Su Yan listened without a word, her eyes cast down.
The Witch Ancestor held out the dicine pill under Su Yan’s eyelids, forceful. She had to take it, whether she wanted to or not.
While speaking, she comforted,
"You’re just a maid, posing no threat whatsoever to His Highness. Our common enemy is Xuanyuan Yonghao."
Xiao Hua spoke up,
"Ding-dong, Host has triggered a random task. If the Host’s identity as a spy remains undiscovered for ten days, a random reward will be given."
After hearing this, Su Yan was stunned for a mont, then looked at the dicine pill in the hands of the Witch Ancestor.
Her intention was not to target her, but to target Xuanyuan Yonghao.
If she killed all of them... would His Highness send soone else to harm Xuanyuan Yonghao?
After a while, she reached out to take the dicine pill, glanced at the Witch Ancestor, bowed her head, and obediently swallowed it.
The Witch Ancestor wasn’t too surprised; a maid without any inner strength had no other option but to be a pawn or to face death.
Witch Ancestor let out two hoarse, cackling laughs, saying,
"Very good, as long as you complete the task, the antidote will naturally be yours."
Then, the Witch Ancestor pulled out a square black wooden box from her sleeve and handed it to Su Yan.
She said,
"Inside this box, there is a dicine pill. Tonight, Xuanyuan Yonghao will be attending an envoy banquet. At that ti, slip it into his drink. Make sure to watch him drink it down. Understand??"
Su Yan took the black wooden box and opened it.
Inside was a yellowish dicine pill, about the size of a pearl, translucent, with a faint black dot visible within it.
After giving the instructions, the Black-clothed Man withdrew the knife from Su Yan’s neck.
The group quickly left.
The Witch Ancestor knew she would surely carry out the task.
After all, everyone wants to live.
Once everyone had gone,
Xiao Hua’s voice, full of doubt, rang out,
"Host, upon examination, your body does not contain any toxic substances. Could it be that the pill is non-toxic? Did she deceive you?"
Su Yan kept her head down and didn’t speak for a long ti.
Then, she reached out to steady herself using a rock of the artificial mountain, tucked into a corner, and spat out a black dicine pill from her mouth.
After that, she squatted there, retching for a long ti.
Her actions were very practiced.
It made Xiao Hua’s eyes widen in shock.
When Su Yan stood up, wiping her lips,
Xiao Hua spoke, her words almost incoherent in surprise,
"Ho-Host? Did you just regurgitate that Elixir from your stomach?"
Su Yan shook her head, weighing the black wooden box in her hand,
"I didn’t swallow it."
She had hidden the pill under her tongue while bowing her head, then pretended to swallow.
The Witch Ancestor had never imagined that a re maid would dare to pull such a trick right in front of her.
Since Su Yan had no inner strength, the Witch Ancestor wasn’t very wary of her.
And that’s how she managed to fool her.
Leaning on the rock, Su Yan stood there for a while, almost back to normal, before she started walking back.
Xiao Hua couldn’t help but ask,
"Host, if you didn’t swallow it, then why did you vomit?"
Su Yan blinked, lifting her dress, walking along the gravel path.
She whispered,
"Habit."
"Wh-What do you an?"
Su Yan didn’t continue speaking, instead focusing all her attention on the black box.
As she walked for a while, her brow furrowed, and she stopped.
She shook the dicine pill in her hand.
"Host? What’s wrong?"
"Is this a poison?"
"It, it should be, right? It’s certainly not anything good."
"But, there is sothing alive inside this box."
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