"Quick, help get rid of these scorpions!" When Lilah arrived, she was met with a horrifying sight.

Livia had reached into the crevice, grabbing and tossing out a couple of dark objects. Her voice trembled with fear, yet she didn't leave.

The things she threw out were still wriggling on the ground— scorpions! Black scorpions!

Lilah was so frightened that her scalp tingled, and she almost passed out from shock.

Who lured Jerrold into the rock garden crevice, and who threw scorpions in there to harm him?!

"Livia, come out first," Gerard said, stepping forward to help Livia up.

She was still shaken, with two scorpions clinging to her arm, their pincers snapping. Her face was ghostly pale, and her eyes were filled with terror.

Livia shook her head, her voice trembling, "Cousin, I can't let go of Jerrold's hand. He's very scared."

Gerard looked past her to see Jerrold, equally pale and dazed.

His heart skipped a beat, and in an instant, a fierce, icy glare that could cut through steel flashed in his eyes.

"Daddy..." Jerrold's eyes, once dull and clouded, now held a glimmer of hope upon seeing Gerard.

"It's okay, it's okay now." Gerard's voice was cold and steady as he swiftly pulled the scorpion off Livia's arm.

She let out a muffled groan of pain, and blood beads quickly formed where she had been bitten, a shocking sight.

"Bring the sulfur powder!" Gerard commanded in a stern voice.

Watching this unfold, Lilah's heart was pounding in her chest, overwhelmed by a greater wave of anger.

A scorpion, a venomous creature, of all things!

Jerrold might have been bitten too, with his delicate skin.

What if...

Calvin soon arrived with the sulfur powder and a high-powered flashlight.

"Good boy, hold your breath and close your eyes," Gerard instructed.

Jerrold complied obediently.

As the sulfur powder was scattered, the scorpions around Jerrold scurried away in panic, fleeing from behind.

The remaining three or four were also driven away by the beam of the flashlight.

"Thank goodness," Livia's face grew increasingly pale, her lips turning a shade of blue-black.