This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 69: Poison Master
Yang Wuji.

Ten years later, this name has become a taboo that most people don't know and a few people don't want to mention.

This person's profession is a scholar. Logically speaking, the scientific research environment in the new world is too poor, and this late-stage profession that requires academic ability should not become a "taboo" in just ten years, but he did it.

Because he is a scholar who has devoted his entire life to studying one thing.

--poison.

Ever since humanity began to develop civilization, poison has been the easiest way for the weak to triumph over the strong. As a scholar with virtually zero combat power in his early days, Yang Wuji, the master of poison, poisoned everyone, bosses, and anything else he could.

In order to upgrade, he even poisoned an area of ​​water, causing countless casualties in the surrounding settlements, and the dead looked extremely tragic.

Therefore, after the investigation team wasted three months without catching anyone, Zhongzhou chose to directly increase the threat assessment and sent Nie Weiyang, the chief consultant of Zhongzhou Secret Security Department, out - intelligence collection, disguise, tracking, capture, assassination, half of the function of this department is to do these things, and the other half is to go to other people's lairs to do these things.

Nie Weiyang tracked Yang Wuji for a full fifteen days before apprehending him. This was a record for a scholar-type target, demonstrating his exceptional caution—perhaps due to the numerous times he'd been chased and attacked by bosses for damaging the environment.

However, in the closed cell, the other party was unwilling to answer any questions about the past, which caused great trouble to the intelligence department.

In the end, Nie Weiyang had a personal talk with Yang Wuji, and this guy finally gave in.

During the conversation, Yang Wuji mentioned some people and things. He mentioned that when he was a child, he was a representative of the Chinese class. Three months before the first blood moon rose, he was with his classmates and friends, but the rising blood moon broke everything. The Chinese teacher who had a good relationship with him fled with a group of students who were familiar or unfamiliar.

Out of necessity, they resorted to scheming against the tiger and formed a camp with a group of serious criminals who were released from prison by teleporting to the new world...

That was the last peace in his life, because during that half month, the mutant animals were not very strong, and the frequency of monster attacks was not high, so he could barely live like a human being.

He even picked up a fluorite while picking wild vegetables, processed it carefully, and gave it to the person he loved. The other party said that she liked it very much and would give him a gift in return, but just a few days later, everything changed.

This group of teachers and students were divided by the criminals. Some of them followed that group. Among them was a guy who could poison people. He was of the five-step snake bloodline and a poison master by profession. He poisoned almost everyone.

The person he liked had a high resistance to poison because of her special bloodline, but also had a large appetite because of her special bloodline, so she was the one who was most poisoned.

However, when she realized that the food was poisonous, she attacked before her enemies could, and with a fireball she collapsed the cave where the settlement was located, blowing them all out of the cave and forcing the students who had not yet eaten, including him, to run quickly.

"... Later, I secretly went back to see her. She was no longer recognizable. She was clearly a 'fire bearer' with a promising future, an excellent spellcaster..." Yang Wuji said, he did not say what the scene was like, "... She couldn't even see me, but was still smiling at me through the cage. The girl who couldn't hold back her tears kept smiling at me and mouthing sorry that the gift I gave her was broken.

"She told me that life is like fluorite, broken and gone. She thanked me for liking her but told me not to think about her. 'Go away, go away quickly,' she said.

"She was always a very open-minded and hardworking person. I don't know if she had any feelings for me, I just liked her energy—but she passed away like that, dying in front of me. I couldn't even hug her through the cage. She was like quicksand carried away by the sea, leaving my life. But what others see as sand is the sun in my eyes."

Nie Weiyang listened quietly and patiently, without saying a word.

On the other side of the enchanted glass barrier stood Yang Wuji. More than a 'human,' he resembled a demon shrouded in a cloud of blue-green smoke, his entire body encased in a strange black hazmat suit, blue patterns coiled around it, exuding an aura that made one feel uneasy. His equipment had been removed; if it hadn't, wherever he went, a significant portion of the vegetation within a radius of tens or hundreds of meters would have withered and died. However, removing the suit would have caused a leak of highly toxic gas, therefore, it was permitted to remain.

"She's open-minded, but I'm not," Yang Wuji said. "You've investigated me, and you probably know that I'm narrow-minded, mean, cold-blooded, and don't follow the rules. For the sake of hatred, I'll do anything... Consultant Nie."

Yang Wuji tilted his head back, his goggles reflecting Nie Weiyang's white hair, and then a cold mask appeared on his face. "I poisoned the most poisonous snake there because it poisoned my sun. Then I poisoned the people behind that gang. I followed the clues and found everyone who deserved to die, especially those Returned Christians. I want them to die of the poison under the watchful eyes of their so-called Lord!"

"I only think about how to poison those damned beasts and how to make myself stronger, but I'm not like some of the cartoon villains I watched as a child. I don't think I'm righteous. Because from the beginning, this was just a vent, a revenge. I know I'm crazy, I know I'm affecting innocent people, but now that I've come this far, I don't care what happens to others."

Yang Wuji was willing to tell Nie Weiyang all this because he believed in this Zhongzhou guardian who suddenly appeared and broke his joints, or because he resonated with Nie Weiyang, who was also an avenger but made a different choice. In the end, there was no conclusion to this matter.

He committed suicide by poisoning himself not long afterward, not even waiting for his verdict. The day before his death, he asked some scholars who were questioning and documenting his knowledge of poisons, "Can people who commit suicide go to heaven? Or... some good place after death?"

"I don't believe that," the scholar who answered the question said, "but from what I understand, in no religion or mythology can people who commit suicide go to those good places."

"That's good." Yang Wuji said, "Then I won't be able to see her anymore."

……

But you were so looking forward to seeing her that as soon as you saw her, you couldn't help but call her name.

Nie Weiyang glanced at Yang Wuji. The child was young and frail, completely different from the 'evil ghost in the fog' that was shrouded in poisonous fog and poisoned the water source.

His gaze moved, falling on Li Duo, on Lu Ran, and finally, on the man next to Lu Ran.

Yang Wuji's evaluation of himself in his previous life was actually correct. At that time, he was indeed narrow-minded, mean, cold-blooded, and unruly... His love and obsession with Li Duo could not make him appear like a person whose behavior was worthy of understanding. No, it would be better to say that this obsession out of love was not just for Li Duo.

When a person can harm innocent people for something so-called love, Nie Weiyang does not think that this person really understands what love is, because a person who ignores the weight of life cannot understand the meaning of love.

In any case, poisoning an entire body of water for the sake of an upgrade is an act of absolute cruelty and madness.

But that's all for later.

First of all, the opponent now is just a teenager full of youthful energy. In Nie Weiyang's eyes, his body is full of flaws, and those things have not happened yet... Whether a person is crushed or not, and when he is crushed, determines many things.

Second.

Someone might be dying here, but he has his own choice.

(End of this chapter)