Ch55 - The Real World

Editor: Kat

Proofreader: Junyans

“Brother Wang, listen to my advice. Take the initiative to admit your mistake, okay? You’ll only get beaten up by the captain at most.”

Maoshan Taoist said painstakingly, “Even though you didn’t bring Yu Hehui or III-9 back, you basically exposed your identity in the tour group, and lost the climbing rope you borrowed from the captain——the captain won’t beat you to death, right?”

The more Fatty Wang listened, the more he felt that his future was bleak. It wasn’t that his forehead was blackening, his forehead was now as dark as ink. He felt sad and dejected as he said, “I’m such a pussy. It’s fine if I get beaten up, but the captain refuses to see me now.”

“The captain doesn’t want to see you now because he doesn’t want to accidentally beat you to death.”

Maoshan Taoist sunk deep into thought as he flicked his whisk. “Don’t you see that only you and I are in the living room now? Everyone else was so scared they ran away.”

Speaking of which, Maoshan Taoist was also worried. “Look at how fierce the captain was when he killed Master Of Reaping Lives With Poison. Sigh, I originally planned to let heaven’s fire strike down to attack him after I found out the identity of this man. I didn’t expect the captain to act himself.”

“The captain hasn’t slept these days?” Fatty Wang worriedly asked.

He stammered slightly, but Maoshan Taoist shook his head. “No, the captain hasn’t slept since he came back from R’lyeh.”

After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, “He stayed up watching the Intoxicating Xiangxi tour. You should know what I mean.”

It was as if Fatty Wang was a spinning top that had been hit, and his whole body trembled. For a period of time, he felt that his life was devoid of hope. He waved his hand sadly and said weakly, “Don’t speak like Replicator. Sigh, Xiaole, have you managed to find out anything? If you have, I’ll head over to find the captain to pass it to him.

“I’ll have to die anyway, so it doesn’t matter whether I die earlier or later. I’ve decided to go all out.”

Wang Pengpai made an expression as if he was about to be sacrificed. Mao Xiaole smiled, took out a small paper man from his sleeve and handed it to Wang Pengpai.

“Indeed, I managed to find out something. I’ll have to entrust Brother Wang with it.”

When Wang Pengpai went upstairs, Maoshan Taoist cheered. He took out his mobile phone from his sleeves and read the novel with relish. From the time he had brought Lin Xi and the others over to the tour party until now, he hadn’t rested for a moment and had been interrogating them the entire time. He didn’t even have time to read his wifey’s new chapter.

Of course, Mao Xiaole had lit an enchanting incense first before he had interrogated these people. The other party would not remember that they had been interrogated, and would only think that they had had a good dream.

“Xiangxi…”

Seeing the title of his wifey’s second book of the <<Maoshan Taoist>> series, Mao Xiaole’s eyes narrowed as he smiled and a sharp, cold light twinkled in his eyes.

“I really found something amazing, especially from that Lin Xi, tsk.

“Yay, my wifey has updated 10000 words. I love my fairy wifey!”

It was as if Mao Xiaole had swapped his face to someone else’s whenever he talked about his favorite author. He lay down on the sofa with his mobile phone in his arms and gave a reward of 10000 yuan directly. Since the reward would be split proportionally with the novel website, Mao Xiaole directly transferred the 10000 yuan to the author “Three Waters, Sun, and Moon.” It couldn’t be helped since he had the contact information of his beloved wifey.

“Wifey, mua, mua!”

Mao Xiaole sent a number of stickers from the “Little Taoist” sticker pack. Unexpectedly, the author who often hid himself and always stood Mao Xiaole up replied quickly this time.

[Maoshan, are you really a Taoist priest of the Maoshan school?]

“Of course, I’m a real Taoist of the Maoshan school. So it turns out that Three Waters has never believed me? I’m so sad.”

[Do you remember the psychic camera I bought previously? I seem to have caught something unusual]

“! Is that so? It’s not good to be haunted by supernatural things. Do you want to buy some talismans, Three Waters? The talismans are absolutely reliable!”

[I want to see the talismans]

Moa Xiaole photographed a pile of self-drawn talismans and seals and sent them to Three Waters. Mao Xiaole multi-tasked, and while enthusiastically introducing the different uses of each talisman and seal to his wifey, he pinched his fingers to calculate.

“You managed to capture supernatural things?” Mao Xiaole said to himself, narrowed his eyes and said, “It happened recently. Is my wifey finally going to enter the Travel Services?

“Or maybe he has already entered the Travel Services?

