"Ah?" Song Qingshu froze. Unable to worry about anything else, he rushed over. Some snakes in this world were lethally venomous, and Shen Biqun had no Internal Energy. If she had been bitten by one of those snakes, she could lose her life in minutes.
Rushing into the bushes, he found Shen Biqun's dress intact, but she was clutching her calf with a frown, her face filled with fear and worry.
"Where's the snake?" Song Qingshu asked urgently. Even in later generations, hospitals would first ask this after someone had been bitten by a snake, so they could prepare the proper antivenom. Song Qingshu had no antivenom, but if he knew what kind of snake it was, he could at least determine whether it was venomous and how potent its venom might be.
Shen Biqun shook her head and said with lingering fear, "It... it bit me, then ran away. I didn't see it clearly."
Song Qingshu frowned slightly and crouched before her, grabbing her calf. Shen Biqun instinctively drew her leg back beneath her skirt. "Y-you... what are you doing?"
Song Qingshu rolled his eyes and said solemnly, "I need to look at your wound!"
Shen Biqun regretted the words the moment they left her mouth. She was not foolish and had roughly guessed why, but her earlier reaction had been a lady's instinct. For a moment, she did not know how to explain herself, so she could only remain silent and let him examine her calf.
The sword energy in Song Qingshu's hand was incomparably sharp. He swiftly cut open the cloth over her calf, and upon seeing the shape of the wound and smelling the faint fishy odor drifting from it, his heart sank. "You were bitten by a venomous snake."
Without waiting for her response, he