sbdcsierra Chapter 410 I owe a huge favor
Chapter 410 I owe a huge favor
When Cheng Feng saw the granulation tissue on Wu Xie's arm, the herbal medicine collection immediately came into play.
No one could discern any emotion from Cheng Feng's face, so everyone was on tenterhooks, as this involved several lives.
"This is a special kind of fungus that fell from the tree and parasitized Wuxie's body."
The mycelium in his body is now spreading along his blood vessels, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will be the anniversary of Wu Xie's death in one year and five minutes.
Cheng Feng's words struck Wu Sansheng's heart like a heavy hammer.
Not only them, but Ah Ning was also filled with despair at this moment. More than three minutes had passed since she was parasitized, which meant that she would die soon.
"Cheng Feng, I beg you, please save Wu Xie. I'll grant you any request."
Wu Sansheng disregarded everything else and immediately swallowed his pride and begged his former rival in love.
Cheng Feng glanced at him, then muttered:
"It's really inconvenient that Lao Zhang didn't come down with us."
If Zhang Qiling were here, he could easily solve the problem by drawing some blood, but now it's a bit troublesome to let Cheng Feng handle it.
His blood would be incredibly nourishing for this thing; who knows, a single drop of his blood might turn Wu Xie into a mushroom person on the spot, or even a mushroom person with supernatural powers.
However, this was the only way to pull Wu Xie back from the brink of death.
"Wu Sansheng, your Wu family owes me a huge favor this time. Let's see how you repay it in the future."
As he spoke, blood trickled down Cheng Feng's index finger, and a faint fragrance wafted from his body.
Those who smelled it felt a moment of relief, as if they were immersed in nature.
Cheng Feng glanced at A Ning, whose face had turned ashen, and then said to Hei Xiazi:
"Help her up."
Hei Xiazi's lips curled up slightly, then he went to A Ning's side, grabbed her, and pulled her to Cheng Feng's side.
At Cheng Feng's signal, Hei Xiazi took A Ning's hands and placed them side by side with Wu Xie's hands in front of Cheng Feng.
Cheng Feng then placed his index finger on the three fleshy buds that were lined up in a row.
In an instant, the veins on both of their arms bulged, the black infant marks twisted, and strands of visible fungal hyphae emerged from the granulation tissue.
Cheng Feng maintained a steady pace, raising his fingers little by little.
It wasn't until Cheng Feng retreated more than ten meters that the fungal hyphae emerging from the wounds of the two men became visible to the naked eye.
Wu Sansheng and the others stared in horror at the scene before them.
"My goodness, it's only been a short while, and it's already grown so long."
Pan Zi touched his buzz cut and muttered in a daze.
These mycelia are spiral-shaped, covering the ground layer by layer, and are now growing rapidly in the direction Cheng Feng is pointing.
Cheng Feng observed the condition of the fleshy buds on Wu Xie and A Ning's hands without changing his expression.
As he retreated to the entrance of the ancient building, the fleshy sprout fell directly off their hands.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Cheng Feng flashed a flame in his hand, and instantly a line of fire tens of meters long ignited, burning all the ignited mycelium to ashes.
Only then did the blood on Cheng Feng's hands gradually disappear.
In the blink of an eye, Cheng Feng was back with the group, so fast that they didn't even have time to react.
After crouching down to check on the two men, Cheng Feng said:
"The mycelium in their bodies has been drawn out. They will be weak for a while afterward, but there is no danger to their lives."
Jie Lianhuan shivered and looked at Cheng Feng with some lingering fear.
The person, who was dozens of meters away, was right in front of him in the blink of an eye. If this wasn't Cheng Feng, he would have thought he had seen many ghosts in the grave.
"Thank you for saving Wu Xie. From now on, if you have any requests, my Wu family will do anything, even if it means going through fire and water."
After seeing that Wu Xie's complexion and breathing had returned to normal, Wu Sansheng spoke solemnly.
"You deserve to go through fire and water. All these years, even if my bones hadn't turned to ash, you hadn't made me shed a single drop of blood. Your family's influence is boundless."
Faced with Cheng Feng's provocation, Wu Sansheng had no choice but to bow his head and admit defeat.
Wu Xie is the only son of the third generation of the Wu family. If he really loses his life in this operation, he will have no face to see his eldest brother Wu Yiqiong and second brother Wu Erbai.
"You all wait here until they wake up. Blind man, come with me, let's go inside and take a look."
After leaving Wu Xie and A Ning to Wu Sansheng and the others, Cheng Feng led Hei Xiazi and turned to walk towards the wooden ancient building not far away.
After Cheng Feng left, Pan Zi and Xie Yuchen lifted Wu Xie up and laid him on the backpack.
Ah Ning, on the other hand, didn't receive such good treatment; she just lay there unattended.
After they settled Wu Xie, they came to Xie Lianhuan and Wu Sansheng's side. At this time, the two of them were looking at the five mercenaries brought by Aning with their brows furrowed.
Now all five of them are dead, and their deaths are extremely gruesome.
Their faces were ashen, their skin wrinkled from dryness, and black objects could be clearly seen growing in their veins through their skin.
"Look, that thing has started to grow."
The group's gazes were focused on a mercenary's neck, where what had originally been just a bud had now grown to over thirty centimeters long.
It looks like a tree branch, but it stops growing when it reaches about 40 centimeters in length.
Then, a black bud began to rise at the very front.
"Uncle, what exactly is this thing? If it's a fungus, how can it bloom?"
Despite the corpses covered in parasites, Xie Yuchen's expression remained unchanged; on the contrary, he showed great interest in the parasitic bacteria.
Jie Lianhuan shook his head and said in a low voice, "This thing is undoubtedly some kind of fungus, but it has existed for too long."
It is normal for some ancient creatures to exhibit behaviors that defy modern understanding.
As the uncle and nephew were talking, the flower bud had already bloomed, its petals as black as emerald, and it even had a real jade-like feel to them.
During the blooming of the flowers, the parasitized French mercenaries had become unrecognizable as human.
His skin had turned black, looking like chewed betel nut, and his eyes had become dry. Although the whites of his eyes and pupils were still visible, they looked almost like they had been painted on.
The clothes that used to fit well are now loose and baggy.
If you were to remove his clothes, you would find that he was no different from a skeleton, except for that layer of almost shattered skin.
All that's left in his body is bones.
The five corpses bloomed one after another, but the flowers and leaves only lasted for a dozen seconds before they withered away.
The fallen petals quickly decomposed into powder and blended into the earth.
At the center of the flower bud, a baby-shaped fruit is slowly growing.
This bizarre change kept Wu Sansheng and the others watching intently, while they all tacitly stepped back to avoid any danger from the thing.
As the fruit gradually grew larger, by the time it reached the size of a palm, the nutrients in the bones of those corpses had been completely drained.
The bone fragments couldn't even withstand the weight of the clothes, and finally, with a muffled thud, they collapsed.
All that remained were five black fruits shaped like babies and five sets of camouflage combat suits laid out on the ground.
"This fruit looks just like the ginseng fruit described in Journey to the West."