The little girl's ears perked up as soon as she heard her father mentioned, and she blinked her bright eyes at Zhong Ye, almost as if she wanted to tell him more.
Zhong Ye smiled and patted Xiao Bao's head, then looked at Mu Jingheng and said, "Brother Li is a very knowledgeable person. He has helped me a lot since he came here and has taught many children here. I never expected that such a thing would happen to him. It's such a pity."
Zhong Ye's eyes reddened as he spoke.
If you didn't know his true colors, you'd really think he was a good person.
Zhong Ling's eyes kept involuntarily glancing at Mu Jingheng. For some reason, she liked him the moment she saw him.
Xu Xinning disliked the way Zhong Ling looked at Mu Jingheng. As a woman in love, she knew perfectly well what that look meant.
Xu Xinning rolled her eyes at Mu Jingheng, annoyed.
Zhong Ye seemed oblivious to the exchange of glances between the three young men. He wiped his eyes and continued, “You are Brother Li’s family, so you are also my family. Come to my house for a get-together tomorrow. Let me host you on behalf of Brother Li. Please don’t stand on ceremony with me. You can also treat me as an elder. This is my daughter, Zhong Ling, who is about your age. She can show you around our village.”
Although Mu Jingheng hated the father and daughter and inwardly sneered at their hypocrisy, he remained very polite on the surface.
Mu Jingheng: "Thank you, Teacher Zhong. We will definitely visit your home when we have time, but we have other plans for tomorrow, so we are really sorry."
Eating in front of his enemy, Mu Jingheng feared he would either be driven mad with anger or choke to death.
Zhong Ye: "It's alright, your business is more important. Anyway, my home is right there, so you can come over whenever you have time."
Zhong Ye pointed in the direction of his home.
That night, while everyone in the village was asleep, Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng put on their night clothes and quickly headed towards the mountainside where the Gu doctor lived.
The village is very quiet at night; apart from the people on duty, there is no one moving around outside.
Fortunately, both Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng were skilled in martial arts, which made their movements easier.
The mountainside looked eerie at night, with lit candles hanging in mid-air like will-o'-the-wisps.
The closer one gets to the Gu doctor's house, the more active the Gu worms become in Xu Xinning's space.
Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng climbed over the wall and went inside. The courtyard looked quite normal, but the house was raised on a stilt. One-third of the ground floor was above ground level, but it was dark inside, and they didn't know what it was used for.
The Gu doctor was fiddling with his Gu worms; if you didn't know it was a person, it would look like a skeleton at first glance.
Xu Xinning guessed that this person must be a Gu fanatic, with no fewer than five kinds of Gu worms growing in his body, otherwise he wouldn't have tormented himself like this.
Perhaps sensing that someone had intruded, the Gu doctor suddenly turned around and looked outside with the kerosene lamp in hand.
Just then, a gust of wind blew by, rustling the leaves.
The Gu doctor finally relaxed.
He had great confidence in his abilities and was confident that no one could intrude on his territory.
When she saw what the Gu doctor looked like, even the well-informed Xu Xinning almost cried out.
The Gu Doctor's body was not only reduced to a skeleton; his eyes were hollow, his fingernails were long, he wore a silk slanted jacket, and his hair was braided and coiled on top of his head.
Xu Xinning may not know, but Mu Jingheng, who has been reborn, feels that this Gu doctor looks just like a character in a Hong Kong zombie movie from the 1990s, which makes people gasp.
If it weren't for the fact that this person's knees were bent when they walked, Mu Jingheng would have really thought that this person was a zombie.
Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng watched the Gu doctor's actions from outside. Not long after, he took the kerosene lamp and went to the basement.
When the basement lights came on, Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng outside could finally see what was inside.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe that place as a living hell.
This is the most shocking scene Xu Xinning has ever seen in her past and present lives.
People can be evil, but no one knows that human evil can become this perverse.
The basement was filled with people, old, young, and children. Judging from their tattered clothing, some were from ethnic minorities, some were Han Chinese, and even more shockingly, some were wearing military uniforms.
These people were in all sorts of states, some of them behaving very strangely, and what was even more unbearable was that someone was actually eating people in front of so many people, while the others seemed not to see it.
Xu Xinning felt her stomach churning.
Is this Gu doctor a demon?
Xu Xinning knew that these people had been infected with Gu by the Gu doctor, or rather, that he was using their bodies to raise Gu.
What exactly does he want to do?
What is his purpose in raising so many Gu worms that can control the human body?
Is he trying to control the people he wants to control?
Xu Xinning finds the thought of him developing this habit terrifying.
After the Gu doctor finished admiring his work and returned to his room to rest, Xu Xinning released the Gu King from a thousand years ago.
The Gu King loves to eat Gu worms, so Xu Xinning has to make sure it has a good meal.
Just as dawn was breaking, the Gu King finally scrambled back, and immediately started acting cute towards Xu Xinning, as if trying to please her.
While the Gu doctor was fast asleep, Xu Xinning and Mu Jingheng immediately went into the basement.
Xu Xinning used a packet of powder to make all these people faint. Then she took out the pills she made and fed them to those who could still be treated. As for those who were beyond saving, that was all she could do.
Xu Xinning put all the people she could save into her spatial storage before she and Mu Jingheng quietly left.
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