Among the Other Creatures Chapter 3

Not long to live?

Jack Wei was stunned for two seconds, frowned and looked at Leah, "Are you kidding?"

Even A-Zu was confused. "Yeah, isn't he fine now?" He rubbed Jack Wei's arm and patted his thigh. "He's not missing any limbs."

"This." Leah threw a piece of syringe to Jack Wei, "I tested it, it's demon poison."

Demonic poison?

Jack Wei put the needle under his nose and smelled it. It was indeed the smell of a demon, as if...

Gelsemium elegans.

Moreover, it was a Gelsemium that had been in the demon's heart for hundreds of years. Such a strong demonic aura would probably only be produced by draining an entire Gelsemium plant. The hand holding the needle suddenly lost its strength. It would be fine if humans didn't know, but Jack Wei was a demon, and he knew the lethality of this thing very well. When I was in school, the teacher had said countless times that poisonous demons like Gelsemium should be avoided if possible. At the very least, the body would be paralyzed, and at the worst, it would be seriously injured and difficult to heal. Humans would surely die if they encountered it.

He has no demonic power at all now, isn't he just a human?

"Don't think about it, you have two weeks at most." Leah took the syringe and threw it into the medicine box.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't throw it away..." Jack Wei stretched out his hand to take the syringe back, but saw a mirror in the medicine box. His face was reflected in the narrow mirror surface.

Jack Wei's whole body stiffened for a moment.

How can this be!?

He hurriedly took out the mirror and stared at the face in it in disbelief.

This was not his face, not Jack Wei's face. Although he had always liked to maintain his human form in the past, the person in the mirror was completely unfamiliar, looking like a human boy of sixteen or seventeen years old.

His breathing began to become heavier uncontrollably. He thought he was resurrected, but just temporarily lost his magic power. Only then did Jack Wei realize that this was not his body at all, it was clearly the shell of an ordinary human!

Impossible. Jack Wei opened his clothes, his heart completely sinking.

The blue nine-turn phoenix pattern that had been imprinted on the collarbone since birth was gone.

This is indeed no longer Alex's body.

"What are you doing?" Leah's narrow eyes showed suspicion, "Stop pretending here and tell me the truth. What is your relationship with the people from Institute 137?"

Ah Zu also felt that Jack Wei was strange. He sighed, "The people in the 137th Institute are completely unscrupulous. They use living people for experiments. If you are a test subject, there is really no need to help them hide anything."

"I'm not hiding anything for anyone." Jack Wei's mind was in a mess, and he lowered his hand holding the mirror. "I really don't know. When I woke up, I was in that lab, and they were hunting me down," he recalled the details of that night. "Yes, they did call me a test subject in their alarm broadcast. But I don't know what the test was about."

A Zu asked, "When I met you, you had just escaped?"

Jack Wei nodded, "Yes, I just escaped a while ago."

"There was an earthquake in the dark zone that night." Leah looked at Jack Wei, "Did you know?"

Jack Wei suddenly thought of the strong evil spirit he felt in the laboratory at that time, but he was always on guard. "I only know that when I woke up, the laboratory was about to collapse, otherwise I would not have been able to escape in the chaos."

Such a strong evil spirit is obviously his own. What is going on?

After rebirth, everything is too unreasonable. I died, but I also created...

die.

Jack Wei frowned. Was his death justified?

Even if he was besieged by human enemies at that time, and even if there were bombers and mechas, with his healing ability, he would not die so quickly.

He had been dead for seven years. Where was his original body now? In the Alex family tomb? Or was he dismembered by the human enemy?

What happened in the first place...

Jack Wei tried to recall what happened on the day before his death, but no matter how hard he tried, there were only some fragmented images.

A Zu trusted Jack Wei very much, and it was a bit heartbreaking to see him in such pain, so he looked up at Leah and said, "I think what he said is true. It's possible that the earthquake damaged the equipment in the institute, so he found a chance to escape. And he was indeed being hunted by someone."

"I'm the one interrogating him, shut up." Leah continued, "What did you do before? Do you have a household registration? Which district did you live in?"

This puzzled Jack Wei. He glanced at the unfamiliar self in the mirror. He really didn't know what the original owner of this body did before. Even the name was made up.

"I don't remember." It's not impossible to make up a lie, but this Leah seemed very cautious. In addition, he was not human to begin with, so it would be easy to be exposed if he made up a lie. "I only remember what happened after I woke up in the laboratory."

A-Zu whispered, "Maybe he was brainwashed..."

Leah glared at him and said nothing.

Jack Wei also fell silent. In fact, he still hadn't come back to his senses yet, his mind was in a mess. He didn't know how to describe his feelings at the moment. He really thought he was dead, and that the bloodline of the Nine Phoenix Clan was completely cut off with him.

Ever since his parents died, Jack Wei knew that he had to carry the Nine Phoenix Clan on his own. He never regretted dying on the battlefield seven years ago. Now he is resurrected, even though he is in someone else's body, but he is back after all, which is like a spark rising from the ashes.

But before the spark could be ignited, he was hit hard by a wake-up call, telling him that he would not survive more than two weeks.

Then what's the point of him being resurrected? He might as well be dead.

Death...When he thought of this word, he felt uncomfortable all over. Perhaps only those who have died once can understand this kind of pain.

