Xu Qian's lips twitched as she snapped the arrow in half.
"Hui Feichi, you're truly insidious."
Soon, the poison began to take effect, a cold spreading from the wound throughout her body.
Xu Qian hugged her knees, trembling, and exhaled icy breaths.
After a while, her limbs grew stiff, and frost formed on her hair and eyelashes.
A bone-chilling cold seeped into her marrow, so intense that Xu Qian couldn't speak.
Her brain ceased to function.
[Ding, host's life force is detected to be low, would you like to redeem a potion?]
Xu Qian closed her eyes, unresponsive to any external sounds.
Suddenly, countless small green dots rained down from a large tree, seeping into Xu Qian's body.
The ice on Xu Qian began to melt.
The young woman opened her eyes, only to find confusion within them.
She quickly regained consciousness. Had she been frozen into unconsciousness?
[Ding, yes, please redeem the antidote as soon as possible, host.]
"Can't a potion do it?"
[Ding, a potion can suppress the onset of the poison, but it cannot completely detoxify.]
Xu Qian stood up and pressed her temples. It was all due to her momentary carelessness.
"How often does it act up?"
[Ding, the system detects that the poison you've been afflicted with is ice poison. It acts up once a day, and without an antidote within five days, you will turn into an ice sculpture.]
Xu Qian lay back down and asked softly, "System, I'm going to die, aren't I?"
Getting the antidote from Hui Feichi was as difficult as reaching the heavens.
Moreover, she had just destroyed the R base and planted bombs inside the mutated whale's belly.
The casualties among the black-clad men must have been substantial.
If she were to ask Lian Du...
Lian Du was, after all, from the X Group. Even if he liked her, he wouldn't pass up an opportunity to control her.
[Ding, no, the system will help you.]
Xu Qian smiled. Indeed, the system was her true mother.
[System, thank you.]
[Ding, rest assured, host, the system will do its best to help suppress it.]
R Base.
Hui Feichi lay motionless on the bed after his wound was dressed. Without anesthetic, the pain in his back was relentless.
"Report."
"Enter."
A subordinate handed over a tablet, a pleased expression on his face.
"Young Master Hui, the transferred supplies have been stolen, and the arrow formation has been activated."
Hui Feichi's eyes lit up, and he tapped open the video on the tablet.
The video was blurry, but it showed a slender figure in black floating in the middle of the sea, with countless arrows flying towards her.
The video abruptly stopped.
Hui Feichi frowned and asked, "It's over?"
"Young Master Hui, rest assured, she was indeed hit by arrows. We placed sensors in each arrow, and she was hit by two."
"Hahahahaha... cough cough cough..."
Hui Feichi laughed too loudly, aggravating the wound on his back.
"Xu Qian, will you not kneel and beg me now?"
He turned to look at Lian Du, who sat motionlessly in a chair.
"Lian Du, you won't go soft on me this time, will you?"
There was no spark of life in Lian Du's eyes, only darkness.
"Hui Feichi, what do you intend to do?"
He had naturally heard of the ice poison. It was a new product developed by the X Group specifically for Xu Qian. One arrow strike, and during the onset of the poison, it would feel like falling into an ice cellar.
If there was no antidote by the fifth day, there was only a dead end.
Furthermore, only one antidote had been developed, and it was in Hui Feichi's possession.
Hui Feichi chuckled, "We don't need to do anything, just wait for her to come obediently. Lian Du, we must be fully prepared this time."
Lian Du nodded, but said nothing.
Xu Qian, I should be able to see you soon.
The ice poison must hurt terribly.
I, too, am in great pain.
"Ugh..."
The young woman curled into a small ball, groaning softly.
Her face was pale, and she gritted her teeth, asking, "System, doesn't it act up only once a day?"