TFSRSO Chapter 154 (Gu Girl 4)

(T/N: This chapter kinda gory and lots of insects, but it's hella satisfying. If you can't handle those, skip it)

Lin Dan returned home, wiped off the water droplets on her body, and changed into clean clothes. When she turned around, the jade pendant that should have sunk to the bottom of the water was now placed neatly on the table. The man sat by the window, admiring the rainy scene with a relaxed expression.

Lin Dan picked up the jade pendant and threw it out of the window. The man chuckled, and the jade pendant returned as if it had never been moved.

Since she couldn't get rid of it, she decided to let it be. With that thought in mind, Lin Dan walked away without touching the jade pendant. The man leaned on the window sill, his narrow phoenix eyes fixed on the girl's graceful figure, a smile playing on his lips, lost in thought

Zhou Nan was surprised to see the girl slowly entering his room Her facial features were still the same, but her dark skin had become fair and delicate, and her eyes, which always shined with vitality, resembled two icy pools, sending shivers down his spine. She was stunningly beautiful, yet devoid of any signs of vitality. She made people tremble with fear, but at the same time, want to get closer to her.

She no longer seemed like a person but more like a demon, a demon capable of enchanting hearts and devouring souls.

"Are you a human or a ghost?" Zhou Nan asked, his wrist trembling as he held a talisman between his fingertips.

Lin Dan hesitated, clearly not expecting that Zhou Nan was involved in the supernatural world. She continued forward and said in a calm tone: "Something happened to me on the road. I won't be able to help you contact your family today. Please wait." She proceeded to change the bandages for the young man.

The talisman didn't heat up, which meant that Lin Dan was a human being and not a ghost. Zhou Nan breathed a sigh of relief but was also curious about her sudden change.

"Did you encounter something unusual?" he asked softly.

"It's nothing. Rest well. I will try to contact your family as soon as possible." Lin Dan took the dirty gauze to wash it. It was completely different from the previous her, who was always wandering around his room and finding excuses to chat with him.

Zhou Nan was surprised by Lin Dan's change in attitude but did not question it. For him, getting rid of this girl's entanglement was undoubtedly a welcomed development. This way, he didn't have to worry about her having ulterior motives and wanting to keep him here forever. He had the means to protect himself, but with his legs and feet injured, these means would be greatly limited. Maybe this time, he might be in real trouble.

Fortunately, Lin Dan's interest in him was only temporary. Maybe she was just lonely living alone and wanted to find someone to talk to. His appearance wasn't charming to everyone. Thinking of this, Zhou Nan touched his cheek, looking a little embarrassed.

Since she was back alive, life had to go on as usual. Lin Dan picked up the broom and started cleaning the courtyard, then picked some vegetables to cook. The strange man followed her the entire time, sighing, "You almost died earlier; you should be resting in bed right now."

This little girl was only seventeen years old, right? But she already had the temperament of "not changing her expression even when the top of a mountain collapses". If he were still alive, he might have taken a liking to her and accepted her as his disciple. With her character, the little girl would definitely achieve great things in the future. It was a pity that he was already dead, and even more pitiful was the fact that this little girl refused his help and swallowed the holy Gu instead. Whether she still had a future, the answer was self-evident.

Completely undisturbed by the man, Lin Dan continued with her tasks. After finishing the work, she went back to the house and found the relics left by the original owner's mother.

"You better eat something," the man sighed. "You're starving." She was very hungry. This hunger was not coming from her belly but from deep within her soul. A voice kept urging her to find food, but she ate a few raw cucumbers and a large bowl of dry rice, yet she found no relief. It was clear that the food needed to hatch the Holy Gu was definitely not ordinary human food.

She opened her sheepskin bag and took out the eggs sealed in a small porcelain bottle.

The man raised his eyebrows and said, "You want to eat them?"

Lin Dan seemed oblivious and swallowed the eggs with water, like pills, with no expression of fear or disgust on her face.

The man stretched his arms around her with a smile in his voice, "Little girl, I'm starting to like you more and more. You're bold and clever. Unfortunately, this amount of Gu is not enough at all.”

The hunger was relieved, but only for a moment. Lin Dan silently endured the pain that felt like a festering sore and swallowed another handful of Gu eggs. When she was about to eat two love Gu, the man suddenly held her wrist and said hoarsely: "You can't eat these." With that, his other hand gently stroked her palm, and the two love Gu disappeared.

Lin Dan finally looked him in the face and asked, "What do you want to do with my things?" If the love Gu were used improperly, they could kill people, but Lin Dan's intuition told her that this man was very powerful, and she was by no means his opponent in her current state. (T/N: for confused people, I think she meant that if she used the love Gu to kill him)

The man bathed in her focused gaze. He had to admit that it felt unpleasant to be ignored by this little girl.

"With your current strength, you could easily unlock these two love Gu, so why are you wary of me taking them? Go ahead and eat your meal. Look, you are already shaking from hunger," the man said softly, touching Lin Dan's cheek, his tone gentle and doting.

