Chapter 19: The Curtain Falls

After Xie Tianshu mutated into a flood dragon-like creature, his body's defense was extremely strong, and he quickly climbed up from the ground again.

But his body was numb, his muscles sore and painful.

"Swish!"

Not giving him time to fully recover, Li Youyi's figure had already arrived.

The yellow sword light slashed through the air, slashing toward his abdomen.

Xie Tianshu instinctively swung his claw to block.

"Pfft!"

The blade slashed through his claw covered in scales with the momentum of crushing dry weeds and rotten wood, leaving a deep wound on his abdomen.

Blood couldn't stop flowing out.

"Ah..."

Xie Tianshu trembled in pain, terror, and confusion, retreating rapidly, letting out a shrill scream.

This pain was even worse than when his right arm was severed earlier, carrying despair. Clearly, he was already so strong, transformed into a demon with infinite strength, yet he still suffered a crushing defeat.

Clearly, the sword Li Youyi held earlier couldn't break through the black scales on his body.

Why was it suddenly so sharp?

The claw was slashed off as if cutting tofu.

He would never know that the Huang Long Sword activated by the scalding airflow in the body was completely different from the Huang Long Sword in its normal state.

Because his strange, uneven head had already been slashed off by Li Youyi.

"Bang!"

The head fell to the ground, and the corpse fell down.

Suddenly, the whole world seemed to quiet down!

Li Youyi looked at the thick fresh blood constantly flowing from the neck of the headless giant corpse on the ground, and then looked at the bloody slaughterhouse full of corpses all around, with only Zhao Meng and Chen Hong, who had broken legs, lying there.

The other scientific researchers had long since fled after Xie Tianshu mutated into a flood dragon-like creature, hiding in the distance and watching timidly.

He didn't know if they were afraid of him or the corpses all over the ground.

This bloody scene was too terrifying for everyone who had never experienced slaughter! All the nightmares they had from childhood to adulthood combined couldn't reach this level.

Gradually, the killing intent ignited in Li Youyi's body due to hatred and anger dissipated, as if all his strength had been drained in an instant. His bloody hands kept trembling, and he couldn't hold the Huang Long Sword.

An uncomfortable emotion that made him want to vomit his stomach out and physical discomfort struck him.

Killing for the first time, and killing so many people.

The impact on his heart was even greater than when he first fell into the bronze ship.

Li Youyi's heartbeat was like a rapid drum, his mind sometimes blank, sometimes blood-red, and he sat on the chest cavity of Xie Tianshu's corpse on his own. His eyes stared at Xie Tianshu's head on the ground, but his pupils were not focused at all.

Qi Shanshan walked to his side, squatted down, pulled his sleeve, and called softly: "Youyi, Youyi, don't scare Sister Shanshan, what's wrong with you..."

"Youyi... I'm Sister Shanshan..."

Li Youyi's emotions recovered, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, then performed the Jade Void Breathing Method, his eyes gradually regaining their spirit, looking at Qi Shanshan's beautiful and exquisite face in front of him: "I'm fine, just for a moment..."

"Don't say it!"

Qi Shanshan blocked Li Youyi's mouth with her finger, feeling too intimate, and comforted him gently: "We know, they deserved to die, don't have any psychological burden."

Li Youyi felt that Dr. Qi's behavior was too abnormal, and even a bit boundary-less; she wasn't like this to him before. At that time, she called him and Gao Huan "the crippled and the defective."

Soon, more and more scientific researchers gathered around, all very concerned about Li Youyi's safety.

They weren't afraid of Li Youyi, just afraid of Xie Tianshu, which was why they hid in the distance.

So what if he killed?

Li Youyi took the risk to take action because he was saving them.

When the country is in trouble, respect the hero; when people are in danger, worship the god.

Li Youyi was naturally not a god, but he was the person who led them out of the darkness when they were most dangerous and helpless.

Really not used to being surrounded by so many people, with respect, awe, flattery, and fawning, Li Youyi hurriedly got up and fled, going to check his senior brother's injuries.

Qi Shanshan, wearing a doctor's uniform, followed like a shadow, fragrant, following closely by his side.

As if she had decided to follow him.

Zhao Meng had been carried into the medical shed and was lying flat on the medical bed, but he had long since fainted in pain, his face like gold paper, his breath void.

"Senior brother, senior brother..."

Li Youyi's fingers lightly touched Zhao Meng's swollen, purple-red legs, the broken bones visible at the wound on his knees. The injury on his shoulder was no better, the bones severely dislocated, too shocking.

He hurriedly looked at Qi Shanshan and said earnestly: "Dr. Qi, save my senior brother."

"Leave it to me here first!"

Thinking of something, Qi Shanshan added: "Youyi, Sister Shanshan knows that you only care about your senior brother's safety now, but you must first collect those immortal objects; they are what you deserve, don't let those guys who didn't contribute any strength take them. Lest in the future, they hold onto extraordinary power and become the next Xie Tianshu, the next Kong Fan."

Old Liu and the other direct members who followed Zhao Meng, who were gathered around the hospital bed, nodded vigorously; now they only followed Li Youyi's lead.

They felt that this Dr. Qi was very remarkable, always knowing what should be done at the moment, and could also see what might happen in the future. This required extreme reason and calmness.

And they, now, had not yet fully walked out of the terror of the previous upheaval.

Two female scientific researchers were left in the medical shed to be Qi Shanshan's assistants.

Old Liu and the others walked out of the medical shed, punching and kicking Chen Hong, who was seriously injured and lying on the ground, to vent the hatred in their hearts.

