In the dimly lit dungeon.
Liu'er and Old Chen were staring at the person on the ground whose hands and feet were tied up and who was trembling incessantly, as if he had completely gone mad, and they were at a loss for what to do.
Qi Shang was in this state when they first arrived. They've given him a lot of medicine, but he still shows no signs of waking up; in fact, his condition seems to be getting worse.
Qi Shang's eyes were bloodshot, and his face was also tinged with an abnormal bluish-purple.
Even with his hands and feet bound and lying on the ground, he still struggled to move his body, forcefully lifting his head and slamming it heavily to the ground.
He thrust harder and harder with each stroke, his frenzied state frightening even the jailers nearby into not daring to approach.
Old Chen frowned, his gaze falling on the particularly prominent blue vein on Qi Shang's neck.
The veins were throbbing slowly, and upon closer inspection, it seemed as if something was moving rapidly inside.
He just stared wide-eyed and looked closer, but there seemed to be nothing in the veins.
Liu'er suddenly exclaimed, "He's been poisoned by a Gu curse."
If she hadn't noticed something moving within that blue vein, she probably wouldn't have realized she'd been poisoned by a Gu curse.
The insect-borne Gu used by the person who cast this Gu is truly extraordinary.
Upon hearing this, Old Chen immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Since it's a Gu poison, hurry up and cure him! Aren't the people of the Ten Thousand Poisons Valley the best at this?"
"I don't think the Gu poison this guy has is anything too troublesome; it should be a piece of cake for you."
Although he was obsessed with making poisons, he knew very little about Gu poison.
Each person who raises Gu poison feeds their Gu worms different things, resulting in different toxins.
He could say that there was no poison in the world that he couldn't make, except for Gu poison.
Because the poison in each Gu is unique.
Upon hearing this, Liu'er immediately retorted with dissatisfaction, "I would like to undo it. If you hadn't stolen my Gu worms, I would have already undoed it for her."
The person who used this Gu must have used extraordinary Gu worms. If she had her own Gu worms, she would be confident she could try it on this person. But unfortunately, she doesn't have any Gu worms, so she can't even try it if she wants to.
We've already given this person a lot of antidote and poison, but the person on the ground hasn't had much of a reaction, which only proves that the poison from the Gu worm itself is extremely potent.
It's probably impossible to solve it.
Just then, Jiang Yimian and Lu Cijian walked in.
She quickly said, "Miss, Lord Lu, Qi Shang has been poisoned by Gu, and the Gu poison is acting up now."
"Gu poison?" Jiang Yimian stared at the unconscious person on the ground for a long while before continuing, "Will he die?"
Liu'er stared at the person on the ground for a while before saying, "It's hard to say. Based on my years of experience raising Gu, this person has been poisoned for a long time, and the toxins have long since spread to his internal organs."
The pain can only be relieved with medication; I suspect the person who used the curse did so to control them.
Lu Cijian simply said, "Since it's to control them, we certainly won't let them die easily. Maybe they'll just survive the effects of the poison."
Jiang Yimian nodded, then frowned and asked, "How long has he been suffering from the poison?"
Old Chen roughly estimated, "It's been about 15 minutes."
Lu Cijian nodded and said to the jailer beside him, "Keep an eye on him, don't let him die."
The jailers responded and immediately stepped forward to hold Qi Shang down tightly, preventing him from moving an inch.
Qi Shang, however, could only scream and struggle violently, "Let go of me, quick, kill me, kill me."
The man, who had been trembling all over, now seemed to have gone mad, struggling violently. The two jailers almost couldn't hold him down.
Seeing this, Jiang Yimian squatted down and was about to check Qi Shang's pulse.
Lu Cijian stopped her, saying, "He's gone mad now, don't get too close to him."
Jiang Yimian just smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's alright."
As she spoke, her slender hand reached for the pulse of the person on the ground.
She merely frowned and stared at Qi Shang for a long time without saying a word.
This person's pulse is indeed strange, very different from that of a normal person.
If it were poisoning, it wouldn't seem like it, which explains why neither Old Chen nor Liu'er could find a cure.
If Qi Shang were an insignificant person, his death would be the end of it, but he was actually quite important.
Among the people they brought, there is one who is eyeing them covetously. If they cannot capture him, who knows what serious trouble might ensue.
Moreover, this person is someone close to the King of Chu, so he must know a lot about the King of Chu.
It would be a waste not to make good use of a prisoner we finally caught.
Seeing that she remained silent, Old Chen said from the side, "Miss Jiang, this person's Gu poison is quite troublesome. It will be very difficult to cure."
Now we can only wait for him to recover from the poison.
The person is too deeply poisoned; there is no way to cure them.
They can only try to make some suppressive drugs; if they can't, this person probably won't live much longer.
As far as he knew, if a person poisoned by Gu did not have medication to control the effects of the poison, the condition would only worsen with each attack, until the person eventually died from the poison.
Qi Shang was already out of his mind. Although his hands and feet were tied and he was being held down on the ground, he was still struggling.
Her voice was already hoarse from shouting, but she still groaned in pain, "Ah, save me, save me."
"Help me! I'll tell you everything, I'll tell you everything!"
Seeing this, Jiang Yimian hesitated for a moment before taking out silver needles and sticking them into several acupoints on Qi Shang's head.
Qi Shang remained in a state of frenzy, his eyes bloodshot, his face deathly pale, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and he groaning in pain.
Jiang Yimian inserted several more needles before Qi Shang slowly regained some consciousness. The redness in his eyes gradually disappeared, and a hint of clarity slowly appeared in his eyes.
Old Chen and Liu'er were both startled, staring at Qi Shang as he slowly regained his senses, somewhat surprised.
"He... he's awake?" Both of them stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Although they mainly produce poison, they also have some medical skills, so it is clear that Qi Shang has been poisoned for a long time, and both detoxification and suppression are extremely difficult tasks.
To everyone's surprise, Jiang Yimian managed to suppress Qi Shang's Gu poison with just a few needle pricks.
Seeing that Qi Shang had stopped trembling and the painful groans in his mouth gradually subsided, although his face was still pale, it was clear that he had regained his senses.
Jiang Yimian simply asked, "Who killed Zhou Shiwen?"
Zhou Shiwen was a coward who clung to life. If tortured, he would surely reveal everything he knew. The person who did the killing must have thought of this, which is why they killed him first.
Qi Shang just stared at the person in front of him without saying a word, and closed his eyes again, clearly unwilling to speak.
What he had just experienced felt like a brush with death.
The excruciating pain and itching disappeared, but he still felt as if millions of ants were slowly crawling on his body, as if if he moved, those ants would quickly bite into his flesh and rampage through his body.
He didn't want to experience that feeling again.
He could only say in a hoarse voice, "Kill me, kill me, please."
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