If there were a ranking for levels of self-praise, Jin Banwei would definitely put Leng Xiangying first.
Was she really a princess?
It doesn't look like it at all.
Jin Banwei's thoughts only lasted half a minute. There was no more direct way than to put the wound in front of Leng Xiangying. She dragged Ren Qiao in front of Leng Xiangying and said, "Officer Shen, something has entered my sister's body."
She spread out Ren Qiao's palm, but the flesh that had been bulging just now had flattened out, as if a conscious creature had discovered being peeped at and subconsciously hidden itself.
Jin Banwei touched Ren Qiao's snow-white palm, and could not find any unusual phenomenon on the smooth and delicate palm.
"Why, it's gone."
Her whispers fell clearly into Leng Xiangying's ears, and Leng Xiangying's expression became serious: "Are you saying that something has entered Ren Qiao's body?"
Jin Banwei nodded and pointed to Ren Qiao's palm: "Yes, it was here just now."
Leng Xiangying said no more. She held Ren Qiao's hand. A deep red mist emerged from her palm, completely covering Ren Qiao's palm. The red mist extended upward along Ren Qiao's palm and actually covered her entire arm. Finally, the red mist stopped spreading and slowly gathered towards Ren Qiao's upper arm. The range of the red mist became smaller and smaller, and the color became darker and darker, slowly gathering into deep red dots. The dots were no bigger than peanuts, and they seemed to come alive and were jumping on Ren Qiao's arm.
"Gu, no wonder I didn't sense it."
She has always had a good sense of perception, but the art of witchcraft includes techniques to conceal one's aura, which even she finds difficult to detect.
Leng Xiangying's face turned a little uglier, and she held Ren Qiao's hand a little tighter. Ren Qiao's body was clearly made of paper, but her hand was pinched red. Beads of sweat gradually appeared on her forehead, and the dots jumped faster and faster.
Ren Qiao's flesh began to bulge out little by little, turning into the appearance that Jin Banwei had just seen.
The skin trembled as the things inside squirmed, and blue veins appeared one after another. Jin Banwei felt pain just by watching.
Ren Qiao must have been in great pain and began to struggle violently with Leng Xiangying's hand. Leng Xiangying had to check on Ren Qiao's condition and slowly pull her back, which was very difficult.
After all, Ren Qiao's strength is far greater than hers now. Leng Xiangying scolded Jin Banwei: "Jin Banwei, why don't you hold her and don't let her move!"
Upon hearing this, Jin Banwei hurriedly hugged Ren Qiao from behind and pinched Ren Qiao's wrist with her hand.
Ren Qiao's struggle did not stop because of her. She was even stronger and Jin Banwei was almost thrown out. She could only plead softly: "Don't move, don't move, it will be fine in a while."
The talisman moved according to the will of the caster. As Jin Banwei's pleading voice rang out, the Qingxin Talisman attached to Ren Qiao's shoulder became more dazzling, and the ghost pattern drawn by cinnabar was completely revealed, and even a blind person could see it clearly.
Fortunately, the place where Leng Xiangying parked her car was not very busy and there were not many people passing by, otherwise it would have attracted a lot of onlookers.
As the Qingxin Talisman exerted its full power, Ren Qiao calmed down again.
Seeing that she had regained her sanity, Leng Xiangying quickly said, "Ren Qiao, you should be able to control your body, right? Can you let me see what's inside?"
Ren Qiao nodded, and the skin on her arm began to become transparent, more like thin paper, allowing the flesh and meridians beneath the skin to be clearly seen. Jin Banwei finally saw clearly that it was a black and white insect. It was clinging tightly to Ren Qiao's skin, its sharp teeth sinking into her flesh. Its tentacles were glowing white and pressing against Ren Qiao's meridians, with a light blue light constantly flowing towards its tentacles.
It was sticky and looked like Ren Qiao's flesh and blood.
"Soul Devouring Gu!"
Leng Xiangying called out the name of the insect, and Jin Banwei's heart suddenly surged with anger. There were not many plots about witchcraft in the book, but every time it appeared, it was accompanied by disgusting evil. They would use their most fragile and pitiful bodies to evoke the other party's kindness, and then quietly put the insect into the other party's body, turning it into food for the insect.
For some Gu Masters, humans are merely food for their Gu worms.
There are many kinds of Gu used by Gu Masters, the most vicious of which is the Soul Devouring Gu, which not only devours flesh and blood, but also souls.
