Chapter 79: Can You Save Her?

What he was holding was a corpse!

A dried-up corpse, nothing but skin and bones, with its eyes and face covered in sand, making it hard to see clearly. The body had completely lost its obvious gender features, leaving only the dark red hair that hung past its shoulders, which still allowed people to tell its original gender.

At this moment, Chen Fengshi, who was holding the mummy, simply wanted to throw up. He wanted to throw the corpse away like a hot potato, he wanted to pin Queen Huang to the ground and beat her up, he wanted to…

But he did not do any of that.

He held back the nausea in his stomach. He felt that it was his long-term desire to maintain the calm image that Shen Ai liked that gave him the strength to fight against all kinds of discomfort.

Queen Huang certainly did not do this without thinking. Given her laziness, what motive could she have to jump into the sandpit to help dig up a corpse?

She was clearly testing Chen Fengshi’s reaction on purpose!

So Chen Fengshi’s reason told him that he could not avoid the mummy, and he had to hold it in front of him in the best way to pretend to be calm!

However, his stomach churned, churned, churned…

He knew he could not keep up the act for much longer, and at any moment he might drop the mummy on the ground and then squat beside it to vomit.

“Good thing it didn’t fall…” Chen Fengshi had a sudden flash of inspiration. He squatted down slowly and gently, carefully placing the mummy on the ground. He looked at the mummy’s face and stared at it for a long while.

But actually, in that moment, he used his ultimate skill of spacing out in class. He did not see anything at all, and his mind went completely blank.

After a short while, Chen Fengshi suddenly let out a long sigh and said slowly, “She was a beauty, how did it come to this?”

He stood up, turned around, faced the sea, and let his gaze fall on the distant horizon where the sea and sky met.

Little An was very impressed. If she did not know that Chen Fengshi did not know the people from the Mutual Aid Association who had the accident, she would even think: This is a man with a story, so calm in the face of a corpse, even if the victim was an old acquaintance, he could still control his sadness well.

But she knew the truth, so she could only admire how well Chen Fengshi could pretend!

Queen Huang was also fooled. She could not imagine what such a young man must have experienced to be so unusual. So, she jumped out of the sandpit and said with a pretended apology, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know it was your friend. I should have been gentler.”

“The deceased is gone, which brings sorrow. Looking back at the past, every little bit is still vivid in my mind. Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness have all become beautiful memories… I only wish that if the person is well, even if we are always arguing, it is better than being separated by life and death—” Chen Fengshi said, his voice getting lower and lower, finally turning into a long sigh. Then, he walked toward the sea, as if only the vast, boundless ocean could wash away the full sorrow in his narrow chest at this moment.

Little An watched Chen Fengshi walk further and further away, listening to his nonsense, and she only wanted to do one thing, which was to go over and kick him!

He knew how to pretend to be sad and hide to digest the psychological trauma of facing the corpse, and then leave all the trouble to her? She was not a corpse mover, so where would she get the rich experience to calmly face such a terrifying corpse?

Little An stared coldly at Queen Huang and said, “Wait here, don’t run around, I’ll go check on him.”

Queen Huang thought, where could she run to in this ghostly place? Run back to the city? Could she outrun a car? Besides, why would she run? She had just provided valuable information, and their cooperation had just entered its initial stage. She was not a Lei Feng who just did good deeds; why would she break the contract and run away before even getting the benefits of the cooperation?

Queen Huang saw Little An chase after Chen Fengshi to comfort him, so she had no choice but to boredly examine the mummy by herself. However, she could not guess whether the corpse was beautiful or ugly when it was alive, so she found it boring. She only hoped that the two by the sea would come back soon. She had been dragged here and still did not know the specific situation…

Little An chased after Chen Fengshi. At the spot where she was two steps away from entering the wet sand washed by the waves, she turned her head and saw an unusually heavy grief on Chen Fengshi’s face. So, she said coldly, “Hurry back. Queen Huang still doesn’t know the specific situation. We need to get information about Juzi’s situation through her before we can figure out a way to rescue her.”

Chen Fengshi continued to remain silent, his pained expression unchanged. He felt that Little An had seen through his pretending, but he still needed time to digest the shock of the corpse. It was not that he did not want to speak, but he felt that as long as he opened his mouth, he would be unable to suppress the churning in his stomach and would just throw up!

“Hey? Are you okay or not?” Little An saw that Chen Fengshi had not made a sound for a while, and guessed that he was feeling very sick, so she asked without much emotion.

Chen Fengshi waited a little longer, and then said, “Asking a man if he can do it, are you doing it on purpose or are you doing it deliberately?”

“Being able to talk nonsense shows that there’s no big problem.” A smile hung on the corner of Little An’s mouth, but she never looked into Chen Fengshi’s eyes.

Chen Fengshi was much better. He constantly gave himself self-suggestions, treating the mummy as a mummy, treating it as experiencing a mummy… When a person dies, it is like a lamp going out, there is nothing to be afraid of, let alone it being broad daylight with the blazing sun high in the sky… In short, he kept telling himself he was not afraid, he was not afraid! Until he himself felt that he was truly not afraid anymore, and all the adverse reactions completely disappeared.

