Chapter 10 Poison Town - 3 "Bang bang bang bang..."
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
Tang Bufan tightly gripped his sniper rifle and fired wildly at the poisoned people filling the corridor. Due to the large number of poisoned people, he didn't need to aim specifically; he just kept firing in the direction of Lu Yi.
Several of the poisoners at the forefront were shot and fell down, which tripped up many more. Lu Yi quickly moved the fire door and ran to Tang Bufan. He leaned the door against the wall and shielded Tang Bufan between the wall and the door.
Tang Bufan crouched down with his gun in his arms, peeking half his body out from behind the fire door.
"Transform into your beast form!" Tang Bufan shouted at Lu Yi, reaching into his waist pouch for bullets.
“No need to transform into a beast.” Lu Yi’s voice remained as calm and gentle as ever. He drew the long curved sword from behind him and faced the group of poisoners with an indifferent demeanor.
The drug addicts were afraid of him. First, they crowded in the corridor, their muscles tense, and roared at him. Finally, led by a bold one, they all rushed towards Lu Yi!
Tang Bufan's heart leaped into his throat. He immediately raised his sniper rifle, but through his night vision goggles, he saw the orc boy nimbly dodging the poisoners. At the same time, with a swift stroke of his knife, green heads fell to the ground.
"..." Tang Bufan was stunned for a moment. He squatted against the wall, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he watched Lu Yi wield his long knife with incredible skill in the midst of the poisonous people. The blood shadow was accompanied by the light of the knife, and his movements were as swift as a ghost. Each time he flashed to the side, he could simultaneously shave off the heads of two or three poisonous people!
Not a single poisonous person bypassed him and pounced on Tang Bufan!
Thick, foul-smelling blood slid down the hospital walls, filling the air with a strong, pungent stench. As the floor was covered with corpses, the poisonous creatures dispersed like a tide, their eyes wide with terror as they scrambled back into the rooms on either side, stepping over the bodies of their own kind.
Lu Yi didn't chase after him; Tang Bufan was still hiding behind the fire door, and he couldn't stray too far from him.
Looking at the quiet corridor, Tang Bufan slowly put down the sniper rifle in his hand. He stared blankly at Lu Yi through the light screen glasses. The orc boy stood in the pile of corpses, like a blood-soaked war god.
Lu Yi turned around, carrying the blood-dripping longsword, and gave Tang Bufan a gentle and somewhat cute smile.
"Teacher, it's done." Lu Yi walked towards Tang Bufan, whose still somewhat immature face appeared even more handsome and alluring against the backdrop of blood.
"You should transform into a beast." Tang Bufan stood up and let out a long sigh.
"Gurgle, gurgle," Tang Bufan suddenly heard an unpleasant swallowing sound.
Right next to his ear.
A chill ran down his spine, and Tang Bufan stiffly turned his head, only to meet a pair of blood-red eyes that were almost inches away.
"Lu Yi!" Tang Bufan shouted, and the next second his feet were lifted into the air.
"Teacher?!" Lu Yi heard Tang Bufan's shout, but his view was blocked by the fire door. He suddenly remembered that there was a window at the end of the corridor, and immediately rushed over with a pale face.
He quickly pushed open the heavy fire door and saw a poisoned man clinging to the pipes on the exterior wall, his hands grabbing Tang Bufan's clothes. Tang Bufan was holding a sniper rifle tightly in his hands, using it to block the window horizontally!
"Quick..." Tang Bufan's collar was being pulled by the poisonous man, which was choking him and making it difficult for him to speak, while his upper body was already completely suspended outside the window!
Lu Yi reacted immediately, grabbed Tang Bufan and pulled him back, the force so great that the poisoned man outside the window was also dragged into the corridor.
The poisonous man finally released his grip on Tang Bufan's collar and lunged at Lu Yi with a ferocious expression.
Then his head was chopped off.
