Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 477 - Chapter 477 Chapter 475 Her Devotion to Him

Chapter 477: Chapter 475: Her Devotion to Him Chapter 477: Chapter 475: Her Devotion to Him Ming Yao nodded, “You go back, take some time to adjust your mood!”

This trip to the Northern Desert was an unforgettable journey for Jing Hang.

For years, he had hated Jiang Yan, constantly seeking her out, wishing to tear her body into a thousand pieces.

After this incident, the attempt to let go of the past was also a form of liberation and release.

Ming Yao planned to return to the capital with Jing Hang, worried that staying here might become Gu Siting’s vulnerability.

Just as Ming Yao was packing up to leave, Lu Zhou hurried over.

“Miss Ming, Fourth Master wants you to go to the cafeteria.”

Ming Yao quickly headed to the cafeteria.

In the cafeteria, Ah Da and many others were lying on the ground, clutching their stomachs in apparent agony.

Gu Siting was there with doctors examining them, but none of the doctors could pinpoint the problem.

Seeing Ming Yao arrive, Gu Siting grabbed her hand, his eyebrows tightly furrowed, “Yaoyao, I was planning to send you back, but now there’s a problem, can you check out what’s wrong with them?”

Ming Yao knelt down beside the pained Ah Da and felt for his pulse with her hand.

A moment later, Ming Yao’s face turned pale.

“Siting, quick, bring over some masks–everyone put them on.”

Gu Siting promptly instructed Lu Zhou to bring over masks.

Once they were on, Ming Yao told Gu Siting, “It’s a virus that can be transmitted through saliva.”

Ming Yao investigated the cafeteria and identified the source of infection in the water jar.

Water was the most scarce resource here, and it had to be transported from an oasis.

Ming Yao’s brow furrowed, “Someone has poisoned the water.”

Anyone who had used the cafeteria from yesterday to this morning had been affected.

In other words, the poison was added yesterday.

Gu Siting’s features were taut with tension, “Yesterday when you were being hunted, Gong Yu knew I would come to rescue, and that would leave our base less guarded. He used a diversionary tactic, poisoning our drinking water!”

Ming Yao agreed with Gu Siting’s conclusion.

Gong Yu’s methods were despicably cruel!

Just then, whoosh–a sharp arrow shot toward them.

Gu Siting reached out and plucked the arrow from the doorframe.

Tied to the arrow was a note.

[Gu Siting, those who are poisoned will not live more than three days, if you want them to be safe and sound, turn over Jiang Yan, also, leave C country forever, never to return!]

Upon reading the content of the note, Ming Yao was furious.

Gong Yu was truly despicable and shameless.

Ming Yao grasped Gu Siting’s hand, her voice clear, “Don’t hand over Miss Jiang, I will find a way to develop an antidote within three days.”

Gu Siting looked at the woman in front of him, her beauty radiant and delicate, her thick, long lashes like two small fans casting shadows on her cheeks.

Her lustrous, beautiful eyes shone with intelligence and confidence.

A warm current surged through Gu Siting’s chest, “Yaoyao, thank you.”

This was the woman he deeply loved, who would unhesitatingly support and help him when he needed it.

Jing Hang was originally set to leave, but with this turn of events, he naturally wouldn’t be departing.

He began research together with Ming Yao.

Gu Siting had a temporary lab set up for them.

“Senior Sister, we don’t have sophisticated lab equipment here, I’ll have someone send it over,” he said on the phone.

Ming Yao nodded, “Good.”

That afternoon, a figure elegant as a lotus and noble as a fragrant orchid appeared in the temporary laboratory.

“Senior Brother?”

Ming Yao and Jing Hang were both quite surprised.

Yun Zhuo walked in with a large case, which he opened to reveal it was full of precision high-tech instruments.

“Senior Brother, how did you come here?” Jing Hang had sought help from a scientific research friend in the capital.

Yun Zhuo pursed his thin lips, “It just so happened that I was engaged in academic exchange with your friend.”

Yun Zhuo set up the instruments and, without asking further questions, glanced at the virus analysis report, and then researched the antidote with Ming Yao and Jing Hang.

The three of them hardly slept all night.

The ingredients for the antidote were mostly determined, they only needed a rare desert plant–the Ten-Colored Flower, as the Elixir Primer.

The Ten-Colored Flower is actually a plant similar to a cactus, but it only grows in the Devil’s Desert and is extremely rare.

“I’ll go find it,” Yun Zhuo stood up and said.

Ming Yao shook her head, “No, I will go. I’m already grateful that you could come to help us.”

Everyone knows the Devil’s Desert is a place ordinary people dare not tread.

If they could find the Ten-Colored Flower, it would be fine, but if it couldn’t be found, and danger arose, they might not even make it back.

“Sister, let me and the Senior Brother go. You should stay here.”

Ming Yao’s expression was resolute, “I must go myself. You two stay here, and also, don’t tell Gu Siting.”

Yun Zhuo had come in a helicopter, and Ming Yao got straight on the helicopter.

Just as she was about to close the hatch, Yun Zhuo and Jing Hang approached.

Yun Zhuo kicked Jing Hang to the ground, “One more person means one more danger. Since Xiao Yao insists on going, then I will accompany her over!”

Jing Hang, kicked to the ground, “…”

…

Several hours later.

Ming Yao flew the helicopter to the Devil’s Desert.

Looking around, rolling sands stretched as far as the eye could see, like an endless sea that offered no hint of its limits.

Ming Yao had once come to the Devil’s Desert during a Tang Sect assessment.

She vaguely remembered the location of the Ten-Colored Flower.

But when she and Yun Zhuo got there, they found that all the Ten-Colored Flowers had died.

The temperature in the Devil’s Desert was very high; waves of heat nearly seared the eyes, making it hard to keep them open.

A gust of wind blew, and coarse grains of yellow sand scratched painfully against the skin.

Ming Yao was not a delicate person; having not found the Ten-Colored Flower in that area, she hurriedly searched elsewhere.

Yun Zhuo watched as she searched for an hour or two, her face sunburnt red, sweat beading and trickling down her forehead without even time for a sip of water, his brow furrowed with worry.

Gu Siting had been on Tang Sect Island for over a month, and he had witnessed how sweet she had been when together with Gu Siting.

It was the sweetness that overflowed with pink bubbles in the air the moment their eyes met.

Today, he witnessed her risk her own life for Gu Siting.

Yun Zhuo took the water bottle from his waist and handed it to her, “Your lips are sunburnt. Drink some water first.”

“Senior Brother, I’m not thirsty.”

Yun Zhuo’s refined and ethereal face sank slightly, “Xiao Yao, I know you’re anxious, but if you collapse, how am I supposed to explain it to Gu Siting?”

After the temporary laboratory was built, Ming Yao ordered that no one, including Gu Siting, was allowed to get close.

So when she came to the Devil’s Desert, Gu Siting was not aware.

If something really happened to her, he would feel guilty for a lifetime.

Ming Yao took the water bottle, drank a sip, and said with tightly furrowed brows, “We must find the Ten-Colored Flower before it gets dark.” Otherwise, it would be very dangerous for them in the desert.

Yun Zhuo nodded.

Just as the two were about to leave, they looked up and were abruptly stunned by the scene in front of them.

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