Ling Xiao leaned his head towards Jie Yuhua, wanting to hug him. If this was the way Brother Xiaohua looked when he was jealous, it would be too cute.

Black Bear, seeing how affectionate the two of them were, kept shouting that it was unfair.

“Look! There are nails on the soles of his feet! And they look like jade.” Wu Xie pointed to a jade circle on the sole of the corpse’s foot.

"Watch me pull it out!" the fat man said, reaching for a knife to pry the disc off.

"It's full of mercury inside. We don't know what will happen to the body after the jade nail is pulled out. The mercury has been in the body for too long. If we pull it out rashly, it will release toxic gas," Xie Yuhua advised, seeing the fat man's eager look.

Wu Xie hadn't expected the fat man to move so quickly. He rushed forward to protect the corpse, but in doing so, he accidentally hugged it...

"Ptooey! I think I ate something! What should I do? Will I get poisoned?" Wu Xie didn't know what had fallen into his mouth. His tongue started to feel dry and his tongue was sticking out. His puppy eyes were wet, making him look cute, pitiful, and a little funny.

Chosen unlucky guy.

As Wu Xie's childhood friend, Xie Yuhua went to check on him immediately. From their conversation, it seemed that Wu Xie's tongue was starting to turn black. Fatty looked guilty and kept holding water for him, telling him to drink water and rinse his mouth.

"How are you? How are you feeling now?" Ling Xiao stepped forward to ask with concern.

"It's both hard and painful, and Nuo doesn't seem to be putting in any effort. Nuo feels like the color isn't up to her anymore." Wu Xie pointed to his tongue and said to Ling Xiao, looking genuinely uncomfortable.

Hearing this, Ling Xiao looked at Xie Yuhua with a hint of helplessness. Seeing Xie Yuhua's worried expression, Ling Xiao turned back to look at the corpse.

There was nothing different until he saw a tiny bit of silver on the corpse's shoulder. It was just a tiny bit, not even as big as a mole, and looked like a drop of mercury had been accidentally spilled on it. Ling Xiao felt that something was amiss.

Wearing gloves, he picked up the drop of mercury and carefully examined it with a flashlight.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that it wasn't mercury at all, but rather a reptile that resembled mercury. It was entirely silver, had eight claws, sharp spines at the end of its tail, eyes that took up half of its head, and chewing mouthparts that looked like sharp teeth.

Ling Xiao pinched the insect on his glove, and it instantly burst. The dead insect's body dimmed, blending into the color of Ling Xiao's glove.

The blind man and Cheng Yu, who were standing nearby, both witnessed this scene. Cheng Yu asked worriedly, "It's probably because Third Master accidentally ate this kind of insect that his tongue has turned into this shape."

"Senma Congzi?" Wu Xie ran over and said. Now his tongue was no longer just black, but completely swollen, and his lips were also swollen.

Cheng Yu briefly recounted Ling Xiao's discovery, while Wu Xie swallowed hard as he checked the corpse for any remaining small silver insects.

Then he remembered the mercury he had seen on the straw at the beginning. Sure enough, the black straw was not mercury at all, but a dense mass of crawling insects.

The intense light shone on them, making the insects feel extremely hot and causing them to become very irritable. However, this only lasted for a short while before they stopped.

“These bugs look poisonous, naive, you’ve been poisoned!” the fat man said to Wu Xie.

“Sicily! Nochido!” Wuxie replied with difficulty, her tongue thick.

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