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Chapter 2131

Jay looked around the unfamiliar area. The place had steep elevations and verdant jungles. He would occasionally see a farmhouse or two, and the entire area had a very sparse population. The depressing part was that it was impossible to choose a faster transportation method on such rugged mountain roads.

On top of everything, Cole suddenly exclaimed, "My phone lost its signal."

Sir Ares and Zayne checked their phones immediately only to find that they had lost cell reception as well.

The Ghost members hurriedly inspected all their advanced communication equipment before coming to the same conclusion. "The compass has stopped working as well as all the other communication equipment."

Zayne placed his arms on his hips and lamented," What kind of f*cking deserted place is this?!"

Jay looked around, his handsome face looking extremely gloomy. He wanted to ask the locals for directions.

If no one could show them the way, there was a higher chance of them getting lost. It would only result in

them wasting a lot of time.

"Find someone to ask for directions," ordered Jay.

Zayne pointed toward a household halfway up the mountain. Strictly speaking, it was impossible to be sure if anyone was living up there but he could vaguely see a faint wisp of smoke. He said, "It looks like a house. But it seems so far away from us."

Jay immediately walked forward without saying another word.

The others quickly followed closely behind him.

Only Zayne was complaining. "Big Brother, I don't think that it's near. The mountain road is spiraling upward, so it's simply too far from us."

Zayne continued to display his chatterbox characteristics the whole way, and everyone was simply disinclined to pay any attention to him. The only person who would occasionally respond to him was Cole. "You have to believe that Sir Ares' IQ is definitely not lower than yours. Do you truly think he hasn't thought it all through?"

Zayne said, "Your words are very insulting right now, Yorks. What do you mean his IQ is not lower than mine?"

Everyone was quite taken aback by Zayne's brazen self-righteousness and turned around to look at him.

Zayne sighed and muttered, "Fine, he's smarter than m e. But everyone will still stumble sometimes, so aren't all of you afraid that he'll sometimes be muddleheaded?" Cole had the same viewpoint as Sir Ares and said," Finding someone to ask for directions is our only choice at the moment. Otherwise, there's nothing else for us to do." Sir Ares berated Zayne, "Can you shut your mouth? Save some of our water supply."

Zayne was dumbfounded.

"You're being too much. There's plenty of water in the mountains, so I won't steal any water from you anyway," Zayne continued capriciously, "I'll talk when

I want to talk, or it'll get boring."

Sir Ares said, "The only water resources here are natural ones that haven't been filtered. Do you dare to drink it?"

Zayne picked up a wet leaf and licked the water droplets on top of it, saying, "Why don't I?"

Sir Ares was at a loss and decided to ignore the guy.

Not long after, Zayne gradually became more silent.

The team had been quiet for quite some time. It was too quiet that Jay suddenly realized that something was wrong. Then, he immediately turned his head to look at Zayne. "Why are you suddenly so quiet?"

Zayne pointed his finger at his tongue and Sir Ares noticed that his tongue had turned green.

Zayne made eye contact without saying a word and frantically tried to use sign language.

'I've been poisoned. My tongue is numb. Please take a look at it.'

Jay furiously barked, "I don't understand you."

Then, he turned around and continued to walk ahead.

Zayne went forward to tug on him and Sir Ares retorted, "I asked you to talk less, yet you wouldn't listen. I said not to drink any random water, but you refused to listen again. Have you learned your lesson now? Why are you coming to me now that you're poisoned and have turned mute?"

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After saying those words in a moment of anger, Jay still asked a doctor to come over and take a look at Zayne.

After the doctor checked on Zayne, he said, "Once we get to one of those households, we'll take a blood test to see if the poisoning is serious." However, Zayne's tongue almost fully recovered by the time they arrived at the farmhouse.

"I can speak now," said Zayne, even though he sounded somewhat unclear.

Sir Ares said, "The evil ones always live longer, so don't worry, God won't be expecting you anytime soon."

Zayne muttered, "Can't you say something nice for once?"

Sir Ares said, "Your wife and son are praying for your safety back home every day. So rest assured, you can't die even if you try."

Zayne was somewhat ashamed now and said, "Fine. Okay. I'll protect myself better in the future. Just shut your mouth."

After two hours of walking on the mountain road, Sir Ares and the others ultimately arrived at the old

farmhouse. The farmhouse was made of bamboo, and there was a stove built on the expansive courtyard outside the bamboo house. They noticed a young girl preparing a meal by the stove. Jay pointed his chin toward Zayne, and Zayne could sense tacitly that this guy was trying to boss him around again.

