Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Treatment

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Urgh!” Wu Peng could not stop himself from pulling off the mask of his protective gear and vomiting either.

The two of them looked at each other and vomited on the ground a dozen meters apart.

The two of them no longer had any gas left in the tank. They did not even have the strength to raise their guns.

Wu Peng was not afraid that the other person would try to escape. Instead, he sat up and started to rest.

On the other hand, S1 tried to continue to run away. In the end, he staggered and fell face-first into the dirt.

“Hahaha, fool!” Wu Peng slowly stood up and walked toward his enemy.

S1 saw Wu Peng slowly approach him. He wanted to stand up but he felt an intense pain in his thigh when his leg cramped up.

“Why does Viper want to destroy the satellite signal receiver? I’ll let you go if you can answer this question,” Wu Peng said as he interrogated the man.

S1’s face was contorted with pain, and his eyes were bloodshot.

“You don’t want to say? Then consume your poison and commit suicide.” A cold, merciless smile spread across Wu Peng’s face.

“How did you know… The person who foiled the plan the other night, was it you?” S1 heard that Wu Peng knew of the existence of the poison in his mouth and immediately realized that Wu Peng was the one who killed the men that Viper had sent out the other night.

Thinking about this, S1 silently moved his hand toward the grenades around his waist. It would be worth it if he could take this man’s life along with his.

Wu Peng noticed the actions of the other person and felt a wave of anxiety. His legs were like logs. He would not be able to avoid an explosion at such a close distance.

Besides, it was too late for him to take action and stop the other person. He would instead make the enemy blow himself up even sooner.

This was the most dangerous moment he had been in ever since he came to this post-apocalyptic world.

Countless ideas flashed in his head as he tried to think of a way to avoid this.

S1 pulled off a grenade from his waist and held it in his hand. He looked at Wu Peng with a ferocious smile, “Hehe, you’re trying to force me to commit suicide? That’s giving you too much of a benefit. I’ll drag you down along with me when I die!”

He clenched his teeth after he was done speaking and was about to pull off the pin of the grenade.

Wu Peng suddenly saw the other person’s pouch at this critical moment and remembered that the black crystal was in it.

“Haha, to think that Viper would nurture such a stupid person. How could you not fail?” Wu Peng said with a mocking tone.

S1 did not expect Wu Peng to dare mock him. He loosened his bite and asked, “What nonsense are you speaking at the brink of your death? I will forever have utmost loyalty for Viper!”

Seeing that the other person had taken the bait, Wu Peng heaved a sigh of relief, and his mocking expression became even heavier. “Is that so? Didn’t Viper send you out to steal the black crystal?”

S1 stared at Wu Peng and did not speak.

“Did they not warn you before you came out that you had to bring the black crystal back at all cost?” Wu Peng asked mockingly, his lips curled into an evil smile.

S1’s gaze started to waver. He seemed to understand what Wu Peng talked about.

“Once you set off the grenade, the black crystal would definitely be blasted to bits. Tell me, wouldn’t that foil Viper’s plans?” Wu Peng’s words were very logical.

S1 started to hesitate. However, he still rebutted, “Wouldn’t it be even worse if it landed in your hands?”

Wu Peng looked at S1 as if he were a fool. He shook his head and said, “Tsk tsk tsk. You don’t admit that you are a fool. Viper can still snatch the crystal back if it landed in my hands. But it would be completely lost if it got blasted to bits.”

S1 was confused. It was true that Viper thought the black crystal was highly important. Would he have foiled the plans if he blasted the crystal to pieces?

Seeing that S1 was in a daze, Wu Peng sneakily moved his hand toward the handgun beside his waist after his stamina recovered slightly after a short rest.

As long as he could pull out his gun, Wu Peng was confident that he could kill S1 with one shot at such a close distance.

Unfortunately, S1 started to laugh maniacally, “Hahaha! I nearly got fooled by your devious words.”

As he spoke, he took out the black crystal from his pouch and threw it off to the side, and pulled the pin out of the grenade.

“F*ck!” Wu Peng did not have time to stop him. He could only turn around and crouch on the ground. However, at such a close distance, he would definitely be heavily injured, if not killed, by the impact.

Countless images flashed past Wu Peng’s mind within a few seconds. The final image was of Ye Wei’s face.

He crouched for a while but realized that nothing happened.

When he looked back, S1 also had a confused expression. He looked at the grenade in his hand in a daze.

“Hahaha! To think that it’s a dummy grenade! The quality of Viper’s items is so poor!” Wu Peng mocked S1 maniacally. He stood up and fiercely kicked the grenade in S1’s hand away.

S1 had just come to his senses and he let out a howl of despair. He did not expect to be done in by the organization that he trusted the most. “Don’t be so smug! I have more!”

S1 wanted to take out another grenade. However, Wu Peng did not give him a chance to as he stomped down on S1’s face and immediately fractured his nose bridge. He even broke off three of S1’s teeth.

When he saw that the advantage was lost, S1 closed his eyes and bit down fiercely onto the poison that was inlaid in his back molar. A streak of black blood flowed down the corner of his mouth and his body tilted to the side and he died.

Wu Peng let out a long sigh. It was troublesome to battle a lunatic who was not afraid of death.

Fortunately, he was lucky enough to come across a dummy grenade. Otherwise, he would have lost his life today.

Wu Peng found the black crystal in S1’s pouch. He thought that the item looked familiar, “Didn’t it look like the fragment of the meteor that I used to make the chip?”

He pried the protective gear around S1’s arm open and saw the tattoo of a black snake.

With the black crystal in hand, Wu Peng went back to search for the unconscious woman.

After he rested for a moment, he carried the woman back to his shelter.

Wu Peng was at his limits after the string of battles he had. He slumped onto the floor after he placed the woman on the bed.

He took out a few buns and polished them off in an instant. Now that he had food in his stomach, his stamina recovered quickly.

“Stamina increased by one point.” A notification of the system rang out.

Wu Peng wore a bitter smile, “I only got one point after I was nearly exhausted to death.”

He examined the woman and realized that not only was she covered in wounds, but she was also severely dehydrated. Her life might be in danger.

He got some purified water with a can and slowly fed it to her.

He accessed his production station and produced a few simple medicines and bandages for ten points before he carefully cleaned and tended to her wounds.

The woman’s breathing gradually stabilized after nearly an hour’s worth of treatment. She slowly opened her eyes after another hour.

The woman shouted in shock and fear when she saw the unfamiliar environment she was in.

“My name is Wu Peng. Don’t be afraid, you are safe now. I’ve killed all of the people who were pursuing you.” Wu Peng placed the black crystal in her hands.

The woman bawled when she was the crystal in her hands. Wu Peng did not stop her, he quietly waited for her to regain her composure.

Finally, the woman stopped crying, and she said with a raspy voice, “Thank you, my name is Elsa.”

“Elsa, can you tell me what happened?” Wu Peng asked her gently.

“It’s all because of this crystallized meteorite!” Elsa slowly told Wu Peng about what happened.