The Demon Swordsman 3
Ch. 144 - Cooperation or Betrayal

White room and lighting that is no less white. His eyes closed repeatedly, his memory had not fully returned. Xin Chen realized he was in a foreign place, his feet immediately coming down from the bed made of iron. The chain link has been removed from it. His shuddering steps slowly walked along the way, seeing several men in the same uniform fixed on him. But didn't say anything.

Xin Chen was startled by the greeting thrown at him, the black-skinned man had a friendly face, his row of white teeth were so striking as he smiled widely. "Hi, man. After playing jumping rubber until broken waist like this?" His eyes looked at Xin Chen, slightly making him anxious.

Xin Chen to the point of not being able to digest the joke, the man was still smiling just as widely. "Commander saved you. He wants to see you on the second floor. You able to walk? "

"Main jump rope I can."

"Hahaha, I'm serious. Here, here, let me get you. You'll fall."

The boy's friend who saw Wen's concern for Xin Chen was made funny.

"Fall from heaven, Wen." Her other friend welcomed Wen. The man's name.

"Ahaha, who stole his shawl. He wants to go back to heaven now. Give it back." Wen broke it interspersed with laughter that continued to shout. Xin Chen was a little annoyed, but he was also not so bothered. These people accepted him kindly, although he had not yet fully ascertained where he was now.

On the other hand Xin Chen was a little annoyed with the man, he was indeed joking but completely insensitive to Xin Chen's dying state instead of being made into a joke.

They arrived on the second floor, the corner room to the right. There, there was a flag and several badges raised in front of the room. Xin Chen stopped walking followed by Wen. Looking at a wall with a picture containing symbols and writing.

The Central Military Faction.

Worry lingered within him remembering Three's cry and the man's vow of death after killing his own wife's child. Anyone in the Southeast Campground hated the Central Military Faction including the Night Protector himself. They viewed this group as assassins and only wanted to save themselves from the plague that ravaged the Wei Empire.

"You're awake at last."

One welcoming voice from inside the room after the door was opened by Wen. The man, the man he had helped when he finished securing the water source. The man who was dying earlier now looked fit, his face water was so bright as he invited Xin Chen to speak.

"Sit down."

Wen left when Xin Chen had sat down opposite the commander of the Central Military Faction. The man did not say his name, not at all. He just offered a cup of drink while talking

"You got a bite 'that' ?"

"You mean?"

The commander lowered his eyebrows, thinking Xin Chen was pretending not to know or did not know at all.

"Infect type A." He handed over a paper, containing the data and information of the type A infected who the other day bit Xin Chen. Several times opening the sheets, Xin Chen's eyes were locked with illustrations of creatures with human bodies and faces, while his feathered feet and wrists formed the form of a giant beast.

"Nobody has been able to survive his bite.there was once a case, a wealthy merchant from this Empire who was not afraid to die. He could afford an immortality pill. Not afraid of a bite." He paused for a moment, continuing in a sliver. "Unfortunately, after being bitten, he couldn't hold it for five minutes."

"What's your problem?"

The man was stunned in confusion, not expecting Xin Chen to be distracted.

"Wait, I'm not saying you're the same as infected. I'd like to say, you're probably the only human capable of surviving a bite from a type A infection."

Xin Chen realized this conversation would lead him into serious trouble or even drag him into the object of mad alchemist research. Realizing the threat, Xin Chen could not be as friendly as before. Even though the man had saved her. His face turned serious, the atmosphere around the room changed.

"You realize what happened to you?"

"I caught samar. My body lost control, Yu drove me with a man. But we're trapped in an infected herd. Getting there, I don't know what's going on anymore. Besides a man who put a liquid in my hand."

"A good idea. Then the infection doesn't really interfere with the tissue in your brain? Or it doesn't work at all."

Xin Chen recalled Xin Fai's words towards him; stone Head. It seems like the term applies to situations like this. The poison won't be able to change his head.

"But" he denied while closing the sheet. "You've always been bitten. Our researchers say that your current situation is a little confusing."