No.

Jack Wei was unwilling to give up. Even if it was just a tiny spark, he had to turn it into a flame. No, into a fireball, a torch, or a raging fire.

He must seize this opportunity to come back completely.

Seeing him lower his head and keep silent, Leah thought he knew he would not live long and felt bad. She wanted to say something but couldn't open her mouth. A Zu winked at her and she glared back. She glanced and happened to see Jack Wei raise his head and ask, "Is there an antidote for this demon poison?"

"No." Leah was quite decisive. "In fifteen days at most, your internal organs will fail completely. During these days, the veins in your wrists will gradually turn purple and black. When they turn completely black, you will be beyond help."

Listening to her words, Jack Wei felt chilled and confused. If the people from the 137th Institute wanted to kill him, why didn't they just use a deadly poison, or just blow him up with the car and the people, but used this relatively slow-acting poison, and it was a demon poison.

Could it be that they have an antidote and want to track him down during this period of time? If they can't find him, it doesn't matter if he dies, but there is still a chance of survival if they catch him.

Jack Wei lowered his head and looked at his hands. This body must be valuable to them, otherwise why would they not want to destroy it?

This is a positive idea.

"Hey!" A-Zu, who had been listening, suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "I have an idea."

Leah snorted. "What can you do?"

A-Zu looked excited, but lowered his voice a bit, raised his index finger and pointed to the sky, "Isn't there a very awesome monster university up there? I heard that they prepare prizes for the top scorers in the entrance exam for each class of freshmen, and I heard that one of them is the fruit of the Soul-Returning Tree."

His voice became lower and lower, but it was like a thunder that suddenly woke Jack Wei up.

Yes. He almost became the chosen one who got the first place in the entrance exam of Shanhai University. If he hadn't met that nemesis...

Forget it, a hero doesn’t brag about his past achievements. In the end, I didn’t get the Soul-Returning Fruit anyway.

The Soul-Reversing Fruit is the fruit of the Demon Clan's sacred tree, the Soul-Reversing Tree. Currently, there is only one tree left, and it only bears fruit once every ten years. It is said that if a demon eats it, its power can be doubled, and the juice can revive the dead. Because he didn't get the Soul-Reversing Fruit, Jack Wei always blamed the fruit every time he lost to his nemesis, thinking that this guy must have eaten the fruit to add a buff, otherwise how could he be so awesome.

"Are you crazy?" Liya's voice interrupted Jack Wei's not-so-good memories. She glanced at A Zu with disdain, "The barrier at the school gate can't even get in most monsters, and he can do it?"

Faintly hearing the sound of an arrow hitting the chest, Jack Wei and Leia looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.

I was the school idol of Shanhai University back then, you ignorant human sister...

"That's right, but only the Soul-Returning Fruit can bring the dead back to life." A-Zu's head drooped again, "And it just so happens that Shanhai University is recently holding its once-in-a-decade enrollment..."

"You just want to join in the fun!" Leah snorted, "You forgot what the boss said, you must not go up there."

Who is the boss? Is this some weird mafia organization?

And where is up there? Jack Wei wondered, could it be that the "up there" they kept talking about was the Kunlun Xu where he used to live?

This was the first time Jack Wei heard about the demon territory from a human. Humans and demons had been on opposite sides since ancient times. As the demons grew stronger, the struggle between the two groups changed from confrontation at the beginning to overwhelming control by the demons.

In this world where the strong prey on the weak, weak humans can only be invaded by demons. Even their original habitats have been gradually occupied. Now, only a very small part of land is left for them, named Fanzhou, which is the area where they legally live.

Most of the remaining territory was occupied by monsters, collectively known as the "Monster Domain", where various races gathered together to establish a federal system. The Monster Domain was vast, and the big monsters with precious bloodlines and powerful powers basically gathered in places with deep spiritual energy such as Kunlun Xu and Penglai Sea.

Kunlun Xu is the most special of all monster territories. Many years ago, the Phoenix, exhausted from the bitter battle between humans and monsters, used all its monster power to build a powerful barrier before retiring to maintain the peace of Kunlun Xu. The barrier supported the entire Kunlun Xu and turned it into a monster city suspended in the air.

The monster school that A Zu mentioned is Jack Wei’s alma mater, Shanhai University, which is located in the center of Kunlun Xu.

Normally, humans could not enter Kunlun Xu, but Jack Wei, as a former outstanding student at Shanhai University, certainly knew where the entrance to the barrier was hidden.

A'Zu and Liya looked at Jack Wei who was silent, thinking that he was in a state of autism in the countdown to death, so they left the room without saying anything. Jack Wei, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed and thinking about his numb legs, finally made a decision.

When it was dark, A-Zu knocked on the door and came in, bringing Jack Wei a box lunch.

"These are all good stuff. Look, the petri dish kelp, I can't even bear to buy it for myself. And this, artificial steak, although it is synthetic protein, it tastes good..."

Jack Wei suddenly grabbed his arm, interrupting his enthusiastic sales pitch, "A-Zu, do you want to watch the fun?"

"Ah?" A-Zu put down his lunch box and touched his buzz cut. "What a blast."

Jack Wei raised the end of his eyebrows and pointed his finger toward the sky.

"It's lively up there."