Lin Dan returned home, wiped the water off her body, changed into clean clothes, and turned around to find that the jade pendant that should have sunk to the bottom of the water was now lying on the table. The man sat by the window enjoying the rain with a relaxed expression.
Lin Dan picked up the jade pendant and threw it out of the window. The man chuckled, and the jade pendant returned to its original position, as if it had never been touched.
Since you can't get rid of it, just let it go. Thinking of this, Lin Dan turned around and walked out without even touching the jade pendant. The man was lying on the windowsill, his narrow eyes fixed on the tall figure of the girl, with a smile on his lips, not knowing what he was thinking.
Zhou Nan was stunned when he saw the girl slowly walking into his room. Her facial features were still the same, but her dark skin had become snow-white and delicate. Her eyes, which always sparkled with a humble look, were now like two cold pools, so cold that it was chilling. She was extremely beautiful and gorgeous, but there was no vitality in her body. She made people tremble with fear, but at the same time, they couldn't help but want to get closer.
She doesn't look like a human now, but more like a demon, a demon that can bewitch people's hearts and suck their souls.
"Are you a human or a ghost?" Zhou Nan shook his wrist, and a talisman was pinched between his fingertips.
Lin Dan was stunned, obviously not expecting that Zhou Nan was also a fellow traveler. She continued walking forward, her tone calm: "Something happened to me on the road, I may not be able to help you contact your family today, please wait a moment." She changed the bandage for the boy.
The talisman did not generate any heat, which meant that Lin Dan was a human and not a ghost. Zhou Nan felt relieved, but was also curious about her change.
"Did something happen to you?" he asked in a low voice.
"It's okay, you have a good rest, I will send you away as soon as possible." Lin Dan took out the dirty gauze and washed it. It was completely different from the past when she always lingered in the boy's room and found all kinds of excuses to chat with him.
Zhou Nan was surprised by the change in Yu Lindan's attitude, but he didn't investigate further. For him, being able to get rid of the girl's entanglement was undoubtedly a good thing. This way he wouldn't have to worry about the other party having bad intentions and wanting to keep him here forever. He has means to protect himself, but without being able to walk, any means would be greatly reduced. Maybe this time, he will fall into the ditch.
Fortunately, Lin Dan's interest in him was only temporary. Maybe she was just lonely living alone and wanted to find someone to talk to. Not everyone likes my face. Thinking of this, Zhou Nan touched his cheek, looking a little ashamed.
Now that I'm back alive, I have to live my life as usual. Lin Dan picked up the broom and started cleaning the stilt house, then picked some vegetables to prepare cooking. The strange man followed her all the time and sighed, "You almost died just now. You should lie down in bed and have a good sleep now."
This little girl is only seventeen years old, right? But he was able to remain calm even when the sky was falling. If he were still alive, he might be delighted to see her as his apprentice. With this kind of character, the little girl will definitely achieve something in the future. It’s a pity that he was already dead, and even more regrettable was that the little girl refused his help and swallowed the holy Gu instead. Whether she still has a future or not, the answer is self-evident.
Lin Dan was not disturbed by the man at all. She just did what she was supposed to do. After finishing her work, she went back to the house and found the relics left by the original owner's mother.
She was very hungry now. This hunger was not transmitted from her stomach, but was rooted in her soul. A voice kept urging her to find food, but she ate a few cucumbers raw and a large bowl of dry rice, but she didn't get any relief. From this we can see that the food needed to hatch the Holy Gu is definitely not the food of ordinary people.
She opened the sheepskin bag and took out the insect eggs sealed in the small porcelain bottle.
The man raised an eyebrow and asked, "You want to eat them?"
Lin Dan pretended not to hear and swallowed the eggs with water like taking medicine, with no expression of fear or disgust on his face.
The man stretched out his arms, holding the girl in his arms, and said with a smile: "Little girl, I like you more and more. You are very brave and smart. It's a pity that these are not enough, far from enough."
The hunger was relieved, but only for a moment. Lin Dan silently endured the pain like a thorn in the flesh, and once again poured out a handful of insect eggs and ate them. When she was about to eat the two love poisons, the man suddenly grabbed her wrist and said in a hoarse voice, "You can't eat this." After he finished speaking, he gently stroked her palm with his other hand, and the two love poisons disappeared.
Lin Dan finally looked him in the face and asked, "What do you want to do with my things?" If the love Gu is used improperly, it can also kill people, but Lin Dan's intuition told her that the man was very powerful and she was no match for him at the moment.
The man felt extremely happy bathing in her focused gaze. He had to admit that it felt bad to be ignored by this little girl.
"With your current strength, you can easily remove these two love poisons, so why should you be afraid of me taking them? Continue eating your food. Look, you are already shaking with hunger." The man gently stroked Lin Dan's cheek, his tone very gentle and doting.
