Chapter 174

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“What was it?” Walter and Jared asked in unison.
“It was a reishi mushroom. It was gigantic and resembled a reishi mushroom yet a bit different from the
usual ones. My wife was convinced that it would fetch a high price, so she brought it home,” Kieran
confessed with embarrassment written all over his face.
“Where is it? Let me have a look at it,” Jared ordered.
Nodding, Kieran left the room. Shortly after, he came back in with a huge glass bottle in his hands.
Indeed, something that resembled a reishi mushroom lay in the glass bottle. However, it didn’t at all
appear to be a plant.
“This is no reishi mushroom. It’s clearly a piece of rotten meat!”
When Josephine saw the item in the glass bottle, she almost hurled.
“This isn’t rotten meat. It’s indeed a plant that grows on the ground, but it appears like meat.”
While saying that, Kieran opened the glass bottle and took it out.
“Watch out, Kieran! It might be poisonous!” Walter promptly cried out upon noticing that Kieran was
planning to take it out with his bare hands.
“It’s fine. I’ve already touched it back then, so I would’ve been poisoned long ago if it’s really
poisonous.”
Kieran wasn’t at all afraid, blithely taking out the item resembling a reishi mushroom.“In that case, your wife can’t possibly have been poisoned by it either,” Walter said.
Since he’s fine after holding it, his wife couldn’t possibly have been poisoned in the same manner.
“Having skin contact with it is fine, but taking a bite out of it will result in the person being poisoned.”
As Jared spoke, he took the item resembling a reishi mushroom from Kieran and turned it over in his
hands gently. Subsequently, he glimpsed a tiny portion missing at the bottom, making it abundantly
clear that someone had taken a bite out of it.
When Kieran saw that tiny missing portion, surprise inundated him. “I told her not to simply eat it when
its exact nature is yet uncertain. I never thought that she’d actually take a bite out of it furtively. If I’d
known, I wouldn’t have allowed her to put it away!”
novelbinStark regret flooded him, and he kept thumping his chest.
“Don’t blame yourself anymore, Kieran. I’m sure Mr. Chance can treat your wife!”
Stopping the man from inflicting harm upon himself, Walter looked at Jared and inquired, “What exactly
is it, Mr. Chance? It doesn’t look like a reishi mushroom.”
Jared took the item back from Kieran and squeezed it gently, upon which it seemingly twitched as
though having sensed something.
“This is known as the aconite or meat reishi mushroom. It grows at places where the geomancy is at
extreme ends and nature is imbalanced. Although this is also a type of plant, it has eyes like an animal
and is able to see the world. It has different names as its eyes increase in number. When it has all fivesenses, it becomes an aconite mushroom. It’s exceedingly rare, since it’s usually plucked by mistake or
eaten by animals when it’s in its infancy stage. Very few make it to maturity.”
Jared then continued explaining in detail, “It’s very poisonous and absorbs its nutrients from decaying
meat in the soil, so it has a high propensity of growing in the cemetery. Your wife is lucky that she only
took a small bite. Otherwise, no one will be able to save her. Despite its rarity, it doesn’t have much
medicinal value. If you had made it into a medicinal wine, the person who drank it would’ve probably
died on the spot.”
Kieran trembled in fright after hearing that. Fortunately, I hadn’t any time to make it into a medicinal
wine since my wife took ill! Otherwise, I would’ve been doomed as well!
“So, is there any cure for Kieran’s wife, Mr. Chance?” Walter asked in a murmur.
“Yes.” Jared nodded and returned the meat reishi mushroom to Kieran. Then he took out his silver
needles and inserted them into Kieran’s wife at lightning speed.
A while later, Kieran’s wife regained consciousness and coughed up a mouthful of black blood.