Chapter 175 Change Again

The dead man, Shen Hao, had the impression that he was a personal guard of Qianhusuo who was in the third level of Qi refining. He had been around Shen Hao to listen to the instructions. Although he couldn't name him, he was familiar with him.

How did this person come into contact with the source of the plague? Why are other people not infected, even those wounded who were brought back because of poisoning are getting better and no one died.

I asked other sergeants who had been with the deceased, but they didn't find any abnormalities or injuries before the deceased.

"He is very careful. He has been supporting the true energy shield at night, so no poisonous insects can bite him."

"During the day, he also listens to the tune in the middle, and rarely participates in the search team, so it seems that he has not encountered any danger."

"It was always good, and suddenly died."

It couldn't have been infected by the plague source at night. Because everyone is tense to deal with it all night, there is a shield of qi to protect the poison from touching the dead. Otherwise, he would definitely not be the only one infected with the plague.

Moreover, the Xu family in Xiushan Village is just an ordinary family. It is a remarkable family that once gave birth to small officials in the army. Later, Xu Tianwu's descendants did not become monks. Poisonous insects, so the Xu family can only dare to go in during the day, and the Xu family can only be infected with plague during the day.

But there are no poisonous insects all over the sky during the day. Isn't the source of the plague a bug?

Shen Hao carefully recalled what he saw and heard along the way, as well as the scenes of the deceased wandering around in front of his eyes. Finally, a picture flashed in his mind: on the second day after the boulder was attacked by night insects, Shen Hao vaguely remembered that the deceased had slapped a pea-sized insect to death beside him, and it was on his neck.

Hastily went to look at the corpse, and pressed the head of the corpse with a long stick. Shen Hao clearly saw an obvious festering mark on the right side of the neck of the deceased. It was very small, and it was not easy to find it hidden in the black spots on the skin. But it couldn't escape Shen Hao's eyes.

That's it! Shen Hao was sure that the place where he saw the deceased slapping a bug to death was the festering place on his neck.

Is an insignificant bug the source of the plague? And there are those bugs during the day. Shen Hao was a little horrified when he thought that the source of the terrifying plague would be a seemingly harmless insect, and would even be slapped to death as a mosquito.

I found a few guards from the Qianhu Institute, told them my judgment, and let them enter the foreign land again, but without going deep, I carefully searched in the forest at the place where the ghost pears were found before. Catch bugs, especially those that are the size of a pea. Take the sheepskin hand and the jade bottle, and set off immediately.

This side arranged to verify the source of the plague before leaving, and on the other side Wang Yiming hurriedly found Shen Hao with a copy of the order from the governor's yamen.

"My lord, Master Jiang urgently ordered!"

It was actually Jiang Cheng who passed Wu Changhe and directly issued the order to him? What's the rush?

Shen Hao took the order and waved Wang Yiming away, guessing in his heart that it might be about the special place. After all, many of the colleagues in the company are not directly subordinate to him, and it is understandable for those who want to claim credit, but they did not expect to directly go to Jiang Cheng's side. I don't know how long Wu Changhe will have to operate in Fengri City to eliminate the influence left by Jiang Cheng?

Opening the order, it was as expected by Shen Hao, it was about that strange land. The words were very urgent, and Shen Hao was asked to report the details to him directly, and ordered Shen Hao to not give up the front line from Wanhekou to that strange place to anyone before he gave Shen Hao the order to withdraw, and he must hold on to it.

Isn't Jiang Cheng a person eager for quick success, so arrogantly crossing Wu Changhe to command the Black Flag Camp in Fengri City for a so-called "treasure land"? It also expressly stated that no one is allowed to interfere with the front line of Wanhekou, which is already allowing Shen Hao and the local government to seize power.

It's just some resources, so it won't make Jiang Cheng look so ugly, right? At least based on Shen Hao's understanding of Jiang Cheng, he didn't believe it.

Shen Hao felt an unusual aura.

Sure enough, in the next two days, the Wanhekou line, which was originally being cleaned up and restored, experienced another change. Wu Changhe came with an order suggesting that Shen Hao could withdraw and hand over the cleanup to the local yamen, but Shen Hao rejected it because "the source of the plague is unknown".

Immediately afterwards, the Jingxi Army also came with documents, saying that considering that the plague situation had not yet been completely stabilized and Xuanqing Guard was short of manpower, they hoped to help share some of the pressure and hand over the prevention and control of the front line of Wanhekou to them.

The most violent words were undoubtedly the local yamen of Fengri City. They blocked the door of Shen Hao's temporary office and refused to leave. Reckless overreach!

Shen Hao didn't know that he was overstepping his authority and acting recklessly, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't ignore Jiang Cheng's order, unless he didn't want to continue messing around in Xuanqing Guard.

Fortunately, the third batch of spies who entered the mountain brought back exciting news for Shen Hao: the bugs were caught.

The spies lost a lot of weight, and were terribly tortured by this mission, and their heart trembled with fear even if they caught a bug.

The jade bottles they brought were all used up, and a few people tossed back and forth between the mountain and that strange land, and caught a total of thirty-eight kinds of pea-sized bugs, and now they are all placed in front of Shen Hao, all in the jade bottle and are alive.

Shen Hao probably looked at it once. How could he remember what the bug that the deceased slapped to death looked like? He only remembered the size. However, there are not many rules and regulations in this world, and Shen Hao has a lot of room for manipulation, although it is a bit cruel.

"Find someone to draw portraits of these bugs, and then find more death row prisoners to try. Put one on their necks and pat them to death, and see who will be infected with the plague the next day. After confirming, they can be included in the file and reported. Hurry up. "

There is no shortage of death row prisoners, and Wang Yiming nodded and left. There are still many local officials in the dungeon who were dereliction of duty and concealed reports before. It happened to use them to make contributions, which is much more valuable than beheading.

After that, Shen Hao didn't make Shen Hao wait long, and the result came out. Wang Yiming returned with a death description and a portrait of the bug. The admiration in his eyes could not be concealed. No one expected that Shen Hao would actually find the source of the plague.

"Name it the Black-spotted Plague Worm. Immediately trim the file and show it to me after sorting it out. Try to report it to the Qianhu Office within today."

"Good sir. A hundred household officials came outside. He said that he came from the yamen of the governor. His surname was Chen. He said he was an old acquaintance of yours. He had been waiting for a long time."

Shen Hao rushed out to greet him, only to realize that the person who came was Chen Sheng, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. This former Baihu householder is now a Baihu householder, and he followed Jiang Cheng to the governor's yamen, and was still Jiang Cheng's relative. guard chief.