Chapter 22: A Clever Decision

  It was already past ten at night, and neither of us had fallen asleep. I lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to think of a way to sneak in, when Zhao Yuer pushed open the door and walked in.

  "Xiao Yu, I've got it! I just thought of something!" Zhao Yuer smiled at me with a mischievous grin, as if she had some earth-shattering good news.

  "Oh? You've got a way again? Hurry up and say it!" I was so anxious that I grabbed her hand, which felt icy cold and smooth. My heart skipped a beat.

  "Don't you remember that my family runs a hotel? I recall that when I went to the hotel before a big banquet, all the service staff were busy as if their lives depended on it. They had to prepare tables, chairs and whatnot. And since many hotels are short-staffed and look for part-time university students to fill in, why don't we go there early and ask them? They won't suspect a thing." Zhao Yuer finished speaking with a confident smile.

  "It's still good that I reminded you! Haha, go to sleep now, get up early tomorrow, don't forget! After saying that, Zhao Yu'er went back to her room to sleep."

  I heard Zhao Yu'er's idea, which wasn't bad, but I was afraid of something unexpected. This night was a blur and I didn't sleep well at all. The next morning, before dawn, I woke up. After simply eating some breakfast, we arrived at the hotel entrance, just in time for 9:00 AM. Several security guards were standing at the entrance of Xinghai Hotel, with rows and rows of cars parked densely outside. At this moment, a tall security guard walked towards us.

  "Hey, are you guys the temporary workers here to help out today?" Just as the security guard finished speaking, a man in a suit walked out from the side door of the staff passage. The man, wearing a white dress shirt, waved his hand at us.

  "Hey! You few come over, right, where are you looking? I'm talking to you, follow me!" The man in the suit said and went through the small door without waiting for us. We three hurriedly ran after him.

  "How much per hour? Uncle?" Zhao Yuner asked with a pretended coquettish tone.

  "Didn't we agree yesterday, 15 yuan an hour? You few are just in charge of serving dishes, after work, find me and I'll pay you. Have any of you done this before?" The man in the suit, about 1.8 meters tall, had his hands behind his back.

  "Don't worry, we'll find you when something comes up!" Zhao Yuer said after finishing these words. We followed a waiter into the kitchen, and at this time, I looked at my watch and it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the day. At 12 o'clock, Mr. Tang's banquet will officially begin.

  We followed the waiter into the kitchen, where we washed dishes until midnight. Everyone in the kitchen ran to the banquet hall to join in the excitement.

  Out of the kitchen and to the left is the banquet hall, in the center of the hall are several large subtitles "Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of Tang's Jewelry Company". It turned out that they were holding an anniversary celebration here. Before long, almost everyone at the banquet had arrived, and I seemed to have seen Manager Liu too.

  At this time, a middle-aged man in his 40s with a slightly bald head and wearing a dark suit walked out of the banquet hall. He must be Mr. Tang. He began to speak on the podium next to the banquet table, talking about how great the company's development was and how bright the future for employees would be. Before long, he finished his speech, but as he stepped down from the podium, he took the opportunity to pat the buttocks of the etiquette lady beside him. He was quite lecherous.

  "Look at this dirty old man, how disgusting!" Zhao Yuer saw Tang's boss's unscrupulous behavior, and I also found it disgusting.

  "Nie Yu, this old man is so lecherous. Why don't I and Zhao Lili go give him a taste of Zhao Lili's poison? We can trick him into going to a place, then use our poisonous insects to interrogate him, and he'll definitely reveal the whereabouts of the bracelet."

  "Alright, you two must be careful, I and Wu Shi Rong will follow behind you, don't worry!" After finishing speaking, I handed the dish to Zhao Li Li. Zhao Li Li took out a small metal ball from her pocket, poured some powder into it, and stirred...

  The seduction was indeed successful, and after finishing his speech, Boss Tang went downstairs to eat. Zhao Yuner and Zhao Lili, two beautiful women, changed their clothes and went to toast him. This old lecher unexpectedly had no defense against drinking down the powder of Zhao Lili's wooden puppet curse. Whoever drinks this kind of curse powder will obey the person who cast it, and do whatever they are told to do. Seeing that he had already eaten the curse, Zhao Lili found a secluded place to manipulate the puppet, and before long, Boss Tang actually came over by himself.

  "Boss Tang, hello! Open your eyes and take a look at who we are?" I used the silver needle to forcefully prick the wooden puppet's head, and Boss Tang actually woke up.

  "What's going on here? How did I end up here, I was just drinking a moment ago? Did you guys put some kind of spell on me? What nerve! " Mr. Tang suddenly started yelling, and I quickly dove back down, only then did he calm down.

  "Do you remember that there was a man named Luo Hao under your command, he said he gave you a pair of bracelets, weren't they the icy jade bracelets?" I held the silver needle in my hand and glared at him fiercely.

  "Yes, don't kill me, I'll tell you everything. The other day, Haicheng Company asked me to accept a pair of handcuffs, which are now placed in the Wan Gui Fa array..." He said, looking at the wooden puppet in his hand with horror.

  "Wan Gu Fa Zhen, why did you have to send the bracelet there? Was Luo Hao killed by one of you?" I thought of Luo Hao's death and suddenly became angry. Luo Hao had just graduated from university and found a job, but didn't expect to die like this.

