【I found her so annoying at first, she just kept crying, but now I see she was also tricked.】
【Her talking tough at the end was pretty cute, like an angry Chihuahua.】
【Hahaha, exactly, it's not too late for the girl to have an awakening.】
【Just please stop stalling the show, it's hard enough to find a good stream.】
Nan Yue discovered that as long as the audience's acceptance in the bullet comments was high, the red mist seemed to vanish.
Conversely, regardless of what you did or didn't do, if you couldn't please the audience, the red mist would appear on the screen.
Nan Yue didn't want to think about what would happen when the red mist completely filled the screen.
She suspected that the streamers who had disappeared before had suffered similar fates, only they couldn't see the red mist at the time.
As time passed, the mission began to gradually reveal its true ferocity.
"Start streaming."
Nan Yue dropped those words and was about to leave when Bai Qing grabbed her.
"Where... where are you going? Can you stay with me?"
Seeing Bai Qing, Nan Yue shook her head. "No, I have other things to do."
Bai Qing looked like she was about to cry. "Is it more important than my life?"
Nan Yue looked steadily at Bai Qing for a few seconds and then nodded. "Yes."
Wen Xiang Yuan's whereabouts were more important than her, and Nan Yue's own life was more important than her.
She was a scavenger; in a broad sense, she was here to purify the world, and in a narrow sense, she was here to survive the mission.
The life or death of an NPC was taught in the very first lesson at the Scavenger Training Academy: it didn't matter.
Coming here to give her a hand was already the height of benevolence; she had never intended to act as Bai Qing's bodyguard.
"But I suggest that if you're too scared, you can go find someone."
Bai Qing's eyes lit up.
...
Nan Yue and the others found the yellow-haired guy in a storage room near the ancestral hall. Besides Jiang Siyan and Zhu Xi Ning, there were three or four other people in the room.
They were all scavengers.
The yellow-haired guy held the genealogy he had found, looking completely bewildered.
He didn't know what had happened, nor did he understand why these people wanted to see what he had found.
To be honest, he just wanted to leave. This damn genealogy was so unlucky! Whoever wanted to see it could have it!
But when so many people wanted it, he didn't know who to give it to, because everyone looked very powerful.
If he gave it to one side, would he be beaten by the other?
When Nan Yue entered, the other four people tensed up; it looked like they had been in a standoff for a while.
"What's going on?"
Zhu Xi Ning glared at the man opposite them. "They came first and started snatching things without a word, even hitting people."
Nan Yue saw that the yellow-haired guy had a black eye; he must have been struck.
"Heh, he's just an NPC, and yet you're actually protecting him."
The four people opposite seemed to be together, but Nan Yue could tell from their positioning that they were likely a temporary group formed for this mission.
After all, this mission was very unfriendly to lone wolves.
The four consisted of two men and two women. One was a large man covered in muscle, and another was a man wearing glasses who was smiling thinly.
One of the women looked quite feisty, wearing high boots with a dagger at her waist, while the other looked gentle and harmless.
The speaker was the large man. He cracked his knuckles with a series of pops, his face full of disdain.
This team was full of people who only had looks; those two women looked weak no matter how you sliced it, and the man with glasses looked quite frail too.
Only the one with the buzz cut looked like he could fight, but he couldn't take on four people alone.
"Give me the genealogy."
The muscular man was laughed in anger. He was about to speak when he was stopped by the man with glasses beside him.
Although he didn't speak, his expression still looked very reluctant.
"I'm Wang Yue. How should I address this lady?"
"The genealogy."
Nan Yue didn't want to waste a single word on them.
Having been brushed off by Nan Yue, Wang Yue's expression soured slightly, but he still said, "There's an order to things, isn't there?"
Nan Yue nodded. "There is an order, but since the item was found by someone else, shouldn't it be up to that person's will?"
Wang Yue was choked for words. The logic was sound, but the yellow-haired guy had already been injured by Niu Jun, so he definitely wouldn't give them the genealogy now.
"Why waste words with them? Might makes right."
Wang Yue sighed hypocritically. "We don't bully ladies. Let your man come out and settle this. Whoever wins gets it."
Gu Xiang Kai glanced at Nan Yue. Seeing her nod, he immediately swung his fist and charged.
To be honest, if this group hadn't been so obnoxious, they could have shared the clues.
After all, as they said, they had arrived first.
But as soon as they arrived, they had injured the yellow-haired guy, and if Jiang Siyan and the others hadn't been there, they would have even thrown him out to die. This made them very unpleasant to look at.
Nan Yue knew that many scavengers felt contempt or even hostility toward NPCs in the mission world.
On the premise that an NPC truly had the ability and intent to harm scavengers, Nan Yue would also take action against them.
But this time, the NPCs were just unlucky bastards. The yellow-haired guy hadn't harmed anyone and had barely escaped with his life; without him, they wouldn't have found the genealogy. To demand his life right away was something Nan Yue couldn't stand.
Wang Yue had originally wanted to say something to keep Niu Jun from hitting the man too hard, but before he could speak, Niu Jun had already been sent flying, crashing heavily into a cabinet.
Wang Yue's face darkened as he adjusted his glasses. He had misjudged them; it turned out they were high-level players.
"It seems we failed to recognize your greatness. But we are all scavengers, can we share the clues?"
Having gone through several missions, Nan Yue had gained a profound understanding of how thick-skinned some people could be.
She ignored Wang Yue and directly took the genealogy to look through it.
The genealogy revealed more information than the spirit tablets in the ancestral hall. For example, some people who were unable to have spirit tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall were recorded in the genealogy.
As Nan Yue read, her expression darkened.
Something wasn't right.
Zhu Xi Ning frowned. "Why does this Zhou family change wives so frequently?"
Indeed, besides the records of the Zhou family members, there were also their wives listed in the genealogy.
Although they were just simple records like 'Zhou-Zhang' or 'Zhou-Li,' they reflected many problems.
That was, every generation of the Zhou family had far too many wives.
Based on Nan Yue's understanding of feudal society, although a man could marry many women, there was always only one legal wife.
Only the legal wife could be included in the genealogy.
So that ruled out the possibility that these countless women in the genealogy were concubines.
That left only one possibility: the men of the Zhou family were indeed constantly replacing their legal wives.
However, the Zhou family was a prominent household. If the legal wife was constantly being replaced, it wouldn't be good for the family's reputation. Therefore, they needed a very plausible reason to replace her.
For example... sudden death.
At this thought, Nan Yue's gaze narrowed. It was also possible that this wasn't even a reason they had to struggle to invent, but rather the truth: these women were all dying within a short period of time.
That was why the Zhou residence was constantly replacing the legal wife.
In a feudal society, carrying on the family line was of primary importance. Compared to mourning the dead, producing an heir was more vital.
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