Liu Xuelian returned home, her eyes vacant as she sat on the sofa, her body tense. It wasn't until the click of the door opening and her boyfriend Guo Pengfeng returning with groceries to cook that the aroma of food began to waft from the kitchen.
Only then did Liu Xuelian slightly regain her senses and say with a tremor,
“Pengfeng, Qingqing is dead. She died horribly.”
Ordinary people couldn't withstand anything as strange as ghosts, and she was very scared now.
Her boyfriend, Guo Pengfeng, merely responded, “Xuelian, are you talking to me? It’s too noisy in the kitchen, I can’t hear you clearly.”
“Pengfeng, Qingqing is dead, I’m so scared.”
Suddenly, a cold wind swept through, making Liu Xuelian’s skin crawl. A chill ran down her spine. She looked around; the doors and windows of the room were tightly shut, not a breath of air escaping. Where had that wind come from?
At this moment, the kitchen suddenly fell silent, the stove and range hood turned off. Liu Xuelian spoke,
“Pengfeng, do you think ghosts are real? Last night, Qingqing told me she saw her ex-boyfriend coming to find her…”
“And then Qingqing died today, and I saw Qingqing again today…”
The more Liu Xuelian thought about it, the more frightened she became.
Her boyfriend still hadn’t replied. She turned to look at the kitchen and saw her boyfriend plating the food. The kitchen was so quiet, why wasn’t her boyfriend answering her?
She got up from the sofa and walked into the kitchen. A smell like rotting flesh assailed her nostrils, making her want to vomit. The source of this foul odor was precisely the dish her boyfriend had just stir-fried.
An ominous premonition surged through her, her nerves tightening. She tentatively asked, “Pengfeng… did you hear what I just said…”
Guo Pengfeng, with his back to her, replied in a gentle tone, “What did you say? I was cooking and didn’t hear.”
It was her boyfriend’s voice. Liu Xuelian breathed a sigh of relief, but then!
Liu Xuelian, whose body had been tense, relaxed slightly, and then—
“Done.” Liu Xuelian’s boyfriend, Guo Pengfeng, turned to face her, his eyes glowing green, his face deathly pale. He spoke with her best friend Feng Qingqing’s voice, “Xuelian, let’s eat. I made your favorite dishes today.”
“Boom!” A wave of immense despair washed over Liu Xuelian.
Liu Xuelian’s expression turned to terror, tears streaming down her face. Trembling, she ran towards the door, but no matter how she twisted the doorknob, it wouldn’t open.
Her boyfriend ‘Guo Pengfeng’s’ footsteps sounded behind her.
“Tap! Tap! Tap!”
Liu Xuelian looked back in despair, her body shaking violently. She cried out pleadingly, “Qingqing, please spare my life! I never harmed you.”
‘Guo Pengfeng,’ holding the dishes, wore a cold, stiff smile like a dead person. “Xuelian, what are you talking about? We’re best friends, how could I harm you? I’ve prepared the meal for you, come and eat together.”
Liu Xuelian cried and pleaded, “Qingqing, I’m not hungry. Can I not eat?”
‘Guo Pengfeng’s’ expression turned grim, his voice a hideous growl, “If you don’t eat the food I made, are we still sisters and best friends?”
“You must eat the food I made.”
‘Guo Pengfeng’ grabbed Liu Xuelian by the neck with one hand and held the incredibly foul-smelling food with the other, preparing to force it into Liu Xuelian’s mouth.
“Help!” Liu Xuelian cried out, her voice so weak.
‘Guo Pengfeng’ said coldly, “It’s too noisy. It wouldn’t be good to disturb the neighbors.”
Liu Xuelian felt the hand around her neck tighten, making it almost impossible to breathe. She struggled desperately, but it was useless.
Just as she was about to suffocate.
“Bang!”
The thick security door let out a violent crash, and then shattered into hundreds of fragments that fell to the ground.
Outside the door stood a handsome young man holding a long saber, his black hair like a waterfall, dressed in magnificent robes. This young man exuded an aura like the sacred sun.
“Bang bang bang!”
All the light bulbs in Liu Xuelian’s house suddenly exploded.
The once warmly decorated room transformed. Bloodstains covered every surface, and the dishes in ‘Guo Pengfeng’s’ hands turned into maggot-infested corpse pieces, emitting a nauseating stench.
“Help… me…” Liu Xuelian, seeing Chen Jiuyang appear, fainted from excitement.
Chen Jiuyang observed ‘Guo Pengfeng.’ As Chen Jiuyang’s aura touched ‘Guo Pengfeng,’ a sizzling sound of burning emanated from him.
“A formidable corpse gu that devours the soul and essence.”
“I truly thought it was a haunting, but it turns out to be the work of these vile vermin.”
Chen Jiuyang’s eyes were icy. He lightly swung his Yan Sheng Saber towards Guo Pengfeng and Liu Xuelian’s bodies.
“Sizzle sizzle!”
The Three Revolutions of Pure Yang, with a drop of blood to suppress evil, could also restrain malevolent entities.
Blue smoke rose from both their bodies. Several incredibly dark and strangely shaped gu worms crawled out of Liu Xuelian’s ears, nose, and mouth.
Liu Xuelian had been corrupted for a short time and had not yet lost control of her soul or had her vital essence devoured.
“Ah!”
“Hiss!” Guo Pengfeng let out a scream, immediately dropping Liu Xuelian and turning to flee, intending to jump out of the living room window.
Chen Jiuyang sneered, “Can you escape?” He slowly reached out and grabbed ‘Guo Pengfeng’ from a distance.
“Ah!” Guo Pengfeng screamed, his body twisting. Then, blood flowed from his seven orifices. Gu worms emerged from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. These gu worms instantly transformed into black shadows, swirling with a chilling wind as they flew into the distance.
Chen Jiuyang did not intervene, watching the gu worms fly away. The gu worms were a minor issue; the main focus was to capture the person controlling them.
At this moment, the gu worms that had just emerged from Liu Xuelian’s body attempted to sneak attack Chen Jiuyang.
However, these gu worms turned into white smoke and disintegrated into dust about thirty centimeters from Chen Jiuyang.
“Audacious and suicidal.”
Chen Jiuyang said coldly. His Pure Yang body was naturally immune to all poisons, and with his blood transformation reaching the Three Revolutions of Pure Yang, capable of suppressing evil with a drop of blood, even the fiercest gu worms could not harm him.
“Guo Pengfeng, Liu Xuelian’s boyfriend, is beyond saving. But Liu Xuelian can still be saved. Constable Zhong, take people to send her to the hospital for treatment.”
Chen Jiuyang said. At that moment, Ji Lengyue and Zhong Man’an walked outside Liu Xuelian’s room.
They had clearly witnessed the scene just now, with strange and peculiar insects crawling out of human bodies, sending chills down their spines.
Zhong Man’an frowned, “Why is it that Liu Xuelian’s boyfriend was the first to be harmed after Liu Xuelian contacted Feng Qingqing?”
She found this logic difficult to understand.
Chen Jiuyang explained calmly, “Liu Xuelian’s boyfriend had more vigorous vital essence, so the culprit behind this harmed Liu Xuelian’s boyfriend first, and then Liu Xuelian. Fortunately, you notified us in time, otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to save Liu Xuelian if you had been a step later.”
“The matter is not over. Did the drone capture the direction the insects fled?”
“The drone is tracking them.”
“Let’s go. I want to see who dares to use human lives to nurture gu worms. I wonder how many lives such a person has for me to take.”