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Chapter 344 Pooh!Taoist out of the mountains 26 (4000 words)
Xuanzhen had been in seclusion for a year before, this time he participated in Master Xuanji's Immortal Ascension Meeting, and he has been in seclusion until now, Lu Yaoyao went out to run business and came back, but Xuanzhen has never left the seclusion.

To be honest, Lu Yaoyao found it quite boring, so when Yi Qiwu wrote a book for her, Lu Yaoyao thought about it for a while and then went to pack her things.

A plague broke out in Lingxiang County, and the epidemic was serious. Yi Qiwu knew that Lu Yaoyao was good at medicine, so he specially invited her down the mountain.

Because she didn't know how long she would be there, Lu Yaoyao wanted to resign from Master Xuan Qing who had just left the customs.

"Master, this disciple learned that there is an epidemic in Lingxiang County, so I want to check it out."

Xuanqing paused, and said: "Then you go, pay attention to your body, if you can't solve it, you can also repair the book and go back to Longhu Mountain, don't force it."

Lu Yaoyao nodded, took her small bag and silver needles, and rushed to Lingxiang County.

Lingxiang County is a month's journey away from Longhu Mountain, but it only takes a week to get there.When Lu Yaoyao arrived, Yi Qiwu, who is now the Seventh Prince, had been staying here for ten days.

Lu Yaoyao took the token sent along with the letter, and directly entered Yi Qiwu's temporary residence with the token.

"You're finally here." Yi Qiwu was very anxious, he had actually learned medical skills in the long mission world, but unfortunately, he wasn't very interested in such boring things and didn't know much about them.

"How's the situation?" Actually, Lu Yaoyao had been exposed to the plague before, but it was only on a small scale, treating the common people as a traveling doctor.

"The situation is not good."

Yi Qiwu's own medical skills are not good, but it doesn't mean that the court's imperial physicians are not good at medical skills, but the time is too short, and there is no way to find a solution in just ten days.

Yi Qiwu quickly told Lu Yaoyao about the current situation: "The epidemic first broke out in a place called Luohe Village. All the elderly and children in the village got sick. The young people in the village went out to ask for doctors. Some doctors saw patients Then he turned around and left, but a barefoot doctor named Xu stayed. Unfortunately, he was also infected soon. Before he fell into coma, Doctor Xu asked the few remaining healthy young villagers to inform the local county magistrate of the epidemic. When I heard it was a plague, I immediately sent people to guard the entrance and exit of Luohe Village."

"The plague came on fiercely. Later, the whole village fell ill. The old people with the weakest resistance died first. Gradually, young people also had high fever. The county magistrate saw that the plague could not be cured at all, and because the disease was limited, It only broke out in this small Luohe village, so the county magistrate kept it a secret and didn't report it to the court."

Lu Yaoyao raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "Didn't he report it to the court? Can he be saved?"

Now that Yi Qiwu has taken over, it must be because the scope of the epidemic has expanded, and the county magistrate can't handle it anymore.

Yi Qiwu's expression was serious, and his eyes were full of coldness: "The county magistrate didn't want to affect his performance appraisal, so he sent people to guard Luohe Village, and no one was allowed to come out, and no one went in."

Lu Yaoyao was speechless for a while, she probably knew what this sentence meant.

"The villagers in Luohe Village are almost dead. The county magistrate planned to set fire to Luohe Village, and it was over. Unexpectedly, epidemics broke out in all parts of Lingxiang County, ranging from small to large..."

Speaking of this, Yi Qiwu closed his eyes and said, "Do you know how the epidemic came about?"

Lu Yaoyao shook her head for a while, seeing Yi Qiwu's expression, something very bad should have happened.

"The villagers who ran out to find the doctor for help didn't come back together. Some people found that Luohe Village was besieged, so they hid aside to observe. Later, they found that the county magistrate didn't care about the lives of the villagers in Luohe Village. They separated and went to the place with the most traffic... ...This is the reason why the epidemic in Lingxiang County is severe."

Homeless and unable to return, the disease that had panicked the villagers became their last weapon. They rushed to those men and women, destroying everything they saw.

"The epidemic originally appeared at five o'clock. From the time I got the order to arriving, ten days later, it took another ten days for you to arrive. Now the epidemic has spread to the entire Lingxiang County."

The most feared thing about the epidemic is panic. The people who are frightened will flee around frantically to seek medical treatment, but they themselves are the new source of infection, which is just a vicious circle.

"Have you controlled the import and export of Lingxiang County?"

