âAh? How is it possible for me to write novels?â
Wei Xun helplessly spread out his hands with a worried expression on his face. He said in surprise, âJust look at me. Do you think I look like a novel writer?â
The young man squinted at him for a while, until finally his eyelids slowly drooped and he changed the topic, âHe was just looking at the list.â
Wei Xun looked at the direction of the young man. He was able to mimic 80% of the way Shi Tao usually talkedâgiving off the air of a simple minded musclehead. âIs-is that so?â
He had noticed that the two leaderboards over there were different from the Return Leaderboard that everyone could see. The two lists were carved on a wall made of unknown materials. Both leaderboards were placed by the entrance. One was on the left, and the other on the right. Anyone who entered the virtual hall could see them at first glance.
However, Wei Xun had arrived at the virtual hall directly from his base. He hadnât walked through the main door, so he dnât pay attention to them at first. IV-1, who had been leading the âLin Xiâ army, was at the top of the leaderboard on the left.
âYes, if he wasnât here to take a look at the leaderboard, then perhaps he came here to seeâââ
Mao Xiaole grumpily swallowed the words, âyou, an idiot?â Mao Xiaole didnât know why he bothered talking to this fool, because usually he was too lazy to get along with fools. But this time, not only did he unexpectedly talk to him for a while, but he also took the initiative to press those pieces of trash who came to seek trouble to the ground until they died. Clearly, this young man appeared weak and pitiful, and he wasnât very smart. So why was he bothering to look out for him?
Most importantly, he wanted to curse this young man several times, but he subconsciously swallowed his words back. It was as if he did this instinctively.
Was this person a high-rank tourist who had hidden his identity and strength?
Mao Xiaole had learned all kinds of skills. After all, Maoshan Taoism was not a title that was very useful in combat. If one only compared the combat skills between him and everyone in Asia, there were more than ten people who were a head above him in combat skills, and they were all enemies of the Homeward tour party.
Which tour party had recognized him? After recognizing him, they had sent someone who was hiding his identity to him⌠Did they want to worm out some information from him?
After all, Miao Fangfei and the others were now in the grasp of Homeward, and the other tour parties could not beat their captain. It was possible that they had looked for Mao Xiaole to act as a breakthrough point to their tour party. During times when the tour party was busy with many matters, it was always good to be cautious.
From the first sentence Mao Xiaole said to the other, he secretly tried to calculate the identity of this person. However, this personâs identity was still unclear to him, as if they was shrouded by fog.
Mao Xiaole felt a chill in his heart when he asked, âDo you write novels?â
What type of title would have such an effect? It not only influenced Mao Xiaole so that he was unable to have negative feelings towards the person in front of him, but also reminded him of his favorite wifey, Three Waters, Sun, and Moon.
What a terrifying title!
Obviously, the Three Waters in his imagination would have a slightly weak body because he didnât go out all year round. His skin was very white, his hair was rather long and messy, and his fingers that were used to churn out words were very long. His hands were beautiful, his eyes were full of wisdom, his speech and behavior would reflect his politeness. Three Waters was very intelligent, so clever that he almost seemed demonic, and a little physically weak. Three Waters would appear like an easily bullied great beauty.
How could Three Waters be such a muscular and simple-minded bodybuilding fool!
Of course, if the other party was a member of a large tour party, he could have changed his appearance. If you wanted to change your appearance in the virtual hall, you could only buy a base at least two square meters large and spend 40,000 points. Even Mao Xiaole only earned 8,000 points on his first tour, which was already a high score. Furthermore, he had only earned so many points because he had violently beaten the tour guide, hadnât âhanded overâ the points, and kept the points for his own use.
Even Three Waters, Sun, and Moon wouldnât be able to earn 40,000 points on their first trip. Furthermore, this fellow also hadnât appeared at the right time.
âIâll go and take a glance at the leaderboard,â Wei Xun said, sweeping a glance at the young man stuck deep in thought.
This person felt very strange. He could clearly feel the impatience of the other party, but he always suppressed it when his temper was about to explode.
Could it be that Taoists could never lose their tempers, and their hearts had to be calm like water?
Wei Xun had heard a lot of strange things from âMaoshan Taoist.â However, he didnât know whether what he learned from Maoshan Taoist was real or fake. Apparently, Maoshan Taoists had to remain virgins, have very good tempers (couldnât become angry), avoid being impulsive, plan a few steps ahead when making decisions, and so on.
Could this man be âMaoshan Taoistâ?
But how would such a coincidental matter happen? It was not as if someone was writing a novel about them.
