Chapter 78: Ambush

  The wolf's den is about ten miles away from the ghost mansion. Due to the rain two days ago, the road was still a bit muddy, which can be seen from the mud and dust stains on Bai Li Su's clothes.

  Entering June, it's the time when all things are full of life. If it's daytime, everywhere is filled with greenery, and at night, it's a chorus of insects. In the sky, a crescent moon hangs in the northwest, and the cool breeze makes Ouyang Yun's mood even chillier. His body has already been drenched due to excessive tension and exertion.

  After riding for over ten minutes, he was drenched in sweat. As the night wind blew, his thoughts gradually calmed down, and he asked, "Is there a way to send me to the hospital?"

  Bai Liu Su replied: "The master won't let us, now Jia Yao and Mei Ren are taking care of her."

  Recalling that both of them were medical students, Ouyang Yun slightly widened his heart and remembered that he still had a bottle of military-specific antidote pills in his backpack. So, he silently prayed that the poison in Gu Lianyun's body was not something like potassium cyanide or other chemical toxins.

  The road was really not easy to walk, the five-kilometer journey, Ouyang Yun rode for a full 25 minutes, during which he fell twice, and ended up with Bai Liusu being covered in dust, appearing at the haunted house with an unspeakable embarrassment.

  Since the Ghost House became a training ground for Hu Yan, Gu Lianyun added guards at the gate and set up an ambush in the left wing. Bai Liuxu and his men exchanged secret signals with them, and as soon as the door opened, Ouyang Yun threw the car and rushed in quickly.

  Entering the yard, he saw a group of people squatting near three graves. The main house and his own room were brightly lit, but he didn't bother to greet the fox spirit's attendants and walked in directly.

  In the room, Pan Manren was washing a towel in the face basin, while Chen Jiayao sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Gu Liyun who was lying on the bed with some unease.

  He quickly walked forward, saw Gu Lianyun's red face, removed the towel on her forehead, and put his hand on her temple, feeling extremely hot. He said to Chen Jiaoyao: "Jiaoyao, go get a cup of boiling water and add some cold water." Then he called Bai Liusu to prepare some water, the more the better, and also asked him to bring all the soap in the house. He opened his backpack, took out the bottle of antidote pills from inside, took one out, and waited for Chen Jiaoyao to bring over the water, crushed it and put it in. The powder dissolved as soon as it saw water, he sat on the edge of the bed, lifted the woman's head and placed it on his thigh, brought the bowl to her mouth, but the woman seemed unconscious, her teeth clenched tightly shut, and it was impossible to pour the water in.

  Pan Mei-ren walked over and whispered: "Professor, want to find something to pry open her teeth?"

  Ouyang Yun looked at her for a moment, as if he had just discovered her presence, and said, "I'll think of a way." Then he picked up the bowl and took a big mouthful, holding it in his mouth, before leaning in towards Gu Liyun's lips, apparently intending to pass it to her through their mouths.

  The three women behind him couldn't help but blush, Chen Jiaoyao and Pan Manren were so shy that they turned around and didn't dare to look again.

  Gu Lianyun's jaws were clenched tightly, and Ouyang Yun had to use a lot of effort to pry them open before pouring the medicine in. Afterwards, he settled her in and began making soap water with the three girls by dissolving soap into water. After the soap water was ready, he stirred it constantly while starting his long wait.

  About half an hour later, when the atmosphere in the room became increasingly tense, Gu Lianyun's mouth opened and let out a murmur: "Ouyang - don't!" Then her hands danced wildly, as if she was having a nightmare, desperately fighting with someone.

  Ouyang Yun let out a sigh of relief and immediately went up to grab her hand, then softly called out: "Lianyun, Lianyun, I'm over here."

  The three women witnessed this scene, Chen Jiaoyao and Bai Liusu burst into tears, Pan Mei looked at them, blinked her eyes, and also shed two lines of tears.

  Gu Lianyun felt like she had a nightmare, this dream was dark and endless, in the darkness, a hand tightly grasped her, she didn't know where it wanted to pull her. Suddenly, a light appeared in the distance, under the light, Huang Dajiang held a gun, sneering and firing multiple shots at someone's back, that person was shot and turned around, she was shocked to find out that the one who was shot was actually Ouyang Yun...

