CHAPTER 97: CHAPTER 97: THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT, THE MORE ALARMED I BECOME

It was as if she had forgotten to turn it on. From the moment she brought Li Tianyao’s blood sample in until now, the monitor appeared to be working, but in reality, it hadn’t recorded anything.

The blood samples seemed like nothing more than an illusion of hers!

It was Li Tianyao! She was certain it was Li Tianyao! Because she had insisted on examining his wound earlier, raising his suspicions, he must have sent someone to take away the blood samples!

An Yan sank into her chair, lifting her hand to press it against her temple.

Li Tianyao’s blood contained the same poison as hers! The most significant characteristic of that poison was its ability to infinitely replicate a certain healing factor in the blood. The presence of this factor could cause wounds to heal rapidly, but it also had a drawback. It made the blood more viscous, eventually leading to clogged blood vessels.

She had suspected before that Li Tianyao had been poisoned by someone. She had even suspected that the person who poisoned Li Tianyao could be the same one who poisoned her mother over twenty years ago. But now Li Tianyao’s blood sample had disappeared. And the only people who could possibly know she had his blood sample were herself and him! That’s why she was certain the blood sample must have been taken by Li Tianyao himself! Why take it back? Naturally, because he knew there was something wrong with his blood. He didn’t want her to continue researching it. Why didn’t he want her to research it? Could it be that the poison in his body was actually concocted by himself?

An Yan knew that since ancient times, there have always been some madmen obsessed with researching immortality. Could Li Tianyao be one of those people? After all, there wasn’t just this one substance in his body; there was another substance that could coexist with and counteract the poison. In other words, this poison would cause blood thickening leading to death in anyone else’s body, but in his, the drawback had already been eliminated. If this conjecture was correct, then that would mean the poison was developed by Li Tianyao! So was Li Tianyao the mastermind behind her mother’s death, the one who caused her years of suffering from illness?

The more An Yan thought about it, the more horrified she became. She habitually used the Divination Technique, but unfortunately, as always, it yielded no result.

Wait, she couldn’t divine Li Tianyao, but she could divine the people around him!

An Yan immediately started to divine Lu Feng.

In the past few days, Lu Feng had been with them and hadn’t gone to Luocheng University. As for his other subordinates, they hadn’t gone to Luocheng University either! At least, none of the people she knew who were connected to Li Tianyao had been to Luocheng University!

Forget it! An Yan stood up. She would just go and ask Li Tianyao directly!

If he had nothing to hide, she would make a request: draw a tube of his blood! If he agreed, then she would trust that he had nothing to do with her mother’s situation. If he refused, that would mean he had a guilty conscience, indicating he was her enemy!

After putting everything in the lab in order, An Yan got up and left, glancing at the tree in her mind out of habit as she went. Unexpectedly, she discovered that, without her realizing it and at some unknown time, the tree had gained fourteen new Yezi. Exactly fourteen Yezi! And she hadn’t done anything!

Could it be that she didn’t need to deal with scum for the Yezi to reveal themselves during certain specific events?

"Wow, take a look at this! Big scandal among the wealthy families," an excited classmate said, holding up a cell phone. "Shangjing City’s Lei Family is in complete chaos. The little princess’s mother apparently has a lover, and as soon as the Lei Family ran into trouble, she packed her valuables and ran off to him. She was caught by the little princess’s father and slapped on the spot."

An Yan paused, then reached for her phone. The Lei Family’s scandal had already exploded online. Lei Tao couldn’t meet Ninth Master yesterday, so he could only rush back to Shangjing City, begging anyone and everyone for a loan to tide over the crisis. However, other members of the Lei Family were scheming to transfer the family’s wealth elsewhere. Lei Tao, being ruthless himself, directly filed for bankruptcy and liquidation. All those who wanted to flee with the money were blocked by the relevant departments. Then the real drama began. The women who had married into the Lei Family demanded divorces one after another, insisting on taking their dowries with them. News reports said that yesterday, nearly all the well-known divorce lawyers in Shangjing City gathered at the Lei Family’s home! The scale of the scene was unprecedented. Several couples even started tearing into each other on the spot, exposing mistresses, other women, and all sorts of sordid secrets for everyone to see.

So, these fourteen Yezi were contributed by the Lei Family members? Fourteen Yezi! A full fourteen! Adding to the previous six, she now had twenty Yezi!

This discovery made An Yan uncontrollably excited. Turns out she didn’t need to watch over them personally. As long as someone who was wronged took action against the one who wronged them, and as long as the reason for this action was instigated by her, then Bai Wu would reveal the Yezi!

This was really too good! Looking at the lush green Yezi in her mind, An Yan immediately started to divine Li Tianyao again.

To her surprise, this time the divination didn’t just yield a void. Instead, within that void, a sliver of light appeared, like a dawn. That light told her that as long as she could unlock more Yezi, she might be able to divine the information she truly wanted to see!

An Yan’s eyes curved happily, and her attention shifted from the Yezi to the thumb ring. Twenty points of light lit up on it, creating a barely visible shimmer on its surface! The shimmer and the Yezi seemed to acknowledge each other. An Yan felt the connection between them had grown tighter. She was so looking forward to the moment when the full tree would be revealed and the thumb ring completely lit up!

But just as she was feeling excited, the light on the thumb ring suddenly dimmed! It was already barely perceptible, and now, without focusing, one could hardly tell it was glowing at all. At the same time, the twenty Yezi suddenly rustled and swayed in panic. Like a mother who had lost her child, that sense of panic transmitted itself into An Yan’s mind.

"What’s going on?" An Yan picked up the thumb ring and rubbed it vigorously.

「In an isolated underground village.」

The man sitting at the conference table suddenly stiffened. He felt that force trying to sever his connection with the thumb ring again, and this time, it was stronger than before. The man clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, resisting the force.

"Sir, what’s wrong?" the people beside him asked hurriedly, noticing his strange expression.

"It’s nothing!" The man slowly unclenched his fingers. "Just do as I said!"

With that, the man stood up and swiftly returned to his room. He closed his eyes and sat cross-legged on the floor. A few minutes later, he bit his finger, quickly drew a Talisman, and stuck it onto his body. Soon, the connection with the thumb ring returned to normal. The man exhaled slowly, nodding in satisfaction. He got up, pushed the door open, and ordered, "Prepare the car. I’m going back to Luocheng!"

「 」

After rubbing the thumb ring for a while and realizing that polishing it wouldn’t bring back the glow, An Yan dejectedly put it back around her neck.

Looks like I still need to unlock new Yezi to make it work! she thought. Luckily, I now know that unlocking new Yezi doesn’t require me to personally confront anyone. Since that’s the case, why not just...