"Shit!" Huang Donglai denied, "Those are utterly malicious and evil individuals; killing them directly would be letting them off easy. What's wrong with using them for toxicology experiments before they die, contributing to society? It's called making the most of them, right?"
"Sure, sure, Brother Huang knows best." Sun Yixie followed up, "Hey, but you gave me the pearl; what about yourself?"
"I'm fine," Huang Donglai said, "Just now, I checked and smelled the wine and realized its cloudy color and the bitter-spicy scent mixed with the aroma indicated they used something like a Knockout Drug—weak and impure; it seems... this place usually knocks people out before immediately killing them, so they don't need the effects to last long, just enough to disable one briefly." He paused, "Heh... with drugs of this sort, I'm naturally immune even without the Poison Avoidance Pearl, so don't worry."
