Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

"Toxin?" Bai Yu raised his eyebrows.

"This extracted toxin can last for twelve hours, but you must take the antidote before then, otherwise your intestines will perforate and your stomach will rupture..."

"Where's the poison?"

"We all have it!"

"Where's the antidote?"

"Only the superiors have it, we don't have it..."

"Superior?" Bai Yu said in a low voice, "For example, Rose Girl?"

“I, I can’t say…” The white man’s face was filled with pain. “If I say it, I’ll die.”

"You'll die if you don't tell me!" Bai Yu pressed on, "Answer me, what exactly is your organization..."

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly rushed over with murderous eyes, pinning Bai Yu down with all his might. Blood gushed out of his seven orifices, and he frantically shouted, "Let's die together!"

The explosion at close range was too close.

Su Ruoli was quick and swift, and directly chopped off one of the man's hands. Bai Yu kicked the man on the chin, kicking him out of the passage. His body fell to the bottom floor. The sound of landing lasted less than a second, and then a sharp roar and explosion rang in his ears, like a high-explosive grenade, and bloody flames filled the air.

Bai Yu tore off the severed arm and threw it aside. He glanced at the direction of the explosion and said, "At least we have some useful information now."

I took out a black glass tube from the body. I threw it away because I didn't know what it was. I didn't expect it to be the key item.

"It looks like it's only enough for one person." Bai Yu shook the glass bottle.

Su Ruoli raised her hand and asked: "Give it to me."

"Think carefully. If you can't find the antidote, you'll die. And the antidote is in the hands of a cadre from the opposing organization, who will be at least a third-level transcendent. Even if you're a Heroic Spirit, you're no match for him."

"It's okay." Su Ruoli pretended to be relaxed and said, "I'm still a Heroic Spirit. I heard that high-level Heroic Spirits are invulnerable to all kinds of attacks and poisons. Maybe I can recover without any medicine~"

Bai Yu also smiled: "What you said does make sense."

He tilted his head back and drank the poison in one gulp, throwing away the glass tube without even giving the person a chance to lick the bottle.

"But I'm not reasonable."

Anyway, the one who was poisoned was the Destiny Editor, so what does it have to do with me, Bai?

Chapter 40 Four and a Half Hours

The poison was drunk.

That's not a glass of wine.

"How does it taste?" Su Ruoli asked.

"It's terrible... It's like three-day-old orange soda in the summer with fermented bean curd and chili sauce added." Bai Yu covered her mouth. "I don't really want to revisit it."

Unscrew the kettle, take a sip and rinse your mouth to get rid of the strange smell.

"Is it effective?"

"I'm not sure. I need to find a shadow spider to try." Bai Yu flexed his wrist. "But I'm already rushing to drink the poison. Don't you admire my courage a little?"

"I already admire you. Do you need me to praise you?" Su Ruoli gave him an encouraging look: "You did very well. Very manly."

"...Although it was pretended and deliberate, I was still very encouraged." Bai Yu also responded. A few well-placed jokes can effectively dilute the sense of alienation. This is a little trick in the workplace.

"If I don't get you to the hospital within twelve hours, you'll be poisoned to death." Su Ruoli's words brought the two back to reality. "If we can't get out of here within twelve hours, we'll die together... From this moment on, we're completely united in our destiny."

She felt that this matter needed to be emphasized.

Bai Yu just rolled his eyes. There was no need to explain this kind of thing a second time. He didn't expect to leave in one piece when he came in. At worst, he could just hand over his body.

Su Ruoli opened her mouth, but fell silent again.

Now is not the time to be pretentious.

Hua Li and Ruan Qingxue were woken up and the information was obtained.

Bai Yu made a suggestion this time: "Go to the near side to rescue people first, then go to the far side. There's no need to disperse at this time. If it's an opponent you can't deal with, it will only waste more time."

He analyzed what he had witnessed, "If the students were captured by the shadow spiders, they would be relatively safe. At most, they would be hung up and used as food, but they wouldn't die immediately."

Su Ruoli asked: "Are you sure?"

