Chapter 30 Chapter 30 Li Daoxuan's Pleasure
“Tick, tick—”
Water dripped continuously from the top of the rock wall, making a hollow and crisp sound. The splashing water droplets jumped onto Chen Qing's eyelids, bringing a cold stimulation. After a moment, she staggered and opened her eyes.
All I could see was darkness, as if no one had turned on a lamp.
People who have lost their sight often have more sensitive hearing and sense of smell. The sound of dripping water in their ears becomes clearer, accompanied by bursts of fishy smell.
After a moment of hesitation, he finally slowly pulled himself together and stood up. All of a sudden, memories flooded back.
She still remembered that she had just set up a protective formation, but the formation was broken by someone. Then a water vortex suddenly appeared under her feet, and she was sucked in by it.
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment. Before she completely fell into the whirlpool, it seemed as if someone held her hand, but it seemed like an illusion.
Just as she finished her thought, someone suddenly patted Chen Qing's shoulder. Startled, she subconsciously pulled out her hairpin and stabbed backwards, but someone quickly grabbed her wrist and covered her lips with his hand. She heard the other person say, "It's me."
The voice was faint and it was hard to tell whether it was real or fake.
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, "Li Daoxuan..." she muttered in her heart.
It turned out that it was not an illusion. The person who had grabbed her earlier was really him.
"If you don't want to die, don't shout out loud," said Li Daoxuan.
Chen Qing relaxed his body, nodded slightly to indicate that he understood, and released the hand covering his mouth as he wished.
"Your Highness, where is this?" Chen Qing immediately lowered his voice and asked, having a chance to speak.
Li Daoxuan did not answer immediately, but twisted his wrist, splashing the blood on the sword, and blood flowers splashed on the ground in an instant.
A strong fishy smell became increasingly clear, as if the smell of fish was mixed with the smell of blood, which was extremely unpleasant.
Shen Qing couldn't help but hold her breath. Just when she thought Li Daoxuan wouldn't answer her, she suddenly heard him say, "Underground Palace."
After a moment, he emphasized again: "The underground palace of a great demon under Huachun Pool."
Chen Qing murmured: "Why did I come here..."
Li Daoxuan's lips curled up in a sneer, his beautiful eyebrows full of irritation and impatience. He leaned over and whispered in Shen Qing's ear: "You have to ask Madam Shen. You should know that the water vortex is only aimed at you. When Madam Shen was unconscious just now, it also attracted a lot of water evil spirits, all of which were directed at you."
"I would like to ask you where you provoked these things."
So, the stench in the air came from the corpses of the water demons.
Chen Qing raised her head, pretending not to understand, and blindly praised: "Is that so? I guess those water demons were also dealt with by Your Highness. You are really amazing to be able to kill these demons in such a dark place. I hope Your Highness can continue to take my daughter away from here." As she spoke, she shrank her neck, "My daughter is afraid of these things."
Li Daoxuan noticed the "dark place" that Chen Qing mentioned. He looked at the stone walls around him that were brightly lit and as bright as daylight. No matter how he looked at it, it had nothing to do with the dark place that Chen Qing mentioned.
When his eyes swept over the girl's empty eyes again, and he remembered the layer of poisonous fog in the air when the two of them fell for the first time, Li Daoxuan smiled knowingly. It turned out that she was blind.
At that time, the two of them fell at a high speed. Li Daoxuan held Chen Qing in one hand and chiseled the wall with his sword in the other. The sharp blade scraped sparks on the stone wall as hard as black iron, which was dazzling.
This action effectively reduced the speed of their fall. When they landed at a certain place, the sword brushed against something, and there was a clicking sound of mechanical gears turning. A puff of white smoke spewed out from the stone walls on both sides. Li Daoxuan could only hold his breath and had no time to care about Chen Qing who was still unconscious.
After passing through the layer of white smoke, Li Daoxuan found the right time to use his sword as a ladder and inserted the sword horizontally into a gap. He then used the force to step on the sword and went down. Fortunately, the gap was not far from the ground, and Li Daoxuan quickly landed with his men.
