The commotion caused by the Lin Family’s carriage, he had seen it, not just her, many people had seen it.
Therefore, the arrival of a sickly cousin from the Lin Family must have spread throughout this circle by now.
What Jin Zijin asked was precisely the worry that was lingering in Gu Youyou’s mind.
"Will a person be different after taking that kind of medicine?"
Gu Youyou didn’t really know how to ask, either. These things that science couldn’t explain, how was she, an atheist, supposed to express them? She was a highly educated member of the new generation, and to believe in those things would be to overturn her own beliefs.
"There might be some differences," Jin Zijin murmured thoughtfully.
How was he supposed to explain? Previously, no one had raised a medicinal person. As far as he knew, Xuanzong had always preserved some incomplete secret formulas for raising medicinal people, and many years ago, Yu Jizi found the tomb of a Dao Sect predecessor and finally completed those formulas. Only then did people like Gu Youyou come to exist.
So as for how a medicinal person would turn out, he actually wasn’t very clear.
However, he did recognize the talisman paper for summoning the Poisonous Insect that Yu Jizi burned yesterday at the Dragon King Temple.
That was related to Youyou’s sudden illness yesterday.
"Do you feel any different in your body?"
Seeing that Jin Zijin wasn’t very clear either, Gu Youyou felt somewhat discouraged and sighed, "Something was off yesterday. I had just taken medicine yesterday morning, and I had taken my pulse. Normally, I should be a bit cold, but not to the point of triggering the poisonous cold inside my body. What’s strange is... I didn’t feel pain during the onset of the poison. On the contrary, it was quite exhilarating, as if something was stimulating all the muscles in my body to come alive. I felt like I had taken a strength pill, filled with power, except... my head was a bit dizzy."
After listening, Jin Zijin exhaled and said, "That’s it, then. Yesterday Yu Jizi was summoning the Poisonous Insect, but I interrupted him halfway through."
"Summoning the Poisonous Insect?" Gu Youyou looked astonished.
"Yes, summoning the Poisonous Insect. Haven’t I told you before? Youying Grass is actually a cold-natured plant grown by Poisonous Insects; it’s essentially a type of Gu. Those insects have been inside you for ten years, and have long since integrated with your flesh and blood. Now they’re suppressed by your medicine, but it hasn’t been able to eliminate them. Since Yu Jizi raised those insects, he naturally knows how to control them.
What happened yesterday was... well, you just be careful. His actions were only meant to warn me. Now that you are living with the Lin Family, and Ajing and I are restraining him here, he won’t act against you for the moment."
Gu Youyou touched her stomach, feeling disgusted at the thought of a bunch of insects inside her, as described by Jin Zijin.
She didn’t understand the concept of Poisonous Insects, but she quickly came to her own understanding of what Jin Zijin had said.
Let’s say those insects are a kind of virus. That old pervert developed a new type of virus, the advantage of which is that it stimulates and strengthens the body, turning her momentarily into a superhuman. The downside is... well, apart from her mind not being very bright, for the time being, she didn’t know what other adverse effects being in a state of poisoning might bring.
But since this thing was meant to harm people, it was bound to be more harmful than beneficial.
Feeling the higher than normal body temperature coming from Jin Zijin, she began to worry about him again.
"What about you? What’s with the heat poison in you?"
In fact, Jin Zijin had never talked to her about these things. She knew he was someone with a strong sense of caution, so when it came to his matters, she never asked if he chose not to tell her.
Jin Zijin paused for a moment, hugged her chilly body a little tighter, and then slowly began to explain.