pjbooks Chapter 132 What are you doing?! I want them!
Chapter 132 What are you doing?! I want them!
The tavern was deathly silent.
All eyes were fixed on the eccentric man who got up from the ground, his face full of righteous indignation, as if he were about to liberate all of humanity.
Luo Tian.
The lone wolf narrowed his single eye slightly, looking at someone he couldn't understand as an idiot.
His men behind him burst into undisguised sneers.
"Where did this idiot come from?"
"He even went through fire and water... Does he know how many people are buried there?"
"Looking at his backpack, I thought he was a garbage collector from outside the city, hahaha..."
Chen Yifan sat there, holding his water glass, without even lifting his eyelids.
But a cold voice rang precisely in Luo Tian's mind.
"What are you doing?"
It's not a question, it's a statement.
Luo Tian's excited expression of "sacrificing himself for his ideals" froze for 0.1 seconds.
He immediately covered it up with even more exaggerated acting, while simultaneously explaining rapidly in a tearful voice on their shared micro-communication channel:
"Boss, I was wrong! I just wanted to play a brainless idiot."
Now that we've found our target, they won't see us as a threat!
In the script, he's supposed to shoo us away like flies the next second, and we'll use that opportunity to sneak into the shadows! I swear!
Chen Yifan: "..."
He gave Luo Tian a deep look.
We're starting to seriously assess the possibility of simply throwing this guy out to feed the alien beasts.
Lone Wolf sized up Luo Tian's frail, messy hairstyle, then glanced at Chen Yifan, who was quiet like an outsider and excessively handsome.
The disdain in his eyes was almost overflowing.
"roll."
One word, conveying a disgust akin to driving away garbage.
Become!
Luo Tian was overjoyed, but he perfectly managed to squeeze out an expression of utter grief and indignation on his face, preparing to drag Chen Yifan away "with resentment" and disappear perfectly from everyone's sight.
"etc."
A languid female voice rang out, not loud, but like a feather brushing against everyone's eardrums.
It is a "rattlesnake".
The woman in the fiery red leather jacket put down her wine glass, her alluring eyes darting back and forth between Chen Yifan and Luo Tian with great interest.
"Lone Wolf, don't be in such a hurry to kick people out."
She stuck out her scarlet tongue and slowly licked her lips—a wild and dangerous gesture.
"I think these two guys are... quite interesting."
Lone Wolf's face darkened.
"Rattlesnake, this is none of your business."
"How can it be unrelated?"
Rattlesnake chuckled, stood up from his chair, and moved silently toward Chen Yifan like a cat.
The high heels clicked on the wooden floor, each step seemingly hitting the very heartbeat of everyone present.
All eyes in the tavern followed her swaying figure.
She walked to Chen Yifan's desk and bent down.
A dangerous aura, a mixture of strong liquor and expensive perfume, descended upon us.
She extended a finger with glossy black nail polish and unceremoniously hooked Chen Yifan's chin, forcing him to look into her eyes.
"Little brother, how did you make Batu freeze in place just now?"
Her voice was extremely low, with a hissing sound like a snake's tongue, full of playful inquiry.
"Tell your sister, and she'll guarantee you can join."
Chen Yifan's eyes were as calm as a deep pool. He didn't answer, but just looked at her quietly.
His eyes were so clean, so clean that they didn't seem like someone who would set foot in this place.
But the rattlesnake caught a fleeting glimpse of the same coldness and indifference that she shared from the bottom of that clean pool.
"Don't want to talk about it?"
She wasn't annoyed; her smile only deepened.
"It's okay, my sister likes men with secrets."
She straightened up, turned to face Lone Wolf, whose face was growing increasingly pale, and her voice returned to its lazy tone.
"I want them."
"Count me in."
"If they're useless and die in the Gobi Desert, I'll personally collect their bodies. If they're a liability... you don't need to lift a finger, I'll take care of them."
"you……"
A deep sense of apprehension flashed in the lone wolf's single eye.
Rattlesnake was a notorious madwoman, a level 60+ Illusion Hunter with deep-rooted influence in Tumbleweed Town. She didn't want to make enemies for two newbies.
"it is good."
Finally, he managed to squeeze out a single word through gritted teeth.
"If anything happens, you're responsible!"
He took out two black metal pieces the size of coins from his pocket, flicked them with his fingers, and they turned into two streaks of light that flew precisely towards Chen Yifan and Luo Tian.
"Anyone who loses or turns off the team's trackers and communicators will face the consequences."
Chen Yifan raised his hand and caught it steadily.
A cool sensation came from my palm.
He looked up, his gaze passing over the crowd, meeting Rattlesnake's smiling eyes in mid-air.
The game seems to have become more interesting.
Luo Tian, who was standing next to him, was completely petrified.
