"Hu Shen, it's you! Where's the old man?" He stared at Hu Shen, then suddenly his eyes widened. "Are you dead too?"
Hu Shen: "..."
Seeing that Hu Shen looked unwell, Ying Jie quickly came over to explain.
Upon hearing this, a hint of regret flashed in Daqing's eyes.
"It was just a hallucination..."
Su Tang had heard Da Qing tell stories of the past. The old man he mentioned was a wandering beastman who raised him, but he died when Su Tang was young.
Niu Li chimed in, "But how could we suddenly start hallucinating when we were perfectly fine?"
The group tried to recall carefully, but couldn't remember when they had been infected.
Hu Shen said in a deep voice, "There is a kind of hallucinogenic mushroom in this forest. Its spores are so small that they are almost invisible. When the wind blows, the spores will scatter. Anyone who is touched by its spores may experience hallucinations."
Upon hearing this, Su Tang's mind flashed back to the clump of mushrooms she had seen when she got lost that morning.
A guess flashed through her mind.
Did they start hallucinating from that time onward?
No wonder they didn't notice anything unusual along the way.
Ying Jie glared at Niu Li with disdain, "You have the nerve to say that? You can forget something so important."
If anything happens to Atang and Sibao, let's see how the king punishes him.
Niu Li scratched his head sheepishly, "I... I have a bad memory, you know that..."
The group became wary of the vines covering the ground and quickly left.
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