CHAPTER 221

Chapter 221 The Creature’s Dead

Matthew originally thought that by stretching his hand out, he would experience the same thing as Veronica—unknown creatures crawling under his skin. However, he reached out and nothing happened at all.

The crystal clear water became tinged in red due to his blood and the water continued to splash all over the place as if there was a torrential rain going on.

He placed his hand by the side of the bowl and waited for quite some time; still, nothing happened. After some hesitation, he placed his hand into the bowl directly.

Water’s cold.

It turned out that the cold water was the only thing that stood out, leaving it to be the same as any other plain water.

He waited for quite some time and not only did he fail to experience the pain that he was expecting, the water in both the bowls and jar also stopped splashing around. The noise gradually died down and so did the ripple on the surface before it gradually returned to a calm state.

At that point, Matthew’s expression turned somber as he frowned deeply because the situation had made him perplexed. What the heck is going on?

Veronica had merely touched the edge of the bowl with her hand, after which some creatures immediately latched onto her skin and burrowed themselves into her body.

So, Roni touched it and she got hurt, but when I do it, nothing happens? Or did I just accidentally kill off all these creatures with my blood? Blood that destroyed their ecosystem of living.Property © of .

Everything was merely a guess and before it could be confirmed, no one would know the exact reason.

He removed the necktie from his neck and wrapped it around the place where his thenar muscles were heavily bitten by Veronica.

He turned around and went back to her side but she remained unconscious on the ground.

“Roni? Roni?”

Matthew gently patted Veronica on her cheeks but she gave no response at all.

Worried that this would continue, he took a seat on the ground and gently placed her head on his lap before reaching out to press on her philtrum.

He counted the seconds. One… Two… Six seconds went by before the unconscious woman showed signs of regaining consciousness. Her eyes twitched and her eyelashes fluttered as she slowly came to her senses.

While still feeling befuddled, Veronica leaned on his lap weakly and opened her eyes to look at him intently. “Where am I…”

“We are trapped in a chamber and you fell unconscious before this.”

Matthew knew that Veronica was momentarily dazed due to the intense pain in her head from before.

The weakened lady considered the situation for a moment before she finally recalled everything that had occurred prior to this.

She reached out and touched her head while lamenting, “Goodness. I’m so lucky to be alive. I thought that I was gonna die here.”

“Villains always live on. I think it would take more than this to kill you,” he teased her in hope to ease the tension and provide some comfort to her.

However, as soon as he noticed that the wound on her head—from the excessive banging—was now bleeding, he felt uneasy for her. “Does your head still hurt?”

“It’s fine; it doesn’t hurt. I just feel stripped of energy.”

Veronica held onto his hand and sat upright. Her head was hung low as she tried to get back into her usual state.

After quite some time, she finally stood up from the ground, but perhaps it was because of the earlier ordeal that she stumbled slightly. Matthew reacted fast enough and quickly went forward to assist her. “How do you feel?”

“I’m fine, I’m alright.”

Veronica waved to brush him off as she headed toward the side of the table.

However, before she could even get close to the table, Matthew dragged her back. “Don’t go near that. It’s too dangerous.”

“Let go of me,” she warned as she flung his hands off. “I wanna have a good f*cking look at what really f*cked me up so bad earlier.”

After the unknown creatures burrowed into her body, it first started off as a tingle; then, the tingle turned into hell. It was so excruciating that perhaps death was even more relaxed than this.

Bang!

She had only gently waved her hand, but suddenly there was a loud noise behind her.

Veronica turned around, only to find that Matthew was thrown far back into the distance. His body landed against the bookshelves with a thud and each row toppled over as all the books were strewn on the ground; the place was a mess.

“You… I…” She frowned with a confused look. “I didn’t even exert any force. Y-You better not blame this on me!”

Though Veronica said that, she remained quite confused as she lowered her head to look at her hands. She was very certain that she had not exerted any force at all earlier on.

Meanwhile, the battered man stood up amongst the pile of books while covered in dust, looking rather roughed up.

Matthew reached out his hand to his chest as he looked at Veronica searchingly. He could somewhat sense that something was different with her, but he shook his head in consolation. “It’s alright. I just lost my balance earlier. It had nothing to do with you.”

Does it really have nothing to do with me? Earlier on, she had only gestured by moving her hands, but he could clearly sense that her force had suddenly increased.

This reaction felt slightly odd. No… To be specific, it feels very strange.

“You’re too weak.” Veronica snorted coldly without giving much thought to the incident earlier. She turned around to look at the two bowls and all of a sudden, she decided to reach out to them once again like a mad woman.

“Stop messing around!”

He quickly stepped forward and grabbed her hand. “You were in an extremely dangerous state earlier on!”

“Gosh! I realize that. Let go of me.”

Veronica pushed his hand once again, but the same force that she exerted this time did not have the same effect on Matthew as before.

She glared at him furiously. “I just want to find out what’s inside. That creature, which sneaked into my body earlier, could have easily poisoned me by now and I might be on the brink of death! I wanna know how I’ll die before I actually die!”

No one realized the extent of Veronica’s feelings and complicated thoughts at that time. She pursed her lips and muttered, “I need more time with my parents. If anything happens to me today, they will be left all alone. Do you have any idea how terrible that’d be?”

“Enough!” Matthew angrily retorted, “I won’t let anything happen to you!”

As he spoke, he pointed to the two bowls. “I’ve tried it earlier. The creatures inside didn’t react at all. Since you’re injured, you shouldn’t touch them anymore. Once we get out of this place safely, I’ll send my men to bring these to be analyzed at a laboratory. With how advanced the world is right now, you don’t have to worry because I will definitely find a solution to treat you.”

He vowed, She’s my woman and I will stop at nothing to keep her safe.

“I…”

Veronica frowned and glanced at the two bowls tinged red. “Why is it tinged red inside? Did you drip blood into it?”

“Yeah. I was hurt earlier, so I came over to try adding blood into it to see if the creatures would react to me. In the end, nothing odd happened up till now.”

“Are you out of your mind?! How could you put yourself in danger after seeing what has happened to me?! Are y-you alright?”

Never in a thousand years did she expect that Matthew would actually resort to such a crazy move. She could not believe that he would land himself in such ultimate danger despite witnessing the torment she just went through.

Is he unafraid of death?! She was shocked and completely stunned. But mostly, she was touched by his actions.