Chapter 89.2

Editor: Kat

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The others saw her circle the room twice as her grayish-white wolf’s tail flicked left and right, glancing at Wei Xun’s split-screen livestream from time to time. In the tent, the man was patiently grooming the snow leopard that was lying on his lap.

Wang Yushu wanted to stop wasting time so she could continue cooking, and explained, “Heh, we were just joking.”

Wang Pengpai, who was watching the livestream from the other end of the video call, echoed, “Wei Xun is indeed destined to be in our tour party. When this tour is over, I think we can pick him up together.”

“So that’s why!” Before he could finish speaking, Lu Shucheng suddenly turned around, and with piercing eyes, she clenched her fists and smacked them together. “I know why Captain has been single for so many years.”

“Huh?”

The topic changed too quickly. Wang Yushu, Mao Xiaole, and Wang Pengpai were all in a daze, unable to keep up with Lu Shucheng’s sudden change of topic.

“Captain has never dated because he has always been a human being!”

Lu Shucheng pointed at the livestream screen seriously and said, “As long as Captain doesn’t shapeshift back to being a human and becomes a snow leopard, he can find a wife.”

Then she cried, her tone filled with emotion, “It turns out that this is how Three Waters and our tour party are related.”

“No, why would you think this way?” Mao Xiaole immediately wanted to reason with her, “I said that all of this is a coincidence. Teacher Wei also wanted to name the snow leopard something like Xueshan, Xueyuan, and I don’t know why he chose Xuefeng…”

Lu Shucheng asked, “Yes, why did he choose Xuefeng?”

“No, let’s not worry about this, let’s eat the mao xue wang,” Wang Yushu said, “I was just teasing Xiaole just now. Captain is a snow leopard now. He has no human emotions, so Wei Xun thinks that he is a snow leopard. A person and leopard have such strong ties just because the snow leopard ran down to find him during the earthquake. He’s just a little moved if you know what I mean.”

Lu Shucheng asked seriously, “Yes, why did the snow leopard go down to find him during the earthquake?”

“If you, you, or I were in the ruins, would the Captain come down to look for us?”

“This, he definitely would,” On the opposite end of the video call, Wang Pengpai said with a headache, “If I was really about to die, Captain would definitely come. But if I can’t handle these small ruins, Captain will definitely give me special training from hell when I return, so I might as well die.”

Lu Shucheng: “What about the snow leopard captain who has completely become an animal?”

“Ah, that’d be possible. In the captain’s eyes, I’m just a piece of meaty ribs.”

Lu Shucheng affirmed, “But in his snow leopard state, Captain has completely become an animal. Even then, he is willing to risk facing the dangers from the earthquake to save Three Waters.”

“This, this, this…”

Wang Pengpai was speechless.

“You can’t say that.” Seeing Wang Pengpai lose his willpower to continue “battling,” Mao Xiaole bravely stood up. “Three Waters also has the title [A Wild Beast’s Psyche]. Captain must have mistook him for the same kind, so…”

“Would a snow leopard take risks to save its own kind?” Lu Shucheng questioned quietly.

Mao Xiaole immediately felt choked by her words.

“Captain went to Wei Xun’s tent on the first night and caught him two snakes. Later, he caught a blue sheep and fish for him, right?”

While cooking, Lu Shucheng saw that the livestream screen was constantly pitch black, so she didn’t watch it anymore. However, she finished replaying the livestream for the first and second days at three times the speed. Of course she noticed that the snow leopard had been following Wei Xun in various ways, trying to cozy up to him.

Coupled with what Mao Xiaole and Wang Yushu said, Lu Shucheng immediately imagined an entire story.

The snow leopard was in love, but it didn’t know that it was actually a human.

Their mentally disturbed workaholic captain would forget the beautiful love he had experienced as a leopard when he woke up, and he would continue to be irritable and lonely until he died.

He was too pitiful, really too pitiful!

“Captain is a thoroughly straight man, so even if he becomes a snow leopard, it is impossible for him to like men.”

Wang Pengpai said helplessly, “Besides, ever since five years ago, his emotions have been… Hey, I know you want to prove that he has recovered after falling in love, but it’s been five years, so he has definitely not recovered. Well, it’s not like he hasn’t turned into a snow leopard to heal himself before. Likewise, there’ll be nothing special happening this time.”

“I just think that Three Water’s arrival this time may bring about changes.”

Lu Shucheng said seriously: “He is the only tourist fated with our team in the past five years. When he joins, the team will change from seven people to eight. Everything will change. I have a feeling.”

“Who said he will definitely join?”

Wang Yushu chuckled, but his expression was a little cold and indifferent. “If the tour party could recruit newcomers, we would have done so a long time ago. It’s not that I don’t want to recruit newcomers, it’s just that there’s no other way.”

“Wei Xun must be that special person.”

“He’ll be that special person,” Mao Xiaole was also firm, and calmly repeated, “Just wait and see, Teacher Wei will definitely join the tour party.”

