Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 363 Another Poisonous Trick
The forest of vines is entirely covered with vines. The further you go in, the taller and more crisscrossed the vines are. A vine can be hundreds of feet long, and a leaf can cover half the sky. Some of the colorful vines can release poisonous gas, which can make invading monsters nearby become dazed, their limbs weak, and vomit continuously. Some vines can even quickly wrap around passing monsters, drag them into the tree trunks, and devour them. In addition, there are sudden attacks from poisonous pythons and poisonous insects hidden in the vines, making it difficult for the monsters around to guard against them. In less than a day, the beast army lost hundreds of them. It was really extremely dangerous.

At night, the Beast Army chose to stop and spend the night in a relatively safe area. The Ghost Guard said to Wuzhang: "Just as the Imperial Master expected, this Heavenly Dog has also returned to defend Chiyan City with 20,000 elite soldiers. Now there are only more than 60,000 people left outside Qingqiu City. If we fight back now, we can cooperate with the Empress tomorrow night and definitely defeat their coalition."

Wuzhan was silent for a moment and said, "If we go back now, we still won't get the Queen's trust. If she closes the city gates and waits, the general's army will be besieged by the coalition forces and may be destroyed in an instant. Moreover, the two teams have only been away for a day. If they find us in Qingqiu City, they will definitely turn back. If that happens, our previous plan will be in vain."

The ghost guard said anxiously, "Do we really have to go through this damn vine forest? We have lost hundreds of people today. If we go further, I am afraid that my army will be buried here. If so, we might as well fight back. Maybe the empress will believe us!"

Wuzhan chuckled and said, "Of course we need to go back, but not tomorrow, and there is no need to go deep into this vine forest. We need to wait for the right opportunity. It would be best if the coalition forces take the initiative to attack the city. When they are exhausted, we will attack from behind and they will surely be defeated!"

"Why would they take the initiative to attack the city when it's obvious that they want to trap the people in the city to death?"

"If the coalition forces are cut off from supplies, imagine what will happen?"

The nine ghost guards were all confused and looked at Wuzhan in confusion, "This is a good idea, but their food is heavily guarded. If we attack them, won't we expose our whereabouts? Moreover, they have a large amount of food delivered there every few days. Even if we rob their food, it will be replenished in a few days."

Wuzhan shook his head slightly and said, "No need for a sneak attack, just cut off their supply lines."

The ghost guard sighed and said, "Military Advisor, I know you have a lot of ideas, so don't beat around the bush. I can't keep up with you, so just speak directly!"

"Poison."

"Poisoning, where does the poison come from, how to poison it?"

Wuzhan pointed to the dark vine forest ahead and said, "There are poisonous vines and poisonous insects everywhere here. If we collect them and put them into their meat pool, many enemy soldiers will be poisoned to death. Even if they don't die, they won't dare to eat the stored food and will have to throw it away. Next, we just need to poison the supplies that pass by for several days along the coalition's supply line. They will have no choice but to look at the food and not dare to eat it."

"Only you humans can come up with such despicable means. It's extremely despicable, extremely despicable!"

……

Two days passed in a row. Several demon emperors and generals were drinking and having fun in the coalition army's tent. Suddenly, a shark-headed man rushed in from outside the tent and reported, "Something bad has happened. The meat the soldiers eat has been poisoned. The barracks are in chaos. Please go and check it out, Dragon King!"

The tent suddenly became quiet. Everyone stood up and quickly walked out of the tent. In the light of the campfire, they could see monsters lying on the ground and vomiting. Some monsters even rolled on the ground in pain, knocking over the surrounding tents. The scene was extremely chaotic.

Ao Yin and the other two Demon Emperors took their generals and quickly rushed to the meat pond to check. All they saw along the way were poisoned and wailing demon beasts. Chong Yue came to the meat pond with a heavy face, took out a big fish, sniffed it, and said in a deep voice: "The meat here has also been poisoned. Who the hell did this!" The demon beasts guarding the meat pond knelt on the ground in fear and dared not look up.

"It must have been done by that old vixen Bei Xin. Only she could use such despicable and dirty means!" Wu Li cursed angrily.

