Chapter 5: What Can You Do to Me 1

The youth administered healing pills to Helan Jiu.

Unfortunately, Helan Jiu's injuries were too severe, and ordinary healing pills had very little effect.

The youth could only take out a pill he used for his own life-saving purposes and roughly fed it to her.

This time, he had truly lost both the lady and the soldiers. Consequently, his mood was extremely foul.

That night, the courtyard was set ablaze.

The youth secretly took Helan Jiu and departed.

Two days later.

On a spacious official road, a magnificent carriage galloped steadily.

The driver was a young man wearing an ordinary linen short shirt and a straw hat that covered most of his face. This person was none other than Ye Ling.

Inside the carriage, the white-clad youth had a gloomy expression, his dark eyes occasionally sweeping over the feigning sleep of Helan Jiu.

When Helan Jiu woke from her coma, she quickly realized her situation: she had been detained—or to be more precise, imprisoned.

Immediately after, she became quite easygoing; aside from eating, she just slept. When she woke up, she asked for food, and after eating, she went back to sleep.

The white-clad youth had never seen such a brat.

She had absolutely no sense of being a prisoner!

At first, he thought she was an assassin sent by someone else—which was quite an exaggeration of her abilities!

"Little wildcat, Master Guo is still looking for you everywhere. Should your big brother send someone to notify him?" The youth curled his lips with an ambiguous expression, seemingly discussing it with Helan Jiu.

As expected, Helan Jiu's tightly closed eyelids twitched.

Slowly, she opened her clear eyes. "Fine, if you have something to ask, just ask."

The youth lightly raised an eyebrow. She was quite straightforward; he wouldn't have to force a confession out of her? Just as he was about to continue questioning, he heard her words.

Helan Jiu said with total seriousness, "One thousand spirit stones, and I will answer whatever you ask."

The youth did not get angry; instead, he asked curiously, "As a prisoner, what do you have to negotiate terms with your big brother?"

"The mouth is on my own body. If I don't speak, what can you do to me?" She wasn't afraid of death, nor was she afraid of him using torture. As the saying goes, those with nothing to lose fear nothing.

Hearing this, the youth's dark eyes turned cold, but in an instant, he suppressed his anger.

He counted out one thousand spirit stones and gave them to Helan Jiu.

As soon as Helan Jiu took the spirit stones, her beautiful eyes brightened. "Straightforward! I like talking to straightforward people the most. Alright, start asking."

Her attitude changed that quickly just because she got what she wanted?

A flash of disdain crossed the youth's eyes. "What is your relationship with Master Guo?"

"I was his medicine boy."

"Master Guo tells the outside world that you are his disciple?"

"That old ghost told people that?" A flash of killing intent crossed Helan Jiu's small face.

A strange light flashed in the youth's eyes. "Explain clearly. Don't think that one thousand spirit stones are easy to get."

Helan Jiu said, "Two years ago, I was playful and snuck out alone. I was forcibly taken away by Old Ghost Guo as he passed by on the street. Then, I was treated as a 'medicine person.' After surviving several drug trials, I became his little medicine boy. Two months ago, I took advantage of him going out and escaped. That day, I hid under the pond water to spend the night, just to avoid Old Ghost Guo..."

A "medicine person" was someone used by some malicious alchemists who disregarded human life, using living people to test new medicines.

Once one became a medicine person, they basically could only wait for death...

Helan Jiu spoke without concealment.

Because these matters could not be hidden at all. As a seventh-grade alchemist, the sinister practice of Old Ghost Guo using living people to test drugs was likely something large factions had already heard about; they simply didn't step forward because it didn't concern them and offered no profit.