Chapter 224
Five seconds later, Su Xingyuan calmly closed the book.
Without lighting up any skills, and with his current life skills still at the most basic first level, the black-haired hunter who only liked fighting skillfully came to one of the two high towers in the territory.
"Leafa." The Lord said solemnly, "Help me, Jianghu."
Leafa: “…”
After further building the territory, she also learned a little about the games in the human world. Last month, the lord said that he wanted to install an Internet cable in the territory. So at this moment she suddenly remembered the first time she met the lord. His behavior always subtly made her feel like an NPC who issued tasks. The black-haired hunter's eyes fell on her, with his habitual smile on his face, but it made people inexplicably feel a little scared.
…
But now it seems like the roles are reversed! The Lord is now more like an elusive NPC. As long as you get close to him, a mission will appear...
Leafa was in a trance for a moment, and asked, "You are still sick, please let me do it for you. Is there anything I can help you with?"
...Why does this sentence structure feel more similar?
"There is indeed something that requires your ability." The description in words was not as direct and shocking as the picture. Su Xingyuan projected the picture he saw in the prophecy book into Leafa's mind.
"I thought you'd be happy to help."
The blonde girl's eyes went blank for a moment.
By the time she came out of the picture in her mind and the light reappeared in her eyes, her expression had changed drastically, even to the point of being solemn and looking a little pale, as if she had recalled some bad memories.
After entering the territory to live, she rarely showed such an expression anymore.
"As you said, Lord." The blonde girl calmed down and said, "If the human world is about to encounter such a thing, even without your order, I will ask for help... I can no longer tolerate any epidemic taking away the lives of ordinary people. And curing diseases and saving lives is also the original wish and work of my teacher and I."
"Please rest assured. Although I have been committed to making new functional medicines, I have never stopped researching disease treatment drugs." Leafa walked quickly to the workbench, found a thick stack of manuscripts from the storage box beside her, and took a deep breath: "I have also re-understood and tried all the information and cases left by the teacher. Just give me time, I will find a way to solve this disaster as quickly as possible."
The reason why Leafa's emotions suddenly tensed up was simple. This disaster is a particularly terrifying plague in human history.
Unlike the zombie-like infection, this plague seemed to be directly caused by blood that would not fade away for the time being. Su Xingyuan was temporarily unable to find the source and route of infection in the few brief scenes. He even had a guess that this plague brought by the devil had no such thing as a "transmission route" and was more like an unavoidable curse.
In this situation, even Leafa couldn't guarantee that she could find a solution quickly, but she still said so. She knew very well that if she held the thought that "there might not be a solution" from the beginning, she might have to watch countless people die in front of her again because of the disease caused by the Demon King. She had to use all her strength.
"It's okay." The black-haired boy's voice sounded briskly, "Don't worry about whether it will succeed. I will take care of that part."
Even if she fails, Su Xingyuan, as the lord, will cover for her.
Leafa nodded without hesitation and said, "I believe you. Please give me a moment while I pack some things."
The bloody rain had not yet ended, and Su Xingyuan was not in a hurry to let Leafa leave now. He first found Ning Baiquan - they agreed to meet before the next disaster, and the information they exchanged would be sent to all parts of the world by the Hunter Association.
Ning Baiquan also had some guesses about the next disaster.
"It is indeed a plague..." Perhaps because he has been too busy and too tense during this period, his expression did not change when he heard the news. Only the dark blue under his eyes was darker than before.
Su Xingyuan nodded: "This time it's different from the bloody rain. Those infected won't die instantly, but the problem is that it can't be prevented."
That is, they had to find a cure for this particular disease before it killed people on a massive scale.
"I've asked the top pharmacist in the territory to help, don't worry too much." Su Xingyuan, who had already saved the game, looked out the window at the red rain that was still dripping, and reminded: "But I saw that although there was no blood rain when the next disaster came, the blood that had fallen did not disappear out of thin air. Let's deal with it as soon as possible."
During these seven days, if Su Xingyuan had not opened the portal from time to time to lead some of the accumulated blood to hell, I am afraid that even floods would have joined in the fun.
Ning Baiquan took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and his eyes unconsciously turned to the black-haired hunter opposite him.
Because of the disaster these days, his spirit has been tense all the time. The black-haired hunter should be more tired than him, but every time he sees the other party, he always has a calm expression without any hesitation or uneasiness, no matter how troublesome the situation is.