He stared intently at the tracker in his hand, feeling that it was hotter than his 300 million IOU.
It’s over.
The script... has completely fallen apart.
The sky is bright.
Outside the town of Windblown Grass, a team of more than thirty people had assembled.
They were less a team and more a pack of hungry wolves forced together.
Each of them exuded a fierce aura, their eyes gleaming with greed and vigilance.
They maintained a delicate and dangerous distance from each other.
The lone wolf stood at the front, his single eye sweeping over everyone, his voice icy.
"There is only one rule. In operations, my orders are absolute. Anyone who dares to outwardly comply but inwardly disobey..."
He grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth.
"I don't mind giving the carrion vultures in the Black Wind Gobi an extra breakfast."
No one answered; the air was filled with an invisible stench of blood.
Chen Yifan and Luo Tian stood at the end of the line, being "protected" by Rattlesnake and a few of her trusted men at a distance.
"Old Li, did your shadow move?"
At this moment, one of his trusted confidants stared at the shadow of Old Wang and rubbed his eyes incredulously.
Just now, he saw the other person's shadow, like a small pebble thrown into a calm lake, creating a slight ripple.
It's gone in the blink of an eye.
"Shadow moving? You've had too much to drink!"
The other person looked at their own shadow and even made a gesture.
Nothing unusual.
"That's strange, could it be that I really drank too much?"
Luo Tian didn't pay attention to what the people next to him were saying.
He hung his head dejectedly, like a defeated rooster.
"Boss, I think I... messed things up."
"No."
Chen Yifan glanced at Luo Tian again, his face expressionless.
His voice was calm.
"Plans can't keep up with changes, and things may not be a bad thing as they are now."
As soon as he finished speaking, a fragrant breeze wafted over.
Rattlesnake swayed over and leaned against an abandoned armored vehicle next to them, its gaze sweeping over Chen Yifan's body inch by inch without any attempt to hide its presence.
"Little brother, can you tell your sister your name now?"
"Chen Fan".
Chen Yifan casually gave a fake name.
"Luo Tian! My name is Luo Tian! I know everything from astronomy to... "
Luo Tian was about to introduce himself when Rattlesnake glared at him with a cold look, shutting him down.
"Chen Fan..."
Rattlesnake parted its red lips slightly, chewing on the name, its eyes so alluring they could drip water.
"Yesterday, I was very curious. Batu, that idiot, may not be strong, but he's still a genuine second-tier warrior. What methods did you use?"
Her tone was flirtatious, but her probing was like a poisoned scalpel.
"And... what level are you exactly?"
Chen Yifan glanced at her, his tone as indifferent as if he were talking about someone else.
"Hehe, are you so curious about other people, sister?"
"Oh……"
The rattlesnake was amused by the answer and let out a short, soft chuckle.
"Interesting, very interesting."
She leaned closer, her breath sweet as orchids, her voice extremely low:
"Little brother, Lone Wolf is no good. That map of his is definitely a trap. Follow me, and I promise I'll make sure you survive longer in the Gobi Desert."
A blatant recruitment.
"Since we've followed you, we'll naturally listen to you."
Chen Yifan replied indifferently.
This ambiguous attitude only fueled the rattlesnake's interest.
She was absolutely certain that this boy named Chen Fan was not as harmless as he appeared.
The team set off.
Luo Tian quietly nudged Chen Yifan's arm, his voice filled with unprecedented seriousness.
"Boss, I just scanned everyone with a micro probe."
"That hooded man who kept following Lone Wolf...something's off."
Chen Yifan's gaze, seemingly unintentionally, drifted toward the person who was deliberately hiding in the shadows.
Since last night, he had felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with that person.
"Be more careful."
Luo Tian nodded.
"Ready to go!"
The lone wolf's howl interrupted Chen Yifan's racing thoughts.
The group of more than 30 people, like a turbid torrent, marched mightily into the depths of the Black Wind Gobi Desert.
However, they had only walked less than five kilometers from Tumbleweed Town.
"Buzz—"
The earth suddenly began to vibrate at a high frequency!
Something's not right!
Lone Wolf's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly looked up.
Just a hundred meters ahead, on the Gobi Desert, the yellow sand seemed to be boiling and bulging up into huge sand dunes!
Just a hundred meters ahead, on the Gobi Desert, the yellow sand seemed to be boiling and bulging up into huge sand dunes!
next second!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dozens of terrifying sand pillars, each over three meters in diameter, shot into the sky!
Giant monsters, each the size of an armored vehicle, covered in black armor, and with mouthparts like meat grinders, suddenly burst out from the ground!
"It's a Black-Armored Strangler Worm!" someone in the group screamed in despair. "Oh my god! It's a level 50 beast!"
"A beast! It's a beast! Defend!"