“Does that kid have a problem? Does he really think he can walk out of this desert on his own?” Wu Zhaokun couldn’t understand Lin Baici’s mentality.

It’s really just for the sake of face, not even caring about his life.

In Wu Zhaokun’s view, being with the Divine Hunters of the Third Division is the only way to maximize the survival rate.

“Admirable ambition!” Chen Mingshu sighed. She actually admired Lin Baici’s character of preferring to die than to compromise.

Fei Xiao came back, relayed Zhang Heng’s words, and advised, “Your judgment may be right, but don’t be in a hurry. Follow Zhang Heng and the others first, it’s the safest way!”

“Not in a hurry?” Lin Baici looked at Cai Wenqi and the others, and then thought about the people struggling in the God’s Ruins museum at this moment. They could die in the next second.

Fei Xiao obviously also thought of what Lin Baici was worried about and sighed.

Sometimes, it is more important to safely contain the divine remains and purify the God’s Ruins than the lives of some people, because once the God’s Ruins expand, the losses will be greater.

This is the trolley problem.

For the Divine Hunters, they often face this kind of choice and have to give up some people.

Zhang Heng was not interested in showing off his achievements and reputation, so he left directly. Wu Zhaokun wanted to embarrass Lin Baici, so he walked over.

“Our captain is a Lion King-level Divine Hunter and the grand captain of the Ninth Continent Security Bureau. We are now heading towards that building. Whoever wants to follow, come quickly!” Wu Zhaokun finished speaking and provocatively glanced at Lin Baici.

Everyone looked at each other, looking at Lin Baici with concern.

“Lin Daren, what’s going on? Aren’t we going together?” The couple who survived dared to ask.

“Yes, I’m going this way!” Lin Baici confessed truthfully.

“Why? Is that guy a fraud?” The couple didn’t understand.

“No, he’s telling the truth. They are indeed elite members of the Security Bureau. You’ll be safer following them than following me.”

If someone wanted to leave, Lin Baici wouldn’t stop them, because he knew that more people would die next, and he definitely wouldn’t have the energy to take care of everyone.

Everyone fell silent.

“Go ahead, I won’t blame you!” Lin Baici smiled faintly.

“Lin Daren, thank you for taking care of us all this time!”

“Lin Daren, when we get back, I’ll buy you a drink!”

“Let’s go together?”

Some people expressed their thanks, bid farewell, and some wanted to persuade Lin Baici to go with them. Most people, however, tended to follow Zhang Heng, because their team of Divine Hunters had more members and stronger abilities.

Lin Baici shook his head.

Some people hurriedly left to catch up with Zhang Heng.

“Aren’t you leaving?” Lin Baici saw that Fei Xiao didn’t move.

“I don’t like that guy!” Fei Xiao casually found an excuse.

In fact, it was his pride at work.

As the captain of the Ninth Division, if he followed Zhang Heng, how could he continue to mix in the future?

He might as well resign.

Fang Tianhua also stayed behind, standing with Fei Xiao.

Seeing this, Fei Xiao smiled and patted Fang Tianhua’s chest.

“You should go with them!”

Lin Baici suggested that Cai Wenqi leave.

“I trust you more!”

Cai Wenqi had already seen Lin Baici’s character, very tough and trustworthy. Also, because of Li Wei’s relationship, she could be taken care of more by Lin Baici. If she went with Zhang Heng’s team, she would just be an ordinary person.

“I chose this path, even if I die, I won’t blame you!”

Cai Wenqi smiled freely.

“Let’s go!” Lin Baici shouted.

…

“Captain, more than half of them followed!”

Wu Zhaokun was very happy, watching Lin Baici and the small group of people gradually disappear behind the sand dunes.

“What’s there to be happy about?” Zhang Heng endured a sentence, his face serious.

He felt that with his identity, everyone following him was the proof of his strength.

A third of the people followed Lin Baici, which was a kind of humiliation to him.

“Uh!” Wu Zhaokun misspoke and quickly shut up.

Three hours passed!

They had been walking in the scorching desert for so long. Because they had no sun protection measures, their skin was red, hot, and itchy, but they dared not scratch.

