I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon-Chapter 984 - 366: Empress: Chen Family Wife’s Master Plan! Casting a Long Line to Catch a Big Fish! (Part 2)
"Households Commander Li, that's enough." Chen Mo said flatly.
"Yes."
Li Yuan finally withdrew his hand, shook the blood off the sheath, and retreated behind Chen Mo.
The Assistant Officer, barely breathing, fell to the ground, completely unconscious.
Chen Mo looked at Kuang Jie and asked, "Do you know where you went wrong?"
Kuang Jie swallowed and murmured, "I was blind and offended Mr. Chen..."
"It's not about that." Chen Mo shook his head and said, "I entered the city yesterday without concealing my identity, yet you knew nothing about it. Your information was even less informed than the Gu God Sect. Is this how your division usually operates?"
"Sir..."
Kuang Jie was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer.
He had just taken office, and his position was not yet stable. Many areas were indeed not thorough, but that was not an excuse.
"The Gu God Sect has been setting up in Fengmu County for several months, with over twenty thousand people in the city being implanted with Gu Poison Worms. If we hadn't arrived in time, this could have become a dead city by now." Chen Mo's eyelids lowered, his voice growing colder, "Can you bear that responsibility?"
Twenty thousand?!
Kuang Jie's face was full of shock, and his scalp tingled.
If it was really as Chen Mo said, that would be a severe dereliction of duty! Not only Ji Weifeng but even he might lose his head!
At this moment, Ji Weifeng timely asked, "Mr. Chen, how should we deal with those citizens affected?"
Chen Mo instructed, "Gather all the citizens who attended the banquet without missing anyone."
"Yes." Ji Weifeng hurriedly led people out of the government office to start counting the heads.
Soon, all the citizens gathered on the street outside the county government, a throng of people shoulder to shoulder, crowding the entire street.
Each person had a pale face and dim expression, the atmosphere was very oppressive.
The scene of Li Mansion with corpses piled like mountains was still vivid in their minds, and the thought of facing such a fate filled their hearts with fear.
However, at this moment, a sudden exclamation came from the crowd: 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"Look, what is that?"
At the sound, everyone raised their heads to see a red vortex appearing in the sky, blood-red like a hurricane, roaring endlessly. Even from a distance, the oppressive feeling could be felt!
A figure was suspended at the center of the vortex, and streams of red constantly flowed from his body!
The crowd started to stir.
Could it be that the Gu God Sect has returned?
Feng Liu looked intently and exclaimed, "Mr. Chen, it's Mr. Chen from the Sky Scale Guard! It was him who saved us at the Li Mansion before!"
Boom ——
The next moment, the vortex turned violently.
Endless blood qi surged like a huge wave, rolling through the street and engulfing everyone in an instant!
The blood qi seemed almost sentient, drilling into bodies through the seven acupoints.
The citizens, petrified with fear, closed their eyes, expecting to be silenced, only to feel a warm current entering their bodies, continuously expelling the cold within.
"Uh——"
Someone knelt down, retching, and finally spat out a mouthful of black blood.
Amid the blood was a wriggling worm!
Exposed to sunlight, the worm's body shriveled rapidly, soon becoming motionless.
Where one appeared, others followed, as one after another, Gu Poison Worms were expelled amidst the sounds of retching.
Some were only the size of a fingernail, while others had grown as thick as a little finger, their sharp teeth frightening to behold!
The Gu Worms lived parasitically within the human body, continuously absorbing the host's Qi Blood. Even without any external stimulus, the host would eventually be drained of Essence Qi, becoming nothing but a desiccated corpse!
"This method really works."
Chen Mo looked down at the crowd below, feeling slightly relieved.
The "Gu Scripture" contained extensive information about the "Meat Ganoderma Gu."
Simply put, this entity absorbed flesh and blood, corrupting and decomposing it before using special methods to catalyze and transform decay into life, ultimately condensing into Meat Ganoderma spores.
In essence, it belonged to the yin and cold, naturally fearing objects of utmost yang and rigidity.
And Chen Mo's Qi Blood Power was precisely suited to this purpose.
By channeling the Qi Blood through the people's bodies, temporarily making them "pure yang bodies," an unsuitable environment for the Gu Worms was formed, prompting them to leave voluntarily.
However, though the method sounded simple, it proved exceptionally difficult in practice.
For over twenty thousand people, despite just going through the motions, the consumption was extremely taxing, something an ordinary Martial Arts Grandmaster could not withstand.
Chen Mo's acupoint already held abundant reserves of Qi Blood, supplemented by the Xuanxue Guiyuan Pearl, allowing him to barely persist.
Moreover, for him, any consumption was worthwhile...
[Special Event: Southern Heaven Demon Hunting.]
[Progress increasing...]
The system prompt appeared before his eyes.
As the Gu Worms were gradually driven out of the citizens' bodies, the progress bar edged closer to 100%, but even when the last Gu Worm was expelled, no task completion notification appeared.
"Hmm?"
Chen Mo's brow furrowed slightly.
"It's really a worm!"
"So disgusting!"
"No wonder I've felt so weak these days, thankfully Mr. Chen came to our rescue!"
"Thank you, Mr. Chen, for saving our lives!"
The crowd was overjoyed, bowing to the figure in the sky as though worshipping a deity, their voices like a tidal wave.
Chen Mo felt the Dragon Qi in his Dantian growing stronger, yet said nothing more, withdrawing his Qi Blood Power and turning back to the county government.
"Whoa..."
Kuang Jie witnessed the scene firsthand, feeling weak at the knees.
He was both amazed by Chen Mo's terrifying technique and even more filled with fear.
