV-1 still well and alive!

Why was IV-1 not dead yet!!

It was all the fault of the damn Slaughterer Alliance!

II-49’s mentality was about to collapse. When he had left Puppeteer’s abode previously, she had casually pointed out that IV-1 was related to the Slaughterer Alliance. Otherwise, II-49 would have wiped out IV-1 long ago and squeezed into the tour.

It was because of the Slaughterer Alliance that II-49 had first thought of a dangerous way to invade the tour at a high cost. Later, there was finally a chance for him to squeeze into the tour with integrity after IV-1 was killed.

But IV-1 was not dead!

Fuck!

II-49 felt that every strand of his hair was exclaiming “fuck.” If there was not a chance for him to squeeze into the tour in the beginning, it would be fine. However, he felt that many opportunities had slipped past him repeatedly. It felt like he was onboard a roller coaster that was turning 360 degrees and torturing him, a tour guide already on the verge of madness. At this moment, II-49’s resentment towards the Slaughterer Alliance and IV-1 has reached its peak!

He couldn’t bear it anymore. Soon, he was about to explode.

The frantically waving hair tore the hair puppet, and II-49 restrained himself with the last shred of his willpower. He couldn’t curse and kill IV-1. Given how weak he was, he couldn’t become the enemy of the Slaughterer Alliance. Puppeteer was preparing for the year-end celebration, so she wouldn’t necessarily help him.

Moreover, if II-49 got into trouble with the Slaughterer Alliance because he wanted to go into the tour to kill Wei Xun, he would be even more useless in the eyes of Puppeteer, and she would think that he was troublemaking trash.

Heave——hoo——

A gust of air passed through the huge clump of hair, making a shrill and sharp whistle-like echo. One was afraid even II-49 didn’t know when he would lose his sanity.

At that time, he would really paint IV-1’s face on the voodoo puppet, curse and kill IV-1, and break into the tour.

Undercurrents were surging outside, and various forces were testing each other.