Chapter 30

Editors: Alysia & Kat 

Proofreader: Junyans 

Four hours ago, when Wei Xun concluded the blood experiment at 12 a.m., he emptied the maggots into Little Dragon Stream and carried the firefly ghost baby to the village head’s residence.

Wei Xun planned to sneak into Pingping’s house when she hadn’t returned and her ghost baby was in his hands. The house Pingping formerly resided in and the items she used served as useful reference materials for what would happen during the later parts of the tour.

When Wei Xun killed the zombified flying fox, he got “Pingping’s Blood Grudge Dagger” and “Pingping’s Embroidered Shoes,” so he wasn’t sure if he would find Pingping’s silk scarf or Pingping’s rouge or similar stuff in her house.

Even if he couldn’t find anything, it was quite exhilarating to just take a stroll in Pingping’s house. Wei Xun was still resenting that he couldn’t have a battle with the spiteful ghost Pingping. 

“Didn’t you live here in the past?”

The most well-preserved house in the middle of Cordoned-off Village was the ancestral hall. It seemed that the best built house in the past should be the village head’s house, which was near the ancestral hall. Unfortunately, when Wei Xun went in and strolled around, other than being choked by dust, he didn’t find anything good, let alone Pingping props. From the outside, the house appeared bright and clean. But inside, the walls were as dark as if they had been burned by a big fire. There was no furniture, just an empty shell.

Perhaps this was the house where Pingping once lived, but it should not be the most important place.

Wei Xun’s analyzed inwardly——Pingping was the first female village head of Cordoned-off Village for thousands of years, but in fact, her relationship with the villagers was extremely inharmonious. The group of rotten corpses trapped in Little Dragon Farmstead and the fetal flesh that was rumored to have been eaten by the villagers——everything in the village seemed to be tied with Pingping’s tragic fate.

When women gave birth, they should be at their weakest and most powerless to resist an assault. Under such a situation, would Pingping still give birth in the village?

“Baby, take your elder brother to take a look at your home.”

Wei Xun didn’t waste any more time in the dilapidated house. He simply took the ghost baby out of the village. He led the firefly off his shoulder and threw it away. The firefly fluttered its wings and seemed to think that Wei Xun was playing with it again. Several times, it flew back to Wei Xun, but after it was thrown out, it danced around Wei Xun blankly and didn’t understand what he was doing.

Wei Xun didn’t anticipate the ghost baby to direct him immediately back to Pingping’s old home in the first place. Wei Xun resumed his climb past the Little Dragon Stream. Although there was no rain today, the night sky was still obscured by a layer of light clouds. The moon’s shadow loomed, and one couldn’t see the moon well. Burrs seemed to round the moon’s edges. 

This was definitely the kind of night described in the old saying, “On a night of a lunar halo, it was the time evil demons and spirits rendezvous, the gates of hell opened widely, and no human should be allowed outside.”

Wei Xun did not come across any ghosts while walking. He made it all the way to the end of Little Dragon Stream unhurt. There was a pool at the end of the stream, followed by a waterfall. Green bamboos as thick as an arm grew along the pool. The bamboos were marked with dots, as if they had been stained with blood and tears. Deep weeds and bushes grew in bunches on both sides. At first glance, one couldn’t see whether there was a road or a steep slope behind the path.

“We’re here.”

Wei Xun stood by the pool and took out Pingping’s blood-stained embroidered shoes after fishing them out from his pocket. When he was in the village head’s house, they began to heat up. When he walked downstream, the heat subsided, but when he walked upstream, the heat increased. When he reached the pool, the shoes were as hot as baked sweet potatoes. 

Wei Xun estimated that this thing became hot either because of Pingping or the zombified flying fox king.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Xun planned to find and wipe out the zombified flying fox king.

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To be honest, he had always subconsciously restrained himself and avoided meeting the zombified flying fox king so that he wouldn’t descend into a manic state when he was battling again. 

