ASTRP -Chapter 206 The Gu Creature Could Actually Control Humans

Feng Jingge thought that no matter what, he was still a man—surely he could withstand a little teasing?

She grabbed a rock to block left and right, then picked up some strange object she didn’t recognize.

Xiao Jinghan thrust a tree branch into it with a puchi sound.

The thing Feng Jingge was holding suddenly oozed something that looked like pus.

“What is this… an egg?”

But she also took the chance to scratch Xiao Jinghan’s palm.

Xiao Jinghan froze instantly.

“You monster, you’re actually flirting with me…”

“…Wait, there really are monsters?!”

Feng Jingge immediately wrapped both arms around his arm.

Because Xiao Jinghan’s mind had been thrown into chaos, he couldn’t even exert his usual full strength.

Feng Jingge hugged him tightly, stood on tiptoe, and kissed his thin lips.

At the same time, she pinched his nose shut with one hand.

“Mmph… mmph!”

At first, Xiao Jinghan struggled fiercely.

But gradually, he stopped resisting.

After a long while, Xiao Jinghan slapped her hand away.

“Are you trying to suffocate me to death?”

“Your Highness, you… recovered?”

Feng Jingge puffed out her lips and made kissing noises.

“Mwah mwah mwah~”

“…”

“There’s something wrong with this fog. It causes hallucinations. The version of you I saw was a gigantic bug…”

“Extremely huge—half a mountain tall, grayish white all over…”

“Stop. Don’t describe it. Disgusting.”

Feng Jingge asked how he felt now.

Xiao Jinghan said aside from a slight dizziness, he was fine.

He pulled out a small bottle from his robes and poured out a Clear Mind Detox Pill.

Holding the pill beneath his tongue, he said he indeed felt much better.

That indirectly proved the fog was poisonous.

The reason Feng Jingge was unaffected was because her body had previously harbored gu worms.

The toxins in the fog only numbed the nerves—poison countering poison.

That was why she remained unharmed.

“There are women in here too. They probably attacked me because of the hallucinations.”

“And when I first came in, a dying woman said there was a monster here and that someone needed to report it to the prince and bring a large number of people.”

Feng Jingge looked again at the yellowish fluid-covered thing on the ground. Peeling away the white fur-like layer, she discovered a soft eggshell underneath.

“It really is an egg… If something can lay eggs this huge, then it really is a monster.”

She then remembered the thing that had tripped her earlier before quickly scurrying away.

“Then… maybe it really is huge.”

Xiao Jinghan frowned.

He had once served in the military, and military physicians had researched gu worms before.

Gu worms, at the end of the day, obeyed their hosts.

In other words, they obeyed humans.

“Gu worms with independent consciousness practically don’t exist.”

Yet this thing not only possessed independent awareness, it could also induce hallucinations.

It could directly project its own form into people’s minds as an illusion.

That was indeed terrifying.

“What exactly did Shen Nan create? This is revolting beyond belief.”

Xiao Jinghan pressed his lips together.

“If I’m not mistaken, this is a mutated poison gu.”

“Something even Wu Xing Country itself can no longer control.”

The terrifying aspect of gu worms had always been their poison.

But judging from the fog, a single Clear Mind Detox Pill could suppress it, which meant the toxicity itself wasn’t very strong.

Xiao Jinghan said there had once been poisons so powerful that he needed to take seven or eight antidote pills at once.

“This thing mutated itself into a form with a massive body while sacrificing much of its toxicity.”

Right then, another sword suddenly shot out through the fog.

This time, the woman wielding it was cursing loudly.

“Damn it! Two monsters came out this time?”

“They even came as a pair!”

Feng Jingge swallowed hard.

“What do you mean ‘a pair’?”

“Damn your Wu Xing Country! You idiots created this mess and now I’m stuck cleaning it up!”

Xiao Jinghan sighed helplessly.

“And who was the one insisting on coming in?”

“…I thought there were only small bugs in here.”

“My plan was to hide somewhere until tomorrow morning.”

“Did Your Highness really think I was stupid enough to come die?”

“My prince is so handsome—I can’t bear to leave him…”

Xiao Jinghan had originally entered in anger, but after hearing that last sentence, his expression softened instantly.

“Subdue her first.”

“At least someone from Wu Xing Country should know what that monster actually is.”

The woman herself wasn’t particularly skilled.

She only managed to move unpredictably thanks to the fog.

Working together perfectly, Feng Jingge and Xiao Jinghan quickly captured her.

They dragged her to a concealed location, but the woman still cursed furiously at Feng Jingge.

“You two monsters, coming in pairs—you want to eat me, don’t you?”

“Come on then! Come on! You’ve already eaten hundreds of people anyway!”

Feng Jingge jumped in shock at that.

Still, after wiping the spit off her face, she slapped the woman hard across the face.

“Shut your damn mouth!”

“If hundreds of people died, it’s because of the thing you people created!”

Xiao Jinghan poured out another detox pill.

One pill had no effect, so he force-fed her three more before she finally stopped struggling.

Her body went limp and she started falling toward Xiao Jinghan.

Feng Jingge quickly yanked Xiao Jinghan aside, causing the woman to collapse directly onto the ground instead.

Bang!

“Ow!”

Serves you right. Trying to fall into my prince’s arms? Dream on!

The woman climbed back up slowly.

“More people came in…”

“You shouldn’t have entered. At the very least, you shouldn’t have come with only two people…”

Then she looked carefully and added in confusion:

“And why did you even bring a man?”

She kept rambling that bringing a man was useless and that nobody could deal with the monster here.

Feng Jingge got so angry she kicked her directly.

“Am I from your Wu Xing Country?!”

“Listen carefully to my accent—I’m the Princess Consort of Jing Country!”

“And the man you keep talking about is Jing Country’s Regent Prince—my prince!”

“We stand above you, you stand below us. Watch your manners!”

The woman finally realized the accent truly was different—it was indeed Jing Country’s accent.

She hurriedly knelt down.

“Your Highnesses, why did you come in here…”

“We made a bet with your country’s prince. If I stay here for a full day and leave alive, I win.”

The woman’s mouth fell open.

Only then did she explain that the Second Prince simply didn’t understand the situation here.

All the previous poison gu had already been devoured by the monster.

The entire incident had started as an ordinary gu refinement process, completely no different from normal.

During the battle among the gu worms, a white-furred worm became the Gu King.

The handlers entered to retrieve it and continue nourishing it with their own blood.

But at that exact moment, the worm suddenly burrowed into its owner’s body on its own.

That was extremely rare.

No matter what, a gu worm was still just a gu worm.

It should obey human commands—not possess commands of its own.

Feng Jingge placed her hands on her hips.

“Everything can undergo abnormal mutations sometimes!”

“You people are playing with fire…”

And that was also why Jing Country refused to allow Wu Xing Country to continue raising gu creatures.

Because during past wars against them, there had already been incidents where gu worms went berserk.