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Chapter 555 How dare he burn the Blood Soul Wood
The three of them found a restaurant near the hospital and had a late lunch.

In the hospital, Duanmu Long walked out of the intensive care unit, pale and dejected.

Duanmu Rongrong's heart skipped a beat when she saw her like this, "Longlong!"

"Grandma..."

After weakly uttering the name, Duanmu Long went limp.

The bodyguard reacted quickly and helped him up.

"Let's take her to rest first."

After settling Duanmu Long out of the ward, Duanmu Rongrong waited outside for a while before going in to see her nephew who had regained consciousness.

As I approached him, I saw his face filled with a deep sorrow and a look of utter despair, as if he didn't want to pay attention to anyone. I felt a pang of sadness myself.

However, she still had something to say, "You called Chengxiao over as soon as you woke up, did you say something about forcing him to marry Longlong? If I had known you would be so impulsive, I shouldn't have let Chengxiao come. That child has always had his own ideas and is not easily swayed by others. Even his own father probably couldn't make this decision, so what can you do? Besides, I can see that Chengxiao is truly in love with Hanying. Even if you are worried about our Duanmu family, you shouldn't have come up with this idea. Doing so will only alienate Chengxiao from our Duanmu family."

Duanmu Sen almost choked on his breath when he heard his aunt's accusations. He hadn't said anything like that!
No, he wouldn't dare!
He might have had that thought before, but now, let alone Li Chengxiao, even Jiang Hanying could skin him alive.

He even pressured Li Chengxiao, saying he had almost knelt down before him just now, all to get his Blood Soul Wood back!

But he can't say any of this!

But he still opened his mouth wide, as if trying to say something.

Duanmu Rongrong didn't hear clearly, so she bent down and leaned closer to listen, finally making out two indistinct syllables: "...It's over!"

"What's over?"

Duanmu Sen shook his head with a forced effort and closed his eyes wearily.

Everything is over!

Just as Duanmu Rongrong was about to straighten up, she noticed the tears sliding down his cheeks, and for a moment her heart sank!

*
After finishing lunch and parting ways with Li Jingmo, the two returned to the car and finally had a heart-to-heart talk.

"Did Old Deng call you over because of the Blood Soul Wood?"

"Yes, he wants me to return it to him so he can use the corpse-slaying worms from the Blood Soul Wood to prolong his life."

“That’s quite a dream. No, it’s not a dream either. Using corpse worms to prolong life, he really dares to think that way.” Jiang Hanying said, stretching out her hand, “Didn’t you say there was something wrong with the bead you got back from Old Deng? Let me see it.”

"When we get back, I'll put on gloves before touching it; it's dirty."

"Okay."

In the short time it took to say those few words, she could already see the front door of her new home.

I also saw that the gate to the neighboring yard was open.

Several people were going in and out, carrying something.

Li Chengxiao also looked over, "It's Xiao Wu and the others who moved here."

"Would you like to stop and say hello?"

"No need, we'll see each other frequently in the coming days."

"Yeah, since we're so close."

However, they didn't need to greet each other. When Li Chengxiao drove by, the people who were busy moving things stopped and watched the car drive ahead, turn the corner, and disappear from sight before continuing to work.

After getting home, Jiang Hanying put gloves on her hands again before taking the beads that had been woven into a bracelet from her cheap owner.

He pulled it closer for a closer look, then quickly took it away with a look of disgust.

"Could Old Deng be using a blood-feeding method to raise these insects? How could he even think of that!"

Li Chengxiao compared the beads on his bracelet with the beads Jiang Hanying had received from Duanmu Long, and the difference became obvious. Even under sunlight, the beads on the bracelet were almost black, their interiors cloudy and completely obscured.

On the contrary, the one that Duanmu Long always wore on his body had spiderweb-like blood vessels clearly visible inside when the sunlight shone through.

One of the blood vessels has a small bump, and if you look closely, you can even see the bump trembling slightly.

"He was probably thinking of soaking the Blood Soul Wood in his own blood, so that the insect eggs inside would also be imbued with his aura. Once the insect eggs in the Blood Soul Wood matured, whoever consumed them would be loyal to him, even if he consumed them himself. He was experimenting on himself."

"Didn't he expect that in the end he would lose control and be eaten by these insects?"

"Let's gamble."

“That’s true,” Jiang Hanying glanced at the backyard, “to be able to cooperate with that guy, he really has extraordinary courage.”

"It was also out of wishful thinking."

Jiang Hanying picked up the one she had taken from Duanmu Long again: "I see the insect eggs inside this one are still alive. As for this string..."

"They're all alive, and they're developing faster and more mature than the one in your hand. Moreover, they do seem to have some connection with Duanmu Sen."

"He only fed him a little blood, and he already recognizes that old man Deng as his father?"

“I’m afraid it’s not just a little bit. You’ve forgotten that he bled a lot when he was injured just two days ago. And when I saw Duanmu Sen in the intensive care unit, he looked like he had aged twenty years in just two days.”

"So these insect eggs are still sucking his life force while he's still alive? Wouldn't taking back the Blood Soul Wood from him extend his lifespan?"

“Even if we delay, it won’t be for long, but we can’t not recall them. These insect eggs were used by Duanmu Sen for experiments, and now they’re out of control.”

"That's true. This is the first time I've seen corpse-laying worms being raised as Gu worms. Shouldn't these worm eggs be renamed corpse-laying worm Gu?"

Li Chengxiao couldn't help but look up at her, and nodded in agreement, "A good name."

"Should we destroy it directly, or wait and see what crawls out last?"

"Don't you find it disgusting to keep it?"

Jiang Hanying made a quick decision: "Then let's just destroy it."

Just do it.

She got up and began looking for a suitable tool: "Blood Soul Wood is just a type of wood, and wood is afraid of fire, so why not just burn it?"

Li Chengxiao nodded, "We can give it a try."

When all the Blood Soul Wood beads were gathered into the small stainless steel basin that Jiang Hanying had reluctantly brought out after only one use, and oil was poured in, just as she was about to light it, the nearly mature insect eggs inside seemed to sense their impending fate and actually began to try to break free of the Blood Soul Wood's encasing structure. Then, the larger ones ate the smaller ones, and the stronger ones ate the weaker ones. Jiang Hanying couldn't help but widen her eyes in disbelief, "They've really become Gu!"

"They're trying to survive!" Li Chengxiao flicked a lit match into the basin; the fire ignited instantly upon contact with the oil.

"Luckily, this time I bought a yard."

If this were a tall, multi-story building, the police would probably be coming to their door if they played with fire like this!
at the same time.

After waking up from his coma, Duanmu Long turned and went back into the ward.

She was using a cotton swab dipped in water to moisturize Duanmu Sen's lips.

Although Duanmu Sen was angry that his daughter had been caught off guard and Li Chengxiao had taken away the remaining Blood Soul Wood, he couldn't stay angry when he saw that she was swaying and still insisted on taking care of him.

Furthermore, he had personally witnessed the skills of Jiang Hanying and Li Chengxiao.

Thinking of this, his gaze softened, and he was about to speak up, "Ah, it's hot!"

The person who could only pronounce the syllables clearly managed to express the word 'hot' perfectly.

"Hot?" Duanmu Long was taken aback at first, and subconsciously looked at the water in the cup in front of her. The water was about the same temperature as her body, so how could it be hot?

She looked up and saw her father's face turn bright red in just a few seconds, his mouth seemed to be steaming, and the water glass crashed to the ground. "Dad, doctor!"