Chapter 90.3

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‘Dog IV-1, have you figured out the manner in which you want to die?’

Unlike Wei Xun’s gentle and soft words to the snow leopard, he spoke with a straightforward attitude towards Dog IV-1, like a lightning bolt from the sky. He spoke plainly, and even smiled when he was done speaking since the snow leopard was licking his palm. However, Dog IV-1 began to cold sweat, inwardly terrified.

What Wei Xun was saying was…not a joke!

When Dog IV-1 fled, it wasn’t because he had gotten lucky, and it wasn’t as if he hadn’t been thinking of how he could torture the rest of the tour group to vent his anger after Wei Xun died. But after seeing that Wei Xun was still standing in front of him without any injuries, such thoughts suddenly disappeared, and he was only thinking about how he could survive.

In the end, he had truly underestimated Wei Xun’s means.

IV-1 was unwilling, and fully panicking. Even IV-1 hadn’t thought of challenging the ruins when it had been unsealed, but Wei Xun was able to come back from the unsealed underground ruins, and he was still unscathed after the earthquake. He would have definitely reaped great benefits from this trip.

A newcomer tourist. He was a newcomer tourist, but IV-1 no longer dared to think of him as one. Just the fact that Wei Xun had a method allowing him to mutate was unordinary. Wei Xun could even compare to those bigwig tour guides.

His current dog life was in Wei Xun’s hands. As long as Wei Xun had a change of mind, he would be unable to resist, and would definitely die!

IV-1 didn’t want to die. He was able to live in the Travel Services for so long because, in addition to being cruel and merciless, he was also meticulous. Therefore, there was indeed a reason for his escape before.

‘Master, master, I didn’t want to escape, but I had no choice, I really had no choice.’

IV-1 cried miserably. The little black dog twitched like it was suffering from a cramp, which surprisingly startled the snow leopard, causing Wei Xun to rub its ears. With a sharp look from Wei Xun, IV-1 didn’t dare to cry anymore. He explained the matter clearly in a few words while choking on his sobs.

‘When Master asked me to escape from the earthquake ruins, I didn’t want to interfere with Master’s business, but I didn’t want to leave Master and run away alone, so I thought of waiting at the entrance of the ruins,’ IV-1 stated, with a slightly panicked tone, ‘But I received a signal from Bee Master!’

‘Bee Master?’

Wei Xun said indifferently, ‘The tour guide from the Slaughterer Alliance who communicates with you?’

‘Yes, that’s him! Bee Master is a tour guide ranked in the top 50 of the II-rank. I am a piece of cake in front of him, so I absolutely dare not defy him… Sob, sob sob.’

Before IV-1 could continue to sell his piteous act, Wei Xun directly sealed his mouth and tortured him using different functions of the master-slave contract. When Wei Xun first subdued IV-1, he hadn’t specifically asked which of the Slaughterer Alliance tour guides was behind him. This was because his control over his own power had still been weak, and he’d been wary that the other party behind him would realize and place a restraint on IV-1. Additionally, the other party would find out about Wei Xun if IV-1 had mentioned any keywords.

But now that Wei Xun had devoured the devil’s shadow, IV-1 was like a piece of putty that could be kneaded in Wei Xun’s hands. Sure enough, as he expected, IV-1 did have a strange and hidden aura. Wei Xun didn’t pull it out, but used a special method to block it, and then interrogated IV-1.

After torturing IV-1 for a while, Wei Xun casually grabbed the snow leopard’s paw and pressed it against IV-1. The snow leopard moved its paw away with a flick. Felines generally didn’t like to press things to their paws, but Wei Xun played with Bingbing this way when he was at home.

Wei Xun’s interest was aroused. He pressed on IV-1 using the snow leopard’s paws again, and the snow leopard shrank backwards again. It took a few more rounds for the snow leopard to understand Wei Xun was being naughty. The snow leopard finally pressed its paw directly on the back of Wei Xun’s hand and stared straight at him with its bluish-gray eyes.

Wei Xun’s mouth twitched, and he stopped teasing the snow leopard and released his control over IV-1.

It only took a little over a minute, but IV-1 was completely paralyzed by fright. Master-slave contracts between abyssal demons were cruel and overbearing, with countless ways to torture the soul. Wei Xun’s simple coercion had already caused IV-1 to give up on attempting to be forgiven over this matter as a fluke. Hence, he blurted out everything.

