Lu Yuan's eyelid twitched.
Two bottles of potion lay quietly in the box.
One held a pale gray liquid. Its presence was unremarkable, with a quality that made people instinctively overlook it.
The other bottle was far more terrifying. It looked alive, its glass body intertwined with swollen masses of unidentified tissue. Rather than a potion, it resembled a living insect. That was Lu Yuan's first impression, and under his gaze, it was slowly, incessantly squirming.
"Is that thing a plague potion?" Oden's voice sounded in his mind, tinged with astonishment. "Why does it seem alive?"
Lu Yuan wasn't sure. He focused his gaze, and Gray-White Text slowly appeared before his eyes.
[Special alchemical construct detected: Delusion of the Land of the Dead Silence (diluted version)] [A special creation excavated from the Land of the Dead Silence. It contains a disease capable of shaking the world.]
Then a string of medicinal ingredients appeared in the Gray-White Text.
[██████... Rotspot Grass, Plague-Wailing Mushroom, Gray Gangrene Vine... One ingredient is obscured by a black block.]
The Gray-White Text did not show all the ingredients used to make the potion, nor did it reveal the exact method of refinement.
Lu Yuan stared at the ingredient he couldn't make out and immediately understood. This was bad. Another special material tied to the Taboo.
If the Gray-White Text couldn't display it, the material carried some degree of Contamination. Its source was probably connected to this so-called Land of the Dead Silence.
This time, Lu Yuan made no great effort to hide it. Once the light faded from his eyes, he asked Oden directly in his mind, "Oden, do you know this place?"
Oden had seen the flicker of color in Lu Yuan's eyes. He understood that Lu Yuan had probably used