Zayne spoke in a low, muffled voice, "My mouth is injured. Ask someone else to do it."

Jay was unwilling to spare him and said, "If you don't release that energy of yours to annoy others, it'll come to bother us instead."

With Jay's cunning side, he decided to make Zayne go and bother a stranger instead.

Zayne stepped forward and gracefully said to the young girl, "Little lady, do you know how to get to Sacred Land?"

The young lady's fingers that were holding the tongs moved slightly. She lifted her gaze and her dark pair of eyes looked at Zayne suspiciously as she asked," Aren't you a local?" "We're from Imperi—"

Jay and Cole immediately cleared their throats at the same time.

Zayne looked behind to glare at them. He knew they were merely reminding him to protect his identity, but Zayne still thought that they were making a fuss over

nothing.

The young lady shook her head and said, "I don't know where Sacred Land is, but every 10 to 15 days, someone will come to my house to inquire about Sacred Land's whereabouts. They never come back once they leave, so I'd advise you to stop looking for that place. It must be very dangerous."

Upon hearing this, Zayne turned to Sir Ares and said joyfully, "It seems like we're on the right track. Sacred Land must be nearby."

Jay nodded.

Zayne decided to ask all kinds of questions again, but all of them were irrelevant. For instance, he asked if there were beasts around here and if there were any human-eating plants.

Without much choice, Jay reluctantly walked up to the young lady and asked, "Little lady, one of us has been poisoned. Is there a healer nearby?"

When the young lady saw Jay, she was stunned by his handsome looks. He was akin to a descended immortal with his stable temperament and pleasant voice.

She had never seen such a good-looking man in her life.

"You're so handsome, Mister."

A blast of cold air rose from the soles of Sir Ares' feet to his head. Jay's mood turned gloomier because of this girl's starry-eyed infatuation. Then, he retreated and said to Cole, "You go ahead." Cole smiled somewhat speechlessly.

Please! His looks were outstanding as well!

Cole walked up to the young lady with an extraordinary amount of confidence and asked, "Little lady, can you please tell me if there's a healer nearby? I'll give you Mr. Handsome's phone number for it." The young lady's love-struck eyes were fixed on Jay the whole time.

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Upon hearing Cole's words, the young lady became excited and said, "I can find someone to help you relieve the poison's effects. But you have to promise me that you'll stay here for a while." "No," Jay immediately refused.

Cole said, "My dear cousin, sacrificing personal interests in exchange for the happiness and stability of the people in Imperial Capital... This trade is worth it."

Zayne smacked his lips sourly and said, "Besides, it's not such a hard task."

Jay was fuming as he said, "Have you forgotten about the lesson Judy taught us?"

Zayne replied, "Come on. We're in such a faraway place at the moment. Your wife won't find out about the things we're doing here. Don't worry about it. We'll keep it a secret."

Jay coldly snorted, obviously venting his frustration with them.

"Save him first, and we'll talk later."

Hence, Jay and the others settled down in the young lady's bamboo house.

The young lady was someone who kept her promise. After their meal, she said to Jay, "I'll go get you a healer, Mister. Don't wander too far now. There are many poisonous plants around here, so it'll be troublesome if you touch any of them."

Zayne's tongue was great proof of this lesson. Jay also knew that this deep forest was unlike any other deep forest. This area was a place favored by witch doctors, which could only mean the plant varieties here were somewhat unique.

"Mm," Jay replied faintly.

After the young lady left, Jay went over to stand by Grayson and Andy's sides. Looking at their increasingly haggard bodies, Jay felt highly distressed.

"Don't worry about us, Daddy." Andy felt very guilty when she noticed how panicked Jay had been for her throughout their journey here.

Jay said, "An, you have to remember that you must never give up hope."

"Okay."

In the evening, the young lady returned with an older woman.

The young lady introduced to Jay, "This is my Gran-gran. She has excellent medical skills."

Jay suddenly became defensive and he asked the old lady a few questions for safety's sake, "What kind of diseases do you usually treat, Granny?"

The old lady said arrogantly, "Everything."

Jay frowned at this. Doctors were divided into several specialties, and general practitioners were inevitably not professional enough for some illnesses. However, looking at this old lady's demeanor and overly- confident face, it was evident that she had some sort of rare capabilities.

