My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

After putting away the tortoise shell, he once again turned his gaze to the dim sphere the size of an adult's fist.

But he looked at it over and over again, but still couldn't recognize what kind of ball it was or what material it was made of. He only knew that this broken ball was very smooth and unusually round.

After looking at it for a long time, I still couldn't figure out what it was. I just knew that it should not be an ordinary thing, otherwise it would not be placed in this purple gold coffin.

If it was just a decoration, it should be placed in the ear chamber together with other gold and silver treasures.

After studying it for a while, he suddenly thought of a good idea, so he immediately used his magic power to try to inject it into the ball.

As expected, the sphere absorbed all the magic power he poured into it.

Feeling his own mana draining away, Jiang Li was delighted, "After studying for so long, I finally made some progress."

So he continued to infuse magic power, but this infusion lasted for ten minutes. Jiang Li felt that his own magic power was almost overdrawn, but the sphere still did not change.

Well, actually there was a little change, that is, the sphere seemed to have a little more light, but it was not very obvious, which made him a little unsure.

But at the moment he didn't have the heart to mess with the ball anymore, because he had suffered a serious loss of magic power, and his body felt hollowed out and very tired.

He casually put the sphere and the Xuan-Yuan Sword into the storage ring, and then began to sit cross-legged and meditate to recover his magic power with the help of the spirit stone.

Silent all night.

...

The next morning, he asked Chen Yulou, Queqiao Shao and others to catch a few centipedes to test their toxicity and whether the big rooster could suppress them.

On the other hand, he received news from below that the white ape had been found.

So Jiang Li quickly arranged for the Supernatural Bureau to go and capture them, while he himself stayed in the military camp, waiting for Chen Yulou and others to come back.

The wait lasted for more than an hour, and Chen Yulou and others successfully returned with seven or eight centipedes that were more than ten centimeters long.

Naturally, he went to check it out in person to see if they were really as toxic as in the movies, able to turn a person into pus in a very short time.

But after they tested it, they got an answer that made sense.

It was discovered that these centipedes are indeed extremely poisonous and can kill a chicken in a very short time and dissolve the skin and muscles of the bitten part, but it is far from the extent of turning the whole chicken into pus as in the movies.

However, even so, this level of toxicity still shocked Chen Yulou, Partridge Whistle and his group, but fortunately it was confirmed in the end.

These nesting roosters that Jiang Li brought can indeed drive away centipedes, and the two spirit chickens and the angry chicken can even attack at a dimensionality reduction level.

Wherever they go, snakes, insects, rats and ants within ten feet will flee in panic and dare not approach them.

This also gave Chen Yulou and others some confidence, so that they were not so afraid to go down.

After confirming the toxicity of the centipede and the effect of the rooster, they took their people and a lot of Maoshan's special antidotes and went down to the tomb.

Jiang Li personally sent them to the edge of the cliff. Seeing the Xiangling people quickly assemble the centipede mountain ladder, he felt it was very novel. After all, although he had seen movies and read novels in his previous life, this was the first time he had actually seen this thing.

After watching them with great interest as they went down the cliff one after another, Jiang Li returned to the military camp, waiting for news from both the tomb-dwelling and mountain-going sides.

This wait lasted for more than two hours, and Jiang Li was the first to receive news from the Supernatural Bureau. It turned out that after entering the mountain, they quickly found the hiding place of the white ape.

After a battle of wits and courage, they finally successfully captured the white ape demon and its bunch of monkeys.

Before he could be happy for too long, Chen Yulou and others who had gone down to the tomb came back with their men. When Jiang Li looked around, he immediately spotted several people wrapped in bandages.

So he hurried over to ask, "Captain Chen, you've encountered trouble along the way. Why are so many people injured?"

Chen Yulou shook his head upon hearing this, "Thank you for your concern, Commander. These brothers were injured by the organs below."

"Only a few of them were bitten by the poisonous centipede accidentally. Fortunately, we were prepared and dug out the flesh and blood from the wound in time. We also used the antidote given by the commander. Now they are fine!"

Jiang Li nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, and then asked someone to take them downstairs to rest, leaving only Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle to report the details.

"Commander, your information is correct. There is indeed a huge alchemy room underground. We took a look at the decorations inside and found them to be extremely exquisite."

"It's just that there are a lot of centipedes in there. Several of my brothers, even with the rooster and spirit chicken feathers on their bodies, were still bitten and poisoned by the centipedes that fell from above."

"If we hadn't been prepared and reacted quickly, I'm afraid several people would have died. So if you want to transport the things inside, I'm afraid you have to get rid of the centipede first!"

When Jiang Li heard what Chen Yulou said, he immediately touched his chin and thought about the next course of action.

After thinking for a while, he had no better idea than setting a trap to lure them all out and kill them.

Since he couldn't think of a good solution, he simply gave up thinking about it and directly called together the members of the Supernatural Bureau to hold a meeting, hoping to work out a good solution.

But after these people arrived, they discussed together for a long time, but in the end they couldn't come up with anything. They all decided to use traps to capture the prey.

So Jiang Li gave an order and ordered people to dig a huge pit at the bottom of the cliff. The pit was not only deep but also steep. As long as these centipedes entered it, they would all be burned to death with just a barrel of gasoline.

But the problem of bait at this time made Jiang Li troubled. He really didn't know what these centipedes liked to eat.

Inadvertently, his eyes fell on the two spiritual chickens, but then he shook his head to reject it.

Then he looked at the chickens in the nesting dolls and asked, "I wonder how these chickens taste. Will they like them?"

But he changed his mind and said, "Why not just let someone try it? Why bother guessing here?"

As he said that, he arranged for Chen Yulou to take people, carrying a magic chicken and several nesting chickens, into the mountain to test the various kinds of meat they brought, and to find out which kind was more favored by these poisonous insects.

After several rounds of testing, the dead nesting chickens were the most effective, but they were still only relatively effective, and their luring effect was not that strong.

At this moment, Jiang Li suddenly thought of a question. Insects seem to have the characteristic of cannibalism. "I wonder if they like the flesh and blood of the centipede monster?"

Thinking of this, he immediately took out a can of centipede monster's body fluid and a piece of centipede monster's soft meat from his storage bag and gave them to Partridge Whistle, asking him to try the luring effect of these two things.