My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

"It's not that I'm hiding anything, it's that I really don't know." After saying this, Diao Zhao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, then collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.

"What happened?" The dungeon guard looked at Diao Zhao lying on the ground with a strange expression. "He died in such a short time? Don't the Heart-Eating Worms usually torture people for several days?"

An Yi also looked at Diao Zhao's corpse with a strange feeling, sensing that something was very wrong.

"The insects seem particularly restless today."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a blood-red worm, several times larger than before, crawled out of Diao Zhao's body.

An Yi took out the bottle and placed it on the ground, waiting for it to return to the bottle.

This time, however, the heart-eating worm did not obediently return to the bottle as usual. Instead, it turned its head as if searching for something.

The guard took a few steps back in fear and asked, "What's wrong with this insect? Why isn't it going back?"

An Yi said, "It seems to be searching for something."

The guard grew increasingly frightened. "What are you looking for? Is it still hungry?" If it wasn't hungry, would it want to eat him?

He didn't want to feed the bugs.

Thinking this, he took two steps back.

An Yi stared intently at the worm crawling out of Diao Zhao's body and said, "This has never happened before."

He frowned, pondering what was different about today compared to usual.

Normally, the insects are in a dormant state in the bottle, and they only slowly awaken from their dormant state after entering a human body.

Each awakening is a slow process.

Therefore, after the insect enters the human body, it will not immediately devour the internal organs. The initial pain is mild and will gradually subside. If the insect eats a lot, the person being eaten will experience increasing pain.

But today, after the insects entered Diao Zhao's body, they seemed to awaken quickly, devouring a large amount of his internal organs and causing his immediate death.

An Yi couldn't understand what had made the insects different before.

The insects, however, became increasingly agitated, giving the impression that they might go berserk and attack people at any moment.

The guard instinctively picked up his broadsword and held it protectively in front of his chest, saying, "Has the insect grown too big... and become uncontrollable? Should we... or should we kill it?"

"No!" An Yi stopped him without hesitation. "This is a sacred object given to the prince by the priestess. How can you kill it? If you kill it, how will you explain it to the prince?"

Ji Yunshuang thought to herself, in her opinion, this insect was not a sacred object, but an evil one. She clearly had a feeling that it was targeting her.

This feels very strange.

You should know that she is currently hiding in the space, and no one can sense her presence.

But she had a feeling that the insect had sensed her and was targeting her.

This insect cannot be kept.

Using her telekinesis, she influenced the guards wielding knives, causing them to slash at the insects.

Out of fear, the guard wanted to use his knife to cut the insects, but Ji Yunshuang simply amplified his thoughts with her mental power, and she easily made the guard's large knife slash at the insects.

But the insect displayed an agility that was unusual for an insect, and it darted away in a flash.

Ji Yunshuang clearly sensed that the insects were heading in her direction.

It seemed to have been lost for a while, but when she used her telekinesis, it sensed her and chased after her.

For a moment, Ji Yunshuang felt like she had become prey.

"Are you crazy?" An Yi shouted angrily at the guard, grabbed the bottle from the ground, and chased after the insect.

The guard gripped his knife tightly, his entire body drenched in cold sweat. What had he just done? How could he have actually gone and tried to cut that insect?

He was both relieved that the insect reacted quickly enough and his knife didn't hit it, and worried that if the insect really got away because of his fright, he would definitely be punished by the prince.

The guard, thinking to himself, quickly gave chase.

The usually soft and somewhat clumsy insect was running extremely fast today. The two chased after it one after the other, but neither of them could find any trace of it.

The guard wiped his sweat and asked, "What should we do?"

An Yi said coldly, "What else can we do? Call the other guards in the dungeon and search separately."

Given what the prince has been going through lately, if they dare to provoke him now, none of them will escape unscathed.

The guards hurriedly went back to fetch help, while An Yi continued the search.

The insect that the two were looking for had already scurried to Ji Yunshuang's location.

It sniffed around on the ground like a dog, looking particularly eerie and unsettling.

Ji Yunshuang held the insecticide in her left hand and the long sword in her right. After hesitating for a moment, she decided to try the insecticide first.

As soon as she left the space, she sprayed the insects with a torrent of spray.

And this insect was indeed very strange; insecticides simply couldn't kill it.

It was also extremely excited and wanted to enter Ji Yunshuang's body.

Seeing that the insecticide was ineffective, Ji Yunshuang immediately changed her strategy. She drew her longsword and slashed at the insect.

Her movements were incredibly fast; in an instant, she sliced ​​the insect in front of her into three pieces.

The moment the insect was killed, the witch in the witch clan's cave suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Holy Maiden, what's wrong?" The maidservant serving her asked anxiously.

The priestess gritted her teeth and said, "Who dared to kill the sacred insect I carefully cultivated?"

"Huh?" the maid said, "Didn't you give that insect to the nobleman? It was being raised quite well, so why was it suddenly killed?"

“Something must have happened. I have to go down the mountain.” The witch wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, stood up and said, “You and Xiao Lan come with me. Hurry up and pack your things.”

Meanwhile, An Yi, having searched all the way here, just happened to see Ji Yunshuang cut the Heart-Eating Worm into three pieces. His eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and he attacked Ji Yunshuang, shouting, "Who are you, daring to cause trouble in the Prince's mansion?"

Ji Yunshuang instantly drew her sword and charged forward. She had originally intended to knock him unconscious and take him back for questioning, but she hadn't expected An Yi's skills to be even better than she had anticipated.

She actually failed to knock him unconscious.

At that moment, a large group of guards ran towards them.

Seeing that now was not the time to arrest them, Ji Yunshuang made a quick decision and turned to run.

However, her fight with An Yi had already alerted the guards of the Prince's Mansion, and at this moment a large group of guards chased after Ji Yunshuang.

Even Prince Duan in the side hall was alarmed and rushed out of his room to ask what was going on.

The guards of the Prince's mansion had no idea what was going on, while An Yi had already gone out to chase after them.

Only a few guards who were stationed in the dungeon remained in place.

At that moment, one of the guards saw the dead insects on the ground, shouted, and pointed to the ground.

The guard who had almost slashed the insect earlier saw the insect's corpse on the ground and immediately had a flash of inspiration, saying, "There's an assassin! An assassin killed the sacred insect!"