Chapter 4256 — Wei Zhao's Test
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At this moment, everyone could not help but feel a sense of honor—to have such a person as a teammate, and to see the infant ginseng so close at hand; this was a blessing that could not be cultivated in several lifetimes!
Watching this scene, Wei Zhao shook his head inwardly. This Chu Bubai was truly a master at putting on a good show. He had been on Cloud Terrace Island for over a year and had seen no small number of people, yet never had he met anyone who could bewitch the hearts of others quite like this man.
The best way to win someone's trust was to make them worship you, and Chu Bubai had this trick down to a fine art.
Wei Zhao grew all the more wary of Chu Bubai, though he did not say so outright to Huang Xiaotao. After all, the surroundings were far too quiet at present; any sound at all, no matter how softly spoken, would certainly be heard by the people up ahead.
Moreover, even if they could deceive the ears and eyes of these people, Wei Zhao could not guarantee that Huang Xiaotao, upon learning all this, would be able to keep as calm and unruffled as he did. Before a man as shrewd as Chu Bubai, any trace of unnaturalness would become a flaw.
Wei Zhao did not want to take that risk. All along the way he had kept his composure, playing the pig to eat the tiger for the sake of the infant ginseng; if he revealed a flaw now, all his efforts would be wasted halfway.
Under Chu Bubai's lead, the group continued onward following the route map, and strange things akin to the rhinoceros spirit beast from before began to appear before their eyes in ever greater numbers.
Headless ones, limbless ones, ones with only half a body, even ones that were nothing but a heap of bones—all manner of weird and sinister entities ceaselessly assailed their visual nerves.
Although the group had already heard Chu Bubai's explanation and knew these things posed no threat, knowing something in one's heart was one thing, while seeing it with one's own eyes was quite another. Even knowing full well that these things would not eat anyone, watching scene after scene of such chilling strangeness, the group could not help but feel their scalps prickle.
"Wei Zhao... I... I'm a little scared... it's so lifelike..." Huang Xiaotao pressed herself tightly against Wei Zhao's back, not straying an inch, and said nervously, her voice trembling.
"It's all right, I'm here. They can't hurt you!" Wei Zhao gently took one of her hands and turned to comfort her.
"Mm..." Huang Xiaotao nodded weakly. Though her heart still could not help but tense with fear, so long as Wei Zhao held her hand, she felt much more at ease.
Unlike the others, who were kept in the dark, Wei Zhao knew clearly, thanks to the ghost creature's reminder, that what lay before them was not some lingering grievance of wronged souls, but low-level ghost-talisman demons—sinister things left behind by ghost cultivators. The reason they posed no threat was simply that they were all defective specimens.
Even so, seeing such strange sights one after another, especially with the surroundings so gloomy and dreadful, even Wei Zhao found a fine layer of sweat beading on his forehead, and he felt somewhat short of breath.
It was not only Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao; the others—Guo Dengtao, Wang Feng, and the rest, especially Feng Hongyu, who had just made such a fool of herself—were also trembling with fear at this moment. With every step they took, their whole bodies shook uncontrollably, and they no longer had the slightest inclination to jeer and mock others as arrogantly as before.