"Damn it!" Hao Baiyun uttered a loud curse. He didn't ask why Yi Bing suddenly appeared. He is furious right now! Why are all the monsters dead when they arrived?! He thought. His eyes are bloodshot and his clenched in anger as he looked at the enemy's base with no one around aside from the corpses that they have turned to.
"Who killed them…?" one of Hao Baiyun's subordinates asked the crucial question.
"Search the area!" Hao Baiyun ordered. His face is dark.
"Yes!" his subordinates answered and immediately acted.
"Yi Bing. What was it that you said just now?" Hao Baiyun asked as he turned after he calmed himself and restrained his expression.
Yi Bing handed his phone to Hao Baiyun. Hao Baiyun saw that there was an ongoing call, and the caller is 'Jiang Ce'. Hao Baiyun knows Jiang Ce.
"He sent me a message earlier, telling me that the black market heard that one of the bosses that supplies the skin and hair of Golden-Haired Monkey has died." Yi Bing answered. "I called him so that it would be easier to convey the rest of the details to you." He explained.
"Thank you!" Hao Baiyun said and sighed in relief. He took the cellphone and spoke. "Jiang Ce?" he called.
"Oh? Hao Baiyun." Jiang Ce muttered. "I won't speak any nonsense. As from the message that I sent to Yi Bing earlier, one of the biggest bosses in the black market has died. The black market is now in turmoil since not only the remaining bosses seized this chance to increase their power in the black market, the supply of the Golden-Haired Monkeys' skin and hair in the black market has stopped." He explained.
Hao Baiyun froze for a second before his eyes widened when he understood what Jiang Ce said. "You mean…" he muttered under his breath.
"Yeah. That boss who died is the only one who is supplying the Golden-Haired Monkeys' skin and hair." Jiang Ce said, then paused. "This is the reason why he became a big boss in the black market." He added.
Hao Baiyun's heart skipped a beat. "Then, this means…" his eyes narrowed.
Jiang Ce unkindly chuckled. "I am afraid that your clues have lessened." He said.
Hao Baiyun frowned. Even though he is happy that there is now one enemy less, but this just made things be more complicated and harder! As Jiang Ce said, their clues lessened because they have one less enemy.
He took a deep breath to calm himself. "Still, thank you very much for lending us a hand." He told him.
"This isn't for you, but for xiao Ling." Jiang Ce corrected him.
Hao Baiyun. "… oh." He muttered as his brow twitched. What a very familiar answer. He sarcastically thought as he glanced at Yi Bing whose expression didn't even changed. "Still, thank you." He said and smiled.
"En." Jiang Ce said.
"I have sent Fei Xuli and Jing Yu there… you can ask them for anything in case you need something." Hao Baiyun told him.
"Sure." Jiang Ce answered and then ended the call.
Hao Baiyun returned the cellphone to Yi Bing. "Thank you very much." He told him.
Yi Bing didn't answer and just kept his cellphone. "What are you going to do now?" he asked as he looked at the littered corpses that became frozen stiff and are covered with snow.
The blood coagulated due to the freezing cold temperature. Obviously, these corpses have been left here for a long time. They can't determine at that specific time did they die, and they don't care. What is troublesome is that they don't know who did this.
But, judging from the corpses which all are monsters… "Jie Yao?" Hao Baiyun muttered.
Yi Bing looked at him. "You mean the spy?" he said, then nodded to himself when he thought that this is possible.
Hao Baiyun helplessly sighed, creating a cloud of white. His emotions are complicated. He feels happy since a yao unintentionally avenged the yao by killing these monsters. But, it is really 'unintentional', since Jie Yao definitely killed these monsters for another reasons.
Since Jie Yao is not here, then he must had a falling out with these monsters, and then killed them to save himself.
"How did he do it?" Yi Bing asked.
Hao Baiyun understood why Yi Bing asked. After all, Jie Yao is only one yao and there are more than a hundred yao here.