But the most uncomfortable thing was being tired and thirsty.

Zhang Heng had a space-type Divine Taboo, but the storage space was not large, so he had to save his supplies. In addition, there were more than two hundred people in the team, and they didn’t know how long it would take to get out of this desert, so Zhang Heng implemented supply control.

Ten people shared a bottle of water. If they were really thirsty, they could take a sip to moisten their throats.

Half a day hadn’t passed, and everyone was already starting to miss Lin Baici.

At least with him, they had enough to eat and drink, and if they died, they could at least die full.

But it was too late for regrets. After walking for so long, it was impossible to turn back and follow Lin Baici.

The team continued to move forward, and the atmosphere was very oppressive.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man’s body sank and disappeared into the desert.

“Ah, help!”

Before the middle-aged man could finish shouting, he had completely disappeared.

“Monsters are attacking! Prepare for battle!”

Zhang Heng shouted loudly, full of momentum, but no matter how loud his voice was, it couldn’t save anyone.

Rumble! Rumble!

More than ten people sank into the sand, and ten seconds later, scorpions larger than adults crawled out from underground.

In the mouths of several of them, they were gnawing on a corpse.

It was the Pharaoh’s Scorpion Army.

“Kill them!”

Zhang Heng brandished his horse-cutting knife and charged at the scorpions.

“Damn, don’t chase after me, I stink, go eat someone else!”

“Kill these monsters quickly!”

“I was wrong, can I choose again? Let me follow Lin Daren?”

Those who had followed Lin Baici before were starting to regret.

Zhang Heng and his group were capable, and they were cutting down the scorpions left and right. But the problem was, there were too many scorpions, and they couldn’t kill them all at once.

During this time gap, someone was unlucky.On Lin Baici’s side, with the Scorpion Queen present, there was no need to fight monsters. With a roar from the queen, the magic scorpions all left.

Five minutes later, over a hundred magic scorpions were killed, but about twenty people also died.

Wu Zhaokun stood next to an injured magic scorpion, chopped off its head, and helped a girl up, asking, “Are you okay?”

The girl kept crying.

Wu Zhaokun didn’t even get a thank you, which made him a little unhappy. He had specially come to her rescue because she was quite good-looking. He had imagined that after saving her, she would be grateful and secretly admire him, but that didn’t happen.

“Damn, this woman doesn’t know how to be grateful!”

Wu Zhaokun spat, looked up, and found that no one had apologized to them…

Wasn’t that a bit rude?

“Hey, we saved you, and this is your attitude?”

Wu Zhaokun touched the blade and said, “At least say thank you?”

“Wu Zhaokun, shut up!”

Zhang Heng scolded, “Are you saving people to get something in return?”

Wu Zhaokun quickly lowered his head and mumbled in defense, “I’m just upset!”

“There’s nothing to be upset about. You saved people because it’s your duty!”

Zhang Heng stared at Wu Zhaokun. “Change your mindset as a hero and your attitude towards them, or get out of my team!”

“I understand!”

Wu Zhaokun looked disheartened.

“Captain, can we not fight monsters?”

A woman was too scared and pleaded with Zhang Heng. She didn’t think she was lucky enough to survive another time.

“Huh, not fight monsters? Do you want to wait for death?”

Wu Zhaokun thought this request was ridiculous.

“No, what I mean is, capture a scorpion monster and bring it with us. These monsters crawling out of the desert won’t attack us then!”

The woman explained, but she didn’t understand it well, so she couldn’t explain clearly.

“What do you mean? Aren’t these all scorpion monsters?”

Wu Zhaokun thought this woman was just asking for trouble. A couple of slaps would have solved everything.

“No, there’s a kind of female scorpion, like the one next to Lin Dashen. With it, these scorpion monsters will stop attacking us!”

“We encountered this kind of scorpion monster just now. That female scorpion said a few words, and they left!”

“Really, I’m not lying to you. Everyone saw it.”

The people following Lin Baici reported everything they had seen.

“…”

The divine hunters of the Third Department looked at each other.

Could it really be done like this?

How did Lin Baici make a monster listen to him?