Ao Yin concentrated and said, "Our food is heavily guarded, and all the meat pools are poisoned. How could we not be discovered?" He turned to the shark-headed general beside him and said, "Bring all the orcs guarding the meat pools here!"

After receiving the order, the general led his soldiers away. Ao Yin then said to the skinny old man with a tortoise shell who was checking behind him, "Ban Sui, have you found out what the poison is?"

Ban Sui said, "This poison comes from the vine forest. I do have a way to break it, but there are too many poisoned soldiers. I'm afraid I don't have enough herbs. However, if the poison is vomited out from the stomach in time, it will not endanger life. Please ask the Dragon King to order the poisoned soldiers to stand upside down and hold their throats to clear the food in their stomachs."

The three demon kings all gave orders according to Bansui's intention. For a moment, the scene in the beast army camp was particularly spectacular. It was full of demon beasts that were standing upside down and vomiting hard, but the smell was sour and stinky.

Not long after, the shark-headed general came over with thousands of monsters and knelt in front of everyone, some of whom were in excruciating pain.

Ao Yin shouted, "If you don't point out who poisoned us, you will all be executed. Tell me now!"

The kneeling monster looked around, not daring to breathe. It had been a long time since any monster stood up to speak.

Ao Yin gestured to the general, and the general, without saying a word, swung his sword and killed more than a dozen monsters in a row, scaring the rest of the monsters so much that they lay on the ground and dared not look up.

Ao Yin continued: "Recall carefully what happened last night. Did any strange orcs appear?"

After a long while, none of the monsters kneeling on the ground dared to say a word, and even those poisoned monsters endured the pain. Zhong Yue looked at Ao Yin in confusion and asked, "Could there be a problem during the transportation?"

Ao Yin said, "This batch of food was delivered a few days ago. If there was a problem, it would have happened last night. Why did we have to wait until tonight? Moreover, how could problems occur in all three of our families at the same time? Moreover, Qingqiu City is under siege by us. Let alone them, we would have discovered even a fly flying out."

Zhongyue asked, "The Dragon King suspects that one of us is a traitor?"

Ao Yin did not answer, but made another gesture, and the general chopped down several more monsters. This time, one of the monsters stood up, pointed at the monster next to him and whimpered, "He peed in the meat pool last night!"

The monster beside him jumped up, knocked down the speaking monster with a punch, and said angrily: "You lied too, how dare you say that to me!" The two of them instantly started fighting. The general slowly came to his side and slashed with a knife, and the two monsters fell to the ground.

At this time, a demon beast narrated: "It rained last night, and the rain was poisonous!" Pointing at the festering skin on his shoulder, he shouted. "Raining?" Zhongyue asked in confusion, "It was sunny last night, how could it rain?"

Ao Yin thought for a moment and said, "Only by dropping poison in the air at night can it be difficult to be discovered. It seems that we are still careless and let the flies fly in." He looked at the monster kneeling on the ground and said to the general, "Kill it!" He turned and left, and heard screams behind him.

Zhongyue and Wuli followed. Zhongyue asked, "Since she has already poisoned him, will she break out tonight?"

"She was seriously injured. If she dared to come out, she would be courting death. Once she dies, her army will instantly collapse. This king hopes that she will come to kill us tonight, but it is also necessary to be prepared."

……

The night finally passed peacefully, and the people of Qingqiu City did not take the opportunity to attack. This was something the Demon Emperors had not expected. They had been on guard all night in vain, and most of the monsters were poisoned, so the coalition forces were very exhausted.

Zhongyue looked at the towering city wall and said, "Could it not be that old fox who did it? It seems that they didn't notice it either."

Ao Yin said: "I have been thinking about it all night. If she did it, it means she was prepared. Otherwise, she would never have prepared so many poisons in such a short time. Maybe we forgot something. Maybe there is a traitor among us, and he told her all our plans."

Zhongyue whispered, "You said I have ulterior motives?"

