"Ah, it hurts~!"
Ye Feng's sudden movement made Xiao Xiao cry out in pain, instinctively shrinking her body.
But Ye Feng held her down, fearing the needle might break inside her.
"Xiao Xiao, just bear with it~!"
"It'll pass after a little pain~"
With no better option, Ye Feng could only brace himself and comfort Xiao Xiao.
To alleviate Xiao Xiao's pain and distract her, Ye Feng thought for a moment, then extended his finger and gently tickled Xiao Xiao's fair backside...
His fingertips encountered a peculiar sensation...
"Yah~ Mmm~..."
Xiao Xiao moaned, her pretty face instantly flushing red.
"Big... Big brother, what are you doing?"
Xiao Xiao's voice trembled, she was so embarrassed that she almost forgot the sting of the needle.
"I... I'm... distracting you a little, to... to make you feel less pain..."
Ye Feng's face turned red, and he explained haltingly.
"Oh, okay~"
Xiao Xiao nodded softly, her face turning red all the way to her ears.
After that, neither Ye Feng nor Xiao Xiao spoke, and the atmosphere became incredibly awkward...
Just then, Ling Xi, who had been observing their surroundings, walked over and crouched down.
"Little one, there are small words on the outside of this injection's metal cylinder~"
"It says 'Inject into the wound area'!"
Ling Xi said after observing for a while.
"Ah~!"
Ye Feng's face burned like fire, so embarrassed he wished he could dig a hole and bury himself.
Xiao Xiao's face was so red it was almost bleeding, and she covered her eyes with her hands...
"Little one, this injection is almost empty~!"
After a moment, Ling Xi's voice rang out again.
"Oh, oh!"
Ye Feng felt as if he had been granted a great pardon. He quickly pulled out the needle, took out a cotton swab, and had Xiao Xiao press it against the small injection wound.
"Big... Big brother, this... this zombie virus neutralizer, if it's not injected into the wound, will it be effective?"
A while later,
Xiao Xiao turned around, looked at the very small and almost blurry text on the outside of the syringe, and felt a little worried.
"Xiao Xiao, this zombie virus neutralizer should enter your bloodstream, circulate throughout your body, and then neutralize the zombie virus in you~"
"The reason it's marked to be injected into the wound is because the virus is usually more concentrated in the area of a zombie bite~"
"The injection you just received should also be effective!"
Seeing Ye Feng sweating nervously, Ling Xi's voice chimed in.
"Yes, Xiao Xiao... Ling Xi is right~"
Ye Feng immediately nodded in agreement.
Before, in his panic, due to Xiao Xiao's condition and his own ingrained common sense,
He hadn't thought much and directly injected Xiao Xiao in the buttocks.
Moreover, due to the extreme awkwardness, Ye Feng's brain had momentarily glitched, and he hadn't processed it clearly!
Ling Xi's analysis was quite reasonable, and it aligned with his thoughts...
"Oh, okay~~"
Xiao Xiao glanced at the black veins on her calf, which were gradually fading, and nodded.
Afterward, Ye Feng took out alcohol and disinfected Xiao Xiao's calf wound before bandaging it.
After all, the threat wasn't just the zombie virus, but also other bacteria...
"Hoo~!"
After finishing all this, Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief, calmed his mind, and began to carefully observe the place they had suddenly arrived at.
This place looked like a laboratory. There were chandeliers in the four corners of the ceiling, and various test tubes and instruments were scattered everywhere, many of them broken.
The entire room looked somewhat messy, as if some incident had occurred, and people had left in a hurry...
"Eh, what's that?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention was drawn to something in the corner that resembled a freezer, with an Ouroboros pattern carved on its outer shell.
Ye Feng quickly walked over, crouched down, and examined it.
"Survival Coins?!"
Seeing a round metal object partially protruding from the bottom of the cabinet, Ye Feng frowned.
"Damn! It really is a freezer!~"
Ye Feng cautiously opened the cabinet, and a blast of cold air hit him, instantly forming a cloud of mist at the entrance.
He then dispersed the mist and looked inside, finding several rows of square-shaped boxes.
Each small box contained an oval-shaped, semi-transparent object that looked like some kind of "pill."
In the very center of these "pills," there was a spark of light!
Although the light was small, Ye Feng felt an extremely powerful force from it, even a burning sensation from the depths of his heart!
"Are these... Despair Pills?"
As Ye Feng was contemplating what these "pills" were, he suddenly saw a stack of scattered documents at the innermost part of the freezer.
It looked like the person who had stored them there was in a great hurry.
The cover of the document also bore an Ouroboros pattern, and at the very top, it read: "Dark Holy Cult Top Secret: Latest Experimental Results of Despair Pills!"
"Are these 'pills' with sparks in the middle the Despair Pills?"
"But this is different from the Despair Pills Yan gave me before? What's going on?"
"Also, what the heck is the Dark Holy Cult? Are they an organization that researches Despair Pills?"
Ye Feng took out a Despair Pill and examined it, a sense of confusion welling up.
"Beep~ Warning: The ambient temperature of the Despair Pill is rising. The Despair Pill may become unstable. Please cool it down promptly!"
Suddenly, a mechanical voice blared from the freezer.
Then Ye Feng saw the spark in the middle of the Despair Pill in his hand become slightly more dazzling.
"Whoa!~ Is it going to explode?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng hurriedly put the Despair Pill back and closed the freezer door.
Only after the small yellow light on the freezer door gradually turned green and then extinguished as before did Ye Feng open the freezer again.
Indeed!
The Despair Pill that had become dazzlingly bright earlier had returned to its original state!
"The Despair Pill becomes very unstable when its temperature rises, which is why it needs to be stored in such a cold freezer?"
Even with Ye Feng's physique, the cold air emanating from the refrigerator gave him goosebumps, and he could even feel a chill deep in his muscles.
"Big brother, what are those things inside the freezer?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, whose calf's black veins had mostly disappeared and whose wound no longer hurt much, manipulated her exoskeleton and walked over to ask.
"These things should be the Despair Pills that explorers risk their lives to come to the City of Despair to find!"
Ye Feng looked at the Despair Pills in the freezer, lost in thought.
"Oh, I see~"
Xiao Xiao, who had no concept of Despair Pills, nodded, then walked off to examine other things.
"Ling Xi, what are you looking at over there?"
Ye Feng closed the freezer door, put the entire freezer into his spatial storage, and then asked Ling Xi, who was not far away.
He had noticed earlier that after arriving in the City of Despair, Ling Xi would often stare at a spot in the air.
This had happened before when they inexplicably fell into that dark passage.
Now, in this room, it was even more pronounced...
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