Using the MC system to pretend spiritual revival

Chapter 266 Oh~ Pork belly~
As night fell, the cloudless desert shone with starlight, and the wind, driven by the dramatic temperature difference between day and night, whipped up wisps of dust.

Without the reflection of clouds and the hustle and bustle of the city, this place, which still retains its natural appearance in modern times, is such that once the sun sets, you can only see the sky clearly by looking up.

Deep in this desert, a rare sand-eroded Gobi stands silently, its jagged rocks, sculpted by time, casting eerie shadows in the still night. In this deathly silence, only the howling of the wind and sand can be heard.

But the next moment, several billowing sands descending from the top of the distant dunes shattered everything.

Amidst the dust cloud that followed, Niu Lei, now in his complete demon form, once again failed to stop under the watchful eye of a bat perched above his head. He crashed into a clump of unknown thorny bushes before finally managing to bring his hooves to a stop at the bottom of the sand dune.

Following closely behind were the other team members who had tumbled and climbed up the steep sand wall and stopped on the ground.

As the dust settled, the group shook off the sand from their bodies, got up, and gathered again, looking together at the vast expanse of sandy Gobi Desert nestled between two towering sand dunes not far in front of them.

"This should be the place, so where did the temporary camp marker go?"

A step too slow, the bee team member, flapping its wings and dragging its round body, raised its gaze and landed on the top of a towering cactus. It looked at the dark, barely discernible rocky beach in the distance, its voice filled with doubt.

However, it's clear that after this series of events, someone simply couldn't keep up with his unreliability any longer.

Behind the group, a large carp, nearly two meters long and with most of its body submerged in the ground, was pulled up from the sand pile by its tail by its teammate, who had transformed into a half-demon.

Having just been pulled out to eat, it didn't even bother to shake off the sand that covered its body. Instead, it straightened its body, opened its big fish eyes, and rapidly opened and closed its large fish mouth towards the bee that had landed on the cactus not far away.

Although I couldn't understand it, the swearing was clearly very vulgar.

Seeing this, even the bat, who was completely demonized and clinging to Niu Lei's two horns, couldn't stand it any longer and spoke up, letting out a loud, boisterous female voice.

"Wang Feng! Look what you've done to Hai Dafu! If you keep being so unreliable, you might as well go back to the logistics department and collect honey! Those guys are obsessed with alchemy lately, and there's a huge shortage of materials!"

As soon as the words "collecting honey" were uttered, it was as if some underlying code was triggered, and the entire body of the wasp vibrated at a low frequency.

Its round body showed no expression, but the frequency of its vibrations clearly expressed strong resistance.

He turned around and looked pleadingly at the silent captain, Niu Lei, but all he received in return was a cold stare.

He immediately realized that if he said just one more word, his attendance record for the next month would only have "assisting with logistics" as his task.

Thinking back to how he was tortured to the point of near death by those freaks in the logistics department last month just for those few points, his heart tightened.

With swift movements, it flapped its wings and buzzed as it flew towards the large shadowy area ahead.

"Please rest for a moment! I'll be right back!"

The nine people who remained behind, including team leader Niu Lei, watched this scene with little hope and found a sheltered area to rest.

Niu Lei also transformed back into his half-human, half-bull form, found a rock behind him, sat cross-legged, and began to regulate his breathing.

As a result, everyone waited for a while, but still did not see anyone return from mid-air.

Niu Lei frowned, sensing something was amiss. He stood up from behind the rock and looked around.

"Report your remaining mana."

"Yes, Captain!"

As soon as the words were spoken, someone responded immediately, and then shouts of reporting came from all directions:

"Fourth floor!"

"I'm on the third floor."

"The fifth floor."

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Hearing that Hai Dafu, who hadn't moved at all and had been carried along, only had half of his magic power left, Niu Lei's expression on his face became increasingly serious, and his brows furrowed even more tightly.

After a moment's thought, he quickly made a decision.

"Use everything you can to replenish your spiritual energy and mana! The situation has changed; we need to recover as quickly as possible. I will report the losses to my superiors later, so don't worry about them!"

Upon hearing this, the others, who were also caught up in the atmosphere, no longer hesitated. They quickly took out spiritual herbs or pills from various parts of their bodies, tilted their heads back, and swallowed them, rapidly circulating their cultivation techniques to restore their magical power.

