Upon hearing Yue Qi's address of "Senior Brother," Mu Yang's smile deepened slightly. He glanced at Yue Qi's guarded stance, his lips twitching, and said with a half-smile:
"It's been months, my dear cousin. Are you switching careers to become a knight in shining armor?"
He deliberately adopted a pose as if Xi Shi were clutching her heart, his face showing exaggerated regret, "Could it be that you've also been kicked out of the Tai Xuan Sect? No way?!"
Yue Qi couldn't stand this person's hypocritical act. His face hardened. "Senior Brother Mu, no matter what, the Tai Xuan Sect is the place that raised you. More than twenty years. Even a dog would know to be grateful after being raised for over twenty years. Senior Brother, don't you feel any remorse when you see me now?"
"Hahahaha—" Mu Yang seemed to have heard something extremely funny, and he almost laughed until tears streamed down his face. "Is this the funniest thing I've heard all day? Junior Brother Yue, since I, Mu Yang, dared to betray our sect, I naturally dare to admit it! Besides, what's so good about that boring place all day long?"
He looked up at the stark white ceiling above him. "Tai Xuan Sect, a great sect of the Xuanmen, how impressive it sounds! But what's the reality? Forget about spiritual energy and spells, even practicing martial arts is divided into different levels. What's so great about that kind of place!"
"Moreover, in this Dharma-ending Age, hundreds of years have passed. In the entire Tai Xuan Sect, who has actually cultivated spiritual power? Aren't they all just barely maintaining their status as the head of the Xuan Sect by diligently practicing martial arts? Keep that kind of face to yourself; I, Mu Yang, don't care about it!"
As Mu Yang spoke, his expression gradually became somewhat deranged. Yue Qi also knew that they were no longer on the same side. As disciples of the Tai Xuan Sect, there was only one way to deal with traitors.
He drew his longsword, pointing the tip at Mu Yang. "Senior Brother Mu, since that's the case, then hand over the item!"
With a sword pointed at his forehead, Mu Yang laughed even harder. He spread his arms wide, even pressing his chest against the sword, completely unrestrained.
"Come on! Anyway, only I know where that thing is. Perfect, if you kill me, your Tai Xuan Sect will never get it—hahahaha, come on!"
Yan Qing couldn't stand it anymore; this man was utterly shameless. Now she understood that Mu Yang had probably stolen something from the Tai Xuan Sect and then betrayed the sect and fled.
You can't be polite to this kind of person!
Yan Qing was quite skilled in Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), and without a word, she quickly stepped forward and swung her fists around his face, striking him left and right. Mu Yang was completely stunned. By the time he reacted, Yan Qing had already retreated behind Yue Qi.
Mu Yang was furious. He had actually been humiliated by a woman. This was intolerable!
"Yan Qing, hello there! Fine, I'll remember you!" He dropped the pretense of kindness and affection, staring fiercely at Yan Qing as he spoke.
"Don't worry, within seven days, I'll make you pay with your life!"
Finally, he added fuel to the fire, "I forgot to remind you, my junior brother has a special constitution; no one around him has ever had a good ending—I have high hopes for you, hahaha—"
Mu Yang laughed loudly and left, heading back to Huan Yueqi. Yan Qing noticed that his hand holding the sword was trembling. She quickly stepped forward, took his hand, and comforted him.
"It's not worth it to feel sorry for someone like that."
Yue Qi glanced at him. "How do you know I'm sad? I'm just angry that he stole the sect's most precious treasure and defected."
"Alright, alright, you're right, I guessed wrong." Yan Qing immediately went along with it. "Besides, people with a lot of ulterior motives are often the most selfish. We can't let him outsmart us."
Although she was quite curious about the lost treasures of Yue Qi's sect, she refrained from asking any questions. She could clearly see that Yue Qi must have had deep feelings for Mu Yang, otherwise he wouldn't be so heartbroken.
However, he was probably used to suppressing his feelings, so Yan Qing didn't expose him. She glanced at her watch and realized it was time to pick up her medicine in the afternoon, so she took Yue Qi with her to the lobby on the first floor to collect it.
In the lobby on the first floor, there were still a dozen or so staff members in white protective suits carrying black boxes and distributing white medicine to people one by one. But this time, for some reason, Yan Qing's intuition told her that she seemed to have just seen one of the staff members in white protective suits.
The staff member was relatively petite, and judging by her appearance, she was a woman. Unfortunately, the duty roster clearly stated that talking was not allowed when delivering medicine, so Yan Qing could only secretly observe the other person.
The more she looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. But reason told her that this whole thing was just too absurd!
How could she possibly believe that the smiling, energetic white-clad staff member in front of her was one of the men in black who had been chained up earlier?
This energy level looks so low, doesn't it?
But when it was her turn to collect the medicine, Yan Qing's eyes widened instantly. The staff member in the white protective suit had secretly slipped a note into her hand.
Yan Qing pretended not to know anything, and using the medicine bottle as cover, she took the opportunity to put away the note and left with the group as if nothing had happened.
Before going upstairs, she glanced back casually and noticed that the white-clad staff member from before had also quietly looked up at her.
Back at the office door, she saw Jiang Xinxin waiting there again. To her even greater surprise, Xiao Shuo also appeared, and he seemed much bolder than before, with a noticeably different complexion.
Xiao Shuo smiled at Yan Qing, his signature honest smile, but this time Yan Qing was covered in goosebumps.
Because at that very moment, Yue Qi was standing right beside her, and on her arm, he had written, word by word:
—He is not human.
Those four simple words made Yan Qing almost afraid to look the other person in the eye. However, after experiencing two dungeons, her mindset had indeed hardened considerably.
At least on the surface, she acted as usual, carefully counting the medicines and having the two people sign the forms before letting them leave.
She only received twelve doses of the white medicine this time, which means that in just half a day, eight people in beds one through twenty were already in critical condition.
She still held a sliver of hope that these people had simply gone to the next place and might not actually be dead.
But not long after, the head nurse came over with a smile and reported to her that eight patients in beds one through twenty were not used to the environment and had been discharged.
The head nurse was a short, plump woman in her thirties, with fair skin. She spoke very gently, but as soon as Yan Qing saw her, she remembered what Xiao Shuo and the others had said before she went to work that morning.
"Sun Rui was torn apart alive by the head nurse!"
She looked at the head nurse again and found that her back was covered in cold sweat.
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