Chapter 775: Little Qi, so yousre back (2/2)
Gu Qishao tossed his face mask aside to reveal his bewitching countenance. If a face like his smiled, it would devastate entire cities and mesmerize hundreds! Unfortunately, he didn’t. His eyes were cold without a trace of warmth. Even Han Yunxi, who saw his smiles the most, couldn’t help but feel a hint of dread in her heart. She grew uneasy as she sensed that Gu Qishao and Gu Yuntian had a huge grudge between them!
This time, Gu Qishao had gotten serious. His beautiful face stunned the crowd.
“He’s Gu Qishao! The one who raised a huge Poison corpse army against Carefree City was him!”
“Yes yes, that’s Gu Qishao!”
“He has to be a member of the Poison Sect!”
“Definitely, for certain. Only Poison Sect members could raise so many Poison corpses. It’s too horrific! Surround him, don’t let him escape!”
Between the startled cries, no one dared to advance a step. The Northern Li Imperial Physician Nazha Delin, who was sitting in the first row, could only gape at him in continued astonishment. Gu Qishao and Gu Yuntian allowed the commotion to grow without paying the crowd any attention. They gazed at each other with icy eyes as if nothing around them mattered. In the silence between them lurked a terrifying storm that only the two of them could understand!
If Gu Yuntian didn’t believe Academy Head Ling’s guesses before, he did now. Gu Qishao was none other than Gu Qi Sha, the Little Qi of bygone days and his biological son. Little Qi hadn’t lost his memories, but he had returned. To seek revenge!
When Little Qi had gotten “amnesia” in his youth, he and Academy Head Ling had put on a play for Medical City’s insiders. They had plotted to expel him from the city first, then secretly kidnap him back so they could lock him up for more experiments. But Little Qi vanished into thin air after leaving Medical City. The people who followed him searched through all the surrounding areas of Medical City without finding a clue.
Many years later when Little Qi grew up and established Pill Fiend Valley with his own power, he realized that the child was still alive. By then he already suspected that the boy had faked his memory loss and schemed a way to escape. So many years had passed, but his Little Qi had finally come back! But for vengeance?
Thinking up to here, Gu Yuntian suddenly smiled. He had concealed everything back then and done such a clean job to prevent leaving any traces behind. So what if Little Qi knew the truth? What could he do to him? Who would believe words from Little Qi’s mouth? Rather, he was hoping that Little Qi would return, because then he could continue his research! He couldn’t figure out how Little Qi recovered his pulse after succumbing to that pestilence all those years ago. His body had returned to normal, too.
Gu Qishao glared icicles at Gu Yuntian as his lips quirked up into a smile. It was a sight that made one’s hairs stand on end. One could tell that his smile held nothing good, but not what he was planning. The world seemed to freeze around the father and son pair as they exchanged gazes filled with different thoughts.
Abruptly, a voice rose from the ground. “Who knows, Gu Qishao might be Han Yunxi’s older brother! All of them are Poison Sect remnants! They have to be killed--”
“Rubbish, careful I don’t poison your mouth rotten!” Gu Qishao ripped himself from his cold stare to snarl at the speaker like an evil wolf. “This old man has no blood relations with Han Yunxi!”
Han Yunxi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at those words. Does he dislike my bloodline that much?
Gu Beiyue was reduced to a helpless smile. This fellow, how much offense did he take to such a tiny detail!
His temper quelled the crowd as they quieted down. The person who spoke wanted to save face, so he asked, “Then who are you? How can you raise so many Poison corpses?”
Gu Qishao’s lips quirked up into a smirk as he adopted a strange and eerie voice. “This old man is Gu Qi Sha, Head Elder Ling’s foster son…” He paused for effect as he turned to look at Gu Yuntian.
“This voice, he--he’s Gu Qi Sha! He’s Gu Qi Sha!”
“This...how is that possible? Gu Qishao is actually Gu Qi Sha,[1] that makes him part of the medical academy, ah!”
“Gu Qi Sha, Gu Qishao...so he was Little Qi from the past! Little Qi!”
Many members of the medical community here had visited Pill Fiend Valley and met Gu Qi Sha in person before, so they recognized his unique voice. All of them were utterly flummoxed by the revelation. Even the old veterans of Medical City were showing expressions of amazement.
They had seen Little Qi in the past, but now he was back…
Because Little Qi had cultivated a single poisonous plant in the medicine fields and then stolen ingredients from the storehouse, he was expelled from Medical City. To avoid staining the city’s reputation, they hid the fact about the poisonous plant and simply labeled him as a thief. But how could he have planted something so toxic? And how did he raise Poison corpses? Who taught him?
The various department heads and three elders, as well as the remaining directors, were all exchanging whispers between each other. Gu Yuntian also pulled himself from his thoughts and studied Little Qi’s face closely. He never expected his son to grow up so much, or so handsome. He had long forgotten what his mother looked like. But Little Qi probably resembles her more.
Even though he was delirious with joy inside, his face remained impassive. “Little Qi, I never expected you to seek refuge with the Poison Sect!”
1. Remember that in Chinese, ‘Gu Qishao’ (顾七少) and ‘Gu Qi Sha’ (古七刹) are visually and phoentically quite different from their English pinyin counterparts.