What is that sound?
It was definitely not the sound of raindrops hitting the windowpane.
What's more, a fishy, foul odor permeated the room!
Could it be snakes—
The instant Jiao Yin’s eyes snapped open, her mind raced. She twisted her slender waist and reached out to flick on the desk lamp.
And then.
She saw them.
The bedroom floor was covered in snakes of all colors!!
And all of them had triangular heads.
Their open mouths revealed sharp, hooked fangs.
Their scarlet tongues flickered rapidly, emitting faint hissing sounds.
Innumerable venomous snakes.
Innumerable venomous snakes suddenly appeared in Jiao Yin’s bedroom as midnight approached.
Innumerable venomous snakes, coiled and intertwined, raised their triangular heads high, slithering rapidly towards Jiao Yin.
Jiao Yin’s mind went completely blank.
As mentioned before, the CEO of the dark web, who possessed frog-like attributes, was most afraid of snakes, owls, and the like, creatures that preyed on frogs.
This wasn’t due to President Jiao San’s martial prowess.
It was a pure, natural bloodline suppression!!
Even if President Jiao San possessed the most elite martial arts skills, akin to Yang Xiao, she would still tremble uncontrollably and her limbs would go weak upon seeing the natural enemies of frogs.
Especially at this moment—
She was naked. In her small bedroom, countless venomous snakes had appeared, using the rustling sound of raindrops on the window as cover!
The crucial point was.
Colorful venomous snakes were continuously crawling down from the skylight at the top of the bedroom.
The skylight in Jiao Yin’s bedroom was a smart skylight controlled by a certain system.
So, how had it suddenly opened?
And how did these venomous snakes, capable of scaring Jiao Yin to the point of wetting herself, manage to "gather" at the Flowing Water Pavilion?
Don’t forget.
Because Jiao Yin was particularly afraid of snakes, certain plants that snakes disliked had been specifically planted around the Flowing Water Pavilion; and the patrolling guards would sprinkle sulfur and other snake-repelling substances outside the walls every night.
Why—
The venomous snakes, already on the bed, wouldn’t give Jiao Yin any more time to ponder.
A full thirty venomous snakes lunged at Jiao Yin simultaneously.
As fast as lightning!
“Ah!”
Instantly bitten by dozens of venomous snakes, Jiao Yin instinctively covered her face with her hands, letting out an ear-splitting scream.
But that was all.
Apart from screaming and covering her face, Jiao Yin had no other reaction.
She had even lost the instinct to struggle due to fear!
Let alone using her formidable combat power to counterattack the snakes or leaping away to escape.
She could only curl herself up as tightly as possible, allowing the snakes to surround her and bite her with their fangs.
Her thoughts had ceased.
She had completely become a piece of pale flesh, lying there to be devoured by the swarming snakes.
Bang—
Just as Jiao Yin remained motionless, allowing herself to be bitten by the snakes, a loud bang was faintly heard.
What was that sound?
Although Jiao Yin heard it, she showed no reaction.
But she could feel someone shouting her name loudly: "Jiao Yin!"
“Who is calling me?”
As Jiao Yin’s mind slowly began to function, someone lunged towards her, pulling the snakes off her body, and then scooped her up into their arms.
Jiao Yin opened her eyes.
She then saw Li Qianfan.
But her gaze was vacant; she simply stared at him blankly, without any reaction.
Li Qianfan raised his hand, grabbed a venomous snake lunging towards his face, and squeezed with all his might!
The snake’s head was instantly crushed.
But there were too many snakes in the bedroom.
They were densely packed, all with scarlet eyes.
At least a hundred of them!
And more snakes were still crawling down from the skylight.
“Damn it.”
Li Qianfan cursed, too bothered to deal with the snakes that were now pouncing on him and biting him with their gaping maws.
He bit his left thumb and exerted force.
It truly hurt.
After breaking the skin on his left thumb, he flicked it towards the swarm of snakes.
Blood splattered out—
Li Qianfan’s blood was potent enough to kill even the extremely poisonous and malevolent蛊 worms cultivated by Zhuang Wujian!
Let alone some venomous snakes acquired by Bai Ziyan?
“Get the hell out of here.”
Li Qianfan waved his injured left hand and muttered.
The snakes—
Immediately hissed and recoiled, retreating rapidly.
Their sensitivity to scent surpassed that of a forty-nine-year-old bachelor spotting a woman in a bikini.
Thus, upon smelling the scent of Male 209, which could poison all venomous creatures, they were no less terrified than Jiao Yin had been upon seeing the snakes.
As for the snakes biting Li Qianfan’s legs—
They all rolled their eyes and fell to the ground: “Oh my, I’m dead.”
It was indeed their end.
As their fangs pierced Li Qianfan’s skin and tasted the scent of Male 209, it was akin to a laboratory mouse being fed three and a half jin of arsenic.
Li Qianfan jumped off the bed, cradling the white jade frog, and stepped over the stunned snakes, quickly exiting the bedroom and entering the courtyard.
He looked up.
Red dots were flashing above the Flowing Water Pavilion.
These were drones, using the sound of the rain as cover, hovering directly above the Flowing Water Pavilion and dropping large numbers of venomous snakes, which then directly entered through the opened smart skylight.
