Chapter 73: Exposed
Cheng Yuan finally understood why Wu Mengyao had been so hesitant. The snake had bitten her in such an awkward spot.
"Sister Wu, this venom is potent. We can’t delay. You need to take off your pants, quickly."
Take off her pants...
Wu Mengyao was always conservative. Even when sparring at the Patrol Office, she always wore long pants. This was just too much for her to accept.
"How about... you just take me to a hospital?"
Cheng Yuan scolded her with a stern expression, "Sister Wu, what are you thinking? Do you think I’m trying to take advantage of you? This venom is extremely aggressive. Every second, it’s eroding your nervous system and your internal organs. Every minute we delay adds to the danger. Taking you to the hospital now would take at least twenty minutes. Sure, you’d survive, but your organs would be severely damaged. Worse, the damage to your nervous system would be the most severe. You probably wouldn’t be able to hold a gun ever again. You wouldn’t even be able to win a fight against a regular person."
"Ah? It’s that serious?"
"Try it yourself. Can your fingers make any fine movements?"
Wu Mengyao subconsciously tried to extend and retract her fingers. They felt clumsy, unable to follow her commands.
Wu Mengyao’s face paled in horror. "Cheng Yuan, you have to help me! My dream since I was a little girl was to be a constable. I finally made it happen. I don’t want to become useless!"
"As long as I’m here, nothing will happen to you, Sister Wu!"
Seeing that Wu Mengyao was still embarrassed, Cheng Yuan pulled a black handkerchief from her pocket and tied it over his eyes.
"Sister Wu, I can’t see a thing now. Go ahead."
As he spoke, Cheng Yuan activated his Double Pupil, his X-ray Vision instantly kicking in.
Wu Mengyao waved a hand in front of his face. When Cheng Yuan didn’t react, she finally breathed a small sigh of relief and took off her pants, revealing her firm, well-rounded thighs.
Wu Mengyao was incredibly disciplined, running over two kilometers every day. Her long legs were simply captivating—a perfect fusion of strength and beauty, a completely different style from Lin Ruoxi’s delicate legs that looked so tender you could squeeze water from them.
Suppressing her shame, Wu Mengyao said, "Okay, you can start."
Cheng Yuan, pretending he couldn’t see, reached out with a large hand tentatively. "Sister Wu, you’ll have to guide me."
"Mm..."
Wu Mengyao swallowed her embarrassment and took Cheng Yuan’s hand.
’Even though Sister Wu handles a gun every day, her hands are completely free of calluses. They feel amazing to the touch. She must take great care of them.’
"It’s right here."
Wu Mengyao guided Cheng Yuan’s large hand, gently pressing it onto the snakebite.
Though her leg was already growing numb, the moment Cheng Yuan’s fingers touched the wound, Wu Mengyao trembled slightly. A blush spread across her neck and face, instantly reaching the tips of her ears.
’Sister Wu always has such a heroic, confident air about her. I never thought she’d be this sensitive, this shy!’
’She’s a real hidden treasure!’
Cheng Yuan took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. He pinched the wound between two fingers and began to gently squeeze, trying to force the venom out.
Wu Mengyao froze instantly. Her hands didn’t know what to grab onto, her pretty face was beet red, and her breathing grew heavier.
Cheng Yuan’s pressure increased.
Wu Mengyao was just too sensitive; she couldn’t bear it. She bit her lip hard and even covered her mouth with her hands to keep from making a sound.
After about half a minute of squeezing, Cheng Yuan frowned. "Sister Wu, we wasted some time earlier. Some of the venom has already spread deep into your blood vessels. I can’t squeeze it out anymore. I’ll have to suck it out..."
Suck it out?
Just hearing that word made Wu Mengyao panic.
She could barely handle the squeezing. If he started sucking...
But Wu Mengyao wasn’t about to let her career be ruined. Gritting her teeth, she said, "I’m counting on you."
Cheng Yuan didn’t hesitate any longer. He leaned down and sucked hard at the wound.
Wu Mengyao couldn’t hold back anymore. Even though she pressed her hands firmly over her mouth, some sounds still escaped.
Through his Double Pupil, Cheng Yuan could see Wu Mengyao’s entire body had turned beet red, like a fully cooked shrimp. She was giving off the faint scent of a virgin.
Inhaling Wu Mengyao’s unique fragrance and the potent scent of her hormones, Cheng Yuan felt his mind begin to wander.
Wu Mengyao was in an even worse state. Having almost lost all reason, she grabbed a handful of Cheng Yuan’s hair and forcefully pressed his head down!
And the direction she was pressing it was a little... off.
He was starting to go astray.
If he really went astray, Cheng Yuan wasn’t sure he could maintain his self-control either.
Just at that critical moment, a timid voice called out from behind them. "Xiao Ming is bleeding! Mister, Miss, can you help stop the bleeding?"
The timid voice was like an alarm bell, instantly snapping them both back to their senses!
’How could I have done something so shameful? Cheng Yuan’s head was already... off course...’ Wu Mengyao felt like she was going crazy.
Wu Mengyao quickly pushed Cheng Yuan’s head away and looked down at her wound.
"Ahem, the wound is starting to bleed fresh red blood now. Is all the venom gone?"
Cheng Yuan spat out the venom he had just sucked out. "It should be, for the most part. The small amount left isn’t enough to affect your nervous system. You should be able to heal on your own, Sister Wu."
With that, Cheng Yuan took out a small blade, holding it between two fingers, and swung his arm lightly.
SWISH! One of the venomous snakes was sliced open!
Cheng Yuan accurately located the green snake gallbladder and dug it out.
"Sister Wu, the gallbladder can also act as an antidote! You should eat it."
Wu Mengyao froze. ’Cheng Yuan is blindfolded. How could he have disemboweled the snake so cleanly? How could he have located the gallbladder so precisely?’
’Can he see?’
’Is the handkerchief letting light through?’
At the thought of that possibility, Wu Mengyao wished a hole would open up in the ground and swallow her whole!
’This is so humiliating!’
’That brat saw everything just now!’
RUSTLE, RUSTLE.
Wu Mengyao got dressed, covering up her explosive figure.
"Xiaocheng, you can take off the handkerchief now."
"Oh, okay."
Unaware that his cover was blown, Cheng Yuan calmly took off the handkerchief and handed it back to Wu Mengyao. "I’ll go check on the children."
Cheng Yuan strode forward and looked at the children who had just been taken down from the crosses.
One of the children’s wounds had reopened and was gushing blood. The other kids were gathered around him, looking on with worried faces.
Cheng Yuan took out his Silver Needles and pricked the boy’s body a few times, sealing the blood vessels around the wound and quickly stopping the bleeding.
Wu Mengyao watched Cheng Yuan silently. ’He’s a little young, but he’s certainly easy on the eyes, and his medical skills are amazing!’
’With my line of work, getting injured is part of the job. It would be so much more convenient to have a doctor in the family!’
’He’s already seen everything anyway... maybe I should see where things go with him?’
Wu Mengyao changed how she addressed him. She no longer called him Xiaocheng, but put him on her level as a peer.
"Cheng Yuan, I always hear Xiaofei talking about how great your medical skills are. I didn’t believe it before, but now I do. You’re really good. From now on, if I get injured, you’re in charge of patching me up!"
Cheng Yuan, missing the undertone completely, nodded readily. "No problem."