Chapter 148: Chapter 107: Mushroom Father, the Plant Mechanism of Fox Mountain

The aunt instinctively stopped in her tracks, turned around, and saw a group of young people with peculiar expressions, and the fat red fox, displaying a look of surprise and anger on her face.

The wind blew, causing trash bags in the alley to fly away, rendering the place eerily quiet.

In her heart, the aunt was hesitating—should she lie down or make a run for it?

Seeing Bai Mo had already taken out his phone, seemingly recording her... she no longer hesitated, spun around, and ran, extremely quick-footed!

Zhang Shan was laughing from exasperation.

"Damn it, can’t deal with Xue Yong, but I can definitely handle you!"

His blood surged, burst forth forcefully, charged ahead swiftly, and closed the distance in the blink of an eye, capturing the aunt!

...

West State University, in an office.

The commander-in-chief of this operation, Committee Member Gu Lin, stood by the windowsill, listening to a phone call, with a slightly troubled expression.

"Aunt stealing the Immortal Beast?

"What nonsense is this?

"How old is that aunt anyway?"

If she’s too old, handling her wouldn’t be easy.

Maybe pacify Expert Bai Mo a bit, offer him some compensation, and let this matter slide?

Right now, the most important thing is to find that item! If complications arise, things could get prolonged and complicated!

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door and came in.

"Committee Member Gu Lin, our reconnaissance discovered that the aunt is suspicious.

"She isn’t a resident nearby, she only arrived a few days ago.

"Moreover, she didn’t come alone; her group consists of twenty-one people, disguised as college students, trash-collecting aunts, tourists, etc., and they came as a team."

Committee Member Gu Lin furrowed his brow.

Is the situation taking a strange turn?

Could they possibly be teaming up to steal the Immortal Beast?

Is it related to that item?

Was the aunt’s intention to steal the Immortal Beast just a sudden impulse?

"Luckily, our committee members are scattered nearby; let’s deploy and capture this group. Interrogate them one by one and match their statements to see what exactly they’re up to."

...

A few unused offices at West State University were lent to the Immortal Technique Committee to serve as temporary activity rooms. Although the decorations were simple, they were neatly organized and well-kept.

In one room, Bai Mo sat on the sofa, holding Black Gloves, stroking its chubby head.

"Don’t worry, no one like that could ever take you away."

Black Gloves buried its head in its master’s embrace, still feeling aggrieved. It never wanted to come back to this place again! Though the roast chicken and fried chicken racks were very tasty, could the master just buy them back next time, please?

Zhang Shan, Lu Yang, and others sat nearby, glancing at their phones, expressing astonishment.

"This aunt is actually involved in a group crime.

"Total of twenty-one people, including men, women, young, and old, came together.

"Now they’ve all been captured, sent for interrogation in the room next door."

Group crime?

Bai Mo furrowed his brow, what was the purpose of the group coming?

After a short while, Zhang Shan stared at the group chat, updating on interrogation progress.

"Among the twenty-one people, there are twenty casual workers and one foreman.

"The foreman picked up the job from the dark web, hard to catch the employer.

"The key to this job... speaking of which, it’s really bizarre!"

In the office, Lu Yang, Zhang Shan, and Yu Tingting all raised their heads, looking at each other.

"The job they took involved cutting a wound on the sole with a knife, applying several herbs, and walking around the vicinity of West State University.

"If the sole aches at a certain place, they can report it, complete the task, and receive a reward."

The lounge fell silent.

The group found it utterly perplexing.

What kind of ridiculous task was this?

Performance art?

Bai Mo furrowed his brow, his Divine Sense, like an invisible tendril, passed through the wall, reaching the interrogation room next door!

He saw the dozen or so criminals lying on stretchers, all injected with Truth Serum, currently unconscious.

Bai Mo’s Divine Sense went to their soles... sure enough, in the center of the sole, found deep, long wounds!

These wounds were particularly unique, neither fresh nor bleeding nor healing. Stained purple by herbs, stretching long across, slightly gaping, almost traversing the entire sole, very eerie.

"Oh?

"These herbs seem to have something special.

"Are there contemporary alchemists capable of this?"

The herbs that stained their wounds purple were ordinary materials that can be found in any pharmacy in the present world. After applying, the wound doesn’t bleed or heal, and has no odor, making it difficult to detect.

Bai Mo furrowed his brows.

The prescription was ingenious, though in Fox Mountain it isn’t much, in the present world, it’s far beyond what people like Professor Zhang or Wang E could come up with.

So...

"Ancient Immortal’s formula?

"Ancient Immortal’s task from the dark web?

"What’s their intention?"

Bai Mo pondered, keenly sensing something near West State University that the Ancient Immortal knew but he didn’t!

"That’s right."

This makes everything make sense!

Something happened at West State University that the Ancient Immortal discovered.

The Committee received directions from the Ancient Immortal to come here looking for something.

These twenty-one people were also arranged by the Ancient Immortal to come searching for something here.

"What exactly are they searching for?"

Bai Mo held Black Gloves, rubbed its face, sipped some tea, began recalling recent events...

Moments later, he suddenly realized, the answer seemed quite simple!

"The Centennial Mushroom excavated earlier was just the son mushroom.

"Is its parent mushroom still nearby?"

Bai Mo recalled the literature he recently read, remembered the pattern of mushroom spore release, remembered the spores’ spreading methods, life force, and survival time, and slightly simulated in his mind... suddenly felt, maybe it really was so!

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