Four Split Personalities

"Old Jia, I’ve got something to tell you..."

After some consideration, Motan took the opportunity when Autumn Moon and Smith were bickering to sidle up to Jadka and whispered something to the old man.

Jadka’s expression changed slightly, then he nodded subtly, and quickly left the Woof Woof Team’s camp, heading towards the east side of the camp.

"I’m going to take the first night watch on the outskirts. Dabus, you keep an eye on Ya Ya and Anthony, and if I need to... I’ll send you a message in advance and let you know, so you can take over the second night watch for me."

Motan then turned to Dabus to give a few instructions. Subconsciously lowering the volume of the words ’log off’ to a lip-reading level, he then patted Wang Badan: "Let’s go, night watch."

Wang Badan looked at him unwillingly: "Burp~"

"Don’t be lazy, a walk after dinner helps you live to ninety-nine, ever heard of that?"

Motan coaxed kindly.

Wang Badan pulled a face, glancing at Motan with an expression as if looking at an idiot: "Brother, I can live for thousands of years without sickness or calamity, are you cursing me or what?"

"Just appreciate the spirit."

Motan chuckled helplessly, and upon seeing Wang Badan reluctantly stretching his legs to get up, turned his head back to the noisy duo looking for fun, and called out: "I’m off to night watch. Are you guys going to play here a bit longer or plan to come along?"

The veteran adventurer Pars divided the Night Watchers into two groups. The first group could be decided by each adventurer team individually – one or two people, as long as they could stay awake and guard their own area, without any additional requirements. However, the second group needed to monitor several key points around the entire camp as centrally as possible to achieve an all-angle surveillance. The larger teams, like the Black Goat Team and the Tyrannosaurus Team, contributed a total of eight people, with two-person teams responsible for the south, southwest, west, and north directions. The teams with fewer members, such as the Woof Woof Team and the Excitement-Seeking Party, each sent one person, also in pairs, to guard the relatively safest eastern side. Lastly, the civil servants from the Anka Caravan took turns patrolling at irregular intervals to achieve theoretically perfect vigilance.

"Ah! Do we need to assign someone to join you for night watch?"

Autumn Moon was stunned for a moment, then suddenly broke free from Smith, cheered and jumped onto the recently risen Wang Ba’s back: "Wow! Is this the Wang Ba that is said to have a super personality!?"

Smith, pushed to stumble, immediately let out a wail, and then looked up yelling at Autumn Moon: "Have you gone mad? That’s someone’s mount! A Demon Beast! Demon Beasts are super dangerous! Get down and apologize to Brother Mo!"

Motan actually didn’t mind Autumn Moon hopping onto Wang Ba’s back, but he had to admit that the girl was indeed a little too active and her initiative was really strong.

"Your insult, I am no Demon Beast!"

Wang Ba glanced at Smith very displeased, cursed at him, and then turned his head to Autumn Moon squatting on his back, said gravely: "Ignorant girl! I can give you a ride, but you must first answer my question."

"Oh? Let’s hear it."

"..."

Before Motan could stop him, Wang Ba quietly asked.

"Orange and white stripes."

Autumn Moon replied casually.

"..."

Even with Wang Ba’s composure, he was taken aback, nearly choked on his retort and swallowed it back.

He had planned all scenarios, but didn’t expect the girl to be so frank and casually give an answer as if discussing the weather.

[What the heck! Is this woman, who would be rather good-looking if she kept her mouth shut, sure her head hasn’t been kicked by something?!]

Wang Ba’s thoughts echoed unfiltered through the contract in Motan’s mind, finishing off with a ’boss save me’ look, seemingly making the entire tortoise ill at ease.

At the same time, Smith, who could no longer hold back, took a deep breath, then pointed with an outstretched index finger in the air at his team leader’s nose and roared loudly: "Are you ill! That’s someone else’s mount, why do you want to recruit it into the team without even greeting the owner? Are you sure you don’t need to get your brain checked at a psychiatry ward? Hurry up and get off him, Autumn Moon!"

"Actually, it’s fine for her to play for a while."

Motan came to the side of Smith, who was almost hypoxic from shouting, and smiled: "But I’m off to night watch now, and you see..."

Smith had no chance to speak when he saw Autumn Moon jump down from Wang Ba’s back with a dashing posture, dashed in front of Motan, and bouncing excitedly said, "We’ll go too!"

"You guys?"

Motan was a bit puzzled and curiously said: "Didn’t Mr. Pars say, our two adventurer teams just need to send one person each?"

Autumn Moon chuckled and put her hands on her hips, "But he didn’t say we could only send one person, right?"

"Uh... Well, that’s true. In theory, it’s fine as long as someone stays in their own territory."

Motan scratched the scales on the side of his neck and hesitated before nodding.

"That settles it then."

Autumn Moon happily made a V-sign with her fingers, then turned to Smith and shouted, "Ajiong, send a message to Pomegranate and Ming Shen to come over, and while you’re at it, tell Old Tree to stand watch at night. If he’s bored, he can count stars for fun."

Smith’s mouth twitched, "But..."

"Shut up, have you completely forgotten the team rules already?!"

"Yeah, completely forgotten..."

"Then go do it now!"

"What in the world makes such a bizarre conversation hold any water?"

Smith shook his head wearily but still opened the friends tab to send the team leader’s orders to his companions. He then stuffed both hands in his pockets, hunching his back as he let out a long sigh, "Alright, it’s done, so now... Hey! Don’t walk away without me!!"

Autumn Moon, who had already sauntered off good ten plus meters, spun around 360 degrees, her brows furrowed as she looked at Smith, Motan, and Wang Badan, who were still standing in their spots, and said with displeasure, "Hurry up, you guys! Weren’t you supposed to be on night watch? What’s with the dawdling?!"

"Ah ah ah..."

Smith painedly covered his forehead and wailed in utter resignation, "Maybe I should just transfer schools. At this rate, I’m definitely going to die thirty years early – no, I might even die tomorrow!"

Motan patted his shoulder and said with a light chuckle, "I actually think you might be suffering happily though."

"Huh?"

Smith was taken aback, and by the time he realized what was happening, Motan had already walked quite a distance ahead. As for his team leader Autumn Moon, she was running so fast she was nearly out of sight.

...

Fifteen minutes later

Near Paser Avenue, temporary campsite, eastern point of night watch

"The Bustling Team, Ming Shen."

The petite girl in a black robe and a triangular hat nodded slightly to Motan, and under the glance of Autumn Moon, she added, "A messenger of God."

"I’m also a member of The Bustling Team... My name is Pomegranate..."

With chestnut curls, a flushed face, and although she only looked to be of high school age, her figure was striking. The girl shivered as she introduced herself due to the scantiness of her clothes, "I am... I am an outsider... Nice to meet you!"

"Hey hey hey, what’s this outsider thing? You can’t keep getting the lines wrong!"

Autumn Moon, quite dissatisfied, forcefully hit Pomegranate’s frontal armor.

"Ow!!"

After a shriek, Pomegranate tried to perk up and looked up at the person and the turtle across from her that had completely petrified...

"I am a... person from the future, yeah."

[Big brother... Do you think they’re all sick in the head?]

After the two girls from The Bustling Team finished their self-introductions, Wang Badan felt like his shell was just not right anymore, so he quickly vented a complaint through the mental induction shared with him and Motan.

[Don’t talk, or I’ll rip your mouth off when we get back.]

Chapter 614: The End