The Soul-Swallowing Gu will use its own toxins and fangs to cause pain to the parasite, thereby amplifying the parasite's malice. The parasite's emotions will gradually get out of control, and its soul consciousness will slowly weaken, making it easier to be eaten by the Soul-Swallowing Gu.
That's why Ren Qiao just quarreled with her over a name.
Once the parasite is swallowed by the soul, the soul will not dissipate in a short period of time. Instead, it will be constantly eroded by the toxins in the body of the Soul Devouring Gu, suffering from the toxins day after day until it completely becomes a part of the Gu worm.
The body of the Soul-Swallowing Gu is simply a small hell.
No wonder Ren Qiao was in so much pain, it turned out that the Soul-Devouring Gu was eroding Ren Qiao's body and soul.
Jin Banwei stared at the Soul Devouring Gu, while Leng Xiangying's attention was already on Ren Qiao's shoulder. The Heart Purifying Talisman with six ghost patterns was particularly eye-catching: "The Heart Purifying Talisman with six ghost patterns, no wonder it can suppress the Soul Devouring Gu."
She took out a small knife from her bag, and as soon as she took it out, Jin Banwei took it.
When Ren Qiao saw her holding a knife, she reached out with her other hand that was not bound by Leng Xiangying. She grabbed Jin Banwei's wrist and said, "Xiao Jin, what are you doing?"
Her tone was gentle, yet a little anxious. She must have guessed what Jin Banwei was going to do.
Jin Banwei didn't say anything. She stared at the Soul-Swallowing Gu, having already made up her mind.
"I want to save you." His tone was firm and his actions were decisive enough.
In an instant, the flesh on Jin Banwei's arm was cut off, and Leng Xiangying caught the piece of meat: "I didn't expect you to have some courage."
It was rare that she actually praised Jin Banwei.
The night had completely enveloped the sky. There were few people here and even the street lights were dim, but Ren Qiao could smell the spreading smell of blood and see the flowing blood.
Jin Banwei's voice was too firm, shaking Ren Qiao's heart which had been silent for many years. She had always been wandering alone, and her empty heart was infused with too much passionate emotions by Jin Banwei in a short period of time. Her every word touched Ren Qiao so much that she was caught off guard and was freed from Jin Banwei's hand.
Twice, Jin Banwei has been hurt twice because of her.
It was clearly her responsibility to protect Jin Banwei. This was her reward to Jin Banwei for providing her with a place to stay, but... often when she was in danger, Jin Banwei would rather hurt himself than not help her get out.
This won't make it clear.
Why?
Ren Qiao's impression of Jin Banwei was clearly that she was soft, timid and kind, and she shouldn't be so cruel to herself.
Leng Xiangying was praising Jin Banwei for being weak but knowing how to protect her, but Ren Qiao knew very well that they shouldn't reverse their roles like this. The time she could stay with Jin Banwei was clearly only ten days. She had promised in her heart that she would drive away all dangers for her, but she seemed to have become the biggest danger to her. Jin Banwei was injured twice because of her.
The debts she owed were increasing, and she had no idea how she would be able to leave when the deadline came.
But even if she didn't leave, would Jin Banwei let her stay? If she really wanted to keep the ghost with her, it wouldn't have been just ten days at the beginning. Moreover, if the matter was exposed, she would be a liar in Jin Banwei's eyes.
Will Jin Banwei forgive her for lying to her?
Seeing Ren Qiao staring at her, Jin Banwei smiled calmly: "Sister Ghost, I'm not hurt."
Just when Leng Xiangying took the knife, she knew what to do. In the book, the Soul-Swallowing Gu had once invaded the body of the heroine's aunt, and the heroine used her own flesh and blood to lure the Soul-Swallowing Gu out.
The Soul-Swallowing Gu cannot be taken out rashly, because the most difficult thing to deal with is that once it enters the body, it will merge with the soul meridians until it completely devours the flesh and blood and soul. If it is dug out, the soul and body may be severely damaged, and in severe cases, they will even fall apart. The best way is to let the Gu Master put in the Food-Eating Gu to eat the Soul-Swallowing Gu. If there is no Gu Master to help, it can only be introduced into the body and then killed.
The Soul-Swallowing Gu likes powerful souls and rare flesh and blood the most. The more special the person's fate is, the more delicious the flesh and blood will be in the eyes of the Soul-Swallowing Gu. In order to prevent the Soul-Swallowing Gu from entering the next host, a piece of living flesh must be cut off when attracting the Gu.