“My life is being overturned every day!” Chen Fengshi originally had a belly full of feelings he wanted to express, but once he was no longer nauseous and could speak, he suddenly felt that saying too much was completely meaningless. In the end, this one concluding sentence was enough.

As the saying goes: Every day is a new day.

But for him now, every day was a new life!

Little An did not say anything. Even when Chen Fengshi turned around and walked back to face his new life, she still stood there, looking at the sea. Since Chen Fengshi had gone back, she certainly had a little more time to digest the various shadows and discomforts brought by the corpse.

Chen Fengshi pretended to be calm and told Queen Huang the necessary situation. Finally, he asked her, “Do you have a way to turn a person who possesses the Power of Life into this kind of state?”

Queen Huang looked at the mummy, and had actually been thinking about why this happened and why someone would turn a person into this. When Chen Fengshi asked, she very calmly shrugged and said with a smile, “Actually, you should be able to think of the answer.”

“I am asking you! As for whether I have an answer myself, that is another matter.” Chen Fengshi certainly would not let her brush him off like this.

Queen Huang smiled helplessly, with an attitude of since you want to test her, she will answer. “In theory, before my many Parasites are drained dry, I will not be killed by you, but in reality, it is not like that. There are many ways for the Fungal Demon to turn you into this. The most essential factor is to consume your Power of Life to the limit.”

That was right, what Queen Huang said was indeed the only way Chen Fengshi had thought about over and over.

But the question was, how was it done? Absorbing the Power of Life could replenish the Fungal Demon, just like getting food, but what method did the Fungal Demon use to achieve this? And why did it do this? This was the key point—for the Fungal Demon, wouldn’t it be better to create various accidents to directly kill them, why go through so much trouble?

“In fact, I have no need to do this, I am just saying that theoretically it can be done.” Queen Huang said this, looking completely honest, and continued, “Our Huang Tribe has always advocated relative peace. For such a troublesome approach, I think there is only one reason: an experiment motivated by research. Burying and hiding it is also to prevent you from discovering this motive.”

Chen Fengshi fell silent for a short while. Queen Huang’s words sounded quite reasonable. If this was an experiment by a certain Fungal Demon to study the Power of Life, then everything could be reasonably explained. But this was only a possibility, of course, it was also the most likely possibility based on the information currently available.

It was just that this was not an answer that could make people absolutely certain.

“Is there no other possibility?” Chen Fengshi thought for a moment and asked again.

“Humans might have mentally abnormal lunatics who take pleasure in torturing and killing, but we do not. We only fight for survival, and for better survival.” Queen Huang seemed to not want to miss any opportunity to state her position, and emphasized again, “For the Hong Tribe, after eliminating all competing predators, keeping the Parasites’ lives as stable and fast-paced as possible is the best way to ensure reproduction efficiency and increase the number of Parasites; for the Huang Tribe, if the Parasites have opposing power , instead of fighting for a long time and time again, it is better to explore a way of coexistence that both sides can accept.”

“I understand. Without a doubt, the Hong Tribe is our common enemy.” Chen Fengshi nodded to show his stance. He understood very well—understanding that Queen Huang was taking the opportunity to emphasize the stability of the foundation of their cooperation, continuing to strengthen the image of the Hong Tribe as a common enemy.

These words were equivalent to saying that the Huang Tribe would not conduct this kind of research, and if such research existed, it must have been done by the Hong Tribe!

Chen Fengshi certainly would not point this out clearly. He stated his approval of this foundation, and regardless of whether Queen Huang believed it or not, it would keep their current cooperation in a good state.

Little An came back at this time. She felt that she had made enough psychological preparation to face the mummy without fear.

To show her calmness, after she returned, she carefully examined the mummy once, and even used her hand to wipe away the sand on the detailed parts of the mummy, hoping to see more clearly. Finally, she stood up and said, “There are no external wounds at all.”

Chen Fengshi was thinking about Juzi’s situation, so he asked Queen Huang again, “If the person is not dead, is there a way to save her?”

Queen Huang thought for a moment, then shook her head. “When the Power of Life is completely consumed by unconventional means, the organism will enter a special self-protection state at the last moment. In this state, the consumption of the body is reduced to the limit, like the freezing of a life state. There should be only one way to recover: which is to inject the missing Power of Life into it.”

No wonder Queen Huang shook her head, this method was the same as having no method at all. If the Power of Life was missing, how could it be injected externally? At least, no such way had been discovered yet.

Chen Fengshi, carrying the urgency of saving Juzi, then asked a method that was, rationally speaking, very inappropriate. “If I let you parasitize, can you save her?”

Yes, this was the possibility he had been thinking about for a long time.

At this moment, he felt even more that there was hope. There was no way to inject the Power of Life, but the Fungal Demon and the Power of Life had similar characteristics in terms of recovery, and the Fungal Demon was even more powerful in controlling human body functions.

If injecting the Power of Life did not work, then what about injecting the Fungal Demon?

As long as Juzi recovered, and he then swallowed the Fungal Demon in her body, wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?

Queen Huang looked at Chen Fengshi’s eyes with a smile, as if she had already read the importance of the person he wanted to save from his question.