Chapter 130 Emergency Departure: To the Forbidden Zone Where a Major Accident Had Occurred
This person is none other than Lu Xingfeng, the top expert of the Tian Shu Sect and Ye Zhi Qiu's senior brother.
On the night of his plot to seize power, he was first severely injured by Ye Zhi Qiu, losing an arm in the process. He attempted to summon the Serpent God to threaten the thousands of disciples of the Tian Shu Sect and force Ye Zhi Qiu to submit, but was thwarted by Ning Jin Li and Xiao Qi Di in a joint effort.
Finally, he fell into the Eagle Gorge outside the ancestral hall.
Thanks to his powerful internal energy, he did not die and has survived to this day, enduring hardship and sleeping in the open at the bottom of Falling Eagle Gorge.
He had almost forgotten how long he had been in the fall. Every day and night, he was in danger of losing his life at any moment, and he could only do everything he could to survive.
Now, he is wrapped in animal skins, and his hair and beard are long and dirty, making him look like a savage.
His body was covered in festering wounds, emitting an incredibly disgusting stench. Although he was able to find medicinal herbs to cope, in this environment and physical condition, it only slightly slowed down his death process.
He was unwilling to die like this, but he also knew that he had reached his limit.
Perhaps in an hour, perhaps tonight, or at most three to five days, he will eventually die from injury and hunger or become food for wild beasts.
He came here just now intending to find a place to hang himself and end his life voluntarily.
But then he saw snakes emerging. Ultimately, he still had a survival instinct, and subconsciously thought of avoiding the venomous snakes, thus discovering the unusual situation of the snake swarm.
Lu Xingfeng stared in the direction the snakes had left, muttering to himself, "Such a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared, could it be... could it be that God is guiding me, trying to give me a way out?"
Thinking of this, his hope to live was rekindled, and he gritted his teeth, dragging his crippled body, and limped after them with difficulty.
——
Ning Jinli summoned countless snakes by the river and soon found the purple-bellied golden-spotted snake she needed.
However, this type of snake is very rare even in Falling Eagle Gorge.
Only one out of hundreds or thousands was found.
And it is also very small, only about the thickness of a thumb and a little less than half a meter long.
"Come here, come over here." Ning Jinli squatted down and beckoned to the purple-bellied golden-spotted snake she had just discovered.
The other snakes lay obediently around, while the small, purple-bellied, gold-spotted snake left the group and crawled to Ning Jinli's feet, raising its head slightly.
Ning Jinli picked up the snake and examined it closely; it was basically the same as the one Lu Jueming had drawn.
Just to be on the safe side, she took several more photos from all angles with her phone so she could confirm them later.
Although they are completely parallel universes, there is still a difference of more than two thousand years between them, and the natural environment is very different. If the snake is brought there directly, it might die.
So, after taking the photos, she took out the bottled water she had brought from the warehouse.
Those are new bottles produced by the factory, with a capacity of four liters. They haven't been used yet and are very clean.
"I wonder how much snake venom we'll need," Ning Jinli muttered as she unscrewed the cap. "Whatever, let's just get as much as we can."
"Come on, spit your snake venom into this."
She held the plastic bottle with one hand and placed the snake's mouth at the bottle opening with the other.
The snake obeyed her commands, opening its mouth and expelling the venom from its venom glands.
Two streams of viscous venom slowly flowed down the bottle opening, but stopped flowing before reaching the bottom.
"So little?" Ning Jinli frowned. "Could you vomit some more? Please."
The little snake tensed its body, its mouth opening and closing, clearly trying very hard, but unfortunately the venom had already been expelled and could not be squeezed out.
"Alright, thank you for your trouble." Ning Jinli had no choice but to put it back on the ground.
Waiting for it to generate new venom would take too much time, so Ning Jinli had no choice but to continue summoning more snakes.
As wave after wave of snakes swarmed in from all directions, the number of purple-bellied golden-spotted snakes also increased.
Although it's one in a thousand, the sheer number of them is overwhelming.
Over the next half hour, Ning Jinli filled a four-liter bottle of purified water with nearly two-thirds of the venom.
"That should be enough..."
Ning Jinli tightened the bottle cap, waved at the snakes, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, you can all go now!"
The swarm of snakes then receded like the tide.
At this moment, Lu Xingfeng, who had great difficulty moving around, finally arrived nearby.
The dense swarm of snakes, moving like surging waves, terrified him so much that he dared not breathe or move forward. He could only lie behind a rock and watch into the distance.
Due to the distance and his poor physical condition, he could only vaguely see a figure on the riverbank.
But all that was visible was that the person seemed to be carrying something in their hand; it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female, let alone their appearance or clothing.
"There...there are other people here?" Lu Xingfeng exclaimed excitedly.