The corpse clothing soft armor that originally belonged to Zhao Meng was naturally taken off and kept by Li Youyi.

Li Youyi discovered that after this battle, everyone was extremely respectful to him, even more so than they had treated Captain Gao before. He didn't need to do anything himself; someone naturally took the silver-threaded gloves, scripture belt, and dragon-patterned thumb ring from the corpses and sent them to him.

There were even three scientific researchers who carried the zhang-long black spear to the outside of the medical shed and placed it at his feet.

Li Youyi really didn't know whether to laugh or cry; had he been crowned with the yellow robe?

A scientific research group leader even ordered Qin Ke to follow Li Youyi and do some things within her power.

"Brother Youyi... brother, just call me Keke."

Qin Ke was Professor Xu's student and Gao Huan's classmate.

In the scientific research team, besides Cai Yutong and Qi Shanshan, she and Liu Ying were the youngest and best-looking. But she was very timid and didn't even dare to keep the shotgun she got, throwing it directly into the sea.

Li Youyi found the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, which was very close to Han Qin's corpse.

After wiping the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish clean, he put it back around his neck. Then he squatted down to check Han Qin's head; the bone where he was hit by the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish was broken, and the blood clot was swollen.

There was no breath.

"Thirty meters away, and I could smash someone to death. It seems that in the future, I must prepare some pebbles, metal pieces, flying knives, and the like on my body; they can be completely comparable to a pistol."

With his current strength, to kill with a pebble, the key was actually accuracy.

And with his eyes nourished by the scalding airflow, his vision was extraordinary, plus the flying needle technique he had learned in the sect before, accuracy was not a problem at all.

Xie Tianshu, Chen Hong, Kong Fan, including the security team members, these people were all too weak, which was why Li Youyi's sword-throwing attacks could frequently succeed. Encountering a real master, throwing or abandoning a sword at will was a big taboo.

Director Yang lay curled up on the ground on his side, a massive amount of blood lost from his body, his body withered like a pile of bones.

His hair had all turned white, his eyes were turbid and lifeless, and he was clearly a dying man.

Seeing Li Youyi walk up to him.

He used his last bit of strength to tightly grab Li Youyi's trouser leg, stiffening his neck, trying hard to lift his head, as if wanting to say something.

Li Youyi helped him sit up, and seeing his miserable appearance, he felt deeply moved. It had only been seven days, how did it become like this? It really felt like a lifetime ago.

Director Yang tightly grabbed Li Youyi's wrist, and in a hoarse voice, pleaded: "Return to Earth... go back as soon as possible, must quickly take the Buddha's sarira... go to the underground palace of Ganlu Temple, must... must... otherwise..."

The strength in his fingers disappeared, and he passed away.

"What does it mean? Why go to the underground palace of Ganlu Temple..." Li Youyi felt his pulse, and he was already dead, so he slowly laid Director Yang back on the ground. 【19-

Qin Ke, standing to the side, said, "It is said that the Buddha's sarira was found in the underground palace of Ganlu Temple."

Li Youyi believed that Director Yang's obsession with retrieving the Buddha's sarira and his desperate desire to return to Earth might be related to this, so he went to question the two researchers from Laboratory 705 who had been subdued and tied up.

But the two of them knew very little and were unaware of the situation regarding the Ganlu Temple underground palace.

Returning to Earth now was simply beyond their control, so Li Youyi had to temporarily set the matter aside. There were many more important things on the ship.

The Ghost Bear Emperor at the stern, and the bone demons in the graveyard.

They were far more dangerous than Xie Tianshu, Kong Fan, Director Yang, and the others!

Moreover, there were still many suspicious points about this riot.

Gao Huan and Old Liu, leading more than twenty young and strong expedition members, walked into the Nether Mist holding various weapons such as protective shields, stun guns, steel bars, and kitchen knives to search for the five people who had escaped, including Xie Jin.

Li Youyi walked into the medical tent just as Qi Shanshan finished simple disinfection, hemostasis, bandaging, and corrective fixation on Zhao Meng's wounds and bones.

But Zhao Meng's eyes remained tightly shut, his face pale, and he had not woken up.

Li Youyi looked at the fine beads of sweat on Qi Shanshan's forehead and said, "Thank you for your hard work..."

"Take off your clothes."

Qi Shanshan was tidying up various medical supplies.

Li Youyi was stunned.

Qi Shanshan turned around and said, both reproachfully and with concern, "You only care about your senior brother's injuries? You were injured yourself yet didn't say a word. Are you men all so chauvinistic?"

"My injuries are minor; they don't count for much."

Li Youyi's injuries were on his left shoulder and right wrist.

His left shoulder had been touched by a small amount of lightning released by the black iron seal; his clothes were carbonized, his skin severely damaged, and it was indeed extremely painful.

His right wrist had been cut by the edge of the ice coffin at the bottom of the graveyard; it had already scabbed over, but the wound had split open again when he used the black long spear. That spear was too heavy, and using it with Li Youyi's current strength was still quite a strain, injuring his own muscles and bones while hurting others.

These injuries, to Li Youyi who had cultivated a scorching flow of Qi, really did not count for much.

It wouldn't even take a day for them to be mostly healed.

But Qi Shanshan insisted, so Li Youyi had no choice but to take off his clothes and let her bandage them.

While Qi Shanshan was bandaging his wrist, Li Youyi observed her face and eyes and asked, "I heard that before the riot broke out, Sister Shanshan took Senior Cai away. Where is she now?"

(End of this chapter)