After taking two steps backward, Matthew drank his elixir before rushing into the room to find Lucy—
who had the color drained from her face—unconscious on the floor.
Looking at the unconscious Lucy, he immediately ran to the window.
At this time, a man dressed in black had just descended onto the first floor with the rope Matthew
found.
With his face covered up, the man met Matthew's eyes before turning around, and left with haste.
Without a shadow of a doubt, it was this man who had filled the room with poisonous gas from outside
the window.
The man had filled the backroom with the poisonous gas as he thought Matthew would be the one
entering the backroom.
Since the poison was virtually undetectable, Matthew would have been in a dangerous situation should
he come in without caution.
However, out of the man's expectations, Lucy was the first one to enter the room.
Given that Lucy was not as capable as Matthew, she fell unconscious, as she was instantly affected by
the poison.
Matthew was about to give chase but had heard Lucy groaning behind him.He turned to find Lucy—
with her hands around her neck—with a pained expression.
After a slight hesitation, Matthew chose to stay and gave up the chase.He then opened up the window
to circulate the air in the room before carrying Lucy to the bed.
Checking her pulse, Matthew noticed that the poison had severely affected her.
He first made Lucy consume his elixir as a temporary solution to alleviate the situation.
After that, he tore the clothes Lucy was wearing, revealing her bare figure.
With full concentration, Matthew started inserting the needles he took out into several pressure points
on Lucy's body.
Following that, he used his Divine Skill and transferred his essential Qi into Lucy—via his hand on
Lucy's forehead—to expel the toxin in her, slowly but surely.
Not long after, a gush of mist came flowing out of Lucy's body.
Evidently, it was the poisonous gas Lucy inhaled.
Due to the dominant nature of the poison, the body had to be bare for the poison to be expelled.
It would have been impossible to get rid of the poison if the affected wore any clothes.It was only after
the procedure had passed the 30 minute mark did Matthew finish expelling the poison from Lucy.
Even so, Matthew dared not be complacent.He laid Lucy on the bed and covered her up with a thin
blanket before sitting by her side to watch over her.
Matthew was looking to see if there was any residue of the poisonous gas left inside of Lucy.
Though the residue might not be fatal, it would be enough to severely cripple her day-to-day life.
While watching over her, Matthew called the crown prince for him to send someone to investigate the
matter, especially about the killer Matthew saw.
And so, Matthew watched over Lucy that night while staying beside her, which was fortunate for Lucy
as the poison inside her had recurred twice that night.
Then, morning came.It was around nine o'clock when Lucy regained consciousness.
At first, she wanted to go back to sleep after she had opened her eyes in a daze and found herself lying
in bed.
However, she widened her eyes in shock as the events from the day before flashed through her
mind.Incidentally, Matthew was sitting cross-legged beside the bed.
The moment she laid eyes on him, Lucy turned pale as she deliberated about what that monster had
done to her.
While trying to figure out what had happened, she noticed the clothes she wore were scattered all over
the floor.
Due to the emergency yesterday night, Matthew had to tear off her clothes in order to save her life.
Unfortunately, the aftermath of that looked exactly like a scene of a crime.
"You scoundrel! I will kill you before killing myself!" Lucy roared before pouncing on Matthew.
Though she was stark naked right now, she did not care as she thought that she was defiled.
Since things had come to this, there was no place in her mind to care whether she was stark naked as
all she sought right now was death.
With a frown, Matthew avoided her before he said, "You better not move about.Although the poison in
your body has been expelled, your body still needs to rest"
"What did you say?"
Lucy snapped, "You...even went as far as to poison me? That's it, you scoundrel! Degenerate! B*stard!
You're dying right now!"
At this point, Matthew was starting to feel annoyed.
"How could you act this way? Just when did I poison you? That was someone else's doing.If I hadn't
rushed to save you, you would've been meeting your maker a long time ago!"
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