124 The event during lunch (1/2)

Bai Yun walked out of the carriage and stood outside watching the busy morning. Ye Chen waved to him, and he waved back. After the preparations for breakfast was done, Bai Yun watched from the side as he ate breakfast. Once they were done with breakfast, the caravan quickly started to pack up.

Bai Yun was on the way back to the carriage when he found his road blocked. He realized that the middle aged lady from yesterday was standing in front of him.

”I saw that you were standing in a corner once again today.” She said.

”Yep.” Bai Yun replied.

”You shouldn't do that. Only if you interact with others can you grow up to be a productive member of society.” She said.

Bai Yun's face twitched as he heard her. Bai Yun nodded and said. ”I will take it under advisement.”

The lady was happy to hear this. She smiled and then turned away. ”Oh, by the way, my name is Huang Yao. Don't forget it.” She said as she left.

Bai Yun shook his head and went back to the carriages. A short while later, the caravan started to move. Bai Yun sat back once again and started to cultivate. The situation was similar to yesterday. Soon the entire caravan settled into a simple rhythm.

They ran into another small bandit group a short while after the set off, but it was also solved without any problem. The caravan then went on smoothly until they stopped for lunch.

When they stopped for lunch, Bai Yun once again settled into a corner as usual. He then took out the food that they gave and took a bite.

And he promptly spit it out.

For a moment Bai Yun licked his lips. There was something in the food. Something that his body instinctively rejected. It wasn't something he would have noticed before he had gotten the Alchemy legacy. But now, it stood out like a sore thumb.

Bai Yun licked his lips, trying to identify the thing that irritated him, but he couldn't isolate it. Seeing that no one was watching him, Bai Yun ripped a tiny piece of the food into his palm. Then a small gray flame appeared in his hands and started to slowly start to burn the piece of food.

Slowly the piece of food disappeared. Bai Yun would smell the vapours coming off the pice of food as it burned. When it was finally gone, Bai Yun also rubbed his hands to check the residue on his palm. When he was done with this, a smile finally crept into his hands.

Bai Yun was able to roughly identify what had caused the rejection. He was able to identify a chemical that was added to the food.

Adding this to the strangeness of the caravan, Bai Yun suddenly realized that mostly this wasn't aimed at him, but at the entire caravan. Bai Yun figured that the compound will take effect in an hour and would last for another hour after that. Thus the attack on the caravan should happen at that time.

Bai Yun looked up at stared at the caravan. Since he was sitting in a corner everything here was reflected in his eyes. A beautiful glint came alive in his eyes as he stared at everyone in the caravan. But Bai Yun couldn't see anyone acting suspiciously. Everyone seemed to be acting normal. But after all, the person who poisoned them would no longer have any need to act differently.

There were many people who were involved in the making of lunch. The staff of the caravan, some of the mercenaries, and even some of the travelers had helped in making or at least came close to lunch. So it was difficult to see who was responsible for this.

But now Bai Yun was stuck with another problem. He knew that an attack was imminent on the caravan, and if he did nothing, most likely everyone here would die. But what could he do?

Given the hour before the effects of the compound would take hold, Bai Yun was completely sure that he could definitely make an antidote. But would anyone believe him and take the antidote. And he would be tipping off the culprit too. The more Bai Yun thought about it, the more annoyed he became. In fact, if he tried to save them, they might even attack him thinking that he was the one who poisoned them.

So the only method left was to help them from behind the scenes. But this was too difficult. For one thing, he only had until the end of lunch. If he was to do anything in the carriage, he would be noticed, and the people would think that he was the culprit. And Bai Yun was not at a level where he could find an antidote to the compound by the end of lunch.

Bai Yun was starting to get a headache. He only had a short while to solve this problem. In an hour the caravan would be attacked. He only had an hour to work. He had an hour to figure out how to make the compound ineffective.

The moment his thoughts came to that point, Bai Yun froze. Then an immersible smile appeared on his lips.