Lin Dan looked at him deeply before finishing the remaining Gu eggs. Some were very powerful, alleviating her hunger for longer periods of time, while others were so weak that she couldn't even feel anything when swallowed. It was clear that the more potent the egg, the more the Holy Gu favored it.

But in this world, what else possessed the same energy as the Gu eggs? While Lin Dan thought about this problem, she took out her ancestor's scrolls and studied them. By evening, she had made some progress.

Despite having recently faced life and death, she didn't forget to change Zhou Nan's bandages on time. Taking care of patients seemed to be her habit.

She brought dinner into Zhou Nan's room and left, but the man suddenly appeared from behind her and asked curiously, "You like that boy, right?"

Lin Dan once again returned to treating him as if he were invisible. Even though he stood right in front of her, she walked straight through him. When the man blocked her way again, she bumped into his arms, leaving her forehead red and swollen.

The man put his hands around her thin shoulders, chuckling, "I forgot to tell you that I have two states: phantom and physical. If you want to throw yourself into my arms, just say so. No need to be so shy." His ice-cold fingertips brushed gently over Lin Dan's smooth forehead, causing her to shiver uncontrollably.

She realized clearly that the man was extremely powerful, far from being an ordinary ghost or creature. She couldn't help but wonder why he was so insistent on borrowing her body instead of directly devouring her soul. Could he be restricted by something?

Despite her thoughts and emotions, Lin Dan's face remained impassive. She broke away from the man's arms and returned to her room. She put the sheepskin bag and the small copper stove into her schoolbag and sneaked into the village under the cover of the night, searching for Shi Gui's residence.

The man's low, hoarse laughter sounded pleasing in the darkness of the night. "What are you planning to do? Perhaps, seek revenge?"

During the day, the little girl behaved normally, as if she had forgotten what she had experienced before. This had surprised the man, who, based on just half a day of observation, knew that she was not the type to repay evil with kindness. How could one forget such a deep-seated grudge? It turned out she had been waiting for this moment.

Lin Dan ignored the man and scaled the earth wall in a few moments, entering Shi Gui's home. His family only had two dilapidated wooden houses, which emitted a strong musty odor. Snoring came from the room on the right, and it was obvious that the person she was looking for was inside.

Lin Dan placed the small copper stove by the door, took out the medicinal materials from the sheepskin bag, and put them in one by one to ignite them. Within a moment, rustling sounds could be heard from the surrounding soil. Countless poisonous insects broke through the soil's surface and circled around the copper furnace. In an instant, they gathered in a large area, but they stayed away from Lin Dan, forming a circle-like vacuum zone around her. There was the Holy Gu hidden in her body, which was the most feared existence of all these Gu.

The poisonous insect only smelled the alluring fragrance, but could not find any actual food. Naturally, they began to search around. They easily infiltrated the room and found Shi Gui snoring on the bed. The poisonous insects bit through his skin, competing to burrow into his body, and devoured his internal organs. He had already woken up, but the toxins had paralyzed his nerves, rendering him unable to shout or escape.

At the last moment, when he breathed his last, Lin Dan opened the door, looking at him quietly. There was no hatred or pleasure in her eyes, only a suffocating deep sea. Revenge was necessary, but it didn't consume her thoughts entirely. Shi Gui's eyes widened, and his face distorted. For the first time, he felt deep regret for what he had done. Unfortunately, it was too late. He provoked the wrong person, and even death without a burial place was not enough to describe his fate.

Lin Dan watched as Shi Gui's body shriveled like a leaky balloon. Densely packed poisonous insects squirmed under his skin and then emerged through the seven orifices. They had devoured a full-grown man but were still not satiated. They began to consume each other, and eventually, a small group of them separated and burrowed under the bed.

A faint, feeble scream echoed from underground, making Lin Dan's eyes flash slightly. She also crawled under the bed and found several wooden boards. After prying them apart, a five-meter-deep cellar appeared. Many poisonous insects climbed down the earthen steps, advancing into the darkness. The scream had indeed come from the depths of the darkness.

Lin Dan took out a flashlight from her backpack and descended slowly. In the orange beam of light, an unkempt, skinny girl was bound with an iron chain, covered in wounds from the bites of the poisonous insects.

Lin Dan gently patted the girl's shoulder, and the poisonous insects, as if dead, curled up and fell to the ground. Realizing that Lin Dan had no intention of eating them, they wriggled their legs and burrowed deeper into the soil. The ground, previously hardened by Shi Gui, soon became as soft as sand, and one by one, the bodies of the deceased were unearthed, emitting a foul odor.

The imprisoned girl screamed in fright, but Lin Dan shone the flashlight over and counted the bodies carefully. One body, two bodies, three bodies... In the less than ten square meter cellar, there were a total of eighteen corpses. This Shi Gui was indeed a serial killer.

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