Chapter 1671: About to mature

A metal hospital bed was placed on the east side of the room, surrounded by transparent film, and the indicator lights of various instruments gradually lit up.

*Sss—*

Ignoring Bubu Wang, wearing a gas mask, was spraying something near the metal hospital bed. He was actually creating a sterile environment. Storage space couldn't be opened in the Black Abyss, so the resources Su Xiao could use were limited. Naturally, he had to be cautious when treating Sha.

Covered in blood and wrapped in tattered bandages, Sha had already lost all her strength. She was already seriously injured, and now that she was in a safe environment, she naturally didn't have the strength to move a finger.

Out of respect for Sha's gender, it was Lilith who helped her clean her body, which truly made Sha suffer some physical pain.

Twenty minutes later, Sha lay on that dry and soft hospital bed.

"Ah~"

Sha couldn't help but moan, her eyes narrowing like a dozing mother leopard. However, in the next moment, a crisp sound made her sleepiness vanish completely.

With a *clang*, an alloy hammer fell to the ground. Sha looked at the alloy hammer and then scanned the surroundings.

"These are..."

Before Sha could ask, an injection gun had already pierced her neck.

"Wait... wait, are you... going to... repair a tank..."

Leaving these words, Sha was anesthetized. She wasn't unconscious, but anesthetized.

"First, solve the poisoning problem."

After Su Xiao put an oxygen mask and a series of life-support devices on Sha, he casually picked up a super-miniature cutting saw.

*Hum!! *

*Drip, drip... *

The sound of water droplets woke Sha up. She subconsciously wanted to sit up, but the pain all over her body made her give up. This wasn't the key; the key problem was that in the treatment more than ten hours ago, she had done something very embarrassing: not only did she beg for mercy, but she almost cried out. That kind of despair and powerlessness had only appeared when she was very weak.

Sha's fists clenched. The bandages wrapped around her chest were gradually stained red, which meant the poisoning symptoms had been lifted, and her blood had returned to a healthy red.

"Su, this matter... rot in your stomach."

Sha spoke suddenly. Su Xiao, who was adjusting the medical equipment, looked suspicious.

"What?"

"Don't play dumb, you know it in your heart."

"It was you on the operating table crying and saying, beg..."

Before Su Xiao finished speaking, he suddenly felt a gaze with great penetrating power.

"This matter, whoever mentions it, dies!"

Sha said this word by word. Clearly, she already had a psychological shadow from Su Xiao's treatment. In Sha's view, Su Xiao's treatment was more terrifying than torture. It wasn't because of the pain—that actually wasn't scary—but the feeling of being toyed with by Su Xiao at will. Knowing that the other party was saving her, the despair in her heart still surged continuously, which made people collapse even more.

Changmen, Xianglin, Erzhuzi, Wusan Brother, Amu—these had all received Su Xiao's treatment. If they heard Sha's summary, they would definitely slap their thighs and agree.

"You're the boss."

Su Xiao turned off the oxygen machine. With Sha's constitution, she didn't need this thing anymore.

Now that he had successfully rendezvoused with Sha, as long as Sha's injuries recovered somewhat, Su Xiao would have the qualifications to confront Saint Zha Jia head-on. As for fully healing Sha, that wasn't something that could be done with existing resources. Sha's full-strength power might reach around the Seventh Tier. Now she could probably recover to around the Fifth Tier. Unless she could enter the Reincarnation Paradise, it would be difficult for her to return to her peak.

As she gradually rendezvoused with friendly forces, the situation became clearer. Su Xiao now only needed to wait—not for the Soul Fruit to mature, but for Sha to recover her combat power.

As long as Sha recovered, Su Xiao could take Sha, Lilith, and Ignoring Bubu Wang—three people and one dog—to the central area to snatch the Ash Bud. Su Xiao had never thought of completing this task alone. Under the 400% difficulty, he couldn't complete it alone either.

Now that Sha needed at least two more days to recover her mobility, Su Xiao wasn't prepared to waste this precious opportunity to enter the Black Abyss. He prepared to take the opportunity to complete one of Asaka's assassin missions and fish for some benefits.

Client: Unknown (Confidential)

Task content: Capture the tycoon Ulysses alive.

Task reward: Polymerized Sub-acid Enhancement Potion.

The tactical assault vehicle sped across the desert, and the rough tires stopped rotating suddenly, dragging out two long tire tracks.

The car door was pushed open. As Su Xiao got out of the car, he dragged a Lizard Clan member off the car. The Lizard Clan member's head and lower body resembled a lizard, and he was walking upright, looking slightly fat.

This Lizard Clan member was "gurgling" and muttering some things Su Xiao couldn't understand. Perhaps he felt it was completely impossible to bribe Su Xiao, so he prayed in his hometown language.

After waiting for about an hour, an assault vehicle that looked like a hedgehog drove over. The person who came was covered in scales, giving people a cold feeling.

The delivery process went smoothly. Su Xiao opened the metal low-temperature box in his hand, and wisps of white mist rose. An injection gun was embedded in the soft padding. He tried to touch the injection gun.

【Polymerized Sub-acid Enhancement Potion】

Origin: Void, Luoluo Biological Laboratory.

Quality: Legendary-grade

Type: Enhancement Potion

Usage Effect 1: After injection, Strength +10, Stamina +15 (invalid if attributes are higher than 80 points).

Rating: 500 points (Legendary-grade item rating is 400–530 points.)

Introduction: Sometimes things that seem useless to you are what others dream of.

Selling Price: 178,000 Paradise Coins.

This enhancement potion was of course useless to Su Xiao, but for contractors from the First to Third Tier, it was absolutely priceless. A 25-point attribute increase was equivalent to the attribute gains of 2–3 Derived Worlds for ordinary contractors.

Although it had no effect on Su Xiao, this thing had a not-low value. For example, when an adventure group cultivated seed members, they very much needed this thing and were willing to pay a high price to buy it.

Just catching a tycoon, Su Xiao only killed three teams of guards throughout the process, not even bothering to waste bullets from D-Assassination. This made him discover that as long as his strength was strong enough, it wasn't too difficult to get benefits in the Black Abyss, provided he was willing to take risks.

Compared to this kind of simple task, there were of course more difficult ones.

Client: Unknown (VIP)

Task content: Kill Abyss Poison Mogro

Task reward: Negotiable.

This was a commission task that had appeared not long ago. What was certain was that the reward for this task was very rich, but no one was interested in this commission because Abyss Poison Mogro was a Hegemon-level creature.

In the Black Abyss, all wild beasts with unique prefixes were at least Hegemon-level, and Abyss Poison Mogro was a giant spider. It was said that its poison was fatal upon contact, and there was no chance to use medicine, let alone the fact that this thing was known for "Abyss Poison."

Just as Su Xiao was preparing to continue completing a few commissions and fish for a sum through the Asaka organization, news suddenly came from Ignoring Bubu Wang's side—to be precise, news provided by Lilith: the Soul Fruit was about to mature.

According to the intelligence revealed by Saint Zha Jia, the Soul Fruit would mature in nearly three days, while the intelligence given by Lilith was at most no more than 12 hours.

Su Xiao had never believed Saint Zha Jia. He was willing to wait because he had an accurate intelligence source on Lilith's side.

The tactical assault vehicle sped away. The veins on Su Xiao's hand gripping the steering wheel gradually bulged. If he wasn't mistaken, the chaotic battle in the central area of the Redemption Highlands was about to begin. ===== CHAPTER 1672 =====