The next day.

The sun had just barely risen when Luoyang and Xiao Ba simultaneously woke up in the cabin.

Both their heads were throbbing with pain!

“Ah! It hurts!” Xiao Ba sat up clutching his arm, crying out.

Truly piercing pain!

He discovered he wasn’t dead yet. “Brother, I’m not dead yet!”

With some excitement!

Only his arm couldn’t move—this injury would probably take quite a while to heal.

Luoyang furrowed his brows, looking at his ankle, which also hurt piercingly and had no strength.

He rubbed around the wound. Probably because the bruised blood hadn’t dispersed, it was still hard. He pondered with a puzzled expression, “Why would there be snakes in the cabin?”

Xiao Ba said, “It must be because this place is unclean, so it attracted snakes!”

“You fool, where did you get such nonsense?”

“There isn’t? Then… I don’t know.”

Xiao Ba didn’t seem to care much about being bitten by a snake.

Right now he only cared about whether his injury could heal. His two eyebrows wrinkled into an earthworm shape as he said, “Yesterday the wound was all red, but when I woke up it was better? Huh? Brother, look, there seems to be something white on the wound.”

Luoyang looked at his ankle, and sure enough, there was indeed some white powder on it.

It seemed that after he passed out last night, someone had come to apply medicine to him and Xiao Ba.

Just as he was thinking—

A dark-skinned young fellow came in from outside carrying food. “You’re awake?”

He placed the food to the side.

Unlike yesterday’s food, today there were actually two additional meat dishes!

“You must be hungry, right? Hurry and eat.”

Luoyang grabbed his sleeve and asked, “What exactly happened to me?”

The question made the young fellow pause, then smile. “You didn’t lose your memory, did you?”

“Hmm?”

“You were bitten by a snake, don’t you remember?”

“I remember. I’m asking about what happened after.”

The young fellow said “Oh” and told him, “Later you both passed out. At the time, the wounds were deeply poisoned. We carried you out of the cabin, but there was no doctor on the ship. Just when we thought there was no solution, fortunately that young lady saved you.”

That young lady!

There was only one young lady on the ship!

Xiao Ba said happily, “Was it Miss Ji?”

The young fellow nodded.

“I knew Miss Ji was actually quite good. She didn’t poison me before, and now she’s saved me again. She’s really a good person!” Although Ji Yunshu had used them to enter the South Race Desert to help her find someone, Xiao Ba felt she was a good person and had even pleaded for him before. Otherwise, he would have been killed by the Wen brothers that day.

Luoyang released the young fellow. Though grateful in his heart, he still asked, “How… did she save me?”

“Just took some random water and wiped it on you, and you were fine anyway.”

Random!

The young fellow’s way of speaking was truly humorous!

“Where did the snakes come from?”

“Don’t know.”

The matter of the ship’s family privately buying snakes—the other people on the ship didn’t know about it, because the ship didn’t allow keeping such things, so they’d been raising them secretly all along.

Luoyang asked again, “Has anyone on your ship raised snakes before?”

“No, the ship doesn’t allow raising snakes. What if they bite someone—wouldn’t that be disastrous?” The young fellow said.

Luoyang’s anger immediately flared up.

Because the only people he could think of were those two Wen brothers.

Besides them, who else could it be!

“Hmph, actually playing dirty tricks on this young master!” He immediately got up from the bed board, wanting to go demand an explanation. But his foot was injured and had no strength. As soon as he stepped down, his body went soft.

Fortunately, the young fellow caught him. “You’re still injured. You can’t get out of bed and walk around. Hurry and sit properly.”

This was just seen by Ji Yunshu, who had come to deliver medicine.

She stood at the storage room door, her tone indifferent. “Your wound hasn’t healed. You’ll have difficulty moving for at least five days. If you don’t want to die, stay here obediently.”

Three pairs of eyes all looked toward her in unison.

Ji Yunshu walked in and said to the dark-skinned young fellow, “You go ahead with your work. I’ll take care of things here.”

The young fellow responded and left!

Ji Yunshu stood before Luoyang, glanced at his ankle, and handed him the exquisite bottle in her hand. “This is medicine. Apply it three times a day.”

Luoyang looked at her as if wanting to bore countless holes through her body with his gaze. He asked resentfully, “You knew all along, didn’t you? You knew that the surnamed Wen wanted to harm me!”

“I already reminded you to be careful, but you didn’t take it to heart.”

“So you really did know that surnamed Wen wanted to harm me!” He was very agitated. If not for being injured, he would definitely go question those people right now.

But Ji Yunshu looked at him calmly and only said, “I didn’t know—I guessed!”

“Guessed?”

“Did you think they were really kind enough to let you board the ship?”

“…Uh?”

“You kidnapped Young Master Wen. He might not kill you, but that doesn’t mean he’ll let you off. If you had any sense at all, you should have been able to guess this. Fortunately, they didn’t want your life—they just wanted to teach you a lesson.”

Heh!

Xiao Ba, listening from the side, suddenly understood. “What? The ones who released the snakes to bite us were them?”

Luoyang laughed coldly, pointing at his ankle and Xiao Ba’s arm. “This is called not wanting our lives? Do you know we almost died?”

Ji Yunshu thought for a moment. “Probably they also didn’t know those snakes were poisonous.”

“Why do you say that?”

“If they really wanted to kill you, they wouldn’t have given anyone a chance to save you. And I saw yesterday that the attendant beside the Wen brothers was very anxious about whether you’d live or die. If they truly wanted to kill you, they would have thrown you into the river long ago. How could you still be sitting here now? I think they just wanted to teach you a lesson so you wouldn’t dare act recklessly again in the future.”

Already, Ji Yunshu saw everything with complete clarity.

But Luoyang was injured after all, his heart full of anger. How could he listen to her analysis!

A belly full of rage with nowhere to vent.

He punched the ship’s wall and said through gritted teeth, “If my life weren’t so resilient, I’d be dead by now. This anger—how can I possibly swallow it?”

“Don’t make trouble anymore. I think they won’t do anything more to you. Consider this matter between you settled, and don’t stir up more trouble. Otherwise, you’ll be the one who suffers!” Ji Yunshu warned.

“But I didn’t take his life, yet they almost took mine! How should this account be settled?”

“I’ve said what I needed to say to you. If you insist on not listening, and stir up some disaster later, I won’t be able to protect you then.”

I can save you once, but I can’t save you a second time.

Luoyang heard her words and was also calculating in his heart.

But right now, his circumstances didn’t allow him to do anything drastic—after all, he was injured.

The other side also had numbers and power!

So he temporarily suppressed this anger in his chest.

“I understand!” He spoke these four words extremely unwillingly!