When I was half asleep in the middle of the night, someone pushed my shoulder, trying to wake me up.

I held down the other person's palm, turned over, and didn't even want to open my eyes.

"Princess!" I didn't wake up from my sleep until the other party couldn't bear it anymore and whispered in my ear.

I rubbed my eyes, sat up, and saw clearly in the moonlight outside the window that the person beside the bed was Tianhe. I was in a bad mood because of waking up. "What are you doing? Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night and bother me?"

"Come with me!" He grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of bed.

He pulled me so hard that I didn't even have time to put my shoes on. As soon as I put my feet in, he muttered that it was too slow and carried me on his back.

The two of us went out of the window and went straight onto the roof.

The people patrolling the princess's mansion at night seemed to be asleep, and it was so quiet that it was a little scary.

Tianhe took me to the backyard, and we stayed on the wall the whole time, never landing on the ground.

He pointed to a corner in the backyard and asked me to look for myself.

If it were before, it would have been pitch black and I would definitely not be able to see anything, but now that I have become a master, I can not only see a figure squatting there, but I can also smell a clear smell of blood.

"What's going on?" I lay on Tianhe's back and pinched his shoulders.

A slight sound aroused the vigilance of the person below. When he turned his head to check, I saw his face first.

At the same time, Tianhe leaned over, hooked his hand to pull me off his back, and pressed me to the side.

[Did you see it?] He asked me in secret voice.

I nodded slowly, still in disbelief.

It was not until Tianhe took me to check on the guards who had been knocked unconscious by the wall that I had to believe that the man hiding in the poultry pen in the backyard, biting the chicken's neck with blood all over his face, was the mute slave.

"Whether he is a zombie or a puppet, he eats raw meat and drinks living blood. Keeping such a thing in the princess's mansion is a disaster! Wu Jiu definitely has no good intentions!" Tianhe looked at me seriously, "What is the princess going to do?"

The zombie movies I watched before came to my mind again. When they first mutated, they first ate small animals and then began to eat humans... Will the mute slaves be like this too?

When I was holding my head and getting lost in thought, I suddenly saw the face of the mute slave appear behind Tianhe. I was so frightened that I froze for a moment.

Tianhe quickly noticed something unusual and turned around to engage in close combat with the mute slave.

In the past, the mute slave was just a doctor who was obsessed with studying various medical skills. At most, he had better physical strength and could climb mountains without any effort, but he didn't know any martial arts at all. But now he can actually fight back and forth with Tianhe and is not at all at a disadvantage.

I took a deep breath, blocked their attacks, and stood between them, "Stop it!"

After I stopped them, they still glared at each other in dissatisfaction.

I glanced at the mute slave. Although he had wiped the blood off his mouth, there were still some bloodstains on his chest. It was hard not to think too much. Perhaps my disappointed gaze was too direct, he restrained his fierce look, lowered his eyes, and lost the murderous aura just now.

"I'll go find Wujiu and ask him clearly." Saying that, I prepared to go out.

"Middle of the night?" Tianhe frowned.

"I can't wait any longer!" As soon as I finished speaking, I was picked up by the mute slave.

He seemed to understand my intention, and he jumped to the top of the wall, running in a straight line towards the post house where Wujiu currently lived. Tianhe followed closely behind, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, but he didn't say anything else.

What surprised me a little was that Wujiu seemed to have expected that I would come to him.

The door was wide open, and Wujiu was sitting there lazily, playing with something in his hand.

"You came to visit me so late at night, and from the rooftop. I can see that you are a little anxious."

I patted the mute slave's arm and signaled him to put me down.

I climbed up to the attic corridor, crossed the porch, and walked in front of Wujiu. I said in a bad tone, "Why would he eat a live chicken and drink chicken blood in the middle of the night?"

Wu Jiu chuckled and said, "I clearly wanted to teach you before, but you didn't want to learn..."

I looked back at the two figures standing at the door, took a deep breath, and then sat down next to Wu Jiu. "I was thinking about it wrongly. It's better to know a little about these things. Can you tell me?"

"In fact, the Gu Masters used dying people to make puppets before. As far as I know, I have never heard of a dead person being made into a puppet in the past few decades. I don't know if it's your luck or his luck." Wujiu pointed his finger at the figure not far away, and his smile became even more intense.

"It's never happened before... So you mean you don't know either?"

"Hey! I didn't say that." He interrupted me, "It's very simple. People need to eat grains to keep their energy to survive. The puppet relies on the blood master's nourishment. What did you feed him?"

I frowned slightly, "Blood Lord? Now he...can't eat human food, can only drink blood? Doesn't that mean he's become a vampire?"

"Feeding him with blood is necessary, but don't feed him too often. Once a month is enough. You can make some poisonous insects yourself and feed them to him at other times."

My facial features wrinkled up immediately, with a look of reluctance, "What kind of blood do you want to feed? What kind of poisonous insect do you want to refine?"

"Of course it's your own blood. Other blood won't be as effective. If he wasn't starving, he wouldn't drink chicken blood!" Wu Jiu got even more excited as he spoke. He squatted and stood up to change his posture. "You have the King Gu in your body. Your blood is a great tonic for the puppet, and it's also twice as effective when used to refine the Gu. Do you want to learn? I'll teach you."

His upper body was almost close to me, and I shrank back, "Wait! Wait... let me think about it..."

[Those Gu Masters have a lot of tricks to deceive people. If Gu magic is really that easy to learn, everyone will learn it, and the practitioners will most likely be retaliated. Don't listen to their nonsense.] Tianhe's voice came directly into my mind through the secret voice transmission.

I couldn't help but look outside the door. On the one hand, he reminded me, but on the other hand, I was really scared of these evil things.

In my previous life, I was tricked by a friend into watching a zombie movie. As a result, I didn’t dare to get up at night for more than two months. When I had no choice, I turned on all the lights in the room in the middle of the night to barely dispel the fear in my heart. Although outdoor sports often involve walking at night or sleeping outdoors, it is because of this that I rarely pay attention to those fantasy things. I firmly maintain an atheistic worldview in my heart. If I don’t think about it, I won’t be afraid.

"In fact, learning Gu Shu can not only control Gu and cast spells, but also do many interesting things. Do you remember the time when we were in the princess's mansion..." Wu Jiu stood up, walked across the table between us, and almost leaned close to my ear, "If others ask me to teach, I may not be willing to teach, but you, my future wife, as long as you are willing, I promise you will not regret it..."

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