There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 29 Corner Gives Wood

With Jiang Yueying's terrible physique, how far can she run?

Lu Ren found her behind a tree a few hundred meters away.

Logically speaking, with Lin and An there, it shouldn't have been his turn to chase after them, but given the circumstances just now, it didn't seem appropriate for the two of them to chase after them.

Lu Ren looked at Jiang Yueying, who was huddled up in a ball and looked very small, and didn't know what to say to comfort her.

But the little one didn't cry or make a fuss, so there's probably no need to comfort him, right?

Jiang Yueying didn't look up at him, but seemed to know who had followed her out, and suddenly spoke up:

"Come, come quickly, you're so slow."

"I've been behind you the whole time, you just didn't notice."

"I...I messed up again...did I?"

Lu Ren sighed and sat down next to her: "It seems that reality is ultimately somewhat different from what we're used to."

"Too talkative..."

Jiang Yueying was in a low mood, so the two of them fell silent again. After a while, the person next to them took something out of their pocket.

It was her game console, and he started playing it next to her.

"Didi da da bo poo~ Game boy~"

She squatted to the side, listening to the various game sound effects coming from the side, and felt like an idiot.

After about ten minutes, she finally spoke: "Hey, say something, what is it?"

Lu Ren was taken aback: "Didn't you just say I was being nosy?"

"You, you really are sometimes so, so annoying."

"In my world, a writer said that people who are disliked tend to live longer."

Jiang Yueying gave a cold laugh: "Then, you'll definitely live for thousands of years."

"That's good, I just want to live a long time."

Lu Ren thought for a moment and asked, "If it's a corner where wood is given, what should we do next?"

Jiang Yueying actually started analyzing seriously, saying, "After choosing heroine A, I should be able to disable the routes for characters B, C, and D. There might be an exit CG, and then that's it, no more plot. However, if someone likes to collect everything, they might start a new game, and then specifically choose me just to see my special CG with H content..."

"oh--"

"Whoa!"

Jiang Yueying realized she had said something strange, her face filled with panic, which was quite adorable: "W-what are you connecting to?"

"You have a special CG with H."

Jiang Yueying exclaimed in disbelief, "You... you actually said it!"

"You were the one who said it first, weren't you?"

"Don't think about it! Quick, stop right now!"

"Hmph—"

Lu Ren smiled confidently, placing his hand in a checkmark shape under his chin:

"It's no use. I've already collected all the CGs from hundreds of remote corners of the world. I can conjure up countless scenes in an instant."

The little girl clutched her chest with both hands, her eyes filled with panic: "The tonic is fantasizing about me? Are you a pervert?"

Lu Ren was very pleased with himself, letting the little one's soft fists keep hitting his arm like a massage.

After a while, seeing her panting heavily from smashing things, he stood up and said:

"Alright, let's go back. They're starting to worry."

Jiang Yueying lowered her head, somewhat reluctant to go back. Firstly, she didn't know how to face them, and secondly... she had just broken up with her boyfriend.

Having conquered dozens of "Gala Gem" novels, I've actually gotten dumped.

How can she save face like this!

But if they go away for too long, they'll worry about them.

She had just started to get up when suddenly her legs went numb and she lost her balance. The tingling and numb sensation from her calves went straight to her soul, and she let out a long string of "oh oh oh oh" sounds.

"What's wrong?" Lu Ren asked.

"I've been squatting for too long, my legs are numb..."

Lu Ren found it amusing and reached out to her. Jiang Yueying looked at his smirking expression and felt embarrassed.

She looked down, handed over her hand, and muttered under her breath, "Don't get too cocky... Waaah!"

After Lu Ren grabbed her hand, he scooped her up and carried her on his back, just like when the two of them had been fighting these past few days.

"Let's go, Moonshadow Cannon."

"Who, who is Moonshadow Cannon?!"

"By the way, although it's quite inappropriate, Lin and An should be together now, right? These young lovers definitely want to be a couple in the future, and you don't want to break them up, do you? How about joining my team with... Lu Youhe?"

"..."

The woods fell silent.

Jiang Yueying clenched her fist and lowered her eyes. "These past few days, I've actually been vaguely hoping that I can get along well with you all. It's just that I don't want to..."

"Don't overthink it."

Lu Ren interrupted her and continued:

"Lin doesn't mean to abandon you. He just thinks you're too talented, and if you keep sticking with them, they'll end up holding you back."

"No, no, I'm not that great. I'm not some powerful or important figure. All along, I've been the one holding everyone back..."

"Do you really think so? You yourself know you have a lot of talent, right?"

"But, but, I don't think so..."

"That's what they think."

"Not only Lin, but even An feels that they have been holding you back. Perhaps in their eyes, you would have become a great person if it weren't for them, but now you can keep running away because of them."

You've entrusted all your choices to them; you trust them completely. But isn't that a heavy burden for them? Why should they bear the weight of your fate?

Lu Ren sighed and said, "It's time to mature a bit, little Jiang Yueying."

"And how much do you know anyway!"

"I don't know anything, I'm just guessing. If you think I'm wrong, you can just ignore it. But if you think I'm right, you need to think carefully about what you should do next."

"..." Jiang Yueying clenched her fists, but couldn't say a word.

Her legs, which had gone numb from squatting, had actually recovered, but she still showed no intention of getting off his back.

Only the rustling sound of passersby walking through the woods remained.

After about half a minute, Jiang Yueying asked, "What choice do they want me to... to make?"

"You can make whatever choice you want, but you can't keep being confused and thinking that someone will always make the decisions for you. They can't make the decisions for you forever."

But if you want to, they should all support you.

Even if you said you wanted to be a parasite for life, and let them keep you like trash, they would gladly accept it. But the premise for doing so is that you originally wanted to be a parasite, not that you wanted to be a parasite because they were there.

"I, I'm not a parasite."

"It's just a metaphor, I'm just using a metaphor."

Jiang Yueying sneered a few times and said sarcastically:

"He speaks grand, grand principles with such conviction, yet it's strange, disgusting...like some old man."

Lu Ren, however, was quite pleased with himself and said, "I know very well what young people like you are confused about."

He deliberately slowed his pace to give her time to think, and after a while, he carried the girl on his back and asked softly:

"You...you mean...did he ever think of me as someone he could date, a potential partner...?"

Lu Ren thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, you'll have to ask him."

"Yes, that's true..."

She fell silent again, and Lu Ren didn't force her to make a decision immediately.

Although he didn't know if he had completed the young lady's mission, he had indeed done his best to help her recruit people to go up the mountain.

However, when they were less than two hundred meters from the camp, a thick fog suddenly rose up around them.

The thick fog came quickly and fast, passing them almost instantly and sweeping towards them.

Their speed was so fast that it appeared as if they were moving backward.

Lu Ren looked around, but visibility was less than two meters. A bead of sweat slowly rolled down his forehead, and he swallowed hard.

Before he could react, his stomach reacted. That feeling of rapidly burning all his energy to resist the encroaching fog returned.

This time is different from the last time. Last time, the swamp monster was already at its last gasp, but this time, it is clearly not prey, but hunter.

Swamp Mud Monster, the most ferocious hunter in this land!