Chapter 67: The Gu Poison

  "What's going on? Who got schemed against? You'd better speak clearly!" I asked Hou Shuangshuang, who was panting beside me in the taxi.

  "Qian Ligu, after going back last night, insisted on sleeping next to me. I said sleep then sleep, and when I came out of the bath, she was lying on the bed with a pale face, unconscious. I checked her all over, but didn't find any mosquito bites or scars from external injuries."

  Qian Ligu is a friend she made after coming to Korea, and also her only friend. The two people usually get along so well that they can't bear to wear different pants. At this time, her good friend had an inexplicable accident, and it's no wonder she was so worried.

  "Didn't you send her to the hospital?" I asked casually. Logically speaking, for such a sudden illness, she should have been sent to the hospital at the first moment, rather than delaying time by putting the patient at home.

  "No, Ligu isn't sick, look at this!" Hou Shuangshuang took out a sealed bag containing tissues from her pocket and handed it to me.

  "What's this?" I opened the plastic bag and pulled out the few tissues inside, asking Hou Shuangshuang in confusion.

  "This is what I found on the windowsill and window after Li Gu's incident. Before I took a bath, all the windows were closed, but when I came out of the bathroom, one of them was open halfway. These things are just drips on the windowsill." Hou Shuangshuang spread out the paper towel and pointed at the few light green stains on it, saying to me.

  "It smells so bad!" I picked up a tissue and put it under my nose, wrinkling my brow and muttering to myself.

  "Are you suspicious?" I asked Hua Shuangshuang tentatively after rolling down the taxi window a bit and taking a few breaths of fresh air.

  "I suspect that Ligu was poisoned by someone, and these marks are the traces left when the poison entered." Hou Shuangshuang blurted out her suspicion.

  "This thing isn't only found in Yunnan, is it? How did it end up in Korea?" I asked Hou Shuangshuang after the nauseating smell in my nostrils had dissipated.

  "It's not just Yunnan that has people raising wasps, Southeast Asia is also very skilled at playing with this kind of thing. But I don't understand, why would someone deliberately provoke a wasp nest?" Hou Shuangshuang put the tissue back in the sealed bag and stuffed it into her pocket, saying to me.

  "Do you live on the second floor?" I got out of the taxi and stood under the apartment rented by Qian Li Gu, observing around with my hands in my pockets.

  "Look, where you live, downstairs is a Y-shaped intersection. And your building is right in the middle of the Y. If someone wants to observe you or plot against you, they have three observation points to choose from. And after it's done, they also have three escape routes to choose from." I walked around this 8-story small apartment and said to Hou Shuangshuang.

  "You suspect someone is secretly plotting against Qian Ligu, right? You're wrong, I think the one who wants to plot in secret is actually you!" I raised my hand and pointed at the dark green mark below the window on the second floor.

  "Who scratched me?" Hou Shuang looked at the S-shaped mark on the windowsill and asked in confusion.

  "From here up, isn't that your room? And that night, Qian Li Gu slept in your room. At the time, you weren't in the room, but had gone to take a bath. This led the person who came to ambush you to mistake Qian Li Gu for you, it can be said that Qian Li Gu took a bullet for you!" I reached out and opened the sliding door of the apartment, gesturing for Hou Shuang Shuang to follow me upstairs, then said to her.

  "But I haven't offended anyone, who would want to harm me?" Hou Shuangshuang followed behind me and said in puzzlement.

  "In conclusion, I can be sure that the person who set up the trap didn't know you personally, but only knew where you lived. Judging from Qian Ligou's attitude when she intercepted me yesterday, I believe there are many people who usually want to get close to you. And as for information about you, I'm sure they've done their homework. And last night, such a big commotion happened around you. As for information about you, I believe it will be spread everywhere without anyone even asking." I walked to the door of Qian Ligou's residence, stopped in my tracks and turned around to look at Hou Shuangshuang.

  "You just said you didn't have any grudges with anyone, but in my opinion, the grudge you had with someone last night was huge." I nodded to Hou Shuangshuang to open the door and then whispered behind her.

  "You're saying that it's someone from the Taekwondo club who hired a thug to attack me?" As soon as she said this, Hou Shuang suddenly realized something.

  "If someone had cut my Achilles tendon, do you think I would buy a killer to take revenge? Moreover, you also let another person pee his pants in public." I smiled lightly and raised an eyebrow at Hou Shuangshuang.

  "After your analysis, I'm sure this is done by those Koreans." Hou Shuangshuang said with hatred.

  "But where did they find the person who can subdue the evil spirit?" Hou Shuangshuang took out the key and opened the lock while saying suspiciously.

  "There are so many students from Southeast Asia in the university, maybe someone understands this. Also, it's possible that Koreans who are interested in Gu worms did it themselves. These are all unimportant, what's important is that we need to know what kind of worm is inside Qian Li Gu's body. Once we find the worm, I'll crush it with one hand, and then the person who was infested will be waiting for revenge!" I said coldly.

