The villain daughter did all kinds of things

...It feels like all the most beautiful and talented girls in the world have gathered around Emerald. Is this what they mean by birds of a feather flock together?

While thinking this to himself, Ark acted very cooperatively.

Although he was quite surprised by Suzuran's youth and talent, who wouldn't want their doctor to be even more skilled? For Ark, Suzuran was, of course, the more capable she was, the better.

Kerry's diagnosis and treatment began quickly.

When Emery heard that Kerry was suspected of being controlled by Lian's evil magic, the first thing that came to her mind was the strange red magic in Lian's secret spicy sauce.

So when examining Kerry, the first thing Emerald arranged was to carefully check whether there was any hidden red magic in Kerry's body.

However, nothing was found.

Kerry's magic was very clear, like a clear, cloudless sky; it was all her own air magic, without any impurities.

Emery frowned slightly at this, but wasn't particularly surprised.

Compared to his understanding of magic and magical power, Lohid is actually the true authority. Even the old man Lohid couldn't detect Kerry's abnormality in terms of magical power, so it's normal that the magical instruments on Emery's side can't detect it either.

Is Lian's method so advanced that it can even fool the old magician of Lohid and the most advanced magical instruments of Melson?

Amelie thought it was unlikely.

If Lian truly possessed that kind of power, she could simply take whatever she wanted without resorting to such underhanded methods.

Moreover, the strange red magic in Lian's secret spicy sauce is not particularly hidden; any slightly perceptive Fusion Stage expert could detect it if they paid close attention.

At first, Amelie needed a magical device to see that red magic, but once she recognized its existence, she could observe it directly with her naked eye.

It now seems that Kerry's abnormality is unrelated to that red magic, or rather, the red magic is not the main cause.

What would happen then?

Emery pondered, reassuring Ark to calm him down while having Suzuran continue using various magical devices to examine Kerry.

As various magical rays and magical perception waves flowed in and out of Kerry's body, all the information about her body was read and analyzed by Suzuran in the form of data.

"Nothing is abnormal."

Under Ark's expectant gaze, Suzuran uttered words that greatly disappointed him:

"Mrs. Carey's health data shows no abnormalities, and she should be in very good health right now."

The problem is that Kerry is clearly unhealthy now—how could a healthy person develop various ailments and eventually be on the verge of death just from not meeting with a specific person for a few days?

It can only be that Lian's methods were too clever; even Dr. Langdon's assistant failed to discover the real problem.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment; both Yak and Kerry looked grim.

Lily of the Valley also gave an apologetic look at the right moment.

Only Emerald hadn't given up. She remained silent, when suddenly a thought flashed through her mind, and she realized a possibility.

"Don't rush."

Amelie stopped Ark and Kerry, who were about to leave, and after thinking for a moment, looked at Suzuran again:

“You should examine Sister Kerry again, but this time don’t use any magical equipment… or any testing methods that involve magic, like the ones Old Man Langdon uses to treat those who are magic-resistant.”

"A detection method that doesn't involve any magic?"

Ark paused for a moment, then seemed to be deep in thought:

"Sister Emerald, what do you mean...?"

"Yes, that's what I mean."

Emery smiled and nodded:

"I don't believe that Lian's abilities are more powerful than your elders and our family's magical artifacts, but if there is any way to fool our tests, it can only be to directly fool the magic itself... After all, both magicians and magical artifacts rely too much on magic."

"That makes sense! You're so clever, little sister Emerald!"

Ark nodded in strong agreement, hope rekindling in his eyes. He personally helped Kerry lie back down on the testing table, then sincerely said to Suzuran:

"Please, Doctor."

Examining a patient's body without using any magic would be met with disdain by any other doctor in the Federation, unless it was old man Langdon.

But now that old man Langdon is dead, and Suzuran was his experimental assistant, she is likely the person in the world most skilled at treating patients using non-magical means, and is Ark's last hope.

Lily of the Valley, of course, did not refuse and immediately began working.

Without the aid of magic, it would be impossible to see through and scan the inside of Kerry's body.

Lily could only use some methods that Ark considered rather backward and primitive, but which made Emeralt feel somewhat familiar and nostalgic, to examine Kerry.

Blood samples were collected and aliquoted into different small test tubes, and urine was also collected.

