Chapter 76

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

IV-1 was stunned.

When Wei Xun said this, IV-1 felt a little ashamed, but he was very thick-skinned and after thinking about it, he calmed down.

So what if he was a dog? Could he defeat the swarm of insects? Even if he completely mutated and became a big dog, he might not be able to fight the swarm!

Didn’t someone say that insects had the strongest survival ability on earth? Insects would not necessarily become extinct even if humans went extinct. But even though he thought so, IV-1 didn’t dare to rebuke Wei Xun. He only dared to beg.

‘I’m too weak, Master. I’m useless, Master, please save me, please save me.”

Ugh.

Wei Xun sighed melancholically as he stood in front of the fire, wrapped in a blanket. Under the blanket, Wei Xun’s fingernails became sharp and he cut his finger. Blood dripped on a small ball of dog hair that had been shaved from IV-1 in advance.

After mutation, being an abyssal type had such an advantage: As long as they possessed a medium, they weren’t restricted by the capabilities of a human body. As long as IV-1 was within 200 meters, Wei Xun could recall him back.

“You, go back first.”

Seeing Wei Xun get up, Fei Lezhi, who was on night watch with him, also stood up subconsciously, but he was pressed down by one of Wei Xun’s hands.

“It should be alright if I keep vigil tonight. You were tired today, so go back and rest first.”

“Okay!”

Fei Lezhi was extremely smart. After circling around, he realized that Wei Xun might have something to do, and he had to be alone. He didn’t ask, he just laughed twice, turned around obediently, returned to the campsite, and got into the tent.

“Why did you come back so early?” Yin Baitao questioned in surprise.

She was writing a diary to record what had happened today, and Xu Yang was combing Duoduo’s fur. Fei Lezhi received the attention of the two people as soon as he returned to the tent.

“Leader Wei felt distressed about me being too tired today, so he let me come back early to rest,” Fei Lezhi said, in all smiles.

Yin Baitao glanced at him, feeling annoyed and amused. Xu Yang snorted coldly and revealed the truth without hesitation. ” Leader Wei has something he doesn’t want you to know.”

Fei Lezhi was such a strong and silly lad. There was nothing to feel distressed about towards him.

Xu Yang curled his lips as he thought of this afternoon, when Wei Xun fed him glucose. The corners of his mouth raised unconsciously.

Even if Leader Wei felt distressed towards someone, he would feel the most distressed towards him.

“Hey, is there any jerky left? I’m so hungry.”

Fei Lezhi smiled and patted Xu Yang’s head, not wanting to squabble over this with a little child. He shyly approached Yin Baitao and solicitously said, “Sister Baitao, I didn’t eat much at dinner. I’m afraid the sound of my stomach growling will wake both of you up at midnight.”

“Who was the one who said that he didn’t want to eat and he didn’t have an appetite?”

Yin Baitao smiled at him and put down the diary in her hand, before taking out the bag of beef jerky and passing two pieces to Fei Lezhi. Their main source of food was placed here with Yin Baitao, and she managed it. In fact, they still had more than half of the tour left to experience, so food and water must be saved and properly allocated.

“Who would have an appetite tonight?” Fei Lezhi muttered as he ate the beef jerky with hot water.

It was true that Ji Hongcai’s incident made everyone lose the mood to eat. But the experienced tourists had seen more kinds of situations after all. Comparatively, the impact of this incident on the newcomer tourists was greater. Yin Baitao didn’t have much of an appetite either, so she only ate some grilled tsampa and drank a few mouthfuls of hot water.

“Fortunately, we have Leader Wei with us. Otherwise, Elder Brother Ji would have been in danger,” Yin Baitao added.

When she mentioned Wei Xun, her eyes flashed with admiration. “Brother Wei is really amazing. He’s really different from us.”

They were all newcomers. Compared with Wei Xun, they were really lacking.

“You want to compare yourself with Wei Xun? Aren’t you getting yourself into a dead end this way?”