Jay said, "Granny, can you please have a look at my daughter?"

Jay brought the old lady over to Andy. At that moment, Andy's hands were exposed. Seeing that her fingernails had turned black all over, the old lady could not help but cry out in alarm. "Oh!"

Jay fixed his eyes on the old lady and asked, "Have you seen this illness before, Granny?"

The old lady looked at Jay suspiciously. "How did she come into contact with this disease?" There was a sharp cryptic gaze spreading across her lowered eyes.

Jay was on high alert and replied, "My daughter is a high school student, so perhaps she was infected by someone else."

The sharp gaze in the old lady's eyes gradually faded and she said, "It's not possible for me to treat this disease."

Jay was well aware that this disease was particularly tricky, so he did not force the old lady into doing something. Hence, he decided to make some inquiries, "Granny, do you know where Sacred Land is?" The old lady said, "You're headed to Sacred Land? They call it the place of no return."

Jay glanced at Andy who was almost at her last breath and knew that there was not much time left. Jay had to race against time now, so he solemnly replied, "My daughter's life is at stake, Granny. I can't just give up on her. So no matter how dangerous the place is, we have to try heading there."

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The old lady said, "If you keep heading north from here, you'll enter a vast, primitive forest. There's a spot there called Sacred Land. Many people have gone looking for it, but none has found it so far." Jay thanked the old lady and walked out of the room Andy was in. He was getting ready to gather Cole and the others so they could set off immediately.

However, when Jay walked out of the room, he saw all of them huddling up in a disorderly manner all over the ground. Each of them was looking pale as they helplessly looked up at Jay. "We've been poisoned, Cousin."

Cole pointed at the young lady tremblingly and said," That little lady is harboring evil intentions. There was something wrong with the food she gave us."

Jay shot a malicious gaze at the young girl, asking," Why did you do this?"

The old lady parted the curtain at the doorway and walked out with a sullen face. "Because I asked her to do this."

Jay asked furiously, "But why are you harming us?!"

The old lady walked up to Jay and looked at him closely with a pair of cold eyes, saying, "A handsome

man, indeed. You must be the Imperial Capital's crown prince, yes?"

Jay narrowed his eagle-like eyes and asked, "Are you one of Nephele's people?"

The old lady chuckled and replied, "You're very smart."

Jay was extremely puzzled. They had just arrived at Silent Town and never met the two before. However, the grandmother and granddaughter pair acted so quickly that they had failed to identify the two's real identities.

It did not make sense!

"How did you know that I'm Jay Ares?"

The old lady fixed her gaze on Jay, and her pair of murky, old eyes were shining with cunning wisdom. "I thought you were brilliant, Sir Ares? Take a guess."

Jay asked again, "But why didn't you attack me?"

The old lady glared at her granddaughter angrily and asked, "Yes. Why is that?"

The young lady smiled bashfully and said, "I like him, Gran-gran. Will you give him to me instead?"

Jay was dumbfounded.

Even though Zayne was on the brink of death, he could not miss out on the chance to quarrel with Sir Ares. Green with envy, Zayne said to Jay, "I didn't know having good looks can extend one's mortality." Jay glared at him furiously and scoffed. "Shut your

damn mouth."

At this moment, his mind was in disarray. It felt like the danger they were facing this time around was premeditated.

The old lady vehemently refused her granddaughter's request. "No! You're unable to subdue him."

The young lady stubbornly lifted her head and made a solemn vow, "Gran-gran, please have faith in me. I'll make him obey me!"

The old lady looked at Jay in scrutiny again and marveled at his good looks. Finally, she heaved a sigh and said, "I'll permit you to have a child with him. But he must die right after."

The young lady clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Thank you, Gran-gran!"

How could Jay allow anyone to take advantage of him? Almost immediately, he flicked two stones at them and the grandmother and granddaughter duo abruptly fell to the ground.

When the old lady extended her arms out to spread some poison, Jay kicked up the rope on the ground. With agile and quick movements, the two were immediately bound together with the rope.

The old granny laughed nefariously and said, "If you tie me up, who's going to give your companions the antidote?"

Jay sat comfortably on the stool next to him. Then, he looked at Cole and the others as they suffered in pain, saying, "It's better for me if they're poisoned anyway. No one's going to bicker with me all day long. I'm sure my ears will thank you for it."

The old lady never expected her plan to keep hostages to fail. Her expression looked somewhat defeated.

