Chapter 677 The Village Chief
Chen Yang glanced at the other party with a smile and said nothing more.
From the moment he entered the room, Chen Yang could feel that the other party was indeed not a Gu worm master.
Gu worm masters not only controlled insects, but their more important ability was to stimulate the internal energy of various Gu worms, as well as to control and coexist with them.
Although the village chief could control insects, the insects he controlled were all very ordinary, with extremely weak toxicity.
In Chen Yang's eyes, the village chief was merely a martial artist who could control insects.
After Chen Yang left, the village chief's eyes immediately brightened.
"A powerful Grandmaster, Chen Yang of the Celestial Medical Hall..."
The village chief slowly rose from his chair. He had originally thought that Fifth Master Zhu had recommended someone to sell some precious medicinal herbs, but he didn't expect it to be a big trouble.
Under the cover of night, the village chief immediately left the stockade and entered the darkness through a secret passage.
Beneath the stockade, there was a secret passage leading into the mountain. Besides the village chief, no more than ten people in the entire stockade knew about this path.
Others did not know that in the huge mountain body behind the stockade, there was an extremely spacious area.
After walking through the secret passage for more than ten minutes, the village chief could already smell the highly stimulating scent of medicinal herbs in his nostrils.
Small animals that occasionally appeared at his feet did not attract the village chief's attention.
The village chief had walked this path for decades, and he was perfectly aware of the location of every stone.
A moment later, a light appeared, and the village chief couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Unlike the dirt tunnel, at the end of the tunnel was a very modern door.
The entrance not only had infrared cameras but also an iris scanner.
After the village chief placed his eyes on the iris scanner, a mechanical voice sounded: "Scan successful."
Immediately followed by a click, and the heavy door slowly opened automatically.
After putting on a protective suit at the entrance and undergoing disinfection, the village chief gently walked inside.
When he reached the door of a laboratory, the village chief rang the doorbell and showed his face to the camera at the door. Only then was the door opened.
As the chief of the village, he only had access to the outer door. The locks in the mountain base had to be personally verified by others as being the correct person before they could be opened by them.
The moment the door was opened, a smell of blood rushed into his mind. Even with the protection of the suit, this nauseating feeling made the village chief extremely uncomfortable.
The young man conducting experiments in the room stopped his work with a puzzled look and asked, "Village Chief, why are you here?"
"It's already so late, why aren't you resting? Could it be that what I want has arrived?"
Facing the young man's questioning, the village chief coughed a little awkwardly: "The items have been ordered for you and have not arrived yet. Don't worry, they will arrive soon. I'll urge them again tomorrow."
"Renli, there's a young man outside who wants to see you, a very young Grandmaster, recommended by Fifth Master Zhu."
"And your mother also came to me about this matter."
Gong Renli put away his experimental samples and asked with some surprise: "Even my mother could be persuaded, so it must be that Uncle Zhu also spoke up."
"Who is this person that can make both of them speak?"
Gong Renli knew about his mother's past. Uncle Zhu Wenming of the Zhu family had almost married into the family.
However, unlike Zhu Wenming, Fifth Master Zhu had always been responsible for the Zhu family's support to the stockade.
Fifth Master Zhu was currently unknown in the outside world, so Gong Renli was even more eager to know who the person who could get Fifth Master Zhu to speak was.
Seeing that Gong Renli had put away the bloody samples, the village chief sighed and said, "Chen Yang, from the Celestial Medical Hall."
As he spoke, he tried to take off his fully enclosed mask.
The village chief knew very well that the bloody smell in the room came from that sample!
But just as he was about to take it off, Gong Renli, with lightning speed, tightly clasped the village chief's enclosed mask.
Gong Renli stared at the village chief with wide eyes and said word by word: "The toxicity hasn't dissipated yet!"
The village chief was startled by that gaze and said with a wry smile, "Hey, I don't even know how many days he has left to live..."
Although he said that, the village chief did not dare to take off the mask again. Instead, he tightly clasped it and checked for any air leaks.
"This whole set of equipment is quite expensive. I wonder how much kickback the Zhu family has taken in between."
Facing the village chief's teasing, Gong Renli was quite helpless: "The stockade has no channels to buy this equipment at all. It's already good that the Zhu family can help."
"You just said, someone from the Celestial Medical Hall is here?"
"I remember that a long time ago, the stockade had contact with people from the Celestial Medical Hall, right?"
Due to the passage of time, Gong Renli's memory was already blurry.
Gong Renli now selectively deleted things from his mind other than his current research.
He just vaguely felt that the name Celestial Medical Hall was familiar.
"There was one time, we bought a batch of antidotes from the Celestial Medical Hall."
The village chief mumbled and then changed the subject.
He couldn't talk about the antidote with Gong Renli, and the village chief didn't want to put too much pressure on the young man.
"Antidote..."
Gong Renli sighed helplessly, and then continued: "Then I'll meet him tomorrow."
As the village chief left the room, Gong Renli looked at the air quality index in the room and couldn't help but sigh.
The toxins in the air were not only from the experimental items but also from the toxins emitted by the village chief.
This toxin had been hidden in the village chief's body all along.
The experimental specimen from just now was an important item to draw out the toxins from within the body.
"The speed is still too slow. Decades of toxins accumulated in the body, and this thing is still too slow!" Gong Renli said, then pounded the table forcefully.
Meanwhile, within the stockade, when Chen Yang was led to the resting room, he saw He Lingyu and Zhu Sanqian inside.
Zhu Sanqian was half-reclining on a bamboo chair, fiddling with the prayer beads on his wrist, while He Lingyu was studying all the specimens she had collected on their journey.
Seeing Chen Yang return, both of them immediately got up.
"Chen Yang, are you alright?"
"Brother Chen Yang, what did the village chief say? Did he agree to the matter?"
Regardless of anything else, the three of them had entered together, and He Lingyu was naturally worried about Chen Yang being left alone.
He Lingyu always felt that the room was gloomy and terrifying.
As for Zhu Sanqian, he was concerned whether Chen Yang's cooperation with the village chief would be successful.