Chapter 1279
Cause
Chapter 1279 Cause
Lin Fan was led by Ao Hen through a series of passages, entering an underground stone chamber of a certain building.
The people who had rolled out of the leather were lying scattered all over the ground, and there wasn't a single one who could stand up.
"Senior Sister?" Lin Fan first looked at Mu Jingjing, who still showed no reaction. Then he looked at Yu Sinian, whose lips were pale and face bloodless. "Senior Brother?"
In just a short while, Du Xingyu's skin developed cracked scabs, as if they would fall off at the slightest touch.
Shen Xiuyuan squatted down next to Jin Tong, who was lying on the ground unable to get up, and frowned as he looked at her forearm with disdain on her sleeve.
Lin Fan's existing medical knowledge was insufficient to deal with the current situation, so he had to go to Shen Xiuyuan's side, only to find that Jin Tong's arm had many dark red spots.
"This is..." Lin Fan thought of the burns on Du Xingyu's face, "Jin Tong was also burned?"
Just now, in order to drive away the white shadow, quite a few sparks did fall on the Golden Boy, but...
Lin Fan looked at the red burn marks on Jin Tong's face, then at the red patches on his arm...
It seems a little different.
Shen Xiuyuan seemed not to hear Lin Fan's question, and frowned as he rolled up Jin Tong's sleeves.
Beneath the intact sleeve, there were even more red spots on the upper arm.
For the first time, Shen Xiuyuan lost his composure and roughly rolled up Jin Tong's other sleeve. It too was covered in dark red spots, seemingly spreading from the upper arm to the forearm, decreasing in number as they appeared to spread.
"Senior brother..." Jin Tong, who had been crying after the fall, was startled when he saw the state of his arms and was at a loss.
"What's going on?" Ling Yichen sat cross-legged on one leg, with the other leg resting on the Broken Sky Sword to support himself from falling.
He knew that for Shen Xiuyuan to lose his composure like this, the situation was probably not good.
Shen Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, then rolled up his sleeves, and ignoring Lin Fan who was right in front of him, he opened his shirt, looked at his smooth skin, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
His action made Lin Fan and Ling Yichen, who had been watching, unconsciously check their arms as well, but they didn't find any red spots.
Shen Xiuyuan struggled to get up, but before his knees could straighten, he felt dizzy and his vision went black.
Lin Fan quickly stepped forward and supported the person: "Senior brother, are you alright?"
"He has something to do." Ao Hen's voice was serious, lacking his usual smile.
Lin Fan helped Shen Xiuyuan steady and looked back.
Ao Heng stood with his arms crossed, his face as cold as frost, no longer resembling his former self.
They had previously discussed whether Ao Heng, if he had also entered this place, had already found the treasure vault and obtained some incredible secret treasure...
But now, who has the mind to care where Ao Hen came from, what he went through, or what he gained...
“It’s not just him, we’re all in trouble.” Ao Heng let out a short, sharp sound. “It’s just that everyone’s symptoms are different.”
He rolled up his sleeve, ripped off the blood-stained bandage, revealing a deep, swollen, and gaping wound that exposed bone. The flesh around the wound was a dark, reddish-brown, and the surrounding skin was also severely swollen and red, like…
Lin Fan turned to Du Xingyu.
Just like the swelling on Du Xingyu's face earlier...
But Du Xingyu's facial injuries were the result of his deliberate neglect of treatment. There's no reason why Ao Hen would also deliberately neglect treatment.
“At first I didn’t pay much attention,” Ao Hen said, taking out a small porcelain bottle with his other hand and pouring medicine powder onto the wound in front of Lin as if to show it off. “Later I discovered that this small wound was actually difficult to heal.”
The powder dissolved in the wound, turning into reddish-black blood that dripped down the arm.
Ao Hen is a demon cultivator, so his recovery ability is naturally stronger than that of humans. In the past, he didn't even need to apply medicine to this kind of injury; the wound would heal in less than half a day.
This time, however, the slow healing of the wound caught his attention.
He also had medicine for his wounds, but after taking it both externally and internally, his condition did not improve; instead, it worsened.
After a thorough review, Ao finally pinpointed the source of the doubt to the environment in which they were situated.
"Environment?" Lin Fan blinked. "Is there anything here that could worsen the wound?"
"Not only..." Shen Xiuyuan weakly gestured towards Mu Jingjing.
Lin Fan quickly followed his strength and helped the person over.
