Chapter 369: Enemies Are Destined to Meet

The fortunate Li Jue and Wei Xin, hmm, one should say the unfortunate Li Jue and Wei Xin were fortunately let off.

Having personally seen Sha Wujing off, Tang Luo's mood was naturally not good, but it wasn't so bad that he would run off to beat up Li Jue and Wei Xin to vent.

Even if he wanted to vent, targeting the Gods' Alliance would definitely be more suitable than targeting Li Jue and Wei Xin.

An organization can definitely take a beating better than just two people.

Ao Yulie thought exactly this; under the Dragon King's control, the mysterious Dragon King Vessel docked at the port without a care, giving most of the crew paid leave.

The crew remaining on board were directly given triple wages.

A 996 unscrupulous capitalist? Nonexistent.

Anyway... the Martial World Mythology has money, and is willing to give money to Master Xuanzang; gods and demons walking around who want to curry favor with Tang Luo are a dime a dozen.

Previously Tang Luo didn't accept, but now he's loosened his stance a bit; the Dragon King Vessel's maintenance costs for several years are already covered.

Not to mention, Ao Yulie has also refined the Dragon King Vessel into a magic treasure, greatly reducing daily wear and tear.

The Dragon King Vessel just docked at the port so brazenly, heading out to sea every so often, jumping right in the Gods' Alliance's face to provoke: "I'm right here, come hit me if you dare!"

Perhaps the intent was too obvious; the Gods' Alliance felt it was a trap, steady as Mount Tai, and didn't move a muscle.

This greatly disappointed Ao Yulie.

"Master, aren't you going to repair the Frozen Spear?" On the deck, Ao Yulie lay on a recliner, basking in the sun, looking perfectly leisurely.

"No need," Tang Luo said, "When it's used up and broken, then so be it."

The Frozen Spear was damaged quite a bit in the battle with Sha Wujing, and Tang Luo had no intention of using Enlightenment to repair it; he didn't particularly care.

Weapons, to him, are just something to use at hand; whatever is at hand gets used.

Not having one doesn't matter either.

Speaking of it, the hardest thing in Tang Luo's hands is Nezha's Nouveau Rich Gold Brick, which sees comparatively little use.

To him, these pieces of equipment are more like icing on the cake; there's no need to consume Merit Power to Enlighten and repair them.

Merit Power is the true timely help in a time of need.

In the previous mission world, he consumed more than half his Merit Power, but later successfully buried an important "Source of Distortion," gaining a large amount of Merit Power.

Tang Luo, as per habit, held back a portion for daily expenses and consumption.

The rest was entirely used to recover from his injuries; now his uninjured upper limit has reached 3.9 tenths.

If he takes another step forward, reaching 4 tenths, Tang Luo has some confidence that he can burst out with a state stronger than 4 tenths for a short time, then consume Merit Power and use the Merit Jade Lotus to Enlightenment-stabilize it, without aggravating his injuries.

"This 0.1 tenth is quite important," Tang Luo thought to himself.

This counts as a threshold; then reaching 5 tenths of strength is another threshold.

Crossing these two hurdles, the injury situation can barely be considered to have cleared up.

"Right, I had Old Kong keep an eye out for a 'Team Contract'; if he gets one, you can sign it with me, and then perhaps you can also receive God-Demon Game rewards," Tang Luo said to Ao Yulie.

"Mm," Ao Yulie nodded.

Compared to purely bitter cultivation on his own, the God-Demon Game side obviously improves strength more.

Ao Yulie doesn't hope for much; whenever a defensive skill like "Parry" comes along, letting him integrate and comprehend it, becoming tougher to beat than now, just being able to watch the fight from the sidelines would be enough.

His requirements aren't high at all.

"That's it then, I'm heading home first," Tang Luo said; he wouldn't stay on the Dragon King Vessel often anyway.

These past few days he had nothing to do and wanted to fish, but the fish wouldn't bite, so he's going home.

