Chapter 524: 524

Chapter 524: I Know

The group sat in the pavilion.

When the bejeweled fatty saw Zhen Guogong, he acted as if he were a rat that had seen a cat. He stayed in the corner, not daring to make any noise.

The disheveled and unshaven Second Young Master stood behind Zhen Guogong and folded his arms across his chest. He kept looking at Lou Qianxue and An Shaoning, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes from time to time.

However, Lou Qianxue frowned as she stared at Zhen Guogong.

Strange! Shaoning said that he was poisoned. But from his complexion, it doesn’t look like he was poisoned at all…

“Young lady, do you see anything?” Zhen Guogong asked with a smile.

“Master Guogong,” Lou Qianxue came back to her senses and asked, “Are you really poisoned?”

“Yes. A big battle happened four years ago at the border, where I had personally led the troops. However, the enemy ambushed me, and I was bitten by their poisonous item. I nearly lost my life. Fortunately, there was a… Huh?”

As Zhen Guogong spoke, he suddenly thought of something. His expression changed.

His pupils rapidly shrank, and a tinge of shock swept past his eyes when he looked at Lou Qianxue.

“You… Little girl, do you have a sister who looks like you?” Zhen Guogong anxiously asked.

Lou Qianxue froze, then answered, “I have a sister, but we look different.”

“Strange.” Zhen Guogong deeply frowned.

“Why?”

“Nothing.” Zhen Guogong shook his head. “Anyway, after that incident where a poisonous object bit me, I became incapable of using my Essence Martial Power. I was at the mercy of others and nearly lost my life. Fortunately, someone saved me, and I could keep this life of mine.”

Lou Qianxue nodded. After pondering the matter, she asked, “What did Gongsun say back then?”

“Gongsun??”

“The demonically-talented alchemist from the Alchemy King’s mansion, Gong Sunheng.”

“Huh? You also know him? He said the same thing as the others, that I was poisoned, and he was helpless.”

“Why is it like this?” Lou Qianxue suspiciously looked at Zhen Guogong. “You don’t look like you were poisoned. Why couldn’t Gongsun recognize it? Right… Master Guogong, when did Gongsun come to treat you?”

“About two years ago.”

“…” So he is a fake! No wonder!

Lou Qianxue took a breath and said, “Master Guogong, I suspect that you are not poisoned.”

“Pffft!” Before Zhen Guogong could speak, Second Young Master scoffed. “This wretch! You’re here to cheat us of our money! All the alchemists know that my father is poisoned, yet you said that he isn’t! How ridiculous!”

Lou Qianxue narrowed her eyes and raised them as she looked at him. “Don’t forget that all these alchemists couldn’t cure your father!”

Second Young Master momentarily became speechless. He then furiously stared at Lou Qianxue and shifted his gaze away.

“It has been a long time since I saw an outsider make that rascal embarrassed!” Zhen Guogong laughed as he stretched his hand…

At the next moment.

A cold light flashed. He cut his finger and dripped his blood into the tea.

“Master Guogong. What’s this?”

Just as Lou Qianxue asked him…

Ci!

The tea boiled and turned black-red…

“Humph!” Second Young Master disdainfully said, “See that, little girl. Did you see that clearly? That’s poisoned blood! Father’s blood is poisoned. So how can you say that he wasn’t poisoned?”

The bejeweled fatty softly said, “Exactly! She’s one hundred percent a swindler. She wants to deceive us! Cousin, quick, beat—” The fatty couldn’t complete his sentence as Zhen Guogong suddenly glared at him.

The fatty’s body stiffened. He smartly reacted by hurriedly shrinking into a ball and becoming silent.

“Something’s wrong…” Lou Qianxue stared at the poisoned blood. “If you’re not poisoned, why is there poison in your blood?”

An Shaoning looked at Lou Qianxue. “Could it be a kind of poison you’re unaware of?”

A poison I’m unaware of? The memory of “The Alchemy God” was as vast as smoke, and its records had countless symptoms of a poisoned state. Out of these countless symptoms, Zhen Guogong didn’t show any.

But if he isn’t poisoned, how does he have poisoned blood in his body?

Could it be…

Lou Qianxue’s eyes suddenly lit up. “I know!”