“Pft.” Wang Yushu laughed, but there was no look of joy in his eyes.

“Everyone definitely wishes that there is someone that can join our tour party again, or hopes that our tour party will gain a new member, since everyone rushed back early.” Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Wang Pengpai tried to smoothen the conflict. “I also think there will be a change this time. Xiaosheng didn’t say anything depressing, so we have to think about the good in everything, right?”

“I’m just saying, don’t pin all your hopes on one person,” Wang Yushu said casually.

Afterwards, he closed his mouth, exchanged a pair of chopsticks and a bowl from the Travel Services, and continued to eat spicy mao xue wang.

“I know Brother Shu is afraid that everyone will be disappointed like last time,” Lu Shucheng uttered.

Her bluish-green wolf eyes were warm and firm, “But, again, I am willing to believe that there is always a way out..”

“That’s right, there is no such thing as no way out.”

Mao Xiaole stubbornly looked at the split screen of the livestream. In the tent, one person and one leopard were sleeping in each other’s arms. It was a quiet and beautiful scene. He picked up a piece of duck blood casually, but he forgot to wash off the spicy oil, and it was so spicy that his tears flowed. Mao Xiaole sniffled and said quietly, “Who knows.”

Most people didn’t think they would be able to recruit someone. Even if he posted as Maoshan Taoist in the forum, most of the other tour parties and tour guide alliances would not believe they could do it.

But maybe it will work this time.

Who knows.

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Who knows how much blood someone can draw from a snow leopard without affecting the leopard’s health?

Wei Xun, who was hugging the snow leopard in the tent, was depressed. When he entered the tent, he originally wanted to sleep and replenish his energy.

But after the snow leopard came in, Wei Xun couldn’t sleep at all.

He first treated the wound on the snow leopard’s shoulder blade. During this, the snow leopard kept pressing its head against his chest, as if it was acting like a baby. It was an unbearable burden of happiness to be thrown into the arms of such a big cat. After Wei Xun finished treating the snow leopard’s wound, he found that it was already lying on its side, falling asleep using his leg as a pillow.

It stood to reason that wild animals were also very vigilant when they slept, and they would wake up immediately if there was any disturbance. However, the snow leopard seemed to be really tired and lay quietly on Wei Xun’s lap, sleeping deeply. It didn’t raise its eyelids even when Wei Xun combed its fur all over.

This put Wei Xun in a rare situation of hesitation and embarrassment.

The snow leopard was sticking so close to him that he felt it was the best time to suck blood from it silently. It would be a pity not to do it quickly, but they had just fled from the ruins amidst the earthquake, and the snow leopard trusted him so much that it fell asleep on his lap unsuspectingly. Yet, Wei Xun was only thinking about how to steal Yang Energy from it.

He let down Baobao’s true feelings of treating him well!

Sigh, it can’t be blamed that I’m just such a great villain.

Wei Xun sighed faintly. In the end, he decided to be a good lad and wait for the snow leopard to wake up before inhaling its blood.

The snow leopard was sticking so close that he couldn’t sleep, so Wei Xun simply counted his income from his trip to the ruins.

The most important earning he made was that he’d swallowed the devil’s shadow. Although Wei Xun was currently a tourist and couldn’t directly see how his mutated form had changed, just from the changes of the three mantis brothers, Xiaojin and Xiaocui, he could tell that that devil was definitely a great tonic to him.

Xiaojin’s originally golden body was now supplemented with many strokes of black lines and a retractable black spike on its tail, which made it look more like a bee. Xiaocui was pregnant with more than a dozen eggs, and once these eggs hatched, they would be at least inferior demonic insects, and there may even be some low-ranking demonic insects.

It might be because the three mantis brothers were of a very low rank when they were born, but their appearance had changed the most. Their originally pitch-black shells had become colorful and bright. A person who took a glance at them might feel dazzled by them. However, their original sickle-like arms had shrunk a bit, and no longer looked like a weapon, but more like some kind of decoration.

Clearly, their strengths were morphing.

This was how demonic insects evolved. As they were provided energy, the higher ranking demonic insects were more likely to evolve based on their original form’s attributes. The lower ranking demonic insects were more likely to be affected by the influence of the energy. Some might even lose their original characteristics.

The same is true for demons, so it was risky to devour demons. If you were a weak demon and you swallowed a strong demon, you might be polluted by that demon yourself, and become a slave of the big demon unconsciously. Other than that, doing so was also accompanied by various dangers, just like how Wei Xun was too obsessed with eating the devil at that time, and he was almost buried under the ruins.

Regarding information related to the abyss, the Travel Services would never provide any hints. Wei Xun had comprehended all of this based on his own deliberations. Although it was dangerous to devour demons…one should still eat what one had to eat.

Wei Xun’s only takeaway was on how to eat demons safely, not to stop eating demons in the future!