He reached out and manifested a Flying Talisman in the void, slapped it onto himself, and Tang Luo's body flew into the high sky.

Before he still thought about buying a car, traveling famous mountains and great rivers, seeing if there were any monsters or demons, and whether he could cross them over.

Plans can't keep up with changes; now he doesn't even need a car.

A car you still have to drive yourself — how could it compare to the fully automatic Little White Dragon?

Tang Luo has no interest in the pleasure of driving.

"Respectfully seeing Master off," Ao Yulie stood up, saying it with a mischievous air.

A hand seal the height of a person fell from the sky, instantly landing on top of Ao Yulie's head.

Ao Yulie abruptly raised his hand to block it.

The deck beneath his feet cracked, and the steady Dragon King Vessel shook violently.

"Not bad, a bit better than before," Tang Luo's voice came from the sky, fading into the distance.

Ao Yulie pulled his feet out of the holes in the deck with great difficulty.

This wasn't the first time; Tang Luo would occasionally ambush him to train Ao Yulie's reaction speed.

To avoid this guy getting captured or taken down in one move by someone else in the future.

If he can block the first move, with Ao Yulie's escape skills, he can mostly get away.

"Repairing is also a kind of training." Looking at the hole under his feet, Ao Yulie pressed his hand on the deck, and the hole repaired at an extremely fast speed, leaving no trace.

The remaining crew didn't realize the cause of the Dragon King Vessel's shaking either.

The sea surface returned to calm, wind still and waves quiet.

This calm lasted nearly three months; Tang Luo followed routine, performing Enlightenments, saving people, and also helped "Approaching Science" handle a "Water Electricity" incident.

The culprit was an electric eel that didn't even count as a yaoguai, but for some reason possessed powerful electricity.

In a deep pool, it was exceptionally rampant.

Fortunately, the deep pool was deep in remote mountains and old forests, with only a fairly narrow dark river leading elsewhere; the electric eel couldn't leave, and after the current spread out, it had already become relatively weak.

Where people came into contact with the flowing water, they merely felt a tingling numbness from the shock.

It was packaged by local opportunists as "Immortal Water" for promotion.

In the end, after discussing with "Approaching Science," they decided to let a power plant take the fall, saying it was caused by minor electrical leakage.

As for the culprit, the electric eel, Qin Menglan and the others who accompanied Tang Luo all said the taste was good, the Master's culinary skill was extraordinary, and they admired it.

Three months later, without any waves, Tang Luo welcomed his eleventh mission.

"Find the source of seven strange events, resolve them. Members of the same camp, resolve four events in total, the mission does not count as failure; resolve seven events, mission success. The other camp has also entered simultaneously."

"0."

Information transmitted directly into the sea of consciousness, "narrated" the basic situation of this mission to everyone.

Without a doubt, this is a camp mission; besides Tang Luo and his group, there is another camp that entered the mission at the same time.

Competition and confrontation between camps, very similar to the "Snatch the Book of Life and Death" mission Tang Luo experienced last time.

Only by completely resolving all seven strange events does it count as successfully completing the mission.

And to avoid mission failure, at least more than half of the events must be resolved; the competition can be said to be quite fierce.

Moreover, it's not very friendly to either camp; there's a high possibility the final result is one side's mission fails, the other side's mission does not fail.

Wanting to complete the mission and gain rewards, the surest method is to first find the enemy camp's people, kill them.

With no competitors, naturally there is no competition.

Same principle as not needing to outrun the bear, just needing to outrun the other people.

However... there is also a certain possibility that everyone doesn't have to fight to the death.

Because the mission information did not indicate there are only seven strange events.

The so-called strange events also have no fixed information; the final number is 0, not presented in a 0/7 format.

Perhaps there exist more than seven strange events.

If so, it's not so needle-point against wheat-awn.

Of course, even if such a possibility exists, in camp missions everyone is generally rubbing their fists and wiping their palms, planning to kill the enemy camp's people first.

