Forensic Imperial Concubine novel Chapter 777

The secret guards carefully watched while Harper skillfully cut off the poisonous snakes' heads. Without a hint of hesitation or disgust, she then peeled their skin and cut their stomach. Such a beautiful woman was butchering such a dangerous animal but they didn't think that she was rugged at all. Instead, they felt like she was gallant and heroic. It actually made her even more charming.

"Two snakes are not enough for us. There're fifteen of us!" Diana exclaimed while she approached Harper. The snakes were poisonous with very sharp teeth. Their toxins were concentrated in their head. So as long as their heads were cut off, the whole team didn't need to worry about being poisoned.

"Enough!" Harper replied while she took out a small tripod from her pocket. When she refined pills in the Birch Pass, she found out that the tripod could change size after being infused with spiritual power. She had already experienced going to another world and being reborn, so she was kind of used to this kind of thing. She didn't think that it was strange at all.

But the others were not like her. For the first time, they just witnessed how an object went from a small one to a large one. They could only look at Harper in awe and worship.

"We don't have any water. The water here is not safe for drinking," Diana complained once again, reminding Harper that everything around them was poisonous. Even the rain from the sky was toxic because of the miasma.

"Who said there's no water?" Harper rhetorically asked while her eyes fell on a lush tree. The tree was very thick, and its leaves were big and appealing. She pulled out the dagger and stabbed it into the trunk a few times. Soon enough, the tree's sap came out. She put the tripod under it so it could collect the sap.

Diana's eyes widened in shock. "Harper, did they throw you into this Labyrinth Swamp while you were growing up because your father didn't love you?"

"Some of the places I've been to are even more terrible than the Labyrinth Swamp, but I still managed to survive." After that, Harper picked some wild grass nearby while the sap was being collected. Diana had a very keen eyesight and realized that the herbs that Harper was picking were not wild ones but precious medicinal herbs. Any of those would cost a fortune!

"Oh my God! This is the Heavenly Spirit Herb. I can't buy this outside no matter how much I pay. This is..." With that, Diana's eyes lit up. She wanted to snatch the herbs from Harper, but the latter was already walking behind her to go to the other side. Harper asked someone to start a fire and put the chopped snake meat into the tripod to make soup. The tripod was almost filled with sap. So the twelve secret guards were sent to collect the sap and fill up their water bottles. Howard was helping Harper with cooking, but he was thinking, 'When did Harper come to the Labyrinth Swamp? Moreover, is there really another place more dangerous than this swamp?'

Diana could only stare at the valuable medicinal herbs in Harper's hands which had been out of stock in the market for so long. They were considered treasures but right now, they were being boiled as ingredients to make soup. She couldn't hide her disappointment while she sighed deeply. If she could keep these medicinal herbs, she could refine so many rare pills by them. Yet, they were being cooked into a pot of snake meat soup by Harper. This must be the most expensive soup in the world!

When the snake meat soup was ready, Diana started eating. She was still upset about it. But after eating the first mouthful, she actually felt good. After the second, she felt comfortable. After the third mouthful, she suddenly felt that it was worth it to cook all of the herbs into the pot of soup. She had never eaten snake meat soup as delicious as the one she was eating.