“In fact, it’s later than I expected. It’s too late. I thought…”

It was so late, he had thought that Three Waters would not enter the Travel Services. After all, Mao Xiaole had been attracted to his novel five years ago.

Those who could be selected by the Travel Services experienced certain omens before entering the Travel Services. They would have special dreams, accidentally click onto the livestream channel during late night hours, or constantly check some travel related information.

People with strong desires would be selected into the Travel Services, and people whose relatives were selected into the Travel Services would have a higher chance of being selected by the Travel Services.

Those who were destined to come together would meet and attract each other, and they would form some kind of connection with each other. For example, when An Xuefeng had been the captain of the criminal investigation department, Wang Pengpai had been his informant. When he had been investigating the disappearance of Yu Hehui, he had gone to a Maoshan temple and had been brought to Mao Xiaole’s master by Mao Xiaole, who had been a little Taoist at that time.

In the past, Mao Xiaole had devoted himself to cultivating in the Taoist temple. Now, he exhausted himself by going on tours and risking his life. Due to this, he had almost no contact with electronic equipment. When he had turned on his mobile phone for the first time and clicked on a supernatural novel called <<Maoshan Taoist>>, he had been deeply attracted and had had a hunch that the author named “Three Waters, Sun, and Moon” would also be selected into the Travel Services.

It was as if everything was engraved in fate.

Therefore, Mao Xiaole had often discussed supernatural cases with Three Waters, Sun, and Moon. By discussing all kinds of problems, he had laid a good foundation for the author in advance. He believed that fate had entangled the both of them. Otherwise, why would he jump into every pit that Three Waters, Sun, and Moon wrote? Besides that, he also knew that it would be a pit, so why did he jump into the pit without much of a thought?

It was definitely because of fate. In the last five years, Mao Xiaole had often vowed to Fatty Wang that he had definitely met his predestined person, and this person had outstanding talent. He might have powerful titles such as [Pen Fairy] or [Pit God]. They must definitely bring this person into the Travel Services.

But now, five years had passed. In the past five years, some members of the tour party had died, some had been injured, and some had left the tour party. Everyone was changing, and Mao Xiaole was also changing.

Only << Maoshan Taoist>>, which had stopped updating, had not changed. Every book Three Waters, Sun, and Moon wrote updated at an extremely stable pace, so Mao Xiaole had a strange sense of comfort every time he urged the author to update. It made him realize that there were things that would never change in the world, and there were always people who would not be selected into the Travel Services.

But now, the second novel in the series <<Maoshan Taoist>> had been uploaded, and Three Waters, Sun, and Moon had also revealed that he had experienced an abnormal situation.

Sure enough, no one could escape the Travel Services after all.

A touch of gloom flashed across Mao Xiaole’s white face. It was unlike the joyful expression he had had when he had been talking with Three Waters, Sun, and Moon. There was pity in his gaze.

In the end, the author had to experience this obstacle in his life.

After five years of friendship, Mao Xiaole also vaguely knew that Three Waters, Sun, and Moon was not in good health. People who were not in good health would always suffer a lot when they went on tours.

“Don’t worry, wifey. I’ll take care of you.”

Mao Xiaole narrowed his eyes and smiled again. Holding his chin, he read the first chapter of the <<The Adventures of Maoshan Taoist Lost In Xiangxi>> again. His face showed a subtle expression of his urges not being satisfied.

“When wifey comes to the Travel Services, I can protect him while he types up his chapters.”

Mao Xiaole told Three Waters, Sun, and Moon extra things. These were some of the things he hadn’t been able to say in the past because of restrictions of the Travel Services. Then, he cut back to the novel interface, clicked on the word “Xiangxi,” and pressed on the screen hard. He used a lot of force, and the screen shattered. His voice was inexplicably cold as he said, “When these stinky bugs are cleaned up…”

“Xiaole.”

“Captain!”

Mao Xiaole stood up and swept the mobile phone with a broken screen under the sofa. His shoulders and back were straight, and he looked as the tall figure walked down the stairs and threw the thing he was holding onto the sofa. It was as if the whole living room trembled when the thing was thrown onto the sofa.

Mao Xiaole held his breath, bowed his head obediently, and glanced secretly at Wang Pengpai. He saw that Wang Pengpai had a black nose and a swollen face, and powerlessly lay paralyzed on the sofa. The injuries on his body looked terrible, but in fact they were all skin and flesh injuries. They’d all be fine after he recovered for some time. But through Wang Pengpai’s injuries, he was able to judge the state An Xuefeng was in, and he was slightly relieved.

