315 Sudden turn of events (1/2)
Chapter 315: Sudden turn of events
[ Choice 1: Save all rookies in Dragon Mountain Valley (B-level reward) ]
[ Choice 2: Prevent Ka Xiaozi from raging (B-level reward) ]
[ Choice 3: Push down the raging Ka Xiaozi (A-level reward) ]
Seeing the three choices in front of him, Shi Xiaobai was somewhat dumbfounded.
Prevent Ka Xiaozi from raging?
Push down the raging Ka Xiaozi?
What the heck was this!?
Did the choices mean that Ka Xiaozi was about to rage?
Shi Xiaobai could not know beforehand why Ka Xiaozi would rage, nor could he imagine what would happen after Ka Xiaozi raged. After suffering a headache for a moment, he decided to temporarily put aside those two choices.
This time, the Absolute Choice did not have any gentle reminders and there were three choices. Shi Xiaobai had encountered such a type of Absolute Choice only twice—the first being saving Little Fatso, and the second was saving Chen Lingcun.
This type of Absolute Choice was the kind Shi Xiaobai did not wish to encounter the most.
Furthermore, this Absolute Choice was different from the previous two. All three choices in the Absolute Choice this time had very high rewards. Even the lowest was a B-level reward.
According to past experience, trying to complete something with a B-level reward was already rather difficult. Heading to the Underworld to save Chen Lingcun was only a B-level reward after all.
As Shi Xiaobai could only temporarily put the second and third choices aside, he could only choose the first one—[ Choice 1: Save all rookies in Dragon Mountain Valley (B-level reward) ].
Shi Xiaobai was in no hurry to make the choice as he began to seriously contemplate.
Dragon Mountain Valley was clearly the valley they were currently in. The meaning of the choice’s words was very simple. Save the rookies that numbered more than forty.
But in a trial, saving could have two ways of interpretation. First, it was to save the lives of all the rookies, while the second was to prevent the rookies from being eliminated.
The former was much easier than the latter. This was because elimination was too simple. A random appearance of a dragon might cause a few people to shout the exit command, and if it was to save the lives of the rookies, the exit command could be used as a life-saver for the rookies. There was no need for Shi Xiaobai to save them.
However, Shi Xiaobai actually did not hope that the ‘save’ meant ‘saving lives’. This was because this was a B-level difficulty choice. It was impossible for the saving to be simple. If it was ‘saving lives’, that meant that matters that would cause the deaths of the rookies would happen next.
But, what sort of crisis or life-threatening danger would happen in this large and empty valley?What would cause the rookies to not be able to even say the exit command?
Shi Xiaobai considered for a very long time until the Absolute Choice began counting down. Only then, did he choose choice 1.
Stopped time began turning once again.
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A dead silence filled the desolate valley. The gray-brown earth looked rather cold and the boulders that littered the ground had been weathered by the elements. It added to the vast and empty valley an additional flavor of the vicissitudes of time.
This spot was clearly where the dragon was, but not only was there no dragon, there was not even a bug to be seen. It was as though it was a holy land of dead creatures, a forbidden ground to the living.
Shi Xiaobai surveyed his surroundings once again with utmost seriousness. Other than the undulating mountain range across the horizons, all he saw was the brown soil and rugged boulders.
Seeing this lifeless scene, Shi Xiaobai suddenly felt an eerie and terrifying aura. A sense of ominous foreboding rose in him.
Shi Xiaobai turned his head. A pair of amber eyes were staring at him as they glowed slightly.
They were Ka Xiaozi’s eyes.
Shi Xiaobai immediately recalled the two choices that he could not make heads or tails of.
Preventing Ka Xiaozi from raging was the same difficulty as saving everyone. How hard was it to prevent this?
Raging most likely referred to losing reason due to infuriation.
Was Ka Xiaozi actually a person who could not control her raging temper?
Shi Xiaobai softly said to Ka Xiaozi, “In a while, regardless of what happens, you have to remind yourself to maintain your calm. Also, do not go further than three meters from This King.”
Although he had not chosen choice 2, Shi Xiaobai wanted to take preventive measures. He wanted to see if he could prevent the instance of her ‘raging’, something which he had no idea how it would happen.
Ka Xiaozi quizzically blinked her eyes before nodding and saying, “Alright.”
Shi Xiaobai hesitated for a moment, and finally could not help but ask, “If…This King is saying if. If you were to encounter something that is extremely infuriating, so maddening that you would lose all reason. What might you possibly do?”
Shi Xiaobai’s intuition told him that Ka Xiaozi’s raging would be a terrifying matter.
Ka Xiaozi frowned slightly. She was clearly curious why Shi Xiaobai was suggesting such a hypothetical situation, but she did not ask. Instead, she fell into deep thought for a moment before gently saying, “I don’t know. That’s because even though I have been infuriated, I have never lost my reason.”
When Shi Xiaobai heard this, he was filled with even more questions.
If Ka Xiaozi really never lost her reason, what would happen next that would cause her to rage?
What could have happened that would reach a B-level reward when prevented?
Shi Xiaobai was left clueless. He could only think of a way to not let Ka Xiaozi wander too far from him and see how he could do his best at protecting Ka Xiaozi, whether he could inadvertently prevent the baffling raging.