The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

449: Gu Worm Recoil

The count was not breathing well. Scarlet frowned as she looked at him. He could be considered a leader of the younger generation so it would be a shame to lose him.

For her part, Rain was confused and wondered if she should believe the stranger. Was the girl a friend or enemy? If she was an enemy, then handing the count over to her would be like leaving a lamb for slaughter. The count would have no chance.

Weighing life and death was so hard!

Well, in the end the count probably wouldn’t make it anyway, so gambling and leaving him with the girl wasn’t a bad option.

Yeah, good idea!

Rain stopped worrying about it once she came to a conclusion. She nodded her head and said, “OK, I will believe you. I hope you can save the count.”

The prize money would be double if he stayed alive! Thinking about it got Rain all excited. She immediately walked out and gently closed the door. Hopefully she hadn’t made a mistake.

Meanwhile the battle between Feng Wu and Alante was nearing its end.

Alante’s movements were faster than Feng Wu’s but her attack was weaker. She was losing stamina only after a few rounds.

Wind and Pei Qing arrived and quickly joined Feng Wu in the fight after subduing Lamia who was guarding outside the door.

Pei Qing easily hit Alante with his dimensional space magic. It didn’t matter how fast Alante was, she was no match for Pei Qing and his ability to control dimensional space.

It was difficult for Alante to use her speed to her advantage in her attacks. She had barely stood her ground against Feng Wu alone, now there were two others for her to fend against. She was seriously injured by Pei Qing and Wind’s combined attacks.

Just as the three of them were about to subdue her in order to hand her over to the old lady, Alante let out a shriek of pain.

The three of them looked at each other. They couldn’t understand why she was screaming; they hadn’t done anything to her to cause it. There was no logical reason for her to be suffering as much as she was.

Was she pretending? Pei Qing, suspicious though he was, realized he was wrong as soon as the thought crossed his mind.

Alante fell to the ground and convulsed so uncontrollably she looked like she’d gone crazy. White foam flowed out of her mouth and within the stream or bubbles was a pink bug. The bug’s miserable chirps filled the air.

“Be careful!” Wind yelled out before stomping on the bug that crawled out of Alante’s mouth with one foot.

The worm dying made Alante wail out even more miserably. Her facial features went through a dramatic change and in under a minute she went from being a stunning beauty to a below average looking woman.

It was a bad look. She wasn’t just unpretty she was plain ugly. It was no wonder she was so obsessed with beauty. Her change in appearance was just the beginning though. Her hair turned gray then white. Then wrinkles formed on her face in real time. She went from a stunning beauty to an old lady in less than a minute.

Feng Wu could feel Alante’s life was a lot weaker than before.

“What happened?!” Pei Qing was so puzzled. How could this happen to a person?

“The gu must have eaten away at her from the inside.” Wind looked in disgust at the worm he stomped on earlier. He really wanted to get new shoes now.

“Gu worm recoil?! No way! There are still people in the world who know how to create such evil things?!” Pei Qing was surprised. The worms had been so vicious that the authorities had classified using them a form of evil art. The method for refining them had died out long ago, so he never thought he would see the worms in a place like Rain city.

He was disgusted looking at the worm corpse. And he wondered how a lady like Alante could stoop to making such a decision. Gu worms didn’t just harm other people, it also harmed the user. What kind of deep hatred did she have for the count to want to kill him this way?

If the male worm was destroyed before it finished sucking away the life of the male host, the female worm will immediately begin to eat away at the female host.

It was obvious Alante had been eaten away from the inside by the female worm. She lost her vitality so it was unlikely she would live for much longer.

“What kind of grudge do you have against Count Nigusu? Was killing him worth all this?” Wind didn’t understand how much hatred someone had to have to do this to another person.

His words agitated Alante beyond reason and she yelled out, “What nonsense are you talking about?! How could I ever kill Nigusu? I love him so much I’m willing to die with him! How could I ever hurt him?!”

Her voice wasn’t musical and beautiful, but was old and hoarse, like an old lady.

“You love Nigusu?! Couldn’t tell that. . . ” To think there was a person who would treat their loved one in such a cruel way. It was beyond anything the group could understand.

Feng Wu didn’t understand what love was, but Ming Xi said loving someone meant wanting to make them happy. Loving someone meant thinking about the other person and wanting to be with them. Although Feng Wu didn’t understand it, she knew loving someone was not about hurting them. People who loved one another didn’t hurt each other.

“If this is your love for Nigusu, then I can only say your love is really scary. It’s a good thing I have better luck than him and have never met a lunatic like you.” Pei Qing got goosebumps just thinking about someone using a gu on him to get his love. The more he thought about it, the more terrible it was!

“I think so too.” Wind agreed.

Feng Wu nodded along with the guys. This kind of love was really terrible. She would tell Ming Xi about it when she got back.

“What do you know?! The count and I are truly in love. Our love isn’t something you’d understand!” Alante yelled out righteously.

