"What do you want in exchange for the antidote?" he decided to ask directly without beating around the bush as he wanted to know what Lee Jung could ever want from him.

"Oh…!" Lee Jung was a bit startled that Davies immediately got to the point, but he wasn't that surprised that Davies immediately understood what was going on as he was pretty sure that even a blind person could see what he was getting at from the start.

This was an extortion, and his requests were definitely as such,

"I want you… to beg…"

"To beg for your life as I step on your face, and you grovel beneath my feet,"

"... Also, I want your Magical Runic Technology," Lee Jung made his exorbitant requests known with a big, evil, shark-like smile.

"..."

There were no words that could describe the level of dizziness that struck Davies's head when he heard the requests that Lee Jung laid out and he was left gaping like a goldfish who had just been told that it was actually a land animal.

"Pfttttttt… hahaha hahaha"  he couldn't help himself and suddenly burst into laughter as the conditions that Lee Jung was way overboard, even by his standards as a profiteer.

Someone could argue that nothing could be worth one's life, but Davies begged to differ, especially after dying more than once. 

Dying was just that… dying. That was all there was to it, but there were always things that were worth even more than life itself.

Lee Jung had asked for two of those things, his pride, and his life's work. Davies had expected that as a protagonist, Lee Jung was obviously a professional profiteer, but Davies hadn't expected him to be a shark… a stupid one, but a shark, nonetheless.

Lee Jung had actually taken the initiative to tell him that he knew about a secret project that no one else but him should know about and had basically confirmed that he was the one that had gotten the USB drive from the ghost thief, thereby confirming Davies's suspicions.

'Is he stupid?" 

"Or is it because I seem to be dying that gave him the confidence to talk about it?"

"Or does he simply not put me in his eyes at all?" Davies thought with mirth in his eyes as he laughed at Lee Jung's request.

Davies's laughter upon stating his conditions surprised Lee Jung greatly as he expected a completely different reaction from Davies.

"haha, pls, haa… gimme a minute… Hahaha," Davies wheezed out in between his laughter, tears already at the corner of his eyes as he looked at the confused look on Lee Jung's face that only served to provoke his amusement and caused him to laugh even harder.

This was nothing short of a joke, or maybe he was joking because there was no way he was being serious when he said those things. The fact that he even thought for a second that Davies would actually comply with such stupid requests meant he was a clown, a very stupid clown.

'Who knew that getting a comedian to make things livelier when you're on your deathbed was this effective,' he thought as he laughed. He didn't remember when last he laughed this hard.

"haaa… haaaa," Davies finally stopped wheezing in laughter from Lee Jung.

"Show's over, I'm good thanks, you can roll back to whatever rabbit hole you rolled out of,"

"Also, I think you need to get your brain checked… it seems to be infected with stupidity," Davies said with mirth as he didn't bother to even give an extra thought to Lee Jung's request, he had only asked out of curiosity anyway and after hearing Lee Jung, there was no way he would even give it a thought.

"Huh?" Lee Jung was confused.

"You can leave now, isn't your performance not over?" Davies spoke again.

"Performance?" Lee Jung was even more confused.

"Of course, performance, your attempt at comedy was a success and you actually made me laugh, but now I have other things to deal with, you can leave now," Davies elaborated.

"..." Lee Jung was completely lost.

'Performance? Comedy?'

'What's blud talking about?' his mind was turning extra quickly to understand what exactly was happening and only after a few seconds did the realization hit him.

Davies had rejected his offer and was now mocking him instead.

"You…!" he raged.

"Oh, you finally understand," 

"Thank goodness, I thought I would have to explain even further,"

"Shoo, shoo," Davies said mockingly to Lee Jung and closed his eyes while no longer paying any attention to him like he was not even there.

Lee Jung was incensed. He and Davies had ever seen eye to eye, and he even had a few grudges to settle with Davies, but he had put all that behind him and actually given this bastard a chance at life, but this bastard, like always, treated him like nothing more than a bug.

A bug that wasn't worth existing. 

Lee Jung hated this feeling as it made him remember how people used to treat him in the past before he got the system and took a step into the world of the rich and influential. 

He didn't like this feeling at all.

'Bastard, I actually gave you a chance to save your miserable life, but you chose not to cherish it,'

'I'll wait for you to come crawling back and begging me for the antidote,' Lee Jung thought grimly and scoffed at Davies's child-of-the-world attitude, not aware of the contradictory reasoning that was plaguing his head and made him look like a fool to anyone else that could see what was going on.

*Roooooommmm*

The loud and powerful roar of a vehicle's engine suddenly began approaching their direction and the bright headlights that approached along with the roaring engine indicated that Melinda had found Davies's car and was on her way.

Lee Jung didn't want to be seen along with Davies for some reason and decided to retreat into the darkness, giving Davies one last scornful look before he disappeared while thinking to himself, 

'He doesn't have any other option than to beg me anyway, I'll wait,'

He actually thought this was a good opportunity to get a hold of the Magical Runic Technology, after everyone valued their lives the most… if only he knew that Davies had another option.

He quickly collected the spy-cam from mid-air and stopped it from recording and then quickly left the scene.

Davies opened one of his eyes when he felt Lee Jung's gaze on him vanishing,

'So, he left,' he thought and sneakily brought out his phone and tapped it to stop it from voice recording.

Yes, he had ended up sneakily voice-recording everything that had happened here as he had thought that he could find material that he could use against Lee Jung.

Unfortunately, he probably wouldn't be able to use this as Lee Jung had ended up mentioning Magical Runic Technology, and that was not information that he could afford to get out.

His eyes quickly roamed around the area until he saw a security camera overlooking the area where he was. It had probably recorded the earlier scene, and while Davies couldn't be sure whether it recorded the audio along with the video, he wasn't going to take any chances.

He quickly opened his inventory and took out a mini electromagnetic pulse bomb and activated it while setting a timer of five minutes.

'Five minutes to detonation,' he quickly used his phone to run a hacking program that hacked into the security systems of the Lecroy estate property and quickly downloaded all the security footage for the last two days.

He needed somewhere to begin investigating who had tried to kill him after all as he doubted that the person, he had attacked still had any answers for him, so this was the next best thing.

Just as he finished, Melinda pulled up beside him and quickly got out to help him into the car, but Davies had already stood up on his own despite his growing pains and spreading numbness, he could already feel his blood freezing.

Luckily, Melinda had parked close enough that he could use the car's body as a support immediately he felt like falling. Melinda was already beside him, but he sent her back as he couldn't drive right now.

"I'm fine, let's go," he managed to say without his voice or face betraying anything that he was feeling or going through.

He got into the passenger's seat and shut the door at the same moment as Melinda who got into the driver's seat. Immediately he sat in the car and shut the door, the temperature inside the car dropped by a few degrees without anyone putting on the air conditioning.

That was bad news.

Melinda immediately noticed it as she was especially sensitive to temperature as her powers were closely related to this particular phenomenon of nature.

She immediately stepped on the accelerator as she knew that they were pressed for time while asking Davies, 

"Do you have any way to deal with the poison?"

"Not really, no," Davies replied calmly without any urgency as he looked at his watch.

'Tick, tock, boom' he thought as the electromagnetic pulse bomb blew out every electronic device in a one km radius.