Among God-Demon Walkers, there is a common understanding: in camp missions, killing enemy God-Demon Walkers greatly increases the probability of skills dropping.

Kong Ming also analyzed big data and believes this saying is correct.

The God-Demon Game indeed encourages God-Demon Walkers to kill each other — otherwise there wouldn't be settings like camp missions and skill drops.

And on this matter, the unlucky Tang Luo says: it's all fake!

Skills dropping, only happened once — uh, twice?

In short, in this cold world, only the power of merit has a bit of warmth.

"Eh, what a coincidence." Ao Yulie's words broke the silence.

The quiet just now proved that the God-Demon Walkers on this mission are all relatively cautious veterans, no clamor, and not rushing to recognize each other.

They put their attention on the mission information.

But it also reflects from the side that this batch of people are all relatively steady, or rather cautious.

Such cautious personalities are not particularly favorable for mission cooperation.

Everyone looks like a crafty old fox; cooperating is naturally more difficult.

Thus, Ao Yulie appeared out of nowhere, broke the silence, and made the atmosphere turn bad.

Reason none other: the target of his greeting was a pair of acquaintances, none other than Li Jue and Wei Xin, the couple.

Tang Luo and Ao Yulie stood at the very front; the two also didn't see who was behind them.

Ao Yulie turned around and saw two acquaintances, smile radiant, the kind where taking one photo could directly debut as an idol and harvest a huge wave of fans.

Li Jue and Wei Xin the couple naturally had stiff expressions; they actually encountered the Mad Monk Tang Xuanzang in a mission?

How should this be handled?

With the same expression as Li Jue and Wei Xin the couple, feeling displeased, there were two others.

Tang Luo turned, looked at Wen Hanfei and said: "What a coincidence." Also smiled.

This mission, not counting Xiaotian Quan on the shoulder, seven people in total.

Excluding Li Jue and Wei Xin the couple, the other three stood relatively close together; the leader was precisely An An's father, Wen Hanfei.

And Wen Hanfei's driver — Kong Ming had investigated, this person is called Li Qiang.

The other one is a stranger, standing on Wen Hanfei's side, gaze sharp, appearance also quite young.

Li Jue and Wei Xin the couple are teamed up; Wen Hanfei's three people are likewise teamed up.

Whether Tang Luo and Ao Yulie are teamed up or not, this camp's God-Demon Walkers are actually composed of three small squads.

"A coincidence?" Wen Hanfei said coldly.

That time coming to the door to probe and warn Tang Luo, resulting in being unreasonably beaten by the other party until arm bones fractured, and also being extorted for healing items — the scene is vivid in memory.

So, Wen Hanfei wishes Tang Luo dead, from the bottom of his heart.

Li Jue the couple's stiff expressions instantly flashed a trace of joy; ran into a comrade-in-arms, this is it!

The enemy of my enemy is a friend.

As two people who were violently beaten by Tang Luo — it was two beatings — they also wish Tang Luo dead.

"It is quite a coincidence." Tang Luo smiled, gaze sweeping over the few people, "Enemies are destined to cross paths —"

"We're leaving." Wen Hanfei looked deeply at Tang Luo once, brought the two behind him and left; the protective light curtains around had already disappeared.

"Master Xuanzang, presumably you also wouldn't want to cooperate with us." Li Jue spoke, and also decisively left with his wife Wei Xin.

Since they are enemies who detest each other at first sight, better to just leave directly.

Staying, if some verbal mockery comes, it might directly trigger physical conflict.

Really fight it out, heavy casualties.

Rather than suppressing inner resentment and restraint, sitting on a volcano crater, better to stay far away.

Staying to scheme against people, please, everyone's relationship is this bad, who doesn't have some guard up?

"Master, it seems we have no companions left." Ao Yulie slightly raised a brow, smiling.

"Yeah." Tang Luo said indifferently.