Chapter 76: Hopeless struggle

“Chengyi, it won’t work.” Chengxin’s voice carried a deep sense of failure.

My mood suddenly became heavy. What did he mean by that?

I took a deep breath and pulled Cheng Xin Ge into the room, saying, “Come in and talk about it.”

Cheng Xin Ge walked into the room and immediately collapsed on the sofa, saying, “The fat silkworm is very repulsive to Ru Yue. I don’t know why?”

Rejecting Yue? How is that possible? How could the bugs in Yuexue reject Yue? I turned my head and looked at Chengxin, and at the same time, I frowned.

“I’m not joking with you. I really do reject Yue.” As he spoke, Cheng Xin Ge threw the bamboo tube at me, gesturing for me to open it.

I opened the bamboo tube and saw the fat silkworm lazily lying in the tube in the light of the room. It didn’t react to my opening the tube, and it didn’t want to go out at all.

I could only pour it out. When it was poured out, it would lie down in whatever twisted position it was in. It looked like it was too lazy to move, and if it weren’t for the soft feeling in my hand, I would almost suspect that it was a dead insect.

But even so, I noticed that the light blue color on the fat silkworm had disappeared.

“You see, the golden silkworm is the king of silkworms, and its ability is extremely powerful. Even a young silkworm can digest the poison in your body in no time. In theory, the poison in Yueyue’s body should not be a problem! Because according to what I know, the more intense the poison, the better it is for this type of golden silkworm. The poison in Yueyue’s body should be a feast for it.” Chengxin slowly explained to me.

I looked at the lazy fat silkworm in my hand and sat down next to Chengxin. I said, “If that’s the case, why do you say it rejects Ruoyue?”

“This is where I understand. Not to mention detoxifying Ruoyue, it doesn’t even want to get close to her. It reacts violently! You can even feel its irritable mood! At that time, I didn’t dare to touch it. Believe me, if I touched it, it would give me a shock without hesitation. Even if it is not a golden silkworm that is famous for its toxicity, its poison is still more potent than the poison in you and Ruoyue.” Chengxin took the wine I had opened from the table and took a deep drink.

I was silent. In the end, it was difficult for Brother Chengxin. He was a Taoist doctor, not a witch doctor, so it was no wonder he was at a loss.

“Otherwise, can we try to contact someone from the Yueyan Miao village and ask them?” I asked tentatively.

“It’s useless. As the highest-ranking gong in the Yueyan Miao Village, the golden silkworm gong is not accessible to ordinary gong keepers. The only people with the status to contact them are the gong girls! That is the secret of the gong girls… Now the gong girls in the Yueyan Miao Village are still young, and Grandma Lingqing is missing. Ru Yue is like this, and Ru…” Chengxin stopped suddenly and looked at me with some concern.

A flash of sadness crossed my eyes. I held the bug in my hands, feeling somewhat helpless, and asked, “Isn’t there any other way? What about people from other villages?”

“Even if you rush back to China now, find people from other villages, and they must be people of considerable status with the girl, and are willing to tell you about the golden silkworm, it’s useless! Chengyi, I’m not trying to discourage you, I know more about witchcraft than I do. The way each village cultivates the worms is different, let alone the top-level golden silkworm? Different cultivation methods will lead to different worms. What’s the point of asking?” Chengxin was in a very bad mood, so he took another sip of wine and sighed heavily.

“So there’s no way?” My mood also became heavy.

“There is no way. When necessary, use all the forbidden techniques of the various veins. In short, we cannot let Yue-yue die, let alone die in a foreign country.” Cheng Xin’s eyes were filled with an unusual look of determination.

“I will do it even if you don’t tell me. If there is no way to save her in the end, then let the damage be transferred to me.” I took the wine from Chengxin’s hand and took a few gulps without thinking. The spicy wine flowed down my throat and into my stomach, but it was bitter. Why did it have to be Yue? Why did it have to be the poison of the witchcraft? This goddamn coincidence!

Cheng Xin looked at me and said sadly, “Ru Yue blocking the knife for you is a karmic debt you should bear. I won’t oppose what you’re doing. I’ll do everything I can to save you! However, I must remind you that the art of transferring damage is a very unpredictable art. It’s all about equal costs, and you have to pay interest! If it’s transferred to you and easily resolved by your golden silkworm, then it’s not damage transferred! At that time, I won’t be able to control what will become something that will make you suffer and make us difficult. In addition, because of the “interest,” it won’t be easy, it will only be more difficult to deal with.”

After saying this, Cheng Xin Ge sighed again.

I shook my head and said, “It doesn’t matter if I die. If it weren’t for Yue, I would have deserved to die. Do you think I was completely unprepared? With my back to the killer, do you think he would have missed my vital spot with a single stab? I was lucky to have survived.”

