Once outside of the Western District, Gong Lixin went directly to the infirmary and informed his father of the results of the negotiations with Dou Heng, which provoked Father Gong to praise his son’s growth. The father and son talked cheerfully for a while when Jin Shangyu came in and started today’s treatment.

  "Daddy will become like this after every treatment?" Gong Lixin asked uneasily as he helped his father, who fell into a deep coma-like sleep, to cover himself with a quilt.

  "Yes. The cells in his body are regenerating thus his body’s very fragile. It will take several hours for him to recover from that. This is good though. If I help him wipe out the cancer cells all at once, his body would be as fragile as a newborn. In such a case, it would take five or six days of coma-like sleep before he wakes up." Jin Shangyu explained.

  Sleeping for five or six days was not a big deal if it was before the apocalyptic days, but nowadays, it was extremely dangerous. Heaven only knows what would happen to Long Snake Island in these five or six days. Gong Lixin lowered his head and thanked Jin Shangyu for healing his father the way she did. Although Jin Shangyu’s ability was as amazing as the Heavens, he saw now that it seemed to have many flaws. Heaven really was fair. If his father was asleep for so long, the other’s ability may be revealed.

  With Gong Xiangyi’s caring for their father, Gong Lixin and Jin Shangyu walked out of the infirmary and to the death row area. Walking through that horrible hallway and seeing an open iron prison door at the end of the hallway, Jin Shangyu’s face changed and she exclaimed, "Oh no! My brother’s gone!"

  Gong Lixin raised his brows, turned around and ran to somewhere in the Eastern District where he heard the sound of a fight. Jin Shangyu understood the height of the youth’s five senses and quickly followed. Running close behind, she really saw Jin Shanghui waving his claws, fighting with several ability users. He fought fiercely, on the offensive and was about to take out the heart of an ability user.

  Gong Lixin moved with his internal force and teleported to Jin Shanghui, pushing him back with his palm. It seemed that this was not enough. He stepped in front of Jin Shanghui and, with a punch aimed at the other’s chest, hit the other’s indestructible body. Jin Shanghui went down and thick, black blood spewed out of his mouth making for a miserable appearance.

  "How many times have I told you that Long Snake Island people cannot be killed!" He threw another punch straight at Jin Shanghui’s stomach as he said coldly.

  The sound of cracked ribs rang out and Jin Shanghui shook his head in pain. His roar was full of fear and pain which made the ability user who’s heart had almost stopped beating feel pity. Jin Shangyu soon rushed in between and stopped the young man from throwing another fist and begged, "Gong Lixin, don’t fight! My brother will die!"

  "No, he can’t die. If I don’t hit him, he won’t remember!" Gong Lixin shook Jin Shangyu away and twisted Jin Shanghui’s limbs.

  Jin Shangyu knew that the young man’s approach was not wrong and that, if he didn’t take these extraordinary measures to teach her brother, her brother would never learn. Her brother might provoke public anger in the future and be killed. If her brother managed to lead a normal life, she didn’t have to live by killing others. If she couldn’t bear to withstand just this, her brother could only sink even deeper into the darkness.

  Thinking of that, Jin Shangyu’s face tightened. She stepped back. Several ability users that had been fighting with Jin Shanghui couldn’t bear watching it anymore and quickly began to persuade Gong Lixin to stop. Such a beating was really terrible and their stomachs trembled as if they themselves were hurting.

  Seeing that Jin Shanghui’s stubborn eyes dimmed and stared at his own eyes with cowardice and plea, Gong Lixin’s heart moved then and he decided to stop. He stood up straight and carefully apologized to the several ability users present. He had brought back Jin Shanghui and said he would shoulder all troubles caused by Jin Shanghui.

  Several ability users saw that Young Master Gong showed no mercy to Jin Shanghui, but treated them with courtesy and politeness and even lowered his head. How could others have any complaint left in their hearts after being flattered like this? They repeatedly waved their hands and said they had strayed into the death row building by mistake and then left while feeling guilty.

  Waiting a few minutes after the group of ability users left, Gong Lixin picked up Jin Shanghui, took him back to his cell, and gently place him down. He then put back the other’s disconnected limbs together, used his internal force to straighten out the damaged blood vessels and then gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. He whispered, "Xiaohui, I don’t want to beat you, but if I don’t, they would be very dissatisfied. When their dissatisfaction accumulates too much, they will try to get rid of you. I can only protect you for a while, but not all the time. Understand?"

  The warm internal force flowing into his limbs was much more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring. Jin Shanghui stared at the young man while soft growls came out from his throat, like a big dog wishing to please its master, pitiful yet cute at the same time.

  Gong Lixin’s heart softened and his pink lips spread out into a smile. He waved Jin Shangyu over then, "Come over and heal Xiaohui."

  The jealous Jin Shangyu approached quickly, covered her brother’s chest with her palm and emitted a white light from them. After a few breaths, the wounds on Jin Shanghui disappeared without a trace, but because of the period of weakness after treatment, he was still unable to move and could only lie down, looking at the teenager with obvious affection and fondness in his eyes. He growled as if trying to get his attention.

  Gong Lixin smiled, sat on the bed beside Jin Shanghui and stoke the long black hair on his shoulder. Ten minutes later, Jin Shanghui’s fingertips moved and his eyes opened wider. He stretched out his arm and hugged the youth into his arms. He licked the young man’s cheek and neck with his tongue, just like how a large dog would.

  Jin Shangyu could see all this from the corner of her eyes and secretly said to herself: Brother! Why didn’t I know you were a huge masochist? This person beat you up so badly, but you went back to him again. There’s no hope for you!

