Enzo and Flanders were indeed seasoned veterans, and on the day of the normal fishing and rest at the harbor camp, the figure of the traveling merchant finally appeared on the path near the rallying point when it was getting late.

No one knows how he appeared, no one knows how he managed to get lost with a map and a clear direction.

As soon as the Traveling Merchant appeared, he headed for the rally point.

Korley had already taken the time to figure it out: the Desert Survey Team was stationed over there, and the unlucky group of bastards had no choice but to return to the area and apply for resources from the fleet.

Unfortunately, the leader of the competitor team seemed to be in a hurry to catch up, and after the six teams explored the path and sent back the map, they also set out to investigate themselves, and did not stay in the fleet for long.

So as soon as the traveling merchant greeted him as he approached, the men took up their arms and questioned him about his origin and identity.

The traveling merchant explained for a long time, and as soon as he heard that it was an unlucky person left here, the others also became interested in him.

In addition, this group of crew members did not investigate well, and they just needed a desert guide, so they discussed whether to accept him.

Naturally, the traveling merchant did not want to return to the desert area, and his only goal was to stay by the side of the team and wait for a ticket to leave the fog of history, lest the gang find an excuse to leave him behind, so the conversation in this area was not smooth enough.

"Did you mean that the lone team of six told you?"

"Okay, maybe the boss knows that we are not doing a good job, and personally sent some trustworthy people to investigate, for the sake of your knowledge of the desert area, we can temporarily take you into the camp for the night, but whether you can get on the ship at that time depends on the will of the general manager."

The crew's statement, consistent with that of Colly and others, dispelled the doubts of the traveling merchants.

"Hmph, a bunch of rice buckets that help people with logistics, what are they angry in front of real explorers? When I leave here and sell my treasure, I'll be a real rich man in no time, and I'll have my own fleet, sailors, and servants, and these guys won't be able to underestimate my prowess anymore."

"You'll have to bear with it now, it's a bad taste to beg someone...... Traveling Merchant whispered to himself, making sure the team allowed him to rest nearby, but didn't give him food or tents, and began to prop up his tent.

In the dead of night, when the night was falling, there was a sudden exclamation in the contender team.

"Fire, I love fire, more fire, so much fire! Hahaha!"

"Jack, Hassan, you're crazy! What are you doing, stop! What's so fun about burning a fire?"

"The flames, the burning branches smell so good, I can't control it, I like the smell of the branches fizzling and bubbling!"

"Don't extinguish my fire, go away, go away!"

"Put down the torch, don't play with the fire on the edge of the warehouse, listen to me, put the torch down!"

Ke Li and the others, who were in a light sleep and vigilant, immediately woke up and found that the fire near the camp at the assembly point was very bright.

Flanders took one look at it and immediately said, "That guy really has a problem, someone has already been mentally polluted, but fortunately we refused very firmly, he must be a symbol of some extraordinary trait before the attack."

Enzo also said, "It looks like he's been tricked, and he's got into the habit of arsonism and can't control it, and he starts setting fire to things. Although the flame can free primitive humans from the wilderness, its subtext is actually to dispel the fear in the heart."

"The fire over there shows that they have encountered something in their dreams at night, and they have subconsciously been sown with the seeds of uneasiness, so they wake up and manifest themselves as uncontrollable ignition and arson."

Mary: "The team of ordinary people is so fragile, has the traveling merchant disappeared?"

Ke Li got up and set off, "I'll go and have a look, it's good to learn more experience."

As Kli approached the competitors' camp, he found that there was an argument over there, and several of the polluted people who had set fire to "light them" had been beaten to the ground, and the torches and tinder in their hands had been beaten and snatched back.

"Whew, yet

Good fire is under control, how can you start setting fire in the middle of the night without sleeping, this guy has a problem with his brain?"

"I didn't see him have so much strength when I told him to move goods at the Mammoth Point dock before, he may have been accidentally stimulated by something, so it became troublesome now."

"Where's the captain? There's no way we can contact the captain, we need to use the cabin's cell as a treatment room, we can't let these guys go, it's too much trouble to take care of them in the wild!"

The Traveling Merchant also woke up at this time, and his attitude towards the others dropped significantly: "Hey, what's the matter with your people, shouldn't you burn our property to the ground and cause everyone to work in vain?"

The attitude of the crew was not very friendly: "It's none of your business, outsiders, this is our own internal problem, if you don't understand the market, don't talk nonsense."

The traveling merchant crossed his waist dissatisfiedly, "Heh, I've lived here alone for many years, you rookies should take the initiative to ask me if you're in trouble."

"If you want me to say, they must have some kind of neurotoxin, and need a safe hallucinogens to neutralize the toxicity, you should go into the cave and look for those dark blue mushrooms that glow at night, and look and shape like ordinary Amanita mushrooms."

"But these mushrooms only appear in caves at night, and during the day, they become indistinguishable like ordinary mushrooms, if you don't believe me, go to sleep, please don't make such a big noise, okay?"

The traveling merchant is so confident that it looks like he's sharing a trivial thing.

Shortly after he returned to the tent, the others muttered, "Is there a cave around here? If this guy had been here for years, his words would have made sense."

"The doctors in our team gave them sedatives, but the sedatives are limited, stay in this ghost place for a few years, and take sedatives every time something goes wrong, could these guys be addicted to sedatives and deliberately set fire to cheat injections?"

"Jimmy, are you okay? When did you become so suspicious?"

"Suspicious? I'm not suspicious, I just think things are strange, and you're sick, don't talk nonsense."

Ke Li silently observed, and after finding that the crew had achieved a temporary silence, he did not move to look for mushrooms.

However, ordinary sedatives do not seem to be able to suppress the effect of the anomalous power.

The arsonists, who were supposed to sleep, woke up in less than 1 hour, struggling and yelling.

When the others were woken up, they found that the guy was not tied up, and squirmed to the edge of the big bonfire, and stuck his head into the fire, causing his hair and turban to burn, and laughed exaggeratedly:

"Fire, fire, that's why the flames chose me!"

The madman didn't seem to feel pain, but instead of being a Zerg parasite, he was in a mental frenzy.

The rest of the crew could only give him a bucket buckle and began to consider the advice of the traveling merchant.

"Hey, you, it's you, foreign!"

"Come with us to find the mushrooms, get me up quickly!" Don't pretend to be asleep, don't you know anything!"

"Don't refuse, otherwise I'll cut you, I'm unlucky enough to come here, don't play any tricks!"

The traveling merchant had to come out with a bitter face: "Okay, okay, I can help, please don't hurt me."

Not a curse, but a mental pollution disease? The traveling merchant doesn't seem to be aware of his problem, but his behavior does reveal a number of dangerous factors.

If there are enough ordinary people who can use it to step on the thunder for him, there should be a lot of rules that can be tested.

Glancing at the traveling merchant's tent, Colley walked back to the harbor camp to share his findings.

Enzo: "I knew! The Traveling Merchant is like a scourge, intentionally or unintentionally causing trouble, and if the team of competitors doesn't realize this, the team will be almost ruined, and the whole team will become a burden."

"Let's take a look at their solution, maybe we can use it if we accidentally get contaminated in the future."

(End of chapter)