Chapter 237 Poison Testing
There are obviously a lot of outsiders in the village, with different costumes and accents, all of whom came here for the pottery fragments.
Zhou Jin and Lin Li wandered around the village quietly, collecting as much information as possible so that they could proceed to the next step as soon as possible when the boss and others arrived.
The test at Mangpiling is poison testing. There are nine large bowls in a row, and each bowl is filled to the brim. Some are colorless, and some are colored. Of course, colorless does not mean non-toxic, and colored does not mean poisonous either. It could be sweet soup.
Only one of the nine bowls is non-toxic, so it's okay to drink it.
Three people can go at a time, and there is no limit on how many bowls each person drinks, but they need to ensure that the person who finds the non-toxic bowl only drinks one bowl, in order to pass.
What does it mean?
For example, if three people go up and each drinks three bowls, there will always be one person who drinks the non-toxic bowl, but you also drink the poisonous one at the same time, so it doesn’t count as you finding it out at all.
If you ask two of them to drink four bowls each, and there is one bowl left for the third person, you have to ensure that the drinks drunk before are poisonous, and the remaining bowl is not poisonous, only then will it be considered a pass.
Of course, if you have the ability to identify the poison, you don’t need to try it. You can just pick out the non-toxic one and drink it. That would be the easiest.
As if to be fair, the poison testing platform was set up in a thatched pavilion in the middle of a pond, with suspension bridges on both sides. The poison testers entered the pavilion from the left suspension bridge. Those who passed the test could exit from the right suspension bridge, and those who failed would return by the same route.
People around could see what was happening in the pavilion from afar.
On the left side of the pond is a row of houses selling antidotes. When your symptoms appear, come here to buy the antidote according to your symptoms. You will basically recover after staying in the village for more than ten days.
I won’t kill anyone, but I will cut off your money-making prospects because you will definitely not be able to catch up with the appointment to get rich and hunt for treasures on the 24th day of the first lunar month.
Moreover, the antidotes are extremely expensive, and you have to pay to live in the houses in the village.
It would be fine if you meet a boss who is willing to spend money, otherwise you will just have to bear it.
There is another drawback to the test here.
That is, if you are the one who passes the test and gets the pottery fragment of this level in public, you still have to consider whether you can leave the village, or in other words, even if you leave the village, whether you can leave this area.
Of course, this is not something the people in the village consider.
Lin Li and Zhou Jin returned to the temporary house at the entrance of the village and wrote down the two new symptoms they observed after the poison test in a notebook.
Zhou Jin has remained silent most of the time since Qin Yi and Su Tong fell off the cliff.
From yesterday till now, both of them have been working hard to analyze and investigate various sources of information.
It seems that only in this way can the worries and impacts brought about by the boss and Sister Lan falling off the cliff be offset, and they rarely communicate about this matter.
Lin Li looked at Zhou Jin's condition and shook his head, saying to him:
"If you are still blaming yourself, there is no need! Anything can happen during a mission. The boss has always taught us that the correct approach is to face problems head-on and actively solve them. Blaming yourself blindly will only wear down your fighting spirit and affect your combat status."
Zhou Jin nodded sullenly, "I know! But when I think about how it was me who caused the two of them to fall off the cliff, I, I just..."
"When the boss was on a mission at the border, he faced more than a dozen guns firing head-on, but he remained unscathed thanks to his excellent tactics and experience. He then led his men to wipe out the enemy's lair. This is just a fall off a cliff. It's not a very difficult situation for him. We have to believe that the boss can handle it. Besides, we have confirmed that they are safe, right?"
Zhou Jin remained silent.
Lin Li continued, "You are like a new soldier on the battlefield this time. You can't be negative, but you have to learn lessons so that you won't make the same mistakes again and grow. Do you know why the boss asked you to return the homemade gun to that big mole that day?"
Zhou Jin raised his head, "Why? Isn't it to... do him a favor and not want to be an enemy of Master Ma for the time being?"
"That's just one point. The gun was seized from Yang Fei's gang. If we keep it in our hands, it will be a hidden danger. We might be classified as opponents by Hei Ye, who Yang Fei follows, without knowing it. He might think that we are in the same group as Ma Ye, who Da Zhi follows, and thus make enemies for ourselves."
"Is there really such a thing?" Zhou Jin felt cold sweat on his back.
"Although they are all gangs and our targets, we are not at the stage of fighting them head-on yet. We have to put ourselves in Zhou Yi's gang's shoes and be more cautious to have a better chance of winning."
Zhou Jin digested Lin Li's words for a while and nodded:
"Got it! I will seriously reflect on this and be careful in the future. I will also cooperate with you to collect information and make preparations before the boss and the others come, and try to pass it as soon as possible."
Lin Li smiled and rubbed his head, "That's right!"
However, after hesitating for a while, Zhou Jin couldn't help but say:
"Can I ask an unrelated question?"
"ask!"
"When we were on the plank road, why did you rush to clear the way and let the boss wait until the end?"
Lin Li looked at Zhou Jin and did not answer.
Zhou Jin continued fearlessly, "Why do I feel like you want the boss to protect Sister Su Tong? It's like you're creating opportunities for them."
After saying this, he raised his hands to cover his face, fearing that Lin Li would slap him, because every time this issue was mentioned, Lin Li would get angry.
But this time, Lin Li did not move.
He was silent for a while, then said, "Because I think what you said before makes a lot of sense! Now I also think that they are a good match!"
"ah--"
Zhou Jin was a little surprised. Why did this guy suddenly change his mind?
"Didn't you say before that they were not suitable for each other?"
"What I mean by inappropriate... is not that the person is inappropriate, but that the situation is inappropriate. However..."
Lin Li suddenly became very serious and said earnestly: "But that day, I saw the boss giving Su Tong artificial respiration..."
"What's wrong with doing artificial respiration? You don't think that you have to be responsible for doing it?" Zhou Jin retorted.
Lin Li shook his head. “When I saw the boss giving Su Tong artificial respiration, he was shaking all over. He, he… was panicking!”
Lin Li took a deep breath and continued:
"You know what? Our special forces team carries out special missions. Every year, people in the team sacrifice themselves, and we fill in the gaps as needed. As the captain of the special forces team, the boss has experienced countless moments of survival, and has personally seen off countless comrades who sacrificed themselves. I have seen him sad, nervous, and angry, but I have almost never seen him... panic..."
"He panicked... because he was afraid of losing! He already had Su Tong in his heart! Su Tong... was also the most powerful woman I had ever seen, she was worthy of him!"
Zhou Jin scratched his head and said:
"This, this is great! A beauty and a hero... No, a talented man and a beautiful woman... That's not right either. What should I say? Anyway, they are both very strong and a good match! We are happy to see it happen, so why did you object so much before?"
Suddenly, Zhou Jin seemed to have figured something out. He grabbed Lin Li's arm and asked nervously:
"Could it be that the boss...he has started a family?"
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