Poison Genius Consort

wisps of fog that floated up, eyebrows knitting minutely. The situation isn’t anything like Long Feiye thinks at all!

“Can you deal with it?” he asked.

By now, the quarter of an hour had finished.
A faint cloud of black appeared within the fog, setting off the sensor in Han Yunxi’s head to max alert.
Yet just as quickly, the black mass floated towards the mountain valley and disappeared.

“See that? The black fog is the most poisonous bit,” Long Feiye murmured.

Yet Han Yunxi replied, “This isn’t poison fog.”

Long Feiye’s so-called poison fog was another word for miasma, filthy air from the depths of the mountain forest.
It showed up from the end of spring until the end of autumn, when temperatures turned too cold to create it.
Right now it was winter, so the sun-kissed mountaintops were freezing, but what about the darkness of the mountain valley?

“Then what is it?” Long Feiye asked in surprise.

He’d once sent a team of troops into the valley.
Half of them were injured or dead before ever finding the target.
Those who escaped said there was some sort of miasma before poison overtook their lives.
The agent hiding in the valley had in possession important military secrets from Tianning Country.
An escape would have unimaginable consequences.
He’d chased this agent for over a month now and gotten poisoned by the same person the last time he tried to search.
This agent was extremely crafty and only released poison at the last second.
Before that, he didn’t expect him to use poisons.
Long Feiye cornered him here, where the agent hid himself and refused to come out.

“It might be a poisonous mosquito swarm.” Han Yunxi was doubtful as well, never expecting to meet such things.
But many ancient texts had records of foul fogs that floated past and left poisoned people in its wake.
Thus, they were branded as miasma.
The truth of the matter was, these clouds of black hide something very common: mosquitoes flying in large swarms that made them seem like sentient gas.
These mosquitoes carried vicious strains of malaria that infected humans and livestock, killing them quickly without treatment in a similar way to poison.

The current climate was incapable of creating poisonous miasmas, but the fog in the valley could very possibly harbor poisonous bugs.

“Poisonous mosquito swarm?” It was the first time Long Feiye had heard of such a thing.

“The white fog isn’t poison.
That black mass is actually a mosquito swarm, but looks like fog in bad lighting and tricked you all,” Han Yunxi explained, before adding, “Take me down there, I need to get closer to that black mass to see what type of mosquito it is.”

The modern era alone had countless strains of mosquitoes, much less ancient history.
Many of them had become extinct, so even more varieties might have existed in the past.
Han Yunxi had to verify whether she could identify the species before creating an effective mosquito repellant.

Since they’d confirmed that the white fog was harmless, things were simple for Long Feiye.
He said nothing more and pulled Han Yunxi in by a hand on her waist before leaping into the abyss.
As soon as they entered the mountain valley, her poison sensors started setting off alarms again.
Very quickly, she determined it location.

“On the right.”

Long Feiye held her tight as they approached the poison, before her sensors alerted her to more toxins on the left.

It couldn’t be…that there was more than one swarm?

Han Yunxi was surprised.
Who knew that right at this moment, another alarm went off to tell her of poisons in front and behind them. Heavens, with poisons approaching them from four ends, weren’t they being encircled?

“We’ve been surrounded,” she said in a low voice.
Her words had hardly finished when Long Feiye saw a miasma-like mass of black flying towards them from four sides.
He didn’t expect there to be four swarms either, but remained calm.
“How close do you need to be to guess the poison?”

“Hurry and go, it’s too dangerous! They’re extremely fast,” Han Yunxi said, deciding on escape.

But Long Feiye’s voice remained cold.
“Answer your lordship’s question.”

“Ten steps, at least ten steps and I’ll be able to identify the poison!” Han Yunxi said truthfully.

Ten steps. Judging by the speed of the poison swarms, it’d take them a second to reach them from ten steps away.
In addition, they were surrounded on all sides.
Han Yunx didn’t dare think about it.
She didn’t even know what kinds of poisons the swarms were carrying or whether it could be analyzed and resisted.
If she was poisoned, what then? In the midst of her panic, Long Feiye only replied with two words.

“We wait.”

“We can’t!” Han Yunxi shouted, staring as the swarms drew closer and closer.
She could almost hear their annoying, terrifying buzz.

“Prepare to examine them,” Long Feiye commanded.

This wasn’t an ordinary poison, but a poison swarm.
Four of them on all sides closing in was much more horrifying than a single swarm.
They’d be swallowed up and torn to pieces.

Han Yunxi admitted that she was a coward.
“We can’t, I’m scared!”

But Long Feiye suddenly drew her into his embrace with a cold tone.
“Your lordship is here and forbids you from being scared!”

So strong and forceful!

Han Yunxi hated arrogant and conceited men who swaggered around without reason, but she didn’t feel that way this time.
Her heart thumped in her chest as she suddenly calmed down.
The power of this man made her feel safe.

At this moment, the four swarms drew even nearer.

“Are you ready?” Long Feiye asked in a low voice.

Calmer now, Han Yunxi adopted a professional air and activated her scanner to continuously sweep the surrounding areas, before lowering her voice in turn.

“Ready.”