Chapter 1348: Great Inauspiciousness

Great Inauspiciousness

"This is a specialty of our Ghost Mockery Abyss, Five Poison Wine."

As a cup full of wine was placed in front of everyone, Chen Ling's voice rang out again,

"This wine is made from the fusion and fermentation of the venom of five poisonous creatures. It's quite rare; in the entire Ghost Mockery Abyss, only I can enjoy it at any time... But considering you are humans and not Calamities, and can't withstand too strong toxins, I've already had someone dilute your wine a hundred times. There shouldn't be any problems."

Sun Bumian looked at the shaking "venom" in his cup, his expression incredibly splendid...

This thing,

Can it really be drunk??

Sun Bumian was just about to open his mouth to ask something when Jiang Xiaohua on the side had already picked up his wine cup, tilted his head back, and chugged it down fiercely.

Gulp gulp gulp——

Jiang Xiaohua glanced at the empty wine cup, turned his head to look at Chen Ling, and asked tentatively:

"... Is there more?"

Chen Ling was stunned.

"Of course, you can have as much as you want."

"Um... this wine seems a bit weak. Can I drink the kind in your cup?"

He looked at Jiang Xiaohua in astonishment, but his expression quickly returned to normal, and he immediately answered:

"You can... Someone come, bring a few more cups of the original brew like mine!"

Soon, the same highly concentrated Five Poison Wine as the one in Chen Ling's cup was placed in front of Jiang Xiaohua. Jiang Xiaohua licked his lips, tilted his head back again, and drank heartily. After drinking more than half a cup in one breath, a look of intoxication surfaced on his face.

Seeing this, Chen Ling also raised his own wine cup:

"Come, I'll drink with you."

Chen Ling and Jiang Xiaohua clinked cups gently.

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng also picked up the wine cup in front of him and clinked cups with the two. After hesitating for a moment, Sun Bumian still gritted his teeth and joined in.

However, Sun Bumian had only taken half a mouthful when his facial features contorted violently, and he couldn't help but turn his head and spit it out in one mouthful.

Jian Changsheng wasn't much better off. As a mouthful of poison wine entered his throat, the burning sensation was as if it would scald his esophagus broken, making it unbearable. His expression changed consecutively; he wanted to spit it out but felt it wasn't quite appropriate, and finally swallowed it down with difficulty...

What terrible tasting wine!

The two of them looked at Chen Ling and Jiang Xiaohua, who were drinking heartily synchronously, their gazes like looking at two monsters.

"Forget it, let's eat the food." As Jian Changsheng spoke, he picked up a Charcoal-Grilled Centipede. After a long period of mental preparation, he still stuffed it into his mouth.

Looking at this table of a Five Poisons Feast, Sun Bumian really wanted to directly conjure a few candied haws to eat. Although he was almost eating until he wanted to throw up, at least that stuff was sweet...

But thinking that this table was all meticulously prepared and personally cooked by Chen Ling, he still braced himself and took a few bites.

As cup after cup of Five Poison Wine went down their stomachs, the originally constrained and shy Jiang Xiaohua had already directly stood up, drinking with Chen Ling unsteadily. Added to Jian Changsheng's duo, who were eating and complaining at the same time, and the tableware that occasionally screamed in alarm, the originally depressing and lonely Underground Palace became briefly lively.

No one knew how long this dinner banquet of reunion after a long separation lasted.

The sun couldn't be seen in the Ghost Mockery Abyss, making it impossible to judge the time. By the time they dispersed, the few of them were a bit tired.

"The rooms for resting have already been tidied up for you. I'll have someone take you there in a while... Rest early today." Chen Ling also had a drunk look on his face as he said to the three.

"What about you? Aren't you resting?"

"Me?" Chen Ling laughed. "I am the King of the Ghost Mockery Abyss. At this hour, I should go patrol the Calamity territory, and chat with those Rank 8 Poison Chiefs along the way... You don't need to wait for me."

"Patrolling the territory... tsk tsk." Jian Changsheng spoke sarcastically. "The Great King puts on quite adequate airs."

"What? Jealous?"

