Gourmet Hunter - Chapter 395 (Patreon)

Chapter 395: Deeply Stricken

The moment the faint red poisonous mist dissipated, its effect took hold immediately. All members of the Eagle Group, including Buhara and William, collapsed to the ground without any reaction, losing consciousness.

The only ones still standing were Luo and Geru.

Though Geru did not fall, fine blood veins appeared on her slightly darker face, and her brows furrowed as if in pain.

"Poison?"

Luo quickly glanced at the record player plant he had smashed, then ignored Geru’s gaze and rushed past the bodies to Buhara's side.

Buhara's eyes were closed tightly, his exposed skin showing numerous blood veins, his expression quite painful.

Luo placed his hand on Buhara's chest, activated his nen, and a unique light flashed briefly. He then retracted his hand, enclosing the minute blood drop-shaped poison within a small sphere compressed by God's Hand.

In his mind, the white smoke font immediately provided information about the poison.

The poison of the Zangzi Flower would cause the poisoned person to lose consciousness within three seconds, followed by symptoms such as body heat and muscle weakness. If the poison was not neutralized within ten minutes, the blood vessels would burst, causing internal bleeding and death.

"What a terrifying poison."

Upon seeing the details of the Zangzi Flower's poison, Luo was slightly startled. Losing consciousness within three seconds was a solo adventurer’s nightmare; once poisoned, the chance to detoxify was almost non-existent.

If not for his ability to isolate the poisonous smoke within his domain, this first strike would have wiped out their entire group.

The Eagle Group members were not nen users, and coming to such a place was a death sentence. Buhara and William knew nen, and Buhara's level was not weak, yet he was still hit.

This is the cruelty of unknown lands; even with nen, absolute safety cannot be guaranteed.

Luo carefully controlled the Zangzi Flower's poison in his palm. Seeing the faint blood veins on Buhara's body fade away, he felt slightly relieved and then looked up to meet Geru's gaze.

Geru was enduring the burning pain in her internal organs, sweating profusely.

She was immune to the three-second unconsciousness effect of the poison due to her exceptional resistance, but because she remained conscious, she had to endure great pain.

While Luo was extracting the poison from Buhara, she had injected herself with a formulated universal antidote, but it was ineffective.

In this world, there is ultimately no universal antidote.

"Ten minutes should be enough."

Luo glanced at the people lying on the ground, then activated his nen, and under Geru's astonished gaze, teleported several meters to her side.

"You...!"

Geru was internally shocked.

This newcomer to the Hunter Association's Zodiacs was not yet the mature, enchanting powerhouse she would be in over a decade. While vaguely confirming Luo's identity, she was amazed at his seemingly enhanced strength.

"Don't move."

Luo said briefly, pressing his hand directly on Geru's stomach, activating his nen to swiftly extract the Zangzi Flower's poison, controlling it in his palm.

Automatic target identification was one of the useful features of his nen ability, and its strong practicality came with the limitation that it could not directly harm enemies.

The poison was violently extracted, more effective than a specialized antidote. Once removed, the blood veins on Geru's skin disappeared, and the burning sensation in her internal organs vanished.

"Give me an empty glass vial," Luo said, looking at the close-by Geru.

Geru's expression changed, and she stared at Luo with an extremely complex gaze, gritting her teeth, "It really is you!"

Luo extended his hand towards Geru without speaking, showing a wry smile under his human skin mask, though he was just lightly smiling.

Geru, feeling unprecedentedly conflicted, knew Luo was going to save the others and handed him a specially made glass vial.

"Thanks."

Luo restored his original voice, taking the vial and starting to detoxify the Eagle Group members, placing the extracted Zangzi Flower poison into the vial.

Geru stood there, dumbfounded, watching Luo busily move among the people, questioning her own aspirations and profession for the first time.

As a professional poison hunter, her duty was to shield her teammates from poison dangers. Yet, just now, apart from Luo, everyone, including herself, was poisoned, becoming part of the doomed.

Thinking this, Geru fell into deep confusion.

An outsider, using nen, avoided poisoning and even detoxified others without needing to prepare an antidote.

If so, what is the point of a professional poison hunter? What is the value of her hard-earned achievements? Ultimately, she was outdone by an outsider's nen.

"Why can't I develop such nen myself?"

Geru was deeply struck by Luo, feeling confused and questioning herself.

Luo, unaware of Geru's turmoil, focused on extracting poison from everyone.

After five or six minutes, he finally removed all the Zangzi Flower poison from their bodies, turning the Eagle Group members into book pages in his mind.

He stored the extracted Zangzi Flower poison in Geru's special glass vial and carefully kept it.

With the Zangzi Flower poison, he now had four types of poison:

Black scorpion poison, which has a strong paralyzing effect.

Light green red-headed dart frog poison, which causes muscle dissolution.

Light blue sea slug poison, a small amount causing seven days and nights of sleep.

These three poisons were exchanged from Geru and rarely used. They are functional rather than lethal. Now, the Zangzi Flower poison, collected by himself, is deadly.

Even with the poison directly extracted, Buhara, despite his good constitution, showed no signs of waking up. This indicates the Zangzi Flower poison is extremely potent, and they had walked less than 150 meters on this bone road, with unknown deadly dangers ahead.

Luo recalled Silva Zoldyck being slashed by Chrollo's poisoned knife during their fight in Yorknew but remained unharmed. And Killua, who could resist strong laxatives, plus Geru's exhibited poison resistance.

Using poison, though disreputable, is undeniably practical in combat. Yet, many strong people in the world have high poison resistance.

Over-reliance on one's poison can sometimes lead to downfall. In the future, if he uses poison, he should collect potent toxins and use the Surprise Box to create an irresistibly deadly poison.

Luo temporarily set aside this sudden thought and noticed Geru's dazed expression, puzzled.

He didn't realize his unintentional actions had deeply struck this prospective Zodiac member, valued by Netero.

After ten minutes, everyone gradually woke up, looking confused.

Once everyone was awake, Luo held up a golden bracelet he found at the bottom of the bone pile and asked seriously, "How does it feel to come back from the brink of death?"

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding Luo's meaning.

"I can help you once, twice, but not every time. I think continuing deeper is pure suicide, so..." Luo glanced around at the Eagle Group, saying, "If you want wealth, search the bone pile for enough, then head back."

At these words, many faces turned ugly.

"Tamm, what do you mean?" Ali asked angrily.

Luo looked at him, pursed his lips, and said nothing.

He felt he had made his point clear.

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