  But after thinking things further, Jin Shangyu didn’t have the courage to say those words out loud to her elder brother. She could only grind her teeth and say nothing when he did something. After waiting for the two big boys to finish having fun, Jin Shangyu handed Gong Lixin a handkerchief and let him wipe the saliva on his face. She saw that his face was still rosy and showed no signs of being poisoned. Her curiosity, that had been suppressed until now, started to simmer.

  "Hey, Gong Lixin. Can I get a tube of your blood?" Jin Shangyu rubbed her hand and asked carefully.

  "What do you want to do with my blood?" Gong Lixin wiped the saliva on his face and wiped the corner of Jin SHanghui’s mouth. When he heard Jin Shangyu’s request, he gave her a doubtful look.

  "You were born with blood poisonous enough that it can even resist zombie poison. I want to study it." Jin Shangyu honestly confessed.

  "I was not born with it." Gong Lixin explained after waving off her comment. "After eating Baidu Dan, I have hundreds of highly poisonous substances in my body. I use this poison to fight against poison, so even zombie poison can’t beat it."

  "What the f**k!" After learning the truth, Jin Shangyu almost jumped up and grabbed the teenager’s collar. She asked hurriedly, "How did you come up with the method of fighting poison with poison? How do you take this poison? What’s these 100 poisonous ingredients you used? Come on, tell me!"

  Jin Shangyu was very excited. Before the apocalypse, she was the best biologist and pharmacist at XX Institute of Biology. At the age of 14, she received three doctorates in biology and two others in medicine. She participated in the development of hundreds of special effect medicine. She thought she was the top-most genius in the field of biology and medicine, but there were always higher mountains. The teenager in front of her was obviously more talented and more creative than her.

  The young man frowned and shrugged. He said, "I read it from a martial arts novel. I just tried it and it worked."

  It seemed to have come from a martial arts novel. The three words, martial arts novel, seem to infinitely circulate in her mind, making her whole body stiff, as if she had turned to stone. A puff of cold wind had blown and messed up her carefully placed chess pieces, that’s how she felt. After reading such novel casually, you can invent such a heavenly antidote!? What kind of ingenuity gap is this?!!

  After wiping her face, Jin Shangyu asked with a trembling voice, "That’s alright. No matter where you got it from, give me the prescription so I can research it. I’m begging you." Then she put her hands together and gazed at Gong Lixin with sparkling eyes.

  Gong Lixin gave her a strange look, went to the desk and wrote down the ingredient required for Baidu Dan before handing it to her.

  Seeing that the good-looking youth’s penmanship on the back of the paper, Jin Shangyu raised her brow, glanced at him in surprise before quickly falling into trace as she studied the ingredients. A few minutes later, she sighed, "It’s no wonder that after taking this medicine, you’re still alive. The toxicity of these poisons is high but the type of poison is heat poison, cold poison, fire poison and ice poison. They are listed according to the principles of Yin and Yang while including the five elements. Ah! If everyone took this medicine, wouldn’t it be equivalent to injecting an anti-zombie vaccine?" As she spoke, her eyes burst with light.

  "The medicine is very toxic. According to a normal person’s constitution, only those who are level 3 and above can take it. Others will die immediately after eating it. Also, there are many poisonous ingredients in this medicine, but most of the material are now extinct, so this is just a piece of waste paper." Gong Lixin pursed his lips and kindly reminded.

  "If the toxicity is too great, the poison can be separated into smaller doses in accordance to the principle of relative grams, then can be ingested in small batches. After ingesting forty or fifty times, the body’s toxicity will reach an ideal balance point and will produce antibodies against zombie poison." Jin Shangyu deserved the title of ’genius’ and soon found a solution to their problem.

  After thinking for a moment, Jin Shangyu added, "The last thing is the highly toxic plant or creatures from before the apocalyptic days. Many of these poisonous material on the list can be alternated with something with the same or similar level of toxicity. After a little research, I will definitely find an improved prescription method." After that, she nodded firmly. There was now a fire burning in her heart.

  After hearing her last two sentences, Gong Lixin’s eyes also brightened. He lowered his head and wrote down another prescription and handed it to Jin Shangyu. He slowly explained, "Since you can find a suitable substitute for Baidu Dan, then make this medicine as well. This one needs medicinal material such as Yu Liren which has to be stored in a cool place to maintain its efficacy. I didn’t expect that the weather would be so hot after the apocalypse. At first, I thought I could collect Yu Liren from a storage. But now, Yu Liren in traditional Chinese medicine shops in the city cannot be used after being exposed to two years of high temperature. So this elixir can no longer be made and I was worried."

  Jin Shangyu took the prescription and looked it over. She frowned and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"

  "Bugu Dan," Gong Lixin replied simply.

  "Bugu Dan pill that can let you go months without eating?" Jin Shangyu’s voice was hoarse and her cheeks became red as if a big hand was choking her throat, leaving her in danger of dying from the lack of air. If these two prescriptions were real, she knew that the human population on the brink of extinction will rise again and be able to break through the heavy clouds and, finally, see a hope for life.

  "Wrong, it’s just that you don’t need to eat for half a month." Gong Lixin turned his head and corrected her mistake with a serious attitude.

  Don’t need to eat for half a month, alright!? Jin Shangyu wiped her face with her trembling hands. She then tugged the youth’s sleeves, unwilling to let it go as she mournfully asked, "Brother, which martial arts novel did you read? Please let me kneel and read it!"

  CrazedCookies: Some people asked earlier if I got Jin Shangyu’s age wrong. It seems like I did. She’s actually 18 right now. (I thought she was older because I knew she had a diploma and all)