Chapter 153 The 153rd Day of the Beginning [Two-in-One] Hmm? You want...
Day 153 of the game [Two-in-One]
The little hamsters had never thought the sound of a helicopter engine was so pleasant; it was almost like a sound from outer space.
While waiting for the helicopter to lower the rope, the little hamster excitedly showed the search and rescue helicopter hovering in mid-air to the live stream:
"Look! This is the rescue helicopter that came to pick us up!!" The little hamster's voice was choked with excitement. He rubbed his face vigorously to control himself and shouted, "As long as we don't give up hope, there is hope! We can finally go home!"
[Okay! It's good to be home!]
[This journey has been truly challenging. I just want to ask Hamster Bro, will we come back again?]
[Ask those two with high noses and blue eyes, do you still want to conquer nature?]
Forget conquering it, wouldn't you want to relive that honeymoon?
[Snatching bamboo shoots, hahaha!]
The little hamster looked at the comments and couldn't help but smile wryly: "I don't want to come back to Saida anytime soon. We were lucky; at least we didn't encounter the giant monster that my uncle and the others encountered deep in the Saida Swamp. We should keep a safe enough distance from this place."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Harrison and Alma, smiled and waved to them: "Hey, the audience has some questions for you."
“Us? Oh! Of course, come on!” Harrison and Alma nodded.
They took two steps closer to the hamster, but before they could speak, a bright light suddenly streaked across the sky.
The group instinctively looked up, but didn't catch the light in time.
A few seconds later, another one, or rather, a patch of...
"Holy crap! A meteor shower!" the little hamster exclaimed in surprise, then immediately looked at Harrison and Alma, grinning, "It's here! The meteor shower you wanted to see in Saida, how was it?"
Harrison and Alma looked up for two seconds, took a deep breath, and said, "Awesome. But we'll go to the planetarium next time."
“I agree,” Alma replied.
[Hilarious, I've already admitted defeat]
Alright, no need to ask anymore, haha, the answer is out.
What we're saying is, young couples shouldn't chase after romance or watch meteor showers in the wild. That tests your abilities; if you can't handle it, then don't be romantic at all.
[I suspect you two are a couple hiding in the corner]
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[Holy crap, Yu-ge and Monster Hunter-ge! You two have fallen for each other too!]
[What's with the spiciness? Is this sexism? Can't two men watch a meteor shower together?]
These two really have the ability to pursue this kind of romance.
[I strongly urge Yu Ge to do a video about seeing the Northern Lights in the far north next time!]
[Yu Ge: The far north? ? Thanks for the invitation, but I'll decline.]
Why bring up something you shouldn't talk about?
Yin Yu and He Lianzhou were undergoing a systematic check by the search and rescue personnel while waiting for the detection machine to calculate and measure whether they were carrying excessive E element radiation.
Suddenly, a commotion broke out near the hamsters, and Yin Yu heard "meteor shower." He instinctively looked up as well.
He opened his eyes wide in slight surprise; this was the first time he had ever seen a meteor shower so close overhead.
He Lianzhou squinted slightly at the "Meteor Shower".
"You guys are lucky; the view here is surprisingly good." Xia Yan chuckled, and then a crisp "beep" sounded from the side, indicating that the test was complete. He glanced at the readings and nodded slightly, saying, "You're all clean, don't worry."
Yin Yu snapped out of his daze and nodded in response.
"I'll go test them," Xia Yan said, taking the machine and walking towards the hamsters and the others.
Seeing this, Yin Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at He Lianzhou: "Meteor Shower."
"Hmm?" He Lianzhou made a nasal sound and slightly raised one eyebrow.
“Your tone just now didn’t sound like the reaction of an ordinary person seeing a meteor shower,” Yin Yu said.
Upon hearing this, He Lianzhou tilted his head, turned to Yin Yu, and whispered with a smile, "Wow, Captain Yin knows me way too well now!"
Yin Yu: ""
He nudged He Lianzhou away with his elbow, suppressing the urge to glare at him: "Don't bother me."
