Chapters 137 and 138: Corpse Insect!

  After the shock, Xiao Hong's gaze suddenly fell on another object, three golden micro-chapters, six-edged and mixed with gold coins, not very noticeable.

  As calm as possible, Xiao Hong picked out the three micro-chapters from the gold coins, all of which were exactly the same, with one side printed with a pair of snakes shaped like bat wings and a pair of large poisonous fangs.

  This pattern made Xiao Hong feel somewhat familiar, but for a moment he couldn't think of it, as if it were the military emblem of some country.

  His fingers paused in mid-air, and he nodded slightly before Xiao Hong quickly turned around and started searching through the bookshelves. He soon pulled out a somewhat tattered book with the words "World Military Encyclopedia" printed on it.

  Quickly sitting in front of the desk, spreading out the books, Xiao Hong began to flip through them one by one, checking the military micro-signs of various countries.

  After a dozen or so minutes of searching, Xiao Hong quickly found the icon corresponding to Wei Zhang. This icon was called the Winged Snake Badge and was the military emblem of the Weilin Principality.

  From a stellar geographical perspective, it is clear that the Kingdom of Villin is adjacent to the Kingdom of Singe and belongs to the Asian Union. Although there are no open conflicts between the two countries, underground struggles are inevitable because the unions where the two countries are located have already become incompatible with Asia.

  From this, Xiao Hong can basically determine that the masked man is a soldier of the Weilin Kingdom, who has come to stop Luo Xue Ning's ultimate mission.

  And this ultimate task, Xiao Hong can now be certain, is related to his hometown village where he once lived, with a probability of nearly ninety-nine percent.

  "What is this task after all?" Xiao Hong stared at the top left corner of the map, muttering to himself, unable to figure it out.

  Xiao Hong originally thought that Luo Xue Ning's arrival had nothing to do with him, but now Xiao Hong has a faint feeling that this idea was wrong.

  It's even possible that his own strange illness is not just a plague, but has another mysterious reason behind it. But what could that be? Xiao Hong still couldn't figure it out. Everything was now speculation in Xiao Hong's mind.

  Unable to think of a solution, Xiao Hong put this matter aside and continued to carefully examine the belongings of the three people who were killed earlier, but found nothing else.

  It was worth a lot of money, just over ten gold coins and three storage rings. However, the three storage rings were all named, Xiao Hong didn't have one, so he directly destroyed them.

  Xiao Hong then filtered again and confirmed that there were indeed no new discoveries, only keeping the map.

  The badge and gold coins, everything else was destroyed on the spot, without leaving a single trace. Then he fell onto his bed head and fell into a deep sleep. It was already late, and with today's busyness, Xiao Hong was extremely tired.

  As for things that are puzzling, let's think of a way to solve them later.

  The next day, Xiao Hong, who had only slept for a few hours, once again sorted out the things he had seized yesterday, then locked the storage cabinet tightly and walked out of the bedroom.

  Just arrived at the front hall, the headline of "Morning News" was about last night's incident on Tongjiang Street.

  "Tongjiang Street was attacked by a mysterious car last night, and the identities of the attacker and the victim have not been confirmed yet." However, the police department said that this attack is not related to Luo Xue Ning's visit. The female anchor said, switching to the scene of Tongjiang Street, "Now it has been sealed off, and the police department staff and Mo Xuan's army have started cleaning up the scene."

  That gray Maserati, under the high-temperature explosion, has melted into a puddle of metal. The shape of the gray Maserati can hardly be seen, let alone the three corpses inside.

  "Hey, Brother Hong, who did this thing after all? It was done so ruthlessly and quickly, yet not a single clue was left behind." Li Le looked at Xiaoyu with blinking eyes and said to Xiao Hong.

  "I didn't know, who loves whom has nothing to do with us." Xiao Hong responded with a smile, looking quite relaxed, because he had enough confidence that no matter who it was, they wouldn't be able to find any valuable clues. It seemed that even if they confirmed the identity of the deceased, it would still be extremely difficult.

  "Oh, right."

  Xiao Hong, who was sitting at the dinner table, suddenly thought of something and said to Li Le: "When you have time, go buy ten rabbits and raise them first."

  "Rabbit? Is Brother Hong thinking of eating rabbit meat?" Li Le hummed curiously, it was the first time he had heard Xiao Hong give such an order.

  Xiao Hong didn't answer directly, just smiled and continued eating with his head down. Then he drove his own magic car, swaggering away in the direction of Xizhen Magic Academy.

  After finishing the routine class in the morning and organizing his classroom notes, Xiao Hong, who had already become slightly familiar with Cui Yuanbo, asked him some questions about poison.

  As for poison, Xiao Hong had some superficial knowledge before, but he really didn't delve deeper into it. Think about it, a guy who only wants to cure his own illness, how could he possibly be interested in something like poison?

