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Chapter 336 Nightmare

The next morning, Zhu Yu woke up with a headache. Before he even opened his eyes, he felt his temples throbbing incessantly. With each throbbing, he felt as if his brain was being pulled out of his skull.

She sat up, holding her head, and found Lu Qing sitting on the edge of the bed, rubbing his temples.

"You don't... feel a headache too, do you?" Zhu Yu was a little surprised. Turning her head too quickly aggravated the pain, forcing her to frown, squint, and even hold her breath to calm the discomfort.

Lu Qing turned to look at Zhu Yu, who had just woken up, and grunted in response. Her expression looked rather serious, not like someone whose pale face was simply due to a headache.

Before the two could say anything more, there was a knock on the door, and Yan Daoxin's voice came from outside: "Are you up yet?"

"I'm up," Lu Qing replied, getting up and walking towards the door.

Yan Daoxin, who was outside the door, was even more anxious than him: "If you're up, hurry up and open the door! I'll bring you your medicine! Don't you have headaches?"

As they were talking, Lu Qing had already opened the door.

Yan Daoxin grinned when he saw his expression: "It hurts quite a bit, doesn't it? Don't worry, your senior brother has brought you medicine!"

As he spoke, he squeezed past Lu Qing and waved to Zhu Yu, who had already stood up: "Judging from your expression, you're in a lot of pain. Come on, take this medicine and you'll feel much better."

Having experienced what happened at the Prince of Shuo's mansion, Zhu Yu had no doubt about the effectiveness of the medicine prepared by Yan Daoxin. He took the pills from Yan Daoxin's hand, poured some water, and quickly swallowed them. He then poured a cup for Lu Qing as well.

"What about the others?" After swallowing the pill, Lu Qing sat down at the table and asked Yan Daoxin.

It was obvious that Yan Daoxin had not only delivered medicine to the two of them, but had also guessed that they would have splitting headaches when they woke up before even entering the room. Naturally, this was because of other people, and even he himself had already experienced the same feeling.

Yan Daoxin didn't need to be invited; he pulled up a stool and sat down at the table, nodding. "I slept like I was dead last night. When I woke up this morning, I felt a sharp pain on my head, like a crack. I quickly found some medicine to take."

When my headache subsided, I went for a walk and found Lu Yan also clutching his head, his face as bitter as a bitter gourd.

The same applies to runes and talismans; Lu Zhang was the same after he rose up.

Now, with the two of you included, all that's missing is Princess Yan Shu, who hasn't gotten up yet. Everyone else is reacting the same way.

"Give me the medicine, I'll go check on her in her room, just in case something happens!" Zhu Yu was a little anxious when she heard that Yan Shu hadn't woken up yet. She was worried that something might happen to her at this critical moment, since she had finally found a way to get her back to the Prince Yi's mansion safely. That would be something she didn't want to see, both publicly and privately.

However, in her haste to get up, Zhu Yu's head immediately started throbbing again, forcing her to stand there, pressing her head with her hand in a futile attempt to alleviate the excruciating pain.

"Sit down, no rush." ​​Lu Qing pulled her down to sit slowly. "The fact that Yan Daoxin is so unhurried in delivering medicine, and even painkillers, means that this matter is not serious."

If there were any real danger to their lives, he wouldn't have hesitated so much right now, acting out of a doctor's compassion, and would have already broken down Yan Shu's door. "That's right, I've already taken Lu Yan and Lu Zhang's pulses. Although they have headaches, and although they both said they felt like they were unconscious the night before, sleeping without any awareness, their pulses are fine and very stable."

"If there's any problem, everyone's lying down fully clothed anyway, so it wouldn't be a problem for me to rush in. I just don't think it's necessary." Yan Daoxin waved his hand at Zhu Yu, "Don't worry, my medicine is very effective. Just stay here quietly and wait for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and you'll feel better."

Zhu Yu had no choice but to sit there as instructed, supporting his head with his hand, barely daring to breathe too fast, and quietly waiting for the pill to take effect.

Lu Qing was a little better off than her. He wondered if this was related to the detoxification and recuperation he had received from the Qiyun Mountain people in the past. Although he also had a headache, at least it wasn't as severe.

"Last night, after you fell into a deep sleep, did you hear any noise?" he asked Yan Daoxin.

"The sound... I vaguely think I heard someone shouting and yelling, but I couldn't wake up." Yan Daoxin nodded. He was the first to take the medicine, and he no longer felt any discomfort.

“Yes, that’s when I realized something was wrong.” Lu Qing frowned slightly. “I vaguely heard someone screaming in the night. I wanted to open my eyes to see what was going on, but my eyelids felt like they weighed a ton and I couldn’t open them at all.”

I suspect we're under some kind of spell, so I'm not sure if the scream was real or just my imagination.

"A scream?" Zhu Yu looked up at the two of them. "I think I heard it too, but I thought I was dreaming, so I didn't take it too seriously."

So it seems that someone did scream last night, but we were all sleeping very soundly because we were infected, so we couldn't wake up!
Let's search this building thoroughly in a bit and see if there are any incense burners, chimneys, or anything like that!

"Okay, I'll have Fuwen and Fulu search for her in a bit. Don't worry." Lu Qing was afraid that Zhu Yu's headache would worsen if she got anxious, so she quickly comforted her and told her to wait patiently for the medicine she had taken to take effect.

After a while, Zhu Yu clearly felt her headache lessening. Although she still felt a slight pain, it no longer affected her movements.

She quickly asked Yan Daoxin for the pills and got up to run to find Yan Shu.

When Yan Shu was woken up to open the door, she was also in pain, pressing her head with one hand.

Zhu Yu quickly told her to take her medicine first, and then they could sit down and talk.

"If the door hadn't been properly closed, I would have thought someone had sneaked into the room while I was asleep and smashed my head with a sledgehammer!" Yan Shu said to Zhu Yu with a bitter face after swallowing the medicine.

"Did you smell anything strange last night? Whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, it doesn't matter," Zhu Yu asked, while searching around Yan Shu's room. He didn't see anything that looked like a chimney or any incense burner.

Yan Shu covered her head and snorted, not daring to shake her head: "No, even if I did, I wouldn't know. I closed my eyes yesterday and didn't know anything until you came knocking on the door today."

"Did you hear anything last night?" Zhu Yu asked again.

"What was that sound?" Yan Shu was taken aback. "I must not have heard it, otherwise I don't think I would have been sleeping so soundly."