Guan Mo coughed for a while, but his voice was still weak. "He didn't think of using the 'Gu Man' method from the beginning. The initial method, of course, was to swallow the Gu worm directly. There are many precedents for the sect of Gu to increase their strength in a short period of time, and if they are cautious, they will take venom and take it, first in small amounts, and gradually increase it. The most common among the phantom beings is to practice the 'Bi Silkworm Gu' poisonous palm, of course my father has practiced this, and even directly swallowed the Bi Silkworm Gu - but he still feels that the Bi Silkworm Gu is not toxic enough, and at that time, the phantom life was in the desert, close to the snow mountain, and the most poisonous Gu worms in the sect at that time were a few ice worms that were caught and fed. ”

Okra couldn't help but glance at the glass again, "That's it?"

"That's it. Guan Mo said, "My father has a good senior brother who is very important to the master, and he was assigned an ice silkworm at that time and was cultivating. He told his senior brother about this idea—although he entered the phantom life late, he was the most diligent, and he often read and investigated the information of Gu worms carefully, and sometimes he knew more than other disciples—and he said to his senior brother that the ice silkworm is powerful to manipulate as a Gu worm, but because it is larger than ordinary silkworms, it is actually not more convenient than other Gu worms in terms of control, and the more effective way to use it is to turn the power of the ice Gu into his own power - that is, to swallow the ice silkworm. Such persuasion, his senior brother also felt reasonable, but the ice silkworm was very toxic, and he did not dare to move lightly, the two of them concocted the medicine to overcome the ice silkworm poison, at first it was to try to let the ice silkworm bite his fingers, and immediately after the bite applied medicine, take antidotes, and gradually the body tolerated it, and the two did feel that their skills had improved, and their hearts were itchy and unbearable, so they decided to take risks. It's a pity that the new ice silkworm has not yet grown, and there is only one adult worm at hand, and if you want to swallow it, you can only give it to your senior brother. ”

"And then?" asked okra.

"Later—his brother swallowed the ice silkworm. But—he couldn't stand it, and died. ”

“...... So Guan Fei Cai--I thought of another way--I thought of a way to trick people?"

"That's right. Guan Mo said, "He was greatly shaken, and he was afraid, so he spent two years studying how to raise ice silkworms, and raised a lot of this rare thing, and the master assigned him a separate Gu room to raise ice Gu." He didn't dare to take the ice silkworm himself, but he-privately caught some people and raised them in the Gu room, gave the ice silkworm to these people, supplemented it with medicine, and became a Gu person. Most of them - of course couldn't stand it and died. But he won't die immediately, because the restrained medicinal herb he developed earlier could allow the Gu people to support them for some time, and it was these days that he cut the Gu people's blood and drank their blood. ”

Okra's fingers trembled when she heard this, "He also drinks your blood like this?"

Guan was silent.

Okra calmed down a little, "...... But you were a young child, and those ins and outs — how do you know that? Not necessarily—and you're going to tell you?"

"Do you know why Mo Shi left Phantom Life back then?" Guan Mo sneered, "because he discovered this secret. ”

He paused slightly, "Lost - not a long time in the phantom, only a few years before and after. But he is very talented, and he is also very studious—very curious—very bold, even Guan Sheng and I dare not go to my father's Gu room lightly, but he dares to go secretly. After I went, I often came to tell me. But one day when he came, his whole face was not right. He flipped through my father's Gu room and found a journal about the matter. My father experimented with Gu people back then, and in order to make comparisons, he carefully recorded the traits of each Gu person—what kind of medicine each person fed—when each person took the ice silkworm—how he reacted—when and how much blood he drank—and how long each Gu person lived. Mo lost it at first glance and didn't believe it, but he was still curious - he went to investigate the matter. In addition, we have been in the desert for all those years, and Mo Shi grew up in the desert, so of course we can find out that there were indeed many children who disappeared in the past. All the evidence put together, he had to believe it. The only thing he didn't know was that I was one of the Gu people. As soon as he said that, I knew what was going on. ”

"He didn't know that you were a Gu person—how could he dare to come and tell you? ”

"He understands me. He believed in me too. He came to say goodbye to me that day. On the surface, he had made a mistake and had my father banish him, but in fact—he said that though he had known that phantom beings were not good, and that he had thought that he was by no means a good man, it was inconceivable to him, and that he was terrified—that he could not stay any longer. He told me that one day I would be able to make up my mind to leave this phantom. I didn't say anything, and he probably thought I didn't believe such a sensational thing, so he left me the journal so that I could see what it was, and I wouldn't want to stay with my father. ”

"Then have you read?—— in the records of those Gu people, you should be there?"

"I didn't look at it at all. I don't want to delve into my origins. Guan Mo sneered, "If you're like me, you've had such terrible nightmares, you'd rather never think about them." ”

"So-for so many years, you still deceived yourself to stay by Guan Fei's side, obeyed him, and even raised new Gu people for him to help him do evil. ”

Guan Mo was silent.

