Chapter 45
Luo Shizhen and his group were examining the sandpit.
Behind the plants outside the sandpit, a tiger’s tail popped out. The thick, sturdy tiger tail swished back and forth on the ground, almost sweeping the ground in front of it bare.
Cheng Yunshao stood to the side: “Wen Hu, restrain yourself a bit. You didn’t come here to sweep the floor.”
The giant tiger let out a low growl, annoyed that he was blocking its line of sight.
Cheng Yunshao wasn’t supposed to be able to understand beast language, but looking at the giant tiger’s disgusted look, he could guess about eighty or ninety percent of it. Speechless, he shifted to the side.
“If you hadn’t saved me today, I absolutely would not accompany you in doing this.”
Cheng Yunshao had never partnered with Wen Hu before, but his previous impression of Wen Hu was that his combat power was quite good, just that he had a foul mouth.
This was nothing; whose mouth in the school wasn’t foul?
But looking at it now, Wen Hu had more than just this one shortcoming.
He knew that Atavistic Awakeners could sometimes be foolish, but he didn’t know they could be this foolish.
This tree couldn’t hide the giant tiger’s figure at all. Cheng Yunshao said, “Do you really have to turn into your beast form to stake out here?”
Wen Hu changed back into a human and said in a low voice:
“I can feel it, Shizhen really likes my tiger form. If I turn into my beast form and he gets seduced by it, wouldn’t he ask us to join his squad?”
Cheng Yunshao: “You’ve been seducing for ten minutes here. Do you see anyone paying attention to you?”
Wen Hu: “That’s because he hasn’t seen me yet. Wait until he sees me, the situation will be different.”
Cheng Yunshao really wanted to take out his phone and record his ugly mug, but because he had already recorded too much along the way, there was no need to record repetitive material now.
Wen Hu was still there insisting: “Qi doesn’t lie. His Qi simply really likes me.”
Cheng Yunshao thought to himself, Qi indeed doesn’t lie, but is there a possibility that besides liking Wen Hu’s tiger beast form, Luo Shizhen also likes Lu Qiujin, likes Qin Yinian, and likes a whole bunch of people?
Luo Shizhen obviously only looked after Wen Hu out of classmate camaraderie. His subsequent way of speaking and behavior were very standardly just treating Wen Hu as a classmate.
“I don’t understand, you just came into contact with him, how did you fall in love so quickly?”
Wen Hu secretly observed Luo Shizhen:
“You’re not of the Atavistic lineage, you don’t know. He has a very, very fragrant scent on him. Moreover, don’t you really think he is very gentle to me? When we met earlier, I didn’t treat him gently at all, but he still treated me and gently stroked my fur.”
Cheng Yunshao: “When he rejected you for Lu Qiujin, his attitude was indeed quite gentle.”
Wen Hu: “…A gentle rejection, is it not still gentle?”
Wen Hu didn’t care.
Only those who had licked Luo Shizhen and been soothed by his Qi would know what a wonderful feeling that was.
“Anyway, I like him, and I’m going to pursue him. If you’re not going to help, then don’t cause trouble. Go far away.”
“If you are willing to help, then cover up your somewhat attractive face, don’t let Shizhen take a fancy to you.”
Cheng Yunshao: “Thank you for acknowledging that I am somewhat attractive. I’ll stay.”
On one hand, Wen Hu had indeed risked his life to save him, and he wasn’t someone who liked owing others favors.
On the other hand, this Anomaly in the amusement park was definitely not just Tier One anymore; it was at least Tier Three.
Under these circumstances, sticking together as a team was the safest and most effective way to complete the mission.
“You staying here all the time isn’t a solution either. Isn’t the reason Luo Shizhen doesn’t want to let you join because he feels you’re hostile towards Lu Qiujin? Do this: pretend to be friendly towards Lu Qiujin to dispel his concerns and smooth over what happened before.”
Wen Hu watched Lu Qiujin, who had reached out his hand from the sandpit, letting Luo Shizhen pull him up forcefully from above.
“But when I see him, I just want to crush him to death.”
