Chapter 232: Demon Angel (3.5k)
Su Jiu and the others followed the young farm owner to her house. With a creak, the door, covered in claw marks, was pushed open.
“I’ll go get some drinks.”
The girl removed her mask and headed towards the kitchen.
The living room was quite spacious, dimly lit by a few alchemical oil lamps on the walls. The television inside was off, presumably due to a lack of power supply.
“Ding!” A text message notification sounded on a phone.
Su Jiu and Bairnis casually found a small sofa to sit on. Su Jiu leaned on Bairnis’s shoulder, her thick-soled shoes tapping the floor lightly. Looking at the text message on her phone, a look of helplessness appeared on her small face.
It was another invitation from a hospital to recruit priests. Were there no priests left? It seemed this skin disease was becoming more severe.
[Dear Ms. Su Jiu:
We apologize for disturbing you. Due to the shortage of medical resources, we sincerely invite you to assist at the First People’s Affiliated Hospital in Huangxing District, Magic City. Salary and benefits are negotiable. We pay tribute to every ‘reverse traveler’ who faces danger.
Dragon Country Red Cross Society]
“You guys… the environment here is a bit poor, please forgive us. The power supply equipment was all destroyed by monsters, so we can only maintain basic living here.” The freckled girl brought out three cups of hot tea and then sat down on a cloth sofa beside them apologetically.
“Wang Ling, what are you talking about! It’s good enough that you dared to come here with us!”
Xiao Qiqi chuckled, not idle with her hands. She took off her thick glasses and put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a single lens, similar to Dean Yan’s. Tiny glimmers of light flashed on the lenses; they were alchemical items akin to microscopes.
Then, she found a small wooden table and began meticulously arranging the bottle of red liquid in her hand, occasionally adding a drop or two of strange liquid, causing a sizzling sound.
With one hand in her pocket, Xiao Qiqi gently shook the experimental bottle that was sizzling. After a moment of contemplation, she frowned slightly and said, “We might have to go back tomorrow to finish writing this experimental report and submit the results. The next task will have to be handled by a Battle King Level Expert.”
Hearing this, Su Jiu asked with some confusion, “Why? Did you discover something?”
Gently putting down the bottle, Xiao Qiqi’s gaze fixed directly on Su Jiu, her previous indolence replaced by a solemn expression. “We did discover something. The spores I collected from other monsters previously didn’t have much activity. At that time, I predicted that at most it was a High-Rank Battle General level Roumenggen Demon…
However, after this experiment, I found that the spore activity is extremely high. This is very likely a Roumenggen Monarch, and the Floating Life Blossom it defends is even more likely to be a Monarch-level Great Lord Demon!”
Hearing this, Su Jiu felt a bit tiếc nuối that she couldn’t go to collect the Floating Life Blossom to exchange for Bairnis’s medicine. She then asked again, “So, is our investigation mission complete?”
Glancing at Su Jiu, a smile appeared on Xiao Qiqi’s face, and she said happily, “As long as we submit this information to our superiors, and they send more people to investigate and verify, it should be almost complete… I didn’t expect the mission to be so simple – it was just a deception using Gugu Bird feathers for transmission, fooling a group of experts.”
Looking at her phone, Su Jiu looked up at the haggard-looking Wang Ling. After a moment of thought, she suddenly asked, “How long will it take for it to be successfully popularized to cure this disease?”
Hearing Su Jiu’s question, Xiao Qiqi was slightly taken aback, clearly not understanding why she asked, but after thinking about it, she answered truthfully, “I don’t know the exact time, but the review and investigation alone will take at least a month, right? After all, it is generally believed that it is a plague from some mammalian monster, and even the special medicine is developed targeting mammalian monsters.”
“So long?”
Hearing this answer, Su Jiu’s eyelids twitched slightly, and she said softly before falling silent.
In the quiet hall, only the “sizzling” sound and the tapping of thick-soled shoes on the wooden floor could be heard. It was quiet for a while longer.
“Ding.”
The farm owner girl named Wang Ling nervously glanced at the text message on her phone, lowered her head slightly, and sighed, clutching her phone tightly, making her wheat-colored fingers turn pale.
With another sigh, Wang Ling looked up slightly, her eyes slightly red, as if she had been like this before. She glanced at Su Jiu and the other person, and finally, her gaze fell on her confidante as she slowly spoke,
“To be honest, Qiqi, I have no one else to turn to but you… My parents were already very ill when they were sent for treatment, and now I’ve received news that they’ve been sent to the intensive care unit.”
Hearing Wang Ling’s words, Su Jiu also looked over, subtly frowning. If this skin disease was severe, it could be life-threatening for those without Battle Generals.
Xiao Qiqi’s hand holding the dropper froze. She pursed her lips and looked up at Su Jiu in disbelief, then asked in a low voice, “Didn’t your uncle and aunt leave long ago? How could this happen?”
“Because they are ordinary people who struggle even to awaken their bloodlines. They left on the first day, but they still couldn’t avoid catching the skin disease.”
Wang Ling said, her already low voice trembling slightly. She looked at Xiao Qiqi and said with a slight tremor, “The hospital just issued a critical illness notice. Unless a Battle King level priest uses a powerful skill to extend their life, they won’t last a week.”
