I became the tyrant's only belief.

Chapter 333 Only a madman would do this

Inside the carriage, the burlap sack covering Jiang Yao had been removed, revealing her head and half of her body.

She was wearing a blue Taoist robe with white trim, and the hair ornament she was wearing had fallen off her head due to the jolting of the horse.

His white hair cascaded down like a waterfall, covering his chest and back, and obscuring most of his face.

The gag in her mouth had been pulled out by Mitsuki, so she could speak. But from the moment she spoke until now, she hadn't uttered a single syllable.

Chu Liuzheng knew that the person in front of him was skilled in both poison and Gu. Although he was immobilized by acupuncture, he did not dare to touch her rashly. He simply used a silver hairpin to remove the messy hair on her face and unexpectedly met a pair of heterochromatic eyes, one red and one gray.

The red eyes were clear and translucent like glass, while the gray eyes were sinister and resembling those of a demon. Both appeared on the same face, creating a striking and eerie effect.

Wow! It really is heterochromia; I can even save money on colored contact lenses.

Chu Liuzheng carefully tucked the white hair behind her ear, and only then could he see her face clearly.

She had a small, delicate face, fair skin, white eyebrows, and white lips, but her heterochromatic eyes were somewhat colored, making her look like a snow fairy from a storybook living in a snowy world.

Her eye sockets were deeper than normal, and beneath her white eyelashes, her heterochromatic eyes remained fixed on Chu Liuzheng, unmoving. She didn't seem like a living person, but rather like a delicate doll, revealing no emotion whatsoever.

Even though Chu Liuzheng knew that her unusual appearance was the price for forcibly activating the Shadow Moon Gu, he was still quite shocked.

She composed herself and examined Jiang Yao's features closely.

Putting aside the color, Jiang Yao's features are small and delicate. If she were to draw her eyebrows and lips and add ordinary colors, she would definitely be a beauty that people would admire.

"I don't know you, why are you arresting me?" Jiang Yao's lips moved slightly, her voice was hoarse to Chu Liuzheng's surprise, causing her to pause for a moment.

Wait a minute! Why does such a delicate and beautiful face have such a husky voice? Shouldn't it be a clear, ethereal voice that cleanses the soul?

"You seem surprised; it looks like you don't recognize me." Jiang Yao tilted her head, her white hair swaying as she did so. "Why did you arrest me if you don't recognize me?"

“We can find Yin Lanci.” Chu Liuzheng snapped out of his reverie, smiling at her. “Want to cooperate?”

Jiang Yao's white eyebrows furrowed together: "Who are you?"

Chu Liuzheng said, "We are Yin Lanci's enemies."

“Yin Lanci has many enemies.” Jiang Yao wasn’t surprised. She stared at Chu Liuzheng for a moment, then asked, “What are the conditions for cooperation?”

[Finally, I've found someone straightforward who doesn't require much talking!]

Chu Liuzheng said, "I want to know Yin Lanci's weaknesses."

“The Netherworld Gu is her Achilles’ heel,” Jiang Yao answered decisively.

Chu Liuzheng stroked his chin: "So, to deal with Yin Lanci, we must first get rid of the Netherworld Gu?"

“The Netherworld Gu is immortal.” A hint of contempt, mixed with hatred, surfaced in Jiang Yao’s heterochromatic eyes. “As long as Yin Lanci has the Netherworld Gu by her side, she can live. No one can kill her.”

Chu Liuzheng was surprised: "Even you can't do it?"

"Don't try to provoke me." Jiang Yao looked at her. "I do want to kill her, but I can't deal with the Netherworld Gu, at least not now."

"When will that be?"

"I will wait until I have nurtured the Shadow Moon Gu." Jiang Yao roughly guessed what Chu Liuzheng could get out of Ping Yu and Tong Niang, so she didn't hide anything and said frankly, "I still need two hundred and twenty-eight more."

