All the people and horses under the city gate were nearly unconscious under the poisonous gas, but it was only the beginning. Soon, the dizzy crowd could faintly hear all kinds of shrill and noisy animal cries.

Poisonous snakes, scorpions, poisonous spiders, toads... all sorts of poisonous creatures were present, all rushing towards the city gate of Xiangyang. They not only covered the entire city wall, but the ground outside the city was also covered with poisonous creatures. The poisonous snakes shook their heads and hissed.

Duke's men and horses were covered in poisonous insects, even the warhorses were not spared. It was a terrifying and horrifying sight, and the sheer number of poisonous creatures was enough to make anyone's hair stand on end.

"My trypophobia is about to kick in," Song Tantan rubbed the goosebumps on her arms and said in a trembling voice, "The Gu poison is indeed powerful, vicious and terrifying."

With so many poisonous insects capable of swallowing a person whole, there's probably nothing left to survive within a hundred miles.

"Don't be afraid. Without my order, these poisonous insects won't dare to harm anyone," Ye Moxun reassured him.

"Alright, stop pretending. And you're giving orders? Do you think those poisonous creatures can understand what you're saying?" Song Tantan's face was full of disbelief, and she exposed him without any mercy.

“Cough, this medicine not only numbs people, but also poisonous creatures. It only controls their minds, and when combined with the flute I play, they go berserk and attack living things around them until they die.” Ye Moxun said, pulling out a flute from somewhere.

"When did you learn to play the flute? I didn't know. Do you think you're Ouyang Feng, summoning snakes with your flute?" Song Tantan looked helplessly at him, but she breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that these venomous creatures wouldn't easily harm people.

"Although I hang out with you every day, I'm not an ordinary person. This is my secret weapon," Ye Moxun said with a hint of arrogance.

"Fine, you're even keeping an eye on me now. You've grown too big for your britches and I can't control you anymore." Song Tantan took two steps closer with a half-smile.

Ye Moxun: "I just learned to play the flute, that's all. Trust me, there's really nothing else I'm hiding from you."

"Hmph, who cares?" Song Tantan turned her head away, feigning disdain.

Ye Moxun: "..."

In the end, Ye Moxun's flute was not used. The battle was bizarre and terrifying, of course, this was for the people of Duke. The people in Xiangyang City were not greatly affected. Only the small leaders were truly shocked and thought to themselves that Ye Moxun was a monster, the kind that would eat people without spitting out the bones.

The so-called Gu poison was indeed powerful. It easily captured five thousand people without losing a single soldier. Those people did not die, nor were they devoured by the poison. They were just poisoned and looked like soulless puppets, with their eyes wide open, their expressions stiff and numb, and they were paralyzed on the ground unable to move.

"How do we deal with so many living dead? If they die from poisoning, we won't be able to bury them all. We'll just have to dig a pit, pile them up, and burn them all. I'm afraid I'll have nightmares if I see so many people dying in front of me." Song Tantan wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead.

"They won't die, but they'll be aware of everything happening outside. Starve them for two days, and when the antidote is available, they'll return to normal." Ye Moxun said this with a rather smug expression.

"What is the antidote?" Song Tantan asked cooperatively.

"Cough, just like using Gu poison, you put a pill in a cauldron and burn it as incense. The poisoned person can be cured after smelling it." Ye Moxun touched the tip of his nose and chuckled.

He knew Song Tantan would definitely think this was a low-level operation, as both poisoning and detoxification involved incense. She even said that he had given the poison a strange name, something like "Gu Poison."

In her understanding, Gu poison should be the kind of poison that involves planting worms in the human body. For example, planting a juvenile Gu in a person and having the mother Gu control it. If the mother Gu beats a drum, the person with the Gu will be poisoned, or if the mother Gu is disturbed, the person with the juvenile Gu will be poisoned.

She couldn't quite put her finger on what it was like, but she just felt it wasn't someone like Ye Moxun.

Ye Moxun found it amusing. "It's just a form of address. Is it really necessary to take it so seriously?"

"Not really, I just discovered you're terrible at naming things." Song Tantan laughed, her shoulders shaking as if she had discovered something amusing.

"Whatever makes you happy." Ye Moxun smiled as well.

Inside the General's Mansion in Xifeng City, Duke, his face ashen, grabbed the messenger with a ferocious expression. "What did you say? Five thousand men were all poisoned to death! Who could be so insidious, vicious, despicable, and utterly lacking in martial ethics?"

"Your subordinate, your subordinate doesn't know, General, what should we do next?" The man's collar was still being held by Duke, who was choking him so badly he was almost suffocating.

Duke took a few heavy breaths, then threw the man aside with a "bang." The man's face hit the corner of the table, and he screamed before passing out. It was clear that Duke was exceptionally strong.

The servants around them shrank back like quails, terrified, but their expressions remained relatively calm, as such things often happened in the general's mansion.

Duke is vicious and prone to violence. He is unpredictable and his temper is so bad that anyone around him is doomed when he's angry.

Because there had been several similar incidents before, on one occasion his legitimate son and illegitimate son came to pay their respects. Everything was fine until something happened that suddenly made him angry. As a result, he picked up his legitimate son and illegitimate son with one hand each and threw them out, almost killing them.

Although he quickly regretted it afterward, he would still act the same way when he got angry. One of his concubines was picked up and thrown, hitting her directly against a pillar and killing her.

Song Tantan had also heard about it, and her assessment was, "Duke is mentally and psychologically ill; he's a pervert. You can't reason with someone like that."

After having his unconscious subordinate carried away, Duke was still not satisfied. He smashed everything in the room that he could break and continued to curse for a long time.

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