The situation in Nanling is urgent.
It would be a blessing if Xiao Chenyan and Qing Wu arrived earlier, otherwise they would be delayed on the road for ten days or half a month and the food would be gone by the time they got home.
The county town, as the rear base, had to be preserved, so everyone took action.
The first thing is to ensure the absolute safety of the city and prevent the insect people from infiltrating. This matter is left to Baimei and the little fox.
Those locust larvae use flesh and blood as their breeding ground, gradually sucking the blood, flesh and souls of the living. The yang energy of the living has a natural attraction to them.
As they devour the body, the Yang energy in the living person will become thinner and thinner, and it is not difficult to lure the larvae out by using live livestock.
This time they brought a lot of medicinal herbs. Baimei was found to be the temple priest of the Mountain Spirit Temple and enjoyed the protection of the mountain spirits. The herbs would naturally be contaminated with a hint of the mountain spirit's aura after passing through his hands.
All the garrison troops under Xiao Yao also went into action, leaving General Lin and others no time to spare.
Qing Wu held the jade tablet of the Book of Life and Death in her hand, her expression gloomy, and the wind blowing from south to north was mixed with a strong sense of ghostly resentment.
Judge Pen said in a serious voice: "The situation in Nanling has changed. The Book of Life and Death is no longer accurate here. Those Jiuli survivors were already dead in the Book of Life and Death. The survivors who caused the rebellion in Nanling are probably not alive."
Qing Wu looked silent and said nothing. The only living person among the Jiuli survivors was Gu Lingyue.
Moreover, the Qi fruit threads on the bodies of the dead Jiuli survivors had been cut off long ago, so she couldn't find them even if she wanted to.
The current breakthrough lies in Gu Lingyue.
"It's not difficult to deal with the ghost-faced locusts. We just need to kill the insect mother." Qing Wu gathered her thoughts and said to Xiao Chenyan: "There's something strange about the Jiuli survivors. I have to see the Seventh Princess again."
Gu Lingyue was imprisoned in the courtyard of the village, and Qing Wu soon saw her.
After Qing Wu pushed the door open, she saw a woman with a haggard face and death in her eyes. Perhaps because they were worried that she would commit suicide, Gu Lingyue's hands and feet were tied up with ropes.
Xiao Yao stood at the door and didn't go in. She was his wife, but he had never really known her.
She was pregnant with his child, but what she and her people did pushed thousands of Nanling people into hell!
He is the King of Nanling, he should kill her.
But he couldn't do it, he was as indecisive as ever!
"I should have killed her." Xiao Yao muttered to himself.
Xiao Chenyan couldn't say anything to comfort her. From his own standpoint, in his eyes, his Seventh Aunt Gu Lingyue was unforgivable.
The remnants of Jiuli brought insect plague to Nanling. Gu Lingyue went undercover beside Xiao Yao. Perhaps in her dream she really fell in love with Xiao Yao, so she only used dream poison to hinder Xiao Yao's disaster relief, and did not really kill him.
But Gu Lingyue was not innocent in the whole incident.
Regardless of whether she knew the truth about the plague or not, she was an accomplice, either directly or indirectly.
Inside the house, Qing Wu looked at Gu Lingyue's face carefully. When the other party saw her, he didn't react at all, like an empty shell without a soul.
Qing Wu stepped forward and placed his hand between her brows, wanting to use Gu Lingyue as an anchor point to feel the thread of desire in her body.
The moment she touched Gu Lingyue's brow, she felt a sharp pain on her fingertips.
At the same time, Gu Lingyue, who had not reacted at all, let out a scream.
Xiao Yao who was outside the door rushed in immediately, and Xiao Chenyan followed closely behind.
In a moment, Gu Lingyue was seen shaking violently on the bed, and Qing Wu was standing beside the bed with an unpredictable expression.
Xiao Yao rushed to the bedside, and Xiao Chenyan also stood in front of Qing Wu, holding her hand, and his eyes fell on her fingertips.
There was a silver needle stuck in Qingwu's fingertips. The silver needle was like a living thing, drilling into her body at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What's going on?" Xiao Chenyan's eyes narrowed and he wanted to pull out the silver needle.
