Chapter 104 Yongzhou Li Family Li Muyan regains consciousness
Realizing that it was due to the "parasite", Qin Yuqing and Lu Jingchuan moved more agilely.
This time, Qin Yuqing no longer held back on his strength and shot the arrow directly into Li Muyan's arm. The force was so great that it penetrated Li Muyan's entire hand bone.
Lu Jingchuan followed Qin Yuqing's long arrow to Li Muyan's side, seized the opportunity to pinch Li Muyan's chin, and opened the seal on the small bottle with one hand.
A faint fragrance came out directly from the bottle, and Qin Yuqing immediately smelled the scent of snow lotus from the snow-capped mountains of Yanyun City.
Lu Jingchuan had a cold face as he forced the liquid down his throat, then covered Li Muyan's mouth tightly until all the liquid was swallowed by Li Muyan, and then Lu Jingchuan withdrew his hand.
As Lu Jingchuan's hand left, Li Muyan lay on the ground in a mess, coughing continuously. Some dark red blood flowed out of Li Muyan's mouth, nose and eyes.
He lay on the ground in pain, curled up and coughing. Then some bright red insects with black stripes on their bodies crawled out of Li Muyan's eyes and ears and fell to the ground.
The moment they left Li Muyan's body and fell to the ground, they instantly turned into a pool of black and red blood, and a strong and extremely unpleasant fishy smell spread in the air.
As the stench of insects spread, the soldiers' bodies made a sound like deflated balls. The next moment, their flesh seemed to have lost the nourishment of water and the support of their skeletons, turning into shriveled human skins spread on the ground, which was extremely creepy.
Xiao Wu covered the deer's eyes with his hands, turned his head away, and only dared to look at the scene in front of him with his peripheral vision.
Lu Jingchuan wanted to walk up and cover Qin Yuqing's eyes, but unfortunately his A Ruan didn't give him any chance.
Qin Yuqing held the longbow in his hand, half-knelt down curiously, poked the human skin on the ground with the tip of the longbow, turned over a few pieces of skin and looked at them, without any sign of fear.
These human skins all have one thing in common: the flesh and skeleton have been completely eroded away, leaving them extremely clean without any residue left.
Looking at the shriveled and wrinkled skin, it was obvious that it had been completely eroded long ago. But Qin Yuqing was not a professional forensic doctor after all, so she couldn't tell when these people died.
Lu Jingchuan looked at Qin Yuqing's boldness and shook his head helplessly, with pride overflowing in his eyes as he looked at Qin Yuqing.
"Jingchuan, be careful of the bugs in Li Muyan's body."
Qin Yuqing was still a little worried. She carefully examined the human skin. She didn't want to let other people do this. If there were any bugs that slipped through the net, she didn't want to implicate others.
Lu Jingchuan nodded, and the moment he looked at Li Muyan, his gaze became cold again. There was no emotion in his eyes. He just looked coldly at Li Muyan, who was like a stray dog.
Only when Qin Yuqing finished checking all the skins and ordered the servants to carefully take the skins away did Li Muyan finally recover.
He was extremely weak and wanted to get up, but his body was probably infiltrated by insects and he couldn't move a finger.
Self-mockery flashed in his eyes as he resigned himself to his fate and lay on the ground, looking up at the sky.
He saw Qin Yuqing approaching from the corner of his eye, and there was undisguised self-mockery in his eyes: "Greetings to Her Royal Highness the Sixth Princess. I am sorry that this appearance of mine has caused trouble to the Sixth Princess."
Qin Yuqing shook her head. Li Muyan's current situation could be considered as someone being framed, and it was not his intention, so Qin Yuqing would not blame Li Muyan.
"I remember everything." Li Muyan said just before Qin Yuqing asked, "Her Highness the Sixth Princess must want to ask me this."
Qin Yuqing nodded. After regaining consciousness, Li Muyan looked a bit like a newly crowned top scholar. Even though he was lying on the ground in tatters and blood-stained clothes, it couldn't hide his scholarly aura.
This was completely different from the Li Muyan who had bloodshot eyes and looked like a mad beast.
Lu Jingchuan took out a handkerchief and handed it to Li Muyan: "Wipe it."
Li Muyan didn't act pretentiously. He took it directly and kept wiping the blood flowing from his facial features.
"I was poisoned and framed before I even arrived in the capital." Li Muyan didn't know what was controlling his body, but he was sure it was the same kind of poison as the ones in southern Xinjiang.
Qin Yuqing didn't explain immediately, but followed Li Muyan's words and continued to ask: "Then do you still remember who gave you the poison?"
Li Muyan shook his head somewhat helplessly, a trace of sadness flashing in his eyes as he said, "When I left home, my father told me not to eat any food from outsiders while on the road."
"At the time, I even laughed at my father for being too cautious. Now I think I was too narrow-minded and too arrogant." Li Muyan covered his face with a handkerchief in pain. "But I did listen to my father on the road and didn't eat anything taken out."
"Until, I met bandits." Li Muyan seemed to remember something, his eyes lit up instantly, and hatred spread in his eyes.
"I remember that when I first encountered the bandits, they looked familiar to me. They are the same group of soldiers who came with me today and were also controlled!"
Qin Yuqing's eyebrows twitched. She observed Li Muyan's expression and listened to his tone, and he didn't seem to be lying.
If we really do as Li Muyan said, then it will be too late.
