Chapter 024: The Smoke Disappeared in the Midst of Laughter and Chat
"This red dust accelerates the onset of the [Zombie Potion] in my body?"
Ryan looked at his rapidly shrunken arm and understood, wasn't this the effect of the poison?
Moreover, he now has amazing eyesight, and those red lines that look like sweat hairs are clearly "blood nematodes" that are thinner than a hair!
The intelligent brain also clearly indicated that a large number of living things had been "activated" in his body!
"What the hell is going on here?! The zombie potion is not actually a poison, but some dormant living bugs?"
In an instant, countless incredible thoughts instinctively popped up in Ryan's mind.
With thirty seconds left before he died, he had no time to think and took out a few potions from the folding space without hesitation.
[Advanced Detoxification Potion], [Advanced Healing Potion], [Advanced Healing Potion]... He didn't have time to distinguish them. He put all the advanced potions in the storage space that he thought might be useful into his thigh...
But it still didn't work, the red hair continued to grow wildly.
Ryan clearly felt the life draining away from his body.
The dizziness is getting stronger...
Those "blood nematodes" were like leeches, madly absorbing the blood and water in his body, as if they would not stop until they had drained the whole person dry.
In just one or two seconds, another 10% of Ryan's body fluids were sucked away. His face looked like a zombie and his body was haggard, and his mind was gradually becoming blurred.
However, just when Ryan thought he was going to die and travel through time again...
A dramatic scene happened!
“Eh…”
After a certain injection, Ryan suddenly felt as if his soul had returned to his body, and his consciousness became clearer and clearer.
Looking closely again, the "red hair" on his body was visibly shrinking. They actually injected all the body fluids they sucked out back into his body? !
“Saved!”
After walking through the gates of hell, Ryan felt a bit frightened, his chest heaving as he breathed heavily.
Upon closer inspection, he realized that the active potion being injected in his hand was actually the antidote to the [Zombie Potion] that he had prepared for practice in the Pisis Laboratory.
[Ding! The unnamed insect swarm has fallen into hibernation, and is expected to wake up in 1094 days...]
call……
Ryan breathed a sigh of relief.
The onset time limit has been extended to three years...
Although the hidden danger has not been eliminated, the life has been saved anyway.
At this moment he also figured it out. This so-called [Zombie Potion] is actually just a kind of mysterious parasite?
The so-called "antidote" is actually a drug that puts the parasites into hibernation?
Was the red dust just now the catalyst that awakened the parasite?
A lot of strange knowledge suddenly popped up in my mind.
“Eh…”
Ryan didn't have time to think about the connection, but suddenly, a thought that made his scalp tingle flashed through his mind.
"Nimma, Pisis is an undercover agent of the Omar royal family?!"
…
Ryan has the "antidote" he used to practice when learning alchemy to save his life.
But others who took the [Zombie Potion] were not so lucky.
The moment the red "fireworks" exploded, tragedy was doomed to happen.
The mortality rate of the Phantom Thieves is already high, and the members are replaced very quickly. For example, in a large group like the Weasel Phantom Thieves, more than half of the members have taken the [Zombie Potion].
Not only the newcomers, but even the elderly who thought they were "detoxified" were affected.
Ordinary gas masks cannot block that kind of fine dust, and if inhaled into the body, it can be fatal within thirty seconds.
The prince's staff had been planning for three years. This poison had been spread through various channels, and it was not just the Weasel Group that was affected!
You can imagine how many of these more than 100,000 people have those red-line poisonous insects lurking in their bodies?
…
Just as [White Wolf] Bazel led a group of thieves to besiege Omar and his men, suddenly there were screams from the crowd...
" Brother, why do you have red hair on your body?"
"What's going on? What the hell is sucking my blood again..."
"Damn it, help me pull out these red hairs... burn them with fire..."
"ah……"
The heart-wrenching screams were so terrifying that they made people's hair stand on end.
There were one or two sporadic sounds in reality, and then as if a chain reaction had been triggered, large numbers of wailing sounds rang out one after another.
The companion who was originally alive and kicking and shouting for killing suddenly turned into a "red-haired monster" and was sucked into a mummy in the blink of an eye, with a hideous death.
How horrifying is this scene?
If it was just one or two people it would be fine, but when you see the people in front of you falling down in groups like wheat being cut, wouldn’t a normal person be scared to the point of his legs going weak?
In just over ten breaths, half of the tens of thousands of thieves who had just surrounded Prince Omar and his entourage fell down in an instant!
Just a few fireworks killed tens of thousands of people. This method was so weird... Even a top warrior like [White Wolf] Basel couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he saw it.
Tens of thousands of people were wiped out in the midst of laughter and conversation. At this moment, everyone looked at the black-robed aide beside the eldest prince Quentin with .
