Chapter 776 The Deadly Adventure (Part Two) (1/1)

”What's wrong?” asked Howard.

”Oh my God!” Diana turned her head away immediately and began to retch.

From the reaction of the people around him, Howard finally realized that something was terribly wrong on his back, but he couldn't see anything. He could only see the horror in the eyes of others as they stared at his back with their dilated pupils. ”What on earth is wrong, Harper?” he asked anxiously.

”Fire starter!” Harper instructed the secret guards, ignoring Howard's question, as if she did not feel it was important to answer him at the moment. Harper stretched out her hand. Without wasting a moment, one of the secret guards handed her a fire starter. Harper blew the fire starter to light a fire from it. Then she put it straight to Howard's back. His back was covered with blood-sucking insects. The scene was so gory and bloodcurdling that it made everyone go speechless. It seemed as if the insects had been on his body for a long time because they had sucked so much blood that they had bloated. Their skin had become thin as if it would break out any moment to let out the excess blood.

”Your Highness, what kind of insects are these?” asked a secret guard in a trembling voice.

”These are leeches. I should have been more cautious. I had forgotten that such hot and wet places like swamps are in

But she thought that it still was better than having her skin exposed to the air in this ghastly swamp. As Diana pulled the coat a little tighter around her body, she could not resist being curious about why Harper hadn't checked on her own body.

”Don't you want to check on yourself? I can help you!” asked Diana.

”No poisonous insect can get close to me,” Harper said as her face broke into a wide smile.

Hearing that, Diana immediately remembered that a drop of Harper's blood could propel death for the most poisonous insect. All the insects inside this swamp would not even come close to Harper, because the stronger the venomous creatures were, the better equipped they would be to identify what was harmful to them.

With such thoughts in her mind, Diana turned her face away from Harper and mumbled, ”Monster!” Harper heard that, but she simply pretended not to. All of a sudden, she shot three silver needles in the same direction at the same time. The secret guards, Howard and Diana turned towards the direction in which the needles were shot. The needles ended up piercing the bodies of two thick poisonous snakes who were struggling in pain. Harper had hit them in their hearts in one go.

”Here! We have our supper now,” Harper said in a serious tone. ”Let's have the snake meat soup this evening.”