Ke Xue exorcists demons and starts with immobilization

Chu Zhong caught the key words, but had no time to think about them in detail.

I just saved Mingmei, and now I have to watch her go through pain and face death again.

Although the effect was different from what was expected, the Elixir of Immortality at least bought Chu Zhong some time to think.

How can the toxins associated with drug A be eliminated?

Since it's 'poison'...

Chu Zhong's gaze lingered on something that had already taken up a slot in his inventory:

"Heart-shaped Chocolate": A sweet symbol of love; eating it can cure poison. Collect three to summon the guardian of love.

When people are injured and facing great pain, they unconsciously clench their teeth and fists... Just like Miyano Akemi now, with her jaw clenched, how could she possibly eat chocolate?

Fortunately, the luxury suite also had a kitchen. Chu Zhong threw the chocolate into the pot and turned the fire up to the highest setting.

Half a minute later, Chu Zhong hurriedly poured the semi-melted chocolate into a bowl, added mineral water, stirred it to cool it down, and took it to the bathroom.

"Ho-"

At this moment, Miyano Akemi once again became just like Chu Zhonggang had seen her when he returned—painful and powerless.

"Mingmei, drink this quickly..."

Chu Zhong held the bowl to Miyano Akemi's lips, but she seemed not to hear him and did not react at all.

Left with no other choice, Chu Zhong could only pinch Mingmei's cheeks and force her to open her mouth.

The resistance was less than expected; it was as if her body didn't even have the strength to unconsciously clench her teeth, and Chu Zhong easily made her open her mouth.

Worried that Mingmei might choke, Chu Zhong simply drank it first and then fed it to her.

"Well……"

Akemi Miyano let out a painful and weak whimper, her hot breath hitting Chu Zhong's face, burning hot.

A short while later, Chu Zhong fed him half a bowl of chocolate.

However, Akemi Miyano's condition did not improve, and she was once again on the verge of death.

Is it because drug A is too toxic, and chocolate cannot neutralize it?

Or perhaps the portion size wasn't enough...

But now, there's no time to feed him chocolate anymore...

Seeing that Miyano Akemi was on the verge of death, Chu Zhong could only place his last hope on the last prop:

"Resuscitation Juice": Significantly accelerates wound healing, promotes disease recovery, and has a certain regenerative effect.

Actually, Chu Zhong had noticed the revitalizing juice earlier, but the description didn't mention any detoxifying effects, so he chose chocolate first.

Now that the elixir of immortality is gone and chocolate is ineffective, we have no choice but to try anything as a last resort.

A serving of resuscitation juice contains only a small amount, just one drop.

Chu Zhong placed the revival juice near Mingmei's lips and slightly raised his chin.

With a release, a dose of revitalizing juice fell into Miyano Akemi's mouth.

Worried that the amount wasn't enough, Chu Zhong took out a second drop, a third drop, a fourth drop...

When Chu Zhong took out the fifth drop and prepared to feed it, he discovered that Miyano Akemi had already stopped breathing.

"..."

Chu Zhong also fell silent.

hum-

A strong tinnitus overwhelmed all other sounds...

After a long while, Chu Zhong carefully lifted Miyano Akemi out of the bathtub, untied her clothes which were already completely soaked, dried her with a towel, and took her back to the bedroom.

As her breathing stopped, Akemi Miyano's previously dangerously high body temperature dropped rapidly, and she lay quietly on the bed, as if she were asleep.

The pain from before was no longer visible on her face...

Chu Zhong returned to the bathroom, threw the clothes into the dryer, and listened quietly to the noise from the machine.

After the machine stopped, Chu Zhong took out the clothes that had been dried and were emitting heat, went back to the bedroom, and dressed Mingmei in them.

"Ok?"

When Chu Zhong's fingers passed over Mingmei's heart, he felt a faint, unreal beating.

But when I listened carefully again, there was no response.

It was like an illusion.

Chu Zhong continued to silently help Mingmei put on her clothes.

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However, they discovered that the bra size was slightly unsuitable.

The upper part of the bra is a bit loose...

Chu Zhong remembered that Mingmei spent quite a bit of time choosing underwear last night.

How could there be a size issue?

Then I thought back to that fleeting, almost illusory heartbeat I'd just felt.

"Could it be that……"

A bold guess popped into Chu Zhong's mind, and he quickly checked the system records.

No notification was found indicating the end of the instance.

"Akami...is still alive?!"

When Chu Zhong witnessed Mingmei's death in the bathroom, he was deafened by tinnitus, could not hear, and had no interest in the matter of the copy.

When I came to my senses, I thought the instance had ended with Akemi's death.

With a last glimmer of hope, Chu Zhong listened carefully once more to Miyano Akemi's heartbeat.

More than half a minute passed before a faint but unmistakable heartbeat was heard.

As time ticked by, Akemi Miyano's heartbeat gradually quickened.

Half an hour later, his heart rate returned to 20 beats per minute.

An hour later, her heart rate returned to 60 beats per minute.

At the same time, Akemi Miyano's career has shrunk significantly.

