Terror-7 Experiment

  Ye Qin stood among the children, silently staring at the big steward on stage. He felt a sense of familiarity and took a closer look, wasn't that Zhang Da Zong Guan who accepted the money bag from Old Master Xiang at the side door of the pharmacy mansion yesterday?!

  Ye Qin took another glance at the little fatty from afar and thought to himself, I wonder how Zhang Da will take care of this little fatty.

  Ye Qin also hopes to become a medicine boy, living a carefree life, but he will not be foolish enough to sign this contract of life and death. He wants to see what this trial is all about.

  The other children were also somewhat surprised and didn't dare to go over and try it easily.

  The little fatty was very bold, and actually ran over first, "I'll do it, I'll be the first to try the medicine." Relying on his old man having given Zhang Da a lot of money before, he wasn't afraid of trying the medicine at all.

  Soon, several other children of the villagers also ran out, wanting to be the first batch of experimental children.

  Zhang Dazong saw that only a few people responded, and more than half were missing. He didn't rush, smiled and said loudly, "Those who go into the wooden house to try the medicine first will be rewarded with a fragrant and delicious big chicken leg after they finish."

  As soon as this temptation came out, dozens of children rushed out to try the medicine. These poor children were tempted by a chicken leg and took the risk.

  Zhang Dazong pointed at five or six of them, letting them go with the children of those rural gentry to sign a life-and-death contract first, then put them in a small wooden house to test the medicine.

  The small wooden house is half closed and half open, with a middle-aged person sitting inside each small wooden house supervising the trial medication.

  Ten children entered a small wooden house and, under the supervision of middle-aged people, ate something into their mouths.

  Hundreds of children outside looked from a distance, they could see a little bit of the situation inside, just not too clearly. They all stretched their necks and waited with bated breath.

  The process of taking medicine is somewhat lengthy.

  In the first half minute, there was no response from any of the ten small cottages, causing a growing sense of anxiety.

  Half a minute later, a shrill cry suddenly came from one of the small huts. The child inside rushed out frantically, foaming at the mouth, his whole body faintly flushed with red, shouting loudly, "Save me, save me!"

  However, the young men and women looked indifferent, with no intention of taking action to save anyone.

  Hundreds of children stared in shock, looking up at Director Zhang on the high platform, expecting him to take action to save people.

  The Grand Master sat stably on the stage with a smile, holding a large green bamboo pipe, inhaling and exhaling clouds of smoke, and said in a light tone: "Taking medicine is purely voluntary, life and death have nothing to do with others! Those who are poisoned by less than nine plants do not belong to our sect's medicine picking children, even if they die from poisoning, no one will save them. Only when you eat more than nine plants and become our sect's medicine picking child can you be saved."

  That child who was foaming at the mouth fell to the ground with a thud under everyone's eyes. But he didn't die immediately, instead he convulsed violently.

  The hundreds of children on the scene, even the bravest boys, were all trembling with fear, their hair standing on end. The little girls were even more pale and frightened, crying out in terror. They had already realized that this trial drug could kill people, and it was a terrible way to die.

  In less than an hour, four more children ran out of the test drug cabins, collapsing on the ground. The poison in each of them was different. Some looked normal on the surface but were unbearably itchy all over, scratching until they almost bled. Others had red boils that festered and suppurated, emitting a foul odor. A little girl stumbled out of the cabin, didn't say a word, spat out a mouthful of black blood, and fell to the ground with no breath left.

  Ye Qin looked around, and among the hundreds of children on the scene, at least half were crying loudly, and a small portion of them were so scared that they wet their pants. The remaining dozen or so brave children, like him, were also at a loss for what to do. A few children tried to escape but were caught by the Jin Yi young men surrounding them, who beat them up in public until they cried out for their parents.

  In the morning, all ten children who took the trial medicine came out.

  One of the poor children died from severe poisoning and was ordered by Zhang to be taken directly to a desolate burial mound more than ten miles outside the county town. Four who were poisoned but did not die were driven out of the mansion, if they could find a doctor in time to treat them, they might be lucky enough to survive. There were also three who had been slightly poisoned, although there was no great harm, but they too lost their qualifications to join the medicine collection hall and were all driven out of the mansion.

  That little fatty, poisoned to the point of having a face full of flower-like spots, was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot, his eyes were dull and his mouth was agape as he yelled wildly, "Dad... dad, where are you?", it seemed like he was about to be frightened out of his wits.

  Ye Qin noticed that Zhang Dazong suddenly took action, stuffing a small pill into the little fatty's mouth, and then ordered several brocade-clad youths to send the little fatty away. It seems that the old country gentleman's gift of a bag of silver leaves had some effect after all.

  Ye Qin felt a bit regretful, he had been thinking of how to give this little fatty who spat on him a good beating later, but didn't expect to be chased away so quickly.

  Those children who were driven out of the mansion were sternly warned by the young men in brocade clothes. If they dared to mention the matter of trying medicine in the pharmacy to outsiders, they would directly visit their families and give them a "visit". The children who were driven out were silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to refuse, but only nodded and promised not to mention the matter of trying medicine in the pharmacy to anyone.

  The first batch of ten people, only one passed. It was a twelve-year-old civilian boy who ate ten stalks of grass medicine and barely made it through the trial, officially becoming an apprentice in the Medicine Hall's apprentice row, rewarded with a chicken leg. The boy who passed, his face turned pale, legs went soft, whole body trembling - not because he was poisoned, but because he was excessively frightened.

  In the afternoon, continue to test medicine. This time, not a single child is willing to go up, everyone knows that this is simply playing with their lives, let alone one chicken leg, even if they are given a whole fat chicken, it's not okay. They all cried and shouted, wanting to leave.

  Zhang Dazong sneered, the door of the medicine hall, it's easy to come in, but going out is difficult.

  Several young men exchanged glances with each other early next morning.

  Those brocade-clad youths understood immediately and flew into the crowd of children, their agile hands directly grabbing ten children out, dragging them to the front of the high platform, grasping their hands, forcibly pressing down the bright red life-and-death contract handprint, sending them into the small wooden hut for testing.

  Ye Qin had been wandering and begging in the county town for more than half a year, and he had already experienced the cruelty of human hearts and learned to observe people's expressions. He kept staring at the face of the big boss and those young men, and as soon as he saw something was wrong, he immediately shrank his body back and hid among hundreds of children, avoiding being caught by those young men in time.

  His face turned pale. As for his courage, among hundreds of children, he could be considered one of the braver ones. However, facing these martial arts-wielding Jin Yi young masters, he could only stare blankly and try to hide deep within the crowd of children, doing his best to avoid being caught.