Chapter 100: Domineering, one of his people (2/2)

But right at this moment, Han Yunxi raised her head to meet his eyes, not an ounce of surrender in them. Instead, it was a face full of stubbornness. Her fearless gaze shot directly into his eyes as if seeing right through him. Long Feiye’s heart gave a jolt as he involuntarily knitted his eyebrows, looking into her irises in exchange.

Two pairs of eyes met in the surrounding silence, one stubborn, one cold. They seemed to be locked in combat as foes, both refusing to look away or yield. But Long Feiye hadn’t realized that he’d already stopped moving his hands. Nor did Han Yunxi notice that she wasn’t hurting anymore. Time passed in the stillness as everything went quiet…

It wasn’t clear how long had passed before someone bangbangbanged on the door. Afterwards, a guard reported anxiously, “Your Highness, another one in the dungeons died!”

At this, both people recovered their senses, noticed each other, and quickly averted their gaze. Han Yunxi lowered her head, unsure what she had been thinking just then, or what she was looking for. Long Feiye didn’t get his intended outcome and lost a bit of his cool. He frowned slightly before tossing the liniment over.

“When you’ve taken care of things, come over immediately. I’ll wait for you by the door.” As soon as he was finished, he turned to leave, his footsteps markedly quicker. It wasn’t clear whether he was anxious about the matters outside or preoccupied by other reasons. Han Yunxi raised her head and released a long, relieved breath as he shut the door.

“Bastard!” she cursed, just as Long Feiye urged her to hurry up.

“Han Yunxi, you better be quick!”

“Son of a b–ch!” Han Yunxi cursed again, before quickly applying the liniment and binding her ankle in white cloth. She wanted to put on her shoe, but found it and the stocking too complicated. In addition, there was no way her foot and its bindings could fit inside. After thinking for a while, she could only resign herself to binding her entire foot in multiple layers of bandage. This shouldn’t count as exposing her skin, right?

Truthfully speaking, Long Feiye’s liniment was very effective. Just leaving it on the injury without spreading it out left a comfortable, cooling sensation that eased much of the pain. But Han Yunxi didn’t covet the bottle of medicine and tossed it back on the table when she was done. Then she lightly hopped off to land on one foot and hobbled outside. Long Feiye shot a glance at her toes but saw nothing. Her skirt was very long, which meant it hid her feet most of the time when she was walking.

“Did the poisoned people die?” Han Yunxi asked.

“One of them did,” Long Feiye replied, showing her his back as he bent down before her. “Get on.” Han Yunxi hesitated, but Long Feiye was impatient. “Hurry, the poison’s flared up.”

Hearing this, Han Yunxi realized he really was anxious about treating the poison. Without a choice, she quickly climbed on, wrapping her arms around his neck as she lifted both legs. Han Yunxi was very light, so it wasn’t tiring for Long Feiye to piggyback her. She didn’t even have time to experience what it was like to be piggybacked by him before his form vanished into the darkness. Very quickly, he darted through the flower gardens and went through a secret passageway before arriving at the dungeons and setting Han Yunxi behind a platform for the dead. Though Han Yunxi had been carried over the whole way, she still felt like she just finished a 400 meter dash and couldn’t catch her breath for a moment. After she regained her bearings, the detox system alarms went off in her head.

There’s poison!

Even without her system warning, Han Yunxi could tell at a glance that the corpse on the table had died from poison. The area between her eyebrows, lips and fingers were all black, a symptom of hypertoxic poisoning. She took a deep breath and asked, “This person should’ve been dead for one or two days already, right?”

Long Feiye nodded before pointing at another body. “That one just died recently.”

Han Yunxi glanced over and saw another corpse. She drew closer for another look and discovered that signs of poison had yet to appear on her person, but her lips were already black. She examined the dead woman’s eyes and lips, then her nails, before remarking, “Suicide from taking poison?”

“She never had the chance to take poison,” Long Feiye said coldly.

The captive spies in this dungeon were tied hand and foot and stripped of all their weapons and poisons. In addition, each of them were locked in solitary cells and gagged to prevent them from making a fuss or biting off their tongues to kill themselves. Moreover, in light of the fact that these spies were all experienced poison users, Long Feiye had long ordered various famous poison specialists to check their mouths to see if they’d hidden poison anywhere inside. Previously, it was only Chu Xifeng in charge of interrogation. These people didn’t say a word but refused to eat and drink, wishing to slowly starve themselves to death. A few had already died this way.

Recently, Long Feiye had come to personally interrogate them and used savage forms of torture, but he then discovered that some of them had been poisoned, then died. It was impossible for the dungeons to hide enemy agents, so it was obvious that these people couldn’t stand the torture and killed themselves with poison instead. Up until now, Long Feiye still couldn’t figure out where their poison had come from or how they’d taken it.

Now there were only two enemy spies left. If another died from poison, then all his previous interrogations would have been a waste of effort. Han Yunxi listened to Long Feiye explain the situation as she used her needles to take the poisoned blood from both bodies. She wasn’t interested at the start, but grew curious once she understood the current situation.

Typically, a person who committed suicide via poison would hide the poison inside their teeth. A simple bite would release the poison. But all of these captives had undergone an oral inspection.

How did they take the poison?

Han Yunxi used the excuse of taking something out of her medical pouch to send her blood samples into the detoxification system dimension before ascertaining the results: Rice Poison!

“It’s actually Rice Poison!” Han Yunxi was shocked as she looked towards Long Feiye.

Long Feiye didn’t understand. “Rice Poison?”

Han Yunxi turned grave. “Are there still survivors?”

“Still two people,” Long Feiye answered honestly.

Han Yunxi hesitated before speaking. “Take a blood sample from each person. Also, find me some rice gruel.”

Long Feiye did as he was told. Very soon, fresh blood from the two captives and a bowl of rice gruel were delivered to Han Yunxi. She ladled out some gruel onto the captives’ fresh blood and silently observed the results. For a long time, there was no reaction. Long Feiye didn’t understand and only watched Han Yunxi’s scrunched expression, keeping silent the whole time. The two guards on the side, though, were incomparably curious. What was esteemed wangfei doing?