  Gu Liangyun slowly opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was Ouyang Yun's somewhat haggard face. She thought they were meeting in the underworld, and her heart felt a pang of unknown sorrow. Just as she was about to ask if they had both died, she saw three women standing behind him, and only then did she realize she was still alive. Remembering the events before she fainted, she let out a sigh of relief and smiled: "I'm not dead yet?"

  Ouyang Yun let out a heavy sigh, grasped her hand tightly and said: "I won't let you die - but how could the Poison King of your generation be poisoned?"

  She forced a smile, just about to speak, when a severe cramp struck her stomach, and she involuntarily let out a cry of "Ah yo!"

  Ouyang Yun: "Is it wound poisoning or food poisoning?"

  "Food!" she said, and then was in too much pain to speak again.

  Ouyang Yun's expression became relatively more relaxed, and he said, "That's good," then told Bai Liusu and the others, "Bring over the soap water."

  Gu Lianyun was startled and asked: "What's wrong?"

  "Help you detox!"

  "Can soap water detoxify?"

  "Can be washed stomach."

  The woman at this time was like a child, with a slightly spoiled tone of voice saying: "I don't want to."

  Ouyang Yun was like a parent, coaxing: "Good boy, it doesn't hurt."

  Drinking soap water doesn't hurt, but the taste of soap is really hard to swallow, and the subsequent vomiting is even more distressing. However, with current medical means, this is the only way out.

  Under the coercion of Ouyang Yun and with the help of San Nu, Gu Lianyun drank three large bowls of soapy water and then vomited four times until she was completely exhausted and had vomited up bile. Only then did he stop forcing her.

  It turned out that the soap water had a good effect on washing the stomach, and after Gu Lianyun went to the toilet with Bai Liangsu's support, her stomach no longer hurt when she came back.

  While they were in the toilet, Ouyang Yun sent Chen Jiayao and Gu Lianyun away, then let all the Hu Xiang members return to their dormitory to rest. He walked into the kitchen and started cooking porridge.

  After vomiting and diarrhea, Gu Lianyun was very weak, but no longer had to worry about her life. Ouyang Yun cooked a thin porridge, filled a bowl with it, and brought it into the room, saying: "Come on, let's have some porridge, I'm hungry too." Looking at the woman, she asked: "Can you move by yourself? Do you want me to feed you?"

  The woman's face turned red, and she glanced at Bai Li Su, saying: "Stop being so overly polite, I'm not some old lady in her seventies or eighties."

  Ouyang Yun smiled and served each of them a bowl, adding chopsticks and pickled vegetables. He asked Bai Liusu, "Do they come here often?"

  Bai Liu Su was taken aback for a moment before realizing he was referring to her two sworn sisters. She said, "Yeah, they often come to see me."

  His eyebrows furrowed slightly as he asked Gu Liyun, "You weren't seen by them during your training, were you?"

  Gu Lianyun was suddenly reminded by his words and also realized the inappropriateness, looking at him with some apology said: "I was negligent."

  Hu Xiang as an intelligence organization has a high requirement for confidentiality of personnel, and strictly speaking, can only have single-line contact. He said: "I also have responsibility, I shouldn't set up the training base here, although this is not a city area, there are still too many people." After thinking about it, he said again: "It seems that these personnel can only stay in our controlled areas to perform counter-espionage tasks, and retrain the dispatched personnel."

  Gu Lianyun nodded. Although Chen Jiaoyao and Pan Mei were considered their own people, intelligence personnel were all secretly active, and the confidentiality of their identities was extremely high, not a single carelessness was allowed.

  Ouyang Yun has been away from the Ghost Mansion for a while, and it was only through Gu Lianyun's affair that he gained insight. He looked at the woman and said, "Tell me what's going on? Who is it?" As soon as he said "who", his anger had already risen to his eyebrows, thinking that if it was Xiao Guizi, he would retaliate! Even if he would be scolded by Song Zheyuan again, he would still make a big move.