The heroine Guan Jiyue was born with a Ziwei horoscope. Although her horoscope was damaged, her bloodline was precious, so she could successfully draw out the Soul-Swallowing Gu.
Jin Banwei didn't dare to assert that she had a good fate, but it should be considered special. After all, she was the chosen one, who came here with the help of the system, and there was no other living person here except her. Leng Xiangying's intention of taking out the knife was very obvious, which was to let her cut her flesh.
Ren Qiao stared at Jin Banwei's injured arm and stretched out his hand.
Jin Banwei dodged quickly: "We can't stop the bleeding now."
She avoided Ren Qiao and stretched out her arm to Leng Xiangying. Leng Xiangying held the piece of Jin Banwei's meat and placed her hand under her still bleeding arm, letting the piece of meat drip with Jin Banwei's blood. Then she nodded with satisfaction.
In order to increase the flavor of flesh and blood, the more blood on it, the better.
Leng Xiangying stopped Jin Banwei's bleeding and then reached out to grab Ren Qiao's hand. Jin Banwei understood and used a knife to cut a small cut on Ren Qiao's arm. Leng Xiangying rolled her eyes and said, "You cut yourself without mercy, but why are you reluctant to cut her? The Soul Devouring Gu won't be able to crawl out with such a small cut."
Ren Qiao stared at Jin Banwei with an unfathomable look. She put her other hand on her arm, and her long nails followed the position where Jin Banwei had just scratched, and she made a big cut.
Jin Banwei's eyebrows twitched. This was too big.
Ren Qiao is not afraid of pain, but she is in great pain.
She was most afraid of pain, but because she was worried about Ren Qiao, she tried her best to control her emotions. The pain in her arm made her entire arm stiff.
She glanced away lightly and then hurriedly looked away. She was afraid to look at her wound.
Ren Qiao took in all of Jin Banwei's evasive looks, and his dark pupils were filled with the bloody arm.
At this moment, Leng Xiangying was holding Ren Qiao's wrist with one hand and holding the piece of flesh and blood to the wound with the other hand, waiting intently for the Soul-Swallowing Gu to take the bait.
Jin Banwei's attention gradually fell on Ren Qiao's upper arm. The insect sensed the scent of fresh meat, and its two antennae kept trembling. Its sharp little teeth loosened Ren Qiao's grip, and its head and horns were exerting force, constantly moving forward like a cricket pupa, eager to drill out of Ren Qiao's body and suck the blood and flesh of Jin Banwei.
This is normal. Ren Qiao's current body is a paper man. Even though his flesh and blood look the same as those of an ordinary person, it is paper after all, not real flesh. Therefore, the most attractive thing in Ren Qiao's body to the Soul-Swallowing Gu is his powerful soul. However, the soul is not as easy to absorb as flesh and blood. How can it compare to the attraction of scarce flesh and blood?
They all saw the anxiety of the insect, which was something Leng Xiangying had expected.
"Sure enough, your fate is very special."
She raised her eyes and smiled at Jin Banwei, but her eyes caught a glimpse of Ren Qiao's other hand, which had grasped Jin Banwei's arm at some point. There was a faint red light on her palm. After being exposed to the red light, Jin Banwei's wound was healing visibly, and even the cut flesh slowly grew back.
Leng Xiangying's pupils suddenly contracted: "Ren Qiao, do you understand what you are doing? You are already soulless, and you are using the power of your soul to heal her. We are going to see Master Min later. Master Min can even heal ghosts, so why can't he heal her?"
Jin Banwei finally noticed something strange about her arm. She was so focused on watching the poisonous insect crawling out that she didn't notice Ren Qiao's actions. Her arm, which was originally bloody and mangled, had now completely healed. Even the cut flesh had grown back, and the pain had completely disappeared. If it weren't for the blood on her skin, Jin Banwei would have thought that the cutting of flesh was just an illusion.
This unnatural recovery speed and Leng Xiangying's serious tone gave Jin Banwei a bad feeling.
"Officer Shen, what is soul power?"
Naturally, she didn't understand the settings that didn't appear in the original book.
Leng Xiangying glanced at Ren Qiao, who called out anxiously, "Officer Shen."
She didn't want Leng Xiangying to tell Jin Banwei, but Leng Xiangying was definitely not the kind of person who would keep silent easily. She stared at the wriggling of the insect, ignored Ren Qiao's pleading, and began to talk to Jin Banwei about the power of the soul.
After Leng Xiangying finished speaking, Jin Banwei was stunned.
