Chapter 90.1

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

After stepping out of the tent, the cold evening wind from the plateau immediately lifted Wei Xun’s spirits. He felt like all of his heat and drowsiness were blown away by the wind.

“Leader Wei, you are finally awake!”

There was always someone paying attention to Wei Xun’s tent. As soon as Wei Xun got out of the tent, Fei Lezhi and the others ran over excitedly. “You gave us a huge scare. You have been so quiet and there hasn’t been any movement. We thought that…”

“I’m fine, just tired.”

Wei Xun casually replied to them, but when he saw Fei Lezhi and the others running to a position about ten meters away from the tent before standing still and not moving forward, he couldn’t help wondering, “What’s wrong?”

“Ah, this, this.”

Fei Le smiled awkwardly, looked behind Wei Xun hesitantly, and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there wasn’t a big cat behind him.

“Hahahaha, that leopard of yours is so fierce, it scares us so much,” Ji Hongcai laughed out loud and explained to Wei Xun.

It turned out that on the day Wei Xun came back, after he hadn’t left the tent for dinner, Yin Baitao had been a little worried and had wanted to go to the tent with Fei Lezhi and Jiang Hongguang to check on him. However, they’d been chased away and bitten by the super fierce snow leopard.

“Hey, I was taken aback. My arm would really have been ripped off if its teeth had sunk into my arm.”

Fei Lezhi was very embarrassed, but he still had lingering fear when he recalled the scene back then. “Fortunately, Brother Leopard is merciful, he just kicked us out.”

“Yeah, no one can come closer than ten meters to your tent.”

Yin Baitao laughed too. Now that everything was alright with Wei Xun, she thought it was funny when she recalled the scene. “You were still sleeping at noon today, and everyone was really worried that something had happened. They were also afraid that the snow leopard would be frightened by us and hurt you. We tried everything possible to get close to you.”

“Now it seems that this snow leopard wais protecting its master. Hey, it’s really good to you, Brother Wei. It would be great if you can bring it out of the tour,” Fei Lezhi expressed emotionally.

He took a few steps towards Wei Xun. Suddenly, his scalp turned numb, as if he was being targeted by something extremely dangerous. With a “thud,” Fei Lezhi instinctively jumped back ten meters. After taking a closer look at the situation, one saw that the snow leopard had come out of the tent, staring at Fei Lezhi menacingly with its animalistic gaze.

Seeing that Fei Lezhi had retreated to a safe distance, the snow leopard shook its ears and gracefully walked to Wei Xun’s side. Its silver-white body stretched between Wei Xun and Fei Lezhi. The snow leopard’s fluffy head rested on his waist, and its long tail was swinging impatiently as if to urge him to go back into the tent again.

“I’m hungry, is there anything to eat?”

Wei Xun just patted the snow leopard on the head perfunctorily and avoided it. He was still a little affected by “Reproducer,” his lack of Yang Energy, and his overconsumption of Yang Energy from the snow leopard… The side effects from these three conditions were slightly terrifying, so his current feelings for the snow leopard were a bit abnormal.

This was exacerbated because Wei Xun could clearly feel the snow leopard’s emotions. This was different from when he could previously guess its feelings when he could communicate with it through blood or while watching its actions. Obviously, Wei Xun cut off his blood control over the snow leopard, but Wei Xun could still recognize its body language at a glance.

Its shaking ears reflected its eagerness, its wagging tail reflected its restlessness and its grunting throat reflected its intimacy. It was rubbing against Wei Xun to leave its scent, and to declare sovereignty over Wei Xun.

As for what had happened in the tent just now…

Wei Xun was very doubtful about whether the combination of [A Wild Beast’s Psyche] and [Reproducer] had a negative effect on the snow leopard, such as making the snow leopard treat him as a female leopard?

That was why it searched for him during the earthquake and guarded him when he was sleeping?

No way, this title wouldn’t have such a utility, right? Wasn’t this horrible? And wouldn’t this be him deceiving an animal’s feelings?

Presumably, the snow leopard would also be puzzled. Why did Wei Xun push it away when the atmosphere in the tent was just right?

But positively speaking, Wei Xun understood the snow leopard better, in all aspects. He could feel that the progress of [A Wild Beast’s Psyche] had increased a lot. If this continued, he should be able to successfully transform into a snow leopard before the end of the tour.

However, Wei Xun’s bottom line is that he can’t deceive Baobao anymore.

How could humans become stronger by deceiving the pure feelings of wild animals?!

It was fine if he deceived other wild animals, but Xuefeng was different after all.

After being pushed away by Wei Xun a few times, the snow leopard seemed to understand what Wei Xun meant. Its tail slapped the ground in anger, its throat no longer grunting. Instead, it remained silent, staring at Wei Xun.

Its wild and fierce eyes reflected how powerful it was, showing others that it was not a docile big cat, but a powerful and aggressive wild animal, the king of the snow field.

Fei Lezhi and the others felt their hearts rise up to their throats, worried that Wei Xun might have offended the snow leopard. They were worried that he would be attacked, but Wei Xun waved his hand and didn’t let them surround him. Wei Xun was secretly admiring the look in the snow leopard’s eyes.

Snow leopards were so beautiful.

In particular, its eyes seemed to have lost a lot of saturation. Under the dim light of dusk, the snow leopard’s irises were a luxurious grayish blue, like a cloudy sky. That sort of super-fierce gaze, as if it was locking onto its prey, perfectly matched Wei Xun’s ideal type.

Sure enough, only wild animals could have this kind of “wildness.” The ferocious beasts raised in the zoo had long since lost their fierceness.

It was such a pity, if it wasn’t because Wei Xun didn’t want Xuefeng to be affected by this incident and be partnerless in the future, Wei Xun would want to hug the snow leopard. He would want to watch it bare its teeth, and play with its claws.

