Zhao Yigui stared at the familiar face of the man in front of him, and he didn't react for a while.

But the man didn't give him a chance to come back to his senses, and raised his big axe to attack him with a dead hand. Zhao Yigui's expression froze, and in the blink of an eye, the liquid metal shot out, and the roots condensed sharply into a prison cage, instantly stabbing Li Lei, who was holding a big axe, into a sieve.

Qiu Xuan took advantage of the gap between Li Lei's figure and walked around to him and kicked him backwards, his knee against the sheath of the knife, and pressed half of his neck with a cold light.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yigui was almost easily suppressed by the blade that had not yet been unsheathed, and he even bent over and coughed twice in pain, and the excessive movement fluctuations made half of the blade cut through the skin on one side of his neck.

"Stop!"

Huang Sheng was the first to witness this scene and shouted, and then the others were more or less attracted by this sudden change and temporarily stopped their movements. "Calm down, calm down!" Huang Sheng seemed to be sincerely panicking for that Zhao Yigui at the moment, the shield in his left hand waved wildly, and he hurriedly said: "Xiao Zhao has injuries on his body, and he can't withstand such a fight." For the sake of our peers, you can let him go! ”

Zhao Yigui: "What nonsense are you talking about...... Don't listen to him, I'm fine. ”

Huang Sheng: "Yes, 'it's okay'! I don't know who rushed to the ship's infirmary to get medicine when he heard that someone was injured, but was ambushed by the ship's doctor and more than 20 executioners, and I don't know who ......"

Zhao Yigui: "Huang Sheng! cough, cough cough...... Stop it. ”

Qiu Xuan's half blade was still against his neck, and he felt the skin below tremble from coughing violently, and raised his eyebrows strangely when he heard the sound. These two are now ...... Gang up to play her?

"If it weren't for the fact that I had just learned what a ship doctor was, I would have almost ...... Do you think I'll believe it? She didn't know whether she was looking at Zhao Yigui or Huang Sheng, so she sighed softly. In the latter's puzzled questions and repeated explanations, she hit the handle of the knife on Zhao Yigui's chest with her backhand, saw him cough up another mouthful of blood uncontrollably, and raised her hand to throw him into the crowd.

"Even if you deliberately choose not to see it, it cannot be denied that he has really done a lot for you! You count...... Huh! Huang Sheng hurriedly stepped forward to catch the person who couldn't cough up blood, Qiu Xuan passed by him without squinting, and grabbed the wrist of the man with his head lowered.

"Hurt?" She looked at the blood dripping from her arm that slid all the way down Qin Jiuyuan's shoulder, and didn't care that the blood stain was also stained on her hands, so she just pulled him out of the center of the crowd. "That's no way, I won't run to the infirmary by myself to get you medicine, and be beaten by the ship doctor and more than two dozen big men......"

People watched her laugh as she spoke, leading the man outside, and the newborn light and shadow reflected on the two of them, like a virtual dream walking in another world.

"You ......"

"It's okay," Zhao Yigui helped Huang Sheng stand up and wiped a handful of blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, "It's too simple but it's not interesting, it's fun, isn't it?" ”

As he spoke, he looked at the flickering light and shadow and coughed up a cloud of blood mixed with filth, his face was pale and he didn't look like he was just playing.

“…… Let's talk about it. ”

It wasn't until he walked to a hidden corner not far from the lounge on the first floor that Qiu Xuan let go of his hand holding Qin Jiuyuan, holding his arms and raising his eyebrows to look at him. "You don't really take the initiative to fight for the sake of anger, so what's the reason?"

Qin Jiuyuan's eyes clenched his left hand, which was twisting and hanging down, and in a tooth-aching click, he slammed into the misplaced bone. He took something from the back of his hand and handed it to Qiu Xuan, "Those people, I smell blood on them and the smell is exactly the same as that of the sick person. ”

"This is ......" Qiu Xuan frowned and took the thing, shining it into the sun, and found that it was a sheet similar to fish scales. It looks like it has just been scraped off a fish, but the tentacles don't have the hardness of fish scales, but are soft and sticky to the touch.

