Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 499 - 496: Finally Got It

Chapter 499: Chapter 496: Finally Got It

When he spoke the word "kill," a flash of Evil Qi abruptly appeared on Lin Tian’s body before it quickly receded. Yet everyone sensed the chilling breath that suddenly emerged, especially Ning Luoxi and Thunder Wolf, who had taken quite a few lives during missions, but none had as potent an Evil Qi as this.

Little did they know, Lin Tian himself was a zombie, and zombies inherently possess the heaviest Yin Sha Qi. This was his nature, so whenever he got angry, even the slightest leakage of his Evil Qi exerted tremendous pressure on those around him.

The sniper at the forefront felt it worst of all. In that instant, it was as though he fell into a cavern of ice, and trembling, he said, "You... you can’t kill me... "

Lin Tian couldn’t be bothered to respond. This Japanese man dared to shoot at Xiao Manxuan and had threatened Su Wenshan’s life, sealing his fate.

Yet, his death should not be in vain. Lin Tian wanted to use it to achieve something, so he turned to Li Qingyun and said, "Granny Li, is there a way for the Soul-devouring Gu to absorb the tripod furnace, allowing it to mature early? Doing so should increase the success rate when concocting the immunity Potion, right?"

"If we disregard the life of the tripod furnace, it’s possible. I have a unique secret Potion, and indeed, I’m the only one who can induce early maturation for the Soul-devouring Gu. But doing so would greatly reduce its lifespan. However, that’s not important now. Since it’s for Potion-making, a lifespan of five or ten years makes no difference to us," Li Qingyun pondered briefly before replying.

After speaking, she took out a small bottle from her bag—a transparent little glass vial containing white powder. She carefully poured a tiny bit into an empty bottle. From her cautious behavior, it seemed exceedingly precious.

"Take this, draw three drops of his blood into it, then add water to dissolve and mix it. Feed it to him, and that should do the trick," Li Qingyun handed the bottle to Lin Tian.

Lin Tian completely ignored the sniper’s terrified expression. Taking the bottle, he forcibly extracted three drops of blood from his hand using a dagger. Without water at hand, he was nevertheless undeterred.

He walked over to a sewer opening and punched it open, directly filling a bottle with water.

Thunder Wolf watched from the side with an exasperated look. Brother Lin truly had a rich imagination, having thought of using water from the gutter. Just now, when he noticed there was no water, he even considered whether they needed to resort to using urine.

Unbeknownst to him, his idea was even more bizarre. Had he voiced it, he would have been unanimously scorned by everyone.

"Don’t... " the sniper, seeing Lin Tian approaching, said in fright.

But with both legs injured, he couldn’t move at all and could only keep shaking his head.

"Don’t? It’s useless to be saying ’don’t’ now," Lin Tian said with a cold sneer. He then pried open the sniper’s mouth and poured in all the Potion. With a press on an acupoint on the sniper’s back, the man uncontrollably swallowed it all.

The sniper despaired completely, with his life flashing before his eyes like a movie. Yet only now did he realize that since he was eighteen, his life revolved around ceaselessly reaping other people’s lives. It seemed to confirm that old Huaxia saying: when you’re out in the world, you must pay back your debts sooner or later.

A few seconds later, his body convulsed, and he started trembling. During these tremors, his hair turned white from black in mere seconds, and his face lost all color.

Then his skin began to wrinkle, aging rapidly as if time had accelerated on his body. A man in his prime became incredibly old within ten minutes.

Xiao Manxuan still dared not look directly, quietly stepping behind Lin Tian. In the dead of night, it was too eerie to watch a person age from youth to old age so quickly—it sent shivers down one’s spine.

By now, the sniper had stopped convulsing and struggling, left with only faint breaths. Yet the Soul-devouring Gu was relentless, continuing to devour his life force.

Lin Tian saw through his x-ray vision that the Soul-devouring Gu was growing frantically. Its main body resided within the brain, but its tentacles had invaded every inch of the sniper’s bones and blood vessels. Then, the tentacles suddenly broke off, and each segment became an independent Soul-devouring Gu.

That is to say, the parent Soul-devouring Gu had reproduced countless offspring inside the sniper’s body. In the blink of an eye, the sniper was turned into a dried corpse by these Gu, dying completely, just as Li Qingyun had described previously.

The Soul-devouring Gu sucked the sniper dry, crawling out of his seven orifices in a scene of spectacular horror. Li Yue placed a black pottery jar beside the sniper’s head, and the Soul-devouring Gu, drawn to it, all crawled into the jar, including the queen.

"There, as long as the queen of the Soul-devouring Gu devours all the others completely, it will mature," Li Yue said as she sealed the jar with a lid.

She handled these tasks with swift efficiency, fully demonstrating the qualities a Gu Cultivator should possess.

Alas, this little girl, if her future boyfriend finds out that she often fiddles with these insects, would he be scared off? Lin Tian shook his head and sighed softly.

"But we still don’t have the antidote Sister Luoxi needs," Xiao Manxuan said.

"Don’t worry, I’ve already found a substitute," Li Qingyun replied, and then she picked up a small pottery jar and scooped up a bit of mud from the ground.

Lin Tian looked closely and saw that the clump of mud was mixed with a golden liquid exuded by the Golden Silkworm Gu.

"All right, as long as I use the poison from the mature Golden Silkworm Gu as the main ingredient, I can concoct the antidote. Now that we have both the vaccine and antidote, this trip wasn’t in vain," Li Qingyun said with ease.

Upon hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, especially Ning Luoxi and Thunder Wolf, whose comrades were now saved. The situation had taken many unexpected turns; a simple detoxification process somehow unraveled so many complications, even luring the covert Gu Cultivators into causing trouble.

"Thunder Wolf, you stay to deal with the aftermath of the battle and prevent panic among the common people," Ning Luoxi ordered formally.

"Yes, Phoenix," Thunder Wolf replied just as formally.

Phoenix? Lin Tian looked at Ning Luoxi with curiosity. It was the first time he had seen Instructor Ning issue commands so formally, and Thunder Wolf’s response was succinct. Still, the title was somewhat strange.

It appeared that "Phoenix" was Ning Luoxi’s code name, suggesting that "Thunder Wolf" was not his real name either.

As for Ning Luoxi, given her special identity, she generally used her real name. With her capabilities, she was like the bright moon in the night sky; those who needed to know her formidable reputation were undoubtedly aware of it, rendering the concealment of her real name somewhat redundant.

Lin Tian then shouldered Mr. Qi and, along with the others, left the old city district. Since the python was injured and momentarily unfit for riding, Li Yue told it to return on its own. Ning Luoxi had a car, so everyone got in and soon arrived back at the shop on Chinese Street.

"Lin Tian, you find a place to stay first. Concocting the Gu Medicine for immunity isn’t difficult, and tomorrow I will have Li Yue deliver it to you," Li Qingyun said.

Lin Tian nodded, but he also admired the ageless Goddess for her attitude. This detoxification was essentially a deal, but despite the twists, turns, and life-threatening dangers involved, she hadn’t uttered a single word of complaint.

Not just her, Li Yue, although a bit stubborn, had not grumbled from start to end and hadn’t asked for more money. The little girl truly had a noble spirit.

Thus, Lin Tian felt embarrassed about the previous conflicts with her and tried to make amends with a friendly glance at Li Yue.

However, the little girl mistook his gaze for the lecherous look of a pervert and glared at him fiercely before turning away.

"Come on, is that really necessary? Does my forehead have ’pervert’ written on it?" Lin Tian said in frustration.

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