However, Zayne started scolding Jay in a light, hissing voice, "You're too heartless, Ares! I never expected that you're such a person. How can you escape on your own when disaster strikes? Why did I fail to see this before?"

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Jay walked over to Zayne's side and kicked him once before saying, "I've tolerated you for a long time now. I used to take Angeline's feelings into account. But now that she's not by my side, I'll treat you as I wish."

Zayne was stunned as he shrieked out, "Are you for real?"

Jay went over to trample on Cole as well and snarled." And you! How dare you covet for my wife? I'll be free of worries once I leave all of you to die here."

Cole's handsome pupils looked at Jay, filled with a sense of doubt. He knew that there must be a reason for Jay to turn against them so suddenly, but he could not guess why Sir Ares was doing this. After Jay vented his anger, he packed up all of their essential things and left.

Zayne cursed at Jay's back view, "You're not human, Ares! How can you abandon your comrades?"

Cole continued to ponder over it. When Jay kicked him earlier, he shot a meaningful glance at him. What did he mean by that?

After Cole realized it, he suddenly echoed Zayne's words and started scolding Sir Ares as well.

"Leave those items behind, Jay Ares! There are things that we need there. You bastard! You'd better not let me catch you again, or I'll definitely break you into pieces!"

Cole acted so desperately that he tried standing up with strong willpower. However, he quickly fell again.

The old lady said, "Stop moving, young man. I've poisoned you, so you can't move around for three days. If you do, your internal organs will slowly rot as well."

Zayne asked, "Does that mean if we don't eat, drink, or move, the poison will go away on its own in three days?"

The old lady sneered, "You're too simple-minded. This sort of poison will require a first-class healer to deal with it. If a witch doctor doesn't come to your rescue within three days, the only thing for you to do is wait around to meet your gods."

"Since you poisoned us, shouldn't you have the antidote?"

The old lady said, "In my bloodline, we're only proficient in poisoning, not healing."

Zayne yelled out, "Then where do we find this witch doctor?"

The old lady snorted coldly. "There's no such doctor in Silent Town. Moreover, it takes about six to seven days to even get out of Silent Town. All of you are dead

meat at this point."

Zayne roared out hysterically, "F*ck you! You cunning, evil old lady! If you kill us, I won't let you go even after I turn into a ghost!"

Cole said, "Don't worry. She's tied up at the moment, so she'll end up just like us three days later. The two of them will perhaps become hungry ghosts."

Cole was right. The forest was too vast, so it would be unlikely for doctors to even pass by. Since the old lady and her granddaughter were tied up, no one would come to their rescue even in 30 days, let alone just three.

Zayne suddenly burst into laughter. He struggled to get up and staggeringly walked toward the old lady. Then, he flaunted while saying, "Now, would you like to start begging me to let you go?" The old lady said, "If you let me go, I have a way for you to survive this."

Cole said, "Don't take her word for it. We're going to die sooner or later; it's just a matter of time. Once you untie her, we'd have no way of getting our vengeance. How can we possibly die in vain?" Zayne was merely focused on survival and said, "I don't want to die. She has a way to fix this. At least we'll have a chance."

Cole roared at him, "She's lying to you!"

The old lady said, "I'm not lying to anyone. I've already prepared a Life Replenishing Medicine, but it doesn't matter if I tell you now anyway since all of you won't be able to get that far with the poison in your body. There's a spring a mile away from my house, and that water is the said Life Replenishing Medicine. If you can untie me, I can fetch you some water."

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Just as Zayne was about to untie them, Cole shouted a t him to stop.

"Don't do it! Someone will be coming to our rescue soon."

Zayne suspiciously asked, "Who?"

Sure enough, it did not take very long for Sir Ares to come back.

He was holding onto a water bottle in his hand as he walked over at a carefree pace, looking happy and content. It did not seem like he was worried about his comrades' well-being at all.

When Zayne saw Jay, he immediately snarled. "Why are you walking at such a slow pace, Sir Ares? Why can't you walk a little faster? We're dying here and you're supposed to be racing against death!" Jay walked over and threw the bottle over to Cole.

Cole weakly glared at him, scoffing. "Is this how you care for your patients?! Help me open it."

Jay said, "You should be doing things on your own."

Cole snarled. "Have you given all of your compassion and tenderness to Angelina?"

Cole sat up and poured some water for everyone. After

drinking, Cole collapsed to the ground again.