  "I'm also following the leader's arrangement, the company's leader sent me an email to put this pair of ice jade bracelets into the Wan Guo Fa array, which is a cave in Wushan Mountain. There's a cave inside with a Wan Guo Fa array, and this pair of ice jade bracelets can open the switch of the Wan Guo Fa array. Then I can take out the Wan Guo Ding from inside. It's said that this Wan Guo Ding can suppress Wan Guo and dispel Wan Guo, it's a magical treasure that can both suppress and dispel Wan Guo. However, it must be taken out by the cold energy of the ice jade bracelets. I'm not quite sure about the specifics either... just let me go..."

  As soon as we heard what Old Tang said, we immediately understood that the people we saw working on Mount Wu that day with Luo Hao were searching for the Wan Gui Ding inside the Wan Gui Cave. This Wan Gui Ding is unexpectedly so mysterious, able to dispel the Wan Gui and cast the Wan Gui - isn't it a treasure like a god? If I got that ding, wouldn't my little sister's curse have a chance of being lifted? My heart was filled with excitement, but what about this person in front of me?

  "Zhao Lili, what are we going to do with this person? We can't just kill him, can we? But if he goes back and reports, our actions will be anticipated and when we arrive at Wushan, it'll be a death sentence! I really don't know what to do now, I've never killed anyone before. Besides, he killed Luo Hao, but who knows why?"

  "This kind of person doesn't need to be appeased, and actually doesn't need to be killed either. I've already given him a somnambulant gu, which is a type of green moth larva that's been refined into a gu. After eating this gu, he won't remember anything that happened within the past three days," Zhao Lili said as she pulled out a small bottle from her pants pocket, inside which was a tiny green soft-bodied insect.

  "Open your mouth, you old rascal!" Zhao Yuner took out a silver needle and pricked his arm. Mr. Tang looked at us reluctantly and swallowed it down. The small green insect quickly burrowed into Mr. Tang's belly...

  After finishing, Boss Tang and we immediately returned to the guest house in Miao Village.

  "Does Boss Tang really not remember things within three days?" I looked at Zhao Lili with some doubt.

  "Don't worry, I've cast a spell on him. Now that his mother is here, he won't even remember us, let alone what we look like. He also won't remember the things we said."

  "Alright, let's set off tomorrow then. If we delay for too long, they'll take away that Wan Hui Ding and the bracelet together, and we won't be able to get anything." I started to feel anxious in my heart, but really didn't know what use that Wan Hui Ding had.

  "Zhao Lili, have you heard of the Wan Gui Ding? What is it actually and what's its use?" Zhao Yun'er said as she handed her a cup of coffee.

  "This Wan Guo Ding, it seems to be the cauldron for refining Jin Chan Guo. I don't know the specifics either. The Miaojiang's Guo method has been passed down very little now, and almost no one knows about Miaojiang's Guo technique. I also learned a bit from my grandfather when I was young. Back then, my grandfather was a very powerful Guo master, but during the Cultural Revolution, he was criticized to death. Since then, our family hasn't had anyone learn that thing again." Zhao Lili looked at me with an unrelenting gaze.

  Zhao Lili continued to introduce, the Golden Cicada Shell is made by putting together one hundred kinds of poisonous insects and refining them. This Wan Huang Ding is said to be extremely toxic, not only using insects but also various things that carry poison are all put in, corpse poison, poisonous medicine, all sorts of poisons from plants are all mixed inside, a total of ten thousand kinds of poisonous cicadas. Ten thousand kinds of poisonous cicadas must go through ten thousand days before they can be refined into shape.

  "It'll take over 10,000 days to cultivate? Over 10,000 days isn't that several hundred years?" I couldn't believe my ears, a poisonous wasp cultivated for over 10,000 days must be a huge conspiracy. Who can live for so many days to cultivate a wasp?

  "Yes, this is also a legend that I heard from the elderly when I was young. However, there are indeed some mysterious places in Wushan that I have never been to. It's said that as soon as the Wan Du Zhui appears, many people will die, and it can even cause large-scale deaths." Her eyes became even more terrifying.

  "A massive death toll? What kind of accident would that be? I've never heard anything about it!" It's starting to sound like an urban legend.

  "It's true, it's said that hundreds of years ago, a great disaster occurred here, and almost all the people in our Miao village died. It seemed to be because a very powerful Gu was released. Our Miao village's shaman offended the imperial court, and the imperial court sent someone to spread a curse with a very sinister poisonous Gu. I don't know if it was like the virus now, but anyway, within less than a month, almost everyone in the entire Miao village died. My grandfather's grandfather escaped at that time, and it wasn't until decades later that his son returned to the Miao village!" Zhao Lili said that this Gu had an incredibly powerful effect, just like nuclear weapons, capable of killing many people over a large area...

  "What you're saying is a bit far-fetched, I feel like you're talking about the poisonous gas bombs of the Japanese devils, haha! With such a powerful Gu, do we still need to fight an eight-year war? If we just throw it into the Japanese army, won't they be finished off immediately?" Wu Shi Rong couldn't help but burst out laughing as he listened.

  "What I said is all true, if you don't believe me, you can go ask my older brother, if he says the same thing as me, then you'll know whether I'm lying to you or not." Zhao Lili gave a disdainful glance at the mischievous Wu Shirong.