Chapter 13 The Darkness Before Dawn Section 2
Purple, the air was filled with a light purple. At first, people in the main city just felt a little itchy in their throats, but gradually they began to cough, as if their throats were burned by fire. They coughed up blood, and then all the functions of their bodies began to deteriorate seriously. Those who were stronger could still hold on by taking medicine, but many weak elderly people and patients lost their lives because of this.
This was the residual effect after the poisonous fog was blown away by the air. The army that Zhuo Fei was in tried every means to prevent the poisonous fog from blowing towards the urban area, thus avoiding the tragedy of everyone in the city dying.
Everyone in the palace was not spared and all showed similar symptoms. Only He Wei was not affected at all.
Seeing the queen lying on the bed, her face blue and purple, dying, and Zhuo Fei trapped in the battlefield unable to be contacted, without any news, she was anxious and hateful, and really wanted to rush out and kill Gu Lei immediately.
"Cough cough cough——" Yang Xue, who was lying on the bed, woke up fragilely because of coughing. Zhuo Qing beside her hurriedly handed her a cup of antidote. Although it could not completely detoxify the poisonous fog, fortunately it could provide some relief.
Although Zhuo Qing himself inhaled a lot of poison gas, he still held on and continued to take care of Yang Xue and handle affairs in the palace.
There has been no news from Zhuo Fei's army for three consecutive days, and Zhuo Yue's army has also rushed back from the rear to protect the country.
Although Gu Lei's army tried to fight to the death at the last moment, they only had a few men left. Therefore, as long as they could recover from the influence of the poisonous fog, it would seem that the Dinosaur Kingdom had won this war.
But Zhuo Qing was not happy at all. Because of this war, he... he might have lost a son now.
"Cough, cough, cough--" After taking the antidote, Yang Xue suddenly started coughing again, with blood.
He Wei couldn't help but clench her fists: "The antidote...isn't working?"
Zhuo Qing rubbed Yang Xue's back while frowning and saying nothing: The detoxification master said that Gu Lei's poison making skills were too advanced, and all they could do was to temporarily delay the onset of the poison...
At this moment, a man's hoarse and weak voice suddenly came from the door of the bedroom: "He Wei, mix your blood into the cup and let her drink it!"
Upon hearing this, both of them looked up at the door. The person standing outside the door was not Gu Yunzhi, the king of the Ice Dragon Nation, so who else could it be?
That night, Gu Lei had his men poison him and left his father's body in a hurry. The next day, he announced that he had inherited the throne and declared war on the Dinosaur Kingdom. He was so anxious and excited that he forgot to send someone back to the palace to check if Gu Yunzhi was really dead.
During this period of time, Zhuo Qing had been asking the medical team to treat Gu Yunzhi. Fortunately, Gu Yunzhi had been studying poison making since he was a child, and his body had a strong immunity to various poisons. Coupled with the medical team's dedicated treatment, he finally woke up from his coma.
Hearing what he said, He Wei bit her finger without thinking, squeezed a few drops of blood into the cup, and looked at Zhuo Qing: "He makes sense! I am the only one who won't be poisoned! Maybe my blood can save the queen!"
Zhuo Qing did not hesitate any longer and fed Yang Xue all the blood in the cup. About half an hour later, her purple complexion gradually improved and the frequency of her coughing also decreased.
"Great! It really works!" He Wei couldn't help but shout out excitedly. She squeezed a little more blood into the cup, added water and handed it to Zhuo Qing, "Uncle, drink this quickly!"
Zhuo Qing frowned. If He Wei's blood could really detoxify, then... there were so many poisoned people. Did she have to treat them all?
He Wei seemed to know what he was worried about: "Uncle, I can turn into a dragon, so I can go and save my people, don't worry. Drink this first, this country and the queen need you to protect them in good health!"
Gu Yunzhi also nodded: "If you don't want me to take your woman away and occupy your territory, you'd better drink it quickly."
Zhuo Qing nodded heavily and drank the blood , but saw He Wei quickly ran out of the door, transformed into a dragon, cut the skin on her tail with her nails, and collected the blood in a retro vase: "Uncle, these should be enough for the people in the palace, I'm going to the city now!"
Zhuo Qing wanted to stop her but it was too late. He Wei flew into the sky. He could not help but sit on the bed and sigh weakly: "I am really old and more and more useless..."
Gu Yunzhi leaned against the door and shook his head: "It is a blessing for your Dinosaur Country to have the help of the Dragon God... No, perhaps it is a blessing for Zhuo Fei."
Is this Zhuo Fei's blessing? Zhuo Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly and covered his face. What if his son was gone? Was he too selfish as a father? He actually sent his son to the battlefield where he would never return.
At the same time, Zhuo Yue's army had rushed to the main urban area of the Central Continent at the fastest speed.
Just as he imagined, this place had indeed become a ruin, with the bodies of soldiers everywhere on the ground, most of them with hideous expressions on their faces, probably tortured to death by the poisonous fog. Zhuo Yue couldn't help but clench his fists, in this desolate place, he suddenly heard a faint sound of a girl crying in front of him.
