A pungent, bloody mist, like that of an effervescent tablet, rose into the air. She tore off a sleeve and wrapped it over the mask to cover her mouth and nose. Then, she picked up one of the basins of medicine that had stopped boiling and rushed it out.
Zi Xi ran wildly, wrapping an iron spoon in a cloth, scooping up the crimson liquid, and using her light-footed skills to leap up and splash the liquid out.
The medicinal liquid, like flowers scattered by a celestial maiden, was sprinkled onto the Gu worms, sizzling and producing blue smoke. When it splashed onto the person being parasitized, that person would convulse and collapse unconscious.
Drifting past the blood-stained flowerbeds, the withered flowers mysteriously bloomed again.
Behind her, an explosion suddenly came from the direction of the medicine storehouse. It was the embers she had left behind that ignited the medicine storehouse. The smoke rose straight into the sky like wolf smoke, which allowed the antidote to spread effectively like mist. This way, even if any fish managed to escape the net and crawl out of the palace, they should not survive.
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Yin Jiuxiao ordered them to pick up torches and pour oil on them, but when he suddenly saw the people returning, he paused.
He saw Zi Xi running towards him against the light, her hair covered in unknown medicinal powder, and the medicinal liquid in the copper basin in her arms churning like a living thing.
The moment their eyes met, he seemed to understand the meaning in Zi Xi's eyes, and he immediately waved his hand to the left and right, shouting, "Retreat a hundred feet!!!"
Zi Xi gripped the copper basin tightly with both hands, her knuckles turning white. She swallowed the urge to vomit and suddenly splashed the medicinal liquid in the basin onto the densely packed Gu worms, especially the fattest and largest Gu King among them, which resembled a centipede.
The Gu King's crimson carapace gleamed with an eerie light, its thousand legs wriggling as it emitted a piercing hiss.
It had just devoured too much flesh and blood, and its body was swollen like a python, making it extremely conspicuous.
The crimson liquid poured down like blood rain, and the Gu King's body suddenly twisted, with pungent blue smoke rising from its carapace.
It emitted a sharp whistling sound, like the simultaneous crying of millions of babies, making people's eardrums ache.
The Gu King writhed in agony, its thousand legs frantically scratching the ground, leaving deep marks on the white jade bricks. Its carapace began to peel away, revealing the rotting flesh beneath. Even so, it was not quite dead yet, but instead became even more ferocious, lunging fiercely at Zi Xi.
Zi Xi gritted her teeth, grabbed a torch from the side, and charged towards the Gu King. She plunged the torch into the Gu King's festering wound, igniting the medicinal liquid on the Gu King's body.
With a loud bang, the Gu King's body was instantly engulfed by flames. Its crimson carapace burst open in the fire, splattering pus and blood with crackling sounds.
It writhed wildly in the fire, its shrieking almost tearing the air apart. Finally, the Gu King exploded, its limbs flying everywhere, turning into charcoal as soon as they hit the ground.
Zi Xi staggered backward, panting, her face covered in soot, the torch still clutched tightly in her hand.
finally! ! !
it's over! !
This is really not friendly to people with trypophobia!!
Clearly, the matter was not over yet. Without staying in one place, Zi Xi rushed back to the medicine storehouse to continue making the medicine, and had the assassins who followed her carry the basins of medicine back.
The members of the Dark Guard and the Death Squad grabbed spoons and torches, and the crimson liquid collided with the flames in the air, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
The worms emitted screams like the cries of infants, writhing wildly in the mist before finally bursting into black water with a crackling sound.
Those who were parasitized fell down like wheat being harvested, and never rose again.
The wind stopped, not gradually subsided, but abruptly and completely disappeared, as if even heaven and earth held their breath.
Zi Xi dragged her weary body through the corridor, her boots making a sticky sound as they stepped on the still-wet bloodstains.
The once brightly lit palace road is now only lit by a few scattered lamps, flickering weakly in the darkness.
It's too quiet.
There were no footsteps of the night watchmen, no whispers of the palace maids, not even the chirping of insects—this once bustling imperial city now resembled a giant tomb.
"You look... so disheveled!"
Standing next to Yin Jiuxiao, Zi Xi saw his eyelashes stained red by the medicine and found it somewhat amusing, making a gloating teasing remark.
Yin Jiuxiao took out the charred sachet from his sleeve, coughed violently, and spat out a mouthful of black blood, which startled Zixi, who immediately took his pulse.
Fortunately, it was just that the medicine he originally used to fake his illness clashed with the liquid she made; it wasn't that insects got into his body. It was a minor problem!
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