Even hybrid monsters have their day

Chapter 111: Sorrow

As Geng Miaowan left with Qiu Pi, she asked in her mind, "Shang? What is it?"

"Planting the wound is the first step of the Thousand Faces Wound. Generally speaking, once the wound is planted, that person will undoubtedly become a victim of the Thousand Faces Wound. It's like a mark, marking the object you choose so that you can take it later."

"What effects does that kind of trauma have on a person?"

"It will flow throughout the body with the blood of the person who has been marked, eroding their nerves and making their personality unpredictable, irritable, and easily angered." Geng Miaowan and Xu Ruwen listened attentively to Luan Hao's explanation. Not to mention Geng Miaowan, even Xu Ruwen had never heard of such a thing before.

"After the wound is planted, when will the person who planted it come to take his life?" Xu Ruwen asked.

Luan Hao paused for a moment, as if searching for the answer in his memory. For a demon who had lived for tens of thousands of years, there were simply too many things in his memory. He really didn't take such a trivial matter to heart.

After a while, he spoke, "When the wound was first planted, it was a flesh-pink color, then it turned into dark pink, light red, deep red, and bright red in sequence. Each stage takes a month. Judging from the color of the wound on He Chaobai's body, it's already bright red..."

"So that means that demon could appear at any moment?" Geng Miaowan exclaimed in shock. "If that's the case, doesn't that mean He Chaobai was already infected with the curse before we even approached him?"

"How was this planted?" Xu Ruwen seemed quite interested in this strange technique.

"The seed of injury requires contact between the person who inflicts the injury and the person who is inflicted with it. Even a casual touch can lead to the seed being planted."

"This spell is really amazing." Xu Ruwen sighed softly. The world is truly vast and full of wonders. Now he was starting to think that following Geng Miaowan on missions was a good thing, at least much more interesting than his daily monotonous cultivation.

Geng Miaowan: "Once it's planted, can't it be broken?"

"Unless the person who casts the spell dies, or the person who is infected dies, there is no solution."

Hearing Luan Hao's words, Geng Miaowan immediately felt a sense of urgency. If that was really the case, then she had to tell Feng Xiaotian and the others as soon as possible so that they could come up with a foolproof plan.

Qiu Pi's car quickly arrived outside Feng Xiaotian's villa. He called Geng Miaowan's name several times before she came to her senses. Seeing her dazed expression, he looked at her with concern, "What's wrong? Did what happened just now frighten you?"

Geng Miaowan shook her head, still thinking about He Chaobai, and absentmindedly said, "I'll go back first." She then hurriedly got out of the car and walked towards the gate.

"Wait!" Qiu Pi suddenly called out. Geng Miaowan stopped and turned around, only to find herself suddenly enveloped in a warm embrace.

Qiu Pi put one arm around her waist and lifted her chin with the other, saying softly, "I'm going to kiss you."

Before she could react, he kissed her pink lips, doing what he had been wanting to do for some time. After the kiss, Geng Miaowan angrily pushed him away, shouting, "Didn't we agree not to force me?!"

He raised an eyebrow, a roguish smile on his face, and said, "I asked you, and you didn't object."

Geng Miaowan was speechless with anger. Was that a question? Did he give her a chance to answer? However, she couldn't find the words to refute him. She could only glare at him, throw down a "rogue!" and stomp into the villa in her high heels.

Watching her figure disappear through the villa's gate, Qiu Pi finally wiped the smile from his face. He turned and got back into his car, his expression unusually serious. Just now, Geng Miaowan had been sitting beside him, but for a while, he couldn't feel her at all. It was as if she didn't exist in this world, even though she was clearly sitting right next to him.

For a moment, he even felt that she might disappear at any moment, a feeling that left him completely at a loss. If she disappeared, he wouldn't know where to start looking for her. She said she approached He Chaobai for a legitimate reason, but he couldn't find out what that reason was.

Geng Miaowan's identity was a mystery to him. He couldn't uncover it and had nowhere to find the answer, which made him very uneasy. He always felt that one day she would suddenly disappear from here, and then he would never be able to find her again.

Back at the villa, Geng Miaowan told Feng Xiaotian and Peng Yuxian about the discovery. Just as she finished speaking, Xu Ruwen came downstairs. Peng Yuxian and Feng Xiaotian looked at the sleepy-eyed Xu Ruwen in surprise. Feng Xiaotian asked, "You...you've been upstairs the whole time?"

Xu Ruwen nodded.

He looked puzzled and muttered, "That's impossible. I didn't sense anyone in the room when I was upstairs."

“I’m sleeping,” he explained.

Feng Xiaotian still seemed unconvinced. This Xu Ruwen was really strange. He would disappear whenever Geng Miaowan went out, but he would come downstairs every time she returned.

He said he couldn't understand this situation.

Geng Miaowan found it amusing; of course he couldn't sense Xu Ruwen upstairs, he had just emerged from her consciousness. However, to prevent him from pursuing the matter further, she changed the subject, "So what should we do next?"

The next day, Geng Miaowan went to see He Chaobai and told him about the red spot on his chest, but he didn't believe her.

"This red mark is from when I accidentally bumped into something last time; it just hasn't healed yet." Although he was also puzzled as to why the mark from such a small collision hadn't faded for so long, and had been to the hospital several times with normal test results, what she said was utterly unbelievable and completely unbelievable.

No matter how Geng Miaowan explained, he refused to believe her and eventually got up angrily to kick her out.

Geng Miaowan had no choice but to leave, considering his current mental state. Before leaving, she said to him, "What you asked me to do has crossed my moral line, and I can't do it. You don't have to believe what I say, but your life is your own, and you only have one. I hope you can cherish it."

She thought for a moment and then said, "You'd better stay home and not go anywhere during this time. Also, be especially careful of women who get close to you, especially strangers."

Not long after Geng Miaowan left, the door to the private room opened again. He Chaobai thought it was her again and was about to rebuke her when he looked up and saw a red figure, a familiar face appearing before him.

"It's you?" (To be continued.)