"Zhuo Fei...Zhuo Fei...please wake up...please wake up..."
Zhuo Yue's nerves tensed up, and he looked up. Among the piles of corpses, he saw a slender red dinosaur entwined with the body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, lying on it and crying.
Zhuo Yue naturally recognized the body of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. He couldn't help but clench his fists and quicken his pace to rush to the two dinosaurs hugging each other.
The dragon, which was emitting red light all over, was holding his brother's body sadly. There were cuts of varying depths all over its body, and blood was constantly oozing out. But the dinosaur didn't mind at all. It just held the Tyrannosaurus Rex, who had closed his eyes, in its arms, with tears streaming from its eyes.
Zhuo Yue couldn't bear to disturb them, and after a long while he spoke: "He Wei...is that so?" He had heard this girl's name many times from his brother.
Hearing this, Hong Long raised her head slightly and looked at Zhuo Yue standing beside her with tears in her eyes. After she was stunned for a few seconds, tears suddenly burst out again: "Wuwuwu--Please, wake up Zhuo Fei, no matter how I call him, he refuses to wake up to see me... I'm still waiting for him to come back and marry me, how can he have the heart to ignore me..."
But seeing that Zhuo Fei had already lost his breath, Zhuo Yue knew that no matter how much he called, the brat would not wake up. He suppressed his grief, walked forward and stretched out his hand to the Red Dragon: "I know you are very sad, so am I... But it is not safe here now. The people of the Ice Dragon Country may release poison gas again. You must... must leave with me first."
But the red dragon shook his head stubbornly, lying on the Tyrannosaurus Rex and refusing to leave: "I won't, woo woo woo - I want to stay here with him, Zhuo Fei just fell asleep, I call him a few more times and he will wake up, hurry up and help me call him."
Zhuo Yue wanted to say something else, but at this moment, a giant silver-white figure suddenly emerged from the ruins of the corpses. It staggered forward on the bodies of the soldiers, with a pair of dark red eyes full of smug light: "Hey - I told you long ago that I would win, but Zhuo Fei, this idiot, didn't believe it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, He Wei, Zhuo Yue and the soldiers behind him all turned their attention to the wounded plesiosaur.
The red dragon stared at it fiercely with its eyes full of anger: "I will kill you, I will kill you!" As she said that, she flew up into the air, stretched out her two sharp claws, and grabbed the plesiosaur. But she was too sad, and her move was not accurate enough. The plesiosaur dodged her attack and threw a dark purple ball in its hand to the ground and broke it, and a purple poisonous mist was immediately released from it.
“I know this poison has no effect on you, but it’s not bad to be able to kill Zhuo Fei’s brother, that idiot.” Gu Lei fell to the ground after he finished speaking. He was a little exhausted from the desperate fight with Zhuo Fei. “But I have to say that Zhuo Fei is still very tenacious. Others fell down in less than a minute after breathing in my poison mist, but he was able to hold on for more than ten minutes and even slashed me hard… But so what? In the end, didn’t I still kill him? Hahahaha…”
Knowing that his invasion plan had completely failed, Gu Lei simply didn't want to live anymore and deliberately used vicious words to provoke the victorious side.
He Wei quickly used her sharp claws to cut her scarred body again, and wiped the blood that splattered into Zhuo Yue's palm: "My blood can detoxify!"
Gu Lei's dark red eyes suddenly widened: "This is impossible... Your blood can detoxify? This is impossible!"
But seeing Zhuo Yue's soldiers drinking the blood of the red dragon one after another, the symptoms of poisoning improved in an instant. Gu Lei could not help but grit his teeth and stood up again, looking at the red dragon with murderous intent in his eyes: "Why... Since you are the Dragon God, why don't you help us! You clearly know that the people of our Ice Dragon Country are in dire straits! You don't save them, but come to help these cruel Tyrannosaurus Rex——"
"You are the cruel one!" Red Dragon interrupted him loudly, "It was you who tried to kill your father with your own hands; it was you who refused to accept the funding from the Dinosaur Country and chose to attack blindly; it was you who caused all your soldiers to die in the war! Gu Lei, why are you still so stubborn now?"
The plesiosaur had gone mad, muttering, "I'm not wrong, I... and I didn't lose—" Then, it opened its bloody mouth and attacked He Wei, as if it wanted to fight her to the death.
Zhuo Yue transformed and wanted to step forward to block Gu Lei's attack.
However, at this moment, a dazzling golden light suddenly flashed in the air, as fast as lightning, knocking the plesiosaur that pounced on He Wei away. The plesiosaur glided in the air for a distance before falling to the ground, unable to get up again.
Everyone stared in amazement at the huge figure that suddenly appeared in the main city: this dragon had a slender body similar to He Wei, and was also covered with scales. Its four claws were sharper and more ferocious than He Wei's. What was even more amazing was its golden skin! From a distance, it looked as dazzling as if its skin was coated with a layer of gold.
It floated in the air, looking at the tearful He Wei with its eyes. After a long time, it sighed: "Humph! As my daughter, you cried and screamed for a little Tyrannosaurus Rex, and even hurt yourself. It's really shameful!"
