Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 9 Secret (Thanks to the leader of "Se Ruduo")

"call--"

The sword whistled, and when Gu Jingnian realized that Pei Nian's sword was aimed at his neck, a ripple appeared in his always calm eyes.

The blade cut into the skin, splashing blood.

Gu Jingnian did not dodge but instead stepped forward, shrugged, and used his left shoulder blade to block the blow. As his bones broke, he grabbed the blade with his right hand.

Pei Nian must be considered a martial arts master, with agile skills and swift swordplay. If there are any shortcomings, they are only that she is young, inexperienced, and as a woman, she is weak.

In all her previous fights, she had never seen anyone fight like Gu Jingnian. She was stunned and subconsciously drew her sword.

In a flash, Gu Jingnian had already rushed forward, holding a hairpin in his left hand, and stabbed Pei Nian's throat fiercely.

Perhaps because he had a lot of experience in being chopped, he was terribly skilled, which was completely different from the information Pei Nian had found that he "had no martial arts skills."

Just now, Pei Nian shouted "die" as a reminder before he drew his sword, and he held back his strength, not really killing him. In comparison, Gu Jingnian was much more ruthless, showing no mercy, and his every move was intended to kill.

Fortunately, Pei Nian was quick and managed to dodge in surprise, and the hairpin went straight into her upper arm.

She suddenly felt scared and felt that she had a close brush with death.

Gu Jingnian was as ferocious as a wild beast. He stabbed Pei Nian several times with his hairpin. Pei Nian narrowly avoided the vital points, and half of his body was covered in blood.

She held the sword in her right hand and wanted to retract it, but Gu Jingnian pressed the sword into his shoulder blade with his right hand, and the blade did not move at all.

Pei Nian quickly calmed himself down, and used the Dragon-Catching Technique with his left hand as fast as lightning to grab his left hand, breaking it with a "click". Then he struck Gu Jingnian's chest with his palm, shattering his lungs.

However, the next moment, she was thrown to the ground.

The sword blade chopped into half of Gu Jingnian's body. Gu Jingnian hooked his arm around her hand and crushed it, then hit her head hard.

"Boom."

Pei Nian was a little confused.

If it were someone else, she would have beaten the other person to death long ago. She didn't expect to be hit on the head with a hammer. If the other person was not a human but a monster, the face in front of her was so handsome.

Gu Jingnian smashed it again.

Pei Nian grabbed his hair and pulled it hard, almost tearing his scalp off.

"Uh……"

It was Pei Nian herself who screamed in pain, because Gu Jingnian simply bit her neck.

She was out of breath and couldn't push him away, so she pulled out a dagger for self-defense from her boots and stabbed Gu Jingnian.

"Puff puff puff puff puff puff..."

Pei Nian's hands were covered with warm blood after being stabbed countless times. The blood stained her brocade robe and soaked her body, feeling hot and sticky.

She finally felt fear.

It's not that she was afraid of death, but she was afraid that she couldn't kill Gu Jingnian no matter what.

With Gu Jingnian's crude martial arts, she could usually kill dozens of people. If she had the chance again, she could also chop off his head with one sword, but now she was desperate.

"stop……"

Pei Nian stopped stabbing and uttered this word with difficulty.

She tried to turn her head to prevent Gu Jingnian from biting deeper.

"Stop... I'll help you..."

Finally, Gu Jingnian lost too much blood and had no strength left, so he let go.

Pei Nian loosened the hilt of his sword, dropped the dagger, and said, "I didn't...want to...kill you, I didn't want to kill..."

He kept pressing her right hand, and after a while, her left hand was also pressed to the ground.

Gu Jingnian's broken left hand began to recover.

"If I wanted to kill you... I wouldn't have sent the others away." Pei Nian finally managed to catch his breath and said, "And if you kill me, you won't survive. They will surround you, chop off your head, and burn your body."

She actually didn't know whether this could kill Gu Jingnian, she only knew it would be useful for the leech.

Gu Jingnian responded simply and bluntly: "I will kill you all."

"You can't kill them all...you will die, and the Gu family will be implicated."

"I do not care."

"No, you care." Pei Nian said as gently as possible: "At least, your elder sister is good to you... isn't she? The one you care about is that she is nine months pregnant and is about to give birth... If the Gu family's conspiracy is proven, she will not be spared, and I believe that the Gu family is innocent..."

She looked at Gu Jingnian sincerely, as if she was comforting a wild beast.

Because she had already felt that if she allowed Gu Jingnian to lose control, she didn't know how many people he would kill.

"I just want to know what you are... who you are. I'm not here to kill you... Let's close the door first. If others see us, your secret will be gone."

Gu Jingnian glanced outside the door. The yard was still quiet, which showed that Pei Nian did not want to kill him. His purpose was to test him.