Did he have some kind of divine power to control them?

Chen Mingshu, with a scholarly air and a smiling face, made people instinctively feel that he was harmless.

He asked a dozen people, then returned to report to Zhang Heng, “They said that the female scorpion follows Lin Baici to have children with him!”

“What?”

Wu Zhaokun was confused. “Are you kidding me?”

Even Zhang Heng was dumbfounded, mainly because this was too absurd.

Leaving aside whether a person and a scorpion could have children, why did the monster choose Lin Baici?

It couldn’t be because he was handsome, right?

Chen Mingshu shrugged. “Now I think Lin Baici’s judgment might be right, because he has an insider!”

Zhang Heng fell silent and looked at the black shadow on the horizon.

Returning now to chase after Lin Baici would mean admitting his mistake in judgment, but not going back might mean a wasted trip.

“Captain, I’ll go scout!”

Chen Mingshu volunteered.

“It’s too dangerous. I’ll go alone!” Zhang Heng was not indecisive. “I’ll move faster on my own!”

If Chen Mingshu died on the way and couldn’t bring back any information, it would waste a lot of time, which Zhang Heng didn’t want to see.

“Or should we ask them again?”

Wu Zhaokun still felt that these people’s words were unreliable.

“The information Chen Mingshu obtained can’t be wrong. It’s settled!”

Zhang Heng set off alone.

“Damn!”

Wu Zhaokun cursed!

“You should thank Lin Baici. If it weren’t for him, our trip might have been in vain!”

Chen Mingshu became interested in Lin Baici.

“Fei Xiao is really cunning!”

Wu Zhaokun sneered.

…

Fei Xiao didn’t know that Wu Zhaokun saw him as a cunning villain. At this moment, he was standing in front of a huge black obelisk, trying to decipher the inscriptions on it.

“Have we really reached the end?”

Fang Tianhua looked up at the obelisk, which was dozens of meters high and made of black basalt, with a look of shock on his face.

He wasn’t shocked by the grandeur of the building, but by Lin Baici’s judgment.

He was right again.

When everyone and Zhang Heng went their separate ways and set out on the road, Fang Tianhua had already prepared for a long journey, but who knew that just an hour later, this building suddenly appeared in front of them.

“What are you staring at? Hurry up and find a way out!”

Fei Xiao urged.

“Oh!”

Fang Tianhua circled the obelisk. He felt that the mystery should be in the hieroglyphs!

“The sun shines brightly, and the power of the pharaoh is invincible.”

“After devout worship, the temple gates open!”

“I think just kowtowing to this obelisk three times should do it. Lin Baici definitely won’t kowtow.”

Fei Xiao might not have emotional intelligence, but he had plenty of social experience. When he heard this, he immediately took the initiative to pick a few people.

“You, you, and you, come here and kneel in front of the obelisk!”

Fei Xiao picked both men and women, and they were all good-looking.

The ten people who were called were a little scared, worried that they would become sacrifices and be sacrificed.

“What are you dawdling for? Hurry up!”

Fei Xiao urged, “It’s just kowtowing, it’s not like you’ll lose a piece of flesh?”

The ten people walked nervously to the obelisk, knelt down, and kowtowed.

“Be devout, use force, and touch your forehead to the ground!”

Fei Xiao demanded.In reality, it wasn’t that strict. After a girl had kowtowed, the ground suddenly began to shake, and a door appeared on the stone wall to the north of the obelisk, leading to a downward passage.

“There’s a way!”

Fang Tianhua excitedly peered down, but it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

After distributing flashlights to everyone, Lin Baici took a lit pine torch and prepared to descend.

“I’ll go first!”

Fei Xiao stopped Lin Baici.

Not only was he older, but he was also the team leader, and it didn’t seem right to let a young man take the lead.

Once everyone entered the passage, they immediately felt a sense of oppression and claustrophobia hit them, causing several people to start gasping uncontrollably.

These people suffered from claustrophobia; once they entered such places, their hearts would race, they would panic and sweat, and their nerves would endure tremendous torment.

But at times like this, no one would take care of them; they had to bear it themselves.