Therefore, Wei Xun restrained himself. He remained motionless and looked at the snow leopard calmly until the snow leopard turned and left. The silver figure quickly disappeared into the dusk night.

“Hey Brother Wei, the snow leopard ran away.”

Although he felt really worried during the snow leopard’s confrontation with Wei Xun just now, seeing that the snow leopard really turned around and ran away, Fei Lezhi subconsciously and hesitantly spoke up. He could see that the snow leopard wanted to get close to Wei Xun, but Wei Xun kept refusing it. So the snow leopard ran away out of anger?

“Is there any food? I’m hungry.”

Wei Xun didn’t say much and he slightly pressed his stomach. He was indeed hungry. Sitting by the fire, Wei Xun drank three bowls of soup, ate five compressed biscuits the size of an average palm, and two canned portions of meat, scaring Yin Baitao and the others.

“I got something from the ruins this time.”

Wei Xun rubbed his stomach. Actually, he didn’t know why he was so hungry. He was only half full at the moment, but there were still a few miles to go, so Wei Xun restrained himself and drank hot water. When he unclenched his fist, there were more than a dozen pure white crystal stones the size of a fingertip in his palm.

“Everyone come and take one. If you carry it with you, evil ghosts and insects will never come close.”

They were the leftovers of the crystal tower that the young fox had eaten. It appeared useless since it was broken into pieces but it could prevent insects from approaching, mainly because it had Wei Xun’s scent on it.

“How can you do this? Brother Wei, you went down and brought them back, risking your life. We didn’t do anything, so we can’t take advantage of you!”

Fei Lezhi quickly waved his hand to refuse. Jiang Hongguang also shook his head and said, “Leader Wei, us tourists wouldn’t claim that to have a share if we spotted this good stuff. Whoever is stronger will be able to obtain more items. Greedy people always die the fastest.”

For them to survive till now, the veteran tourists were all sufficiently sensible.

“Take them.”

Wei Xun didn’t want to waste any further effort speaking and directly stuffed the crystal stone into Jiang Hongguang’s hands. He said bluntly, “I encountered many supernatural dangers when I went down the ruins. The difficulty of this tour may change. These crystal stones are from the nine-story crystal tower. They can be considered items with powerful energy. All of you can carry one on your body to remain safe.”

“Supernatural danger?!”

Fang Yuhang lost his voice in shock, and in a blink of an eye, he figured out the key point. “It’s definitely IV-1’s fault!”

“Yes, he must be hiding in the dark. He may have gone to the ruins first.”

Jiang Hongguang also had a serious expression and explained to the puzzled Fei Lezhi and the others how one could increase the tour’s difficulty.

“Many thanks, Leader Wei.”

This time, everyone no longer refused. Each of them sincerely thanked Wei Xun and took a crystal stone from Jiang Hongguang. As Wei Xun took out the things he’d gotten from his adventures in the ruins and distributed them to everyone, everyone was very grateful to him. Especially since the crystal stone could both expel evil spirits and insects, and prevent supernatural dangers, it was something of great value.

These dozen or so crystal stones from Wei Xun had actually been “eaten” by the young fox to store them in its belly, and these pieces of crystal stone were the leftovers after disassembling the crystal stone the size of a human head. However, all the tourists treasured them. After this incident, Jiang Hongguang and the others did not hide their secrets anymore, telling their various experiences as veteran tourists to newcomer tourists.

“From now on, we’d better stay together and only attempt the main scenic spot task,” Jiang Hongguang said, “It’s difficult for the tour guide to change the difficulty level of the main task of the scenic spot. As long as we only attempt to complete the main scenic spot task, it will be difficult for IV-1 to do something secretly.”

“He failed to kill Leader Wei this time, so he will definitely be more careful next time.”

Fang Yuhang sighed worriedly. “It is impossible to guard against thieves every day. Leader Wei will definitely leave the tour group sometime. If IV-1 continues scheming…”

The veteran tourists tacitly knew that Wei Xun had left the tour group several times. It must be to do branch scenic spot tasks. However, even though they knew about it, they didn’t declare it to everyone. They were just worried about Wei Xun.

“Let’s go to Xiaolin Temple tomorrow.”

Wei Xun didn’t care. He had long since noticed that IV-1 had run outside Qianzong Mountain. He wasn’t sure what IV-1 had thought back then. Maybe he’d thought Wei Xun would die in the earthquake or something and tried to run away from Wei Xun. However, Wei Xun managed to act quickly after realizing that IV-1 had escaped, and deliberately hid the master-slave relationship they shared, making IV-1 mistakenly think that the control Wei Xun had over him had broken off.

If Wei Xun hadn’t devoured the devil’s shadow, he wouldn’t be able to do this. But after devouring it, he could accomplish this easily, as if he’d been able to do it since he was born.

Wei Xun also wanted to see what other tricks IV-1 had, especially because Wei Xun had malicious intentions. He wanted to wait for IV-1 to swagger back to the tour group, and have a stupefied expression when he saw Wei Xun.

Wei Xun had gained too much energy when devouring the devil’s shadow, and a little had leaked to IV-1. He should be able to transform from a demonic dog back to a human now. If IV-1 was slightly clever, he would continue to block his livestream with props to hide this. Wei Xun estimated that given IV-1’s temperament, he would not be able to resist popping out when the tour group arrived at Xiaolin Temple.

Mm?

Wei Xun frowned inwardly. He actually sensed that IV-1 was approaching their current location at a very fast speed. At this speed, he should arrive in a bit over half an hour.

What was going on? Had IV-1 ever been so impatient before?

T/N: Apologies for the late chapter update :(. I was out for a while and completely lost track of time…