Chapter 89.1

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

“Hahaha, see, I was right, Teacher Wei and our tour party are really destined.”

In Homeward Tour Party’s theater hall, Mao Xiaole remained silent for a short period. Then he coughed twice and smiled dryly as if it would ease the atmosphere.

“That’s not how we should be predestined with him.”

Wang Pengpai was a bit devastated. He was originally going to monitor the movements of the Slaughterer Alliance, but when he saw that Wei Xun, who was now the main character of the hot topics in the forum, allegedly said that he liked Xuefeng the most in the livestream, he immediately started a video chat with Mao Xiaole and the others.

Wang Peng said, “Say, he could have named the snow leopard Xiaowang, Xiaomao, Xiaowang, Xiaolang, and so on. I also think we are destined to have him in our team. I can’t explain this phenomenon using any other reason. This is too motherfucking outrageous!”

“Xiao Le, do the math, is this really a coincidence? It’s too coincidental, I feel chills behind me!”

“Really, to be honest, I have chills on my back too.”

Wang Yushu, who was slumped on the sofa, raised his hand weakly. “Give me a cup of hot water and let me take my time to digest this information.”

Wang Yushu, who was a money-lover, was currently willing to spend points to buy hot water from the Travel Services instead of boiling water himself. This was sufficient to reflect how shocked he was.

On the other side of the call, Wang Pengpai hadn’t recovered his strength. He hesitated for a long time, and then said hesitantly, “Xiaole, you really didn’t tell your Teacher Three Waters about the matters in our tour party?”

“What do you mean, do you think I’m a fool!”

Mao Xiaole got up suddenly and shouted angrily over the phone, “It’s been five years, so I thought Teacher Wei couldn’t get in. And how could I discuss things regarding the tour party outside of our circle!”

“No, I didn’t mean that you would reveal, ah, the captain’s real name. After all, it really doesn’t make any sense.” Seeing that Mao Xiaole was really angry, Wang Pengpai’s tone immediately softened, “I just, I just think, this is really outrageous. Oh, it’s such a coincidence, it just makes my scalp tingle.”

“What’s wrong with it being a coincidence? This coincidence shows that Teacher Wei and our captain are also destined!”

Mao Xiaole was loud and righteous. It was obvious that Mao Xiaole was the one who had been frightened the most just now, but regarding matters related to Wei Xun, he was quick to stand up and say, “Didn’t you listen to what Teacher Wei said? He wanted to name the snow leopard, and it would be easy to name it Xuefeng when the name starts with ‘Xue.’”

“I think what Xiaole said makes sense.”

Wang Yushu was drinking hot water like he was tasting red wine. He smiled and played with the little snow leopard he had pinched out earlier on the table. “This is fate.”

“It’s okay for him to name the snow leopard Xuefeng, but the problem is that the snow leopard is really called Xuefeng!”

Wang Pengpai still found it unbelievable. “Really, you see there are so many discussions in the livestream room and on the forum. People who wouldn’t know anything would really think that the snow leopard was our captain shapeshifted. Heh, and it really is the captain. How the hell should we reason with them.”

“What has changed? You see, the audience is talking about fate. This just confirms the fate between the captain and Teacher Wei. Let the Feihong Tour Party and the Big Dipper Tour Party see how Teacher Wei and our captain are locked together!”

Mao Xiaole vowed, “Furthermore, Bai Xiaosheng didn’t send us any news. This matter is not that serious. You are just too careful. If I take a dog out and name it IV-1, will others think it is the real IV-1 who has shapeshifted?”

“You can’t say that. After all, many people know that the captain is raising a snow leopard. Now that Wei Xun calls the snow leopard Xuefeng, it’s inevitable that some people will think too much.”

Wang Pengpai felt that his teeth were aching. “If there are tour guides who have nothing better to do who want to do away with the snow leopard, then they could really invade the tour. In that case, they might beat the snow leopard so much that An Xuefeng morphs back, and it will be very difficult to clean up the mess by then!”

