novelhk Chapter 5 Heavy Metals and Blue-Eyed Square Pupils
Chapter 5 Heavy Metals and Blue-Eyed Square Pupils
Villa area.
In the deep courtyard, a Taoist priest sat cross-legged in the pavilion.
He closed his eyes tightly, his soul seemingly wandering to another world.
As time passed, the temperature around the body gradually decreased, and fine ice crystals began to form on the hem and collar of the clothes.
This is one of the unusual phenomena that occur when visualizing the Frozen Hell.
At this point, you can be considered to have truly entered the realm of visualization.
After a long while, Huang Bai slowly opened his eyes.
He went into the room and looked at his face in the mirror.
His face was pale, and the area around his eyes was slightly dark, as if he had drawn an eyeliner on. His pupils appeared an eerie emerald green in the sunlight. When he stretched out his hands, black lines appeared on his fingernails.
"Heavy metal poisoning..."
This is a symptom of heavy metal poisoning; this external alchemy practice has some side effects.
"In the end, perhaps the only way to get rid of the effects of heavy metals is to abandon the physical body or find a way to cultivate the physical body."
Of course, giving up cultivation is not an option.
This type of heavy metal poisoning is not poisoning in the medical sense; it can cause dizziness, hallucinations, and endanger life.
Under the control of visualization, this situation will only erupt very late and will not affect oneself in the short term.
So there's still plenty of time; we can think of a solution gradually.
Panda Express restaurant, office.
A woman with a lithe figure, a high ponytail, and a heroic air leaned against the wall.
"Hu Bayi, you really impress me! Where did you get the capital to open such a big restaurant?" Shirley Yang said with a smile.
"We're not the bosses, we just take some shares and work for the boss." Hu Bayi poured Shirley Yang a cup of tea.
He subconsciously touched his pocket, where there was a small box containing a ring.
He plans to propose today.
boom!
The door was suddenly pushed open.
"Old Hu, Staff Officer Yang, let's go back to China." Fatty Wang said breathlessly, "There's a big frying pan on the grasslands, let's go check it out together."
"Little Fatty, are you missing a screw in your head?" Hu Bayi stood up and slammed his hand on the table, almost spitting in Fatty Wang's face. "What did Big Gold Tooth say this time? Are you just bored and have nothing better to do than toil in the dirt instead of living a perfectly good life?"
Panda Express gives out monthly dividends, and they're opening another branch next month. They'll both be store managers then, and luxury cars and mansions are beckoning them. He couldn't understand why Fatty Wang insisted on going back to his old ways, especially the dangerous business of tomb raiding.
Fatty Wang paused for a moment, then took out several photos.
"Xiao Ding might still be alive."
The vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia came into view first, and Hu Bayi's thoughts instantly returned to twenty years ago.
A group of young people, at an age when they fear nothing, gathered together and prepared to head to the forbidden site on the grassland, the Tomb of the Thousand-Year-Old Goddess.
The young man, full of vigor and ambition, charged forward without hesitation, never expecting that he would stumble into a deadly place.
They toppled the eerie Khitan statue, and in an instant, swarms of vampire grasshoppers appeared, like a black wind that blotted out the sky on the grassland.
Wherever it went, not a blade of grass grew, and people and animals turned into skeletons.
The group fell into the Thousand-Year-Old Goddess Tomb, where they saw the mummified corpses of Japanese soldiers and the spider lily statues in the tomb. As soon as midnight passed, a strange red light spread throughout the tomb, and the mummified Japanese soldiers mysteriously came back to life, engaging in a fierce battle with the group.
In the end, only Fatty Wang and Hu Bayi escaped the entire youth group, while his first love, Ding Sitian, remained forever in the Thousand-Year Goddess Tomb.
Years later, in the dead of night, Hu Bayi still felt lingering fear about it.
"No, no, no, twenty years have passed, Xiao Ding is dead." Hu Bayi shoved the photo into Fatty Wang's hand. "You wake up too."
