Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 74 - 67: The Driver Who Sneaks Out With the Boss’s Car to Show Off?
Ring ring ring ring...
The phone rang.
The chairman is calling already?
Next to the dining table, Bai Mo looked at the half-eaten lamb stew in his bowl. After answering the call, the lamb stew would probably be cold, right? How could it be eaten cold?
He pouted, slightly frustrated, but still answered the call.
On the other end, the chairman’s slightly hoarse voice came through.
"Expert Bai Mo, this matter is difficult for me to speak about.
"It’s truly embarrassing!
"Here’s the thing... Recently, we want to cultivate some star members, aiming to turn a few young people into role models, let them show up internally, to inspire our young people.
"Oh right, the ones we want to cultivate, you know them quite well!
"It’s your high school classmates, Zhang Shan, Lu Yang, and Yu Tingting..."
Bai Mo listened carefully and slowly understood.
Chairman Chen Shu’s intention was to attribute the "successful interception of the Dark World assassin" to Zhang Shan and others, making them role models and idolizing them.
Although he didn’t quite understand the intention, for Bai Mo, it didn’t matter, and he even welcomed it with pleasure.
"... Expert Bai Mo, what do you think about this matter?"
Bai Mo answered.
"No problem. Do Zhang Shan and the others know about this? Have they agreed?"
From the other end of the phone came the chairman’s hearty laughter.
"How could they not agree?
"Thank you so much for this, Expert Bai Mo, you helped me a lot. I will send you a red envelope later as a token of appreciation!"
Red envelope?
Bai Mo paused slightly, recalling he hadn’t added the chairman on WeChat yet.
Should he add him?
It’s not really for the red envelope, mainly to keep in touch in the future...
Before speaking, he heard the chairman changed the subject.
"Actually, speaking of which, the committee has seriously researched those flies and really discovered something interesting. I’ll have the secretary send you the document to take a look later."
After exchanging a few polite remarks, they hung up the call.
Bai Mo frowned, sitting next to the dining table, just about to ask Fang Xiaoyu for the chairman’s WeChat number when he immediately received a bank deposit message.
[Your account xxxx has received 100,000 yuan...]
Huh?
This!
Bai Mo nodded, suddenly realizing, no wonder the chairman didn’t mention adding on WeChat, it turned out the red envelope was slightly large, WeChat red envelope didn’t support it!
Feeling pleased, he checked the bank balance again, then covered the now-cold lamb stew and pushed it aside.
Opening the food delivery app, he decisively ordered a premium lamb stew and added three portions of lamb!
...
Not long after, the new lamb stew was delivered, Bai Mo opened the delivery packaging, took a sip of the hot soup, and picked up his chopsticks to eat.
The phone rang again, but it was Fang Xiaoyu sharing an internal document.
[Ancient Immortal Dynasty Dance Performance]
What?
Dance performance?
Is this the new discovery the chairman mentioned?
Bai Mo opened the document.
"Sacrifice is an important part of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty culture, and dance is a crucial part of sacrificial activities... Through our research, we believe that the sacrificial dances of the Ancient Immortal Kingdom were not entirely performed by humans, but also involved a large number of animals, such as nimble foxes, monkeys, distinctive spiders, snakes, and flying birds and insects..."
The article included illustrations, showing simple drawings in the style of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty.
In the images, there were groups of foxes, monkeys, and poisonous snakes... dancing around the tall sacrificial altar.
In the sky, birds flew in formation, creating various ceremonial patterns.
There were also vast clusters of dense black dots forming shapes of long horns, three-eyed, and big-mouthed strange masks.
Bai Mo roughly understood, so those in the sacrificial activities, dancing in formation, and forming strange masks in the sky, were flies?
Below the illustrations, the document continued.
"...We had never considered those black dots to be flies. Because, it’s hardly possible for flies to form various shapes in formation. Flies have low intelligence and small brain capacity, they are difficult to train. Moreover, it wasn’t just one or two flies forming patterns; they numbered in the millions?
"It wasn’t until recently, when we cracked a case where souls were residing in fly bodies for assassination that we came up with new hypotheses. The flies of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty didn’t need to be trained; they poured human slave souls into fly bodies. Thus, training the flies wasn’t necessary, as only humans needed training...
"...Each human slave could foster a fly, taking care of its daily needs, and during sacrifices, the human soul could reside inside the fly body...
"...So, the thousands upon thousands of flies forming strange mask patterns in the sky above the sacrificial altar each held a human soul inside."
The document included detailed research and argumentation, which Bai Mo didn’t read carefully, but it all seemed inexplicably peculiar to him.
The assassin who almost caused the Immortal Book Committee to challenge was only one among the flies used to form gigantic patterns during a sacrificial ceremony in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty?
...
The sky over Fox Mountain was still overcast with clouds.
In the howling wind, on the square, the medicine furnace was boiling, releasing "gurgle gurgle" bubbles.
Five fox apprentices stood cautiously on the high structure, and before the medicinal soup cooled, they used a ladle to scoop the soup from the tripod furnace, pouring it into the Bronze Bottle.
This medicinal soup was very special and had to be canned while hot. Once cooled, it would transform into a different state!
"Be careful, this kind of medicinal soup is very dangerous, don’t let it touch you."
Bai Mo stood nearby, watching silently, gently reminding them. Vigilantly, he would act immediately if something seemed wrong.
After some time, bottle after bottle of medicinal soup was finally filled.