If An Xuefeng was unsealed before the end of the tour, the whole tour would have to end early. And if he woke up in advance, his current state…

Wang Pengpai shuddered, and said with a bitter face, “I’m afraid that someone will seek death for nothing, and invade the tour just to get the captain to morph back. If he wakes up early, then Northern Tibet will definitely attract the attention of every organization domestically and abroad. Why should we find another mess as troublesome as the Shambhala Cave matter?”

Previously, Dreamchaser, a I-3 ranked tour guide, had looked for Mao Xiaole to cooperate in exploring Tibet’s 30th Parallel North tour. An Xuefeng’s tour into northern Tibet was like a hitchhiking expedition. The final destination of this tour, Changtang’s No Man’s Land in Northern Tibet, was the real starting point of the 30th Parallel North tour.

“If there is any trouble, just kill everyone who gets in the way,” Mao Xiaole replied indifferently.

Then he snorted coldly. “I’m just afraid that some people will be so frightened that they will clutch at straws and attack Teacher Wei.”

Over the years, there had been quite a few dissident voices calling out Homeward Tour Party, and what they said was quite reasonable. No matter how strong the tour party was, without fresh blood, it would gradually perish.

Indeed, their Homeward tour party had not recruited newcomers for several years, and not even their subordinate Sunset tour party were recruiting. This year, there were seven people in the tour party. The number remained the same as last year, the year before last, and the year before last year.

It made many tourists and tour guides wonder whether their tour party would ever accept newcomers again, and they grew more and more uneasy.

They obviously saw Mao Xiaole using his Maoshan Taoist ID posting on the homepage of the forum and saying that he would invite Wei Xun to join Homeward. Due to this, many people’s minds were in disarray.

“If there is someone who isn’t afraid of death, they can go ahead and try it.”

Wang Yushu said slowly, with a glimmer of bloody light flashing in his eyes. “If I don’t chop their hands off, their claws will always be in the wrong place.”

Those people felt that even if Homeward became a place where one could enter but couldn’t leave, they would still risk it all to sneak in. It wouldn’t be a loss if they assassinated someone from the tour party while they were on the tour, or even exchanged their own lives for the lives of the members of Homeward.

It was treacherous on tours, and there was no telling when one would lose their life. In addition, the members of Homeward often acted separately and rarely acted together. Although most of them hid their identities every time they joined a tour group, the famous titles and props they used couldn’t be hidden. Even though Homeward was full of well-known and skilled tourists, most of their titles, props, and skills had been figured out by others many years ago.

“In the past few years, many people have come to me to buy props.”

After drinking the cup of hot water, Wang Yushu smiled and said, “I think they want to try to kill me, but they’re afraid that after killing me, they won’t be able to buy such cheap, affordable, and useful props, so they bought more to stockpile them.”

There was some madness in his tone as he laughed, and one who heard it would feel their heart tremble. “If they really want to kill me, then why don’t I commit suicide first? That will give them a scare, and wouldn’t that make them look like clowns?”

“You can use another crying talisman to vent your anger.”

Hearing that something wasn’t right from Wang Yushu’s words, Mao Xiaole fished out a few crying talismans. “I think you haven’t cried enough yet.”

“What’s the use of your crying talisman, Xiaole? After eating my mao xue wang, I’m sure it will be so spicy that Shu’er will cry due to it!”

While Lu Shucheng blabbered, the door of the theater hall was kicked open, and a pot as big as a wash basin blocked the upper body of the person entering the room. Amid the spicy aroma, Lu Shucheng was wearing a mask that tightly covered her mouth and nose. Her snow white wolf ears appeared particularly energetic.

Lu Shucheng strode over, and the small coffee table in front of the sofa automatically turned into a big round dining table.

“Good riddance!”

Lu Shucheng put a large pot of steaming mao xue wang on the round table and took off her mask after taking a few steps away. In two or three seconds, the area around her eyes became red, and she let out seven or eight earth-shattering sneezes.

“How stimulating!”

The spicy and fresh scent filled the entire theater hall, like a bomb had exploded. It caused Mao Xiaole to sneeze three or four times. He covered his face with his robe sleeve, and muttered in a muffled voice, “Why did you cook mao xue wang again? It’s obvious that your sense of smell is so keen that you can’t stand the stimulation.”

