The silver-ringed snake, known as the fourth most venomous snake on land.
Yet, it is the most venomous snake in the East, extremely dangerous, and though it appears docile, it never warns before striking.
The silver-ringed snake possesses two neurotoxins, α- and β-bungarotoxin. Victims feel no pain upon being bitten; instead, their bodies are instantly paralyzed, leading to death within minutes in the fastest cases.
The disposition of the silver-ringed snake is almost identical to that of Bai Ziyan.
On their journey to Donglai, she had advised him like an elder sister, urging him to walk the right path.
But who could have imagined that she would suddenly attempt to kill Li Qianfan?
And the snake venom she used was purified.
Enough to cause Li Qianfan's breathing to completely stop within ten minutes.
"I'm sorry, Yang Fan."
Bai Ziyan tossed the empty syringe directly into the river, then cradled Yang Fan in her arms, sitting down.
Her heavily made-up face bore evident guilt.
Li Qianfan's lips trembled uncontrollably, wanting to say something but unable to articulate any words.
Moreover, his pupils, like a cat's eyes in the darkness seeing light, constricted violently.
"If I hadn't seen you today, I wouldn't have killed you."
Bai Ziyan's slender, fair hand gently caressed Li Qianfan's cheek. "Although finding you is as easy as pie for me, because I'm an exceptionally skilled hacker. It's just that no one knows. And I've always been very careful about hiding, fearing being hunted by the world's number one hacker."
Li Qianfan's lips continued to tremble, his breathing growing rapid.
This was the phenomenon of the snake venom quickly attacking the heart (actually paralyzing more nerves as it circulated).
"But today, I saw you. I saw you, of all people, being Chu Yazhi's little secretary."
Bai Ziyan's eyes dimmed. "I immediately understood that you being her secretary meant you were kept by her. In other words, you became tainted. But last night, you hugged my waist, which meant I was also tainted. My stomach feels very uncomfortable."
Li Qianfan's breathing became even more rapid.
"You are the first man, after I grew up, who has held me. I generally detest men. The fact that I let you hold me was your good fortune."
Bai Ziyan knew he couldn't hold on much longer.
Her speech clearly quickened: "And it would have left me with the most beautiful memory. But why are you a male escort? I can't accept it. Only by killing you myself will I feel clean again."
Li Qianfan began to twitch.
Bai Ziyan's speech quickened again: "There's another point: I absolutely cannot let anyone know that I am Tian Dong's foremost lady by day, and a wild, unrestrained delinquent by night. The reason I didn't have anyone escorting me yesterday was because the girl who was supposed to be with me recognized who I was. She died of electrocution while bathing at home last night. For someone like me, a hacker who relies on me for six years, this is not difficult."
Li Qianfan's eyes gradually closed.
Yet, with his last ounce of strength, he opened them!
He was unwilling to die like this.
"I'm sorry, truly sorry. I genuinely wanted to make you my most beautiful memory until the very end of my life."
Bai Ziyan apologized repeatedly.
She added, "I know you'll hate me even in death. I will compensate you."
Saying this, she quickly pulled open her rider's outfit.
Pure white.
Perfectly shaped!
"Sleep now."
Bai Ziyan soothed Li Qianfan as if he were an infant, gently patting his back and humming "Bug Flies."
The lyrics were changed to: "The dark sky hangs low, my baby must sleep soundly. Sleep, sleep, mama is by your side."
In these last few minutes of Li Qianfan's life, rapidly slipping away.
She used her purest self to "lull him to sleep" as her compensation for having to kill him.
At this moment.
She felt Li Qianfan was clean.
And she was no longer tainted.
Li Qianfan finally stopped breathing.
As his head drooped powerlessly, something fell from his mouth.
"This is how you are now, the purest,"
Bai Ziyan whispered softly, wiping Li Qianfan's face with her perfect form. "Do you know? I've killed many men, but none were worthy of dying in my arms. Perhaps because you are the only man who has held me? Sigh. If only you weren't Chu Yazhi's little secretary. Maybe I would have fallen for you. Perhaps I would have overcome my preference for lace because of you."