Lin Dan looked at him deeply, and then ate all the remaining insect eggs. Some insect eggs are very powerful and can relieve hunger for a longer time, while some insect eggs are very weak and you won’t feel anything at all after swallowing them. From this we can see that the more energetic something is, the more it is favored by the Holy Gu.
However, is there anything else in this world that has the same power as the Gu eggs? While thinking about this question, Lin Dan took out his ancestor's notes to study, and by the evening he had made some progress.
Even though she had just experienced a life-and-death situation, she did not forget to change Zhou Nan's dressings on time. It seemed that taking care of patients was her habit.
She brought the dinner into Zhou Nan's room and left. Suddenly the man appeared from behind her and asked curiously, "You like that boy, right?"
Lin Dan returned to the mode of treating him as air. Even if he stood in front of her, she would just pass through his tall body. When the man blocked her way again, she bumped into his arms, her forehead red and swollen.
The man put his arms around her thin shoulders and chuckled, "I forgot to tell you that I have two states: shadow and entity. If you want to throw yourself into my arms, just say it directly. Why do this?" His cold fingertips brushed across Lin Dan's smooth and delicate forehead, causing her to tremble uncontrollably.
She realized clearly that the man was very powerful and was definitely not an ordinary ghost. I just don't know why he is so persistent in borrowing her body instead of directly devouring her soul. Is he subject to some kind of restriction?
Although Lin Dan was thinking about it, she didn't show it at all. She broke free from the man's arms and returned to her room. She put the sheepskin bag and the small copper stove into her schoolbag, sneaked into the village under the cover of night, and found Shi Gui's residence.
The man's low, hoarse laughter sounded very pleasant in the night: "What do you want to do, revenge?"
During the day, the little girl behaved normally, as if she had forgotten what had happened before. The man was very surprised at the time. Based on just half a day's observation, he knew that she should not be the kind of person who is timid and cowardly and repays evil with kindness. How can you forget the revenge that killed you? But it turned out that she was waiting here.
Lin Dan ignored the man and quickly climbed over the earth wall and entered Shi Gui's house. His family only had two wooden houses, which were dilapidated and had a strong musty smell. The snoring sound came from the room on the right, and it was obvious that the person she was looking for was there.
Lin Dan placed the small copper stove at the door, took out the herbs from the sheepskin bag, put them in one by one and lit them. But after a moment, rustling sounds came from the surrounding soil. Countless poisonous insects dug up the soil and circled around the copper furnace. In an instant, a large group of them gathered, but they stayed away from Lin Dan and formed a vacuum zone around her. There is a holy Gu hidden in her body, which is the most feared existence of all poisons.
The poisonous insect only smelled the tempting fragrance but couldn't find any food, so it naturally began to search around. It easily got into the room and found Shi Gui snoring on the bed. The poisonous insects bit through his skin, scrambled to get into his body, and ate his internal organs clean. He had woken up a long time ago, but his nerves were paralyzed by the poison. He couldn't shout or run away.
At the last moment before he breathed his last, Lin Dan pushed open the door and walked in, looking at him quietly. There was no hatred or pleasure in her eyes, only a suffocating deep ocean. Revenge is necessary, but it cannot occupy her mind too much. Shi Gui's eyes were wide open, his face was distorted, and for the first time he felt deep regret for what he had done. Unfortunately, it was all too late. He provoked the wrong person, and dying without a burial place is not an enough description of his fate.
Lin Dan watched with his own eyes as Shi Gui's body shrank like a deflated bag, as swarms of poisonous insects swarmed beneath his skin and then crawled out through his seven orifices. They ate a whole human being but were still not full, so they began to devour their own kind. Then, a small group of the poisonous insects separated and crawled under the bed.
A faint scream came from underground, causing Lin Dan's eyes to flicker slightly. She also crawled under the bed and found several wooden boards. After lifting them, a five-meter-deep cellar appeared. Many poisonous insects crawled down the steps made of mud and invaded the darkness. The scream came from the darkness.
Lin Dan took out a flashlight from his schoolbag and walked down slowly. In the orange-yellow light beam, a disheveled, skinny girl was chained with an iron chain. Many poisonous insects attached to her skin, gnawing at her and leaving her covered in scars.
Lin Dan gently patted the girl's shoulders, and the poisonous insects curled up and fell down as if they were dead. When they found that Lin Dan had no intention of eating them, they moved their legs and feet again and burrowed deeper into the soil. The ground, which had been hit very hard by Shi Gui, soon became as soft as sand. Corpses were dug out by poisonous insects, emitting a pungent stench.
The imprisoned girl screamed in fear, but Lin Dan shone the flashlight over and counted carefully. One, two, three... There were actually eighteen bodies buried in the cellar which was less than ten square meters. It was clear that Shi Gui was a murderer.
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