Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

Chapter 78: Chapter 70 Quiet Night, the So-Called Snake Woman

Zhao Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at his assistant, who was stumbling around the house as if drunk. Damn, I’ve seen people get drunk on alcohol and high from smoking, but getting drunk off hot pot? That’s just bizarre.

Before he could finish wiping his brow, he heard Medusa calling his name.

Hearing her, Zhao Rong looked at the Coke bottle in her hand. ”Beautiful lady, can’t you open that bottle?”

Medusa looked at him seductively. ”Brother Zhao Rong, my mouth is strong, but my hands are weak... Come over here and help me twist off the cap.”

Zhao Rong was puzzled. What did she mean, her mouth was strong? He walked over nonetheless.

Medusa, who had been standing in the doorway of her room, took several steps back as Zhao Rong approached, retreating inside.

Seeing her retreat into the room, Zhao Rong paused at the threshold. ”You want me to come into your room?”

Medusa’s soul-seizing gaze locked onto him. ”Brother Zhao Rong, the night is deep and quiet. Don’t you want to come into my room and keep me company?”

”Didn’t you just ask me to open a bottle for you?” Zhao Rong asked, thoroughly confused. ”Now you want me to come in and keep you company?”

”A defenseless woman is asking you to stay,” Medusa cooed, starting to remove her clothes. ”Are you, a grown man, actually scared?”

Clearly, she was deliberately provoking him.

”I’m a man, you’re a woman,” Zhao Rong laughed. ”If you aren’t afraid, what do I have to be afraid of?” He stepped inside.

Seeing Zhao Rong actually enter, Medusa smirked to herself. Men truly are animals who think with their lower halves. No matter how powerful a man is, he will ultimately be conquered by a woman.

Just then, as Zhao Rong drew near, Medusa handed him the bottle. ”Brother Zhao Rong, help me open this Coke, would you?”

Zhao Rong took the bottle and began twisting the cap. At that same moment, Medusa started gathering her True Qi. She intended to concentrate all the Snake Qi from her Dantian and blast it at the unguarded Zhao Rong in one breath. As long as he was hit by her blast of Snake Qi, he would be instantly knocked unconscious. This so-called Snake Qi was, in fact, an extremely lethal poisonous gas.

Suddenly, Medusa noticed something odd. Zhao Rong, a man who should have great hand strength, had assumed a horse stance just to twist off a bottle cap. His posture was strange, but Medusa didn’t let it distract her. She seized the opportunity and forcefully exhaled, unleashing all the Snake Qi in her body toward him.

As the gas cloud neared Zhao Rong, Medusa burst out laughing. Zhao Rong, you may have dodged my poison perfume and the snake powder... but you can’t escape my Snake Qi.

However, just as she was reveling in her victory, Zhao Rong’s nose was overcome by a sudden, unbearable itch. He let out an explosive sneeze. His nose had never been so itchy, and he had never sneezed with such force in his life.

In that instant, Zhao Rong’s sneeze blew Medusa’s forcefully expelled Snake Qi right back at her.

The rebounding gas shot directly into Medusa’s wide-open, laughing mouth. Ready to celebrate her victory, she never imagined that her own poisonous gas would be deflected by a sneeze and turned back to strike her down. Although the Snake Qi originated in her Dantian, the toxic gas could only be safely stored there. When Zhao Rong’s sneeze blew it back, it traveled down her trachea and straight into her lungs.

In an instant, Medusa was poisoned by her own attack. She staggered back three steps before collapsing against the wall and sliding to the floor.

”Zhao Rong, you bastard...” she gasped, her face contorted in pain. ”Your luck is just... too damn good, isn’t it? I try to poison you with perfume, your rhinitis flares up! I try to poison you with snake powder, you get diarrhea! And just now, I try to hit you with Snake Qi, and you just have to sneeze!”

Looking down at the fallen Medusa, Zhao Rong feigned surprise. ”Beautiful lady, so you’re not human, but a serpent person?”

Hearing this, Medusa chuckled weakly. ”Smart, Zhao Rong. You guessed right. But knowing now is too late.”

