Chapter 28
Retribution comes as fast as a tornado.
Shaoxing Yang had just finished laughing at Lu Shiyu when he was badly betrayed by his teammates.
The three people inhaled the spores of the unknown mushroom. Chen Yunliang hurriedly covered his mouth and nose and was so angry that he almost fainted.
"Shaoxing Yang! Are you sick?"
"Huh?" Shao Xingyang, who hadn't realized what was happening yet, was already feeling dizzy and asked, "Chen Yunliang, why are there little stars on your head?"
"You have little stars on your head!"
"Ah?" Shao Xingyang looked up and laughed again: "I have little stars on my head too."
Chen Yunliang held his head, feeling a little dizzy, and he didn't know whether it was because of the spores he inhaled or the Yang energy from Shaoxing.
The three of them felt a little dizzy after inhaling the spores. When they were outside the mushroom circle, Yu inhaled less than the other two, so he was in the best condition among them.
"Shaoxingyang, hold him. I'll go get Tang Zeyu."
Lu Shiyu tried hard to stay awake. Shao Xingyang was the most seriously ill among the group. He was a little unconscious. If he was allowed to walk around and stepped on something, the situation would be even worse.
"Well, go ahead, I'll watch him."
That being said, Chen Yunliang's situation was not much better than Shao Xingyang's. All he could see were colorful double images. The only thing he could do was to hold Shao Xingyang's hands tightly to prevent him from wandering around again.
On the way, Yu felt that the scene in front of him was like superimposed with some kind of illusory filter. He felt that the whole world was shaking as he walked. He walked back to the camp with difficulty, using tree trunks to determine the direction.
Tang Zeyu had picked enough mushrooms and returned to the camp. Seeing that the others had not returned yet, he was worried that something had happened. Just as he was about to go look for them, he saw Lu Shiyu walking back staggering with a distressed look on his face.
"What's wrong with you?" Tang Zeyu quickly stepped forward to support Lu Shiyu and asked anxiously, "Did you encounter an ambush by some deformed creature? Is anything wrong? Where are the others?"
Lu Shiyu felt dizzy. She had never been carsick before, but now she was experiencing the feeling of carsickness again. Her stomach felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to vomit. Only after she leaned on Tang Zeyu did the world in her eyes become a little more stable.
"No, it wasn't an attack," Lu Shiyu said intermittently, "Shaoxing Yang, he, he stepped on a mushroom, spores, and I felt dizzy and wanted to vomit."
Tang Zeyu tried hard to put a few words together and roughly guessed what had happened. He helped Lu Shiyu back to the camp and lie down to rest.
Yan Hong, who had just finished collecting mushrooms and was in a good mood, also came back at this time. When she saw Lu's grim expression, her heart instantly lifted.
"What happened?"
Tang Zeyu turned around and looked at her. He didn't expect that Yan Hong was not with Shao Xingyang and the others. However, having one more person who was not infected would make it easier to drag the remaining two back.
Tang Zeyu opened Chen Yunliang's backpack, which was filled with various medicines, large and small bottles, filling half of the backpack.
He took out the booklet reserved by Chen Yunliang, found the page about mushrooms according to the catalog, first rinsed the nasal cavity with saline, then prepared the medicine according to the prescription written by Chen Yunliang himself, and gave Lu Shiyu an injection. After a while, Lu Shiyu felt that his dizziness had improved a little.
"Um, much better, but still a little dizzy." Lu Shiyu supported Tang Zeyu's arm and sat up.
"Can you walk?"
"Okay," Lu Shiyu stood up. Although he was still a little shaky, he was generally fine. "Let me lead the way. It's over there."
Following the direction pointed out by Lu Shiyu, Tang Zeyu and Yan Hong quickly found the two people who were "trapped" in the mushroom circle, or to be more precise, the two people who were trapped with each other.
"Chen Yunliang, let go! I'm about to fly to the moon!"