"It was taken from the muzzle of the man who played with the gun, and it looks like he had just returned from a score mission."

Qiu Xuan carefully recalled for a moment whether she had smelled the same smell on Zhao Yigui when she held the knife against him at close range, the strange smell that Qin Jiuyuan said she had smelled on those executioners who were suspected of suffering from scurvy, but if she thought about it carefully, Zhao Yigui did not have a similar smell.

That is to say...... Lao Liang: They went to do the task by themselves, but they didn't bring Zhao Yigui? But it doesn't make sense, I just saw that Zhao Yigui was indeed injured. And, what reason do they have to spread scurvy? They weren't the last to get on board. ”

"I don't know."

"So ......"

"What are you doing here!" At this moment, the door to the lounge not far away was pushed open from the inside. Pushing the door was a woman with glasses, who saw the two of them sneaky and shouted, "This is our lounge, hurry up!" Otherwise, don't blame us for taking coercive measures! ”

"Let's find Bai Hexi, it's his friend." Qiu Xuan has good words.

"Full of nonsense! I'll say it one last time, leave now, or I'll do it! ”

Qiu Xuan glanced at her helplessly, then raised her arm weakly, and took out the horn from the accompanying space in the other party's relieved eyes. "Hey, hey, Bai Hexi, come out quickly, your teammates are going to beat someone."

"Hey, hey, Bai Hexi, hurry up and ......"

"Hey, hey, Baihexi......"

In an instant, the entire corridor on the first floor was full of echoes of the total loss of noise from the broken horn, the woman's eyes widened in disbelief, and when she finally couldn't bear to take out her weapon to duel with it, Bai Hexi appeared at the door.

"Turn that thing off and come in." He still has that face that doesn't look like a human can grow, but at this moment, his delicate facial features are full of sadness and vicissitudes that can be seen by the naked eye.

This is really unusual, since he saw Bai Hexi in the Plague Proving Ground, it was the first time that Qiu Xuan had seen such an expression appear on his face. pretended to comfort him a few times, and after following him into the door, Qiu Xuan knew some of the reasons for his expression at the moment.

I saw that on the ground of Bai Hexi's lounge, six or seven people were lying down horizontally, almost occupying the already small living room of the lounge. And these people, without exception, all have miserable faces and bright red mouths, and they look exactly the same as the patients with previous infectious diseases - Liu Qing, who came to Baihexi first, is also among them.

"It's not convenient here, let's go in and say." Bai Hexi pulled up the quilt covering Liu Qing a little, and then waved tiredly and walked into the inner room. The bespectacled woman behind him and another executioner, who could not tell his age, followed, and they sat down on a few random beds, and the woman spoke first.

"As you can see, although scurvy is not a contagious disease, it happens. Everything turned out to be as we expected, and this is just the beginning. ”

"Then your group shouldn't pour so many at once," Qiu Xuan frowned as she recalled the scene just now, "If it's such a large-scale infectious disease, for the sake of the fairness of the 'rules', then it's normal for each group to pour more or less two, why are you infected so many people at once?" Is it because you've been exposed to something? ”

"No, because they're all newcomers." Bai Hexi looked up at her with a faint expression. "Our group is by far the most divided group for newcomers, and of course according to their words, the crane tail group. I don't know if you've noticed, but all the people who are suffering from the disease at the moment are newcomers who have never been to a desperate situation or have just experienced only one world. ”

Only infecting newcomers?

If you think about it, it seems that this is indeed the case. What she knows on her side, the first to be infected on Bai Hexi's side are two newcomers, a man and a woman, and the one in Sister Yan's team can also be seen that the one in their own group is also a newcomer.

And if you look at it in this case, the situation is beneficial to them, because infecting only a new person is equivalent to a life charm.

But if this is really the case, why are Bai Hexi, including all the surviving members of this group, so vigilant and worried?