When he used his Qinggong to return and retrieve his sword, he saw a group of water demons spitting and crawling towards the people on the ground, vying for the first place.
Li Daoxuan raised his knife and chopped off the heads of the water demons one by one like cutting off a muggle. The murderous intent in his heart, which was already as heavy as a ball of grass ash, was rekindled. Pleasure swept through his body, and because of the poisonous insect, this pleasure did not stop with the killing, but became more and more boiling.
It seemed to boil the flesh and blood beneath his skin, flowing along his internal organs, meridians and orifices, controlling his mind, covering his eyes, and turning him into a clever machine that knew only to kill and torture. The only medicine that could calm this boiling pool of murderous intent and pleasure was the unconscious girl lying on the ground.
He only needed to bite through her fragile and thin skin and suck the sweet blood, and the murderous intent in his heart would be temporarily stopped, and even the pain of the poisonous insect gnawing at his heart could be suppressed.
For a moment, the overwhelming desire almost overwhelmed him, but he knew that doing so would only be a temporary solution.
As early as the time in Mount Li, when the girl threw herself into his arms, Li Daoxuan noticed that the dormant poisonous insect in his body was faintly reviving, and he was also affected.
So when he returned home, he began to look through ancient books and indeed found the reason.
People who are infected with Zhu Yan Gu will be attracted to the owner of the antidote due to the poisonous insects in their bodies and will develop a desire for it. During the period of the poison's effect, people who are infected will involuntarily want to suck its flesh and blood to stop the feeling of torture.
But even if drinking blood can temporarily relieve the pain, it cannot cure the root cause. Instead, it will aggravate the pain when the poison attacks again.
Because the blood drunk by the poisoned person is not absorbed by himself, but is sucked by the poison worms in his body. Therefore, when the poison breaks out, the poison worms have other food to eat, so they will temporarily let the host go.
The next time, if the insect, having tasted the sweetness, cannot eat the familiar blood, it will intensify the backlash in the host's body. When the host can no longer hold on, it will drink poison to quench its thirst. The cycle will repeat over and over again. Within three years at most, the host will lose his internal organs and die.
Unfortunately, Li Daoxuan's life was in danger, so after killing the water demon, he leaned quietly against the stone wall and calmed down alone.
But he has indeed been affected and his emotions are extremely unstable right now.
When he learned that the girl was blind, a different emotion slowly flowed out from the bottom of his heart. He couldn't help thinking: The girl can't see, which means that in the future, she can only rely on himself, like a dodder, delicate and helpless.
It seemed that without his protection, in this dangerous underground palace, her life would be as fragile as a candle in the wind. If she was not careful, she might be easily killed by the ruthless evil spirits.
Previously, she relied on Liulixin as a guide, calculating and exploiting him again and again, using her clumsy acting skills that he could not bear to see through to trick him.
And then, without him, she would be walking on thin ice, in danger, her life firmly in her own hands, how pitiful.
Beneath Li Daoxuan's calm eyes, there were secretly surging waves. He leaned forward slightly, and said in a superior manner but with a little pity: "Chen Qing, it's not that the underground palace is dark, but that you are blind." A hint of scarlet flashed in his eyes.
As he finished speaking, he saw the girl's panicked expression as he had hoped. Unfortunately, before he could fully appreciate it, he saw that she had temporarily calmed down and asked in a forced calm voice, "Your Highness, may I ask, when I was unconscious during the time we entered the underground palace, what happened? Was there any poisonous gas eruption?"
Li Daoxuan said truthfully: "Yes, there was a poisonous gas eruption when you and I fell. I can hold my breath, but unfortunately Madam Shen is unconscious. I can't help her."
Hearing this, Chen Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief. This meant that her blindness was also caused by the poison. It was not uncommon to encounter poison in the underground palaces of some monster lairs, and the poison was often not severe. The blindness was only temporary, and perhaps taking an antidote pill would immediately heal it.
