The blade suddenly pressed closer to Mo Xiaowan's carotid artery. "Where is my child?"
Mo Xiaowan's face paled even more. She could feel her blood flowing faster, and her voice weakened slightly, "I don't know. I'm only responsible for you. Xiaocao is responsible for catching them."
"What responsibility are you going to give me?"
"Send you to the Imperial Censorate, and we'll exchange you for the antidote to the Heart-Eating Gu."
"Ha! You've also been afflicted by the Heart-Eating Gu."
"If I hadn't been poisoned, I wouldn't be at their mercy."
"I was also afflicted by the Heart-Eating Gu, but the curse on me has been lifted."
"How did you untie it?" Mo Xiaowan asked anxiously, her eyes filled with hope that the shackles had been broken.
Where will Huanhuan and Tuantuan be sent?
"...They will be sent to the palace. Xiaocao said the Empress Dowager wants to see them."
"The Empress Dowager? Why does she want to see my child!"
"It seems the Empress Dowager's secret to maintaining her youth is related to children!"
What does it have to do with anything?
"How would I know? I'm just an ordinary raven."
"If you hadn't been infected with the Heart-Eating Gu, would you have captured me?" Mu Run asked.
Mo Xiaowan scoffed, "I'll just kill you!"
“Very good.” Mu Run smiled. “Then killing you now would only eliminate future troubles, and it wouldn’t be considered wronging you.”
"You want to kill me?" Mo Xiaowan's eyes widened, but with the knife to her neck, she had no choice but to remain silent.
"What? You're allowed to kill me, but I can't kill you?" Mu Run raised his leg and struck her in the abdomen!
Mo Xiaowan screamed in pain and curled up on the ground, "I'm going to kill you!"
"Hehe, don't provoke me, or I'll really send you to the ghost." Mu Run picked up the rope that had been used to bind her hands and feet and tied it up again for Mo Xiaowan.
Fortune has changed, and now Mu Run and Mo Xiaowan have switched places.
"Tell me everything you know, or I won't mind turning your beautiful face into a face full of knives." Mu Run twirled the blade across Mo Xiaowan's face.
Mo Xiaowan recoiled in terror, but there was only the ship's deck behind her, leaving her nowhere to hide. Furthermore, her martial arts skills were not high, and she certainly didn't know Mu Run's bone-shrinking escape technique.
Mu Run glanced in the direction of Chongyang Mountain. Fu Yunchen probably wouldn't be able to see her and would be worried.
Suddenly, she remembered something and took out a small black whistle—a secret flute—from the pouch at her waist.
Mo Xiaowan looked at the whistle in her hand. "That's a keepsake left to Brother Chen by his mother. How did it end up with you?"
Mu Run replied, "I am his wife, a lawfully wedded wife, and I am listed in the family genealogy. I don't care what he gives me; it's only right that I do."
"Hmph!" Mo Xiaowan scoffed, "It must have been you, you shameless woman, who forced me into this."
Too lazy to argue with her, I blew the secret flute hard.
No sound came out!
Mu Run blew on it twice more before putting it away.
Then he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, looked around, and finally noticed that Mo Xiaowan's wound was still bleeding, so he said, "I need to borrow some blood."
"What?!" Mo Xiaowan stared at her.
"Don't move, or you'll lose control, and I won't be able to stop you."
Mu Run squeezed the wound on her neck that was almost stopped bleeding, and she immediately winced in pain as blood gushed out again.
Mu Run dipped her finger in the fresh blood and wrote a letter in blood on the handkerchief: "Mo Xiaowan is the Dark Raven of the Zhongjin Imperial Censorate. The child was captured by Xiaocao and is not with me. She said she was going to give the child to the Empress Dowager. I will go to the Zhongjin Imperial Palace to see if I can find the child. The blood is Mo Xiaowan's! If you find the child first, please let me know."
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