Chapter 260: Chapter 260

"Hand over the Golden Thread Worm, and I won’t kill you!"

"I don’t believe it. I don’t believe you have the heart to kill me!"

After all, she was one of his kind, an immortal just like him.

Li Yanluo faced Li Tianyao, a perverse smile on her face as she bared her teeth, which were covered in bloody froth.

Li Yanluo’s head burst open.

An Yan’s pupils shook violently.

Why did he have to kill Li Yanluo? Shouldn’t he have tortured her to extract the Antidote, to make her hand over the Golden Thread Worm? Why did he have to kill her so readily!

Li Tianyao ignored her cries and said to Lu Feng, "Inform Shangjing City to search every place she has been. Find the Golden Thread Worm at all costs."

Lu Feng left to carry out the orders.

Li Tianyao took the wet towel Lin Ling passed to him and methodically wiped his hands clean.

"You personally take her to the crematorium and make sure she is reduced to ashes!"

Lin Ling complied, beginning to collect Li Yanluo’s remains.

Li Tianyao, his hands now clean, turned, picked up the shocked An Yan, and carried her to another room.

He placed her on the sofa, bent down, and kissed the corner of her eye. "Wait for me a moment! It’ll be quick." Google seaʀᴄh novelFɪre.net

He needed to wash; that woman’s blood was too dirty!

Listening to the sound of running water in the bathroom, An Yan finally convinced herself to accept reality.

The woman was dead. What choice did she have but to accept it?

When Li Tianyao came out of the shower, he saw An Yan still in the same position.

"What are you thinking about?" The man sat next to her.

An Yan sighed, "I’m wondering why you insist on setting the game difficulty to hell mode."

Li Tianyao rubbed her head and said, "It’s not that I want to, but interrogating her would only drive her mad! Once enraged, she would recognize no kin; every living creature would become a target. In other words, if I didn’t kill her, she would kill others!"

Thinking about it that way, it indeed seemed she couldn’t be left alive.

"How long are Li Yanluo’s episodes?" An Yan asked.

"Basically, her periods of lucidity and delirium are evenly split," Li Tianyao answered.

"Was her Immortality due to accidentally ingesting your medicine?"

"Mhm! However, it probably wasn’t accidental. She did it intentionally!"

The temptation of Immortality isn’t something an ordinary person can resist!

This is also why he’d rather suffer alone than let others know his true situation.

"Then she must have had designs on you when she took the medicine, even hoping to spend eternity with you. That’s quite a profound love!"

"Jealous?" The man raised an eyebrow.

An Yan glanced at him sideways. "How could I be? She knew you far earlier than I did."

"It doesn’t matter who came first, and there’s no need to be jealous of her, because in this world, you are the only one I treat differently," the man declared, leaning down to kiss the corner of her eye again.

When did this guy learn to sweet-talk ?

An Yan quickly refocused. "How did she connect with Gu Shifang? Gu Shifang must have told her about the Golden Thread Worm! Now that she’s dead, that lead is broken too."

"It’s broken, so what? We already have Gu Shifang in our hands," he responded.

An Yan was overjoyed. "You caught Gu Shifang?"

"How did you capture him?"

Li Tianyao said, "A world-renowned botanist discovered a Thousand-Year Ancient Tree in the remote mountains. That tree is where the Speaking Tube resided."

An Yan laughed. "So he had no tree to live in and didn’t dare show his face, so he could only go find Gu Shifang."

"Mhm. And then a drone caught him on camera. Once his location was confirmed, I immediately took action and captured him."

"So, where is Gu Shifang now?"

An Yan couldn’t wait to find out from Gu Shifang how to remove the ring from her finger.

However, when she saw the man, she was instantly rattled.

Gu Shifang was using the Golden Crow’s body, and Li Tianyao had used a large amount of Insect Repellent to capture him, rendering him unable to control his insects.

So now, he was alive, but as good as dead. Apart from his brain, no other part of him could move.

There was no way to interrogate him!

"I’ve thought about it. Let’s just let him live ," Li Tianyao said.

An Yan nodded. "That works. He can control insects. Who knows what he might do if he woke up."

But this meant she would have to rely on herself to open the coffin. The crucial problem was that Gu Shifang, that lunatic, had placed so many insects inside the coffin! And they were all Poisonous Insects. She couldn’t even bear to think of the consequences if one crawled out, let alone if she got bitten! To get the ring, she had to unlock the mechanism inside the coffin and deal flawlessly with those insects!

"I need to perform the surgery on Elder Mo quickly," An Yan said.

Ultimately, extending her X-ray vision duration was what she urgently needed, whether for treating Li Tianyao’s condition or for unlocking the mechanisms inside the coffin.

"Mhm. Get some good rest. You can do the surgery tomorrow." The man said this, then pushed her onto the bed and leaned over her.

He told her to rest well, and now he wanted another round?

Caught by her gaze, the man’s lips curled. "I’ll try to be as quick and gentle as possible. You just sleep!"

What did he mean, "you just sleep"? What did "as quick and gentle as possible" mean? Was she a machine? Did she have no feelings? With such a handsome man hovering over her, how could she possibly sleep?

The look in the young woman’s eyes made Li Tianyao feel like the Big Bad Wolf trying to deceive Little Red Riding Hood.

To distinguish himself, he gently bent down and kissed her lips. "Trust me!"

There was no refusing him now.

An Yan could only forcibly divert his attention. "Did your head hurt just now? When Li Qingqing—oh no, I should call her Li Yanluo—was chanting that spell, I saw you press your temples!"

This was not the time to talk about headaches!

The man’s cool, thin lips grazed her collarbone, a hint of displeasure in his touch, trying to use this offensive to break down her defenses.

An Yan endured the tingling itch spreading from her collarbone. "Do you think Gu Shifang might have told Li Yanluo about Memory Rebirth? I felt her reaction earlier was strange! It was as if she deliberately provoked you."

If Li Yanluo could also be reborn, then things would become very difficult.

Seeing her insistence on discussing this, Li Tianyao had no choice but to stop. "If you were Gu Shifang, what kind of support would you want in exchange for the secret of rebirth?"

"Naturally, the more powerful, the better."

"But Li Qingqing is just an insignificant figure in the Li Family. The only thing she could possibly be used for is getting close to me. Ultimately, she’s just one of Gu Shifang’s pawns. Who would entrust their most important secret to a pawn?"

An Yan nodded. "You’re right. But, just in case..."

"We’ll deal with that ’just in case’ if it happens. There’s no need to start worrying about it now."

The man bowed his head and kissed her slender neck, his breath, heavy with strong desire, making her skin tingle.