Chapter 53: Breaking the Curse

  "Yè Fēng, how come he still hasn't come out yet?" Long Yuè and the others waited anxiously from a distance.

  "Or should we go back and take a look?" Zhuge Ling'er blinked her big eyes at Long Yue and Lu Zhan.

  "No way, if Ye Feng is also caught, it's even more unsafe for us to go in, he has many means!" Lu Zhan stopped Zhu Ge Ling'er.

  "Lu Zhan, you first send them a few to a safe place, and pick up Xiang Qiang on the way. We'll follow right away!" Long Yue immediately had an idea.

  "No way, I won't let you guys take risks." Lu Zhan shook his head.

  "I'll let Yifan use the camera to see what's going on first. If Ye Feng is caught, we'll wait for you to handle it and then all three of us will act together. If Ye Feng is fine, we'll wait for him to come out and then everyone will go back together. Don't worry, I won't joke about Ling'er's and my own safety." Long Yue explained.

  "Dragon Moon, are you sure you're not deceiving me?" Lu Zhan was clearly not too convinced by Long Yue's words.

  "Don't you believe me?" Long Yue stared at Lu Zhan without letting up.

  "Alright, alright... you win. But you have to promise me that no matter what happens here, you'll wait for my return before taking action. If Ye Feng is confirmed safe, give me a call!" Lu Zhan finally compromised.

  "You few come with me first, I'll send you to a safe place!" Lu Zhan beckoned to Lao Er and the others.

  "Where's Ye Feng?" Lao Ba looked around but didn't see any sign of Ye Feng.

  "He'll be here soon, I'd better get you guys to a safe place first!" Lu Zhan could only give this response.

  "Was he... in order to save us, was..." Lao Er's words were cut off halfway.

  "Don't worry, that kid is clever! Even if we all get wiped out, he might not be in trouble!" Lu Zhan said gruffly, clearly still dissatisfied with being captured by Ye Feng once before. "You staying here is the biggest burden, got it?"

  "I get it, so Xiaoye's confidential job is being a spy..." Lao Liu said with wild imagination.

  "Let's go!" Seeing that Lu Zhan didn't respond to them, the second brother patted the sixth brother on the head and then followed along with everyone else.

  "Yue Er Jie, what should we do now?" Zhuge Ling'er seemed somewhat excited.

  "Wait a minute, I'll make a call and ask what's going on with Yi Fan!" Long Yue dialed the number from earlier.

  "Hey, what's going on? You should have rescued all the hostages by now, right?" Yi Fan received a call from Long Yue and felt a little uneasy. If things had gone normally, this "all clear" call should have been made by Ye Feng, after all, he didn't even know Long Yue.

  "The hostage has been transferred away, but Ye Feng hasn't come out. Can you enter their video system to see what's going on? If Ye Feng was caught, then we must go back and rescue him immediately." Long Yue's tone indicated that the situation was quite urgent at this moment.

  "Hasn't Ye Feng come out yet? But I've restored the video system to its original state, he should know you've successfully evacuated... " Yi Fan furrowed his brow, "Let me see what's going on with him! If there's any news, I'll call back!"

  "Gu insect?" Ye Feng's eyebrows slightly furrowed, "Is there really such a thing?"

  "Vampires and werewolves, you've seen them all, is this thing rare?" Pearl smiled bitterly. "I was an orphan from a young age, taken in by the organization at five years old and implanted with a parasite, swearing allegiance. At twelve, an elder began teaching us poison techniques, three years passed, and of the twelve girls who learned poison techniques that year, only I survived. Another year passed and my poison skills were somewhat accomplished, I was chosen by the organization to start taking on missions. I myself can't remember how many people I've killed, all I know is that my hands are stained with blood. From the day I entered the organization, I knew that I would only be able to walk the path they arranged for me, even if it led to the eighteenth level of hell."

  "What kind of effect will this Gu worm have on you?" Ye Feng continued to ask.

  "The master of the Gu insect is the Great Elder, and all my orders are conveyed through her. If I disobey the order, the Gu insect will automatically secrete a neurotoxin that makes me feel excruciating pain accompanied by unbearable itching. The pain is so intense that it feels like my skin is being sliced open with a knife, and I want to scrape my bones with something...” Pearl's whole body was trembling slightly, apparently she had experienced this punishment before.

  "I got it, let me think of a way to see if I can help you solve the problem!" Ye Feng said as he inserted his spiritual power into the virtual domain.