In fact, they all knew that Suxingyuan had a territory that was comparable to the entire world, and they also knew that the survival of humans here actually had no impact on Suxingyuan. Even if they all died in the disaster, the black-haired hunter could still stay in his territory. There were also various plants and animals, as well as humans living and working in peace and contentment. It was just an ordinary world that had not accompanied him for too long. Perhaps it was not that important to such an existence.
But he still did so much personally. Everyone witnessed Su Xingyuan's seven days of high-intensity work. His magic power had almost penetrated into every inch of land here, to the point where ordinary animals could sense it - he was saving lives without reservation, even though there were dangerous enemies behind him who were still eyeing him covetously.
Ning Baiquan sighed and said, "After we get through this, let Hunter Fang Mujian arrange a dinner for us. Everyone has worked hard."
Fang Mujian on the side: "?"
Before the A-level hunter could ask "Why me?" and "Will you reimburse me?", the black-haired boy laughed first, raised a finger and said, "Don't raise such flags randomly, Vice Captain Ning. And you don't usually say such things. Have you finally worked so hard that your heart is broken?"
Ning Baiquan: "...your mouth is still the same as always."
After a brief gag, the game system pop-up window arrived on time.
[Congratulations on successfully surviving the second disaster - Blood Rain! 】
[-The blood-red rain that covered the sky stopped at some point, and the scorching sun broke through the dark clouds and appeared in the sky almost instantly. This seemed to be a good sign that the clouds had finally cleared and the moon was visible.
[You stepped out of the tightly closed door after a long absence, stepped on the blood that no longer posed a demonic threat and came into the sunlight. You cried with joy at the light and happily planned your trip this weekend. Until two hours later, you found purple spots that were slowly festering on your body...]
Su Xingyuan: It’s worthy of me to think about traveling right after the disaster.
He continued to check the remaining pop-up windows.
[Has entered the third disaster - plague]
Current death toll: 30,459
Su Xingyuan was no longer interested in this kind of second-person immersive plot description. He skillfully ignored the words "you cried with joy" and pressed skip. Then he waited patiently for a moment, but there was no description of time.
"There is no time limit, which means that the plague itself is a kind of time limit." Su Xingyuan stood up thoughtfully, stepped directly into the portal, and brought Leafa out.
Ning Baiquan said that he had prepared a special laboratory for pharmacists. Su Xingyuan did not refuse, but he cleared the area around the laboratory and then moved Leafa's own workbench over.
Leafa entered the laboratory with her luggage, wearing a polite smile.
"This disaster is likely to be an indiscriminate infection. That is to say, if we are unlucky, you and I will become more ill along with everyone else as time goes by." Su Xingyuan reminded.
"I understand." Leafa nodded. "I will definitely check on the patient's condition and collect samples myself. Since I have to come here during this period, there will always be a chance of infection. It is better to save time and trouble."
Leafa didn't care about the plague.
Even her lord was willing to stay on this land, let alone her who considered herself just a pharmacist.
Moreover, she couldn't be sure whether the disease would be brought to her companions in the territory because of her travels, so it was better not to do it.
The first day of the plague officially arrived amid the alert of all countries.
"By the end of the first day, three million people have been infected." The secretary handed the tablet with the data to Xu Banmeng to read: "The infected people are all over the world, and they have symptoms of body ulceration at the same time. There is no commonality to be found."
In other words, the spread of this plague is likely to be completely random.
After the first group of people were infected, the air, water, insects... everything could become a way for the plague to spread.
"Where are the pharmacists we have in our laboratory?" Xu Banmeng asked.
"Two of them have fallen down, the others are in good condition, but there has been no progress in the research." The secretary answered truthfully.
Xu Banmeng stretched out his hand.
Some dark purple spots appeared on the slender and white fingers.
The secretary's expression suddenly changed slightly: "You..."
Xu Banmeng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, don't come and go at this time. By the way, you should pay your own year-end bonus in advance, so you can spend more."
"How does the saying go? When a man is about to die, his words are good."
Secretary: "You really have learned the auspicious words of the Suxingyuan hunters."
"You know there's no one at home, so there's no point in going back." The secretary's expression quickly returned to calm. She poured two cups of tea, one for Xu Banmeng and one for herself. "Of course, you also know that the greatest advantage of my career is that I always know how to advance and retreat with my employer."
Besides...that Xingyuan hunter is not someone who will just sit there and wait for death.
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