Unparalleled Duo
Chapter 80 - 80 54 Extreme Joy Gu_2

80: Chapter 54 Extreme Joy Gu_2 80: Chapter 54 Extreme Joy Gu_2 Feng Shunfeng’s group of tables consisted of him and Feng Shunshui, as well as their Gang Leader’s nephew, Di Gui.

The rest of the people were from martial arts sects friendly with their Cao Gang.

Seeing Feng, the second in charge, start pounding on the table, all of them stood up and pressed their hands onto their weapons.

“Heh,” Shen Youran looked at them as if watching a joke, “Feng, if only the thing inside your head worked a bit better, you perhaps wouldn’t be so eager to say such unpleasant words to me.” He paused, then looked out at everyone again, “I know most of you here share similar thoughts with the second in charge, and if I don’t explain what I said earlier, you wouldn’t let me off the hook easily…

Hmph, rest assured, since Shen dared to say these words, he certainly has something to rely on.”

He said this, then raised his hand and lightly clapped twice.

As the applause died down, a row of exits on the southern side of the banquet hall were all shut from the outside within two seconds.

Needless to think, it was clear that outside the doors of this banquet hall, the spot had been completely sealed off by the disciples of not the Justice Sect…

oh no, it should be said, by the disciples of Tianqi Gang.

And that wasn’t all, right after the front row of doors closed, two people emerged from the side door leading to the kitchen, carrying a third person on their shoulders.

Their movements were swift with a clear goal.

They strode over in three steps and placed the person they carried onto a chair with a backrest right next to Shen Youran.

The crowd below looked closely and recognized the person who was carried up.

It was none other than “Silver Dao”—Bai Ruhong.

At the moment, Bai Ruhong’s face was ashen, his entire body bound with ropes; although his eyes were open and he was breathing, the way he slumped immobile in the chair looked decidedly abnormal.

Anyone could understand that for a master like Master Bai, with just exerting his Inner Strength, he could snap iron chains, let alone mere ropes.

His current state certainly had a reason.

Shen Youran quickly resolved their confusion, “Two days ago, Master Bai, just like everyone present, drank a cup of tea that I had offered…”

Before he could finish his sentence, over half the people in the crowd had already changed their expressions, especially the people from Cao Gang, whose faces turned pale.

They all tread the martial paths, who wouldn’t understand his insinuation?

But they also harbored doubts, because among the heroes present, there were quite a few proficient with poison, yet two days ago no one noticed that they had been drugged… Of course, up until then, it was unimaginable for the Sect Leader of the noble Justice Sect, the organizer of the Youth Hero Conference, to poison the tea of the assembly…

thus, it indeed was not easy to guard against.

“Heh,” Shen Youran clearly saw through the thoughts of the crowd, he continued with a laugh, “You need not guess wildly.

The ‘thing’ added to the tea is not something you could recognize, and I won’t tell you what it is.”

Obviously, Master Shen was not like the typical successful poisoning villains seen in various martial arts dramas, confidently revealing the name of the poison he used to those who were poisoned.

Therefore, the book hints here that the substance he added is called the “Extreme Joy Gu”, a mystical toxin from Miaojiang.

Strictly speaking, this substance is not a plant or chemical product, but a very tiny organism, almost the size of tea leaf bubbles to the naked eye.

When Extreme Joy Gu enters the human body, it parasitizes in the person’s stomach and intestines, and rapidly multiplies and proliferates after about twelve hours, then through the intestinal walls it enters the bloodstream and the nervous system.

From that moment on, the person is officially “infected with the gu.”

A person infected with Extreme Joy Gu feels normal on a daily basis, but when someone nearby shakes a “Gu Bell,” the person’s nervous system and internal organs will immediately react, causing excruciating pain, worse than a bout of drug withdrawal.

It is not something that can be fought with sheer willpower; trying to endure it or attempting to combat it with Inner Strength can cause direct physical harm.

Moreover, after the attack of the Extreme Joy Gu subsides, the person temporarily falls into a state of complete paralysis, as if floating in the clouds, akin to ascension and communion with the divine, transcending the physical form, hence the name—”Extreme Joy.”

Some might have guessed by now… yes, those disciples of the Justice Sect were all infected with “Extreme Joy Gu,” which is why they are utterly compliant with Shen Youran, not daring to refuse even if Shen ordered them to confront the entire Martial Arts community.

Of course, the Gu in these disciples and the one in those martial heroes were not from the same batch.

Each batch of Extreme Joy Gu consists of several male Gu and one queen Gu, which can be considered different colonies.

The males, used for ingestion, are extremely small, coloreless, tasteless, and undetectable by ordinary means, while the queen is about half the size of a thumb.

After the queen is uniquely dried into a hard cocoon, it is placed in a small metal cage to form a “Gu Bell.”

Each “Gu Bell” can only trigger an attack in the Gu from its same colony and does not affect other colonies’ male Gu.

Even if a person infected with Gu goes deaf by damaging their own eardrums, they cannot become immune to the Gu Bell; suicide is indeed a solution, but generally, those who have experienced the ecstasy of the Extreme Joy Gu attack are reluctant to die…

their minds, as if controlled by the Gu, are desperate for the next arrival of “Extreme Joy,” repressing any thoughts of suicide, only by completely clearing the Gu from their bodies can they return to normal.

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