Chapter 282: Little Genius Pet (1/2)

Chapter 282: Little Genius Pet1

The second door was extremely dangerous, as well?

Hearing Han Yunxi’s warning, Aunt Ru couldn’t help but ask in earnest, “What kind of danger? How did you get out unscathed?”

Han Yunxi could tell that Aunt Ru was suspicious. She assumed that Long Feiye would question her as well, but he simply remained silent without adding any fuel to the fire. This fellow isn’t like this usually! He’s always full of questions!

But she had no time to overthink things, nor was she planning to explain anything to Aunt Ru. Instead she jokingly teased, “Why do I have to tell you?”

“You really don’t know martial arts?” Aunt Ru asked again.

Han Yunxi wasn’t a fool and knew that Aunt Ru didn’t look upon her kindly. They’d only cooperated when facing with a common enemy, but it didn’t meant they’d buried the hatchet between them. Just a few hours ago, she’d nearly lost her life to Aunt Ru’s assassination weapons. While she wasn’t someone who harbored grudges, she was one who valued her own life.

“Whether or not I do has nothing to do with you, right?” Han Yunxi expressed her views plainly.

But Aunt Ru suddenly grabbed Han Yunxi’s wrist. At the same time, Long Feiye pressed on Aunt Ru’s hand and said coldly, “She doesn’t know any. Don’t waste time, let’s find the right way instead.”

However, Aunt Ru had already touched Han Yunxi’s pulse point. She could tell by the pulse that it had a good foundation for practicing martial arts, yet Long Feiye moved her hand aside before she could feel any further.

“Enough!” he said. His eyes were piercing, and there was rage hidden in his tone. Even though he didn’t express his fury, Aunt Ru could clearly hear it in his voice. She was both angry and sad, never expecting that Feiye would treat her so sternly. This won’t do. She would have to thoroughly interrogate Tang Li again. No matter how formidable or useful this Han Yunxi was, any sources of trouble had to be eliminated early on!

Hiding her disappointment, Aunt Ru pretended that nothing had happened before asking, “There are only two doors left. Which one should we take?”

The first door contained fire, the second black butterflies. Heaven knows what Chu Qingge had met with in the third one, but judging from her injuries, it was no less dangerous than the first two doors. Now only the fourth and fifth doors were left.

“No, there are still five doors left,” Han Yunxi rejected immediately. “The secret tunnels stretch very far. It isn’t enough to get to the end just in an hour. Moreover, no one can be sure that the dangerous path isn’t the right one.”

Han Yunxi’s thinking was still careful and meticulous. Leaving aside whether Duanmu Baiye’s group was seeking the same thing as them, there were one of two possibilities with these five doors. One was that four doors contained dangers while one was the safe and proper one–the assumption that Duanmu Baiye and the rest had made when mistakenly choosing to rush into door number two. The other possibility was that all five doors were dangerous, but one of them was still the correct path.

Long Feiye understood her reasoning and added mildly, “Let’s test out the fourth and fifth doors first before choosing.”

Han Yunxi was very much in agreement, while Aunt Ru was too lost in her own thoughts to say anything else. But just as they were about to enter the fourth door, Han Yunxi suddenly felt something scratching her from inside her sleeve. Who else could it be but Lil Thing? This fellow had secret ways that even she couldn’t sense of slipping out of her medical pouch. Why was it scratching her now? It wasn’t like she could reply to it. What if Long Feiye and Aunt Ru noticed? The consequences would be unimaginable. Heaven knows whether acquiring the poison beast was one of Long Feiye’s goals?

She allowed Lil Thing to scratch as she continued walking with Long Feiye, but the closer she drew to the fourth door, the more furiously Lil Thing scratched. Finally, it even lightly bit her fingers, though it didn’t really sink in its teeth. At last, Han Yunxi realized that there was a problem with this door! Lil Thing seemed to be preventing her from moving forward. Could it be that there were dangers inside?

No, the dangers inside were nothing compared to Lil Thing. Then what was it trying to tell her?

She immediately stopped, and Lil Thing released her fingers at the same time. As expected, it was trying to prevent her from entering the door. Although the threats inside were nothing for Lil Thing, it’d still tried to stop her. Then the only possibility was that Lil Thing wanted to lead her to the right path!

Han Yunxi realized that it really took some brainpower to communicate with Lil Thing. However, they’d only met each other for a few days. She was sure that they’d understand each other tacitly with more time.

“Let’s try the fifth door first!” she said seriously.

“Why?” Long Feiye asked, not understanding. If it wasn’t for Aunt Ru, he would’ve started asking her questions long ago. Even since Han Yunxi had been rescued after being kidnapped, he’d been filled with all sorts of questions, but she’d left right after their argument in the medical academy, so he didn’t have the chance to ask.

His biggest question of all was how she’d managed to save Long Tianmo!

“Because the acrid odor is strongest in that tunnel!” Han Yunxi answered without thinking. They’d followed that scent all the way down here, so only this answer had the most merit. She only hoped that Lil Thing wouldn’t cause her to stumble.

“You smelled it?” Aunt Ru asked immediately. Anyone who studied poisons had a good nose. As far as she could judge, the concentration of scents were evenly distributed between all five tunnels.

“You can test it if you don’t believe me,” Han Yunxi said, effectively silencing Aunt Ru once again. Aunt Ru was unsatisfied, but she knew her poison skills weren’t comparable to Han Yunxi. All she could do was endure while waiting to see. Long Feiye didn’t harbor any doubts at all and started taking large strides towards door number five.

Han Yunxi held him back. “Slow down, let me take a closer look before we choose.”