If that was really the case, Wu Min might never return to her former self.
Lu Tianxun crouched beside the bed, holding Wu Min's hand. Her hand was almost devoid of warmth, with the veins clearly visible. He gently cupped it with both hands, trying to warm it up.
"Don't do this. It's hurting her," Yi Qing reminded Lu Tianxun.
Only then did Lu Tianxun let go of Wu Min's hand. "Who did this?"
"Maybe it was the evil witch Lin Mo," Yi Qing suddenly realized a problem that had been overlooked by her all along.
To be able to do things so silently and have someone covering in the capital, it couldn't have been done overnight. Lin Mo was from the southern border. He simply couldn't have managed it alone, unless someone was helping him.
Ping Xinian had a cooperation with Xiang Beizheng, and Xiang Beizheng had a cooperation with Lin Mo. What about Ping Xinian and Lin Mo?
Yi Qing had witnessed the strangeness of the Gu worms. When she saved Xie Xiuxian, she combined Gu arts with medicine. If Ping Xinian had also used medicine and Gu arts, she wouldn't have taken so long to recover.
The crucial point was that Wu Min's skin was too similar to Jin Xiao's. They might have used the same thing.
In Jin Xiao's mansion, Lin Mo was wearing a cloak and tearing at a half - cooked roasted chicken. He ate it messily, taking a bite and then throwing it away. There was still some blood oozing from the chicken bones, and he took a satisfied sniff.
Jin Xiao covered his nose and mouth with a fan. "Previously, I told Mr. Lin not to cause extra trouble. Mr. Lin has violated the agreement. Now, I may not be able to protect you anymore."
Lin Mo let out a couple of hehehe laughs. "If I die, who will help you refine the Heavenly Marrow Liquid?"
"I was just joking with Mr. Lin. I'm just reminding you that Xiao Jinghan and Yi Qing are not easy to deal with. We need to proceed step - by - step with anything related to them."
"I don't have your patience. You didn't say that when you invited me here."
"I didn't expect that Mr. Lin had his own plans when coming to the capital."
"You didn't stop me either. You said that by attacking the crown prince and the emperor and causing chaos in the court, no one would care about our business."
"And then?" Jin Xiao's eyes were cold. "If Mr. Lin had only provided me with the Heavenly Marrow Liquid, he wouldn't have been discovered so soon."
Lin Mo didn't want to talk about this with him. "The honey bats are mine. I can use them however I want."
Jin Xiao's eyes darkened for a moment, then he smiled again. "We have a long - term cooperation. Mr. Lin has accumulated quite a bit of Heavenly Marrow Liquid recently. You should take a break for a while."
"I've used it all up," Lin Mo had used it all on Wu Min.
Wu Min was the one he had chosen after massacring her entire family. She really didn't disappoint him. As long as there was enough Heavenly Marrow Liquid, he was confident that he could refine Wu Min into a human Gu.
The Heavenly Marrow Liquid was secreted by the honey bats. After the honey bats sucked blood, they would spit out the essence to nourish the mother honey bat. The quantity was extremely small. A honey bat had to suck blood several times to produce a single drop. Because of this characteristic, which was a bit like that of bees, he named his Gu worms honey bats.
The transparent honey bat that Jin Xiao had taken out before was a special type of honey bat Gu used to store the bat honey, which could ensure that the bat honey wouldn't go bad.
Jin Xiao gritted his teeth. "Mr. Lin has caused so much trouble, and there's nothing left?"
"One Gu out of ten thousand worms. It's even more difficult to refine a human Gu. What do you think? This is just the beginning," Lin Mo said nonchalantly.
Jin Xiao tried his best not to get angry. He still needed Lin Mo for now. "Since Wu Min has been taken away, Mr. Lin should be more discreet recently."
Lin Mo let out a hehehe laugh but didn't agree to Jin Xiao.
Lu Tianxun didn't leave Xiao's mansion until dusk. Not long after he left, Wu Min woke up. She went crazy, biting anyone she saw, and was subdued by the guards who rushed over.
Hearing this news, Yi Qing rushed over in a hurry. She saw Wu Min struggling desperately while being held by others, and her skin had turned blood - red.
She quickly inserted the needles, trying to calm Wu Min down. But Wu Min seemed to be stimulated and struggled even more fiercely. Yi Qing simply knocked her out.
Only then did Yi Qing realize a problem: Wu Min's meridians and acupoints were already different from those of ordinary people.
"Are you okay?" Xiao Jinghan also rushed over after hearing about it.
"I'm fine," Yi Qing rubbed her hand. "Tie her up."
Xiao Jinghan pulled Yi Qing's hand and rubbed it gently. "Will she be able to regain consciousness?"
"I don't know either," Yi Qing saw the maid who had been bitten on one side. "Come here. Let me take a look."
The maid walked over to Yi Qing, and Yi Qing checked her wound against the candlelight.
"There's poison," Yi Qing withdrew her hand and immediately inserted the needles into the maid.
"Madam, I..." The maid felt a bit manic and clenched her fists tightly.
"Quickly restrain her," Yi Qing immediately pulled out the needles.
After the maid was restrained, she also started to struggle and looked extremely crazy.
"What's wrong with her?" Xiao Jinghan protected Yi Qing.
"Wu Min is now a poisoned person. Those bitten by her will also go crazy like her," Yi Qing finally understood why they could easily rescue Wu Min.
The maid was also knocked out, and Yi Qing began to check the maid's injury. This toxin spread too quickly. One could almost see the toxin spreading along the meridians.
She thought this was a bit like the zombie virus. Once it entered the body, it seemed to take over the body. Even if a person died, the toxin would still make the body bite others. Now that the maid hadn't completely died, she still had a fainting reaction.
"Find an iron cage and lock her up. No one is allowed to get close to her, especially not to be scratched or bitten by her," Yi Qing ordered.
Everyone was a bit confused but still went to prepare.
Yi Qing looked at Wu Min on the bed. She might be the mother Gu among the Gu worms, so she didn't die. "Prepare an iron cage for her too."
She hadn't slept the previous night. After dealing with all these things, Yi Qing fell asleep as soon as she lay down. Xiao Jinghan moved her to the inner side of the bed, and she didn't even wake up.
Early in the morning, there were roars in the courtyard. Yi Qing was woken up groggily.
"What's going on?" Yi Qing's head was still heavy, and she hadn't slept enough.
"The maid that Madam locked up last night somehow started to scream like crazy," Ruo Hong was preparing the clothes for her madam to wear when getting up.
Yi Qing squinted at the window. The sun was shining brightly today. What had happened yesterday?
Suddenly, she had a jolt, stepped on her shoes, and ran out.
The maid locked in the iron cage last night kept trying to hide herself and let out painful screams with blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.
Yi Qing looked at the maid's appearance and then at the sun. "Find something to cover the cage."
The servants hurriedly found something to cover the cage, and only then did the maid stop screaming. But she looked terrified and showed her teeth when seeing people.
"Madam, what's wrong with her..." Ruo Hong didn't expect this.
Yi Qing wondered if she was seeing a biochemical crisis or a vampire scenario. Was this a vampire - version of the biochemical crisis?
"Don't get close to her. Keep her locked up for now," Yi Qing decided not to care as long as she stopped screaming. "Don't give her anything to eat."
"Yes," the guard on one side took the order.