Each Had Their Own Experience, A New Disappearance

By studying this initial Map, Lin Yu could easily discover one thing...

The Little Fire Dragon Daoist temple the three of them first started and the meeting point where they initially met were located, one in the southeast of Chen Family Fortress and Five Springs Village, and the other in the northwest.

Although the distances are roughly the same, the journey from the Daoist temple to Chen Family Fortress is smoother, and only a few locations where Yaomo are said to appear are marked along the way—judging from the fact that the markings are just a few bright red circles, this route, while dangerous, is limited.

As for my journey to Chen Family Fortress... the Fu Yuan Mountain I passed through was covered with countless red circles and crosses, marked with a skull symbol, and I also drew a simple sketch of a mandrill.

Clearly, his route was more difficult—although he had a caravan familiar with the roads to guide him, this caravan might even be a disadvantage for traveling!

After all, the fact that the caravan was escorting a living, mutilated body attracted a large number of mountain demons from Fu Yuan Mountain, and even brought Three Suns, the Mountain Demon Leader, to the scene.

Although the crisis was averted thanks to the combined efforts of Li Nian and Lin Yu, the time lost was indeed considerable!

This raised questions for Lin Yu.

"We were already traveling at a slow pace following the caravan, and then we encountered an unusual Yaomo attack, which severely slowed our progress. We've only just arrived at Chen Family Fortress. Logically, you should have arrived later than us."

Li Nian had been peering at the Map the whole time, and when she heard Lin Yu say that, she realized what he meant.

"Indeed, you should be faster than us!"

"You're all 'Tier 2' level people, so you should have some understanding of the Fire Hell of the Prison Mountain Realm. You wouldn't deliberately waste time on the road; you should even try to reach the human gathering point as quickly as possible... But why did you arrive at Noon?" Li Nian said warily. "You couldn't possibly be deliberately trying to experience how terrifying the Three Days in the Sky in the Noon of the Fire Hell of the Prison Mountain Realm are, or wanting to challenge yourselves, could you?"

After all, at Noon in Fire Hell, it's truly possible to die from the heat.

Especially since even the Native humans and most Yaomo of the Prison Mountain Realm couldn't withstand the scorching heat of the Fire Hell, and even the Mountain Demon Leader Three Suns had to find a place to avoid the sun and cool off...

However, a considerable number of Yaomo possess extraordinary heat resistance and sun protection abilities, so they also roam outside at Noon, searching for unfortunate humans who have not returned to their settlement.

Once found by those Yaomo, fighting under the scorching sun would already significantly reduce their combat strength, making them easy targets for direct combat and death.

In fact, the more heat-resistant Fire Hell Yaomo, the stronger it tends to be.

Therefore, even "advanced Player" follow the principle of avoiding outdoor activities as much as possible during Noon in Fire Hell.

These three "Player Mutual Aid Society Tier 2" are neither strong enough to ignore the temperature of the Fire Hell, nor are they clueless newbies who have just joined the Game and do not know about the Ten Realms... Putting aside everything else, the "Player Mutual Aid Society" are arguably the best among all organizations in terms of basic popular science and information sharing among their members.

Therefore, the fact that the three of them arrived late seemed particularly strange.

Faced with Li Nian's questioning, the Little Fire Dragon explained, "We didn't encounter anything too unusual, but... on the one hand, there were constant small-scale Yaomo attacks, and we managed to repel about five or six waves of Yaomo attacks."

"On the other hand... um... well, how should I put it..."

A conflicted look appeared on the little dragon's face.

Lin Yu urged, "Stop being so mysterious, just tell me... If you keep beating around the bush like this, I might just take action."

With the title of "Psychology Society" hanging above his head, Lin Yu's threat seemed particularly effective at this moment.

Little Fire Dragon immediately made up his mind and said, "It's like this—although we have Map, none of the three of us are particularly good at navigating."

The Little Fire Dragon said shyly.

Making up your mind to speak out immediately is one thing; feeling ashamed is another.

Squirtle sighed, "There's nothing we can do. Bulbasaur usually does these things. Nowadays, electronic Map have navigation and one-click first-person view, so reading traditional Map still has a certain learning curve."

Li Nian finally couldn't hold back any longer. "But geography class will teach it—it's taught in middle school geography!"

The Little Fire Dragon looked completely innocent. "But I didn't choose geography as my subject... For the high school entrance exam, I don't need to know that much detail."

Squirtle lowered its head somewhat self-consciously. "I'm sorry, my junior high school entrance exam wasn't very successful, and I was streamed into a different major in the second year..."

The Little Fire Dragon comforted him, "It's okay, education doesn't mean everything... In the end, didn't we find Chen Family Fortress because you understood the Map?"

Li Nian then looked at Deadshot: "Okay, those two are quite skilled. Are you illiterate too?"

Deadshot shook his head unhappily. "What are you talking about? I'm a genuine college student—and I've even studied geography; in fact, geography is one of my strongest subjects."

"Then why can't you read Map?"

Deadshot sneered, "Exam-taking and real-life application are completely different. I may not be illiterate, but I have a terrible sense of direction."

As he spoke, Li Nian gave him a thumbs up. "Great, none of you three are simple-minded."

Lin Yu seemed to understand something. "So you arrived so late just because you got lost and were delayed?"

"That's part of the reason, and another part is that we not only got lost, but we also stumbled into the territory of some terrifying Yaomo."

The Little Fire Dragon pointed to an area on the Map not far from Double Saw Mountain, marked with three skulls and a simple sketch of a python.

This area wasn't on their main route; the road had to be detoured quite a bit to get there.

"But it was a blessing in disguise, because after we accidentally wandered into this place, we finally figured out where we were."

Lin Yu felt nothing but deep respect for the trio.

"It's not easy that you all came out alive."

After all, Three Suns and his pack of mandrill minions consisted of only one skull, while this area had three skull markers, which in a sense indicated that the Yaomo here were two levels stronger than the mandrill tribe.

In other words...

The three of them survived the pursuit and interception of the three Three Suns unscathed—without even a trace of injury.

Little Fire Dragon, Squirtle, and Deadshot were clearly unwilling to talk much about what had just happened, and when faced with Lin Yu's praise, they just laughed it off.

Just as Lin Yu was becoming somewhat curious and preparing to ask further questions...

Suddenly, Old Zheng's voice rang in my mind.

"Boss, be warned! Two more bodyguards have gone missing!"