The sparsely haired green head rolled and fell to Tang Bufan's feet. Tang Bufan clutched his sore throat and coughed violently, while Lu Yi squatted down beside him, breathing heavily.
His heart didn't race when he was surrounded by poisonous people, but when he saw Tang Bufan with half his body hanging outside the window, his heart started racing.
"I'm sorry... I neglected the window." Lu Yi's voice trembled slightly. Tang Bufan covered his throat and looked up, noticing that Lu Yi's face looked terrible.
"It's alright, thankfully I have... this gun." Tang Bufan spoke with a pain in his throat, which must have been injured. Looking at Lu Yi, who seemed unwell, Tang Bufan frowned.
"Are you alright?" Tang Bufan asked. He was the one who almost fell to his death, so why did Lu Yi look even more frightened than him?
"...It's nothing." Lu Yi steadied his breathing, his complexion improved, and he gently pulled down Tang Bufan's collar. The man's neck, near his collarbone, was already bruised.
So pitiful, so thin and bony.
"How about we take off the collar first?" Lu Yi suggested, otherwise Tang Bufan would keep bumping into the collar and getting bruises when he walked.
Tang Bufan hesitated for a moment, then refused.
“No need.” He said, standing up from the ground. “Let’s hurry to… cough cough, the medicine room.”
"Okay." Lu nodded, understanding that he was still wary of him deep down.
The entire floor was now covered in blood, and poisonous creatures were hiding in the dark rooms on both sides of the corridor. Tang Bufan and Lu Yi could hear them running around and hissing softly as they passed by.
With their leather boots crunching on the blood, the two arrived at the door of the pharmaceutical room. Lu Yi first listened intently through the door before turning the doorknob.
The room was dark and quiet. Lu Yi reached out and pressed the switch on the wall. The light tube on the ceiling made a small "ding-ding" sound and then the light came on.
A set of sophisticated instruments appeared before the two, but there was no poisoner hiding inside the room.
Tang Bufan went in first, and Lu Yi locked the door behind him. Tang Bufan was exhausted and finally put the heavy sniper rifle on the table with trembling hands.
"Can it still hold up?" Lu Yi asked him, quickly walking to each cabinet and rummaging through them.
"Yes," Tang Bufan said in a hoarse voice. Although his legs were tired and weak, he still insisted on climbing over the house with Lu Yi.
The equipment inside was old, but it showed signs of careful maintenance; there wasn't a speck of dust on the surface, and it didn't have the decay and dilapidation that one would expect from a hospital.
The air was filled with a strong medicinal smell, which dispelled much of the stench.
During his search, Tang Bufan discovered that many of the machines still retained residual heat, indicating that they had been operating before.
"Teacher, glucose." Lu Yi found something good. He first opened the bottle cap, poured a little into his palm, and stuck out his tongue to test it. Only after confirming that it didn't taste strange did he hand it to Tang Bufan.
"Thank you." Tang Bufan took it, immediately tilted his head back and drank it, his throat aching as he swallowed.
After drinking a bottle of glucose, Tang Bufan felt much more energetic.
There were many medicines in the medicine room. Tang Bufan opened his waist bag and took out two folded black garbage bags. He handed one to Lu Yi and opened the other himself.
"There's plenty of medicine; we'll just take what's useful," Tang Bufan said to Lu Yi in a hoarse voice. "Mainly, antidotes."
Lu nodded, but after rummaging through several cabinets with the trash bag, he frowned: "The antidote isn't in this room."
"What about the one in this machine?" Tang Bufan walked to a machine with a glass container filled with green liquid medicine.
The machine had no label, so Lu Yi wasn't sure. He saw a lot of documents on the table by the window, so he went over to it.
Lu Yi picked up a thick notebook and flipped through it, his expression becoming more serious.
"Teacher, don't touch it. That's not an antidote, it's a gene mutagen," Lu Yi said in a deep voice, carefully flipping through the notebook in his hands.