“It’s completely normal that you want to crush him to death when he’s holding the hand of the person you like, but you can’t crush him right now. In Luo Shizhen’s eyes, his relationship with Lu Qiujin is much closer than his relationship with you.”
Cheng Yunshao analyzed: “You need to figure out clearly what it is you want to do the most right now.”
Wen Hu: “Lick Shizhen’s face, lick Shizhen’s hands, lick Shizhen’s legs, strip off Shizhen’s clothes, lick Shizhen’s…”
“Stop!” In broad daylight, Cheng Yunshao’s handsome, pale face turned beet red upon hearing this.
How was this love at first sight? This was clearly lust induced by seeing someone attractive.
Wen Hu’s beast form was indeed a golden-yellow tiger; the moment he opened his mouth, it was completely unfiltered.
“Do you have no other thoughts in your head besides licking Luo Shizhen?”
Wen Hu: “I also want to mate with him.”
Cheng Yunshao: “…”
He couldn’t help but look at Luo Shizhen following Wen Hu’s words.
Luo Shizhen’s figure was indeed quite good. He wasn’t the scrawny type; his thighs were long and powerful, and his firm chest wrapped in the combat suit always exuded a hint of softness during movement, rising and falling slightly with his actions.
Resting a hand on it would definitely feel very nice to the touch.
Cheng Yunshao didn’t dare to keep looking. He quickly lowered his eyes and took off his glasses, adopting the posture that his glasses had gotten dusty and he needed to wipe them seriously.
“Wen Hu, although you are an Atavistic Awakener, Luo Shizhen is not. His mindset is still that of a human. If you keep acting like you are now, opening your mouth to say you want to lick here and there, and closing your mouth to say you want to mate, Luo Shizhen will treat you as a pervert.”
“Your most pressing matter right now is to get close to him first. Only when you’re close will you have the chance to gain his favor.”
Wen Hu furrowed his brows in thought and felt this made a lot of sense.
“Then you shouldn’t follow. You’re somewhat good-looking; I’m afraid that if you get close to him with me, he’ll take a fancy to you.”
Cheng Yunshao’s face, which hadn’t completely faded from its blush, reddened another layer. He looked as if he had been insulted:
“I’m not like you Atavistic types who act on instinct, becoming lustful just because you smell someone smelling nice. I have standards.”
“My ideal partner should share the same values and beliefs as me. I wouldn’t randomly become lustful just because someone has a good figure and a good temper. Giving into lust at the sight of beauty is a blasphemy against love.”
Wen Hu was half-convinced, half-doubtful: “Are you really not going to compete with me for the chance to pursue Shizhen?”
Cheng Yunshao didn’t answer, merely asking him: “Do you still want to join his squad or not?”
Wen Hu immediately forgot what he was just asking: “I want to.”
“Then listen to me and stop asking this and that. I don’t like owing favors. Helping you join Luo Shizhen’s squad this time will count as me returning your favor.”
As an observer, Cheng Yunshao could see clearly just now that Luo Shizhen was afraid Wen Hu would provoke Lu Qiujin.
Although he knew in his heart that Lu Qiujin wouldn’t be provoked so easily, who asked Luo Shizhen—the person Wen Hu liked—to think that way?
“We will continue to follow them next. The Living Corpses in this amusement park are not limited to just these few. When they encounter an attack, we will step forward to help, showing our sincerity first. Following that, you absolutely must apologize to Lu Qiujin first. Say that you were still slightly in a polluted state just now, your mind wasn’t clear, you misspoke, and ask for his forgiveness.”
Wen Hu: “I didn’t misspeak; that’s exactly what I thought in my heart.”
Cheng Yunshao: “Do you still want to pursue Luo Shizhen or not?”
Wen Hu: “I do.”
Cheng Yunshao: “Then shut your mouth and listen to me. No matter what Lu Qiujin’s attitude is, as long as you put your own attitude in the right place, Luo Shizhen will definitely have a favorable impression of you.”
“Luo Shizhen has a bad impression of you because you spoke harshly to Lu Qiujin. So, moving forward, at least on the surface, you must express friendliness towards Lu Qiujin so Luo Shizhen can see your attitude.”