Just as she was about to reach out to touch the brocade bag at her waist, the person behind her raised his toes with a smirk and applied a slight force.
Chen Qing's outstretched hand froze in mid-air. She subconsciously reached out to touch the object in her arms, but unexpectedly her palm felt sticky. The thick fishy smell almost turned into a sticky liquid and penetrated into Chen Qing's nose. She held her breath in an instant.
There was a tightness around her waist, and she was pulled into Li Daoxuan's arms. Li Daoxuan pretended to make a sword flower and picked up the thing in her arms, threw it to the ground, and then pretended to stab her with the sword. Then he said lightly: "Oh, she's dead."
The lingering remains of the water demon finally turned into a puddle of water and disappeared.
Li Daoxuan let go, leaned down, and carefully studied the girl's expression. The corners of his eyes were red with excitement, and beneath his dark pupils, there was a clear and shattered pleasure.
With his other hand, he unnoticedly slipped a small and exquisite brocade bag into his sleeve.
After doing all this, Li Daoxuan said: “Madam Shen, why are you so careless? The head hanging on the alcove just fell down, and you didn’t know how to hide.”
Just by looking up, you can tell that this person is lying. Apart from the small candlesticks, the walls on both sides are extremely smooth. Where did the niche come from?
Li Daoxuan continued, "The head that lost its body wasn't completely dead yet. Its fangs were bared, its eyes were popping out of their sockets, and its saliva flowed all over your hand, a mixture of red and white. It was just a little bit short, and those fangs—"
"Li Daoxuan!" Chen Qing breathed rapidly and shouted to stop the person who was acting crazy.
Just by listening to his description, the bald and greasy face of the water demon appeared in his mind. Combined with the disgusting touch he had just received, Chen Qing felt his scalp tingling. He was not scared, but was really disgusted.
She has mysophobia, a very serious one.
When servants entered her room and wanted to touch her bedding, they had to wear white silk shoes and hand clothes before they could sweep.
She never used the cup she had drunk water from only once, and even her new clothes were the same way, she would wear them one by one and put them away, never wearing them a second time.
A maid who served her when she was young accidentally believed someone who said that the cat was of unknown origin and gave her cat away secretly against her will. When the cat was found, it had already become close to the other person and even bit her in return. The little Chen Qing drove the cat and the maid out of the Chen Mansion with a cold face.
She hates sticky, dirty, evil things, disloyal people, and traitorous things.
The long-lost irritability and nausea suddenly surged into her heart, and the emptiness in front of her eyes reminded her of the despair she felt before her death in her previous life. Shen Qing felt like her head was about to explode.
In Li Daoxuan's eyes, Chen Qing always had a cold face, which made him feel a little bored.
He wanted to see her panic, to see her fear.
Then he seemed to suddenly realize something, and said with a little apology: "I'm sorry, I scared Madam Shen. I saw that Madam Shen wanted to take something just now. Why don't you tell me and I will help you get it?"
Chen Qing forced herself to calm down. She was too lazy to find out whether the head fell down by herself or was thrown by someone waiting for an opportunity for revenge. She just wanted to detoxify and restore her eyesight so that she could have a better chance of leaving the underground palace.
If she relied solely on Li Daoxuan, she believed that this man would never take her out so easily unless she suffered a lot of pain.
After all, he was a "long-renowned" "madman" in Chang'an City. How could he willingly allow himself to be plotted against again and again? Even with Liuli Heart as a guide, he would never be a clay Buddha that could be manipulated by others.
Everyone has a temper, let alone a living ancestor who is used to being respected.
Chen Qing closed his eyes tiredly, "Your Highness, please open the brocade bag on my waist for me. There is a detoxification pill inside that can cure the poison of my eye disease."
Li Daoxuan really did as he was told, but he fumbled around her waist with his hands for a long time without taking the next step. Just when Shen Qing was getting impatient, she suddenly stopped, because Li Daoxuan pressed his palms firmly around her waist, but she did not feel any resistance.
In a nutshell, her waist was smooth, with nothing on it, not even a brocade pouch.
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