The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#110 - Mysterious aroma

Na Chazi's angry roar startled many people awake.

However, before they could fully open their eyes, they all found themselves in trouble, without exception, and even Lu Jing had no time to save them.

Because seeing the gate tightly closed, those rats actually started an aerial assault, first climbing onto the roof, then squeezing through the thatch, jumping down from above in a frenzied rush.

Before long, screams of agony rose and fell throughout the village.

At this critical moment, Lu Jing's two years of rigorous eye and ear training came into play.

Standing in the center of the house, holding his Zen staff, he held his breath and concentrated, able to detect the rats the moment they pounced at him from any position or angle.

Then, with a swing of the Zen staff, he directly smashed them into a pulp!

Lu Jing felt like he had returned to his childhood, playing a whack-a-mole game in an arcade.

For the moment, he was handling the 'whack-a-mole' game with ease; any rat that dared to show its head was met with a devastating blow, splattering the walls and floor, filling the house with a thick, pungent stench.

However, Lu Jing's heart couldn't relax.

Because he knew that, like the whack-a-mole machine in an arcade, the number of rats in the house would only increase with time, and their appearance rate would only get faster and faster!

Especially once everyone else in the village was dead, all the rats would swarm towards him, and even with his hand speed, it would be difficult to keep up.

So, he still had to break out!

In fact, with Lu Jing's current lightness skill, as long as he carefully observed his landing spots in advance and avoided walking on the ground as much as possible, these rats wouldn't pose too much of a problem.

The reason he hadn't moved yet was because of the porcelain doll girl standing in the open space not far away.

She reminded him of Jie Liancheng from the bizarre banquet two years ago.

Lu Jing couldn't figure out if this girl was a human or a ghost, and he originally wanted to observe her behavior patterns first, but Na Chazi, perhaps sensing danger, suddenly drew his knife and slashed at the porcelain doll girl.

His slash triggered a rat swarm riot, causing the situation to completely spiral out of control and disrupting Lu Jing's plans.

However, although the time was short, Lu Jing had still figured out a few things.

If the obsession in the previous book harmed people by triggering the target's desire to improve their internal cultivation, then this porcelain doll girl probably triggered the subsequent rat swarm feast by marrying someone, or rather, the target had to agree to marry her.

At the same time, once she herself was attacked, this restriction would be broken.

The rat swarm she summoned also began to indiscriminately attack the humans around her.

Unfortunately, apart from showing off a bit of charm, she hadn't made a move from beginning to end; Lu Jing had no idea whether her own skills were high or low, or whether she had any other strange spells.

However, he knew that he couldn't delay any longer, otherwise, not only Yan Guangbo and the others, but the entire village would probably be devoured by this group of rats.

Lu Jing had already made up his mind to go out and meet the porcelain doll girl first.

He wanted to see if he could find a way to control this group of completely crazed rats through her, after all, these rats here were all summoned by her.

If he really couldn't beat them, he still had the 'Ji Zi Yi Shi Liu' key; he could jump into the well and see where this key would teleport him to, but in that case, it would also mean abandoning the others.

Lu Jing was about to kick open the door, but the next moment, he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.

It was a very difficult scent to describe, like dozens of flowers and herbs mixed together, with a hint of maltose sweetness, entering his nose and involuntarily calming his mind, even producing a hint of laziness.

Lu Jing's movements slowed down for a moment, but he quickly became vigilant again and held his breath.

However, he then noticed that the rats around him seemed to be affected by the fragrance as well, gradually breaking free from their previous manic state, and after jumping down from the roof, they no longer attacked him, but scurried around the house.

Lu Jing hesitated for a moment, and although he felt a little disgusted, he didn't use his Zen staff to flatten them.

However, before he could catch his breath, he heard a series of rapid knocks on the door.

Da, da, da!

Lu Jing thought of something, and his expression changed involuntarily.

He walked to the wooden door and looked out through the crack again, and sure enough, he saw the porcelain doll girl standing outside his door with a look of horror on her face.

"Young hero, young hero, please open the door quickly! So many rats have suddenly appeared in the village! They bit my man to death, and they are still chasing after me! Can you let me come into your house to hide? I am willing to dedicate myself to you and be your servant!"

The porcelain doll girl pleaded outside the door.

Her voice was simply heartbreaking.

Of course, Lu Jing wasn't so righteous that he would just agree to her request and feed himself to the rats.

So now he was in a dilemma.

Just as he was hesitating, Lu Jing noticed that dust was falling from the wall on his left.

He looked over there and found that three more words had appeared on it.

— Promise her.

Seeing that Lu Jing didn't react, another line of words appeared below.

— Promise her, only then can you survive, and the other people in this village can also survive!

"Who are you?" Lu Jing asked.

However, no more words appeared on the wall after that, and it was unknown whether the person couldn't hear him or didn't want to answer.

Lu Jing knew that the person who left the words on the wall and the person who released the strange fragrance to calm the rat swarm were probably the same person, and it seemed that their purpose was to eliminate this disaster.

This couldn't help but remind Lu Jing of the black-clothed man in Yan Wangxiao's notes who had saved him from the encirclement of the Qinglian Sword Sect and given him the 'Ji Zi Yi Shi Liu' key.

The people who were helping them tonight and that black-clothed man probably came from the same organization, and their style of doing things seemed to be quite upright.

Therefore, Lu Jing thought for a moment and decided to risk trusting that person once.

At this time, the porcelain doll girl's knocking on the door had become louder and louder, and it was about to break the door apart.

The next moment, the door finally opened in front of her.