Chapter 346 The Scarlet Ginseng
“Is that human blood?”
Lin ngya felt so reluctant to ask because she knew her teacher’s answer would be positive.
She knew at first glance that her nightmare had co true.
Sotis geniuses were only one step away from being lunatic.
It was undeniable that Baili Rui was a genius in poisons.
However, the genius was as intelligent as he was dangerous.
Lin ngya felt bitter. She used to be the one stopping her teacher from getting out of control.
The teacher had lost his sanity. There was no longer a future for him.
“Is anyone else here?”
Lin ngya sneaked out of the room. Her eyes turned cold. She had told the man taking care of her teacher to prevent him from going crazy.
“Who was to bla for this now?”
“I’m here.”
A man popped out in the aisle.
He was lowering his head, but Lin ngya could tell from his clothes that the man was one of those who took care of her teacher.
“What on earth has happened? What turned him into such a ss?”
Lin ngya asked hastily.
Baili Rui was fine when she moved into the palace. It had barely been a month. What turned him into that?
“Well...”
The man was hesitating and he was interrupted by a soft voice when he was about to answer.
“That was the Prince’s plan. It’s better for you not to ask.”
Hearing that voice, Lin ngya turned back and saw a graceful figure coming from the far end of the aisle.
A pale, and foppish man. That was Lin ngya’s first impression of that person.
A joyless glimr flowed out of the man’s narrow eyes.
He was wrapped in a light purple robe. His waistline looked even softer and slenderer than a woman’s.
“Where did this man co from?”
“Who are you?”
Lin ngya was alert upon her first glance at the man.
It was partly because the man looked quite arrogant.
Moreover, she didn’t like the way he acted, which made her even angrier.
“I’m ng Junlan. I’m here to replace the useless guy, Baili Wuchen. This is a forbidden area. It’s better for you not to step in again in case of accidents. There was so traitor who was looking for an opportunity.”
ng Junlan showed no respect for Lin ngya. His words were pushy and his eyes were looking at her intently.
Lin ngya wasn’t going to argue with him because the man was a nobody to her.
No matter how much he hated her, he would not dare to lay a finger on her.
She was concerned about whether it was Long Tianyu who asked him to do that, which would make things much more complicated.
She would have to ask Long Tianyu and figure it out.
She bypassed ng Junlan; she didn’t want to spare a single glance at the feminine man.
The mont she walked near him, her sensitive nose slled an elegant and light fragrance.
A slight sneer erged at the corner of Lin ngya’s mouth. She halted by ng Junlan’s side, breathing softly, looking cold.
“Look at who this is! The famous opera singer in the Capital City, Mr. ng! Didn’t you elope with the daughter of the minister? Are you here to give attitude because your servants won’t listen to you? “I’ll forgive you for talking to like that this ti, but you wouldn’t want to do it twice.”
ng Junlan’s eyes looked surprised.
His reputation for being an opera singer was supposed to have disappeared five years ago, after his elopent scandal.
He was astonished that Lin ngya could see through him so soon.
He clenched his fists, relaxed, and did that over and over. Finally, he whispered, in a soft voice that could only be heard by the two people.
“Thank you.”
Lin ngya stood at the gate of the basent and saw the stars scattering in the sky.
She took a deep breath, trying to get rid of the thick bloody sll in her teacher’s basent.
Not far away, a tall and slender figure was standing upright. It was Long Tianyu.
He was facing the other direction, so she couldn’t see his face.
“You have nothing to do with my teacher’s business, right?”
Their surroundings suddenly fell in total silence.
Even the moon and the stars were trying to get away from that scene. The sky beca dim because all the lights were clouded.
“I am responsible because I collected those materials for him.”
Long Tianyu was explaining. He stated the facts.
Lin ngya nodded. It was just as she had expected.
Baili Rui could be very extre when it ca to herbs, which she knew she would never be able to understand.
If he couldn’t find the blood and flesh needed for the cultivation of the Scarlet Ginseng, he might hurt himself.