  Gu Lianyun herself was still a bit puzzled. She put down her chopsticks and looked at him, asking: "Do you know Huang Dajiang?"

  He shook his head.

  She glanced at Bai Li Su and said: "He is the real 'wild chicken'."

  "Oh," Ouyang Yun rubbed his nose, the so-called "wild chicken" was actually a special envoy from the Fuxing Society who came to Beiping to receive the "contribution gold". At that time, he had deceived Bai Liusu by pretending to be this identity. Thinking of the past, he looked at Bai Liusu and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, muttering in his heart: "Wild chicken" was such a cheap code name, why not something like Northeast Tiger which sounded more powerful?

  Bai Liu had already learned about this from her senior sister, so she didn't show any abnormal emotions. She joined Shen Jian's group for personal reasons and had always been doing "big thief" work, with no concept of party or country in her mind. That donation was just a sum of ill-gotten gains to her.

  After the He-Mei Agreement was signed, all the well-known figures of the Lixingshe in Hebei Province withdrew. Huang Dajiang, as a newly arrived special agent, had not yet been remembered by the Japanese secret service agency, so Dai Li let him stay behind to rebuild the secret service organization in Hebei Province.

  Although Gu Lianyun was also a member of the Li Xing Society, she was directly responsible for reporting to Old Jiang's attendants' room, so she and Huang Dajiang did not have a subordinate relationship. It was just that she was a school-level agent, while Huang Dajiang was only a lieutenant, so she could ask Huang Dajiang for help in obtaining some of the intelligence she needed. When she first arrived in Beiping, because she was unfamiliar with the place, she had no choice but to ask Huang Dajiang for some information, and the two people had contact. When Huang Dajiang left a message asking to see her today, she couldn't refuse.

  As the core department of Fuxing Society, Lixingshe is very strict in selecting personnel and has a relatively sound training mechanism. The special agents who come out of it all have considerable loyalty and anti-interrogation ability. Gu Liyun was considering this point, so she didn't think that Huang Dajiang had turned traitor at all, so she fell into the opponent's trap. Fortunately, Huang Dajiang did not know that she was from a poisonous medicine background, and there were always antidotes on her body, otherwise Ouyang Yun would have seen a headless female corpse now.

  Huang Dajiang took her to a teahouse, where they went upstairs. He ordered a pot of tea and while waiting for it to arrive, he whispered: "Something big is happening, Old Song might be setting up an autonomous government."

  Song Lao Tou was Song Zheyuan, the 29th Army was going to establish an autonomous government, she had already learned from Ouyang Yun's mouth, and at this moment, she couldn't help but smile secretly in her heart, while putting on a surprised expression on her face, saying: "Then have you reported it to the boss?"

  Huang Dajiang furrowed his brow, this kid's acting skills were also top-notch, and he said very seriously: "I don't know if this news is reliable or not, so I specifically came to ask you to verify it."

  Gu Lianyun knew that the establishment of an autonomous government by the 29th Army had been tacitly approved by Old Chiang, so he made a show of loyalty and sent out a telegram explaining the matter yesterday. He then replied very affirmatively: "Reliable." After finishing speaking, he picked up his teacup and took a sip.

  She was a poison expert, with considerable sensitivity to poisons. After drinking a mouthful of tea, she felt her stomach drop and immediately sensed something was wrong, quickly pulling out an antidote pill and popping it into her mouth.

  Huang Dajiang saw her take a sip of tea, and his heart began to secretly rejoice. He was just saying: "In that case——" Before he could finish speaking, he saw her movements and immediately knew that the poisoning had been discovered by her. In his heart, he silently praised this woman as formidable, and with his right hand, he drew out a gun.

  Gu Lianyun knew he was eccentric, how could she still let him shoot at her with a gun? As his right hand reached for the medicine, his left hand had already grasped a flying knife. His gun had just risen from the table when her flying knife shot straight into his throat. At the same time, she rolled over and tried to jump out of the window.

  Huang Dajiang's throat was stabbed, and relying on his instincts, he fired a shot randomly before falling headfirst to the ground, dead.

