Chapter 10 Gu Yuzhen
Seven years ago.
Gu Yuzhen stood at the bus stop wearing a sweatshirt with the school badge printed on it.
An elderly woman with a hunched back grabbed Gu Yuzhen's backpack strap. "Young lady, which way is the First People's Hospital?"
Her hands, covered in brown spots, trembled. Gu Yuzhen immediately thought of her maternal grandmother back in her hometown, and gave her a warm smile.
When they led the way to the third alleyway, Gu Yuzhen's mouth and nose were suddenly covered with a damp, cold cotton cloth.
The smell of ether entered her nostrils, and she lost consciousness.
Wang Degui bought her and took her to a remote mountain village.
Gu Yuzhen stared wide-eyed as the light bulb swayed from the roof beam, casting his shadow into a monstrous shape.
As his alcohol-smelling fingernails dug into Gu Yuzhen's thigh, Gu Yuzhen hid half a broken piece of porcelain in a crack in the earthen bed.
That was the first murder weapon she had collected. Later, she cut a piece of flesh from Wang Degui's body, and he beat her half to death.
The following winter, Gu Yuzhen gave birth to a wrinkled, bastard child in the pigsty.
Wang Degui squatted on the threshold, smoking his pipe. As the embers flickered, Gu Yuzhen heard him say to the village chief, "This time he probably won't be able to run anymore."
Two years later, as the sound of sirens ripped through the morning mist, Gu Yuzhen huddled in a corner, her fingers nervously scratching at the wall plaster.
Her parents never gave up looking for her, and finally came to her with the police.
Wang Degui grabbed her and wouldn't let her leave, forcibly placing his son in her arms.
A cold glint flashed in Gu Yuzhen's eyes. In front of everyone, she slammed the child to the ground and then let out a shrill laugh that sounded like a cuckoo crying blood.
Blood splattered on the epaulets of her police uniform, and Gu Yuzhen's pupils were dilated.
She collapsed into a pool of blood like a puppet whose strings had suddenly snapped.
The child died, but Gu Yuzhen did not go to jail.
The words "Post-traumatic stress disorder" on the medical report are clearly visible in black and white.
Gu Yuzhen stared at the one-way glass of the interrogation room and saw her own mentally impaired face reflected in the glass. She then pinched herself with her fingernails in her pocket until blood ran.
Over the past three years, she has long since learned to use pain to stay awake.
...
After reading Gu Yuzhen's story through her facial features, Lu Yao fell into deep thought.
Then, she channeled her meager spiritual power, activated the Qi Observation Technique, and continued to observe the Qi surrounding Gu Yuzhen.
Lu Yao had observed the temperament of most people in the mental hospital and summarized the patterns.
Mentally ill patients who are frequently in a state of fear and anxiety are as if a cloud of blue mist is gathered around their bodies.
If a mental patient has symptoms such as mania or hallucinations, the red color in their aura will be more prominent and may be unevenly and unstablely distributed, presenting a state of restlessness.
In more serious cases, black wisps of energy may appear and disappear around the body, a sign of both physical and spiritual decline.
As for Gu Yuzhen's qi, it was not chaotic or disordered at all.
Gu Yuzhen's complexion was normal, almost identical to that of Li Manxiang beside her; it was a healthy and peaceful complexion.
Lu Yao's mind raced, and she understood.
I see.
Gu Yuzhen is far smarter than imagined; her madness is merely a means to evade legal punishment.
How could a normal person endure so many years of hardship and repression in this seemingly peaceful yet oppressive mental hospital?
This forbearance and cunning are truly astonishing.
But this still doesn't explain Gu Yuzhen's attention to him.
Lu Yao decided to wait and see, hoping more clues would surface.
...
At night, Lu Yao's puppet Zhang Sheng patrolled the hospital corridor, much more diligently and conscientiously than Zhang Sheng himself.
Under the cover of night, he quietly came to Lu Yao's hospital room and brought her a brand new cell phone.
The SIM card, data plan, and everything else have been arranged according to the standards Zhang Sheng used when he bought the phone; everything is perfectly prepared.
Lu Yao was very satisfied and returned Zhang Sheng's original phone to him.
After completing his mission, the puppet Zhang Sheng left.
Following yesterday's incident, the hospital has increased security.
Now that there are an additional doctor and two nurses on duty outside, it's inconvenient for him to stay for long.
After receiving her new phone, Lu Yao awkwardly registered her own account.
After thinking about it, I named my account 【千年刚通网】 and wrote in my profile: 玄烬散人.
This was her former Taoist name. Back then, she traveled all over the world and made quite a name for herself in the martial arts world with her extraordinary metaphysical skills.
She still remembered the almond milk incident.
Search directly to Xuancheng Daoren's live stream.
Xuancheng Daoist continued to enthusiastically promote peace talismans in his antique-style live-streaming room.
He was wearing a Taoist robe embroidered with Bagua patterns, and had his signature fake smile on his face. "I'm also looking forward to Almond Milk's feedback, but she hasn't come yet, and I don't know what the test results are."
He frowned slightly, feigning concern, "Young friend, you haven't shown yourself for so long, could it be that the vengeful spirit of the infant has reappeared? Young friend Almond Dew has already..."
These words immediately caused a stir in the live stream chat.
Logically, if there really isn't any supernatural element involved, Almond Dew should have reported back soon, but there's still no word. It's really worrying.
[Trembling with fear, I wonder if the vengeful spirit of the infant has struck again!]
If that's true, then that lone wolf has really caused a lot of trouble. If Almond Dew had bought the Taoist priest's talisman yesterday, this might not have happened.
【I really want to curse that lonely wolf to death! Almond Milk's young life was lost because of her!】
Lu Yao remained completely unmoved.
Uh... Go ahead and criticize Lonely Wolf if you want, it's Zhang Sheng after all, what does it have to do with Lu Yao?
Besides, she calculated that Lulu Almond Milk would be arriving in a little while.
So, she posted on her new account: "[Don't worry, my little friend Almond Dew will be there promptly at 10:00 AM.]"
Her statement was very confident, and some people thought she was an insider, so they clicked on her homepage and saw her Taoist name in her profile.
[Eh, Xuan Jin? Is the person upstairs Xuan Cheng's junior brother?]
Xuancheng Daoist glanced at it and sneered inwardly.
He's really become famous, and more and more people are trying to ride his coattails!
He scoffed, "Don't try to claim kinship with me! I, Xuan Cheng, roam the world alone, relying only on myself. But now too many people with ulterior motives want to take advantage of me."
[Exactly, yesterday Lonely Wolf tried to piggyback on my fame, and today this [Millennium Newly Connected to the Internet] even used a similar pseudonym to try and piggyback on my fame. They're getting more and more shameless~]
Modern netizens' mouths are like they've been poisoned.
But in Lu Yao's eyes, it was nothing more than child's play.
Before Lu Yao was suppressed, he was heavily slandered by the entire court.
The whole capital was abuzz with rumors and gossip about her.
She has seen great things and experienced countless ups and downs; these words cannot sway her in the slightest.
To be honest, it also made her fondly recall those thrilling days from back then.
Lu Yao didn't speak, but smiled faintly.
The next moment, LuLuXingren, whom everyone had been eagerly anticipating, appeared in the live stream.
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