Chapter 249: This old fellow would sure like to die (1/2)

Chapter 249: This old fellow would sure like to die

Would he die?

He slowly shut his eyes, his silence frightening. If not for the minute crease of his eyebrows, one might really think he was dead.

“Qi gege, you…hurry and take the antidote!” Mu Linger was crying. Her tears fell as she stuffed mouthful after mouthful of antivenom past Gu Qishao’s lips. She just knew that Qi gege wouldn’t be able to hold on after being bitten by so many snakes. The fact that he hadn’t died down there was a testament to how he’d wrested back his own life. Why did Qi gege have to make enemies with the Duke of Qin? What a stupid thing to do!

Was it for Han Yunxi’s sake?

A flash of hatred flitted past Mu Linger’s eyes. She’d definitely give Han Yunxi a lesson if they happened to meet!

While Mu Linger was busy feeding medicine, she didn’t notice that Gu Qishao’s hands weren’t idle at all. He silently pressed down on his stomach as if gathering his strength. Before long, he secretly dug out two Pear Blossom Rain Needles from his abdomen. Tang Li had used four needles, of which two had hit their mark. This could be considered very lucky already. His entire body was wracked with pain, blood flowing from his cobra bites and the places where the Pear Blossom Rain Needles had struck. Heaven knows what kind of pain this felt like?

He could only endure.

He gulped down mouthful after mouthful of the antidote, but all of it was stuck in his throat. When Mu Linger wasn’t looking, Gu Qishao took the chance to turn around and spit them all out. Mu Linger didn’t dare to touch Gu Qishao, much less talk to him, afraid that she’d waste his strength. She carefully kept guard but grew worried when Gu Qishao remained turned away for her for too long. Worried, she looked over, only to see Gu Qishao as he quickly turned back. Finally, Mu Linger stopped her tears long enough to say, “Qi gege, you scared me to death….sobsob…”

“Crybaby!” Gu Qishao’s face looked even more wan when he smiled.

Mu Linger was filled with distress as she suddenly threw herself at him with a hug. “Qi gege, don’t act like this in future, all right? No matter who it’s for, don’t be like this! How can you set your life against another’s?” Of course she could tell that he was risking it all to kill Long Feiye.

Gu Qishao’s lips curved up to laugh at himself as he murmured, “This old fellow would sure like to die…it’d save myself all this trouble.”

“Qi gege, what did you say?” Mu Linger didn’t hear clearly.

Gu Qishao pushed Mu Linger, but didn’t have the strength to move her aside. He helplessly raised his head to look up. “Linger, you’re hurting me, let go.”

Immediately, Mu Linger released him from her arms. Gu Qishao stared faintly at the entrance to the king cobra then. If it wasn’t for Tang Li, and for his fear of revealing too much, then Long Feiye would definitely be doomed to die! Soon he had Mu Linger take out all the poisons hidden in his sleeve and laid them as a trap by the exit to the den. Right now, Long Feiye and Tang Li were still slaughtering the poison cobras. Even if they killed every single one, they shouldn’t have any ideas of coming out!

After Mu Linger set up the poisons, Gu Qishao had just about rested enough. Though his body was riddled with injuries and snake bites, he soon recovered his stamina and stood up with his own strength.

“Qi gege, you snatched back your own life. Don’t hold out if you can’t take it, all right?!” Mu Linger was very worried. She was a pharmacist and knew of medicine, so she was very clear as to Gu Qishao’s current condition. Of course, she didn’t suspect anything, but thanked Heaven for preserving his life.

“It’s fine. Your Qi gege won’t collapse so easily,” Gu Qishao had regained his old playful smile again.

“You’re still holding out! Let’s go back, we’ll retrace the route from the map!” This was the first time the fearless Mu Linger had felt afraid. Without a map, Heaven knows how many more poison traps were lying in wait for them. A single poison den had left them in this state, but there were a hundred total traps in here. After following the map, they’d only met with this one trap along the way, which meant the same way back should be safe. But Gu Qishao merely picked up the map and tossed it back to her.

“You go back first, just leave the medicine with me.”

Though Mu Linger’s medicine couldn’t completely subdue the poison beast, it could calm him down. Once the Gu Shu calmed down, Gu Qishao was a hundred percent sure that he could take him away.

How could Mu Linger leave first?

She had no interest whatsoever in the Gu Shu, but she’d turned her back on her clan responsibilities to secretly help Gu Qishao just because it was for his sake!

“We’ll go together. If you keep on like this, you won’t live!” Mu Linger said seriously.

Gu Qishao stuffed the map into her arms before turning to leave, but Mu Linger grabbed onto him. “For better or worse, you should send me back up!”

“Be good, don’t fuss. You can get up by yourself,” Gu Qishao pushed aside Mu Linger without a trace.

“Hmph! If you want to die here, then I’ll keep you company!” An angry Mu Linger tore the map to shreds and scattered them on the ground. She hooked her arm in Gu Qishao’s and said boldly, “Let’s go!”

But it was right at this moment that a secret door opened from the wall beside them, revealing two figures who walked out one after the other. The arrivals were a man and a woman. The man was tall and dressed in mysterious black robes, his arm wrapped in bandages as if heavily injured. The woman was dressed in white like a fairy elevated from worldly affairs. Their appearance was so sudden that Gu Qishao and Mu Linger had no time to hide, but met them face-on.