I glanced at Grandpa's expression.
To my surprise, after hearing all this, Grandpa did not seem particularly emotional or shocked.
He merely said, "Oh," then spoke up for me:
"Our Ningzi definitely has real skills.
I heard Ningzi say that his master is the best Corpse Collector in Mountain City, Song Decai.
Don't worry. With Ningzi here, your mother will be fine!"
I was a little surprised to hear Grandpa say that.
But had I ever told Grandpa that "my master is the best Corpse Collector in Mountain City"?
I clearly remembered that when I introduced my master before, I had only said that his name was Song Decai and that he was a Corpse Collector.
I definitely had not said the words "the best."
Though he really was the best.
Grandpa was probably trying to make me sound more impressive and had deliberately added that part...
But just then, Mao Jing got his answer and quietly said to me:
"Your guess was right. There's no mistake—these are symptoms of being infected with Gu.
Look closely. What's in this saliva?"
Hearing that, we all lowered our heads and began carefully examining the white saliva on the floor.
Mao Jing also took out his phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it directly on the foam.
We had not noticed before, but now that we looked under the light—
There were actually tiny white threadworms in the saliva, each as thin as a strand of hair.
Each one was only two or three millimeters long.
They were white, inside white saliva.
If you did not look extremely closely, you would not be able to see such tiny threadworms at all.
"Ou Doudou, there really are bugs."
"White threadworms."
Zhang Yuchen and I were both stunned.
Before we could say anything to