Chapter 48

Update Time: April 21, 2013

This type of wood emits a faint, elegant fragrance, making it the preferred choice for noblewomen of some status in the Wisteria Empire to decorate their bedroom floors!

"This Gong Sun Furan truly dotes on the concubine who gave him a green hat!" He looked around at the half-human-sized exquisite porcelain vases and understood Gong Sun's love for wealth.

"This guy spends too much, he has to find ways to amass wealth!" Yun Mo curled his lips in disdain, showing utter disdain for Gong Sun's extravagance!

The third wooden board from left to right, Yun Mo looked at the board with patterns on it with caution. He casually took out a dagger, then squatted down and tapped the board with the tip of the dagger.

"Thud thud!" A hollow sound came. "It seems the woman was telling the truth, there is indeed something mysterious here!"

Using the dagger, he carefully pried up the board. Yun Mo saw a small silver ring, just large enough for a finger to pass through, in the exposed hollow.

His entire body's power reached its peak, his five senses and sixth sense working at high speed, paying attention to every movement in the surrounding space. He did not dare to use his fingers to hook the ring. He frowned slightly, took out a grappling hook, and used one of the claws to hook the ring. "Up!" He whispered, and with a forceful arm movement, the ring was pulled up.

"Snap!" A light sound came from the wall behind Yun Mo as a mechanism was activated!

Yun Mo quickly stood up, turned, and pressed himself against the wall beside him. He retracted the grappling hook and stared intently at the wall where a crack suddenly appeared, his eyes narrowing.

Two ordinary metal plates on the wall, as if pulled by an invisible force, slowly moved to the sides, revealing a small wall hole. With the dim light from the pearls inside the room, Yun Mo easily saw the purple wooden box, the size of a brick, inside the wall hole!

This wall hole was at the chest level of an adult, which was a bit high for Yun Mo. He had to tiptoe to see the items inside.

After waiting quietly for several minutes, Yun Mo confirmed there was no abnormality. He exhaled, his eyes filled with a burning look, and he slowly approached the wall, remaining highly alert throughout the process. If any mechanism was activated, he was confident he would sense it!

Being too short, he tiptoed and did not dare to touch the box with his hands. Instead, he cautiously used the dagger to pry open the lid of the box, which was not locked! As the lid was lifted, a gray belt, only 3 centimeters wide and coiled in several loops, appeared in Yun Mo's line of sight, emitting a very ethereal aura.

"Indeed, it's an unclaimed storage belt!" Feeling the spatial power fluctuation, Yun Mo's heart, which had been on edge, finally relaxed.

Once a storage magical tool is blood-bound, it will not emit any fluctuations, designed for the user's safety! This item is too valuable; if discovered by someone with ill intentions, it would be extremely dangerous. Therefore, the shape of storage magical tools is designed to resemble ordinary ornaments, and the fluctuations can be hidden after blood-binding. New storage magical tools are generally placed in wooden boxes that can isolate spatial elemental fluctuations; otherwise, they could attract disaster if sensed by someone with high cultivation!

Since he felt the fluctuations, Yun Mo's concern that it might be already blood-bound was naturally put to rest!

Hmm! Yun Mo sniffed the aura. With his expertise in poison refining, he determined that there was no poison on the belt!

"Very good!" Everything went smoothly, and Yun Mo couldn't help but feel elated.

Out of caution, he still used the dagger to pick up the belt! Better safe than sorry; Yun Mo, who had lived two lives, was extremely cautious about his life!

Ding! As the belt left the wooden box, a very subtle but terrifying sound of a fine metal wire breaking rang in Yun Mo's ears! Instantly, Yun Mo was terrified, his soul almost flying away!

"Damn, I've been tricked!" He shouted in his heart, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints, his hair standing on end, and an extreme sense of danger and terror arising out of nowhere!

The mechanism was triggered! In the time it took for a finger snap, the more than sixty ordinary pearls used for lighting on the wall behind Yun Mo suddenly revealed small, slanted holes. Each white pearl had two small black holes, giving the wall a beehive-like appearance if one looked at it!

Each small channel contained a 30-centimeter-long, hair-thin silver steel needle, the tip of which was blue, clearly coated with a deadly poison! This hidden weapon took up very little space and was activated by magic. Once the fine metal wire connecting the wooden box and the belt broke, these pre-set trigger spells began to take effect! So even Yun Mo's caution did not detect it! He was accustomed to the inertia of his previous life and overlooked the soul mages of this world, easily believing Lin Meier's words. Lin Meier indeed told the truth, but she did not tell him about this insidious mechanism. Since she told the truth, he believed her! Thus, he made a fatal mistake!

As the invisible force took effect, these steel needles, traveling faster than the speed of sound, reached Yun Mo's back in almost no time, so fast that they were almost indescribable, invisible to the naked eye!

How long is a finger snap? Sixty moments!

More than a hundred poison needles, enough to turn Yun Mo into a porcupine in sixty moments!

"What a poisonous woman!" The moment Yun Mo heard the sound of the metal wire breaking and felt the sense of danger, he realized: he had been played by Lin Meier!

"I never thought that despite all my precautions, I would still be manipulated by this venomous beauty! Indeed, how could she let someone who knew her secrets leave alive? This woman's mind is truly terrifying; I should have anticipated that she would have a backup plan!"

Yun Mo was clear in his mind that he had been bewitched by the beauty's charm, deceived by her superb acting and lies that were all true, leading to this outcome.

This was what Yun Mo thought in the first ten moments!

"Desire is a double-edged sword! The reason Wen Junlai was killed by me was because of his lust! And I also lowered my guard due to my lecherous thoughts, unknowingly committing the same mistake as Wen Junlai! Indeed, women's beauty is truly harmful and a deadly weapon!"

By the thirtieth moment, Yun Mo had an epiphany!

He did not have time to make any significant evasive actions, only instinctively performing a few small movements in response to his brain's reaction and his muscles' instinctive sense of danger!

His legs suddenly stretched forward, his buttocks hit the ground without hesitation, his head lowered, his chin touching his chest, and his arms pulled towards his chest and abdomen, exposing his back!

This was the fastest reaction Yun Mo could make in the remaining thirty moments. The rest was up to fate!

Ding ding...! The piercing sounds came in a continuous stream! Blood dripped from the corner of Yun Mo's mouth, and the drop of blood turned black as it fell!

His eyes turned completely red!