Chapter 719: Treatment
“What’s going on?”
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu also looked forward, seeing Li Xiao in front of her looking a bit anxious, a hint of doubt in her eyes. Given Weir’s arrogant nature, even if she chose to fail the mission, she would never choose to attack innocent bystanders.
“Passersby were abducted, and even our team members were attacked when they tried to stop it. The situation is quite serious now. Come with me to take a look.”
Li Xiao, dressed in leather, took a few steps forward, involuntarily grabbed Su Jiu’s sleeve, and walked quickly towards the front, explaining as she went, “They all had varying degrees of corrosive effect.”
The two passed through an increasingly crowded area and soon saw a place cordoned off by a yellow caution line. The crowd was cut off like a stream, but some people couldn’t help but be curious about what had happened there.
A two-meter-high pole at the side of the caution line began to emit an alarm sound; red and blue lights flashed intermittently, signaling that the Law Enforcement Hall was handling a case and asking people not to approach.
“Corrosive effect?”
Su Jiu followed Li Xiao and soon squeezed into the crowd, feeling increasingly curious about the attacker. Miss Weir didn’t seem to have this attribute. Could someone be disrupting the situation?
Within the area enclosed by the caution line, there were many out-of-place things…
Su Jiu’s gaze swept over the strangely placed ghost-themed lampposts. The lampposts, made of special metal, were visibly bent, forming a nearly 120° angle, as if impacted by something.
However, the force of the impact shouldn’t have been too great, only around the low-tier Battle King level; otherwise, the situation wouldn’t be like this.
Under the lamppost, there was a pool of dark liquid under shattered glass, making a “sizzling” sound. The ground was corroded into a small, deep pit, appearing highly corrosive.
Su Jiu’s eyes showed thought: “This should be the means of attack, right?”
“Clear the way, Law Enforcement Hall is on duty!”
Without further answering Su Jiu, Li Xiao let out a soft shout and used her External Qi to push open a passage wide enough for two people. She pulled Su Jiu’s arm and continued, “You must have noticed that the attacker’s strength isn’t that high, but the corrosive liquid is very potent. Our team members were also affected by it.”
She paused, her tone tinged with regret, “By the time I reacted and ran over here, the tall, woman-shaped attacker had already disappeared from the scene. It’s likely she used a facade to blend into the crowd and leave. We can only send two team members with mental sensors to check one by one…”
“Disappeared from the scene—so did she abduct anyone this time?”
Having learned from the previous experience, Su Jiu didn’t think the other party would leave so quickly. Instead, it was more likely that, like Miss Weir, she was hiding somewhere and watching.
“According to that team member’s response, she didn’t abduct anyone. He got into a fight with two poachers, and the person who was about to be abducted was rescued. However, because he was rescuing the hostage, he also suffered severe injuries, with his eyes greatly wounded.”
Facing Su Jiu’s question, Li Xiao was taken aback and immediately shook her head. As the main person in charge of such cases, she had to be cautious and remembered many details.
“But fortunately, according to that team member, he managed to stab the woman in the chest. It won’t be difficult to track her down by summoning professional Beast Pets to follow the scent of blood.”
Su Jiu nodded, silently taking in what she had said.
As the two proceeded, Su Jiu arrived at the center of the caution line. She could see five people there, all of whom had signs of corrosion from the liquid. That team member was lying flat on the ground, his chest covered in bright red blood, seemingly having suffered a lot of damage…
The other passersby were two young people, a man and a woman, and an elderly woman. Their arms were stained with the corrosive liquid, and their flesh was visibly being eroded.
Su Jiu walked forward, lowering her gaze to look at someone leaning against the wall…
The most serious case was a hunchbacked man with his hair tied up. The liquid had corroded most of his face and back. His face was turned to the side, showing unprecedented fear, which was quite chilling.
“Ahhh!!” Trembling sounds and gasps of cold air filled the air, along with the pervasive smell of blood, making the scene quite gory.
“Please bear with it, everyone. Our Priest is a very powerful Grand Priest, and these injuries are just minor problems.”
Wang Qiubai, the team’s logistician, was providing simple Purification Treatment for them, occasionally waving his hands and sending purifying qi spheres spinning towards the injured.
However, due to his skill level not being very high, the qi spheres only provided relief after coming into contact with the black liquid, and they weren’t very effective.
“Let me do it. It might hurt a bit, so please endure it.” Su Jiu stood in the center of the most seriously injured individuals. After a brief glance, she raised her hand and pointed towards the sky. Soon, a black mist appeared in the sky above.
“Endure it?”
Everyone present was stunned, but they quickly calmed down. What kind of treatment would cause pain? It couldn’t be more painful than their current corrosive state.
Looking up at the sky, Li Xiao nudged the long-haired youth, Wang Qiubai, next to her with her elbow and whispered, “What’s going on?”
“What’s going on? She’s unleashed her ultimate move.”
Unlike the others, Wang Qiubai looked up at the sky with a look of astonishment. He seemed to have underestimated the Priest’s strength. The black masses in the sky weren’t a sign of rain…
Instead, it was extremely dense life force. Compared to his own dispelling and purifying abilities, this was clearly the difference between the bright moon and scattered stars.
“Go!”
The young woman ignored their discussion and gestured downwards again. Dozens of purifying qi spheres, like layers of frost, were hurled towards the injured.
The sound of “whoosh” suddenly rang out, and then they were directly thrown towards the wounds of those people. The divine image of the Priest in their minds instantly collapsed. The pain from being struck, coupled with the stinging sensation of purification, caused excruciating pain to these people.
It felt like being on an operating table, where the anesthesiologist administered a syringe of saline, and then the chief surgeon directly along the incision, cutting away the diseased tissue bit by bit.
They didn’t know the Priest Su; they only knew that she could heal, regardless of the healing process. If they knew…
Oh no, they didn’t want to know.
After a burst of screams, all that could be heard were the dull thuds of flesh from the five “corpses,” astonishing many onlookers—is this the correct way for a Priest to act?
“Is there a special item hiding their aura?”
Su Jiu calmly cast her skills, her mental power scanning these passersby, but she found no signs. She understood that even if her mental power was strong, it was still human.
Alchemy materials that could block mental power weren’t too difficult to obtain. As long as the other party had an alchemical item that could block mental power, it wouldn’t be too difficult to evade detection…
As Su Jiu raised her hand again, pouring the healing of the wounds into the dark clouds in the sky, the sky began to churn again.
An unusual fluctuation emanated, but the other party quickly concealed it. However, with Su Jiu’s mental power, she quickly locked onto the area, which was five people in front of her.
“Sister Li, please isolate the crowd.”
Her eyes narrowed. She stopped the treatment and called out to Li Xiao, slowly walking towards the injured. Her gaze swept over the young man and woman, finding no obvious stab wounds on them.
Then she looked at the elderly woman, who was lying unconscious. There was a very obvious scratch on her waist…
Finally, she looked at the hunchbacked man lying on the ground. He also had a knife wound on his back, but it didn’t seem too serious. After purification, only a slight knife mark remained.