"It's nothing, I just don't really like it." He Lianzhou chuckled, having already guessed Yin Yu's next move. He dodged the attack and pointed to the ongoing meteor shower in the sky. "Things from outer space are always out of control. They don't belong to this planet, so they're not under our control."
“I don’t like anything that’s beyond my control,” He Lianzhou snorted, sounding like a spoiled child.
Yin Yu chuckled upon hearing this and shook his head: "I believe that in most cases they are just passing through. If one of them were to visit this planet, Xia Yan and the others would know in advance, and the biological and ecological environment department should be more enthusiastic and vigilant about it."
He Lianzhou shrugged noncommittally and simply snorted, "Ha, people."
Yin Yu subconsciously looked up at the meteor shower streaking across the sky again. After He Lianzhou's words, he no longer felt the surprise and novelty he had before. Instead, his mind was filled with Guanshan's crisis management plan that automatically popped into his head.
Yin Yu: "Annoying!"
The viewers in the live stream were still marveling at the two men watching the meteor shower together under the night sky, completely unaware of what incredibly unromantic things they were whispering about behind their backs.
Soon, the hamsters and the others also finished their radiation tests. Their test results were also unusually clean and without any abnormalities. Xia Yan was a little surprised, but at the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief.
They had previously measured the overall radiation level of the Saida Swamp, and just like Yin Yu, Little Hamster, and the others, it was completely clean and empty.
He Lianzhou's gaze followed Xia Yan as he took the machine to test the hamster. He glanced at it and then looked away, a subtle twitch at the corner of his mouth.
"Radiation elements?" Yin Yu paused upon seeing this, then looked He Lianzhou up and down. "You?"
He Lianzhou touched the small snake on his wrist, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his lips curved into a smile, but there wasn't much joy in his eyes: "Hmm. It's full too. Very nourishing. I just wonder how many more times these people will cause trouble."
Neither of them finished speaking, but they both understood each other's meaning.
No wonder they were still clean after the accidental explosion; there was a human-shaped vacuum cleaner next to them.
Yin Yu's gaze shifted to the small snake on He Lianzhou's wrist. The red and black snake hung quietly on He Lianzhou's wrist, its blunt triangular head tucked into He Lianzhou's sleeve, as if it didn't want to be seen.
The radiation levels in the Saida Swamp had always been present, but compared to the situation immediately after the explosion twenty years ago, there was a sudden and sharp decrease six or seven years ago. Since then, the levels have been gradually decreasing until recently, when the radiation levels have remained at a low level with very little fluctuation.
Yin Yu had previously heard Xia Yan mention the radiation contamination situation here, and recalling the almost identical cleanliness of the Joset Desert, a guess began to form in Yin Yu's mind.
He Lianzhou's favorite wouldn't first absorb and devour all the E-element radiation from Joset's place, and then come to the Saida Swamp to continue eating and drinking until he was full before entering the digestive hibernation mode.
So, what's the current state?
He Lianzhou touched the little snake, and was lightly tugged by its tail. He then withdrew his finger and looked at Yin Yu with certainty: "It's as full as it can be. It can eat a few more tons of fresh apples at most."
"A few tons? Or a few tons?" Yin Yu was taken aback.
He Lianzhou grinned at him.
Yin Yu: ""
The hamster
"Why do we need to undergo radiation testing?" Alma recognized the machine in Xia Yan's hand and looked at him suspiciously. "Were we exposed to radiation? Here? When?"
Xia Yan glanced at the other person and then replied, "This is just a routine check-up; you have not been exposed to radiation."
Before Alma could ask anything else, she heard the sound of a helicopter circling overhead.
"Your rescue helicopter has arrived," Xia Yan said.
Two Nagacho government search and rescue team members quickly disembarked from the rescue helicopter. As they passed Xia Yan, the two groups nodded slightly to each other. Xia Yan said in a low voice, "They are clean."
