I've Become the King of Villains in the Game-Chapter 593 - 405 Fountain of Youth
Chapter 593: Chapter 405: Fountain of Youth
Chapter 593 -405: Fountain of Youth
“Kidnapped by a monster?”
Lutina picked up the double-barrel shotgun at her feet, stood up, and asked with a frown.
“What on earth happened?”
“It… It was the Ratmen! Swarms of rats, not only did they attack us, but they also kidnapped Gray!”
The young man Oslo said with pain, covering the claw wounds on his chest and abdomen.
Blood flowed from between his fingers, the wound was evidently deep.
Lutina turned around, took out alcohol, bandages, and other medical supplies from her backpack, and handed them to the short-haired, bespectacled girl Messia, instructing her to bandage the wounds of the other injured students.
Immediately after, she asked several students about the appearance of the so-called Ratmen, to which the students honestly responded.
“Ratmen… The ones you encountered must be the Tamala Ratmen, but their gathering place should be in the deepest regions of Kellettville Forest, how could they appear nearby?”
Her face stern, she analyzed the situation, then promptly lifted her head to scrutinize the students.
“Are you hiding something else?”
Oslo and the others exchanged glances before finally responding in a hoarse voice:
“We followed the location marked on the treasure map and indeed found the ‘Fountain of Youth’… Only we had no idea that the Ratmen had taken over the spring.”
“We just planned to sneakily fill up a couple of bottles and leave, but we were discovered anyway.”
The young man with the explosive hairstyle, Stiller, added.
“Greedy and ignorant…”
Lutina shook her head.
The faces of the four students turned alternately pale and flushed with embarrassment.
Meanwhile, Chen Lun raised an eyebrow upon hearing their conversation.
“The Fountain of Youth?”
“Yes… The treasure map says that the water from that spring grants eternal life, just a sip, and you can stay young forever, living for many eons.”
The short student Anel glanced at Chen Lun, no longer concealing anything, and quietly explained.
“You believe such nonsense?”
Lutina scoffed disdainfully, but she clearly did not intend to elaborate, simply shouldering her double-barrel shotgun and saying:
“After all, you’ve paid the money, so I have to ensure your safety… Hurry up and pack up, those who are too injured to move wait here, send someone to lead the way for me.”
“I’ll take you. I’m not hurt,”
the bespectacled girl Messia offered.
Lutina nodded.
At that moment, the couple heard the commotion and came over, surprised to see the bloodied group of students.
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“Oh, my Sun! What happened? Did you encounter wild beasts?”
“It was the Ratmen, more fearsome than wild beasts!”
Oslo gritted his teeth in pain and sat on a wooden stump to speak.
“What Ratmen?”
The couple was incredulously startled.
Having no choice, the boy with the explosive hairstyle, Stiller, explained the situation to them once more.
“Such a creature exists in this world? That’s unbelievable!”
The husband said, astonished.
His wife, upon hearing about the abducted girl, wanted to help with all her heart, only to be pulled back by her husband who whispered words of caution to her.
This led to a minor conflict between them. The wife seemed unwilling to see her husband’s cowardice, while the husband was concerned for his wife’s safety… In the end, the husband compromised and agreed to help find the female student.
“That’s the brave man I know, Pat,”
the wife said, giving her husband’s cheek a kiss and speaking warmly.
Chen Lun grew a bit interested in the “Fountain of Youth” mentioned by the students, and just then, the cowherd Antonio returned from the forest, and Noah also packed up his easel and approached, so Chen Lun quietly filled them in on the situation, planning to check it out.
Noah and Antonio naturally would not refuse and indicated that they would closely follow their leader’s actions.
So, except for the three severely injured students who stayed at Hunter’s cabin to rest, Lutina, the couple, and Chen Lun’s group, all followed the bespectacled girl Messia into the woods.
Messia appeared to be rather calm, but she was still young and had just experienced an attack by the Ratmen, which inevitably made her look nervous.
“Miss Lutina, did you bring any other firearms? I’m afraid one double-barrel shotgun won’t be enough to defeat that group of Ratmen… There are thirty to forty of them!”
Messia spoke as she walked.
Lutina pursed her lips and pulled out a recurve knife from her backpack, handing it over.
“Here, only this.”
Messia accepted the knife with slight disappointment. After thinking for a moment, she handed the knife to Chen Lun.
“Sir, you use this. I’m not strong enough to put it to good use.”
Chen Lun smiled faintly but shook his head in refusal.
He raised his silver cane, indicating that he didn’t need it.
In his mind, however, he thought to himself that the girl was somewhat clever… On the surface, her words seemed to make sense, but in reality, whoever held the weapon would have to charge to the front lines.
Messia was indirectly looking out for her own safety.
“A cane? Alright… Then this knife is for you.”
She turned and handed the knife to the husband, who accepted it gladly.
With a knife in hand, he felt he could better protect his wife.
Soon, the group passed through the dense woods and came to a clearing.
Not far ahead, surrounded by three crooked trees, was a spring about four or five meters in diameter filled with water so clear it appeared to emit a strange fragrance.
Around the perimeter of the spring were dozens of Ratmen.
They were hunched over, appearing to be only about 1.2 meters tall at most, their bodies devoid of clothing but covered with dirty brown-black short fur… What was surprising, however, was that some of them held weapons in their hands just like humans.