"Don't touch it, it's useless." Qing Wu shook her head at him.
Xiao Chenyan frowned, his face was extremely gloomy, and there was unconcealable worry in his eyes.
"This is a soul-replenishing needle." Qing Wu pursed her lips and said, "Don't worry, this needle can't hurt me." It's just a little troublesome.
"What exactly happened just now?" Xiao Chenyan asked in a deep voice.
Gu Lingyue on the bed obviously did not have the ability to hurt Qing Wu.
At this moment, Gu Lingyue had stopped twitching. Her eyes were empty, tears kept rolling down the corners of her eyes, and her mouth was breathing like a broken bellows. She remembered, she remembered everything from the moment the needle was pulled out.
"Ling Yue! Ling Yue!"
"What's wrong with her?" Xiao Yao was extremely anxious and looked at Qing Wu in panic.
Qing Wu pursed her lips and said, "She is dead. To be precise, she died a long time ago."
Xiao Yao was like being struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.
"Shou Bai..." The woman's weak voice sounded, bringing Xiao Yao back to his senses.
"I'm sorry..." Tears fell from Gu Lingyue's eyes, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
These three words were the only ones she kept murmuring.
Xiao Yao no longer cared about that. He untied the ropes on her body and muttered to himself, "Impossible, how could she be dead? She's pregnant with my child..."
"I am indeed dead. I died on the day the Jiuli clan was exterminated." Gu Lingyue smiled bitterly.
Xiao Yao's mind was in a mess. He couldn't understand. The extermination of the Jiuli clan happened dozens of days ago, but his queen was still a living person.
"The Jiuli tribe was wiped out, and no bloodline remained. The remaining Jiuli people are all dead."
Qing Wu's voice was cold, and she stared at Gu Lingyue with interest: "Your clan's relationship with the Yang world has long been severed, and there is no record of you even in the Book of Life and Death. I am very curious about the memories in your head."
When Qing Wu said this, she rubbed with her fingers, as if she wanted to pry open Gu Lingyue's brain and check it out herself.
There was a hint of fear in Gu Lingyue's eyes.
"It's a bug..."
"All the dead tribesmen became puppets of the insects."
The Jiuli tribe was associated with Gu, and after death they all became puppets of insects.
Gu Lingyue's memory is very confused, she is the princess of the Jiuli tribe. She only remembers that day, when the army of Dayong broke into the royal city and the Jiuli tribe was in danger, so King Yong summoned all the tribesmen.
They sacrificed their blood and dedicated their lives to the insect queen.
In her memory, the Queen Mother and even the tribesmen seemed to have gone mad. She was forcibly dragged to the altar, her wrists were cut, and blood was flowing. Something entered her body, gnawing at her soul and her memories.
In her ears was the whisper of her tribesmen: As long as the Insect Mother does not die, the Jiuli people will not be destroyed.
Her soul shattered into pieces, and in her confusion, she saw a feather as white as snow.
There was also a man dressed in white.
The man used a needle to sew her soul together, and one day, Gu Lingyue seemed to "wake up".
She regained human consciousness, but had forgotten her past. She only remembered that she was a member of the Jiuli tribe, and that she had companions and tribesmen around her, and they wanted to restore the Jiuli nation.
Gu Lingyue vaguely felt that she had forgotten something very important, but she couldn't remember it.
Later, she became an undercover agent and married Xiao Yao. She became more and more like a real person. She was even pregnant with his child. When fresh life appeared in her dead body, when another heartbeat sounded in her body.
Gu Lingyue lost control, she gradually heard the insects' whispering, that voice kept driving her and bewitching her, that voice told her to kill Xiao Yao.
But she didn't want to, she couldn't do it.
She didn't want to betray her people, nor did she want to kill her lover.
She didn't know what that voice was, but she was afraid of it from the bottom of her soul.
When the needle was 'pulled out' from her body, memories came flooding back and she remembered everything.
The Jiuli tribe raised poisonous insects and killed living creatures indiscriminately. Their genocide was retribution, a curse, and they deserved it.
When they died, they sold their bodies and souls to the evil spirits, and they... resurrected a monster!
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