Once Jay discovered that they were not getting any better, Jay looked at the Poison Granny furiously. "Tell me. Why on earth are they not getting any better?"

Poison Granny said, "The water can only extend their lives. I didn't say it'll increase their physical strength. Hence, you're not leaving Silent Town, Sir Ares. Unless you let me go. I can save them."

By nature, Jay was perhaps the least trusting of them all. He immediately rejected Poison Granny's proposal without even thinking about it. "If anyone is dying, you'll be the first to do so. I'd advise you to tell me how to cure them if you wish to live longer."

Poison Granny smiled and said, "Sir Ares, you're genuinely unlike other men."

Jay proceeded to ignore her.

Since Zayne was terrified of death, he yelled out anxiously, "Sir Ares, just trust her this one time. Untie her right now. She's the one who can give us a chance to live."

Jay said, "Haven't you ever heard the story about the farmer and the viper?"

Zayne said, "But do you have any other ways to save u s? Do you want us to simply wait for our deaths?"

Jay looked at the sky above his head and said, "I believe that there's always another way out."

Imperial Capital.

Ever since Sir Ares and the others entered Silent Town, Angeline had lost all contact with them. She worried about Jay and the others all day long.

Since the kids were taking their college entrance examinations in a few days, Angelina dared not distract them at this time. She had to endure all of her heavy thoughts and look forward to the day of the examination.

When they walked out of their classroom after taking the examination, Angelina was greeting them outside the hall.

When the kids saw Angelina, they immediately cheered happily. "Why are you here, Mommy?"

Angelina asked them lovingly, "Tell me, how did you do in the exam?"

There would always be mixed emotions when it came to the college entrance examinations, and it seemed like it was the same case for the Ares kids. Some of them looked happy, yet some were dejected. "Mommy, I think I didn't do very well," said Roxie.

Angeline rubbed on Roxie's head and comforted her, saying, "It's alright, Roxie. Some may want you to be smart and capable, and some may wish for you to be more sensible. But Mommy only wishes for all o you to be healthy and happy."

"Grades don't matter. Surprises and positive things can be found everywhere in life anyway."

Only then did Roxie and the other sisters who did badly ease their crinkled eyebrows.

Baby Robbie came over to hold Angel, and she secretly asked her brother, "How did you do in your exam, Big Brother Robbie?"

Baby Robbie could not care less about grades and said, "It is what it is."

Angel stuck her tongue out at him and said, "You're just stupid."

"Who told you that I'm stupid?" Baby Robbie pretended to be angry about it.

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Angel boldly justified herself, saying, "Mommy said that Daddy got a full score in his college entrance examination. Since you're Daddy's child, the generation after him should be continuously evolving, yet why are you not as smart as Daddy?"

Baby Robbie patted Angel's head and said, "Don't keep looking down on your older brother."

When Jenson noticed the anxiety in Angeline's eyes, he proceeded to ask her, "Mommy, since you came all the way to the hall to pick us up, perhaps there's something important you wanted to tell us?" Angeline nodded solemnly.

"Mommy originally wanted all of you to take a rest after your papers, but I lost contact with your uncle and daddy four days ago. I'm worried that they've run into unexpected circumstances, so I've decided to ask you kids to lend them a hand."

The children looked extremely solemn as well and asked, "What should we do?"

Angeline explained to them the plan she had long plotted in her mind, "Jens, Robbie, the two of you will lead the Ghost members and the military intelligence division sisters respectively, forming two teams. Then

rush into Silent Town, where we last lost contact with your daddy."

Angeline had drawn Jay's last route into blueprints before losing contact with him and handed them to Jenson and Baby Robbie. "This is the route that Daddy took, so take the private jet and rush over as soon as possible."

Jenson and Baby Robbie nodded at her firmly.

When Jenson and Baby Robbie left with each team, Angelina's eyes were brimming with tears.

She said to Jenson and Baby Robbie, "Remember, you have to come back alive."

Jenson and Baby Robbie hugged Angeline while comforting her, saying, "We'll be back real soon, Mommy."

Angeline said, "When you see your daddy, tell him that I'm fine."

"Alright."

After reluctantly bidding farewell to their mommy, Jenson and Baby Robbie left without looking back.

Silent Town.

For some unknown reason, Silent Town was often pouring with rain. When it was not raining, the town would still be covered in a dense haze.

Jay and the others were still trapped in Silent Town. They were simply up the creek without a paddle.