As the team leader, Niu Lei also took out a small metal bottle from his pocket, poured out a few neutral-colored pellets and put them directly into his mouth, his eyes scanning the shadows around him warily where danger might be hiding.

A few moments later, just as everyone was regaining their composure and getting ready for battle, a buzzing sound of flapping wings came from the night sky above them.

A yellow and black figure, indistinguishable from head to tail, gradually came into view—it was none other than Wang Feng himself, who had been away for a long time.

"Captain! I found it!"

From afar, shouts could be heard amidst the vibrations of bee wings.

Upon getting closer, unaware that his teammates were all on guard, he began to excitedly fly around the crowd.

"Captain, I've found it!! It's just to the west! Not more than a few hundred meters away!"

"Just around a rocky hill, and you'll arrive! The tents and everything else are quite well-preserved! I reckon the supplies left behind are still there too!"

After speaking, Niu Lei looked at the noisy team members who had circled him several times, and this time he didn't say anything more. He just nodded and breathed a deep sigh of relief.

He then looked at the other team members on either side who had similar expressions, exchanged a brief glance, determined the direction, and started walking westward.

"Wang Feng, you did a great job this time. Lead the way. When we get back, I'll apply for that spirit flower you've been longing for."

"Yes!"

Thanks to the previous replenishment of spiritual energy, everyone was in a semi-demon state, combining agility and speed, and their pace was incredibly fast, covering a distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

After passing a massive mountain wall composed of a single, solid rock, in the distance, in a sheltered depression, a cluster of desert camouflage tents, their colors barely discernible at first glance, came into view.

Along the way, on the stone walls, one can still see some faint red signs of the Xin Kingdom, eroded by wind and sand.

Clearly, the wasps found this disguised temporary camp by following these markers.

Just as everyone's eyes lit up with joy as they reverted from their half-demon state to human form and stepped toward the recessed stone wall, a dark shadow suddenly darted out from the side and blocked their path a dozen steps away.

Although Wang Feng returned unharmed, Niu Lei, who was on high alert, saw this unusual situation and immediately raised his hand to stop the team members behind him.

His gaze sharpened, and he prepared to step forward and make his move, using his superior cultivation and thicker skin to buy time for the team members behind him.

But just as he lifted his foot, a bright light suddenly ignited from the dark figure that had suddenly darted out, illuminating the appearance of the person blocking his way.

Niu Lei's forward momentum abruptly halted, his hairy arm freezing in mid-air. Not only him, but the team members behind him, upon recognizing the "person" in front of them, also froze in place, their eyes fixed blankly on the figure.

The man waved the light source in his hand, looked around at the crowd in front of him, and finally fixed his gaze on Niu Lei, a tall and burly man at the front of the line. He seemed to nod in satisfaction and then shouted loudly.

"Hey friend, do I look like a god, or a god?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene fell into an eerie silence.

After a long while, Wang Feng, now back in human form, finally let out a surprised exclamation with a mixture of three parts doubt, seven parts confusion, and a final ninety percent "Holy crap, what is this?" as he stared at his wide-open mouth.

"Huh? Huh?!"

"Isn't that Huang Daxian? This can't be right! How can this thing be in the desert?!"

At that moment, in front of the special operations team, a giant weasel, only about a meter long and larger than its kind, was blocking the road.

He rose up with his hands clasped in prayer, his big, beady eyes blinking as he looked at everyone.

If that wasn't surprising enough, what stunned them even more was that this wild animal, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and shouldn't be there at all, was carrying an outdoor adventure flashlight under its arm and wearing a colorful little round hat on its head.

Coupled with that rather surreal shout just now, it makes you wonder if the other person is about to pull out a piece of naan bread from somewhere.
The composition of this image is so complex that the combined effect is extremely powerful.

The 10 members of the team, who were forcibly held in place, did not utter a sound except for Wang Feng's initial surprised shout; they were all frozen in place.

The one on the other side... well, Wong Tai Sin, seemed to have been caught off guard by the large number of people before it appeared. It stood there dumbfounded, only uttering its usual slogan before making any further moves.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

After a long stalemate, Niu Lei, whose patience had finally run out, took the initiative first.

He took a step forward, bent over and twisted his waist, and the optimized transformation that had just been interrupted quickly climbed up his body to his shoulders and neck.

In an instant, his already tall and muscular upper body swelled up to more than twice its size, as if it were being inflated like a balloon.

