The man in the column is perished, and the beginning of the treatment is not miserable - Chapter 211

c211 ——Ghosts and Ants

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Saagiri Mountain.

On the mountainside.

Near the shrine.

“It’s okay. Just rest and recover quietly…” Zhu Shi smiled and nodded at a certain injured patient, her broken arm hidden under her sleeves.

“Thank you…Tamasai-sama, thank you very much…!!”

Zhu Shi was a little tired, she could only keep smiling and nodded lightly.

At this time.

“!”

In her mind, there seemed to be something that had been vaguely involving her at this moment.

Snapped!

Completely disconnected.

An unprecedented sense of clarity came over me.

She turned around in a daze and looked into the distance, at the foot of the Misty Mountain, in the direction of the ruins of Infinite City.

The fingers were trembling with excitement.

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The top of the ruins of Infinite City.

The breeze blows,

The pillars gathered together with the members of the Demon Slayer Squad and looked nervously at Shang Quanna, who was surrounded by them.

“Lord Shangquan.” Kazama Chengya stood next to Shangquan Nai. He frowned slightly and asked the question that everyone wanted to know:

“Wuxian…that ghost king…”

“do you died?”

As soon as he finished speaking, almost everyone, even those under the ruins at the moment, turned their eyes and looked at Shang Quannai who was sitting on the top of the ruins.

Their eyes revealed tension and excitement, as well as deep worry.

The atmosphere instantly became very tense, making people subconsciously want to hold their breath.

Shang Quannai’s upper body was naked, and blood secreted from his skin, slowly covering his upper body with perfect muscle lines.

The blood turned into a new garment.

His tired eyes reflected everyone’s expectations and longings.

“call…”

He breathed a long sigh of relief.

He nodded slowly and heavily.

But he smiled easily:

“Um.”

“He is dead.”

The bright sunshine spreads all the way from the direction of Mt. Samagiri like water leaking from the broken clouds.

As Shang Quannai’s final words fell, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and an unprecedented sense of relief filled their hearts.

“Anthracene…”

“…Very good…”

“finally……”

“Haha…hahaha…”

They looked at each other, and unconsciously, the most sincere and happy smiles appeared on their faces.

But in war, some people survive and some people die.

There were also people who stood silently and blessed the team members who had died fighting the ghosts.

Everyone stood there, with some blood on their faces, but they all looked back in the direction of the rising sun with serious expressions.

–East.

As the sunlight slowly dissipated the darkness on their bodies, everyone felt a lightness on their bodies.

This is hard-won happiness.

They slowly closed their eyes, feeling the long-lost moment of rest.

The ruined town of Sagiyama was slowly illuminated by warm light.

The remains of buildings blocking the street were filled with black ashes under the sunlight.

——That is the body of the dead ghost, which is completely purified by the sunlight at this moment.

The end of the broken street.

The top of the ruins of Infinite City.

The pillars stood here, quietly watching the falling sunlight.

The sunlight reflected in Shang Quannai’s plain blood-colored pupils, bringing with it a hint of drifting ashes on his body.

Saagiri Mountain, which had been wreaked by evil spirits all night, now ushered in complete tranquility.

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Time passes slowly.

In a relaxed yet heavy atmosphere

Tap tap tap…

“Hey—! Here, here!”

On the dilapidated streets, the members of the Demon Slayer Corps who had been up all night were busy cleaning up the ruins of Sagiyama Town.

“I need someone here too!”

“Oh——! This is something from my childhood…I found it here…”

Someone stood up from the ruins in disgrace and shouted to the people next to him.

“…Damn ghost.” There were also people standing in the ruins with frowning eyebrows, picking up something and cursing at the same time.

Tap tap tap!

There are also members of the Demon Slayer Corps who are treating other members who were seriously injured and unconscious during the battle.

“Hey! Hey! Can you still hear me?!” He shouted loudly, discerning the severity of the other person’s situation at the moment.

The mouth of the team member who was lying on the ground with blood overflowing from his abdomen seemed to be slowly moving.

The member of the Demon Slayer Corps who was responsible for the treatment quickly leaned down and listened carefully to the words of the seriously injured person.

Intermittent voices came:

“…if…if…”

The hoarse voice seemed extremely deep, making it difficult to hear the emotions in it.

“Every night… can be spent in a peaceful sleep…”

“…That would be great…”

After listening to the wounded man’s words, the Demon Slayer Swordsman gritted his teeth and kept trying to stop the bleeding with his hands. He turned his head and shouted around:

“Who’s coming! There are seriously injured people here! Help is needed!”

