Chapter 455: Forcing the Antidote

Chapter 455: Forcing the Antidote

A man sat in the chair opposite, a cigarette held between his fingers. When Dr. Karen was pushed in, the man extinguished the cigarette with his slender fingers. He looked up, his cold, ruthless gaze sweeping over Dr. Karen, who shuddered.

Yi Yanran was indeed right; Yi Jue had noticed and even traced it back to him!

"Yi... Total!"

Yi Jue scoffed, walking up to him, his eyes slightly lowered as he stared at him, "You know me, so you must know why I’ve brought you here—the antidote."

Dr. Karen said, "There is no antidote."

Yi Jue glared at him coldly, "If you don’t want to suffer, tell me the antidote formula. Otherwise, I’ll make your life a living hell, and not even Yi Hou can save you!"

"..."

He certainly had the capability to make life a living hell.

As the head of the Xuanyuan family, he even controlled part of the Yi family’s power. He could easily make the frail, experiment-focused Dr. Karen’s life unbearable.

But...

"Total, I really don’t have the antidote. What will it take for you to believe me?"

Yi Jue, however, had no patience for arguing. He stood up and tilted his head toward Cheng Li as a signal.

When Dr. Karen was seated on a chair by Cheng Li and his men, with an instrument display screen placed in front of him, he immediately understood what this was!

"Yi Jue, what exactly do you want? I really don’t have the antidote!"

Yi Jue was using a lie detector on him!

"I’m really not lying! What will it take for you to believe me?"

Dr. Karen struggled but was mercilessly tied to the lie detector by Cheng Li. Wires were wrapped around his body, and a gleaming dagger pressed against his back, leaving him unable to move...

Like a fish on the chopping board.

Yi Jue asked directly, "Did you personally develop the poison?"

"Yes."

"What is it called?"

"Cloud Destroyer."

Yi Jue’s face darkened instantly.

He glanced at the display screen and continued, "What is the antidote?"

"There isn’t one! No matter how many times you ask, there isn’t one!"

"What is the antidote?" Yi Jue repeated.

"There isn’t one!"

"Impossible!" Yi Jue slammed his fist on the table, his expression grim, "What is the antidote?"

Dr. Karen glanced at the steady display screen and sneered, "Yi Jue, you’ve used the lie detector. You know I’m not lying, don’t you?"

Yes.

The lie detector remained silent, and Yi Jue knew he wasn't lying.

But the clearer this became, the more panic Yi Jue felt.

His narrow eyes turned crimson as he seized Karen by the collar, glaring at him with icy intensity, "If there's no antidote, then create one!"

"I can't make it. When the head of the Yi family ordered me to concoct the poison, it was designed to be incurable!" Karen decided to lay it all out, "Even if you kill me right here, I still can't make it! Not even Yun Mu herself could produce an antidote!"

Yi Jue pressed his thin lips into a stern line. He didn't know when Yi Hou had started planning to completely annihilate the Yun family, leaving no room for survival.

Yi Jue abruptly released Karen.

Karen leaned back, gasping for air, but didn't dare to move, as a blade was still poised behind him.

Just when he thought he would either die or be severely punished today, Yi Jue only asked him one question, "Where is Yi Hou's secret laboratory?"

He then ordered his men to release Karen and departed immediately.

...

Yi family.

In the dark of night, the grand and imposing mansion was ablaze with light.

Yi Hou got out of his luxury car, adjusted the frames of his glasses, and made his way through the corridor and courtyard with the butler, entering the spacious front hall.

The butler meticulously reported all the household affairs to him, and Yi Hou occasionally responded, his face betraying obvious fatigue.

Suddenly.

A deafening "Boom—" resonated.

An explosion came from the main building, deafening.

The chandelier swayed, and the ground shook!

The Yi family descended into chaos, with servants and family members scattering in all directions.

The butler cried out, "Head of the family, flee! Assassins are here!"

The explosion was cataclysmic.

Yi Hou glanced towards the source of the explosion, his expression hardening.

"Head of the family, it's dangerous ahead!"

But Yi Hou strode resolutely towards the source of the explosion.

As expected, the epicenter of the explosion was the study.

His secret laboratory, painstakingly built over the years, was now obliterated.

Amidst the ruins, Yi Jue, clad in a black trench coat, sat nonchalantly on a chair, toying with a small, finely crafted pistol in his hand.

Behind him stood several bodyguards, with Cheng Li at the forefront, forcing Madam Yi to kneel on the ground, a dagger pressed against her neck.

But Yi Hou disregarded Madam Yi, charging straight into the laboratory ruins, trying to find something valuable among the debris.

But everything was in vain...

Whether it was the experimental equipment inside or the successfully developed potions, everything was gone!

All destroyed!

He had planned for everything, but he never expected that Yi Jue, this ruthless man, would blow up his laboratory!

Yi Hou's face was grim, and his deep, furious voice thundered, "Yi Jue, what are you doing? You actually destroyed my laboratory! Do you know how many years of effort that was? Just when I was about to mass-produce it, I was about to avenge our Yi family! You, you actually..."

Yi Jue's expression was icy and cold, "Well, that's truly unfortunate, to see your years of effort destroyed in an instant."

With that, Yi Jue turned around, his deep, narrow eyes like X-rays fixed on Yi Hou's face, his lips parting, "Tell me, what is the antidote formula?"

Yi Hou looked at Yi Jue, "Since you found this place, you must have already found Karen. Don't you know? There is no antidote for the Mie Yun Water!"

A crimson ferocity and killing intent surged in the depths of Yi Jue's eyes.

"I don't believe it! Knowing your style, you wouldn't leave no room for maneuver. Give me the antidote formula, and I will cure the blood disorder of the Yi family members within a month. Otherwise..."

Yi Hou chuckled twice, "Otherwise what? Are you going to forsake the lives of so many Yi family members for the sake of a woman? It's been a hundred years, and you still want to watch the Yi family members be killed off by the Yun family one by one? Why did I develop the Mie Yun Water? It was for revenge! I want to avenge the countless unjustly killed members of our Yi family over the past hundred years! You are half a Yi family member, with Yi family blood in your veins, yet today you destroyed my years of effort for the sake of a woman! Aren't you afraid that the ancestors of the Yi family will haunt you as spirits?"

"When will this cycle of revenge end? It's been a hundred years, even if you annihilate the entire Yun family, what then? Can the dead Yi family members come back to life?"

"Should I let their deaths be in vain?" Yi Hou roared.