area51novel Chapter 89 Unlucky Danitz
Chapter 89 Unlucky Danitz
"Don't tell anyone about what happened before!" Danitz gritted his teeth and spat out these words.
"Otherwise, I'll risk my life to kill you."
Damn it, if this gets out, I'll be too ashamed to go back to the Golden Dream, no, I'll be too ashamed to take any more risks at sea.
Lorne, who was standing to the side and knew he was in the wrong, didn't say anything more.
"understood."
"But don't forget what you promised me."
In return for keeping secrets and escorting him, Danitz promised Lorne a sum of money and to help him gather the potion recipes he needed.
In fact, before Danitz could do anything, he was knocked unconscious by Lorne and Lachi.
An injured Sequence 7 is no match for them.
"Shit..." Danitz rubbed his temples in pain. He only remembered feeling hot all over after drinking the potion, and when he woke up, his neck was killing him. Lorne looked at him as if he were some rare animal.
Upon discovering that the other party seemed to have incomplete memories, Lorne decided to leave some gaps to better understand the other party.
The two tacitly agreed not to continue discussing the topic.
That night, due to the possibility of enemies, the two decided to leave Bayam temporarily.
Danitz planned to go to an abandoned dock where there was a small boat for emergencies.
"Damn it..." Danitz suddenly grabbed Lorne's arm and pointed to the small dock a few hundred meters away, "What are those lunatics doing here..."
On the pier not far away, several figures draped in black robes were gathered in a circle, holding something in their hands and muttering to themselves. Moonlight shone on them, casting distorted shadows on the ground.
"Cultists?" Lorne frowned. He had indeed heard of all sorts of strange beliefs at sea, but this was the first time he had seen one with his own eyes.
Danitz frowned slightly: "It looks like a ceremony is taking place."
"Damn it, you always run into these guys at sea."
"So what do we do now?" Lorne asked.
……
After a moment of contemplation, Danitz spoke up: "Let's retreat first."
Lorne was about to respond when he suddenly froze in place.
"Hey! What are you spacing out for!" Danitz pinched his arm hard. "Before they notice—"
Lorne looked up at the moon in a daze. The crimson moonlight seemed exceptionally bright tonight, making him feel a little dizzy.
A strange palpitation returned, causing him to momentarily lose his composure.
At that moment, a strange insect appeared not far away, gleaming eerily in the moonlight, and flew straight toward Lorne's face.
"Don't just stand there!" Danitz grabbed Lorne's arm hard when he saw him standing there in a daze.
"Uh..." In a daze, Lorne lost his balance and fell to the ground.
The insect flew past his nose and crashed into Danitz, who was standing in front of Lorne.
"What is that... Ah!"
Danitz suddenly clutched his wound, his expression changing drastically. Lorne got up and saw something wriggling at his wound.
"Don't make a sound." Lorne snapped out of his daze and quickly stepped forward to cover Danitz's mouth.
"Waaah..."
The cultists seemed to notice the commotion and turned to look.
Lorne pulled Danitz into a corner.
"Phew~ thank goodness, they didn't catch up."
After hiding for a while and confirming that he was temporarily safe, Lorne finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Damn it, something's crawling around in my wound." Danitz was sweating profusely.
"Let me see!" Lorne ripped open Danitz's clothes.
The wound, which had already scabbed over, was now writhing eerily, the bandages soaked with seeping blood. Even more horrifying, on Danitz's leg, a thumb-sized bulge was slowly moving under the skin, as if some living thing was burrowing into the flesh.
Lorne stared intently at the wriggling protrusion.
He took out a small knife and brandished it at Danitz a few times.
"Shit, are you sure you can do it?" Danitz was somewhat stunned.
"Stop talking nonsense."
Lorne picked up the knife to make his move, but then noticed that the protrusion had cleverly changed direction.
"hateful."
After a few attempts, Lorne gave up. He wasn't a professional surgeon and wasn't very confident about the procedure.
Are there any clinics or hospitals nearby?
"No..." Danitz thought for a moment, then shook his head in despair. He suddenly grabbed Lorne's wrist.
"I feel like I've been having a run of bad luck ever since I met you!"
"Wait, I remember..."
Lorne pulled out the business card that Roy King had given him earlier.
"This address is quite close to us."
……
"Knock knock knock"
There was a knock on the door.
"It's you." Roy King, wearing glasses, looked at Lorne with a hint of drowsiness.
"Although I told you you could come find me after you've thought it through, visiting so late at night is just too...unique."
"And your friend too..." He pointed to Danitz, who was wrapped in bandages, standing to the side.
"Uh..." Lorne knew the situation was a bit awkward, but he still spoke up, "There was a slight accident."
"Come in." Roy King stepped aside to let the two in.
Danitz was soon placed on an operating table for examination.
"This is a bit of a problem." Listening to Lorne's description of the situation, Roy King looked at Danitz's wounds with some helplessness.
"Having been in the Extraordinary Realm for so many years, 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?" Lorne asked.
"It's hard to say. Although I'm skilled in treatment, I'm not a true 'pharmacist' after all."
Based on his past experience, Roy King analyzed, "It should be an insect related to Extraordinary, and it has penetrated deep into his flesh and blood. It is probably a byproduct of some ritual."
After a pause, he sighed, "Perhaps we'll have to amputate his leg."
What?! A leg amputation! Danitz jerked his head up.
"No, please don't." He quickly grabbed Lorne's hand and pleaded, "No, please don't cripple me."
"Otherwise, I'll never be able to go on adventures with the captain and the others again."
Seeing this, Lorne felt a pang of pity and asked, "Is there any other way? He's an adventurer, too."
"This..." Just as Roy King was thinking of a solution, the worms inside Danitz reacted again.
"He went towards your crotch!" Lorne exclaimed.
"What!" Danitz exclaimed in shock. "Quickly, saw it off! Quickly, saw off the leg!"
"Got it!"
Just as Danitz was breaking down, Roy King suddenly gave a mysterious smile: "Perhaps... there is a more elegant solution." He opened the instrument cabinet and took out a pair of slender tweezers.
Lorne suddenly had a bad feeling: "You intend to...?"
"I can pick the bug out."
Are you sure you can do it?
"Don't worry." Seemingly wanting to show off his skills in front of Lorne, Roy King smiled and said, "I've always been very lucky."
Luck... Hearing what the other person said, Lorne felt it was a bit unreliable.
"Hold him down for me, I'll pick the bug out."
"Wait, what are you going to do?" Danitz suddenly realized something was wrong.
"From behind."
"What?" Lorne was also shocked upon hearing this; the scene was rather shocking.
"No, no!" Danitz struggled desperately.