Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 422 - 421 Infectious Disease
"The thing is, it went like this..."
Zhou Bai watched as prompt after prompt popped up on the system assistance panel and thought to himself, 'Mystical Venerable? Isn't that the person in charge of the lab Xiao Hun mentioned? The one who got eaten? She's still alive?'
'Well... as long as she can talk and communicate, it should be easy to handle. Time to give her a good interrogation.'
As he was thinking, a stream of lies came spilling effortlessly from Zhou Bai's mouth, "First off, let me introduce myself. As you can see, my name is Primordial Spirit Sword, a Nine Realms Flying Sword with an Artifact Spirit."
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"This guy here is called Qian Wangsun, a 25-year-old cultivator at the 7th Realm."
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"One day he found me in his family's storeroom and broke the seal on me, and ever since I've become his flying sword."
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"After that, we went on adventures in the wild, battled Heavenly Demons on the battlefield, fought against the immortals and gods in Central City..."
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The woman, covered in blood, stared intently at Zhou Bai in front of her, a flicker of impatience crossing her face, and said in a chilly voice, "Get to the point."
Zhou Bai replied, "Can't be helped, you know. As a Sword Spirit who has been asleep for hundreds of years, I can't help but ramble on when I finally get to talk to someone."
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The woman coldly said, "The point."
Zhou Bai: "Alright, alright, here comes the main point." Zhou Bai secretly thought, 'That should be about enough, right? After my combined assault, her intelligence has dropped so much. If she can still keep it together, that would be quite something, maybe even a bit smarter than me? And the way she's talking doesn't seem like someone with a very high intelligence.'
So Zhou Bai thought for a moment and slowly said, "This kid Qian Wangsun has caught a disease called Transmissible Cognitive Disorder, a low-intelligence disease that can be spread through the air. The virus resides in his brain and flares up from time to time, sending him into a state of cognitive deficiency. Put simply, he turns stupid."
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Zhou Bai internally remarked, 'She believed that? She really has gone stupid.'
At the same time, the bloody woman stared blankly at the also blank-looking Gu Lan, seemingly at a loss about what to do in this unexpected situation. This wasn't going according to plan at all.
Zhou Bai saw no response and tentatively said, "Are you alright, do you feel unwell?"
"Do you feel a bit muddled in the head?"
"If you're feeling muddled and having trouble speaking, or if things look blurry to you, then you might be infected too."
The woman was slightly taken aback and began to speak, "Nons... nonsense..." but as she spoke, she froze. Why was she having trouble speaking? Then she looked towards the direction of the flying sword and Gu Lan, and froze again. Why was everything a blur of mosaics? Could she really be infected?
Zhou Bai: "There, you see? Even your speech is slurred. Still think you're alright? Did you happen to touch Qian Wangsun just now? You've caught the virus."
The woman recalled the way she had been speaking into Gu Lan's ear earlier and her expression shifted slightly.
Zhou Bai continued, "Try getting close to this cluster of Guihai Black Sha. Submerge as much of your body into it as you can to see if it can suppress the virus."
Zhou Bai controlled a small cluster of Guihai Black Sha to separate from Gu Lan's body and then asked, "Did you get close to the Guihai Black Sha?"
The woman, who had completely submerged herself, hummed in acknowledgment.
Zhou Bai instantly turned off the mosaic of the Ugliest Disaster: "You just wait and see."
The woman found that her vision was no longer blurry. After a minute or two, as the initial reductions in intelligence began to wear off, her mind seemed to clear up a bit.
Woman: "Am I cured? Am I all right?"
Zhou Bai said, "Look, you're speaking fluently now. It seems you were infected by a virus, and now using the Guihai Black Evil, I've managed to suppress the virus inside you, hence you're feeling a bit better. Come out now, I need to use this Guihai Black Evil to treat Qian Wangsun."
Woman: "Wait... I... I need treatment, too."
Zhou Bai: "I don't have enough power to generate more Guihai Black Evil. Move aside, I still need to treat Qian Wangsun."
Woman: "No... You can't withdraw the Guihai Black Evil."
Zhou Bai reluctantly said, "I can't abandon Qian Wangsun just for your sake. Unless... Unless there's some treasure or elixir that I can consume to restore my power."
"Do you know where such a thing can be found?"
Woman: "Follow my guidance."
"What?" Zhou Bai was somewhat displeased, "Can't you bring it here? You're asking me to go there? Right now, you're the one asking me for treatment. It's not like I'm the one who's lacking intelligence."
Woman: "..."
After a moment of silence, she finally spoke slowly: "I... can't touch things."
Zhou Bai thought to himself, 'Can't touch things? That means she can't attack people, right? But why was Gu Lan so afraid of her?'
Zhou Bai grudgingly said, "Alright, I'll go myself, you guide the way."
"Straight ahead."
"Left."
"Right."
Even though the woman couldn't manifest herself in front of Zhou Bai, she was able to transmit her voice, telling him the direction to go.
And Zhou Bai directed Gu Lan forward while occasionally speaking, maintaining Gu Lan and the woman's intelligence at a lower level.
Soon, Zhou Bai arrived in a great hall and saw a huge array drawn across the walls, the floor, and the ceiling, all covered with dense, twisted runes.
Surrounding the array, dozens of bodies lay on the ground, with bloodstains underneath turned black, obviously, they had been dead for a very long time.
However, because there was almost no life in this space and the bodies were those of cultivators, they had not turned into skeletons.
On seeing this, Zhou Bai's heart stirred: 'Could it be as Xiao Hun mentioned, the laboratory was sealed into the void, and these were the staff left inside?'
Zhou Bai checked with his Primordial Spirit power and found that these people were indeed dead beyond doubt, but they still carried many elixirs and treasures on their bodies.
Then he saw the Guihai Black Evil extending from Gu Lan under Zhou Bai's control, like tiny hands, taking out all the valuables.
However, these treasures have not been maintained for a long time and had lost their spirit, and the elixirs might have expired.
But even if they were ruined, the materials used to make these treasures were still genuine, and Zhou Bai was full of anticipation for their value.
'Hmm, this throne could probably be sold.' Zhou Bai tried to sell off the throne taken out from the Palace of the Polestar and found it only sold for 10 points of laziness value, silently scoffing to himself, 'That cheap? I've been carrying it for nothing.'
Another ten minutes passed. While waiting, Zhou Bai chatted with Gu Lan and the woman while examining the bodies and the hall, and eventually, he found a work manual.
'Someone discovered the remains of the previous Heavenly Court, and Lord Yan Zhen sent us to explore the ruins.'
'The situation here is a bit strange. Although it looks very much like the previous Heavenly Court, the materials used are poor, with no arrays, no treasures, it doesn't seem like a place where immortals lived.'
'The situation is getting weirder. The exploration team's Captain Lingmiao has become increasingly irritable, leading to daily conflicts.'
Looking at the contents of the work manual, Zhou Bai frowned, "Previous Heavenly Court remains? Captain Lingmiao from the exploration team? What's going on here? This is totally different from the information Xiao Hun gave."
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