I was very careful when I picked up the poisonous insect with a knife, and even used the little Netherworld Qi left in my body to hold the tip of the knife. I thought that the Netherworld Qi that could freeze an ordinary person's hands and feet numb in an instant would be enough to make the poisonous insect dormant temporarily, but I didn't expect the poisonous insect to be so ferocious. Not only was it not subdued, but it rushed towards me instead.
When I wanted to touch the insect again, it had already bitten open the skin on the back of my hand and drilled into the flesh. After lifting up a soybean-sized piece of skin on my hand, it stuck under the skin and drilled in along my arm towards my shoulder.
I hurriedly pulled out the belt with my left hand and wrapped it around my arm, bit one end of the belt with my teeth and pulled it hard, trapping the poisonous insect in my flesh. I gently loosened my right hand and threw away the dagger in my hand. Before the dagger fell to the ground, I grabbed the handle with my left hand and stabbed my arm with the knife, cutting off a bloody piece of flesh and using the tip of the knife to pick up the seat.
As soon as the bloodstained human skin was attached to the back of the chair, the poisonous insect came out from under the human skin, and I followed suit and stabbed the back of the chair. When the cold and sharp tip of the knife pierced the back of the poisonous insect without any deviation, I also exerted my strength in anger under the intense pain and stabbed the several-inch-long dagger into the chair.
After the blade of the dagger cut the poisonous insect, a peculiar smell emanated from the insect's corpse. I instinctively felt something was wrong, and Yingying, who was covered by a blanket, suddenly sat up from the ground.
I only stared into her eyes for a moment, then I immediately put my hands on the chair beside me and suddenly jumped into the air. As soon as my feet left the ground, a crystal clear light spot like a grain of rice burst out from Yingying's body.
As many as a dozen light spots flew past me like hidden weapons, and I heard a scream from behind. When I fell back to the ground, Yingying also lay straight on the ground without a sound, but there was a "rustling" sound in her abdomen like termites gnawing on wood, and dark red blood gushed out of her seven orifices.
"Yingying!" The boy who rushed to find me cried and wanted to throw himself on the corpse, but was stopped by someone in the distance.
Xie Jingwen stood up and said to the boy in a cold voice: "Now, do you understand? Wu Zhao can't save you at all. He can't detoxify, let alone deal with poisonous insects."
The man said sternly: "If he can't do it, will you?"
Xie Jingwen walked over to another person covered by a blanket and poured some liquid medicine into his mouth. Not long after, the man began to struggle violently, but Xie Jingwen reached out and grabbed the blanket and suddenly lifted it into the air.
Xie Jingwen deliberately stretched the blanket in the air and flashed it back and forth a few times. After everyone could clearly see the poisonous insects hanging on the blanket like water droplets, he rolled up the blanket, took out some strong liquor, poured it on the blanket, lit it on fire and threw it out of the window.
The person who was covered under the blanket just now seemed to have been washed all over, but he was already full of life.
Xie Jingwen pointed at the man and said, "Now you see it! We covered him with a blanket not to hide anything, but to save him. It's just that you were too impatient."
“I, I, I…” The man said “I” several times in a row but couldn’t continue with the words.
Jiang Yan shouted, "Since you can detoxify, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Would you believe it if I told you earlier?" Xie Jingwen said, "All magicians have a habit of letting the facts speak for themselves. A true magician will not bother to explain anything to his employer. Only those charlatans will keep telling you stories and ghosts and gods."
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "I just want you to see the facts clearly."
The boy who called me snapped, “But that’s not what you just said!”
Xie Jingwen sneered and said, "Since you don't believe me, why should I explain it to you? Does your life or death have anything to do with me?"
"You...you..." the boy said in a trembling voice, "Are you angry with me? Just because of a bet, you can just watch someone die without helping?"
"It's not that I didn't help you, but you were looking for someone else to help you." Xie Jingwen said, "Because you trusted Wu Zhao, not only did you kill your friend, but also seriously injured my warlock."
Although the poisonous insect that was shot out of Yingying's body just now did not hurt me, it hurt a sorcerer from the Xuanjing Division behind me.
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "Now, go with Wu Zhao!"
“No… No…” The boy shook his head desperately, “I won’t leave, I…”
Xie Jingwen's voice sank: "My master's wife has already said..."
"Don't chase me away..." The boy knelt on the floor with a plop, "Please don't chase me away. I shouldn't have believed that liar..."
Seeing that Jie Jingwen was unmoved, the boy turned around and yelled at me, "Get lost—you liar, get lost—I shouldn't have believed you!"
I gave Sun Xiaomei a thumbs up, then turned and walked back to my own carriage.
I lost! From the moment that boy fell to his knees, I lost. There was no chance of a comeback.
