Chapter 153: Let Me Take a Look! (4th/400 Moon Coins Bonus)

Fang Yue eyed him suspiciously: "Bought it? Really? Didn't think you had that much silver. Got any more Soul-Returning Pills? Give me some."

"Huh?"

"Huh what? Give me some Soul-Returning Pills!"

"Ye Ge, please don't…"

Niu Niu instinctively clutched his small waist pouch—he'd already taken out the vials earlier for easy access.

"What are you hiding? Let me take a look! (shouting)"

Niu Niu shuddered, tears of humiliation rolling down his corners, his hands trembling as he handed over the tiny vial.

Damn it! Is this the accumulated weight of Silver's authority? Why can't I even resist? That was my last Soul-Returning Pill, waaah…

Niu Niu watched in heartbreak as Fang Yue snatched his vial, pried off the wooden stopper, took out the final Soul-Returning Pill, glared at him dismissively, and swallowed it.

"This pill heals way too slow… Why's there still toxic residue? I only took one! This Soul-Returning Pill is garbage."

Niu Niu sent a mournful message: "This is the best Soul-Returning Pill I could get…"

Fang Yue raised an eyebrow.

"Fine, I'll remember you. If Divine Doctor An tries to kill you later, I'll save your life."

"Really?!"

Niu Niu instantly wiped his tears, switched expressions in a second, and beamed.

He'd deserted the team, fled, then been hunted back by the weirdness—now he had no escape route left, forced to stick with the escort squad.

Most importantly, he realized surviving alone in the wild was impossible—any random weirdness could kill him, and he had no choice but to run for his life.

Fang Yue didn't have Niu Niu's emotional turmoil—he frowned as his HP crept up by one or two points like a snail, then sighed.

It's just garbage pills; don't expect much. I'll get some from Divine Doctor An once we rejoin the escort team… but that guy charges way too much!

Fang Yue looked down on Niu Niu's pills because he'd seen Divine Doctor An's. But Divine Doctor An's prices were too high—he could only drool over them.

"By the way, after that Cave Woman chased you, what happened next?"

"Oh right—I was running from the Cave Woman, then when I passed a cave, her head suddenly tilted, her limbs snapped with crackling sounds, and she got dragged inside."

At the same time, I saw the ground sink into a series of goat-hoof prints, chasing toward me."

I'm so smart—I saw something was off and kept running, but somehow ended up at the forest's edge and ran into you guys. You know the rest."

As he spoke, Niu Niu couldn't help sobbing dramatically, nose running and tears streaming.

"Ye Ge, I'm so tragic, so incredibly tragic—my sister got hit by a car and hospitalized, I just went to care for her a little, logged back in, and you dragged me into this escort squad, now I'm almost dead from weirdness—I'm so miserable!!"

Fang Yue frowned.

Niu Niu said the Cave Woman being dragged away and the pursuit happened simultaneously? That means that cave… had at least two Goat Spirit Weirdnesses!

Gregarious weirdness…

A chill ran through Fang Yue.

The wild really was dangerous—he'd previously thought Goat Spirit Weirdnesses had low attack power and couldn't one-shot anyone, so not that threatening.

Now he saw… the real danger wasn't the creature itself, but its gregarious nature!

I wonder what the other Goat Spirit Weirdnesses would do if one died…

Fang Yue imagined himself surrounded by a dozen Goat Spirit Weirdnesses—and instantly shivered.

That scene—even his nighttime self couldn't survive—after all, he only healed fast, his HP cap was low; if a hundred fists landed at once, the damage would explode and he'd die instantly.

"Ye Ge, you don't love me anymore…"

Fang Yue was deep in thought when he saw this message—his temple twitched.

"Speak normally, or I'll shove you into a coffin lid!"

"No, Ye Ge, my sister got hit by a car, I ran around taking care of her, finally logged back in, no comfort at all, and now I'm stuck with all this crap—I'm heartbroken, Niu Niu is heartbroken, but Niu Niu won't cry."

Fang Yue snapped: "Didn't you just make up your sister getting hit by a car? You even believe your own lie?"

"Huh?"

Niu Niu froze.

"My sister really got hit by a car! The driver said everything's covered by insurance and just drove off without leaving a number! I rushed there overnight and haven't slept since!"

Huh…

Fang Yue looked at Niu Niu—he sounded convincingly genuine. He hesitated: "Your sister's accident… isn't just an excuse to log off? It's real?"

"Of course it is! What do you take me for? Would I joke about a car accident?!"

Niu Niu grew angry, crossed his arms, and glared fiercely at Fang Yue.

Uh… okay, seems real.

You're usually so lowbrow, it's hard not to suspect you're faking.

Fang Yue apologized to Niu Niu, who reluctantly calmed down.

"But if your sister's in trouble, why are you playing games?"

"Sigh, it's all for money—hospital bills are nearly ten thousand a day. The silver I earned with Ye Ge selling lifespan is all gone, but it's still not enough…"

Niu Niu suddenly spoke such a realistic thing—it made Fang Yue uncomfortable. This guy was usually so cheerful.

Fang Yue patted Niu Niu's shoulder: "If you need help, you can ask me."

"I know Ye Ge is loyal and righteous, but this kind of thing… I'll handle it myself."

"Mm-hmm."

This topic cast a heavy mood.

Fortunately, soon they returned to the place where the incident had occurred.

They crawled forward, afraid of being spotted by the weirdness.

But when they got closer, they realized the weirdness had vanished entirely.

Whether it was the Sheep Hollow Wraith or the Heavy Wraith Flower, both had vanished without a trace.

And the amount of blood at the scene seemed to be even more than when Fang Yue had been sent flying earlier.

"Ye Ge, did those two kill each other off?"

Fang Yue had already briefly explained to Niu Niu what happened with the escort team, so Niu Niu also knew about the Heavy Wraith Flower.

This guy was lucky too — if he'd run straight back along the village road, he either wouldn't have run into the escort team, or he'd have had to face the Heavy Wraith Flower head-on, and either way the outcome wouldn't have been good.

"Probably not, no corpses, and I didn't even get an assist."

Saying this, Fang Yue was a little hesitant.

Because he didn't know whether, when a wraith kills a wraith, he could still tag along for the assist.

After all, those were wraiths — the enemy faction — and situations like Lord Han's were humans killing wraiths, which counts as a normal mixed assist.

"Let's go, we'll head up ahead and take a look."

By this point, Fang Yue already recognized the road.

Since he had taken part in planning the route earlier, he could figure out the team's subsequent path.

As long as the escort team hadn't strayed from the previously designated road, Fang Yue would definitely be able to catch up with them by following this path.

"Let's run."

Fang Yue gave the instruction, and the two of them ran forward, but very soon they both stopped at the same time.

Because they saw a corpse.

Luo Xin's corpse.

One more chapter coming later.

(End of this chapter)