With a soft click, it seemed as if something had been opened in the quiet room.
Shen Yanqing quickly groped around on the floor for a moment, then lifted up a section of the floorboards.
Big Head was surprised that the thing they had been searching for for so long was found so easily by his boss, and he felt a bit conflicted.
You have to admit, the boss is the boss after all; his brain works better than all of them combined.
Seeing that Shen Yanqing had opened the basement door and was about to go downstairs, Da Tou rushed forward and shielded him behind him: "Boss, don't move, I'll do it."
As he spoke, he took the first step onto the stairs leading to the basement.
The staircase is made of wood and is very narrow, only wide enough for one person to barely pass through.
When you step on it, the stairs creak and groan, as if they're about to give up at any moment, making Da Tou hesitant to step down too hard.
Finally, he reached the end of the stairs with bated breath.
At the end was a large secret room, in the center of which was a huge circular pool filled with a dark, indistinct liquid that was hard to tell whether it was water or something else.
If you get a little closer, you can smell the foul, fishy odor emanating from the pool.
Something was wriggling incessantly in the pool, so densely packed that just one glance was enough to send chills down your spine.
"What the hell is this thing?"
Big Head, suppressing his nausea, moved closer and discovered that the pool wasn't filled with water or any unknown liquid at all, but rather with a pool of dark, wriggling things that looked like worms.
Those things seemed to be imprisoned in the pool, just wriggling around inside, but none of them managed to escape.
As Da Tou spoke, he reached out to grab one to take a look, but before his hand could touch it, Shen Yanqing stopped him in a deep voice: "Don't move, those things look like Gu worms!"
Seeing a dark insect that almost touched his finger, Big Head yelled and immediately pulled his hand back.
He had heard of Gu worms before.
As a former member of a gang, he had been exposed to almost all sorts of strange and unusual things.
Knowing about Gu worms, don't underestimate their small size. Once they enter the human body, they can turn a person into a puppet, or even turn a person into a pool of blood.
He had previously heard of a cult called the Shadow Cult, which would secretly use Gu poison to control the minds of its followers in order to gain more followers.
Wait, the Cult of Shadows...
Big Head suddenly realized why the snake tattoos on the backs of the black-clad men's hands looked familiar to him—wasn't that the symbol of the Shadow Cult followers?
Thinking of this, his face paled. Could he really be that unlucky? The Shadow Cult was an extremely evil religion.
In their early days, when they were still a gang, they had a dispute with the Shadow Cult over territory.
The leader who led the provocation died shortly after returning, and his death was extremely gruesome, his body covered with all sorts of poisonous insects.
Even more bizarrely, the autopsy revealed that he had swallowed a large number of poisonous insects alive before committing suicide.
"What's wrong?"
At this moment, Shen Yanqing's voice rang out from behind him, interrupting his thoughts.
Da Tou immediately came to his senses and told Shen Yanqing everything he knew.
Shen Yanqing frowned as he listened to him finish speaking, his dark eyes falling on the wriggling thing in the pool: "No matter what kind of monster it is, I must find Weiwei today."
If Qi Yu really is a member of that Shadow Cult, then Gu Baiwei's amnesia is probably caused by him.
Thinking back to Qi Yu's claim that she had poisoned Gu Baiwei, and that the hospital couldn't find anything wrong with it, he suddenly began to suspect that the poison might be a Gu.
Thinking of this, his eyes darkened. He had better not let that brat Qi Yu fall into his hands.
"First, find the secret passage. Since the secret passage isn't outside, it's very likely in this secret room."
Shen Yanqing forced herself to calm down and gave a stern order to Da Tou.
On the other side, Gu Baiwei had just opened her eyes when she found that the surrounding environment had changed again.
It looks like a presidential suite in a hotel...
Wait, presidential suite? How does she know that term? In her time, places to stay should be called inns.
Her head started throbbing again, and she clutched her head tightly with both hands, fragmented memories flashing through her mind.
One moment it's a scene of her and Qi Yu's wedding night, the next it's a scene of her being kissed by a handsome man on the back seat of a car.
The back seat of a car?
When another new term popped into her mind, she was momentarily stunned.
What happened?
Isn't she the eldest daughter of the Gu family? As an unmarried young lady, she rarely goes out, so how could she know something that is clearly outside her knowledge?
Why? How exactly does she know these things?
And what about the images in my mind?
She felt as if she had forgotten something important, but her memory was too jumbled up right now, and she couldn't remember anything.
She frowned and leaned against the bedside, panting heavily, her mind a complete mess.
What exactly happened? And which memories are real, and which are fake?
Just as I was drowsily thinking, the door suddenly creaked open from the outside.
Night Enchantress, dressed in a bright red strapless bodycon mini dress, walked in gracefully in high heels, carrying a tray in her hand.
She placed the tray on the table, her gaze towards Gu Baiwei still carrying a hint of disdain: "Time to eat."
Gu Baiwei stumbled forward and grabbed her slender wrist: "Husband... no, where is Qi Yu? I need to see him."
Nightshade raised an eyebrow in surprise, looking at her with a hint of uncertainty in her eyes: "You...you wouldn't have remembered, would you?"
"Tell me, where is he? Why did you lie to me?"
The jumbled memories playing in my mind like a movie came to a halt at that moment.
She remembered that she wasn't Qi Yu's wife at all, and they didn't live in ancient times but in modern times...
And...and what else? She felt like she had forgotten something very important, but she couldn't remember it no matter what she did.
"hiss……"
She clutched her head in anguish, sweeping everything off the table: "Where is Qi Yu? I need to see him."
Nightshade lowered her eyes, not answering her question, but replying coldly, "Madam, I will have someone prepare another meal and send it over as soon as possible."
"Get out! Get out of here!"
Gu Baiwei roared and grabbed everything she could get her hands on, smashing it all out the door.
Just then, a familiar, gentle male voice came from outside the door: "Weiwei, who made you angry again?"
Gu Baiwei looked up and saw Qi Yu standing at the door, smiling at her.
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