Chapter 256: Evil Begins and Ends (Second Update)
I lay on the ground, holding my knee that had been hurt by the fall and looked sideways, only to see that Yaolong was still in a coma, and the old woman had already lost her crystal wings behind her at this time, and collapsed weakly, her eyes looked a little blank.
"What's wrong with you, old woman?" I asked a little worriedly, and at the same time I grabbed my body that had been hurt by the fall and got up from the ground and slowly moved to the old woman's side.
At this moment, I was shocked to find that the skin on the old woman's bare arm had turned black and purple. Moreover, the black-purple skin had begun to fester.
"Tell me the truth, did you get poisoned when you saved us?" As I spoke, I reached out to pull the old woman up from the ground.
As soon as I stretched out my hand, I heard a "pop", and the old woman directly blocked my outstretched hand with her other hand, and said, "I'm fine, leave me alone, go and help your friend into the house first." As she spoke, the old woman stood up tremblingly with her hands on the ground.
Her movements were much weaker than before. Seeing this, I was noncommittal, and I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to turn around and help Yaolong, who had fallen to the ground unconscious, up, and then carried him into the house.
After entering the house, I carefully placed Yaolong on the bed, and his face was not unusual at this time, as if he was asleep.
At this time, the old woman slowly walked in from outside the house, and said a little weakly behind me: "Don't worry, your friend will be fine, sleep for a night and he will heal himself tomorrow." ”
After saying that, the old woman turned around and was about to leave, when I hurriedly stopped her and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”
She said without looking back: "Now I can help you, and then it will be up to your friend to create himself, and as for my business, you don't have to bother......"
After saying that, I saw that she wanted to leave again, so I stepped forward in three steps and two steps, stopped in front of her, and said, "You have saved our lives, whether it is in love or reason, I cannot ignore it, so if you have any difficulties, please be sure to tell them directly, otherwise I will have a troubled conscience." ”
When I said this, the old woman could not hide it any longer, so she said, "In that case, then I will let you take a look, and you will come with me." ”
So saying, the old woman passed me by, and walked alone in front, leading me to a small thatched hut not far away, which was a very small room, which seemed to accommodate only one or two people.
Seeing this, I thought to myself, what can be hidden in such a small room, could it be a basement again?
Thinking about it, I saw that the old woman stretched out her hand and pushed the door of the small house open without saying a word, and then walked in by herself.
As she entered, a glimmer of fire suddenly lit up in the gloomy room, and I saw the old woman standing in the room with a candlestick, and the hut was just as I thought, with a staircase leading to the ground beside the old woman.
"This is ......" I looked at the pitch-black passage that stretched downward, looking a little puzzled.
"Don't you want to know what's wrong with me? Now I'll show you the truth of all this......" she said, turning and holding the candlestick and walking down the stairs.
At this point, although I didn't know what she was trying to show me, I followed her all the way down the stairs out of curiosity and wanting to help her.
There was no word all the way, and after walking for a few minutes in the deep staircase, by the flickering candle flame, a relatively spacious basement suddenly appeared in front of me.
Standing in the doorway, the old woman motioned for me to wait, while she herself entered the house with a candlestick. After a long time, she lit all the candles around the house, then came up to me and said, "These are the things you want to know." ”
With that, she pointed behind her. I followed her finger and saw several crude wooden shelves standing behind the old woman, and on the shelves were many bottles and jars, most of which were made of earth, and only a few were brown copper jars, but they were not transparent, and I had no way of knowing what was hidden in them.
"Old woman, what do you have in these jars? What does this have to do with your symptoms? I asked, puzzled.
"Of course it matters, because these jars are full of Gu worms...... the old woman sighed and continued: "It is precisely because I have been making Gu and practicing Gu symbiosis with Gu all year round that I have accumulated a large amount of Gu poison ...... in my body."
"No, don't you also have a Gu King on you? Why is it still corrupted by Gu poison? Could it be that this Gu King would have any side effects? Saying that, I couldn't help but be a little worried about Yaolong, who was in a coma, for fear that he would fall into some sequelae.
The old woman explained: "You don't know this, you saw that I had the same black armor on my body as your friend, it was indeed because I had the existence of the Gu King on my body, but the Gu King on my body was not as complete as your friend's. This is also due to a mistake I made when I first refined the Gu King, and because of this mistake, there was only half of the Gu King in my body, so its effect was only half of it......"
"But at first, I didn't know it, thinking that having a Gu King would be able to resist Gu poison, so I began to refine all kinds of Gu unscrupulously. During this period, I was injured by the Gu I had refined many times, causing the Gu poison in my body to accumulate more and more. It is precisely because of this that I discovered that the Gu King in my body is not a complete Gu King......"
Speaking of this, the old woman's expression looked a little sad, and seeing that she fell silent, I asked puzzledly, "There is still an incomplete Gu King?" So what is a complete Gu King, and what is incomplete? ”
After hearing this, the old woman said: "The so-called complete Gu King is not only extremely powerful, but also can neutralize all the poisons in the world and merge them with themselves, so as to dissolve the poison of all things and turn it into their own use......
"The incomplete Gu King can only fuse the poison in himself with the body, but it can't dissolve the poison, it can only delay the onset of the poison...... But as the toxins in my body became more and more, my body gradually deteriorated, and in the previous battle with that Gu Po, I was infected with the poison again, causing the original toxins in my body to merge with the poison into an incurable poison, so now I don't have much time......"
Speaking of this, the old woman looked back at the Gu worms behind her who were with her day and night, and muttered to herself: "Anyone who does harm to others will eventually bring disaster to himself...... If I had seen it earlier, I probably wouldn't have ended up like this......"