Wen Hu nodded: “Alright, thanks, bro. Once I successfully pursue Shizhen, I’ll definitely treat you to a meal.”
Ahead, at the edge of the sandpit.
The group surrounded the sandpit but couldn’t find a single bug.
“Strange, the pollution source is right here.”
Luo Shizhen measured it again with the scanner, and the value was extremely high.
Qin Yinian narrowed his eyes: “It might be underground. I’ll try burning it with fire. You two step back a bit.”
Luo Shizhen and Lu Qiujin took two steps back.
Qin Yinian raised his hands, summoning flames from the air and directing them toward the sandpit.
Sand could extinguish fire, but with the flames scorching the surface, if there really were Gu Chong underneath, they absolutely wouldn’t be able to withstand the high temperature.
The three people’s gazes were all focused on it, but unexpectedly, there was no movement from the sandpit itself; instead, the edge of the sandpit suddenly collapsed.
Luo Shizhen and Lu Qiujin’s bodies suddenly lost their balance as a giant python with a bizarre shape—looking more like a massive bug—darted out from underground. It opened its fangs towards the two of them, its mouth full of tiny, black Gu Chong.
The aura of this giant python was at least Tier Three. Lu Qiujin immediately summoned trees to block in front of them, but their defenses were swiftly broken.
Luo Shizhen stood frozen in place, almost able to smell the putrid stench of the Gu Chong. At this moment, his eyesight seemed to have improved even more. Not only could he smell the Gu Chong, but he also accurately saw that the giant python’s “tongue” was actually a large Gu Chong.
It was a pure black Gu Chong, looking somewhat like an eel.
Luo Shizhen stared at it. For some unknown reason, he felt as if he could vaguely sense its emotions.
Muddled, irritable, and murderous.
But very quickly, as the Gu Chong got closer to Luo Shizhen, those emotions shifted into deep terror.
He felt as though he heard its sharp, miserable cries, as if it had seen something terrifying, yet his ears told him he heard nothing at all.
Luo Shizhen looked at it and felt his stomach grow a little hungry.
“I’m coming!”
Wen Hu had been on high alert for a while. Seeing this situation, the giant golden tiger fiercely lunged over.
It swiped its sharp claws out and swiftly saved… Lu Qiujin.
Cheng Yunshao summoned his puppet: “Zhi Kui!”
At almost the exact same moment, a white giant folded from paper blocked the path between Luo Shizhen and the giant python.
The Zhi Kui held a long spear, blocking the giant python’s wide-open mouth horizontally.
Cheng Yunshao felt the Tier Three aura from the giant python and had already prepared himself for this puppet to be destroyed.
But the giant python didn’t continue its attack; instead, it turned around and drilled back underground.
He hurriedly walked to the side of Luo Shizhen, who was staring blankly, lost in thought: “Are you okay?”
Luo Shizhen shook his head, patting his stomach which had just digested two bananas: “I’m fine.”
He snapped back to reality and looked curiously at the tall white giant made of paper in front of him:
“So this is your puppet technique. It really looks almost like a real person, that’s amazing!”
Cheng Yunshao smiled slightly: “Actually, it has a few flaws. My previous puppet was destroyed in combat, and this one was made temporarily on the way. Look, it’s still missing a section at its waist.”
“To be able to make it so well in such a short time, your hands are really skilled. Thank you for saving me. It was too sudden just now, I was a bit slow to react.”
“No need to thank me, it was just convenient.”
Luo Shizhen patted his stomach, wondering if he hadn’t eaten enough, or if he had been frightened into being hungry.
“Roar!!”
A furious roar from the giant tiger rang out. The two of them snapped back to attention and saw Lu Qiujin standing up with an ugly expression next to the golden tiger.
Being saved by Wen Hu was worse than being bitten by the giant python.
Cheng Yunshao’s eyes met Wen Hu’s tiger eyes.
No one could understand Wen Hu’s roar.
But strangely, from his incredulous and boundlessly furious gaze, Cheng Yunshao clearly understood what Wen Hu was thinking.
—You brat told me to save my rival in love, while you yourself went to save Shizhen?!!
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