Chapter 71: The Witch Doctor Who Excels at Poison

With no time to deal with the Snake Beastmen who had already fled, Gong Mei quickly stuffed the pill Leng Xiao had given her into Han's mouth.

So fast that Yun Li didn't even have time to ask, "What if the antidote they gave is fake?"

Fortunately, she didn't voice that question, because Han's condition at the time was truly not good. If they had hesitated a few more seconds on her account, Han would likely have passed out, and then they'd have to worry about whether he could even swallow the antidote.

"Cough~ ah..."

After taking the antidote, Han felt the world-turning pain in his abdomen ease considerably. He was just about to speak and reassure his female that he was fine, but it turned out his throat seemed to have been damaged by the poison.

Seeing her beast husband open his mouth several times without being able to say anything, a flash of ominous premonition crossed Gong Mei's mind.

"Can you not speak?"

Seeing Han nod with a helpless expression, Gong Mei's face turned very ugly, but she still forced herself to stay calm and said, "It's fine, we'll head back to the Tribe right away. Grandmother Yin will definitely have a solution."

Seeing this, Yun Li also urged, "Right, A Mei, hurry back to the Tribe and have Grandmother Yin take a look. Mu Qing, Leng Xiao, and I don't plan to stay here either. If we run into those three again later, there's no telling whether we'll have the same luck."

Gong Mei nodded at her words and was about to pick up her beast husband, but Guan Yu beat her to it and carried him on his back.

Han cooperated readily with Guan Yu—after all, knowing his female was formidable was one thing, but being carried back to the Tribe by his female would get him ragged to death by the males at home.

Especially since A Mei's First Beast Husband was a temperamental vinegar jar.

They watched the three of them quickly leave the wasteland, not even stopping to take the rhinoceros python along.

Yun Li turned to Leng Xiao and said, "A Xiao, help A Mei bring this rhinoceros python along."

Leng Xiao had been staring in the direction Ke Si and the other two had left, his expression heavy. Hearing A Li's words, he nodded, "Alright!"

As he and Mu Qing were dealing with the rhinoceros python, the beastmen on Silver Eagle Tribe's patrol finally arrived, only to find just the three of them—Yun Li and the others.

"Leng Xiao? What are you all doing here?"

Thanks to the commotion Leng Xiao and Yun Li had caused when they first arrived at Silver Eagle Tribe, many beastmen on the Patrol Team not only recognized Leng Xiao but also knew that his First Beast Husband was a Snake Beastman.

So the newcomer thought the eagle beastman on patrol had failed to see clearly and mistaken Mu Qing for a Snake Beastman from Youbuluo intruding on Silver Eagle Tribe's territory.

"You're too late. Those Snake Beastmen from Youbuluo have already left."

Leng Xiao didn't waste words either, pointing in the direction Ke Si and the others had gone.

"One Blue Rank Beastman, the other two should be one Qing Rank and one Green Rank. Among them, that Blue Rank Beastman is even their Tribe's Witch Doctor."

"You're not mistaken?"

The leading male's face instantly turned extremely ugly, not knowing what he had thought of.

But someone behind him questioned their words, "If it's that Witch Doctor from Youbuluo, how could you still be alive standing here talking to us?"

Not to mention, Leng Xiao and the others had been at Silver Eagle Tribe for less than a month—how would he know that the Blue Rank Beastman across from them was Youbuluo's Witch Doctor?

Seeing them direct their slightly hostile gazes toward Mu Qing, Yun Li quickly stepped forward to protect her beast husband, saying, "Whether we're lying or not, just go back to the Tribe and ask Gong Mei and the others, won't you know then?"

"We went out together with Gong Mei and the others today. Lots of beastmen saw us leaving the Tribe today."

Yun Li's words were effective. Seeing her protect her Snake Beast Husband like this, even if someone didn't like the look of Mu Qing as a Snake Beastman, they still had to rein it in before this female who had recently given birth to young.

If the other beastmen in the Tribe found out, who knows what they'd say about the Patrol Team beastmen being so aggressive toward a female.

"A misunderstanding. Since Yun Li says so, then it must be true."

The leading male knew full well the Young Master's attention toward the female before him. Regardless of whether Ji Xuan paid attention to Yun Li because of his brother, in Ji Xuan's followers' eyes, this was the first time their Young Master had paid this much attention to a female.

So even if Mu Qing had previously been a Snake Beastman of Youbuluo and somehow became Yun Li's First Beast Husband by who knows what means, since he was Yun Li's male and Yun Li was a female the Young Master cared about, there was no need to keep hounding Mu Qing.

Unless Mu Qing truly had done something to wrong Silver Eagle Tribe, with the Young Master's abilities, protecting Mu Qing would be no problem at all.

Of course, all of the above was just that male's own thoughts.

After he finished speaking, he cast a cold glance at the beastmen behind him, "Just go back and check, and you'll know. Mu Qing was permitted to enter the Tribe by the Young Master. You doubting Mu Qing—do you think the Young Master misjudged someone?"

Hearing this, the beastmen who had just wanted to use the opportunity to target Mu Qing fell silent at once.

If Ji Xuan knew someone was using his name to protect Yun Li's beast husband, who knows what he'd feel.

However, perhaps because of this male's words, Leng Xiao's suspicion that Ji Xuan had taken a fancy to his female grew even more certain in his heart.

……

After the Patrol Team beastmen had all left, Yun Li and the others didn't stay long before leaving the area as well.

Not long after they left, a small black snake slithered out from the bushes. It flicked its tongue frequently where Yun Li had been standing, until the lingering scent completely faded, then left the wasteland somewhat drunkenly.

"What did you go do?"

Chang Yue looked at the male who claimed to have gone to relieve himself but came back in a great mood, and couldn't help feeling curious.

"Nothing. Has the Witch Doctor rested enough?"

Teng Fei didn't dare tell what he had done, because what the Witch Doctor hated most were males who lost themselves over a female. The Tribe often had males who, because their females didn't like them, would self-harm or do all sorts of degrading things.

If he became one of them, the Witch Doctor would probably use him to test medicines.

Thinking of Ke Si's methods, all of Teng Fei's good mood vanished in an instant.

Chang Yue glanced at him several times, and seeing nothing unusual, withdrew his gaze and said:

"The Witch Doctor isn't some fragile cub—what does he need to rest for? He just spotted a few poisonous herbs and was thinking about what kind of poison he could make from them."

Though Teng Fei was also a venomous snake beastman, hearing that the Witch Doctor was concocting poison again, his heart still subconsciously lurched.

Who would the Witch Doctor use to test his new medicine this time?

Those male beastmen brought from Silver Eagle Tribe clearly wouldn't do—Silver Eagle Tribe had already agreed to trade females for them, so they had to let them go back alive.

But among the captured wandering beastmen, not many were left alive either.

Teng Fei wondered whether he should run farther out and catch a few wandering beastmen who had committed offenses, so that the Witch Doctor would have his new medicine and wouldn't need to keep eyeing the beastmen around him.