124: Chapter 92: Wine Ghost Claims Lives, Chants Are Useless!
[Subscribe Please]_1 124: Chapter 92: Wine Ghost Claims Lives, Chants Are Useless!
[Subscribe Please]_1 “Where’s the money?”
Lin Baici chuckled, “Don’t tell it’s all talk and no show.”
“Give it to you once we get out!” Guo Zheng snorted, “As a mber of the Nine Dragons Hall, would I owe you a teorite Coin?”
Fearing Lin Baici wouldn’t trust him, Guo Zheng’s voice was loud and his manner commanding.
Lin Baici closed his eyes to rest and leaned against the edge of the pool.
Sorry, your Taboo thing is already lying in my Black Tripod Bowl taking a rest.
Unable to persuade Lin Baici, Guo Zheng could only think of a plan himself.
Others gathered, asking Lin Baici what the next step in the plan was.
“et the enemy head-on!”
Without his watch, Lin Baici didn’t know the exact ti, but the bath hadn’t been long.
The Blue Hat Eunuch ca in and inford them they could leave to get dressed.
The clothes were long robes made of hemp and mulberry, not quite white but rather yellowish.
Lin Baici put on the hemp robe, finding it uncomfortable.
The fabric was too rough, chafing his skin.
The sleeves were long and loose, which conveniently allowed Lin Baici to hide the Black Tripod Bowl within them.
After Lin Baici and his group had dressed, they waited for only a few minutes before Hua Yue Yu and the others also ca out of the bathhouse, garbed in similar hemp robes.
Xia Hongyao still wore her high ponytail, looking youthful as ever.
“Hurry up!”
The Blue Hat Eunuch urged them on.
Under guard by the soldiers, the group walked along the paved stone paths of the courtyard, twisting and turning.
“God Lin.”
Du Xin approached with Zhou Ya, smiling and flattering, “The scripture you sang just now was superbly good to listen to, wasn’t it, little Ya?”
“Yes!”
Zhou Ya nodded, finding no fault.
“Brother Lin, I saw a very popular chanting video on B-site recently, it’s quite nice, and seems to be your style, did you post it?”
Liu Liu was curious.
Upon hearing Liu Liu call Lin Baici Brother, Du Xin imdiately felt annoyed and secretly clenched her teeth, wanting to curse,
Damn it!
Brother Lin is also what you would call him?
“I’ve seen it too!”
“Is it the one posted by Lin Da Hungry Man?
I just broke up with my boyfriend five days ago and was so sad, but after listening to that video recomnded by my roommate, I got over it right away.
n, aren’t they all the sa?
A carrot could replace one!”
“It’s just that the sound quality is so poor, now many people are asking for a lossless MP3 version!”
“God Lin, what do we do next?”
The girls whispered among themselves.
Lin Baici’s recitation of the scriptures was well done, but that wasn’t the main focus of their interest.
Their approach was actually more about trying to cozy up to Lin Baici.
“Little White posted a video?
Seems like it’s quite popular?”
Hua Yue Yu was surprised and prepared to ask, when the Blue Hat Eunuch scolded, “Quiet, shut up!”
Everyone imdiately fell silent as if struck by cold frost.
After walking another hundred ters or so, the group stopped in front of a warehouse with green tiles and bluish bricks.
Lin Baici sniffed a faint aroma of wine wafting through the air.
The pale-faced Eunuch Master had already arrived.
Seeing Lin Baici and the rest coming, he imdiately ordered the Blue Hat Eunuch to open the warehouse doors.
Everyone entered the warehouse and saw rows of wine jars as tall as a person.
The floor was paved with stone, solid and imposing.
In the center of the warehouse stood a huge bronze cauldron which ten soldiers struggled to move aside.
As the cauldron was displaced, it revealed an iron trapdoor secured with three locks.
The Blue Hat Eunuch took out a bunch of keys and unlocked the trapdoor, exposing a set of stone steps leading downward.
A rich scent of wine imdiately wafted up from below.
[A wine cellar holding aged and fine wines, a pity that the wine has been spoiled!]
Soldiers led the way with torches.
Next were Lin Baici and the others.
The Eunuch Master was the last one to descend.
The wine cellar was enclosed, with only a few air vents.
Natural light couldn’t penetrate inside, making it very dark, damp, and stifling, and the strong sll of wine made it difficult to breathe.
Every now and then, the soldiers’ torches would crackle and pop, casting dim red light on the Eunuch Master’s effeminate pale face, making him look like an evil ghost from the underworld.
This place was quite eerie, perfectly suited for filming a horror movie.
The girls were all sowhat afraid.
The cellar covered a large area, about half the size of a football field, with rows of wine jars about one and a half ters tall, so large that it would take two people to embrace them.
The wine jars were black with big bellies but small mouths, sealed with a plug of soft cloth.
“Pick out one of these wine jars and get inside!”
The Eunuch Master urged, “Quickly!”
The eunuchs following him quickly ca forward, removing the cloth plugs from so of the jars.
The crowd exchanged looks, turning to Lin Baici, waiting for him to take the lead.
“Would you all like to be beheaded?”
The Eunuch Master scolded.
Lin Baici chose a wine jar that looked good to him.
As he approached, a sour scent of wine imdiately assaulted his nostrils—it was quite pungent.
“Get in fast!”
The Eunuch Master was losing patience.
Lin Baici braced his hands against the mouth of the jar, kicked off his wooden clogs, bent his legs upward, and hoisted himself into the jar.
His feet touched the wine, which felt slippery and slimy, and once Lin Baici was fully imrsed, it was like soaking in diluted honey water.
The Blue Hat Eunuch quickly ca over and placed the soft cloth plug back on.
Lin Baici’s vision went dark.
With the wine jar filled to the brim, Lin Baici had to use his legs to stand, keeping his head up high enough to keep his mouth above the wine, to ensure he wouldn’t drown.
But inside the wine jar, the air was scarce and suffocating.
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