Daomu Biji: Restart

"What the hell?!" I almost leaped back.

He closed his eyes and said, "This kind of bug, the rhinoceros horn candles, and the pigments on the murals all come from mineral deposits deep in the underground rivers. I saw the murals just now. They were made using an ancient Minyue technique that prevents us from seeing what’s under them unless we have the rhinoceros horn candle."

He gave me a brief account of what he saw. The mural depicted life in the South Sea country’s underground village and showed a section about the underground river. After going down, almost everyone died. They eventually discovered that there was a special mineral in the underground river that was actually the accumulation of countless bugs. The bugs were very small and would fly up and latch onto people’s eyes whenever they saw light. They caused hallucinations and would form sesame-sized bug sacks on the corneas whenever they gathered together.

The South Sea King thought it might be a spell the immortals had placed, so he sought guidance from an expert. This expert told him to use rhinoceros horn candles for illumination, because the light wouldn’t wake the bugs up. After that, they mixed this mineral with pigment, smeared it on the murals, and applied several layers of it. After the mural was illuminated, the small bugs would fly out like dust. As layer after layer of them flew away from the murals, there would be various changes.

People in the South Sea country traded this kind of replacement mineral to those who entered the Minyue forests. Just like opium, many nobles in the Central Plains used this mineral for parties and the emperor at the time thought it was sorcery. People who used this kind of mineral entered a world where reality and illusion intertwined for a period of time.

After using this mineral to induce hallucinations, people lost their eyesight and there were a lot of growths in the eyes that looked like sesame seeds. According to the local legend, the eyes of the Mute Emperor's army were made of sesame seeds, which was probably a result of this.

But this bug had a strange characteristic where it was almost like a severe infection. Before blindness set in, all the bugs would enter the eyes. At this time, the hallucinations would disappear and the people would enter a completely conscious state. Even their eyesight would become better.

After hearing all of this, I gave Poker-Face a puzzled look. I remembered what he had said to me earlier: it was up to me next.

I thought I had some special abilities and others could finally rely on me, or my innate Wu family abilities had finally broken out. But as it turned out, I was just seriously fucking infected.

God damn it. I was entrusted with a heavy responsibility because my illness was worse.

I had used strong light to illuminate the murals earlier and a large number of bugs had seriously infected me. So the reason for my sudden recovery wasn’t because I was strong, but because I had suddenly reached the severe stage. The hallucinations had only temporarily disappeared.

Am I going blind? I touched my eyes, but I couldn’t feel the sesame seeds. Humans' eyes were usually very sensitive, so I still couldn't feel anything with my hands.

"We have to get out quickly." Poker-Face closed his eyes and touched Liu Sang's ear.

It's not that there aren’t enough candles, I thought to myself, it’s the fact that I'm going to be fucking blind! BLIND!

After he spoke, he suddenly pressed his fingers hard to the back of Liu Sang's ear. As a stream of green liquid came flowing out of Liu Sang's ear, Poker-Face immediately went back over to Fatty.

"These things were all fished out from the underground river," he said faintly. He then picked the two people up and shook them a few times until all the liquid came out of their ears.

Fatty slowly opened his eyes first and then looked at the two of us before saying weakly, "Who the fuck kissed me?"

I secretly pointed to Poker-Face. Fatty looked at him and asked, "Was that really necessary? We’re so familiar with each other. I can’t believe you have it in you to kiss me. It’s inhuman."

Then he looked at Liu Sang on the opposite side and threw up. I patted him on the back until he was done. "Is he dead?" He asked. “What happened? "

"Why did you suddenly put the shuikao on?" I asked him.

He looked at me, "Shuikao? Shit, take it out quickly. I have something to say."