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Chapter 230 Heading West

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have received a reward: Heart-Devouring Love Gu!]

【Gu Insect - Star-Eating Burning Love Gu】

[Description: A pink Gu worm resembling a butterfly, actually formed from fragments of pure love. It requires sincere love to activate its properties. Upon use, it can randomly revive one nearby Gu worm.]

[Side effect: When in Gu worm form, one will have abundant romantic luck.]

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"Um, leave the task of checking the mental energy fluctuations in the rest of the school to me!"

Shangguan Yunque quickly stepped forward, gently tugged at Jiang Ling's sleeve, and whispered in a soft, coquettish voice:

"Let's finish the mission quickly, and then... well, someone's treating you to dinner tonight!"

"Oh?" Jiang Ling smiled, "For meals like this, it's best if you treat us the first time, senior."

What an adorable little girl with a slightly naive and innocent air about her...

"Hehe, alright," Shangguan Yunque's eyes flashed with a triumphant glint. "How about we have them arrange our accommodations tonight?"

"After all, we're going to be traveling all over the city, from east to west. It would be too much trouble to just find a hotel to stay in. Staying at the place I arranged will be worry-free and comfortable~"

Jiang Ling: ……

Oh no, I've been set up.

Where's the innocent and naive junior sister we were promised? Seriously?

"Then how are you going to investigate the entire school? By projecting your mental energy?"

"I can't do that kind of thing~", Shangguan Yunque chuckled.

He pulled out the Rick 5 from his waist, skillfully unscrewed the atomizer, and poured in a small bottle of orange-yellow liquid.

Jiang Ling: ? ? ?

"What are you doing? Don't tell me this stuff is some kind of 'ice,' 'powder,' or 'pill'..."

"This is a specially made sweet berry syrup. The Gu masters in our village control Gu worms through various kinds of 'water mist'."

"In the past, people used pipes or simply held the liquid in their mouths and sprayed it as a mist... Now it's the high-tech era."

"Everyone uses these electronic devices; the atomization effect is fantastic!"

Technology changes lives, and it also changes the lives of Gu masters deep in the mountains of southern Xinjiang. The droplets produced by the atomizer are smaller, which means that the behavior of Gu worms can be controlled more precisely.

After pouring out the sweet berry-infused water she usually used to feed the worms, she carefully added a drop of her own saliva, gently shook it, and took a deep breath.

Its round, adorable cheeks puffed out, and it exhaled a puff of pale orange mist.

A dozen tiny flying insects with tiny specks of light immediately flew out of the cloth jar at his waist, like a swarm of fireflies, slowly spreading out in every corner of Shilu University.

"Interesting. It seems the power systems and cultivation methods of the extraordinary parts of the world are far more complex than I imagined..."

Jiang Ling observed the "Gu Master's" fighting style with great interest.

Those tiny flying insects, like a self-aware collective life form, landed in the corners of the teaching building, on the lawn of the playground, and on the windowsill of the library, scanning the fluctuations of spiritual energy everywhere.

Shangguan Yunque closed his eyes, his slender white fingertips gently touching his brow to establish a connection with the Gu worm.

Suddenly, after a while.

Her face suddenly turned pale.

Fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

My legs went weak uncontrollably, and I fell straight down.

thump--

Jiang Ling reacted quickly, stepping forward to hold her firmly in his arms, feeling the subtle trembling emanating from her body.

After a while.

The small flying insects that had flown away gradually returned to the jar at her waist. He counted them and found that a full third of them were missing.

Furthermore, Shangguan Yunque's mental energy fluctuations dropped by a third in an instant—clearly, the Gu worms can be compared to a kind of "substitute" that is bound to mental energy and has a very large number of individuals.

Killing one or two is fine.

However, if they are all eliminated, they will backfire on the Gu Master.

In severe cases, it is highly likely to result in immediate death.

"Well……"

Shangguan Yunque trembled like a fallen leaf, muttering incoherently, his voice filled with nausea: "So disgusting...we've all been poisoned to death...ugh—!"

