Chapter 142 - 139: Anyone Can Be Number One, You Can Too
Jin Tong emerged from Su Mo’s room and asked in a cold voice, "Have you found them?"
"Not yet. Their Combat Power isn’t low, and they’re good at hiding. But this is our territory, so it shouldn’t be a big problem."
Lin Shan snorted coldly. "If they’re walking right into a trap, all the better! If we can capture all of them, we’ll be able to control Su Mo completely!"
Jin Tong didn’t respond. ’Use them to control Su Mo?’
’It probably wouldn’t work.’
’That woman, Su Mo, is cunning and deceitful. How could she willingly submit to being blackmailed?’
’He had captured her twice. Each time, though she looked afraid on the surface, she never once willingly begged for mercy!’
’Would someone so stubborn really let herself be controlled by others?’
’In a world with so many males and so few females, how many Females actually cared about the life of a male beast? If one died, she could just get a replacement.’
However, the trap he’d laid this time was indeed aimed at Su Mo’s Beast Husbands.
Of course, Jin Tong didn’t believe Su Mo would genuinely develop an antidote for him. The first step was to clip her wings!
Her Beast Husbands’ Combat Power levels weren’t low. Leaving them by her side was, in the end, a threat to him!
Only by catching them all in one fell swoop would she possibly stay by his side willingly and develop the antidote for him.
All he needed now was to buy time. As long as he could stall long enough, he believed that one day, he too would be able to develop the Detoxification Pill himself!
When that time came, he could send Su Mo to be reunited with her fiancés!
Meanwhile, in Su Mo’s room.
The System Laboratory had already produced the analysis results, but they showed that only half of the formula had been detected.
Su Mo frowned and asked Little Nine, "Is your System Administration Bureau even competent? You only came up with a few results, and I knew most of them already. You call this a Golden Finger? Are you messing with me?!"
Little Nine stammered, "Host... the other party might have used many medicines not cataloged in the System Laboratory, so they couldn’t be detected~"
Su Mo was speechless. "Seriously? You’re a system, and you don’t even have a complete catalog of all these medicinal ingredients? Are you for real?!"
"Our data is updated based on the situations encountered by hosts in every dimension. If something hasn’t been encountered yet, then of course it won’t be in the database... Once you figure it out, we can catalog it~"
"Your System Administration Bureau is just transparently useless!" Su Mo complained, then couldn’t help but frown. "Jin Tong isn’t easy to fool. If I don’t give him some kind of explanation, I’m afraid I won’t have many days left to live."
Little Nine was silent for a few seconds before tentatively suggesting, "Why don’t you study the Detoxification Pills currently in the System Space first? You could use them to fool him for a few days and buy time until your Beast Husbands find you."
"Logically, they should have found me by now. I have a bad feeling about Jin Tong this time. He didn’t block my pheromones the entire way here. It’s obvious he’s waiting for them to show up."
Little Nine: "Don’t worry, if they team up, they should be able to handle it~"
Su Mo’s brow tightened. "What if Jin Tong and Jiang Wu team up?"
Little Nine fell silent.
Su Mo frowned. "Don’t tell me Jin Tong’s pill was made by Jiang Wu? If she’s the one who made it, this is going to be a real pain."
Jin Tong alone was difficult enough to deal with. Add Jiang Wu to the mix, and she’d be caught in a pincer attack. This was not good for her!
The female lead from the original novel was very good at making poisons. That was the Golden Finger the author gave her.
Later in the story, she used those poisons to gather many powerful Beast Husbands.
The more Su Mo thought about it, the more likely it seemed. "She must be trying to control Jin Tong with her drugs and make him work for her! If I cure Jin Tong’s poison, wouldn’t I become a thorn in the female lead’s side?"
Little Nine sighed. "From the looks of it, even if you don’t cure his poison, you’ll still be a thorn in her side. I think you should try to figure out a way to turn Jin Tong into your weapon. You might still be able to turn the tables."
Su Mo: "...You really think too highly of me. A snake like Jin Tong could take my life at any moment! Besides, he’s a Reincarnator. Do you think he’d willingly submit to anyone? He probably wants to compete with the female lead for control of this world. And right now, it seems like the female lead still has the upper hand."
"Not necessarily! This system thinks you should give it a try~ Someone has to be number one, so why not you!"
Su Mo’s eyes widened as she shrieked, "Are you crazy? Did you use your eyes as pickle jars? Just how much did you drink? Go outside and let the wind clear your head!"
’Are you kidding me? You want me to go get myself killed? Not a chance!’
"...Host!" Little Nine was infuriated by her, saying through gritted teeth, "In this situation, not fighting is also a dead end!"
"Don’t worry, when that day comes, I’ll definitely take you with me. When we get to the Underworld, we can still be frenemies!"
’Don’t even think about making me go to my death! Absolutely not!’
Little Nine frowned. "Don’t even think about it! As a system, I’m immortal!"
Su Mo’s eyes widened, her tone excited. "Ah! Then I’ll feed you Unity Pills! As long as you don’t die, I can’t die either, right? Eternal life! Isn’t that great?!"
Little Nine: "Calm down! I’m a system, I can’t eat that stuff!!!"
Soon, Jin Tong’s men brought Su Mo some medicinal herbs.
Su Mo took them and had a look. There was no information passed along from the outside.
’It seems Jin Tong’s security really is tight this time. The same trick won’t work again.’
That evening, Su Mo had the guard at her door send two pills over to Jin Tong.
They were a blend made from the System Laboratory’s Detoxification Pill. They couldn’t cure the poison in his body, but fooling him for a short time wouldn’t be a problem.
Of course, she had also added a little something extra.
Little Nine frowned. "Host, you’re too bold. Jin Tong still hasn’t settled the score with you for last time~"
Su Mo raised an eyebrow. "Don’t be scared. This powder is colorless and odorless, and I only added a little, so it won’t be detected for now! By the time he finds out, we might already be gone from here! Besides, I’d die if I didn’t add it. Adding it... might just mean a slower death."
"Uh, your twisted logic actually seems to make some sense?" Little Nine said excitedly. "Why not add more and just kill him off for good!"
"Are you stupid? If I add too much, he’ll notice immediately, and then there’s no way he’d take my medicine! The outside is heavily guarded. Even if he dropped dead, I have no Combat Power and couldn’t hope to walk out of here alive. So, of course, it’s better to use small doses over time. We’ll wait for the right opportunity and then make our move!"
Little Nine nodded in approval. "You’re really something else!"
Su Mo planted the herbs Jin Tong’s men had delivered in the Spiritual Spring Space.
Then she selected a few and sent them to the System Laboratory to see if they would react with the pill Jin Tong had given her.
That night, Su Mo did not sleep soundly.
She vaguely heard a RUSTLING sound from outside.
Her eyelid twitched uncontrollably. Instantly, all her sleepiness vanished as she got up and glanced toward the window.