He then picked up the sword and dagger on the ground, stood up and closed the door.

Pei Nian took out the medicine from his arms, sprinkled it on his neck with difficulty, and tore off his clothes to bandage himself.

After doing all this, she lay on her back and took a long time to relax before speaking again.

"Are you a leech?"

"No."

"Is that the leech you raised? Did you set up this trap?"

"No."

"But you can come back to life just like the leech."

"Different."

Pei Nian knew it was different. At least Gu Jingnian was rational and could communicate. That was why she dismissed the others and confirmed it alone.

Then she asked the most crucial question.

"So you are all different species. General Gu trained you and also trained Viper?"

"He didn't train me." Gu Jingnian said, "I was born this way."

"You are an alien?" Pei Nian was surprised. "What tribe?"

"I've been looking it up too." Gu Jingnian still wanted to ask, "Zhaowenguan has ten volumes of Fengwuzhi, can you give them to me?"

Pei Nian was stunned and said, "That is the library in the palace. Only the Grand Secretary can borrow it. I will think of a way."

She actually agreed to him.

Gu Jingnian nodded, sat back on the couch, and said, "The leech has nothing to do with me, nor with my father."

"If others knew, they would not believe it, but I believe you."

Pei Nian knew very well that if others discovered Gu Jingnian's secret, they would never care about the difference between Gu Jingnian and Kui Zhi, but would only use him as evidence to convict Gu Beiming.

She didn't know much about Viper before, until seven of her subordinates died today. Then she realized something was wrong, so she briefly told them what had happened today.

"It's like a corpse leech, spitting saliva and laying eggs, living in a corpse, and turning into a corpse in two days. The captives General Gu offered traveled more than 2,700 miles from Yangshachuan to Beijing, and it took a month for the change in the western suburbs. If there was something unusual, with so many people, such a long journey, and such a long time, it would be impossible for there to be no clues. Then there is only one possibility, as you said, the captives were planted with leeches after returning to Beijing."

Gu Jingnian sneered, "You guys only know this now, it's so obvious?"

"So, trust is very important. We have spent too much time on suspicion and doubt."

Pei Nian struggled to get up, walked in front of Gu Jingnian and looked into his eyes.

"Since I believe in you, you must also believe in me."

"Why?"

"From what we have seen today, the leeches are multiplying and growing very fast. If their numbers increase, they will be difficult to eradicate. By then, all lives will be lost and rivers of blood will flow." Pei Nian said, "I will never allow anyone to raise such monsters!"

Gu Jingnian did not answer and turned away. He was not willing to reveal his secrets to Pei Nian for the sake of someone who had nothing to do with him.

"We have the same goal of proving the innocence of the Gu family." Pei Nian continued to persuade, "The reason why I believe you is that you could have left the medicine shop, but you still killed the leech. Otherwise, I would not have shown mercy when I stabbed you with the sword just now. Tell me everything you know, and I will keep the secret for you."

Gu Jingnian was silent for a while before he spoke, "Do you know where my brother-in-law is?"

“I don’t know, I sent someone to follow him, but we lost him.

Gu Jingnian was a little confused and asked, "Do you know that there are information dealers in Beijing?"

"Yes, there is one in the theater in Beishi."

"Didn't she tell you that there was a man called Ma Shi who was involved in this matter?"

Pei Nian frowned and said, "I haven't heard of it. I will check it out."

"That's all I know."

"Where did Lu Yanning go?"

Gu Jingnian didn't say anything, but just said: "How do I know what your purpose is in finding out about this matter? What if it is to stop my brother-in-law from proving the innocence of the Gu family?"

"The Gu family will be searched tomorrow, why should I do this?" Pei Nian took out the bloody transfer order from his arms and deliberately put pressure on him.

"In that case, it's too late to tell you."

"What if I stop Kaipingsi from taking action against the Gu family?"

Gu Jingnian hesitated for a moment and said, "I can take you there, but I have to go to make sure you are not trying to destroy the evidence."

"it is good."

"I have to go back first and ask about my brother-in-law's whereabouts."

"is it necessary?"

"must."

Gu Jingnian's attitude was very firm, as he had an important matter to assign to Gu Caiwei.

"Okay." Pei Nian said, "It's a deal."

After saying that, she reached out her hand and wiped the blood off Gu Jingnian's neck. She looked down and saw that the skin around the wound was intact.

Her fingers were about to lift up the torn robe, but he blocked her way.

"I have to check your secrets." Pei Nian said.

Gu Jingnian glanced at her indifferently and looked away.

Pei Nian squatted down, untied his belt, and took off his robe.

The young man's body was covered in blood and flesh. She tore off a piece of her clothes and wiped the blood off his abdomen.

