Reincarnated as a Mosquito, I Sucked the Reborn Empress to Tears

Chapter 253: Chapter 253: The Hell Gate Restriction and the True Culprit Emerges

After using Instant Teleportation a dozen times in a row, the Ghost watched as Gu Yuexi and Chu Sheng appeared right behind him like shadows… and he broke down.

The Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Powder hadn’t killed its target. He could accept failing the mission.

But his prized Spatial Ability had also been utterly crushed.

His face was completely disfigured, a mangled mess of flesh and blood that left him featureless.

And now, his Mental Power was completely depleted.

If he had stopped sooner, he might have had a chance to fight for his life. But he was so terrified of the Emperor-level Powerhouse that the thought of stopping never even crossed his mind.

He didn’t dare to fight. He couldn’t outrun them. And now, he had completely lost the ability to resist.

Despair enveloped him completely.

Suddenly, his body stiffened and began to tremble slightly. A powerful Spiritual Spike pierced his Sea of Consciousness, and he immediately fainted.

Several Spirit-Devouring Insect Beasts appeared out of thin air, catching the Ghost just as he was about to fall into the sea.

Gu Yuexi shot him a cold glance and said,

“Let’s take him back first.”

The Ghost’s fate was sealed.

But before he died, they had to extract any useful information he had.

This was the second assassination attempt, and each one was more vicious than the last.

Even Gu Yuexi found it impossible to guard against such sudden, unpredictable attacks.

Therefore, this matter had to be resolved.

She had to find the mastermind behind it all!

This Ghost Assassin was likely a significant figure among the killers of Hell Gate.

’Hopefully, we can get some clues out of him!’

…

「Half a day later.」

The Great Xia Team returned to Hong Kong Island.

The major factions of Hong Kong Island, as well as the general public and students, were overjoyed when they heard the results of the Three Kingdoms Grand Competition!

For a time, the entire city was celebrating.

Securing permanent control over the Ancient Sunken Star Vein meant a huge boost in the resources available to Hong Kong Island, which was extremely beneficial for all its citizens.

In the long run, this would also significantly increase the overall strength of Hong Kong Island as a city!

And when someone revealed the details of how Great Xia had won the Three Kingdoms Grand Competition, the entire city was once again thrown into a state of shock!

The popularity of Gu Yuexi, the Future Empress, reached an unparalleled level.

Before, although Gu Yuexi was the Future Empress, she hadn’t made any contributions to Hong Kong Island. After her identity was exposed, her popularity had actually declined considerably, with quite a few people even becoming her detractors.

But after this Three Kingdoms Grand Competition, Gu Yuexi shot right back to the Peak, hailed as a goddess by countless people once more. Her popularity surpassed even its previous heights.

For a non-Hong Kong Islander to receive such attention, adoration, and worship in Hong Kong Island, Gu Yuexi was the only one.

That’s right, on the “human” level, Gu Yuexi’s current popularity was unrivaled.

But if you included “beasts”…

…then, sorry to say, even Gu Yuexi could only rank second!

As for first place, that naturally belonged to our “Divine Mosquito,” Chu Sheng.

Yes, Chu Sheng’s popularity was even greater than that of Gu Yuexi, the Future Empress!

All across Hong Kong Island, various “Divine Mosquito” figurines and models identical to Chu Sheng quickly became a city-wide craze.

There were figurines of the Divine Mosquito’s normal form, life-sized models of the Divine Mosquito, figurines of its Battle Armor form, and even his previous “New Roach Battle Treasure” form was replicated. They sold out instantly!

But.

Neither Gu Yuexi nor Chu Sheng cared much about these things.

At the moment, they each had their own business to attend to.

…

「Hong Kong Island, in a certain underground secret chamber.」

Gu Yuexi stared at the Ghost before her, her eyes filled with killing intent.

The Ghost had woken up. His mangled, bloody face was twisted in a grimace, and even without any features, his terror was palpable.

“M-Miss Gu, I’m just an assassin. Hell Gate’s missions don’t allow revealing the client’s information.”

