Chapter 764: Face Exposed
The Great Elder had lost all her dignity, but no one laughed at her.
There were even quite a few people who showed envy.
If they were in his place, they would still have to kneel down and think that it would be better to live a miserable life than to die. However, they did not have this opportunity.
The Great Elder picked up all the hundreds of pills, his eyes widened with smiles, and he kept complimenting Lu Yun, "Thank you, Master Zhang, for your reward. Thank you, Master Zhang, for your reward."
Lu Yun said jokingly, "Weren't you speaking up for your people just now? It seems that you care about them very much. How are you going to distribute these pills to your people?"
As soon as these words came out, the elder's expression immediately became embarrassed, his eyes flickered, and he evaded the question by saying, "We'll talk about this later, later."
If one person takes more than a hundred pills, it can prolong his life for a long time, but if they are distributed, it will not be enough.
This was what the Great Elder had gained by exchanging his dignity, so of course he was not happy about it.
When everyone saw the Great Elder's evasive expression, they knew that she was planning to embezzle the pills, and they immediately felt resentful of her.
The two elders began a round of sincere lobbying: "Grand Elder, as a member of our Gu Clan, you have made a great contribution by distributing the elixirs."
"Great Elder, we know that you exchanged these pills for your dignity. We are sorry for wronging you. We, the tribesmen, will all remember your kindness in the future."
"Yes, Great Elder, take out the pills and share them among us!"
"..."
Led by the two elders, other tribesmen also began to speak, but their attitude gradually changed from lobbying at the beginning to coercion.
After all, those pills are their lives!
The Great Elder's expression was extremely ugly. Feeling the coercive gazes of the crowd, she lowered her voice and said, "Everyone, you should also know that these pills can only suppress the curse for a period of time, but cannot eradicate it.
If I distribute these pills to everyone, everyone will still die after a while. But if I keep these pills for one person to eat, it can prolong life for a long time.
No one in our Gu tribe wants to encounter such misfortune. Instead of everyone dying together, it is better to let one person live longer, so that there will be someone left to take care of our descendants in the future, right?"
Some people in the Gu tribe have not been cursed, but they are relatively young, so some inheritance naturally needs to be passed on to them by the older generation.
If the older generation all died of old age in this curse, part of the inheritance would definitely be lost.
What the elder said was not without reason, but someone soon questioned: "You said so much, but you just want to take all these pills for yourself. If you want to save one person, why you?"
"Why me? Why me? I bought these pills with my dignity. Master Zhang also said that I have the right to control them. Why me?"
"You knelt down because you slandered first. Master Zhang just wanted you to apologize in this way. You should have apologized in the first place, so it's not that you exchanged your dignity for the elixir." Someone said bluntly.
The third elder nodded and said, "That makes sense. If people could be rewarded for making mistakes, what kind of chaos would this world be in?"
It doesn't make sense that a person who makes a mistake, then apologizes and corrects it is rewarded, while those who didn't make any mistakes in the first place get nothing.
Isn’t the situation of the Great Elder at this moment similar to this?
"What does the unreasonableness have to do with me? You should ask Zhang San about this question!" The elder thought silently in his heart, but did not dare to say it out loud to offend Lu Yun.
She didn't care whether it was reasonable or not. Lu Yun said that as long as she kneeled down and apologized, the pills would belong to her, so she just did as he said.
Faced with everyone's moral blackmail, the Great Elder remained unmoved.
Miao Qinghe watched the whole process coldly, and suddenly understood Lu Yun's intention. In the face of real interests, any true face will be exposed.
"Sorry, fellow tribesmen, I would rather live alone longer!" At this time, the great elder suddenly turned around and quickly fled from the crowd.
Now that she had the elixir, there was no need for her to stay in this cursed tribe any longer. Staying here would only attract everyone's covetousness.
So the great elder decided to escape from the Gu tribe.
Everyone became anxious upon seeing this, and the two elders immediately chased after him. However, their strength was no match for the great elder, and they soon returned empty-handed, feeling very upset.
Miao Qinghe had a look of indifference.
Lu Yun said: "Miao tribe leader, you won't blame me, right?"
"Why should I blame you?" Miao Qinghe shook her head sadly: "We have helped Lord Yu to kill many people over the years, and we deserve this."
"You are helpless." Lu Yun smiled, and suddenly looked in the direction where the elder had just fled, and said: "Actually, what I gave her just now was an ordinary anti-aging pill."
"Zhu Yan Dan?"
Everyone was stunned.
Miao Qinghe stared at Lu Yun with a strange expression, thinking that this man was really bad. He actually used the Rejuvenating Pill to trick the Great Elder into kneeling down and apologizing. However, the Great Elder deserved it.
Of course, Lu Yun couldn't give the real elixir to the Great Elder.
That vicious woman tried to have Ye Feiyang torture her to death. Lu Yun had done his best by not taking her life.
The Second Elder suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up and he said, "So, the real elixir is still in Master Zhang's hands?"
"of course."
Lu Yun shook the storage bag in his hand, and dozens of pills appeared again. Both in appearance and luster, they were the same as the anti-aging pills just now.
There are two compartments for pills in the soul-dead storage bag.
When Lu Yun just got it, he took out a few pills from each side, crushed them with his fingers, and found that there were capsules hidden inside the pills on the same side, indicating that they were the anti-aging pills that had been tampered with.
The one without capsules on the other side is the ordinary anti-aging pill.
For this reason, Lu Yun specifically asked the soul keeper again, and the answer he got was this, so those things that the great elder took away just now were just ordinary anti-aging pills, which were completely ineffective against the curse.