The stump of Chu Jiao's right hand bore scars from being burned, and the wound could even be traced back to the Blazing Fire Dragon Slash. Under what circumstances had she been forced to cut off her own hand to save herself? This clearly did not conform to the usual methods Hunters used to treat wounds in this savage world.
After thinking it over, I said, "Senior's arm was severed almost from the shoulder. It should have been a method of stopping the spread of some strange poison by cutting it off herself. But in this savage world, even if it were Qingmo Qilin's poison, surely Senior could suppress it herself, couldn't she?"
"Why couldn't it be some poisonous beast even more formidable than Qingmo Qilin?" Chu Jiao still intended to keep hiding the truth. Her claim that there was no silver here only drew attention to the very place it was buried, clearly concealing some crucial connection.
"Even if that were so, how do you explain the vast amount of jade coins being consumed? If it were some toxin that could be completely eradicated, it shouldn't cause the jade coins to vanish without a trace, should it? Yet according to Brother Lan, your family gathered huge quantities of jade coins but rarely bought anything. Could this miserly behavior merely be some peculiar hobby of hoarding wealth? Surely it's because of something that consumes vast amounts of jade coins, leaving Senior's family unable to leave this place completely—perhaps a deadly poison that continuously consumes jade coins, or some energy unlike anything in the savage world, making it impossible to eradicate the poison here." I analyzed aloud.
Chu Jiao's expression shifted between light and dark. She clearly felt that I knew quite a lot, but for the sake of safety, she