Chapter 187 - Don't Swallow
Klaus and the others were puzzled on seeing that Grey stopped just as his mouth was about to touch the head of the snake.
'Is anything wrong?' Grey asked while moving the head of the snake away from his mouth.
He was a little frightened by the thought of if there was why mistake with Void's extraction process, and he accidentally sucks out the poison instead of the healing tonic, so when Void stopped him, he didn't hesitate in any way.
'Where would you put the healing tonic after s.u.c.k.i.n.g it out?' Void asked while staring at Grey strangely.
'Oh that, I forgot about that.' Grey said truthfully.
He checked his storage ring to see if there was anything inside that could be used to store the healing tonic, but he unfortunately had none. The few healing tonics he brought with him had been used, and the bottles had been discarded by him.
"Does anyone have bottles we can use for storing the healing tonic?" He asked the others.
"Oh, so that's why he stopped, I thought it was something else." Klaus mumbled under his breath.
"Well?" Grey asked on seeing that none of them was saying anything, and Klaus seemed to be mumbling to himself.
Klaus and Reynolds shook their heads, just like Grey, they've also discarded the bottles after using the tonic, and since they didn't bring much in the first place, they ran out about a month ago, luckily, they didn't get into any precarious situation since then.
"How many do you need?" She asked Grey while going through the bag.
"Fifteen." Grey said after counting the number of snakes present in the cave.
"Okay, here you go." Alice threw a bottle to Grey.
She initially wanted to give him her bag, but since some of her personal belongings were inside, she refrained from doing so, rather, she'll hand him one any time he needs it.
Grey caught it and looked at the empty bottle, it was unsurprisingly a bottle used for storing tonic.This essence is securely nested within the heart of Nøv€lß¡n★
'Why is she keeping the bottles after using them?' Grey asked himself, he was not the only one who thought of this, Klaus, Reynolds, and even Void thought of it.
"What?" Alice asked while glaring at the boys.
The expression in her eyes was clear, 'If you ask, I'll beat you up.'
"Nothing." The boys shook their heads while staring in different directions.
"Hmph!" Alice harrumphed, but left them alone since they didn't dare to ask.
Grey focused on the snake once again, and he was hit by a pungent smell. He couldn't help but close his nose.
Klaus had the urge to taste it, not just him, Alice and Reynolds felt the same way as well. But unlike the duo, Alice wasn't drooling.
Grey held the bottle close to his face and observed the liquid properly, it had a greenish and yellowish color, with what looked like tiny touches of red. The dots of red scattered all over the liquid like the stars in the night sky. The liquid had a clear and reflective surface.
Had it not been for something, Grey would have thought the scent could make one hallucinate when he saw the expressions of the trio.
"Can I taste it?" Klaus asked.
"No!" Grey refused.
Klaus felt a little dejected, but then an idea struck him.
"I'll extract the next one." He immediately said before anyone could say anything else.
"No!" Grey, Alice, and Reynolds said simultaneously.
"What do you mean no?" Klaus asked hastily.
"Because you'll swallow it." Grey said.
"Of course I won't."
"Yes, you would."
After arguing for a while, Klaus was still unable to convince the group to allow him to extract the next one.
"Fine, but I'll extract the one after this one." He said, not willing to let go of the opportunity.
"Till then."
The group went on to capture the next snake, which like the first one, defecated once it saw it couldn't break free from Grey's grasp.
But the smell didn't mean anything to him, although it was horrible, the reward outweighed the smell, so he braced himself and quickly s.u.c.k.e.d on the head of the snake.
Just like the first time, everything turned better after the liquid flowed into his mouth. After tasting it for the second time, a thought came to his head.
'How would it taste like if I were to cook with it?'
Grey threw the thought to the back of his head as soon as it came, but since the thought had successfully come to his mind, it was almost impossible to forget about it.
After storing the second one, they went on to catch the third snake, and Klaus finally got the chance to extract the liquid. Although, it was only after the group warned him repeatedly not to swallow it, they didn't only warn him, but they also threatened to beat him up if he dared to swallow it.
Even though he was warned repeatedly, Klaus still almost swallowed it the moment he tasted the liquid. The taste was just too sweet that he had to keep the liquid in his mouth for almost one minute before putting it in the bottle.
After Klaus s.u.c.k.e.d on the third one, Alice did the fourth one, and just like the previous two, she also almost swallowed the liquid after tasting it. Reynolds was the one who extracted the fifth one, and he too fell for the same thing, had it not been for the thought of being beaten if he swallowed it, then he would have swallowed it.