Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 108 Panacea

The cunning rabbit took off her gray windbreaker and hung it on the coat rack. The close-fitting lining outlined her seductive curves.

She took off her rabbit mask, revealing a fair and pretty face with a very serious expression.

"Honey, you're going to the puppet factory? Are you kidding me?"

Li Nanke leaned against the bed, raised his eyes and said:

"You don't have to go. You and the Crazy Rabbit bring the Strange Rabbit to the hotel. Pinocchio and I will go to the puppet factory."

Black Rabbit's brother-in-law, Strange Rabbit, suffers from petrification and is now being cared for by another member, Crazy Rabbit, at the Black Rabbit Gang's base.

Upon hearing this, Cunning Rabbit knitted his eyebrows together, his chest heaving with anger: "What are you thinking? The factory is a gathering place for puppets. Going there is like seeking death."

Since Black Rabbit woke up from his serious injury, his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and he can even defeat the giant puppet at the station one-on-one.
But no matter how strong the tracker is, it is impossible for him to survive facing thousands of puppets. Going to the puppet factory on his own initiative is tantamount to seeking death.

Li Nanke sat up, patted the edge of the bed, and said expressionlessly: "Come here."

As soon as the cunning rabbit came to the bed, he was pinned down and spanked twice on the buttocks, and couldn't help but let out a scream.

"You do whatever I say. I don't need to question you, just obey. Do you understand?"

He then said in a slightly slower tone: "Of course I am sure that I will go to the puppet factory. You will be right if you do as I say. Remember, you are not allowed to follow me this time."

The huge number of puppets in the puppet factory is an endless sea of ​​monsters for the trackers. Any tracker, no matter how powerful he is, will be drowned sooner or later if he is trapped in the sea of ​​monsters.

But Li Nanke is not an ordinary tracker, and Pinocchio can absorb the abilities of special dolls, which is an extremely important key to breaking the deadlock.

According to Black Rabbit's memory, if Pinocchio can absorb the abilities of a certain special puppet, then it is not impossible for the two of them to cooperate with each other, kill their way through the puppet factory, and kill the puppet in charge, 'Flame King'.

The cunning rabbit was hit twice, but instead of getting angry, it lurked in his arms with a seductive look.

"You went to the puppet factory for that puppet? Do you really treat him as your son? What about the employer?"

"The employer asked us to bring the target to the hotel, but he didn't say to take the boy away. Now that we have completed the commission, we should be paid."

Black Rabbit's employer is an aristocratic alchemist who is very mysterious and does not even want to reveal his name, calling himself Mr. X.

The petrification disease that the strange rabbit suffers from cannot be cured by ordinary doctors. It can only be cured by the panacea developed by the alchemist. The black rabbit has accepted several commissions from Mr. X. This time, he asked Mr. X for the panacea, and the other party issued a commission for the puppet P.

Faced with Ciaotu's three disobedient questions, Li Nanke beat her up severely. He let her go only after Ciaotu begged for mercy and promised that she would never sneak into the puppet factory tomorrow.

Late at night, Li Nanke came to the balcony of the suite.

Under the cold moonlight, he took out a flute and blew it softly towards the garden square in front of the hotel.

The strange thing was that the piccolo did not make any sound, but an invisible wave spread far away.

After waiting for a long time, Li Nanke's hair suddenly stood on end. The extreme sense of danger made him turn his head away instantly.

I saw two figures standing on the balcony of the next suite.

Wearing a neat gentleman's suit, a tall silk hat, and an elegant metal cane, the employer, the alchemist Mr. X, has appeared.

But the extremely strong sense of danger did not come from Mr. X, but from a knight standing behind him.

The knight carried a large shield and a huge sword on his back, with no exposed skin on his body. Only the cold and pale armor could be seen. The spiked helmet he wore covered his face, making it impossible to tell whether he was a human or a puppet.

Black Rabbit had seen this knight before, but without a sense of danger, he thought he was just an ordinary guard who never spoke. He had no idea that the other party was so powerful.

This knight is an extremely terrifying and powerful being!

"Black Rabbit, you did a great job."

Mr. X, who had a beard and a scar on his left eye, spoke.

He took out a tube of emerald green injection from his pocket and threw it across the balcony. [Ordinary Panacea Injection]

[Type: Props/Consumables]

[Quality: Ordinary+]

[Rating: 68/100]

[Details: Faced with the unstoppable spread of petrification like a plague, the Alchemist Group developed a panacea using ego element and gold coin fruit. However, due to the scarcity of gold coin fruit, ordinary panaceas only contain a very small amount of gold coin fruit materials and cannot cure petrification 100%. The probability of successful cure is even extremely low. If the cure fails, it will produce uncontrollable huge side effects. Only those who are blessed with luck can recover to normal with ordinary panaceas.]

[Note: Life is not a cheap commodity, and treatment is very expensive. ]

"Mr. X, the cure rate of this panacea doesn't seem to be high?"

Li Nanke looked at the glass syringe in his hand, the emerald green liquid in it was rippling with tiny sparks of light.

Mr. X raised an eyebrow, as if he didn't expect that he knew some secrets.

"If you want a special panacea, you have to accept a long-term commission and continue to take care of Puppet P to make him grow quickly."

"Secondly, you need to go to the cathedral and find the only remaining gold coin fruit tree in Krat City. Bring me a large amount of gold coin fruit to develop a special panacea. The more gold coin fruit you bring, the stronger the special panacea will be."

The Cathedral... According to Black Rabbit's memory, the Cathedral was an early isolation area for petrification, and it was already filled with patients who had been turned into zombies due to petrification.

The strange power brought by petrification makes the zombies have strength that is no less than that of puppets, but the zombies are more crazy and terrifying than puppets. Except for their own kind, they will attack all living things they see.

After a brief thought, Li Nanke decisively agreed:

"Okay, I'll take this commission."

"But Mr. X, can you tell me why you need Puppet P to grow quickly? What level of strength do I need to improve him to satisfy you?"

Mr. X chuckled and said, "You don't need to know so much. When Puppet P has enough strength to kill the Puppet King, your commission will be completed."

As he spoke, he threw over another tube of yellow injection.

"This potion can temporarily suppress the side effects of the panacea. Even if the cure fails, it can still keep the monster rabbit alive for a long time."

After explaining the commission, the Pale Knight knelt on one knee and stretched out an arm. Mr. X put his hand on the knight's arm.

Stars of azure light emerged from the knight's body and flickered, enveloping the two of them.

When the light of the ego element dissipated, the figures of the two people also disappeared.

Li Nanke let out a long sigh, and cold sweat was already pouring down his back.

The Pale Knight just stood there quietly, and the oppressive feeling he brought to people was extremely suffocating. He knew very well that the other party was far beyond his current ability to contend with.

Li Nanke fell into deep thought. If he wanted to obtain the characteristics and main qualities in this forbidden dream, he had to dig out the hidden nodes.

The name of the forbidden dream is "Dolls and Angels". Dolls are the main enemies in the dream and have appeared on a large scale, while the so-called angels have not shown up at all.

Are the hidden nodes related to the 'angels'?
The cunning rabbit in a silk nightgown came up quietly, put his arms around his waist from behind, and pressed his cheek against his broad back.

"Dear, did you get the panacea?"

"No rush. Bring the rabbit to the hotel tomorrow and I'll give it the injection when I come back."

"Do you think there's something wrong with the panacea?"

Li Nanke turned around and scolded, "Are you asking more questions?"

The cunning rabbit seemed to have forgotten how he had begged for mercy just now, and raised his chin slightly and said provocatively: "Just asking, come and beat me again!"

(End of this chapter)