In an instant, other team members who had just returned from the ruins approached with stretchers and other things.

No one will die, no one will leave.

No one will suffer, and no one will cry.

Everything was so peaceful, warm, happy and casual.

A world without ghosts must be like this…

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The street ends outside.

The ruins of Infinite City.

The Pillars have left to help deal with the aftermath.

Shang Quannai rubbed his eyebrows. He was sitting on the top of the ruins of Infinite City, and there was a feeling of exhaustion in his sour eyebrows.

No misfortune, he is already dead.

He died under his own eyes.

Shang Quannai was convinced.

In the moment just now.

Wumei was right under him and chose to self-destruct.

Under his gaze, the shackles of the body were broken, turning into a ball of blood full of violent energy, and exploded instantly.

Trying to destroy the entire Demon Slayer Squad in an instant.

Facts have proved that if I hadn’t sensed it in advance, I would have quickly created a two-layer barrier and smashed down the Infinite City.

The area near Samagiri Mountain might actually be razed to the ground by him.

But even if he made defensive preparations and faced Wu Mei’s self-destruction directly, his upper body was instantly wiped out.

But fortunately, the energy generated by Wu Mei’s self-destruction did not kill him, but only caused serious injuries.

“Huh…” He kept breathing out with relief, and a feeling of being relieved of a heavy burden emerged spontaneously.

While sitting in the pit, Shang Quannai kept looking around over and over again to see if there were any missing red souls that could be seen.

In the end, he didn’t find any sign that Wumei might survive.

Creak… creak…

The sound of trampling on the rubble of the ruins came from the side.

Shang Quanna looked up subconsciously.

——It’s Kanroji cherry cake.

She held the two sides of her miko uniform and carefully walked on the steep piled ruins.

Then, he slowly sat on the other side of the top of the ruins.

“Are you okay?” She looked sideways at Shang Quannai and asked hesitantly.

Shang Quanna glanced at Ganluji Sakura Cake in surprise, then smiled and nodded:

“Um.”

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The bottom of the ruins of Infinite City.

“Tsk.”

My wife Shancun squinted her eyes and stared at the two people sitting at the top. He clicked his tongue and kept shaking his head:

“Isn’t this a normal smile…”

“I don’t know why I keep a straight face all day long…”

After whispering for a while, my horrified wife Shancun discovered that Shang Quannai had been staring at him from unknown time. He was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head and went to find someone for help.

Shang Quanna and Kanroji Sakuracake stayed at the top of the ruins of Infinite City for a long time.

Until the extremely bright sunshine in the field of vision was blocked by hazy clouds.

Shang Quannai slowly clapped his hands and walked down from the ruins.

At this time.

Tap tap tap!

A rush of footsteps came from the front.

Shang Quanna just landed on the ground and subconsciously looked in front of him.

The swordsman wearing a black Demon Slayer uniform ran all the way from the direction of the shrine, panting and stopping in front of the ruins of Mugen City.

The swordsman bent down and took a few breaths of uncomfortable breath.

“…vomit!” He couldn’t even hold back the retching.

He quickly raised his head, pointed to Shang Quannai at the Sawu Mountain in the distance behind him, and said with difficulty:

“Shang…Shangquan…Shangquan-sama!”

After taking a big breath of fresh air, his reaction finally got better:

“Huh… I’m sorry, Lord Zhushi, she has something urgent to come to you for!”

“I have another mission…I’m going to take my leave now.”

After saying that, the swordsman hurriedly waved his hands, panted heavily, and ran towards the other direction of the ruins.

Shangquan Nai and Ganluji Sakuracake looked at the direction the swordsman left, but there was some confusion in their hearts.

Jushi… come to me at this time… something important…

–Could it be that? !

Startled, he raised his head and glanced at the rising sun above his head, slightly blocked by clouds.

He remembered that Zhu Shi said that he would choose to understand himself after Wuhan’s death.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Ganluji Sakura Cake.

The two of them rushed towards Samagiri Mountain at a fast pace.

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On the mountainside.

Near the shrine, in a dark room.

Gudu Gudu…

Zhu Shi was standing in the room, fiddling with some reagents in his hands. Among them, there was a bulging meat ball on the table.

The liquid in the reagent bubbled and then slowly calmed down.

Yushiro stood behind Tamashi. He took all the blood of Naizuna that he had asked for when he was a doctor, and successfully transformed himself into a ghost.

And recovered from the injuries caused by being hit head-on by Muzan.