She then sighed softly. She knew what kind of person Long Tianyu was more than anyone else.
He never denied what he did.
But if Long Tianyu didn’t do it, who else?
She was drowning in her thoughts, not knowing that the dark cloud in the sky had quietly disappeared.
Her contemplative profile looked extrely charming under the moonlight.
Long Tianyu couldn’t help but walk towards her, eyes filled with complicated feelings.
“A penny for your thoughts?”
His voice was so close, which interrupted Lin ngya’s pondering.
She raised her head and found that Long Tianyu was standing in front of her.
She took one step back unconsciously. Then she was about to fall and roll down along the steps of the basent. At the very mont, a strong hand firmly held her waist.
“No ... nothing. I was just thinking who was the one who persuaded my teacher to cultivate that Scarlet Ginseng.”
Lin ngya didn’t realize how close they were. Their breaths were rging. Long Tianyu was spurning himself, trying to suppress his desire to get closer.
However...
He was still glad to see that the smart Lin ngya didn’t mind being so close to him.
“It’s just a ginseng. What’s the big deal of it being cultivated with human blood or not?”
Long Tianyu whispered to Lin ngya’s ear with a gentle voice.
Lin ngya felt her ear was itching. She tried to avoid him and she still didn’t realize that they were getting abnormally close.
“No, although that herb is called Scarlet Ginseng, it has nothing to do with the real ginseng. You know human beings are at the pinnacle of all creatures. The herb needs to be soaked in human blood to grow, what do you think it is?”
Lin ngya spoke first, before Long Tianyu asked the sa question.
All Baili Rui asked for was fresh dead bodies.
Therefore, all Long Tianyu had given to Baili Rui were death prisoners.
However, Baili Rui was getting more and more greedy those days. He wanted Long Tianyu to hand him a live person to feed the plant. Long Tianyu had wisely refused him, or the plant would have been sucking human blood at that mont.
“No wonder he kept asking to send him blood and flesh of living people. I refused him and he has been quiet for a few days. What’s wrong with that herb?”
Long Tianyu stopped clinging on to Lin ngya because he thought that was serious.
He had gotten close enough to her that day, and he didn’t want to push it. Lin ngya seldom looked so concerned.
“The Scarlet Ginseng often grows on mountains covered by eternal snow. Legend has it that it could nourish the human body and help in gaining immortality. It wasn’t that effective actually. It is nourishing, but it was too cold in attribute because it grows in the coldest places. Its coldness had to be harmonized by grown n’s blood if it were to be used as a dical material. The blood makes the herb more effective but at the sa ti, people get killed and manipulated because of the priceless treasure.”
Judging by Lin ngya’s face, the whole story should be much more complicated than that.
“But, manipulating people? That’s unbelievable. It’s just a plant anyway.”
Seeing Long Tianyu amazed face, Lin ngya kept explaining,
“In fact, there are many amazing dicinal materials that have incredible effects. The Scarlet Ginseng can enchant people as soon as it has tasted human blood and flesh. To put it bluntly, its pollen and its sll have a strong hallucinogenic effect. My teacher knew it at the very beginning, but at this mont, the herb has already taken over his mind. I think he was prepared for this, or he would’ve gone crazy a long ti ago.”
Long Tianyu was so surprised at what Lin ngya said.
“If that is true, how about getting him out of the basent? There are so many people in there, I’m afraid...”
Lin ngya shook her head, looking even bitterer.
“We could’ve saved him at the early stage, but if my guess is right, he has already started to eat the ginseng’s leaves, or he couldn’t have made it this far. This stage won’t last long and he won’t be able to live without the plant. As for other people in the basent, you shouldn’t worry too much. The effects of the herb are strong, but its effective area is limited. Your people shall be fine as long as they don’t stay long in there.”
Long Tianyu felt relieved. If his n died because of the old lunatic, that would be an unworthy loss.
He was at the mont as curious as Lin ngya about the motivation that had driven Baili Rui to cultivate the Scarlet Ginseng at such a huge cost.
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