"Don't tell anyone about what happened before!" Danitz gritted his teeth as he spat out those words.
"Otherwise, I'll kill you even if it costs me my life."
Damn it, if this gets out, I won't have the face to return to the Golden Dream, no, I won't have the face to adventure on the sea.
Luo En, who felt guilty, didn't say much either.
"Got it."
"But don't forget your promise to me."
As compensation for confidentiality and escorting him, Danitz promised Luo En that he would give him a certain amount of money and help him collect the Apothecary formulas he needed.
Actually, Danitz hadn't had time to do anything before he was knocked out by Luo En and Lachi working together.
A wounded Sequence 7 was no match for them.
"Damn it..." Danitz rubbed his Sun temple painfully. He only remembered feeling hot all over after drinking the potion, and when he woke up, his neck hurt terribly, and Luo En looked at him as if he was looking at some rare animal.
Luo En, realizing that the other party's memory was incomplete, decided to leave some blanks appropriately to better control him.
Both of them tacitly avoided discussing the topic further.
At night, due to potential enemies, the two decided to temporarily leave Bayam.
Danitz planned to go to an abandoned small dock where there was a small boat for emergencies.
"Damn it..." Danitz suddenly grabbed Luo En's arm, pointing to the small dock a few hundred meters away, "Why are those Lunatics here...?"
On the pier not far away, several figures in black robes were gathered in a circle, holding something and muttering in low voices. The Moon light shone on them, casting distorted shadows on the ground.
"Cultists?" Luo En frowned, he had indeed heard of various strange beliefs at sea, but this was the first time he had seen one with his own eyes.
Danitz frowned slightly: "It looks like they are performing a ritual."
"Damn it, you always run into these guys at sea."
"So what do we do now?" Luo En asked.
...
After a moment of contemplation, Danitz said, "Let's retreat first."
Luo En was about to respond, but suddenly froze in place.
"Hey! What are you spacing out for!" Danitz squeezed his arm hard, "Before they notice—"
Luo En vaguely looked up at the Moon. Tonight's crimson Moon light seemed exceptionally bright, making him feel a little dizzy.
The inexplicable palpitation came again, causing him to lose himself for a moment.
At this moment, a strange insect appeared not far away, shining with an eerie glow in the Moon light, flying directly towards Luo En's face.
"Don't space out!" Danitz saw Luo En spacing out and directly pulled his arm hard.
"Uh..." Luo En, in a daze, lost his footing for a moment and fell directly to the ground.
The insect brushed past his nose and happened to hit Danitz, who was standing in front of Luo En.
"What is it...? Ah!"
Danitz suddenly clutched his wound, his face changing drastically. Luo En got up and saw something wriggling in his wound.
"Don't make a sound." Luo En recovered from his daze and quickly stepped forward to cover Danitz's mouth.
"Woo woo..."
The cultists seemed to have noticed the commotion here and all turned to look.
Luo En pulled Danitz into a corner to hide.
"Phew~ Thankfully, they didn't chase us."
After hiding for a while and confirming that they were temporarily safe, Luo En finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Damn it, something is burrowing around in my wound." Danitz was sweating profusely.
"Let me see!" Luo En ripped open Danitz's clothes.
The wound, which had already scabbed over, was now wriggling strangely, and the bandage was soaked with seeping blood. Even more terrifying, a thumb-sized bulge was slowly moving under the skin on Danitz's leg, as if something alive was burrowing through his flesh.
Luo En stared intently at the wriggling bulge.
He took out a small knife and gestured a few times on Danitz's body.
"Damn it, can you do it?" Danitz was a little stunned.
"Stop talking nonsense."
Luo En picked up the small knife, intending to strike, but found that the bulge immediately changed direction cunningly.
"Damn it."
After trying a few times, Luo En gave up. He wasn't a professional surgeon, and he wasn't very confident in this kind of thing.
"Are there any clinics or hospitals nearby?"
"No..." Danitz recalled for a moment, then shook his head in despair. He suddenly grabbed Luo En's wrist,
"How come I feel like I've been unlucky ever since I met you!"
"Wait, I remember..."
Luo En took out the business card Roy King had given him earlier.
"This address is quite close to us."
...
"Knock knock knock"
A knock on the Door came.
"It's you." Roy King, wearing glasses, looked at Luo En with a hint of fatigue.
"Although I said you could come to me after you've thought about it, a late-night visit is a bit... unconventional."
"And your friend too..." He pointed to Danitz, who was wrapped in bandages.
"Uh..." Luo En knew the situation was a bit awkward, but he still said, "There was an accident."
"Come in first." Roy King stepped aside to let the two in.
Soon, Danitz was arranged to lie on an operating table for examination.
"A bit troublesome, huh." Listening to Luo En's description of the situation, Roy King looked at Danitz's wound with some helplessness.
"After so many years in the Beyonder domain, this is the first time I've seen something like this." Roy King frowned slightly as he examined the slightly raised wound on Danitz's body.
"Can it be cured?" Luo En asked.
"Hard to say. Although I'm also skilled in healing, I'm not a true "Apothecary" after all."
Based on his past experience, Roy King analyzed: "It should be an insect related to Beyonder, and it has already penetrated deep into his flesh. It's probably a byproduct of some ritual."
After a moment of pause, he sighed: "Perhaps we'll have to saw off his leg."
What, saw off his leg! Danitz suddenly propped himself up.
"No, don't." He quickly grabbed Luo En's hand, pleading: "No, don't make me a cripple."
"Otherwise, I'll never be able to adventure with the Captain and them again."
Seeing this, Luo En felt a little unbearable and asked, "Is there any other way? He's also an adventurer."
"This..." Just as Roy King was pondering a solution, the insect inside Danitz reacted again.
"It's going towards your groin." Luo En exclaimed.
What! Danitz was shocked, "Quick, saw it, quickly saw off the leg."
"Got it!"
Just as Danitz was collapsing, Roy King suddenly showed a mysterious smile: "Perhaps... there's a more elegant solution." He opened the instrument cabinet and took out a slender pair of tweezers.
Luo En suddenly had an ominous premonition: "You intend to..."
"I can clip the insect out."
"Are you sure?"
"Don't worry." As if wanting to show off his skill in front of Luo En, Roy King smiled: "My luck has always been good."
Luck... Hearing the other party's words, Luo En felt a bit unreliable.
"Help me hold him down, I'll clip the insect out."
"Wait, how are you going to do it?" Danitz suddenly realized something was wrong.
"From the back."
"What?" Luo En was also a bit shocked to hear that, this scene was a bit eye-watering.
"No, don't!" Danitz struggled desperately.