I fell into the trap set by Sun Xiaomei again.
Sun Xiaomei knew that my next step was to compete with her for resources, that is, the people who traveled with me at that time. Without their guidance, we would not be able to find the place at all, and we don’t know what they have experienced.
Sun Xiaomei also knew that Jiang Yan was still a little shaken. He had never seen the abilities of the magician of the Mirror Division, but he had encountered ghosts with me. In a sense, he trusted me more. If I were given a chance, I might be able to persuade Jiang Yan, or get some information from him. Therefore, Sun Xiaomei had to put an end to his thoughts.
The poison that attacked their people this time was caused by Sun Xiaomei's trick.
I didn't expect that Sun Xiaomei would risk a life to plot against me, which is why I fell into her trap.
If my guess is correct, when Ye Jin went to the police to ask for the train to stop, Sun Xiaomei guessed that the poison in Shi Heshang had taken effect. She immediately put another kind of poison in Jiang Yan and others. After the poison in those two people took effect, she wrapped them in a blanket and put them on the ground.
She knew that I would definitely find a way to spy on what was going on in her carriage, and that I had even discovered Lao Chang's presence, so she deliberately put on a show right under my nose.
Sun Xiaomei first controlled a person to cause the poisonous insect to attack, making her beg Jiang Yan desperately. In addition, Xie Jingwen kept ridiculing her. Someone among Jiang Yan and his men must have lost his mind and came to us directly. I would definitely think that this was a good opportunity to snatch that person away.
The aisle between train carriages was only so wide. I came from that carriage and it was impossible for me to see another person by looking past Yingying who was blocking the aisle. Besides, the boy came to me to save Yingying, so I had to consider Yingying's poison first. Sun Xiaomei naturally chose Yingying as the object of sacrifice.
After they control the poison in Yingying's body and kill her, Xie Jingwen will lift the blanket on the other person and let everyone see the poison worm stuck on the blanket. Then I will lose.
No matter whether those poisonous insects were placed directly in the blanket by Sun Xiaomei or hidden in the body of the poisoned person, as long as he could survive and as long as others saw with their own eyes that the poisonous insects were killed, Sun Xiaomei and Xie Jingwen would naturally become the hope of Jiang Yan and others.
As for what role Jiang Yan and the boy played in this plot, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter whether they knew about it beforehand or not. What matters is that they all think that I can’t deal with the poison.
From the moment that boy knelt down and begged Sun Xiaomei to take him in, no one in Jiang Yan's group would believe me anymore. Unless I moved someone, no one would follow me even if I could talk a lot of nonsense.
I walked back to the carriage with a gloomy face: "How is the monk?"
Ye Jin whispered, "The fever has subsided, but I still can't get up. I need to sleep a little longer."
Lu Xiaoying asked sharply, "Why do you look so bad? What happened over there?"
After I whispered what had just happened, Ye Jin immediately became furious and wanted to fight him again, but I stopped him.
Lu Xiaoying said, "From this perspective, Sun Xiaomei should have a master of poison."
Using poison and using Gu are not the same concept. People who are good at using poison can also use poisonous insects to hurt people, but they may not be able to resist Gu. The Miaojiang wizards can be unique in the art of magic because of their magical power to resist Gu. The poison master that Sun Xiaomei found should only be able to suppress the Gu insects, but not to detoxify.
Lu Xiaoying said: "Now, we not only have to deal with the Miaojiang wizard, but also have to be wary of the poison master."
I knew that Lu Xiaoying was telling the truth, but I was still irritated. The methods of detoxification my grandfather taught me were too few and not enough now. The poison in Monk Shi's body was enough to make me helpless, not to mention that I had to deal with another master of poison.
When I didn't know what to do, Lu Xiaoying said, "Ye Jin, how good is the relationship between you and Yan Luo? To what extent can you let him push Sun Yifan?"
Ye Jin said: "Yan Luo and I have a life-and-death relationship. Do you want Yan Luo to kill Sun Yifan?"
"No. We can only put pressure on Sun Yifan, not eliminate him." Lu Xiaoying said, "As long as Yan Luo can suppress Sun Yifan and force him into a dead end, we can negotiate with him. However, if we kill Sun Yifan, his woman will definitely retaliate crazily. By then, I'm afraid we will die without a burial place."
Ye Jin was puzzled and said, "Letting Yan Luo destroy Sun Yifan's company is no different from killing him. That's Sun Yifan's lifeblood. You bankrupted him, so how can his women not seek revenge on you? In my opinion, it would be better to let Yan Luo find a killer to kill Sun Yifan, and put an end to it all, and save trouble."
Lu Xiaoying said: "You don't understand women, so you say that." (To be continued)