85: Chapter 85 The Shattered Gu Dream of a Miao Girl

Three days later, at noon.

Taiping Old Street welcomed rare good weather.

Sunlight poured onto the bluestone slabs, baking the road surface until it was slightly scorching.

Lins Funeral Shop had its doors tightly shut.

Outside the door, a circle of red-and-white construction warning tape was pulled up, and several small excavators were parked in the open space. The construction team from Tianzhu Design Institute had already entered the site.

Lin Ye rented a spacious homestay suite at the end of Taiping Old Street as a temporary foothold during the renovation of the Funeral Shop.

The air conditioner was on in the living room of the homestay.

Lin Ye leaned against the fabric sofa, holding a Feng Shui book in his hand.

Just at this moment, a cup of warm ginseng tea was handed to his side.

Leng Yue was wearing a form-fitting dark green silk slip dress, the hem barely covering the base of her thighs.

She had just finished bathing, her silver-white long hair carrying a hint of moist heat and vapor, draped casually over her snow-white back.

She walked to Lin Ye's side and sat down sideways.

The two were extremely close, and the scent on Leng Yue, mixed with the fresh fragrance of body wash and the cold fragrance of Manjusaka, directly rushed into Lin Ye's respiratory tract.

She turned her body slightly and reached out across Lin Ye to grab the opened ancient Feng Shui book on the coffee table.

This action caused her upper body to lean over Lin Ye's chest, and the neckline of her slip dress drooped slightly.

Lin Ye looked away, but could not avoid the cold and faint fragrance on her body.

Leng Yue's breathing was warm and hurried, gently brushing past the side of his neck.

Lin Ye's Adam's apple rolled, and he put down the book in his hand.

He reached out and wrapped his arm around her slender waist, his palm fitting against the smooth fabric, able to feel the slightly taut muscle lines underneath.

Leng Yue raised her head, a layer of moist amorousness rising in her deep red eyes.

Her fingertips gently stroked Lin Ye's resolute jawline, rubbing slowly with a slightly cool touch.

"Husband."

Her red lips parted slightly, her breath like orchid, and her voice was so hoarse it could drip water.

"After running around repeatedly these past few days, Husband's yang energy has been heavily depleted. This concubine will now help Husband... properly sort out your inner breath."

She slightly raised her slender swan-like neck, closed her eyes, and brought those soft, cool red lips close to Lin Ye's lips.

The distance was mere fractions of an inch, and the temperature of their intersecting breaths continuously climbed.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

An earth-shattering pounding on the door brutally tore apart the lingering, tender atmosphere in the living room.

Lin Ye's face darkened, suppressing the flame darting up from his lower abdomen, and he roared toward the door impatiently: "The door isn't locked! Get in here!"

The door was shoved open violently.

Fatty Wang rushed into the living room, covered in sweat.

He was also carrying two boxes of braised chicken rice just packed from the street corner.

Following behind Fatty Wang was a young girl wearing modern ripped jeans and a black short cropped T-shirt on her upper body.

This girl was around twenty-some years old, with her entire head styled in dreadlocks.

She wore a large string of exaggerated silver Miao ethnic neck rings around her neck.

Several red-and-black interwoven ropes were wrapped around her wrists and ankles, and as she walked, the silver ornaments on her body made a crisp "clang-clang" sound.

The girl's eye sockets were red, two trails of undried tearstains hung on her fair cheeks, and her hands tightly gripped a pitch-black, flat object.

As soon as she entered the door, she pointed at the back of Fatty Wang's head and wailed at the top of her lungs.

"It's this damned fatty! He sat on my Little Hei with his butt and crushed him to death!"

"I don't care, today you must compensate me with money! If you don't pay, I'll stay right here and won't leave!"

The girl's voice was crisp and loud, carrying a thick southwestern Miao border accent.

Lin Ye loosened his hand wrapped around Leng Yue's waist and rubbed his throbbing temples.

He stood up and sized up this strangely styled Miao border girl.

"Fatty, who is this? You went out to buy food, how did you end up abducting someone?"

Fatty Wang placed the takeout boxes on the coffee table, pulling a bitter face and slapping his thighs in grievance.

"She said her name is Ah-something Ayugu."

"But Ye-zi, this really isn't my fault! I went to the street corner to buy braised chicken, and while waiting in line, this lass was squatting on the curb playing on her phone. I took a step back, my foot slipped, and I sat right down on the ground."

"Who knew she'd put a thumb-sized black beetle on the ground to take a walk! And what good person takes a beetle for a walk anyway?"

Fatty pointed at the pitch-black remains in the girl's hand, crying without tears.

"Just because I crushed a bug to death, she refused to let go of my waistband, saying that was her natal Gu she had raised for three years! She demanded five hundred thousand right off the bat! Where would I have that much money, so I could only bring her back to let you make the call."

As Fatty Wang spoke, he couldn't help but twist his massively wide fat waist, trying to recreate the physical point of impact at that time.

"Ye-zi, you have no idea. At that time, the sound went crunch, as crisp as chewing roasted soybeans! I thought someone was randomly throwing walnuts on the road."

Fatty gestured with his tonnage weighing over two hundred pounds, spreading his hands with an aggrieved face.

"How would I know that modern Gu insects are so delicate? That thing called the Xuanjin Iron-thread Gu, shouldn't it be hard as iron and impervious to swords and spears just by the sound of its name?"

"As a result, before my butt even exerted force, it went straight to see its great-grandmother. What does this show? This shows that the food in our Great Xia is good, and fatty-master's solid muscles are a natural gravity weapon of mass destruction!"

