Wei Xun always felt that there was a hidden meaning behind Bai Xiaosheng’s words——the other person had continuously been providing him with advice. In particular, a large number of viewers had been watching III-9’s livestream. His mutated form, dressing preferences, titles, masks, and various commonly used props, habits, and methods of communication had been analyzed by many tour parties.
So far, the two things that were attracting everyone’s attention now were the “Tourist” title and “III-250.” Luckily, no one had associated those two with Wei Xun yet.
When Wei Xun had first boarded the bus, his clothing had covered his entire body. Following that, he had always kept the bronze mask on his face. He hadn’t even taken off his mask when he was alone in the bath and hadn’t exposed his face in front of the tourists or on his livestream.
The livestream had begun at the foot of Wuluo Mountain. Only Miao Fangfei and the others knew that he had been wearing sunglasses, a mask, and a hat. His hair was white, and his skin was unusually pale. This information and his mutated form should have been exposed.
Wei Xun knew how attractive he looked. Besides that, albinism was not a common disease.
Based on his pure white hair and unusually pale skin, would the others associate it with albinism?
Bai Xiaosheng would. And perhaps other people who observed carefully would as well.
If Wei Xun wanted to enjoy a tour as a tourist, this was really a point that needed to be solved. Not only was albinism eye-catching, but it was really inconvenient to avoid the sun.
Patients suffering from albinism did not “fear light.” It was more appropriate to say they “feared UV light.” People with albinism have congenital pigment deficiency, so they usually had the appearance of white hair and white skin. Pigment cells in a normal human’s skin can absorb ultraviolet rays, but someone with albinism couldn’t do that.
It was very easy for them to get sunburned, and they may even get skin tumors, so Wei Xun stayed away from the light whenever he went out.
However, it was easy to solve this.
The shopping interface of the Thrilling Tour App had virtually everything. The shop was mainly divided into three sections: the Travel Services’ store, private trading platform, and auction.
The private trading platform allowed tourists and tour guides to carry out transactions, while the auction section would not be opened unless it was the [Monthly Tourist Day].
Wei Xun tapped onto the “Travel Services’ Store” section. As long as you had points, you could buy all sorts of basic materials, lethal weapons, props, and even the incredible “rapid haemostatic agent,” “one-time dysmenorrhea experience coupon,” “permanently repairing and optimizing your genes,” etc., as long as you had enough points.
The only thing the shop didn’t have was the option to leave the Travel Services. Unlike those unlimited flow novels that Wei Xun had read, one couldn’t permanently leave the Travel Services after they had completed a certain number of tasks or accumulated a certain amount of points, and no hints were given when one embarked on a tour. At present, the only thing that seemed to be related to leaving the Travel Services were the 30th parallel north tours.
No wonder almost everyone was insanely obsessed with the 30th parallel north tours.
After the tour, Wei Xun was so happy he felt like he was floating when he learned he was able to become a tourist and experience the attractions in person, and he excitedly searched for keywords such as “ultraviolet” and “sunscreen.” Instantly, a lot of goods popped up on the screen. After careful selection, Wei Xun chose a prop.
[Name: 100% Sunscreen]
[Function: Isolate 100% of ultraviolet light]
[Price: 1000 points per bottle]
[Note: This sunscreen is the favorite sunscreen of vampires and Jiangshi. With it, you can run freely in the sun!]
A bottle of sunscreen could last seven days. Wei Xun straightforwardly bought enough sunscreen for a month. Anyway, he had points now.
This was Wei Xun’s current information——
[Tour Guide Information]
[Codename: III-250]
[Rank: Silver-rank Zeroth-level Four-stars]
[Countdown to death——One month]
[Points: 105,600]
[Mental pollution value (SAN): 2]
Wei Xun made a lot of money after selling the props given to him by the “master” before the third scenic spot. From that, he forcibly earned a huge sum of points, and thus he could be considered a rich dog with 100,000 points.
After leading a tour, the tour guide would be rewarded with more time to top up their countdown to death. Wei Xun was also rewarded with time for leading a dangerous-level tour after binding his identity. The reward given to him was one month.