He said that Bee Master was ranked 50th in the II-rank, and he raised several broods of bees with different characteristics. He had been competing with II-49 in the rankings for a long time. This time, II-49 had lost some of his prowess after his heavy injuries in Intoxicating Xiangxi, and Bee Master advanced one place in the rankings. If he wanted to stabilize his ranking, he had to train another queen bee. However, cultivating a queen bee consumed various resources.

The competition in the big alliances was fierce as there were various factions. Thus, Bee Master had to please his higher-ups. He was quick-witted, as seen from the incident when everyone else was looking for III-9. He subdued IV-1, who called himself Little III-9, and IV-1 took on this tour because it was a mission given to him by Bee Master. Bee Master had asked him to find the crystal corpse enshrined in Little Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring in the depths of the Ruins of Xiangxiong.

However, because the difficulty of the ruins had been unsealed during the earthquake, IV-1 could only think about running for his life. How could he remember the crystal corpse? He was not stupid enough to run away. At least, he had to confirm whether Wei Xun was dead because, at the end of the day, he shared a contract with Wei Xun. IV-1 was also very scared, worried that if Wei Xun died, he would follow suit.

However, he received a signal from Bee Master.

‘Can you communicate with him during the tour?’

‘He gave me three bee chrysalises. I can hear messages from him when the bee chrysalises hatch.’

Dog IV-1 tremblingly explained that they couldn’t communicate on the tour, but Bee Master could send messages to IV-1 through the bee chrysalises. Presumably, these bee chrysalises must be out of the ordinary.

Needless to say, Dog IV-1 gave all the chrysalises to Wei Xun. It was completely dark now, and there were no lights lit up in the tents. Wei Xun’s legs were covered with a thick snow leopard blanket, and all his movements were extremely subtle.

He saw that these chrysalises were as big as three fingers.

The red and black cocoons exuded a bloody and bizarre aura. The first cocoon had been bitten through, and inside the cocoon shell was a pitch-black, blood-stained bee, which had lost its breath. It seemed that it was very difficult to send a message on the tour. According to IV-1, after the black bee broke out of the cocoon, it only sent an order and died.

‘What did he ask you to do?’

Wei Xun secretly threw the three chrysalises under the sleeping bag, and Xiao Cui, who had been hiding in the tent, happily snatched them away. The belly of the young fox couldn’t store any living creatures, so it was better to let the mother insect take away these chrysalises.

‘He, he asked me to control you with bee venom en route to Xiaolin Temple,’ Dog IV-1 added in a panicked manner, ‘Tomorrow afternoon, the second bee chrysalis will hatch.’

After saying this, Dog IV-1’s nerves tensed up, and he was prepared for Wei Xun to reproach him in wrath, or even cruelly punish him. However, after Dog IV-1 reeled in these emotions for a while, he found that Wei Xun, Wei Xun was…laughing?

There were always these polite people in the world.

Wei Xun rubbed the snow leopard’s head and sighed. ‘It’s already good enough to have you here. Why did you have to bring me a present?’

Dog IV-1: ???

He couldn’t understand what Wei Xun was saying. Dog IV-1’s brain was at a loss, but for his own sake, he reminded, ‘Master, although they can’t enter the tour, those bigwigs have the means to board the bus that the Travel Services will send here to pick us up…’

It was hard to “break” into a tour, but the Achilles heel of this rule was when the tour ended and the tourists returned by vehicle. The tour guides already thoroughly understood the Travel Services’s rules, and Bee Master would probably wait for them at the end of the tour!

‘As for this, you don’t have to worry about it.’

Wei Xun lamented that this tour was really smooth. He had just gotten the title of [Demonic Insect Dominator], and he was wondering where he could obtain more demonic insects to increase his strength. Then, Bee Master came to offer him bees. Demonic bees were also extremely powerful abyssal demonic insects. They were highly toxic and aggressive, moved in clusters, and were controlled by the queen bee.

In particular, demonic bees produced honey, which tasted sweet and was a great tonic for the abyssal race. Just as he was thinking of demonic honey, Xiaojin began buzzing with excitement. It turned out that there was a large nest of powerful demonic bees that contained thousands of insects next to the territory of the Valentine demonic mosquitoes. The honey they produced was full of energy, which was especially suitable for raising demonic insects.

