Seeing that no one around noticed them, Gu Hongying snuck his head close to Yu Tu's ear:
"During the time you were away, we secretly suspected that Xiao Hui might be the Xiu Gou that Senior Buyehou once raised. However, although the growth period of demon cubs is not as long as that of plant cubs, it is not possible for them to grow from a small ball into a young man who looks about the same age as us in just one year."
Gu Hongying had been to the teahouse several times as a customer, and her deepest impression of Xiaohui was the adorable gas tank, whose emotions were vivid. But when she met Xiaohui after joining the Yichu Bureau, she looked cold and difficult to mess with. A casual glance at him showed that his eyes seemed to say "Don't come over here and seek death."
Xiao Hui joined the company earlier than them. He is very capable and knows more, but he has a cold personality... Apart from the coincidence that his name has a homophonic sound, there are almost no similarities between them. Gu Hongying was glared at several times and decisively gave up the fantastic idea that Xiao Hui was the same as Xiao Hui.
"I've tried it several times privately, and I don't think it's likely." Gu Hongying patted Yu Tu's shoulder and gave him some advice in a low voice, "If you want to see Xiao Hui, why don't we go to the Tujiang Bureau someday?"
He did not mention the Marquis of Buye because he was worried that Yu Tu would think of the "disappearance of the Marquis of Buye" again and cause him greater psychological harm.
"...Xiao Hui?" Hearing this familiar name, Yu Tu's mind froze for a moment. Related memories popped up like delayed signals, unfolding in order like pictures and text. "Okay, I get it."
He looked up at the word "Xiao Hui" on the huge screen, and felt it was dazzling and unfamiliar.
He looked a little strange, so Hao Zhizhi walked up to him and twisted his arm hard without Yu Tu seeing it, warning him not to continue. Gu Hongying almost gasped in pain, but fortunately he managed to control his expression successfully in the end.
"Since our team has accepted the mission for Forest Mist, we must complete it immediately—" Hao Zhizhi changed the subject, "C-rank missions have time requirements."
Yu Tu felt as if his consciousness was divided into two parts, one part was dealing with the scene in front of him, and the other part was still immersed in the unfolding memories. There was nothing wrong with his memory, nor was there any defect or loss, but he always felt something was weird.
While he was thinking, he was carried to the front of the car by his friends. Yu Tu suddenly found that this car was particularly familiar. The mighty and handsome black armored vehicle that he first saw in Huailin Town that year has become their standard equipment.
"Cool, right?" Gu Hongying grinned, revealing his huge white teeth. "This is our Deviants' exclusive vehicle!"
"Get in the car, get in the car!" He gave Yu Tu a push, then quickly went to the driver's seat. He then used his eyes to beckon Eric to the passenger seat, "Let me show you my driving skills!"
Eric, who was reduced from damage output to support, said: "......"
The car flew out like an arrow, all four wheels in the air. Distracted by this stimulating behavior, Yu Tu's divided consciousness was completely unified. He turned around and looked at Hao Zhizhi and Yin Li, who were calm and composed beside him, and asked sincerely: "Does Yingying always drive like this?"
"You'll get used to it." Hao Zhizhi stuffed a plastic bag into his hand. "If it doesn't work, spit it out in the bag."
When the team was first established, none of the four had a driver's license yet, but they had to choose one person to drive. Gu Hongying volunteered to be the first
One of them passed the driving test, and then their team started to live a life of drifting every day. Eric, the eldest son who rarely experienced such bad driving skills, could not bear it anymore and passed the driving test the second month. However, Gu Hongying was addicted to driving and held on to the driver's seat tightly, so Gu Hongying was driving in seven out of ten tasks.
Human potential is limitless. It took only two months for everyone to go from feeling dizzy and vomiting after getting out of the car to being able to calmly prepare weapons and write reports in the car. Even the usually taciturn Yin Li couldn't help but sigh after adapting: "Humans are truly tenacious creatures."
Others agree.
The first time Yu Tu rode in Gu Hongying's car, he felt that Gu Hongying's driving skills could only be described as "9"—he swerved between two cars like lightning, left most of the car hanging in the air on a bend in the mountain road, and drove hard in places where there was no road like Spider-Man... It was like a 9 turned from 6!
Yu Tu's face gradually turned pale, while Hao Zhizhi was leaning on the small table to draw talismans, Yin Li was carving an array plate with a knife, Eric was holding a computer to connect with the satellite to calculate the correct mission location, and Gu Hongying was even singing loudly - no one was affected by the car's condition at all.
