After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Curse

Night, the bright moon hangs high.

After dinner, Lin Anru, who had parted ways with Zhou Yan, returned to her single room.

Upon returning, Lin Anru went to the small refrigerator in her bedroom, took out a few bags of beef jerky, took off her coat and pants, put on comfortable and loose pajamas, and went to the computer to turn it on.

Afterwards, I logged into Lin'an Ru's favorite Bilibili site. Today's Bilibili site is quite lively. The most popular video is about the upcoming city council election in Zhongzhou City. Mu Yuan, who is called the savior and is willing to reduce the power of awakened people and increase the power of ordinary people, announced his candidacy.

The public expressed their willingness to vote for this rising political star.

Lin'an couldn't help but chuckle as he chewed on the beef jerky.

Lin'an Ruke wasn't one of those ordinary people who received a carefree education from childhood and had to use a computer to do even simple addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers. She knew very well that Mu Yuan's popularity and the number of people who liked him must actually be due to a wealthy backer.

In the Eastern United States, unless you are a capitalist yourself, any member of parliament who relies on street politics or comes from a middle-class family will inevitably need a large amount of capital investment to come to power.

This is political donation.

As mentioned before, politicians in the Eastern Xia United States can legally accept investments from capitalists, and once they become members of parliament, they can also stand up for their own financial backers.

The public's only demand is transparency: you can take money, but you need to disclose how much you took and who you took the money from, so we can choose for ourselves.

This permissive attitude has led to a situation where all presidential candidates are involved in drug use and various scandals and rumors continue to circulate, yet the public still chooses a president who is not so bad from a pile of trash.

The same goes for Mu Yuan. Lin Anru guessed that Mu Yuan was being praised as a paragon of virtue and a saint, but once he actually took office, he would just be like those politicians who stood up for their sugar daddies.

What is there to say?

It doesn't matter who comes to power; don't trust the opposition parties.

Lin Anru took a sip of the drink next to her computer and continued scrolling down. Below was the first piece of information released by the National Health Bureau, which stated that this year's flu season had arrived and that the public should pay more attention to keeping warm and wearing masks.

This flu comes once a year. At its worst, it infected hundreds of millions of people and killed more than 500,000. But because we encounter it every year, we've become desensitized. Lin'an just glanced at it and changed the video.

The third video is amazing; it's an update of the detective anime series that Lin'anru loves to watch the most.

Lin Anru turned on the video and started watching while eating beef jerky. Halfway through, Lin Anru suddenly touched her neck.

Lin Anru doesn't know if there's something wrong with her body, but she feels like something is pushing out of her neck, like she wants to vomit but can't.

Ten minutes later, Lin Anru felt her body start to heat up. But just as her body temperature reached its peak, she suddenly felt cold again.

It's a very strange feeling. You can clearly feel that your skin and flesh are still warm and hot, but inside your body, such as in your abdominal cavity, it's so cold that you shiver.

Cold sweat began to break out abnormally, and within a short time, Lin'an's forehead was covered with a layer of white sweat.

Then came the aches and pains all over my body, especially in my joints, which felt like they were rusty. Any slight movement caused a creaking, groaning sound of rusty iron throughout my body.

It's awful, extremely awful.

Lin Anru took a few deep breaths, and with each breath, an uncontrollable urge to vomit surged into her mouth. Lin Anru turned her head and dry-heaved at the ground, but nothing came out; only an unpleasant "uh-ah" sound came from her throat.

The nausea subsided, and Lin'an began to tremble.

An irrepressible thought arose within me.

Am I sick?

A demigod, a monster with physical abilities hundreds of times greater than a normal person, is sick?

The aches and pains throughout her body grew increasingly severe. Lin Anru picked up her phone and, with trembling hands, dialed Zhou Yan's number.

"Xiao Yan, I... I'm not feeling well, you... you come here..."

Lin Anru always felt that something was wrong with her body, and Zhou Yan's abilities seemed strange as well. Lin Anru had a strange confidence that if Zhou Yan came, this matter could be resolved.

"Help me... take a look..."

Lin An's vision went black, and he collapsed to the ground.

……

The smell of disinfectant, faint voices, and a body that was very hot.

Lin'an, who had been unconscious for an unknown period of time, slowly opened her eyes as if stimulated by her sense of smell, hearing, and body temperature.

The scene before her eyes went from blurry to clear. The girl saw Zhou Yan standing by her bed with a solemn expression, and Zhou Yan had one hand on Lin Anru's forehead.

Lin An asked weakly.

"I……"

Zhou Yan removed his hand from Lin Anru's head and shook his head.

"You're sick, so I've brought you to the hospital."

Lin Anru looked incredulous.

"I'm sick?"

Lin'an Ru would rather believe that she had inexplicably become pregnant as a virgin and that the accident was caused by fetal movement than believe that her physical condition was such that she could get sick and have a fever.

Zhou Yan's phone rang at that moment. He took it out and saw that it was Zhu Que calling.

Zhou Yan said to Lin Anru.

"Senior, you rest here for a bit, I'll be right back."

Zhou Yan left Lin Anru's ward and answered Zhu Que's call in the corridor.

Suzaku: How is Xiao An?

Zhou Yan: Not good, she... is cursed.

Zhou Yan received a call from Lin Anru at the Wu Family Martial Arts Academy and immediately rushed to Lin Anru's room. At that time, Lin Anru was lying on the ground. When Zhou Yan touched Lin Anru's hand, he could feel her body temperature through her clothes.

