The Demon Swordsman 3
Ch. 202 - On the Threshold of Life and Death

Infected that Qin Yujin had attacked the man, a powerful bite pierced through Qin Yujin's flesh. He tried to get rid of the infection, making some of the flesh of his arm loose. Angry cries rang out from his mouth, instead of killing the infected who had bitten him, Qin Yujin instead had the other four infected to attack Fu Hua.

"You're a traitor, I should have killed you by then."

"I should have killed you before my brother died!" said Fu Hua in a high voice, he felt something creeping extinguish his sanity, the girl pulled out a sword. Lian takes refuge behind the girl as the four infected attempt to kill the two.

Blood splattered on Qin Yujin's right arm, she laughed incensefully. "His father cut off my right hand. Now his son is doing the same." After speaking Qin Yujin stupefied, blood came out of her mouth. His eyes grew even more when such intense pain was felt, throbbing pain every second.

The man knelt down, spewing blood. His consciousness was drained.

"No ... That bite-" Qin Yujin stared nanar forward, Fu Hua fleeing with Lian. He groaned in pain, imagining Fu Qinshan's soul being beside him. That woman would definitely save him by any means.

Qin Yujin took out a syringe filled with tranquilizing fluid, at this time the virus was spreading throughout his body. She throbbed, not expecting the last attack that Xin Chen had managed to harm her so badly.

"Damn ... It shouldn't be like this" Qin Yujin's face flushed red, the veins on her forehead popping up signifying how much pain the throbbing in her body was. The disease was unforgiving, Qin Yujin fell. But his consciousness was still intact, making him tormented. In her conscious state, she felt an unrelenting pain. Every second it feels like it is burning.

"Had the squirrel jumped would have fallen too."

Qin Yujin couldn't turn her back, someone just spoke in the back. When the person arrived at the front, Qin Yujin recognized who the figure was. One of the alchemists of the Wei Empire who worked in the New Laboratory.

"You look like disgusting garbage. I never thought I'd have to pick up trash like you at a time like this, chuckle."

"Yan She b*ngsat ... Help me stand up."

"You begging me?"

Qin Yujin did not answer. But he doesn't want at this point another problem to come and he can't do anything about it.

"Although your body has mutated does not mean that the bite has no effect. You just got bitten by a Type S infection. That's very dangerous, but take it easy ... I'll create the most potent drug for you with some deal."

His face covered by the air mask moved to the left right, making sure there was no one. He crouched down, keeping a smile behind his face cover, he whispered a little to Qin Yujin.

"Emperor Shi offered you a tantalizing deal ..."

**

The Lightning Fox brought back Xin Chen to the hiding place, unlike before they could easily return to that place. As the number of infected in this city dropped dramatically, there were still a few left among those who had just arrived from the opposite city. Fu Hua and Lian had joined him, on the verge of worry and despair expecting Xin Chen's state to improve.

Yu opened the door wide, asking Lian about what had happened but the young man did not speak. His face was lethargic, he had just survived death but he had lost two of his friends. The young man cried in silence in the corner of the house, bending himself tightly. Not talking to anyone.

Xin Chen was laid down in one of the rooms, surrounded by dozens of people who were curious about what had happened to him. The Lightning Fox was by his side with Fu Hua.

Fu Hua himself made some medicine that he knew could restore Xin Chen's consciousness. With limited supplies, there was no result he got. A few people gathered, throwing tragic gazes. Equally seeing the absence of hope, the young man was battered inside out.

The Lightning Fox helped him recuperate but it did not work at all, he swallowed the fact that indeed Xin Chen's state was barely helped. His eyes were closed for a long time, thinking and finding no answer even though his students often praised the sharpness of his mind. The fox opened his eyes, and his voice sounded so soft.

"What can I do, you can't leave now you stupid student."

Yu broke up the crowd, checking Xin Chen's state as well as his heartbeat.

"He's already entered the last stage."

"Last stage?" The Lightning Fox replied quickly.

"Yes, the last stage." Yu tried to explain even though he himself was not so sure about the information he had. "For special cases like this, people who are bitten can still survive up to three months. There are three stages until the disease becomes more severe. The longer this disease is in his body, the worse the condition and his life safety is getting thinner. The current state of Chen ... He is on the verge of life and death."

"He has the body of immortality." The Lightning Fox tried to deny, the more real her fear felt at that time. Yu shook his head, "only his body is immortal. But if he had already lost his consciousness, then he would be living like an infected out there. His body is still moving, but his soul is dead."

"It can't be ..." Fu Hua shut his mouth, being sad to know all that. There was nothing he could do anymore, Xin Chen's state was already that severe.

"Don't any of you know how to cure it?" The Lightning Fox stood up, the hood of her robe descending. Showing his real face. The humans in front of him retreated slowly. Feeling the gripping aura that suddenly came. The Lightning Fox could not lose Xin Chen, the young man had saved his life.

But in this Empire, he could barely think of a single way to save his disciple. Just thought the people of the Wei Empire knew of at least one antidote to slow down the last stage of Xin Chen's illness.

No one answered him, The Lightning Fox violently flung the sleeves of his robe. His mind was instantly muddled. In those difficult circumstances, he chose to leave. Being alone to find one way, in order to cure his disciple.

By evening, the rest of the reddish clouds had long since faded when the evening was over. The sky in the city is so moody, raindrops still continue to fall with the cool breeze coming from the south. Trying to cool the head of the fox who was just sitting quietly in front of the bonfire. Ignoring the commotion inside the hideout.

Yu and the rest of the men who could still fight went outside to look for food. They haven't been back since seven hours ago. Sontak makes the growing concern that if they lose their leaders they will all lose their way.