Wei Xun suspected that the frequency of the tour guides receiving tasks might be related to the duration left in their countdown to death. However, this was not important for him since he had the title of “Tourist.” The rewarded time that topped up to his countdown to death did not increase his SAN value, and it still remained at a dangerous value of two.
“How can I restore my SAN value?”
After buying sunscreen, Wei Xun continued to browse the shopping interface. At present, his SAN value was really too low. If he appeared on a tour as a tour guide, he might appear in his mutated state. Moreover, he would also be affected by auditory hallucinations when he traveled on a tour. Although it was not fatal, he would still be a little annoyed after experiencing it too many times.
Wei Xun asked the Travel Services and got the following answer:
[Join a tour party and establish an emotional connection with the tour party members, and your esteemed self’s SAN value will be restored slowly]
[Calling all lonely tour guides to return to their tour parties!]
“I just like being alone.”
Wei Xun ignored the Travel Services’ earnest “appeal” and said, “I don’t car—(I don’t care).”
Wei Xun didn’t believe that the tour guides had all joined tour parties, and he also saw the bottle of medicine that could restore SAN value as a reward for opening Flying Fox Mountain Forest. There had to be other ways to restore SAN value.
However, there were no props related to SAN value in the Travel Services’ shopping interface. Maybe such items had to be purchased from the private trading platform or auction sections.
“Huh?”
Suddenly, Wei Xun saw a special item for sale in the “Travel Services’ store.”
[Name: A base in the virtual hall for a tour party]
[Function: Set up your own town party]
[Price: 20,000 points/m2]
[Note: If you want to form your tour party, you must at least buy a base with a large toilet]
“Is this akin to buying a house in the virtual hall?”
Wei Xun was rather interested in this and browsed the information about “a tour party’s base.” He was not interested in establishing a tour party, but if he bought a tour party’s base, he could choose not to appear at the entrance when he entered the virtual hall, but directly return to his tour party’s base.
Moreover, the tour party’s base would also be attached with some basic functions, such as allowing him to change clothes in the virtual hall, which was very convenient. Perhaps the members of the Wei family all had keen noses when they saw a good opportunity. Wei Xun intuitively believed that the functions of “a tour party’s base” were not as simple as what was being introduced.
He could understand why most tourists joined a tour party. However, why did most tour guides join an alliance?
There were few tour guides who had not joined any alliances or tour parties. The proportion of such tour guides was less than that of tourists who had not joined a tour party.
Joining an alliance was definitely beneficial to tour guides, and regardless of whether it was tour guide alliances or tourist tour parties, the only thing they had in common was that they owned bases in the virtual hall.
Wei Xun said, “Buy a tour party base.
“Buy a one square meter tour party base.”
After the Travel Services prompted him, [Purchase succeeded], Wei Xun immediately went to the base he had just purchased.
It was a space with white walls all around. After binding his identity with the space, what appeared was similar to what was shown on the shopping interface. However, one square meter of space was extremely narrow, and Wei Xun could hardly turn around when standing inside. Only the ceiling was infinitely high.
There was a door in front of him and behind him. If he opened the front door, he would enter the virtual hall, and if he opened the back door, he would return home.
The one square meter tour party base only provided the function of acting as a “foothold.”
A two square meter base could provide the additional function of changing clothes, and the four square meter base could provide him a place to rest. When it reached ten square meters, it would finally reach the standard area for the “toilet” mentioned in the remarks. And with that, the owner of the base could apply to establish a tour party.
“Rest…”
Wei Xun descended into deep thought, and then simply bought another three square meters for his tour party base. The pure white space automatically expanded into a square with a length and width of two meters, and in this space, a 1.8 m x 1.2 m bed automatically took up most of the space.
This was the “rest” function of the base. In addition to the bed, Wei Xun’s base now also had a dressing mirror of equal height.
“The changing clothes function, unfortunately, can only take effect in the virtual hall.”
Seeing this, Wei Xun regretted purchasing the extra space. Afterwards, he found that he could bring most of his animals into his base, like the young fox, the fat mosquito, and the maggots. However, he could not bring in Bingbing.
