Why do you still want me to drink the antidote?
What on earth does she want to do? !
Are you trying to torture me, give me a little hope, and then smash it at the last moment?
He believed that this little girl named Sharon was either very powerful or held a high position of power. And such big shots usually had some quirks that were difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Maybe...her hobby is to enjoy other people's despair?
Thomas shuddered. His body was immobilized by the fever, but he shuddered all the same, a chill of fear that came from deep within his soul and seeped into his bones.
After suffering in mixed fear for dozens of minutes, Thomas suddenly felt that he had some strength.
Very small, very weak, only able to twitch his fingers and ankles slightly. But compared to the previous situation where he could barely speak and breathe, it was much better.
After a few more minutes, a warm current spread from the heart and quickly filled the entire body, and physical strength continued to emerge from it.
"Cough cough..."
He tried to drag his arms and use his elbows to prop up his upper body. He failed the first time because his joints and muscles were still a little out of control. But after several attempts, he quickly found the feeling and sat up successfully.
"How do you feel?" Friant asked when he saw that he was getting better.
"Well, much better..."
Thomas responded in a low voice, then he took a deep breath, exerted force on his hips, moved his legs to the ground in one go, and stood up tremblingly.
Qi Ji's six senses observed his changes. As the drug gradually took effect, she found that the spirituality in the potion had undergone a great change, and then the spirituality of the potion was quickly stripped out and remained in his body.
This kind of spirituality...she remembered!
Qi Ji thought about it carefully: when he was in the guild, almost every adventurer had it in their body.
At that time, she didn't know that there was an antidote to the fever, and thought that this spirituality was possessed by all extraordinary people.
In other words... most of the adventurers in the guild have drunk the antidote and have some kind of spiritual "antibodies" in their bodies, so they don't have to worry about being infected with the plague due to group gatherings?
"…I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
After staying in this clinic for nearly an hour, taking into account the time spent on the road, Qi Ji estimated that it was about time to return to Iris Mansion to do "business".
Chapter 44 Return
There is another chapter at 8pm.
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"Well, goodbye, Miss Sharon."
"Goodbye."
"Walk slowly, don't meet bad guys~"
Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly noticed other people in the clinic.
The clinic was not big, with an area of only about 30 square meters, but it was crammed with more than 30 people, crowding every corner.
It wasn't crowded on Qi Ji's side, because all three team members were C-level transcendents. This lineup was considered quite luxurious in Stio, and everyone tried to stay away to avoid bad luck.
Among the more than 30 patients, more than half were suffering from fever. Unlike the adventurers with extraordinary powers, they had some savings even if they were poor.
Most of these people have no money to buy antidote for the fever, so they can only endure it. They have to endure it even if they can't bear it because there is no other way.
Qi Ji glanced at the kettle in his hand. There was still a small pot of tea in it, mixed with the antidote. Of course, it couldn't cure the fever after being diluted hundreds of times, but it was better than nothing, and it could at least ease the patient's pain a little, right?
"Lina, come here for a moment."
"What else, Sharon?"
"This is a bottle of water for you. There is a little antidote for the fever in it. Divide it equally among all the fever patients present." She handed the kettle over. "It's cold now, but it won't affect the efficacy of the medicine."
After serving the antidote tea, Qi Ji turned and left, disappearing in the dimly lit street in the blink of an eye.
Everyone heard her words, and they all stared at the kettle in Lina's hand, as if this medicinal tea with less than 1% potency was their last straw.
"Gone, gone? She...isn't here to kill me?"
After surviving the disaster, Thomas' legs went limp and he collapsed onto the bench.
In the quiet central district, the residence of nobles and lords, Iris Mansion.
The feast has ended, the guests have left one after another, and the empty manor has become quiet and gloomy.
However, a fierce quarrel broke the quiet atmosphere——
"You are such a fool, kid! You have ruined all my efforts!"
"Painstaking efforts?! Father, your so-called painstaking efforts mean speaking ill of your benefactors and speaking flattering words to villains!?"
"How can you talk like that?! That's really the opposite. How can we get help from the Lionsmith family if you treat Lanchester like this?!"
"Father, you have really changed—"
"I've changed?! Do you know how much I've sacrificed to make our family live a better life? How dare you say such a thing?!"
"You really weren't like this before. Now you've been blinded by power and status. Don't we have enough of these things? Wake up..."
"I should have known I shouldn't have let you hang out with those bad friends! They've led you astray! You've learned so many perverse ideas that betray your teachers and ancestors!"
"..."
"..."
"——Bang!"
There was a loud slam of the door, and then everything fell silent.
Lunxi watched his father leave his room in a rage, feeling mixed emotions.
"Why did it turn out like this..." She sat dejectedly on the edge of the bed with her head lowered.
She remembered that when she was little, the image of her father in her mind was so kind and gentle. Although he disliked businessmen and craftsmen due to traditional concepts, he was undoubtedly a qualified father and a generous and benevolent head of the family.
But since the successful opening of the "Great Trade Route" in the Great Forest of the East a year ago, everything has changed.
The Lionsmith family and the lord, Viscount Double-Headed Axe, were very successful in commerce and handicrafts and made a fortune. However, due to his ideological reasons, his father could not accept the idea of doing business and setting up a factory. He missed the initial opportunity and his status became increasingly low.
He began to become more and more irritable and violent, more and more stubborn and old-fashioned, and would often curse at and even whip his servants.