Hearing this, Xiao Qiqi fell silent. She put down the container in her hand, took off her yellowed Adventurer’s Guild robe, stepped forward, and gently hugged her, feeling her trembling body, but she couldn’t say anything else.
“Qiqi, the hospital corridors are covered with white cloths, sigh… I’ve looked for everyone I could, but it’s all useless. The attending physician, who is a Battle General, told me to prepare for the funeral.”
Xiao Qiqi just hugged her gently, feeling her trembling body, and patted her back, saying nothing else: “It’s okay…”
“Indeed, what he said is not wrong… I also can’t reach any Big Shots, so I should accept my fate. Contacting the attending physician, who is a Battle General, has already almost used up all my family’s savings.”
“It wasn’t until Qiqi you called me that, although I don’t know what use it would be, I thought of how you have a lot of Honor and are a student of Mo University, perhaps you could help us ordinary people.”
As her body trembled, Wang Ling’s voice sounded again. Xiao Qiqi knew that the other person wasn’t looking down on her, but the helplessness of ordinary people had made her somewhat incoherent.
“Is it happening again… How many ordinary people can make a Battle King level priest expend their life force to act?” Hearing this, Su Jiu sighed slightly. It was the same on the plane. She slowly sat up from Bairnis’s shoulder.
Suddenly, she began to understand Old Man’s intention to watch over the dawn for ordinary people. In the face of such a catastrophic epidemic, even the slightest spore, if it fell upon ordinary people, would be no less than a giant mountain.
It could crush people to death!
Thinking this, she took out the slightly damp Night Watcher notebook from her storage bag, caressed its wrinkled cover, and gently turned to the first page. Her gaze fell upon a line of strong, bold calligraphy.
[Watch the night, watch over the night of ordinary people.]
Holding her teacup, as if sensing the solemnity in the air, Bairnis said with a touch of regret, “Miss, do you want to help this lady? Unfortunately, with my current strength, I can’t help this girl at all.”
“I can’t save them either… Without a Battle King, we can’t use any major skills. In a disaster like this, even if we go against the tide to save people, how many can we save? If there’s an accident and we get infected, even a Battle General would lose a layer of skin!”
Glancing at Bairnis, Su Jiu put away her identification and slowly stood up, her gaze looking into the distance, profound. Through the window, she looked at the Gugu Birds flying back into the night sky, lost in thought.
“But Miss… didn’t you say you wanted to save a million people who needed saving? With your strength, you should be able to save quite a few people.”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, Bairnis blinked, a look of confusion appearing on her delicate face. These dispirited words were not what she expected from the ‘White Moonlight’ in her heart.
Xiao Qiqi and the others also looked over. She quietly explained to Wang Ling about Su Jiu’s status as a freshman chief, which made Wang Ling’s eyes light up a little. A chief of Magic Capital University—a god-like existence in the eyes of ordinary people, a proud chosen one!
She didn’t know if this person could save her parents.
Before she could speak… her eyes dimmed slightly.
“How many people are there in this entire Magic City and the surrounding cities? If we save them one by one, we simply can’t save them all… Moreover, without a Battle King, I can’t truly cure them.”
With her back to the others, Su Jiu spoke rationally, her words carrying a hint of coldness. She looked down at the shining phone in her hand, a scarlet light flashing in her eyes.
“Miss, you don’t need to pressure junior schoolmate Su Jiu… We’ve already accepted the mission to investigate the truth, and that’s enough! We’ll return to school tomorrow to submit the mission.”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, Xiao Qiqi scratched her head and said to Bairnis, not seeing anything wrong with it. Su Jiu’s willingness to accompany her in investigating the truth was already more than ninety-nine percent of people would do.
However, Bairnis kept looking at Su Jiu with anticipation, her sapphire-blue eyes shimmering, occasionally blinking, like little elves dancing.
Su Jiu was her White Moonlight, and everyone hoped their White Moonlight would be a heroic knight from a novel.
“Investigate the truth? No, that will take too long…”
Silence spread for a long time, and a female voice spoke from the windowsill, causing Bairnis’s eyes to widen slightly, her lips parting gently, a look of joy welling up in her eyes.
“Tomorrow, we’ll follow the Gugu group and set off, just like the plague doctors hundreds of years ago…”
Su Jiu said softly, and under the different emotions of the three, she slightly turned her head, a gentle smile appearing on her pale face.
Under the moonlight, it was as if at this moment, she was not a vampire, but an angel descending to earth.
“Saving the world.”
Perhaps from the very beginning, from earning money to save Bairnis, to encountering this young farm owner, Su Jiu’s thoughts had quietly changed.
Calling for backup was also unrealistic. Battle King level Night Watchers couldn’t cross provinces, and Mr. Wenders was nowhere to be found… And seeing the timid longing in the young girl’s eyes…
Even if it was for the War God Level medicinal herbs, why not go against the tide!
In the eyes of ordinary people, she was the tall one. When the sky fell, she had to hold it up.
With her current strength, using the second stage of Elegy, she had the combat power of an Intermediate Battle King. Coupled with the ice attribute’s advantage against Plant Demons, a direct attack was not an impossible dream.
On the cloth sofa, looking at the gentleness on that profile, Bairnis tilted her head slightly, her tender lips pursed tightly, a hint of admiration showing in her eyes.
What she liked was someone as upright and stalwart as this.
