The girl stopped arguing with them and slowly walked to a seat to the side. Just like before, she leisurely ate her fruit, showing no signs of having just been poisoned.

Looking at the trainees on the training ground, they were all shocked and could only accept reality.

As time ticked by, one by one, the dead fish on the training ground fainted, looking as if they might die at any moment.

On the other hand, aside from the fact that her face was no longer as rosy as before, Qi Jiu's movements and expression were almost exactly the same as before. She was crunching on an apple.

"Oh? Looks like I won."

She slowly walked over to the person who had asked the question earlier, and seeing him half-dead from the toxins, a smile curved her lips.

"Can you still hold on? You don't really think an assassin simply goes to their destination, kills everyone, and comes back, do you? I..."

That would be too naive.

There are many problems to be solved, and developing drug resistance is one of them.

"I'm asking you, if you were ambushed and poisoned during a mission, and became completely incapacitated like you are now, would you just wait to die?"

The man struggled to lift his eyes to look at Qi Jiu, but said nothing. The next second, he fainted.

The girl glanced at Yuan Qi beside her and waved. "That's enough, drag them away."

Yuan Qi nodded, looking at Qi Jiu who was perfectly fine, and pursed his lips. His gaze had been on the girl, but seeing her confident steps, he finally felt relieved.

He waved to the people next to him, "Take them away, take them away. They're all lying here like dead fish, they're an eyesore."

They're still so unruly; the more I look at them, the angrier I get. Back when they were disobedient, their master would just beat them up. He's never had the patience to play these kinds of games with them.

Now that their master is going to be poisoned in order to teach them, it seems these junior brothers will have to give them a good beating.

As evening fell, the sun hung halfway over the mountaintop, and the sky was no longer as bright and clear as it had been in the afternoon.

Inside the pharmacy.

Qi Jiu calmly and leisurely worked with the medicinal herbs, just as she always did, slowly preparing the antidote with a very relaxed demeanor.

At the entrance, Tallinn had arrived at some unknown time.

He looked at the girl's unshaking hands and the indifferent expression on her face, and his lips twitched.

This guy's body is incredibly strong, but...

"Qiqi, you don't need to do this. Just beat them up." Seriously, these people never reason. We're already here; who cares about reason now?

The girl chuckled: "I'm not trying to reason with them, I'm showing them how weak they are with my actions. A beating is definitely in order. But talking isn't my forte."

Here, the superiors are like teachers in a school building, strict yet also teaching.

And that's exactly the role she's playing now.

Tallinn: "..." Talking the talk isn't your forte? Are you... sure?

The potion was ready in no time.

The girl looked at the liquid in her hand, tilted her head back, and drank it all. From the moment she was poisoned to calmly preparing the antidote, if it weren't for everything that had just happened, probably no one would have known she was also poisoned.

Because she acted so normally, she didn't seem like someone who had been poisoned at all.

Seeing this, Tarlin watched her actions without saying anything more.

Suddenly, the two seemed to sense something and looked towards the entrance of the pharmacy. There, they saw Leng Ruo with a pale face, staring intently at Qi Jiu.

"???"

"Ruo Ruo?" What's she doing here?

During their afternoon training, Leng Ruo was among them. Like the others, she had a lot of poison on her body. Judging from her pale face, she must have suffered a lot.

Now is the time for her to rest, and looking at her somewhat pale face, it's clear that she's not having an easy time either.

Leng Ruo pursed her lips, her gaze unchanged, and stared straight at her.

"Qiqi, are you alright?"

That afternoon, she witnessed him acting like a madman, biting his arm with those poisonous creatures. While they were in pain, Qiqi had far more poison in her body than they did.

Although she didn't show anything, it probably wasn't an easy time for her.

The girl nodded. "Yes, it's nothing. I'm used to it. This little bit of poison is nothing to me. After drinking the antidote, the toxins in my body will be gone immediately."

Hearing her say that, Leng Ruo finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good. You were too impulsive. These poisons may not be fatal, but it's still very uncomfortable to be poisoned!" Talin and Qijiu were both taken aback when they saw Leng Ruo's slightly angry face.

"But I must convince him with my actions and make him understand this principle."

Leng Ruo chuckled, her expression suddenly changing. "Qi Qi doesn't need to explain to me. If you want to explain, explain to him."

"……who?"

Who is the 'he' that Leng Ruo is talking about?

As Qi Jiu looked on with some confusion, she saw Leng Ruo step aside, and a tall and imposing figure entered the line of sight of the two people in the room.

The girl's eyes widened as she stared at the man behind the door, a hint of guilt creeping in. "Ah Lin? When... oh no, what brings you here?"

Tallinn was also taken aback when he saw him, but quickly moved aside, intending to get away from the battlefield.

At the doorway, Qi Silin's dark eyes were fixed intently on Qi Jiu, illuminated by the surrounding lights.

"Of course I came. If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have heard your legendary stories."

Qi Jiu: "..." That's sarcasm, right?

Seeing the unpleasant expression on his face, the girl was about to step forward when she saw Qi Silin turn around. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to no longer want to stay there.

"I'm going to Han Yan's office. I'll deal with you when I get back."

As soon as he finished speaking, he walked straight away, leaving only Chong Yu beside Leng Ruo.

Qi Jiu: "..." Oh no, I'm angry.

Chongyu leaned against the doorframe, watching Qi Silin's figure gradually disappear. She pursed her lips and then turned her gaze to the girl inside the room.

"Qiqi, you're really my ancestor. Can I ask you, what was your mentality when you made that little animal bite you? You're the craziest person I've ever seen in all my years of life."

After all, nobody would go out of their way to get bitten by those things.

Chongyu's smile remained unchanged, which made Qijiu's lips twitch.

What kind of talk is this? Isn't this exactly what they mean by kicking someone when they're down?

"Shut up." Who would have thought they'd come today? Their actions today were simply to teach those people a lesson, but they ended up getting themselves into trouble.