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Chapter 395: Poisoning, Gu Tribe

"Does Shi Xie eat so well? These girls in black clothes and black robes are obviously beauties. The waist-to-hip ratio and the little voice are so lovely."

"No, buddy, you are really asking for your life. Can't you see that there is something wrong with this woman? She just laughed twice, and those soldiers fell to the ground one by one. It was obvious that they were dead. How dare you want such a woman?"

"Looking at the symptoms of those people, they seem to have been poisoned by a Gu. They were all so energetic, but they collapsed in an instant. It must be something implanted in their bodies. There is such a village near my home. The witch in the village can treat illnesses and so on. The potion they feed is a bowl of black potion. After drinking it, the effect is immediate. It is a Gu, but it is a Gu used to cure diseases."

"Is it really as weird as you say? They don't have anything to drink or eat, so how do you explain this?"

"I've heard of a theory that one feeds the Gu with one's own flesh and blood, and then the Gu will be poisoned as soon as others get close to it."

"No need to guess, Shi Xie's old fans will tell you, this is Gu. About a month and a half after the live broadcast started, Shi Xie brought all his troops to find this woman and cooperated with her. She was not a member of Shi Xie's command, but she kept calling him Lord. I don't know why."

"Damn, someone more powerful than Liu Caoxie appeared, and he was directly poisoned? This is too unethical. This is more powerful than Liu Caoxie's gunpowder. The lethality of Liu Caoxie's gunpowder is nothing compared to this."

"I was wondering why Shi Xie was usually so indifferent, but suddenly showed up now. It turns out that he thinks he is good enough and wants to go to the poker table to compete with Liu Caoxie, Cao Zhonger, Sun Menghu and others."

"Don't tell me, it's not impossible. This thing is more powerful than the plague, and it can be used to infect people from a long distance. Although the method is not very glorious, it is indeed an effective method. Liu Caoxie is going to be in big trouble this time."

"She can also cast a spell!!! She has a nice voice and a great body, she's my dream girl!"

"I need a Heartless Gu here. My roommate has been a bootlicker for three years. He will be a senior soon. I don't want him to bootlick anymore."

"Fortune Gu, fortune Gu, fortune Gu!"

"This is a curse, not a matchmaker. Man, you are crying at the wrong grave."

The live broadcast room was flooded with barrages of comments, and countless barrages floated by, all discussing the origins of those mysterious women. After all, a group of mysterious women appeared on the battlefield, which made them unable to suppress their inner curiosity. They guessed their origins, and after learning their identities, they felt more excited.

Shi Xie's original big tent and the surrounding tents were given to those women of unknown origin. As those people entered, the tents seemed to be shrouded in haze.

On the other side, in Gu Rubing's tent, after several days of rest, Wei Yan and Huang Zhong both recovered to their lively state, eating meat and drinking wine with big mouthfuls, and enjoying themselves to the fullest. During this period, Gu Rubing had nothing to do, so he handed over all the troops under his command, except for the Bai Li soldiers, to Wei Yan, wanting to see if he could lead some special troops.

Special troops like the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun and the Qinglong Swordmen can each be used as an army of ten thousand people. Every additional one means a huge increase in elite combat power. This increase is also extremely precious even for Gu Rubing.

At this time in the big tent, Gu Rubing and Zhao Yun were listening to the news brought back by the scouts. The enemy's heavy armored soldiers suddenly withdrew. Wei Yan was eager to try after hearing this. He did not forget that Shi Xie almost attacked him with a catapult. Now he finally had a chance to take revenge.

"It's only four days. There's no reason why you can't even last four days."

Gu Rubing couldn't help but become suspicious.

"Send a scout to see what's going on. I have a feeling there's something fishy going on."

After sending the people out, Gu Rubing was still worried, always feeling that something bad was going to happen, but he couldn't tell why.

"My lord, are you afraid that they are up to something? That they have set an ambush in the canyon?"

Wei Yan asked doubtfully, with a hint of disappointment on his face. His hope of defeating Shi Xie was dashed.

Gu Rubing saw Wei Yan's expression and smiled slightly.

