Trade

Trade

The reason the drone had fallen silent was simple.

From Xiao Liang's response, they had reached an unbelievable conclusion.

Xiao Liang was a visitor from another world, and he clearly understood what had already happened in this world.

"Respected sir, as long as the Lighthouse Organization exists, humanity will not perish like this."

At last, the drone transmitted such a message.

This survivor faction called itself the Lighthouse Organization? It was probably dedicated to restoring human civilization. It certainly had the feel of a post-apocalyptic world.

Xiao Liang nodded noncommittally, pointed at the armed helicopter in the distance, and said, "Back to the point. Why did you steal my prey?"

"Forgive my bluntness, sir, but if things are truly as you say, then I'm afraid you were the one who intruded into our world!"

A slightly sarcastic retort came from the drone.

"Your world is already devastated beyond recognition. The greatest source of disaster is these wandering zombies. In a sense, I'm doing you a favor by cleaning up the city!"

Xiao Liang refused to yield in the slightest, though his thoughts were racing.

Putting himself in their shoes, if he discovered a mysterious visitor from another world in a hopeless apocalypse, someone who seemingly could travel between worlds—

His first reaction probably would not be to gun the person down. He would instead try to see whether this opportunity might offer a new turning point for this world on the brink of collapse.

That made him a rare commodity.

A rather bold idea rose in Xiao Liang's heart.

If he could make this apocalyptic survivor organization from a technological age work for him, wouldn't his path of cultivation gain an extra source of support for nothing?

Take the glass test tubes he had used to befriend Xie Ling'er.

Glass test tubes of that purity and specification were not something low-level cultivators could perfectly produce merely from a few remembered methods of making glass.

They required an entire set of precise industrial production lines.

The set of test tubes he had given Xie Ling'er had merely been gathered from a clinic in a small town when Xiao Liang first arrived in this world last year.

Not to mention simple, practical firearms such as sniper rifles, grenades, and rocket launchers. Even Late Qi Refining cultivators could be threatened by them.

If they had not raised a spiritual energy shield in advance or deployed a defensive artifact, being unexpectedly killed in an instant would not be strange at all.

Thinking of this, Xiao Liang's smile widened. He stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "Let's be frank!"

"Do you want to ask whether I have a way to save this world?"

The drone bobbed up and down, as if the person controlling it behind the scenes had begun trembling uncontrollably.

The middle-aged man's voice came through it.

"Yes, sir. The biohazard virus has swept across this world. No known scientific technology can preserve human civilization."

"You have displayed miraculous abilities. Perhaps you can offer us more possibilities."

Xiao Liang nodded and said, "First, to answer your question: do I have a way to save this world? The answer is yes. In fact, I have several methods, but I must tell you that I cannot accomplish any of them for the time being!"

Xiao Liang was not lying. For Sky Mist Continent, a vast immortal cultivation world, Resident Evil was certainly unusual, but it was hardly a serious problem.

What heretical cultivator did not know a few corpse-controlling techniques to harm people? Some Gu cultivators even created parasitic Gu insects whose devastation, once they spread, was no less than that of the biohazard virus.

But why had the mortal nations beneath the cultivation world not turned into living hells? Because there were simply too many great cultivators from both the immortal and demonic paths above them.

Some exquisite spells that purified heaven and earth, or magical treasures that devoured toxins and miasma, possessed unimaginable effects.

Against the biohazard virus, it was a complete crushing advantage.

Even Xiao Liang himself could not purify the virus, but with his mana protecting his body, he had no fear of viral infection.

However, purifying an entire planet's viruses was an immensely difficult task, let alone for a mere Early Qi Refining Stage cultivator like him. Even a Golden Core patriarch would find it extraordinarily challenging.

On the other side of the drone, the middle-aged man could barely conceal the excitement on his face after receiving the base AI's lie-detection results.

"My God, he wasn't lying. He's serious. There really is a way to save this world!"

"Calm down. He said he can't do it right now. What difference is that from having no way at all for us?"

"For the time being! He said for the time being! Our world can still be saved!"

"Idiots! Is the base AI's facial-recognition lie detector necessarily reliable? He might just be an alien in disguise!"

Xiao Liang had no idea that, because of a single sentence from him, the entire leadership of Lighthouse Base had broken into a fierce argument.

Considering that he lacked credibility, he pondered briefly, took a Detoxification Talisman from his storage pouch, and thought that it seemed to work on the biohazard virus as well.

Then, under the drone's camera, he casually grabbed an ordinary zombie nearby. After activating the Detoxification Talisman, he slapped it onto the zombie's body.

A flash of clear light passed by, and the snarling zombie quickly seemed to have its life drained away, turning into an ordinary corpse.

Indirectly killing a zombie with an immortal talisman was truly rather extravagant.

Xiao Liang spread his hands and said, "At present, I only have this method of purifying the virus in a single target. And as the virus in the surrounding environment infects this corpse, it will probably turn back into a zombie again."

"Your planet's surface is saturated with the virus. This isn't something one or two talismans can solve."

As soon as Xiao Liang finished speaking, the drone before him responded. It was still the middle-aged man's voice. "Respected sir, your divine art has opened the Lighthouse Organization's eyes. We are willing to pay any price to exchange for that treasure that dispels the virus."

"If you gain the ability to purify the virus across the entire world in the future, all humanity will revere you as its savior. If you are willing, the Lighthouse Organization would even be willing to recommend you as the god of the new world!"

Savior? Divine art? Kami of the new world?

Xiao Liang's face darkened. This world where the Lighthouse Organization existed probably had no concept of an immortal cultivation world.

To them, Xiao Liang's actions were more like those of a wizard who traveled between worlds.

Though he was not yet particularly powerful, perhaps merely a wizard's apprentice, his potential was boundless. Sooner or later, he might become a master wizard and save this world.

If Xiao Liang could read minds and knew what these people were truly thinking, he would probably not know whether to laugh or cry.

Trading Detoxification Talismans for this world's weapons and equipment was not a bad deal.

Xiao Liang calculated it in his mind. One Detoxification Talisman cost about one and a half Spirit Stones, but exchanging one for a high-powered sniper rifle should not be a problem here.

Though ammunition was a limitation, a sniper rifle's power on Sky Mist Continent would not be inferior to a low-grade magical artifact. More importantly, it produced no spiritual energy fluctuations when used. It was truly an excellent tool for murder and robbery.

However, Xiao Liang had not forgotten the main reason he had come to this world.

"That high-level mutated zombie is important experimental material. You can discuss a trade with me, but first help me capture it!"

Xiao Liang looked at the Flying Yaksha in the distance, which had craftily evaded the missile strike and was flapping its wings as it fled, and revealed a kind smile.

Little brat, let's see where you can run!

(End of chapter)