The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#769 - Desperate Aoi

“Stay away from me!”

After a long while, Kui finally spoke her first words.

Her voice sounded somewhat hoarse, as if she had just been crying, and her voice trembled just like her body.

“Uh… If I'm willing to stay away from you, would you be willing to come back with me?”

“I'm not going anywhere!” Kui said, shrinking further behind the water vat.

She looked like she was planning to settle down here.

But no matter what, she was finally willing to speak compared to before, and being able to communicate meant there was a possibility of being persuaded.

So Lu Jing tried to continue along with her words, "But if we don't work together… to get rid of that strange object, we'll be trapped here forever."

Kui trembled again upon hearing this, "Leave me alone."

“Why?” Lu Jing sat down beside her, “Why leave you alone?”

“I just want to be alone here.” Kui said, holding her head.

“Why don't you tell me what you're afraid of, and I'll help you solve it, so you can…”

“It's no use.” Kui interrupted Lu Jing, “No matter what you want me to do, you better give up on it early, I can't help you.”

“But you're the youngest fifth-rank inspector of the Sitianjian, isn't that a bit self-deprecating?”

“No, I'm just a useless person,” Kui said, “I watched my parents… and my sister die tragically, but I couldn't do anything, I just stood quietly… quietly on the side, watching their bodies being buried in the soil one by one, I'll never forget that feeling.”

“Okay, but that's all in the past after all, and you're no longer an ordinary person now.” Lu Jing said.

However, Kui muttered to herself again, "I can finally understand what he told me that day."

“Who?”

“Mr. Ji, he said that we are actually the same kind of people, at some point we were all extremely eager for power, eager to change our lives, to seize the throat of fate, but… all of this is ultimately futile.”

Kui finally raised her head and burst into tears, crying as she spoke.

“He has now been arrested by the Sitianjian, and I have also lost my martial arts and can no longer feel the secret power. We can't escape the curse that fate has given us.”

So… this is what you're most afraid of in your heart? Afraid of losing the power you have and returning to the weak self you were before.

Lu Jing was slightly stunned, but after a moment, he directly pulled Kui up from the ground.

“Cheer up… Inspector Kui, didn't you hear what I said before? You lost your secret power and martial arts only because of that strange object. As long as we work together, and solve that strange object, those powers that belong to you will soon return to your body.”

“It's too late.” Kui was still in tears, only repeating, “It's too late, it's already too late. Why, I thought I had become strong enough, capable of protecting the people around me, but why is it still the same as before, someone save me.”

“It's not too late, it's not too late!” Lu Jing said to Kui, “That strange object is called Red Luo, from the time it starts to take effect, we have one hour to act. Hmm… Although you came in earlier than me, but if I remember correctly, you should still have half an hour left.”

“By the way, didn't you say you were coming to find your sister's daughter? She's your only relative in this world, right? Don't you want to work with us to solve this blood mist and let her live? Although the Sitianjian has already set up a dragnet outside, she probably won't be able to escape.”

“But as long as she's still alive, you'll always have a chance to rescue her in the future.”

“I can't save her.” Kui said painfully, “… Just like I couldn't save my parents and sister back then.”

“Who said that? Although you have temporarily lost your power, don't you still have me? As long as you can cheer up and follow me, you don't even need to lift a finger, and Inspector Wu and I can solve that blood corpse.”

“No, you don't understand.” The pain in Kui's eyes grew stronger and stronger, “I can't take her away, because… because she is Red Luo!”

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Lu Jing was also stunned when he heard this.

He really didn't expect that the strange object that Kui had been trying to protect before was actually the Red Luo that was trapping them here now.

Doesn't this mean that if they want to leave here, they can only kill Kui's only remaining relative in this world?

No wonder Kui was so helpless and desperate, hiding behind the water vat alone.

What really frightened her was not the loss of power itself, but the sense of powerlessness in the face of her loved ones' death. After many years, it had once again returned to her, as if a nightmare was repeating itself, and this was what completely crushed her.

“I heard from other strange objects that the child has always been brooding over her mother's death, and the root of all the tragedies that happened in our family lies in my father, who was an official in the court. Because he offended a treacherous official in the court, he was charged and beheaded by the people above.”

“After that, my mother and sister were both sold into brothels and died tragically one after another. After she learned of her background, she harbored hatred for the current official family and all the civil and military officials. When she heard other strange objects say that they were coming to the capital to force the Sitianjian to release Mr. Ji by threatening the lives of the people in the city, she asked someone to refine herself into Red Luo and bring her to the capital… Before setting off, she had already made up her mind to die.”

Kui blamed herself, “Actually, it should have been my responsibility to avenge my parents and sister, but as the price of entering the Sitianjian and becoming an inspector, I promised Shaojian Guo that I would no longer pursue the matter of that year… I just didn't expect that my sister still had a daughter, and she's only just over ten years old this year.”

After a while, Lu Jing picked up Chao Yuan again and asked, "Regarding Red Luo, is there anything else you're hiding from me?"

Chao Yuan's head finally left the water vat, and he immediately greedily breathed in the air, panting as he said, "I've already said everything I know."

“Really? Then it seems I don't need to keep you anymore.”

As Lu Jing spoke, he pressed Chao Yuan's head into the water vat again.

Chao Yuan immediately screamed, “Wait, wait, wait.”

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