Even Lunxi himself, his only daughter whom he once loved the most and treasured the most, whom he held in his arms for fear of dropping her and holding in his mouth for fear of her melting, was given to the Lion Carpenter family in an attempt to revitalize the family through marriage.
Family, family, family...The originally kind and loving gentleman now has only this word in his mind.
No, maybe there is also "decency".
Although the family's income was not as high as before, my father would rather borrow money from other nobles, significantly increase taxes on residents in the jurisdiction, and spend a lot of money to buy all kinds of expensive decorations from all over the continent to make the already splendidly decorated manor even more luxurious.
He said: "This is the facade of the nobility, we can't save it!"
It seems that this will be able to change the fact that the family is declining.
Lunxi couldn't understand, he really couldn't understand... The civilians in the East District only needed to give him a dozen ells to have enough food and clothing, and they would be so grateful that they would shed tears and prostrate themselves on the ground, expressing their gratitude with all kinds of absurd and heavy vows.
But my father spent thousands and tens of thousands of aires on things that were completely useless.
She couldn't understand.
"You guys are making a lot of noise."
Lunxi jumped up as if he was pricked by a needle, and saw Qi Ji climbing in from the half-open bay window. The corners of his beige coat swayed slightly in the evening breeze.
"You're here," Lunxi relaxed when he found out it was Qi Ji. "You should have said hello. You showed up out of nowhere and scared me to death."
Having said that, the resentment and depression that had accumulated in her heart were greatly reduced because of Qi Ji's appearance.
That exquisite face without a single flaw and those slightly raised corners of the mouth seemed to be able to heal any spiritual trauma. Just one look at it made her feel much happier.
"Let me be honest. You said your house was safe because a pastor was watching over it, but I just walked in casually."
Qi Ji complained while tidying up his clothes.
She sneaked in. She had originally thought that this place was protected by the strongest local force, and it would be difficult to sneak in, so she was prepared to return empty-handed or even be discovered.
But... when I came in, I did sense some unusual perceptions and some special spiritual fluctuations.
Different from the reserved and calm warriors and the agile and active mages, these spiritual fluctuations have a strange pulling force, like an endless hole, absorbing some kind of power from the surroundings at every moment, an invisible and intangible unknown force.
Most likely he is a "clergyman" belonging to the church.
It is very special, and the way of perception is different from the inspiration of ordinary extraordinary people, but in terms of the intensity of spiritual fluctuations, it is only at the level of a mid-stage mindfulness master or a mid-level righteous master.
Qi Ji crushed them with his absolute speed, coordination, reaction and perception, and they were completely unable to detect his whereabouts.
"Little Qiji, you haven't showered yet, right?" Lunxi had gotten to know Qiji quite well over the day, so he stopped being polite when addressing her. "Do you want me to run you some water? It's so comfortable to wash with the fragrant soap~~"
"Take a bath?"
Qi Ji was stunned. There were so many things going on in the past two days that he had completely forgotten about this.
"Wait, I can't control myself just by looking in the mirror. If I take off all my clothes and take a shower...hiss, I definitely can't control myself!"
What should I do? Should I just indulge myself and enjoy myself?
No, I don’t have any tools either!
"Uh, no need. I'm clean. I just need to change my clothes."
Qi Ji made an excuse to decline... but it wasn't exactly an excuse. Not only was his magical body flawless, it was also spotless and would never get dirty. It would be enough for him to just change his clothes.
"How can this be!" Lun Xi showed the expression that only an old mother would have when she saw her child didn't want to go to bed. "Xiao Qiji exercised so vigorously today and walked such a long way, she must have sweated a lot, right? How can she not take a shower! Girls have to be clean!"
Why do you feel like you are coaxing a child?
"Come on! Come in! I'll get you some water!"
Without giving Qi Ji any chance to further refuse, Lun Xi quickly moved behind her, his hands nimbly moved around her body, and in the blink of an eye he had taken off her coat and thrown it on the coat rack.
Then he put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her towards the bathroom.
“Hey, hey! I can walk by myself! Aaaah, why are you in such a hurry?!”
Qi Ji suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
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I just realized that yesterday was Valentine's Day...
Chapter 45 The toughest challenge yet!
"No! Absolutely not! I can wash it myself!"
Qi Ji took great pains to keep Lunxi out of the door - the bathroom door - and prevent her from coming in to take a bath with him.
Normally, if a cute and fair girl asks to take a bath with him, it is an extremely erotic experience, as beautiful as heaven, and she shouldn't resist it.
But her intuition told her that if she let Lunxi in, she would be treated terribly!
"Huh - OK, now it's time to challenge myself!"
After closing and locking the bathroom door, Qi Ji looked at the steaming bathtub in front of him, with a poker face as if facing a great enemy.
She knew that she was about to face the most difficult challenge so far... and perhaps even in her life.
Take a complete and normal bath!
"Come on! Qi Ji, you can do it!"
Qi Ji waved his little fist to cheer himself up.
"Level 1: Take off your shirt!"
She took a deep breath, slowly reached down with both hands, and grabbed the hem of her shirt on both sides.
Then... little by little... upwards...
As the dark grey top was lifted up centimeters at a time, a bit of dazzling white slowly revealed itself.
The slender and round waist is exposed to the air, and the graceful curves of the flanks and the small and cute belly button are mouth-watering.
When it was almost reaching her ribs, Qi Ji stopped. She needed some time to prepare herself mentally.
"A good start! All we have to do now is to continue..."
He tilted his head back, exerted force with both hands, and threw the entire shirt off his head!
