Dragon's Origin

Chapter 205: The Completion of the Camp (Part 1)

In the past, when Wang Sheng led teams into the Thousand Absolutes Land, everyone brought their own food and water. Because the trips were short, Wang Sheng didn't plan to teach those experts how to find food and drink in the jungle like Bear Grylls.

This time was different. Not only were there more people, but they would also be staying longer, so the place they found had to have a suitable water source. In the valley, they first found a suitable terrain, and then discovered a spring, which is why they settled on this location.

After setting up the protective formation and building the city walls, the first thing they did was not to immediately survey and design, but to clean up the water source. Then, they built a large wooden house over the water source, covering the entire area to prevent it from being polluted during construction.

The water source was a large pool. Under the advice of several master craftsmen, they used stone bars to build several large blocks of uneven height, layered with fine sand from top to bottom, filtering the water into the bottom pool.

During this time, some guards were assigned to watch over the water source. They caught at least a few dozen small demon beasts and had them drink the water for more than ten days. When those small demon beasts were fine, they used ordinary domesticated pets brought from the outside to drink the water for almost ten days before confirming that the water source was completely normal and safe to drink.

In the following period, including Wang Sheng, basically everyone took water from this water source. With Wang Sheng's sensitive tongue, he didn't taste anything wrong with the water.

The water source was very important, so the Great Shopkeeper of Yu Baozhai also paid close attention to it. He assigned special personnel to guard it. Even when Wang Sheng came to fetch water, it was brought out by these dedicated guards. If someone wanted to tamper with it, they would have to bypass the eyes and ears of these expert guards.

However, what if these dedicated people themselves were the problem?

Wang Sheng didn't go directly to the water source. Instead, he found the Great Shopkeeper of Yu Baozhai. This Great Shopkeeper had been with Yu Baozhai for many years, and his life was closely tied to Yu Baozhai. He had watched Marquis Lu Wen grow up and would never betray him.

When Wang Sheng told him about the mercury being poured into his room, the Great Shopkeeper was almost scared out of his wits. Wang Sheng was someone Marquis Lu Wen had repeatedly instructed him to protect. If anything happened to Wang Sheng, Marquis Lu Wen would be the first to not let him off.

Few people knew about mercury, but both the old Taoist and the Great Shopkeeper knew that some alchemists liked to add red mercury when refining pills, but that was a long time ago. Later, experts discovered that red mercury was poisonous, and the entire alchemy world abandoned it. Now, someone was actually using liquid mercury to plot against Wang Sheng and the old Taoist, which was truly difficult to guard against! If Wang Sheng hadn't been vigilant, he might have already fallen for it.

"Are the guards watching the water source veterans of Yu Baozhai or newly recruited?" Wang Sheng came to the Great Shopkeeper to find out this question.

"There are veterans and new recruits," the Great Shopkeeper said, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. "However, everyone here drinks the water. Wouldn't the person poisoning the water be risking their own life?"

"The two who attacked today were assassins!" Wang Sheng sighed and said this.

The Great Shopkeeper almost fell to the ground, but he managed to maintain his composure, having experienced many big events. How could he not know that the two who attacked today were assassins? Since the other party didn't even care about their own lives, what difference would it make if they poisoned themselves?

"Don't worry, so far, no poison has been found in the water," Wang Sheng gave the Great Shopkeeper some reassurance. "However, it will be hard to say in the future."

The Great Shopkeeper wiped the cold sweat from his face, and a terrifying consequence had already occurred to him. If the poisoning was successful and everyone was poisoned, and there was no specific and effective antidote, it would mean that so many people would only be able to wait for death here.

In a poisoned state, wanting to cross the three hundred miles of jungle in the Thousand Absolutes Land to return to Worry-Free City would be almost impossible. The only outcome would be that everyone, including Wang Sheng and the old Taoist, would be buried in the Thousand Absolutes Land. Yu Baozhai's pioneering camp would slowly become desolate in the Thousand Absolutes Land, becoming a jungle again. In the future, no one would know that there had been such a group of people here.

If everyone inside died, naturally no one outside would know about the camp. Naturally, Yu Baozhai's operation would be a complete failure, with a huge cost and manpower investment, losing everything and never recovering.

Who is the opponent? There is no need to ask. Whoever benefits must be the opponent. Apart from the Song family, no other family would be so unwilling to see this camp built.

The Great Shopkeeper was also a figure, with extremely high cultivation. Together with Wang Sheng and the old Taoist, and dozens of Yu Baozhai's veteran guards, they directly surrounded the water source and controlled all the people responsible for guarding the water source, identifying them one by one.

The Great Shopkeeper was personally responsible for the investigation. Wang Sheng, on the other hand, took a few people to seal the outlet, drain the several pools, and began to check them one by one. They soon made a discovery.

Under the fine sand in the last pool, they found dozens of small balls. The small balls were wrapped in some unknown film, with different degrees of hardness. The soft ones were very heavy in the hand. When one was punctured, unsurprisingly, it also contained liquid mercury. The hard ones, I didn't know what they were, but they were definitely not tonics.

That unknown film should be the bladder of some small demon beast, very thin. After processing, it would easily break when rubbed by the fine sand, and the mercury and some toxins inside would unknowingly spread into the water one day.

Hundreds of people drank water frequently. If they stirred it up a bit when fetching water, no one would notice the tiny droplets of mercury, let alone notice some water-soluble toxins. They would accidentally drink it. Then, it would be a disaster.

When those small balls were brought to the Great Shopkeeper, the Great Shopkeeper's anger made him want to dismember all those who had been in contact with the water source. Fortunately, he also knew that there wouldn't be too many assassins, and they would be found after some investigation.

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There were only a dozen or so guards who could access the water source, and there were not many left after removing the veterans. There were only a few craftsmen who built the pool, and they were all gathered in one place.

Those small balls containing things were in a plate on the table. Those who saw them were full of doubts, while those who knew already understood that the situation was over.

The Great Shopkeeper was straightforward. He directly ordered everyone to take out everything they were carrying and check it, including the items in their storage rings. The hidden assassins would never use only one method, and it would be easy to find clues from them.

As soon as this request was made, the four hidden assassins launched a final attack on Wang Sheng at the cost of their lives. Unfortunately, with the old Taoist and the Great Shopkeeper by his side, these guys were mercilessly killed as soon as they made a move. Anyway, they were all assassins, and it was impossible to get a confession from them.

The assassins arranged by the Song family were completely resolved.