Bazel finally understood why he felt that this guy named "Metternich" made him feel creepy.
With this method, we have already won 70% of the battle without fighting!
Faintly, he felt that what this guy had just said about "catching them all in one fell swoop" might come true...
Because Basel thought of an even worse consequence!
…
"Eh...are we okay?"
"Haha...it seems like this poison is only effective against newcomers?"
"Damn it, it was the group's potion master who did this! There were bugs hidden in the potions they prepared for the new recruits..."
"It's an insider! It turns out that Omar and his gang have infiltrated us a long time ago..."
“…”
Some clever thieves have probably guessed the cause and effect of the matter.
The leaders of the Phantom Thieves were also somewhat fortunate. Although this "fireworks killing" was beyond everyone's expectations, the elite members of the major groups were not seriously damaged.
Most of the tens of thousands of people who died were newcomers who had not yet awakened to their extraordinary powers, or they were [Awakeners] who had just broken through a genetic lock.
These people are not the core members of the major Phantom Thieves groups, and their combat effectiveness is very average.
Let them die, the lives of new people are worthless, just recruit new ones.
But it didn't take long for the leaders' relief to turn into despair.
…
"Oh no! The mechanical city has stopped working!"
"Damn it, where's the boilerman? Hurry up and add coal... "
"Chief, it's bad, all the boilermen are dead..."
“…”
The noise started again, and those high-ranking Phantom Thieves who had just been feeling thankful, now realized... a disaster was about to happen!
What is the job of the newcomers in the Phantom Thieves?
Boilerman, gunner, and mechanical controller!
Their death means that there will be no one to operate the mechanical city.
A mechanical city without anyone controlling it is just a pile of scrap metal!
The dust spread unimpeded into the control cabins of the major mechanical cities, and then a large number of "red-haired monsters" died...
The larger the mechanical castle, the more people are needed to operate it. In the blink of an eye, more than 90% of the grassroots operators died!
Even if the surviving Phantom Thieves wanted to take action, they were powerless.
As a result, in the blink of an eye, there were no more cannons in the mechanical cities of the major Phantom Thieves. The steam boilers provided less and less kinetic energy because no one added coal, and gradually stopped working...
In the blink of an eye, the thousands of mechanical cities that had just fled flexibly were all laid down.
And the despairing bad news came one after another.
In the far distance of vision, a group of black shadows can be seen appearing on the horizon. They are the large mechanical army of the Omar Empire surrounding them...
Without the Mechanical City, the Phantom Thieves’ greatest reliance for escape was also lost.
This time, the entire army is going to be wiped out.
…
"This method is really a fraud!"
Ryan looked at the scene in front of him, and four words instantly emerged in his mind: Catch the turtle in the jar!
Even though he himself was also one of the victims, he had to admit that the person who planned it was very clever.
But he changed his mind and said "Fuck" again, and stood there in a daze as if struck by lightning.
"Pisis is an undercover agent of the Omar royal family. Could it be that the secret of 'Baron Morin's relics' has been leaked to others?"
At this moment, Ryan looked at the battlefield that looked like hell, and his expression became even uglier.
Originally, he thought it would be best for him to leave the center of the battlefield first and save his life.
By then, even if he was captured by the army of the Omar Empire, he would most likely not be killed because of his identities as a "doctor's apprentice" and "potion maker's apprentice".
Both professions have preferential treatment wherever they are.
Besides, he was just a new thief and was not on the wanted list, so his crime did not deserve the death penalty.
After being captured, perhaps he could turn from evil to good, completely get rid of his identity as a phantom thief, and join the Omar Empire...
However, because Pisis was an Omar undercover agent, all this became a luxury.
He now holds a treasure. Although Pisis is dead, if an outsider knows this secret, he will definitely not give up on causing trouble for him.
Oh... I almost forgot.
And there is the mastermind who hired Quinn to kill the whole family!
By then, Ryan will be captured as a new member of the Weasel Thieves, and the person behind the scenes will definitely be able to find him by some means...
If caught, there is a high probability that he will not be able to escape the soul-searching and torture.
For Ryan, "Baron Morin's relics" means a great opportunity to change his destiny.
As for handing over all the secrets in exchange for a life of idleness?
Ah, ugh!
I've lived a dull life in my previous life, so I plan to try something different in this life!
…
"I can only run away desperately..."
Ryan thought of this and took a deep breath.
At least with the "intelligent brain" there, his chances of escaping are still quite high.
[Ding! Ballistic trajectory analysis and calculation, direction →……]
The trajectory analysis revealed the weak point of the Omar Mechanical Corps' encirclement, the southwest, where there was the only chance...
Without further hesitation, he rushed to the edge of the battlefield, as fast as a leopard.
