Mated at First Sight
Chapter 379 - 272: News vs Warning (One More Update) _2

Chapter 379: Chapter 272: News vs Warning (One More Update) _2

Upon hearing Black Scorpion’s words, Mu Lin only faintly tugged at the corner of her mouth, the depth of her eyes turning thoroughly icy, "How come you didn’t realize that this isn’t my objective?" She counters, looking at Black Scorpion, "It’s rather presumptuous, to use my own things against me. It’s evident that your organization’s intention of training the Red Scorpions is quite predictable."

My own things?

Black Scorpion initially looks puzzled, but quickly understands. The object Mu Lin referred to must be that ancient book of hers; there was no wonder that Mu Lin could easily neutralize the Red Scorpion’s poison. It seems that his guess was correct.

Truth be told, in Black Scorpion’s eyes, their organization is very formidable. However, contemplating Mu Lin, he suddenly felt that maybe one day, the organization might be destroyed at her hands. What intrigued Black Scorpion even more was the enigmatic relationship between Mu Lin and their organization.

"Do you... know where your organization’s headquarters is located?" Mu Lin asked once more, gazing at the somewhat disoriented Black Scorpion.

She wasn’t able to extract such information from the Green Scorpion before. Perhaps Black Scorpion might be able to provide some answers she seeks.

"You want to know about our headquarters!" On hearing Mu Lin’s words, Black Scorpion was taken aback. Indeed, that was Mu Lin’s goal! This was a reckless move; Black Scorpion acknowledged that Mu Lin was very skilled, but challenging their organization now was still too dangerous. After all, other assassins within the organization were certainly not to be trifled with.

Unfortunately, Mu Lin didn’t care about the hardships or tasting gall. She didn’t know what it meant to be frightened into inaction.

"What, you are also unwilling to tell?" Mu Lin’s indifferent eyes calmly stared at him, the temperature in her voice icy cold.

"No." Black Scorpion shakes his head, "It’s not that I am unwilling to tell, but even we do not know the location of the organization."

Mu Lin raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Once we pass the organization’s internal training and rank up through the assessment, we no longer have the opportunity to return." Black Scorpion elaborated further: "When we were sent out by the organization, our eyes were covered. Almost everyone was sent to different places." Their supreme leader doesn’t trust anyone but himself, let alone the cold-blooded assassins trained by him from the ground up.

Nonetheless, Black Scorpion looked up at Mu Lin, his eyes serious, "The only piece of information I can give you is this."

"Our training grounds are on an island, surrounded only by water. You can’t see anything else. Once you’re taken into the icy cage, the only way to escape, other than death, is to pass the training. That is to say, you have to crawl out from a pile of countless corpses."

Of course, if you fail the training, the only path left for you is death.

"An Island, huh!" Mu Lin seemed slightly disappointed, "It seems like the trail has gone cold here." But it doesn’t matter. As long as there is a human trace, even if only a little, she can dig out every bit of information she wants to know from it.

Mu Lin’s lips curled; her patience in this regard was plentiful.

Lowering his gaze to the expression on Mu Lin’s face, Jing Chen tightened his grip on her hand, as if silently reassuring her that she was not alone; as long as he was there, he would definitely help Mu Lin uncover all the information she wanted.

This was Mu Lin’s fixation; and ever since he fell in love with Mu Lin, it became Jing Chen’s fixation as well.

Mu Lin turned her face slightly and looked at Jing Chen; the arc of her lips gradually warmed.

She knew what he wanted to say.

Mu Lin turned back, and suddenly took another pill from the small porcelain bottle in her hand, handing it over to Black Scorpion.

"What is this?" Black Scorpion seemed confused.

"This is an antidote I previously developed that can neutralize all kinds of poison. For ordinary poisons, one pill would suffice." In reality, it was the same kind she gave to Yang Hao earlier. When formulating the antidote, Mu Lin added a little of her own blood into the concoction to increase its success rate. Given the scarce amount of the blood she put, it made the antidote very precious, which Mu Lin would not casually give to others.

Such a pill, coupled with the reputation of Mu Lin as the Poison Doctor, would definitely fetch a good price if sold. Unfortunately, the last thing that the little miracle doctor lacked was money. The treasures similar to the "Night Pearl" that Mu Jue left to Mu Lin were more than enough for her to live a luxurious life without ever running out.

Black Scorpion reached out to receive it, "Thank you."

"No need for thanks." Mu Lin said flatly, "You should know that this is not because of you." This point, Mu Lin thought, was something he must understand extremely well.

Black Scorpion’s stiff face slightly pulls up in a shallow arc, "I know." His words seemed gentle. He was quite aware that Mu Lin gave him this because of the girl in his heart.

"Yang Hao is a very good girl, and she deserves to have her own happiness, unrelated to me;" Mu Lin paused, then continued, "However, I don’t want her original happiness to disappear because of me." Mu Lin’s gaze swept over Yang Hao’s innocent face, returning once more to Black Scorpion’s. Her eyes carried a warning, "Black Scorpion, unlike many disgusting people in this world, I like Yang Hao quite a bit. Despite being a little nosy, she owes her life to me now, and I don’t want to see her upset one day, you understand?"

"If that day does come, I will not hesitate to take your life." This was Mu Lin’s warning.

"Do not worry, if that day ever came, I will not need you, I would take my own life." And this was Black Scorpion’s vow.