Ayugu listened nearby and almost cried out again, pointing at Fatty and shouting tremblingly:

"Are those muscles?! That's fat, that's the three highs! My Little Hei practiced defensive divine arts, it defended against swords, thunder, and fire; it never expected someone to use such a thick layer of fat for carpet-style suffocating coverage!"

Lin Ye listened from the side, his mouth twitching continuously. Looking at the Gu insect remains that had almost become a black piece of paper, he silently mourned for it for three seconds in his heart:

[Crushed to death by a fatty's butt, this way of dying can be considered the number one disgrace in the Gu world. I reckon that even when reaching the netherworld, this bug wouldn't have the face to claim a reincarnation ticket.]

Five minutes later, through fragmented conversations.

Lin Ye learned that the girl was named Ayugu, and she was a descendant of the Miao border Gu lineage deep within the Ten Thousand Mountains.

This time she sneaked out of the mountains to see the world in the big city, not only getting lost, but also spending all the money on her.

Having finally found a curb to rest her feet, just as she released her beloved natal Gu insect to get some fresh air, it was directly crushed into a 2D flat image by the meat mountain falling from the sky.

"My Xuanjin Iron-thread Gu! I fed it over a dozen kinds of poisonous herbs every day!"

Ayugu stamped her feet in anger, and the silver ornaments on her body jingled.

"Five hundred thousand, not a single penny less! Don't you city people think about bullying me!"

Leng Yue tidied the neckline of her slip dress and sat upright on the sofa.

Her deep red eyes swept coldly across Ayugu.

A trace of the drought demon's pressure inadvertently leaked out.

Ayugu had dealt with poisonous insects all year round, and her perception of danger was extremely acute.

Feeling this cold and piercing aura, her whole body shivered, and her crying stopped abruptly.

She looked at Leng Yue in panic, her footsteps retreating two steps uncontrollably.

"So... so heavy corpse qi..."

Ayugu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered softly.

Just as the atmosphere reached an impasse, the bedroom door was pushed open.

Frost Star walked out holding half of a clean-gnawed watermelon rind.

The little girl rubbed her sleepy heterochromatic eyes, sniffing hard in the air with her nose.

Her gaze instantly locked onto the shriveled black bug gripped in Ayugu's hand.

Frost Star dropped the watermelon rind, trotted over barefooted, and leaned close to Ayugu's hand to examine it carefully.

"Wow!"

Frost Star's blue and red heterochromatic eyes lit up with dazzling brilliance.

Her mouth split into an innocent smile, revealing two sharp little fangs.

"This pitch-black thing smells so good! It has a spicy gluten flavor!"

She raised her head, looked at the terrified Ayugu, and stuck out her tender pink tongue tip to lick her lips.

"Big sister, do you still want this bug? If you don't want it, can Frost Star eat it?"

Ayugu looked at the little loli wearing the Pikachu T-shirt in front of her, only feeling a primitive devouring desire far more terrifying than that black-clothed woman rushing towards her face.

The bloodline suppression of low-tier Gu insects by the Nether Corpse King made Ayugu's legs go soft, and she collapsed directly to the ground.

"You... what kind of people are you anyway!"

Ayugu looked at the bug remains in her hand, then looked at Frost Star pressing step by step, and wailed loudly again with a 'wa'.

Lin Ye grabbed the back collar of Frost Star's shirt and hoisted her back to his side.

"Stuffing whatever dirty thing into your mouth, go back and rinse your mouth."

He looked at the Miao border girl crying and wiping tears on the ground, fished a cigarette out of his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and blew out a faint smoke ring.

"Alright, stop howling, the bug was crushed to death, I'll compensate you at the full price. I'll wire you the five hundred thousand."

Lin Ye pulled out his mobile phone and brought up the transfer interface.

Hearing that there was compensation money, Ayugu immediately stopped crying and frantically pulled out a battered domestic smartphone with a shattered screen.

"Ding!"

The prompt sound of successful payment sounded.

Ayugu looked at the extra five hundred thousand in her account, and her eyes instantly turned into crescent shapes.

"You guys are reasonable!"

She patted her butt and stood up, putting the dead Gu insect into a small cloth bag and stashing it away.

"This matter is settled between us, goodbye!"

She turned around and was about to leave, but her stomach emitted a loud roaring sound.

Ayugu awkwardly covered her stomach, her face slightly red.

She had run out of the big mountains and had been hungry for two whole days. Just now, she was only focused on asking for money, and her stomach had long been sticking to her back.

Her gaze involuntarily drifted towards the coffee table, towards those two boxes of braised chicken rice exuding a rich sauce aroma.

Lin Ye saw through her awkwardness, a smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

"Hungry? Sit down and eat together, it's just one more pair of chopsticks."

Ayugu hesitated for two seconds, and the temptation of food finally overcame her fear of zombies.

She cautiously shuffled over to the coffee table, picked up a box of rice, and wolfed it down.

Looking at this Miao border girl whose eating manner had no image to speak of, Lin Ye calculated secretly.

The crisis of the Yinshan Sect could be considered temporarily concluded, and the renovation of the Funeral Shop was imminent.

Judging from just now, although this lass had some elements of extortion, her identity couldn't be fake, and that temperament was definitely from that lineage of the Miao border.

In that case, she must be proficient in poisonous creatures and Gu techniques.

If she could be kept by his side as a free toxicology consultant and occasionally help handle some minor cases of dark and evil miasma, this five hundred thousand was definitely money well spent.