Chapter 58 Part 2

These people didn’t even think that all the ducks were hunted by Chu Yi. It was already good they had hot soup to drink—what more bicycles did they want?

As for Zhang Jue, he only dared to bite his fingers in the corner. These past few days, the Misfortune Curse had driven him mad. Even taking a piss landed him right on a poisonous snake, which then chased him… When he ran back, his pants were barely pulled up. How could he dare provoke Chu Yi now?

Chu Yi didn’t even need to lift a finger. He just needed to turn a blind eye when Zhang Jue was in danger, and he’d play himself to death!

After three days under the shadow of misfortune, Zhang Jue couldn’t care less about pride or face. Right now, he just wanted to leave the swamp alive.

Two more days passed. Chu Yi went out to scout the terrain and picked a bag of fruit on the way back. Then he heard Fu Chengmao say that someone from the Program Group had gone missing, and he was immediately shocked. “What? Four people disappeared?”

“Yes.” Fu Chengmao looked serious. This disappearance was almost identical to the one from a year ago. He didn’t even know when they had vanished.

According to Fu Chengmao, the four missing were the troublemaking Tarot Girl; a young man named An Hao who liked to butt in and had a bit of a temper; the Program Group Leader; and a cameraman.

“How could that happen? Didn’t they drink the medicine?” Chu Yi asked.

Fu Chengmao grew irritated at the question and recounted the earlier disturbance. “They caused trouble before. I thought they were just using it as an excuse to threaten me, but I didn’t expect them to be so bold…”

Since those people targeted Chu Yi, he hadn’t gone into detail with him. He had just tightened supervision with his team, but they still found a loophole.

Chu Yi thought for a moment. “Have someone gather everyone. I have questions.”

“Okay.” Fu Chengmao did so without another word.

Chu Yi found a slightly higher low slope and stood on it, where he could see everyone’s expressions clearly. He immediately spotted that the remaining cameraman looked off and singled him out. “Do you know something? Speak now if you can. Once something happens, it’ll be too late!”

He had no patience to beat around the bush with them and directly used the Mental Intimidation Technique.

The cameraman was already guilty and offered no resistance to the mental shock. He quickly spilled everything.

It turned out that at first, only the Tarot Girl and An Hao had been influenced by the miasma and hadn’t drunk the medicine after being egged on. He and the other cameraman, along with the Program Group Leader, had secretly followed to film. But he got scared halfway and ran back alone.

At that moment, the Program Group Leader’s confidant—the staff member who had incited them—also looked mournful and raised his hand to confess. “I didn’t know it would turn out like this. I, I just used the excuse of needing to pee to lure away the guard…”

He thought the Program Group Leader and cameramen would film and bring the people back, so nothing would go wrong. Who knew not only the Tarot Girl and An Hao disappeared, but the Leader and the other cameraman too? He guessed something had gone wrong. If he didn’t confess now, that cameraman would rat him out!

Fu Chengmao was so furious he could burst. “You, you…”

His team members had been busting their asses protecting these people, yet they rushed headlong to their deaths. If not for duty, he would have washed his hands of it!

“Captain Fu, chase after them before they go too far… Right, take this with you. If you spot traces of Man-Eating Flowers, absolutely don’t act. Wait for me to arrive.” Chu Yi handed Fu Chengmao a Yellow Talisman and gave him detailed instructions.

“This is…”

“It’s for locating you. If something happens, ignite it.”

“Okay.” Fu Chengmao pocketed the talisman, arranged the remaining team members to obey Chu Yi, and set off with four team members.

Of course, he took that cameraman along.

“You, what are you going to do?” Zhang Jue saw Chu Yi send off Fu Chengmao and the others, then head straight for him. He retreated in fright. “This has nothing to do with me this time. I didn’t participate…”

Chu Yi grabbed him by the scruff of the neck. “Don’t you want to remove the Misfortune Curse? Follow me!”

Zhang Jue: “…”

As soon as Yu Qingxian arrived, Chu Yi picked him up and bellowed ferociously at someone. “Hurry up! Did you not eat?”

He looked down and saw that he had turned into a Copper Coin Sword bound with a red rope. Chu Yi raised his hand as if to whip someone, noticed the situation, and sheepishly lowered it. “You, how did you get here?”

Zhang Jue, gray-faced and digging in quartz sand, heard Chu Yi’s words and cautiously glanced back—this Nemesis was talking to whom?

“What are you looking at? Do your work!”

“Hiss—” Zhang Jue wasn’t careful, and his finger got cut by the quartz sand. Blood instantly welled up. After that, he didn’t dare look around anymore.

Chu Yi: “…”

He touched his nose and explained, “You saw it. He’s just unlucky. It’s not my fault…”

He had only meant to scare Zhang Jue. He really hadn’t hit him.

Yu Qingxian: ???

Hadn’t Chu Yi only been in Liang Province for five or six days? What had happened there?