Chapter 95.3

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“The wolves were howling the entire night!” Ji Hongcai exclaimed with lingering fear.

Last night, when Wei Xun had gone out to explore alone, most of the people who had stayed at the base had actually stayed up all night. It had originally been to guard against a sneak attack from IV-1, but IV-1 had never come, and the had wolves howled all night long.

“I finally know the origin of the idiom, ‘to wail like ghosts and wolves.’”

Fei Lezhi had large and dark eye bags under his eyes. It was obviously because he hadn’t rested well for the past few days.

“This is not normal.”

Jiang Hongguang wistfully remarked, “The wolf pack was howling. They are either fighting for the position of the wolf king, or a large number of members have been killed and the wolves want to vent and take revenge.”

There were several large packs of wolves in northern Tibet. Followers of the Bon religion believed that the snow leopard, the arctic wolf king, and the white antelope were the subordinates of the gods.

“Regardless of what had occurred, it isn’t safe here. Let’s head to Xiaolin Temple.”

Yin Baitao said, “The descendant of the eagle flutist has a high fever, and his injury has still not healed.”

“He has a high fever? When did that happen?”

Wei Xun frowned, but he clearly knew when it had happened. He was the first to know that the descendant of the eagle flutist had a high fever. To be precise, Wei Xun had given him a high fever. This was when he had still been exploring Hailuogou last night, as Wei Xun had relayed a command to the parasitic bee in the body of the descendant of the eagle flutist. At that time, the descendant of the eagle flutist had been awake, and the ghost hair had been active in his body, trying to act on its plan.

At that time, Yin Baitao and Qin Xinrong were in the tent of the descendant of the eagle flutist, and Wei Xun couldn’t make it back in time from Hailuogou, so he simply let the parasitic bee release some bee venom, which gave the descendant of the eagle flutist a high fever.

If the descendant of the eagle flutist suffered from high fevers frequently, the ghost hair wouldn’t have time to do anything else.

On the contrary, the descendant of the eagle flutist’s constitution was much better than ordinary people, perhaps because he was a wayfinder for the tour. Neither Hair Ghost II-49 nor Bee Master had dared to actually kill him, or let him suffer from any problems. For people like the descendant of the eagle flutist, if he was seriously ill, Hair Ghost would replenish his energy to save the descendant of the eagle flutist so that he wouldn’t suffer from too many problems. Otherwise, it would attract the attention of the Travel Services.

This was naturally what Bee Master had said to himself before he’d left his base, “It was really complacent of II-49 and ironic that he caused the descendant of the eagle flutist to suffer from these issues, and now has to expend his own energy to heal his wounds.”

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“Hearing what Leader Wei said, I feel that this matter is slightly ominous.”

After climbing halfway up the mountain, everyone found a place slightly sheltered from the wind to rest halfway. Jiang Hongguang said solemnly, “Perhaps, when we arrive at the scenic spot, there may be a change of events.”

Fei Lezhi was puzzled. “Change of events?”

“When the two Lamas found us in Wenbunan Village and spoke about the theft of the Buddhist scriptures in the cave, I had an ominous premonition,” Qin Xinrong said bitterly, explaining to Fei Lezhi and other newcomers what a “change of events” was.

A change of events meant that some kind of event was going on at the scenic spot. For example, if the scenic spot they were heading to was ‘Black-necked Crane Nature Reserve,’ but before entering the scenic spot, the wayfinder mentioned that the state of the bird flock was not right recently.

The name of their scenic spot might change to reflect what events recently happened, mutating into ‘Poacher in the Black-necked Crane Nature Reserve’.

This mutation would cause a qualitative change in the scenic spot’s difficulty. For example, the original task of the Black-necked Crane Nature Reserve scenic spot might have been to take care of the black-necked crane, learn about the black-necked crane, and so on, but after the mutation, a poacher was added. The type of task would change to a battle-type task, and the criminal must be brought to justice by the law for the task to be considered completed.

Their second scenic spot, according to the tour itinerary, should be an exploration type, just like the first scenic spot, the Ruins of Xiangxiong Kingdom.

Once a ‘change of events’ occurs, it’s hard to say what type of event it will mutate to.

The mountain road was arduous to traverse, and there was no one to lead the way. When they arrived at Xiaolin Temple, it was already noon. They had arrived more than half an hour before the scheduled time stipulated for them to arrive by the Travel Services.

However, everyone stood at the mountain pass, facing the direction of Xiaolin Temple, but no one went in.

“This, is this Xiaolin Temple?”

Ji Hongcai was speechless, Jiang Hongguang had a serious expression, and Fei Lezhi and others couldn’t believe what they saw.

It was clearly not the temple that they had imagined in front of them, but a charred ruined wall that had experienced a fire!

[Beep, all the tourists arrived at the <<Xiaolin Temple that was Burned by the Fire>>. Kindly requesting the tour group leader, Wei Xun, to read out the safety precautions for visiting the ruins.]

The prompt from the Travel Services sounded in everyone’s mind, proving that it was not an illusion. This was the second scenic spot, Xiaolin Temple!

