CH 449

449: Gu Worm Recoil

The count was not breathing well. Scarlet frowned as she looked at him. He could be considered a leader of the younger generation so it would be a shame to lose him.

For her part, Rain was confused and wondered if she should believe the stranger. Was the girl a friend or enemy? If she was an enemy, then handing the count over to her would be like leaving a lamb for slaughter. The count would have no chance.

Weighing life and death was so hard!

Well, in the end the count probably wouldn’t make it anyway, so gambling and leaving him with the girl wasn’t a bad option.

Yeah, good idea!

Rain stopped worrying about it once she came to a conclusion. She nodded her head and said, “OK, I will believe you. I hope you can save the count.”

The prize money would be double if he stayed alive! Thinking about it got Rain all excited. She immediately walked out and gently closed the door. Hopefully she hadn’t made a mistake.

Meanwhile the battle between Feng Wu and Alante was nearing its end.

Alante’s movements were faster than Feng Wu’s but her attack was weaker. She was losing stamina only after a few rounds.

Wind and Pei Qing arrived and quickly joined Feng Wu in the fight after subduing Lamia who was guarding outside the door.

Pei Qing easily hit Alante with his dimensional space magic. It didn’t matter how fast Alante was, she was no match for Pei Qing and his ability to control dimensional space.[notes]

It was difficult for Alante to use her speed to her advantage in her attacks. She had barely stood her ground against Feng Wu alone, now there were two others for her to fend against. She was seriously injured by Pei Qing and Wind’s combined attacks.

Just as the three of them were about to subdue her in order to hand her over to the old lady, Alante let out a shriek of pain.

The three of them looked at each other. They couldn’t understand why she was screaming; they hadn’t done anything to her to cause it. There was no logical reason for her to be suffering as much as she was.

Was she pretending? Pei Qing, suspicious though he was, realized he was wrong as soon as the thought crossed his mind.

Alante fell to the ground and convulsed so uncontrollably she looked like she’d gone crazy. White foam flowed out of her mouth and within the stream or bubbles was a pink bug. The bug’s miserable chirps filled the air.

“Be careful!” Wind yelled out before stomping on the bug that crawled out of Alante’s mouth with one foot.

The worm dying made Alante wail out even more miserably. Her facial features went through a dramatic change and in under a minute she went from being a stunning beauty to a below average looking woman.

It was a bad look. She wasn’t just unpretty she was plain ugly. It was no wonder she was so obsessed with beauty. Her change in appearance was just the beginning though. Her hair turned gray then white. Then wrinkles formed on her face in real time. She went from a stunning beauty to an old lady in less than a minute.

Feng Wu could feel Alante’s life was a lot weaker than before.

“What happened?!” Pei Qing was so puzzled. How could this happen to a person?

“The gu must have eaten away at her from the inside.” Wind looked in disgust at the worm he stomped on earlier. He really wanted to get new shoes now.

“Gu worm recoil?! No way! There are still people in the world who know how to create such evil things?!” Pei Qing was surprised. The worms had been so vicious that the authorities had classified using them a form of evil art. The method for refining them had died out long ago, so he never thought he would see the worms in a place like Rain city.

He was disgusted looking at the worm corpse. And he wondered how a lady like Alante could stoop to making such a decision. Gu worms didn’t just harm other people, it also harmed the user. What kind of deep hatred did she have for the count to want to kill him this way?

If the male worm was destroyed before it finished sucking away the life of the male host, the female worm will immediately begin to eat away at the female host.

It was obvious Alante had been eaten away from the inside by the female worm. She lost her vitality so it was unlikely she would live for much longer.

“What kind of grudge do you have against Count Nigusu? Was killing him worth all this?” Wind didn’t understand how much hatred someone had to have to do this to another person.

His words agitated Alante beyond reason and she yelled out, “What nonsense are you talking about?! How could I ever kill Nigusu? I love him so much I’m willing to die with him! How could I ever hurt him?!”

Her voice wasn’t musical and beautiful, but was old and hoarse, like an old lady.

“You love Nigusu?! Couldn’t tell that. . . ” To think there was a person who would treat their loved one in such a cruel way. It was beyond anything the group could understand.

Feng Wu didn’t understand what love was, but Ming Xi said loving someone meant wanting to make them happy. Loving someone meant thinking about the other person and wanting to be with them. Although Feng Wu didn’t understand it, she knew loving someone was not about hurting them. People who loved one another didn’t hurt each other.

“If this is your love for Nigusu, then I can only say your love is really scary. It’s a good thing I have better luck than him and have never met a lunatic like you.” Pei Qing got goosebumps just thinking about someone using a gu on him to get his love. The more he thought about it, the more terrible it was!

“I think so too.” Wind agreed.

Feng Wu nodded along with the guys. This kind of love was really terrible. She would tell Ming Xi about it when she got back.

“What do you know?! The count and I are truly in love. Our love isn’t something you’d understand!” Alante yelled out righteously.

She could endure defeat by the group and pain the caused by the worm eating her, but she couldn’t bear to be questioned about her love for Nigusu.