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"": "He soon reached the small courtyard.
An oppressive gloom hung over it!
The omnipresent sorrow seemed to have thickened into something tangible here.
Warmth spread across Luo Bin's face. Instinctively, he reached up to touch it. Was he actually crying?
His gaze settled on the woman.
She wasn't Gu Yiren!
From a distance, her figure had looked similar, but she wasn't Gu Yiren at all!
Because this was a dead woman!
Though her skin retained the pale color of a normal person's, it was exceptionally shriveled, just like a dried corpse!
Both hands clutched her chest. The dark red on her clothes was unmistakably blood!
A patch of soil on the ground was dark red too.
Cuckoos Crying Blood?
Luo Bin vaguely remembered Gu Yiren mentioning that phrase.
Gu Yiren had also said this was a place of sorrow, and they shouldn't linger! Otherwise, they would see things they didn't want to see!
Had this woman vomited blood and died?
No wonder the sorrow was so intense in this place shrouded by azaleas!
Her anguish had nourished this largest azalea tree. It was like the main trunk, with azaleas filling the entire valley and spreading across almost half the mountain!
The Black-Gold Toad stirred slightly. A Corpse Core was wedged against one of its legs.
Luo Bin frowned slightly, bent down, and picked up the Black-Gold Toad, putting it into the jar at his waist. Naturally, he put away the Corpse Core too.
Actually, if Gu Yiren had taken the Corpse Core, he would have felt a little calmer.
But it had been the Black-Gold Toad, which only deepened his concern for Gu Yiren.
The Golden Silkworm Gu's warning had initially led him to believe Gu Yiren was here too.
Reality had proved otherwise.
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