Outside the door on the ground, knelt a person bound with hemp rope.
The person's complexion was abnormally pale, one eye open, the other closed.
The head hung low, half-length hair messy and unkempt.
The fabric of his pants on his knees was worn through, revealing bloodied knees.
Clearly, he had been often mistreated and forced to kneel, and for a long time had not bathed, looking nearly as thin as a dried corpse...
I hadn't seen Lin Gang for a short period of time.
I hadn't expected him to be so wretched.
"Oh brother..." my mother murmured in a very low voice, her expression conflicted.
The person in front of her was Lin Gang, her once most beloved brother, yet also an accomplice in league with Xuanjing.
I immediately noticed something off about Lin Gang's skin.
There was a barely perceptible, very fine undulation moving under it, as if something was living beneath the skin.
I immediately reacted and shouted lowly, "Everyone step back, there's something wrong with Lin Gang."
The crowd hurriedly retreated.
They showed expressions of wariness.
Lin Gang suddenly raised his head, his lone eye reddened with blood vessels, "Su Wan!!"
Hatred surged in his eyes, as if a thousand horses were galloping towards me.
"Miss Wanwan, what's wrong with him?" Zhang Che asked me.
I took a breath, "I won't know until I check."
Approaching Lin Gang, I first bent down and twisted the hemp rope on Lin Gang's body a few times.
At the center of the hemp rope was a steel rod as thick as a finger, nearly as robust as a mountain climbing rope.
"Wanwan, I'm your uncle. The rope is hurting me badly. Can you help uncle untie it, please?" Lin Gang, seeing me approach, pleaded appealingly.
I glanced at Lin Gang and sighed, "Don't you know you've been poisoned by gu? This rope infused with sorcery can suppress the Gu Art. Once untied, you will die instantly."
Lin Gang looked puzzled, seemingly unaware that he had been afflicted, "I... have been poisoned? Why don't I feel anything?"
I pulled back Lin Gang's left eyelid to reveal a dark void beneath.
There was no eyeball to be seen, only the raw red tissue behind.
A hideously long black worm slowly crawled out, writhing.
"A worm, Gu insects! Everyone get away quickly! Don't get infected."
"Damn, Miss Wanwan is amazing, the young master really is infected."
"Miss Wan, be careful, don't get infected by gu. These insects are highly contagious; as soon as they touch your skin, you will be poisoned immediately."
The disciples of the Lin Family dispersed even further, reminding me.
With Xiao Honghong by my side, I'm not afraid of any gu insects harming me. I released Lin Gang's eyelid and told the people of Lin Family, "I'll be fine, you don't need to worry about me."
"Ah… Zhang Shuying! You dim-witted sinister, gut-spilling villain, you fucking poisoned me."
Lin Gang's remaining good eye was almost bulging out.
Staring intently at the long worm as it dragged its body down his cheek, "I'll catch you, and I'll flay you a thousand times."
If I hadn't pulled apart his eyelid and discovered one of his eyeballs had been consumed by a gu insect.
Lin Gang wouldn't even have known he was poisoned...
Doesn't it hurt…
"Indeed, it was Zhang Shuying who had Xiao Yuanyuan do it. Sigh." I muttered to myself, only Zhang Shuying could pull off such a bizarre stunt.
According to Yu Longting, when he found Lin Gang, he had him poisoned with gu and threw him back to the Lin Family.
Could a normal person come up with such an idea?
I waited for Lin Gang to calm down a bit, then bent down and asked him, "Why did Zhang Shuying poison you? What did you do to upset him?"
I thought Zhang Shuying only wanted the Remnant Soul of the Ancestor of Foxes; he wouldn't punish Lin Gang with a severe gu without another reason, hence I asked Lin Gang for the reason.