Chapter 140 Inexplicable Respect

After hearing what Hu Pinggu said, everyone realized that there was a third person, Mo Juren.

It turned out that Mo Juren had just arrived and had been watching from the side without saying anything, so no one noticed him.

However, everyone just took a quick look at him and found that his cultivation was not very high, so they lost interest.

While they were arguing, another team came in from outside.

Hu Pinggu had sharp eyes. She saw the leader and said in surprise,
"It's the Mengshan Five Friends! There are only seven of them. There is hope."

Generally, a hunting team consists of nine to twelve people.

If there are too many, it will be difficult to dispatch them, and there will be no gain after distribution; if there are too few, you will feel that you are not strong enough and you will not be able to hunt anything good.

Dai Guang laughed and said,

"Aunt Hu Ping, I think you are too happy too early. The Mengshan Five Friends are a team of experts this time."

"They are traveling lightly into the mountains, preparing to take the beast cubs. With your limited cultivation, forget it!"

After that, Dai Guang took the lead and greeted the black-faced old man among the Five Friends of Mengshan, clasping his hands and saying,

"Friend Wang, I am honored to meet you. Which direction are you going today?"

Hunting teams usually have relatively fixed routes and targets, so in order to avoid conflicts between some teams, they will agree on the direction in advance and everyone goes their own way without fighting.

Wang Zhuo, with a gloomy face, also folded his hands to signal, and then replied,

"I heard that two spiny bears with cubs appeared in the southwest of Mangrove Valley. We are going there to 'seek children'."

The thorny bear is a second-level monster. Ordinary hunting teams dare not provoke it, so he said it out loud.

Dai Guang instantly envied,
"It turns out to be a spiny bear cub! It's a perfect choice for guarding the cave. Haha, the Five Friends of Mengshan are really brave. Dai Guang admires them. "

After saying this, he glanced at Hu Pinggu vaguely, as if mocking her for overestimating her own abilities.

Not everyone with enough ability can join this kind of team.

Wang Zhuo also asked him,

"Which way is Fellow Daoist Dai going?"

Dai Guang said with a little pride,
"We are going to take the southern Kun position this time. We plan to go deeper and walk along the Jishuitan."

Wang Zhuo smiled and said,
"Jishuitan is also a place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers are hidden. High-level monsters appear from time to time. Brother Dai is also very brave. That's perfect. The directions of our two teams will not conflict."

After the two finished their confrontation, they prepared to go their separate ways.

Unexpectedly, Hu Pinggu was the one who didn't believe in evil. After Dai Guang finished speaking, she stood up and greeted him directly,

"Aunt Hu Ping greets Fellow Daoist Wang, everyone... and Sister Xiaorong, hello."

She was very familiar with the five friends of Mengshan. After greeting them one by one, she asked,
"I wonder if Brother Daoist Wang's team can take a few more of us with them?"

Wang Zhuo saw that it was his old acquaintance Hu Pinggu, so he smiled without saying anything. He winked at her, and the fifth-ranked beauty Qin Xiaorong stepped forward and said,
"Sister Hu, this is really unfortunate. We only have seven people on this mission..."

Dai Guang almost laughed out loud when he heard this. This young woman surnamed Hu was really the kind of person who wouldn't cry until she saw the coffin. She was determined to make trouble for herself.

But before the fifth sister finished her words, she was interrupted by her third brother Zhang Xing.
“Fellow Daoist Zhang Tie! Why are you here too?!”

The five friends from Mengshan were all stunned. They looked in the direction of Dai Guang's team and recognized the figure of Mo Juren who was blocked behind them.

Afterwards, the five people's eyes lit up, and they walked out of the team one after another, surrounded Mo Juren, and greeted him one by one.

Mo Juren responded with a bow one by one, calling him "Daoyou" repeatedly, which puzzled the people around him.

Who is this person? How can he be worthy of being one of the Five Friends of Mengshan and have so much respect from all of them?
Could he be some kind of expert?
The Five Friends of Mengshan are powerful and always go out in a group. They are often rude to outsiders, but for some reason they are so polite to this person.

Not only were these people unaware of the situation, but even Hu Pinggu and her husband were totally unprepared.

Didn't Zhang claim that this was his first time hunting beasts? He looked like he had never seen the world before, but he happened to know senior monks like the Five Friends of Mengshan, and they seemed to have a good relationship. The fourth brother, Zhao Han, asked Mo Juren,

"Fellow Daoist Zhang is here. Are you also preparing to go into the mountains to hunt animals? Are you in the same team with them?" He pointed at Dai Guang's team.

Mo Juren denied it.

"No, I am with Aunt Hu Ping and Sister Hu."

Qin Xiaorong embraced Hu Pinggu and said happily,
"So Sister Hu knows Fellow Daoist Zhang. That's great."

The leader, Wang Zhuo, looked at Hu Pinggu, then at Zhang Tie, and roughly understood their situation.

The three of them should have come together to find a team. They must have been rejected by Dai Guang's team before.

So he thought about it for a while, and immediately invited,

"I didn't know that Fellow Daoist Zhang was also looking for a team. If that's the case, why don't you three join our team?"

These words left Dai Guang speechless. Niu Da, Niu Er and others were even more stunned. Wang Zhuo's attitude changed too quickly, just because he recognized him as "Zhang Tie"?
Before Mo Juren could answer, Hu Pinggu happily agreed loudly.
"Really? That's great, Brother Zhang, we finally found a team this time."

So Mo Juren went with the flow and nodded in agreement.

The second brother Xie Hong understood Wang Zhuo's idea and confirmed,

"What do you mean, brother? To go to that place instead?"

"That's right, go and explain to Fellow Daoist Qin and Fellow Daoist Meng."

After saying that, he pointed at the two green-robed monks who were following their team behind and no one knew what had happened.

Xie Hong immediately understood and ran to explain to the two of them.

Wang Zhuo on this side asked Dai Guang,

"Earlier, Daoist Dai asked, which direction are you going?"

Dai Guang was a little confused.

"This time we are heading south, towards Jishuitan..."

"How about we change direction, Brother Dai?"

Wang Zhuo suddenly strengthened his tone and said in an unquestionable manner,

"Kunwei Jishuitan, we, the five friends from Mengshan, will go there instead."

"What!? Why?"

Dai Guang was incredulous when he heard this, and then asked in a low voice,
"What's so special about this piece of iron that it's worth Brother Wang's efforts to change direction?"

Wang Zhuo smiled but said nothing. He patted Dai Guang on the shoulder and said,
"Fellow Daoist Dai, please don't worry about that. Anyway, this time we, the Five Friends of Mengshan, would like to thank you for a favor. Let's go!"

After saying this, Wang Zhuo took the lead and headed south without waiting to see how Dai Guang would react.

Mo Juren saw this and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He didn't know what Wang Zhuo was planning.

But seeing that Hu Pinggu and the other two looked as if nothing was wrong, they followed along.

Hu Pinggu and Xiong Dali followed at the back with their heads held high.

He even gave the three Niu brothers and Dai Guang a few cold looks before walking away.

This made Dai Guang and others very angry, and the three brothers of the Niu family even cursed under their breath.

But in the end, their team could only discuss it reluctantly and turn in another direction.

Everyone dispersed and left Mangrove Valley and entered Mengshan.

(End of this chapter)