141: Chapter 141 I, Li Yu, a Senior Incubator, Charge into Battle?

The operation in Ningyang City moved quickly.

The antidote provided by Li Yu was copied into tens of thousands of doses in the blink of an eye, reaching every Breeder, while various companies and pharmaceutical factories began to provide the necessary materials with all their might.

The West City Gymnasium.

This was one of the sites used to hold out-of-control beasts. By now, the iron cages had been removed, and the beasts lay on the ground, gasping for breath, with no strength left to attack anyone.

Originally, after the "blood-raging" caused by high-quality beasts like the Sky-Shattering Fire Dragon, all Beast Tamers and their beasts were supposed to be quarantined.

But at this moment, the soldiers tacitly allowed the Beast Tamers to accompany their beasts, and even allowed the removal of the iron cages.

Or rather... they tacitly allowed for a final farewell.

"Lily, I'm sorry. It's all my fault for not protecting you well. We promised to enjoy life and grow old together... I didn't expect you to leave first."

A delicate-looking girl stroked a spotted tiger-leopard with shriveled skin and weak breathing. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her voice was choked with sobs.

The spotted tiger-leopard's tail twitched, seemingly wanting to respond, but it no longer had the strength.

"My parents left early, and everyone bullied me. I thought my life was just going to be like that, but Lily, you brought me hope. You taught me to be brave, and you made me stand up and fight back."

"Lily, do you know? When I first saw you, I actually wanted to jump and end it all, but you were so hungry, biting my pants and whimpering. Later... I ended up stuck with a troublesome idiot like you..."

She stroked Lily, tears streaming once again from her desperate eyes, as if she were saying goodbye to Lily, and also saying goodbye to herself.

Hidden in her pocket was one of Lily's shed fangs, about the length of a finger, which had been soaked in paraquat.

Suddenly, hurried footsteps sounded.

She only saw a person in a white lab coat running over in a rush, snatching Lily from her hands without a word, and injecting a syringe into Lily's body.

"Is it finally... time for euthanasia?" The girl wore a miserable smile on her face, her hand gripping the fang in her pocket tightly.

"It's not euthanasia, it's the antidote."

"Antidote..." The girl blinked, "Antidote?"

"Yes, Li Yu, the Senior Cultivator from Bright Moon Company, has successfully developed the antidote. Everyone's beasts can be saved."

The person in the white lab coat was a young man, his tone filled with gratitude: "I heard that Master Li didn't close his eyes for five days and five nights to research the antidote. We mustn't let his efforts go to waste."

"Li Yu?" The girl murmured the name.

"Yes! Li Yu!" Mentioning the name again, the young man in the white lab coat's eyes were filled with admiration. "Master Li Yu from Bright Moon Company—without Master Li Yu, all 100,000 beasts in Ningyang City would have died in this disaster!"

As the medicine was injected, the spotted tiger-leopard's condition rapidly improved. The girl let out a "wah" and burst into tears, throwing herself onto the leopard and wailing.

The young man in the white lab coat patted her shoulder and comforted her: "Lily, it's okay now. Your beast will be fine soon."

It turned out that the girl and the beast shared the same name. Both were named Lily.

She let go of the poison-tipped fang. A single dose of the antidote had saved not just a severely injured beast, but also a scarred soul.

The antidote appeared all over Ningyang City, causing a tremendous reaction.

The East City Gymnasium.

When all the beasts were injected with the medicine, they stood up one after another, letting out weak but vibrant roars.

The entire gymnasium erupted in cheers.

"It worked! They really came back to life!"

"Li Yu, you are my god!"

"I heard that in order to research the antidote, Master Li tested the poison on himself and turned into a blackened ghost!"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. Daxia people don't lie to Daxia people."

"Woooo... Master Li, I'm crying to death!"

"..."

The South City Gymnasium.

When the last beast shook its fur and licked its owner, the person in charge of the gymnasium officially announced, "Quarantine ended."

A tsunami of cheers erupted all around.

"Great, my Ah Hu finally survived."

"Mine, Er Gou, too."

"Thanks to Master Li. I heard that Master Li stayed up so late for everyone that he almost died of exhaustion. His supervisor knelt down several times to beg him to rest, but was kicked out of the cultivation room instead."

"Really? How come I heard that he was the one who knelt down to beg his supervisor to give him a few more chances to research, which is how he successfully developed the antidote?"

"Bullshit!"

"Did you smell it?"

The North City Gymnasium, however, presented a different scene.

Under a solemn and grave atmosphere, bursts of funeral music played, moving people to tears.

Bunches of white flowers and chrysanthemums were piled high, and in the center stood a temporarily carved wooden tombstone, inscribed with: Tomb of Li Yu.

All the beasts that had narrowly escaped death and come back to life, led by their Breeders, looked gratefully at the tombstone.

"Master Li Yu, may you rest in peace." An elderly Beast Tamer bowed deeply.

"I didn't expect Master Li Yu's poisoning to be so severe that we didn't even get a chance to see him," an emotional middle-aged woman wiped away her tears.

"Master Li, my beast was saved by you. You gave it a second life. I've decided... in the future, my beast will be named after you," a young man said with a firm expression.

"Me too. Wang Cai, oh no, 'Li Yu', it will carry your honor and continue to be a Guardian of Ningyang City!"

"Right, 'Li Yu'?"

"Woof woof woof~~~"

Just like that.

Li Yu's name swept through the city along with the antidote, and at the same time, all sorts of absurd versions of his story emerged.

Some said Li Yu didn't close his eyes for five days and five nights and died vomiting blood;

Some said Li Yu was turned into a blackened ghost by the toxins, with photos as proof;

Some said Li Yu knelt and begged his supervisor for more time, just to save a few more beasts, and eventually died of exhaustion.

The result was one phrase—one Li Yu fell, and thousands upon thousands of beasts named Li Yu stood up.

And at this moment.

The real person, the human, whose profession was Senior Cultivator, Li Yu, was sitting in the office of the Director of the Cultivation Bureau, sitting there with a look of utter hopelessness.

On the table lay the blood-red jade tablet.

Li Yu didn't yet know about the things brought about by the antidote, but at this moment, he was very unhappy, and even very panicked.

"You mean... I've confusedly become the captain of the Blood Refining Ruins expedition, and soon I have to lead team members to fight little monsters in the Blood Refining Ruins, and then gloriously sacrifice myself in there?"

Li Yu pointed at himself with a bewildered face and asked back.

Director Wang smiled awkwardly and said, "Ahem, no, it's not that serious. It's not like you have to sacrifice yourself."

"Is there a difference?"

Li Yu still didn't know that his memorial service had already been held in a certain gymnasium.

He pointed at his own nose and said excitedly, "Uncle Wang, look at me. Yes, look at me, don't look at Vice General Liu."

"What's wrong with you?" Director Wang asked.

"Me, Li Yu, a Senior Cultivator, a cowardly person working behind the scenes," Li Yu said, "And you're telling me now that I have to charge into battle?"