"Two hundred and twenty-eight what?" As soon as Chu Liuzheng finished asking, a not-so-pleasant guess popped into his mind: Could it be two hundred and twenty-eight people?

“Corpses.” Jiang Yao seemed to see what she was thinking. “I don’t use living people to practice Gu. Only a madman like Yin Lanci would do that.”

Using a corpse isn't much better! A proper burial is the best way to ensure peace; to have to endure further turmoil after death is utterly unlucky.

Chu Liuzheng forcibly suppressed the nausea he felt and changed the subject: "Since the Shadow Moon Gu has not yet been fully developed, why are you still waiting in Dragon Mouth Town?"

If he were to actually run into Yin Lanci, he would have no chance of winning!

Jiang Yao's eyebrows twitched slightly: "It seems you've got something on Tong Niang's head." "I don't want to be the bad guy either, but she won't cooperate, what can I do?" Chu Liuzheng shrugged and casually said, "By the way, Tong Niang also told me about you writing those little novels."

Jiang Yao: "..."

Seeing her snow-white ears gradually turn red, Chu Liuzheng belatedly realized that she might be shy.

She immediately coughed lightly and whispered a promise: "I will try my best not to tell anyone."

Jiang Yao, her ears red, asked, "Try your best?"

"I'm just doing this for someone else; I can't make the decision myself," Chu Liuzheng said, pointing upwards to indicate that he couldn't help.

Jiang Yao pursed her almost white lips: "I lied to Tong Niang."

"Yes, I believe you." Chu Liuzheng nodded in agreement.

She thought writing short stories was a good hobby, but Jiang Yao seemed to care a lot about being known by outsiders, so it wouldn't hurt for her to cooperate.

Jiang Yao: "..."

"I mean, I didn't stay in Longkou Town to wait for Yin Lanci, to deceive Tongniang." Her chest heaved with emotion, and her left red eye deepened, becoming even closer to the color of blood.

"Hmm, I understand—ah?" Chu Liuzheng looked up at her, "If it's not to wait for Yin Lanci, then what is it for?"

Jiang Yao remained silent.

Chu Liuzheng nudged her with his silver hairpin: "We've already said so much, a few more words won't make a difference. Just tell me."

Jiang Yao glanced at the hairpin in her hand and shook her head: "I want to see your master."

"Say it as soon as you see it?"

Jiang Yao nodded.

"Alright." Chu Liuzheng placed the blackened silver hairpin on the table. "Then let me ask you a different question: Why did Wu Mian come back to life?"

“Because of the insect eggs.” This time, Jiang Yao answered quite decisively, “The insect eggs inside his body hatched.”

[The system wasn't lying to me; there really were insect eggs!]

Chu Liuzheng instantly recalled the experience of insect eggs hatching inside his body, and his throat churned, feeling somewhat nauseous.

“You’re not surprised?” Jiang Yao seemed very sensitive to people’s emotional changes, looking at her. “You already knew.”

Chu Liuzheng swallowed several times to suppress the nausea before continuing to ask, "Why do insect eggs hatch?"

Jiang Yao said, "It was forced to ripen."

Chu Liuzheng glanced at her: "Is it related to Yin Lanci's people?"

Jiang Yao tilted her head, neither answering yes nor no, and stared intently at Chu Liuzheng.

Chu Liuzheng felt a chill run down her spine and goosebumps rise on her arms from looking into those emotionless heterochromatic eyes.

She took a sip of warm tea to ease her discomfort and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"You're strange." Her long, snow-white eyelashes curved in an arc. Jiang Yao gently closed her eyes, tilting her head slightly as if sensing something.

Chu Liuzheng: ? ? ?

She stared at Jiang Yao, completely bewildered, and didn't interrupt her since she didn't sense any danger.

"You—" After a moment, Jiang Yao opened her eyes, but stopped after saying only one word, a hint of confusion appearing in her clear eyes.

"What?" Chu Liuzheng was left hanging, unable to get an answer, and couldn't help but ask.