Chapter 1255: Chapter 547: Fierce Poison Cultivator Chapter 1255: Chapter 547: Fierce Poison Cultivator “It was nothing more than being at the right place with the capabilities to match,” Tang Luo remarked.
Gou Chen waved his hand, “I initially ca to discuss urgent matters with the master, but given the current situation, it seems we must wait until we locate the source of the plague.”
“Thank you, Mr. Gou Chen, for your understanding.”
Yanshan smiled and nodded, softly chanting “boundless rit.”
“That would be best, that would be best.”
Seeing Tang Luo’s pleasant deanor, Gu Han was overjoyed and said to the several assassins on the wall, “The science of this plague miasma is sothing that the monk does not fully understand. Let Little Ling explain where we should start our investigation!”
The one called Little Ling, a mature woman with a springlike deanor and semi-transparent robes, covered her mouth and chuckled lightly before saying slowly, “This plague miasma mostly arises in chaotic and deadly places such as the battlefields of the Comrce Alliance in Da Lin and the Xiang Family East Camp, along with several chaotic districts in the Lower City District. These places have intense battles and no one clears the battlefields. With the onset of early spring when everything begins to regenerate, the transformation of bodies can create barriers of corpse mist.”
“Once this barrier mist combines with the diseases of snakes, insects, rats, and ants, it becos a virulent poison that can be transmitted through flies, food, and even through breathing.”
“But…”
After explaining the formation of the plague, the knowledgeable woman looked blockheadedly at Yanshan in the center and hesitated, “To trigger a city-wide plague with the current conditions in Chaochang is far from achievable.”
“First, the unrest has just begun, and even if there are corpses in the streets, they are fresh and cannot form a stubborn barrier of corpse mist;”
“Second, the climate is such that if it was during a vile month, there might be diseases, but the chill of early spring can suppress the spread of the plague, at most creating an epidemic (flu);”
“Third, Chaochang has many wealthy families and rchants who have stockpiled a large amount of spirit dicines and precious herbs. Even if a plague starts to appear, they would suppress it at the onset, preventing it from spreading throughout the city.”
Although she wanted to agree with the monk, who was as handso as a celestial being, as a professional poisoner, she saw that under the current conditions in Chaochang, it was very difficult to create a city-wide epidemic because Chaochang was simply too large.
If the plague were compared to ink and the infected individuals to clear water, then a bottle of ink could turn a vat of water dark blue. However, if the container was changed to a pond, the amount of ink needed might be several vats.
The plague follows the sa principle. To talk about toxicity without discussing dosage is rely hooliganism.
To release a plague that could kill an entire village into a city like Chaochang would affect no more than a few blocks before being discovered and suppressed by the powerful families. How could it then spread throughout Chaochang…
After hearing the poisoner’s analysis, the sky-level assassins all turned their gaze towards Gu Han, and even the Corpse Monk appeared hesitant as he shifted his attention to Yanshan. After all, with the poisoner being one in ten thousand experts in using poisons, and even she judged so, it appeared more convincing than Yanshan’s light proclamation of imminent disaster.
With everyone’s gaze focused on him, how was Yanshan supposed to explain? The knowledge of destiny is a mysteriously profound intuition. Usually, it can reveal images of potential outcos, but the future is not unchangeable.
Perhaps the source of the plague was the drill field, originally arising from Gu Han’s possession, which would have been unbreakable, but after eting Yanshan, he cut off that causal line.
Yanshan, who possessed supernatural powers, did not firmly believe in them. When he heard the Poisonous Herbs speak, he had already started to doubt if the future had already been changed.
But Tang Luo beside him didn’t think so!
It was not because Monk Yanshan had once saved his life that he mindlessly sided with him, cheering him on. Instead, he suddenly rembered what Xiang Lan had ntioned about the Xiang Family’s backup plan. Following the line of reasoning presented by the Poisonous Herbs, with a unity of spirit and intent, he blurted out, “That is to say, this plague is not a natural disaster, but a man-made one!”
The suddenly erging hoarse voice drew everyone’s gaze, and the Devil Lord directly asked the Poisonous Herbs, “If you were to prepare a plague right now, to what extent could you do it?”
“What… What kind of joke is this.”
The direct gaze from the Devil Lord put imnse pressure on the Poisonous Herbs. She subconsciously looked for Gu Han’s position and, seeing a reassuring look from the Corpse Protector, finally stabilized her nerves.
Still, she dared not et the cold eyes of the Devil Lord, but said with her head lowered, “Using poison is actually the sa as using Spirit Art , except it involves different diums. To prepare a plague covering an area as large as Chaochang, even a King Realm level master of poison cannot simply conjure it at will.”
Using poison also follows fundantal principles, so Tang Luo was unsurprised by the words of the Poisonous Herbs, but he still pressed on, “Then, with advanced preparation, what level of impact could you achieve?”
“Let think.”
Concerning her expertise in poisons, the Poisonous Herbs put away the frivolous smile on her face, her eyebrows tightly knitted as she sank into deep thought.
After a long ti, she raised her head and said, “To cover a range as large as Chaochang, various thods of spreading the plague would need to be combined. Firstly, powder from fifty million doses of Poisonous Herbs must be prepared, then divided into dozens of batches. In each city district, a special lting furnace needs to be prepared to smolder them. If it is possible to start the fires at the sa ti, then approximately dozens of city districts’ residents could be exposed simultaneously, but this is just a feint.”
“The real killers are rat plague and Canine Plague. If one could breed a hundred million poison rats and several ten millions of poison dogs in advance, and release them together with the poison fog, it would create a massive chaos affecting the entire city.”
Seeing the disdainful expressions on the faces of several assassin colleagues who heard about the poison rats and poison dogs, the Poisonous Herbs, with flushed cheeks, loudly exclaid, “Don’t underestimate these poison rats and poison dogs. They might seem insignificant to you, but they can annihilate a city in monts! Rat plague targets animals and insects. Once an insect bites one of them and then bites a person or another animal, those bitten will be infected with the rat plague.”
“People infected with the rat plague can quickly spread it just by contacting others. Within an hour or two, it can cause one to shiver with fever, suffer from headaches and convulsions, and bleed from their nasal passages to death!”
“And don’t think killing the poison rats will solve the problem, because the dead rats will still emit plague gases, which can spread through the air. If not treated promptly, it only takes three to five days to be lethal, becoming another source of the epidemic.”
“Moreover, creatures like poison rats can enter cracks and wall holes that people can’t access, as well as wells and underground channels. It’s said that Chaochang has an underground water supply and drainage system that runs throughout the city. If these poison rats enter the system, just half a day is enough to contaminate the water supply.”
“People cannot live without water. Thus, in just ten days, Chaochang would beco a city characterized by nothing but plague and corpses, a dead city!”
“Absurd.”
As the Poisonous Herbs described the scenario, Broken Sun felt all the hairs on his body stand on end, “rely a rodent issue, how could it be so frightening? If it were really that ferocious, poison practitioners would have dominated the world long ago. You are talking about ordinary people. How could martial artists be so fragile? Let alone a warrior from Fierce Realm, even those of the unity of spirit and intent would not be brought down by your so-called plague gases.”
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