At the same time as the Travel Services’s prompt sounded, Wei Xun heard a few more sentences in his mind, which were the safety precautions for this scenic spot. Compared with the tense expressions and the vigilance of the other tourists, Wei Xun looked thoughtfully at the crumbling wall that was blackened by fire.

It was impossible to burn a building made of earth and rocks into this appearance by relying on natural fire alone, and the temple must not have burned down in the past two days. It must have been a while since the incident happened.

Thus begged the question:Were the two Lamas who came to them alive or dead?

Wei Xun thought about how similar the black ash on the face of the Lama in front of Hailuogou last night was to the burnt charcoal.

“Big Brother Wei, what’s going on here?”

“Our scenic spot this time is ‘Xiaolin Temple that was Burned by the Fire’.”

Wei Xun was rather interested. Eagerness and curiosity filled his tone. He was always capricious and liked novel things. This high-pitched tone was in stark contrast to the panic, worry, and uneasiness expressed by the other tourists.

However, it miraculously soothed the panic in everyone’s hearts. Wei Xun was full of an endless desire for exploration and a thirst for knowledge, and it felt like this tour was not as scary as they imagined.

“Xiaolin Temple can be freely explored during the day, but one must retreat 100 meters away from the ruins of Xiaolin Temple before 7:00 pm. Otherwise, there may be danger.

“The goal of this exploration is to find clues regarding the fire that occurred at Xiaolin Temple within two days. Any clues will do.”

“Whew!”

Hearing Wei Xun’s words, Ji Hongcai and the others immediately breathed sighs of relief, and the experienced tourists all relaxed, with joy reflected on their faces. Only Fei Lezhi was still confused. “No, where are the two Lamas? Was the temple burned last night? Why didn’t we hear anything? Do we have to save the Lamas?”

“No, it wasn’t burned recently,” Yin Baitao, who was observing the scene, said seriously. She stroked the charred crumbling wall, and dipped her hands in the black ash. “It’s cold.

If the fire had been set last night, a building of this scale would not have completely burned down overnight.

Xu Yang tightened his grip on his leash, and lowered his voice. “The wall would definitely retain residual heat after burning, so it can’t grow cold so quickly.”

Fei Lezhi was even more confused. “Then, the Lamas, what’s going on with them?”

“It has nothing to do with us,” Jiang Hongguang pointed out, “The Lamas didn’t come to find us.”

“We are fortunate, very fortunate. We met with a scenic spot that partially experienced a change of events.”

Qin Xinrong breathed a sigh of relief and shared with the newcomers what he knew regarding the scenic spot. The difficulty of this scenic spot was still only at the difficult-level, and no supernatural beings were involved. Of course, this was only before seven o’clock in the evening.

Before seven o’clock in the evening, what they were supposed to explore in this wreckage and ruins would not change. The changes would happen only after seven o’clock in the evening.

“Those two Lamas…may not be living people, and the change of events to the scenic spot may contain supernatural elements.”

Jiang Hongguang glanced at Wei Xun. “Leader, you have to be careful.”

This change of events scenic spot wasn’t a place that tourists could freely access. There were primarily two types of scenic spots that experienced a change of events: shared and unshared. The shared category meant that a tourist completed a task, triggered an event, and caused the entire scenic spot to change. All tourists in the tour group would have to complete the mutated scenic spot.

If this scenic spot belonged to the unshared category, it meant that one of the tourists had met the requirements or completed the task. Only they could participate in the mutated scenic spot, and the other tourists could still explore the ordinary scenic spot.

Wei Xun had explored a huge portion of the Ruins of Xiangxiong, and had probably achieved a certain requirement, so after the Ruins of Xiangxiong scenic spot, the Lamas from Xiaolin Temple would come to him on their own initiative and crown Wei Xun with the long chain of titles.

In other words, only he could participate in this change of events scenic spot.

Wei Xun learned more information about change of events scenic spots from Jiang Hongguang and the others. For example, mutated scenic spots might become more difficult. However, sometimes they would grow simpler. It all depended on luck, and also depended on what the tourists were skilled at.

But in any case, after completing the mutated scenic spot, one could obtain five times the reward.

After a short rest, everyone quickly explored the ruins of Xiaolin Temple. Wei Xun also strolled through the ruins, but he was roughly memorizing the structure of Xiaolin Temple. At the same time, he was sorting out the clues he had found so far.

What those two dead Lamas had said might not have been true, but there was a thief in the scripture cave. The resurrection of the devil, how the human skin had been possessed by the devil, and so on, had not happened in the present, but the year that the temple had been burned.

The author has something to say:

I will be in the car all day tomorrow. I’m asking for a day’s leave. I will hang up a leave notice. The day after tomorrow, I will resume daily updates and additional updates once I am home, okay? づ￣3￣づ

T/N: Hello! Happy holidays and Merry Christmas in advance, everyone~

Like the author, let me hang up my leave notice. I’ll be away over Xmas for a short holiday, and I’ll get the chapter for next week (96.1) posted when I’m back, (probably a day before I post 96.2). Also, do note that this chapter is not pr-ed – the pr-ed chapter will be posted when Junyans is back. 🙂