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Chapter 98 Huang Bai's Old Face
"These mushrooms look terrifying."

Li Chu glanced at it and dared not look again, and couldn't help but say, "Shen Lan, don't pick just any mushroom. Many mushrooms are poisonous."

Jiang Nanxi said quietly, "Oh~ If you poison us, no one will know that you have a split personality and almost killed Song Wanwan, right?"

Shen Lan said with a grim expression, "I kindly picked mushrooms for you to eat and apologize to you, isn't that enough? What more do you want?"

"You know perfectly well what you're thinking, why do you have to let someone spell it out?"

Jiang Nanxi scoffed lightly, leaned against the stone wall, closed her eyes to rest, and ignored Shen Lan.

Li Chu stared at Shen Lan suspiciously, and deliberately moved a few steps away from him, as if the mushrooms he had picked might bite.

[We just had a fight, and you're already picking mushrooms for everyone to eat? Who would dare eat them? Shen Lan, you're being ridiculous.]

[This mushroom looks like it has an old man's face growing on it, and upon closer inspection, the face seems to move. The more you look at it, the more terrifying it becomes. Where did Shen Lan get it?!]

[This looks like... Huang Bai's old face?]

What is Huangbai Old Face?

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Shen Lan went to process the mushrooms himself, then took a small iron pot to boil water, preparing to stew a pot of mushroom soup.

As he added the mushrooms to the hot soup, the strange aroma in the cave grew stronger and stronger.

Jiang Nanxi opened her eyes, glanced at the pot of mushroom soup, and then looked at Shen Lan.

It was Huang Bai's old face.

It seems her guess was correct.

Beneath this rainforest lies an ancient, evil tomb over a thousand years old, from which the human-faced spider emerged.

The "Huangbai Old Face" is a plant that grows on cypress trees in extremely yin places. Legend has it that it was used by ancient Miao doctors to summon souls and has a hallucinogenic and comatose effect on the living.

In extremely yin places, there are no living cypress trees; coffins are mostly made of cypress wood. The most famous and most eerie coffin is the Huangchang Ticou from the Han Dynasty.

This structure is commonly found in the outer coffin chambers of Western Han Dynasty imperial tombs. It is mainly a frame-shaped structure made of cypress wood, which covers the outer coffin chamber and the emperor's coffin. It not only serves as a means of preventing theft, but is also an important part of the imperial tomb, along with the inner coffin, side chamber, and outer burial chamber.

If these old faces of Huangbai were on Huangchangticou, that would be quite a sight.

A hint of interest flashed in Jiang Nanxi's eyes. "If that's the case, this ancient tomb underground is very likely from the Han Dynasty or even earlier, and it might even be an exceptionally noble imperial mausoleum."

Thinking of this, Jiang Nanxi noticed that the aroma of the old man's face became increasingly rich after it was cooked.

The others inside the cave were all drowsy, and the old man Hou Xiao collapsed to the ground with a thud and completely passed out.

Seeing Hou Xiao fall to the ground, Shen Lan's eyes lit up. "It really works! This mushroom can knock out people without them even needing to be eaten."

Of course he wasn't that kind-hearted.

He said he was inviting these people to eat mushrooms, but actually he just wanted to find an opportunity to cook mushrooms.

The strange fragrance emanating from Huang Bai's old face has hallucinogenic and coma-inducing effects. When boiled in water, the fragrance becomes even stronger, and the toxins become more potent.

Shen Lan took out a small bottle from his pocket. The bottle was similar to a snuff bottle. He had been taking it out and smelling it every now and then since he came back from outside.

Before long, everyone else collapsed to the ground, only Shen Lan remained awake.

Shen Lan's eyes darted around, and she even grabbed a wooden stick and shot down the live-streaming drone that was flying in mid-air.

The director, who had been watching the live stream, immediately asked, "Shen Lan, what are you doing? Why have all the others fainted?"

Shen Lan said, "It's so late, they must be exhausted and asleep. Director, to avoid wasting the drone's battery, we won't be broadcasting while we're sleeping. I'll turn off the drone first."

The director sensed something was wrong. "No, you can't turn it off. Leave the drone on." But Shen Lan still turned off the drone, and the live broadcast of the program was cut off instantly.

【Wait, Shen Lan, what are you trying to do? I have a feeling you're up to no good!】

"Those people aren't asleep; they're poisoned! Huang Bai's old face emitted a strange fragrance. Smelling this fragrance is poisonous; mild cases result in hallucinations, while severe cases lead to coma, suffocation, and death!"

What?! That bastard Shen Lan, is he trying to kill everyone?!

The audience panicked, and the director was extremely worried, so he quickly contacted the rescue team.

Inside the cave at this moment.

Jiang Nanxi had already sealed her breath with her spiritual power, and then pretended to faint on the ground.

Her divine sense detected that Shen Lan had left. She could still hear footsteps outside the cave, followed by Shen Lan's voice and the voices of two unfamiliar people.

Two men, one old and one young, emerged from the grass outside the cave. Their clothes were torn and they were covered in mud and ash.

But the two men had exceptionally sharp eyes, like those of hawks, and a hint of ruthlessness in them.

The younger man was still holding a bloodstained Luoyang shovel in his hand.

Shen Lan said to them, "I have done as you instructed, please let me go! Can I leave now?"

"Of course not, we still need to get these living people into the tomb. The two of us can't carry them all, you help us move them over there."

After that voice finished speaking, another person said, "Did you turn off that camera-like thing? Don't let it cause us any trouble!"

"It's closed."

Shen Lan said with a long face, "Then I'll help you move it over. Once we get there, I'll leave!"

They didn't say whether he could leave or not; the old man simply spread his hands and said, "Where's the antidote for Huang Bai's old face? Give it back to me first."

Shen Lan took out the small bottle that looked like a snuff bottle and placed it in the old man's hand.

The old man retrieved the antidote and said to the young man beside him, "Monkey, you and he carry the people out and quickly get them to the tomb entrance. Use them to attract attention so we can go in."

"Remember to hurry. The Psionic Bureau already knows about the discovery of a thousand-year-old imperial tomb here and will be sending people over soon. We need to get into the tomb before they do."

"it is good."

They quickly moved the person over.

The entrance to the tomb was a sealed earthen cave. Two men had dug a passage with Luoyang shovels before they were able to enter.

After passing through the passage, the space inside the earthen cave became much larger.

When Shen Lan arrived at this space, she inexplicably felt a chill and couldn't help but sneeze several times.

He turned to look around and saw that the walls on both sides were covered with pottery jars that were about half a person's height.

At the very front is a stone gate, with exquisite black and red reliefs carved on it. Against a large black background is a blood-red firebird crying out to the sky.

There was no one else there but Shen Lan always felt that many eyes were watching him from the shadows.

He quickly said, "I've brought the person over for you, I'm leaving now!"

Shen Lan turned around to go back the way he came, but the old man sneered and kicked him in the knee, sending him flying back.

(End of this chapter)