The Demon Swordsman 3
Ch. 164 - Angan in Semu

Two people who had been unworthy buried, the next morning Luo Mei had been waiting for Xin Chen's arrival alone in the reading room filled with books on the shelf. He drank his tea while pondering until Xin Chen went inside.

"Please sit down."

"Previously introduce my name Luo Mei."

"I'm Chen. Just call me that."

"That Luo Li, she is the son of my sister. So stubborn when he was about to find a single medicine that might be the answer to this illness that plagued the Empire ..."

He thrust out the pastries and other food to Xin Chen, the young man refused subtly and chose to hear about Luo Li more clearly.

"We are on the brink of despair" he said, shaking the water in the cup. Staring at the reflection of his aging face, he had spent so much time finding an antidote and perhaps until his death it was just wishful thinking.

"There is a disease but no cure. I had longed for a situation where people were walking peacefully in the village, food was plentiful and there was a frenzy in the market. It's as simple as that, it's now a paradise that's sorely missed."

His gaze seemed to say that in the Shang Empire, the paradise he meant could be found anywhere. It was different from the Wei Empire. If he wanted to go to the Shang Empire, the procedures and requirements were very long and he would not have been granted permission.

"Luo Li went out just reckless capital alone. Because of the news of an immigrant from outside who said there was a panacea growing in a city burned by a fire that never extinguished. I thought the news was nothing more than a storyteller. But the day that Luo Li showed the Fire Mushroom she bought with all her money. And I managed to create one cure, and was able to cure one infected in total ..."

Luo Mei paused for a moment. "We are limited in the material, to get the only one must spend money in amounts not kidding. And Luo Li recklessly went to the place where the Fire Mushroom was. He said nothing and ran away from the temple. Since his departure I've always prayed for his safety."

Luo Mei cried softly, her partially whitened eyes were now watery. He stopped talking for a while.

"Luo Li definitely wanted an antidote to save millions of people in this Empire. He died a hero."

Xin Chen took out the Fire Mushroom and placed it on the side of the table, the number was quite a lot. Luo Mei grew petrified, half in disbelief when she found the plant lying in front of her. If it's cashed out, he can't afford it.

"How could Luo Li obtain an item of this value ...?"

"Me and him made a deal."

Luo Mei listened seriously.

"I took this Fire Mushroom from Renwu City and in return he will bring me to meet you. In order to create an antidote for Red Crystal disease for my mother."

Xin Chen added, "And Luo Li has also saved my mother from being critical."

Actually Luo Mei did not mind anything but the name of the illness Xin Chen mentioned the lines on her face were strangely wrinkled.

"I could've done this, because you've given this precious Fire Mushroom away for free. It's just ..."

"What is it?"

The old man's mouth was tightly clenched, weighing the sentence he was about to put out and worried that if he were to tell the truth Xin Chen would cancel this deal. This Fire Fungus is very important to him.

"I've researched about the disease and used some of the patients' bodies to experiment, many years ago ... But, it all ended in a dead end."

The answer Xin Chen never expected finally came out. He gulped, already so far as his steps went and delivered him to his only remaining hope.

His heart ached when he saw the man showed no hope at all for his mother's illness.

"But what I'm surprised about. How did your mother get the disease? Moreover, you must not be from here. You're from the Shang Empire, aren't you? The chances of him contracting are only zero comma by a few percent. Unless there's an element of intent in it."

Luo Mei's conjecture coupled with another explanation of the Red Crystal, Xin Chen could not capture it entirely because his mind was fixed on the Shang Empire and anyone who was suspect.

Luo Mei's words seemed to present excessive worry in her head. And Xin Chen was worried about Xin Xia, the last time his aunt was given suspicious medicine by Ren Su. And during this time he often heard before his sick mother Ren Su who serig came to the house and gave him many herbal drinks.

Xin Chen closed his dizzy eyes.

"Hey, are you listening to me, Chen?" The man realized his interlocutor no longer heard what he said.

"Ah yes. I'm just a little thought."

"But it can still be searched?"

Luo Mei stood up indirectly answering, fiddling with the contents of the shelf and not finding what she was looking for.

The man took the stairs high enough in the corner, Xin Chen to the point of holding his breath saw the person his age climbing the stairs like a young boy. But as Xin Chen got down to hear the bone, Luo Mei held him down while grimacing a little.