Yu Tu: “…”
He fell back silently, closed his eyes and encouraged himself. It was just motion sickness, right? He believed he would be able to adapt soon!
After being tortured by Gu Hongying's amazing driving skills for most of the day, Yu Tu suddenly felt a strong sense of being pushed back—they had arrived at the mission location.
The car door slid open silently, and Yu Tu was the first to climb out of the car. The air at the mission site had a strange fishy smell, but Yu Tu felt like he was reborn.
It's better to put the issue of him getting a driver's license on the agenda as soon as possible.
"Hold it!" Yin Li on the left stuffed a gun into Yu Tu's arms, "The safety is on, be careful of accidental discharge."
Eric on the right put an armband on Yu Tu's arm and said, "It's a defensive device, don't take it off."
After the two of them tacitly gave Yu Tu defense and attack, they immediately turned around and took their positions. The four of them occupied the four directions of east, south, west and north respectively, with Yu Tu being trapped in the middle.
"Shouldn't I be in the middle of the Five Elements Formation?" Yu Tu said, getting used to the feel of the gun. "Isn't my position a little off?"
"According to the rules of the Alien Bureau, each team must have one person serving as a support." Gu Hongying had his back to Yu Tu, but his voice was filled with laughter. "Before, we took turns serving as support. Now that you're back, Tu Tu, you should start by serving as a support to get used to it!"
Gu Hongying said this, but the voice transmission between him and several other people spread far and wide on the spot—
【Hahahahahaha, Tutu is back. I finally don't have to be a support anymore! I'm free, hahahaha!】
[Do you think I enjoy using spells to save your life? Damn you, Gu Hongying, you always run out of my rescue range!]
[If I hadn't given you so many life-saving devices, I'd have to carry you in the intensive care unit every time! How can you just keep charging forward as an assistant?!]
[I'm better at using my sword to kill monsters than saving people. Please let me go. I really don't want to be a support.]
[It doesn't matter, we can trick Tutu into doing more assists, he's so easy to fool!]
【You’re right, I agree! 】
【I vote! 】
I agree too!
Yu Tu, who for some reason could hear everyone's directional voice transmissions, said: "......?"
The good news is that he hasn't been on a mission with his friends for a few years and everyone is getting along well. The bad news is that his friends don't take him seriously either.
His attack power is not low either!
Yu Tu, who had inexplicably become a support in the first adaptive mission, looked at his four friends who gradually let themselves go after going deep into the woods in the mountains, and finally understood why no one wanted to be a support - the visibility in the fog was already low enough, but the four of them were walking on the edge of the line where they could lose contact at any time. Yu Tu had to put down a vine from time to time to drag them back a little, so as not to go out of his sensing range.
After Yu Tu killed a gray-white monster in the fog with a cane, he heard Gu Hongying calling him in a hoarse voice: "Tu Tu, save me——"
Yu Tu swung out the vine with a wooden face, dragging Gu Hongying out from under a three-person-high gray-white strange claw, and cast a wood-based healing spell on him.
"Tu Tu!"
Eric's voice also sounded from the southwest. Yu Tu quickly slapped over an expulsion rune. He finally understood why Zhizhi and Lily suddenly stuffed a large number of talismans and array plates into his hands before going deeper - giving him so much reserve was just to let him seize the opportunity to interfere with the battlefield and help him keep his eyes and ears open. It was so tiring!
For the sake of their lives, Yu Tu dared not relax at any time. The fog in the forest became thicker as time went by, but Yu Tu became more and more adept at it - every tree, every blade of grass, every bit of soil, every smell in the forest seemed to have formed an inextricable connection with him. The fog no longer hindered his perception, and he could even sense when something strange was about to be born in the fog!
The landing point of the green vine became more and more precise, and Yu Tu felt as if he had fallen into a wonderful state. He seemed to be able to sense the flow of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, as natural as breathing.
The forest where the mission "Mist in the Forest" was born is actually a willow forest. A large number of corpses of humans and animals who died unjustly were buried in the forest. After the barrier was broken, the spiritual energy flowed back, giving birth to this weirdness in the forest. They are called "Mist Ghosts" in the mission introduction. You must take precautions when you come into close contact with Mist Ghosts, otherwise you will be unknowingly infected by the weird energy on their bodies during the fight, and people will experience the pain and torture before their death over and over again.