Tang Bufan curiously approached with the trash bag in hand, and Lu Yi moved a thick notebook toward him, revealing it filled with illegible English handwriting.
Fortunately, both of them were wearing light-screen glasses, and the AI automatically scanned and recognized the text. The green potion extracted the DNA of a plant in the desert, which could break down the gene chain of the person being injected and fuse it with the DNA of that plant, turning them into a "plant mutant".
“No wonder the poisoners in this town are so strange.” Tang Bufan said knowingly, his voice hoarse, “The DNA of this plant can break down toxins and has a chance to repair damaged brain cells, restoring the injector to sanity. However, the side effect is that the plant genes may be too strong, turning the injector into a plant-like state… What a pity.”
"Teacher, you don't want to get an injection, do you?" Lu Yi looked at him nervously.
"No, that's not it." Tang Bufan shook his head: "I want to go back. I don't want my body to undergo any mutations."
He just regretted that the drug had side effects, otherwise so many poisonous people in the town wouldn't have turned into "flowers".
Lu Yi breathed a sigh of relief, put down the notebook in his hand, and turned to look at the corner of the pharmaceutical room, where there was an alloy metal door.
Tang Bufan also looked over and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is the antidote inside?"
“The last time I came here, there was still an antidote in the cabinet, but now many of the medicines are gone. They must have been moved inside.” Lu Yi said helplessly, “I was just browsing and didn’t steal any of their medicines.”
After all, it's a valuable medicine; how could we not take better care of it after it was trespassed on once?
The two then carried the garbage bags to the alloy iron door, which had a mechanical combination lock that required a key and a combination wheel.
"It seems we need to find the poisoner who knows the password," Tang Bufan said, frowning.
Lu Yi remained silent. He raised his hand and touched the wall, then suddenly slammed his fist against it.
With a muffled thud, Tang Bufan was startled, and spiderwebs appeared on the wall as Lu Yi smashed a large hole in it.
Lu pulled his fist out of the wall, reached out and pushed aside the broken bricks, and found that there was another layer of alloy-cast wall inside.
He clicked his tongue softly: "The insurance business is actually quite good."
"..." Tang Bufan looked at him with envy, thinking that having power meant being able to be so willful, smashing walls whenever he wanted.
However, Lu Yi clearly had no way to deal with the alloy security door; no matter how strong the orc's body was, the bone density could not compare to professional anti-theft metal.
"Hopefully, I didn't kill the poisoner who knew the password." Lu Yi regretted his indiscriminate killing in the corridor earlier.
Tang Bufan turned his head and looked around the pharmaceutical room again, finally looking up and fixing his gaze on the ceiling.
Lu Yi followed his gaze and looked up, discovering a ventilation opening there, just the right size for a human to squeeze through.
Lu Yi guessed Tang Bufan's intention and frowned before Tang Bufan could speak, saying, "No, it's too dangerous."
"There's no other way." Tang Bufan knew the danger, but now all the poisoners were avoiding Lu Yi. Where could they find the poisoners who knew the password and the key?
His body couldn't wait any longer; he needed an antidote as soon as possible.
"But……"
“This is my fate, and I have to fight for it myself,” Tang Bufan interrupted him.
Lu Yi looked at him. The man, wrapped in tattered black cloth, was stubborn. His straight body was like a strong pine tree, which touched Lu Yi's heart.
He didn't know what Tang Bufan looked like, but Tang Bufan's aura was very attractive to him.
Lu Yi finally smiled helplessly, compromised, and went over to pick him up.
The 2.23-meter-tall orc boy had very wide hands, and Tang Bufan's entire foot was held in his palms.
"Teacher, come back immediately if you notice anything wrong," Lu Yi instructed him.
"Know."
Don't force yourself.
"Know."
"Contact the glasses!"
"...I know." Tang Bufan almost laughed at his instructions.
With his foot on Lu Yi's palm, Tang Bufan used his strength to squeeze into the ventilation duct.
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