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Chapter 217 She said, "If anything happens to you, I won't live either."

The Seventh Prince's sudden request for an autopsy surprised everyone who heard the news.

To conceal the "truth," they hadn't even notified the family to claim the body. After all, someone who could serve as a prince's personal guard wouldn't be of low status.

Ye Fan's first reaction was to refuse, wanting his deceased brothers to be laid to rest.

but……

The seventh prince insisted, and his subordinates had no choice but to compromise and dare not disobey.

The only difference is probably—

"Ugh~"

Looking at the woman who had vomited three times in less than an incense stick's time in the mortuary, Ye Fan felt a pang of sympathy even in his supposedly cold and hard heart.

These people died horribly, their limbs and fragments scattered. Although several coroners pieced them together and stitched them up, their bodies were still gruesome.

“If you really can’t stand it, why don’t you go out and rest for a while before coming back in?” he said to the woman in front of him, who was either disguised or always wore a veil.

"I'm fine,"

As Yu Feixian spoke, she felt a wave of nausea, which she forced down: "I can do it."

Seeing her insistence, Ye Fan didn't try to force her.

"Let's start from here."

As he spoke, he led her to the far left.

The winter was cold, and with the seventh prince's special permission to send ice for refrigeration, the body was preserved relatively well, at least it had not yet decomposed.

Yu Feixian pressed her chest and walked over, only to find that the man had brought her to a relatively intact corpse.

But the further they went to the side, the more gruesome their deaths became.

She looked at them one by one, her gaze suddenly sharpening: "What is this?"

Ye Fan frowned and quickly followed: "What?"
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"...Your Highness is right. We found a Gu worm in the deceased's body. It is said to be a kind of Gu called the Heart-Eating Gu, which parasitizes the human brain and feeds on the brain marrow."

Upon hearing Ye Fan's words, the expressions of the other servants and guards in the room changed, and some of the more timid ones were almost ready to vomit.

Chu Jiang remained silent, looking down at the corpse of the Gu worm in the snow-white porcelain bowl in front of him—a Gu the size of a fingernail, but with a round, bulging belly, indicating how well it had "eaten".

And it's not just one of them; every single one inside has it.

"Once a person is afflicted by this Gu, it is initially silent and undetectable, but it will quietly devour the brain of the afflicted person. While devouring, it will release a hallucinogenic toxin that is impossible for the person to detect. In the end, the afflicted person will become the puppet of the Gu caster, being ordered to do anything. Because they no longer have a 'brain,' they will not react even if their limbs are cut off."

This explains why those people lost their minds and started hacking at each other, and why they could continue wielding swords despite being so badly injured.

When Ye Fan said this, his eyes were bloodshot, filled with barely suppressed hatred.

It felt like we were back in the year we marched south to conquer Yue—

Having been subservient to the Great Qi for a century, the Southern Yue grew in power and ambition, attempting to win over other small neighboring countries and even kill the Great Qi envoy.

The seventh prince was ordered to attack Nan Yue. After several battles, the despicable Nan Yue people suddenly retreated, leaving behind a city where Nan Yue and Da Qi were mixed.

But on the night before the Seventh Prince was to enter the city and take over its defenses, he suddenly received a secret report:

"All the people in the city were infected with a contagious disease that could be transmitted through respiration, contact, or even just by being in the same space."

Those afflicted with the epidemic may die within three days to a month…

This disease is incurable. Before the arrival of the Daqi army, these people had been trapped for more than a month. This wave is an open conspiracy against the leader of the expedition.

Ultimately, after several infected soldiers died in succession.

His Highness had no choice but to order the city to be burned.

Everyone knew him only of his tyranny, that he wouldn't even spare a city that surrendered.

Little did he know that if he hadn't acted decisively, locking the city gates, cutting off all the plank road access, and keeping the sick in the city to prevent the spread of infection, the entire Great Qi might have fallen.

"Only my sister has this kind of Gu poison."

At this moment, Yu Feixian finally stopped hiding her true identity.

She knew very well that Nan Yaoxian had truly angered the prince this time.

"I dare not beg Your Highness to spare her, I only beg Your Highness to allow me to see her one last time before you execute her."

Chu Jiang finally looked up at the woman before him, his aura even more imposing and intimidating than before:

"Your Highness is joking. The Southern Yue delegation is so powerful that they killed so many of my personal guards with just a flick of their fingers, and even I, the prince, almost lost my life in the process. How could I possibly kill them?"

Hearing these sarcastic and harsh words, Yu Feixian frowned slightly, unsure how to respond in a way that wouldn't anger the man.

One force can overcome ten techniques; no matter how powerful unorthodox methods are, can they withstand the intervention of an army?
If this prince is truly angered, he might not even need the army to intervene; he could kill the entire South Vietnamese delegation by himself.

With his abilities, those people were less than ants in his eyes.

Having thought it through, Yu Feixian took a deep breath, seemingly having made a great decision:
"The reason why Nan Yaoxian was able to suppress the Gu Mother and cause the toxins in His Highness's body to go out of control is because she used the sacred artifact of Nan Yue. As long as the sacred artifact is removed, the Gu Mother in His Highness's body will be able to control all Gu worms."

At this point, she raised her head: "As the princess of Nan Yue, Yu Feixian presents this sacred object to Your Highness. Please grant me your mercy."

After speaking, she knelt on one knee and performed the highest level of etiquette for Chu Jiang.

The hall fell silent for a moment, and everyone looked at the seventh prince seated on the throne.
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"Sangsang."

Qin Su wanted to turn around when she heard the voice, but before she could move, she was hugged by a pair of long, strong arms: "Don't move." The man's voice was full of exhaustion.

She stopped moving and let him hold her as she relaxed.

Chu Jiang didn't speak, but simply tightened his arms and buried his face in the girl's cloud-like hair.

The air in the room seemed to freeze at that moment.

After a long while, just as Qin Su was half-asleep with her eyes half-closed, the man's voice finally rang out: "I will go to the Siyi Pavilion again tomorrow."

Siyiguan?
She jolted awake, instantly snapping back to reality, and hurriedly turned around: "Going again? Can't I not go?"

The girl's eyes were tense and worried. Even though he looked much better now, she could never forget the way he was carried back with his hands and feet tied up.

"That place isn't good, let someone else go..."

Her nervous words slowly quieted down in the man's deep, dark eyes: "Ling Xiao..."

Chu Jiang didn't speak. His warm, slender hand grasped the girl's soft hand, and he lowered his head to touch her forehead. His voice was low, calm, and steady: "Don't be afraid. This is the last time. Nothing will happen again."

the last time?
What is he implying?
Qin Su sensed the hidden meaning in the man's words, her heart skipped a beat, and she stared into his eyes for a long time before finally sighing softly in resignation:

"Whatever. Just remember this: if anything happens to you, I won't live either."

Chu Jiang paused for a moment, tightened his arms, and held the person tightly in his embrace: "No, I will be back soon."