Desperate Night

Inside the safe house in the cave.

Yu Hong sat down and gasped to recover his strength.

He put the talisman in his hand on the ground. He was sweating all over. His eyes were also covered with sweat and he could not open them.

He rested for a few seconds, looked back at Dr. Xu, and found that she seemed to be resting with her eyes closed, so he stretched out his hand and pressed it on the silver talisman on the door.

After a few seconds of pause, he let go of his hand and saw the black countdown of recovery and replenishment on the surface of the talisman, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

It won't take long. It will only take more than 40 minutes to completely recover to a perfect state.

"Dr. Xu, are you okay?" Yu Hong had time to ask.

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No response.

Yu Hong frowned and turned his head again, but saw that Dr. Xu was still curled up on the ground, motionless, with sweat and saliva dripping down his chin. His body was also twitching and shaking slightly.

"Dr. Xu?" Yu Hong called again. He vaguely found that something was wrong, and his expression became a little solemn.

Reaching out his hand, he pushed the other person, but found that there was no response at all.

So he quickly stood up and poured a cup of boiling water to feed the other person.

Unfortunately, Dr. Xu's mouth could no longer close, and her breathing was extremely disordered. If she was fed water like this, she would probably choke.

Yu Hong could only carefully moisten her mouth with some water. Then he dragged her up and put her on a softer sleeping bag.

"I don't have any first aid medicine, and I don't know what happened to you. Now the only way is to rely on you to save yourself." He sat aside and said quickly. "If you can hear me talking, can you tell me what I can do to help you?"

Dr. Xu didn't move, but just closed her eyes and fell on the sleeping bag, twitching all over, unable to move.

Her body was a little cold, but sweat was constantly oozing out.

Soon, the fire in the fireplace lit up, emitting a strong warmth, which made her body a little relieved. Her breathing seemed to gradually ease up with the warmth.

Seeing that she was better, Yu Hong also breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, he was too busy to handle the logistics and materials by himself. For an acquaintance like Dr. Xu who was good-natured and a friend of Little Stutter, he would try his best to save her.

He looked at the countdown on the door, and then at the stains on Dr. Xu's face, and then wiped her saliva and sweat with leaves and newspapers.

Then he sat aside and rummaged through the bag he had just brought out of the cave of Jenny and her daughter.

The bag was not a cloth bag, but a thicker black plastic bag with white ears that could be lifted with one hand.

Yu Hong opened the bag and took out the things one by one.

The red value detector was on the top and was taken out and placed on the ground.

Then there was a pair of black leather boots for women.

Three candles.

A hard-shell brown notebook.

A bottle of small red pills of unknown purpose.

A black and dirty cloth mask.

A short knife with a snakeskin pattern in a sheath.

A small green box that looked like a handheld game console, with a screen and a cross button.

Yu Hong first picked up the small green box, found the small black switch on the side, and turned it on.

No response.

He put it down, and then picked up the bottle of pills. Through the transparent glass bottle, he could see that the red pills inside were very new, very dry, and not moldy at all.

"Jenny and Eve don't seem to have any diseases, so what is this medicine? An emergency anti-inflammatory drug? Or..."

He couldn't guess, so he could only wait for Dr. Xu to wake up before testing.

Put the medicine down, then pick up the short knife and pull it out gently.

The sharp silver blade is quite clean and has a light maintenance oil. The back of the blade is a saw-like design, and there is a blood groove on the side of the blade, which looks very practical.

Sniff.

Closing the short knife, Yu Hong finally reached out to the notebook.

Pick it up and open it.

'Adjust the radiation time according to the dose, and continue the next test with the detailed plan of Plan No. 2. '

'Three accidents occurred in April, and pyroxene radiation data was collected sixteen times. ’

‘In May, radiation data surveys were conducted on the terrain around the pyroxene mine, and data was collected 74 times. ’

‘In June, an individual was found to have entered the mine, and a slight lesion occurred in the body. Data was successfully collected. ’

‘In July, five successful animal model experiments were conducted. Due to environmental changes, the number of animals and insects decreased significantly, and the animal experiments were forced to terminate. ’

‘In August, Eve's cells were collected for culture, and radiation tests were started on the cultured tissues. Through the test experiments, the pathological process was inferred by comparing the previously collected Lin Yiyi cell tissues. ’

Under the firelight, Yu Hong frowned and looked at the rows of text on the notebook. Below the text were detailed chart character data. Many characters used abbreviation codes, and he couldn't understand the meaning. But judging from the text, Jenny's family probably came here a long time ago with impure purposes. And the stuttering Lin Yiyi was also secretly sampled and observed.

He kept turning the pages, skipping many data charts directly, and soon he saw some intermediate text again.

‘Pyroxene disease can definitely produce more resistance to ghosts. Under the same infection conditions, patients with pyroxene disease will have a certain degree of intellectual decline, but when they are in a high red value environment, they will also show stronger resistance. There will be no more body stiffness, convulsions, hallucinations, etc.’

