Chapter 2386: Clues

The steam car stopped by the road. The old councilor's residence wasn't luxurious, just a two-story building with a courtyard. With the old councilor's status, he was fully qualified to live in a manor and form a manor guard army of thousands.

None of these existed. The old councilor's residence was just a two-story building. There were more than a dozen Russian dogs in the courtyard. This was a dog breed from the Lehman Kingdom, mostly used for guarding the house, gentle to humans, and extremely aggressive when encountering other animals.

Puri extinguished the steam car's press plug machine and took out a small glass bottle from the storage box in the car. The glass bottle was filled with transparent liquid, and there were small holes on the wooden stopper.

Puri tapped the back of his hand at the tiger's mouth with the glass bottle a few times, and the colorless liquid in the stopper seeped out and applied to his hand.

"Apply some of this on your body. It will be very troublesome if you get bitten by the dogs in the courtyard."

Puri threw the small glass bottle in his hand to Su Xiao and pushed the door to get off the car.

Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Amu all applied some colorless liquid on their clothes. Azaz didn't apply it; the dogs in the courtyard were raised by him.

As soon as the group walked into the courtyard, more than a dozen Russian dogs ran over, wagging their tails around Azaz, and several of them even lay down, exposing their bellies to Azaz, which represented absolute trust.

The guards on the surface were these dozen Russian dogs. I don't know how many hyena wolf clan members wanted to sneak in here, and eventually, they all became the food in the bellies of these Russian dogs.

Along the gravel path in the courtyard, Su Xiao walked towards the two-story building. A not-so-obvious sense of crisis came from all directions. Someone was ambushed in the dark.

Puri, who was walking at the front, was just about to knock on the door, and the door opened. A pair of brown-yellow eyes were exceptionally eye-catching in the dim porch.

"Riss, don't be so scary in broad daylight. My heart is not good."

"Yes, Young Master Puri."

A maid with no expression walked out of the darkness. Her eyes had almost no spirit. Su Xiao perceived that the maid's aura was very similar to a spider.

After entering the two-story building, Su Xiao discovered that all the windows were blocked tightly, and the electric lights weren't turned on, only a few candles were lit.

"How is my father's situation?"

"The old master is weaker."

"Thank you for your hard work, Riss."

"Without the old master, there would be no me. If the old master dies, I have no reason to live."

"Don't say that, back then..."

"Puri!"

Azaz suddenly interrupted Puri's words. Puri's lips opened and closed, and finally shook his head and smiled.

"Kuku Lin, this way."

Puri picked up the candlestick on the table and walked towards the second floor.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Bahar all stayed on the first floor, and only Su Xiao went up to the second floor.

The surroundings were very dim. Su Xiao walked on the wooden stairs. The carved railing on the side had been there for some years. The furnishings of this small building were very simple, and everything was somewhat old, but it was wiped very clean.

There were four rooms on the second floor. The old councilor's wife had died in an accident a few years ago, so only the old councilor, the maid Riss, and Azaz lived here.

Arriving at the innermost room, Puri knocked on the door symbolically and pushed the door to enter the room.

Su Xiao stopped at the door, and a smell of decay drifted into his nasal cavity. Although the smell of herbs was more obvious, the faint smell of decay made Su Xiao very concerned. This wasn't the smell of material decay, but energy decay.

Su Xiao had entered many worlds. He had only seen energy decay twice, including this time. In most cases, energy would dissipate or be devoured, but it rarely decayed.

"Kuku Lin? What's wrong? Do you have any discoveries?"

"Nothing."

Su Xiao walked into the old councilor's bedroom. Except for a bed under the cover of candlelight, the other furnishings in the room were in the dimness.

The old councilor lay on the bed, his face withered, his cheeks slightly sunken, skin and bones, his whole body skin was waxy yellow.

The old councilor was in a coma. He was covered with a slightly yellowed quilt, and the quilt surface was somewhat damp.

Puri pressed one hand on the quilt and asked with a frown:

"Riss, when was the last time it was changed."

"One hour ago."

"One hour? Yesterday it would take three hours to soak through."

Puri looked at the slightly black stain on his palm due to touching the quilt. He could feel the numbness in his palm, and this numbness was gradually turning into stinging pain.

"Kuku Lin, my father was still able to lecture me a few weeks ago. His weight at that time was at least 130 pounds, now he is at most 60 pounds. This is simply not an illness."

Puri picked up the wet towel on the bedside table and wiped the light black "stain" on his palm.

"Go get silver products."

"Wait a minute, let me look."

Puri searched in the storage cabinet in the room for a while and found a silver coin.

"This is almost pure silver."

Puri threw out the silver coin. With the craftsmanship of this world, refining silver products with a purity of more than 90% was already very difficult. The purity of this silver coin was more than 96%.

Su Xiao took the silver coin, stepped to the bedside, and placed the silver coin on the old councilor's brow.

The originally bright silver coin began to fade, then gradually turned yellow, and finally turned black-brown, the surface pitted as if corroded by strong acid.

The crystal layer clung to Su Xiao's right hand. He picked up the silver coin on the old councilor's brow and closed his eyes to perceive.

It wasn't energy, not a curse, nor poison, but more like... some kind of tiny creature with extraordinary properties.

Su Xiao took out a portable microscope from his bosom. Of course, he wouldn't carry this thing with him. Making the action of taking it out from his bosom was to cover up taking it out from the storage space.

Through the portable microscope, Su Xiao began to observe the silver coin in his hand. Sure enough, after magnifying 400 times, he saw circular creatures. The shape of this thing was like a water drop, moving slowly, while some were dissolving.

Su Xiao thought for a moment, took out an injection gun, which contained a light green solution, and injected it very slowly into the old councilor's neck.

The old councilor's waxy yellow face gradually regained blood color, and his dry, split hair also regained some luster.

Seeing this scene, Puri stood up with a "whoosh," his face showing joy. On the side, the maid Riss's eyes also regained some spirit.

"How is it? My father is fine?"

"No, your father is going to die."

Just as Su Xiao's voice fell, the old councilor's complexion quickly returned to waxy yellow, his breath was weak, and it was even more serious than just now.

"Kuku Lin, even if you can't cure it, please don't cure my father to death. Please."

"Try my best."

"Uh~"

Puri didn't know what to say for a while, and finally could only sigh long.

After the preliminary test, Su Xiao basically determined the old councilor's situation. The old councilor wasn't ill, but harmed by someone. A micro-extraordinary creature invaded the old councilor's body and was growing by absorbing vitality.

This micro-extraordinary creature was very troublesome. It would integrate into water. The water content of the human body was about 60% to 70%, which meant that it was very difficult to clear this micro-extraordinary creature.

As for supplementing the old councilor's vitality, it was completely unfeasible. Once this was done, the micro-extraordinary creature in the old councilor's body would be the first to absorb this vitality and divide at a faster speed.

Stripping method was also unfeasible. This micro-extraordinary creature had almost 100% compatibility with water. Unless the water in the old councilor's body was stripped, it would be meaningless to cure it, and the cells would die instantly, leading to the old councilor's immediate sudden death.

Treating the old councilor was very difficult, but Su Xiao learned an important piece of information. The old councilor's current situation must have been caused by the person behind the scenes. In this way, finding the person behind the scenes wasn't looking for a needle in a haystack.

Su Xiao already had some clues. If his speculation was correct, then the quest with a time limit of 8 days could be completed in just a few hours. ===== CHAPTER 2387 =====