"You stay here honestly, don't go anywhere, and wait for me to come back."
Lin Fan sprinkled a pile of his specially developed medicinal powder around Ye Qian, which could effectively ward off snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
Then he closed his eyes, and the fugitive's presence reappeared.
After a brief delay, the guy had run another two kilometers.
Lin Fan leaped onto the treetops and chased after him at high speed.
He returned in less than ten minutes.
"You, why did you come back so quickly?"
Ye Qian looked at Lin Fan in disbelief. Had he lost the trail?
She drooped her head dejectedly, "You're not a policeman after all. I knew I shouldn't have counted on you..."
"Plop!"
A dull thud suddenly sounded.
"Immortal Grandpa, spare me! Immortal Grandpa, spare me! I truly know I was wrong..."
The fugitive, unrestrained, knelt on the ground with a look of sheer terror, repeatedly kowtowing to Lin Fan.
His head struck the stones with resounding thuds.
Blood trickled down his cheeks, but he felt no pain.
A bright beam of light shot out.
Lin Fan held the flashlight he had snatched from the fugitive and shone it on his face.
He was in his forties, with a fierce and menacing appearance, but now his face was etched with terror, his eyes filled with dread.
He had even wet himself out of sheer fear.
"Li Qiang!!!"
Ye Qian recognized him at a glance, her eyes widening in disbelief.
This guy had been dealing drugs for over a decade, was incredibly arrogant, and a ruthless murderer.
He was once a desperate criminal who dared to confront the police with a semi-automatic rifle.
Just moments ago, he had wounded an old police officer with a handgun.
Now, he was kneeling on the ground, begging for mercy as if he had seen a ghost?
Ye Qian suspected her eyes were playing tricks on her.
"Officer Ye, Officer Ye! Please arrest me, I'll confess to everything! You can kill me!"
Li Qiang, snot and tears streaming down his face, was nothing like the desperate fugitive he once was.
"You, what did you do to him?" Ye Qian looked at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan glanced at Li Qiang without a word.
That single look was enough to make Li Qiang collapse on the ground, trembling uncontrollably.
In the last ten minutes, he had experienced what hell was like!
Countless poisonous insects had swarmed him, entering his body through his ears, mouth, and nose.
They were gnawing at his internal organs and his brain.
He watched himself being devoured bit by bit, the excruciating pain reaching the absolute limit of human endurance.
Although only one minute had passed in the outside world, he felt like an eternity had gone by.
He had endured such torment for a full ten minutes!
When he regained consciousness, he found himself completely unharmed, and the insects were gone.
Lin Fan stood before him, looking at him indifferently.
"If you run again, you will truly experience the suffering from the illusion in reality."
The immense pressure of his divine realm left him breathless.
Although the illusion had caused no physical harm, it had inflicted an extremely strong shock to his nerves and brain.
The pain was a direct assault on his nerves; it was real!
In Li Qiang's eyes, Lin Fan could not only fly but also cast spells. He was practically an immortal!
His mind had completely broken, and he was recaptured by Lin Fan.
"Handcuff yourself!"
Ye Qian threw him the handcuffs and ordered.
Li Qiang obediently complied, cuffing himself, and then curled up on the ground to await judgment.
Lin Fan waved his hand, sending out a surge of spiritual energy that rendered Li Qiang unconscious.
"Bear with it."
He approached Ye Qian, placing one hand on her foot while the other quickly pulled out the sharp branch.
"Ah!"
Ye Qian cried out in pain and instinctively grabbed Lin Fan's arm.
Lin Fan checked her wound. Fortunately, it wasn't serious. A simple treatment back at the clinic and some healing ointment would suffice.
Ye Qian looked worried, "Is this branch poisonous?"
She extended her foot towards Lin Fan, "Suck the poison out for me."
"Are you crazy!"
Lin Fan's mouth twitched. "Suck your... what the hell do you want me to suck!"
Ye Qian glared, "You're the one who's crazy! It's always written like this in novels! When the heroine is bitten by a poisonous snake in the mountains, the hero always sucks the poison out with his mouth!"
"Can you read some decent novels?"
Lin Fan said irritably, "Do you even count as a heroine? You're at most a minor character who won't survive three chapters, not even qualified to be pushed down by the male lead!"
Ye Qian pouted, "Fine, if you don't want to suck, don't suck. Why curse me?"
She genuinely started to doubt herself, wondering if she lacked charm.
This guy, who would willingly donate blood to a female mosquito, was completely unfazed by her. It was truly bizarre!
"They're over there, hurry!"
At this moment, reinforcements from the police station arrived.
Dozens of people, holding powerful flashlights in their left hands and pistols in their right, were sweeping through the mountains.
"Doctor Lin, why are you here? How is Qianqian's injury?"
Ye Zheng was the first to rush over.
"She'll live. Some medicine will do back at the clinic."
Lin Fan said and turned to leave.
Ye Qian, unconvinced, shouted, "You big pervert, if you won't suck out the poison, you can at least carry me down the mountain!"
Lin Fan didn't look back. "You're too heavy, I'm afraid I'll crush myself to death. Goodbye forever!"
His figure had already vanished, his voice echoing from a distance.
Ye Qian was almost furious enough to faint. How had this guy won Gao Lu's heart?
She was extremely indignant, "You stinking hooligan, I'll get you sooner or later and then dump you brutally. We'll see about this!"
Ye Zheng chuckled wryly. His daughter had always been competitive since she was a child.
Accustomed to being pursued by various wealthy young men, she found it difficult to accept being rejected by such an eccentric man like Lin Fan.
"Director Ye, Li Qiang has been twitching. Is he alright?"
Someone noticed something was wrong.
Li Qiang was convulsing uncontrollably, his face contorted in a terrifying expression of pain and terror, as if undergoing brutal torture.
"Send him to the hospital for a check-up first," Ye Zheng said.
"Director Ye, isn't that Doctor Lin a doctor? Why not let him take a look?"
"Nonsense! A criminal like him, who deserves to be shot a hundred times, would only dirty Doctor Lin's hands! Send him to the hospital for a check-up. As long as he doesn't die, that's fine!"
Lin Fan did not return to his clinic. He found a secluded spot on Luofeng Mountain and entered the Sumeru space.
"Stinking bug, are you trying to die! Dozens of hundred-year-old ginseng roots, and you've eaten them all in less than a day?"
As soon as he entered the Sumeru space, Lin Fan saw the Golden Silkworm Gu with a bulging belly, lying by the stream and burping contentedly.
It was much thicker than usual, its belly almost bursting.
Beside it lay a pile of ginseng root fibers, discarded haphazardly.
Lin Fan's heart ached. This wasteful bug was simply too extravagant!
The Golden Silkworm Gu squinted, "I even left you the root fibers. That's being very loyal of me."
"Thank you very much!"
Lin Fan gritted his teeth, picked up the root fibers one by one, and planted them by the stream.
"I warn you, if you dare to feast and drink here again, I'll fry you!"