Volume 1, Chapter 32, The Bottom Line (Today!)
Soon after, all the food was ready. Zhu Qingge breathed a long sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Huh, it's finally finished!"
"Let's take a break." Xie Zhuo handed over a sweat towel at first, "Look, I'm so tired."
"It's okay, but I just didn't expect that Uncle Xie, you usually work so hard." The little fox demon smiled playfully and took over his kindness.
Xie Zhuo also smiled honestly: "I'm fine, I've been used to it for so many years."
"By the way, Uncle Xie, look at me working so hard, why don't you let me go early today?"
"I knew you were a little girl." Xie Zhuo joked, "But you did help a lot today, so it's better to go back early and have some rest."
"Yeah! Thank you, Uncle Thank you!" Zhu Qingge blinked and trotted all the way out of the kitchen.
When he returned to his residence, Chu Xier had been waiting for a long time. When she saw her pushing the door and asking, "Are you done it?"
"Of course, I added Monroe to every dish, and no one noticed it." The little fox demon's face was full of pride.
When Chu Xier heard her success, she smiled happily: "Well, that's good. Let's take a break first and we will set off until midnight."
Since they decided to go to Yundan Pavilion that day, the two of them have made a plan.
First, Chu Xier took the opportunity to take advantage of his status and got a bottle of Monroe used to help her sleep in the Interior Office.
Then it was about the little fox demon. I tried every means to get close to the stove and put all this mystery in the food of the disciples of Tianzhe Palace.
The colorless and tasteless approach of the Menglu, Zhu Qingge's technique is extremely secretive, and no one will notice the abnormality of the meal.
When it was late at night, the two of them tiptoed out of the room and walked towards Yundan Pavilion.
Along the way, the disciples in charge of the night watch fell to the ground one by one, sleeping soundly.
They came to Yundan Pavilion without any obstacles. After confirming that there was no one around, the two of them climbed over the courtyard wall and carefully opened the door.
As soon as they entered the door, a strong breath of pills came to their faces. The Yundan Pavilion was pitch black, and the two of them could only use the faint candlelight to look for something about the Heart-Devouring Gu in this huge room.
After searching for more than a day, they found jars in a corner, exactly the same as what Zhu Qingge saw in the kitchen.
When I opened it, I saw that the jar was densely filled with larvae of the Heart-Eating Gu.
"It's so disgusting, cover it up quickly." Seeing these things, Zhu Qingge couldn't help but remember the moment he first came to Yueshen City. He suddenly felt a stomachache, "Look for it again and see if there is any pill made with this thing."
However, after searching for a while, the two of them found no other related things.
"Oh, I guess all those things have been put in other places, and if you continue to look for them, it will probably be no result." Chu Xier was a little annoyed, "Why don't you leave first to avoid suspicion."
"Wait." The little fox demon suddenly reached out to stop her, then sniffed hard with his nose, "Did you smell a strange smell?"
Chu Xier also smelled it and said in confusion: "It seems that there is no one? Are you surprised if you smell something strange?"
"Yes." Zhu Qingge nodded, "In addition to the smell of elixirs, there is also a faint smell of blood."
She is a fox demon and her sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of humans, so she noticed this small detail.
Something really is wrong.
Zhu Qingge's thoughts moved and turned into a half-human and half-demon state. He walked along the bloody smell and came to a wall.
"The smell of blood behind the wall is very strong." The little fox demon put away his ears and tail and frowned, "It seems that the weirdness is here."
After exploring for a long time, they really found a small mechanism and pressed down. The wall suddenly made a sound, slowly retreating to both sides, revealing a secret room.
They walked in carefully, and with the candlelight, the two of them saw a scene that they would never forget for life.
In a corner of the secret room, corpses as high as a hill were piled up.
Each corpse had wide eyes, and there was a big hole in its abdomen. The blood seemed to have not flowed out yet and slowly dripped down. Several heart-eating guns that had escaped the net crawled around on it, greedily sucking their flesh and blood.
Chu Xier had never seen such a formation before. She was shocked and collapsed on the ground uncontrollably, gasping for breath, trying her best to control the desire she wanted to vomit.
"Too, too cruel, how could this be..."
Zhu Qingge had previously experienced the scene of his tribe being massacred. The situation was slightly better than her, but she was also very uncomfortable.
After a while of peace, the two of them calmed down and continued to explore in the secret room. At this point, if they didn't do anything, such a tragedy would definitely happen.
On the right hand side of the secret room, there is a huge alchemy furnace, which seems to have just been extinguished, and there is still a trace of hot residual heat.
When I opened it, I saw a few red and blue elixirs at the bottom of the furnace, which were the Yanyuan elixirs refined from the mature Heart-Devouring Gu.
The flesh and blood of countless people eventually condensed into such small pills.
Next to the alchemy furnace is a table with several small bottles placed on the table, and a few scribbled small characters are written on the label on the bottle.
I picked it up and saw that some of them were auxiliary medicines to relieve the backlash of Yanyuan Dan, while others were antidotes to the Heart-Devouring Gu.
Now, the two of them were overjoyed. If they could take these things out, the people in Yueqi City would be saved!
However, just as the two of them were about to leave, the torches in the secret room suddenly ignited together.
"What do you two want to do?" Wei Ying walked out of the shadow, his tone was cold and there was no trace of emotion.
In this case, the explanation was naturally ineffective. The two exchanged their eyes and rushed out the door quickly.
However, the next second, the door of the secret room slowly closed. Yin Yun stood at the door and looked at the two of them sinisterly: "Where do you want to go, Junior Sister Chu?"
Now, it's really a dead end.
"Since you entered Tianzhe Palace, I have been paying close attention to your movements." Wei Ying said expressionlessly, "I didn't expect that you actually found this place."
"Wouldn't you be afraid of being punished by God if you act like this?" Chu Xier stared at him coldly.
Hearing this, Wei Ying smiled rare: "God's reprimand? How ridiculous."
"Junior sister is really simple." Yin Yun still had that gentle smile on his face, "It's just a group of mortals. We have served them with delicious food and drink for so many years. They should feel honored to be able to repay us."
"Listen to you, this Yanyuan Dan seems to have you with you?" Zhu Qingge curled his lips.
"What are you doing if you talk so much with them? Just kill me." Yin Yun was about to speak, but saw Wei Wang wave impatiently, "Leave it to you."
Now, there is only one battle.
Chapter completed!