  However, ironically, at this moment, Xiao Hong wanted to cure his own illness and actually used poison, which was highly toxic!

  In the process of solving the problem, Xiao Hong also pretended to be unintentional and took a few doses of Dusa grass, a detoxifying agent.

  Xiao Hong has given Cui Yuanbo a very good impression in recent days. He is not only studious, but also knowledgeable and quick-witted. The only drawback is that his knowledge is somewhat disorganized, with some things being superficially understood, like swallowing dates whole. However, if he can organize and supplement this knowledge, he will undoubtedly become an exceptional talent.

  So for Xiao Qi's question, Cui Yuanbo in the office can be said to know everything and say everything.

  It's still the same old story: every teacher likes students who are talented and diligent in their studies.

  It can be said that Cui Yuanbo asked questions for a full two hours, allowing Xiao Hong to have a new understanding of poison and begin to think of ways to create a Dan to cure his own illness.

  After bidding farewell to Cui Yuanbo, Xiao Hong got into his own Mo Yin car and prepared to return to Da Hong Mei. However, when passing by his dormitory, Xiao Hong stopped the car and went back to his dormitory to bring the few books about toxins he had borrowed earlier.

  After a few days, Xiao Hong's room was slightly messy, but he had no time to take care of it. He packed up his books and a vial of blood serum powder, and prepared to leave.

  However, at this moment, the warning mother demon on Xiao Hong's desk suddenly transmitted a continuous vibration. In fact, in recent days, there have been people of the thief level entering and leaving the dormitory, and from time to time, the warning mother demon would transmit vibrations.

  But this time, when Xiao Hong's slightly vigilant gaze fell on the light screen that Mo Yan had just taken out, his expression suddenly changed! A hint of vigilance flashed across his face.

  Only on the light screen, suddenly flashing out of dense red light spots, although the light spots are blurry, but they are truly existing, very small, judging from the size of the light spots, and the volume is only one-fourth the size of a fingernail, with hundreds of them.

  "This is..." Xiao Hong couldn't help but exclaim, his eyes becoming even more vigilant. The red light points represented something he was all too familiar with - fourth-level spiritual energy gathering in dense clusters, likely indicating the presence of a pack of Spiritual Beasts. In the Spirit Beast Academy, there was only one possibility for such an occurrence: the summoning of a contract beast by a summoner.

  After considering all the conditions, Xiao Hong's brain spun wildly and he figured out a clear thread. These things were very likely to be the offspring of Miao Chen's dead spirit worm. Because in the Xizhen Magic Academy, those who reached the fourth level of taking apprentices could be counted on one hand, and there was only one person named Miao Chen.

  Xiao Hong had previously made some inquiries about Miao Chen, who was quite famous. His Ling Beast was actually a Dead Spirit Mother Worm, a creature that had extremely strong reproductive abilities under the nourishment of spiritual energy.

  But why did Miao Chen send the dead spirit worm here? Xiao Hong thought for a moment, it was very likely related to the last time he took the second-level medicine.

  With this analysis, Xiao Hong's heart slightly relaxed. After all, taking the second-level medicine was not a deep-seated hatred or anything like that, at most it might bring some small trouble to himself, nothing serious.

  However, Xiao Hong still didn't dare to be too careless and glanced again at the warning light of Mo Wen's magic. One part of it had already quietly entered the floor where Xiao Hong was located, starting to search for gaps like a fly, drilling into the room, apparently probing something.

  Fortunately, Miao Chen had not reached the level of taking a master, and could not apply the Beast Spirit Eye, linking his vision with the spiritual beast. Through the perspective of the spiritual beast, he could only rely on the scattered force perception waves emitted by the beast to detect the surrounding environment, as well as sense the unintentionally released forces in the surroundings, and detect the level of the opponent's forces.

  This kind of unintentional release often only occurs when people are casting or driving magic, and the dead spirit worm itself also has the function of analyzing the level of force.

  It can be said that with the current situation, once the existence of the death spirit worm is discovered, as long as attention is paid to it, the investigation of the death spirit worm will be difficult to achieve any significant results.

  But thinking back, Xiao Hong decided to take a trick and put another fixed pressure ornament on his usual jacket, instantly suppressing the power within his body to the level of a sixth-grade cultivator.

  Because of the previous torture of blood refining liquid, this time's suppression was still bearable for Xiao Hong.

  Just as Xiao Hong had just put on his jacket, two dead spirit insects the size of flies came in from the gap under the door and hid very vigilantly under the sofa, beginning to spy on everything in the room.

  All of this was almost all in Xiao Hong's eyes, wearing clothes with a solid seal magic circle, sitting calmly on the sofa, pausing for a moment, Xiao Hong casually picked up a fourth-level tool magic circle and drove it once, intentionally making the dead spirit worm feel it.

