Viruses and poisons are not the same. Poisons require antidotes, while viruses ultimately rely on a person's immunity. The spiritual spring water can enhance a person's physique and indirectly improve their immunity, thus having an effect against viruses.
The woman among the three looked at the bottle in her hand. It was indistinguishable from ordinary water. However, they had drunk it before and knew that this water could indeed heal wounds and help them recover their abilities faster.
"Mr. Shen, was this developed by your base?"
"No, our base has a space ability user. Her space can not only store things, but there's a spiritual spring inside. This water comes from it."
"Spiritual spring space?" The man laughed. "One has a sword, and the other has a spiritual spring space. Are the people in your base cultivating immortals?"
Shen Qian shook his head seriously. "Only those two are special. I don't know why."
The man's eyes darkened. He half-believed Shen Qian's words. They had long heard of the peculiarities of the Lincheng base. If nothing else, the system there was very professional. It occasionally reminded them of large-scale alien attacks, allowing them to defend themselves.
Here, along the way, he had felt that everything was meticulously managed, with constant reminders for every matter, and sometimes even proactive assistance in analyzing situations.
Such treatment was far more than just "special."
The group protected the researchers and stayed aside. Shen Chongyan was locked in an intense battle with the group of Southeast Asian mercenaries. He wasn't using his full power, playing with them as if he were practicing his sword.
After toying with them for a while, he killed two of them. The mercenaries realized that Shen Chongyan didn't take them seriously at all and became somewhat enraged. As one of them was kicked away, he suddenly pulled out a pistol and fired at Shen Chongyan.
Shen Chongyan instinctively raised his long sword to block.
There was no sound. He looked over, and the bullet stopped in mid-air, slowly disintegrating into a pile of impurities, then black powder, until it vanished completely.
Everyone was stunned. Shen Chongyan was also a little bewildered. The space where the bullet had disappeared was distorted, with shimmering, azure light like doors opening.
A woman in a white robe holding a scepter walked out of the "door." The person behind her fired at her. The next second, that bullet, along with the shooter, seemed to be erased by time. They rapidly aged, turning into a skeleton, which then decayed into dust and dissipated into the heavens and earth.
"Ah," Luan Yu gasped. They had been traveling through a time tunnel for a long time, and everyone was almost crushed.
Doors in the light opened one after another. Two more people emerged, a man and a woman, both dressed in magnificent ancient costumes. The man was holding a small, chubby child. Equally uncomfortable from being squeezed, he eagerly stretched his body as soon as he came out.
"Ayan."
Zhu Li walked towards him with a powerful stride. Shen Chongyan was dumbfounded; he could hardly believe it was him. Only when Zhu Li reached him, with that familiar, unforgettable face, did he snap back to reality.
He hugged her tightly, his emotions momentarily overflowing. He believed what they had said: he and she had been lovers for many lifetimes, otherwise, this longing wouldn't be so agonizing.
Zhu Li directly whisked him away, disappearing from the spot, which startled the others. The mercenaries tried to seize the opportunity to escape, but Luan Yu easily pulled them back.
"Hey, are they still useful?"
Shen Qian was the first to react. "Yes, they are. Madam, please put them inside. Be careful, they might carry the virus."
Shen Qian took out several boxes from his space. He didn't want the extras; he told them to leave and took the useful ones in boxes back for research.
Luan Yu narrowed her eyes. "They're not good people. Let's kill them."
She could see the past lives of these people and knew at a glance what wicked deeds they had committed. Thinking of the suffering she had endured recently, she felt extreme disgust towards such individuals.
She and Zhu Li had already found that place. The entire line, from beginning to end, from the Sanjie Stele in Zhu Li's world to her异世界 (yi shi jie - alternate world), and through a time-space tunnel, was filled with aliens.
The place that originally absorbed negative energy was being squeezed by the three thousand worlds. Many worlds overlapped on that line. Everything that appeared there would be infinitely replicated. Because the space was too small, they were almost all replicated based on their original bodies. This applied not only to living beings but also to inanimate objects.
As more time-space rifts appeared and more worlds overlapped, the replicated things increased, and this phenomenon became more pronounced.
This was why her house used to become strange and unusual only after a long time, but now it could grow into a Pythagorean theorem tree diagram in just a few days.
And all of this was largely due to the negative energy generators like these people.
She didn't seek anyone's opinion. The scepter hit the ground, distorting space. The people who were desperately fleeing in all directions were frozen in place, rapidly aging and hardening. The muscles and fat tissues on their bodies were blown away like foam, leaving behind bones, dried bones, dust, and finally dissipating completely.
The two corpses were wrapped up and placed into Shen Qian's space. As the "in-laws," Shen Qian conscientiously entertained the two, bringing out everything edible from his space, including drinks and beverages, and even the last few bottles of spiritual spring water.
Luan Yu enjoyed the food while gazing into the distance, wondering where those two had gone. They were always so inseparable; how long had it been since they parted? She had even come specifically to see him one last time.
Was she really afraid of never seeing him again?
Luan Yu thought of what she had seen in the illusion. Since it was something that would happen in the near future, she had seen it very clearly.
She would die.
Perhaps she had already made up her mind, so she came to see him for the last time?
Luan Yu felt a sense of restlessness. They had known each other for so long, and she had already considered the other person a friend. She actually wanted to advise her not to get involved.
But even if she were in the other person's shoes, she couldn't stand by and do nothing.
"I haven't had the chance to ask your esteemed name yet. My name is Shen Qian, and I am Chongyan's elder brother."
Luan Yu looked at him and suddenly chuckled. Following the local custom, she replied, "Luan Yu, Zhu Li's friend."
"Where did you come from? This place looks a bit like where the aliens appear." The system had previously said that space distortion meant time-space rifts were appearing, and aliens emerged from these rifts.
"Is it possible that's it?"
It was just sealed by her in time.
Seeing Shen Qian instantly become tense, Luan Yu couldn't help but burst into laughter. Dong Ling said somewhat speechlessly, "Wife, stop teasing this young gentleman. That was the passage we came through. Don't worry, aliens won't come out."
Shen Qian's tension finally eased a little. "That's good, that's good. By the way, where did they... where did they go? When will they be back?"
"I don't know."
She took a gulp from the water bottle and was momentarily stunned. "Is this from her space?"
"No, it's from another... I think so."
He remembered hearing their conversation. Their abilities were all created by Zhu Li, as was Lin Wan's space.
"I see." Luan Yu thought of something and drifted off into thought again.