Chapter 1356


    After taking two steps backward, Matthew drank his elixir before rushing into the room to find Lucy—


    who had the color drained from her face—unconscious on the floor.


    Looking at the unconscious Lucy, he immediately ran to the window.


    At this time, a man dressed in ck had just descended onto the first floor with the rope Matthew


    found.


    With his face covered up, the man met Matthew''s eyes before turning around, and left with haste.


    Without a shadow of a doubt, it was this man who had filled the room with poisonous gas from outside


    the window.


    The man had filled the backroom with the poisonous gas as he thought Matthew would be the one


    entering the backroom.


    Since the poison was virtually undetectable, Matthew would have been in a dangerous situation should


    hee in without caution.


    However, out of the man''s expectations, Lucy was the first one to enter the room.


    Given that Lucy was not as capable as Matthew, she fell unconscious, as she was instantly affected by


    the poison.


    Matthew was about to give chase but had heard Lucy groaning behind him.He turned to find Lucy—


    with her hands around her neck—with a pained expression.


    After a slight hesitation, Matthew chose to stay and gave up the chase.He then opened up the window


    to circte the air in the room before carrying Lucy to the bed.


    Checking her pulse, Matthew noticed that the poison had severely affected her.


    He first made Lucy consume his elixir as a temporary solution to alleviate the situation.


    After that, he tore the clothes Lucy was wearing, revealing her bare figure.


    With full concentration, Matthew started inserting the needles he took out into several pressure points


    on Lucy''s body.


    Following that, he used his Divine Skill and transferred his essential Qi into Lucy—via his hand on


    Lucy''s forehead—to expel the toxin in her, slowly but surely.


    Not long after, a gush of mist came flowing out of Lucy''s body.


    Evidently, it was the poisonous gas Lucy inhaled.


    Due to the dominant nature of the poison, the body had to be bare for the poison to be expelled.


    It would have been impossible to get rid of the poison if the affected wore any clothes.It was only after


    the procedure had passed the 30 minute mark did Matthew finish expelling the poison from Lucy.


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    Even so, Matthew dared not becent.Heid Lucy on the bed and covered her up with a thin


    nket before sitting by her side to watch over her.


    Matthew was looking to see if there was any residue of the poisonous gas left inside of Lucy.


    Though the residue might not be fatal, it would be enough to severely cripple her day-to-day life.


    While watching over her, Matthew called the crown prince for him to send someone to investigate the


    matter, especially about the killer Matthew saw.


    And so, Matthew watched over Lucy that night while staying beside her, which was fortunate for Lucy


    as the poison inside her had recurred twice that night.


    Then, morning came.It was around nine o''clock when Lucy regained consciousness.


    At first, she wanted to go back to sleep after she had opened her eyes in a daze and found herself lying


    in bed.


    However, she widened her eyes in shock as the events from the day before shed through her


    mind.Incidentally, Matthew was sitting cross-legged beside the bed.


    The moment sheid eyes on him, Lucy turned pale as she deliberated about what that monster had


    done to her.


    While trying to figure out what had happened, she noticed the clothes she wore were scattered all over


    the floor.


    Due to the emergency yesterday night, Matthew had to tear off her clothes in order to save her life.


    Unfortunately, the aftermath of that looked exactly like a scene of a crime.


    "You scoundrel! I will kill you before killing myself!" Lucy roared before pouncing on Matthew.


    Though she was stark naked right now, she did not care as she thought that she was defiled.


    Since things hade to this, there was no ce in her mind to care whether she was stark naked as


    all she sought right now was death.


    With a frown, Matthew avoided her before he said, "You better not move about.Although the poison in


    your body has been expelled, your body still needs to rest"


    "What did you say?"


    Lucy snapped, "You...even went as far as to poison me? That''s it, you scoundrel! Degenerate! B*stard!


    You''re dying right now!"


    At this point, Matthew was starting to feel annoyed.


    "How could you act this way? Just when did I poison you? That was someone else''s doing.If I hadn''t


    rushed to save you, you would''ve been meeting your maker a long time ago!"