Zhou Yan had seen this scene before. When one of his elementary school classmates had a high fever, Zhou Yan carried the child to the school clinic. At that time, the classmate's body temperature was so high that Zhou Yan's hands and arms could feel the heat through his clothes.

Based on this experience, Zhou Yan assumed that Lin'an Rushi, who was lying on the ground, had a high fever.

But when Zhou Yan opened Lin Anru's attribute panel, he was shocked.

Name: Lin Anru.

Age: 18.

Height: 170 cm.

Weight: 87 kg.

Blood type: O.

Race: Divine Beast, Xiangliu.

Awakening level: 46%.

Personal attributes.

Strength: 200 (803)

Neural reaction speed: 200 (805)

Agility: 180 (773)

Endurance: 1500 (15007)

Intelligence: 30000 (300000)

Spirit: 30000 (300000)

Perception: 1000 (3000)

Innate ability.

Evil Water: It can impart corrosive properties to water and is highly toxic.

Water control: The water around the body is as easy to control as an arm or finger.

Evil Scale: The scales on its body can resist both magical and physical damage.

Bloodlust: Needs to drink blood every once in a while. After drinking blood, awakening level and physical fitness are slightly improved.

Evil Beast: Increased desire to attack humanoid creatures.

Transformation: Water temperature can be controlled to transform water into different forms.

Weakness: The back is a sensitive spot.

Status: Blood Curse (The body is severely weakened and seriously ill)

Has someone cursed Lin'an?

who is it?

Zhou Yan took Lin Anru to the hospital and called Leng Qing to tell her about it. Leng Qing obviously didn't have a way to break the curse, and Zhou Yan guessed that Leng Qing had gone to find Zhuque. Now Zhuque was calling him.

Suzaku: Are you sure? A curse? Who's cursing Xiao An?

Zhou Yan walked back and forth in the corridor outside the ward with a wry smile.

"I don't know, I'm not very clear about what happened with Senior Lin."

Suzaku remained silent for a while before speaking.

Suzaku: How is Xiao An now? Is she holding on?

Zhou Yan: There shouldn't be any problems now, but... I'm not sure when the mastermind might strike again, and I can't guarantee what will happen to Senior Sister Lin then.

Zhuque: I understand. I'll have Qing'e (the ginseng spirit) come over first. I'll find an awakened person with the ability to break the curse to take a look.

Zhou Yan: This is troublesome.

Zhuque: Hmm, by the way, I heard from Leng Qing that you gave Leng Qing a copy of the "Illusory Heart Sutra," which can restrain Jiufeng?

Zhou Yan gripped his phone tightly, but quickly relaxed his grip; he had already prepared an excuse for this.

Zhou Yan: This Jiu Feng is not normal. She seems to have more than one personality. I found a spell book that I had overheard before. This spell can stir up contradictions between people's thoughts, so I guess this spell is useful.

Zhuque: Very good. I like a useful child like you. I'll make a note of what happened with Leng Qing. You can use this credit to get out of any trouble you encounter in the future.

This is no longer the feudal era, where loyalty is not absolute and therefore not loyal at all. Zhuque doesn't mind that Zhou Yan has his own ideas and his own secret stash of money.

As long as Zhou Yan is willing to help her when needed and support her, and she's on his side, then there's nothing to worry about.

Water that is too clear has no fish.

Zhuque hung up the phone.

Zhou Yan entered Lin Anru's ward again. Inside the room, Su Xiaowan, who was licking her fur in the corner, ran up to Zhou Yan as soon as she saw him. Zhou Yan picked up the fox and walked to Lin Anru.

Zhou Yan had just tried it, having Su Xiaowan spray auspicious energy onto Lin Anru. In a short time, Lin Anru's serious illness and severe weakness changed to moderate illness and moderate weakness, but less than ten minutes later, the condition returned to normal.

Clearly, this curse is not a normal illness, and Su Xiaowan's auspicious energy only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.

Based on this line of thinking, Zhou Yan estimated that even if the ginseng spirit Song Qing'e came, it would be useless.

curse……

How should this be resolved?

……

Inside a luxury hotel suite in Myeongwol City, the capital of Baihe Prefecture.

Zhuque squinted and walked around in her suite.

After a while, Zhuque muttered to himself.

"Is that child narrow-minded, or overconfident?"

Three days ago, after communicating with Xiao Yanjun, Zhou Yan told Zhuque about Xuanwu's desire to become the Nine Heavens Demon-Slaying Ancestor and his support for the Federal Government.

Suzaku understood why Genbu had suddenly gone crazy and wanted to support the federal government, but knowing this was worse than not knowing. Now that she knew, Suzaku was certain that Genbu had plunged headlong into the power vortex of the federal government and completely turned his back on them.

and so……

Was Lin'an cursed by someone sent by Xuanwu?

Xuanwu may have sensed Zhou Yan eavesdropping, so in order to warn the restless Zhou Yan and the Vermilion Bird behind him, it directly cursed Lin Anru.

If this idea is correct, then the consequences will be terrible.

Xuanwu had someone curse Lin'an Ru, but Zhou Yan, as the Six-Eared Macaque, knew nothing about it, which shows that Xuanwu must have had a way to deceive the Six-Eared Macaque.

As Zhou Yan had mentioned before, he rarely hears about matters concerning Xuanwu.