"Don't worry, Wen Chang, you will have plenty of opportunities to lead troops into battle. As for Shi Xie, I will definitely leave it to you, so don't worry."

After hearing Gu Rubing's promise, Wei Yan finally realized that he had been showing his worries on his face, and scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Thank you, my lord!"

"We'll wait for the news from the scouts first. After they come back, we'll decide whether to attack or not."

Gu Rubing tried to comfort everyone. They had just won a victory and their morale was high. Their combat power was also at its strongest. If they were too timid at this time, the morale of the army would continue to decline and eventually might even be worse than at the beginning. So Gu Rubing also wanted to decide as soon as possible whether to attack Shi Xie, because there were still many places waiting for his support. More than 100,000 troops could have a decisive impact no matter where they were deployed on the battlefield.

After about two hours, the scouts finally came back. A total of twenty people were sent out, but only three came back in the end. All of them fell to the ground and vomited black blood. After hearing the news, Gu Rubing immediately took people to check the situation, but was blocked outside by Hua Tuo.

Hua Tuo carefully felt the pulse of one of the men who was still alive, then put his hand down, shook his head and sighed. The scout also died at the same time.

"Divine Doctor, what happened to them?"

Gu Rubing asked, his voice still normal, without any confusion.

"My lord, when I arrived just now, two of them had already died, and the pulse of the remaining one was also showing signs of death. The specific cause is still unknown, but I can conclude that something must have entered their bodies and bit their internal organs, causing them to spit out black blood and die."

"What is so powerful?"

"We need to ask the coroner to perform an autopsy and then dismember the body to get a full picture of it."

"Can corpses carrying such things be contagious?"

Gu Rubing asked the most crucial question: is this thing contagious? If it is contagious, these three corpses will be three time bombs.

"No, I have been close to them for a long time and have not found any abnormalities in their bodies. The soldiers who brought them back are fine too. They should die along with the host."

Hua Tuo told Gu Rubing his guess and left in a hurry. He was immune to all poisons and was the best person to study the cause of their death. Wei Yan, who was standing by, looked at this scene thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking.

Gu Rubing turned around and called over the soldiers who had just brought them back.

"Did they say anything to you before they died?" "Two of them were already unconscious when we found them, and they died before the doctor arrived. The other two brothers could speak, but their voices were very small and unclear. I only vaguely heard a few words, black clothes, women, canyon, and, oh, yes, miasma."

Gu Rubing nodded and said nothing more. The soldiers left in a hurry. They were the first people to come into contact with the patient and would be sent to Hua Tuo to observe whether they were infected or had other symptoms.

"I see!"

Suddenly, Wei Yan, who had been thinking about things since meeting Hua Tuo, spoke.

"Wen Chang, what do you know?"

Gu Rubing looked at Wei Yan curiously. He had just noticed that Wei Yan seemed a little absent-minded, as if he really knew something.

"There is a county called Yulin in the west of Jiaozhou. It borders Zangke County in the southeast of Yizhou. There is a village hidden in the mountains. The mountains are covered by layers of miasma. People who are not inside cannot move around, otherwise they will die from the miasma. Since they just mentioned miasma, could it be the same as that?"

Wei Yan was just thinking about this until he heard the word "miasma", which awakened his memory and reminded him of some things about miasma. Gu Rubing frowned. Now the development of things has completely deviated from the historical track. Cao Cao sought cooperation in the Western Regions, and Shi Xie also approached a special ethnic group.

However, Gu Rubing figured it out in a blink of an eye. They are not the same people they were in history now, and the further they go, the more uncontrollable they will become.

"Let's continue to rest and see if the miracle doctor has any good way to deal with them."

Gu Rubing was now somewhat thankful that he had been alert and guessed that the other party might have set an ambush. However, he had never expected that the other party would actually poison them. If he had known, he would never have sent these scouts. They were all reserve troops of the Mobile Crossbow Captain. If a Mobile Crossbow Captain was sacrificed, or if the Mobile Crossbow Captain expanded its organization, they would immediately be able to be transferred to Mobile Crossbow Captain. It is no exaggeration to say that everyone is priceless to Gu Rubing.

