Chapter 49 (1/2)

Translator: Sigma  Editor: Sigma

Ray was bothered by Sui Xiong’s questions. He thought very seriously and only became more distressed while thinking, without coming up with an answer that could satisfy him.

So that night, he suffered from insomnia.

Of course, he didn’t know that the questions raised by Sui Xiong were carefully crafted by some trouble-makers on the Internet on Earth who designed the questions so that readers could understand the so-called “viciousness of the world”. Even the scholars on Earth couldn’t think of a perfect answer when faced with such questions, not to mention Ray, a robber from a different world.

The next day, when Sui Xiong also intended to discuss questions about the nature of the world and life, Ray plugged some rags into his ears to show his determination not to respond.

Of course, Sui Xiong could easily snatch the rags away, but why be so awkward when others weren’t willing to discuss such topics? It was never interesting to force others to do something, which was similar to the proverb saying, “nothing forcibly done is going to be agreeable”.

But it didn’t apply to some things. For example, saving people.

It was late in the day and they were close to the edge of the Graystone Mountains. When setting up camp, they heard the sound of fighting and calls for help.

According to Ray’s plan, they would keep moving forward. Even if it needed to happen at night, they must first make it out of the Graystone Mountains and then camp. However, unfortunately, they met an impasse at a cliff, so Sui Xiong cast a spell of detection, which determined that bypassing the cliff required them to walk for almost a day. But building a temporary bridge wouldn’t take any less time, so Sui Xiong didn’t bother with a bridge. Thus, Ray took a detour that greatly lengthened their distance traveled, which meant they also had to sleep in the mountains again.

Ray was not afraid of sleeping outside because he was close to the edge of the Graystone Mountains and in theory, there should be no demon beasts there. Even if there were, most of them had deserted this area because they’d been defeated in the depths of the mountains. As he’d marched through the mountains, he had killed a lot of powerful demon beasts, let alone these weak ones! They simply chose to die in vain.

But he was really tired of the environment in the mountains. The infinite number of poisonous insects had overwhelmed him, let alone the poisonous snakes and dangerous beasts. Even if he had pest control drugs that prevented him from being bitten, the buzzing noise at night alone had practically bored him to death!

He was more annoyed because every day before going to bed, Sui Xiong would always talk to him about ideals and life.

Sui Xiong no longer asked the awkward questions that made people uncomfortable, but instead talked with Ray very earnestly: “The most precious thing in human life is life, and life belongs to a man only one time…” or “Different men have different strength, but as long as you have the right spirit … “and topics such as this.

These topics made him feel heavy and made him far more uncomfortable than the annoying conditions in the mountains. But he couldn’t avoid these topics because it made him feel that his mind was weak.

However, discussing them before bed was obviously affecting his sleep quality. Coupled with the insects that buzzed incessantly, he rarely got a good night’s sleep, and his state of mind was gradually deteriorating.

So he was looking forward to getting out of the mountains as soon as possible and going into the territory of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins. There the jellyfish god who liked to teach others about life would perhaps shift his target to someone else, leaving him to sleep peacefully. Even if this nasty jellyfish god continued to bother him by asking excessively profound questions, at least there’d be no buzzing insects!

However, not today.

Consequently, Ray was in a very bad mood, so when he heard the sound of fighting and calls for help coming from afar, he had no interest in intervening.

“Someone is in danger,” Sui Xiong said.

“Yeah,” Ray said as he took out a blanket, intending only to wrap himself up and sleep until he was fully rested.

“Don’t you want to save them?” Sui Xiong asked.

“I do not want to,” Ray replied. Right as he was about to lie down, Sui Xiong quickly jumped onto his head, pressing a tentacle against his temple.

This tentacle was icy and exceptionally sharp, so Ray could not help but suspect that in a second a hole would be drilled into his own skull, and blood and brains would flow out together onto the ground.

“You…what are you trying to do!” He asked in a loud voice, startled and suddenly concerned.

“Correcting your thoughts,” Sui Xiong said with a smile. “There’s too much filth and evil in your mind. I’ll help you to draw some of it out.”

Ray was shocked, and he quickly rebutted, “After my brain has been drawn out?!”

“It doesn’t matter,” said Sui Xiong. “You’ll get what you lose, and this is the principle of exchange of equivalence. It is a universal principle. Don’t you think it’s cost effective to exchange a bit of brains for goodness and tranquility?”