Chapter 356: Blood Sea in the Still Night

Dou Rongshan glared at Gu Xixi, her throat gulping, she swiftly swallowed what was in her mouth.

Who cares what she ate! Hehe.

Anyway, her brain has stopped working at this moment.

Gu Xixi saw Dou Rongshan obediently take the medicine, she breathed a sigh of relief, and turned her head to look behind.

Fan Dongping clutched his chest and rolled on the ground, like a huge cockroach belly-up, spinning and struggling, vividly.

"I'm dying of pain! It hurts so much! Damn it, it hurts so much! I won't die, will I?"

Fan Dongping, a spoiled bully, routinely shouts threats of beating and killing at others.

But he himself has never suffered hardship, let alone been beaten.

Suddenly kicked with all his strength by Gu Xixi, how could he endure that?

Fan Dongping yelled, clutching his throat, while the nearest San'er knelt on the ground, mouth agape in a foolish look.

Until the other two lackeys reacted, rushing forward to comfort their master.

"Young master, are you alright? Let me rub where it hurts—rubbing will make it not hurt!"

Fan Dongping caught his breath and snapped, "Rub your father's head! You men with your rough hands dare to touch this young master!"

In the moonlight, he turned his head to spot Gu Xixi in the distance, pointing fiercely, "Are you all dead? Watching this young master get beaten, why don't you quickly seize that little slut!"

"I'll play this young master to death, then chop her up and feed her to the beasts!"

The two lackeys, having received the order, first went to pull San'er off the ground, but couldn't move him.

One of the lackeys urged, "San'er, what are you trembling for? Can't you hear the master's words? Hurry up and grab those two women!"

San'er's body trembled even more, but this time he finally managed to utter a complete sentence.

"It's her… she gave us the medicine!"

He could never forget how he and his companions lay on the ground, their bodies wracked with unbearable pain and itch, wishing to die yet unable to move.

Then they had to watch, fully conscious, as the blue-eyed foreigner raised his knife and severed everyone's hamstrings.

After enduring a night of freezing cold, they actually all survived.

Only some went mad or foolish, some became crippled wrecks, but San'er merely ended up lame.

Under the astonished gaze of everyone, San'er clutched his head with both hands, muttering, "All gone mad, all paralyzed, gone mad, paralyzed..."

Gu Xixi deliberately stalled, speaking loudly, "I used not a lethal poison, so it doesn't have the effects you mentioned."

"Maybe their psychological resilience is too poor, they can't endure the drug's torment, and they scared themselves into this state!"

At this moment, Fan Dongping flew into a rage at his useless subordinates, anger making him stand up.

He first kicked San'er down, panting as he cursed, "She said the poison won't kill, what's there to fear! You embarrassing lot! This young master will deal with her first, then with you!"

However, just as his words fell.

Then came a puff sound.

The lackeys stared blankly over, only to see Fan Dongping's eyes glazed, his mouth and chest covered in blood.

The female bandit said, "There's poison."

The bandits hastily covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves.

Those two lackeys had no martial world experience, and one of them foolishly said, "Young master, you… your mouth is bleeding."

Fan Dongping's eyeballs slowly lowered; seeing the bloodstains on his body, he began uncontrollably vomiting mouthfuls of black blood.

He could no longer speak; his body went limp and he collapsed backward.

One lackey promptly squatted and caught his master.

The other already panicked, pointing at Gu Xixi and shouting, "You! You dare to drug our young master!"

"He's a Fan! Even if this medicine doesn't kill, you've brought big trouble upon yourself!"

Gu Xixi saw the moment was right, and innocently spread her hands toward them.

"The medicine I mentioned earlier was the previous one; this time I used another kind."

The improved poison,

In the moonlight, the woman smiled brightly, her teeth gleaming white.

"Poison, the deadly kind."

Upon hearing that, San'er let out a series of ape-like sharp cries, then burst into hysterical laughter to the sky.

This time he should truly have gone mad.

At this moment, the bandits also fell into disarray.

Everyone was just here to take on a job; nobody wanted to risk their lives.

The bandit chief said in a deep voice, "She had no chance to poison the food; it's likely a poisonous smoke or something, and she surely has an antidote on her."

Another bandit nodded, saying to the two lackeys, "We outnumber her; she's alone—if you don't want to die, cooperate."

Dou Rongshan lay behind Gu Xixi, really wanting to jump up and demand, "What do you mean only one person? She isn't a person?!"

Several fierce gazes were cast upon them.

Gu Xixi, however, remained calm, saying, "If you don't believe me, try moving a bit—do you feel a stiffness, and even taking an extra step feels more laborious."

The few people looked at each other, their expressions already confirming Gu Xixi's words.

Gu Xixi smiled, saying, "Besides, do you know why, after inhaling the same poison, that Fan fellow succumbs much faster than you?"

"Because he not only loves to get angry, he also moves around, his blood flows fast, so naturally he dies faster."

She kindly reminded, "If you take a few more steps toward me, you'll probably be about the same."

As soon as she said that, indeed everyone stopped their steps.

The mountain wind blew through the treetops, rustling, seemingly clearing the bandit chief's mind.

"Going forward means death; standing here isn't that just waiting to die?"

Why not all rush together! As long as we can snatch the antidote, we can live!

Actually, these people are already like grasshoppers after autumn; let alone charging forward, even taking two steps is exhausting.

Gu Xixi silently counted for a moment, then one, then two people collapsed in succession.

When she counted to five, apart from herself, there was no one left standing here.

Dou Rongshan climbed up, supporting Gu Xixi's shoulder and peeking around, 'Why is there no sound? Gu Xixi, Gu...'

On the mountain clearing in the dead of night, people lay scattered in twos and threes.

Blood flowed from their mouths and noses, their hands pressed over their abdomens, presenting a painful, twisted posture.

Even more strangely, each person's movements were exactly the same.

In a daze, it seemed as if they had arrived at the hell of collective execution.

Dou Rongshan rolled her eyes and collapsed softly to the ground again.

Gu Xixi glanced sideways, 'Stop pretending, the antidote you just took is a great tonic, enough to invigorate your spirit; tonight you couldn't even faint if you wanted to.'

Dou Rongshan closed her eyes, wanting to cry but no tears came, 'Anyway, I didn't see anything!'

She sensed Gu Xixi moving, but dared not look, crying and begging, 'I won't look! I'd rather die than look!'

'I didn't see them— they were all poisoned by you! Oh no no no,'

'Rest assured, I swear I won't utter a single word about tonight's events!'

'Please, don't kill me to silence me!'

'If you really must kill me, at least don't give me that kind of drug; I'd rather not suffer a fate worse than death...'

Dou Rongshan chattered on and on, only later realizing it seemed quiet around her.

She mustered her courage, opened her eyes, and first saw the nearest bandit leader.

He was already dead, eyes wide open, blood flowing from all seven orifices, his complexion dark blue-black.

Dou Rongshan was so frightened her heart felt clenched, she inwardly prayed for ancestral protection, daring not to look again.

She anxiously began searching for Gu Xixi's figure.

This woman wouldn't abandon her in this mountain of corpses and sea of blood, would she have left on her own?