She just watched, and saw that the wound had stopped bleeding, and that the internal organs were healing little by little at a speed that could be vaguely seen by the naked eye, and then, the muscles in the abdomen that were pierced gradually formed into pieces...

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Kaipingsi, west gate, the scene was a little chaotic as several injured people were carried in.

"Call the doctor."

"What happened?"

"Luo Quan is faking his death."

"There was also an accident at a residential building in South City. Five people died and seven were injured..."

Several doctors came with medicine boxes. Su Changfu was among them, followed by his nephew Su Xiaoyi who came to talk to him.

After taking a quick look around, Su Changfu saw someone carrying a corpse in. He hurried forward and stretched out his hand to flip up the person's eyelids.

"What are you doing?" Captain Huang Hu shouted, "Go and save the people!"

"Captain, this is the newly transferred Doctor Su. He is an excellent doctor. He used to be a coroner and is used to seeing the dead first."

Huang Hu had also heard of him and said, "Excuse me, save him."

Su Changfu didn't dare to stand up straight. He half-squatted and moved to a wounded person. Tremblingly, he opened the medicine box, rubbed his eyes, and looked for hemostatic drugs.

Su Xiaoyi, who was following behind, felt nervous for him, knowing that his uncle had been a coroner all his life and his ability to save lives was very rusty.

After a while, Su Changfu was about to apply medicine, but he was stunned. In a moment, the injured person in front of him was dead. He suddenly felt like the sky was falling and the earth was collapsing. He thought to himself that he was obviously not a miracle doctor, but he was afraid and greedy, and was brought here in a daze, and killed someone so soon!

Huang Hu looked over. Su Changfu felt the sharp gaze and trembled. He thought to himself, "It's over!"

"Saving a living person is not the same as treating a dead person. Move faster." Huang Hu pointed at Ting Qiao Bing who was unconscious on the stretcher. "You are a miracle doctor. Can you sew this broken arm?"

"Yes Yes."

Su Changfu had indeed sewed up many broken arms, so he responded blankly, walked over, stretched out his hand out of habit, and opened his eyelids... It was actually alive? !

He was at a loss for words and wanted to slap himself.

"Uncle, do you need help?" Su Xiaoyi asked in a low voice.

"Can you catch a live one?"

"That's impossible. I thought he was dead..."

Just as Su Changfu held up the broken arm, someone suddenly shouted, "Put it down!"

Pei Nian, who was covered in wounds, came and pointed at Su Changfu and Su Xiaoyi, saying calmly, "Go to my room and wait for me."

"Yes Yes."

Pei Nian stopped looking at them, glanced around, and ordered: "Send the injured to the prison for treatment, and burn all the dead. Do it immediately!"

As they were talking, another detective, Xie Ding, came over with a team of people.

"By order of the Chief, keep your mouth shut about what happened today and don't reveal anything!"

Pei Nian stepped forward and said, "The Commissioner knows about the leech incident and needs to assign personnel to prevent it..."

"Silence." Xie Ding interrupted her with the token in hand and whispered, "Don't delay the capture of the Gu family tomorrow."

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Su Changfu was taken to the government office, his body trembling.

"Uncle, why are you shaking?" Su Xiaoyi asked.

"Pei Jishi is injured, she must want me to treat her, but how dare I do that?"

"But why do they all say that uncle is a miracle doctor?"

"The night before, I wanted to check a corpse, but I didn't expect it was a living person. I thought I could apply some medicine to him, but I actually saved him. For this, his family gave me five taels of gold. I just received the money, and the Kaiping Division came to ask for help. I almost drew my sword. It was really difficult to get off the tiger's back."

"Uncle, I came here because I encountered a strange thing. The dead man was brought in the night before, and his wounds are slowly healing."

Su Changfu was startled, thinking of what he had just heard, "Luo Quan has revived his corpse," and hurriedly said, "It might not be a monster. Go report it to the police!"

The two of them hurriedly walked out and saw Pei Nian coming towards them.

"Pei Jishi, we need to report it to the police."

"I am the official, tell me."

Su Changfu and Su Xiaoyi dared not hide anything anymore and told everything they knew. Finally, they said nervously, "We are not miracle doctors. We dare not treat Jishi's wounds. We are afraid that it will leave scars. Please have mercy on Jishi."

"I have good medicine that won't leave a scar, but I will say you cured it."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

"You continue to be a miracle doctor and prove that you cured Gu Jingnian. If anyone dares to tell me about this, I will kill your entire family... and you, too, will stay in Kaiping Division."

If Pei Nian was a little hesitant before making her choice, she had made up her mind after seeing Liu Jikun's attitude towards Viper.

(End of this chapter)