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"Wh-what's wrong?"
Because the recent movement was a bit large, the smart system in the room sensed it and slowly turned on the lights.
Chen Hui, dazed by the light, groggily woke up. Seeing her daughter sitting seriously on the bed, she also sat up in a daze.
"Mommy, where did you buy that perfume!" Yaoyao asked, turning her head, pinching the two Gu-insects in her palm.
She was a little annoyed at herself at this moment for not having discovered this Gu immediately.
Perhaps there was an element of carelessness, but it also indirectly illustrated how formidable this Gu-insect was.
And the person who cast the Gu had hidden it in the perfume. Unsuspecting people who used the perfume would naturally be parasitized by the Gu-insects.
Yaoyao didn't know the origin of this Gu-insect, but the old Daoist priest had told her that Gu-insects themselves were neither good nor evil, but the Gu masters who controlled them were mostly extreme and malevolent.
If encountered, and you could beat them, capture them and send them to the authorities. If you couldn't beat them, stay far away!
"I think it's called something like 'Chanxing' (Bright Star). What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Chen Hui paused, and seeing her daughter's silence, she instantly realized something was amiss. She quickly turned over and grabbed her phone from the bedside table.
Then, after a few taps, she handed the phone over, saying, "It was developed by this company."
This was an old, established perfume brand, quite famous even within the circle of wealthy wives in the Imperial Capital.
Yaoyao's gaze fell upon it. On her mother's phone was a promotional photo, featuring a very fashionably dressed woman.
She was smiling broadly at the camera, holding a small, pink square bottle in her hand. According to her mother, the contents of the small bottle were called perfume.
And this woman was the lead developer of this perfume.
Yaoyao's eyes focused on the photo. The first moment she saw it clearly, she was stunned.
Because the facial physiognomy of the person in the photo indicated that she had already died a month ago.
However, the photo was said to have been released from an event she attended five days ago, meaning the person who attended the event was a dead person.
But dead people can't move!
To achieve this, someone must have manipulated her corpse. Combined with the two Gu-insects in her palm, Yaoyao instantly guessed that a Gu master was behind this.
"Mommy, something has been added to this perfume!" Yaoyao didn't hide it and roughly explained the matter of the Gu-insects.
After Chen Hui heard it, she felt goosebumps all over her body. After all, she was genuinely afraid of insects.
"First, call your third brother and explain the situation clearly to him."
This matter probably involved a homicide. Chen Hui was afraid that, given her daughter's age, she would be overwhelmed trying to handle such a thing.
It just so happened that her third son was at the police station; he could handle the inconvenient parts.
"Forget it, I'll do it!" Chen Hui seemed to think of something and then added.
Holding her phone, she conveniently found her son's number and dialed it.
Because her daughter had explained it to her once, Chen Hui could practically relay the information to her son verbatim, so she spoke exceptionally smoothly and to the point.
Gu Jinnian fell silent for a moment after hearing it, then quickly replied, "You and Yaoyao wait at home, I'll be right back!"
He really hadn't expected his own mother to encounter such a sinister affair even while at home, his tone filled with unconcealed anxiety.
"Alright, your third brother will be back in a little while," Chen Hui said to her daughter after hanging up the phone.
Yaoyao nodded. This matter was troublesome because it was unknown how many bottles of perfume had been cursed with Gu.
Moreover, the buyers were spread out over a wide area. Her perception range and magical abilities weren't that extensive; tracking them down would be very troublesome.
However, her third brother and his team had used a good method to find the cultists last time, and she believed it would work this time as well.
She wasn't worried because Gu-insects released into the wild couldn't maintain too close a connection with the Gu master.
It wasn't just because the Gu-insects had low intelligence, but more so because Gu masters raised too many Gu-insects.
If they maintained close contact with every single one, the Gu master's divine sense would have long since shattered into fragments.
As long as the two Gu-insects she held in her hand didn't die, the unknown Gu master wouldn't be alerted.
...
Not long after, Gu Jinnian rushed home in a flurry, bringing about ten police officers with him.
His purpose in bringing so many people was simple: once his younger sister spoke, they could set off directly without needing to assemble.
"Whatever needs to be done this time, just tell your brother."
Gu Jinnian was extremely familiar with the process of his sister assigning him tasks, his thick skin not betraying the slightest change in expression.
However, the faces of the team members behind him were all flushed. After all, they were grown adults, yet they had to take orders from a child.
If word of this got out, they would lose all face.
However, to be honest, they weren't entirely averse to it. They knew that their captain's younger sister was no ordinary child.
During this period, by staking out live stream rooms to catch culprits, they had earned a lot of merits from this task alone.
Or rather, in all their years of work, this was the first time they had achieved meritorious service so quickly.
Therefore, at this moment, despite their shame, their eyes were all shining, seemingly waiting for instructions.
Seeing this, Yaoyao paused and said, "Third Brother, the situation is urgent. We need to split into two groups."
"Help Yaoyao find the people who bought these perfumes, and then don't let them use this perfume. Definitely don't."
Because it was uncertain if all of them contained Gu. These things were too small; they couldn't be distinguished by the naked eye.
Moreover, this type of Gu-insect could parasitize the human body. People who didn't understand what was happening, once they used this perfume, would indirectly hand their lives over to that Gu master.
Most Gu masters were irrational. Once a Gu master went berserk, their lives would be in danger.
Not using those perfumes was the only way to avoid the potential risks.
But this was just one path, mainly to curb the spread of the Gu-insects' harm.
To truly solve the root of the problem, another path was needed: she had to find that Gu master first.
It was known that Gu masters throughout the world mostly controlled Gu using the mother-child Gu system.
The Gu master basically only controlled the mother Gu. The child Gu were subservient to the mother Gu and thus obeyed the Gu master.
As the saying goes, to catch bandits, first catch the king. As long as she found the latter and eradicated the mother Gu from their hands, the child Gu in the perfume would die!
Dead child Gu would no longer cause harm to people, and the root of all problems could be easily resolved.
Since she held two child Gu in her hand, it wasn't very difficult for Yaoyao to reverse-track the mother Gu.