"poison?"

Jiang Ling raised an eyebrow, a cold glint flashing in her eyes, and thought to herself, "It seems that someone at Shilu University really is secretly poisoning people, and this poison can even target mental power."

Now that things have come to this, what can be done to detoxify the beautiful little girl who has been poisoned?

The answer is—cluck cluck~ kiss~

Jiang Ling pried open her pink lips and dripped a drop of treatment medicine into them.

"Ugh—!"

Shangguan Yunque gave a soft hum, his confused consciousness gradually clearing.

When she realized that she was being held firmly in Jiang Ling's arms.

His amber eyes widened instantly, and he thought to himself:

"Wow, could this be the legendary paradise?"

"Oh ho ho ho~ Rumor has it that God rewards the bravest Gu Master with milk honey and seventy-two virgins... Hehe, I don't want any virgins, I just want Brother Ling's virginity..."

Jiang Ling: ……

I'm really sorry...

Your brother Ling has already graduated from being a virgin!

No, according to the automatic refresh mechanism at 12 o'clock, if we had to argue, it could be considered virginity...

"Alright, now that you're awake, tell me where you detected the contamination," Jiang Ling said, gently rubbing her chubby, baby-faced cheeks.

It feels soft and supple, and its delicate face is comparable to that of Miyu.

"Um?"

Shangguan Yunque blinked, immediately realized what was happening, and pretended to have weak legs.

She clung to him like a lump of soft mud, refusing to budge: "I'm hungry... Brother Ling, I'm so weak right now, I can only give you directions, can you carry me there?"

"The location is... in the library's sewers..."

Jiang Ling tried to put her down, but she remained limply against his shoulder, rubbing her head against his neck, pretending to be in great pain.

In reality, Xiao Qiong was inhaling the warm yang energy emanating from his body with her nose, her face filled with infatuation.

Jiang Ling: ……

With no other option, he carried her on his back and, holding an umbrella, walked step by step toward the library.

"Come down now that we're here. I'll use my abilities to probe that strange aura that can erode mental power."

"Hmm~ I'll help you!"

Shangguan Yunque absorbed enough of the warm yang energy emanating from him, and his eyes lit up.

A delicate, white hand reached into a jar at her waist, pulled out a few small, bright blue flying insects, and waved them as she explained:

"I possess a 'tracking curse' that can trace the source of a scent."

"Coating the shell of this Gu worm with a layer of syrup can resist some of the erosion. This is the second time I've seen that strange power."

"Oh?" Jiang Ling became interested and turned her head to ask, "Where was the first time we met?"

"Hmm~ In the southern peninsula, there is a group of people from an extreme vegetarian sect who preach and sell health products that are a scam, or they worship some god of decay... I thought it was funny, so I released a little Gu worm over there."

"As a result, not long after, the mental energy threads that controlled the Gu worms broke, and it was the same situation, just not as serious as today."

"Later, I used the method of 'raising Gu' to specifically cultivate the 'Mirage Qi-Seeking Gu' that could resist the cutting of mental energy threads."

After she finished speaking, she exhaled a puff of orange smoke, coating the surface of the Gu worm with a thin film, and then manipulated it to jump into the sewer.

Jiang Ling didn't hear the other words clearly, but she did hear the three words "God of Withering".

"The peninsula?" Jiang Ling's eyes flashed, and she sneered, "Let's go to the southern peninsula after Christmas."

"I never expected to gain a piece of pure love just by chatting, hehehe."

Somewhere, a deity covered in withered branches and rotten leaves shivered inexplicably.

He looked at the unchanging "sky" and sneered:

"Hehehe... In seven more days, I will be able to be resurrected..."

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"Hmm... let's follow the Gu worms too, otherwise the threads of our spiritual energy will easily break."

Shangguan Yunque sensed the surroundings and pointed west, saying, "Go west of the city."

The direction west of the city... is precisely the direction of Guiyou Department Store.