After that, I didn’t say anything else.

Cheng Xin’s face showed a look of extreme embarrassment, as well as annoyance and sadness. He tried to say something several times, but in the end, he didn’t say it. Instead, he slapped himself hard on the head and grabbed his hair, saying, “If I could have mastered the most difficult spiritual healing technique of treating illness with the mind, I would have been able to master some of it. In the end, my master is not here, and my master is much more powerful than me.”

“You are already very good. Don’t talk about the Taoist heritage. Even for simple things, as long as they involve technology, it is impossible to achieve overnight. We are still young.” After I said that, I also leaned on the sofa a little tired, and once again felt very much missing my masters.

Without them, no matter what, I can’t shake the feeling of helplessness in my heart, and even my growth has become bumpy.

Now, even the freedom to look for them has been taken away, and I have been inexplicably pushed to the forefront. Where are you, masters? Are you still on Earth? This absurd thought made my heart bitter again.

Three days passed quickly. As Walma said, we were well protected, at least within India, and no so-called killers would bother us.

We are doing well at this private hospital. Volma told us in several conversations that we could stay here for as long as we like. This hospital is his property, and India itself is a unique country with a major religious influence. The so-called world spiritual circle hardly penetrates here, and given his identity and status, those killers definitely wouldn’t dare to act recklessly.

Stay here with peace of mind? Do you mean stay here for the rest of your life? I sighed, tucked the quilt for Ruoyue who was guarding the bed, and my thoughts were in a mess.

Under the dim, warm light, Ruoyue’s sleeping face was very calm. At this time, she looked extremely pale, but the paleness of her face made people feel uneasy from the bottom of their hearts. Especially tonight, it seemed that even the color of her lips had become a little pale.

The hospital used the best nutrient solution to maintain Ru Yue’s vitality, and in this ward, Cheng Qing’s bronze lamp and Cheng Xin’s prayer objects were all placed. As long as Ru Yue showed any signs of being unable to hold on, we would start casting spells.

As for me, I have already tied a special red rope around Yueyue’s body to bind her soul. In the most urgent of times, I will use my magic to make this soul binding completely ‘reverse the heavens’.

You have to know that binding is only for the living, for those whose bodies are still alive. For those whose bodies are gradually losing vitality, you have to use special magic! That is the real soul binding.

Do I really have to go that far? I habitually touched the hair of Yueyue. Perhaps because it was difficult to support, and the vitality had faded, the hand no longer had the smooth feel of the past, but rather a somewhat dry taste.

This discovery made my heart swell with great sadness and sorrow. I held back the urge to cry, and said to Ruoyue in the gentlest tone I could muster, “Ruoyue, don’t be silly. Everyone has been waiting for you for three days. Our days are drifting, but they are also wonderful! Don’t you want to go on an adventure with your third brother? When you were little, didn’t you encourage me to go to the Hungry Ghost Tomb?

Still, Ruyue didn’t react at all. I was sad and turned away. The night was long, and I didn’t know how to resolve this sadness. I thought I needed to go out and smoke a cigarette.

Outside the ward, the smell of cigarettes brought me some comfort. I couldn’t help but take out the bamboo tube I had with me and stared at it in a daze. First, because I missed Ru Xue. At times like this, not only did I need her, but Ru Yue also needed her. Second, because I wanted to know what this golden silkworm was thinking, why it was so repelled by Ru Yue. Even after talking to Brother Chengxin, I tried this fat silkworm countless times, but it just wouldn’t do it.

After thinking for a while, I put the bamboo tube back in my pocket without a result!

I’m on night duty tonight, and I’ve already told everyone not to notify me of anything, unless it’s a matter of life and death. In fact, I’m also avoiding it, because before I went on night duty, I finally made up my mind to notify Qin Huai of the situation, but I didn’t dare to tell him in person, so I had to ask Cheng Xin to do it for me.

I can’t guarantee that the worst will not happen, for example, I can’t save Ruoyue even if I die! And Qin Huai is Ruoyue’s fiance and my brother, I have no reason to hide it from him, otherwise he will really hate me for life.

Fortunately, as Qin Huai, no one in the circle of cultivators would dare to touch him, because cultivators generally do not interfere with the secular world. Killing a high-ranking executive like Qin Huai would cause a shock that could be seen! Only the rebellious and barbaric Black Smoke Miao Village would dare to make plans for Qin Huai, but there is only one Black Rock Miao Village in the world after all.

Plus, our whereabouts have already been exposed, so it doesn’t matter if Qin Huai comes here. There’s nothing extra involved, so Qin Huai is safe.

As I was thinking, the cigarette had burned to the end. Looking at the door to the Ruyue ward, I thought I should go in.