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

Rui Bingtian initially thought he had made a mistake, so he didn't dare to tell Prince Duan the truth.

However, after several recent diagnoses, he became even more certain of his judgment.

"If the steward does not trust me, he may seek another expert. I would not have dared to say this if I had not confirmed it several times. I only dared to explain my diagnosis because I was worried about delaying the prince's treatment."

Rui Bingtian stayed by Prince Duan's side when he was still a prince, taking his pulse for him.

He spent almost as much time at the Prince's residence as Liu Yongfu.

Liu Yongfu also trusted his medical skills and character. He said, "Then, Dr. Rui, how should His Highness's headache be treated?"

“This is difficult!” Rui Bingtian sighed. “If the worm is inside the stomach, it can be expelled with medicine. If it is on the outside, the flesh can be scraped away. But if it is in the head… this is not easy to handle. In my opinion, this is not an ordinary worm.”

Liu Yongfu could understand what he said before, but he couldn't understand what he said afterward.

"What do you mean, not just ordinary insects?" he asked, puzzled. "You mean, Your Highness is under a spell?"

Rui Bingtian nodded and said, "In my opinion, this is exactly witchcraft."

Liu Yongfu wanted to say how could this be? How could the prince be under a spell? But then he suddenly remembered the evil worm the prince had acquired, which was worshipped as a sacred insect and tormented people to the point of near death during interrogations…

Your Highness, could it be that the worm is related to the worm in your brain?

He raised his voice and called someone over, asking, "Where's An Yi? Where is An Yi? Bring him here right now."

Prince Duan treasured that worm very much, and usually entrusted it to An Yi for safekeeping, except for himself.

Only An Yi knew the truth about the insect.

He didn't expect that when he asked, he would discover that An Yi was gone.

He shouted in a shrill voice, "Find him for me! Quickly bring An Yi back!"

"Then... should Commander Su still be looking?"

Upon hearing his orders, his men hesitated. Ningcheng had been in complete chaos these past few days; one minute they were searching for the arsonist, the next they were conducting a city-wide search for the assassin, then they were arresting Commander Su, and now they were looking for Lord Li?

To be honest, because Prince Duan did not want people to know about the scandals of the Prince's mansion, he concealed many things and simply told his subordinates to do things according to his orders. At this moment, many people were still confused and did not understand what had happened in Prince Duan's mansion that had caused Ningcheng to be in such a state.

Liu Yongfu felt a headache coming on. He pondered for a moment and said, "Of course we have to find him. He's a serious criminal now and we can't let him go easily. But there are priorities. The prince's health is the most important thing right now. Let's find Li Zhao first."

The people below didn't understand how Li Zhao was connected to the prince's health.

But everyone obeyed the orders and immediately began searching for Li Zhao.

Little did they know that Li Zhao had already left Ningcheng with Ji Yunshuang.

After leaving Ningcheng, Ji Yunshuang found a secluded spot in the nearby mountains and moved Li Zhao out of the space.

Although she had already checked him and found no insects on him, she still felt that he was a pollutant and that keeping him in her space would contaminate it.

Therefore, when he was placed into the space, he was not only placed there, but he was also contained using special equipment.

She also threw him out of the space as quickly as possible.

When Li Zhao woke up, he found himself bound hand and foot, his body as stiff as a noodle, unable to exert any strength.

His neck was still throbbing with pain.

He remembered that while he was in the secret passage, he suddenly felt a pain in his neck and then lost consciousness.

He quickly realized that he had been assassinated.

He strained to open his eyes wide, and then he saw Ji Yunshuang standing in front of him with a steamed bun in her hand.

"It's you, that female assassin?"

The anesthesia hadn't completely worn off, and his voice was very weak when he spoke.

Ji Yunshuang took a bite of her steamed bun and said, "It really is me. Now I'll ask you a question, and you'd better be honest with me."

Li Zhaoman said humiliatingly, "You are so arrogant!"

Ji Yunshuang smiled and said, "That's true to some extent. After all, you're in my hands now. Whether you live or die depends entirely on my mood."

Li Zhao said, "Kill me! I will not betray the prince."

Ji Yunshuang said, "Who told you to betray your prince? I was saving your prince. You'd better answer my questions honestly, or your prince will be dead."

Li Zhaodao said, "Stop exaggerating. I don't believe what you're saying."

"Believe it or not, listen first." Ji Yunshuang finished her steamed bun in a few bites and said, "Do you know what that worm in your hand is?"

As he had said, Li Zhao did not answer Ji Yunshuang's question. He quietly observed his surroundings, pondering where he was and how he could escape.

Ji Yunshuang saw his performance but was not in a hurry. She continued to talk to him about the worm.

No matter how capable he is, he can't possibly escape.

"Do you think that interrogating prisoners is particularly smooth as long as you use that insect?"

But have you ever considered that the person you're interrogating might not have been driven to the brink of despair by the insects and thus told the truth? What they said might simply be what the insects were trying to convey.

Li Zhao had originally decided to ignore Ji Yunshuang, but what she said was so outrageous that he couldn't help but ask, "Are you trying to tell me that an insect has human thoughts?"

He felt that either he was crazy, or the female assassin was.

Ji Yunshuang said, "You think this is hard to imagine, crazy, right?"

But think about it, when you interrogated prisoners before, didn't it take you a long time to get answers? But this time, when you interrogated Diao Zhao, didn't you not get the answers you wanted?"

"You were not only there at the time, but you've also been lurking among us before? How do you know so much about our affairs?" Li Zhao asked breathlessly, "Who exactly are you? What do you want?"

Ji Yunshuang wasn't entirely sure if the insect was the same as the mutated insect she had seen during the apocalypse.

She knew that Li Zhao wouldn't answer her questions so readily, so she was using rhetoric to guide him and then guessing the truth from his reaction.

Judging from his performance, I guessed right this time.

Her expression grew increasingly somber.

She said, "I am not lurking among you. I just don't want to see the whole world destroyed because of your selfishness."

Li Zhao gave a mocking smile, increasingly convinced that the woman before him was a madwoman. Unexpectedly, she changed the subject, mentioning some symptoms of the prince's headache.

Prince Duan's headaches have recently flared up, and he often faints from sudden outbursts of rage, which is hardly a secret within the Prince's residence.

However, few people besides these secret guards knew about some of the minor incidents that occurred before the prince's headache flared up.

However, considering that she was able to infiltrate the dungeon and witness their interrogation of prisoners, and quietly observe those small things by staying close to the prince, it wasn't a big deal.

He said, "Don't think I don't know, you—"

Ji Yunshuang interrupted him coldly, saying, "How many worms do you have in total? Besides you, who else has been in contact with the worms? You'd better tell me honestly."

"Of course, you can choose not to tell me. In that case, you can just wait for the insects to take over your prince's body, first devouring Ningcheng, then slowly consuming the entire Great Zhou, and finally turning this world into their insect world."