Xiao Qingyin could only comfort her: "Once we catch Jin Yueyue, I can help you get your original face back."

Shen Yanru and Yan Yufei both cast surprised glances at them.

"You can also change people's faces?"

Xiao Qingyin nodded.

Yan Yufei frowned: "How did they do that? Is it some kind of sorcery?"

Xiao Qingyin asked him, "Do you know why holy water can devour a person's life force?"

Yan Yufei shook his head.

"There is a kind of insect that is invisible to the naked eye in the holy water."

Xiao Qingyin explained.

"This insect feeds on blood, but it has a magical ability: it automatically helps the organisms it parasitizes heal their wounds."

Yan Yufei and the other man suddenly realized what was going on.

"So that's why holy water can heal wounds."

Xiao Qingyin nodded: "Yes, the so-called fulfilling a vow is actually about drawing out the insects, but because there are still insect eggs in the body, it is impossible to draw them out, so people who have drunk the holy water will become weak."

Shen Yanru touched her face.

"They used those insects to transplant faces, right?"

"Yes."

"Some women in their thirties or forties from the four great families have faces like young girls in their prime. It's not that they have some kind of magic for preserving their youth, but rather that they've changed their faces, right?"

"Yes, some people take off their own faces when they are young and replace them with someone else's, and then replace them back with their own when they get old."

Shen Yanru scoffed, "People from aristocratic families really do whatever they want."

Yan Yufei also fell silent.

He suddenly remembered something and asked Xiao Qingyin, "Besides changing faces, do they also change other things? Like hearts..."

Xiao Qingyin nodded heavily.

"Yes, many of them have recently started receiving heart transplants, and the replacement hearts are all obtained from people who have never drunk the holy water."

Yan Yufei's face was extremely gloomy.

"No wonder we've recently found several young bodies without hearts in the mass graves... They even covet human hearts, these people are truly beasts!"

He was furious and wished he could immediately lead his men to slaughter the four great families and the Holy Sect.

But reason told him he couldn't do it.

No one can shake the Holy Church.

The Holy Church wields power far beyond the assassins and holy soldiers they train; it also includes all saints.

Everyone who drinks the holy water becomes their puppet, at their mercy.

Even if they asked the saints to jump off a cliff, the saints would jump without blinking an eye.

He had been trying to train doctors so that everyone could break free from their dependence on holy water, thereby increasing the size of the rebel army.

But after listening to Xiao Qingyin's explanation, he realized that even those of them who had never drunk the holy water were being targeted by powerful families.

"Bang!"

He slammed his fist on the tea table.

"Are we just supposed to wait to be eaten by insects or killed by powerful families?"

Shen Yanru patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Don't be discouraged, we'll find a way."

Yan Yufei looked dejected.

"Even you've been parasitized by those damned bugs, what other options do we have?"

Shen Yanru was speechless.

"Actually, these insects can be killed."

Xiao Qingyin comforted her.

"What?!"

Shen Yanru and Yan Yufei were extremely shocked.

"Do you know how to kill them?"

“I know,” Xiao Qingyin replied. “There is a medicine that can kill these insects, but I don’t have any on hand; all the medicines are at my house.”

Yan Yufei was so excited that he didn't know what to do.

"Where to pick it up? Tell me, and I'll arrange for a bodyguard to pick it up right away."

"In the capital of Da Xi."

Yan Yufei's face stiffened.

"In Daehee?"

"Yes."

Shen Yanru frowned: "Medicines from outside can't get through the checkpoints and can't be brought in."

"Have you tried bringing in drugs from outside?"

Xiao Qingyin asked.

"No," Yan Yufei replied. "I risked bringing in a few medical books, but I disassembled them, mixed the contents with the contents of other books, and reprinted them before bringing them in. Medicine is absolutely forbidden, not even a single pill."

"Isn't there a way to smuggle people across the border?"

Yan Yufei smiled bitterly.

“You probably don’t know how strict the Holy Church is in guarding the border. Half of Nandan’s military force is on the border line, and anyone who tries to cross the border illegally will be shot dead by arrows.”

Xiao Qingyin sighed: "It seems we have no choice but to think of another way."

She knew many ways to smuggle in her own goods, but they all had to be stored inside her body, and in this era, there were no materials that could withstand the digestive system's ability to process them.

Perhaps it would be better to bring in raw materials, namely bats.

After all, there are no restrictions on such living creatures entering the country.

After returning from the teahouse, she kept thinking about this matter.

The first thing that comes to mind is Owl.

However, after I released the owl at the teahouse yesterday, it hasn't appeared since. I don't know if it abandoned her or if it can't find her.

If Owl could go back to Da Xi and catch some bats, the problem would be easily solved.

But Owl is an owl, not a pigeon. Nandan and Daxi are so far apart, Xiao Qingyin doesn't know if it still remembers how to get back.

What if I get lost?

When Yi Shuihan sneaked in that night, she asked him, "Do you have a way to contact people in the capital?"

Yi Shuihan nodded: "Okay, I brought a carrier pigeon with me."

Xiao Qingyin was overjoyed.

"Let them find a way to bring some bats to Nandan."

"You want to kill all the bugs here?"

"Um."

"good."

Just as Yi Shuihan was about to leave, a "fierce shout" rang out from outside the window.

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