Chapter 169 Context

The doctor was not sure, and just said: "Places suitable for the growth of ghost pears are generally Jedi, and the things that live in such places are not good, whether plants or animals, and we don't know much about this Jedi, so we can't say no. It is clear whether there will be the source of the plague. This needs to be seen to be clear."

Shen Hao nodded, and then continued to search for this family.

There are hunting bows hanging on the wall of the house, long and short spears in the corner, and some old animal traps in the back room. This family should be hunters, right?

Going to the main room again, there are tablets and incense cases inside. The tablets read: Xu Tianwu, Chief of the Jingxi Army's Haixia Garrison.

The person who confessed should be an elder in the family, surnamed Xu, who had also been in the army. If you look down, you should be able to find it. Shen Hao memorized the name.

After wandering around this family's house for half an hour, after coming out, I went to search the houses of several people whose records were recorded in the files, but found nothing.

Afterwards, the doctor began to investigate some symptoms of the plague and its onset cycle with his other two companions. He also had to make an assessment of the plague, assess its spread and harm the monks.

But three days later, the first monk who fell ill appeared.

He was a yamen servant in Wanhekou, and he was responsible for setting up a card to prevent outsiders from entering. Others with him were asymptomatic. Moreover, this yamen servant didn't escape death because of his cultivation, but he never woke up after falling asleep, and horrible black spots also appeared on his body.

"This yamen servant is at the second level of Qi refining, and he has been training his body for many years. It stands to reason that the fatality rate of the plague on his body will be very low."

"And the symptom before death was just feeling tired, and his family didn't hear him say anything else about his discomfort."

"Why are the other yamen servants who work with him okay?"

"I don't know, but there must be a reason. Bringing them together to ask, I feel that this may be a breakthrough!"

"There are also those who escaped alive, they must now be sent to Huiwan River Estuary for centralized custody."

The information came together quickly amidst the turmoil of the past few days. The death of a yamen servant made everyone's nerves tense again, because it meant that this black spot plague killed not only ordinary people, but also a direct and fatal threat to monks, at least to monks in the Qi refining state.

When the news reached Fengri City, Shen Haoyuan couldn't see Wu Changhe's face at Wanhekou, but he felt Wu Changhe's uneasiness and anxiety from the three urgent orders a day. Wu Changhe even asked Tang Qingyuan, the newly appointed deputy thousand households, to personally lead two hundred thousand household guards to the scene in Pingshun City to help Shenhao Town, and at the same time contacted the local guards to agree to block all official roads around Wanhekou and restrict personnel access.

Not only that, Wu Changhe had already reported the outbreak of plague at Wanhekou, and the Jingxi governor ordered that all the refugees in Jingxi towns must be strictly screened, and those who passed through Wanhekou should be locked up immediately.

However, the news that "the monks are also within the scope of the plague" did not appear in the latest official newspaper. Wu Changhe just said in the secret order to Shen Hao, "The Jiang Zhenfu means not to cause panic for the time being." Shen Hao kept the following news within a controllable range.

Information must be controlled, but prevention must not be lax. At least now, monks in the Qi Refining Realm can no longer take on the high-risk exploration missions in disaster areas. That's why Tang Qingyuan led thousands of personal guards to come to reinforce them. There are more than ten people in them who are all masters of the God-gathering state and can be dispatched by Shen Hao. At the same time, the rest of the Xuanqing guards of the Qi-refining state can also have the opportunity to take turns to reduce the plague. possible.

The most difficult thing now is that the population flow is out of control. It is impossible to count the number of people who escaped from Xiushan Village. And the people who died later were equally troublesome, because once they died, they died from village to village, and there were few survivors. It was very troublesome to find some necessary information about this plague.

It wasn't until the eighth day when Shen Hao entered Wanhekou that things took a turn for the better.

"In Yucheng, we found three people who are said to be members of a family of three from the neighboring village of Xiushan Village."

"Bring them back, I will ask them myself!"

That afternoon, the family of three sat in the meeting hall, eating the roast chicken and rice specially ordered by Shen Hao for them, while answering Shen Hao's questions.

"In the beginning, it was the dead people in Xiushan Village, a lot of them died!"

"Our family members have daughters who married to Xiushan Village. They took them back because they were worried about their daughters, and they got sick in the end. The whole family died."

"In the beginning, the people in the yamen would come to organize and bury people, but later they stopped going, because they would cause illness! No one survived."

"I'm the driver, the cart. They carried people and I drove the car. Later, I saw that everyone around me was dead. I didn't dare to stay any longer. I ran away with my wife and children. It is said that the city wall is being repaired on the other side of the city. I If you know how to do stonemasonry, you can get some food over there."

Shen Hao frowned at the crackling and thick Jingxi mountain accent, and sometimes he had to listen to it several times before he could understand it, and Fang Yangqin, a local, had to be by his side as an interpreter.

The three doctors were all recording, but they didn't get any useful information from their expressions. But the roast chicken on the table was eaten by this family of three with a good appetite.

However, Shen Hao's focus is different from that of the healer. What he focuses on is not the plague itself, but the difference between those who died in the plague and these three ordinary people who have nothing to do and can still eat and drink. This may be the key point.

Suddenly, Shen Hao interrupted: "Are you driving a car? Haven't you touched those corpses?"

"No, my mother-in-law and baby are the only ones in my family. If they are well, I will drive the car. If someone dies, they will be carried into the car. When they reach the pit, the yamen servants or helpers will carry them down. In fact, no one in the family will die. The village head organized people to carry it, it’s not my turn.”

"That means you haven't touched those corpses."

"That's right."

"Then have you ever seen those who carried the corpses survive like you?"

"This." Swallowing a mouthful of the roast chicken, the man recalled it carefully, and shook his head after a while, saying: "No, those who carried the corpses are all dead. I haven't seen anyone who was carried alive anyway. Ouch! You It’s scary to say that! I’m not sick because I didn’t touch the corpse, right?”

The family of three who thought they were blessed by their ancestors was now terrified, and they all understood Shen Hao's analysis.

"You have heard it too. Go, gather the living people from all the disaster areas scattered outside, and ask them if they have touched the corpse, and if they have touched it, they will be kept in isolation. And whether the dead government servant also came into contact with it recently. Dead body. Go!"

Amidst Shen Hao's shouts, everyone became busy, and they all understood that this might be the thread of the spread of the plague.