The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle-Chapter 33 He is the Savior of Srilan!

Su Qi looked at the pattern.

Although it seemed that the pattern had been carved some time ago, making the lines a bit mottled, and even slightly deformed due to the cracking of the bark.

But he recognized it at a glance.

The previous time, when the Investigation Bureau's Xu Linqiu and Liu Yishou paid him a visit, they had shown Su Qi a photo—a tattoo on a murderer's body.

The two were exactly the same!

Su Qi remembered that he had asked what the pattern represented at that time, but Liu Yishou had only vaguely mentioned 'some kind of evil belief', not expecting to see this pattern again inside an instance.

The bark of the great oak tree continued to crack, and lines of foul-smelling blood vessels burst open, oozing thick scarlet sap.

It was being eradicated of infection, purified of filth, and given a new birth.

The potions that Kran had previously studied actually took a wrong turn because he was unable to eliminate the real source of pollution. Even if he healed the Night Demons one by one, they would just become reinfected under this great oak tree.

Whereas Su Qi had extracted the essence from the Perfect Blue version of the Blood Demon Fruit and handed it over to Kran for cultivation and synthesis, perfectly suppressing the pollution of the great oak tree.

"Crack!"

Su Qi tore off the cracked bark bearing the pattern and pocketed it.

At this moment.

Each of the other Night Demons in the cave twitched on the ground, all of them writhing in pain amid the screeching, some still trying to struggle, but stumbled and fell heavily to the ground.

Kran's face turned slightly pale, but he wasn't too badly affected.

He had already injected the Healing Factor, even though his body still had some features of a Night Demon, his skin had regrown, and his teeth and hair were becoming more human-like; he would no longer become frenzied.

Turning around, Kran then saw a bunch of dark gun muzzles.

The other Tower survivors had surrounded the two of them, extremely tense and on high alert.

Kran gave a wry smile, about to explain.

"Kael... Kran?"

Bearded Man's voice came through hesitantly.

Kran was startled, then joyfully said, "You recognize me?"

"At first glance, you do look a bit different, but that white coat of yours and the birthmark on your neck... it's definitely you," Bearded Man said somewhat excited, then turned to the somewhat feminine Night Demon beside him, feeling... a bit familiar, yet unable to recognize.

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"What the hell is going on?" Bearded Man couldn't help but ask about the most pressing matter, looking from Kran to the vastly transformed great oak tree and the writhing Night Demons on the ground: "I'm completely lost."

Kran explained earnestly, "In short, they won't pose a threat anymore, the great oak tree that was the source of pollution is no longer the source of the virus. Look carefully..."

Following Kran's pointing, the Tower survivors looked towards the air, where tiny blue particles were falling from the lush branches of the great oak tree, and the Night Demons that came into contact with these particles were being cleansed of their infective symptoms bit by bit.

"They're being healed?" Bearded Man's eyes filled with shock.

"The remaining Night Demons will gradually return to their nests, and they too will have their infection cleansed and recover human consciousness under the effect of the Healing Factor."

Kran's words caused everyone in the Tower to shudder:

"Did you just say... humans?"

"Yes."

Kran nodded emphatically, as if fearing the crowd couldn't hear clearly, and stated word for word:

"From now on, everyone will be completely healed, whether they are Night Demons or zombies."

"The tweny years of pain in this city, as if straight out of hell, are about to come to an end!"

"We will also be liberated from the nightmare darkness!"

"And all of this."

Kran looked toward the distant Su Qi: "It's all thanks to him."

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When the dawn broke, all the Night Demons returned to their nests. As Kran said, once they entered their nests, they began to convulse under the effect of the Healing Factor, beginning to show humanoid signs.

And all of this no longer required the help of Su Qi and the other players. The people of the Tower had returned inside the Tower, excitedly summoning others, carrying the humans who were recovering but still unconscious to open spaces.

"There is a huge number of zombies in the city, but they will be easier to deal with than the Night Demons. The rest will be the business of the residents of Srilan themselves."

After all the Night Demons were healed, a message appeared before all the players.

[Main Quest Completed]

[All instance players may now proceed to the Tower to have the final meeting with the Tower's leader and then leave the instance.]

"The plot has concluded, which probably means there's some explanation to be given, or a reward," Old Tomato thought with habitual reasoning.

Ah Ti nodded in agreement and said with emotion, "But we are just side characters; the real MVP this time is still Brother Su. If not for him dropping in like a godsend, we'd have been wiped out."

"Cough cough... What the hell are you talking about?"

Ah Qie was bandaged all over at the moment, his vitality depleted to 20%, cursing as he spoke, "Clearly everything was a success, yet nobody informed me. I was still desperately flooring it and duking it out with the Night Demons outside, nearly lost my life."

"Sorry, sorry... just slipped our minds at the time."

Night Guardian had his bones set as well, but the pain was still bothering him. He was a bit eager to leave the instance saying, "Never mind that for now. I'll go borrow a car, call up Brother Su and Brother Xun, and then head back to the Tower together."

He suddenly paused:

"Wait... where are those two?"

At an exit outside the cave,

Upon seeing the system panel, Su Qi bid farewell to Kran and the others.

"Congratulations on your reunion after twenty years," Su Qi said with a smile as he watched Kran and the woman tightly gripping each other's hands.

"We owe it all to... you..." the woman, still not used to speaking, expressed her gratitude.

Su Qi accepted the thanks willingly, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, pointing at the Bearded Man sitting not too far away, smoking in silence, "What's his issue?"

Kran turned his head slightly and spoke in a low, embarrassed tone, "That... twenty years ago, he was my rival in love... you understand?"

Oh... got it.

"Well, you three take care of yourselves."

"..."

After bidding farewell to them, Su Qi planned to meet up with the others first and then head to the Tower together.

And just as he turned the corner.

Someone was leaning against a rock, seemingly waiting for him.

Su Qi recognized him at a glance:

"Xiao Huan..."

"It's Xun Xiaohuan!"

Xun Xiaohuan couldn't help but scowl.

"What, you wanted to see me?"

Xun Xiaohuan, hugging his Flying Knife, leaned against the rock and after a moment of silence, spoke:

"You're impressive. Though you're a newbie, you're unexpectedly talented and strong."

Su Qi glanced at him.

So, this guy was waiting here just to say that?

He paused for a moment:

"Actually, I wanted to ask from the beginning, you're not a new player, are you?"

"Mhm." Xun Xiaohuan nodded gently, not bothering to hide it but added, "I'm an inner tester... but not from the recent batch, even before that, all part of highly confidential testing."

"Of course, if you want to ask."

He shook his head, "I can't tell you."

Su Qi could tell, the man took issue with being called Xiao Huan.

But was that going to stop him?

Su Qi looked up at the question mark above his head:

[A player who entered Paradise during the inner testing period]