"Trade?" Zhang Tie gave Tirsilis a once-over, a teasing smile on his face. "What could you possibly have on you that would tempt me? If I wanted anything you had, I had plenty of chances just now!"
"Don't you want to hear what I need?" Tirsilis asked patiently.
"Fine. Go ahead," Zhang Tie said calmly.
"Do you know what the Three-Eyed Society wants to get from me?"
"No."
"Corpse Poison Miasma. It is an extremely terrifying poison. As long as there is a corpse, it can use that corpse as a medium to spread, endlessly turning living things into corpses, then turning those corpse poisons into new sources of poison!"
"Like Moge City right now?"
"Yes!" Tirsilis nodded. Her complexion was still poor from her recent recovery, slightly pale. "Corpse Poison Miasma is an exceedingly rare poison, and difficult to cultivate. After the battles in Mist Moon Forest and Moge City, my Corpse Poison Miasma has successfully mutated. It has become even more powerful, with its lethality against ordinary demonized puppets multiplied severalfold. But it still has enormous potential and can mutate again. The trade I want to make with you is this: for the next two months, be my bodyguard and work with me to complete the next mutation of the Corpse Poison Miasma in the Selnes War Zone. If you agree, I can give you this ring, along with some other benefits!"
"Why the Selnes War Zone?"
"There are the most corpses here. The more corpses there are, the more materials they provide, and the richer the samples of corpse genes. The greater the possibility of a Corpse Poison Miasma mutation!"
Thinking it over, Zhang Tie found that made sense. The entire Selnes Plains had now more or less become a land of terror. The corpses of countless