Seeing the figure walking into the distance, Lu Xingfeng scrambled to chase after it.
He couldn't care about anything else.
Anyway, as long as he can see a living person, it means that maybe the other person can take him away from this hellhole!
On the riverbank, Ning Jinli, carrying the snake venom she had just collected, strode into the time-space tunnel. In her haste to make medicine with the snake venom, she did not notice Lu Xingfeng in the distance behind her.
In Lu Xingfeng's eyes, the blurry figure he had just seen vanished into thin air!
When he finally reached the riverbank, there wasn't a soul in sight.
The snakes had long since scattered and gone, and the area seemed as if nothing had ever happened.
"Was what I saw... just a hallucination?"
Lu Xingfeng stood there, stunned, his pupils trembling violently. "No...it's not a hallucination...I must have seen a living person!"
"Where are you! Where are you?!"
"Get out here! Get out now!"
Lu Xingfeng stared wide-eyed and roared incessantly at his surroundings.
But there was no response.
The hope that had finally appeared vanished in the blink of an eye. He couldn't accept it and collapsed to his knees, wailing loudly.
He didn't calm down until he was almost too exhausted to cry anymore.
"Wait... What I saw was that person right here, and then suddenly disappeared... How could a living person just vanish into thin air?"
Is it a ghost?
"Or a deity?!"
With tears streaming down his face, Lu Xingfeng kowtowed and pleaded, "Whether you are a ghost or a god, please... show me the way out and get me out of here! I... I really don't want to die here like this, neither human nor ghost! I'm not reconciled!"
Suddenly, he noticed faint footprints on the ground.
Although the snakes had made a mess of the muddy ground, it was still possible to make out the footprints that someone had indeed stepped on.
Then the blurry footprints extended a few steps forward before abruptly stopping.
"That's it!" Lu Xingfeng excitedly looked up at the sky. "It must be a deity! The deity just returned to heaven, so... that's why they disappeared instantly!"
"Gods above! Please have pity on me and take me away from this place!"
"I will definitely make sincere offerings in the future!"
Lu Xingfeng was extremely devout, praying and kowtowing at the same time.
Even though there was still no movement, he didn't stop. He believed that as long as he continued to kowtow and pray, the gods would definitely appear again!
On the other hand, after Ning Jinli collected the venom of the purple-bellied golden-spotted snake, she immediately sent it to the pharmaceutical company's drug research and development laboratory.
Is this enough?
She slammed the large bottle down on the table. "If that's not enough, I'll go get some more."
Lu Jueming stared blankly at the four-liter water bottle in front of him for several seconds. "Miss Ning, this whole bottle... is..."
“Yes,” Ning Jinli took out her phone and opened the photos she had taken earlier. “Take a look, is this the kind of snake? I’m sure I didn’t make a mistake, right?”
Lu Jueming looked astonished, stared at the photo for a moment, and nodded, "I didn't make a mistake, this is the Purple-bellied Golden-spotted Snake."
Ning Jinli breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good... By the way, you still haven't told me if it's enough."
Lu Jueming's cheeks trembled, and he couldn't hold back any longer, "Actually... two milliliters is enough..."
Ning Jinli: ...
Lu Jueming's expression was complicated as he once again suppressed the intense curiosity that welled up in his heart.
It's one thing for Ning Jinli to find a snake that had been extinct for hundreds of years in such a short time, but she even managed to get more than three liters of snake venom.
How much venom does a venomous snake produce?!
She collected so many?
It's simply unbelievable, simply... terrifying.
How did she do that?
Heaven knows how shocked Lu Jueming was.
Lu Jueming calmed himself down, opened the bottle cap, and carefully took out a drop with a test tube. "Miss Ning, given that this snake venom is an important ingredient in several Shennong's Herbal Classic secret formulas, and... the Purple-bellied Golden-spotted Snake is theoretically extinct, the value of just this one drop is already immeasurable."
Ning Jinli smiled and said, "Then don't waste them. Anyway, you've got them all. How you research and refine them is up to you."
“Yes, Miss Ning.” Lu Jueming took a deep breath. “I have prepared the other necessary medicinal materials. Let’s start making the medicine now.”
"Okay, then I won't bother you anymore. Let me know when you're done, and I'll send it over to Grandpa Zheng." Ning Jinli said and decisively left the laboratory.
Just as she was about to go to the office to wait, Shangguan Ying suddenly called.
"Jinli, there's something I need your help with," Shangguan Ying said bluntly. "Where are you now? I'll send a car to pick you up. We'll talk about the details when you get there."
Ning Jinli said, "I work at the pharmaceutical company."
"Okay, the car will be there in ten minutes."
Judging from Shangguan Ying's tone, the matter was clearly urgent.