However, his loss of control caused by the decline of SAN value did not only cause him to feel the desire to fight. At the fetal flesh grave, Wei Xun wasn’t able to extricate himself from his obsession with Pingping. He also didn’t want to treat his wounds and allow the countdown to death to decline. This was similarly a form of loss of control.

The SAN value was like a double-edged sword. It not only bestowed him with strong power, but also deprived Wei Xun of his reason. The changes brought by the slow drop in SAN value caused Wei Xun to be eager to fight. The decline of the SAN value itself would make him lose his interest in all other things.

After drawing two tubes of blood, Wei Xun calmed down and opened his eyes again. Since he was out of control, he might as well continue to look for stimulation. Now his SAN value was still at 42, which should be sufficient for him to fight with the zombified flying fox king.

In sum, the most exciting thing in this tour that could also arouse Wei Xun’s interest was only the zombified flying fox king and the spiteful ghost Pingping. Wu Laoliu could barely be counted as one of the people that interested him. 

“Is there no other pathway around here?”

Standing in front of the pool, Wei Xun tried to walk to his left and right, but the heat he felt from the blood-stained embroidered shoes remained the same. He was not an experienced hunter. He couldn’t trace animals, so he relied on the radar-like blood-stained embroidered shoes to move upstream.

But now the embroidered shoes were useless, and the firefly ghost baby was fluttering around everywhere. It didn’t realize that it had the responsibility to lead the way. It seemed that Wei Xun was unable to continue tracking——No, did he really have no way to continue tracking?

Wei Xun took out the small glass bottle, opened the lid and knocked the thing inside out. 

“Buzz, buzz, buzz——”

The golden mosquito trapped in the glass bottle jumped out, appearing much like an orange juice sugar ball. But it didn’t fly away. Instead, it buzzed around Wei Xun, as if to express its joy and feelings of wanting to stick to Wei Xun.

“You, smell this blood.”

Wei Xun let the mosquito stick to the embroidered shoes. “Take me to find it.” 

Mosquitoes should be very sensitive to blood. It was normal for him to use it as a hunting dog, right?

“Buzz, buzz, buzz?”

The golden mosquito fell on the embroidered shoes, and the four pairs of wings were obediently folded, staring at Wei Xun. Wei Xun stared at it unfathomably for a few seconds and confirmed that the stupid thing couldn’t understand his words.

If he wanted to communicate with the golden mosquito and control it, Wei Xun had to give it some blood. 

“How troublesome. Do I have to accept your allegiance?”

Wei Xun rolled up his sleeve, revealing his pale and thin left arm and the Maria butterfly tattoo on his left arm. It was not his misconception, but the position of the tattoo had moved up again. Now it had reached the junction between his arm and forearm.

With that piece of skin exposed, the golden mosquito immediately went crazy. Excited, its wings quickly fanned out, creating an imaginary shadow. Like a bullet, it fiercely rushed to him, ferociously lunging towards Wei Xun’s arm and began to suck small sips of blood.

“Suck less, useless little thing.” 

Although there was no pain when his blood was being sucked, Wei Xun complained bitterly, “The people loyal to me are either this mosquito or the maggots. Can’t there be something more powerful?”

“Buzz, buzz, buzz, master!”

The excited mosquito who was sucking his blood buzzed in his mind and finally expressed his thoughts more clearly.

“Master, buzz, buzz!” 

It was very restrained and only sucked a little. It was just sufficient for it to make a contract with its owner. It managed itself very well and stopped sucking. After pulling out its nozzle, the golden mosquito suddenly flapped its wings and flew out, and bumped into the nearby tree.

Wei Xun was stunned when he saw what the mosquito did. Before he thought whether the mosquito was stupid or drunk, he saw the golden mosquito flying back again, holding something in its slender limbs.

“Buzz, buzz, master”

The buzzing of the golden mosquito seemed weak and it put something in Wei Xun’s hand. 

“Hiss——”

Even Wei Xun was surprised and sucked in a breath of cold air after seeing the properties of this thing.

[Name: Mutated ￥%#@* mouthpiece [Gold]

[Quality: ???] 