Li Qianfan's eyes, under her touch, slowly closed.
His expression was serene.
Like a sleeping infant, though his face was pale.
"What a handsome man,"
Bai Ziyan gazed at him quietly, instinctively leaning down, her red lips capturing his mouth.
A moment later.
She made a decision and placed Li Qianfan on the ground.
Her movements were gentle, like a mother laying down a sleeping infant.
She stood up, looked around, and saw no one.
She removed her intimate top and bottom lace garments with the utmost speed.
The eye-mask-like one covered Li Qianfan's eyes.
The other was placed on his lower abdomen, for him to cover himself with his hands.
"Yang Fan, this is my dowry for you. You will sleep eternally with my scent. I hope you remember this scent and find me in your next life. If you are still a man and I am still a woman, then I will marry you."
With that, Bai Ziyan's last trace of discomfort vanished.
Then she took the helmet she had brought and placed it on Li Qianfan's head. "You've worn this too, and it will prevent your handsome face from getting dirty with soil."
She laboriously picked up Li Qianfan and quickly walked into the woods.
Inside the woods, there was a pit she had already dug.
While she was digging the pit, Chu Yazhi was pestering Li Qianfan to feed her.
The pit was about a meter deep.
Not very deep.
But who would have thought that beneath this desolate wilderness lay the buried body of a young man not yet fully grown?
"Please remember my scent. Come find me in the next life."
After scattering some leaves over where Li Qianfan was buried (she had disposed of the excess soil long ago, so the ground was flat and undetectable), Bai Ziyan instructed again before quickly leaving the woods.
Rumble! Rumble!
The roar of the motorcycle startled several sparrows in the trees.
They stopped chirping and looked warily in that direction.
After watching the motorcycle speed away, the sparrows resumed their chirping.
One even flew down and landed where the motorcycle beauty had just scattered fallen leaves.
It hopped and chirped, "A big fool is buried beneath here! I saw the motorcycle beauty bury him."
Suddenly!
This gossipy sparrow flapped its wings and flew away.
On the treetops.
Its companions immediately stopped their discussion of "the motorcycle beauty was so fair, and smelled sweet," their round little eyes fixed intently on the spot where the "big fool" was buried.
The leaves scattered above slowly began to stir.
A hand!
It slowly emerged from the ground.
"Holy crap, holy crap!"
"It's a zombie, it's a zombie!"
"Run, run!"
The sparrows on the entire treetop immediately cried out in alarm and flew away in a flurry of wings.
A black helmet emerged from the soil.
Li Qianfan took off the helmet, then the "eye mask," and sniffed under his nose.
He yawned. "Damn, if she hadn't put this helmet on me, I wouldn't have been able to pull off this act. After all, my face is so handsome. It would have been ruined by soil. Of course, the key is the lack of oxygen."
"The scent is not bad."
Li Qianfan climbed out of the pit and stretched. "Who would have thought I'd taste the forbidden fruit from the foremost lady before I even got to my wife."
He grinned suddenly.
He reached behind him and pulled out a needle tip.
When Bai Ziyan had ambushed him, she had used too much force, and the needle tip remained in his backside.
"Silver-ringed snake venom? No problem. My grandmother had me play hide-and-seek with silver-ringed snakes when I was four. But her purification skills were still too lacking. It forced me to pretend to be poisoned and tremble like that!"
Spitting on the ground, Li Qianfan picked up the other half of the dowry Bai Ziyan had left.
"It is indeed lace, not bad. Damn, she even embroidered her name on it?"
Li Qianfan looked at the name "Ziyan" embroidered with yellow silk thread and casually cursed her for being flashy. Just as he was about to discard it, he suddenly thought of something.
He smiled sinisterly. "If I place this on her head at midnight, will she be scared half to death?"
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Thank you for the appreciation! The super-expert hacker persona of the silver-ringed snake is quite a twist, reminiscent of Jing Ran's style back in the day.