  Because Xiao Hong himself was very clear that if he didn't let the dead spirit worm bring back some information this time, Miao Chen would still come to spy on him again and again, which would definitely bring considerable inconvenience to Xiao Hong's life.

  Chapter 138, As expected, after just a few minutes, the Dead Spirit Insect seemed to have sensed something and crawled out from under the sofa, leaving with satisfaction.

  Little did they know, Xiao Hong had discovered them long ago, and the information they gathered was just false data suppressed by Gu Zhenzhi.

  A few minutes later, seeing that the dead spirit worm did not come back, Xiao Hong withdrew the magic ring in his hand, tidied up the things he was going to carry, and left the dormitory directly.

  However, just as Xiao Hong had just walked down from the dormitory building, he saw that Miao Chen was leaning against the stone wall in the courtyard with a calm expression, without any unusual signs.

  It's not surprising that he's so big and bold, Xiao Hong is full of vigilance about his identity, because he has a past with Chai Shuang, but Miao Chen doesn't know this. He investigates "a certain student from the branch school" without malice, just wanting to win him over, but Miao Chen, who doesn't understand the inside story, thinks that "a certain student from the branch school"

  No harm is done, but rather many benefits are gained. If so, why hide it?

  Seeing Miao Chen standing at the gate of the courtyard, Xiao Hong could basically confirm that the owner of the insect earlier was absolutely Miao Chen. However, Xiao Hong didn't pay attention to it and put his backpack back in the driver's seat, got on the motorcycle and sped away.

  Looking at Miao Chen, he took out his notebook and began to record the information transmitted by Zi Chong. Among them, Xiao Hong's room had a note in the "Resident Level" column that read "Apprentice Sixth Grade", an unremarkable level.

  After more than half an hour of walking, Xiao Hong returned to Da Hong Mei's trip and saw that there were ten more cages in the backyard, each placed in a corner of the wall. Each cage had a rabbit inside, apparently Li Le was still quite efficient.

  At the same time, Xiao Hong Hua Ping received a few shocks from an anonymous gold card, and when he took it out, he found that there were more golden coins in the gold card.

  It's obvious where this came from, and it didn't occur to me that Li Wen and the others would be so agile with their hands and feet. Unintentionally, Xiao Hong's mouth corners slightly curved, and having this golden coin in hand was absolutely a timely help, whether for his own cultivation, refining alchemy, or researching medical treatment for his own Dan.

  As soon as he entered the bedroom, Xiao Hong locked the door tightly. After all, it was better to let fewer people see this kind of thing about Du Sa Cao.

  Put several books about toxins on the desk, Xiao Hong saw that among the three purple grasses, there were a few more branches with white flower bones. However, Xiao Hong didn't dare to touch them easily again, but picked up the watering can and carefully watered some water inside.

  Then, she sat in front of the desk, carefully organizing her class notes and flipping through the books on toxins in front of her. In her mind, she was still thinking back and forth about the formula for treating herself with Wudan pills. The only goal was that after taking the Wudan pills, while curing her strange illness, she could survive.

  But after communicating with Cui Yuanbo, Xiao Hong was very clear about how difficult it was, however, Xiao Hong did not give up in the slightest.

  After studying for four hours, Xiao Hong slowly put down the book. The notebook in front of him had already been densely filled with over a dozen pages, all of which were analyses of the interactions between medicines. In the end, he determined a prescription that included white syrup and Dusa grass, as well as over a dozen other auxiliary herbs.

  Wendan's Wendlu, Xiao Hong also determined that the main function is still to suppress toxicity.

  Looking at the formula in front of him, Xiao Hong's face showed no joy, compared to his usual confidence, this time Xiao Hong really lacked some confidence.

  Xiao Hong glanced at the formula, then slowly got up and retrieved the corresponding herbs from the storage room. After returning to the bedroom, Xiao Hong put on isolation gloves and carefully opened the locked drawer, taking out the vial containing the white gel-like substance.

  Also from the storage cabinet, take out a piece of Dusa grass and cut off a small piece.

  He took a deep breath, put on his mask and protective goggles, and began to work. For the white paste-like substance, Xiao Hong only used a tiny bit, about the size of a sesame seed, which he placed on the powder of the Zhī Chén Huā, kneading it into a ball shape.

  Next is Dusa grass, the processing method is completely routine, drying, soaking into powder, and mixing with other materials for use.

  Two hours had passed, and in Xiao Hong's hand appeared a pill box of Dan Wu. On one side of the Dan Wu was a delicate red magic seal.

  Xiao Hong walked out of the room and came to the cage where the rabbits were kept, casually picked one up, and directly stuffed the pill into the rabbit's mouth, then gave the rabbit some water, and sent it down into the rabbit's belly.