At this moment, Yushirou was looking attentively at the back of Tamashi working and the meat ball that was constantly squirming on the table.

“…My guess…is correct.” Zhu Shi held the needle with one hand and sucked out a trace of blood from the meat ball, and dripped it into the test tube.

Chi——

The blood that came into contact with the purple liquid in the test tube was instantly evaporated and turned into ashes.

The lavender eyes moved slightly, and the expression revealed a “Sure enough” look.

At this time.

Creak…

The sound of wood being squeezed was heard.

——The door was opened.

Jushi retracted her gaze from the test tube and looked towards the door.

Shang Quanna opened the door of the dark room and looked at Tamayo and Yushirou standing in the room.

Kanroji Sakura Cake follows closely behind,

On the way up the mountain, I met Uyashiki Sukeyo who was preparing to go down the mountain.

Ubuyashiki Sukeyo informed the two of Tamashi’s location, so that he could come here directly without any obstacles.

“…What’s wrong.”

Shang Quanna glanced inside the room, and after Ganluji Sakuracake also entered the room, he closed the door that let in the weak sunlight:

“Call me in such a hurry.”

At this time, Shang Quannai’s eyes paused for a moment and hesitantly glanced at the wall at the back of the room.

There, there is a red soul that is constantly struggling.

It looked like he was being restrained by someone.

“Yes.” Zhu Shi saw that it was Shang Quanna who opened the door. She turned around and handed the test tube in her hand to Yushiro behind her.

He casually pointed to the tatami beside him: “Please sit down.”

After everyone sat down.

“Let’s get straight to the point.”

Zhu Shi looked at Shang Quan Nai with a serious expression:

“I feel it, Wuhan died.”

Just as Shang Quanna frowned slightly, he nodded, but he still didn’t know what Zhu Shi wanted to express.

Zhu Shi added a second sentence in a heavy tone:

“But ghosts are not extinct.”

“…What do you mean?” Shang Quannai’s tone changed slightly, and his expression darkened.

Things have changed.

In the original work, Mukai’s life involves all the ghosts, except Midouzi, Tamayo himself and Yushiro who was created by Tamayo.

If Wuhan dies, all the remaining ghosts will instantly turn into a puddle of mud due to genetic fragmentation.

Now, this seems to have changed a lot.

This is also what Shang Quannai is most worried about.

——The impact of this butterfly flapping its wings was far greater than what he saw.

“Just now, I found a lingering ghost in the direction behind Mount Samagiri.”

Zhu Shi and Shang Quan Nai looked at each other, and the atmosphere became increasingly solemn.

“That time was after Wuhan’s death.”

Zhuyo stretched out his right hand and pointed his palm at the test tube held by Yushiro and the meat ball on the table:

“I removed a small piece of flesh belonging to the ghost, used it for experiments, and tied him behind this house.”

She turned back and looked at Shang Quannai:

“Do you remember what the kid named Tomioka said?”

Shang Quannai narrowed his eyes and looked at the room, then lowered his head and held his chin with his hand:

“…Wuhan ate the stem of the blue Higan flower…?”

Zhu Shi nodded, slightly excited, perhaps because as a scientific researcher, he was very interested in this aspect: “Yes, it is the flower stalk.”

“I’ve been working on it for a while.”

“Eating the stems of the blue Higan flower can help ordinary ghosts escape from the control network of the ‘Queen’ belonging to Wuhan and become independent new ‘ants’.”

Zhu Shi casually picked up a struggling ant from the side and gave an example in the dark room:

“If the queen ant dies, other ants in the colony will also die in various ways because they lose their ‘control network’.”

Shang Quanna stared at the ants between Zhu Shi’s fingers, and he almost understood the reason.

“And if the queen ant eats the flower stalk herself, then -” Zhu Shi frowned, and she drawled:

“The queen ant itself will break away from the ‘network’ and become an individual, which will bring good news to the entire group.”

“After the queen ant dies, the ‘network’ between the remaining ants will not disappear, and the colony will continue to survive.”

“But.” Zhu Shi suddenly changed his tone and said in a twist:

“The ants that are most closely related to the queen will still be uncomfortable with the death of the queen and eventually die.”

“So…” Shang Quannai raised his head and asked:

“Now, Wuhan is dead, and the more powerful ghosts are also dead.”

“On the contrary, the weak ghosts… are still alive now?”

“That’s right.” Zhu Shi nodded and agreed with Shang Quannai’s idea: “This is also the final result of my experiment.”