Chapter 17 (1/2)
Chapter 17: Puppet Mother
What exactly were those gold colored bugs? Should she tell the rest of them? Just as Su Tingyun was wavering amidst her indecision, the left side crowd became really noisy. A woman wearing a white cheong sam stood up and said, ”I have to try,” and left with a resolute expression. Everyone else seemed stunned for a moment, then all of them followed behind the woman.
”That's Lady Bai. She's already a fourth rank Spirit Herbalist and can grow fourth rank medicinal plants.”
”Her field is to the left of Qi Suzhen. Right now, the medicinal plants in her field are probably only a breath away from death.”
”What are they heading off to do?” Su Tingyun wanted in on the excitement as well. But in the end, a sixty or seventy looking uncle in their group grabbed her and said, ”Newly arrived old woman, are you not afraid of death at all? That Bai girl is heading over to beg for the Alchemy Master's help. Our fields are fine, so what would we head over for? Even if they beg and the Alchemy Master agreed to take a look, there'd still definitely be punishment. Don't involve yourself in such a mess.”
En. When they couldn't resolve the matters in the fields themselves, they could only go beg that Master in the array.
Really, just how vicious was the Alchemy Master to be able to inspire such fear in these people?!
That crowd disappeared in a blink. This was rather good, cause now, Su Tingyun didn't have to feel conflicted over whether to tell them or not anymore. She sat on the stool and chatted with the others, achieving relative success at getting a feel of her temporary comrades-in-arms.
There were a total of nine people here including her. The person with the highest cultivation was the middle-aged missus, Xu Niangzi, who was currently at the Sixth Stage of Spirit Condensation. Second would be the youth, Xu Zhen, who was at the Fourth Stage of Spirit Condensation. Aunt Li and Uncle Zhang were a cultivation pair, so their cultivation level was also fairly similar, at the Third Stage of Spirit Condensation. The four people left were all only at the Second Stage of Spirit Condensation. Originally, the position of being the worst belonged to that seventy-ish old uncle: he had just broken into the Second Stage of Spirit Condensation. But now, with Su Tingyun cus.h.i.+oning the bottom, he gloriously rose to the position of number two from the bottom.
The old uncle didn't even remember his own name anymore. Everyone called him Old Wax Head. His skin was wax yellow, giving him the appearance of a malnourished man, which is probably where his name came from. For some unknown reason, Su Tingyun felt like this Old Wax Head was constantly glancing at her, intentionally or otherwise. In his gaze, there were even traces of ambiguity. When he got caught by Su Tingyun, a bit of red flush would even appear on his wax yellow face. This caused Su Tingyun to feel indescribable horror and several layers of gooseb.u.mps popped up.
Aiyo-ey! Even though her body was that of an elderly lady right now, her heart was still that of a young girl ah. Did things have to be this pathetic? Whenever other people transmigrated, they'd be surrounded by beautiful men, yet all she could attract was a wretched old man like this?
Just as she turned away and gazed into the distance in order to avoid Old Wax Head's provocative gaze, a sky trembling bellow came from outside. ”Useless tras.h.!.+ An entire pack of useless tras.h.!.+ It's just a fourth rank poisonous insect, the Gold Puppet Mother, yet you guys got stumped? And you even allowed the entire medicinal field to be damaged to this point? In a few days, Master(in terms of teacher) will be refining the Ten Thousand Fleur Pill. Just wait and see your fates when you can't hand up the ingredients!”
”Fourth rank!” Xu Zhen's body trembled as he murmured, ”It's a fourth rank poisonous pest, how would it even be possible to discover without your cultivation reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage?”
”Manager Song and the others are precisely at the Foundation Establishment Stage ah, but weren't they incapable of discovering it just the same?” After Aunt Li finished speaking, she put her palms together in prayer, ”It truly is the Old Heavens' providence. We definitely would have been helpless if our medicinal fields were infected as well.”
”Where's the Puppet Mother?” That voice then spoke again.
”What's a Gold Puppet Mother ah?” Su Tingyun asked curiously, completely ignorant as to the fact that all her comrades-in-arms were just as clueless. ”Our spirit plants archives are supposed to record fourth rank stuff, but there's no Gold Puppet Mother in it ah?”
”We'll only be provided with mid level spirit plants archives once we become fifth rank Spirit Herbalists. The mid level on probably has it!”
Could it be that this spirit plants archive is some rare plaything? If they told everyone earlier, they probably wouldn't have been so terribly tormented by some Gold Puppet Mother. Su Tingyun was annoyed, but all she could do was silently curse.
”What? You guys actually killed the Puppet Mother? Bring me to her corpse, you bunch of imbeciles!”
Puppet Mother? Killed? Corpse?
For some unknown reason, Su Tingyun's mind immediately jumped to the absent Qi Suzhen. Her heart shook, and she asked with a trembling voice, ”Could it be that the Puppet Mother they're talking about is Qi Suzhen? Qi Suzhen died?”
”I don't know if it is Qi Suzhen, but Qi Suzhen is dead.” Xu Zhen's voice was undisturbed as he said, ”It could be said that everything happened because of her. Even if the managers didn't kill her, the other people who were harmed by her definitely wouldn't let her off.”
”Haa…” Someone gave a heavy sigh. Su Tingyun only felt that her heart was abnormally heavy. She thought that in any case, staying in this Heaven Jade Pavilion valley would be the safest, but unexpectedly, human lives were just as worthless here.
She switched to another topic and asked, ”Say, if, if one doesn't complete the task or offends the Alchemy Master. What would be their fate?”
”That depends on his mood. If they have bad luck, they might end up becoming medicine wights*.” When Xu Niangzi spoke to here, even she with her valiant personality shuddered. ”Becoming a medicine wight is too terrifying. That's why everyone is so nervous ah.”