With those words, she quickly swallowed an Elixir and began to transform, her body swelling and contorting into that of a giant python. Now in her true form, Medusa loomed over the now-miniscule Zhao Rong and roared with laughter.

”Zhao Rong, even though your sneeze poisoned me with my own Snake Qi, I have the antidote! You can’t hurt me. Now that I have transformed, your time of death has come!”

After speaking, she thought to herself, I really am clever for coming prepared. That idiot Zhao Rong might be lucky, but no amount of luck can overcome my careful planning.

Just as Medusa opened her massive, gaping maw to strike, Zhao Rong bellowed, ”Ladies, let her have the realgar!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, and Tao Hua rushed in, brandishing a fire hose. Seeing the women charge in, the python-Medusa was startled. But when she saw they were only holding a fire hose, she laughed derisively.

”You bunch of fools! Do you think we serpent folk are afraid of water? Do you really think water from a fire hose can kill me?”

What Medusa didn’t know was that the fire hose was connected to a large tank on the roof of the villa, a tank filled to the brim with potent realgar water. Realgar acts as a stomach poison, attacking a snake’s digestive system with lethal results.

The truth was, Zhao Rong had seen through Medusa’s disguise long ago. While she was searching for an opportunity to kill him, he was methodically planning her demise. Earlier, when Medusa had instructed her assistant to prepare the hot pot, Zhao Rong had already ordered the women to begin adding massive amounts of super-concentrated realgar to the villa’s rooftop water tank. They did this to create a powerful stream of realgar-infused water for the perfect moment.

And now, as Medusa revealed her true, murderous form and lunged for Zhao Rong, that moment had come.

The women decisively opened the valve on the fire hose, unleashing a violent torrent directly at Medusa. The moment the concentrated realgar water slammed into her scales, the ferocious python immediately cringed. She was not only driven back but was also severely injured. The women kept the stream focused on her, spraying relentlessly for a long time. They didn’t stop until the entire rooftop tank of realgar water was depleted.

Seeing the serpent person thoroughly subdued, the four women high-fived and shouted, ”Yay!”

When Medusa finally realized the water wasn’t ordinary tap water but realgar water, she was stupefied. Looking at Zhao Rong, she spoke, her voice barely a whisper, ”Zhao Rong... did you know all along that I was a serpent person?”

Zhao Rong nodded. ”From the very first day you set foot in this villa, I knew you weren’t human. I was just playing dumb and didn’t let on.”

Hearing this, Medusa howled at the ceiling. ”Damn it! So you knew I was a serpent person the whole time... and I thought you were completely clueless! I thought I was a good actor, but I never imagined you were an even better one...”

After her outburst, she asked with genuine confusion, ”But I had completely mastered my human form. How did you possibly find out?”

Zhao Rong pulled out his phone and opened a search page. ”When I saw the tattoo on your leg, I secretly took a photo and looked it up on Baidu. I discovered that the logo was the official symbol of the serpent people. So, I knew who you were from that day.”

Hearing him mention the tattoo, the serpent person replied in disbelief, ”But so many human girls have that tattoo now... and the difference between my pattern and theirs is minuscule, practically insignificant... most people would never notice! Why did you notice it? And why would you go so far as to take a picture and look it up on Baidu? Zhao Rong... you got me good...”

As she spoke those last words, the serpent person Medusa breathed her last.

Looking at the dead python, Zhao Rong sighed with regret. ”Beauty, don’t blame me. If you’re going to blame someone, blame that bored, internet-savvy member of your serpent tribe who had nothing better to do than upload your tribe’s logo and identify it online.”

With that settled, Zhao Rong fetched the Dharma Sword.

Seeing him prepare to dissect the python, one of the women asked, puzzled, ”Brother Zhao Rong, what are you doing?”

Zhao Rong smiled. ”I just did another Baidu search. Serpent people have Snake Crystals and Snake Gallbladders. They’re both valuable ingredients for making elixirs. I’m going to see if I can find them and try my hand at alchemy. Maybe they can help me level up.”

Having said his piece, Zhao Rong began the dissection of the giant python that was once Medusa.