"OK, thanks."
The search and rescue team took the four hamsters onto the helicopter. Xia Yan then turned to Yin Yu and He Lianzhou and said softly, "Gentlemen, let's get on the helicopter too."
"good."
Yin Yu, He Lianzhou, and Xia Yan then boarded the CR905.
As soon as they boarded the helicopter, Xia Yan said, "I'm going to show you something."
Yin Yu raised his eyebrows in confusion: "What?"
“We’ve found the locator for that giant snake,” Xia Yan said.
Yin Yu paused, then looked at Xia Yan expressionlessly: "You only found the locator?"
Xia Yan nodded slightly: "That's the problem. It seems to have removed the locator."
Yin Yu: "Very smart."
"Too clever," Xia Yan sighed.
He took a transparent laboratory sample bag from the inside pocket of his jacket. Inside was a piece of scale covered in dried blood and a small electronic locator.
"It must have torn itself off," Xia Yan said.
“But what I’m going to show you isn’t just the locator.” He glanced at the time and then said, “It’ll be another thirty minutes before we fly over there. You two can close your eyes and rest for a bit.”
Yin Yu nodded slightly, closed his eyes, and naturally lowered his right hand, lightly touching He Lianzhou without making it obvious.
I wonder how He Lianzhou's little snake fared after the locator was removed?
He Lianzhou noticed Yin Yu's subtle movements. He opened his eyes in confusion and glanced at Yin Yu. Seeing that the man's eyes were closed, he paused and then grasped Yin Yu's right hand in a puzzled manner.
Hmm? You want to hold hands?
Yin Yu froze, then slapped He Lianzhou's hand away and clicked his tongue silently.
He didn't care much about his favorite concubine.
He Lianzhou was slapped on the back of his hand. He withdrew his hand in a daze and touched the red spot.
Less than half an hour later, Xia Yan spoke up: "We should be able to see it soon."
Yin Yu opened his eyes, which had been dozing, and looked out the window upon hearing this. "See?" What?
Outside the cabin, the moonlight was bright and clear, illuminating the undulating, long mountain ranges indistinctly.
But Yin Yu still saw nothing.
"What are we looking at?" he asked.
Xia Yan turned his gaze to the window, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "There were no mountains here originally."
Yin Yu paused for a moment: "I guess what you're going to talk about isn't related to the uplifted mountains caused by ordinary crustal movements."
Xia Yan nodded: "It's not due to geological reasons."
“Because it’s not even a mountain.” Xia Yan turned to Yin Yu and slowly exhaled. “It’s just a part of that snake’s shed skin.”
Snake molt? Yin Yu's pupils constricted sharply.
Even though he already knew how enormous the snake was, the shedding of its skin when he saw with his own eyes that what appeared to be a continuous mountain range was actually just a part of its molted body still sent chills down his spine.
Seeing Yin Yu's reaction, Xia Yan realized that the other party had not yet had a direct confrontation with the snake.
He gave a wry smile: "Now, we have completely lost track of where this snake is."
"To be honest, the fact that it expanded dozens of times in such a short time makes us suspect that it is very likely related to the E element radiation pollution here," Xia Yan continued.
Yin Yu remained silent, but looked at Xia Yan and nodded slightly, signaling him to continue.
Xia Yan's guess cannot be said to be completely unrelated, but it certainly cannot be said to be correct.
“But the only good news is that it’s so huge that it’s hard to ignore. The open fields that can accommodate its size don’t offer much cover. As soon as it moves, we can lock onto it immediately,” Xia Yan said.
Yin Yu looked over and asked tentatively, "Are you so sure? Then where do you think it is now?"
Xia Yan pondered for a moment before replying, "We do have a guess. The most likely place to hide it is the ocean. This is the estuary, and it is very likely that it swam into the sea in the last few days. The ocean is vast, making it the ideal place for it to stretch out freely."
"Hmm." Yin Yu gave a reluctant nod of agreement, watching as Xia Yan went down the wrong path in solving the problem, never to return.