"That may not be the case. I suspect that something is wrong with his subordinates. We have seen his subordinates. They are all drunkards and lack discipline. Such people are most likely to have problems. Perhaps this incident was used by the traitor to show his goodwill to Bie Xin and gain his trust. It would not be wrong for us to be on guard against it."

"What the Dragon King said is true. I don't think Wuli would betray his friends. He is just careless and reckless."

Ao Yin turned around, looked at Zhong Yue with a smile and said, "The one who can reach our position is careless. Emperor Jin said this, do you believe it yourself?"

Zhongyue laughed loudly, "The Dragon King sees things more clearly than I do. I will have to rely on him from now on!"

At this time, Wu Li rushed to the two men and said, "I paid attention to the fresh meat that was just delivered today and checked it. Sure enough, I found the poison again. After interrogation, I didn't find anything wrong along the way. I suspect that there is a traitor among our subordinates!"

The two were shocked when they heard this, then looked at each other. Zhongyue said, "It seems that they can only be Chidi's subordinates. Transporting supplies is your business, and it's impossible for us to interfere!"

Wu Li glared at Zhong Yue and said angrily, "Absolutely impossible. I know my people well and they will never do such a thing."

Zhong Yue laughed and said, "Is Chidi too confident? If Chidi's subordinates defected to that witch, how could Jindi easily detect it?"

Wu Li said: "You might as well just say that I was in collusion with that witch and that I was the one who ordered it!"

Zhong Yue hurriedly said: "Chidi calm down, how dare I doubt Chidi, Chidi is overthinking!"

Ao Yin stroked his beard, squinted his eyes, waved his hands, and thought: "Since we can work together, we should not doubt easily. Besides, this matter is a bit strange. I suspect that the food of our two families has also been poisoned. Let's send someone to investigate now."

……

Ban Sui bowed and entered the tent. He came to Ao Yin and said, "The food brought from the Dragon Palace was also poisoned. I suspect it was the work of the Ghost Guards, because the poisons all came from the Ivy Forest. Currently, only his people are hiding there. I just don't understand. Although the poison is not strong, the method of extracting and preparing it is very profound. Based on my understanding of him, he definitely can't do it. Moreover, judging from his actions when he led the troops back, it is not his character. I suspect there is someone else secretly assisting him, and this person is the most dangerous."

Ao Yin pondered and said, "I also thought of what you said. His behavior is indeed abnormal. I don't know what happened over there that allowed him to escape. After returning, he changed the situation of the war before he met us, involving so many of our troops. At present, we are running out of food. I have asked Shargun to go back and be responsible for delivering food. If there is another mistake, we can only withdraw. I didn't expect that such a thing would happen when we were about to accomplish our mission."

Ban Sui said: "Since the Dragon King also thinks so, should we send a team into the vine forest to wipe them out?"

"If we send another team, we will be at a disadvantage in terms of manpower. If Bexin opens the gate to fight, even if we win, we will suffer heavy casualties and be seriously injured. She did not launch a night attack last night, which meant that we retreated in the face of difficulty."

"Since we know that they are hiding in the vine forest, why don't we send an order to the two teams to return, or enter the vine forest to encircle and suppress them?"

"The ghost guards are hiding their whereabouts. This is just our speculation. How could those two believe it? At this time, they are all thinking about how to protect themselves. How could they care about this? Besides, the vine forest is too big and dangerous. It is difficult to find where they are hiding."

Ban Sui said: "The Dragon King does not need to worry. With the Xuanlong Saint Immortal in the Heavenly Palace, Dongsheng will be in the Dragon King's pocket sooner or later."

Ao Yin sighed sadly, "This fourth brother of mine, although he is my biological brother, he has always liked to be alone since he was young. His personality is very different from ours. In addition, he became a disciple very early. He left us at a very young age to become a disciple of Taidou Immortal Venerable and devoted himself to enlightenment. For so many years, he has never asked about the affairs of the Dragon Clan. Perhaps he has already forgotten me in his heart."

"How is this possible? After all, we are brothers in arms and blood relatives. In times of crisis, the Saint Immortal will definitely help us."

"Whether I can help you or not depends on this time."

(End of this chapter)