Chapter 247: Settling accounts, killing without pardon (2/2)
When he saw Long Feiye and Tang Li coming closer, Gu Qishao murmured, “Linger, do you still have Heat Powder?”
“What are you planning to do?” Mu Linger was stunned. Heat Powder was nothing good, but a type of medicine equivalent to a stimulant drug. Both humans and animals who ingested the thing would get a temporary boost of energy that doubled their strength, but as soon as the medicine wore off, they’d end up in a heavy sleep for days.
“Do you have it?” Gu Qishao said impatiently. Mu Linger quickly took out the item, a full bottle’s worth. As soon as Gu Qishao got it, he silently scattered the contents into the cracks at his feet. Right below those cracks was none other than the den of king cobras. The switch they’d stepped on before had fallen into that very same den. When the switch had activated the door, it’d revealed these cracks on the floor. Heaven knows how much medicine Gu Qishao had used, but this Heat Powder caused all the cobras in the den to arch straight up as they hissed with their tongues stuck out. All of them were filled with endless vitality. Fortunately, it was dark. Otherwise, anyone who saw the scene below them would get goosebumps and claustrophobia even if they weren’t claustrophobic. That was a world of nothing by snakes, too horrifying!
By now, Long Feiye had stilled his steps. The movement of the king cobras were so obvious that he wouldn’t be Long Feiye if he hadn’t sensed him.
“It’s a trap,” Tang Li said in a low voice.
“Snakes?” Long Feiye fiddled with silver thread glove on his right hand, a cautious look on his face. The entire trip, he and Tang Li had passed at least 10 traps without getting hurt. This was all due to Long Feiye’s prudent nature and the silver thread gloves left behind by his mother that could repel all sorts of poisons. Both of them stopped to listen quietly to the movements before them.
At the same time, the nearby Gu Qishao revealed a cold, sinister smile before he suddenly shouted, “Poison lass, watch out!”
Long Feiye immediately rushed forward like a clap of thunder at these words, Tang Li following in his wake to shout angrily, “Han Yunxi, where are you?”
But just as Long Feiye reached the roof of the king cobra den, Gu Qishao suddenly gave a parallel kick to his stomach, sending him sinking down through the floor. Tang Li was about to help him when Long Feiye said coldly, “You go find Han Yunxi!”
So speaking, he withdrew the blood-red whip hidden by his waist and lashed it towards Gu Qishao, where it wrapped itself around his waist. He didn’t give Gu Qishao time to struggle free, determined to pull him down so they could sink together. In the darkness, Gu Qishao wore a bewitching smile even as he was bound up. Instead of struggling, he even leaned intentionally towards Long Feiye to increase the weight so that they both hit the switch to the trap and tumbled into the king cobra den. As soon as they fell through, the opening was completely covered by cobras in a dense swarm. At a distance, the entire den looked like a pit of boiling snakes.
On the side, a shocked Mu Linger finally recovered her senses and burst into tears. “Qi gege, those snakes have eaten Heat Powder! Our medicine won’t do anything against them!”
Before, they’d combated the snakes in the den with medicine to keep them at bay, but now these cobras had ingested medicine that made them impervious to those tactics. Neither could one knock them out. This den of snakes was mad to the point of a crazed frenzy.
One could imagine how dangerous it was for the people who fell inside.
Tang Li’s first reaction upon seeing Mu Linger was shock, but he recovered soon enough. “How come you’re here?”
Mu Linger didn’t know who Tang Li was, but Tang Li had observed this genius pharmacist for a long time. He was even looking forward to her prescription skills when it came time to subdue the poison beast. Mu Linger didn’t have any interest in Tang Li, but rushed forward. Steeling her heart, she leaped into the pit of cobras as well. Tang Li had no idea how dangerous they were right now, nor what Mu Linger’s “Heat Power” was. Since he couldn’t find Han Yunxi nearby, he hastily chased after her into the pit.
Inside the snake den, the masses of entangled snakes had long gone crazy. They were like man-eating ants that swallowed up any humans who fell their way. Suddenly, the flash of a blade appeared, its light momentarily shining through the entire den. In a corner of the den, a large swath of snakes had been cut open, spilling blood everywhere. Long Feiye struggled out of the pile and prepared to escape when Gu Qishao suddenly appeared by the side to place a hand on his shoulder, keeping him in place.
“Where’s Han Yunxi?” Long Feiye asked coldly.
This fellow was still worried about that woman at a time like this?
Gu Qishao’s gaze turned complicated, but the look quickly passed. A cold, expressionless mask replaced it as he said icily, “Right here!”
Long Feiye, this young master’s shedding his morals this time. Let’s settle our old debts once and for all! I too, know how to kill someone without pardon!
The always paranoid Long Feiye didn’t even think to doubt Gu Qishao’s words this time. He set off a large shockwave that not only shook off the cobras clinging to his body, but Gu Qishao as well.
“Han Yunxi, where are you?” his voice was cold to the point of being frightening, but the words held a rare tone of worry.
Gu Qishao was knocked far away, where poison snakes quickly swarmed to cover his body. He ignored them all and grabbed a giant snake by his side, before tossing it straight at Long Feiye…
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.