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We investigate the orthorhombic phase of the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide as a Weyl semimetal candidate. exhibits four pairs of Weyl points lying slightly above the Fermi energy in the bulk band structure. Different from its cousin , which was recently predicted to be a type-II Weyl semimetal, the spacing between each pair of Weyl points is found to be as large as 4% of the reciprocal lattice in (six times larger than that of ). When projected onto the surface, the Weyl points are connected by Fermi arcs, which can be easily accessed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy due to the large Weyl point separation. In addition, we show that the correlation effect or strain can drive from a type-II to a type-I Weyl semimetal.