Chapter 79
As soon as he called them, the three kids immediately went to where he was.
"Brother, what are you going to give us?" Ashlee asked curiously.
It seemed that they didn't peek a while ago because he could see that they were genuinely curious what he would be giving them.
They might have been afraid that if they didn't study properly with Calvin, they wouldn't be able to receive anything from him.
So, they didn't play on their own and didn't even peek a while ago and just continued their studies. They only stopped when all of us
"Yang, Jane, you should also come and look at it so that you can also check it everyday if they still have it with them," Luciel said.
Of course, he just wanted to show it to them because they kept looking at him. They must have been worried because it seemed that he would give something dangerous to the kids.
He could only say that they were just getting worried too much. He wouldn't give the kids any deadly poisons to hold because they might kill themselves accidentally instead of using it to deal with bad people.
When all of them were sitting in front of him, he showed the necklaces and started explaining.
"See these 3 necklaces here. These will be your emergency weapons. Remember, you can only use them three times, and you can only use them for people. They aren't effective in fighting zombies.
And you should only use them on bad people if you really need it so that you can run away.
You guys aren't strong yet, so if you really are in danger because of bad guys, what you need to do is to run away."
Luciel opened one of the samples he had with him and showed it to them: "The liquid here will make people unable to move for at least 5 minutes as long as enough liquid touches their bodies."
"Ok, let's test how effective it is. Yang, be our test subject for this," Luciel said.
He didn't even wait for Yang's reply and already dropped some of the poison on Yang's hand.
"See, it is very effective," Luciel said after Yang froze in 5 seconds.
"Now, let's see if it would really last for 5 minutes," Luceil added.
"Wow, dad is really not moving! But is dad okay?" Ashlee said while looking at the immobilized Yang.
"Yes, he will be alright in 5 minutes. This could only immobilize a person for 5 minutes, nothing more.
So, after you successfully freeze the person, you should run far away."
Actually, that time is the best time to kill the enemy. Even small kids like them could kill as long as the person isn't moving anymore.
However, the three kids with them still don't need to learn how to kill people.
If it were other kids who don't have anyone to support them and are already relying on themselves to survive, then what he would give them wouldn't even be an immobilizing poison, but he would directly give them deadly poison, and he would even give them a knife.
He had seen a lot of kids surviving without the support of their parents any longer. They're thinking is mature enough because of surviving on their own. They knew how and where to use deadly weapons properly for their own survival.
However, Ashlee and the others still had guardians with them, so they don't need to learn how to kill in order to survive.
It was always harder for kids and the elderly to survive on their own in the current time they were at. But he really hoped that at least Ashlee and the others wouldn't need to stain their hands with human blood very early.
They might need to kill others eventually as long as they were living in this problematic era, but he still hopes it happens when they really grow up.
Killing people is still different from killing monsters and zombies.
He could teach them how to kill zombies and others, but he wouldn't teach them how to kill people.
Luciel also lived a peaceful life as an actor before the apocalypse came, so when he killed a person for the first time, he was really trembling for a long time. Fortunately, or unfortunately, he didn't have time to dwell on it very much because he needed to keep fighting monsters in order to survive.
Afterwards, he also killed more people because he had to kill them if he didn't want to be killed by them. Even though he didn't have time to keep thinking about the people he killed because of how busy he was in surviving, he would still have nightmares as long as he rested for a bit.
He kept having those nightmares for a long time until he stopped having any more nightmares because he couldn't even properly count and remember how many people he killed already.
It came to the point where he couldn't even see a difference in killing monsters and people any longer.
Now, he only remembered the concept that killing people is different, but he actually doesn't have any feeling about it any longer.
Even if the kids don't come to a point like himself, he still doesn't want the kids to experience having nightmares for a long time because of killing people.
So, he only asked Jacob to make an immobilizing poison for them to use.
After waiting for 5 minutes, Yang started moving again.
"See, it is indeed very effective," Luciel said while pointing at Yang, who was beginning to move again.
"You guys saw how much liquid I used, right?" Luciel asked, and the three kids nodded.
"That's good. So, only use such an amount, and you can deal with bad guys later on.
And this thing here is a seed that serves as your locator. I will know where you are based on this, so don't lose this," Treyton said while pointing at the circular pendant aside from the tube where the seed is located.
"I will take care of it," Ashlee said seriously.
"I won't lose it!" Sophie said.
"I will be careful not to lose it," Theo also said seriously.
After saying a few more reminders, Luciel gave the necklace to them.
"Mom, put it on me." Sophie immediately turned to Jane and asked her to put the necklace on her.
Ashlee also asked Yang to put the necklace on her.
Nathan, who came over to see if Yang was really alright, put the necklace on Theo, who was looking at Sophie and Ashlee with a bit of envy.
Theo always tried to act mature, but such a situation still exposed his longing for his lost parents.
Well, fortunately there are a lot of adults in the group that could take care of him, so he wouldn't feel left behind.
"Treyton, I think this poison is also useful for us. Why don't you also make some necklaces for us with this just for emergency use?" Nathan said.
"You guys also want it?" Treyton said while looking around.
The others all nodded.
"Ok, I'll make some then," Treyton agreed.
In the end, all of them have necklaces with tube pendants with Jacob's poison in them except for him.
The three kids even got a bit unhappy because their necklace wasn't unique only for themselves, but then they became happy again because they have the same necklace as everyone else.
As for him, he only had a necklace chain, even though he doesn't even have a tube pendant, because he let Jacob make something else for him. Treyton just insisted that he also needed to have one.
Instead of a tube of poison, he asked Jacob to soak the needles he had asked Treyton to make in different poisons he had.
He asked Treyton to make needles with different lengths and asked Jacob to soak the smallest needle with the deadliest poison he could currently make and the longest needles with the poison that could just immobilize others.
He could use them as his weapons in case of emergency. Just a tube of poison isn't enough for him. It's better to have a whole set of needles coated with different poisons to be his reserves compared to just a tube of poison.
Well, for others who weren't good at fighting to begin with, it's good enough for them to just use the liquid poison than to use other tools that would just complicate things if they don't know how to use them properly.
He already knew how to use needles as a weapon because in his past life one of the plants he was using was a cactus.
In its first stages, it couldn't fight on its own and could just provide its thorns. So, he mastered how to use its thorns properly.
The thorn of the cactus is almost the same with needles, so he could certainly use them properly.
He would just practice in their space a bit later to get use of their weight, as he also needed to adjust the strength of his throw based on their weights.