Fei Lezhi was rather broad-minded. Eating the beef jerky in a hearty manner, he shook his head and advised, “Some people shouldn’t be compared against us mortals. They are born to be awesome! You’ve never seen Leader Wei’s elder brother. Gosh, Brother Wei could thrash our entire gang of rich second generations. As for his older brother, he could lead my dad and my dad’s circle of people around in circles.”

“Brother Wei has a brother?” Xu Yang cried out involuntarily.

It was a little hard to accept this fact. In his heart, Wei Xun had already risen to a certain peak. To him, it was as if Wei Xun was born from a rock. He couldn’t imagine Wei Xun having any parents, relatives, etc.

Wei Xun was so powerful, who could possibly give birth to him?

“Of course. After you get out, go and search for Wei Xuechen, and there’ll be a lot of search results.”

After Fei Lezhi replied, his spirits suddenly dipped slightly. “Hey, tell me. Why do I want to seek a dream or goal in my life when I have nothing better to do?

“If it weren’t for Leader Wei this time, the three of us might not be able to return to reality.”

Although he knew that this dangerous tour to northern Tibet was also taking place in reality, when Fei Lezhi talked about reality, he referred to the peaceful, normal life ordinary people had. The tour was a cruel place. Even if they were well guarded by Brother Wei, they still saw a hint of how cruel the tour was.

If the other tour guides were like IV-1, or even worse, and the other tourists were like Ji Hongcai and the others in the beginning, then unless they dropped their pride and sucked up to the tour guide, the newcomer tourists basically had no way to survive.

“We have to grow up as soon as possible,” Yin Baitao said firmly.

In her eyes, a unique firmness was reflected. “Don’t you think that the tour is a really amazing place? Those titles, props, and various potions.”

After Wei Xun fed the low-grade universal antidote to Ji Hongcai, Yin Baitao plucked up her courage to ask Wei Xun for the empty potion bottle, which she kept in the depths of her backpack to cherish. If she had been skeptical about the “cancer curing potion” the Travel Services had shown her when she was selected for the tour, now Yin Baitao really saw the hope of curing her parents.

In reality, she was unable to breathe due to the weight of various heavy burdens, but she could breathe the air of freedom in tours. As long as she could make it through the tour, she would be able to buy her parents some medicine to strengthen their bodies. Although the medicine to cure cancer was very expensive and required a lot of points, and she couldn’t afford it now, as long as the Travel Services had the medicine and that medicine was effective in curing cancer, Yin Baitao would now have a goal to work towards.

“Yes.” Xu Yang nodded solemnly, agreeing with Yin Baitao’s statement.

His relatives said that he had lost his sight due to an accident when he had been three years old, but Xu Yang couldn’t remember this event because he’d been too young. He hadn’t seen light ever since he could recall. But with the A Blind Man’s Perception title, it allowed him to perceive things within ten meters of him to the sky and the ground. How wonderful was that? The world had unfolded before his eyes.

But in fact, now, Xu Yang was the most envious of Yin Baitao’s title.

“Sister Baitao, can you see what Leader Wei is thinking?”

“Eh?”

Xu Yang suddenly asked a question, causing Fei Lezhi to look at Yin Baitao curiously. Her title was Unreliable Mind Reading, and she could occasionally hear what others thought. In other words, she could see through other’s thoughts. Even if the Travel Services added the premise of “occasionally” and “unreliable,” it sounded very cool.

“I can’t hear them. Didn’t I tell both of you? For my title to function, I must be within fifty meters, and only when others are very emotional, can I occasionally see what the other party thinks,” Yin Baitao said helplessly.

She was worried that some teammates might exclude her because of this title. But in fact, the title was really useless. Normal people rarely felt great joy and sorrow consistently, and she could only hear what one person was thinking at a time.

Just like when Wei Xun beat IV-1 violently on the first day, Yin Baitao heard Ji Hongcai cheering loudly in his heart, shouting that Wei Xun was awesome—She actually wanted to hear what IV-1 or Wei Xun thought.