"Do you think you're Chang'e? And you're flying to the moon!"
"I want to fly higher~"
Chen Yunliang was on the verge of collapse: "Lu Shiyu! When will you come back?"
Looking at the two people holding hands in the mushroom circle, the three of them fell into a brief silence.
"How long have these two been torturing each other here?" Yan Hong said.
Lu Shiyu's head was still a little dizzy: "Well, I don't know."
Tang Zeyu took a deep breath and said, "Let's bring them out first."
Tang Zeyu and Yan Hong crossed the mushroom circle, picked up one person each and walked out. When Chen Yunliang was lifted up, he subconsciously resisted. He only let down his guard when he realized that Lu Shiyu had come back with reinforcements.
"Thank God I'm not the only one suffering."
Shaoxing Yang was still not behaving well even when being carried by Yan Hong. He felt that he suddenly became taller and the shackles on his hands disappeared. He really thought that he was flying and spread his hands out like a bird flapping its wings.
"Hey, all of you, turn into birds! Turn into lots and lots of birds!"
Yan Hong was annoyed by Shao Xingyang who was swaying restlessly on her back, but because Shao Xingyang was not in his right mind, she endured it. She endured it all the way and finally arrived at the camp.
Yan Hong threw Shao Xingyang directly to the ground, and felt the pain brought by the contrast when she saw Chen Yunliang who had been very well behaved all the way.
"Fuck, next time I help this idiot I'll be a dog."
"Big Dog~It's a wolf~Big Dog~"
Shaoxingyang was still talking nonsense foolishly. Yanhong couldn't stand it anymore. She picked up the saline solution and forced it into Shaoxingyang's nose. Shaoxingyang waved his hands around out of survival instinct, but his head was held down tightly by Yanhong.
"I'll let you scream! I'll let you fly!"
"Woooo ...
After a brutal nasal cleansing, Shaoxing Yang quickly stood up, lowered his head and coughed violently, trying to cough out all the water in his trachea.
Yanhong took advantage of the fact that he was coughing and quickly gave him another shot.
On the other hand, Chen Yunliang's situation was much better. He was very obedient and completed the simple treatment tasks without any coercion. He even actively cooperated. He was simply an ideal patient.
Because the two of them inhaled far more spores than Lu Shiyu, they couldn't wake up for a while.
Lu Shiyu looked at the bags of mushrooms on the ground and thought that since he was free anyway, he might as well cook some food.
Just as he was about to take action, he was pushed back by Tang Zeyu.
"Don't even think about cooking when you've just recovered."
"So what about today's meal?"
Tang Zeyu took the kitchen knife from Lu Shiyu and said, "Let me do it."
In an instant, Chen Yunliang and Yan Hong's eyes widened, only Shaoxingyang was still unconscious and didn't hear clearly what Tang Zeyu said.
Yan Hong asked doubtfully, "Captain, can you cook?"
Tang Zeyu felt a little strange: "Haven't I done this before?"
Chen Yunliang felt his head ache again: "If boiling compressed biscuits with water in a pot also counts..."
Yan Hong said, "Captain, killing a teammate will result in a court-martial."
Tang Zeyu: “…”
"Anyway, just wait and eat," Tang Zeyu said, stroking the kitchen knife. "It's just cooking the food, it's not difficult."
Chen Yunliang was silent for two seconds, then turned to Yan Hong and said, "So the captain's definition of cooking is just to cook the food?"
Lu Shiyu said at the right time: "Let me direct you to do it."
"good."
Lu Shiyu finally felt relieved, as he was afraid that Tang Zeyu really couldn't cook and poisoned them again.
Tang Zeyu did whatever Lu Shiyu said. First, he scraped off the roots of the mushrooms and the parts where they were stuck to the soil. He cut the big mushrooms into pieces with a rolling knife and ate the small mushrooms whole.