“It will eventually need to surface to breathe, and we will locate it as soon as possible,” Xia Yan said.
Yin Yu continued to nod.
Then he quickly ended the conversation: "In that case, it seems there's nothing I can do to help. Good luck."
"Thank you, but we still highly value your experience and understanding of monsters, and hope you can serve as our action advisor." Xia Yan looked at Yin Yu, which was the purpose of bringing Yin Yu here.
Yin Yu's eyelids twitched slightly: "An action advisor?"
“We will take any suggestions into consideration,” Xia Yan said.
"I'll consider it," Yin Yu replied dismissively.
The snake was hanging on He Lianzhou's wrist; how could it possibly make any move?
Yin Yu felt guilty even glancing at Xia Yan, staring intently at the enormous snake molt outside the helicopter.
He Lianzhou glanced at Yin Yu and saw that Yin Yu was staring longingly at the snake skin outside the window. He clicked his tongue inwardly, thinking, "This guy is so naive. He likes this big snake skin. I'll have my favorite shed an even bigger one later! Enough to cover his whole little amusement park!"
Both of them had their own thoughts.
As the helicopter flew out of the Saida Swamp area, Yin Yu heard the system's mission prompt in his mind.
"Host has left the mission area. The amusement park special mission, 'Shadow! Terror!', has automatically entered the background for reward calculation. Please check back later for details."
Yin Yu realized that this was a special quest updated in the monster encyclopedia. The quest would reward him with information on his body's repair progress, and he was looking forward to seeing how many reward points he would get in the end.
He glanced at the backend and, sure enough, it was still in the settlement and remittance status that he couldn't access.
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The helicopter took them to the local central hospital in Nagacho, where they reunited with the little hamsters and their friends.
"Brother Yu! Brother Yu! Over here!" The little hamster waved vigorously in Yin Yu's direction.
Seeing this, Yin Yu walked over. The little hamsters, while receiving IV drips, chattered incessantly and said to Yin Yu with great enthusiasm, "Brother Yu, do you know! Several interview companies want to interview us! They even said a TV station wants to make a documentary about our escape from Saida! Can you believe it!?"
Yin Yu's lips twitched. What was all this nonsense?
Harrison and Alma enthusiastically chimed in, "It's true! We just looked up that TV station online, it's very famous! It probably isn't fake."
Roy had no desire to be on a reality documentary. He waved his hand and said, "I've already agreed to let them find an actor to replace me for the filming. I'll offer my personal advice, but don't expect me to participate personally. I'd rather die than go back into the swamp."
The little hamster looked up at Yin Yu and the other person: "What about you? What did you say?"
"It's up to you, we won't go," Yin Yu said decisively.
This was within the little hamster's expectations and not unexpected. Even if they were rejected, it wouldn't dampen the three's eagerness to try.
Yin Yu shook his head, then took his IV drip stand and sat down in an empty seat with He Lianzhou.
He Lianzhou lowered his voice and sneered, "You just got out and you're already thinking about going back in."
"It's more accurate to say that those media outlets and producers are quicker to detect something than sharks," Yin Yu said casually.
He Lianzhou grinned.
Nagacho's medical system is very backward, and the hospital wards are full of townspeople injured by the artificial rain. Yin Yu and his group are among the least injured of the disaster victims. They only need to get a few bottles of saline solution and sit there to get the IV drip.
The next day, Yin Yu and He Lianzhou left first.
He had originally planned to get a new permit for hunting crocodiles, but when he arrived at the government office, he was told that the area was flooded and they were still working on drainage and salvage. So he simply wrote one by hand and gave it to Yin Yu.
There wasn't even a red stamp on it, because the stamp was washed away in the flood and is now in some unknown corner. It's being urgently replaced.
Yin Yu had no choice but to leave with the handwritten certificate.
Nagacho is like a makeshift team.
Finally, the two caught the nearest night flight and returned to the amusement park at noon.