He was carrying a thick red book, lots of paper in it. And tied with a special rope so that it is not easy to open. Luo Mei opened it slowly, her wrinkled lips began to make a sound.

"Only one final ingredient is needed to refine this research. But this is not easy ... I've sent dozens of the best people to get it, but nothing."

He shook his head, pointing out the impossibility while talking, "The Net of Donkey Deer."

Just hearing his name was strange, Xin Chen listened to Luo Mei who was opening sheet by sheet. He pointed to one of the courtyards, where there was a painting of a half-deer and donkey-faced creature. His body pattern is different from most deer. There were horns and the teeth of the animal were pointed like a tiger.

"Nobody knows whether the animal is alive or not. It may have been killed or lost to another infected demon. Donkey deer have a uniqueness in the body fluid. His body shines at night, but he runs much faster than any of the fastest animals."

Luo Mei explained the rest after finishing the drink. "She's only in Laboratory A-3. That place was a nightmare for the people of the Wei Empire. Only an insane person would want to go back to seeing things there."

"Why?"

Luo Mei grimaced, heartbroken over the bloody events that had become the most tragic news in the Empire. How not, seven years ago before all this began, Laboratory A-3 located in a densely populated slum countryside was suddenly the release of one human experiment carrying an infectious disease.

After that, like a bomb exploding, a terrible plague began. It all started with the A-3 Laboratory. And when traced, in the laboratory hundreds or even thousands of humans were killed and made into guinea pigs.

It didn't take a week, but one village was devastated by a terrible plague. Dozens of bodies fell and were left to rot in piles until swarmed by flies and caterpillars. New diseases began to arrive and spread to the furthest corners.

Some are still rumored to survive in the village, but other news says that the village is now a dumping ground.

Anyone who gets sick or is bitten will be thrown away and not allowed to go from there until death. In another sense, the village is nothing more than a mass burial of corpses that are not buried at all.

Now the A-3 Laboratory is left abandoned, even the rest of the experiments have not been destroyed and may still be alive in it.

Luo Mei stated if the Donkey Deer was likely inside Laboratory A-3 or might have been wandering along the village. Reminds Xin Chen when she walks into Laboratory B-1. Her worst experience of a cramped room filled with deadly infections. He would face that kind of thing again.

"I'll be there."

His fear was dashed when recalling his mother, Xin Chen steeled himself. He could not retreat and this was his only option if he wanted to save Ren Yuan.

"You are a very devoted son to your mother." Luo Mei could hardly believe how Xin Chen could be sure to go there after she explained all the worst things she would encounter there. It was obvious that the village was the starting point for the outbreak to begin, it was much worse than what Xin Chen had ever found.

But Luo Mei couldn't ban it. He agreed while ordering a few things.

"Be careful, there may still be some guards or bad guys hanging around there. They could be dangerous."

"You're going to take the wolf with you?"

Xin Chen assented, greeted by the anxiety that Luo Mei so blatantly showed.

"I'm not suggesting that. He's not gonna survive a lot of terrible things in there. The crazy researchers scattered like trash, they were bloodthirsty demons like him. If you don't want something bad to happen, the best option is not to take it there."

"But it seems like I won't be able to stop him from following me. The wolf was my father's pet, he lived here for a few years and memorized the danger. I'll ask him, if he says come, then I won't ban him."

Hearing Xin Chen's reply, Luo Mei nodded in understanding. He ended the conversation with a little more information. And Xin Chen himself had already said that he would leave as soon as possible.

Xin Chen returned to the room where Lang had been waiting to hear the results of the discussion with Luo Mei. Considering that the old healer did not invite him along with Xin Chen. His grim face made Xin Chen barely laugh.

Xin Chen held his head, his eyes blurred instantly and within a few seconds after he started to lose control like before. Blue and red veins appeared on his face, Lang stood up and immediately calmed as he could.

Xin Chen breathed a sigh of distress, his eyeballs staring frantically at his increasingly severe wrists. He'll lose control any minute. Xin Chen tried to resist but the pain he was in was already much more terrible than the last time. Body collapsed.

The disease returned. Lang began to wonder, should Xin Chen be cured when brought to Dai Cho's house. But in reality, Xin Chen only recovered temporarily. The blue in his eyes slowly faded, Lang grew even more worried. But it was fortunate that Luo Mei heard the commotion and immediately gave her some help.