“Didn’t the captain ban alcohol in our team? We can only rely on this to be happy.”

Lu Shucheng filled a bowl full of mao xue wang and handed it to Wang Yushu. Wang Yushu burst into tears after taking a bite and his face turned red, as if he was drunk from drinking alcohol.

Mao Xiaole handed him a cup of hot water, and Wang Yushu did not have the effort to continue acting insane now that he had mao xue wang and hot water.

“What were you guys talking about just now? What did you guys do to make Shu’er go insane?”

Lu Shucheng was curious. Mao Xiaole also clipped a piece of mao xue wang to eat. The food was so spicy that he was hissing, so he couldn’t speak properly. He could only whimper while he pointed to the screen.

“What’s wrong with Three Waters? Let me see.”

Lu Shucheng saw Wei Xun, whose figure was blocked by the comments saying that he likes Xuefeng. She immediately burst out laughing, and almost howling like a wolf, she said, “Who is the shrewd person who shared this in the forum? I almost died laughing. Didn’t I say that it was easy for others to think of naming something the captain’s name? Isn’t everyone counting on the fact that Three Waters didn’t know about this? He probably named the snow leopard after Daguo Snow Peak or Himalayan Snow Peak.”

“And the Xuefeng he likes is a snow leopard.” Wang Pengpai, who was the only one not at the tour party base and could not eat mao xue wang, said quietly.

Before Lu Shucheng could react, over the moon, she said, “A snow leopard named Xuefeng? Who named the snow leopard Xuefeng? This is not, this is not, wait, snow leopard, Xuefeng?!”

“Yes, it’s the captain, the snow leopard named Xuefeng by Wei Xun.”

Mao Xiaole ordered the Travel Services to get him a bowl of hot water, and dipped the mao xue wang into the water to remove the red oil before eating.

“Hey, you’ll never expect what will happen next.”

Wang Yushu was originally wiping away the tears streaming down his face, but when he heard Mao Xiaole’s sour tone, he immediately got excited. “Wei Xun confessed his love to our captain!”

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

Mao Xiaole slammed his chopsticks down and raised his eyebrows. “Teacher Wei is expressing his gratitude to the snow leopard who went to find him during the earthquake.”

“Then why are they sleeping together in the tent now?”

Wang Yushu said cunningly, “Who would sleep with a beast in his arms, he must really like it.”

Mao Xiaole laughed angrily. “No, can your love for cats and dogs be the same as the love you have for someone to the point you will confess to them?”

“Doesn’t Xun’er like non-humans?”

Being a person with ill-intentions, Wang Yushu liked to tease Mao Xiaole. “Maybe he really likes, ah, Xuefeng.”

“Teacher Wei doesn’t like non-humans, he’s just bullshitting!”

“Then why did he say ‘I like Xuefeng the most,’ was he bullshitting that time?”

“You!”

“No, wait, stop arguing, let me smooth this out!”

Lu Shucheng felt that she was thoroughly stunned. She grabbed the chopsticks from Mao Xiaole and Wang Yushu’s hands, forcibly commanding them to be quiet, and flipped through the livestream replay to the moment where everything was pitch black. Not wanting to waste any time, she tried to understand the situation Mao Xiaole and Wang Yushu just described from the livestream.

“When Three Waters went down to the ruins, he met with danger. Then Captain, Captain as the snow leopard, ran all the way deep underground to find him, regardless of there being an earthquake?”

Mao Xiaole felt that there was something wrong with Lu Shucheng’s tone, but it was indeed the truth. “Yes.”

“Afterwards, the name Three Waters gave the snow leopard was Xuefeng?”

“Yes!” Wang Pengpai said cheerfully.

“Then Three Waters said he liked Xuefeng the most, and even slept with it in a tent.”

Mao Xiaole interjected, “Teacher Wei was purely moved by its actions. He was purely moved.”

It was clear what had happened, so why was it that when Lu Shucheng summarized the whole series of events, it sounded wrong!

Mao Xiaole couldn’t understand the other’s train of thought. “It’s like your dog didn’t run away during the earthquake, but instead asked you to run away with it.”

“Don’t interrupt me,” Lu Shucheng replied solemnly.