After the oil in the pan is hot, add the prepared mushrooms, stir-fry for a while until they become soft, then add appropriate amount of water and seasonings, cover the pot and wait for the mushroom soup to cook.
Lu Shiyu was worried that Tang Zeyu had no experience in cooking for the first time, so he asked him to use all the mushrooms to make soup. The method was simple and the success rate was high, so no matter how bad the soup tasted, it wouldn't be that bad.
After the lid of the pot was opened, the soup surface was shining with golden light, and the colorful mushrooms rolled up and down with the boiling soup, bubbling.
By this time, Shaoxing Yang and Chen Yunliang had almost recovered. Even though they were still a little dizzy, they were out of danger. They just looked a little groggy.
Tang Zeyu poured everyone a bowl of soup. He took a sip himself, but didn't comment, and his expression showed no emotion. Yan Hong looked at the bowl of soup in her hand. It was clearly the most normal meal on this trip, but why did she feel that it was even more unpalatable than food made by aberrant creatures?
Lu Shiyu stirred the soup in his hand with a spoon. Mushrooms of all sizes were picked up and put down again. It looked fine and smelled normal.
Tang Zeyu stared at Lu Shiyu with burning eyes, which made Lu Shiyu feel inexplicably pressured. Under Tang Zeyu's scorching gaze, Lu Shiyu scooped up a spoonful of soup with a spoon and ate a few small mushrooms along with the soup. Lu Shiyu chewed the mushrooms in his mouth and felt that the gaze on her was more intense, as if the other party was expecting his comments.
"Hmm," to be honest, the taste of this soup was just average at best, but as a beginner trying to cook for the first time, Tang Zeyu was already quite good. Lu Shiyu felt that he should encourage her, so he said, "It tastes pretty good. The mushrooms are well-seasoned, and...eh?"
Before he could finish his words, Lu Shiyu blinked his eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he saw.
"Is the soup not to your taste?"
The gray wolf asked nervously, his tail swishing back and forth anxiously.
“No, no,” Lu Shiyu rubbed his eyes in disbelief. “I must be dazzled, haha.”
When he opened his eyes again, it was the same scene. Lu Shiyu turned to look at the others. There were only a few animals where the team members were, a reddish-brown fox, a cheetah with solid spots, and a silly-looking lion.
Lu Shiyu looked at the bowl of soup in his hand and understood instantly.
Damn it, I ate poisonous mushrooms.
At this time, the mushroom soup effect on other people also began to take effect. Tang Zeyu looked at the dazed little panda in front of him and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Everyone was silent. They were a little surprised when they first saw it, but they soon realized that it was a problem with the mushroom soup.
"Lu Shiyu, didn't you say you knew whether the mushrooms were poisonous or not?" The cheetah stretched out its claws and fiddled with the spoon.
"That shouldn't be the case," the red panda said anxiously, walking over to the soup pot to check. "I remember looking it up in a reference book. These mushrooms are just the most common edible mushrooms. They shouldn't have this effect."
Suddenly, the red panda scooped out a white mushroom with a spoon.
"Wait, what is this?"
Everyone looked at the white mushroom in the spoon in the red panda's hand.
The fox took a look and asked, "Who picked this mushroom?"
The cheetah pointed at the lion without hesitation: "It's him."
The lion shook his head and said, "It's not me! The mushrooms I picked don't look like this. This was clearly picked by Yan Hong."
The cheetah said, "Didn't I give you two mushrooms and ask you to tell which one was the same one Lu Shiyu picked?"
The lion said with a guilty conscience, "Yes, they all looked the same, so I put them all in the net bag."
The fox covered his face speechlessly and pointed at the small pattern on the mushroom stem. He said, "The mushroom Lu Shiyu gave me has a smooth stem, while this mushroom has a wrinkled stem. This mushroom also has a stipe. The mushroom Lu Shiyu gave me doesn't have a stipe. How dare you say they're the same species?"
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