After hearing what I said, Zhang Mingyu fell silent.
The Gu King on the side also walked over at this time.
Also silent.
I smiled, looked at Gu King and asked again: "What is your purpose?"
Seeing me asking again, King Gu said: "Kill the City God."
I shook my head.
"It's not that simple."
King Gu sighed and then said: "I'll use you as bait."
really.
I took a deep breath to calm myself down a little.
Just with this sentence, I understood everything that I couldn't figure out before.
The mantis stalks the cicada, followed by the oriole.
From beginning to end, this Yellow Bird is not me and the Miaojiang City God, but him, the Miaojiang Gu King, and the Miaojiang village guard.
And that city god and I are cicadas or praying mantises.
Or rather.
In fact, in the beginning, I was that cicada.
And he and the Miaojiang City God were competing for the identity of Huang Que.
However, the mantis died in the end.
He became an oriole.
And I...
"So you want to kill me too?"
I looked at him.
Hearing my words, Zhang Mingyu's expression suddenly changed.
"What do you mean?" He also looked at Gu King and frowned: "That's not what you said before."
King Gu was silent for a while, and did not answer Zhang Mingyu, but looked at me.
"I told you."
"Unless you can find the truth, otherwise, you will die."
"The city god is dead now." I said.
King Gu shook his head: "Only we know about his death."
"Unable to convince the public."
"And if I just go out and tell them the news, do you think it will be useful?"
"I am a village guard just like you."
"But at the same time, I am also the Gu King of Miao Territory."
"I have to take responsibility for my people."
"They must also believe in me."
"You...understand?"
I shook my head again and said, "That's not the real reason."
I looked at him.
"If I guess correctly, your plan has already started since I came here."
"No." I thought for a moment and then said, "It started when Li Bowen took the Soul-Eating Gu mother worm from your hands."
"I've been thinking about it before."
"What deal did Li Bowen make with you?"
"It's impossible that he didn't know that you wanted to kill me, but he didn't stop me. He even handed the Soul-Eating Gu Mother Insect into my hands."
"Now, I understand somewhat."
"You think you are an oriole."
"But in fact, you are just a mantis."
"The real oriole is Li Bowen."
Gu King narrowed his eyes slightly.
He seemed to be thinking about my words.
What I said was not nonsense for no reason, but something that suddenly dawned on me when he was determined to kill me.
In fact, the City God has always wanted to kill me.
The reason why I initially felt that the City God just wanted to force me to leave here was just an illusion created by the Gu King in front of me.
And that city god has actually been in his plans all along.
That's why when I came to Zhongdong Gu Village, the City God came so quickly. He had been trying every means to kill me and offer me to the Lord of Taishan Prefecture, but he was killed by the Gu King all the time.
Destroyed in secret.
How he destroyed it is unknown.
But on this point, I can now confirm that there is nothing wrong with it.
At this time, King Gu suddenly said: "It doesn't really matter who is the oriole or the mantis."
"Now the City God is dead."
"There is only one last thing left for me to do."
He stared at me.
I suddenly had a creepy feeling.
"The mother soul-eating Gu is in your head."
I was stunned for a moment, and my heart couldn't help but thump.
"No matter who is the oriole, Li Bowen or I, it can't change the fact that you are the cicada now."
After he finished speaking, he took out the flute from his body.
"Soul-eating Gu."
"It can also be called Immortality Gu."
"It was cultivated by the disciple of that Gu King. In order to prevent the outside world from coveting it, it was named Soul-Eating Gu."
"Ordinary immortality Gu can swallow a person's soul. After completely swallowing that person's soul, it may merge with that person within a certain period of time and become a new soul in that person's body, making that person's body
Able to form a disguised form of immortality.”
"Therefore, it is called longevity."
"The soul-eating Gu mother worm is different."
"It has two abilities."
"One is Soul Eater."
"One is to protect the soul."
"Soul Devouring means devouring the soul, and it is no different from ordinary Soul Devouring Gu."
"Guarding the soul means inhabiting the host's body and becoming part of its body. It can repair its soul. It can even allow the host to achieve true immortality as long as it remains in it."
Hearing this, my heart was filled with turmoil.
Soul-eating Gu is Immortality Gu?
I subconsciously put my hand on my head.
The Soul-Eating Gu is now parasitic in my body, and I can live forever with the help of its power?
This is a bit nonsense, right?
But when I think about the situation of the first Gu King and his disciples, I believe it again.
What they have on them is not the mother soul-eating Gu worm.
Although I don't know how they managed to still have their souls, they have indeed lived for countless years, even if they are very weak, even if they don't look like human beings.
But if what the Gu King in front of him wanted was the Soul-Eating Gu Mother Insect, why did he give it to Li Bowen in the first place, and when I came to the Holy Village and handed the Soul-Eating Gu Mother Insect back to him, he finally gave it to me.
What is the reason for this?
I looked at him very confused.
The King of Gu seemed to know what I didn't understand, and continued: "Since the longevity Gu was cultivated, no one has really used this female insect, so even if I know its function, I can't be sure whether it is the truth.
"
"So, I've been waiting."
"Until Li Bowen showed up."
"He made an agreement with me, allowing you two to come here and help you get rid of that city god, and I can use your body to confirm whether the immortality Gu mother worm is effective."
I raised my eyebrows.
I can't believe it.
"Li Bowen and your agreement?"
"Experiments on my body?"
King Gu nodded slightly.
Then he put the flute to his mouth.
"Now it's confirmed that the Immortality Gu is indeed effective, so... it's time for you to return it to me."
"It belongs to Miao territory."
"I need it."
"I will use it to protect this Miao territory forever."
I kept retreating subconsciously.
The loss of strength in my body made me choose not to fight him desperately, but to run.
At this point I couldn't care about anything else.
I looked at Zhang Mingyu.
"What are you still doing?"
"run!"
Only then did Zhang Mingyu realize what he was doing, he rushed over to support me and started to lead me outside the Zhongdong Gu Village.
However, at this time, the flute sounded.
I paused in my steps and subconsciously covered my head.