Yun Shu thought for a moment and replied, "Yes, but you won't be truly detoxified for another month. Are you sure?"
Given Zhan Tian Ye's current physical condition, all he needed was to find a woman to resolve his issues, combined with her antidote, and he would have no worries. His mobility and lightness would be unimpeded.
"Mm," Zhan Tian Ye replied without hesitation.
A complex emotion, difficult to articulate, stirred within Yun Shu. She glanced at Zhan Tian Ye and then produced silver needles from her sleeve.
Ruan Xi ambled forward, "Is there anything I can do? Men and women should maintain distance. Why don't you tell me which acupoint to needle, and I'll do it?"
Zhan Tian Ye lifted his eyes.
Instantly, Ruan Xi felt the meaning of two words: terrifying. A chilling sensation seemed to permeate his very bones.
"Miss Yun Er has already needled His Highness several times!" Qiu Lu interjected.
He felt it was necessary to inform Ruan Xi that there was no "maintaining distance" between Miss Yun Er and His Highness! They were quite close.
Ruan Xi, despite his bold nature, still felt a chill, but he chirped excitedly, "Oh, Yun Shu has needled me several times too. In these past few years, Yun Shu and I have seen each other almost day and night."
He dared not say more.
Yun Shu looked at him.
Jing Heng also seemed ready to punch him.
Most importantly, he sensed that Zhan Tian Ye genuinely considered him a love rival.
A definitive love rival.
"Go away," Yun Shu said, finding Ruan Xi too bothersome.
Zhan Tian Ye's eyes had turned as dark as ink, unfathomably deep. A restrained emotion churned within the abyssal depths of his gaze, and his very aura took on a terrifying quality.
She had spent her days and nights with Ruan Xi for years?
She had seen him undressed, and she had seen Ruan Xi undressed too?
Had she seen more of them than he had?
Her interactions with Ruan Xi were so natural, as if with just a glance, Ruan Xi understood her thoughts.
An unfamiliar emotion surged within Zhan Tian Ye's chest, but he suppressed it.
His thin lips tightened.
His gaze lingered on her, deepening.
...
Meanwhile.
As Yun Xiao Jing's blood dripped onto the ground.
Gradually.
There was a sound.
A rustling came from below the wall.
Zhan Xiao Li's eyes lit up, "Could it be rats?"
"No," Yun Xiao Jing shook his head.
The next moment.
A small animal, covered in scales with short, thick limbs, appeared before them.
One, two, three, more than a dozen or twenty of them emerged!
Gu Xiao Feng's starry eyes widened in shock, "Pangolins?"
He recognized pangolins!
But he had never seen so many pangolins!
Xiao Jing was amazing!
Yun Xiao Jing chuckled softly, "Yes, pangolins. They're helping us dig a hole!"
"Your blood can attract them?" Zhan Xiao Li asked, curious.
Gu Xiao Feng also looked at Yun Xiao Jing expectantly.
"Yes, they can smell it! And there are traps all around. It's hard for them to find us accurately unless I use the scent of my blood to guide them," Yun Xiao Jing explained.
Zhan Xiao Li and Gu Xiao Feng understood.
So that's how it was!
The pangolins were fast.
They quickly dug a hole together.
Yun Xiao Jing beamed with joy, cheering on the hardworking, adorable pangolins, "You're doing great! Go, go, go!"
The pangolins seemed to dig with even more vigor.
Before long.
A small opening, large enough for children, appeared before them.
At this moment.
The masked men outside the door were oblivious to the changes within the room.
The entire secret residence remained as tranquil as could be.
After a while.
The door opened.
A masked man, carrying several steamed buns and fruits, threw them inside.
As the fruits and buns landed, the masked man suddenly flung the door wide open.
He strode into the room and approached the small hole.
Soon, a man wearing a silver mask hurried over, standing by the hole. His voice, no longer clear and melodious, was now filled with surprise, "How did Prince Ye and Yun Shu teach their children? We underestimated them!"
"However... they are just children. Let them play for a bit."
...
After Yun Xiao Jing led Zhan Xiao Li and Gu Xiao Feng out, they looked around with a slight sense of confusion.
They had escaped the room.
But it seemed they were still in this wretched place.
The pangolins were also lost.
"We don't seem to have gotten out," Gu Xiao Feng frowned, still able to smell the poison.
Yun Xiao Jing nodded, "Yes, we haven't gotten out."
He concentrated, observing their surroundings.
Suddenly.
A sound, from an unknown direction.
It sounded like the roars of animals or ghosts.
It was bone-chilling.
Yun Xiao Jing blinked his big eyes and pouted, "It would be great if real ghosts appeared. I've never seen a ghost! I'm so curious."
"I haven't seen one either," Zhan Xiao Li listened intently to their surroundings.
Suddenly, he felt something.
Gu Xiao Feng snorted twice, "It's not scary at all! It's just too unpleasant to hear."
The three children showed no fear.
If it were other children, they would have cried long ago.
After all, the screams at this moment came from all directions, their wails echoing clearly in the silent, secret residence.
"Xiao Jing, can you send a swarm of bees to the southwest? There are people there!" Zhan Xiao Li whispered to Yun Xiao Jing.
Yun Xiao Jing shook his head.
This place was very strange.
The large python that had brought him here, as soon as he landed, seemed startled and quickly left.
Furthermore, it was very quiet here. Apart from the pangolins emerging from underground, other birds and beasts did not enter freely.
"There's poison buried everywhere, poison that these small animals are very afraid of," Gu Xiao Feng said softly.
Suddenly.
Accompanied by the wails, the pangolins that had helped them dig earlier were thrown from all directions!
The pangolins were all dead!
Their bodies were covered in blood.
Yun Xiao Jing's smile vanished from his face.
Staring at the pangolins on the ground, he clenched his small fists, angry!
"Let's be careful!" Zhan Xiao Li frowned.
He could hear thoughts!
The person was thinking: "If Zhan Tian Ye saw his three sons reduced to idiots and madmen from fear, would he also become mad?"
Immediately after.
A masked man suddenly appeared before them.
He reached out and grabbed Gu Xiao Feng.
He tossed Gu Xiao Feng high into the air and then caught him.
Gu Xiao Feng gritted his teeth tightly, not making a sound.
"Xiao Feng!" Yun Xiao Jing and Zhan Xiao Li immediately rushed to attack the masked man.
The masked man remained unfazed.
Yun Xiao Jing climbed onto the masked man's neck.
Just as the masked man was about to throw Gu Xiao Feng again, Yun Xiao Jing reached out and clawed at the masked man's eyes.
Gu Xiao Feng also grabbed the masked man's mask.
The moment the mask was pulled off.
A figure appeared like a phantom.
He grabbed Yun Xiao Jing by the collar.
Then he violently flung Yun Xiao Jing forward.
"Ah!"