Beautiful CEO’s Top Expert

Chapter 2088 - 2089: Watching Their Every Move

Ye Xunhuan’s face grew incomparably dark. The other side wanted the Taiji Seal, which to him was nothing, but they just had to ask for the Butcher’s Blade as well.

You had to know, the Butcher’s Blade belonged to Olivia, it belonged to the Blood Clan.

Although Ye Xunhuan and Olivia had a pretty good relationship, and based on his understanding and friendship with her, if he opened his mouth, there was an eighty to ninety percent chance Olivia would hand the Butcher’s Blade over to him so he could use it to exchange for Qiu Ruoxi.

But could Ye Xunhuan really bring himself to ask?

Or rather, how was he supposed to even ask!

After all, that was the Butcher’s Blade, one of the Blood Clan’s thirteen Holy Artifacts, and this blade might carry other meanings within the Blood Clan. Most importantly, the Blood Clan had no shortage of experts, yet it偏偏 ended up in Olivia’s hands. If there wasn’t some story behind that, Ye Xunhuan wouldn’t believe it even if you beat him to death.

He, Ye Xunhuan, had absolutely no idea how to open his mouth to Olivia for the Butcher’s Blade, but if he didn’t open his mouth to Olivia, then Qiu Ruoxi...

For a moment, Ye Xunhuan’s heart was filled with tangled hesitation.

A moment later, Ye Xunhuan slowly exhaled a pent-up breath from his chest.

In that instant he decided he was going to contact Olivia, he was going to open his mouth and ask her for the Butcher’s Blade; otherwise, something might happen to Qiu Ruoxi.

So he, Ye Xunhuan, had no other choice at all; he could only speak to Olivia and ask her for the Butcher’s Blade.

However, Ye Xunhuan didn’t contact Olivia directly. Instead, he followed Forsa to send Jim to the hospital, and at the same time his heart was filled with countless doubts.

Could it be that Bernie had deceived him, that Forsa’s intuition was also wrong, that he himself had overthought everything, and that none of this had anything to do with Jim?

After all, Jim was now poisoned. They didn’t know what poison it was, but judging from Jim’s complexion, the toxin was definitely overbearingly fierce.

And that phone call had been made right by his side, by Jim.

If all of this really had something to do with Jim, then there was only one possibility: Jim wasn’t the only one operating in the dark; he had a partner.

Maybe he even had more than one partner!

But right now all of this was just Ye Xunhuan’s speculation; everything still needed time to be verified!

Because of Jim’s special status, once he was sent to the hospital, they immediately began running tests on him, and at the same time notified a number of specialists to come over.

Before the series of examinations was finished, Jim fell into a coma, completely unconscious. When the test results came out, all of the experts fell into silence.

Because they had never seen the toxin in Jim’s body before—or rather, it had yet to be included in any textbook. This was a completely new type of poison!

And based on the analysis of Jim’s blood, they learned that this poison was extremely vicious; at most three days—if the antidote couldn’t be found within three days, Jim would die of the poisoning.

The problem was, they had no idea what poison it was to begin with, and had no way to even start.

When Ye Xunhuan heard what these experts said, he fell completely silent.

What exactly was the poison in Jim’s system? What on earth had he gone through after Ye Xunhuan left?

Everything, everything filled Ye Xunhuan’s heart with countless questions.

At this moment, Jim had already been transferred to the intensive care unit, while the specialists the hospital had called in began isolating and breaking down the toxin in his blood, hoping to formulate an antidote within three days.

Jim lay in the hospital ward, eyes tightly shut, brows deeply furrowed, his whole body motionless, just like a dead man.

Forsa took one look at Jim lying on the bed, then shifted his gaze to Ye Xunhuan.

Then Forsa said to Ye Xunhuan, "Marshal, we..."

Ye Xunhuan seemed to already know what Forsa wanted to say. Before Forsa could finish, he cut in directly, "Let’s go talk outside."

After that, Ye Xunhuan and Forsa walked out of the ward together, leaving the rest to the doctors.

Once they stepped out of the ward, Ye Xunhuan immediately fixed his gaze on Forsa. "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Marshal, do you think my earlier intuition was wrong? That I misunderstood him?"

"How should I know?" Ye Xunhuan replied without even thinking. "I’m investigating anyway, and now my wife’s even been dragged into this!"

A thick layer of guilt immediately surfaced on Forsa’s face. "Marshal, I’m really sorry, if it weren’t for me..."

"Saying that now is meaningless." Ye Xunhuan slowly exhaled a stuffy breath. "Right now we should focus on figuring out how to neutralize the poison in Jim’s body first."

"Marshal, I know Huaxia has a lot of books about antidotes, and there are many experts in using and countering poisons, you..."

Ye Xunhuan seemed to already know what Forsa wanted to say, and cut him off directly, "I don’t know a single one of them, and my status in Huaxia is...awkward, you really don’t know that?"

What he said was the truth; his status in Huaxia was indeed very awkward. The rulers among the Guardians of the Nation would never tolerate him!

And most of Huaxia’s ancient Martial Artists were within the Guardians of the Nation. For Ye Xunhuan to go to Huaxia to seek help was practically dreaming.

There might even be people secretly plotting how to get rid of him!

When Forsa heard this, he fell into silence, not knowing what to say.

"Enough, you stay here and keep a close eye on Jim," Ye Xunhuan said flatly. "I’m going to take care of some other business."

With that, Ye Xunhuan didn’t bother with what Forsa’s reaction was and left straight away.

After walking out of the hospital, Ye Xunhuan immediately pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

The call was quickly connected!

As soon as the line opened, before the other party could speak, Ye Xunhuan barked an order, "Tell that scumbag to get over to the hospital and keep eyes on Forsa and Jim’s every move!"

As soon as he finished, Ye Xunhuan hung up without giving the other party a chance to respond.

After hanging up, Ye Xunhuan slowly let out a breath.

Right now he felt that things were far more complicated than he’d imagined, and that everything seemed ready to surface in the next couple of days. He had to face it all with extreme caution.

Otherwise, if there was any slip-up or mistake, he, Ye Xunhuan, would die without even a burial place.

So he couldn’t afford the slightest carelessness now. Whether it was Forsa or Jim, he had to be fully informed of their every move, so he wouldn’t end up being played.

After all, there was a word in Huaxia called "double act," and another called "self-inflicted injury ruse."

Then Ye Xunhuan contacted Michelle.

At this point he had no choice but to reach out to Michelle. Things were already far more complicated than he’d imagined; he had to know everything!