As expected, Ren Qiao's ability to heal wounds was not one of her special abilities, but something that most ghosts could do, but it was something that was very unnecessary.
Because what you give and what you get are not equal.
Most of the time when ghosts are injured, as long as the damage is not caused by magic arrays, magic tools, talismans or other things that are naturally incompatible with them, ghosts have a certain self-healing ability, and their kind can also use the method of dividing Yin Qi to help heal the wounds.
Another situation is when one encounters a natural nemesis, but one's companion is a powerful ghost like the Ghost King, the Ghost King can also share his overly strong Yin energy to heal the ghost. For example, last night Ren Qiao gave Jiang Chuchu Yin energy to help her heal her.
But people and ghosts are different. People cannot absorb negative energy, but they can absorb the power of souls.
The soul power itself is not the real soul, but the energy produced after the soul is cultivated. It is the origin of the ghost power and the basis of its strength. If the Yin energy is lost, it can be restored quickly as long as conditions permit, but the soul power cannot be easily restored. If the soul power is damaged too much, not only will the strength decline, but the soul will also be damaged.
Ren Qiao originally lacked a soul.
The reason why it is not recorded in the original book is that no ghost except Ren Qiao would hurt himself in order to heal a person, and Ren Qiao did not appear in the original book.
Her injury only needed a few days to heal, even if cutting the flesh would be a little more difficult, but time would heal everything. The only difference would be that she would have to suffer pain for a month or so longer.
This is not the first time that Ren Qiao has used this ability to heal her.
When Jin Banwei was cutting her flesh, she finally felt that she could do something for Ren Qiao, but now it all has been returned to Ren Qiao.
She is not afraid of pain anymore, really not. Jin Banwei would rather suffer the pain for a while longer than let Ren Qiao give all this for her. Does Ren Qiao have to give everything for her just because she is her husband?
Thinking of the good wife experience card, Jin Banwei felt like crying but had no tears.
She didn't want to owe Ren Qiao so much.
[System, can you cut off that damn marriage thread? I want to end my experience as a good wife early.]
[System: Once the props are used, they cannot be returned or exchanged. ]
[Jin Banwei: I don’t want to return or exchange, I want to end it early! ]
[System: No, Master Host.]
As expected, the so-called Shanyuan system is just a scam.
Jin Banwei gritted her teeth and stared at Ren Qiao, her pretty face flushed with anxiety: "Ren Qiao, you don't owe me anything!"
How could she know that Ren Qiao felt he owed her a lot?
Jin Banwei's eyes had never been so indifferent, her tone had never been so resentful, and it was even the first time she called Ren Qiao's name directly.
It was obvious that he did this because he saw that she was afraid of pain, and he had not done anything wrong, but at this moment Ren Qiao did not dare to look at Jin Banwei.
Ren Qiao avoided Jin Banwei's gaze, raised his wrist and pointed at his arm: "Xiao Jin, the poisonous insect is about to come out."
It's clearly not as serious as Leng Xiangying said.
She is very strong and has a lot of soul power.
But even if she told her, Jin Banwei probably wouldn't believe her anymore.
Jin Banwei looked in the direction where Ren was pointing, and saw that the Soul-Swallowing Gu had already crawled to the wound. It squirmed its thin body, and finally pushed through the skin and flesh and crawled out. It couldn't wait to bite the flesh in Leng Xiangying's hand.
It felt strange to watch the creatures eat his flesh, and Jin Banwei let out a dry heave.
Leng Xiangying took out a piece of cloth and wrapped the meat and the Soul Devouring Gu in it: "Okay, now we just need to burn it. In fact, the Gu Master is not scary. As long as you are more vigilant, you can easily find the Gu worm."
She seemed to be finding different ways to mock Jin Banwei and Ren Qiao for not being vigilant enough, but this was also impossible to refute.
But when facing such a small child, who would think of the first thing to be on guard?
Leng Xiangying was about to burn the poisonous insect when she saw Jin Banwei reaching out to her: "Officer Shen, let me do it."
Leng Xiangying thought that Jin Banwei was going to show her her skills, but she didn't expect that after she took the insect, she actually put the cloth ball on the ground, stepped on it, and then stabbed the cloth ball again and again with her knife.
The tip of the knife pierced through the cloth, and the sound of the sharp knife hitting the concrete floor was very harsh.
The tip of her knife...seems to be bald.
Leng Xiangying's face twitched: "You are doing this to vent your anger. It is useless. The wound of the insect heals very quickly. Only fire can make it disappear completely."
