Chapter 1130: How could a joke turn into reality? (1/2)
Gu Beiyue had been searching for a while and found something else that belonged definitively to Gu Qishao. Although he was unwilling, he still dug out the tiny piece of vine buried in the flesh and placed it in his palm. Seeing this, Han Yunxi muffled her mouth and looked away, as if that vine didn’t exist.
But reality was truth.
Gu Beiyue wanted to test the bloodstains to get a final conclusion. After all, Gu Qishao’s blood was different from normal humans, so he could recognize it after analysis. However, the blood samples here were all contaminated with other things. Only the copper coin, red string, and piece of vine served as their proof.
The vines and Gu Qishao were literally one body! If it could be cut to pieces, what about Gu Qishao himself?
“I don’t believe it!” Han Yunxi suddenly rushed into the room as well to check the walls herself. She went from flesh clump to flesh clump, but didn’t find any more red string or vines in the next two piles. That gave her, Long Feiye, and Tang Li hope. They too, helped with her search, too caught up to care about the filth or disgusting conditions. As long as Gu Qishao was well, so what if this place was dirty?
But in the end, their conclusions left them bereft of all hope! They found a whole heap of vine fragments and even a pile of bones. Abruptly, Tang Li cried out. He had dug out a hair-covered skull from a pile of old bones. When Han Yunxi turned and saw this sight, she got a face full of rotting features from the dead skull!
“Ahhhh!” With a shriek, she prepared to flee! But soon enough, Long Feiye caught her in his embrace, although he was at a loss for how to comfort her. Han Yunxi had seen her share of abhorrent corpses, some which were even missing body parts. She ate these things as her daily meals because she was a doctor, so she shouldn’t be afraid of them.
She was only terrified that...she’d recognize a familiar face from the rotten features!
She was fearful of seeing Gu Qishao from that sull.
Han Yunxi buried her head in Long Feiy’s chest and didn’t want to search anymore! She couldn’t help but ask hoarsely, “Long Feiye, how do you know Gu Qishao can’t die? There were only a few medicines capable of creating a Poison Gu human, so how did Gu Qishao end up as one?”
“I know because I can’t kill him?” Long Feiye tried.
Gu Beiyue’s tone was heavy as he chimed in. “Qishao wouldn’t be a Poison Gu human. His body composition must be related to what he experienced in his mother’s womb. It’s also possible that Gu Yuntian mixed in some medicine that left him with those effects.”
Gu Beiyue had wanted to study Gu Qishao a long time ago, but he didn’t have any time. Moreover, it was unlikely that Gu Qishao would agree to it. Of course, Gu Beiyue’s research goals wasn’t to find an immortality elixir, but simply to understand Gu Qishao’s body better. Only Gu Qishao himself had discovering his undying body, but there was no other solid proof. He had no idea what was going on either.
Perhaps he’d age and get old eventually, just at a slower rate.
Perhaps he’d sicken, but simply avoid caching any fatal diseases or viruses.
Perhaps he’d die, but was just missing the right way to kill him.
Perhaps this meat grinder room could leave him without a single bone intact!
Even Bai Yanqing, a Poison Gu human, was at the mercy of the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, much less a simple Gu Qishao.
Han Yunxi looked at the fallen blade pillars and muttered, “If the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion can destroy Bai Yanqing, then...will it harm Little Qi as well?
“Long Feiye, you said you can’t kill him with one blow? Well, what about 100 blows? 1,000 slashes?” Han Yunxi’s voice choked up.
Every single one of these six pillars were covered with at least 100 knives each. They could probably slash a body thousands to tens of thousands of times.
Long Feiye didn’t answer. He and Gu Beiyue were both questioning themselves: could the myriad blades finish off Gu Qishao like the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion would to Bai Yanqing?
“Say something! Both of you!” Han Yunxi finally lost it and started raging at them. “All of you knew Gu Qishao had an undying body, so why didn’t you tell me? Were you taking me for a fool?
“Why didn’t you tell me? Why not?!”
Han Yunxi pushed Long Feiye aside and glared at the men. If she knew this earlier, she’d definitely bring Gu Qishao to Medical City with her so Gu Beiyue could give him a thorough examination. She would even ask Gu Yuntian which medicines he used on Little Qi to turn his body into this half human, half monster constitution!
At the very least…
At the very least, we would have known for sure whether Gu Qishao was truly Undying, or pinpointed his body’s weaknesses and fears.
“Even Poison Gu humans have their weaknesses, to say nothing of him,” Han Yunxi’s eyes were red with unshed tears. “Why didn’t any of you tell me? Why?”
“Sister-in-law, I had no idea either! I was clueless! Gu Qishao must have made my big bro and Gu Beiyue keep it a secret, that’s gotta be it,” Tang Li hastened to console her. “Sister-in-law, don’t be angry, it’ll be bad if you affect the baby. Maybe...maybe it’s really like what my big bro said, the cloth was just a piece that fell off of his robes. Same with the copper coin! And the vines...the vines…” Tang Li trailed off, unable to make any more excuses.