"You also know about the Misfortune Witch?"

Lu Ban took his time and added another piece of smoked fish from their lunch box with chopsticks. It had a slightly sweet taste and tasted great.

"The Witch of Misfortune is the ruler of this island. As long as you believe in her, you can gain eternal life."

The two people's originally gloomy expressions disappeared, and their tone suddenly became a little fanatical again.

"Then why don't you eat the food on the island?"

Lu Ban asked, then picked up a piece of seaweed rice and chewed it with a crunching sound.

"……sorry."

The two men hesitated for a moment, then suddenly bent down to apologize, their heads hitting the table, which was heartbreaking to hear.

“I’m sorry!” “I’m sorry!”

The two people kept apologizing and banging their heads on the table, even until their foreheads were bleeding, but they still didn't stop.

The people around looked over, Lu Ban's mouth curled up, and he held down the two people who kept apologizing.

"You don't have to apologize, tell me about Wan Ye?"

Lu Ban was afraid that they would turn into heartless "I'm sorry" machines again, so he quickly changed the subject.

Judging from the conversation just now, Wan Ye is not the keyword that triggers the apology.

But then again, do people on Kazushima like to apologize so much?

When you are in doubt, just apologize first. No matter what happens, everything will be fine as long as you apologize?

Apologies are so convenient.

Lu Ban felt that this could be used next time.

"No... Uh, as for Wan Ye, he arrived on this island about four days ago, and then he disappeared two days ago. He had lunch here at noon that day, and disappeared in the evening."

He was about to fall into the cycle of apology again when the man reacted.

"So, he was pretty normal after lunch?"

Lu Ban silently crossed out the possibility of food in his mind.

His dishes were served, all seafood, very rich and appetizing at first glance.

He picked up a piece of boiled fish and looked at the two diners who brought their own dry food.

"Do you want to eat?"

The two of them shook their heads.

"I think the food should be fine. If you don't eat it, I will."

Lu Ban put the piece of fish into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.

"The taste is OK. I don't know what special seasoning is added. It gives me a slight numb feeling on the tip of my tongue. It's very stimulating."

He quickly cleared out all the food in the bowl.

Standing up and preparing to go to the next place, Lu Ban just walked out of the restaurant door when he felt an itchy throat, as if something was coming up, making him cough uncontrollably.

“Cough cough cough…”

Lu Ban coughed violently, as if he was going to cough out all his internal organs. He bent over and curled up like a shrimp, but the coughing did not stop.

The pain was slightly relieved, and Lu Ban loosened his hand that was covering his mouth. He saw a little blood on his palm, which seemed to be caused by the coughing just now.

"It's a bit strong..."

As Lu Ban spoke, he continued to cough, this time more violently, causing the people around him to look at him from a distance, fearing that they would be infected by Lu Ban.

This time, there was something extra in Lu Ban's palm.

It was a black, bloody mass of grass.

Lu Ban felt something stuck in his throat. He reached out his hand, put two fingers into his throat, and soon felt a foreign object in his throat.

"vomit--"

A feeling of vomiting rose up in his throat and Lu Ban pinched the thing with his fingers.

He pulled hard.

A pain came through the esophagus, and the burning sensation from the stomach to the throat and finally to the mouth made Lu Ban's eyes turn black.

But fortunately he was fast enough.

The finger was pulled out from the throat, along with the thin vine.

The dark green vine was covered in black mucus and was almost pulled out of Lu Ban's stomach. He kept wrapping his fingers around it and endured the urge to vomit before he finally pulled it all out.

Lu Ban carefully examined the vine and found several tumors growing on the branch.

These tumors are bulging and seem to be growing something inside.

"I had this thing in my body before?"

Lu Ban felt that although he sometimes grew grass, he would not create such weird things.

Moreover, the grass on his body usually grows only after the body is injured. Now that there are these things, it means that Lu Ban's body has been damaged.

"Is it food?"

Lu Ban decided to study while basking in the sun.

He ran back to the restaurant and bought some more food under the astonished gazes of the two people who brought their own dry food.

In the sunshine, Lu Ban ate the delicious food while spitting out dirty grass balls and vines. Soon, a lot of garbage piled up around him.

"When you eat vegetables, you will usually vomit several grass balls with spikes about the size of a fingernail. Beef and pork will vomit grass balls the size of a palm with mucus. Fish will vomit vines with tumors. Rice will vomit leaves that look like seaweed..."

Lu Ban simply used the controlled variable method to record the reactions to the food he ate.

When passers-by saw this, they all avoided his gaze and hurried away, as if they felt that standing next to Lu Ban would bring bad luck.

A moment later, when the sun set, Lu Ban finished his food tasting.

"The food on the entire island has been contaminated. This contamination is subtle. It may just be a cough at first, and then it will spread throughout the body as the blood flows. I have a particularly strong reaction because of the detoxification effect of photosynthesis."

Lu Ban came to a conclusion.

"If this is pollution from the Uncertain Mist, then the real Uncertain Mist is very likely still present on this island. But how could such a serious pollutant be hidden from being discovered at a glance?"

The huge filth in the sea before was exploded by the Son of God with an arrow shot from a distant place, which means that the priestess of the high-ranking Wadoshima Taisha Shrine has the power to strike across visual range, which is at least the ceiling of this world's combat power. If the uncertain fog still exists on the island, the Son of God should be able to see through it.

"Is it true, as Hongye said, that even the shrine maidens of the Washima Shrine have surrendered to the enemy? What exactly is a disaster shrine maiden?"

When Lu Ban thought about this, he remembered something else.

He hurried back to the restaurant and saw two men who had brought their own dry food and were drinking and chatting in a corner. Lu Ban came up to them with a serious expression.

"There is one thing I forgot to remind you just now."

Seeing Lu Ban's serious expression and remembering his weird behavior before, the two of them couldn't help but straighten their backs, just like students facing a demon teacher in the classroom.

"Is there anything?"

One of them asked.

"Your wine and seafood together can easily cause gout."

Lu Ban said seriously, then took the pot of wine on their table and left.

After a moment, the two stunned people came to their senses.

"Did he just take our bar?"

“It seems so…”

On the other side, Lu Ban walked out of the restaurant and left Anshinin directly, walking along the main street of Uta Island towards the low mountains in the center of the island.

The Kazushima Shrine is located on top of that mountain.