"Really?" Mu Bai asked.
"Well, I'll let you in on a little secret, my sister's medical skills are even better than her poison skills," Dongfang Mian said, making a small boast to appease Mu Bai.
"Really!" Mu Bai's eyes lit up immediately.
"Don't worry, your mother will be fine. But what about you? Should I take you to the Mu family first?" Dongfang Mian asked.
"No, no, no! If my father finds out, he'll punish me by making me copy medical books. I don't want to go with the Mu family. I'll go with you. Once we leave here, I can go back to the Mu family on my own," Mu Bai shook her little head like a rattle drum.
"Alright, then you'd better follow me and listen to me. If you don't, I'll hand you over to the Mu family and have them tell your father so he can spank you," Dongfang Mian said with a wicked smile.
Mu Bai covered her bottom, her face flushed, and nodded.
"Oh, right," Dongfang Mian casually rubbed her hands on the ground and then wiped them on Mu Bai's face, "to disguise myself so that I won't be recognized."
After the brief incident with Mu Bai, the group continued their search for the Poison Mother.
After searching in vain, Mu Bai seemed to remember something and said, "When I came here before, I encountered a group of golden ants. They seemed to be carrying something down to the ground. I was so focused on watching them that I didn't notice and stepped on the vines and got wrapped up. I wonder if these ants are related to the Poison Mother."
Golden ants?
Dongfang Mian was taken aback, then suddenly realized that the Poison Mother was actually underground.
“I think the golden ant you saw earlier was the Poison Queen,” Dongfang Mian said.
"Can an ant be a poisonous mother?" the crowd asked, puzzled.
“Actually, the Poison Mother doesn’t have a fixed form. A blade of grass, a flower, or a frog could all be the Poison Mother. The Poison Mother is the origin of a poisonous land and the most poisonous creature in that land. The Shi family doesn’t actually know what the Poison Mother of this poisonous land is. They only determined the area where the Poison Mother is based on the concentration of poisonous gas,” Dongfang Mian said.
"I see. So what are we going to do now? Catch ants?" Mu Bai asked excitedly, his childlike nature evident.
Dongfang Mian shook her head. "There is only one Poison Queen. I think the queen of these ants is the Poison Queen we are looking for. Also, it's not us, it's me. I'm the only one who will go to catch the Poison Queen. You guys should leave this area and find a safe place to hide. Once the Poison Queen leaves, the poisonous creatures in this poisonous land will definitely be in chaos."
"Are you sure you can manage on your own?" Mu Bai asked worriedly. He was more concerned about Dongfang Mian's safety than anyone else, after all, his mother was waiting for him to save her life.
"Don't worry," Dongfang Mian said, then told them where to wait and urged them to leave quickly.
Mu Bai was still a little worried. He looked at Aju and Ahua, then at Yan Lin, and said, "Aren't you, a grown man, going in to protect her?"
“She’s stronger than me and doesn’t need protection,” Yan Lin said honestly. Dongfang Mian was indeed much stronger than him now.
"It would be good for you to go and scout ahead for her. If there's any danger, you can at least protect her," Mu Bai said.
Yan Lin's face immediately turned as black as ink. This kid who couldn't speak had made her shed a few tears for nothing.
Dongfang Mian couldn't help but smile, patting Yan Lin reassuringly: "Think about your poor son."
After saying that, Dongfang Mian waved her hand and walked alone in the direction that Mu Bai had mentioned the golden ants that had appeared.
Led by Aju, the group successfully found a comfortable spot under a tree canopy to hide.
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