Chapter 48: Reencountering Wu Xu! Jiang Yi Is Under My Protection!

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Jiang Yi remained impassive. With a single sweep of his eyes, he discovered that outside the tree hollow, a party of four was locked in fierce battle with a flock of birds and beasts.

The creatures were pitch-black, and none of them was particularly powerful on its own.

But there were simply too many of them.

Moreover, they were attacking from the air, giving them an obvious advantage.

Of the four people, only one was an official player.

The other three were ordinary people who had failed to become official players.

They were clearly struggling to withstand the flock.

If things continued like this...

It probably would not be long before all four of them perished here.

Jiang Yi watched the scene with complete indifference.

Clearly—

He was no longer the upstanding young man from an age of peace who believed in moral conduct, civic virtue, and coming to the aid of those in danger.

Two lifetimes of surviving the apocalypse had allowed him to see human nature with absolute clarity.

As the saying went: When one is rich, even distant relatives come calling; when one is poor, no one pays heed even in the busiest marketplace.

When the apocalypse had first descended, Jiang Yi had gained tremendous power.

Countless people, acquaintances and strangers alike, had flocked to him, calling him Brother Jiang, Old Jiang, Divine Jiang...

They had been just short of hugging his legs and calling him Father.

But once the time limit on his ability expired and he returned to being an ordinary person, how had those people treated him?

Gratitude?

Ha!

Anyone who did not come along to kick him while he was down already counted as a great and benevolent soul.

In his previous life, Jiang Yi had long since understood—

Did the weak who relied upon the strong truly feel grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the strong man's protection?

No!

All they felt was resentment and jealousy.

They would think:

Why did he get to become strong while I could only be a useless nobody?

Why was he lucky enough to draw something valuable, while I wasted my lifespan for nothing?

The vast majority of people in this world did not fear scarcity—they feared unfairness.

And the existence of the Wheel of Fate...

Was inherently unjust.

It created far too much psychological imbalance among players.

When you spent a year of your lifespan drawing a lump of dung, only to see someone else draw a Pill of Immortality—

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How would you feel?

Would you offer your congratulations?

Heh.

Jealousy and resentment, that sense of unfairness—those were the genuine feelings of an ordinary person.

And Jiang Yi now...

Had one hundred points in every attribute.

Destroying that flock of birds and beasts would be as easy as lifting a finger. He would not even break a sweat.

Yet he had no intention of showing himself or lending a hand.

Instead, he planned to wait until the four people had been slaughtered by the flock before emerging from the tree hollow.

What he had not expected was that—

Several minutes later, another group of players came rushing straight toward them.

Presumably, the official player among the original four had contacted a friend currently in this same Savage Beast World through the private messaging function.

The newly arrived group consisted of five people:

Two official players and three ordinary people.

One of the official players was Wu Xu, the captain of the Qin Lake faction, who possessed considerable strength.

Only then did Jiang Yi realize—

The official player who had been struggling to fend off the flock seemed to be one of the three captains of the Qin Lake faction as well.

The three captains of Qin Lake who were official players had clearly added one another as friends.

Thus, even after entering the Savage Beast World, they could quickly regroup through the private messaging function.

Once their forces had grown strong enough to resist the birds and beasts, the battle continued for several more minutes.

Realizing that they were outmatched, the flock finally withdrew of its own accord.

The four people who had first fought the creatures repeatedly thanked the five who had come to their aid.

“Thank you, Captain Wu! If you hadn’t arrived with your people in time, the four of us would probably have died here!”

Wu Xu’s performance in the battle had clearly been effortless.

His strength surpassed that of the other two official-player captains.

He also carried himself with considerable authority.

In response to their thanks, he casually waved a hand.

“It was nothing. Just a small favor.”

“But why did that flock of birds and beasts suddenly attack you?”

“I’ve been exploring this Qin Lake Savage Beast World for a while, and it seems that the more dangerous creatures here are the venomous insects. The savage beasts, on the other hand, don’t usually attack people without provocation.”

“Did you do something to provoke them?”

The official-player captain who had first fought the flock hurriedly shook his head.

“Of course not!”

“We simply happened to spot a tree hollow over there and wanted to check whether Zhou Yiming might be inside.”

“But as soon as we approached—before we even looked in—the flock suddenly attacked us. It caught us completely off guard!”

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Upon hearing this, Wu Xu’s eyes flickered, and he naturally turned his gaze toward the concealed hollow in the towering giant tree.

It was the very hollow where Jiang Yi was hiding.

He frowned slightly, hesitating inwardly.

He still had a Teleportation Talisman in his possession, one he had drawn earlier from the white wheel.

With it, he could leave this place instantly and avoid unnecessary trouble.

But the thing had come from the white wheel, after all.

Jiang Yi had been accustomed to thrift throughout his previous life.

To make him waste a Teleportation Talisman merely to avoid a group of people who were weaker than him—

He was naturally unwilling.

While he was still thinking, Wu Xu had already reached the tree hollow.

“There’s someone here!”

Wu Xu reacted with astonishing speed. He instinctively tightened his grip on his weapon, ready to fight at any moment.

But he quickly realized who it was and cried out in surprise.

“Jiang Yi? Is that you?”

There was even a hint of delight in his voice.

Jiang Yi thought for a moment, then stepped out of the hollow of his own accord.

“It’s me.”

Behind Wu Xu, the other two Qin Lake captains looked at him and frowned deeply.

The one who had initially fought the flock pointed directly at Jiang Yi’s nose and cursed.

“You were hiding in that tree hollow all along?”

“Then why didn’t you say a word or come out to help when we were fighting those birds and beasts? You made us work so hard!”

The four players who had first confronted the flock looked at Jiang Yi with obvious hostility.

Wu Xu, however, acted as though he and Jiang Yi were extremely close. He raised a hand and draped it over Jiang Yi’s shoulder.

Then he said to the four teammates:

“Hey, you can’t blame Jiang Yi for this.”

“With the little strength he has, coming out would only have meant throwing his life away. How could he possibly have helped you?”

“Besides, I told you before we entered the Qin Lake Savage Beast World—”

“This little brother Jiang Yi is under my protection!”

The four players looked down on Jiang Yi, but they were still quite wary of Wu Xu.

Hearing him speak up for Jiang Yi so openly, they naturally did not dare argue.

However...

Just as they were about to reconcile with Jiang Yi, the official-player captain suddenly noticed something and exclaimed:

“I know why that flock of birds and beasts suddenly attacked us without the slightest regard for honor!”