‘In cell sampling experiments, the activity performance of cells infected with pyroxene disease was greatly improved, the life span was reduced by 65.4%, and the resistance to bacteria and viruses was increased by more than 70%. It was determined from this that taking Eve to the mine for about half an hour every five days could effectively curb her special marking disease. ’

Seeing this, Yu Hong already understood something.

This Jenny's family was probably forced to come here because their daughter Eve was targeted by something first, looking for research methods to save her.

Unfortunately, their research seemed to be working a little bit before they were interrupted by themselves.

Eve was not killed by the Shadow Black Disaster, but died at the hands of an ordinary person like herself.

"But pyroxene disease can pyroxene actually make people sick?" He recalled the little stuttering situation in his mind.

She just has reduced intelligence and is extremely resistant to shadows and other things. Anyway, he had never seen Little Stutter squealing when he was frightened by the shadow.

"So, maybe the small stutter is also pyroxene disease?" Yu Hong guessed in his mind.

As long as he determines the cause, he might be able to think of a way to cure her in the future.

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Baihe City.

surface.

On the beach at the seaside, the sea water brings out white lines, rushing up and falling down, back and forth.

Above the beach, a hundred meters away, is a stretch of abandoned and rusty high-rise buildings, standing quietly in the scorching sunshine.

The light blue glass on the surface of the high-rise building reflected the dazzling sunlight, and was blown by the sea breeze from time to time.

At the top of one of the buildings, there is a rusty rooftop.

Several men and women in camouflage uniforms were talking quietly.

They gathered together, their clothes marked with the insignia of the Union Army.

One of them, a short-haired man wearing glasses, held a piece of jade pyroxene in his hand. He lowered his head and frowned as he listened to the people around him.

The man has a soft face and bronze complexion, and has a small silver-white pistol on his waist. On the outside of his right forearm, there is a three-star mark on his clothes that is different from others.

"A Dong and the others haven't come back yet. We didn't have time to pay attention to them before. Now that they have finally settled down, I asked people to go back to the agreed place to wait, but found that no one was there. I suspected that something happened to them." The young woman with dark skin said in a deep voice.

"They have two guns and there is a resting point in the middle. It is unlikely that something will happen, right?" Another person couldn't help but said.

"It's hard to say. In the past, the evil shadow spread widely. Maybe they found half of them and were killed on the way. Now the satellite signal is too interfered with, and it is impossible to contact them over a long distance. The only thing we can rely on is to make an agreement on time. If If they can't do it on time, we can only treat them as dead," the young woman said quickly.

"Then what should we do? If there is someone in Baiqiu Village who can make the Great Pyroxene, it would be a pity to just give up." Another person said.

"That's good, but who is willing to go back and investigate what happened to determine the real situation?" The man wearing glasses asked loudly, looking around.

But everyone around him quickly looked away when his eyes met, unwilling to respond.

"Isn't there anyone willing to pay first?" the man with glasses sighed. "If I can catch the person who made the great pyroxene, I promise to double his treatment every month! Whether it's food or supplies."

Still no one around made a sound.

After finally escaping from the evil shadow and escaping from that dangerous area, no one wants to return and die.

Besides, with such a long distance, you might be burped by a shadow monster midway before you even reach your destination.

"Xu Yang, you have always been my best assistant." The man with glasses fell on a strong man wearing a black mask.

"Captain Zhao, if we go back alone, we may encounter danger halfway. Think about how much trouble our entire town has encountered when moving here?" Xu Yang, a strong man, said quickly.

"What do you mean?" The man with glasses frowned.

"The key now is that Baiqiu Village is too dangerous. None of our brothers and sisters here can carry it. So, we have to find someone who can carry it," Xu Yang said with a smile.

"Who can guarantee that you can handle this kind of thing?" asked the man with glasses.

"My little brother has already inquired about it. There is a black market bar in Baihe City that specializes in hiring desperadoes. Last time I went there, I met a real master. He used to be a postman. He came from the front line of the Aurora City United Army. He is an absolute elite. "Both his marksmanship and fighting skills are extremely strong," Xu Yang said.

"Isn't it expensive?" The man with glasses frowned. "And why would such a good player be willing to be hired by us? Wouldn't he be able to earn more by catching people by himself?"

"As long as you don't tell him, just let him arrest people." Xu Yang said with a smile. "If he is discovered, we can negotiate at that time. At worst, we can give him some benefits, which is better than having nothing now."

The bespectacled man nodded, picked up the large pyroxene in his hand and looked at it carefully.

"It makes sense. Given the current environment in Baihe City, as long as we can control this person who has the energy source to continuously produce large pyroxene, it is equivalent to controlling a chicken that can lay golden eggs."

He paused.

"This kind of effect is comparable to that of large pyroxene pith. The runes on it are secondary. There are many similar types and it is easy to imitate. The key is the material. It can definitely be used to counterfeit rare pyroxene pith. The price difference is far away. It’s beyond ordinary people’s imagination. I really don’t know how he does it.”

He exhaled and looked at Xu Yang again.

"I'll leave this matter to you, okay?"

"Promise to complete the mission." Xu Yang smiled.

"What's that man's name?"

"White Python Guo Xudong."