"Say." Xin Chen was ready with all the answers that would come out of the man's mouth.

"You are infected."

Having prepared for reality, Xin Chen was still struck down. How could he look for a cure for Ren Yuan if the circumstances were already like this. Unbelieving, Xin Chen shook his head.

"You're kidding."

"But we have another assumption." The commander raised his hand, next to the room there was still another room. One man walked in front of the door with the thick cage.

"Bring them. But don't open the door" he ordered. There was a sound of drag in the locked room. Xin Chen realized something had changed with his gaze as well as his sense of smell.

"How many dead and infected people are there in that sealed room?" The Central Military Faction Commander got straight to the point.

"Two infected, two dead bodies."

Xin Chen could feel it, he could not explain where he knew it from. Eve the presence of infected that had felt zero now felt very strong. He can distinguish the smell of humans and corpses.

"One more piece of information you didn't know, when you didn't realize you killed our partner. And your powers almost exceed the powers of an infected type A."

The commander of the Central Military Faction brought his face closer with both hands resting on the table.

"Before you came here, you were an object of experimentation?"

Xin Chen who had not been able to accept his condition was still briefly reminded of the events in the underground tunnel. At that time he was facing a herd of insect stealth and was visited by a group of people in strange uniforms accompanied by mask masks that emit smoke.

'This last one ... It might be an interesting object. Take them.' The word was ringing in Xin Chen's ears.

"I was thrown into the Death Labyrinth when caught by a group of researchers."

"And you survived from there?" The man was stuck, in disbelief. Xin Chen was invisible bragging or making things up.

"Ah, I don't think I should be surprised anymore. Affected by a bite Infected type A alone you're still standing. Let alone the Death Labyrinth."

"I didn't think you'd be this strong before. But from the beginning I was interested in working with you"

"Never say you want this Fire Mushroom. I'm not gonna give it to you." Xin Chen had absolutely no tolerance for it. The Central Military Faction Commander laughed.

"I don't want it, at all."

"There's no point in working with you guys. I'm part of the Night Protector, working with you is like betraying their trust. I can't take it."

"Not to rush." The man looks calm. "You're gonna need a vaccine. Trust me. At times your abnormal behavior will come out and you will kill your own friends. Think about it carefully. We have a powerful one for you."

"You have another wish? I know you came to this Empire with one goal."

A very meaningful statement. From his movements, the Commander of the Central Military Faction seemed to say that he already knew a lot about Xin Chen.

They are very good at knowing friends and opponents. Xin Chen had to be more vigilant with the people of the Wei Empire.

"Why are you so anti? Influenced by their radical thinking? Let me tell you. They always feel like victims and the injured, as long as you know. Over and over again our food supply, the location of our springs and weapons they stole. When we killed them, they acted as if we were the culprit. It was their own fault."

"You're forcing me to side with you?"

"Not on anyone's side. But I need you for something."

"What do you want?"

"Key to activate Laboratory B-1. The place was surrounded by infected herds and monstrous creatures. Nobody comes back alive from there." He put his fingers together on the table, thinking critically.

"My men say you beat thirty defectors alone, killing three hundred infected on a street until the nyarie is clean. Humans like you are our only hope. We need that key to get a sample buried in an old lab. This would probably be the cure for the plague that ravaged this Empire, though not so perfect yet ..."

"Then will you use the medicine for yourself?"

Xin Chen apathy. The man shook his head.

"Think like this is what makes people hate us." A heavy breath accompanied his words. "We use twenty percent of it to our people. You imagine, a protector has to be flawlessly healthy to protect the person behind him."

"We have an obligation to fight while that person does not. Throughout the day, thousands of infected out there tried to get into this area and we took them out. Until one by one our comrades die. But there are still many who are ungrateful and throw mistakes."

"Before, I helped you and you helped me too. We're even."

Xin Chen thought for a moment. He was not completely affected, but on the other hand he wanted to accept this cooperation. Three and Yu don't know how to get past the guard that constrains Central. While this man definitely had access to go there.