Chapter 245: The final hope appears (2/2)

As far as Mu Linger knew, the Sky Pit was filled with hundreds of poisonous traps. They weren’t set there by the medical academy, but existed from before. A single moment of negligence could kill you before you even realized what had happened. However, the medical academy head elder possessed a map of the Sky Pit. If they followed the path on this map, they could safety walk to the secret cell at the very bottom of the pit.

“Seriously? How did you manage to steal it?” Mu Linger scooted even closer. Sadly, she’d never seen the original map either, so she couldn’t tell whether this was real or fake.

“Is there anything your Qi gege can’t do in this world?” Gu Qishao asked cheerfully.

“Nothing!” Mu Linger smiled as well. Actually, she didn’t understand this Qi gege of hers very well, but as she saw it, how many things were there to understand about a single person? It was better to be happy together.

Gu Qishao seemed to be in an excellent mood as he reached over and grabbed Mu Linger’s shoulder. “Let’s go. After we capture the poison beast, I’ll give you an extra spoonful of soup to drink.” With Gu Qishao’s expression and their arms around each other’s shoulders, they looked like a brother and sister pair. Mu Linger tasted a moment of sweetness and mused, if Qi gege was willing to take her roaming the jianghu, carefree and unfettered, she’d be willing to follow him even if it meant abandoning everything from the Mu Clan and ruining her good name!

Very soon, Gu Qishao and Mu Linger’s figures disappeared into the Sky Pit as well. The so-called peaceful looking Sky Pit was already filled with crises from four ends, but turbulent times were stirring at the medical academy as well. Han Yunxi had searched an entire afternoon for Gu Beiyue without seeing a sign of him. Some people said he’d gone out, but nobody knew where to. When night fell, she searched for him again, but there was still no sign of him anywhere. By the time she returned to her room, it was to see Luo Zuishan pacing back and forth in front of her door as if he had urgent business.

“Director Luo, what’s happened?” Han Yunxi asked doubtfully.

When Luo Zuishan saw Han Yunxi, it was as if he’d seen his lifesaver. “Qin Wangfei, you’ve finally come back. Something terrible’s happened!”

“What’s wrong with Gu Beiyue?” Han Yunxi was terrified. She’d asked Luo Zuishan about the man that man.

“Qi’er’s in trouble, big trouble!” Luo Zuishan was so anxious that his face was completely white.

Qi’er?

“Gu Qishao?” Han Yunxi grew even more puzzled.

“He…he! Aye! You…” Luo Zuishan worked himself into a fit, but didn’t know how to continue. The medical academy head elder’s Sky Pit map had gone missing. All of the upper echelons in the academy were holding an emergency meeting. Though news of the loss had yet to spread, Luo Zuishan’s connections still caught wind of the information. Nobody else knew why the map had disappeared, but Luo Zuishan could figure out that Gu Qishao had stolen it even if he had toes for brains. He was 100 percent certain that Gu Qishao was in the Sky Pit this very moment.

If Gu Qishao wasn’t in Medical City, then it was possible that someone else had stolen the map. But since he was here, then the culprit could be no one else but him. He just knew that damned brat didn’t have any good designs coming here in the first place. He never expected his target to be the poison beast.

Even Han Yunxi had turned agitated from Luo Zuishan’s incoherent mumbling. “Exactly what’s happened?”

“Gu Qishao stole the head elder’s map and went to the Poison Sect’s forbidden area’s Sky Pit to steal the poison beast!” Luo Zuishan could only be blunt.

Before he met Han Yunxi, there was no other person in the world who could persuade Gu Qishao in anything. He figured that only Han Yunxi was capable of stopping Gu Qishao now. He had to be halted before he got his hands on the poison beast. That damned brat was filled with a loathing grudge against the medical academy. It was fine when he didn’t come back, but his return led to such a world-shaking act. Moreover, even if he had the map, it was still an extremely dangerous task to pilfer the poison beast. Without assistance from the three great clans of Medicine City, even the head elder and the rest had trouble subduing the beast.

That damned brat was throwing his life away!

“Sky Pit, poison beast?” Han Yunxi was clueless about any of this. But by the time Luo Zuishn finished his explanation, Han Yunxi finally understood the meaning of Gu Qishao’s joke that day. He told her to wait for him until tomorrow night, which was the deadline for the bet between her and Third Elder. He knew that she hadn’t cured Long Tianmo’s Bone Poison yet, so he went to steal the poison beast since its blood could cure hundreds of different poisons.

“That wretched man, he didn’t even bring me along!” Han Yunxi might have been angry, but she felt warm in her heart. How could she not remember or notice all the good Gu Qishao had done for her?

“Let’s go, take me to the Sky Pit!” Han Yunxi said.

“Quick, hurry, maybe we’ll be able to stop him,” Lou Zuishan held onto the last traces of hope, wishing that they’d make it in time before Gu Qishao jumped into the Sky Pit. If he really had, then everything was over. It was already a great taboo to secretly infiltrated the Poison Sect’s forbidden area, much less its Sky Pit. He himself had never dared to descend to its depths, nor did he have the ability.

“We’ll go!” a will to win glimmered in Han Yunxi’s eyes. The blood of the poison beast was Long Tianmo’s only hope, and the final hope for her and Gu Beiyue. She was determined to claim it!

1. gege (哥哥) – literally ‘older brother,’ also used as an affectionate address to refer to slightly older males that the speaker knows well, even if there is no familial relation.