Chapter 333 Only a madman would do this
Inside the carriage, the sack covering Jiang Yao had been untied, revealing her head and half of her body.
She was wearing a blue Taoist robe with white edges, and the hair crown on her head had fallen off due to the bumpy ride.
His white hair cascaded down like running water, scattering on his chest and back, and covering most of his face.
Mitsuki had already pulled the cloth out of her mouth, so she could speak, but from then until now, she hadn't uttered a single syllable.
Chu Liuzheng knew that the woman in front of him was skilled in both poison and witchcraft. Although she was unable to move due to the acupuncture points on her acupoints, he did not dare to touch her rashly. He only used a silver hairpin to push aside the messy hair on her face, and unexpectedly met a pair of heterochromatic eyes, one red on the left and the other gray on the right.
The red eyes were as clear as glass, and the gray eyes were as sinister as Shura's. They appeared on the same face at the same time, which was extremely shocking and strange.
[Wow! It turns out they have heterochromia. I even saved money on cosmetic contact lenses.]
Chu Liuzheng carefully tucked the white hair behind her ear, and only then could he see her face clearly.
A small face the size of a palm, with fair skin, white eyebrows and white lips, and only a pair of strange eyes with some color. She looks like a snow demon living in the ice and snow in a storybook.
Her eye sockets were deeper than those of an average person. Her heterochromatic eyes, fluttering beneath her white eyelashes, remained motionless as she stared fixedly at Chu Liuzheng. She looked more like an exquisite puppet than a living being, unable to discern a single emotion.
Even though Chu Liuzheng knew that her unusual appearance was the price of forcibly awakening the Shadow Moon Gu, he was still greatly shocked.
She calmed herself down and looked closely at Jiang Yao's facial features.
Putting aside the color, Jiang Yao's facial features are small and delicate. If she draws her eyebrows and lips and adds some ordinary colors, she will definitely be a popular beauty.
"I don't know you, why are you arresting me?" Jiang Yao's lips moved slightly, and her voice was unexpectedly hoarse, which made Chu Liuzheng stunned for a moment.
[Wait! Why does such a beautiful woman have such a smoky voice? Shouldn't it be the kind of ethereal, clear voice that purifies the body and soul?]
"You're surprised. It seems you don't know me." Jiang Yao tilted her head, and the white hair on her shoulders swayed. "Why are you arresting me if you don't know me?"
"We can find Yin Lanci." Chu Liuzheng came back to his senses and smiled at her. "Want to cooperate?"
Jiang Yao frowned and asked, "Who are you?"
Chu Liuzheng said: "We are Yin Lanci's enemies."
"Yin Lanci has many enemies." Jiang Yao was not surprised. She stared at Chu Liuzheng for a moment and asked, "What are the conditions for cooperation?"
[Hey, finally I found someone who's straightforward and doesn't require much verbal communication!]
Chu Liuzheng said, "I want to know Yin Lanci's weakness."
"The Netherworld Gu is her vital point." Jiang Yao answered straightforwardly.
Chu Liuzheng touched his chin and said, "So, to deal with Yin Lanci, we must first get rid of the Netherworld Gu?"
"The Netherworld Gu is immortal." A hint of contempt, mixed with hatred, appeared in Jiang Yao's eyes. "As long as Yin Lanci has the Netherworld Gu by her side, she will live. No one can kill her."
Chu Liuzheng was surprised: "Even you can't do it?"
"Don't try to provoke me." Jiang Yao looked at her. "I really want to kill her, but I can't deal with the Netherworld Gu, at least not now."
"When can we do that?"
"Let me raise the Shadow Moon Gu." Jiang Yao roughly guessed what Chu Liuzheng could get out of Ping Yu and Tong Niang, so she didn't hide anything and said bluntly, "We still need two hundred and twenty-eight."
"Two hundred and twenty-eight what?" Chu Liuzheng had just asked when a not-so-nice guess popped up in his mind. Could it be two hundred and twenty-eight people?
"Corpse." Jiang Yao seemed to understand what she was thinking. "I don't use living people to practice Gu. Only that lunatic Yin Lanci would do that."
Using a corpse isn't much better! Burying it in peace is a good thing, but then having to be tossed around after death is just unfortunate.
Chu Liuzheng forced himself to suppress the nausea that was churning in his stomach and changed the question: "Since the Shadow Moon Gu hasn't developed yet, why are you still waiting in Longkou?"
If he really meets Yin Lanci, there is no way he will win!
Jiang Yao's eyebrows twitched slightly: "It seems that you have something on Tong Niang."
"I don't want to be the bad guy, but she won't cooperate. What can I do?" Chu Liuzheng shrugged and said casually, "By the way, Tongniang also told me about your storybook."
Jiang Yao: “…”
Seeing her snow-white ears gradually turn red, Chu Liuzheng realized that she might be shy.
She immediately coughed dryly and promised in a low voice: "I will try not to tell anyone."
Jiang Yao's ears flushed as she asked, "Try your best?"
"I'm also working for someone else and can't make the decision." Chu Liuzheng pointed upwards, indicating that he could do nothing to help.
Jiang Yao pursed her almost white lips and said, "I lied to Tong Niang."
"Yeah, I believe it." Chu Liuzheng nodded in agreement.
She thought that writing short stories was a good hobby, but Jiang Yao seemed to be very concerned about outsiders knowing about it, so it was okay for her to cooperate.
Jiang Yao: “…”
"I mean, I stayed in Longkou Town not to wait for Yin Lanci or to deceive Tongniang." Her chest heaved with emotions, and the red eye on her left deepened a little, becoming closer to the color of blood.
"Well, I understand—ah?" Chu Liuzheng raised his eyes to look at her. "If it's not to wait for Yin Lanci, then what is it for?"
Jiang Yao kept silent.
Chu Liuzheng touched her with his silver hairpin: "You've said so much, and you don't care about just one or two words. Just tell me."
Jiang Yao glanced at the hairpin in her hand and shook her head: "I want to see your master."
"Just tell me when you see me?"
Jiang Yao nodded.
"Alright." Chu Liuzheng placed the blackened silver hairpin on the table. "Then let me change the question. Why did Wu Mian come back to life?"
"Because of the insect eggs." Jiang Yao answered directly this time, "The insect eggs in his body hatched."
[The system really didn't lie to me. There really are insect eggs! ]
Chu Liuzheng instantly recalled the experience of insect eggs hatching in his body, and his throat churned, feeling a little nauseous.
"You're not surprised." Jiang Yao seemed very sensitive to people's emotional changes and looked at her. "You knew it a long time ago."
Chu Liuzheng swallowed several times before suppressing the nausea and continued to ask, "Why do insect eggs hatch?"
Jiang Yao said: "It was prematurely ripened."
Chu Liuzheng looked at her: "Is it related to Yin Lanci's people?"
Jiang Yao tilted her head, neither answering yes nor no, but staring at Chu Liuzheng intently.
Chu Liuzheng's emotionless eyes made her back shiver and goose bumps appeared on her arms.
She drank some warm tea to ease her discomfort and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"You are weird." Jiang Yao's long snow-white eyelashes drew an arc, and she gently closed her eyes, tilting her head slightly, as if feeling something.
Chu Liuzheng: ???
She stared at Jiang Yao in confusion, and because she didn't sense any danger, she didn't interrupt her.
"You--" After a moment, Jiang Yao opened her eyes and stopped after saying one word, a hint of confusion appearing in her clear eyes.
"What?" Chu Liuzheng was so hung up by her that he couldn't help but ask.
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