Players, Please Boar Chapter 175: The Tracker's Tricks

Xu Huo stood once again outside the Sunflower Courtyard, pondering when exactly he had fallen victim to another player's sche.

Retracing everything that happened in Fairy Tale City, none of the players he encountered after arriving here had sufficient motive, including the Player-Eater from the Fresh at Sausage Shop. The only possibility was that before entering the ga, during that confrontation in Harbor City, a high-level player had done sothing to him.

Granny Bai had only given him a hint without explaining clearly, but it was certain that sothing had been done to him.

Even with enough train tickets to continuously move between different dungeons, the ti spent staying in dungeons was long. Remaining fixed in one place also carried the risk of being found.

He tilted his head to look at Sun Jirou waiting not far away.

"If my skills are inferior, I have nothing to say," Sun Jirou approached him and said, "I want to discuss a deal with you."

Xu Huo gestured for her to continue.

Sun Jirou took a deep breath and said, "You've gotten into trouble. I can help you remove this trouble, but on the condition that you transfer the 'teeth' Granny Bai gave you to ."

"Impossible, suggest sothing else," Xu Huo said decisively.

Sun Jirou wasn't angry either. eting his gaze, she said, "This concerns your life safety. The person targeting you is definitely a C-grade player or higher. Do you have the ability to deal with high-level players right now?"

"With an absolute gap in strength, wisdom simply cannot compensate."

Xu Huo nodded in agreent, "So I plan to go directly to the next dungeon."

Sun Jirou choked for a mont, but then heard him continue, "State your real conditions. This trick won't work on ."

She smiled, "I didn't expect you to see through it. I just want you to owe

a favor."

Only then did Xu Huo seriously examine her. From the beginning on the train, Sun Jirou had presented herself as a pampered young lady from a wealthy family—not high-level, but rich and bringing bodyguards. She had been angry about her companion and bodyguard's death and wanted revenge, but quickly adjusted her attitude when it proved impossible, even wanting to make a deal with him, who had indirectly screwed her over once.

Her image was quite well-rounded.

"You co from an extraordinary background; you probably don't need a favor from ," he said.

"Who can say for sure?" Sun Jirou said, "In the ga world, it's not about who has money or whose fists are harder. Grassroots rising up in dungeons is much easier than in reality."

And those with only assets but no player support are just fat at in others' eyes.

"Don't worry, I won't make excessive demands," Sun Jirou said. "I just want to ask you one thing: if you ever encounter a player nad Wang Cheng or with the nickna 'Slap My Dad's Face' in the ga, no matter what, please help him."

"Is he your brother?"

"Younger brother," Sun Jirou said. "After our parents divorced, he went with our mother. Now he's also entered the ga world."

"Although the ga world is vast, there might still be a slight chance we et again," she continued. "If we do have the opportunity to et, and before that you haven't encountered him, then help

with another matter."

"You are indeed a smart person, but you don't want to wander aimlessly in the ga world either, do you?"

"Most dungeons that E-grade players go to are either closed or semi-closed like Fairy Tale City. If you clear a dungeon without using a return ticket, you can only remain stranded in that dungeon. Dungeon locations are only so big; eventually, soone will catch up to you one day."

"You don't want to bring danger to your relatives and friends either, do you?"

"The condition I'm proposing isn't excessive."

"But if you're willing to exchange it for Angel's Teeth, that works too."

Xu Huo agreed. The two found a tea house and went inside. Sun Jirou took off the necklace from her neck and first explained the item's use: "This is a detection item. It can analyze the composition of most things like soil, water sources, air, etc., and can also detect so special scents."

"I noticed it right when you boarded the train. At first, I thought you were deeply concealing your abilities, but you quickly fooled ."

"At the Building Block Buns shop, you also confird I was outside through this?" Xu Huo asked.

Sun Jirou showed slight surprise, then sighed, "There's no sense of mystery at all in front of smart people."

"Correct."

She held the necklace pendant and scanned it through the air from top to bottom, finally stopping at his ankle. "Right here."

Xu Huo didn't feel anything. He looked down, but the exposed skin showed no abnormalities.

Sun Jirou took out a bottle of insecticide and, after he nodded, sprayed it. Soon, a fingernail-sized thin flake fell off his skin, similar in color to his skin and as thin as a cicada's wing.

She picked up the flake. "This is an embryo of a tracking lizard nicknad 'See You in Three Years.' During the egg-laying stage, the mother lizard continuously produces and sheds such embryos. If the embryo attaches to a person or object, even across stations, as long as conditions are suitable, the mother lizard will find it."

"This lizard's sense of sll can cross spatial boundaries?" Xu Huo frowned.

"Whether it's sll or not hasn't been determined yet, but animal evolution is more complex and strange than humans'," Sun Jirou paused and rephrased. "Dolphins have built-in sonar systems in their brains that can locate objects less than five centiters across from over a hundred ters away. Rusty-spotted catfish can construct a 3D jungle map in their brains. After initial evolution, so animals have displayed extraordinary abilities that humans cannot achieve."

In other words, humans don't know how they do it either; they've rely observed the phenonon.

"And this embryo can remain active for up to three years. During these three years, as long as the mother lizard isn't dead, it will continue tracking it."

Xu Huo looked at the "flake" in her palm. "Can it still be used now?"

"Of course. It seems there aren't very effective blocking thods yet," Sun Jirou handed it to him. "What do you plan to use this for? You can just discard it sowhere."

"To deliver a big gift," Xu Huo smiled slightly.

Sun Jirou hesitated for a mont, then said, "I have another question."

"Go ahead."

"How did you see through Granny Bai's identity? I also interacted with her on the train, but I completely didn't realize they were the sa person."

"I didn't see through their identities, I just judged they were related," Xu Huo said.

"Both of them ntioned the Bear Claw Restaurant, and Granny Bai, disguised as the tour guide, entered the Bear Claw Restaurant herself to lure

in."

"Weren't you also curious why no babies were born in Fairy Tale City for twenty years?"

"If this is a powerful person who has lost hope in their own kind, achieving that isn't difficult. However, this person would need to be at least thirty-five years old. Although the female tour guide didn't fit that description, the ga has all sorts of strange items, and changing appearance isn't unusual."

"So whether they were two people or one person, both possibilities were within reasonable range."

"But why wouldn't she allow the people of Fairy Tale City to reproduce?"