626 Treatment and Favor
"Did he just put a Sun to sleep?" one of the soldiers spoke.
"Hush now, you might wake them up," said the captain.
"I doubt it," replied old Fu as he was looking at what was happening with hands crossed. "He is completely out of it," said old Fu.
"Such a strange phenomenon, to see one of the Suns, asleep and this vulnerable," said the same soldier.
"I wouldn't say vulnerable, after all, although he is asleep, the Qi around his body is still fully ready up for battle. No sane man would give their body willingly to another, and especially no Sun would dare to do so. Those who wish to harm a sun and take what is theirs are plenty, but none of them would succeed, not because the lack of opportunity, but because the impossibility of the task itself," said Old Fu.
His words were true, since he was talking out of experience.
"But, he's out cold, what if Shen Mo decides to kill the Sun right there and then, he already managed to make him go to sleep, and I've seen how Shen Mo can control poison, wouldn't it be as simple as turning his hand?" asked the soldier.
"That's where the difference between a man that had fought many battles and one who knows not the reality of the world. You might not be sensitive to murderous intent, though you can manifest it, see it, but you don't truly know it.
To become a sun is to kill billions of lives and destroy plenty other more, you cannot become a sun unless your arms are wet with blood. And the mere twisting and changing in one's heart can be read by a Sun as if it was a man drawing a sword in your face. Although asleep, if Shen Mo were to make the mistake, of getting greedy, or wanting to take the body of a sun for himself or harm him in any way shape or form, I can promise you that none of us would live to even see the reaction from it. We'd long be dead before Shen Mo's arm even twitches to act upon a malicious thought," old Fu continued.
"Also," he pointed with his thumb, "That's one h.e.l.l of a guarantee that none of us would live to tell the tale if we even dare do such a thing."
His finger was pointed at the ma.s.sive Primordial Three Eyed Crow.
The soldiers realized that if they were to act upon their greed, since it was obvious from how they were almost salivating at the fact that they could obtain the "corps?" of a Sun if they were to kill him. However, they even by a G.o.d's given miracle manage to kill and obtain the Sun's body, they won't be able to escape the wrath of his pet.
A rustle echoed behind the cube and Kyu came back after I had sent it earlier with prey, a living prey. It was an ape like creature with a gigantic nose that covered almost all of its face. The ape was unconscious.
"Good job, this will make this easier," I replied to Kyu.
My hands were occupied with removing the hair on the Sun's head. I needed to open up his skull to work on his brain. Quit literally I needed to open up his head.
With tools I had on me, things like this weren't difficult, and with the regenerative ability of a Sun, cracking open their skull won't kill them. I used one of my scalpels, one made of pure Neutron Steel, which is able to easily sever bone and flesh, especially since the old man is currently not resisting nor is willing to resist. As long as I don't pose a threat to his life by doing such a thing, the thing inside his head won't react.
But as a precaution I made sure to inject him with a small dose of poison, not to harm him, but to distract the thing inside his mind. It was a sleep-inducing poison that completely numbs the body. And as long as the parasite does not realize that the brain is being opened up, it will act as if all and everything is fine and that the body is simply sleeping.
Blood seeped out of the man's head, but more blood thickening poison injected into the body caused it to slow the bleeding down. And soon I managed to pull apart a piece of his skull, revealing the interior of his head. White matter mixed in with a lot of darker wriggling matter was all I could see.
The creature was already visible, but I couldn't touch it or harm it right now, it might violently react.
But now it was time for me to use the Ape.
The difference between an ape's brain and a human's brain is pretty small. And that would work wonderfully for what's coming up next.
I dripped another drop of golden poison directly into the brain matter of the unconscious sun and this created a violent reaction. The man began shuddering as the parasitic creature began suffering from the poison, unable to understand why it was being harmed since it was not feeling that the body that it was preying on didn't have any damages or was harmed.
The poison I injected gave of the feeling of decomposition and death, and the parasite didn't like it one bit. It must have thought that the body it is hosted by is dying.
I then placed the ape on the table and cut through his head the same way I did to the old man, opening a small 'window' and allowed the membranes of the confused parasite to wander away from the skull it was presiding over until it contacted the bare brain of the unconscious ape.
Realizing that the other brain, or maybe it thought that this part of the same host's brain is still clean and isn't as uncomfortable as the main body, the parasite began to wiggle out of the first host, slowly moving into the second. The ape began shuddering and shaking as a centipede like creature the size of a man's forearm was crawling up into its brain. Yet it was dosed up in so much nerve relaxing poison the ape couldn't do nothing but wiggle and shudder as its most violet reaction.
Soon, the entire creature left the body of the Sun and managed to settle down into the ape's. With that, I returned the old man's piece of bone back, and was about to place a pill into his mouth, only for the fractured part to instantly heal back up and the man to sit up, and look at me.
16:22
"Very interesting…" he said.
I squinted my eyes at him, "You were awake?" I asked.
"My body indeed slept, but I didn't," he said.
Trying to rationalize that is a bit too much for me.
The Dusking Sun pointed a hand on the ape, and the entire thing was squished into a small droplet of blood in a matter of seconds. It then turned into smoldering flames and smoke completely eliminating every trace of the ape and the parasite inside it.
"You're not completely healed," I said.
"I know, the parasite's remains are still inside my body, but nothing a short session of meditation can't take care of, also that poison of yours managed to cleanse and chase away what you called, pathogens? Away from my brain, and now that they're in my blood streams," the Man took a deep breath and instantly set himself on fire.
"What the h.e.l.l are you doing?!" I said as I backed away, the flames were too powerful even for me as I had to jump back as far as possible.
Soon the flames died down, and the man stood up buck-naked in front of me.
"Are you an exhibitionist now?" I muttered.
The man smiled, "Didn't you say that fire is the best way to solve this? I burnt every cell in my body and replaced them at the same time with new ones.
"That's not possible…"
"It is, if you are a Sun," he smiled.
My doubt didn't subside, and before I could ask him to let me check, he handed me his palm, and on top of it, the same drop of golden blood I had used on him.
"Take it back, it is yours after all, and I no longer have any need for it," he said.
I reclaimed my blood, and was still tempted to check his body's condition, but if I were to do something wrong I might end up regretting it. Currently he is amicable, but these old fossils are easily triggered and I'd rather not have to deal with that.
"Anyway, now we'll be leaving, we came to investigate the reason why the Walkers were moving about, and it seems that the reason is this small thing here."
"And how do you suppose you'll leave?" said the Dusking Sun.
I pointed at the cube, "I'll use the cube to leave. There was a giant tunnel like gorge that brought us here, and we can use the cube to leave." I replied.
"The moment you reach a certain height, the mist from the Sea of Demons become strong enough that it will easily pierce through your makes.h.i.+ft barrier."
"I'll figure out a way to make a better one then," I said.
"And what if that doesn't work?" he said.
"Then I'll just have to ask the person spying on us for help," I shrugged.
The Dusking Sun's eyes perked upward, he grinned and replied, "It wouldn't kill you to ask me for a favor you know," he said.
"I wouldn't take the favor of saving your life and exchange it with something as easy as leaving the Dark Garden," I replied.
"Indeed, a smart man, however, my life weighs a lot, and taking you out of this place is not worth mentioning, consider it payment for visiting an old man who has very few friends."