Moreover, Maoshan Taoist should be a middle-aged man with a good temper who was very patient, enthusiastic, and optimistic. He would also always wear Taoist robesââ
If Maoshan Taoist was an impatient lad, he wouldnât have chased his âpitsâ for five years. If he was not proactive in connecting with Wei Xun, he would not have maintained a fairly close relationship with Wei Xun. In Wei Xunâs mind, he would only wear Taoist robes. Maoshan Taoist also described himself as very serious. From these descriptions, Wei Xun had guessed that Maoshan Taoist was middle-aged.
If he was younger than that, how could he accumulate so many experiences from supernatural cases, be familiar with history and current affairs, and know deep metaphysical knowledge? There might be geniuses in the world, but knowledge always took time to accumulate.
However, the young manâs yangqi kung fu skills were obviously not as good as Maoshan Taoist, and he also looked too young. He appeared as if he was born after 00, because he was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and a silver skull chain attached to his jeansâ waistband. Although he tried to cover it up, Wei Xun could tell that he had a bad temper and was a violent man. When he had acted against the âLin Xiâs, Wei Xun could see the killing intent that was unconcealable in his eyes.
Wei Xun had always kept a far distance from people like this, and was unwilling to hang out with people who had such personalities. Only people with good tempers could bear Wei Xunâs thrill-seeking antics of trying various stimulating experiences. Rather, no one could bear their friends taking a road to ruin.
Wei Xun and You Ziming were rather good friends, but Wei Xun had only become good friends with You Ziming when his illness had gradually worsened. This had left Wei Xun with no choice but to cultivate his mind and lead a peaceful life. Otherwise, You Ziming, who had a good temper and would blame himself when Wei Xun spat out blood while eating spicy hotpot, would break all ties with Wei Xun or suffer from a shock or fright every day and eventually die of a heart attack when he saw Wei Xun bravely wingsuiting, parachuting, diving with no equipment, etc.
Wei Xun obtained the information he wanted after strolling through most of the virtual hall. He was ready to head over to the leaderboard to eye it again. Then, he planned to return to the base to rest physically and mentally so as to prepare for his next tour.
Wei Xun walked to the leaderboard. The young man stood in place and paused. Somehow, he also followed Wei Xun.
âThis is the Asia tour guide leaderboard and the Asia tourist leaderboard.â
He seemed to be actively looking for a topic, but when he saw Wei Xun revealing a âhappyâ expression, he turned his face away. His arms were folded, and he had an expression as if he was someone hard to cozy up to.
âIt will only change once in a year, during the year end celebration.â
âThe two leaderboards will only change at the year end celebration⌠So it isnât like the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard?â Wei Xun thought to himself.
Wei Xun gave him a smile and replied, âI know.â Then his eyes fell on the walls glowing with a metallic luster on both sides of the entrance. The walls were not that high. When someone stood in front of the walls, they wouldnât seem small. With a normal personâs point of view, everyone here would be unable to see the words as small as mosquitoes on the wall. However, nothing in the Travel Servicesâ could be judged based on common sense.
As long as Wei Xun stood in front of both metallic walls, he would naturally understand the information on the walls, and know what was written on them.
The left wall was Asiaâs annual tour guide leaderboard, with the codes ranking from the highest I to the lowest grade V.
Tour guides from I-1 to II-10 also displayed the titles that had caused them to rise to fame. Everyone used these representative titles to distinguish the tour guides. The other tour guides on the list were II-11, II-12, and so on. The list continued down. At first glance, Wei Xun thought it was meaningless for him to take a look at this leaderboard. After all, the codenames would just be listed on a descending order, and there was no other information. But after looking downwards, he found something intriguing.
The tour guide II-5âs title, âEmperor Cobra,â was grayed out. From II-6 to II-10 below him, there were many parentheses behind the names. II-6 had become II-6 (II-5), and this change in codenames continued down the list until II-10 (II-9).
Descending from II-11, the codenames appeared as per normal.
In other words, the leaderboard showed the rankings at the last year end celebration, while the parentheses behind them were their real-time rankings?
His codename was grayed. Does it mean that this tour guide had died? This was because, after II-5, the real-time ranking of the tour guides had moved forward.
However, II-11âs ranking didnât become II-10, but still stayed at the 11th position of the II-rank. Was this because the top 10 were âII-rank elite tour guidesâ while the last 100 were âII-rank ordinary tour guidesâ? If ordinary tour guides wanted to become elite tour guides, they had to complete specific tasks?
The number of grayed codenames on the tour guide leaderboard was very low, which was in stark contrast to the tourist leaderboard. Almost a quarter of the tourist names were grayed out, causing large patches of gray to fill the leaderboard.