"Jealous my ass."

"Stop chatting, hurry up and go... Hearts, where's the restroom? I think I have a bit of diarrhea." Sun Bumian clutched his stomach on the side with an ugly expression, his tone a bit urgent.

"Next to your room. I'll have the centipede take you there."

Led by the small centipede, the three parted ways with Chen Ling and walked straight into the depths of the Underground Palace.

"Clubs, can you move your legs yourself?"

Jian Changsheng supported Jiang Xiaohua with half his shoulder, speaking somewhat helplessly.

At this time, Jiang Xiaohua was already so drunk he couldn't walk. After all, he wasn't a Calamity; even he couldn't endure wildly drinking original brew Five Poison Wine. His footsteps were unsteady, tottering, but at this moment, a rare smile was spread across his face.

"My legs aren't listening to orders... Spades..." Jiang Xiaohua said softly, feeling wronged.

"That's because you're poisoned numb!"

"You guys hurry up! I can't hold it anymore!"

While speaking, Sun Bumian had already found the restroom and rushed in without hesitation.

Seeing this, Jian Changsheng snorted, "Getting diarrhea just from eating a few bugs, truly delicate..."

Jian Changsheng and Jiang Xiaohua returned to the room. Three beds were already arranged inside, but there were no bedsheets or quilt covers on the beds, only three thick stacks of spider webs... Artificially woven bedding was non-existent in the Ghost Mockery Abyss. Even if the former Calamity of Mockery had collected bedding, it was far from enough for three people.

Fortunately, Jian Changsheng and the others didn't care about this. They had survived in the Gray World for half a year; even if there was only a flat ground, it was enough for them to sleep on.

"Hiss... this isn't right!"

Just as Jian Changsheng put Jiang Xiaohua down, his expression abruptly changed, reaching out to clutch his own stomach. "I seem to have a bit of a stomachache too..."

Jiang Xiaohua: ...

Jian Changsheng immediately rushed out of the room, went to the restroom next door, and knocked on the door loudly!

"What?!" Sun Bumian's wary voice rang out from inside.

"Diamonds, are you done yet! I also want to go to the restroom!"

"I just got in, wait a bit."

"Wait how long??"

"I don't know, ten-odd minutes probably."

"..."

Jian Changsheng gritted his teeth tightly, his face turning a bit pale. After struggling for a moment, he still gave up waiting for Sun Bumian, turned around, and dashed towards the outside of the Underground Palace... He couldn't hold it in anymore. Fortunately, this was the Ghost Mockery Abyss, and outside was all Wilderness and Poisonous Insects; he could resolve it anywhere he found a spot.

More than ten minutes after Jian Changsheng left, Sun Bumian finally walked out of the restroom, feeling relaxed.

"Spades, you go ahead... Hmm?"

Sun Bumian looked around the corridor and couldn't find Jian Changsheng, so he walked into the room in confusion.

"Where's Spades?"

"He seems to have gone out to the restroom." Jiang Xiaohua answered while lying peacefully on the bed.

"Went out alone? Isn't he afraid of getting his butt bitten by Poisonous Insects while going to the restroom?" Sun Bumian shrugged and directly picked a bed to sit down.

He weighed the "spider web quilt" in his hand. Although it looked thick, it wasn't actually windproof. Not to mention this Underground Palace was already incomparably cold and damp; if an Ordinary Person came to sleep here, they truly wouldn't be able to bear it.

"Great Inauspiciousness..." Sun Bumian sighed. "Fortunately, I can suppress the ferocious Aura here a bit. Otherwise, something would really happen."

Jiang Xiaohua thought for a moment, "Would it be better to have Hearts build a new Underground Palace in another part of the Ghost Mockery Abyss?"

"... No."

Sun Bumian shook his head. His gaze seemed able to penetrate the nothingness, looking complexly towards a certain place in the abyss...

"I only realized while eating that this Underground Palace itself isn't actually inauspicious... It's inauspicious because it has been polluted by the existence of a true Great Inauspiciousness."

"What's inauspicious isn't this Underground Palace itself..."

"It's Hearts."