"As I said, that's the case for now. However, just now there was news from someone from another group that one of their executioners who was going through the fourth trial ground was also infected, and the time of infection was just after all the newcomers were infected. Do you understand what I mean? ”

Bai Hexi took a deep breath. "Since the third trial has been a personal copy since ancient times, it is not counted in it, so after all the newcomers are infected, those who are passing through the fourth trial ground are the first to bear the brunt. Then came the fifth and sixth proving grounds, all the way to ...... No one survived, or exactly fifty remained. ”

"And this is not the worst case scenario for us, the worst thing is, Aph, if I remember correctly, this is your fourth proving ground."

As soon as these words came out, not only him, but even the glasses woman and the other executioner also turned their heads to look at Qiu Xuan. The person who was watching intently paused, and said, "The situation has not reached this level yet, and besides, taking a step back, the currently known scurvy is not fatal. Even if I really get sick in the next second, I will lie here for a while at most, and during this time, I will have to trouble you to crack it, so I should give myself a vacation. ”

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly let out an earth-shattering cough in the living room, and even because the cough was so loud, it sounded like the devil was laughing at him.

They rushed out to check on the situation, only to find that the original executioner, who had contracted the disease, was lying on his side, his pulse had stopped beating.

Qiu Xuan: ......

But then she reacted, not because she was worried that she would get sick at any time in this situation, but because of Liu Qing, who was also lying here. Liu Qing must not die, she and Bai Hexi themselves came through Liu Qing's testing ground, if even she can't protect her, they can't say it.

"I'll go find Lao Liang and them." Saying that, Qiu Xuan got up from the bed and was about to rush back, but before anyone else could make a move, she was the first to be pulled by Bai Hexi.

"Don't go yet, at least don't go alone." "I just saw them doing a scoring assignment with a couple of other executioners who came on board on the last round," he said, and the gang ...... If I'm not mistaken, they're doing live experiments on infectious diseases against that executioner? ”

"What?"

"They looked for a couple of sick patients and ...... Call the executioners again...... You know what I mean, right? ”

Qiu Xuan thought about the scene uncontrollably and gasped.

"They must know something, I met them once in the restaurant. Even if they didn't create the epidemic, it must have something to do with them. ”

"So we'll have to talk about it, after all, those people are all old fritters. Especially the ...... of those people named Zhao Yigui" Bai Hexi's eyes were far away, staring at a small moldy black spot at the foot of the bed, and his miserable white and gorgeous face was full of wild resentment. "I really have an account, I want to find him to calculate, one, calculate."

……

The inner cabin is on the fourth floor, and it is a lounge that is rarely visited on weekdays.

"How's the injury?"

Looking at Huang Sheng, who was sweating profusely on the sofa and helping to stitch up the wound, and Zhao Yigui, who was more like an injured person than Huang Shengcai, Jiao Guancheng threw a roll of gauze over and asked casually.

"I love the injury." Zhao Yigui leaned on the sofa with his eyes closed, and suddenly said a word without a beginning. "The wound was cut right in the abdomen, a perfect cut, deep and not completely disemboweling, and the cross scratches made it possible for something inside to break through the ground in a hurry. The wound was perfect, absolutely perfect, perfect...... It's like a wound on that person's body. ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and took a perverted deep breath of blood that remained in the air. Because the executioner had two brushes in his hands, and his weapon was special, the recovery potion had no effect, and at this time it could only be treated in the most primitive and original way. Huang Sheng was sweating profusely, but his hands were firmly stitched with needles and threads on the wound on his abdomen, there was no anesthetic at all, a piece of flesh and blood blurred and dense stitches made Huang Sheng, who was watching, feel uncomfortable, only Zhao Yigui was still intoxicated, as if he was tasting and enjoying this pain.

As he spoke, he raised his head and took a perverted deep breath of blood that remained in the air. Because the executioner had two brushes in his hands, and his weapon was special, the recovery potion had no effect, and at this time it could only be treated in the most primitive and original way. Huang Sheng was sweating profusely, but his hands were firmly stitched with needles and threads on the wound on his abdomen, there was no anesthetic at all, a piece of flesh and blood blurred and dense stitches made Huang Sheng, who was watching, feel uncomfortable, only Zhao Yigui was still intoxicated, as if he was tasting and enjoying this pain.

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