"It's under control." Yi Qiwu naturally understood the horror of the highly contagious disease. The first thing he did when he came was to seal off the edge of Lingxiang County, and the troops he sent directly did not let a single citizen go.

"Not only the geographical blockade, but also internal arrangements have been made. Patients will be concentrated in the south, and suspected patients will be checked separately. They will be placed in the west city after a month of observation."

Lu Yaoyao nodded, anyone who has lived in modern times will understand these things.

"Has the source of the disease been investigated?"

This epidemic is very strange. It was previously limited to Luohe Village. If the villagers of Luohe Village had not run wild, it is unknown whether it would have spread to other places.

"I have investigated and found that there are only three residents of Luohe Village who are still alive, and all of them are suffering from the disease. After asking around, it is only possible that their water source has been polluted."

Lu Yaoyao nodded, this is normal.There are no natural disasters or man-made disasters in Daqi now. Generally, plagues occur after severe droughts or floods. Because many people died and the corpses were not properly disposed of, large-scale plagues easily broke out.

"Then have you investigated the water source?"

Yi Qiwu showed embarrassment and shook his head: "Not yet."

Seeing Lu Yaoyao looking at him, Yi Qiwu said: "Before Luojia Village was set on fire by that county magistrate, an epidemic broke out in Lingxiang County. There are no living people in that Luojia Village now, but the roads and houses There are villagers and poultry that died due to the epidemic. According to the living villagers of Luojia Village, the water they drink is in a small pond near the mountain of Luojia Village, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the terrain is steep."

Yi Qiwu's qinggong is ranked second in this world, probably no one dares to be number one, but even so, it doesn't mean that he can fly in this world.He must have seen it and tried it, but he gave up starting from the mountain when he really had no other way.

Lu Yaoyao pondered for a while, in fact, it is okay not to investigate the source of the disease, but it is better to start the epidemic after the investigation is clear.

"How are the imperial physicians doing their research?"

"It's not good, I can barely suppress it, but people who are sick don't get better." After hesitating for a while, Yi Qiwu said again: "One of the three imperial physicians accompanying me has already fallen ill."

Lu Yaoyao raised her eyebrows, but she didn't say anything. Yi Qiwu looked at her expression and added: "If you are worried about being infected, I can provide a protective cover, which should be able to isolate the source of infection."

Lu Yaoyao laughed when she heard the words: "Since you have something isolated, why don't you go to Luojia Village to check it for yourself?"

Yi Qiwu: "...Let's put it this way, the thing I'm talking about that can be isolated is the power of my rules, which is the power of the wind. I can form a wind layer around us, but to achieve complete isolation, I must use all my strength. Go, then I can't move."

Lu Yaoyao: "..."

On the same day, Lu Yaoyao and Yi Qiwu went to Luojia Village, and left the horse to Yi Qiwu's subordinates to take care of. Lu Yaoyao used lightness kung fu, holding Yi Qiwu with her left hand, and the two entered Luojia Village together.

"Can you really hold on?"

Before entering, Lu Yaoyao asked Yi Qiwu again, and Yi Qiwu nodded: "It can be done." After saying that, he hesitated and said: "If you can't hold on anymore, you should be able to hold on for a while with your mental strength."

Lu Yaoyao: "..."

Lu Yaoyao stopped talking nonsense, and the two went straight to the village. If they wanted to go to the water source, they had to pass through the houses of villagers in Luojia Village. The half of the body that crawled out of the gate, a rotting body.

Lu Yaoyao pursed her lips, Yi Qiwu also saw it, but her eyes were colder, neither of them spoke.

Soon they arrived at the water source. Before they even got close, Lu Yaoyao saw that the surrounding grass had turned into the same color.

Rotten candle orchid?
Lu Yaoyao picked up a small red grass with her sword. The color of the grass was very uncomfortable, like dried blood. If the two of them could smell it now, they would definitely be able to smell the faint fishy smell in the air.

Lu Yaoyao wrapped some of the rotten candle orchids with a cloth, and put them in the medicine box she carried with her.During the whole process, Lu Yaoyao didn't touch it with her hands, it was all done with mental strength.

Seeing the rotting candle orchid, Lu Yaoyao probably understood what happened nearby. Seeing the rotten and half-rotten corpses of all kinds of wild birds in the pond, Lu Yaoyao's expression did not change.

Yi Qiwu really wanted to ask a question, but he couldn't talk right now, so he just held back and planned to ask Lu Yaoyao after he went back.

Lu Yaoyao chopped off some branches with her sword, and then inserted the branches into the smooth mountain walls on three sides with her inner strength. Seeing that there were many broken branches and small trees in one of the mountains, Lu Yaoyao knew it in her heart.

