Finally, dawn broke.
Ye Huang's body was free of poison, and he got out of the car refreshed, ready to enter the cave for a new round. The wind and snow suddenly picked up, blowing people about haphazardly.
"This weather is truly terrible," Doctor Zhu complained, wrapping his clothes and hat tightly around himself as he closely followed Ye Huang.
At the cave entrance, Xu Jing emerged from the cave, tired and with several scrapes on her face, "It's done, you can go down now. They've all been taken care of."
Ye Huang raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"I said it wasn't me who did it, and I've proven that," Xu Jing said, sitting exhausted at the cave entrance, gasping for air.
The temperature was so low that the breath they exhaled immediately turned into white mist. Beads of sweat and traces of blood on their faces quickly solidified as well.