  "Hiss~Whoosh!" Hou Shuang quickly opened the door and a black shadow flew in, spitting out a string of saliva. In an instant, she made a swift move, like a flash of lightning, and the black shadow barely grazed her cheek as it whizzed by, creating a hole in the shoe cabinet behind her.

  "Ligou......" Hou Shuangshuang suddenly pulled out a judge's pen full of symbols from her waist, just as she was about to attack the sneak attacker. But when she looked up, she saw Qian Ligou stuck on the ceiling, with a long tongue hanging out of his mouth, staring at her with scarlet eyes.

  "Hiss!" Qian Ligou's pupils shrunk to the size of a needle hole, and she let out a hissing sound. The tongue that had been dripping with saliva in her mouth retracted and snapped back into place, and once again launched an attack on Hou Shuangshuang on the ground.

  "Shadow!" The space inside the room was not large, and Qian Ligu's tongue kept popping back and forth, leaving Hou Shuangshuang no way to dodge. Just as the tongue was about to hit her, Hou Shuangshuang drew a horizontal line on her chest, let out a delicate cry, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

  "Psst~" The bright figure of Hou Shuangshuang disappeared from my eyes, and the money Li Gu's target for attack was immediately locked onto me. After a low hiss, the tongue drew out a crisp sound in mid-air, like a whip wrapping around my neck.

  "Ren Gao protects me, Ding Chou guards me."

  Benevolent and long-lasting, I, Ding You, will be preserved whole.

  In a moment of urgency, I, who didn't want to French kiss with Qian Ligu, quickly recited the Six Ding Protection Spell. Just as I finished reciting the spell, that tongue had already reached in front of my eyes.

  "Crack!" A crisp sound, my tongue and neck had an intimate contact. The Six Ding protective charm bounced the tongue back, while my face was splashed with a mouthful of saliva.

  "Ah..." Qian Ligou retracted her tongue back into her mouth, letting out a pained cry. It seemed that the backlash from the Liu Ding protective charm had indeed caused her considerable pain.

  "Heaven and Earth, mysterious ancestor!" I saw the situation with both palms spread out, thumbs pinched on the first joint of the middle finger, reciting...

  "The root of all energies!" As I changed the incantation, my thumb quickly pinched onto the second joint of my middle finger!

  "Kuangxiu wan jie!" I stepped on the heavenly garrison, and my thumb switched to the second joint of the ring finger, chanting.

  "I swear to God!" I then pressed my thumb onto the first joint of my ring finger and shouted loudly.

  "Hum~" As the incantation ended, the hand seal was also completed. At this moment, a golden light suddenly flashed on my body, and the entire room instantly fell into a dazzling aura that made it impossible to open one's eyes directly.

  "Sister, if not now, when?!" I narrowed my eyes and shouted at Qian Ligu who was falling from the ceiling and running around wildly, while Hou Shuangshuang hid her figure.

  "Shaoyin!" Hou's figure appeared with my shout, holding the judge's pen upside down and descending from the sky. Then the pen tip stabbed directly at Qian Ligu's waist vertebrae, coldly shouting.

  "Close your eyes and turn around!" Just as the afterglow dissipated, I was about to go see how my junior sister's battle had turned out when suddenly I heard Hou Xiangxiang's crisp voice beside my ear.

  "What's going on?" I asked, turning around and facing away from Hou Shuangshuang.

  "I poked Qian Ligou's waist, and she lost control of her bladder. Don't turn your head, I'm going to change her clothes!" As my junior sister spoke, the scene of Qian Ligou wetting her pants involuntarily appeared in my mind.

  After a while, Hou Shuangshuang finally helped Qian Ligu change her clothes. Then, holding her friend who had lost the ability to move, she walked into the bedroom.

  "What's next?" Looking at Qian Ligu who was lying on the bed with her tongue hanging out, my junior sister asked me anxiously.

  "Hmm, look at her just now, what does she look like?" I raised my hand to support my chin and walked around the bed a few times, asking Hou Shuangshuang.

  "What's it like?" My junior sister didn't understand what I meant.

  "Doesn't it look like a gecko?" Helpless, I could only tell the answer in my heart to this slow-reacting junior sister.

  "Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit like that!" It was only then that Hou Shuangshuang realized.

  "I reckon the bug inside her body should be a gecko. If it's really as I guessed, maybe there's a way to try it out." I walked into the kitchen and took out a pair of chopsticks. Gently picking up Qian Li's tongue that had fallen onto the pillow with the chopsticks, I put it back into her mouth and said to my junior sister.

  "What's going on?" The junior sister hastily asked back.

  "I don't guarantee it will work!" I have to make things clear before taking action, otherwise if it doesn't succeed, I'll inevitably end up with an unsatisfactory result.

  "Give it a try, who knows if it might work?" Hou Shuangshuang was getting impatient and urging them on.

  "Go catch a few flies!" I rummaged through the boxes in the house to find some thread, and instructed Hou Shuangshuang without even lifting my head.

  "What's the point of having flies?" Hou Shuangshuang didn't understand what I meant, but she still started searching for flies all over the house.

  "Come and see for yourself!" I tore open the lace nightgown in the closet with a few pulls, holding up the lace edge to say to my fellow sister!