Zayne's frame of mind had crumbled long ago. He would lie down on the ground the whole day and let out anguished wails, "I'm dying. I didn't even get to see my son grow up. I feel sorry for Josie and Joseph...

"If anyone can save me out of this prison, I'll work hard for them for the rest of my life to repay them. Wait, no, my whole family will pay our services to that person for the rest of their lives to repay them!" Seconds after Zayne muttered these words, a distinct voice suddenly sounded from the narrow road hidden by the bushes.

"Is that so?"

The voice sounded unique, and the tone was evidently old and hoarse. At the same time, it somehow also carried a childish charm.

Zayne got up with all his might to sit down and looked around while inquiring, "Who is it? Who's talking to me?"

Cole, who had just fallen asleep, was abruptly awakened by Zayne. He furiously snarled at him." Can't you f*cking be quiet? Why on earth are you such a chatterer? Doesn't your wife find you annoying?!" Zayne retorted, "All you do is sleep all day. Why don't you just die in your sleep, then? Didn't you hear someone calling out to me earlier?"

Cole looked at the somewhat livelier Zayne and said," You're simply suffering from terminal lucidity at the moment. That's why you've started hearing ghosts."

Zayne proceeded to collapse on the ground again in despair.

Jay stood up and stared sharply at the road they had used to arrive at this place.

The road was winding, but the leaves from the shrubs were shaking incessantly.

"Someone is actually here?" Jay became even more vigilant.

Zayne was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Who is it? Are you coming to save us?"

Cole rolled his eyes at him and said, "We should be grateful enough if they're not here to kill us."

Jay's expression became even more cautious now as he said, "We're not exactly expecting friends in this sort of place."

Zayne whimpered, "Oh Lord, please just take me away."

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The mountain was quiet, yet Zayne's anguish wails echoed throughout the valley.

His voice ultimately reached the ears of the older woman and the young man who were walking on the narrow road. The old woman looked up at the house that was high up on the mountain and when she noticed the familiar figure, the old woman became despondent.

'Is that Daddy?'

Hearing the voice of Uncle Zayne, Baby Zetty was confident that the person outside the courtyard of the house in that high place was the person she had been missing for a long time.

It was just that the mountain road was winding and narrow. It would take her a long time to walk over even though it was somewhat close by.

Gale noticed that Baby Zetty's eyes had turned red and could not help but ask curiously, "Do you perhaps know them, Sis Zetty?"

Baby Zetty glanced at her hunched and white-haired self, thinking how distressed her father would be to see her in this old shell.

Baby Zetty vigilantly reminded Gale, "Remember, Gale.

From now on, you must never reveal my real name."

Gale nodded. "Okay."

Baby Zetty withdrew her arms from Gale's helping hand and wanted to run toward Daddy as fast as she could. She wanted to let him know that she was healthy. It was just that her old body refrained her from doing so.

As soon as Baby Zetty retracted her hand from Gale, she staggered and fell to the ground.

Baby Zetty was filled with despair as she said, "Oh my God, being old is such a drag!"

Gale helped her up again and exclaimed, "Let me lend you a hand, Grandma."

Baby Zetty no longer refused this time.

Jay looked at the two figures who were approaching them on the winding road. When he vaguely saw Baby Zetty and Gale coming up, Jay proceeded to frown.

"Odd. It's a white-haired old lady with a young teenage boy. How are they walking around Silent Town without a problem?"

Zayne mocked, "Well, they have legs as well, so why can't they?"

Jay said, "Silent Town is filled with poisonous exotic flowers and plants, yet they don't seem to have been poisoned by them." Zayne had an epiphany. "Perhaps they're well-versed i

n medical skills as well?"

Cole became the party pooper and said, "Or they're well-versed in the art of poison."

Zayne immediately became disheartened.

Once Baby Zetty arrived at the stone steps of the house, she was so tired that she started panting heavily.

Jay walked over and handed her a bottle of water. "Do you want any water, Granny?" 1

Baby Zetty looked at Jay in bewilderment when she heard him calling her 'Granny'.

"That's unacceptable. Please call me Lady Winter," said Baby Zetty.

How could she stand her own daddy calling her' Granny'?

Jay looked at Baby Zetty in scrutiny at the moment, feeling like he had seen her somewhere before.

Baby Zetty quickly turned her head away for fear that Jay would come to realize something. Jay felt that he was not being appropriate either and merely narrowed his sharp gaze while saying, "Lady Winter?" Jay was a flexible person, so he was able to call out her name very naturally.

