Chapter 7

C7 – Antidote for the Virus!

Upon seeing this, a glimmer of joy flickered across Tan Chong’s face. He was now certain that the yellow cloth bag in his hand was akin to a storage space. He composed himself, carefully stowed the storage bag, and then made his way directly to Chen Dong.

“Tan Chong, why didn’t you save us?” Chen Dong glared at him, his voice laced with anger and accusation. Despite Tan Chong’s evident strength, he had stood by as Chen Dong was attacked by zombies, fueling his rage to its peak.

​Tan Chong smirked with disdain. “Weren’t you plotting against me? Why on earth would I save you?”

“You’re heartless,” Chen Dong spat, his eyes brimming with venomous spite, while regret gnawed at him. Had he known this day would come, he would have taken Tan Chong’s life sooner.

​”Conserve your energy; you’ll be a zombie soon enough,” Tan Chong said nonchalantly, rubbing his nose. Once bitten by a zombie, unless one dies immediately, infection sets in, turning the victim into a zombie. The more severe the wounds, the quicker the transformation.

Chen Dong, riddled with injuries, wouldn’t last long before succumbing to the change. His face paled at the thought. Becoming a zombie meant losing all sense of self, reduced to a mere shell of existence.

“I’d rather die than become one of them,” Chen Dong pleaded desperately. “Tan Chong, for the sake of our shared origins from the Gathering Land, end my life.”

“Rest assured, I’ll kill you, but not just yet,” Tan Chong responded with conviction.

​”What do you mean?” Chen Dong’s fear escalated as he realized Tan Chong intended to wait until the transformation was complete before striking. Such malice was chilling.

“Activate.”

Instantly, a small transparent glass bottle materialized in Tan Chong’s hand, filled with a mysterious blue liquid.

Simultaneously, new information flooded his mind.

The antiviral liquid medicine was effective against the zombie virus. If he were bitten by a zombie, timely consumption of the medicine would prevent him from turning into one.

“This is great!” Tan Chong couldn’t hide his joy.

Surviving in the apocalypse, his greatest fear was a zombie bite. Now, with the antiviral liquid medicine in his possession, it was as if he had gained an extra life.

Clearly, the antiviral liquid medicine was as valuable as the storage bag, if not more so.

Shortly thereafter, Tan Chong carefully stowed the antiviral liquid medicine into his storage bag and proceeded to extract Energy Stones from the zombie’s remains.

With eight Energy Stones now in his possession, Tan Chong was overjoyed.

This substantial haul meant that even without taking on any missions for a month, he could live comfortably in the Celestial South Gathering Land.