To take a pulse, place three fingers on the wrist; to listen to breathing, press the chest with your ears; to ask about the patient's feelings, press the abdomen with your fingers; and to carefully observe the pupils and whites of the eyes, etc.

This examination is very time-consuming, completely different from the previous one where you just lie on the bed and wait for the magic scan.

But perseverance pays off, and through Linglan's efforts and work, a major discovery was finally made this time.

In Kerry's blood, a trace substance not produced by the human body was found. It was a colorless particle at the micrometer level, which is invisible to the naked eye.

Moreover, these tiny particles, like Emerald's Dragonbone Fighter, possess a magical invisibility property... Simply put, they can be seen with the naked eye when magnified ten thousand times, but even if placed in front of you, you cannot detect them using your magical senses.

It doesn't matter as long as it's magic perception; it has nothing to do with the intensity of magic perception.

This is also why the old magician of the Lohid family and the magical artifacts of the Melson family could not detect Kerry's abnormality no matter how they checked; their detection relied too much on magic power.

Even lily of the valley didn't initially detect these colorless particles because they also didn't react with any testing reagents and weren't in lily of the valley's database.

Fortunately, Suzuran's current body is a magical doll specially created for medical research, and both eyes have microscope-level vision.

Lily of the Valley ultimately discovered the colorless particles by staring at Kerry's blood sample with her own eyes.

Having discovered the suspicious presence, the next step, of course, is to verify it.

People around the world have long discovered that mice are one of the best test animals for drugs. They react to various substances in a way that is similar to humans, but their tolerance is much lower than that of humans.

Simply put, it's a type of venom that can kill both humans and mice. If it would take 3 liters to kill a human, it might only take 1 milliliter to kill a mouse.

Now, Lily of the Valley has also captured a few mice for experiments. She injected the colorless particles extracted from Kerry's blood into the mice.

As expected, mice have much lower tolerance than humans.

Kerry now needs to go about three days without seeing Lian before she starts showing various reactions, while the mice started showing various symptoms less than 5 hours after being injected, and these symptoms were basically the same as those that Kerry had initially experienced.

Clearly, those colorless particles in Kerry's blood are what made him the way he is now.

Fourteen hours after the mice were injected with colorless granules, they died from complete organ dysfunction, much like a short-circuited computer motherboard.

Lily of the Valley then dissected the cadavers of mice for further research and ultimately reached a conclusion.

The colorless particles in Kerry's blood will travel through the bloodstream to Kerry's brain and have an effect, causing Kerry's brain to receive various incorrect information and issue incorrect instructions.

The various physical reactions that Kerry experienced after not seeing Lian for a period of time were all due to this reason.

It's also very simple for Lian to easily heal Kerry—as long as she controls the colorless particles to stop affecting Kerry's brain, once Kerry's brain returns to normal, her dysfunctional organs will immediately return to normal. After that, she can easily heal with various healing magic spells, and Kerry will be fully recovered immediately.

Having identified the cause of the illness, the next step, of course, is treatment.

Yak and Kerry looked at Lily of the Valley with great anticipation, hoping she could work her magic.

But this time, even Suzuran couldn't do it.

Those colorless particles were clearly not substances from the Allen Federation. There was no relevant information in the Lily of the Valley's database, and old man Langdon had never encountered them before.

No matter how human-like Lily may appear, she is still essentially a magical AI, and her ability to handle anything cannot exceed the limitations of her database.

Even when researching new things, the database must contain basic information.

For example, during the level 5 demonic tide that Yulia advanced to, the antidote developed by Suzuran played a very important role in combating the demonic tide.

Many of the monsters that appeared during the Demon Tide were not included in the Federation's Monster Encyclopedia, including the Demon Bees that appeared at the time. So how was Lily of the Valley able to quickly develop an antidote?

Because no matter how potent the venom of the magic bee is, it is still a type of bee venom, and Lily of the Valley's database contains a wealth of data on bee venom, as well as special formulas for different types of bee venom.

Just like a computer program, no matter how sophisticated it is, its code is still composed of the most basic 0s and 1s. For someone who is completely proficient in coding, there is no program that cannot be cracked.

The reason why lily of the valley can quickly develop a special antidote for bee venom is the same as how a super hacker creates a virus that targets a certain program.

