Old Ha's words directly made the diners' expressions change dramatically.
"Don't panic, the antidote we took won't have any negative effects, you can rest assured about that." Sun Shijie stood up and said.
Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Aspergillus oryzae said angrily, "Old Ha, if you don't want to cook, just say it straight out. Is it necessary to put drugs in the food?"
"How do you know I don't want to cook? Besides, I also ate the food; if I deliberately drugged it, wouldn't I be harming myself too?"
"Then how do you explain putting the antidote from your pocket into the pot? Who pulls things out of their pants pocket when frying food?"
"Can't a person have their own habits? I just like carrying ingredients in my pants pocket."
Listening to the argunt between the two, everyone looked at each other, unanimously agreeing that Old Ha shouldn't be allowed to continue cooking.
Setting aside the taste, the key issue is carrying ingredients in his pocket—it's just not sanitary.
"Explain yourself." Xiao Feng walked over to Xue Nuofu, interrogating him.
Xue Nuofu felt a sudden panic, feigning ignorance. "Explain what?"
"Did I ever say to you that you should monitor Old Ha while he cooks?"
"Well... yes."
"Then tell , when he threw the antidote into the pot, how did you not notice?"
Xue Nuofu forced himself to explain, "People can be negligent sotis. With so many people around, I have to manage everyone, so it's inevitable that I get distracted and think about other things."
Xiao Feng nodded after listening. "I understand your point. Are you saying that managing so many people is beyond you, and you want to step down, letting soone capable replace you, right?"
"No, that's not what I an." Xue Nuofu quickly denied it. "What I an is, nobody is perfect, even tigers nap sotis. I promise this kind of thing will never happen again."
"What if it happens again?" Xiao Feng pressed on.
Xue Nuofu thought for a long ti, feeling no suitable answer ca to mind, so he reluctantly said, "We'll do as you say."
"Fine!" Xiao Feng said seriously. "If this kind of thing happens again, I'll have you sleep with Lone Wolf in the sa bed."
"..." Lone Wolf.
"..." Xue Nuofu.
The faces of the two turned darker and darker, clearly feeling extrely frustrated.
anwhile, the Martial Monks were suppressing laughter, their shoulders shaking, faces flushing red as if they might injure themselves from holding it back.
Seeing this scene, Old Ha and Aspergillus oryzae exchanged a glance, both noticing sothing wasn't right.
Both of them, wandering the Jianghu for decades, have seen it all; calling them crafty old foxes would be an understatent.
Considering Xiao Feng's recent words and the Monks' reactions, the two old guys couldn't help but guess—does this scar-faced man have unusual tastes?
Uh...
It doesn't seem impossible to accept because the appearance of Boss Xue Nuofu can be described as a downright "beauty". When doing that thing, you just don't look below.
"I say, everyone, can we handle my matter first?" Zheng Wei couldn't hold back any longer, urging, "It's only ten minutes left!"
Hui Shiba took out a pill from his pocket and tossed it over, saying, "Why are you so anxious? Everyone has an antidote; what's wrong with taking soone else's?"
Zheng Wei thought for a mont and agreed with the logic, so he didn't say anything more and opened his mouth to swallow the pill.
But at that mont, Sun Shijie casually said, "Eat it if you want to die."
Zheng Wei was startled. "Can't I eat it?"
"If you could eat any antidote, why did I bother telling you to find people in order?" Sun Shijie snorted coldly. "Do you think I do nothing here?"
"But now the antidote is lost, what...what should I do?" Zheng Wei said, face turning pale.
Sun Shijie seed unfazed. "Don't worry; I was already prepared for this."
After saying that, he pulled out a long box from inside his coat sleeve.
Opening the box, a translucent centipede crawled out, about fifteen centiters long, resembling an ice sculpture.
In a mont, the centipede climbed out from the box, moving along Sun Shijie's arm towards his palm.
"Open your mouth," Sun Shijie said calmly.
Zheng Wei didn't show much fear; for soone from the Celestial Defect Sect, these things were trivial.
However, seeing a centipede of such color still amazed him.
He opened his mouth, and Sun Shijie placed his hand close, allowing the white centipede to crawl into Zheng Wei's mouth.
This scene made everyone feel a bit creeped out, making their skin crawl.
"Is it tasty?" Xiao Feng asked earnestly.
"..." Zheng Wei.
If I say it's delicious, would you want to try it?
The others looked at Zheng Wei with great admiration, accepting a centipede entering the body with such calmness is truly an ability!
Three minutes passed, Zheng Wei suddenly opened his eyes wide, hands holding his knees, mouth agape, and allowed the centipede to crawl out.
"Pop!"
The centipede hit the ground.
After holding back for a long ti, Zheng Wei couldn't control himself, coughing violently, "Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."
"The color changed." Lv Ziming said, incredulous.
Sure enough, the centipede that crawled out of Zheng Wei's mouth was no longer translucent white but turned into jet black.
Sun Shijie explained, "This is called the 'Snow Centipede'; it itself has no toxicity but feeds on toxins. Its most important feature is that the toxins ingested will gradually digest into feces and be excreted, becoming highly toxic substances."
"Once soone mistakenly consud Snow Centipede feces and didn't last even half a minute before succumbing to the poison."
Everyone marveled, exclaiming how strange and wonderful the world is.
However, Xiao Feng suddenly asked, "I just want to know, what did the person who ate the Snow Centipede feces mistake it for?"
Everyone looked at each other, astounded by Xiao Feng's unusual focus, yet couldn't help but feel curious about the question.
"It was rice." Sun Shijie answered.
"Rice?"
"Yes, rice." Sun Shijie replied. "Though from size, Snow Centipede feces are slightly smaller than ordinary rice grains, they emit a white glow at night. But when mixed with rice, they are easily overlooked. If not cleaned carefully when washing rice, they end up being a matter of luck to identify."
Xiao Feng was once again ahead of everyone in capturing the key point, asking, "So, the Snow Centipede feces don't have the capability to spread? Even if stead in a pot, the other rice won't acquire the toxicity?"
Sun Shijie nodded. "That's correct. Its feces have a hard shell, difficult to break under ordinary conditions such as burning or freezing. Therefore, to poison on a large scale, one would have to break the shell first, extract the inner contents, and then administer them."
Everyone looked at their bowls of food, feeling utterly devoid of appetite. This is understandable, because who could have a good appetite when hearing soone discuss feces during a al?
"Keep that thing until it excretes the toxins—it might be useful soday," Xiao Feng said.
Sun Shijie agreed, "Certainly."
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