But every time a dark thought arose, it always dissipated as soon as he saw Wei Xun. Lin Qiming thought that if he was a tour guide, he would definitely like Wei Xun and want to push Wei Xun into his arms.
Such a beautiful person should be carefully cherished and cared for. One would only hate that they couldn’t give Wei Xun all the precious things in the world. Just now, Wei Xun had smiled at him. IV-1 was excited, but Lin Qiming felt that Wei Xun was smiling at him. The smile was like moonlight, clear but not dazzling.
There was no contempt, no disdain, and no looking down on him.
It was a modest and friendly smile one would have for a normal person.
However, all the tourists just wanted to survive. Why was it so hard to survive?
Lin Qiming’s eyes were slightly red, but he turned back and got into IV-1’s arms, pretending to act coquettish and head over heels in love with IV-1. “Guide IV, don’t just look at Leader Wei. I’m going to be jealous.”
IV-1 was just making use of his tour guide identity to wreak havoc. Lin Qiming felt disgusted at the way he looked at Leader Wei.
“Okay, okay, okay. I’ll look at our Qiming.”
Lust does not overpower men. IV-1 smiled and kissed the little beauty in his arms. For a moment, he felt that Lin Qiming’s eyes were slightly red, and there was a bit of Wei Xun’s drunken charm in his expression. Great, there were two beauties in his tour, and he could play with both of them recklessly. It was really great that he had become a tour guide. The alcohol content of the highland barley wine was not high, but IV-1 felt that he was drunk. He openly made out with Lin Qiming, dreaming of Fairy Radiance Maiden Bloom.
However, he didn’t notice that the atmosphere at the dinner table was rather somber. The tourists who were originally taught a lesson by IV-1 when Wei Xun was circling around the lake felt their hearts waver again.
Could they really survive if they followed the lead of such a tour guide?
The tourists seemed to be very patient. They were able to tolerate all the exploitation and evil deeds of tour guides, just for the sake of a simple request—to survive on the tour.
But IV-1, did he really deserve the tourists’ following him?
Wei Xun ate each piece of tsampa slowly, and he lazily supported his head as his eyelashes drooped. His confused and drunken expression caused no one to dare to look directly at him, but everyone couldn’t help peeping. Wei Xun seemed to have seen what had happened between IV-1 and Lin Qiming, but the tourists were not sure whether he really had seen it.
Wei Xun liked smart and honest people.
But he liked smart alecks the most.
A smart aleck was less observant and wise than an intelligent man, and less prudent and down to earth than an honest man. With a little encouragement, IV-1 would go in the direction Wei Xun wanted him to, and would even think it was his decision.
He was very easy to manipulate.
Tonight’s dinner was very rich. There was a whole roast sheep, several plates of dried meat, tsampa, highland barley wine, and so on. The food was distributed, and everyone ate the things in their own plates and bowls. It was unlike an ordinary Chinese dinner, where everyone took food from the same serving dish.
Although everyone had food prepared in case of an emergency, it was a twelve day tour after all. In the latter parts, they had to cross through Changtang No Man’s Land. It was unlike Intoxicating Xiangxi, where the tour only lasted six days and five nights. Compressed biscuits, energy bars, and other foods would only be eaten by the tourists when they reached Changtang No Man’s Land.
The experienced tourists were all very cautious. Under the pretense of being drunk, Wei Xun saw one person using their own silver chopsticks and another throwing an unknown powder into their bowls before they began to eat. Splitting the food was the safest and most prudent way of preventing the whole tour group from being accidentally annihilated.
In Wei Xun’s plate, there were several pieces of roast mutton, two pieces of tsampa, and a piece of blackish-red meat, half the size of one’s palm. It seemed like smoked meat. Wei Xun picked up the meat and sniffed it. After the fox fairy had possessed him, his sense of smell had become particularly sharp. Wei Xun vaguely smelled something salty. His chopsticks poked into the meat. The muscle fibers in the meat were very short, and one could see they were dark red in color.
Bam.
The startling sound of chopsticks colliding into the table attracted many people’s attention. Wei Xun’s chopsticks hit Fei Lezhi’s wrist, shaking Fei Lezhi’s hand that was about to pick up the vegetables.
“How does Brother Wei feel? Are you okay?”
Fei Lezhi felt that Wei Xun was drunk. He put down his bowl and chopsticks, wanting to support Wei Xun. “I’m almost finished with my food. Why don’t I send Brother Wei back to rest?”
“Don’t eat this meat,” Wei Xun said.
He looked around at everyone at the table. Obviously, he was still drunk, but his sharp eyes made everyone completely unable to ignore his words.
“This meat cannot be eaten.”
Everyone heard Wei Xun’s words. The veteran tourists’ expressions slightly changed, especially those who had eaten quickly and wanted to leave the table early to rest. Their expressions were even uglier than those who had not eaten quickly.
“Why can’t we eat it? There’s no poison in it, right?” someone questioned.
However, Wei Xun ignored them. Instead, he looked at Yin Baitao and asked in a low voice, “Have you eaten it?”
“I haven’t eaten it yet,” Yin Baitao hesitantly spoke.
The exterior of the meat looked blackish red and appeared dirty. She had just been selected for the tour, so she had no appetite. She had only eaten some tsampa, and she hadn’t even eaten the roast mutton.
“I ate it.”
Wei Xun’s eyes fell on Xu Yang. He hadn’t touched the tsampa in the bowl and plate in front of him, but had almost finished the meat. Compared with the half cooked mutton, the blackish red meat seemed smoked, but it was soft and chewy. He had eaten half of it. He hadn’t eaten the other half because he had wanted to keep it for his dog.
