Chapter 256
Murong Xue smiled slightly . It was not her plan to bump into Duan Wuluo or stay in his mansion but to find the shadow guards .
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She had to keep it from Gong and Duan that the guards were hiding in Mingzhou, which would cause a great disturbance once revealed . So she would come here again secretly and in no way would she stay in Duan’s mansion again .
When Murong tried to come up with a reason with a sullen look in her eyes, a gust of breeze with a strong aroma blew past her nose .
Her dislike of the smell made her frown . “What’s that strong smell?”
Upon smelling the aroma, Gong’s flawless face turned slightly solemn . “It smells like . . . The lust incense!”
The lust incense? Wasn’t it a kind of love potion?
With vigilance in in her eyes, Murong covered her mouth and nose and abruptly looked up at the source of the aroma . In the dark corner, a figure in black could be seen vaguely, who was fanning an unknown object repeatedly, the top of which was glittering .
It must be the incense!
Tapping the ground with her tiptoe, Murong dashed to the man in the blink of an eye . After cutting its wick with her sword, she thrust at the man in the chest and stuck him on the wall . Instantly, blood spurted out and saturated his clothes .
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“Ouch!” the man let out a cry with anguish, which resounded through the yard .
Disregarding his cry, Murong looked at him coldly and asked, “Who sent you here?” He was really heedless of consequences to have attempted to poison her with the incense .
“No comment!” The man also shot her a piercing glare .
He was indeed an adequate secret keeper!
Curling up the corner of her lips, Murong whipped out a dagger from her sleeve and stabbed the man . When the dagger penetrated his shoulder with blood spurting out, blue veins stood out and cold sweat oozed on his forehead .
The man glowered at Murong with a flicker of coldness in his eyes as if he could have devoured her alive .
Murong blinked . The wound didn’t seem serious enough since the man still had the mood to glower .
With a quirky smile, Murong waved the dagger at the man whose blood instantly pumped from the gash on his neck and saturated his clothes .
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“Who sent you here?” Murong asked calmly in a cold voice, staring at the man . She moved the dagger up and down along his neck .
With the sharp pain, the man could clearly feel the blade gradually slit his skin and blood vessels open and it almost reached his windpipe .
Without a doubt, Murong would slit his throat cruelly and leave him losing all his blood if he refused to confess . It was hot in June, but the man was still shivering while saying with his lips trembling, “Alright . . . The one who sent me here was . . . ”
Meanwhile, the man pulled out a dagger secretly from his belt and thrust at Murong fiercely .
Murong put on a cold look with the corner of her mouth curled upwards coldly . How reckless he was to have attacked her sneakily!
After Murong flipped her wrist over, her sharp dagger glanced off the man’s and cut a gash in his neck with bright blood spurting out onto the flagstones .
The man held the assassinating posture for a minute before he smashed on the ground with anger and grievance in his widened eyes .
The dim light reflected off Murong’s silver dagger, where blood gradually trickled down to the tip and finally dropped to the ground with a spine-chilling sense of stickiness .
Murong didn’t intend to kill him, but since the man recklessly laid a trap to assassinate her, she had no other options .
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“Is he dead?” a charming male voice rang . Gong Qianyu came to her with his black clothes flowing like a blooming black lotus .
“I’m afraid so,” Murong replied casually . It made sense she killed the man since he didn’t confess who the one behind the scenes was and even tried to assassinate her .
Murong sheathed her sword and looked up, only to find Gong flushing unnaturally with sweat oozing from his forehead .
“Are you alright?” Murong looked at him confusedly .
“I . . . I feel sick . ” Gong looked at her with his seducing bleary eyes, feeling empty in his body . He leaned against the wall and slid down slowly with a helpless look in his eyes .
He was poisoned by the incense!
“You alright?” Murong looked at him with concern, narrowing her eyes slightly .
“Yes . . . I am . . . ” Gong said faintly with a flush on his flawless face and a lustful look in his bright eyes .
“Is there a pool of cold water around? I’ll take you there,” Murong asked hastily . The cold water could antidote the incense effectively .
“My legs are weak . . . ” Gong answered gloomily when he sat against the wall, looking miserable with cold sweat oozing from his forehead and his facial features distorted slightly .
The incense had such strong power that even Gong couldn’t compress it with his internal power .
“Try to compress it with your internal strength . I’ll go get help,” Murong said hurriedly as she turned round . All of a sudden, a warm current reached her limbs and bones from her belly before it turned into scorching heat wreaking havoc inside her body .
To her shock, Murong was also poisoned by the incense!
With all her strength drained instantly, she staggered to the wall and gradually slid down onto the ground . She didn’t expect that inhaling just a bit could still poison her in such a serious way .
“Xue, are you alright?” Gong looked at her with a touch of confusion in his bleary eyes .
“Same as you . The incense is kicking in,” Murong said faintly as she clenched her fist tightly, her fingernails embedded in her palms, from which the pain kept her conscious .
The incense took away all her strength, which made her feel powerless to walk or yell for help .