After entering the base, Lu Lingxiao went straight to the small dark room where Jiang Peizhen was being held.
He opened the door with the key and walked in slowly.
He paused, "......"
He sharply scrutinized the white-haired woman in the corner, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. Was this really Jiang Peizhen? Could she have been switched with someone else?
But the next second—
Jiang Peizhen, who was in a frenzy, suddenly raised her head slowly. She turned to look at the door and saw that the person in front of her was Lu Lingxiao. Her empty and lifeless eyes were immediately filled with hatred and raging anger.
"Lu Lingxiao! You actually dare to come here!"
"Why wouldn't I dare to come?" Lu Lingxiao's mood had improved considerably. He raised an eyebrow. "Oh! Jiang Peizhen, I haven't seen you for just one night, and you've turned into a white-haired old monster? That's quite a cause for celebration!"
After saying that, he couldn't help but sigh, and shook his head with a hint of regret, "Ah, if I had known you would turn out like this, I should have bought two baskets of fireworks and firecrackers when I came!"
What a mistake!
He thought that after his wife cured his grandfather of the poison, Jiang Peizhen, who had poisoned him, would not be affected. He never expected that she would suffer a backlash.
Moreover, judging from her appearance, the backlash seems to be quite severe.
Whenever this matter is mentioned, Jiang Peizhen hates Lu Lingxiao to the core. If he hadn't tricked her into leaving, she would never have been exposed or captured and left to die.
Because of this bastard child, most of her life's work was ruined.
Enraged, she coughed up more blood from the corner of her mouth. She screamed in a frenzy, "It's all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be in this state! And who cured your grandfather of the poison? Tell me, who was it? Who was it?!"
Jiang Peizhen questioned through gritted teeth as she staggered to her feet and walked toward Lu Lingxiao. All she wanted to know was who had cured Huo Zhongqing of the Gu poison.
Her Gu poison technique was taught to her by Madam Jiang herself. Over the years, she has never failed, and no one has been able to cure the Gu poison she has cast. But just now, someone actually saved Huo Zhongqing.
Jiang Peizhen was very puzzled and even wondered if it was a hallucination.
Now that she and Madam Jiang have been captured, whose poison technique is superior to hers, and who was able to easily remove the several poisons she had used? Could it be... the chieftain of the Southern Frontier?
"Is he the chieftain of the Southern Xinjiang tribe? Lu Lingxiao, when did you meet him? I'm going to tell the higher-ups that you're arresting people from the Southern Xinjiang while still maintaining contact with them."
"Okay, go now, hurry up!" Lu Lingxiao was naturally not afraid of her threats. He sneered at Jiang Peizhen, "It's not like only people from the Southern Frontier can cure Gu poison, so go ahead."
He paused, then lowered his voice and added, "However, your nightmare has only just begun!"
"Your son and daughter-in-law will be sent to a farm for re-education tomorrow. Tell me, with the border area being so chaotic and harsh, how many months can they endure there?"
Jiang Peizhen was about to curse aloud, but when she heard that her son would be sent to the border the next day, the last bit of color in her face instantly drained away.
"What...what are you going to do to them?"
Looking at her panicked face, Lu Lingxiao curled his lips and said, "Of course, blood must be paid for with blood!"
"Back then, you poisoned my grandmother to death, and then tried to poison my grandfather using the same method. Luckily, my grandfather was treated in time, and all the poison in his body was removed, otherwise you would have succeeded again!"
After saying that, he immediately changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, your precious grandson Huo Mingzhe... he's in Chicago, right? Thanks to you, he's now a wanted criminal in China!"
Jiang Peizhen's heart sank to the bottom. Huo Shixiang and Huo Mingzhe were her only hope. If Lu Lingxiao really intended to harm them, then...
When Jiang Peizhen thought of this, she completely collapsed.
The fact that Lu Lingxiao looked at her with contempt and disdain made her even more unbearable.
She bared her teeth and lunged at him, "I'll fight you to the death! Lu Lingxiao, let me tell you, if you dare touch Shixiang and Mingzhe, I'll haunt you even as a ghost..."
This lunge didn't knock Lu Lingxiao down; instead, it caused her to fall to the ground and almost knock her unconscious.
"Look at you now, neither human nor ghost, you think you can fight me?"
Lu Lingxiao looked disdainfully at the person kneeling in front of him and said, word by word, "Jiang Peizhen, I'm waiting for you to turn into a vengeful ghost and come to claim my life! But before you turn into a vengeful ghost, I'll take your son's life first!"
"You dare!"
Jiang Peizhen's eyes were bloodshot. She looked up and glared at Lu Lingxiao. Her sunken eyes looked even more terrifying when she stared at him, as if she were a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of hell.
She hates it!
Why did I let this bastard live more than 20 years ago?
More than 20 years ago, Lu Lingxiao was just a weak baby. At that time, it would have been easy for her to kill him! But she gave up such a good opportunity and left behind such a disaster.
"Oh, then you better open your eyes and see if I dare. Do you think you are still the Jiang Peizhen with a powerful backing? Tsk, go to bed quickly, dreams can bring out anything."
Lu Lingxiao had been calculating the time, and when he saw that it was almost time, he was too lazy to waste words with her. He directly took out his dagger, grabbed Jiang Peizhen's hair, and squeezed it hard.
"Ugh! What... what are you going to do?" Jiang Peizhen stared at the gleaming blade in front of her, and her heart instantly filled with fear. She once again regretted why she hadn't eliminated the threat completely and kept this menace alive.
Lu Lingxiao's eyes were filled with icy coldness. "You put an immortality curse on my grandfather, and he needs your heart's blood to cure it. So, naturally, I'm going to take your heart's blood!"
No...you can't...
Jiang Peizhen's hair was being pulled so tightly that she couldn't move at all. She could only watch in despair as the dagger slowly approached her heart.
The next moment——
With a "poof" sound.
The dagger pierced her heart with perfect accuracy.
Blood flowed out of the dagger.
Lu Lingxiao quickly took out a small ceramic bottle from his pocket to collect a few drops of blood, and then took out two pills of poison and fed them to Jiang Peizhen.
I heard from his wife that this poison is called "Sleeping Beauty". It is colorless and tasteless and will not be detected by others. I can give it to Jiang Peizhen without any worries. After three days, she will definitely die!
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