126: Chapter 92: The Wine Ghost Claims a Life, The Sanskrit Chants Useless!
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[Subscribe Please]_3 Zhou Ya was about to go out when Du Xin stopped her, “What are you doing?”
Zhou Ya was afraid, but she knew she shouldn’t back down.
“Are you going out to find death?”
Du Xin lowered her voice, “That female bear and steel plate mother are in danger, they have Lin Baici to take care of them, what about you?
Going to handle it on your own?”
“Don’t go, wait and see how things turn out first!”
Du Xin actually wanted to go out too, to take this opportunity to get familiar with Lin Baici, but she was afraid of ending up with substandard wine later.
Now that Zhou Ya wanted to leave, she naturally wouldn’t allow it.
Nobody’s getting away!
Du Xin’s mind was shadowed with dark thoughts; what she didn’t dare to do, she didn’t want others to do either.
Zhou Ya hesitated for a moment, shook her head, and emerged from the wine jar.
Du Xin became angry and slapped the wine jar.
The others also struggled with the decision, but most still followed the instructions of the head eunuch and did not leave their jars. This text is hosted at novel(ꜰ)ire.net
Lin Baici searched most of the wine cellar and found nothing unusual—not even a rat hole, let alone a secret passage.
But next to the cellar stairs, on the wall, was an iron door locked with chains.
Lin Baici called Muscle Buddha over to break the chains with brute force.
It was a small room with dry straw spread on the floor, looking like a place for people to rest.
Hua Yue Yu grabbed the soft cloth stopper of a wine jar and yanked it out, then peered inside, using the faint light from a torch to get a glimpse.
Inside, a clump of black seaweed was floating.
“Little Bai, there’s something soaking in here!”
After Hua Yue Yu finished speaking, she suddenly felt something was off.
Why did the seaweed look a bit like hair?
Realizing this, Hua Yue Yu’s skin instantly tightened, her entire scalp numbed, and she broke out in goosebumps.
Hua Yue Yu, scared, backed away a few steps, reporting to Lin Baici.
Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao immediately ran over.
In the wine jar, a mass of black hair spread out, floating on the surface, disheveled.
Lin Baici reached out and pulled the corpse up.
It was a young woman, probably in her twenties, and it was unclear how long she had been soaked in the wine, her body was pale.
The body slid back into the wine jar.
“Open the other wine jars and check!”
Lin Baici moved to pull out the cloth stopper from another nearby jar.
“This one has a corpse in it too!”
Xia Hongyao checked one by one, and sure enough, there were seven or eight jars, each with a body inside, all young people, almost none over thirty.
“God Lin, what’s going on?”
“Brother Lin, where did you see the corpse?”
Guo Zheng was worried, “Is the contamination of the rules starting again?”
“These wines have issues!”
Lin Baici reached into a wine jar, carefully feeling, “What about you?
After soaking for so long, how do you feel?”
“Besides being wet, I don’t feel anything!”
Guo Zheng spoke the truth.
That was Du Xin’s first reaction.
“I feel a bit tired, like I’ve been out all day shopping, and I want to sleep!”
Liu Liu said, yawning as she spoke.
“Aren’t you guys coming out?
Xia Hongyao was speechless.
“Could it be that people were only soaked in after they died?”
“Isn’t this wine meant for their king to drink?
And someone dared to put a corpse in it?
Do they want to be torn apart by horses?”
Hua Yue Yu felt these people were so foolish; clearly, these corpses were just the unlucky ones caught by the soldiers before them.
Everyone thought Hua Yue Yu was right and quickly got out of their jars.
“But what if that dead eunuch comes to get the wine and says that our soaking is not up to par, what then?”
Lv Yingxi, overwhelmed, couldn’t think of a solution.
The wine cellar was too dark, and only Lin Baici had a torch, so everyone crowded around, and since Lin Baici was strong, it was safest to be near him.
Lin Baici continued searching the cellar, inspecting the jars while also pondering how to get out of there quickly.
As time ticked by, the oppressive atmosphere made everyone more and more irritable and cranky, wanting to vent their anger.
A girl with big eyes from the sea play screamed and, wearing wooden clogs, kicked wildly at a nearby wine jar as if to release her frustration.
“Damn it, are you trying to get killed?”
Guo Zheng was startled and furious; he marched over quickly, grabbed the female college student by her short hair, and started to smack her relentlessly.
The sound of the slaps was crisp.
The female college student pleaded for mercy.
Guo Zheng pushed the female student away, took a couple of breaths to calm his rage, then approached Lin Baici, “Do you have a plan?”
Lin Baici took out a piece of dark chocolate, bit into it, and the bitter taste immediately spread on the tip of his tongue.
Gu Rongjie licked her lips, she was a little hungry, and just as she hesitated about whether to ask Lin Baici for a piece of chocolate, her gaze inadvertently fell on the torch in Lin Baici’s hand.
The light of the fire was warm and cozy, like a lighthouse on the shoreline bringing hope, or like a mother’s embrace, calling her back.
Gu Rongjie’s head heated up, and she suddenly lunged towards Lin Baici, wanting to embrace the torch.
“What are you doing?”
Xia Hongyao reacted quickly, stretching out her hand to block Gu Rongjie, but Lin Baici was even faster: he raised his right foot and kicked the female boss in the abdomen.
The boss let out a dreadful scream, stumbled back three steps, and fell on her bottom.
The crowd looked over.