"Huh?"
Xiao Hua was astonished.
Su Yan, on the other hand, seemed to have a bit of a headache and shook the black box forcefully again,
"Stop calling out."
Xiao Hua looked at her host’s reaction as if she had seen a ghost.
Who, who was calling out?
How come it didn’t hear anything?
Xiao Hua hurriedly sifted through countless records, and after a while, it spoke up,
"Host, that person called Witch Ancestor is a master of gu-making."
"Gu worm?"
"Yes, it involves turning a very small insect into medicine pills, which the enemy then consumes, after which the insect tortures the person non-stop until death."
As Xiao Hua searched the information, she felt somewhat nauseated; she was already putting it lightly.
Some Gu worms infiltrate a person’s body, reproduce non-stop, and eat away the person’s heart, liver, spleen, and lungs, leaving nothing but an empty shell.
Su Yan had never come across Gu worms before. This was the first time she had heard of them.
A bit curious, she reached out to open the black box.
A yellowed medicine pill was revealed before her eyes.
She looked at the elixir, observing it from the left and the right.
"Are you inside this medicine pill?"
Xiao Hua looked on in utter confusion.
After amplifying its hearing by several times, it finally heard a faint tiny
"Sss sss sss sss"
sound.
Su Yan then asked,
"Are you... a worm?"
"Sss sss sss sss!"
Xiao Hua inquired,
"Host, what is it saying?"
"It says it’s not a worm, it’s the Gu King."
Su Yan thought for a while, then whispered to Xiao Hua,
"Gu King? Like the Insect King?"
Before Xiao Hua could reply, the Gu King itself seemed to have a strong opinion on this,
"Sss sss sss sss this!!"
"Host, what is it saying?"
Su Yan repeated word for word,
"It’s saying it’s the most powerful and ferocious Gu in the world, not the Insect King."
Perhaps because it had read about the Gu worms, Xiao Hua felt a chill at the sound of the Gu’s sssing, feeling as if countless little worms were crawling over its body.
After a long while, Xiao Hua finally said,
"Host, what will happen if Your Highness consumes this Gu?"
Su Yan thought for a moment; she didn’t know, so she looked down at the medicine pill and asked,
"What would happen if someone were to consume you?"
"Sss sss sss sss this"
"What is it saying?"
"It says it will eat the person until no bone is left, only a layer of translucent skin."
Xiao Hua couldn’t help but vomit,
"Ugh!! Ugh!!"
It was fortunate that Xiao Hua had no physical body, so it could only make sounds to express the nausea it felt within.
Xiao Hua quickly turned down its amplified hearing; it didn’t want to hear another word from this creature.
Su Yan licked her lips, hiding with the black box in a secluded corner, and whispered,
"Tonight, someone is going to consume you. Don’t eat him, just stay put, and I will let you out. Is that okay?"
"Sss sss sss sss!"
That’s not okay. Not eat people and also get expelled from a person’s body? What’s the point of being the Gu King then?
Su Yan negotiated with it,
"Then, what would make you willing not to eat him?"
"Sss sss sss sss sss!"
Just eat, just eat! No matter who consumes me, I’ll leave nothing of them!
Xiao Hua stayed honestly inside the Pearl Earrings, feeling somewhat puzzled.
Huh?
Why was her host negotiating with this worm this time?
She remembered the time with that snake; the host had demanded that the snake spit out its Inner Core, and the snake complied without a word, didn’t it?