Shen Xiuyuan sat down on the ground and rolled up Mu Jingjing's sleeve. The dark red spots were even more dense than those on Jin Tong's arm.
"This..." Lin Fan didn't wait for Shen Xiuyuan to speak, rushed to Yu Sinian's side, and rolled up his sleeves, "No!"
Shen Xiuyuan's gaze did not ease, and then he heard Du Xingyu shouting in a muffled voice.
"What are you talking about? Someone come and see what's wrong with me. My face feels strange, and I can only see a slit in the air."
Du Xingyu placed both hands on his face, presumably to scratch it, but only felt a sensation like the bark of a bitter tree. Knowing something was wrong, he didn't dare to move and simply listened quietly to the movements of the others.
"I'm sorry, Xingyu." Shen Xiuyuan's expression was grave. "It was my oversight."
"What exactly happened?" Ling Yichen was completely baffled, and feeling powerless, he became increasingly irritable.
Shen Xiuyuan was panting heavily, and Lin Fan helped him catch his breath. In the end, it was Ao Hen who answered their questions.
"There is something invisible and colorless here that affects our bodies. If there is a wound, it will become red, swollen, inflamed, and difficult to heal. If there is no wound, it may cause dark red spots on the skin, or dizziness, weakness in the limbs..."
“Yes,” Shen Xiuyuan continued, “Xingyu’s wound was red and swollen before, and I always thought it was due to a drug reaction…”
He took a couple of breaths and continued, "It must have had an effect back then, but I never paid attention to it. That stuff can seep into wounds, causing them to worsen, making them difficult to heal, and causing dry skin... Even now that I know, I still don't know why it's causing it..."
Du Xingyu listened quietly to Shen Xiuyuan's words, paused for only a moment, and then said in a relaxed tone, "Hey~ Senior Brother, there's no need for that. I'm still alive and kicking, aren't I? It's alright. As long as we cultivators have a breath left, no injury is a problem. I was wondering why my face looked so dry and tight..."
His face, as withered as tree bark, was no longer expressive, yet he was still comforting Shen Xiuyuan.
Red, swollen, and cracked skin... Is this a symptom of a severe allergic reaction?
No, that's not right! Allergies can indeed cause skin rashes, but they shouldn't cause a cultivator's limbs to weaken or their cultivation to diminish...
Lin Fan surveyed the crowd, his mind racing as he quickly analyzed the situation.
Du Xingyu was injured. In addition to skin symptoms, he also experienced weakness in his limbs. However, his breathing seemed relatively stable.
Turning to look at Ao Heng, he also had a wound that was slow to heal, but his skin didn't appear to have changed color. And there were no other problems.
But Ao Heng is a demon cultivator, and individual differences exist between them...
Lin Fan looked at the others again.
Both Mu Jingjing and Jin Tong had red spots on their bodies. Mu Jingjing was the first to faint. Why?
Could it be because of that mutated vine from the very beginning? Did it entangle Mu Jingjing?
Although it was only for a short time and no wounds were caused, there was still close contact.
She then looked at Ling Yichen. He was also someone who had been in close contact with Jing Teng. He didn't have any red spots, but his limbs were weak... Could it be because of his high cultivation level?
Then they turned to Shen Xiuyuan. But he was far from Yu Sinian and Jin Tong, and protected, so he hadn't come into contact with the thorny vines…
No, it's not the thorny vines that are the problem.
Could it be the white figure from earlier?
Lin Fan's gaze fell on Jin Tong again. Had Bai Ying already done something to Jin Tong? Was it too late for her to wake up?
What exactly was that white figure? A spirit?
Lin Fan felt it didn't quite resemble them. At least not like the spirits she had encountered in the fog and lake...
She was also affected; if the white shadow had truly invaded her body, she couldn't possibly have been unaware of it.
and many more!
Lin Fan suddenly found some overlapping information in his vast brain.
Her breath hitched.
With his left hand pressing on the disciple's token, he brushed his right hand across the bracelet space on his left wrist, pretending to take out a cube-shaped electronic device with an LCD screen from the token.
Now everyone is either dizzy or feeling unwell, and no one is paying attention to her little actions.
Lin Fan powered on the machine from memory, set the values, and started it.
The long-absent electronic buzzer sounded urgently and continuously.
On the LCD screen, the largest yellow number displays 001.50.
The suffix Sv translates to "Siv" in English.
It is the unit of measurement for radiation on the planet Lan.