The black and white hairs, standing up like steel needles, instantly covered the exposed skin, and the bulging muscles almost tore the specially made combat suit on the upper body apart.

On the face of the cow, now covered in fur, a pair of eyes the size of copper bells stared intently at the terrified weasel.

This strike, honed through countless trials, mobilized all the power in the body. The punch created a loud bang as it smashed through the air, carrying a fierce gust of wind as it arrived in an instant.

"pat-"

The only source of light in the canyon suddenly shook and fell to the ground.

Huang Daxian trembled, the flashlight slipped from his arm, and almost the instant the fist the size of a clay pot was about to hit him, his knees buckled and he fell to his knees with a thud.

The whistling fist came to an abrupt halt a few inches in front of its nose, but the accompanying wind pressure still ripped the fur off its entire face backward.

Her eyes, the size of mung beans, were tightly closed until the surroundings returned to silence, at which point she shakily opened them.

However, upon closer inspection, one could see that the group of 10 people had all transformed into half-demon forms, surrounding him and obscuring every inch of space within his field of vision.

They were all rubbing their hands together, their faces full of malice.

It even saw a strange fish with two pairs of snow-white human legs suddenly tear off a tuft of scales from its own tail, its entire fish face filled with a perverted ferocity.

Having lived in the demon realm and never seen aquatic life before, it was visibly shaken by this sight.

His face and beard, which looked as if they had been blackened by soot, trembled, and his long neck and entire body shook with fear.

"Hey friend, it's all a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!"

"I didn't know you were demons too! Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't have jumped out to scare you!!"

Upon hearing this, Niu Lei, who had slowly withdrawn his fist and straightened his body, instantly grasped the key point in the words.

It seems that they have been treated as one of their own kind... as if they could be used to their advantage.

After lowering his eyes and thinking for a moment, Niu Lei figured out the key point. He then looked around and exchanged glances with his teammates.

Then they became even more intimidating, their claws extended, their fangs bared, and their ferocious appearances as wild beasts became increasingly prominent.

A murderous aura filled the air, causing the large weasel, which was surrounded and kneeling in fear, to curl up in terror.

After waiting a while longer, I saw that it was almost done.

Niu Lei then waved to stop the team members who were trying to glare and bare their teeth, and instead bent down to look at the small animal that had curled up on the ground.

Looking into its trembling, tiny green eyes, Niu Lei lowered his voice, making it deep and authoritative:
"Hmph! Who gave you the audacity to block our path?! Huh?! State your name!!"

After a long pause, seeing that the other party didn't seem to intend to kill him outright, the large weasel lying on the ground finally trembled as it raised its head, its eyes filled with fear, and bowed respectfully.

"...Reporting to King Niu... I, Huang Xiaojiu, know I was wrong, but it really was a misunderstanding! A group of humans came here a few days ago, and I thought..."

"You think we're human?"

Niu Lei maintained his deep voice and interrupted the other person before they finished speaking.

A puff of hot air shot out from its two bull-nose noses, making Huang Xiaojiu unable to open his eyes.
"Hmph! You're blind! Take a good look at us and see what makes us seem like mortals!"

This sudden outburst of rage startled the large weasel, who had been interrupted, so much so that it trembled again.

Meanwhile, the half-human, half-bee Wang Feng, who had transformed into a human, also seized the opportunity to speak up in agreement:

"That's right! And even if we really are just ordinary people, what are you planning to do by jumping out like this? With your tiny arms and legs, do you think you can just block the road and eat people?"

As he spoke, he met the other person's tiny, terrified eyes, a sinister smile creeping across his lips as he scanned the person from head to toe.

"Aren't you afraid of being skinned alive to make clothes, and having your flesh and bones boiled into soup? Heh heh~ Slurp~"

As he finished speaking, Wang Feng even pretended to suck in his saliva with greedy eyes. This series of words, coupled with his expression, made Huang Xiaojiu completely uncomfortable.

A series of bloody and cruel violent images immediately flashed through my mind, and a chill ran from the tip of my tail straight to the top of my head.

His entire body immediately went limp like noodles, and he began to scream and beg for mercy in a pitiful voice:

"King Ox, King Bee, King Carp, Your Majesties, have mercy on me!"

"I've only been refining my transverse bone for a few days! I have the worst talent in the family, and my meat doesn't taste good either~ So I can't refine pills or have a good meal! Waaah!"

(End of this chapter)