Chapter 275: Caged Man
Qi Hanzhou couldn't help but frown: "What is that?"
Yun Fu said, "Judging from the round back of the head, it should be a skull."
To be precise, it should be a child's skull.
Because children lack the nutrients their bodies need during their development, their bones are underdeveloped and their density is lower than that of adults.
In addition, there must be some other substances in the water that changed the density of the water, causing the skull to float up.
Skulls, smell of blood, pools of water, piranhas.
These elements come together.
An idea immediately popped up in Yun Fu's mind.
To verify my ideas.
Yun Fu half-closed her watery eyes, raised her foot, and kicked a stone into the pool.
The fist-sized stone fell into the water with a splash.
A splash was created on the calm water surface.
Immediately afterwards, the dark pool of water seemed to suddenly boil, and dense swarms of piranhas emerged from the bottom of the water.
These piranhas were obviously used to being fed. When they heard the noise, they thought someone was feeding them again and scrambled to the surface.
Qi Hanzhou glanced at the school of fish in the water, his face suddenly darkened, his dark pupils shrank, and his hands moved quickly.
He picked up the little girl by the waist who was trying to kick stones into the pool and stepped back a long distance.
He hadn't taken these piranhas seriously at first.
Now, he could imagine what Yun Fu described, the scene of a person being eaten into a pile of bones in an instant.
The water's edge is too dangerous. It's safer to stay away from it.
When retreating, Qi Hanzhou was too anxious and had no time to observe the situation behind him.
When my feet landed on the ground, my back seemed to hit something.
Make some noise.
After Yun Fuan stood steadily, he looked behind him and saw a row of wooden shelves, each one person tall, close to the wall of the cave, standing in front of the two of them. On them were a pile of bottles and jars, as well as some coarse cloth bags.
Yun Fu sniffed a little and smelled that there were various medicinal herbs placed here.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw two candlesticks beside her, and Yun Fu approached them holding a lighter.
After it is lit, the vision becomes better.
The entire surrounding environment came into Yun Fu's sight.
There is a wooden shelf with medicinal materials on it, and next to it is a long table. The table is filled with tools needed to prepare medicinal materials, such as sieves for screening medicine, small choppers for cutting medicine, grinders for grinding medicine, and pestles and mortars for pounding medicine.
Next to the long table is a half-person-high alchemy furnace.
Yun Fu tapped the alchemy furnace with her fingers. "I didn't expect this guy to be such an expert. He even knows the techniques used by ancient alchemists to cast alchemy furnaces out of Liuyi clay."
"Six-one mud?"
"Well, the furnace is made of realgar water, stone water, Rong salt, brine salt, stone, oyster, red stone, fat talc, and Hu powder. Legend has it that using a furnace made of Liuyi mud to refine medicine can produce an elixir of immortality."
Of course, Yun Fu didn't believe these legends at all.
Curiously, she opened the cloth bag on the shelf and took a look, exclaiming in amazement: "Tsk tsk, cinnabar, arsenic, northern monkshood, strychnos nux vomica, andrographis paniculata, tripterygium wilfordii, and aconite... He's trying to collect all ten poisonous herbs!"
Then, Yun Fu opened the bottles and jars again: "I take back what I said before. He not only wants to collect the ten poisonous herbs, but also poisonous insects and snakes."
Poisonous centipedes, poisonous toads, poisonous scorpions, bamboo green snakes, five-step snakes...
The types of poisons in this place are so complete that Yun Fu wonders what the person who collected these poisons is doing in this cave?
In short, it's definitely not a good thing.
Then contact the people trapped in cages in this cave.
Yun Fu felt that she seemed to be able to guess something. In order to refine the poison and test its efficacy, a large number of people were needed to try it.
Therefore, the person in this cage is most likely a drug slave used for drug testing.
Yun Fu pondered as she turned around and prepared to go take a look at the cage.
Seeing that she seemed to be about to leave, Qi Hanzhou hurriedly stepped forward, bent down, and picked her up with skillful movements: "Xiao Fu'er, what do you want to do?"
Yun Fu pointed to the area where the cages were placed and said, "I want to go see them."
"Okay, I'll take you there." Qi Hanzhou took a few steps with his long legs and reached the cage.
After lighting the candlesticks, the two could see more clearly than before.
What I saw was more than just a blurry figure.
There are about ten large cages in this cave, and there are people in every cage. None of them are empty.
The number of people in each cage is different. Some cages only contain one person, while some cages are crowded with four or five people.
Seeing Yun Fu and the others approaching.
The people in the cage also reacted.
Some of them grabbed the cage and begged for help: "Let me out, please, let me be eaten..."
Some were so hungry that they were in a trance: "Please give me something to eat! I haven't eaten for a long time. If you give me something to eat, I will definitely eat the poison obediently next time and never dare to spit it out again."
The rest were either crying or screaming.
Among this group of people, Yun Fu noticed a shirtless boy sitting in a cage in the corner.
The boy was too thin, with his ribs clearly visible on both sides, like a living skeleton. What caught Yun Fu's attention was not his body, but his unique eyes.
The boy opened his eyes and looked at them calmly. His calm eyes seemed a little out of place among the other people locked in cages.
Yun Fu took a few more glances and then looked away.
He said to the group of people who were shouting, "Who among you is clear-headed enough to answer my questions? Everyone else, shut up."
A bunch of people were chattering and she had no way to communicate with them.
Even so, these people's answers were still messy.
However, Yun Fu could probably get some useful information from their answers.
It was pretty much the same as she had guessed before.
These people are all prisoners exiled to the Ghost Prison. Some are from the seventh-class district, and some are from other districts.
Some were captured by an organization called Wangchuan Cult, and some were traded as goods.
After being imprisoned here, he became a drug slave for the Wangchuan Sect to test drugs.
Every once in a while, someone comes to test drugs on them.
Those medicines are poisons. After trying them once or twice, many people died because their bodies could not withstand the toxicity of the poison.
The bodies of these people became food for the piranhas in the pond.
Those who don't behave will be thrown into the pond to feed the fish.
I don’t know how many people sank into that pool of water.
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