Several drones.
All the drones were dropping venomous snakes.
The twelve housekeepers (maids) Jiao Yin had summoned to the Flowing Water Pavilion, whether on patrol or resting, were now screaming or writhing in pain on the ground after being bitten by snakes.
As for Yaoyao, who had accompanied Li Qianfan to the Flowing Water Pavilion—
Her face was pale, and her hand, holding a knife, trembled as she hid above the small pavilion.
Yaoyao, of course, didn’t have the frog attribute and wouldn’t be paralyzed by fear of snakes like the dark web experts.
She had even killed venomous snakes that attempted to ambush her in the deep mountains of Lingnan.
She even ate venomous snakes raw for sustenance.
The problem was.
With so many venomous snakes present, who wouldn’t be afraid, except for this pervert Li Qianfan!?
Li Qianfan glanced at the sky, quickly walked to the small pavilion, and took out his phone.
Yaoyao, like a monkey, climbed down and took the unconscious Jiao Yin from his arms.
Li Qianfan called Bai Ziyan: “Stop. Jiao Yin cannot die.”
Bai Ziyan sneered: “Heh, I truly didn’t expect you to come back.”
Li Qianfan spoke truthfully: “I couldn’t persuade Jiao Yin to go to Modu with me. But I could predict that you, who were already impatient to hunt her, would make a move tonight. Bai Ziyan, I truly didn’t expect you could deduce from her sleeping posture that she’s afraid of snakes. For this, you secretly acquired so many venomous snakes in advance.”
Bai Ziyan replied: “You’re not the only smart one.”
Li Qianfan added: “Tonight, I’ll take her away. And I won’t tell her that you were the one who sent the snakes to kill her.”
Bai Ziyan replied: “Tonight, she must die! Because yesterday, I already gave her a chance. She didn’t cherish it and chose to leave with you.”
Li Qianfan frowned: “Do you believe I’ll make you look foolish in public at important events in the future?”
Bai Ziyan—
Cursed him resentfully: “You scoundrel!”
Li Qianfan smiled sheepishly.
The call ended.
The drones in the sky quickly disappeared into the rainy night.
“Yaoyao, come with me.”
Li Qianfan said, quickly walking out of the pavilion.
Given Jiao Yin’s extreme fear of snakes, she would surely have prepared snake-repelling drugs and antidotes at the Flowing Water Pavilion.
And so it was.
When Yaoyao, wearing gloves, scattered snake-repelling agents all over the courtyard, the snakes hastily fled the courtyard entrance.
Li Qianfan also injected Jiao Yin with the antidote.
Daybreak came.
Jiao Yin, who had remained in a deep coma and developed a high fever around 1 AM, finally saw her fever subside, and her thoughts slowly began to function.
She then heard voices—
Du Junlin’s voice: “Qianfan, if you directly transfused your blood to Jiao Yin, could she detoxify and wake up within a few hours?”
Li Qianfan’s voice: “Wrong! It won’t take hours at all. At most half an hour, and she’ll be jumping around.”
Du Junlin: “Then why didn’t you transfuse your blood to her?”
Li Qianfan: “My blood is so precious, how could I possibly transfuse it to her? Do you think anyone can compare to Guanyin?”
Du Junlin: “Then, what if I get bitten by a venomous snake?”
Li Qianfan: “You are Yaoyao, why would the venomous snakes dare to bite you? If they don’t bite you, they’re already thanking their lucky stars.”
“Hit you.”
Yaoyao said coyly, hitting Li Qianfan lightly with her hand and persistently asking: “If I get bitten by a venomous snake, will you transfuse your blood to me?”
Li Qianfan replied casually: “That’s for sure. Let alone transfusing blood, if I had to rip my head off to save you, I’d hesitate for eighty years before decisively saving you.”
Angered Yaoyao—
Leaned on his shoulder and bit him lightly.
Yaoyao’s original “cool and detached expert demeanor” gradually vanished as she became more normal, and her girlish charm surged.
Of course.
Yaoyao’s cute and charming side was reserved only for those she loved the most.
She still acted incredibly cool and aloof in front of Gao Lingwang, Qin Zhou, and others.
“It smells so bad.”
Yaoyao wiped the corner of her mouth and asked: “After my mother received your blood transfusion, won’t she be immune to poison too?”
Li Qianfan nodded: “More or less. If you have a son with me in the future, you’ll also be immune to poison. You’ll be infected by Male 209. Also, Chu Yazhi and Chong Chong are not afraid of poison now. Because they’ve also been infected.”
Yaoyao asked again: “Then after you transfuse your blood to Jiao Yin, will she also be immune to poison in the future?”
“It’s useless for her.”
Li Qianfan shook his head: “Meng Ma (Meng Yue) once said that the dark web’s 209 has been modified. The current popular 209 virus strains do not have anti-poison effects. After all, they are no longer pure. But if I were to transfuse blood to her (Jiao Yin), it would indeed detoxify her. However, her modified 209 would reject my Male 209.”
“Hmm. That’s the trade-off.”
Yaoyao nodded, looking at Jiao Yin: “She’s awake.”
Li Qianfan looked down.
Jiao Yin slowly opened her eyes.