"Poison. They have been poisoned!" one of Hao Baiyun's subordinate said when he returned to report.
Hao Baiyun turned to face him.
"Boss. We naturally won't be able to find the poison in their blood anymore considering that the corpses of the monsters have now…" the subordinate turned to look at the corpse of the monster nearest to them. "But, the wolves have smelled the snake yao's ultimate poison coming from the corpses." He said as he looked at Hao Baiyun.
The 'wolves' he is referring to are the wolf yao like Zi Chen.
"The snake yao's ultimate poison?" Yi Bing's brows raised as he looked at Hao Baiyun. Obviously, he wanted for him to elaborate this to him.
"The snake yao specializes in poisons. Since Jie Yao was able to poison all the monsters in this base, naturally, he has to use an odorless and tasteless poison so that the monsters won't notice it, and the monsters also must have had their guards high against him." Hao Baiyun said. "Naturally, there are many tasteless and odorless poisons the snake clan has. As to why we are sure that it was the snake clan's ultimate poison is because one of my subordinates have been poisoned by someone from the snake clan before, and Jie Yao, who has been working with me at that time told us about their snake clan's poisons, including their ultimate poison that has been used against that unfortunate subordinate of mine." He explained.
Yi Bing's brows raised, seemingly interested in this matter.
"That event happened because the snake clan found out that Jie Yao was working with me, which they greatly oppose of." Hao Baiyun continued. "They retaliated against me to teach Jie Yao a lesson, thus Jie Yao felt guilty so he told us their snake clan's poisons, including how to counter it, for fear that the snake clan would target more of my subordinates in the future." He helplessly sighed.
"… this was why you said that Jie Yao was sincere to you when he was working with you?" Yi Bing said.
Hao Baiyun didn't bother to hide it, since it was obvious. "Yes." he answered.
Yi Bing didn't speak.
Hao Baiyun shook his head, feeling pity and regret with Jie Yao's situation. "The snake clan's ultimate poison, aside from tasteless and odorless, also works very, very slowly, but also slowly yet surely attacking the person's, or monster's, organs, especially their brain." He pointed his head. "It will first make your senses numb, making you feel less pain, thus making you think that your strength remained the same albeit your body actually started to deteriorate. As the poison works very slowly, the signs of being poisoned of this ultimate poison of the snake clan also aren't immediately seen." He looked at Yi Bing.
Yi Bing immediately understood. "Jie Yao is very good in calculating the time that the poison will fully destroy his targets' bodies." He said.
"En." Hao Baiyun nodded. "The snake clan all does know how to calculate. It is just that Jie Yao – " he said and heaved a sigh. " – he is the best. He was the most promising member of the snake clan, that was why his clan was greatly opposed of him working for me before." He explained.
Yi Bing's lip twitched. He truly didn't expect to hear this.
Hao Baiyun's expression is very heavy. He turned to his subordinates. "Let us all go back." He told them.
"Yes!" they answered.
"You shouldn't use your transportation used to get here." Yi Bing suddenly said.
"Why?" Hao Baiyun asked as he turned to look at him.
"Someone's coming." Yi Bing answered as he looked afar.
Hao Baiyun and his subordinates also looked at the sky, but they only saw the heavy clouds of white bringing snow upon them.
However, Hao Baiyun trusts Yi Bing. "How will we leave then?" he asked.
Since Yi Bing said that someone is coming, he knows that he and his subordinates won't be able to beat them, or else Yi Bing wouldn't warn them. So, he didn't care about the record of their return trip anymore. The situation now is dangerous. He can't die here and not return to Gu Xingfeng and his children, as well as Huo Ling and his subordinates.
"Stand still." Yi Bing answered.
"… huh?" Hao Baiyun and his subordinates muttered, feeling puzzled.
But, Yi Bing didn't explain. Suddenly, they felt that the wind became stronger and the atmosphere became colder. Snowstorm?! They thought when they saw the clouds swirling and the snow falling became thicker.. They can only see white around them.
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