Chu Zhong watched as she slowly shrank and degenerated from a mature urban woman into a little girl who was about nine years old.

Sitting in his chair, Chu Zhong smiled and shook his head self-deprecatingly, muttering to himself, "I was really too anxious just now."

"How could Drug A, which is related to bioengineering, be a simple poison..."

APTX4869 can indeed cause rapid death, and the cause of death is difficult to determine afterward.

However, the fact that Shinichi Kudo shrank into Conan has already proven that APTX4869 is not a fatal poison.

In other words, drug A has a significant impact on the human body, but most people cannot tolerate it and exceed the threshold, leading to death.

Those that survive will shrink in size and age prematurely.

It's a complete modification at the cellular level.

Presumably, it was the effect of the revitalizing juice that continuously repaired Mingmei's cells and heart, keeping her alive and preventing her from completely dying.

"..."

Akemi Miyano, who was lying in bed, finally woke up, slowly opened her eyes, and her dark, bright eyes rolled around:

"Is this... the world after death?"

Akemi Miyano's gaze quickly settled on Chu Zhong, who was standing guard by the bedside, and a childlike, adorable, and reassuring smile appeared on her face: "Looks like this is heaven~"

He immediately noticed that Chu Zhong had a look of bewilderment, as if he was both laughing and crying.

"It's too early to think about going to heaven."

General Chu pulled the shrunken Xiaomingmei out of her loose clothing, held her in his arms, examined her carefully, and said softly, "You're not dead, you've just undergone a tiny change."

From a glamorous urban woman in her early twenties to an adorable nine-year-old girl, Akemi Miyano retains only a few familiar features in her eyes and brows.

It's said that girls change a lot as they grow up, and Chu Zhong never expected that Miyano Akemi would become so cute when she was little.

Because of her mixed heritage, Mingmei was originally 1.7 meters tall, but now she is only 1.3 meters tall, and her weight has also decreased significantly, as if it had evaporated.

Her petite, loli-like figure appeared even more tiny in Chu Zhong's arms, who was 1.85 meters tall.

Originally, her skin was already fair due to her mixed heritage, but now it has an even more translucent and pinkish hue unique to a Lolita.

However, her physical decline is not complete; Akemi's petite figure still retains some curves that are not appropriate for her age.

Because of the decrease in height, her hair, which was originally waist-length, now falls to her knees and appears somewhat too long.

"My sister's medicine is really that miraculous?"

Akemi Miyano's tone was tinged with disbelief and confusion.

Looking curiously at Chu Zhong, who was much taller than him, she felt that everything was not quite real.

"We can talk about these things when we're safe."

Chu Zhong glanced at the time and realized it was already past 3 p.m.

[Time remaining for the mission: 46 minutes]

If the fact that Akemi is still alive were to become known, it would surely attract endless pursuit and killing.

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He immediately used the intercom in his room to ask a hotel staff member to buy a medium-sized backpack nearby.

Chu Zhong had Xiao Mingmei hide in his backpack, then changed into another disguise mask and led her out of the hotel quietly through the back door.

I deliberately chose to walk through the less crowded alleys, planning to first go to a nearby children's clothing store to pick out an outfit for Miyano Akemi.

On the way, Chu Zhong inquired and learned that it was 'Shiho Miyano' who knocked on the door, which made Akemi Miyano open the door without any suspicion.

After opening the door, Akemi Miyano was threatened by the gun to her forehead and retreated back into the room, watching helplessly as 'Shiho Miyano' tore off her disguise and revealed another face.

It wasn't until then that Miyano Akemi realized that what Chu Zhong had said was true...

Afterwards, the woman who called herself 'Vermouth' took out two bloody human heads from the bag—Chu Zhong's and Miyano Shiho's.

Of course, it was just a prop dummy head, but at the time, Akemi Miyano was so shocked that she had no ability to tell the difference.

According to Vermouth, Chu Zhong has already been shot dead by Gin. Miyano Akemi broke the deal, so she killed her sister first, and now she's here to take Chu Zhong's life.

With the two people she cared about most dead and a gun pointed at her forehead, Miyano Akemi, in utter despair, remembered the thing her sister had given her, so she opened it and swallowed it.

Afterwards, he felt feverish and in excruciating pain, and didn't even know when Vermouth left.

"That wicked woman..."

Chu Zhong couldn't help but frown.

It's clear that Vermouth did this on purpose, wanting Akemi to choose suicide in despair.

What a woman with a twisted sense of humor...

But he had to be thankful. Fortunately, Vermouth didn't kill him outright; she only gave him drug A, giving him a chance to turn the tide.

However, it was a blessing in disguise; Mingmei's shrinkage brought her many advantages...

"?!"

Just as Chu Zhong was carrying Xiao Mingmei, who was hiding in the backpack, and holding a shopping bag full of new clothes, preparing to leave the children's clothing store, he suddenly sensed a strong aura of crows.

It seems someone has been hiding nearby and monitoring us...

Chapter 185 Xiaomingmei's Defenses Thin

Chu Zhong could basically conclude that the thick crow aura appearing at the edge of his perception was Vermouth.