And when Wei Xun was treating Ji Hongcai, when Ji Hongcai regained consciousness, Yin Baitao’s mind was full of Ji Hongcai’s repeating sentences of, “Am I going to die? Am I going to die?” She almost went numb from hearing that sentence. She quickly and accurately took out the thing in Ji Hongcai’s nose to stop hearing his nagging in her own mind as well.

Then the thoughts she heard from Ji Hongcai’s mind changed. Inwardly, he was crazily repeating, “Thank you, Leader Wei, Leader Wei is so good. Leader Wei saved my dog-like life.”

Yin Baitao suspected that Ji Hongcai was the kind of person who was very emotional and was prone to emotional ups and downs. In the team, she basically heard Ji Hongcai prattling on and on, and she was forced to listen to his babbling.

He should be asleep now. It was like a mosquito buzzing around her ear that had finally been smacked to death. Yin Baitao was very relieved. Hearing Xu Yang’s question, she felt curious about what Wei Xun was thinking as well.

“This isn’t a good thing. We can’t casually listen to what others are thinking,” Yin Baitao said righteously.

Then she explained, “What’s more, Senior Wei has always been very calm and brave, and his emotions have never fluctuated greatly. I can’t hear what he is thinking——”

‘Sob, sob, sob.’

Yin Baitao’s whole body froze, and her heart chilled. It was in the middle of the night. She, why did she seem to hear a faint cry?

It was so weird and terrifying!

With the cold wind blowing from behind, Yin Baitao shivered and subconsciously grabbed Fei Lezhi’s sleeve. Under Fei Lezhi’s questioning gaze, she looked behind her tremblingly——Fortunately, Fei Lezhi hadn’t closed the flap of the tent when he came in, and it was simply a little cold wind that blew into the tent.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s okay, I’m just a little cold.”

Yin Baitao smiled reluctantly and walked towards the edge of the tent, trying to close the flap. But at this moment, the intermittent choking and whining sounded again, and it was clearer!

Damn, it was not that someone was crying, it was that she heard what someone was thinking!

Yin Baitao, who was still in shock, burst out in a curse. She was immediately amused and angry, and felt her curiosity slightly urging her to find out the truth. The main reason was that all the members in this tour group except her were men. She had never heard of anyone who would get choked up and whimper when they were in a violent mood.

Was that Ji Hongcai having a nightmare? Or Jiang Hongguang? He had also been frightened by Ji Hongcai today.

The curious Yin Baitao stopped moving for a while, only to hear the whimper of a male voice, and the voice was a bit familiar. It was just that she was standing at the periphery of around 50 meters just now, so Yin Baitao could only hear it faintly just now, but it became clearer when she walked to the exit of the tent.

Then she heard a sentence:

‘How can it be so stinky and dirty? I can hardly breathe, sob, sob!’

Yin Baitao’s entire figure stood as stiff as a sculpture, as if she was struck by lightning. This, this voice was——

“What’s wrong with you, Baitao?”

Fei Lezhi saw that Yin Baitao seemed to have lost her soul just now. She had only gone to close the flap of the tent, but when she came back, she appeared to be in a pitiful state. Fei Lezhi jumped up in fright, and quickly touched Yin Baitao’s forehead. Seeing that it was soaked in cold sweat, he said anxiously, “What’s the matter? Baitao, how are you feeling now?? Don’t act strong if you aren’t feeling well. Let’s go to Leader Wei, and Leader Wei will be able to——”

“No!”

Yin Baitao suddenly felt her soul return to her, and even Xu Yang was frightened by her loud voice. She said decisively, “We can’t find Leader Wei now!”

The author has something to say:

Yin Baitao: Sob, sob, sob. Did I hear something I shouldn’t have heard and am I going to be murdered by Leader Wei!

Wei Xun, who felt that dog IV-1, who was covered in the thick pulp of the demonic insect was too stinky [Soul left his body]: Leopard-y, let me hug you, sob, sob, sob, how can there be such a dirty and smelly thing in the world!

There is one more update before twelve o’clock in the night, mua, mua. (づ￣ 3￣)づ