The Lightning Fox was thinking of looking for something out there. He left without saying goodbye to anyone. To the place where distress awaits him.

Fu Hua was still taking care of Xin Chen, in the same room where Lian shut herself up. He doesn't eat. Not talking, let alone moving. Xin Chen looked at her guiltily.

Three days passed in a state that never improved. Fu Hua grew even more worried when he saw the veins on Xin Chen's arm throbbing, the disease living inside his body that might have been dead. He took out a few cups filled with medicine, smeared them quietly while praying for Xin Chen's recovery. There's not much they can do. The situation of the Southeast Camp people was just as critical now. One of the elderly died a few hours ago of starvation.

Yu circulated his gaze, bringing the remaining thirty-seven Defectors to Xin Chen's place.

"He's dying" he said concernedly. He propped up his chin with one hand, asking the other friend to take out some of the medicine they had snatched from the store.

Fu Hua who was assigned to give the medicine to Xin Chen shook his head after seeing one by one the medicine.

"Nothing is useful."

Qiu, the leader of the group of Defectors was irritated, slamming the origin of several bottles of medicine against the wall.

"This is all the result of Emperor Shi-alan and Qin Yujin's actions!" He who already knew the ins and outs of what was happening in the Wei Empire found the names of the beasts. Upset until goiter made men who had come to their group to give food. Unexpectedly, people who are believed to bring change to the people of the Wei Empire turned out to bring bad changes. Not a change for the better.

"If I knew this I'd cut his neck off!" He brandished the celurit in any direction, plugging the tip into the wooden wall.

"Calm down. I didn't bring you here to run amok. We're in a pinch and have to work together to survive. There is nothing we can change, but at least ... I want to fight against the Government that has ruined our lives." Yu said, his eyes were full of emotion amidst his calm-sounding words.

Qiu knelt down, touching Xin Chen's hands and face. Lowering his eyebrows, "They made our friend to this extent. I will come there directly and behead Emperor Shi! Who's coming with me?!"

All the Defectors raised their fiery hands.

"The decision is round! In three days we will attack directly to the palace! Find your weapons and gear, this might be our fight!"

Qiu threw a look towards the frightened Southeast Camp people.

"After this, perhaps you will not find a single human being to ask for help. If you want to fight, this is your chance. To die in a fight is better than to die as an undead."

Qiu's last words before leaving the place were mocking in Yu's head and his people. They came out one by one from there. Qiu turned his head towards the skinny and unkempt Lian. Just stay by the edge of the room with a blank look. Such a huge trauma made both of his fingers tremble.

Until there was nothing left but Fu Hua and Lian, things went back to silence like before. Fu Hua looked at Lian pity, for the number of times he tried to persuade the teenager.

"Don't hurt yourself over something that goes out of your control. If you want to fight with them, you need strength. Eat first."

Three days of silence without speaking made Lian's lips clenched so tightly that it was difficult to open them. He let go of his hand, teardrops had dried up on both of his cheeks. The teenage appearance was already too chaotic. Fu Hua stood up, took out a few pieces of dried meat that had been burned and gave it to Lian.

"I know .. " Lian's lips trembled violently, rejecting the meat Fu Hua offered by brushed it off slowly.

"One place might have a cure for Chen's disease." He looked at Xin Chen sayu, his eyeballs turning direction looking at Fu Hua.

"New Laboratory. The place Qin Yujin created was newly infected. You can't bring an army, if you get caught, then there's no chance of getting the cure. They create disease, surely provide the antidote! Please, save Chen. I won't forgive myself if he's gone, either" Lian rasped.

He took out several sheets of writing and drawing the floor plan in red ink.

"Don't tell Yu or anyone else that I stole this thing. This is the secret paper I got when we passed Laboratory C-1, if it's discovered, the soldiers will slaughter us."

Fu Hua stared at the sheet, the upper part of which was seen writing 'New Laboratory'. "And this ..." Lian took something out from behind her thick clothes. One injection of the yellow drug, looks very suspicious. Fu Hua shook his head.

"Save this, if you face an enemy you can't handle. I don't know what this is for, but Shuo says this is some kind of poison, be careful."

"How could-" Fu Hua was startled, seeing Lian getting weaker. He immediately took to the kitchen porridge and drinks. Forcing food and drink into Lian's mouth before she dies. Lian closed her eyes, Fu Hua laid her down next to Xin Chen.

The paper and the syringe were secured. His worry grew when he found the Foxes had returned. He asked clumsy.

"You got the cure?"

The Lightning Fox did not reply. He seems to be dead-end too. His entire robe was filled with human blood until it hit his fur.

"I killed thousands of soldiers for nothing."

The Lightning Fox sat next to Xin Chen with guilt. He didn't say a word anymore.

On the other hand, Fu Hua also could not bear to see the Thunder Fox. He had to save Xin Chen, the young man had saved his life several times. In one deep breath, Fu Hua began to decide to fight on his own. Whatever he would face later, Fu Hua would have to return for the Lightning Fox and Xin Chen.

"I promise, Xin Chen will be fine," the girl said as she removed the bloody cloth in Xin Chen's hand to hold the wound. He tied the blood-stained white cloth to the head, took the arrow and hung it on his back. Then the sword was tucked in the waist. Trying to be sure that he is brave enough to face hundreds of thousands of infected and warriors out there.

The Lightning Fox could not believe it, she could not let Fu Hua go alone.

"You won't be able to face any danger out there. Sit here and watch Xin Chen-"

"I've been looking after him three days without you. Now we're alternating." He walked over to the door leaf, glancing back before leaving the hiding place.

"We were both once saved by Xin Chen. I want to save him too. You must understand."