Chapter 133 Darkness
Wen Yingxue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's just a snake, is it that serious?"
Nie Chubai glared at Wen Yingxue, tightened his grip, and said, "This is mine, it's absolutely necessary."
Seeing Nie Chubai protecting her sweet self like a little child, Wen Yingxue was speechless.
At this moment, Wu Nan noticed the silver snake above his head and shouted, "It, it, isn't it the guardian beast of the Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Lotus? Why is it following us?"
Feng Tian was quite interested and came over to look the silver snake up and down, but was then pulled back by Guan Ziming.
"Just don't get too close to it. It's so fast and it bites people," said Guan Ziming.
The silver snake, which was the focus of everyone's attention, shook its dizzy head, slowly climbed down from Wu Nan's head, and crawled towards Wen Yingxue.
However, when passing by Nie Chubai, the silver snake seemed to sense the murderous intent, paused for a moment, then bypassed Nie Chubai and crawled towards Wen Yingxue.
Wen Yingxue burst out laughing and said, "Nie Chubai! Now you know how scary your dark complexion is, right? Look, even snakes are afraid of you."
Several light bulbs also laughed at the silver snake's appearance. Ji Yan looked up at Nie Chubai, then nodded. It was very scary.
The silver snake wrapped around Wen Yingxue's wrist, rubbed its head against her skin, and then stopped moving.
"It, is it relying on me?" Wen Yingxue poked it, but the silver snake ignored it and hung on Wen Yingxue's wrist like a silver bracelet.
Feng Tian came over and looked at the silver snake carefully, and said, "Look at it. When it bit you before, it immediately detoxified more than twenty kinds of poison. Its toxin must have mutated and can detoxify hundreds of poisons."
"Oh? So, its effect should be similar to that of the Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Lotus." Wen Yingxue said.
Feng Tian nodded, his face full of envy: "Ah, why isn't it following me? I was also thinking of trying out what poisons it can detoxify. What a pity."
"Then do you think it's possible that it drank my blood when it bit me before, so it recognized its master by dripping blood?" Wen Yingxue asked tentatively.
When everyone heard this, they felt that this was very possible.
Wen Yingxue raised her wrist, poked the silver snake again, and said, "Since you want to follow me, I will give you a name. Let's call you Yinlan."
Yinlan seemed to like this name very much. The snake stretched out its head and hissed at Wen Yingxue, then crawled back quietly.
"Hiss, this snake is really a spirit. It can even understand human language." Wu Nan exclaimed.
Nie Chubai narrowed his eyes and looked at the silver-blue on Wen Yingxue's snow-white wrist, as if he was throwing it away.
Feng Tian said, "Not only that, this snake is quite old. The Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Lotus blooms once every hundred years. This snake has eaten the Eight-Angled Mysterious Ice Lotus, which proves that it has lived for at least a hundred years."
Wen Yingxue touched Yin Lan's body again and said, "This is still a senior."
"Okay, let's rest quickly, and then set off to get out of the Dark Night Swamp as soon as possible." Nie Chubai hugged Wen Yingxue and forced her into his arms, preventing her from looking at Yin Lan again.
Wen Yingxue lay on his chest and laughed softly, then obediently closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Three days later, the six people finally got out of the Dark Night Swamp.
Fortunately, their way back did not deviate too far from the direction. It only took them half a day to return to their original place, Baofu Town.
As soon as she saw the gate of Baofu Town, Feng Tian frowned in disgust.
"Let's not go in here, let's just go." Feng Tian said.
Guan Ziming said, "It's getting dark soon, so we might as well stay inside for another night. Besides, I'm still very curious about the poison in this town."
Wen Yingxue and Nie Chubai exchanged a glance, and Wen Yingxue said, "How about staying here for another night?"
I haven't slept in bed for more than ten days, so I could use some rest.
At this time, Feng Tian said: "I was the one who poisoned the town."
When these words were spoken, everyone was stunned.
"You downloaded it? Why?" Guan Ziming asked in shock.
Next, Feng Tian told the five people a very dark story.
Feng Tian knew that there was an octagonal black ice lotus in the Dark Night Swamp, so she wanted to come and look for it and try her luck.
She came two months ago, before the Chinese New Year.
Feng Tian has a carefree personality and got into trouble on the first day he entered Baofu Town. He beat up a rich boy who tried to rape a girl on the street.
Later, Feng Tian was sent to the government office. After the county magistrate of Baofu Town learned what had happened, he released Feng Tian.
Later, the county magistrate's daughter became good friends with Feng Tian.
Later, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, many merchants gathered to pay New Year's greetings to the county magistrate.
These merchants were not here to pay New Year's greetings, but to take the lives of the county magistrate and his family.
The Dark Night Swamp is originally a lawless area. The emperor is far away and the people dare not bully the officials.
The reason was that these merchants discovered a gold mine in a mountain range thirty miles outside Baofu Town.
The county magistrate learned of this news two days ago, and he was preparing to write a memorial to report it to the capital.
This gold mine was discovered by these businessmen. It would be hard for anyone to see the money they had earned disappear without a trace.
So, these merchants joined together and killed the county magistrate and his family at night on the first day of the new year, and then set them on fire.
The county magistrate's daughter witnessed all this in secret. When Feng Tian rushed in to save her, she was still alive and told Feng Tian everything she had seen.
"She was lying in my arms, her whole body covered with burns. She kept begging me, asking me to avenge them." Feng Tian clenched her fists, her eyes red.
She still remembered the girl's eyes filled with hatred in the dark night and amidst the fire.
After hearing this, the five people remained silent.
They couldn't say anything about Feng Tian, those businessmen really deserved to die.
After a long while, Guan Ziming asked, "Then how did you manage to make half of the people in this town poisoned and half not?"
Feng Tian looked up and said, "It would be fine if we could just detoxify those who don't need to die."
After hearing Feng Tian's words, Guan Ziming almost vomited blood.
"I know, I just need to detoxify it, but how do I do it?"
"It is calamus that detoxifies. I sprinkle calamus ash into the wells of those people's homes who are not involved, so they won't be poisoned." Feng Tian explained.
Guan Ziming was dumbfounded. When he went to investigate the source of the poison, he indeed found that many wells smelled of Changpu. He thought it was a specialty of this town and that people liked to add Changpu to the wells.
But I never thought about detoxification.
"Why haven't I figured this out?" Guan Ziming hit himself on the head.
Wen Yingxue and Feng Tian shook their heads at this. They were not very smart to begin with, and if they continued to fight, they would probably become stupid.
"In that case, let's not rest in the town. Let's hurry back to the capital. By the way, let's tell the emperor about the gold mine." Nie Chubai said.
The five people had no objection and immediately prepared to set off back to Beijing.
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