“So, I really don’t know who wants to kill you!”

“I… I’m begging you, just give me a quick death!!!”

As an assassin, the Ghost never expected to live after being captured alive. He had thought that death was the worst that could happen, but just a moment ago, the woman before him had shown him the true meaning of a state where you could neither live nor die.

Thus, at this moment, all he wanted was a quick death.

“Heh, what a fine Hell Gate. Another one who ’knows nothing,’ is it?”

“From what I’ve heard, you’re the fourth-ranked assassin in Hell Gate, correct?”

“Before you accepted the mission, did you really not investigate at all? You don’t know a single thing about the circumstances?”

“This time, I am determined to find something out!”

After returning, Gu Yuexi had investigated and learned the Ghost’s true identity.

Her intuition told her that the Ghost definitely knew something.

Since he wouldn’t talk, this time, she would find out for herself!

Gu Yuexi closed her eyes and began to recall an Ancient Spirit Secret Technique she had learned in her past life—one similar to the legendary Ancient Soul-Searching Technique… the Soul-Stripping and Thought-Binding Technique!

As its name implied, this method was not a simple soul search. Instead, it used incomparably sharp Mental Power as an invisible scalpel to “strip away” the soul’s surface consciousness and Defense, layer by layer, thread by thread, to forcibly seize and read its most fundamental memory fragments!

The process was akin to skinning a person’s soul alive, a pain far exceeding any torture in the mortal world.

Even in her past life, Gu Yuexi had only used this Secret Technique a few times.

But now, with her own life on the line, she had already given the Ghost a chance. Since he still refused to reveal his final secrets, she couldn’t be blamed for what came next!

Thinking of this, Gu Yuexi no longer hesitated. Her eyes snapped open, and deep within her pupils, a profound vortex seemed to swirl.

She extended her index finger, a heart-stopping gray light condensing at its tip, and slowly pointed it toward the Ghost’s mangled forehead.

“No… Don’t! I’ll talk! I…”

The Ghost felt the terrifying aura contained within the gray light and let out a desperate roar.

But it was too late.

The moment her fingertip touched his skin, the gray light sank in without a sound.

“ARGHHHHH!!!”

The Ghost’s body arched violently, as if pinned in mid-air by an invisible force, and he began to convulse intensely.

Gu Yuexi’s face paled slightly, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her temples.

Casting this technique placed an immense strain on her current Mental Power, but her gaze remained as cold as iron. Her Mental Power, like the most precise of scalpels, peeled back layer after layer, searching through the Ghost’s memories.

Wisps of chaotic, fragmented memories were extracted by Gu Yuexi:

The brutal training of the Assassin Dao… the cold thrill after each successful assassination… the vague yet imposing figure from whom he received the mission… and, as a hazy old man handed him something, the chillingly smiling instruction:

“This poison must annihilate her Divine Soul, ensuring she will never be reincarnated…”

’That’s it!’

The memory froze on the Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Powder!

’Just as I thought, this assassination was different from the last one!’

The Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Powder had been given to the Ghost by the client personally. To ensure her death, the other party truly was willing to pay any price.

’That hazy old man… the Chen Family?’

Gu Yuexi frowned slightly. She hadn’t expected it all to stem from the initial conflict over the Spiritual Crystal, where the Chen Family’s only direct heir, Chen Ming, was killed by her and the mosquito.

Hmph!

’Contending for opportunities has always been a life-and-death struggle. For a declining family to not lay low, but to dare and make a move against this Empress time and time again!’

’In that case, you can all be utterly annihilated.’

After identifying the culprits who hired the assassin,

a cold light flared in Gu Yuexi’s eyes, and she was about to withdraw her Mental Power.

Suddenly!

Deep within the Ghost’s Soul Origin, an extremely subtle dark restriction, reeking of deathly silence, abruptly emerged. It transformed into a vicious black snake and bit back, following the trail of Gu Yuexi’s Mental Power!

’Is this… some kind of restriction planted beforehand by Hell Gate?!!’