"Ninety-nine percent sure."

"...Okay." Su Ruoli nodded in agreement.

No matter what suggestions Bai Yu makes, she will most likely agree to it in the end, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have her own ideas.

Bai Yu had suggested saving only one side before, but she refused.

It seems that drinking the poison voluntarily this time has increased Su Ruoli's favorability and also unlocked the third option.

"It's that way." Ruan Qingxue took the initiative to point the way.

Bai Yu and Su Ruoli took their positions in front.

"Two extraordinary people, both second-level..." Bai Yu closed his eyes and pretended to sense murderous intent, but in fact he directly revealed the spoiler based on his actual combat experience: "The bald man in the cloak is a summoning mage who can control skeletons to generate bones. The other one with dyed yellow hair is very fast. He has no special extraordinary abilities. He is a martial artist, but his basic skills are quite solid."

"Deal with the summoning system first..."

"No, the summoning system has a bone shield to protect itself, which is difficult to break. Kill the other martial artist first. He has an old injury on his right ankle. Aim for that."

"...Your perception is so strong?" Su Ruoli cast a puzzled look: "You even know about my old injuries?"

"Yes, they are all perception abilities." Bai Yu also responded with a firm gaze.

Su Ruoli pouted slightly, then drew out the soft sword from her waist, pressed her left hand on the ground, bent her left leg, pressed down her right leg, and began to accumulate strength in a long-distance running starting posture.

Like an agile leopard, when Bai Yu's gunshot sounded as a command, the green light on Chu's waist left an afterimage.

The first second-level transcendent, Huang Mao, was a martial artist. Bai Yu originally thought he could fight Su Ruoli for more than ten moves, but...

Almost in the blink of an eye, Su Ruoli swung out three swords. The first sword was blocked, the second sword cut off his right leg, and the third sword directly cut him in half.

Before Bai Yu’s magazine was emptied, the first person was killed instantly.

This also confused the other extraordinary person.

It was not until Su Ruoli pointed the sword at him that he reacted hurriedly and yelled, "Don't come over!"

A white bone was thrown out, and it turned into half of some beast's skeleton in mid-air and fell directly down.

Then a flash of green light flew out from the gap in the skeleton, and the Chu waist sword pierced the summoner's body. The next moment, it was blocked by the dimly visible white bone shield.

"Huh, fortunately..." He just breathed a sigh of relief, but saw that the bone shield had cracked, and a gun was pointed at him from the side above.

boom--!

"Jackpot!"

Bai Yu blew away the smoke from the muzzle of the gun: "Hit right between the eyebrows."

"Stop trying to be cool, give me a hand..." Su Ruoli's hand reached out from under the skeleton: "It's heavy."

Just as Bai Yu was about to reach out her hand, Hua Li and Ruan Qingxue ran over first, one lifted her up and the other pulled her out.

Then the two students began to count the number of people and take care of other students.

Before untying them, Ruan Qingxue was in charge of calming them down: "Everyone, don't make any noise, don't panic, try to speak as little as possible, and control your emotions. If there's anything, unless it's extremely urgent, we can talk about it after we get out, okay?"

Hua Li collected all the usable items at hand and began to make temporary medical equipment to bandage and treat the wounded.

A considerable number of students were injured after entering the shadow world, because the landing point might not be on the ground, but could also be in mid-air.

One of the students was in a more serious condition, with a steel bar piercing his thigh directly and making him almost unable to move. He needed other people to carry him on a simple stretcher, and the injury could not be pulled out to avoid causing more blood loss.

What surprised Bai Yu was that each and every student was very cooperative. There was no disagreement, and there was a kind of tacit understanding in the silence... They knew what to do, and their operations flowed smoothly, as if they had experienced earthquake relief and served as trainees in the fire brigade.

"Is there anything strange?" Su Ruoli found him after drawing his sword.

"It's very strange..." Bai Yu touched his chin: "Are all students nowadays so well-educated?"

Su Ruoli was puzzled: "Isn't this basic? We've already learned it in school."

“Does this still get taught in school?”

