The Bodyguard King’s CEO Wife Chapter 1988: A Draw

Zheng Ji and Ye Shikai each issued assembly orders, informing the members of the Zheng family and Netherworld Palace to regroup and disengage from the battle. This also gave the Tang and Gongsun families an opportunity; otherwise, given today’s advantage, they could have completely annihilated them. Zheng Su was also nowhere to be found—it looked like she had taken advantage of the chaos to escape. She betrayed the Zheng family today, and if she returned, she would undoubtedly face death. So she must have fled with the Tang family’s troops. Her conspiracy has already been exposed; there will be time to deal with her later.

“Quick, let’s hurry back,” Zheng Ji shouted loudly.

“Quickly regroup.”

Thousands of people quickly assembled and rushed towards the Main Sacrificial Land of the Zheng family; nobody knew what had happened there.

When everyone returned, they were still taken aback by the scene before them. The Main Sacrificial Land was covered with corpses—some of mutated individuals, but more were their own people. Many were seriously injured. The Main Sacrificial Land is where the ancestors of the Zheng family are buried, and never would they have imagined that a river of blood would flow here today…

“What exactly happened just now,” Zheng Ji asked furiously, grabbing someone to question.

“Eldest Young Master, just now… a group of mutated people suddenly attacked, over a thousand of them. We were unprepared and could only hastily defend… many brothers died or were injured. The Ji family and Ming family came to support us, and only then did we defeat them…”

“Damn it, there is only one road leading in and out of the Main Sacrificial Land. How did they get here?” Zheng Ji pressed further.

“Many of those mutants have wings and flew over from the cliff side. The ones that couldn’t fly were carried by them.”

“It seems they are Mothmen,” Ye Shikai said gravely. The Mothmen’s wings are two to three meters long, and once spread, they’re practically a ‘small aircraft,’ effortlessly able to carry mutated people over. However, he didn’t expect that such a large number of mutants would launch a grand attack during the day. Although this is a suburb, if someone saw them, it would be a disaster. It seems Chen Yuxin has completely lost her mind; her goal is to destroy the Zheng family…

“Where is my father?”

“The Family Head is in the main tent. The family’s elders fought to protect the main tent, and those monsters didn’t break in.”

“Great!” Zheng Ji shouted as he quickly entered the main tent, with Ye Shikai following. Inside were not only Zheng Li but also Ji Tao and Ji Qian, though Ji Qian’s condition looked poor.

“Father, are you all right?” Zheng Ji quickly asked.

“Thanks to everyone’s powerful assistance, the tide of battle was turned from danger to safety,” Zheng Li said to everyone, bowing.

“It seems Chen Yuxin has seen through our strategy. We countered her plans, and she tried to totally undermine us,” Zheng Ji said coldly. This time, they had taken their elite out, and Chen Yuxin must have guessed that they would ambush the Tang and Gongsun families, making the Main Sacrificial Land vulnerable. She dispatched over a thousand mutants to strike hard at the Zheng family’s base, with the best outcome naturally being to kill Zheng Li. However, Chen Yuxin miscalculated—the allied families quickly came to support, and although the mutants were fierce, their numbers were far fewer than the allies’. Moreover, they lacked coordinated battle tactics—once the ambush failed, they were destined to lose.

“Qian, are you okay?” Ye Shikai’s main concern was Ji Qian’s injury. She had sustained severe injuries just yesterday, with her arm wounded by the mutants, and today she fought again—her wounds must have reopened.

“It’s fine, I’ll deal with it.” Ji Qian waved her hand, intentionally hiding her wound.

“How’s everything on your end?” Ji Qian asked in return.

“Everything went as we expected. Zheng Su has defected, and the Tang and Gongsun families pretended to surrender, but were ambushed by us and suffered heavy losses. They’ve fled now.”

“That’s somewhat good news, but Chen Yuxin is indeed extremely cunning. She knew we could see through the feigned surrender plan, yet she still sent the Tang and Gongsun families over. Why? To rely on them to contain our main force, so the mutants could destroy this place. If you had returned half an hour earlier, those monsters would have been driven off long ago, and we wouldn’t have lost so many people,” Zheng Li sighed. He had dominated the Huaxia family scene for decades, yet now the calculations of a twenty-something girl managed to get him; an unwilling feeling, but one that must be accepted…

Evening.

“Have you tallied the casualties?”

“Reporting to the Family Head, this time we suffered heavy losses, about two thousand casualties. Some were from the Ji and Ming families, among the injured many suffered broken bones from those monsters.”

“In any case, this can be considered a draw for us, right?” Ye Shikai consoled. The Tang and Gongsun families are basically done for, and moreover, the Zheng family’s elites remained, being the real trump card. Both sides seemed to be competing in numbers, the casualties are comparable. However, Ye Shikai didn’t wish for this—if it continued like this, and even only one-tenth survived, it’s no different from total slaughter. The main concern lies in the Chen family’s combat power—the most alarming aspect of the HST project is its sheer number; just a single injection can turn a frail person into a monster over two meters tall. Mutants are almost mass-produced—for purely competing numbers, in the end, the Zheng family is likely to lose…

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Late night.

“Qian, are you feverish?” Ye Shikai hurriedly arrived at Ji Qian’s tent, seeing her curled up on the bed, her whole body red and burning—signs of a high fever. Ji Qian could barely speak, only raising her head to look at her silently.

“Uh-oh, the wound must be infected.” Ye Shikai uncovered the bandage on her arm, and sure enough, the wound was infected and looked terrifying.

“Quick, Nightmare, call a doctor.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Hold on.” At this moment, the voice of Blade Soul echoed in his mind.

“What is it, Blade Soul?”

“It’s not just wound infection,” Blade Soul said coldly.

“What do you mean by that?” Ye Shikai asked.

“She’s been poisoned, right at the wound.”

“What?” Ye Shikai examined her wound closely but couldn’t see anything.

“I can sense it; this poison not only prevents the wound from healing but accelerates infection and ulceration, causing death in extreme agony.”

Ye Shikai was alarmed; what kind of poison is this, so potent?

“Would antibiotics work?” Ye Shikai considered using antibiotics to relieve the wound infection first and then treat it slowly.

“I’m afraid it wouldn’t be effective.”