Chapter 251: Anxious, promptly sitting down (1/2)

Chapter 251: Anxious, promptly sitting down

The two people below them?

Mu Linger’s words immediately caused Gu Qishao’s complexion to darken. A doubtful Han Yunxi asked, “There are people below us? Aren’t there king cobras down there?”

At these words, Gu Qishao’s face changed again, this time to ashen white.

The reason why Han Yunxi had walked here at all was because of all the poisons here. Her detox system had sensed that a large mass of king cobra poison existed here as well as a bunch of toxins all mixed together. Though Gu Qishao’s face was pale, he still calmed down enough to ask, “How do you know there’s king cobras here? Have you passed by this place?”

“Smelled them. The scent of poison’s so strong here, can’t you tell?” Han Yunxi replied naturally. If the white-robed man wasn’t here, then she’d have to commend herself for walking past anything like that.

How could it be so easy to smell such things!

The white-robed man looked at Han Yunxi closely, but Gu Qishao had no time to suspect her. Instead, he changed the topic. “He brought you down here? He wants to help you find the poison beast?”

But Han Yunxi wasn’t so easily deceived. She walked over and stomped on the ground, testing for an entrance. “If there’s people below us, then who are they?”

Mu Linger wanted to say, but a fierce glare from Gu Qishao made her stop in terror. Qi gege had never treated her so harshly in all the years she’d known him. But for Han Yunxi’s sake, he was willing to act fierce! Feeling grieved, Mu Linger’s eyes reddened again as she clenched her hands into fists. But no matter how tightly she clenched, she still didn’t dare to speak up. She was afraid that Qi gege would never pay attention to her again in the future.

When nobody replied after a while, Han Yunxi looked towards Mu Linger. “Little girl, who’s trapped down there?”

Mu Linger didn’t know how to hide her own feelings, so all she did was glare at Han Yunxi before turning away to ignore her. A baffled Han Yunxi turned towards Gu Qishao. “She’s…”

“Mu Linger, the Mu Clan’s genius pharmacist,” Gu Qishao was only too eager to find a topic to talk about. The Mu Clan’s genius pharmacist was an important personage in charge of drugging the poison beast this time. Of course Han Yunxi had heard of her.

“You two know each other?” Han Yunxi asked.

Mu Linger quickly replied, “Qi gege and I, and I…” All right, she couldn’t dig up any relation between them beyond the ‘and I.’ She didn’t want to say they were like siblings, but they were definitely more than just friends. Finally, she settled on one thing. “In any case, Qi gege already knew me before he knew you.”

Han Yunxi didn’t take any offense to their relationship. She started up the detox system to automatically search for the surrounding toxins while interrogating Gu Qishao. “What happened down there?”

“Just people who came to steal the poison beast. I don’t know them,” Gu Qishao replied carelessly as if it really was something inconsequential.

“You trapped them down there?” Han Yunxi kept asking. She was worried when she first saw Gu Qishao covered in blood, but seeing him so energetic made her less anxious to ask after his well-being. A careful look just then had verified that most of his injuries came from snake bites. In other words, this fellow must have fallen into the snake den before and gone through an intense battle. Thinking up to here, Han Yunxi’s eyes changed as she looked at Gu Qishao. Just what kind of people were trapped down there? They were strong enough to injure him to this extent, yet he insisted on concealing their identities? If he hadn’t hid a thing, she would’ve gone off to search for the poison beast since she was in a hurry. Now the cover-up made her much more interested.

There had to be a problem here somewhere, and Gu Qishao was keeping it from her.

Gu Qishao avoided Han Yunxi’s question and urged the white-robed man instead. “Hurry up and go. It’ll be troublesome if Jun Yixie finds the poison beast first.”

Han Yunxi was in no rush. Unless the person knew these surroundings well, they’d probably bump into a trap by accident and get stuck for a long time. She slowly paced back and forth as she searched for the entrance, muttering to herself all the while. “There’s Heat Powder down there, as well as…”

Even Mu Linger was stunned when she heard ‘Heat Powder!’ Technically speaking, Heat Powder was a type of medicine with only trace amounts of poison. She didn’t understand poisons, but Han Yunxi had said she could sniff them out. Perhaps that was true, but Heat Powder had no scent. Moreover, it’d been used a while ago, so how could Han Yunxi smell it?

Once again, the white-robed man looked carefully at Han Yunxi as if trying to discover something off her person. Gu Qishao’s lips twitched, but before he could speak, Han Yunxi did instead. “There’s also Black Snake Essence Juice, but there’s not much of it. It’s very fresh, so it was probably created on-site.”

Black Snake Essence Juice!

This was exactly the poison venom that Gu Qishao had created with the snake corpse in the den. Han Yunxi could even smell such a thing! By now, Gu Qishao finally realized something was off and asked, “Poison lass, you can really tell poisons by smell?”

Han Yunxi ignored him, but suddenly stopped in one spot to stare at her feet as she muttered, “There’s a lot of poisons here. Seven Star Flower Grass, Dragon’s Snakechild, Clear River Viper Leaf…” She slowly crouched down as she listed the poison names while putting on a pair of gloves. Then she felt around the floor and found quite a quantity of powdered poisons. Gu Qishao leaned against a wall and suddenly felt an urge to flee.

This scary woman!