Chapter 23: Accomplices
"The grass ghost woman gathered all kinds of poisonous insects in the same vessel, and let them attack and devour each other, through this cruel fight, the king of poisonous insects who survived in the end was Gu."
"Those children don't look like they're broken on the outside, but they've actually been eaten by these Gu worms on the inside, right?" Cheng Muyou's eyes flashed with anger.
"That's right, Gu worms will release a kind of mucus that paralyzes people's senses, and then gnaws away their internal organs little by little." Yan Niang put down the scissors and left the table, and slowly came to the window, "Gu is such a vicious kind of witchcraft, once you get into the Gu, there is no way to return to the sky." However, the Grass Ghost Woman also has her own weakness, that is, before she dies, she must pass on the Gu technique to others, otherwise, she will be eaten by the Gu worms. Generally speaking, Gu art is only passed down among women, if a woman is caught by the grass ghost woman, she may be secretly cast, the woman will have symptoms after returning home, if you want to treat this disease, you have to turn to the grass ghost woman, the grass ghost woman will learn Gu art as an exchange condition, if you don't learn, the disease will not be cured. Of course, if you meet a strong person, you would rather die than learn Gu art, and this situation is not uncommon. The villager told me that there was a woman in their village who howled in bed for three days and three nights until all her strength was exhausted, and she did not learn this harmful technique, but in the end, she still failed to fight against the grass ghost woman, and finally became the successor of Gu poison. ”
"Why? Since she wasn't even afraid of death, why did she still learn Gu art? ”
"The grass ghost woman grabbed her daughter."
Cheng Muyou sighed deeply, as a father, he deeply understands the inseparable feelings of parents for their children, he can't help but feel a little sympathy in his heart, but he is also more curious about the ending of this story, "What happened later? ”
"Her daughter still died, and she died in the Gu, because a qualified Gu woman can't be bound by the feelings of the world, so after the woman learned the Gu technique, the grass ghost woman killed her daughter. The woman lay her daughter's body on the bed and wept day and night, denouncing God's injustice to her. But something strange happened, and a day later, the little girl's hand suddenly moved, followed by her whole body, she climbed down from the bed, stared straight at the woman who was already frozen on the ground, and then suddenly shouted loudly: 'Mother, mother. The woman was astonished and delighted, thinking that Heaven had mercy on her, and had given her back the dead daughter, and she was about to take her into her arms, but she found something slowly wriggling in her mouth, with pointed heads and tentacles all over her body. It turned out that her daughter was already a walking corpse controlled by Gu worms. Seeing this, the woman screamed, and then her body slowly turned into a large bird, which was completely black, only with reddish-green stripes on its belly, and she pounced on her daughter, pierced her head with her sharp beak, and sucked all the brain into her stomach, and then, taking a strand of her daughter's hair, let out a chirp that seemed to come from hell, and flew into the night sky. ”
As soon as Yan Niang's words fell, the candle on the table suddenly went out, and at the same time, there were screams one after another from outside the house.
"What is this?"
"Good...... It hurts, it looks like it's got into the flesh......"
"My lord, she's coming...... She's coming......"
Cheng Muyou bounced up from the chair at once, grabbed his sword and rushed to the door, but at this moment, the door suddenly creaked and slowly opened.
A black figure walked in, taking advantage of the moonlight flowing in, Cheng Muyou finally saw her appearance clearly, it was a woman dressed in black, her back was very hunched, as if she was carrying two huge stones, the lines on her face were as deep as vertical and horizontal ravines, each of which was filled with the vicissitudes of the world, and the strange thing was that none of her hair turned white, and the greasy hair was combed into a horn-like bun, as if it could drip kerosene.
Cheng Muyou looked at the hands exposed in her cuffs, which should not be called "hands", because each of her fingers arched like chicken claws, turning into sharp hooks at the tips of her fingers.
She let out a strange cry, and then the white membrane covering her pupils disappeared, revealing a pair of red pupils.
"Give me back." She whispered indistinctly, and then suddenly pounced towards Cheng Muyou. The clothes exploded at the moment of her action, and Cheng Muyou saw a strange bird appear in front of him, it was covered with pitch-black hair, and even the scales on its claws were dark black, only a few red-green patterns were inlaid on its chest and abdomen. It flapped its wings, bringing with it a rotten, unpleasant smell. Its beak closed one by one, and suddenly, a black mist mixed with water vapor erupted in front of it.
Cheng Muyou was shocked, he turned sideways and dodged, and then raised his sword to slash at the mist. The sword seemed to be slashed into a lump of soft cotton, and there was no fulcrum to be found, but the mist dissipated, and on the ground below it, a clump of entangled insects appeared, these worms had sharp heads, hard shells like no eyes on their heads, only two lumps of mucus the size of rice grains. Their bodies are soft and thick, covered with a layer of black and white antennae. Even after being cut off, they still struggled to crawl and drill on the ground, and some of the larger ones even drilled holes the size of mung beans into the floor.
Cheng Muyou's chest churned, he couldn't hold back his nausea, and stabbed at Gu Po with a long sword in his hand, but this time he was one step slower, and Gu Po spit out several Gu worms at him, and pounced on his face.
"Be careful, sir." Shi Jin's voice suddenly appeared beside him, and he slammed into Cheng Muyou's back of the heart, helping him escape. But the black mist did not stop, it flew straight in the direction of Yan Niang, and when it was about to pounce on her face, it heard the strange bird let out a terrible scream, flapping its huge wings and violently pushing those stinky insects out of the window.
Yan Niang's hand was one more person, it was Zhu Xiaosi, she put the sleeping little girl in front of her like a shield, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked coldly at the Gu woman in front of her from the child's shoulder.
"Are you reluctant to take her life?" She hugged Zhu Xiaosi and approached Gu Po step by step, "It's because this child looks like her, right?" ”
Hearing this, Gu Po suddenly let out a "coo" sound, and her huge claws slowly stepped back against the floor.
"I never figured out why Xiao Zhen would die that day, until Yunying revealed her true colors, and I finally realized that in addition to Manager Xu, she also had an accomplice, that person, that person, it was you."