“What’s wrong with this meat?”
Even though the blind boy tried to keep his voice calm, everyone knew that he was actually very nervous when they saw that he was holding onto the guide dog’s rope tightly and his face had turned white.
“Follow me.”
Wei Xun stood up, held Xu Yang’s shoulder, and took him outside. Fei Lezhi and Yin Baitao also subconsciously stood up and followed Wei Xun. The other veteran tourists looked at each other, and those who had eaten the same piece of meat could not help but feel uneasy and followed them out to see what Wei Xun would do.
“Hiss, it’s all just a scam.”
Someone pretended to be disdainful of Wei Xun’s actions. He was one of the people who had followed IV-1’s instructions to propose a toast to Wei Xun. Obviously, he wanted to stand behind IV-1. Seeing that half of the people around the table were gone, IV-1’s face became gloomy. That person deliberately shouted, “He’s just a newcomer. Guide IV thought highly of him, which is why he was able to become the leader. Does he really think that he’s a bigwig just because of this?
“Guide IV watched us eat the meal, and he didn’t even say there was a problem with it. Wei Xun doesn’t have the status to say these sort of words!
“Heh, isn’t that right, Guide IV?”
The man looked at IV-1 with a flattering smile. IV-1 glanced at him with a smirk, and suddenly threw a wine glass at him, hitting the man’s forehead. The man didn’t dare to hide, and his forehead turned blue and swollen.
“What an ugly thing you are! How dare you speak to my great beauty using that tone!”
IV-1’s tongue had swelled because he had drunk a little too much. He sneered as he counted the number of tourists who were at the table. The look in his eyes was indifferent and malicious. “Is there a problem with the food on the table? Whether all of you live or die——what does it have to do with me?”
Don’t forget that he, IV-1, was a slaughterer tour guide!
This was not just him imitating III-9. IV-1 enjoyed the pleasure of being free from the law and playing with other people’s lives. The stimulation it brought him was second only to that of abusing a beauty. He was afraid that since no one had died since the beginning of the journey, some tourists had become too happy.
III-9 had opened up a 30th parallel north tour after not killing anyone. In addition, Bai Xiaosheng’s post had attracted many tour guides’ attention, causing fewer tourists to be killed. IV-1 didn’t care about this. Opening up a new tour wouldn’t change his mind. In his eyes, these tourists were just sheep worth 300 points.
“I said, the meat was okay.”
IV-1 spoke slowly, with a mischievous and malicious look in his eyes. He raised his glass to the tourists and said, “Try it, it may taste good.”
Now the faces of those people were white. They regretted it. How could they be so stupid that they wanted to rely on IV-1! Even if IV-1 was subdued by Wei Xun at the beginning, he didn’t necessarily need the tourists to surrender to him. He was just interested in playing with the great beauty, and they came along.
IV-1 was also a slaughterer tour guide!
The atmosphere became stagnant, and no one dared to move their chopsticks. Seeing IV-1’s eyes getting more and more fierce, Lin Qiming, sitting in his arms, clenched his teeth and picked up a piece of meat, putting it in his mouth.
Just then, there was a sudden noise outside!
Wei Xun took Xu Yang outside to a remote place. He ignored the people who followed him and just asked Yin Baitao to prepare paper and water, and let Fei Lezhi dig a small pit in the ground.
“Do you feel pain, dizziness, or nausea?” Wei Xun asked Xu Yang carefully.
Xu Yang answered carefully. They went outside to take a look at Xu Yang, using the light of the sunset. It turned out that Xu Yang had not only turned white, but his skin had also taken on a bit of a waxy yellow tint. The light in the house was so dim that Wei Xun hadn’t seen it just now.
While Wei Xun was asking questions and Xu Yang was answering, the other experienced tourists consciously didn’t come forward, but looked on from a few meters away. Several people who had eaten the meat pondered upon Wei Xun’s question and examined their current states.
“Do you know how to induce yourself to vomit?”
Wei Xun briefly instructed, “Press on the root of the tongue with your fingers, stretch your fingers into your throat, and touch your tonsils.”
“What the hell is that?”
Xu Yang handed the guide dog’s leash to Wei Xun and was taken to the pit to squat down. At the moment, he was no longer calm. He was flustered like a frightened child, muttering, “My stomach hurts a little, I, will I die?”
“Spit it out,” Wei Xun said.
His words sounded strangely resolute, causing one to feel that they couldn’t help but want to trust him. Xu Yang used his fingers to press the part of his throat according to Wei Xun’s instructions, and soon he vomited out everything in the pit dug by Fei Lezhi.
Everyone saw that Xu Yang kept vomiting. He first vomited the food that he hadn’t digested, and then he vomited out yellowish water that was laced with strands of blood. Even when he vomited until he had nothing left to vomit, Xu Yang was still retching. White foam flowed out of his mouth, and he was trembling all over. He covered his stomach tightly and said in a trembling voice, “It hurts, it hurts.”
“Call 120 quickly!”
Yin Baitao was very anxious, but she remembered that they were all on the tour after she spoke. Therefore, how could they call 120? They saw that Xu Yang’s situation was getting worse and worse, and the white foam at the corners of his mouth was stained with blood. Duoduo, the guide dog, seemed to feel that his master was not good. The dog barked and wanted to go to Xu Yang’s side.
Amidst the chaos, Wei Xun remained calm. He asked Yin Baitao to feed Xu Yang water, and turned to the group of experienced tourists who had followed him and ordered, “Go and get the descendant of the eagle flutist.”
Seeing that they hesitated and didn’t move, Wei Xun gave them a hard glare. No one could tell that he was drunk, nor did they see any warmth in his eyes. “Go quickly!”