When Zi Yi sighed "what a pity", she was not sighing for others, but for herself.

She is Situ Hong, the southern monster, and also the most mysterious of the four Wufeng monsters, nicknamed "Thousand Faces".

But she is not as free as the other three monsters.

A Wufeng jackdaw rescued her, who was once named Ye Xiao, from the "field" where the powerful killed people for fun.

She was once the daughter of an official family. Until her father, a minor official of the sixth rank, offended the powerful, the whole family was thrown into the "murder field", and she was the only one who escaped alive.

At that time, she was already seventeen years old, and her physique was not excellent, so she had no future in martial arts. She was afraid that she would become an abandoned child, so she could only grit her teeth and use the method taught by her aunt from Miaojiang to train herself into a Gu woman with Gu blood all over her body.

She was able to kill the former Southern Monster and secure this position because of her extremely poisonous blood, which could kill anyone who touched it and which not even the palace herbs could cure. Even her own Jackdaw accidentally died from it.

Although in the past five years, because of Gong Ziyu, the young master who was jokingly called "one of our own" by the top management of Wufeng because he provided information and money, she, a Wu-level assassin, was trapped in Wanhua Tower and could not go anywhere.

But it was a period of peace and stability.

Once Gong Yuanzheng died, Wanhua Tower would be abandoned. She was the only one who could change her face and identity and hide in the Old Dust Valley. Gong Shangjiao would not let anyone else go.

Zi Yi lowered her eyes and drank tea, thinking of Master Yu who always came to her to confide in her and who had spent a lot of money but never touched her. She felt a rare sense of melancholy.

Han Ya Si also picked up the teacup, thinking about Yun Weishan who had entered the palace, and felt depressed.

Suddenly, a strong burning sensation accompanied by severe pain exploded in the abdomen and spread throughout the body unexpectedly. Jackdaw's hand loosened and the teacup fell onto the couch. He fell on the couch, holding his stomach. His face turned red in an instant, and beads of sweat the size of beans rushed out from under his skin.

"The death oath... has taken effect?" He couldn't believe it. He wanted to take out the antidote from the bag on his waist, but his limbs were so weak that he couldn't even move.

The so-called death oath is the Half Moon Fly, a poisonous poison that everyone below the Wu rank must take when going out on a mission. The eggs enter the body and hatch once every half a month. When the attack occurs, the poisonous insects gnaw at the meridians, making people feel like they are in purgatory, suffering from burning and pain from the inside out, and living a life worse than death. If the antidote is not taken, the poisonous insects will gnaw through the meridians and dantian, and people will die in pain.

"Help me..." Jackdaw tried his best to utter two unclear words.

The burning sensation in his body was stronger than ever before. He could even feel the poisonous insects crawling and gnawing in his meridians. The pain was so severe that he opened his mouth as wide as possible and made a crackling sound in his throat, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Zi Yi was startled and felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to go forward to check, his body suddenly tilted and he collapsed on the couch.

She was a Wu-level assassin, and she had poisonous blood all over her body. She had clearly never taken the Half-Moon Fly, so that thing could not have any effect on her. However, her condition was obviously much more serious than Jackdaw's. It was as if her entire body was scalded by boiling water. Her fair skin instantly turned red, and then dark as blood. Even breathing became extremely difficult.

In the long corridor outside the door, Jackdaw Qi fell to the ground with a thud, just a few meters away from the stairs.

The pretty girl was startled and asked in panic, "Sir, what's wrong with you?"

"Get out!" Jackdaw Qi squeezed out the word from between his teeth. He forgot to control the strength in his hands for a moment and actually broke the jade pendant into two pieces.

But he no longer cared about the mission. He and Jackdaw Si agreed that the Half-Moon Fly in his body had attacked prematurely.

He is most vulnerable at this moment. Anyone can kill him. He cannot take any risk.

"Get out!" Jackdaw Qi raised his head and looked at the girl. The whites of his eyes were bloodshot, making him look like a devil crawling out of hell.

