The afternoon sun slanted through the window lattice, and fine dust motes floated silently in the light beam, which was mixed with the smell of disinfectant and a faint floral fragrance.

The young girl and the gaunt old man’s gazes met.

After one question each, the ward fell into an eerie silence.

Li Yuan sat upright, his body relaxed, his posture as leisurely as if he were in his own study.

He casually picked up a fruit knife from the nearby tea table and began to methodically peel a plump, rosy energy fruit.

The silver blade clung to the flesh, quickly shaving off skin as thin as a cicada's wing, almost without interruption, with fluid movements that had a strange rhythm.

In a few seconds, a long strip of peel fell, curling up, suspended an inch above the trash can.

The ward was unusually quiet.

There was only the faint ‘shush’ sound of the knife blade cutting through the fruit fibers, and the regular, low ‘tick-tock’ of the monitoring equipment.

Mingxi watched, a simple, innocent smile on her lips, like a Xiao Guniang enjoying a peaceful time.

She was not at all disturbed by the atmosphere Li Yuan had deliberately created.

“You’re quite composed, aren’t you?”

Li Yuan finally spoke again, the fluid motion of the fruit knife not pausing in the slightest.

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a small stone thrown into a calm lake, clearly breaking the ward's inexplicable tranquility.

“So you've guessed everything? When did you start noticing something was wrong?”

Mingxi shrugged, “Initially, of course, I didn’t notice. Vice Principal Mo and you, old man, both played your parts quite convincingly.”

Mo Fengyi was feigning surrender.

To be precise, he was playing a double agent.

“The main reason I sensed something was off was that I noticed the Sawhorn Cockroach, before it left, looked at Mo Fengyi with a look of attachment and sorrow, as if it was prepared to die.

That look was its farewell to its Beast Tamers.

Afterward, the Terror Demon Bat and the Sawhorn Cockroach were blocked by Golden Yuanbao and the others. They seemed to be trying their best, but with the Terror Demon Bat’s strength, even if it couldn’t kill Golden Yuanbao and the others, it wouldn’t have been difficult to interrupt Black Pearl’s evolution.

But in the end, it was the Sawhorn Cockroach that died.”

Mo Fengyi wanted to use the Sawhorn Cockroach’s death to gain the trust of the Descent Organization.

He was ruthless to himself and ruthless to his pet beasts.

But who could blame him?

Mingxi had noticed something was amiss at the time, which was why she told Xue Qingting not to hold back.

Mo Fengyi was acting righteously, entering the scheme himself, so she would let them get what they wished for.

“But I wasn’t 100% sure at that time, which is why I later deliberately provoked Vice Principal Mo and used the battle to test his true intentions.”

Li Yuan was curious: “A mutual defeat was your test? What could that test reveal?”

Mingxi smiled, “Do you really think Vice Principal Mo couldn’t have avoided my axe at that time?”

She then pointed to the curse, which was sealed on her forehead using a special method, forming a thin black line.

“Also, do you really think this poison was administered by Vice Principal Mo?”

Li Yuan was stunned, “It wasn’t?”

“Of course not. I took the opportunity to apply it to the military dagger myself, and I even deliberately let him see me doing it.

You see, even though it wasn't Vice Principal Mo who did it, when you insulted and questioned him at the time, he tacitly admitted it.

If he were truly a traitor, would he have ignored my unusual behavior?

So, his tacit admission means he realized I was helping him.”

“Although I don’t know how exactly you prepared, now that the Descent’ plan has been shattered, they have suffered heavy losses and everything is going wrong, which will inevitably affect Vice Principal Mo’s espionage work.”

So, after realizing Mo Fengyi’s true intentions, she decided to help him.

“Given the country’s current emphasis on me, my severe injury and poisoning with an incurable curse poison would definitely be Vice Principal Mo’s best letter of allegiance.”

After listening to Mingxi’s explanation, Li Yuan was filled with emotion.

This child's intelligence is almost demonic!

This observational and judgmental ability, this decisiveness in action...

It's hard to imagine she's only 16 years old.

Well, there are too many things about her that are hard to imagine.

Her brain development reaching over 80% means it’s normal for her to be smart.

“You put that curse poison on yourself for other reasons, didn’t you?”

Mingxi smiled, “Principal, you are insightful.”

Putting the curse poison on herself, although it was a sudden idea to help Mo Fengyi, she did have the intention of setting a trap for the Descent Organization.

The curse poison is incurable.

However, the Descent Organization seems to have mastered a method to cure this poison.

Given the Descent’ usual behavior, if they discovered she was deeply afflicted by the curse and had nowhere to turn for help, would they take the opportunity to contact her?

Mingxi thought the possibility was high.

She didn't have Mo Fengyi's grand ideology of sacrificing herself to be an inside agent for the Descent.

But wouldn't it be great to hook a few fish?

“Are you sure this long-term curse poison is harmless to your body? And won’t it affect your strength?”

Li Yuan arranged the cut fruit on a plate and handed it to Mingxi.

“Thank you, Principal, you are generous.”

“Don’t worry, I respect and admire Vice Principal Mo’s righteousness, so I am willing to cover for him, but I myself cannot achieve the same level of virtue.”

She wouldn't joke around with her own body.

The curse poison she was afflicted with was extracted by Emerald Green from Shen Linhua some time ago. It was originally used for various potion experiments to further stabilize Shen Linhua's body.

Although Little Silver Flower’s Divine Healing skill proficiency had reached the level of Divine, it could be forcibly °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° improved with proficiency potions, but even an SSS-rank proficiency potion couldn't raise a Heavenly-Rank skill’s proficiency from Divine to Divine Power.

Potions, after all, are not Lan Yue’s characteristic 【Mastery】, which can absolutely increase skill proficiency by +1.

Skill proficiency, like strength level, requires an increasingly exaggerated amount of energy in the later stages.

So, it would still take a while to heal Shen Linhua with Divine Healing.

For now, it could only be suppressed with potions.

It just so happened that Emerald Green was interested in difficult and complicated diseases. With the large amount of material support provided by the Shen and Chu families, it had successfully developed a potion last month that could seal the curse poison in a certain part of the body.

That was the source of the black lines on her forehead.

Once the curse poison was sealed, it would no longer affect the poisoned person’s body, and pet beasts could be summoned without hindrance.

However, one SS-rank potion could only last for a month, and medication had to be taken regularly, otherwise the curse poison would erupt again.

What Mingxi didn't say was that the curse poison she was afflicted with was actually not severe, not only because the poison had been diluted, but also because she possessed the dual special physiques of Origin of Life and Destruction and You Wiong (Boundless Roaming/Infinite Travel).

No matter how fierce the curse poison, could it be fiercer than the Origin of Life and Destruction?

Therefore, Little Silver Flower’s Divine Healing could easily remove the toxins.

Yesterday, Little Silver Flower’s skill was useless on her entirely because it was deliberately controlled.

That's right, everyone was an actor.

Only Emerald Green’s anger was real.

Mingxi grinned as she took the fruit plate. Although the fruit looked like an ordinary apple, it was actually a good thing, the legendary SSS-rank energy fruit, Roselle Fruit.

It beautifies, strengthens the body, repairs hidden injuries...

One fruit is worth a hundred.