Immortality begins in Goose City

Chapter 92 Blood Jade

Huang Shujian looked at Qin Mo, but his mind was already racing.

He had suddenly changed his mind and agreed to let Lin Zhihua bring the archaeologist along, all for this moment.

This person is most likely the same Heart-Shattering Palm assassin who attacked him a month ago.

His hands were as smooth as jade, a characteristic of someone who had mastered the Heart-Shattering Palm technique.

And that day, while eating glutinous rice balls, he said to himself...

"This time, Qin Mo will certainly live up to your expectations and will not disappoint Young Master Huang."

This time... means there was a previous time.

Was the last time he tried to assassinate himself?

Huang Shujian tampered with the bowl of glutinous rice balls, sealing a wax ball inside the filling, which contained the offspring of a mother-and-child worm.

This worm is even more vicious than the mandarin duck worm. The larvae are sealed in wax pellets and enter the human body with food.

As long as the mother insect is alive, the larvae will sleep quietly. Once the mother insect dies, the larvae will wake up, struggle frantically, tear through the wax capsule, bite through everything in their way, follow the scent to find the mother insect's corpse, and after swallowing it, become the new mother insect, even if it is inside a human body!

In other words, once the offspring are eaten, their lives are in the hands of the mother insect.

Huang Shujian reached into his pocket and touched a small glass bottle. He opened the bottle and a wax pellet rolled into his palm.

Inside the wax pellet, the mother insect is fast asleep.

As long as the wax pill is crushed, the worms inside Qin Mo's body will awaken.

But just as Huang Shujian was about to make a move, Qin Mo spoke up.

"Blood Pool Pass".

"This is one of the mechanisms most frequently used by the previous dynasty's royal family."

Lin Zhihua's face lit up with excitement, her eyes shining: "Is this the weird mechanism you mentioned to me? How do we solve it?"

"Didn't you say you'd encountered this several times during previous archaeological excavations?"

Murong Xue paused for a moment and looked at Huang Shujian.

Huang Shujian remained calm, the wax pellet already between his fingers, ready to shatter at any moment!

Qin Mo smiled, took out an oil paper package from his backpack, and explained as he opened it:

"The so-called Blood Pool Pass is said to open only when the statue of a divine beast is fed with human blood."

"Otherwise, even if we force it open, no one will be able to get through."

The oil paper package was fully unfolded, revealing a jade pendant.

The blood-red jade pendant, about the size of a palm, was carved into the shape of a bat and gleamed with a dark red light under the headlamp beam.

"But actually," Qin Mo continued, "the secret to this level lies behind the door."

He pointed to the wide-open mouth of the mythical beast statue: "This mouth leads into the door, behind which is a large group of vampire bats, a strange species cultivated by the previous dynasty's royal family."

"They don't usually drink blood. They hang on a specially designed bar behind the door and hibernate like zombies, living for decades without dying."

"These bats have been specially bred and are not interested in the blood of ordinary animals, but are only sensitive to human blood."

"Once it senses human blood, it will immediately awaken and frantically suck blood without regard for anything else."

"And the principle behind that lever," Qin Mo pointed to the bronze door, "is that it requires dozens of times the force to push this door open."

"Even if someone could push them away, the vampire bats would have already woken up and pounced on them. No matter how skilled you are, you would definitely die."

Lin Zhihua looked frightened and moved closer to Huang Shujian: "So how did you handle it before?"

Qin Mo held up the piece of blood jade: "This is blood jade, made from black dog blood and centipede venom, with a special secret recipe. It is the best at suppressing vampire bats."

Lin Zhihua asked in confusion, "Didn't you say that vampire bats are only interested in human blood?"

Qin Mo turned around, looked at Lin Zhihua, then at Huang Shujian, and smiled: "So this alone is not enough."

He suddenly pulled out the dagger strapped to his calf, and with a flash of cold light, he slashed open the palm of his left hand.

Blood immediately gushed out and dripped onto the blood jade.

"Sizzle—"

When the blood jade comes into contact with fresh blood, it emits billowing red smoke, carrying a pungent, fishy smell, and a faint, almost imperceptible sweet fragrance.

Qin Mo threw the smoking blood jade into the wide-open mouth of the divine beast statue.

The blood jade rolled deep into his throat and quickly disappeared.

Qin Mo sheathed his dagger, took out gauze from his backpack, and simply bandaged the wound. He was calm and composed throughout the entire process, without even frowning.

"This is black dog blood with added ingredients," he said while bandaging the wound, "It can temporarily confuse vampire bats."

Sounds soon came from inside the door.

At first, it was a faint flapping sound of wings, like the wind blowing through leaves. Then the sound grew louder and more intense, eventually turning into a buzzing roar, as if millions of insects were flying around.

Interspersed throughout were sharp screams and the sound of liquid splashing.

The sound lasted for about half a cup of tea's time before gradually subsiding.

Finally, complete silence.

Qin Mo listened intently for a moment, then nodded: "That's fine."

With a glance from Huang Shujian, Ma Yongzhen stepped forward, placed his hands on the bronze door, and pushed hard.

The door remained completely still.

The others also stepped forward to help. Lu Yu, Murong Xue, Lin Zhihua, and Ma Yongzhen pushed together, but the door still wouldn't budge.

Huang Shujian stepped forward.

He took a deep breath, placed his hands on the door, circulated his qi and blood, and his strength rose from the soles of his feet, flowing down his waist and back to his arms.

The green python coils powerfully around the mountain.

"Squeak—"

A harsh scraping sound rang out, and the bronze door slowly opened inward.

A strong, pungent smell of blood hit me, making my eyes sting.

The beam of the headlamp shone into the room, where a thick, dark red carpet covered the floor.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it wasn't a carpet at all, but rather a dense mass of vampire bat corpses.

The smaller ones were only the size of a palm, while the larger ones were the size of a washbasin. Their wings were broken, their bodies were twisted, and they were piled up together, almost obscuring the ground.

Blood seeped from beneath the corpse, pooling into thin streams that formed puddles in low-lying areas.

A bat, not quite dead yet, struggled among the pile of corpses, its wings flapping weakly.

"Click."

Qin Mo stepped forward and stomped down.

"The Blood Jade is just the catalyst," Qin Mo explained. "After the vampire bats suck the blood from the Blood Jade, they will be poisoned and vomit blood."

"And the only other vampire bats are interested in besides human blood is the blood of their own kind, especially blood mixed with human blood!"

"So they will fight each other, the wounds will spread, blood will flow, attracting more of their own kind to fight each other, and in the end they will all be wiped out."

He paused for a moment: "This method was developed after many people in the archaeological community lost their lives."

Lin Zhihua exclaimed, "Truly amazing! No wonder he's an archaeologist."

She took out kraft paper and tweezers from her backpack, carefully picked up a few relatively intact bat carcasses, wrapped them in the kraft paper, and put them in her backpack: "This is very important for my graduation thesis."

Huang Shujian's gaze fell on Qin Mo, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.

Whether this person was lying or not, he certainly has some skill; he did pass the Blood Pool Pass.

And keep it for now, it might come in handy later.

Huang Shujian quietly put away the wax pellets and returned them to the glass bottle.

"keep going."