“I can bring animals who have signed a contract with me, or rather, animals originating from a tour can be brought into the base?”
The young fox had grown slightly bigger and seemed to have adapted to its current body. The reason why the red and white flying squirrel was called a “fox” was because it was red and white, and looked like a small fox from a distance.
The remnant soul of the fox fairy was far stronger than the consciousness of the flying fox cub. The remnant soul had also affected its physical body, and its appearance had undergone subtle changes. Now, the fox cub appeared almost completely white. Only its forehead, the tips of its ears, tip of tail, and four claws were stained with a fiery red color, just like a fire had ignited on those parts of its body. Its body shape was still changing, and it looked like neither a fox nor a flying squirrel.
With Wei Xun’s permission, the fox cub cheered and went to the bed. Using its big tail, it curled up and skilfully occupied only a palm of space. Its eager performance made Wei Xun realize that the so-called “rest” listed in the functions of the tour party’s base did not literally mean “rest.”
Wei Xun did not treat the golden mosquito and the maggots with the same hospitality as the fox cub. The gold mosquito originally looked like an orange juice ball, but it appeared to have slimmed down. Now, it looked more like a bee than a mosquito. Its buzzing sound was too annoying so it was not allowed to fly, so the mosquito could only land on the frame of the dressing mirror.
Quda couldn’t even come out of the glass vial, but even so, it was very happy and kept expressing emotions like “joy,” “happiness,” and even “fear” of Wei Xun in its own way——It was a great honor for it to be allowed to enter its master’s private space!
After confirming that his animals experienced no problems while they remained in the base, Wei Xun began to think about his next tour. He planned to take the fox cub and the golden mosquito on his next tour. However, he would leave his maggot in the base.
Among the four maggots who had drunk his blood, only Quda had followed him out of the tour. The remaining three were still in Wu Laoliu’s body, and even Quda couldn’t feel their existence for the time being. It could only confirm that they were not dead.
In other words, Wu Laoliu was not dead.
Wei Xun didn’t know whether Wu Laoliu would continue selling goods in another tour, continue staying in Intoxicating Xiangxi tours, or even——enter The Tusi King’s Tomb, which had not been completely opened up. Anything was possible.
Wei Xun kept Quda here with him because it might serve a useful purpose for him in the future.
“All of you, stay here first,” Wei Xun ordered.
Then he stood in front of the mirror and began to visualize an appearance in the mirror. As he did so, the image in the mirror began to change.
Black hair, black eyes, wheat-colored skin, strong facial features, with a trace of sharpness in his eyes.
Wei Xun used the appearance of You Ziming as the basis and made great efforts to transform it. The final image appeared to be someone full of righteousness. At first glance, he was a principled guy, masculine, and handsome, with eight abdominal muscles. It was completely opposite to his own image.
“I have abs too.”
Wei Xun touched his two abdominal muscles and talked to himself. He was very satisfied with the appearance. After changing his clothes casually, he pushed open the door next to the mirror and entered the virtual hall.
[Dear tourist, since you are a distinguished owner of a base, you don’t have to pay extra points to go to the virtual hall]
[Virtual Hall Rules]
[1. No violence or killing in the virtual hall]
[2. Kidnapping and imprisonment are prohibited in the virtual hall]
[3. Engaging in sexual acts is prohibited in the virtual hall]
[Violators will be punished according to the seriousness of the situation, at the discretion of the master of the Travel Services]
[It is found that your esteemed self possesses dual identities of a tour guide and tourist. With which identity will your esteemed self enter the virtual hall?]
Wei Xun asked, “What’s the difference?”
Then he learned that if he entered the virtual hall as a tour guide, he would automatically get a cloak and robe. As a Silver-ranked tour guide, his cloak and robe were blue. The tour guides had to dress like this in the virtual hall to show their identities to the others.
It could be said that with the exception of Wei Xun, a tour guide who could also act as a “tourist,” there was a clear distinction between the tour guides and the tourists in the Travel Services. There was no possibility for a tour guide to disguise as a tourist.