Chapter 401: Poisoning in the Well

c_t; Water is necessary for every town, and without it, there would be no conditions for human habitation. Read the full text of the latest chapter

The town of Shirakai is naturally well supplied with water, waterfalls and springs in the nearby mountains, in addition to the necessary rivers.

However, there is a bit of a problem, very few of these water sources do not freeze, and in the northern border of the earthquake country, many ports except for the estuary will freeze in winter, not to mention some small rivers.

Even so, the town of Baihai has not been reduced to the point of relying on snow water to survive, and there is an extremely rich groundwater below the town, and the water quality is also very good, enough to supply the entire town, including the lord's mansion.

In the town, all the groundwater in the wells is connected, and the water used by the people who wait for the light to eat is no different from that of the townspeople.

However, the Lord's Mansion has a special well, and as a lord, it is naturally not necessary to use the same well as the common people, and the water level of the well in the Lord's Mansion is relatively high, so it will not be affected by other wells.

Late at night.

A pitch-black figure walked through the same pitch-black night, dodging a pair of vigilant eyes and running to a corner that seemed to have nothing extraordinary at all.

The patrols in Baihai Town were also strictly divided according to rank, because they were really afraid, and Hou Guang let most of the patrols concentrate on the lord's mansion for a week, and patrol day and night, so that the soldiers who were already tight on the number of soldiers shouldered more pressure.

In other parts of the town, the patrol locations that the soldiers pay more attention to are the various institutions directly under the lord's mansion, and if they say that they are important, they are actually just going around a few more times than other places, and they can't be said to be very careful.

Therefore, Qiu Wuyi spent the most effort on leaving the hotel, and then the journey was smooth, and the scattered patrols could not play a reconnaissance role at all.

Qiu Wuyi's target was a well, a large well like this, there were more than a dozen in the entire Baihai Town, not including the small wells dug by the residents themselves.

At the uninhabited well, Qiu Wuyi looked around at the silence, quickly flicked his palm, and threw the triangular transparent bag hidden in his hand into the well.

The transparent material on the outside melted into the water, and a stream of dark green liquid bubbled a few small bubbles, and then turned transparent with the well water.

In less than three breaths, Qiu Wuyi's back had disappeared near the well, leaving only the full moon reflected at the wellhead.

Within an hour, Qiu Wuyi's figure appeared at the wellheads of all over Baihai Town, and the sparse guards didn't notice anything.

But this is only the first step of the plan, the real difficulty is the final well.

The well used in the inn where Qiu Wuyi and Berry stayed at Liuberryberry.

The inn is the property of the lord's mansion, and there is no reliable person from the owner to the waiter.

Even now, they still stared at a pair of eyes, if there was anything to be thankful about - the secret agents in the inn did not have particularly powerful martial artists, only two guys who didn't know if they were level eight or nine, and they were just a few of them.

Correspondingly, the bosses of the spies apparently agree that quantity makes up for quality, and at night, there are more guards at the inn than there are guests, as if for fear that others will not see their anomaly.

Ever since Qiu Wuyi and the disguised Liuberry complained about it, Qiu Wuyi has always inadvertently revealed the message "Don't get close" to everyone, of course, the more he says this, the more he will attract inexplicable people to peep.

From a long distance, Qiu Wuyi immediately recognized the room where Liuberry was located, because the window shone with an ominous green glow, if he looked through the crack in the door, or from a distance through the window, he would definitely think that an ancient ritual was really being held.

Regarding this, Qiu Wuyi also deliberately leaked it, and paid more money for it, in fact, now Liuberry Berry is indeed chanting the prayers of the Yaksha clan, she has been exposed to a lot since she was a child, and at that time it was just to continue the relevant knowledge, but she didn't expect to use it today.

No one dared to disturb a solemn ceremony directly, and at the same time she attracted most of the eyeballs and gazes, and every once in a while someone quietly approached the window with the curtains drawn, or quietly walked by the doorway.

It's time to act.

Qiu Wuyi's body melted into the night.

The inn's well was not open-air, it was built in a small square hut with rough stone walls, but there was no door, only an entrance, which was guarded by a soldier all night.

In fact, there could be no danger here, at least that's what the guards thought.

"Hey, that's boring...... Let you arrange this job for Lao Tzu, something will happen sooner or later!"

Sitting lazily on a pile of hay, the soldier rubbed his cold hands and cursed that guarding the well was a very boring job, and he couldn't be lazy and fishing, and the soldiers who kept vigil didn't want to do it.

The night is very quiet, although it is not yet late at night, no one wants to fetch water in the middle of the night, and the time to get water is generally early in the morning.

"Who!"