Ning Jinli could only tell Lu Jueming to deliver the prepared medicine to Professor Zheng, and then quickly went downstairs to the company.
A moment later, a black sedan sped up.
There were even special police officers clearing the way in front and behind.
The driver hurriedly got out of the car, opened the door, and said, "Ms. Ning, please get in."
Without saying a word, Ning Jinli got inside. As soon as the driver started the car, she asked, "Where are you taking me?"
“The airport,” the driver replied, “and then a private plane will take you abroad.”
Ning Jinli was taken aback. "Go abroad? Which country and which place? What do you want me to do?"
The driver said, "I'm sorry, Ms. Ning, this is confidential. That's all I know. I'm only responsible for getting you to the airport. They've arranged a private plane to pick you up."
Ning Jinli was completely stunned.
After all, this was all so sudden.
They didn't even know what they were supposed to do.
If she hadn't trusted Shangguan Ying, she would have jumped out of the car and run away.
"Could I make a few phone calls? Otherwise, if I suddenly disappear, people will worry," Ning Jinli said.
The driver nodded. "Okay."
So Ning Jinli called Aunt Su and Zheng Houcheng one after the other, saying that she was going abroad for a trip.
An hour later, the car arrived at the airport.
Ning Jinli boarded a private jet, and besides the captain, flight attendants, and air marshals, she was the only passenger on board.
The plane took off quickly, and it was only then that she learned from the flight attendants where she was going—Kuchenberg.
Upon hearing the name of the place, Ning Jinli was quite surprised and blurted out, "Isn't that the place where the worst nuclear power plant explosion in history occurred?"
"Yes, Ms. Ning." The flight attendant placed the food and drinks in front of her. "Ms. Ning, we will arrive at the airport there in about nine hours. Please have something to eat and get some rest."
Ning Jinli's head was buzzing.
As far as she knew, the nuclear power plant explosion occurred decades ago, causing a horrific nuclear leak, so much so that even today, the town of Kutcherberg and the surrounding area remain off-limits to humans.
That's very strange.
It's a nuclear-radiated no-man's-land, located far away overseas, and theoretically, it shouldn't have any connection to my country.
Why did Sister Ying ask her to go and help?
What kind of help can I offer?
Ning Jinli pondered this as she ate.
Considering that Sister Ying knew she practiced the Heavenly Profound Heart Sutra, and that Sister Ying seemed to know about this technique as well, then...
"Could it be that they want me to go over there and absorb the remaining nuclear radiation in the restricted area?" Ning Jinli muttered to herself. "No... if it were just that, there would be no need to rush. It must be something else."
Ning Jinli couldn't figure it out, and she knew that the people on the plane were probably just as clueless as the driver.
I decided to stop overthinking it.
After eating and drinking, close your eyes and take a nap to recharge.
As Ning Jinli's private jet took off—
Somewhere near the town of Kutcherberg.
Dark clouds filled the sky, and lush vegetation covered the ruins.
Several people wearing special helmets and combat uniforms moved forward through the ruins covered with vegetation, quietly approaching the barbed wire fence.
Then, ignoring the faded warning signs on the guardrail, they easily cut a hole in the rusty wire mesh and passed through it one by one.
"Wait... let me rest for a bit, I'm too tired," someone in the group said breathlessly.
The others stopped, and soft laughter escaped from beneath their helmet visors.
"What are you laughing at?" The man who made the request plopped down on the ground.
Several mercenaries began conversing in some obscure foreign language right in front of him.
As the man struggled to remove his helmet visor, he coldly reminded you, "Professor Bruce told you before we set off that I would be in charge of this operation, and I also emphasized that since you all speak Chinese, you must communicate in Chinese."
The mercenary captain deftly removed his helmet, walked up to the man, and said in a slightly stiff tone, "We were just talking about the weather."
The man finally managed to remove the heavy helmet.
The mercenary captain took out two cigarettes from his pocket, lit one for himself, and handed the other to the man sitting on the ground, lighting it for him as well.
The man lowered his head, took a deep drag, and exhaled thick smoke, saying, "I understand your language. You're laughing at my lack of physical strength."
The mercenary captain, with his full beard, visibly froze for a moment.
The man added, "I'm not a mercenary like you who's undergone long-term training. It's already quite an achievement that I managed to hike here with you for two days, avoiding checkpoints."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Ning. Please forgive us," the mercenary captain apologized.
The man slowly raised his head, revealing a scruffy, haggard face with a gloomy gaze. He smoked a cigarette and cursed, "Damn it, if that thing hadn't fallen through back then, I wouldn't have had to flee to the US, take on a mission to seek asylum, and cross the ocean to suffer in this godforsaken place... Ning Jinli, you little bitch, you've ruined my life..."
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