"Tu Tu, go sense the core of the Mist Ghost—" Gu Hongying's voice came from afar, "We can handle this!"
Every mission site has its source. Only by finding and eliminating the source can it be completely eradicated. If you simply eliminate the threat, the mission will revive after a while.
After confirming that Gu Hongying and the others could really handle it, Yu Tu withdrew most of his perception from them and headed towards the directions where the fog was thickest. When he sensed the second direction, he sensed a person in the fog, a living person who was in danger.
*
Due to the high frequency and intensity of the missions, Xiao Hui mostly performed them alone. On his way to find the teleportation array of the Alien Bureau after completing a C-level mission, his watch sent him a message. The mission [Mist in the Forest] was in doubt about its level and would most likely be upgraded from C-level to C-level. Please ask idle members nearby to go and provide support.
Along with this message came a list of people who would take on the task. Xiao Hui immediately spotted a familiar name on the list that had been absent for a long time—Yu Tu.
Almost without thinking, he turned off the message, turned the car around, and headed straight for the "Lost in the Forest"
The direction he entered was completely opposite to that of Yu Tu and the others, so he was closer to the core nest than them.
After dealing with a few fog monsters, Xiao Hui felt a perception lightly sweeping over him. The perception was fleeting, but it carried a vague sense of familiarity, as if...someone in his memory.
The fog ghost in his hand was killed on the spot because of his excitement. Xiao Hui ran towards the direction where his perception was withdrawn. Through the gray fog, he could vaguely see a figure. As the distance got closer, the fog became thinner and thinner. He saw the person who had disappeared for two years, standing in the forest and smiling at him.
The man was wearing a familiar dark green gown and a gold-rimmed monocle. His almond-shaped eyes looked at him with an expression that was familiar to him.
Xiao Hui should have jumped over with joy, but reason stopped him. He knew the characteristics of the fog ghosts that existed in every province and city—all the core fog ghosts had the ability to spy on memories and weave illusions.
He had taken on similar missions before, but he had never been tricked. The solution to the core fog trick was simple, with only two steps: the first step was to see through the illusion, and the second step was to deal with the person the fog trick was impersonating.
Xiao Hui knew that he should break the neck of the fog ghost or shoot him to death, but it seemed like there was a heavy weight on his arm, and he couldn't lift it up or aim accurately.
The fog ghost was moving forward step by step, still smiling, just like in memory. The surrounding environment was very similar to the barren mountains not far from Wutong Town where they used to be.
Xiao Hui looked at the person who was gradually approaching almost greedily. He kept telling himself in his heart, wait a little longer, wait until he got closer, wait until he was in a position where he had to fight back, he would definitely break the neck of this fog ghost.
But before Wugui could reach him, he suddenly fell down, and the familiar person fell face down and turned into a pool of unknown substance. Xiaohui's mind suddenly went blank. He subconsciously raised his gun, but saw a panting, familiar face.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
He heard a familiar voice.
But that’s not sir, that’s Yu Tu.
Xiao Hui shook his head. He didn't say a word, couldn't say a word, just shook his head.
Yu Tu looked at the cold-faced cool guy opposite him who seemed to be stunned. He felt relieved but also a little puzzled. Judging from his uniform, this unfamiliar cool guy should be a colleague from the Alien Affairs Bureau. Could he have been scared silly by this core fog ghost?
Yu Tu waved his hand in front of his eyes and cautiously asked, "Are you okay? Were you just dragged into Wu Gui's dying illusion?"
"No." Xiao Hui blinked, and Yu Tu saw a kind of sadness in his eyes. It was as if he was looking at someone through Yu Tu. "Do you remember me?"
"I'm Xiao Hui," he said.
More and more memories popped up in Yu Tu's mind. Many, many memories emerged in his mind - Gas Canister rolling around like a spoiled child, Gas Canister cursing, Gas Canister refusing to take a bath and playing tricks, Gas Canister chasing its tail and having fun...
"I remember." The fog in his mind seemed to be cleared away, and Yu Tu smiled subconsciously: "Long time no see, Xiao Hui."
Perhaps because Yu Tu and Buyehou shared a common ancestry, Xiao Hui unexpectedly saw a reflection of Buyehou in Yu Tu at that moment. After two and a half years of not seeing each other, the little tea sapling doted upon by the master had unexpectedly grown into such a tall and upright young man!
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