She could endure defeat by the group and pain the caused by the worm eating her, but she couldn’t bear to be questioned about her love for Nigusu.

450: The Man Behind Them

“Are you sure the count loves you of his own accord? And not because of the influence of the gu?”

They weren’t in a hurry to finish her off since they knew she was doomed to die anyway. They could spend some time and listen to this horrible woman explain her reasoning.

“Of course he loves me! I’ve become so beautiful how could he not?!” Alante’s roar was followed by a series of coughs. Her body was actually really weak so strong emotional fluctuations were hard on her.

The words, “I don’t love you,” came from the secret stairway leading to the fifth floor.

Everyone turned in the direction of the voice to see the door to the secret stairway was open. A man, about 6.2” (190cm) stood in the doorway. He looked out of shape and obviously recovering from a serious illness. His facial features would have made him good looking, but he was too gaunt.

Two beautiful girls, both of whom were familiar to Feng Wu, stood behind him. The girls were of course Scarlet and Rain.

“Xiao Wu!” Scarlet waved happily at Feng Wu upon sighting her. She ran past the man in front of her and went to Feng Wu’s side. Not to be left behind, Rain also ran over.

The two girls left the man alone by the doorway.

“Nigusu!” Astonishment flashed in Alante’s eyes.

“I don’t love you. I have never loved you.” Count Nigusu slowly walked over to Alante. He looked at the old woman in front of him with a complicated expression. She had turned into an ugly, old woman after losing her beauty. He hated her for everything she’d done to him, but at the same time, seeing her like this, he couldn’t find any joy from revenge either.

It felt like he was looking at a stranger so he was unexpectedly calm.

“No! No! You must love me! I was so beautiful! I became so beautiful! How could you not love me?!” Alante shook her head violently. She couldn’t believe her husband, who had been so incredibly loving towards her, would say such heartless words to her now.

“Loving someone isn’t whether or not they are beautiful. Although appearances are important, it’s not the most important thing. How do you not understand this?” Rain looked at the crazy Alante with disdain. There had to be something wrong with the woman’s head.

“What you don’t understand is you can’t have a beautiful love without a stunning appearance. Didn’t Nigusu fall in love with me because of my beauty?” She’d always believed Nigusu loved her. He had to have loved her!

“I’m speechless at your reasoning. I don’t know who could have given you such an idea.” Wind really didn’t know what to say.

“Nigusu, you love me right? You must love me. Did the two cheap girls there say something to you to rouse discord between us? Don’t believe anything they said!”

Alanta clung to Nigusu’s pant leg like a drowning woman. It didn’t look like she would ever let go.

Nigusu looked at the crazy Alanta and sighed. His eyes were cold and ruthless when he spoke. “I have nothing to say to you.”

Not killing her personally was already self-restraint enough. He had no interest in talking nonsense with the woman.

Scarlet and Rain both rolled their eyes. What did they just tell her?

“Never mind that. Let me ask you, where did you get the gu worms? I’ve looked into your background, and you’re just an ordinary girl from a normal family. It’s impossible for you to know the gu refinement method. Who gave them to you, and where is the person now?”

Figuring out the matter was the main reason Scarlet was there. She was on a mission as one of the four holy envoys. The deputy mayor had asked for help from Star Marshall hall because he suspected the mayor was involved in some kind of evil art because of how drastically Count Nigusu’s personality changed.

In fact, the request for help was a direct result of the old lady and the deputy mayor discussing the matter. While waiting for a reply from Star Marshall hall, the old lady had gone to the Adventurer’s guild and posted the task to distract Alante.

The old lady didn’t expect the adventurers she hired to actually do anything. The main reason for having them work was so Alante would not suspect they had secretly contacted Star Marshall hall for help.

The old lady and the deputy mayor’s plan went off perfectly. After Star Marshall hall received the request, it launched an investigation into Alante and sent Scarlet to help the old lady’s estate to resolve the matter.

From the investigation, Star Marshall hall found a big issue with Alante. Alante was an ordinary child and the eldest daughter in the direct family line, but she was later kicked out of the family because she was so ugly and her position was usurped by her half-sister.

Even though Alante was driven out of the family, her half-sister was ruthless and still sent people to destroy her. Soon after this, Alante’s physical appearance changed dramatically and she became incredibly beautiful. Her sister, on the other hand, died inexplicable with all the qi and blood drained from her body. It had to have been a miserable death.

Alante became a high-ranking countess by marrying the count not long after that. With her new identity, if it weren’t for the hall’s ability, it would have been near impossible to find out what her experience growing up had been like.

There had to be a reason behind Alante’s transformation. What the hall really wanted was to catch the person who helped her change. Alante was just a small fry, the one they really wanted to catch was the mastermind behind it, and that was why Scarlet was there.

“I won’t talk. You want to find out, figure it out yourself. Hahaha...” Alante laughed pleased with herself. Even if she was defeated, so what? These interlopers had destroyed her happy life with Nigusu. They were fools if they thought anything useful would come out of her mouth.