He glared at the girl fiercely, scaring her so much that she stepped back repeatedly. However, after she had already taken several steps back, she gritted her teeth, bypassed him, and quickly ran towards Zi Yi's room.

She received orders from Zi Yi. No matter how powerful Jackdaw was, he had to cower in front of Zi Yi. She couldn't just be shouted away like that, otherwise who would be responsible if things went wrong?

"Sir!" The pretty-faced girl who broke into the room screamed when she saw two people lying on the low couch in the room. She walked closer, but saw that something was wrong. She didn't dare to get close, so she found the thin rope that notified the people downstairs and pulled it dozens of times.

A few minutes later, a burst of hurried and noisy footsteps came upstairs from downstairs.

The girl held her stomach and fell to the floor covered with crimson cashmere carpet, her face covered with sweat.

In the corridor, next to Jackdaw Qi, a white jade pendant was split into two halves, revealing its silver inner core.

At this moment, both the white jade outer shell and the silver core were melting at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, a faint, strange and sweet fragrance slowly diffused from the silver-white inner core, like a venomous snake that found the right time to strike, blending into the air, laying a net for the prey to come.

……

The night is dark.

The fog that dissipated during the day gathered again and lingered in the old dusty valley.

There were no more cars or pedestrians on the streets of the old town. The vendors packed up their stalls and went home, and the lights in the shops were turned off one by one.

The guards who followed secretly for protection and the guards arranged by Gong Shangjiao to meet them gathered together, and under Jin Fu's skilled command, they were divided into several teams. Some retreated to the intersections around Wanhua Tower and spread out iron nets, some went up to the roofs of nearby houses with powerful crossbows, and some hid in small boats on the river... Everyone was lying in wait quietly.

At the beginning of Hai, the night watchman beat the drum to remind people that it was late at night and it was time to stop activities and go to sleep.

At this time, Wanhua Tower, the only place for entertainment in the whole town, was still brightly lit.

As in previous days, several red and white lanterns were hung in an orderly manner on the lampstand in front of the door. The door on the first floor was open, and lights were shining through the windows of all the rooms on the second floor.

However, today seems to be different from the past.

There were no prostitutes with seductive eyes soliciting customers at the door of the building, and no chirping of birds or sounds of stringed instruments could be heard from inside the building.

Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng stood in front of the gate of the brothel on time.

The stunning girl had a beautiful smile, and the handsome young man held a bright red carp lantern in his right hand. The two of them held hands, looked up, with clear eyes, curious faces, and a naive look.

"It's very quiet." Gong Yuanzheng sighed: "It seems that the bug that stole the jade pendant has really entered here."

"But it shouldn't be so quiet." Zhang Xueming was a little puzzled and quietly raised his vigilance. "The medicine is mainly used to kill the poisonous insects. It doesn't contain any sleeping pills, and it's not fatal. Is there no one in this building who hasn't been infected with the poisonous insects? What about the guests?"

"Maybe there is a big fish in here who is good at playing with poisonous insects. He is used to marking everyone who comes. Once he is discovered by the palace gate, he can use those people as hostages to force the palace gate to give in?" Gong Yuanzheng guessed with great interest.

"That's not right." Zhang Xueming frowned. "Haven't we tried it? If it doesn't come into contact with a heat source, it will take an hour for the jade pendant to completely melt. Even if the person who brought the jade pendant here kept it in his arms, it would take at least half an hour for the outer shell of the jade pendant to begin to melt. They can't just put the jade pendant on the fire, or the person who wanted to lure us here would find out that we didn't take the bait and smash the jade pendant in anger?"

His spiritual consciousness condensed into a thin thread, and quickly scanned the hall on the first floor. "Looking" at the people lying in the hall and the corridor, Zhang Xueming was stunned.

After a while, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she sighed: "Too outrageous... Ayuan, maybe you really got the truth."

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