  He carefully placed the rabbit on the stone table, and Xiao Hong's face turned serious as he observed the rabbit's every move.

  Fortunately, the rabbit's reaction was not as fatal as that of the hen before, but after a few minutes, Xiao Hong could clearly see that the rabbit on the stone table had started to convulse and bleed from its mouth. Its body began to twitch continuously, and after more than ten minutes, blood also flowed out of its eyes and ears, eventually leading to its demise.

  "Ah", seeing this situation, Xiao Hong couldn't help but let out a soft sigh, however, he wasn't overly disheartened, as this was within his expectations.

  Fortunately, compared to the hen, the rabbit's survival time was slightly longer, and the death posture was not so terrifying. At least, the corpse was still intact, which was a step forward for Xiao Hong.

  Without stopping, Xiao Hong put on the isolation gloves again and directly brought the rabbit's corpse into the bedroom, placing it on a chopping board and securing it in place.

  Xiao Hong then followed what he learned at the Xijin branch school, driving the Mo Wen surgical knife to prepare for a dissection of the rabbit corpse, which would be extremely beneficial for Xiao Hong's further improvement of the Wen Dan.

  As Xiao Hong used a scalpel to dissect the rabbit's corpse, a faint smell of blood wafted into his nostrils.

  Looking at the rabbit's internal organs, most of them have ruptured. Apparently, it died from organ failure and internal bleeding. However, there is no feeling of intestinal perforation, apparently, the Dusa grass and the formula still had some effect, but this degree is not enough.

  After a brief observation, Xiao Hong took samples from the rabbit's various organs and began to analyze them one by one under the magic mirror microscope.

  Fortunately, the organized cells did not rupture as they had at first, and some parts were still intact.

  If toxicity is suppressed again, it may be possible to ensure safety, but for Xiao Hong, this is not feasible. Because if the toxicity continues to be suppressed, even if life is preserved, it will also be impossible to effectively kill the evil wolf cells, then what is the significance of curing Wudan?

  "It seems that we can only start from another angle." Xiao Hong muttered to himself, the method he thought of was to strengthen the tenacity of the internal organs, allowing them to barely withstand the toxic invasion.

  At noon, when Xiao Hong asked Cui Yuanbo a question, he also learned about a very rare herb called Tie Tuo Lian. This herb is actually a kind of stimulant that can strengthen cell vitality and increase physical function by a large margin in a short period of time, enhancing the body's resilience.

  The purpose is often to give the dare-to-die troops in the army, to perform some extremely dangerous tasks. At the same time, it also has a brother effect, that is, after the medicine takes effect, the body will be extremely painful, and this pain will last for about three days.

  Of course, the iron hoof lotus is a very rare herb to begin with, and since it's still tightly controlled by the military, there are even fewer that have fallen into civilian hands, especially in a remote place like Rain Ruxing.

  A little does not mean none, Xiao Hong thinks so, and now the troops of Beiluo Military Region, Luoxue Ning, and Weilin State are all here, I suppose Tie Xianlian should be here too.

  At the same time, Xiao Hong also deeply understood that in order to continue living and rapidly increasing his strength, taking elixirs played an absolutely crucial role. The increase in strength not only allowed him to create even more effective dan medicines, but with each increase in strength, it could also strengthen the body's cellular structure.

  This is extremely important for Xiao Hong at present and it's also something that he can achieve through hard work.

  Just sitting in the chair, taking a short rest, Xiao Hong had dealt with the materials on the table and the rabbit's corpse. He then took a tube of blood refining solution powder from beside the table, picked up the compression ornament, and re-entered the bathroom in the bedroom.

  The bathroom in Xiao Hong's dormitory was a bit shabby compared to the one in his own dormitory. The bathtub wasn't that high-end bucket type, just an ordinary one.

  But it's okay, even if you can't sit inside, lying down should be fine, right?

  Just thinking back to the painful feeling of training with the Blood Refining Solution, made Xiao Hong's heart feel a little apprehensive. However, Xiao Hong knew that apart from speeding up his cultivation, he had no other choice. As long as he could survive, any suffering was something Xiao Hong was willing to endure.

  After placing the solid pressure ornament, adjusting the blood refining solution, Xiao Hong resolutely immersed his body in it, starting a painful training.

  Like this, for a full five days, Xiao Hong's life almost returned to its monotonous and lonely state. In the morning, he would attend classes with a focused mind, and in the afternoon, he would sometimes work at the Dahongmei Center for several hours. The rest of his time was spent practicing and reading various books about his strange illness.

  For Xiao Hong, these five days were incredibly long, but looking back, it felt fleeting. Each time he practiced, the pain was etched in his memory.