Jin Banwei stabbed hard again, and the insect's body was pierced. The disgusting and thick liquid soaked the cloth, giving off a strong foul smell.
Jin Banwei never raised her head from beginning to end, just repeating Zabutuan's actions: "Well, I just want to vent my anger."
She actually admitted it like that!
"Hey, at least try to act. Why did you admit it so easily? Don't you think it's too much to bully a little poisonous insect like this?"
If it were her, she would definitely make up a reason.
Jin Banwei stabbed him again and replied calmly, "I don't think so."
After all, this poisonous insect didn't feel that it was being excessive when it ate Ren Qiao's soul and gnawed Jin Banwei's flesh and blood.
The tip of her knife must have been flat!
Leng Xiangying screamed in her heart and glanced at Ren Qiao: “Ren Qiao, look at your kid, he is too childish.”
Ren Qiao still looked at Jin Banwei with gentle eyes, with no intention of stopping Jin Banwei at all.
Although it was just a knife, Jin Banwei generously gave her the Dream-Weaving Fruit after she opened it. It would seem stingy for her to be reluctant to give up a knife, but that knife belonged to her aunt.
Ah, no!
She still needs to be rescued.
Leng Xiangying quickly took out a box of matches from her bag, and scraped the wood stick lightly. What rose up was actually a faint blue flame. The wood stick landed on the ball of cloth accurately and blocked Jin Banwei's knife.
The faint blue light dazzled the eyes, and if it weren't for the foul smell, it would have looked like a small firework show.
Jin Banwei quickly stood up and moved away from the fire.
The knife in her hand was taken back by Leng Xiangying. She wiped the blade carefully and put it back into her bag.
Woohoo...the tip of the knife seems to be really flat.
Leng Xiangying's heart was bleeding, but she still had a contemptuous smile on her face: "Little devil, you are too naive. If you really have the ability, go find those two Gu Masters!"
"Not yet, but I'll find out."
Jin Banwei's face was full of seriousness. She was not lying. She really wanted to find two Gu Masters to avenge Ren Qiao.
Leng Xiangying probably guessed why it wasn't now. Jin Banwei didn't have the ability to fight against the Gu Master now. She was not strong enough now. Even if she met a Gu Master, she could only rely on Ren Qiao and even become a burden.
She used to look down on Jin Banwei, but now she seemed to understand why Ren Qiao liked Jin Banwei.
Jin Banwei is actually very similar to Ren Qiao. They both have gentle and stubborn personalities, but the gentle characteristics are more prominent in Ren Qiao, while the latter is more prominent in Jin Banwei.
They are clearly giving to each other, but they are particularly afraid that the other party will give to themselves.
Love is so complicated.
But now is definitely not the time to settle accounts with those two Gu Masters. They are not stupid and they will definitely not stand there and wait for them to come over. But since they are here to target Ren Qiao, they will definitely meet again.
I hope that Jin Banwei will really have the ability to avenge today's death.
Leng Xiangying took the lead in opening the car door, sitting in the driver's seat, and waved at the two who had not spoken to each other for a long time: "Why don't you two quarrel in the car? Otherwise, it will be too loud and scare passers-by, which is not good. If there are no passers-by, it will scare the flowers and plants, which is not good either. I don't mind it. I am willing to watch you quarrel."
Jin Banwei took the initiative to hold Ren Qiao's hand and opened the back door: "That will disappoint Officer Shen. My sister and I didn't have a quarrel."
"Oh? You didn't quarrel? How are you going to prove it? Why don't you just kiss each other?"
Because of her changed opinion of Jin Banwei, Leng Xiangying did some matchmaking work, which was a rare occasion for her. But she realized something was wrong as soon as she finished speaking. Jin Banwei's face turned red rapidly, and her originally snow-white neck turned red. Ren Qiao, who was sitting next to her, also quickly lowered his eyes and clasped his hands together, looking nervous and shy.
This... isn't right? She remembered that when she went there last night, Ren Qiao and the others clearly lived in the same room.
It's just a kiss, is there any need to be so shy?
Every night when she went out to collect souls, she would often run into couples kissing passionately as if no one was around.
Could it be that her light was too dazzling, making it impossible for Jin Banwei and Ren Qiao to ignore her existence?
As expected of her! Even if she is a light bulb, she is the brightest!
Leng Xiangying unconsciously raised the corners of her lips, humming a little tune, and happily started the car: "When we get to the ghost market, buy whatever you like. I'll pay for it tonight!"
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