"This Gu worm—" Okra picked up the cup, "is it really the one back then? It's always in your body, how can a silkworm live for forty years and so long?"

"Gu worms, there is always a saying that they are active and dormant. It just couldn't move, and was forced to sleep forever. ”

"Inactive? What do you mean?"

"Maybe I was too young back then—he fed me the ice silkworms, and for the first few days, it was all good, and he took blood twice, but—later," Guan Mo suddenly stretched out his hand and compared his chest, "when the ice silkworms swam around my body, they got stuck in this position. No matter how much he urged the Gu worm again, the Ice Silkworm just couldn't move. At that time, because of the suppression of drugs, the ice silkworm did not vomit much poison every day - and then could not produce new poison, so I was able to live. But it was also because the Gu worm was blocked in the vocal cavity that I couldn't make a sound anymore. ”

Okra was stunned when she heard this, and she was silent for a while, and suddenly came to her senses, "You clearly read the log, otherwise how would you know?—— but you said you didn't read it!"

Guan Mo turned his head, as if he hadn't heard Okra's words, and continued to look at himself: "He-I don't want to die easily, so he didn't abandon me immediately." And then—probably after raising me for a long time, he accidentally called someone to find out, and told the teacher, that he had to keep me, saying that he was his child, but he couldn't speak, and he was ashamed to show me people. But the ice silkworm never moved, and later, he seemed to forget that I was just a Gu man. I didn't know what a talking person was like until I was very old, I didn't know that I had such a thing in my body, I just knew that every day I was in pain as if I was about to lose my breath, and I just remembered that I had begged him with gestures that I didn't want to live anymore. And he told me what you just said. He said, "If you don't survive, how do you know if you're useful?" I never understood why I had to be so miserable in life, until — much later—the day Mo Shi handed me the journal. ”

Okra suddenly felt a little blocked in her heart - she was panicked. Guan Mo - it turned out that he never knew what had happened to him, and - it was not until that year, after listening to Mo Shi's words, until he read the diary and recalled all kinds of himself, that he finally realized - what kind of mood he was in at that moment, she admitted, she could not empathize.

A few years after Mo was lost, Phantom moved out of the desert and went to the beach. I didn't have a single friend in those years, and when I occasionally recalled it, I only felt like a world away from me, and I only felt that those things didn't exist at all. In addition to listening to my father more than before, and practicing Gu art harder than before, what else can I do?"

Guan Mo reluctantly raised his head, his eyes met the okra, and the okra finally gave birth to two points of pity, and he didn't want to ask any more questions, nor did he want to sneer at him again. "I'll take this ice silkworm first. She said, "I might as well be honest with you, Mo Lost - he has an Illusory Life Gu on his body, and when we return to Lin'an, if he wants to live, he will not be able to stay here for a long time - Shen Fengming said that the only one who can stay in the Illusory Life is you." ”

After a pause, "Naturally, you still have a choice—you can accept such kindness and continue to regard us as enemies. I just want to tell you, back then, my 'maternal grandmother', the world thought that she had no other way to go than to follow Guan Feisu, but she just refused, she had already seen through what kind of person Guan Feisu was, as you said, even Mo lost - she was determined to cut off Guan Feisu, and even your nephew Guan Daiyu, didn't you notice, he actually chose you between you and his biological father, because even if he didn't know anything, he could at least feel who treated him better. I don't care at all how painful you were before and whether you regret it or not, but--since Shen Fengming bothered to save you today, I always hope that this time, you won't make the wrong choice again. ”

Guan Mo turned his face away, only his shoulders trembled slightly.

Okra didn't wait for Guan Mo's answer, held the porcelain cup, and walked back to the east building slowly, step by step. Although the words were condescending, my heart was still a little heavy and uneasy, and when I arrived at the front of the house, I calmed down a little. Li Wenzhong visited in front of the house early, "What did Miss Qiu say?"

Okra shook her head, "Some trivial matters, the Lord gave me this Gu worm, and I always found it with my conscience - I am afraid that Shen Fengming will have some accidents because of saving him." ”

Li Wenzhong smiled and said: "I see that Shen Gongzi sleeps smoothly, it should be fine-this room is so hot, I can't stand the heat, he will never be cold." ”

"I still have to work for you, send someone to send Guan Mo back. ”

Li Wenzhong waved his hand to signal the trivial matter, but when he was leaving, he couldn't help but glance into the room again, and whispered: "Miss Qiu, let me ask in private, is our Feng Ye this-no chance?"

Okra was suddenly embarrassed, and before he could speak, Li Wenzhong had already laughed to himself, "I told him a long time ago, but he didn't believe it." Carrying the lantern at the door, he shook his head and left, not forgetting to hum a song all the way: "I can't win the beautiful - Jiao - Niang - ah - the beautiful Jiao Niang's one - heart - "