If there is only one mutant, there will be many more.
Soon, Fu Linglong and Ye Xunzhi worked together to catch a mutated woman with a net.
Ye Xunzhi stuffed a cloth into the mutant's mouth and bound its hands and feet.
Although it was poisoned by the Demon King's Gu, as long as it couldn't move freely and couldn't bite anyone, it wouldn't be very dangerous.
Fu Linglong took out the medicinal powder and calculated the time. It was indeed only a few breaths, so short that it made Fu Linglong despair.
Ye Xunzhi saw through her thoughts and comforted her, "You were making medicine based on guesswork before. Now that you have a physical product, you can make some improvements and it will be even better."
"Hmm." Fu Linglong knew there was no other way now.
Fu Linglong poked the mutant with a stick and let out a sound of surprise.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xunzhi asked.
"I remember the records in the pavilion that the person bitten had hard skin, like firewood, but its skin was soft."
Moreover, the records also say that mutants possess immense strength, far beyond what ordinary people can withstand. However, the mutant we captured this time is stronger than an average person, but far from the immense strength described in the book,” Fu Linglong said.
If it were truly as described in the book, neither she nor Ye Xunzhi would have been able to capture a mutant so easily for research.
"Perhaps the records are inaccurate, after all, no one has seen this thing for hundreds of years. Besides, they are not very strong, and their skin is soft, making it easier for swords and knives to cut through them, which is a good thing for us."
"Hmm." Fu Linglong nodded. Thinking about it this way, it could indeed be considered good news.
Fu Linglong had added some other medicinal herbs to the powder she had prepared, intending to feed it to the mutant to test its effects, when she suddenly heard a woman's cry for help.
"Help! Help!" A woman was seen running towards them from a short distance away.
A mutant was running towards the woman from behind.
Fu Linglong shouted to Ye Xunzhi, "Xunzhi, save her!" Without saying another word, she ran towards the woman.
"Ah~!" In her panic, the woman didn't notice her footing and tripped over a stone, falling to the ground.
As she fell, the mutant behind her pounced on her and bit her in the back.
"Ah—!!" the woman screamed.
Fu Linglong, who had just arrived, was too late to stop it.
Ye Xunzhi, who arrived later, was even more decisive. Taking advantage of the moment when the mutant bit the woman and was not yet able to get up, he slashed down with his sword and cut off its head.
The woman crawled out from under the headless mutant corpse, reached out and touched the wound on her back, her hand covered in blood.
She looked at Fu Linglong in terror, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Master, please save me."
Fu Linglong shook her head regretfully, "Miss, you have been poisoned by Gu, and there is nothing I can do to help you."
"No, no, please save me! It bit my father and my mother. I'm the only one who escaped," the woman cried.
Ye Xunzhi walked to Fu Longlong's side, looked at the girl in front of him who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, and sighed deeply.
Fu Linglong thought for a moment, then took out a medicine bottle. "I have a medicine here, but I can't guarantee it will work. Do you dare to try it?"
For safety's sake, even if you've taken the medicine, I still need to tie you up first. Only when I'm certain your Gu poison has been truly cured can I release you.
Fu Linglong really didn't know what would happen if she took the medicine before it mutated, and she hadn't been able to experiment with it before.
If she doesn't eat, the woman will surely die.
Eating might offer a glimmer of hope.
It all depends on the woman's own choice.
The woman clearly understood this, and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, I'm willing, I'm willing."
Fu Linglong handed her the medicine bottle, and the woman opened it and swallowed the medicine without hesitation.
Ye Xunzhi brought a rope and tied the woman up, but she did not resist.
After being tied up, the woman obediently followed behind the two men to a nearby village to check on the situation.
As the woman walked, she suddenly stopped.
He stood frozen in place, staring straight ahead.
Then, her skin began to shrink rapidly, and the woman curled up, rolled on the ground, and made painful screams.
In the end, the woman stopped moving, her body withered into a dried-up corpse.
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