Back at the amusement park, it was the busiest time of day. Yin Yu hadn't been to the park during peak tourist season in a long time, and he was somewhat taken aback by the lively atmosphere.
Anyone who sees this amusement park would find it hard to reconcile with the original, long-closed, desolate park.
In just six months, it felt like two different worlds.
Although Yin Yu and He Lianzhou had changed out of their tattered clothes from the swamp, their smart outdoor gear still stood out from the other visitors at the amusement park and quickly attracted attention.
"Wow, are those two new NPCs over there? Are they cosplaying as that outdoor streamer?"
"Hilarious! Cosplaying the boss? Is that even possible?"
"You're so good at this, hahaha!"
"Are you face-blind? Huh? Huh?! That's the real deal!!! Ahhh! The real Yu-ge!! The real person!!"
"Holy crap!?"
In an instant, twenty or thirty people excitedly surrounded him, and He Lianzhou felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy.
Why are they all touching Yin Yu? Is Yin Yu a money tree or a Pixiu?
He Lianzhou kept a stern face, blocking one person after another, and two people after two.
But to their surprise, the group of tourists became even more excited.
"It really is a Monster Hunter guy!"
"Monster Hunter Bro is really blocking people's way, is he not allowed to even get close?"
"It seems to be some kind of passively triggered skill, hahaha."
He Lianzhou: ""
The staff at the park had all heard the news of the curator's return and rushed to the park entrance: "The curator is back!!!"
"Great! Overtime pay is due!!"
"It's a pity this time it only lasts a few days."
Yin Yu: ""
Thank you to all the wonderful employees at Da'er.
Every extra day is a test of whether his life is tough enough; it's still not enough.
"Alright, alright! Everyone, please don't crowd! Please make way for our curator! Everyone, please gather in an orderly fashion!" The fox somehow obtained a small megaphone, climbed onto the werewolf's shoulder and sat down, instantly gaining a height advantage that made him stand out from the crowd, and greeted everyone at a leisurely pace.
The werewolf chuckled sheepishly, holding the fox's thigh with one hand to prevent the fox from falling off in its excitement.
The curator is back, and everyone is happy!
Upon hearing the fox's words about "orderly observation," Yin Yu rubbed his temples, looking at the fox with amusement and speechlessness. Had he become one of the attractions in the amusement park?
He shook his head helplessly and said to the fox, "We're going back first. You guys keep things in order here and make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Alright, Curator!" the fox readily agreed. "By the way, Curator, a huge aquatic creature suddenly appeared over at the dormitory."
"I understand, I'll make the arrangements, for now." Yin Yu paused for a second before reacting, interrupting the fox in time and making a gesture of secrecy.
That was a variant organism terrarium that was recovered from the Saida Swamp. Given the size of that terrarium, there probably isn't much room for movement around the dormitory right now.
Thinking of this, Yin Yu quickened his pace.
He left in a hurry, and could still hear the excited chatter of the tourists behind him.
"What? Is Brother Yu up to something big again?"
"Is there going to be another update?!"
"Super big? What's super big? I love super big!"
"Ah, I really want to sneak into their dorm area and take a look!!"
"Every time I see those two little castles with pointed roofs, I really want to go inside and take a look! Although the forest-themed hotel is nice, I still want to stay in a castle, sob sob."
"Who doesn't dream of being a princess or prince?!"
"To be honest, the accommodation area is really well-protected, completely sealed off. I couldn't even peek through it! Even when I looked down from the Ferris wheel, I couldn't see anything at all, it was like it was covered up!"
"Of course! It's all about privacy, and since we're staying inside the park, they have to use some serious technological measures to protect it, right?"
That's true.
"Ugh, Brother Yu is being too polite! Why are you telling Little Fox to keep it a secret from us?! You've already said most of it! How annoying!"
"The fish has taken the bait, please give me some!"
"Aquarium? What aquarium? Are we going to renovate the aquarium this time?"
"What?! I can!!"
"expect!!"
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