But now, facing Rei's colorless tiny particles, Suzuran can't do it, because this thing is like a program written in alien code to her, with a completely different basic language. No matter how powerful Suzuran is, she is powerless to do anything about it.

Emerald, however, was concerned with something else entirely.

So how did these colorless particles get into Kerry's body?

Could it be through the food at Zuihonglou? If so, Amelie and her entourage ate plenty of that food, so why were they unharmed?

This matter must be verified immediately; Emery doesn't want to one day find herself and the women around her kneeling at Rean's feet like Kerry did.

So Emery quickly made two more arrangements.

She first had herself and the girls around her have their blood drawn, and then gave the blood samples to Linglan for careful observation to see if there were any colorless particles in their blood.

They also arranged for someone to go directly to Sphinxgate through the portal, pack several meals at Drunken Red House, and even requested extra Lian's secret spicy sauce.

Lily first examined the blood of Emerald and several other girls, and the results were a relief to Emerald—their blood was clean and free of those colorless particles.

Then, Linglan inspected the food from Zuihonglou that had been packed back. The food still contained that strange red magic, but there were no colorless particles.

Only then was Emery completely relieved.

Come to think of it, if Lian really had added those colorless particles to the food at Zuihonglou, many people in Sphinx would probably have become her slaves long ago, and Zuihonglou wouldn't still be peaceful now.

As for that strange red magic, Amelie once again analyzed it in detail and even invited Ark, a magician from the Lohid family, to study it together.

The answer remains the same: the red magic essentially only has an effect similar to illusion magic, making people feel that the food at Drunken Red Mansion tastes better. Moreover, the red magic will dissipate on its own quickly, leaving no adverse effects, so there's no problem.

Moreover, besides Amelie's holy magic purification, there are many other similar magical methods that can deal with this red magic, so it doesn't really pose any threat.

In other words, Kerry's condition has little to do with the red magic, and the appearance of those colorless particles in her body is not due to eating the food from Drunken Red Mansion, but for other reasons.

What would that be?

Based on Yake's account of Carrie's infidelity, the answer is actually quite obvious.

Kerry and Lian didn't have any improper relationship at first, just like Emery now. They just often went to Zuihonglou for meals and chatted with Lian for a while.

Everything changed that night when Kerry got drunk and made a mistake with Lian.

Was Kerry's drunken mistake that night merely a coincidence, or was it deliberately orchestrated by Lian? It remains difficult to draw a conclusion until Lian's true purpose and motives are clarified.

But without a doubt, Kerry started to change from that night, so the colorless particles in her body must have entered at that time.

“Sister Kerry, my next question may involve your privacy, but for the sake of your treatment, I still hope you can answer truthfully.”

Emery first gave Kerry a heads-up, and only after Kerry nodded firmly did she ask directly:

"Sister Kerry, when you were having sex with Lian, did you give her any opportunity to make a move on you? You should understand what I mean."

"Well... there are quite a few opportunities."

Kerry's face flushed instantly, but he still answered:

“You know, when you do that kind of thing, intimate contact is definitely unavoidable, and she has many opportunities to inject that substance into my body.”

"I see..."

Emery frowned slightly, not surprised, but also somewhat helpless.

As Kerry said, there are indeed too many opportunities for that level of intimacy.

What should I do?

We can only investigate them one by one.

“Listen to me, Sister Kerry, next time you see Lian, you should do this…”

After thinking for a moment, Amelie quietly gave Lian some instructions.

Lian's face flushed even more, but after glancing at Yake and receiving encouragement from her husband, she finally nodded earnestly.

"I understand, I will try my best."

Thus, Amelie and Suzuran's two-day treatment of Kerry came to an end.

Kerry's tolerance for not seeing Lian is capped at three days. Beyond three days, her body will experience various discomforts, and that deadline is fast approaching.

Yak was extremely helpless and angry, but there was nothing he could do at the moment, and he even had to personally escort Kerry to the Drunken Red Mansion to see Lian.

Fortunately, Kerry's meeting with Rei this time wasn't just for special treatment; she also secretly completed the task assigned to her by Emerald.

Kerry secretly brought back Lian's pair of black stockings, a set of underwear, several water cups she had drunk from, and several finger cots she had used.