Chapter 4776 — He Who Refuses to Honor a Bet Is a Fool
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Earlier they had ganged up with Ren Zhongyuan to squeeze Wei Zhao because they thought Ren Zhongyuan was the sturdy thigh to cling to, and because Wei Zhao really did look suspicious as the poisoner. But now, looking at it this way, Wei Zhao's thigh was more than ten thousand times sturdier than Ren Zhongyuan's—so who cared who had done the poisoning!
This fellow was at least a fifth-grade alchemist. Not to hurry over and curry favor with such a sturdy thigh would be absolute foolishness.
Faced with these East Continent disciples who swayed like grass in the wind, Wei Zhao, Huo Yudie, and Ning Xuefei were caught between laughter and tears. The East Continent Academy might be a gathering place of geniuses, but no place is ever free of such weathervanes—be strong and they are your friends, be weak and they are your enemies. Only the weak understand the hardship of surviving in the cracks.
Still, this was just as well. At least it was better than everyone siding with Ren Zhongyuan to a man. From here on, if Ren Zhongyuan wanted to stir up trouble and turn them against Wei Zhao, it would not be nearly so easy as before.
Of course, not everyone was a weathervane. The faces of Yi Xiaotian, Yao Jiali, and their ilk were truly a sight to behold. Taking Wei Zhao's detoxification pill felt like swallowing a fly—their hearts were steeped in bitter frustration, yet they had no choice but to pinch their noses and gulp it down...
After everyone had been successfully detoxified, and some time had passed, Ren Zhongyuan finally pushed the door open and stepped out, his eyes bloodshot. He spotted Wei Zhao in the crowd at a glance and his heart lurched—but when he saw that Wei Zhao's hands were empty, he immediately stuck his tail up again.
"Haha, I knew you were all bluster! A hundred pills in an hour, was it? Hmph, now you don't even have one. If I were you, I'd have jumped into the sea out of shame long ago—how could you even show your face standing here? There's really no one else with a hide as thick as yours!" Ren Zhongyuan seized the chance to pour out a stream of mockery.
"Oh? And how about you—how many did you refine?" Wei Zhao asked mildly in return.
"No more, no less—exactly one! I say what I mean and mean what I say. Even if it's only one, it's still far better than a fraud like you who opens his mouth about a hundred and then can't produce a single one!" Ren Zhongyuan laughed triumphantly and held that one detoxification pill high toward the crowd. "Who wants this detoxification pill? First come, first served—the next one will take another hour!"
Ren Zhongyuan had assumed that with this shout, everyone present would come flocking, and that perhaps even Huo Yudie would see Wei Zhao for what he really was and turn into his embrace. But the result was that—never mind the Huo Yudie he pined for—not a single person among the others stirred in the slightest.
Only at this moment did Ren Zhongyuan suddenly sense that something was off. Why was everyone looking at him so strangely, with not a trace of the excitement one would show at sight of a lifeline—and instead a look as though they were watching an idiot?
Especially Yi Xiaotian and the others—even their expressions had gone wrong, as if they were desperately trying to remind him of something, yet he could not for the life of him work out what. Ren Zhongyuan could not help but flounder. What on earth was going on here?!
"Junior Sister Yudie, I'll take it upon myself to give this one to you first. I think you must understand my feelings by now?" Though Ren Zhongyuan was muttering inwardly, he still put on an air of devoted infatuation and threaded his way through the crowd, intending to place the detoxification pill into Huo Yudie's hand himself and steal a moment of intimacy.