My mind wavered for a mont, nearly causing to lose my balance.
Emotions of sour sorrow surged upward like a tide.
Yu Longting stepped forward imdiately, checking the pulses of Chen Decheng and his wife.
He bowed his head silently for three seconds, then slowly delivered the answer, "The heartbeat has stopped."
"Who could it be?? Who managed to slip into the room soundlessly, under our very noses, such that... even Beichen didn’t notice." I barely held onto the shelf beside to prevent myself from collapsing.
Although Chen Decheng and his wife seed to be my employers, they were more than family to .
Hearing of their deaths was akin to receiving the devastating news of losing close relatives.
From Yu Longting’s sleeve erged two small red snakes that crawled into Chen Decheng and his wife’s nostrils, "Though the heartbeat has stopped, their bodies remain intact without any illness. If they can wake within three days, maybe... they can be saved. As for who did this..."
"I think this is more like a kidnapping." Beichen lowered his head and gently kissed the forehead of Xiao Li, who was pierced with many needles.
He suddenly spoke this sentence gloomily, which puzzled for a mont, then brought sudden realization.
I was montarily stunned and whispered, "Since they had the ability to let the Spider Silk enter silently, this person had many ways to kill, yet they just used the silk to wrap people up and spun such a thick layer of silk in the living room. Clearly, it was... a show of force!"
"Could it be that dicinal Snake Sangsang that escaped last ti, coming back to take revenge on us?" Yu Longting placed Chen Decheng and his wife on the sofa, stuffing an elixir into each of their mouths.
The Red Snake is a dicinal Snake of the Snake Tribe, and its main function now is to protect the heart.
The elixirs they consud were likely to replenish the vital energy absorbed by the Spider Silk, sustaining their basic bodily functions.
Although these redies were imdiately effective and Chen Decheng and his wife gradually looked better,
if they didn’t wake within three days,
their two bodies would beco corpses and start decaying.
Beichen frowned and asked, "Snake Lord, what... dicinal Snake? How co you never ntioned it before?"
Yu Longting sat on a single sofa, his fingers tapping lightly on his knee.
He proceeded to explain briefly to Beichen about the ti they encountered dicinal Snake Sangsang in the Demon Cave.
As Beichen listened, his expression grew more and more solemn.
His face was so dark it seed it could drip water.
A sense of unease grew in my heart, as the more I listened, the more it felt like Yu Longting releasing Sangsang back then was the root of today’s plight.
But he was such a ticulous person, he shouldn’t have made such a basic mistake.
"You... even though you’re the Snake Lord, you’re being too arrogant. by wanting to investigate the origins of the dicinal Snake, you planted this hidden threat." Beichen couldn’t hold it in, his eyes turned crimson as he lowly shouted at Yu Longting.
Yu Longting touched his neck, tilted his head with a bit of roguishness and indifference, "I do what I like, are you going to teach how to act?"
Beichen’s aura grew even colder, feeling as if he was about to lose control of all energies and strike Yu Longting.
He had always been loyal to Yu Longting and wouldn’t flinch even if Yu Longting killed him.
But this matter implicated Xiao Li, who was Beichen’s bottom line, more important than his own life.
This was a confrontation, yet internal conflict arose before even facing the enemy.
"Alright, is your confrontation aningful in any way? It’s internal waste." I pushed Beichen aside, separating the two, "Beichen, dicinal Snake Sangsang was gravely injured at that ti. Even if she used Evil Arts, it’d take at least a century to recover. The perpetrator this ti can’t possibly be that dicinal Snake."
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