"...Let's find a little beast to try it out on!"
A weak male voice came from the bed.
The female shadow guard didn't dare delay and quickly replied, "Yes!"
The sage was indeed very cautious.
Even after confirming that the Empress had brought a deadly weapon, he was still not at ease.
Let's give it a try.
The female shadow guard, carrying a dagger, quietly slipped out of the royal tent.
In the kitchen, they found a wild rabbit that the soldiers had caught.
The female shadow guard didn't hold back and directly slashed the rabbit's leg with her dagger.
At first, the rabbit just thrashed about in pain, but soon its body began to convulse and eventually became completely stiff.
"What a potent poison!"
"In just a few breaths, he was able to poison a wild rabbit to death!"
Of course, there are differences between humans and rabbits.
However, the toxins are interconnected; at most, the dosage needs to be larger when used on humans.
Alternatively, the same dose of poison, when administered to a person, may take longer to take effect.
The female shadow guard carried the poisoned rabbit back to the royal tent.
With the help of the other shadow guards, Helian Jue slowly sat up.
He looked at the rabbit whose wounds had turned black from the blood, then at the dagger. "The dagger must be coated with the 'Five Steps to Death' that Li Baozhu gave her."
As the name suggests, this poison should be extracted from venomous snakes such as the five-step snake.
The Li tribe is skilled at catching snakes, and their mountain village has snake dens where hundreds of snakes are kept. Their snake venom is extremely potent.
It seems that A Yuan really didn't say anything; she was indeed prepared to go to the underworld with him...
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