When Zayne crawled over and leaned his body on the stone steps, he looked over at Baby Zetty before saying with a smile, "Sir Ares, did you call her a lady? How is she still a lady?"

Baby Zetty was secretly furious. Her damned uncle was still a sh*thead.

Baby Zetty explained, "Even though I'm old now, I've never gotten married. Would it hurt you to call me a lady?"

Zayne was the one courting a rebuff, so he merely resentfully shut his mouth.

Gale assisted Baby Zetty to walk up the stone steps. As the steps were simply too high, Baby Zetty was struggling to go up.

Jay extended his chivalrous hand to help her.

The moment his hand touched Baby Zetty's, Jay felt astonished. Why did it feel like he had a natural connection to her?

Baby Zetty went up the stone steps and ultimately arrived at the front courtyard of the house.

Seeing that everyone had collapsed and was lying still on the ground, Baby Zetty was stupefied.

"What happened to everyone?"

Zayne furiously pointed at the grandmother and granddaughter duo who were tied up nearby, snarling. "That vile, murderous Poison Granny over there poisoned us!"

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Poison Granny sneered and said, "Heh. You're such an inferior person who only knows how to run your mouth. You're just a stain in Sir Ares' good reputation."

When Zayne heard these words, he was so enraged that he wanted to get up once again to argue with Poison Granny.

However, his whole body went limp and he fell straight to the ground as soon as he got up.

It made Poison Granny ridicule Zayne repeatedly, "If you don't want to die, just lie there as stiff as a corpse."

Zayne exasperatedly said, "Why on earth should I lie still to wait for my death? I'm getting up no matter-" However, he fell back to the ground repeatedly no matter how hard he tried to get up.

Baby Zetty could not stand looking at this scene anymore and said, "Just lie down. How are you still so stubborn even after getting poisoned-"

Zayne had been extremely fearful of Poison Granny after getting poisoned by her. He rolled his eyes at Baby Zetty and scoffed. "Don't think that I don't know you're probably in cahoots with her! Since the two of you have one foot in the grave anyway, I know you can't care less about life or death."

Jay proceeded to kick Zayne over, tossing him to the ground.

Cole heaved out a long sigh and said, "Finally, the world is peaceful once more."

Jay looked over at Baby Zetty and tentatively asked," Lady Winter, are you well-versed in the art of healing?"

Baby Zetty nodded. "I know a thing or two."

Jay said, "Please do have a look at them, Lady Winter. Perhaps you might know how to cure them."

Baby Zetty said, "Alright."

Baby Zetty took the lead and first walked over to Sis Andy. She squeezed out the brightest smile at her and complimented, "Why, this young lady over here is gorgeous."

Andy proceeded to warn her, "Granny, I have a very serious contagious disease, so you should keep a distance from me. I don't want to infect an elderly woman such as yourself."

Baby Zetty merely glanced at Andy briefly. She used the method of looking, listening, questioning, and feeling the patient's pulse before coming up with a diagnosis. "Pathological wise, it's not that severe just yet so it's completely curable."

Poison Granny sneered and said, "Where did this quack doctor come from? Do you even know what kind of poison is weakening her? That's witch poison made from a person who comes from the bloodline of poison doctors. No one in the world will be able to cure it unless Mr. Boye comes back from the dead."

Hearing the news of Boye's death, a sense of anxiousness rose from the pit of Jay's stomach. His heart started aching.

"What did you say? Mr. Boye is dead?"

Zayne also became nervous and anxious, asking," You're not talking about our Grandma Boye, right?"

Poison Granny sneered, "Mr. Boye was hunted down by the Poison Saint himself and ultimately died in an explosion along with that assistant partner of hers. The explosion had even destroyed her experimental base. It's something that everyone in the rural province knows by now."

Jay murmured, "But if Boye has been killed, what about my baby girl..." 1

At that moment, it was as if Jay had lost all of his consciousness.

Baby Zetty never expected that when she heard Mister's name again, it would be from someone who was mourning her death.

Although Baby Zetty felt upset, she had to endure the grief in her heart.

She smiled sorrowfully and said, "Perhaps the Boye person you just mentioned is quite talented, but remember that there's always someone better than us. So perhaps my medical expertise is better than hers?"

Poison Granny raised her head and laughed maniacally. "You truly are overestimating your abilities. Do you think Boye is just a nobody? She's the pioneer of modern medicine."

