Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 135 - 108: The Mysterious Man
Yan Dong thought these two policemen found his information from the black market, and he wanted to run away desperately as soon as he stepped out of the coffee shop.
He kept looking back while running, checking if Mu Yunchu and her companion were catching up.
"Damn it! Two years’ worth of salary down the drain just like that."
The mere thought made Yan Dong’s heart bleed.
Just as he thought he had successfully shaken off Mu Yunchu and her partner, he turned a corner and suddenly saw them standing right in front of him.
He screamed in terror, nearly losing the ability to speak.
His neck twisted as he glanced back and forth from ahead to behind.
Was he seeing ghosts?
Or was it some eerie trick?
They were supposed to still be in that drink shop!
But Yan Dong knew now wasn’t the time to dwell on that. Since they were here, he should just continue running in the opposite direction.
This time, Mu Yunchu lost all her patience and decided not to play cat-and-mouse any longer.
With a wave of her hand, she slapped a golden talisman on the back of Yan Dong’s head.
It fixed him in place, unable to move.
Feeling the mysterious transformation in his body, Yan Dong’s eyes widened. It was as if his limbs were completely out of control, and his soul became a separate entity.
A chill rose from his back and spread across his body, and Yan Dong suddenly realized that he had provoked people he shouldn’t have.
Who... exactly were these two?
Mu Yunchu still had those two cups of lemon water in her hand, and she slowly walked up to Yan Dong, raising her arm and saying, "I’ll ask you once more, where did you get this thing?"
Neither Gong Hong nor Yan Dong in front of her could possibly be the real makers of this thing.
Yan Dong still wanted to be stubborn, but Mu Yunchu turned her hand and splashed the lemon water onto the ground.
The Gu worm in the water seemed agitated, suddenly growing to the size of a palm.
And because of this, he saw the true appearance of that thing clearly.
A black worm covered in a layer of wet, slimy substance that emitted a nauseating smell of decay under the glaring light. Its body twisted and wriggled, as if wrapped and entwined by worms of varying thicknesses. Its head bore two soybean-sized, blood-red eyes, radiating an eerie glow.
It crawled around on the ground, its ’organs’ shaking as if searching for something, yet found nothing.
Minutes later, the legs under its body suddenly twitched, and then its whole body flipped over, finally turning into a pool of blood.
Yan Dong: !!!
The entire process lasted only a few seconds, yet it imposed a massive psychological shadow on him.
They were in a remote alley where people seldom passed by.
If anyone saw it, it would surely spark panic.
A while later, Yan Dong finally swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at Mu Yunchu fearfully, "What on earth is that?"
"Gu worm," Mu Yunchu replied.
Yan Dong: !!!
In Yan Dong’s ordinary worldview, there’s absolutely no chance for anything like gods or ghosts, nor things like Gu worms to exist in the world.
So all along, he considered the things sold by the other party as some kind of controlled substance.
A cutting-edge kind that hasn’t been circulated globally yet.
After all, those who develop such things are not very normal and often give them bizarre names.
He simply thought ’Gu worm’ was just the name of the thing.
Never did he imagine it was an actual worm.
Moreover, such a terrifying one.
Keep in mind, when the seller sold it, besides saying that he needed to feed the target the worm, he himself, as the user, had to ingest it too.
Thinking about almost letting this dreadful worm into his body, Yan Dong shivered in fright.
"If you don’t speak, then we’ll have no choice but to consider you the mastermind," Li Shang added fuel to the fire to intimidate him.
Under the pressure exerted by them, Yan Dong could no longer hold out.
"I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll say everything."
"This situation really doesn’t have much to do with me!"
He poured out everything about the Gu worm in one go.
"I got this thing from a mysterious man. He only said it would make a woman hopelessly fall in love with you, but I’m totally clueless about anything else!"
He truly knew nothing including the man’s name or appearance.
Even now, he still wanted to claim innocence.
"We met him online. All transactions were at night; he wore a black cloak with a hood and mask, covered fully, so his face was completely unrecognizable."
Li Shang noticed a term he used.
"We?"
Yan Dong twitched his mouth.
He unintentionally spilled the beans.
Looking at the two in front of him, he secretly said ’sorry brother’ in his heart, then revealed Gong Hong’s involvement.
"We purchased it together, but I didn’t dare use it initially, only after seeing it work for him..."
Speaking to this point, Yan Dong suddenly realized something and swallowed back the words he hadn’t finished saying.
After all, the target he wanted to use it on was standing right in front of him.
Mu Yunchu glanced at him.
With just one glance, if Yan Dong weren’t currently immobilized, he would have fled immediately.
"It was you who helped Gong Hong give the Gu worm to Uncle Zhu’s daughter, Zhu Meimei, wasn’t it?"
Yan Dong: ...
Back then, Gong Hong came to the neighborhood to find him and immediately set his eyes on Zhu Meimei, who was returning home from work. He begged Yan Dong to help and insisted on feeding her the Gu worm.
Being brothers, Yan Dong felt bad rejecting him after such a request.
The most important thing was that he selfishly wanted to see the effect of the thing.
So ever since that day, he had been seeking opportunities.
Finally, one day, Zhu Meimei ordered a lot of water online and asked him to help deliver it...
Watching Yan Dong delve into his memories, Mu Yunchu didn’t want to waste any more time with him.
"Give me the contact information between the two of you."
...
Meanwhile.
Jing Anjun, who just had a massive argument with the assassin group’s boss, furiously hung up the phone.
The curses echoed throughout his vast villa.
"Damn it! I paid them so much, not only is the job undone, now they accuse me of disrupting market rules?"
Earlier, the assassin he hired reported back having successfully killed Mu Yunchu.
But just days ago, when he went to collect the property, he realized he was tricked!
Not only was he thoroughly humiliated, he returned home despondently and was harshly scolded by his ancestors.
He couldn’t swallow his anger and certainly couldn’t forgive the assassin company’s behavior.
So he called them, expressing his grievances while demanding a full refund.
However, the other party accused him of wrangling and deliberately breaching the contract. They even threatened to never accept any of his assignments again.
"Forget it, don’t accept then!"
"It’s not like I can’t get Mu Yunchu killed without you guys!"
Right then, a uniquely styled, noticeably eye-catching banner popped up on his computer’s lock screen.
