347: Chapter 347 Siblings Reunited

"Who on earth is taking a dump here so casually!"

Lin Xiao clenched his fists and carefully scanned his surroundings.

He was terrified that there might be more poop nearby, and he would step on it if he wasn't careful.

Just then, he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the weeds not far away.

The sound was exceptionally clear in the silent night.

Was something coming?

Lin Xiao quickly picked up a thick tree branch and stared vigilantly in that direction.

It was getting closer and closer.

It sounded like footsteps?

But in this desolate wilderness, how could there be anyone else besides him?

Lin Xiao held his breath, his mind already rehearsing repeatedly how to attack if he encountered a ferocious beast.

A few seconds later, the footsteps broke through the weeds.

A man wearing a uniform walked out.

He was rubbing his stomach while complaining, "I really shouldn't have eaten anything so greasy; my stomach feels awful..."

Suddenly, the man spotted Lin Xiao charging at him while brandishing a tree branch.

"Ah—"

A shrill, piercing scream tore through the night sky.

Lin Xiao barely managed to stop his movement; the branch was only three centimeters away from the man's face.

He rubbed his ears in annoyance, "I didn't even hurt you, what are you screaming for!"

"N-no, who are you? Playing tricks in the dark like this!"

The man was so scared that he had literally held back his need to poop.

"I should be the one asking you who you are! What are you doing out here in these desolate mountains in the middle of the night?"

Lin Xiao didn't seize the initiative to interrogate him, but he couldn't afford to lose his momentum.

Before the other person noticed that he was only wearing a pair of boxers, he had to intimidate him first!

To avoid embarrassment!

The man was indeed stunned for a moment, muttering, "Desolate mountains? Isn't that the village over there? How is this a desolate mountain?"

"Huh?"

This time, it was Lin Xiao's turn to be stunned.

Isn't this a desolate mountain? There's a village right next to it? Could it be...

Lin Xiao suddenly thought of the village he had seen on the livestream earlier; could he really have been sent to the vicinity of that Peach Blossom Village?

Come to think of it, this man looked a bit familiar; he seemed to have appeared in the livestream footage earlier.

Seeing that Lin Xiao really didn't seem to know about the village nearby, the man asked suspiciously, "Dressed like that, aren't you a Villager from around here?"

His outfit had been discovered after all!

Lin Xiao panicked for a moment.

He quickly changed the subject, "Fine, fine, even if there is a village, why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night? What are you doing here?"

The man seemed to suddenly remember something and clutched his stomach in a hurry, "Almost forgot, I came here to take a dump!"

Taking a dump...

Lin Xiao silently looked down at the large pile of poop from earlier.

The man followed his gaze, "Wait, I haven't gone yet, that pile isn't mine! It must be someone else's!"

After saying this, as if afraid that Lin Xiao wouldn't believe him, he continued to explain, "These Villagers are really something; they actually said there are no outhouses in the village and told us to find somewhere nearby to solve our business. Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds? What kind of household doesn't have an outhouse? They definitely just don't want us outsiders using them!"

Lin Xiao frowned slightly.

It was a good thing he had been cautious earlier and hadn't wandered around blindly.

Otherwise, his slippers definitely wouldn't have survived.

"Alright, alright, hurry up and take care of it. I'll go back with you in a bit."

Lin Xiao waved his hand dismissively.

"Huh? You want to come with me?"

The man looked Lin Xiao up and down, a flash of wariness in his eyes, "But I don't know who you are!"

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and took a few steps closer.

He grabbed the flashlight from the man's hand and shone it directly onto his own face.

"Take a good look, do you recognize me or not!"

It wasn't that Lin Xiao was overconfident.

It was just that he had been constantly hanging on the trending topics lately, and he was quite the hot topic.

If someone was an outsider, they might not know much.

But if they were in the entertainment industry, they probably wouldn't be unfamiliar with his face.

The man was startled and instinctively took two steps back.

Fortunately, after all that fuss, he really did see Lin Xiao's face clearly.

"You, you are that, that..."

The man looked enlightened, raised his finger to point at Lin Xiao, and only after a long while did he say, "You're that jinx who brings bad luck wherever he goes!"

"..."

Fine, at least he was recognized.

Lin Xiao sighed softly.

"Then wait for me a moment, I'll be done immediately!"

The man couldn't hold it anymore and immediately dove into the nearby bushes.

About ten minutes later, he came out looking relieved.

Just like that, he took Lin Xiao with him and walked towards the village.

It wasn't Lin Xiao's fault for mistaking this place for a desolate mountain.

On the way back to the village, the vegetation was extremely lush.

It blocked all lines of sight.

If no one had been leading him, Lin Xiao would have probably had to circle around several times to find the way.

When they arrived at the village, the sky was already beginning to brighten.

The man took Lin Xiao directly to the place where the Production Crew was staying.

By this time, those guests had already gotten up.

Perhaps because they hadn't slept long enough, they didn't look very well.

"A-Xiao? Why are you here?"

When Lin Ran saw Lin Xiao, her eyes were full of shock.

It was one thing for Lin Xiao to appear here inexplicably, but he was actually wearing pajamas.

"Why are you dressed like this?"

"This, it's a long story."

Lin Xiao had anticipated that Lin Ran would ask this and had already thought of how to respond, "Simply put, I wanted to try a different livestreaming style, like wilderness survival, so I found a patch of mountain forest, but I didn't expect to get lost and coincidentally ended up on your side. That's about it."

Lin Ran looked at Lin Xiao suspiciously.

This excuse was too perfunctory, right?

She remembered watching Lin Xiao's livestream for a while before the recording of the show started.

Lin Xiao was at home at the time.

One had to know that this mountain was thousands of kilometers away from the capital; unless the family used a private jet, how could he have arrived so quickly?

But if the family had used a private jet, why would they let Lin Xiao come out wearing only pajama pants?

This seemed strange no matter how you looked at it.

Also, everything was fine at home, so why send Lin Xiao here?

Just as Lin Ran wanted to continue questioning him, she suddenly heard Lin Xiao's inner thoughts.

[Although this excuse is very clumsy, with Fifth Sister's brain, she shouldn't suspect anything, right?]

[Even if she suspects something, it's useless.]

[I can't exactly say that I was sleeping soundly at home, and when I woke up, I was here, right?]

[And I was inexplicably sent to this godforsaken place by that doomsday system!]

...

Lin Ran was enlightened.

He was actually teleported here!

If this were in the past, she definitely wouldn't have believed in such supernatural occurrences.

But Lin Xiao himself couldn't be explained by science.

Now that such a strange thing had happened, she had to believe it.

Thinking of this, Lin Ran couldn't help but feel worried.

If Lin Xiao could be sent here by that whatever doomsday system this time, could he be sent to a more dangerous place next time?

No, she had to contact her family immediately and have them think of a solution.

"Xiao Li, lend me your phone for a moment."

Lin Ran looked at the staff member who had brought Lin Xiao over earlier.

Xiao Li took his phone out of his pocket and said helplessly, "Sister Ran, it's not that I won't lend it to you, but my phone hasn't had a signal since last night; I don't know if it's broken."