96 Chapter 96 (1/2)

”What's wrong with them, Patriarch?” Clark looked around and saw the vomiting figures of his clansmen.

He really wondered why such an easy thing as eating fish could lead to a catastrophic event like this one.

'They're looking at the fishes like the Devil himself would come out from its flesh.'

'How could these people be that traumatized and be unable to eat a single fish for dinner?'

'What kind of secret technique is this?'

'Are they perhaps cursed? Or was it the fish itself that has been spiked with poison?' Clark quickly dropped his unfinished meal and looked at the direction of his Elders.

He noticed quite easily that all the four Elders and the Patriarch of the Lu Family never even touched a single scale of fish near them.

'Did they know that the food has been contaminated beforehand?' Clark had only this one question in mind as he looked carefully around him.

It did not take long for him to see that Wan Fei who was sitting spectacularly hot beside him was unaffected by the ruckus that was happening abundantly in the place.

But the same could not be said to the current facial expression that she had at the moment.

If Clark could describe the look on her face right now, there would only be one suitable word that would suffice his observation. It was absolute disgust!

Wan Fei has come from royalty and her upbringing may have let her enjoy all the goodness there was in the world along its pleasures. But this exact privilege has also made her weak in some aspects of life.

'I'm rather lucky that Lu Chen had already seen a lot more distasteful things like this one in those moments that he frequented the drinking taverns of the slums.'

Clark took a deep breath to clear his mind.

Ten long seconds passed before Patriarch Lu Jian answered Lu Chen's question as he, together with the good Elders around him, could not help but pause to gaze at the nauseating picture before their eyes.

”It is nothing, Elder Lu Chen. They are just...” sickened by the taste of fish that even smelling them up close could bring an outcome like the one.

Patriarch Lu Jian would have wanted to add these words but instead lied with a straight face back towards the one who instigated this very thing to happen.

”...unwell for now.” The Patriarch sighed and counted three breaths in his mind. Still, he could not resist throwing unspoken curses to our one and only bored gamer.

Because of Lu Chen, not only the Lu Family was totally tired of eating tons of salted fishes for the entire day but it seemed that there was a great chance also for this very person to be the sole cause and reason for the recent demise of an Elder from the Yan Family.

Lu Jian stole a glance at the silent Wan Fei and with this Senior at Elder Lu Chen's side at the moment, there was really no other likely culprit in the whole of Nexus but this pair alone.

'Why? Why has the heavens punished me and our clan to give us yet another troublemaker in our midst?'

Patriarch Lu Jian recalled the smiling face of an arrogant boy and it brought about conflicting emotions from his heart in remembering this very image right now.

That boy was both the hope and the headache of the clan three years ago.

'I wonder how Lu Min is faring in the Demonic Sword Sect right now?' Patriarch Lu Jian sighed and shook his head to escape his silent musings. It was useless to think about these things tonight.

”CLEAN THE PLACE UP!” The Patriarch ordered in a loud voice and within moments, there was a crowd of slaves that rushed into the floors to erase any trace of vomit in the main halls.

It took only 5 minutes of hasty cleaning for the place to look new again. After that, it was Patriarch Lu Jian who led the celebration this time around.

He would not take any chances anymore for Elder Lu Chen to mess things up twice this evening.

”Let the feast begin!” The Patriarch announced and the rest was history. Drinks flowed like waters and the food that was now absent of any kind of fishes whatsoever was delightfully shared by everyone.

And even with the earlier incident, that alone has not shrouded the scene in a depressing atmosphere because its opposite could not have been more different in the present.

There were swaying bodies dancing to the music and the hypnotic songs were limitless in serenading more than five hundred people in attendance. The event was simply a success in this aspect alone.

After an hour, some of the most powerful personalities of the clan started recruiting Elder Lu Chen into their fold.

It was after all very beneficial for their sake to drag yet another capable person especially because of what Elder Lu Chen could bring them.

If they were somehow lucky in acquiring the favor of Elder Lu Chen, they would also in effect gain the advantage of getting closer to the mysterious expert beside him.

The beautiful Senior they only knew of as Wan Fei.