After returning from the mountain, Lu Yaoyao stepped on the branches and flew to the pond, then flew quickly across Luojia Village, and returned to the place where Yi Qiwu's subordinates were staying.

"how?"

Yi Qiwu's question was very simple, Lu Yaoyao understood what he was asking, and replied: "I probably know the reason."

Lu Yaoyao looked at the hut in Luojia Village, and it seemed that there were corpses with different dead bodies in front of her. In the late stage of the epidemic, the patients were basically unable to move, and it was unknown whether these villagers died of illness or starvation. It was a crime.

"Burn Luojia Village. If you don't burn it, people who pass here in the future may still be infected with the disease."

Yi Qiwu nodded, he originally planned to burn down the Luojia Village after finding out the source of the disease.

Yi Qiwu's subordinates were left behind to set fire to Luojia Village. Lu Yaoyao and Yi Qiwu went back first. In order to save time, they talked while riding horses.

"It's this rotten candle grass." Lu Yaoyao opened the medicine box a little, so that Yi Qiwu could see it clearly: "This rotten candle grass has no other effect, but if there are large rotten corpses nearby, it will grow a lot, and the more rotten corpses there are, The bigger the rotten candle grass, so the places where there are wars, because there are more dead soldiers, so a large piece of rot candle grass grows."

Yi Qiwu nodded, thinking about the small pond filled with rotting corpses, and couldn't help but feel a little scared.

"You have seen it on the mountain just now. There are many branches broken due to impact on the steep mountain wall. The ground there is soft. It may have been a heavy rain, and then an animal accidentally rolled down. The twig snapped off and ended up in the pond."

Yi Qiwu also had some speculations in his mind, but he still had a question: "But the animals are dead, wouldn't they float?"

If the animal carcasses floated up, the villagers would definitely find that the water was soaked in animal carcasses, and they probably wouldn't drink it anymore.

"Usually that's the case, but..."

"stop!"

Yi Qiwu yelled to stop, Lu Yaoyao immediately spread her mental power further away, and then found those black-clothed assassins.

Wouldn't it be faster to wear this kind of clothes in broad daylight?
Lu Yaoyao complained in her heart, seeing the flying arrows, she still picked up her sword to block them.Seeing that the sneak attack was no longer effective, the hidden assassins simply rushed out.Seeing that the assassins were all heading towards Yi Qiwu, Lu Yaoyao chose the latter between sitting idle and fighting, after all, to save time, right?
Seeing that Lu Yaoyao also had martial arts skills, the assassins rushed towards Lu Yaoyao, and then all fell down in front of Lu Yaoyao.

Ok?
Lu Yaoyao turned her head and found that Yi Qiwu's complexion was not good, and the dozen or so assassins present were all lying on the ground.

"Let you see a joke."

Lu Yaoyao smiled: "Did your brothers do it?"

"Probably so."

Yi Qiwu said casually, and climbed back on the horseback: "There are always bad people who want to harm this king, poor people think that their assassin died at the hands of this king's subordinates."

Yi Qiwu glanced at these dead assassins contemptuously: "It's so pitiful, knowing how powerful I am, I still hit my palm."

Lu Yaoyao silently climbed onto the horse's back, she was really pitiful, probably she was smashed into the sea of ​​consciousness at the first time, and died directly, but——

"Have you acted enough? We have to continue on our way."

"Enough acting, enough acting."

Yi Qiwu calmed down her bastard spirit and silently continued the previous topic: "Why do you think those corpses were not discovered by the villagers?"

"You should have seen the brown branches and leaves by the pond?"

Yi Qiwu shook his head. At that time, the pond was full of rotting animal carcasses. Even if he couldn't smell it, he felt sick just looking at it. He didn't want to take another look at it.

Lu Yaoyao: "...that's what a dead aquatic plant looks like."

Yi Qiwu understood what Lu Yaoyao meant: "You mean those animals are all entangled by aquatic plants?"

Lu Yaoyao nodded, maybe the animals that just fell didn't die, but were entangled in aquatic plants and gradually lost their vitality.Although the pond area is small, it should be relatively deep, because Lu Yaoyao has only seen this aquatic plant in deep water, that is to say, this kind of grass cannot grow in shallow water.

I don't know the reason, but the aquatic plants grow very long and are extremely lush, entangle the fallen animals tightly, and the dead animals rot in the water, nourishing the aquatic plants and polluting the water source.Later, more and more animals fell, and the entire pond was filled, and the aquatic plants were also polluted by rotten water and gradually withered.In the end, all that was left in that pond was a pool of dead animals.

(End of this chapter)