The passage was long and continued downward. The walls and floor were covered in dust and many spider webs, with watermelon-sized spiders crawling around.

Lin Baici casually set the webs on fire.

The flames spread, burning a clear path.

“Should we speed up?”

Fang Tianhua suggested, as it had been twenty minutes and they still hadn’t exited the passage.

“Let’s be cautious!”

Fei Xiao wasn’t in a hurry, observing the murals on the walls, hoping to discover some clues. Suddenly, a cold wind blew.

“Holy shit, there are ghosts!”

Fang Tianhua yelled.

Ahead, where the flashlight shone, one could see gray shadows drifting over with the wind.

They wailed and screamed, like souls bound here for a thousand years, enduring endless torment.

“Prepare for battle!”

After Fei Xiao shouted, he slashed at a passing shadow, but the blade passed through the shadow’s body without leaving any injury.

However, these ghosts didn’t kill anyone; they just passed through the group and continued to drift forward.

“What’s going on?”

Jin Yingzhen checked her body but found no issues.

“Despicable and filthy heretics, how dare you enter my kingdom and disturb my rest. I curse you, within one hour, you will die one after another!”

A grand and majestic voice echoed in the passage, and at the same time, about half a foot above the heads of Lin Baici and the others, small clusters of flames appeared with a popping sound, as if igniting.

But these flames were not the normal orange-red; they were green. When the light spread, it cast a creepy green glow all around.

“Holy crap!”

Fei Xiao cursed, hating to encounter such rule contamination.

For a Godhunter, a simple monster-fighting game was actually the easiest.

“What does this flame mean? Does it represent the curse?”

Hua Yueyu turned to look at the flames above everyone’s heads. The one above Lin Baici was the largest, followed by Xia Hongyao, and then Fei Xiao: “Does this flame have something to do with combat power?”

“I think it’s related to vitality!”

Gu Qingqiu scanned the group, noting that the weaker a person’s body, the smaller the flame above their head, indicating they might not last an hour.

“Definitely not!”

Fang Tianhua retorted: “Our team leader has enhanced his body hundreds of times by now, how could he be weaker than those two?”

“Would you shut up?”

Fei Xiao told Fang Tianhua to be quiet.

Reason told him that this girl named Gu Qingqiu was right in her deduction.

Despite Xia Hongyao’s youth, because of her sister Xia Hongmian, she had clearly started strengthening her body with meteorite stones from a young age, making her stronger than himself, which was not surprising.

But what about Lin Baici?

The flame above his head was frighteningly bright.

Fei Xiao suddenly felt that Lin Baici was definitely not an ordinary person, at least not the ordinary college student from the rumors. Either his parents were unusual, or he had experienced certain events in his childhood.

Anyway, he didn’t believe someone could grow so strong in just three short months.

Damn!

What am I thinking about?

Now’s not the time to care about these things. We need to find the source of the curse and break it quickly.

Fei Xiao was about to ask Lin Baici if he had any plans when he saw him standing there in deep thought, his face calm, without a trace of panic.

Such resilience was truly strong!

Incomparable! Incomparable!

Wait,

Fei Xiao suddenly noticed that Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu were also calm, even a bit excited?

Are you guys masochists?

“Here it comes! It’s this kind of time-limited case-solving difficulty that brings the thrill!”

Xia Hongyao rubbed her hands together: “Little Lin, what do you think?”

She was ready to show off her skills. If she could solve it, she’d have bragging rights in the group chat with the Dragon-level team leaders like Hotpot Immortal.

Afraid?

No way, Lin Baici was not to be mentioned, his mind was sharp, and the reserve member Gu Qingqiu was also a wise girl. It was thanks to her that they had solved the rule contamination before and received the divine grace.

[Charge! Charge! Charge! Run, if you don’t defeat the Pharaoh within an hour, you will die!]

The God of Gluttony urged: [My stomach is already starving!]

“Run!”

Lin Baici passed Fei Xiao and began to lead the team. The current situation didn’t allow them to be cautious anymore.

After a hundred meters, a fork in the road appeared ahead!

While Fei Xiao was hesitating about which way to go, Lin Baici had already charged to the right.