Chapter 168: The Magic Continent’s Heart-to-Heart
“Sang Sang? What’s this?”
When Mu Xue and Lu Min Feng entered, they saw Sang Chu and Sang Jing Wen each lying in a pool. Sang Jing Wen was fine, it was just hot water, but Sang Chu’s situation was terrifying!
Mu Xue: “Are you okay? Why are you soaking in this blood pool?”
Sang Chu looked at Mu Xue’s worried eyes and explained, “When we left Flower Town, Wu Qi discovered us. His magic level was too high, and he almost trapped us. There was no choice but to have the hovercar flee at full speed. As a result, the car ran out of energy and returned to the optical computer on its own. Rabbit and I were buried in the snow. If Brother hadn’t been unable to contact me and feared I was in danger, he wouldn’t have come looking for me, and I would have truly been done for.”
Even though Mu Xue hadn’t experienced a full Cold Attack, seeing so many monsters frozen to death by the roadside was enough for her to know how terrifying a Cold Attack was.
“That was too dangerous! What if something had really happened!”
Mu Xue couldn’t help but scold Sang Chu. Lu Min Feng, seeing this, could only say, “Is everyone hungry? I’ll go cook something for you all. You just got injured, you should eat something good.”
Xiao Yi Fei quickly raised his hand: “Yes, yes, yes! I can stew chicken soup. I really want to eat steamed rice and meat dishes right now!”
Lu Min Feng glanced at him: “Then come help in the kitchen!”
After speaking, he turned and left. Xiao Yi Fei glanced at Sang Jing Wen and Mu Xue, then smiled: “Then I’ll go help cook.”
“Brother Yi, wait.”
“What is it?”
Sang Chu looked at him and said, “Please arrange the housing for me. Give Wei An a quiet single room.”
“Okay.” As he spoke, he looked at Yun Na and Xi Rui: “What about you two? Are you staying together or in single rooms? Why don’t you all come with me to choose rooms!”
Grandma Yun Xiang knew they were going to discuss private matters, so she took Yun Na’s hand and said, “Let’s go together. Nana, if you’re afraid to sleep alone, you can stay with Grandma.”
Yun Na glanced at Sang Chu. Seeing her nod slightly, she reluctantly got out of the blood pool with Grandma’s help: “Then Sang Sang, you rest well. Grandma and I will go first.”
“Mm, go ahead.”
Xi Rui gave Sang Chu a deep look, said nothing, and turned to follow Grandma Yun Xiang. The slaves did the same.
Instantly, only Sang Chu, Sang Jing Wen, and Mu Xue were left in the hot spring bathroom.
Sang Chu: “Xiao Xue, what do you want to say to me?”
Lin Mu Xue glanced at Sang Jing Wen, and after a long silence, she finally spoke: “Sang Sang, you, are you raising zombies in the base?”
Sang Chu’s heart skipped a beat. She had suspected Lu Min Feng told her, but then she thought it was impossible.
“Yes, I am indeed raising them. I’ve placed all the zombies near the base in the underground breeding farm in the underground city, feeding them with poultry that died in the base. Didn’t I mention before that there might be a way to cure zombies in other worlds? I’ve found it now, on the Magic Continent. And the reason I insisted on buying a pharmacist is because a pharmacist can produce an antidote.”
Sang Jing Wen: “What!!!”
Mu Xue: “Really?”
After the shock, Sang Jing Wen looked at Sang Chu: “Sang Sang, how did you confirm it?”
Sang Chu: “I tested it myself. When I was in Qing Liu City, I was bitten by the Zombie King. I asked the train manager if there was an antidote anywhere. He said the Magic World might have one, but he wasn’t sure. So, I spent a lot of money to bring everyone here. Originally, I thought if I couldn’t cure the zombie virus, it would be good for you all to cultivate here. That way, at least when you return, your strength would have improved, and you wouldn’t be confined to Qing Liu City.”
Sang Jing Wen roared: “Sang Chu, why didn’t you say you were bitten by a zombie!”
Mu Xue: “Sang Sang, how could you hide it!”
Sang Chu: “At the time, I didn’t know if it could be cured. If I had told you, wouldn’t it have made everyone worry together? Now the poison in my body is cured, and I even know the method to make the antidote. This is a good thing.”
Mu Xue stood up uncontrollably, shouting at her: “Good my ass! How painful it must have been to be bitten by a zombie! Why didn’t you say anything? You endured it all alone. Sang Xiao Chu, are you stupid!”
Sang Chu was startled by the sudden outburst, and Sang Jing Wen swallowed the words that were about to come out.
Sang Chu: “I know, I’m sorry, it won’t happen again.”
“I should be the one apologizing.”
Mu Xue slumped down, her voice listless, and said, “When I was cultivating in that small cabin, I saw you raising zombies in the base, and I also saw us returning to Qing Liu City from the Magic World. You brought a strange plant back to the base. From then on, ordinary people in the base kept disappearing. I told you about it then, and you said you would investigate, but it was dropped later.”
Sang Chu frowned slightly: “So, you were afraid I would use ordinary people to feed the zombies?”
“I know you wouldn’t, but the scene I saw at the time was so real, so real it felt like a warning. I kept hesitating whether to say anything, but I didn’t know if it was real or not. Later, you asked Brother Wen to bring Yun Na out, saying to use her scales if we encountered danger. That’s when I thought of this again. I didn’t want to believe it was you, but a voice in my heart kept telling me, if you didn’t do it, why couldn’t you find out why those people disappeared? You even told us not to bother with these matters.”
Sang Jing Wen was shocked when he heard Mu Xue’s words: “Xiao Xue, you can see the future?”
“I don’t know if it’s the future. Those scenes were very clear, as if they had really happened before my eyes.”
Sang Chu: “Xiao Xue, you mean I took a plant from Qing Liu City, right?”
“Yes!”
“And from then on, people in the base kept disappearing?”
Mu Xue nodded repeatedly. Sang Jing Wen said, “Then isn’t this like Qing Liu City now? Could that plant you saw be the mutated plant in Qing Liu City?”
Mu Xue’s eyes suddenly widened: “It’s possible! How did I not think of that!”
Sang Chu: “Unless absolutely necessary, I shouldn’t have taken it. It’s too powerful and uncontrollable. But Mu Xue said I took it, and even after people in the base disappeared, you all told me not to bother with it, and didn’t even pay attention, letting others continue to disappear. This doesn’t fit my personality. So, what Xiao Xue saw and guessed should be correct. In the scenes she saw, I must have colluded with that mutated plant.”
Mu Xue: “Ah?”
Although she had seen it, she couldn’t believe it, yet she had indeed seen it. Therefore, she had been very conflicted. Later, she heard Sang Chu say they would use Yun Na’s scales. She knew it wouldn’t harm Yun Na’s life, but she was still very anxious and scared, afraid that Sang Chu was no longer the Sang Chu she knew.
But she didn’t expect Sang Chu to say it so directly.
Sang Chu suddenly thought of something terrible and quickly said to Mu Xue: “Xiao Xue, go find Meng Wei An and Grandma Yun Xiang immediately. I suspect the zombie virus in my body hasn’t been cured!”
“What!!! I, I, I’ll go right away!”
Hearing this, Mu Xue turned and ran out the door in a panic.