These upgraded versions of the "parasites" had already infiltrated the capital, and Qin Yuqing didn't even know which version of the "parasite" was parasitic in Li Muyan's body.
So where is the latest version of "Parasite" now, and what form will it take?
Muran, Qin Yuqing recalled that no matter in the original book's plot and time, the black lines on everyone's faces and bodies were the same as the black lines on living things.
In that time and space, Yu Bingyan used this black line to control people.
In this time and space, although the frequency of the black line appearing is not very high, it is not low either, and it is a very important point.
Those who have black lines are just insignificant pawns, and it seems more like someone behind the scenes did it deliberately.
Let Qin Yuqing discover something, but don't let her discover something deeper.
Yu Bingyan must have known about this matter, and perhaps the "parasite" was improved and upgraded by him.
Recalling again, on the southern snow-capped mountains, the mountain god has 100% control over the "parasites". At present, it can be confirmed that the mountain god will not harm the people of Dayin.
If this "parasite" was not improved by Yu Bingyan, who improved it?
Is it the masked man in black who admitted that he is the Guardian of the South?
Li Muyan sighed and said quietly, "Back then, I was captured by this group of people and taken to the village. Then they forced me to drink some unknown water. I think it was this disgusting poisonous insect."
"When I escaped, I took advantage of the gap in the defense rotation. It's funny that I was still congratulating myself on my wit at the time. Now I think everything was under the control of the enemy."
Qin Yuqing and Lu Jingchuan looked at each other. She did not see any shock in Lu Jingchuan's eyes. Does that mean that Lu Jingchuan had known about it for a long time?
Is it also because of that unspeakable restriction?
A look of self-blame flashed in Lu Jingchuan's eyes. He shook his head helplessly and pointed his finger at the sky calmly.
Qin Yuqing immediately understood, but Lu Jingchuan's current state would only make Qin Yuqing more passive, which meant that there were some things that Lu Jingchuan could not warn him about in the first place.
But it’s not a big deal. After all, Lu Jingchuan is not the only one who can solve the problem.
"Li Muyan, how did you realize that you were being controlled?" Qin Yuqing put aside the messy thoughts in his head and looked at Li Muyan, who was lying on the ground and no longer bleeding, and asked again.
Li Muyan thought about it for a moment, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes, and said, "It was probably on the third day after escaping from the village that I found myself particularly wanting to go to a cold and gloomy place."
"Because I fell into the water when I was a child, I've been afraid of water ever since. I also don't want to go to cold, damp places."
Qin Yuqing understood clearly that the situation described by Li Muyan was the same as the people who were "parasitized" in Yanyun City before.
It’s just that the west doesn’t have snow-capped mountains like the south, so insects drive people to the waterside, dark and humid places.
But Qin Yuqing still had a question. If it was the same situation as in Yanyun City, why wasn't Li Muyan's flesh and blood devoured?
It has been more than a few days or half a month since the scientific expedition began. According to the speed of these "parasites", Li Muyan should have been an empty shell long ago.
Suddenly, a light bulb went off in her head. Li Muyan was the "little gift" given to her by the person behind the scenes. The person behind the scenes deliberately let Qin Yuqing see Li Muyan, and also deliberately let Qin Yuqing save Li Muyan and know about the "parasite" incident.
Li Muyan paused for a moment, then said with a voice full of sadness: "I know everything that happened in the capital afterwards, but I couldn't control my body."
"I feel like a person trapped in a cage, watching the cage controlling my body, but I have no way to do anything about it."
Qin Yuqing sighed, and Lu Jingchuan took out a white pill from his arms and handed it to Li Muyan, saying without a trace of emotion: "Eat it, it will save your life."
This time, Li Muyan did not take Lu Jingchuan's pills immediately. What he had seen and heard in the past few days echoed in his mind, and all the things flashed in his mind like a kaleidoscope.
For example, at Chunshanting, he spent his family's fortune to call for sky lanterns; on the eve of the imperial examination, he tried to trip up the children from poor families; and during the palace examination, he spoke rudely to Her Royal Highness the Sixth Princess, which was equivalent to openly challenging the Sixth Princess.
He thought, if the Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing was not really a good person, he might have died long ago, killed for the crime of disobeying the royal family.
Thinking about it this way, Li Muyan felt that he was still lucky.
"Li Muyan." Qin Yuqing understood what Li Muyan was thinking. As proud as he was, he had always been the pride of the country. He had devoted himself to serving the Great Yin since he was a child, but because he was framed, he passively lost his original intention.
"If you don't eat, how are you going to settle accounts with the person behind this?"
Hearing this, Li Muyan seemed to have thought of something. He reached out and took the pill from Lu Jingchuan, then forced himself to swallow it.
"I suspect my father, Lord Li of Yongzhou, is in danger."
Tears glistened in Li Muyan's eyes, and he looked at Qin Yuqing for help. Now he understood that the only person who could save his father and the Li family here was the Sixth Princess Qin Yuqing.
Qin Yuqing nodded. No matter whether it was Li Muyan’s request or what happened in Wuling City, Qin Yuqing would not stand idly by and watch Yongzhou.
"Don't worry, we'll leave for Yongzhou today." Qin Yuqing looked at Yao Yu, who was holding Yao's mother's arm not far away. "There are some people and some matters that we still need to discuss with Lord Li."
Li Muyan misunderstood Qin Yuqing's meaning and supported himself.
"If my father did anything wrong, I am willing to take the blame for him."
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