"Yi Wu has been arrested."
Yi San and the others, covered in injuries, hurriedly returned to report.
"When we were returning with the supplies, we passed a row of abandoned houses on South Fifth Road. Hundreds of people rushed out and fought with us for about 15 minutes before taking Yi Wu away."
After hearing this, Xiao Qingyin looked at the supplies that hadn't been taken and knew that the other party was after them.
"They didn't kill anyone, but took people away. They probably wanted to take Yi Wu hostage."
Yi Shuihan analyzed.
"Yi Wu should be out of immediate danger."
Xiao Qingyin thought so too.
But the thought that Yi Wu was in someone else's hands still made him uneasy.
After treating Yi San and the others' wounds, she hid in her room and started making pills.
Yi Shuihan came in to see her and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"
"A type of fragrant pill."
Xiao Qingyin replied.
"Eating it will preserve the fragrance for seven days. Only glass butterflies can smell this fragrance, but the distance cannot be too far, only within a hundred meters."
"Let's eat some fragrant pills while we're in South Vietnam."
That way, if anyone gets kidnapped, it will be easier to find them.
Yi Shuihan understood that she was upset by what happened to Yi Wu, and comforted her, "He will be alright."
"Yeah. I just can't stay idle."
After making the pills, she gave one to each person and then asked Yi San to catch a few glass butterflies.
“Be careful when you go out to look for people. If anyone gets caught, you can use these butterflies to find them.”
Everyone responded in unison, "Yes, sir."
Just as Ying Wan was about to go out to look for Yi Wu's whereabouts, a little beggar brought him a finger and a note.
Yi San immediately recognized it as Yi Wu's.
"Yi Wu's right little finger had been cut three times before, leaving three small white marks."
The finger had just been cut off and was still dripping blood. Xiao Qingyin, with a somber face, preserved it using the preservative that the Holy Master of Nandan had used.
These preservatives were with her when she left the holy city.
The note delivered by the little beggar contained the other party's request: give the little beggar two doses of the antidote for the sacred insect, and do not send anyone to follow the beggar's whereabouts.
The words "Sacred Insect Antidote" made Xiao Qingyin frown.
If this was done by remnants of the Holy Cult, the other party might kill him after getting the antidote.
But they were in the enemy's hands and had no choice but to obey.
Xiao Qingyin went upstairs and made two doses of the antidote, attaching a note to each, and handed them to the little beggar.
The note read: "The pills must not be broken apart; they must be taken whole, otherwise they will be ineffective."
The purpose of this is mainly to prevent the other party from coming into contact with the bat virus in the pill, which could lead to the spread of the virus.
Following their instructions, they did not send anyone to follow the beggar, but waited for news at the inn.
Waiting is the most agonizing thing.
They waited from afternoon until nightfall before Yi Wu was finally brought back.
Two porters brought him back, saying they had met two men in black by the roadside, given them a silver ingot, and asked them to bring him to Changfeng Inn.
Xiao Qingyin added a fragrant ingredient to the antidote. Yi San and the others took Jia Die to the place they mentioned, but they did not find her.
When Yi Wu was brought back, he was unconscious. After examining him, Xiao Qingyin found that his pulse was a bit strange.
There were many bruises on his body, as if something was blocking them.
She felt a sense of déjà vu, and after thinking for a while, she finally remembered seeing this pulse pattern on someone before.
Wise King.
The Crown Prince had asked her to take the pulse of the Prince Xian to see if he had been affected by the radioactive gemstone, but she couldn't detect it because the Prince Xian's pulse was blocked.
She told Yi Shuihan about her discovery.
Yi Shuihan frowned: "Could it be that the Wise Prince is still alive?"
Xiao Qingyin was startled by his words.
But upon closer examination, this speculation is not entirely unfounded.
After the defeat of the wise king, he was pursued by Yi Shuihan. With nowhere to run, he detonated explosives, blowing himself up beyond recognition.
Yi Shuihan also suspected that the Prince Xian might have faked his death, and confirmed that the deceased was his through features such as birthmarks and moles.
If the Wise King had already mastered the Sacred Insect, then this confirmation would be somewhat unreliable.
He could easily have transplanted his birthmarks and moles onto the body double, and then faked his own death.
Furthermore, since the relationship between Ih and Dae He was originally blocked, after the death of King Hsien, people from Ih frequently appeared in Nan Yue.
Given that Yi Wu and Xian Wang both had the same strange pulse, it's hard not to suspect that Xian Wang might have fled to Nan Yue.
“A wise king will not be content to be subservient to others.”
The cold road of Yi River.
"If he were in South Vietnam, he would definitely be in charge of a certain area, either a merchant trading with Iraqis or the leader of a pirate gang. Of course, he might not show up in person; he could be operating from behind the scenes."
Xiao Qingyin agreed with his analysis and said with a smile, "If he used the antidote himself, we should be able to find him by using butterflies to approach these people."
Yi Shuihan nodded, about to speak, when Yi Wu woke up.
"I'm back?"
He looked at Xiao Qingyin and the other person with a blank expression.
Xiao Qingyin asked him, "Do you remember what happened before?"
"I remember when we were transporting supplies back, someone suddenly appeared out of nowhere, we started fighting, and then I got knocked unconscious."
"That's all?"
"Hmm?" Yi Wu blinked. "Is there something else?"
Xiao Qingyin laughed and said, "You were taken away by someone. They demanded the antidote for the sacred insect from us. We gave them the antidote before they released you."
Yi Wu was dumbfounded.
He knew nothing about these things!
“It seems you were unconscious the whole time,” Xiao Qingyin said. “Then you probably didn’t know that someone had tampered with your body.”
Yi Wu was startled.
I quickly jumped off the bed, checked my body, and found that I was not missing any arms or legs, only a finger. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Qingyin helped him reattach the finger, and then dissected the blocked pulse points on his body.
She found things smaller than sesame seeds in those places.
It looks like some kind of plant seed.
She originally intended to dig it out, but unexpectedly, when she used tweezers to pinch it, Yi Wu clutched his chest and cried out in pain, his face turning deathly pale.
She had no choice but to stop.
After careful observation, it was discovered that these things had sprouted, with almost invisible fine roots. These roots were interconnected, forming a whole, where a change in one part would affect the whole.
There are several of them inside Yi Wu's heart. Touching any one of them will cause his heart to ache and bring excruciating pain.
She had a trick up her sleeve in the antidote; she not only added the incense pills but also other things.
The other party had obviously kept a trump card up their sleeve, implanting some kind of strange seed into Yi Wu's body.
Xiao Qingyin had never seen this thing before and knew nothing about its characteristics, so naturally she dared not act rashly.
She bandaged the open wound and handed it to the sacred insect to heal.
Then he asked Yi Wu, "Can you circulate your energy normally?"
Yi Wu tried it and found that his internal energy was suppressed and he couldn't use it at all.
He couldn't even use martial arts moves.
In other words, he is now just an ordinary person whose martial arts skills have been crippled.
Yi Wu was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.
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