Treating Injuries

"Be careful! Come back early! I'll be waiting for you!"

The next morning, Gu Sheng and Chu Xin bid farewell at the cave entrance. The little beauty shook her hand, tidied the stray hairs at her temples behind her ears, and playfully winked at Gu Sheng, but a hint of worry remained deeply hidden in her eyes.

As Gu Sheng's companion, she knew better than anyone that the two of them were definitely the Reincarnators in this world who had gained the most. While most Reincarnators were still in the 'pioneering' stage, they had already met the requirements to return to the real world.

The sum of their completion progress far exceeded more than half of all the remaining Reincarnators combined. At this point, they didn't need to risk venturing deep into the Wildlands. They could simply manage their existing advantages well, and when the time came, they could safely return.

However, Gu Sheng insisted on venturing deep into the Wildlands, and for Gu Sheng's sake, she chose to take the risk with him. Although she didn't know why Gu Sheng was so eager for strength, she knew that he must have encountered some difficulties.

Gu Sheng's expression had turned particularly ugly after learning from her that entering and exiting the Reincarnation World only took an instant in real-world time. And at that moment, she understood that he must have encountered great difficulties in the real world.

This difficulty was forcing this cautious man to risk his life venturing deep into the Wildlands in search of the Vermillion Fruit. You had to know, in the crisis-ridden Wildlands, life and death could be decided in an instant, and if they failed to return in time when faced with a crisis, they might never be able to return.

"I will!"

Gu Sheng placed his right hand on her delicate head, affectionately stroking the back of the little girl's head, and made a solemn promise. The little girl might not have even noticed the change in her attitude towards Gu Sheng. A girl would only unconsciously tidy her appearance in front of someone she liked.

Gu Sheng noticed it, but he didn't point it out. Wasn't it good as it was now! Waving goodbye to Chu Xin, Gu Sheng pushed the stone slab back to seal the cave entrance. Then, he set off towards Iron Arm Ape Mountain again, carrying the antidote he had just gathered this morning.

Under the clear sky, the scorching sun blazed. Gu Sheng advanced along a winding path, looking down at the snake trail in the distance, a trace of nervousness in his heart. What he was about to do was extremely dangerous, and a single mistake could lead to his death on the spot.

In a valley on the mountainside of Iron Arm Ape Mountain, a green mist permeated the valley, the dampness carrying a sweet scent that made people feel dizzy. Gu Sheng covered his mouth with a damp towel, squinting his eyes to carefully survey his surroundings while slowly pursuing the traces ahead.

"Huff! This big guy can really run!"

After walking in the deep valley for about half an hour, Gu Sheng arrived at a secluded cliff foot. Not far ahead was a spacious, shallow cave, and a gigantic Verdant Python was constantly roaring and writhing.

"Thump~ Thump~ Thump~"

The Verdant Python restlessly thrashed, its tail, as thick as a water bucket, heavily slamming against the rock wall, stirring up gusts of wind. Pieces of gravel flew haphazardly, showing that the Verdant Python was in great pain.

"As expected, it's seriously injured!"

Gu Sheng's gaze shifted, focusing on the area behind the Verdant Python's neck. The four bloody holes were quite frightening. Through the thick green mist, Gu Sheng could observe that there seemed to be something in its wounds that shouldn't be there.

"Roar~"

Suddenly, the Verdant Python turned its head to look at Gu Sheng, opening its abyssal maw to roar a warning at Gu Sheng. It had already recognized this 'little monkey' as the one it had let escape yesterday. It hadn't expected this 'little monkey' to be so bold as to dare come and try to take advantage of it.

Gu Sheng took out the ointment he had dried yesterday, rubbed a circle on his hands, and then evenly applied it to his cheeks and some exposed skin surfaces. After doing all this, he took a deep breath, raised his hands, and slowly walked towards the wary Verdant Python.

"Roar~"

The Verdant Python hissed, warning Gu Sheng not to approach. After the 'admonition' was ineffective, it opened and closed its large mouth, and a burst of dark green mist shot towards Gu Sheng, a murky green mist wall spreading in mid-air.

Speaking of which, Gu Sheng was lucky. Yesterday, the Verdant Python had used its ultimate move to deal with the Iron Arm Apes, and its venom had been almost completely depleted. Moreover, it was in poor condition due to carelessness and injury, so it didn't produce enough venom, and there wasn't a sufficient dose of liquid venom.

Gu Sheng's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly stepped aside and paused, then leaped and flipped over the green mist wall. Although he had an antidote, he would be done for if he was directly hit by a large amount of poisonous mist.

Gu Sheng landed with a flip, and then quickly rushed towards the Verdant Python. The Verdant Python was furious at the sight, and with its painful snake head, it shot towards Gu Sheng. Although it was in poor condition, it was not something a 'little monkey' could provoke.

Gu Sheng continued to shorten the distance with the snake head, and he could even observe the dense silver teeth revealed between the openings and closings of the snake head.

"Go~"

Just as the two were about to make contact, Gu Sheng suddenly pulled and yanked, throwing out the large package he had been carrying behind his back. Then, he dodged the snake head with a sideways step, and quickly used the Horizon Strider movement technique to move away from the Verdant Python.

"Swoosh~"

A semi-transparent viscous substance, similar to dough, streaked across the air and completely plastered onto the Verdant Python's huge snake head. As if it had been choked, the big guy uncomfortably shook its head and roared.

Without even looking at the struggling Verdant Python behind him, Gu Sheng sped away into the distance. After running for nearly a hundred meters, he felt safe and then turned back to observe the Verdant Python, which was clearly in an abnormal state.

The Verdant Python was in a very bad state at this time. Gu Sheng's lump of stuff had been swallowed whole into its belly, and this big guy immediately began to struggle and destroy wildly.

But after a period of struggle, it gradually stopped moving. Although its pair of vertical pupils were still wide open, the range of its body movements had decreased, as if it had been given anesthesia.

"Looks like it's effective!"

Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on the corner of Gu Sheng's mouth. This was the 'secret weapon' he had spent a night and half a day making.

The antidote to the Verdant Python's venom was mixed with some plants that inhibited the Verdant Python's toxins and some herbs with anesthetic effects that he had collected along the way. After the system database's deduction, there was an 80% chance of paralyzing the Verdant Python for an hour.

After a while, the Verdant Python completely lay motionless on the ground, its pair of vertical pupils filled with various complex emotions. Gu Sheng even felt sadness and shame from them.

"Big guy! I didn't come with malicious intent, I'm just here to heal your wounds!"

Gu Sheng raised his hands and walked to the Verdant Python, which could only twitch slightly, and after releasing his goodwill towards it, he stepped to the back of the Verdant Python's neck.

The four blood holes behind its neck, which were thicker than a bucket, were swollen and unbearable, and drops of blood and pus dripped out from time to time. Gu Sheng even saw several not-so-small suspected foreign sources of infection deep in the wound.