"Okay, I understand." Fatty Wang glanced at the two of them, then suddenly seemed to remember something. He didn't say anything more and silently left.
In the following days, Fatty Wang mysteriously disappeared, and Hu Bayi received a videotape.
"Old Hu, I'm not going back for the money, but to settle a long-standing issue from back then. Don't worry, I'll be back soon."
"The tomb raiding trio lives together, dies apart. I can't abandon Little Fatty." Hu Bayi turned to Shirley Yang. "This is the last time."
"Together." Shirley Yang nodded, standing firmly beside Hu Bayi.
"I'm going to ask Brother Huang for a leave of absence."
"I'll go too."
Shirley Yang was very curious about the Huang-Bai brothers that the two mentioned. She had only heard the name Huang-Bai, but had never seen the real Huang-Bai.
"Alright, but there's one thing to be careful about. Huang Bai is a Taoist priest, and his way of doing things is rather eccentric. Don't offend him later."
"Okay."
Shirley Yang became even more curious, wondering just how strange it was that warranted Hu Bayi's repeated reminders.
Hu Bayi got into Shirley Yang's car and drove towards the villa in the suburbs.
The scenery along the way rushed past on both sides, and the bustling streets turned into sparsely populated suburbs.
On the way, Hu Bayi gave a general account of how the three of them made their fortunes.
Shirley Yang turned her head, incredulously asking, "Your store essentially makes money off fifty dollars?"
"That's right, it's still my money."
Shirley Yang thought that Hu Bayi and Shirley had hooked up with a rich second-generation Chinese, but she didn't expect things to turn out this way. No wonder Hu Bayi admired this person so much.
The car stopped at the villa, the villa gate was tightly closed, and Hu Bayi stepped forward to enter the password.
Whoosh...
The door slowly opened.
What comes into view is a secluded front garden with winding paths.
Flowers bloom in clusters, greenery abounds, and bamboo stands tall and graceful; bluestone paves the ground, tree shadows sway gently, and fish and shrimp frolic in the pond.
There was a pavilion by the pond, where a long-haired Taoist priest sat cross-legged refining elixirs. Beside him was an eight-sided bronze sword, and a toad in a cage was croaking loudly.
Shirley Yang was surprised to find that Huang Bai was so young.
Seemingly sensing their arrival, Huang Bai slowly opened his eyes. In an instant, the two felt as if they were being watched by an ancient ferocious beast.
"Hello, my name is Shirley Yang, nice to meet you." Shirley Yang was briefly surprised, but then extended her hand generously.
"Hello there."
"Excuse me, Mr. Huang, what are you doing?" Shirley Yang glanced at the still steaming alchemy furnace.
"Refine the elixir, administer the powder." Huang Bai's words were concise and to the point. He had asked almost everyone who came, and he had unconsciously gotten used to it.
"So that's how it is..." Shirley Yang noticed the yellowish-white emerald green pupils, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Hu Bayi noticed the concerns of those around him and said, "Speak your mind boldly, Brother Huang is no outsider."
"Please feel free to speak."
"I was a volunteer with the Holy Cross organization of the United Nations and I have systematically studied medical knowledge..." Shirley Yang was not very familiar with Huang Bai, so she folded her nails before speaking.
"Excuse my bluntness, but Mr. Huang's symptoms resemble chronic heavy metal poisoning. If left untreated, it could lead to multiple organ failure, tremors, respiratory failure, pulmonary edema, and other complications."
Shirley Yang wasn't quite sure at first, but after seeing the scene of Huang Bai refining pills, she was pretty much right.
"I assure you, Shirley Yang isn't exaggerating. Brother Huang, you should still go see a doctor." As a friend, Hu Bayi didn't want Huang Bai to have any health problems.
"This is a scientifically based conclusion," Shirley Young said.
"From a scientific point of view, it's correct, but from a metaphysical point of view..." Huang Bai pointed to his greenish pupils, which appeared square under the sunlight. "This is called 'Rejuvenating Elixir, Azure Eyes and Square Pupils'."