Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife-Chapter 757 Vanished into Thin Air (4)

"Is the lady still not out?" He looked up towards the lab.

Gu Yelin’s eyes were deep, "Is there a problem?"

An Zhifeng nodded gravely, "Those people died, but their manner of death is not quite the same as the others before them."

Gu Yelin’s dark pupils flashed, he asked in a low voice, "How is it not the same?"

An Zhifeng opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, seemingly at a loss for words to describe the situation.

"They... uh... disappeared..."

"Disappeared?" Gu Yelin’s eyes darkened further.

"Yes, disappeared." An Zhifeng nodded, pondered for a long time, and tried to use the closest terms to describe, "The people before, it was like someone was suddenly strangling their necks, they died in horror and suffocation. But this time, these people showed no signs of agony, they just turned into a pool of blood, no, to be exact, it’s like they turned into blood and then evaporated!"

Turned into blood and evaporated?

Gu Yelin slightly furrowed his brow, a look of puzzlement and gravity in his gaze.

"Take me to see."

Inside the research lab, An Yiqing was unaware of the conversation between Gu Yelin and An Zhifeng outside. At the moment, she was engrossed in her frenzied research of the blood, unable to pull herself away.

The components within these blood samples were like nothing An Yiqing had ever seen before. She considered herself well-versed in poisons and their antidotes under Ye Cheng Hong’s tutelage since childhood, and knowledgeable about pharmaceutical ingredients, but she had never encountered such strange blood in all those years.

What could have caused this? Why was it like this?

An Yiqing bowed her head in contemplation.

In truth, she had come to two conclusions. First, the blood cells in these samples could regenerate even in a state of necrosis, and they did so with astonishing speed. In other words, as long as a person’s body contained this type of blood, no matter how severe their injuries were, as long as they were not brain-dead, they would continue to live until their natural death.

Second, within this blood, An Yiqing discovered an ingredient she had never come across, which faintly reminded her of a breeding technique—the Gu!

The Gu, a mysterious form of witchcraft, was handed down from ancient times and propagated only among the witch tribes’ women, from mother to daughter and not to sons, with other ethnicities having none, and even those similar were incomparable. It is an enigmatical entity cultivated over years through special methods, typically an animal but could also be a plant, with the former generally in pairs, though a few might pertain to plants. The Gu could be directly implanted or indirectly manipulated. Only women could nurture and implant the Gu; men were incapable of doing so. It was ranked alongside corpse-driving and lowering head spells as one of the three great witchcrafts.

An Yiqing had witnessed Gu techniques firsthand when she was ten and accompanied Ye Cheng Hong on a trip to a remote mountain region in the South. Even now, the memory was fresh in her mind.

The miraculous nature of the Gu technique was beyond any ordinary person’s description. There was an ancient saying, "One’s complexion changes at the mention of Gu," illustrating the terror and strangeness of Gu technique.

And now, to find ingredients in this blood reminiscent of the Gu technique—there was a sense of uncanny craftsmanship involved.

When she reflected on the people they had captured, who had died violently right before her eyes, An Yiqing gradually pieced together some clues.

Perhaps these so-called Medicine Persons were controlled by something akin to the Gu technique.

As the situation became progressively clearer, without further delay, An Yiqing took off her sterile suit, left the lab, and, by chance, ran right into An Zhifeng, who was on his way there.

"Miss, you just came out in time!" An Zhifeng saw An Yiqing and hurriedly approached her.