One person: Longhushan security guard, stopped the Ten Elders until they cried!

"The Body-Cultivating Furnace..."

Inside the woodshed, Hei Guan pinched his chin, his eyes cold: "Who would have thought that in the end, breaking the deadlock... would actually be thanks to Old Man Xia!"

"Compared to this, mass-producing superhumans with just one artifact...without any side effects!" Wang Zhenqiu leaned against the wall, his smile unusually absent. "The methods of Biyou Village are far more terrifying than we imagined!"

"There's no need for further argument now." The clarinet shrugged, his tone resolute.

"From the current perspective, keeping Ma Xianhong around is just a disaster."

Destroying the furnace is pointless; as long as he's still wandering around outside, he can always rebuild it!

Zhang Chulan looked deep in thought:

"But now that we've caught the mole, we have a lot more options. For example... we could get him to drug the food or something..."

"Everyone!"

Seeing the topic veering further and further off course, Old Meng became so anxious that he was sweating profusely and waving his hands frantically:

"What about Chen Duo! You promised me you wouldn't hurt her as much as possible! Don't forget, she was a temporary worker just like us!"

"Furthermore... Elder Xia said he would refuse to hand over the mole until Mei Jinfeng's whereabouts were found!"

It was rare to see Lao Meng say so much in one go... Everyone looked at each other in surprise.

"That is indeed a problem..."

Knock knock knock—

The situation is at a stalemate.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Wang Zhenqiu, who was closest to the door, narrowed his eyes and silently opened the door a crack—

"Everyone, are you arguing about Chen Duo?"

Unexpectedly, standing outside the door was Zhang Lingyu!

His expression was calm, and his white clothes stood out in the night.

Upon hearing this, the temporary workers in the woodshed all changed color.

How could a high-ranking priest of the former Celestial Master's Mansion resort to eavesdropping?

The key point is that with so many top-notch experts in the room, no one noticed!

"Everyone has misunderstood."

Seemingly sensing everyone's wariness, Zhang Lingyu cupped his hands in a gesture of respect towards the inside of the door:

"I wasn't eavesdropping. It was Senior Brother Zhou who said that there's a high probability that everyone will argue over Chen Duo's matter."

Ignoring the horrified looks on everyone's faces, Zhang Lingyu continued, "Senior Brother Zhou asked me to pass on a message to everyone..."

"If you want to know the truth, why not go and ask them yourself?"

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Southwest corner of Biyou Village.

Far from the village houses, under a large, neglected tree.

A green-eyed girl with long hair tied back was intently staring at her phone screen.

Good!

Great!

Unbelievable!

"Move it here."

A voice suddenly rang in my ears.

Chen Duo was startled!

Turning my head, I noticed a man had appeared beside me...

It was the same person who gave him fruit at the village entrance that day.

"If we don't move this, it'll die." The man pointed.

While Chen Duo was in a daze, her finger accidentally touched the edge of the screen.

The phone emitted a dull sound, and four large gray characters appeared on the screen: 【Failed, Restart!】

Chen Duo frowned slightly.

And that man actually sat down next to her without any hesitation!

"Don't get so close."

Chen Duo frowned even more and shifted her position to the side. "You'll die."

Zhou Yan shrugged indifferently:

"No, you don't remember? That day at the village entrance, I 'ate' all those little bugs of yours."

Chen Duo tilted her head back slightly, revealing a thoughtful expression.

It seems that's really the case!

"Alright then." With that, she silently moved back...

She clearly doesn't understand social etiquette.

Even with a strange man sitting next to her, she didn't feel awkward at all and continued playing her mobile game with her head down.

Under the moonlight, two figures, one large and one small, sat together.

No one spoke, except for Zhou Yan who occasionally offered his opinions...

"Swipe left, yes, the blue one."

"Oops, you made a mistake, your combo is broken."

……

100 meters away.

A dozen or so people were lying densely packed together in a patch of waist-high weeds...

Not only temporary workers gathered here, but also Lu Linglong, Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing and others were all present!

"What is he doing?!" Lu Linglong pouted, her cheeks puffed out in anger.

Hei Guan looked completely bewildered: "In the dead of night, so many of us are here just to watch him teach a little girl how to play Candy Crush?"

"Senior brother won't do anything useless, we'll just listen." Zhang Lingyu held up her phone.

Despite the distance, he and Zhou Yan remained on the phone.

Everyone could clearly hear the conversation over there.

After a while.

"Stop talking." Chen Duo frowned, realizing for the first time in her life that someone could be so annoying...

If it weren't for his terrible instructions, I would have passed the test already!

Zhou Yan gave an awkward smile, stopped looking at the screen, turned to look at her, and suddenly said:

"How much longer do you have?"

"I'm not playing anymore..."

Chen Duo locked the screen, her tone unusually impatient, "I'll play again after you leave."

That's not what I meant.

Zhou Yan's gaze shifted downwards, and he pointed to Chen Duo's lower abdomen beneath her gray courier uniform.

"I mean, how much time do you have left to live?"

The air suddenly became quiet.

"Hmm...anything is fine."

Despite this intense interrogation, Chen Duo remained calm and composed.

She tilted her head, as if talking about something trivial that had nothing to do with her:

"Ten days is fine, three days... I can tolerate that too."

"List--"

In the bushes, Old Meng's eyes instantly reddened, and he was about to rush out excitedly!

With quick reflexes, Hei Guan and Wang Zhenqiu pinned him firmly to the muddy ground from both sides.

"Calm down, Lao Meng!" the clarinet-wielding man hissed. "Listen to me! Don't mess things up!"

Zhou Yan's voice continued to come from the phone:

"I see."

"In other words, if you keep the poison inside your body and prevent it from leaking out, you probably have three more days to live."

"If you release some stress, you can live for another ten days or half a month without any problem?"

Chen Duo nodded: "That's right."

The night wind rustled through the treetops.

The temporary workers in the bushes all felt a huge weight pressing on their hearts.

The Gu Saint Child, who brutally murdered the regional head...

In order to prevent the poison from leaking out and harming innocent people.

Are you constantly "burning your life"?

This is completely different from the Chen Duo they imagined!

Under the big tree, Zhou Yan looked at the girl in front of him, who resembled an exquisite doll, and a gentle smile appeared on his lips.

"If I had a choice..."

Zhou Yan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached Chen Duo and everyone else a hundred meters away.

"Chen Duo, do you want to choose death...?"

"Or should I completely abandon the identity of 'Gu Saint Child' and live as an ordinary person?"

Like a drop of water falling into a flat, lifeless lake.

under the moonlight.

Zhou Yan clearly saw a fleeting ripple appear in Chen Duo's unchanging, deep green eyes.

"Of course, before you make a choice, I hope you can answer one question for me first."