Chapter 790 — A Hard Problem

A Hard Problem

"Exactly. We only need to find a way to kill the Right Elder. As for that Diamond Gu, who cares?" Yang Ce said with great satisfaction. "Yezi's right—that's exactly what I meant!"

"Then... how are we supposed to kill the Right Elder?" Liu Yan asked. "Right now the Right Elder is impervious to blades and immune to fire and water. Killing him would be next to impossible. We'd have to break his Diamond Gu first before we could even hurt him, wouldn't we?"

"That won't be necessary!" Yang Ce waved a hand. "Lan Ling's grandfather gave me a method—we cast a Gu on him!"

"Cast a Gu?" Everyone looked up in surprise at Yang Ce, finding it somewhat unbelievable. Liu Yan said, "Isn't the Right Elder a master of Gu arts? If we cast a Gu on him, won't he notice? How could we possibly manage that?"

"Swift... Cicada... Gu!" Yang Puqi said, word by word.

"Swift Cicada Gu?" Hearing Yang Juehuan's words, everyone wore looks of shock and disbelief—especially Lin Ce, whose expression turned even stranger.

"That's right, the Swift Cicada Gu!" Yang Yuting nodded. "The Swift Cicada Gu is an advanced Gu poison. Even the Right Elder himself only half understands it. If he didn't, he should have been able to cure the Swift Cicada Gu in Brother Lin, but he lacked that ability. What's more, I removed the Swift Cicada Gu from Brother Lin's body long ago, yet after several clashes, the Right Elder never raised any question about it. In other words, he doesn't know the Swift Cicada Gu has already been taken out of Brother Lin's body!"

"Hmm... you have a point!" Lin Ce nodded. "If he really knew, then given the Right Elder's paranoid, suspicious nature, he would have suspected long ago. He couldn't have failed to ask me. But he didn't ask—which means he truly never noticed that the Swift Cicada Gu in my body had already been cured!"

"That's wonderful!" Liu Yu said excitedly. "So if we just feed the Swift Cicada Gu to the Right Elder, we're home free?"

"Yezi, don't get ahead of yourself!" Yang Ce shook his head. "Feeding the Swift Cicada Gu to the Right Elder is easier said than done. The Right Elder isn't a fool—he won't just wait for us to cast a Gu on him. Right now we simply can't find any opportunity to do it!"

"Exactly!" Lan Ling nodded as well. "The Swift Cicada Gu only works if ingested. Can we get the Right Elder to ingest it? At the very least, I don't think he would ever swallow it while he's in his right mind. Even if you tricked him by saying it was the Diamond Gu, he'd have to believe it first!"

"That's true..." Liu Yu's excitement was instantly doused by Yang Ce and Lan Ling, and he shut his mouth in frustration.

"It really is a hard problem!" Lin Ce said with a frown. "Back then, when the Right Elder cast a Gu on me, he forced me to ingest it. But that same method can't possibly be used on the Right Elder himself!"

"Still, everyone, think about it—once we succeed, the Right Elder will be reduced to an idiot!" Yang Yanzhou said. "And there will be no cure for him!"

"No cure?" Lin Ce was briefly taken aback, then something occurred to him, and he nodded with a slight, wicked grin. "That's right. Back then I could cure the Gu by pricking myself with needles, but with the Right Elder, he's completely impervious to blades—there's no way a needle could pierce him. That way, the Right Elder will never be able to cure the Swift Cicada Gu, unless he gouges it out of his own body through his mouth—and then he'd be dead anyway!"

"Hahahaha!" Hearing this, Liu Yu, Liu Yan, Feng Yan, and the others were all amused and burst into laughter.

After the laughter, everyone settled down again. Though they pictured how spectacular the Right Elder's face would look once he realized he had been hit with the Swift Cicada Gu and that there was no cure for it, they all knew, unfortunately, that the Right Elder would never live to see that moment.

Because the Swift Cicada Gu had already matured—once the Right Elder swallowed it, it would take effect immediately, turning him into an amnesiac idiot. By then, forget curing the Swift Cicada Gu; he wouldn't even know what Gu had been used on him...

But all of this depended on the Swift Cicada Gu successfully being swallowed by the Right Elder. If they could not find a way to make him ingest it, then it was all just fantasy.

"Let's call it a day. Everyone go back and rest, and think about whether there's any other way to cast the Gu on the Right Elder. If anyone has an idea, we'll discuss it again. At any rate, we're not going to come up with any brilliant insights right now, so there's no point in sitting here," Yang Yanzhou said.

Everyone nodded. Yang Yongjin said that no one felt sleepy yet—they were all still thinking about the Right Elder. But Yang Puqi said everyone was tired as well, and stood up, ready to take their leave...

Time always slips away unnoticed. In the blink of an eye, several days had passed, yet no one had come up with a good way to cast the Gu on the Right Elder! Even Lan Ling, who was well versed in Gu poisons, had no method to cast a Gu on the Right Elder!

At least, not while the Right Elder was on his guard—and everyone was a prime target of his vigilance, so pulling it off was truly doubly difficult!

Several days had passed, and the joy everyone had felt upon first hearing that the Swift Cicada Gu could be used against the Right Elder had long since faded. Now their faces were all pinched with worry, unsure of what to do.

Perhaps there was no greater torment than this: to have a method, and yet no way to use it...

During this time, the Right Elder sent someone over once. Apart from delivering some essential supplies to Yang Ce and the others, the messenger said little else and then left again...

And Yang Ce and the others did not dare try passing off the Swift Cicada Gu as the Diamond Gu to trick the Right Elder into ingesting it. Unless the Right Elder were an imbecile, he would certainly be able to tell the two apart!

Songjiang City, inside Yang Juehuan's villa in the Huashang residential compound.

Originally, Zhou Yanning and Xiao Qing had thought that helping Dong Jun trace a phone number should be no trouble at all. With their computer knowledge and skills, doing so would not exactly be easy, but it certainly was not something they could fail at!

But after investigating for three days, they were already beginning to back off. The number, no matter how they searched, kept leading to an anonymous phone—they simply could not trace where it had been routed through. This left Zhou Yanning and Xiao Qing astonished, and secretly sighing that there was actually a problem even they could not solve!