[Function: sucking blood & *%[email protected]]

[Note: * &… Analgesic… #@ hard &#]

He had never seen so much garbled text in an introduction of a prop!

The golden mosquito weakly buzzed in Wei Xun’s mind. Wei Xun got to know that this was a special ceremony for the demonic mosquito to show its allegiance. After finding its destined master, the demonic mosquito would present its mouthpiece to its master, representing absolute loyalty. In the future, without the permission of its master, it would rather starve to death than suck the blood of other creatures. It would only suck the blood of its master! 

Of course, if the mouthpiece was broken, it would regenerate, but what the demonic mosquito offered to its master was the greatest mouthpiece it had developed since hatching from its egg. The regenerated mouthpieces did not work as well as this one.

The usage of the mouthpiece was the same as that of the demonic mosquito. This golden mosquito had not gone through many evolutions and couldn’t express much of what it meant. Wei Xun could only understand that it was saying that its mouthpiece was “very hard” and “analgesic.” These two points were basically consistent with the prop’s notes.

“What the hell are you?”

Wei Xun held the mouthpiece that looked like a gold needle in his hand and looked at it curiously. Even the Travel Services couldn’t determine this prop. He thought of how the golden mosquito showed its allegiance to him previously when he battled with the demonic mosquitoes, and how the Travel Services didn’t have a response to it. 

What exactly were they?

“Buzz, master, things…”

After having rested enough, the golden mosquito buzzed and flew up. It instinctively flattered Wei Xun, having no concept of “self.” It instinctively felt that it was part of its master, and the words it used weren’t exactly flattering, but Wei Xun would not quarrel with a mosquito.

Furthermore, the golden mosquito buzzing sound was still very weak, but it had begun to perform the duties of a hound. After flying around the embroidered shoes, it rushed to the northwest. 

The embroidered shoes were dug out from the zombified flying fox commander. At that time, Wei Xun had gone insane and tore the zombified flying fox commander into meat foam. The bloody scent on the shoes was particularly strong. The golden mosquito buzzed in Wei Xun’s mind.

It sensed the smell of blood in that direction. But the smell was much stronger there, and much more terrifying and bloody.

That was the zombified flying fox king.

The golden mosquito flew and stopped in accordance with Wei Xun’s pace. There were many remote and desolate mountains in Xiangxi. Even the people who lived in the mountains didn’t have a proper path to walk on. Thanks to Wei Xun’s mutated body, he could even walk on the mountain wall that had an inclination of 45 degrees as if he was walking on level ground. Their speed was not considered slow. 

But even so, after crossing this steep hillside, it was 2:30 a.m. From the map, the straight-line distance from Wei Xun to the location may be only a few hundred meters, but the actual distance was already more than ten kilometers.

“Buzz, buzz——”

The golden mosquito was buzzing and flying again. The front area was the territory of the “monster.” Its powerful aura causes the golden mosquito to instinctively not dare to approach and only dare to hover around the periphery.

Wei Xun did not hesitate. When he came here, he also caught the faint scent of a powerful creature. 

It was a strong enemy.

Very strong. Wei Xun even felt that it was not much weaker than the spiteful ghost Pingping.

Really strong.

The tip of his claws was itching, and a faint red glimmer reflected in Wei Xun’s eyes. The desire to fight with strong enemies coursed through every blood vessel, as if he had taken stimulants, causing his blood to boil. 

I really, really want to fight now.

Wei Xun walked in fearlessly.

The area in the front suddenly brightened. It was a rare clearing in the forest. The ground was as soft as grass buds, like the best carpet. The lawn is covered with unknown small white flowers, neat and beautiful. It didn’t seem that it had grown in the wild, but it seemed that someone had trimmed it regularly.

There were no wild trees or nearby shrubs. In the center of the grassland, there was a very large old tree. If one looked at it carefully, one could find that it was actually two trees which had intertwined. And at their tips, the two trees mutually intertwined as one. With the addition of the tree, the scene became something one would rarely see in a forest. 

What drew Wei Xun’s attention was that a woman’s head was placed in the middle of the huge tree trunk.