The survival rate of tourists during tours was much lower than that of tour guides, but it was still higher than Wei Xun imagined. It seemed that besides slaughterer tour guides like III-9, there were also other types of tour guides. However, the relationship between most tour guides and tourists should be terrible. Otherwise, the tourists in the virtual hall would not have expressions of fear, caution, disgust, or the urge to get away from the tour guides when the tourists saw them.
Wei Xun continued to look downwards. Except for II-5, the names of other II-ranked tour guides were not grayed out. Occasionally, there were parentheses after individual codenames within the scope of II-ranked tour guides. Wei Xun found that these peculiarities only existed within the II-rank. For example, there were parentheses after II-49. It listed II-49 (II-50), and behind him was II-50 (II-49)
âII-49 is useless trash. After leading an Intoxicating Xiangxi tour, his ranking fell,â Mao Xiaole disdainfully told Wei Xun.
Wei Xun paid special attention to remember this fellow, II-49. This tour guide had also led an Intoxicating Xiangxi tour, and he might be the tour guide who had killed Yu Hehui.
Eh?
Wei Xunâs line of sight moved downwards continuously, passing the II-ranked tour guides. Then he saw the codename âIII-9.â Strangely, the title was not gray, and although the real-time rankings of almost all the names to its front, rear, left, and right had changed, this codename had not changeed.
It looked strange.
Mao Xiaole was also staring at the codename III-9. There werenât many fools in the large tour parties. So many people believed that the post Bai Xiaosheng posted on the forum meant that he thought III-9 was still alive. If he wasnât alive, wouldnât the codename be grayed out? It seemed like that person seemed to have a strange obsession with the codename III-9. Or, perhaps that person used to have the codename III-9, and was famous for it.
Anyway, the tour guides who used to use the codename of âIII-9âł would mostly die strangely. That was, until the codename was occupied by that personâs puppet, after which the tour guide who occupied this codename didnât change for a long time.
If it wasnât because Mao Xiaole could confirm that no one could survive under An Xuefengâs Homeward Knife, Mao Xiaole would have suspected that âIII-9â was not dead yet.
There was something fishy about âIII-9âsâ matter.
Wei Xun thought, âCould it be related to ***?â
After all, he had previously finished his newcomer tour guide task even though he was almost killed by it. After detecting the remnant piece of the Maria butterfly, the voice of the customer service became ***.
III-9 disappeared mysteriously, Wei Xun coincidentally happened to have a title related to III-9, Wang Pengpai hid his strength to come aboard this tour, and the special attention *** paid to him⌠All these must definitely be related.
However, the codename of III-9 was not grayed out, which was good news for Wei Xun. The possibility of his III-250 identity being exposed would be much slimmer. As long as the codename III-9 was not grayed, even if everyone suspected that the score of III-250 on the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard was too high and speculated that III-250 had likely opened up a new tour, most of the attention would still be on III-9.
There were 250 tour guides in total in the III-rank. It appeared that there was a large number of tour guides in this rank, and one would go dizzy just looking at the plethora of codenames. After looking at it for a long time, one would be unable to comprehend what âIIIâ meant due to their dizziness. Additionally, these tour guides did not have their representative titles or information listed. Wei Xun casually picked a few of them out, and discovered that most of them had blocked out their contact information.
Wei Xun gave one glance at the codename III-250 at the end. This III-250 wasnât him. Wei Xun was a new tour guide, so his codename ranking would not be officially listed until the year end celebration.
This III-250 was the current III-250, but the name was grayed out. He had already died.
However, IV-1 below him had not entered the III-ranks, but still remained as the first place of the IV-ranked tour guides.
Wei Xun thought, âIt seems that there is no real ranking of III-ranked to II-ranked tour guides. The tour guides only seem to be moving among the same rank.
âIf a tour guide wants to be promoted, he must kill at least one of the former tour guides before he can replace his position.â
Mao Xiaole glanced at the man who stood in front of the leaderboard for a long time. He felt slightly impatient. What was there to look at on a trashy leaderboard?
âIV-1 is also very unlucky,â the corners of his mouth curved wickedly and he said, âHe just killed III-250, but he didnât move up the ranks. As a result, another III-250 parachuted to that position and pressed him down.
âReasonably speaking, this is illogical. But who would care about logic in the Travel Services?
âI donât know why so many people are scrambling to become a 250.â`
âYes.â
Wei Xun felt the same way. In a rare bout, he felt that this young man had finally said something a human would say.
âDonât you feel uncomfortable when you pronounce the codename III-250?â
âHe wonât be using this codename forever.â
Just then, a low voice came from the side. Wei Xun glanced up and found that it came from a man in a dark orange long cloak who was standing not far from them.