Chapter 44: Yearning for Survival
Yue Yang looked down and found himself stepping on someone's face.
Breaking out in cold sweat, hurry down.
The man who was kicked in the face by Yueyang was a tall and thin figure, dressed in tattered clothes like a beggar. He lay on the ground with his four limbs stretched out, and even when Yueyang approached him, he didn't get up. Yueyang looked at him and thought he didn't seem to be injured, but rather like a puddle of mud, lying motionless on the ground, and couldn't help but ask: "What's going on with you?"
"Never mind, I'm a shame to the Tower of Tongtian!" The tall and slender young man shook his head and sighed.
"Did you gamble away all your family's property?" Yueyang slightly frowned.
"No, it's almost the same! I prepared for five years, accumulated my strongest strength, passed through the Dragon Valley Road, and started training in the Star Domain. At first, everything was going smoothly, and I was full of confidence. I thought I could get a Wisdom Fruit, but unexpectedly, I couldn't even pass the lowest difficulty challenge of the 'Imperial Palace Twelve Halls'. My third-level Poison Wolf and fourth-level Long-Armed Golden Ape King were all wiped out... Five years of preparation, gone in just one day, can you imagine? Do you think I'm willing to lie here and wait for death? I have no face to go home... You might not believe it, but I'm the most outstanding genius in my family, and my parents have high expectations of me. I couldn't bear to face their desperate eyes! Haha, do you want to know how I wrote my family letter? I lied to my parents, telling them that I was doing well here, that my trial was progressing smoothly, and that my two pets had leveled up... In reality, I was kicked out of the team by those guys a long time ago!" The thin man's tone carried a sense of despair, and although he smiled while speaking, it was all self-mockery.
Yue Yang's heart skipped a beat when he heard what the thin man had said.
Yue Bing, that stubborn little girl, was also kicked out of the team. I wonder if she's like this skinny guy, with all her war beasts dead?
Will she end up like this skinny guy in front of us, with nothing to her name, too ashamed to go home, starving and lying on the ground waiting for death, yet writing letters back home saying everything is fine?
At this thought, Yueyang's heart immediately became anxious. Yuebing must not have anything happen to her, he had to find her as soon as possible, and couldn't let her lie on the ground waiting for death like that skinny man, he had to take her back and give the beautiful woman a perfect explanation!
Yueyang had mentioned the names Yulong Valley and Xingyu in her letter to Yue Bing, so she estimated that her trial process was similar to this thin man's.
"Are you familiar with Yulong Valley Road and Xingyu? " Yueyang decided to ask Xiaozi about the situation first.
"Hah, how could I not be familiar? I've been a guide here at the Tower of Heaven for two years now. The first floor of the Tower of Heaven, I can walk it with my eyes closed! Do you want to go to the Star Domain? Do you need a guide? I know the easiest shortcuts, and I don't even need money, just fill my belly and that's enough. If you complete the trial task and are willing to give me some small change, that would be best!" The thin man's face was filled with self-mockery when he mentioned the small change.
"Do you know where the trial team of Shangjing Academy is?" Yu Yang asked again.
"Shangjing Academy has ten trial teams, which team are you looking for?" The thin man struggled to get up, it was clear that he hadn't eaten in many days, and was so weak from hunger that even standing up made him sway.
"It's called the 'Academy Rose Team', but I'm not looking for the team, I'm looking for someone on the team. You're a guide here, have you heard of a girl named Yue Bing? She was kicked out of the team just like you, have you seen her?" Yue Yang was worried that Yue Bing had also fallen to the point where she had to be a guide in exchange for food.
"Yue Bing? Never heard of her. The Rose Academy's trial team, I haven't met them either." The thin man shook his head.
Yueyang became even more worried after hearing this.
Yue Bing, this stubborn little girl, she absolutely cannot get into trouble.
Otherwise, how would he explain himself to the beautiful woman? Although he hadn't spent much time with Yuer Bing, he felt she was like a younger sister, and usually she treated him with great respect. He absolutely couldn't bear to see her in such a desperate situation.
Don't worry about practicing for now, let's find Yuki-chan first!
A figure in black flashed through his mind - Yue Bing's image, and he felt that this sister of his, with her tumultuous fate and strong personality, was now in urgent need of her brother's protection...
"But don't worry, the students of Capital Academy are all top-notch and won't be like me! Even if the trial fails, the academy has arrangements. I know that none of the guides here is a girl named Yue Bing!" The thin man was very clever and saw the worries in Yue Yang's heart.
"Alright, you find her for me as soon as possible and I'll give you a super high salary! If you can help me find her within one day, I'll give you ten gold coins. For every additional day, I'll deduct one coin. I don't care what method or means you use, just get it done!" Yuyang fell silent for a moment before deciding to use wealth to pave the way and first find Yubing.
"I'll do my best... but can I have some wages first? Don't laugh at me, I haven't eaten in days! Just a few copper coins will do, I'm so hungry I can barely move!" The thin man looked at Yueyang with hopeful eyes, the same kind of eyes that Yueyang had seen in the Grey Wolf's gaze when he was about to kill it.
This is a yearning for survival!
Although in a desperate situation, still yearning for survival, even if already powerless to struggle, but in the heart still hoping for a miracle.
Yueyang was slightly moved in his heart, nodded, and instead of giving the thin man a handful of copper coins, he handed over a purse containing 100 silver dollars from his bosom: "This is your wages for today's work, go deal with your affairs, I'll wait here for half an hour!"
When the thin man took over the heavy purse, his eyes were a little red, he didn't say anything, just tightly grasped the purse in his hand and nodded vigorously.
He didn't say a word and quickly walked away.
If you look carefully, you can see a trail of tears scattered in disarray at the feet of the departing figure.
Yue Yang gazed at his back, letting out a soft sigh. This was what it meant to be a genius... A fallen genius! Perhaps this skinny man had once been a proud and carefree prodigy, the hope of his family. But after losing his war beast, he became a worthless good-for-nothing, not even daring to return home! In some ways, Skinny was similar to Cup Boy, who had thrown himself into the river... Cup Boy, born into the prestigious Yue Family, couldn't contract with or summon a treasured beast, and without one, he became the family's greatest waste. Under the pressure of his family and being jilted by his fiancée, he ultimately chose to end his life in the river. Wasn't Skinny quietly lying here waiting for death also a sign of the helplessness of the weak?
Before the cup man jumped into the river and died, in his eyes, there might also be a strong desire to survive, just like what was flashing in the thin man's eyes just now?
He must also be yearning for a miracle to happen?
But in the end, no one was able to save him... After his death, he replaced his identity! In a certain sense, this waste of a son-in-law can be said to have been reborn, but what replaced him and was reborn is this transmigrator himself! He is luckier than the useless man, having obtained everything that belonged to him, such as the love of the beautiful woman and her family, obtaining warm familial affection; at the same time, he also obtained things that he could not have gotten, contracting the Summoning Treasure Pavilion, obtaining the Life Guardian Beast, Twin Star Talent, and Snake Spirit Little Loli etc.
"Alright, I won't be able to help you with past matters, but from now on, I will definitely take good care of Yue Bing and the others for you. I will make them proud of you, make them admire you, and bring honor to you! The title of 'trash', I will definitely clear it up for you! In fact, you are not trash, you just aren't lucky enough!"
Yuexiang looked up at the sky, and he seemed to see a man who looked like himself in the sky, smiling with a sunny face, waving goodbye to him.
Maybe I'm the one he's been wishing for all along!
He must have hoped for someone as lucky as himself to replace him and fulfill his unfulfilled wishes...