After the male Valentine mosquitoes hatched, they had to absorb a large amount of blood and essence in order to mature. Demonic honey was a great tonic for them. Xiaojin’s appearance wasn’t like a mosquito at all, it looked more like a bee. It had evolved this way in order to sneak into the hive and steal honey.

Wei Xun wasn’t arrogant. Although his strength could crush IV-1, it did not mean that he had the strength to deal with the II-ranked tour guide Bee Master.

But so what if he was facing a strong opponent? Should he be on edge, worried, and remain scared all day long?

Wei Xun did not feel such negative emotions, he just felt happy with his performance on this tour. From the moment he had beaten IV-1 on the first day, Wei Xun had been ready to attract the attention of all parties.

He would naturally attract everyone’s attention. He always acted recklessly and never hid his sharp edges.

The II-50 ranked Bee Master—was his rank even high enough?

When Wei Xun first entered the tour, when he was really just a newcomer, he had succeeded in leading an Intoxicating Xiangxi tour as III-9. He had opened up a 30th Parallel North tour, and defeated II-49 “online.”

To be honest, a mere II-50 really couldn’t excite Wei Xun. Conversely, the demonic bees attracted Wei Xun’s interest more.

His debut as a tour guide had attracted worldwide attention. Wei Xun’s debut as a tourist could never be too far behind.

He wanted all the attention to be focused on him.

There were still more journeys waiting for him to conquer, and more restricted areas and dangers waiting for him to explore. There would be higher ranking, stronger people who would pay attention to him, look at him, and look forward to his performance. The thought of this was enough to stimulate him.

“Let’s sleep.”

Wei Xun got into the sleeping bag and patted it to the side of the sleeping bag, letting the snow leopard lie beside him. Finally, he let out a long sigh of relief.

He was leading such a perfect life, able to go to bed every night anticipating the next day!

At 7 o’clock the next morning, after a simple meal, the tourists packed their bags, went down Qianzong Mountain, and returned to Wenbunan Village. Today they would go to Nyima County to replenish supplies before heading to Xiaolin Temple. It added up to nearly a day’s drive.

Everyone discussed whether to simply replenish supplies in Wenbunan Village, not stop at Nyima County and head directly to Xiaolin Temple. After all, the journey was long, and everyone would have to separate while they were driving over. It would be hard to guard against IV-1 in the event he attacked them on the way there.

However, when they went down to Wenbunan Village, they saw the descendant of the eagle flutist coming over with two Lamas. He stopped in front of Wei Xun.

Seeing this, everyone stopped and glanced over with frowns. They saw that these two Lamas were wearing red and purple kasayas, but their elbows and forearms were all exposed. One could see that they were muscular. They had square faces, dark skin, and bright eyes. Even though they were all focused on Wei Xun and didn’t look at anyone else, everyone felt the invisible pressure they exerted.

These two Lamas stood in front of Wei Xun, appearing truly as tall as two iron towers, encapsulating Wei Xun in their shadows. The Lamas just stared at Wei Xun, not speaking. Eventually, their expressions grew more grim and tense, and their gazes became more menacing, staring straight at Wei Xun.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere grew increasingly tense, like a bowstring that was about to snap. Ji Hongcai and the others went on alert and surrounded Wei Xun, ready to strike at any time. Even Xu Yang’s guide dog Duoduo bared his teeth.

“You……”

The Lama in front spoke with a voice as loud as thunder, but he didn’t move after speaking. The muscles on his face twitched, making him look even more ferocious. Fei Lezhi and the others were so frightened by the sight that they almost made a move against the monk.

Wei Xun waved his hands to stop them, and calmly asked, “Who are you?”

He gazed towards the descendant of the eagle flutist, but before the descendant of the eagle flutist could speak, the Lama that was at a loss for words suddenly howled, “Is your esteemed self the devil slaying envoy who was blessed by the Buddha, Tonpa Shenrab, the Dragon God, Tagla Membar Dharma Protector, the controller of the Insects of Evil, Golden-winged Great Peng, Gusin, and the exorcist emissary who is guarding the area together with the snow field’s sacred beast!”

The author has something to say:

Wei Xun: Goodness, you tarried so long in speaking because you’ve been trying to stack buffs on me??