Chapter 333: Checking Wu Wu's Homework (7/10, for Alliance Leader

"At night?"

Qiu Dugu was stunned for a moment: "Why do we have to move at night? And isn't it already night right now?"

"No no no no no! Right now we're shrouded by Black Cloud, no light gets in, so it's absurdly dark. But dark is dark, the time is still afternoon, it hasn't reached the night point yet."

Qiu Dugu grew even more confused. What a strange person this was — why did he insist on night!

But thinking of Fang Yue's powerful skills, he still said nothing and agreed.

"By the way, where's that girl?"

"……She's bored out of her mind, went off to mess with corpses."

"Corpses?"

Qiu Dugu frowned. He couldn't help doubting himself again, wondering if he'd made a wrong judgment.

The guy in front of him might very well be a strange one — after all, the girl beside him was already this bizarre.

"It's not what you're thinking. It's Charred Corpses. When your hair was sliced open earlier, the arm she was holding — that was from a Charred Corpse."

Qiu Dugu immediately recalled. At the time, Bai Xiaoya, as an ordinary person, had indeed broken his 【Transformation Hair】 using just a severed arm.

Although the hardness and toughness of 【Transformation Hair】 were both quite average, having it destroyed by an ordinary person was still a first.

"By the way, did you deal with those Charred Corpses? Are there any other survivors in the temple?"

Earlier, when he heard Fang Yue say the source was above, Qiu Dugu had rushed up to the sky in a hurry.

Then by the time he realized he couldn't win, it was already too late, and he had fallen unconscious along the way — which was why he was only now remembering such an important matter.

As for why there was no support and no one disturbing this area, it was because Qiu Dugu had already used his 【United Front】 civil servant authority to quarantine this area. From now on, only he and his partner Ma Shaoku were qualified to enter.

It's just that Ma Shaoku was far away and hadn't arrived yet.

"Charred Corpses, huh…… The ones wandering outside, I didn't deal with. Inside Jiangyun Temple, any that were under the eaves, I handled them all. Apart from us, I didn't find a single survivor."

Bang!

Qiu Dugu slammed his fist into the ground, gritting his teeth: "It's all my fault…… I was too arrogant, thought I could handle the Black Cloud and solve the problem at its source. But I missed the best window to save people!"

Fang Yue twitched his lips. Good thing he hadn't told this guy that, before he even arrived after dying, Jiangyun Temple had already been nearly wiped out — otherwise he didn't know what expression might appear.

Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop.

Just then, Bai Xiaoya came back with A Ming.

Bai Xiaoya had white bone spears strapped to her back, like a female Hunter from a primitive society, still gripping one in her hand, her expression calm.

A Ming, on the other hand, looked extremely odd, sneaking glances at Bai Xiaoya several times, seeming to want to say something but holding back.

"You're back."

"Mm."

Bai Xiaoya sat down beside Fang Yue and waved the new phone she'd picked up from a corpse's hand.

"Yuan Jie called, asked when we're going back."

The phone had her own SIM card in it.

Because she'd gone back to the bamboo grove behind Jiangyun Temple, returned to the earlier spot, taken apart the broken phone, removed the SIM card, and put it into the new phone.

This matter — Fang Yue had actually gone with her to handle it.

Hearing Bai Xiaoya's question, Fang Yue couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.

In the current bizarre environment, suddenly hearing Yuan Jie's such everyday question felt really strange.

"Send her a message, say something came up, we'll probably be back in two days."

"Okay."

After replying to the message, Bai Xiaoya looked at Qiu Dugu.

"What does he mean right now? Willing to help you?"

Fang Yue briefly explained Qiu Dugu's thoughts to her.

"Are you sure you can pull it off? You can't fly — if he plays dirty and you fall……"

Bai Xiaoya frowned.

After that incident, she seemed to have grown much more guarded against outsiders.

"No problem, I have my own plan."

Saying so, Fang Yue glanced at the Game Watch.

Game Watch — everything was calm, no prompt to urgently enter the game.

After thinking for a moment, he had Bai Xiaoya stand guard beside him, and he entered the game.

"Playing a game at a time like this?" Qiu Dugu was stunned for a moment, but said nothing.

Inside the game.

Fang Yue, lying on the horse carriage, slowly opened his eyes.

He sat up slowly and looked around. The Human Soul Torches carried by the team had already been lit, driving back the darkness.

The person responsible for guarding him, seeing Fang Yue awake, immediately jolted and hurriedly shouted: "Captain Ye's awake! Captain Ye's awake!"

This guy's voice was pretty loud — Fang Yue quickly told him to keep it down.

This was the wilderness, shouting that loud — did he want the strange ones to come cause trouble?

"Ye Ge! Ye Ge!"

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was the first to rush over, wiping the drool marks left from sleeping too hard at the corner of her mouth, and said: "Ye Ge, look, I didn't slack off, I properly stood guard for you the whole 24 hours keeping alert, waiting at any moment to wake you up!"

Fang Yue's face immediately darkened.

Good grief — such an important task entrusted to you, and you still managed to slack off and sleep! Luckily, besides Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu, Fang Yue had also entrusted other reliable people; otherwise, if she'd been the sole last line of defense, they probably wouldn't even know how they died.

"Did you run into any strange ones on the road today?"

"Reporting to Ye Ge, no!"

"None? Not a single one?"

"Not a single one! We got incredibly lucky this time—everything went smoothly."

Fang Yue couldn't help but feel suspicious; in real life, he had always been prepared to enter the game.

After all, the character in the game represented his real-life strength—both were equally important.

As was customary, Fang Yue launched his three soul questions: Did you eat? What did you eat? Did you eat enough?

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu immediately deflated, gazing at Fang Yue with a plaintive look and whispering, "I ate, I ate, I ate! Don't ask anymore..."

"How much did you eat? Are you still hungry? Speaking so softly—you ate that little and still want to be Deputy Captain of Gu Yue Cun?"

"Ye Ge, that was enough for thirty people for a whole day..."

"Shut up! In my unit, if I say you haven't eaten enough, then you haven't eaten enough!"

"Ye Ge! I—I'll work harder tomorrow..." Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu cried out, sounding wounded.

"Fine. I'll check tomorrow whether you've completed your task."

After sending Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu away, Fang Yue called in Blood Hunter.

After questioning, it turned out to be exactly as Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu had said—no anomalies were encountered along the way.

But unlike Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu's optimism, Blood Hunter, after so many days since acquiring the juvenile Giant-Headed Blood Dog, furrowed his brow for the first time in rare earnestness.

"Ye Ge, I feel uneasy in my chest—something out of the ordinary always means trouble!"

"Explain."

"Look, how far have we traveled today? Compared to when we came, our marching speed is faster, our equipment has been upgraded, and everyone is full of energy—we've effectively covered even more ground. Yet not a single anomaly appeared along this entire stretch. Doesn't that strike you as strange?"

(End of Chapter)