With these three real examples, Wei Yan gave up the idea of ​​attacking. The enemy's strength is not scary. What is scary is this unknown means, which they cannot even prevent.

On the other side, Shi Xie, who was leisurely drinking tea, stood up excitedly and walked outside immediately after learning that someone had broken into the trap.

"Hahahaha, awesome, first battle..."

Before Shi Xie could finish his words, he saw more than a dozen bodies lying on the ground. The smile on his face gradually faded and he froze in place.

"Why are there only so few people?"

Shi Xie asked with some confusion, and the black-robed woman in the lead walked forward.

"They came here to gather information, and they accidentally fell into our trap."

"They all died here, right? Did anyone escape?"

"It seems like there were three of them. They didn't go too deep, so they didn't inhale much. They shouldn't die in a short time."

The woman spoke calmly, as if it was a trivial matter. This attitude made Shi Xie unable to suppress his anger.

"What if they escape and get discovered? By then Liu Bei will be on guard and won't attack again!"

"If they don't fight, then go and fight them."

The woman said nonchalantly, raising her delicate hand and extending a finger, wanting to touch Shi Xie's face, but Shi Xie dodged it without a trace.

"What's the longest distance you can cast a spell at?"

Although Shi Xie was burning with rage, he did not dare to say anything more, for fear of angering the other party and getting a Gu planted in him, leaving him with no idea how he died. This group of people were very fickle, and they might be talking and laughing one second, but in the next they might plant a Gu in you, leaving you unable to live or die.

"Two hundred meters."

"No, they're too close. Do you know how long it takes for a cavalry to charge 200 meters? A few breaths is enough. Do you think you can stop their cavalry?"

Shi Xie waved his sleeves and was about to leave, but was stopped by the woman's words.

"Horses are also living things, so they can be poisoned naturally. Haha, it seems that the lord doesn't know much about our methods. Do you want to show it to the lord? Let my sisters serve the lord."

These words made Shi Xie recall that scene, giving him goose bumps all over his body.

"Don't talk about those useless things. Since Liu Bei already knows about the trap, we can only fight them head-on. I hope your Gu can play its role."

"Hehe, my lord, don't you know whether our Gu is useful or not? The vessels you sent us are still alive and well."

Hearing this, Shi Xie shuddered again. It would have been better if she didn't say anything. As soon as she said it, Shi Xie remembered the scene when he first saw those people. Now when he recalled it, Shi Xie felt like retching. He only hated that he was too curious at that time. Why did he go to see that kind of thing? He still can't forget it until now.

"Okay, stop talking about those useless things. Get ready and remove the traps in the canyon. Prepare for a decisive battle with Liu Bei tomorrow!"

Shi Xie now just wanted to escape from this place as soon as possible, because when he saw the woman dressed in black robe and black veil, he couldn't help but think of the scene at that time. That was when he had just crossed into the game and started smuggling soon after. Because he heard that there was a forbidden area in the area under his jurisdiction, he immediately thought of some possibilities with modern thinking, such as magnetic field.

He led his men there, but before he entered the legendary forbidden area, most of his men had died. Finally, he fainted. At that time, those who were in Shi Xie's live broadcast room thought that Shi Xie was dead. Unexpectedly, Shi Xie was not dead and was rescued by a group of people. To be more precise, he was captured.

It was this group of people in black who captured Shi Xie at that time. They called themselves the Gu Tribe. Shi Xie thought they had saved him at first and thanked them quickly. But he soon discovered that things were not as simple as he thought, because one day he overheard that they wanted to use him as a vessel to cultivate Gu poison. Later, Shi Xie revealed his identity and promised to send more and better vessels, and only then was he released.

Before leaving, the clan leader, who was now the leader, gave Shi Xie a poison. If Shi Xie did not come back within the agreed time, the poison would take effect and kill Shi Xie on the spot.

After Shi Xie, who was sent out by them, returned to Jiaozhou, he immediately led people to deliver them a vessel. As for this vessel, it was naturally the foreign slave he brought back from overseas. This kind of slave met their requirements for the vessel and cured Shi Xie of the poison. The two sides then began to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)