Baby Zetty complimented straight from her heart," Hearing that from you, perhaps she was truly one of the gods after all."

However, Baby Zetty stubbornly said again, "But since Mr. Boye has passed away and this girl's illness still requires treatment, it's my inescapable responsibility to treat her as a medical practitioner." Afterward, Baby Zetty wrote a prescription on a piece of paper and ordered Gale, "Can you go and collect some medicinal ingredients, Gale?"

During their long and challenging journey, Gale had learned plenty of medicinal ingredients from Baby Zetty. Gale was so intelligent that he had even mastered pharmacology now. 1

Chapter 2139

Chapter 2140

Chapter 2140

Gale took the prescription and turned around to leave.

Baby Zetty came over to Zayne again and extended her hand to open his eyelids, looking into his eyes.

Zayne was somewhat resisting as he asked, "You're not going to kill me, are you?"

Baby Zetty said, "If you speak rudely to me again, I'll pierce a needle into you and make you mute."

Cole opened his eyes and looked at Baby Zetty gratefully, saying, "Grandma, please pierce the needle into him quickly. Our whole way here, his voice has been buzzing in my ears like a fly. If ears could get calluses, mine would be full of them by now. If you can truly make him go mute, all of us will be eternally grateful to you."

Zayne furiously scoffed, yelling, "Where's your humanity, Cole Yorks?"

Baby Zetty was well aware of how much of a loudmouth her uncle was, but she never thought that even after so much time had passed, this minor issue of his was becoming more and more unbearable. Baby Zetty retook Zayne's pulse and said in a relaxed manner, "I'd have to prick a few needles into you to detoxify the poison, but I promise you'll be as lively as ever afterward."

As soon as Baby Zetty said this, Poison Granny started laughing arrogantly and said, "Hahaha! Are you saying you can cure him of my poison by pricking him with a couple of needles? I think you're merely thinking of stabbing him to death!"

Baby Zetty ignored her and slowly took out a couple of silver needles from her bag. There were rows of needles crowded together, shining brightly in a dazzling light.

Zayne was scared witless by this and said, "Grandma, I'd like to live a couple more years, so how about you do this on the others first? I don't want to be your lab rat." Poison Granny said, "At least you're tactful."

Baby Zetty turned her gaze to Cole at this moment. When Cole heard how confident Poison Granny was in her art of poison, he did not believe that Baby Zetty could fix him up with merely a couple of needles. Baby Zetty looked around and finally arrived in front of Zayne, saying, "You'll be the first, then."

Zayne crawled on the ground, wanting to escape Baby Zetty's clutches.

However, Baby Zetty poked a needle into him when he was caught off guard and Zayne's legs became completely numb. He was unable to move forward at all.

Then, he could hear Baby Zetty saying, "I'd like to see if you can still try and escape now."

Afterward, she turned Zayne, who was still trying to crawl on the ground like a turtle, over. He was immediately pale with fright. He tremblingly said to her, "Don't hurt me! I'm the sandwich generation in my family. If I die, my wife and son will become someone else's wife and son. I can't die now..."

In order to relieve his tension, Baby Zetty started chatting with him. "How are you so sure that your wife will remarry if you die?"

"You'd know that she's a fickle woman at first glance. Of course, she'll remarry if she has the choice. I just feel nothing but pity for my parents. They're going to be a lonely couple..."

Jay flung his hand to slap Zayne and scoffed. "Will you die if you don't lie? Rest assured, you can go ahead and pass on peacefully. I can take care of your parents, your wife, and your sister as well as your son."

Baby Zetty was unable to restrain a smile.

While they were idly chatting, Jay would occasionally look at Baby Zetty vigilantly as she pricked a couple of needles into Zayne's body. She let him bleed a little.

Jay had never seen such a method before, so he felt utterly perplexed.

Zayne started yelling in fright when he noticed that he was bleeding. "I'm dying! I'm going to die!"

It was just that his cries were getting louder and clearer.

Poison Granny was utterly stunned as she asked," How are you getting better?"

Zayne's cries abruptly stopped, and he took the time to evaluate his body seriously. He noticed that his limp body had become extremely energetic again. Zayne stood up and walked a few steps forward before becoming ecstatic with the turn of events. "I'm all better?"

Poison Granny looked at Baby Zetty suspiciously." What kind of needles are those?"

Baby Zetty started talking randomly, "I don't know either. But this was how my ancestors detoxified poison in people.