Chapter 457: Breaking the Xijin Poison, the Fierce Battle
Chi Rui stayed in the camp to guard it. He was practicing martial arts with the soldiers in charge of guarding the camp in the training ground.
Seeing Ji Qingwu appear, he quickly put down the spear in his hand.
After last night, everyone in the Northern Border Military Camp knew the position of Ji Qingwu in Emperor Wu Su's heart, and no one dared to neglect this girl.
In the temporary animal pen on the east side of the training ground, the female wolf was lying in the shadows, wagging her tail at Ji Qingwu.
Chi Rui said respectfully: "I meet Miss Ji."
Ji Qingwu asked, "Deputy General Chi, how is the little red spider?"
Chi Rui replied, "I sprinkled some of the powder that Eunuch Li sent on the spider, but it didn't eat it. I also fed it to mosquitoes, but it didn't move either."
Ji Qingwu was surprised and said, "The powder has medicinal properties, so it's normal for it not to eat it, but why doesn't it eat food? Can spiders also go on a hunger strike?"
Chi Rui didn't understand either, so he said, "I'll bring the Red Spider over right away."
A few people found a military tent to hold a meeting. The tent curtain was opened and the mother wolf was squatting at the door. Ji Qingwu sat at the table and took the transparent glass bottle that Chi Rui presented to him with both hands.
The red spider that was still actively crawling in the bottle suddenly curled up in her hand, like a small solidified blood bead, and would not move no matter how she shook it.
Chi Rui clicked his tongue: "This spider is playing dead again."
Qi Peiyao leaned over to take a closer look and recalled, "I remember that the color of this thing was not this dark."
Chi Rui said: "Deeper? I think the color has become lighter."
Hearing what the two said, Ji Qingwu's eyes flashed slightly, and he placed the bottle in his hand on the table, wanting them to take a closer look.
Ji Qingwu asked Qi Peiyao to sit down and talk, and then asked, "Have you seen him?"
Qi Peiyao nodded and said, "This spider is small and cute."
Chi Rui couldn't accept it and said, "You call this cute?"
Qi Peiyao thought he was being too surprised and said, "I used to catch this thing when I was a kid. I called it Cherry Lady. It would weave red spider webs on the sea buckthorn bushes in midsummer."
She tapped the bottle wall with her fingertips, and the spider actually started to climb up following the sound.
Qi Peiyao said, "But when I got older, this cherry lady was rare. There was a time when merchants bought this spider and sold it for a hundred bucks each."
"That means it was originally non-toxic." Ji Qingwu pointed at the bottleneck, and the little spider retracted its hands and feet again. She frowned and said, "It must have been bought by Xijin's people, and turned into spider poison."
"insanity?"
Qi Peiyao's eyes widened in surprise. She had never seen such a poison before, but she knew how powerful it was.
She was a brave woman and reached out to touch the small bottle. The little red spider fell into Qi Peiyao's hand and began to crawl slowly again, as if it wanted to get out and attach itself to someone again.
Chi Rui said: "Put it down quickly, aren't you afraid of it?"
Qi Peiyao said with fear and excitement: "I am afraid, but I am more curious. This is the first time I have seen a Gu."
But she quickly put the vial down.
Ji Qingwu stared at the little red spider and suddenly curled the corners of his lips.
"One of you said its color was dark, and the other said it was lighter. If I'm not mistaken, this Gu must have been fed with the blood of the person who cast the spell, so it has an abnormal red color."
Chi Rui said: "That's right. Without human blood to feed on, the spider's color has become lighter in the past few days. No wonder this spider doesn't need to eat."
Seeing that the spider was getting closer to her, Ji Qingwu started to play dead again. She said, "I have one more thing I want to verify. You two can go out first."
The two of them left the tent, and she took out a silver hairpin with a crescent-shaped mark from her sleeve.
Before it even got close to the bottle, the little red spider showed a big reaction and circled back and forth at the bottom of the bottle.
Ji Qingwu's eyes lit up.
That day, the wolf king regained consciousness, not because of the she-wolf's howling, but because of the hairpin in her arms.
The little red spider pretended to be dead when it saw her. It was not afraid of her, but it sensed the silver hairpin she was wearing.
Ji Qingwu held his breath and concentrated, then opened the cork of the bottle. As soon as the silver hairpin was close to the red spider, there was a sudden popping sound, and the little red spider exploded, leaving a blood spot with a blue halo on the bottle.
Ji Qingwu used the hairpin to pick at the blood spot, and the blood was instantly absorbed.
She looked at the seemingly ordinary hairpin in her hand with a look of surprise, which could break the spider poison so easily.
The silver hairpin was Su Daiyue's relic. Before she died, she asked me to pass it on to her aunt, but it ended up back in Ji Qingwu's hands.
She remembered that Yuwen Tianqing also mentioned this hairpin when he went to the dungeon to find Su Fengyue.
Although we don't know what the relationship is between Su Daiyue's aunt and Gao Zhaoyue, it is certain that this hairpin is of great use and it is probably a treasure that can break Xi Jin's poison.
Ji Qingwu cleaned the hairpin, wrapped it up and put it back carefully.
Outside the military tent, there were the sounds of wolf howling.
Qi Peiyao had never seen such a scene before, and she looked at Ji Qingwu who walked out of the tent as if asking for help.
The little wolf was still raising his neck to respond to his companion, but when he saw her appear, he immediately rubbed against her affectionately.
Ji Qingwu asked: "What happened?"
Chi Rui frowned as he listened to the wolf howls that were getting louder and louder, which meant that the wild wolves were getting closer.
He said, "This is the sound of wild wolves calling their companions. Are the wolves controlled by Gu and are they going to attack the military camp?"
Although the little wolf was beside Ji Qingwu, its dark green eyes were always staring into the distance. Ji Qingwu followed the little wolf's line of sight.
A group of wolves were rushing towards the military camp, and the largest one at the back was the wolf king who was released that day.
Chi Rui said: "Miss Ji, don't be afraid, I will send someone right away..."
Ji Qingwu stopped him and said, "They have no ill intentions, they just want to help us."
The little wolf wagged its tail at her, as if in response to her words.
Sure enough, the wolves did not rush into the camp, but wandered around. Hundreds of gray wolves surrounded the camp like a moving city wall.
Qi Peiyao said: "They are here to protect us!"
Ji Qingwu stroked the little wolf nestled at the edge of her skirt and smiled, "Thank you."
The Northern Army Camp has an extra layer of protection, but...
Although Gao Zhaoyue cannot control the wolf pack now, she can still control thousands of ferocious beasts such as tigers and leopards.
What will Gao Zhaoyue do after learning that Yuwen Tianqing is not dead?
Ji Qingwu looked at the round and magnificent setting sun in the sky, calculating the marching time and pace in his mind.
The Beili army should have arrived at Xijin's camp, and now the two armies should be fighting, and the fierce battle is in full swing.
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Bei Li encountered a mirage on the march, which clearly projected the scene inside Xijin’s camp before their eyes.
The location of Xijin's military camp was extremely hidden. Because Yuwen Tiancheng did not like light, the light in the barracks was deliberately dimmed.
To outsiders it looked like a maze, and even Beili's secret guards had never succeeded in breaking in.
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