  The sound of gunfire rang out, and the Japanese people hiding in the teahouse immediately rushed out. Since the 426 massacre, Zhang Ping Longzhu and others had been thinking about beheading Ouyang Yun to avenge their compatriots day and night. Unexpectedly, they recently received an order that no one was allowed to harm this imperial enemy. At the same time, they were ordered to obey a special agent "Blood Sakura" from the Tofu Organs, to cooperate with her in carrying out the "Hunting Clouds" operation. The assassination of Gu Lianyun was the first command given by "Blood Sakura". Since Gu Lianyun's whereabouts were relatively hidden and he had been hiding recently, Zhang Ping Longzhu and others used the intelligence they had gathered earlier to coerce Huang Dajiang into assisting them.

  It's no wonder that Huang Dajiang brought about his own demise. As a special agent, being a womanizer was originally a major fatal weakness, and the woman he hooked up with happened to be Liu Ruming's third concubine, the commander of the 143rd Division of the 29th Army. After being caught in bed by Cang Pinglong and others, he completely lost the initiative and could only obediently follow orders. As a result, he failed to harm others but instead took his own life first.

  Zhang Ping, Long Zhu and others saw Gu Lianyun drink the poisoned tea, so they wanted to cut off her head to let Ouyang Yun know the ferocity of Japanese samurai, and swung their swords while shouting and rushed out.

  They underestimated Gu Lianyun's strength. She saw that Huang Dajiang still had accomplices, and they were Japanese, thinking that if she jumped down at this time, she would inevitably expose her back to the opponent, so she took a step forward instead.

  Cang Ping Long Zhu brought two people with him this time, one was the ninja who caught the adulterer with him, and the other was his subordinate. The ninja saw Gu Lianyun counterattack, and with a wave of his right hand, he sprinkled several poisonous needles.

  Gu Lianyun hummed, thinking to herself that compared to her mastery of hidden weapons, this little devil was still a bit green. She shifted her body to the side and dodged to the other side, using her right hand to prop herself up on the ground, while her left hand swiftly threw out a flying knife.

  That ninja saw a white light shoot towards his throat and hastily retreated backwards. Meanwhile, Tō Ryūko and his underlings took advantage of the opportunity to pounce on Gu Lianyun, who was less than a meter away from them. The two men were very in sync with each other, one chopping at his head while the other stabbed straight, both attacking Gu Lianyun who was half-crouching on the ground.

  At this moment, Gu Lianyun was already feeling a dull pain in her abdomen, dizziness and blurred vision. Amidst the "popping" sound of the poisonous arrows hitting the wall, she gritted her teeth, using the pain to awaken her senses, and suddenly sprang up, rushing towards Cang Pinglong Zhu, drawing out her short sword with her right hand, and recklessly thrusting upwards from below.

  Cang Ping Long's bamboo knife was old and worn, but it still cut through the air with a soft whooshing sound as he swung it down towards her back. He had wanted to pull the blade back up into a defensive position, but now it was too late. He tried to retreat, but all he felt was a searing pain in his lower body, and when he looked down, he saw that a short sword had slashed open a gash at least half a meter long from bottom to top.

  Gu Lianyun's sword was extremely sharp, and with one thrust, it ripped open Zhang Pinglong's belly, causing him to wail in agony. However, he didn't die immediately. His subordinates saw the gruesome scene and shouted "Eight Trigrams!" as they slashed their knives towards Gu Lianyun's waist. Meanwhile, the ninja took out a rib bone and made a flying pounce, slashing downwards from above towards her head.

  With one move, Gu Lianyun felt her head heavy and feet light, knowing she no longer had the ability to fight again. However, forced by circumstances, she had to desperately resist. The blood of Cang Pinglong splattered all over her body and face, but she didn't look back, her left hand grasping a handful of "One Night's Dream" as she pounced forward with bated breath.

  She dodged the ninja's knife from above, but her stomach hurt terribly after bumping into a stool. The remaining two Japanese men fell to the ground and fainted after inhaling "One Night Dream". She didn't know if there were any more hidden enemies, and her own condition was too bad, so she didn't dare stay long. She flipped down from the teahouse, stumbled and ran into the car, and with a strong will, managed to drive it back to the Ghost Mansion.