Chapter 1520: Chapter 1520: Can’t Kill Anymore
Translator: 549690339
“How do you feel? Is there anything amiss?”
Qian Jiyun didn’t care how these people were slaughtering each other; he looked at An Jiuyue with concern and asked in a soft voice.
“I’m fine. Those poisons can’t hurt me; I have the space.” An Jiuyue gave him a reassuring look and continued to watch the drama unfold.
Both of them now had the space at their side. Not to mention standing in this corridor, even if they were standing in fire, wouldn’t they remain unscathed?
“Is this all the people they have? So few?”
She counted carefully and saw there were fewer than one hundred people. The place that the Luoyang-Shao Residence’s master valued more than his own life didn’t seem as formidable as she had imagined.
“Don’t be fooled by their small numbers; each and every one of them is an expert,” Qian Jiyun said.
From the perspective of ordinary people, everyone here was an expert. Not even the imperial guards by the old emperor’s side could match any single person here.
What’s more, they were all experts in using poison.
“If the Puppet really is refined, the Luoyang-Shao family could truly turn the tables,” he added.
Thinking about it, An Jiuyue nodded her head. Poison has always been considered most sinister since ancient times. Ordinary people can’t discern poisons with an odor, let alone the colorless and odorless ones.
“Shall we make our move now?” she asked.
“You wait here… Forget it, come with me,” he decided.
Qian Jiyun intended to have An Jiuyue wait here for him to come back, but in the end, he decided to have her accompany him.
“Okay.”
An Jiuyue responded with a smile.
Even if he had told her to stay put, she wouldn’t have been able to.
Meanwhile, the chief elder was still furious; he had already attacked several people, each time with lethal force.
In his eyes, all the people before him combined were less valuable than the pharmacy room that contained the fruits of his many years of labor, which were now destroyed.
If the prescriptions hadn’t been destroyed, it would have been better, but some of the medicinal materials were not beyond his reach to obtain.
But those prescriptions recorded all the years of developing Puppet Poison. Now that they were destroyed, how could he resign himself? To start all over again?
“You… you scoundrels, I really want to…” the chief elder fumed.
“Elder, you can’t kill anymore.”
As the chief elder wanted to kill a few more people to vent his anger, the man in the white robe finally couldn’t stand it any longer and spoke up to stop him.
If the elder continued to kill like this, there would soon be no one left.
“You dare to stop me?”
Upon hearing the interruption, the chief elder’s crimson gaze swept toward the man in the white robe.
With all his efforts and toil reduced to ashes, how could he not be filled with hatred? He wished to kill them all. At this point, anyone who tried to stop him became his enemy.
“No, Elder.”
The man in the white robe was taken aback, fearful that the chief elder might strike him next.
But he couldn’t let the elder keep killing. He had to suppress the panic in his heart and steady his mind.
“Elder, these are pharmacists who were developing the Puppet Poison. If you kill them, all our years of effort will be wasted. With them alive, we might still piece together the prescriptions.”
It would be truly disastrous if he were to lose both the materials and the people — then he would really have nothing left.
At those words, the chief elder closed his eyes for a moment, his mind finally starting to clear.
“Huh!”
He exhaled a heavy breath.
He had almost made a grave mistake. If he had killed everyone, then the Puppet Poison could never be developed again.