The yawning taxi suddenly stood up, and pressed his left hand against the hilt of the sword at his waist, and he heard a strange sound in the corner not far away, which must have been groped by.

In the moonlight, the thing behind the corner showed a vague shadow, moving back and forth, very strange, but it must be a living thing.

"Come out for me!"

The soldier roared, trying to summon his fellow patrolling places, and drew his sword and rushed over.

As soon as he turned the corner, the expression on the soldier's face immediately became extremely embarrassed.

In the corner was a dirty wild dog, which had slipped in from somewhere, not even a human.

Just as he was embarrassed, a creature-like metal thread slowly wriggled from the top of the hut at the mouth of the well, and like a creature's tentacles, it threw a small paper bag with its tip rolled into the well.

The call of the soldiers soon attracted dozens of people, and the soldiers who rushed from all directions were full of murderous faces, only to see only one guy staring and not knowing how to explain.

"What's going on!

The captain of the night vigil squeezed through the crowd with his sword in hand, and at a glance he saw the wild dogs on the ground, and he couldn't help but frown.

"Report sir! Yes...... It's a wild dog...... I thought it was an intruder......"

The soldier's voice gradually became inaudible, and the other soldiers who heard it already showed a disdainful smile on their faces, and some of them were angry.

"What? wild dogs?"

The soldier's face suddenly turned pitch black, and he walked over a few steps with a belly full of fire, and kicked the wild dog lying on the ground.

There was no barking, no fullness of kicking something, and the wild dog fell limply. The soldier stooped down and lifted the wild dog to see what it was, and it was clearly an animal skin, which was wrapped in a pile of bones.

"It'...... It's going to move...... I...... I saw ...... with my own eyes."

The cheeks of the soldier guarding the well stiffened, and his upper and lower teeth kept slashing, and what he saw in the moonlight just now was a wild dog with moving paws, and it could not be a pile of bones at all.

Naturally, no one at the scene wanted to get it, and Qiu Wuyi could easily manipulate inanimate things like puppets through a few raw strings.

"Nonsense! It's clear you're lying!"

The soldier raised his fist and was about to punch the shivering soldier, although he did not believe this statement, but the wild dog skin wrapped in bones was so strange that he had many bad associations, so he took his anger out on the soldier.

The people around him gathered more and more, and Qiu Wuyi took this great opportunity to pass through the passage in the inn and dodge into his room.

"Brother, have you run out of medicine?"

Liuberry Berry sat among a bunch of green balls of light, and when he saw Qiu Wuyi come in, he immediately showed a relieved smile on his face. These orbs of light are a common tool of the Yakshas, which can be used as lamps, and the materials are widely available, and many can be easily made.

"After casting, the next thing is to watch your acting skills. ”

Qiu Wuyi settled down and raised his thumb at Liuberry Berry.

"Ahem...... Woe to you!"

Berry cleared her throat, and suddenly raised her voice and shouted, not shouting much, a total of two shouts, but in these two voices, she used her true qi, and her voice was particularly sharp and terrifying.

The thin door could not stop the destructive high-pitched sound, and after penetrating the door, the sound rushed out of the corridor and echoed through the courtyard.

Soon, a timid knock sounded at the door.

"Isn't it said that no one should come!"

Qiu Wuyi opened the door, grabbed the people outside, and closed the door behind him casually.

"No...... Guest, I just heard, heard the shouting, and thought something was in danger......"

The person who was grabbed was nominally the innkeeper, a round and chubby middle-aged man, even in the lord's mansion, this person's strength was not small, but in front of Qiu Wuyi, his disguise was also extremely clever, and he was completely a panicked shopkeeper who was worried about the safety of travelers.

"Hmph...... That's the case, then forget it, it's just that the ancestors brought a revelation, you don't need to make a fuss, let's go!

Qiu Wuyi drove away all the onlookers, and only returned to the room after everyone was gone.

At this point, a small episode in the inn seemed to be over.

"Ahh

Towards the wee hours of the morning, a terrible howl tore through the silent night sky.

One by one, the limbs of the soldiers who had eaten and prepared to fall asleep suddenly turned pitch black, and they slipped from the wooden benches and fell to the ground one after another.

Similar strange things happened not only in the inn, but also in all other water sources in the town, and even more strangely that some people suffered from strange diseases, while others drank the water but remained unharmed.

Most of the people who fell were soldiers in the town, rich people who were close to the lord of the city, officials, and ordinary townspeople were poisoned, and all kinds of strange appearances caused the town to immediately enter the alert, and the water source became the main object of suspicion, and the use of the well in the lord's mansion was banned.

When the inn was as busy as ants in a hot pot, Qiu Wuyi, which was also the room where Liuberry Berry was staying, finally opened with a creak