"Earthquake relief, disaster drills, and two-week internships during the winter and summer holidays." Su Ruoli recited a few randomly. "Everyone has gone through this type of training at least ten times since childhood. On average, they need to review the entire process once every six months. It's only natural to do this. If you don't pass the test, you'll be forced to take extra classes."

Bai Yu: "..."

...I really still know very little about this world.

Because we have been living under the direct threat of the shadow world for a long time, education should also focus on practicality rather than superficial appearances. Perhaps this is the true compulsory education...

"Next, move to the other side?" Su Ruoli asked.

"Now there's a problem." Bai Yu counted. "There are already eleven of us, and half of them are injured. We can't move quickly with the injured. Shadow spiders are everywhere in the nest. This is completely different from our previous operations. We can't move quickly, and we must leave some people behind to protect their safety... and we still need to find the next twenty or so students."

More importantly, these twenty-odd students had been completely paralyzed by the toxins injected by the shadow spiders. They couldn't even walk, let alone speak.

This means that people are needed to carry out the transportation. At present, there are only six students who can serve as porters. To carry six people in a round, they need to make at least four round trips.

In this intricate Shadow Spider lair...will it be too late?

More importantly, during the transportation process, Shadow Spiders will also come to the door, and there are also unknown number of members of the organization.

"It is very difficult, but we must..." Su Ruoli also figured out the problem, but it was not a question of whether it was difficult or not. Should we not save him just because it was difficult?

"Anyway, send these wounded out first."

Bai Yu nodded: "Let's start the transportation now... I'll go check the situation on the other side."

"Be careful."

"Ah."

Bai Yu waved and stood up and walked away.

He thought it was impossible to clear the dungeon this time. What he needed to do next was not only to save people, but also to remember and draw a map of the entire Shadow Spider Lair.

Only by fully understanding the map structure here can you maximize your efficiency.

“I don’t know how long it will take.”

Bai Yu muttered to himself, "But this is the only way. I'm not a smart person after all, so I can only use this stupid method."

He began to measure the entire shadow spider nest with his footsteps.

One of the benefits of a time traveler is a strong memory, which means he doesn't need to run the route a second time, nor does he need to spend a lot of effort to memorize the map he ran last time.

But the Shadow Spider Lair is still very complicated, and even with a perfect memory it is inevitable to get lost, because there are too many completely black areas on the map that are not lit.

The fog of war is everywhere.

So what we need to do now is to walk through all the forks in the road as much as possible, remember the height differences and dead ends, and determine which side we can go and which side we cannot go.

Reality is not a game. There are no air walls and no ladders to build human ladders. Humans still have knees, and a fall from a height of five meters will not kill them.

While running the map, Bai Yu also found that although his memory was strong, it was not completely without mistakes.

Although I won’t forget, it doesn’t mean I can remember it.

This means that... it is equivalent to having a universal search engine that leads to the memory bank. The memories in it can be retrieved at will, but you will forget what you are searching for.

This is a typical memory bug.

Because he drank the poison, Bai Yu's journey through the map was relatively smooth. He encountered a shadow spider, but the latter did not actively attack him, but just lay quietly in place, because these shadow spiders could not enter many areas.

If you actively approach and try to use the "Brother, please make way" move, you will be attacked and driven away.

However, Bai Yu successfully found the shadow spider's nest.

After spending two hours searching the map, I finally came to the conclusion that... there is a shortcut, but it only allows you to go in, not out.

In order to rescue the people, Bai Yu tried the shortest known route, but it still took nearly thirty minutes.

This was even when he was ignored by the Shadow Spider and encountered it no less than three times along the way.

The good news is that only a group of three members of the organization were seen left. They were all first-level transcendents and controlled two students, who were easily dealt with by Bai Yu.

What follows is the tedious process of running across the map, transporting people back one after another.

Bai Yu also did not forget to look for his own shadow. He asked all the students who were rescued and still conscious, but no student had seen the young Bai Yu.

And so, half of the fifth hour passed.

Just when Bai Yu finished the fifth round of transport and the number of students rescued reached 23, he felt a strong... breath.