But when the other party’s eyes swept over, Mao Xiaole felt as if he had been scratched by a sharp blade. His back was cold, and the hairs on his back stood up on end. He cried bitterly in his heart, “What a strong murderous intent.” The captain had killed Master Of Reaping Lives With Poison and beaten Wang Pengpai up, but the murderous intent within him had only gotten stronger.

“Let Bai Xiaosheng post.”

“Yes!” Mao Xiaole responded crisply and dared not hesitate.

“If someone wants to see me, let them come.”

With a bang, An Xuefeng moved his wrist. Then the sound of knuckles cracking rang out.

“This pool of water needs to be stirred more.”

“Yes!”

That night, the trending post published by Bai Xiaosheng, [Is “III-9” really III-9], completely overturned the already heated forum.

Unlike other people posting their conjectures and speculations, Bai Xiaosheng directly put out the data, listed the facts, and accurately pointed everything out. He listed all the vlogs recorded by III-9, analyzed the time stamps of every time III-9 killed someone and the difficulty of different tours III-9 had led, and analyzed the titles of III-9 and the times when he had used each title.

[Given III-9’s performance in Intoxicating Xiangxi, it is very doubtful whether he is III-9 or there is a different person behind his mask]

Bai Xiaosheng said: [But we must understand that although the tour guides’ codenames may change and one’s identity can be replaced, each person’s titles are relatively unique. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the titles one possesses are representative of one’s identity. So far, there are only two people with the title of “Cold-blooded” in the world who are still alive. One of them is III-9. In any case, the title is extremely rare]

[The biggest feature of the title, Cold-blooded, is that he is not afraid of any negative emotions and will not feel pain. His body temperature is lower than that of ordinary people, so he is more likely to be afraid of the cold. All these \features have been shown by III-9 in Intoxicating Xiangxi. Some people might say that tour guides with titles related to willpower or temperature can also disguise and act as III-9, but there is a piece of more important evidence]

[That’s the title of [Distributing Pornographic Content]. This title is also very rare. There are only 17 people in the world with the title, and only four people in the sub-region have this title]

Then Bai Xiaosheng listed the identities of the four people. In addition to III-9, the other three happened to be leading tours while the Intoxicating Xiangxi tour was being carried out. And there were even their vlogs as evidence!

[To sum up, III-9 is truly III-9, so why did he perform so extraordinarily in this tour? Moreover, his act of not even killing one person is completely inconsistent with the means of a Slaughterer tour guide and inconsistent with the style he had adopted when he had led tours in the past]

[I think that perhaps not killing a single person was the key to activating the task of opening up the 30th parallel north tour this time! You should know how difficult it is to survive in an Intoxicating Xiangxi tour, and the extraordinary judgment and strength shown by III-9 was not a product of himself, but of someone behind him]

[The poster believes that the organization behind III-9 may have mastered the key to the task of opening up a 30th parallel north tour]

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[It’s expected that the other party will post something in the forum when they receive the task to open up the new tour…]

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[With his terrifying and bloody means, it is expected that someone was definitely controlling III-9. But I’m afraid that even the other party didn’t expect that the developer of the tour would be shown as ???. This poster speculates that III-9 has been rebellious and tried to get rid of the other party’s control…]

[Now, everyone wants to find III-9. He is currently like a child whose filthy rich parents have died. Whoever manages to contact III-9 first and gives him a satisfactory reward will be able to get the most critical clue this time!]

As soon as Bai Xiaosheng posted this post, he immediately pushed the Slaughterer Alliance to the cusp of the storm!

“Bai Xiaosheng’s post is good.”

An Xuefeng’s tone seemed to imply that he was smiling, but such a slight smile made Mao Xiaole’s scalp numb.

“Fatty Wang.”

“Yes!”

Fatty Wang rolled up over quickly, his eyes glowing.

“You bring some people to take the opportunity to take care of those stinky bugs of the Slaughterer Alliance.”

“Alright, boss. I promise to finish the task!”

Fatty Wang patted his chest with joy, but because he patted too hard, he gnashed his teeth in pain bitterly. This gesture succeeded in livening up the atmosphere. As soon as Mao Xiaole hooked his lips, he felt the captain’s eyes fall on him the next moment. Mao Xiaole immediately shrunk his neck back like an ostrich.

“Mao Xiaole.”

“Yes!”

“You will stare at the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard.”

“Yes!”

“’III-9’……”

An Xuefeng’s voice was low and thoughtful as he said, “A newcomer?”

The author has something to say:

Sob, sob. I couldn’t update the new chapter just now, and I was extremely anxious. The web version of jj just wouldn’t open, so I can only use my phone to upload the chapter, qaq.