  "I understand, that's a low-level Gu worm, just with some neurotoxin. All you need to do is drop your blood on the egg before it hatches and feed it with your blood for 49 days after it hatches, then it will voluntarily acknowledge its master. Ordinary people can become Gu masters, and this kind of Gu worm cannot actively enter a person's body, it must enter through a wound with blood." Bo Yi explained, "So in the strict sense, it doesn't count as a type of Gu technique, that is to say, there are ways to get rid of it in the first realm."

  "What should I do?" Ye Feng asked.

  "It's simple, just find that Gu insecticide and you're done. Don't forget to read the manual before operating!" Boyi reminded.

  "Neurotoxin, Gu insect, poison......" Ye Feng combined these keywords together, and the shelf turned into a transparent small bottle, with bright red contents that looked somewhat terrifying.

  The bottle was put into a storage box and then transferred to his own hands.

  "What is this?" Pearl and Vesper looked at each other curiously, staring at a small bottle that had suddenly appeared in Ye Feng's hand, the red liquid inside making them feel somewhat uneasy.

  Ye Feng picked up the bottle and looked at the small characters on it.

  "What is this thing? What are you doing?" Pearl asked again.

  "This is your antidote, I'm reading the instructions..." Ye Feng didn't even lift his head, continuing to read on word by word.

  "Are you saying I should drink this red, sticky stuff? It's too disgusting, it looks like human blood..." Pearl hastily waved her hand.

  "Alright, I know what to do now!" Ye Feng looked at Wei Baosong and asked, "Do you have a knife?"

  Wei Baosong shook his head.

  "I do," Pearl pulled out a blade from the sole of her shoe and handed it to Ye Feng, she no longer cared what Ye Feng was going to do, all she knew was that if Ye Feng could help her get rid of the Gu worm, no matter what Ye Feng said, she would do it.

  "Alright, you do it yourself, just cut a wound anywhere and then I'll open this bottle. The Gu worm will come out of your wound and crawl into the bottle, where it will be dissolved." Ye Feng released the pearl, bent down to put the bottle on the ground, and placed one hand on the lid, ready to open it after cutting a wound on the pearl.

  "Is that it?" Pearl looked at Ye Feng with some skepticism, she didn't dare to believe that the thing that had been troubling her for nearly twenty years would be so easily eliminated.

  "High-tech, even if I explained it to you, you wouldn't understand! Anyway, it's just a slash, not like I'm going to make you look bad!" Ye Feng couldn't help but say sarcastically.

  The pearl tilted its head to one side and then cut a knife on its own arm, with fresh blood flowing out of the wound instantly.

  "Don't cover up the wound, let it bleed out!" Ye Feng stopped Pearl's subconscious action and then opened the bottle cap.

  When Ye Feng said that, Pearl's right hand, which was about to press the wound, suddenly stiffened in mid-air. After a while, she felt a numbness on the back of her neck, and then the numbness began to shift positions. She guessed that it was the Gu worm inside her body starting to move. She restrained the urge to scratch and remained still, not daring to move at all.

  Before long, she saw a bulge moving along her left arm, about the size of a thumb, slowly moving towards the wound.

  It's also unknown how much time had passed, but the thing finally fell to the ground along with Pearl's blood flowing from her wound. Once on land, its crawling speed was obviously much faster, and in just a few seconds it crawled into the container filled with red ** from under Pearl's feet. Ye Feng immediately covered the lid. Then the thing that looked a bit like a small Qiang struggled twice in the container before flipping over onto its back, apparently dead.

  "This thing is disgusting," Pearl almost vomited when she saw it, thinking that such an ugly creature had lived in her body for twenty years made her want to find a place to take a bath immediately.

  "It's settled!" Ye Feng spread out his hands, "Do you still want to choose to stay now?"

  "Thank you, Ye Feng! I will leave China immediately and get out of the organization's surveillance range. I also promise that I won't bother you again!" Pearl shook her head.

  "You don't have to thank me, if it weren't for those orphans you helped, I would have killed you without hesitation to avenge Dragon Brother! Remember what you said today, if you don't keep your promise, I'll take back your life at any time, and his too!" Ye Feng turned his head towards Wei Baosong.

  "Thank you!" Wei Baosong walked over and supported Pearl, helping her with a simple bandage.

  "It's time for me to leave!" As soon as Ye Feng's words fell, he vanished into thin air.

  Wei Baosong and Pearl's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, and the two quickly left...

  "Xiao Feng is out!" Yi Fan cut off the video he had just seen and dialed Long Yue's phone number.

  He hung up the phone and Yifan opened the video clip on his computer again, covering his forehead with one hand and letting out a low, long sigh. "Xiaofeng, how many secrets are you hiding from us..."