Li Tianrui hurriedly summoned all the battalion and company-level cadres in the Duke's Mansion and asked them to block all entrances to the city. No one was allowed to enter or leave the city. The purpose of the blockade was to capture enemy spies, and anyone who tried to leave or enter the city by force would be detained.
At the same time, in order to prevent people in the city from running around and contacting sources of infection or spreading diseases, he arranged troops to block the main streets in the city, dividing the entire Green Forest City into several parts, and not allowing residents in the city to cross the blockade at will.
Then he found Anar and asked her to accompany him and the two elves to find the "evil forces", that is, the source of infection with pathogens. Now the entire city is under the control of the guards, so naturally there is no place that cannot be entered.
Li Tianrui and Anar both cast toxin-isolating shields on their bodies and wandered around the city with Magna. The first place where the evil forces gathered was a grain warehouse, which had been taken over by the guards yesterday. However, they only had time to seal off the warehouse and had not yet carefully checked the contents.
Entering the door, it was a two-story warehouse with sacks of food piled on the ground. Magna felt it and said, "The other source of infection you mentioned is in this house, but it has begun to permeate the entire warehouse. I can feel the presence of evil power in everything in the warehouse. I can tell that it is not upstairs or downstairs. We must find it ourselves."
"The evil force you are talking about refers to the existence of demonized bacteria, right?" Li Tianrui said.
"Yes. If you like to call it bacteria, it is demonized bacteria, or bacterial monsters." Magna nodded.
"In other words, if a person gets sick due to this demonic bacteria infection, you can also tell it?" Li Tianrui asked.
"I think it's possible, but the demonic bacteria in his body must multiply to a sufficient number." Magna said, "Perhaps by the time I can sense it, he will be close to getting sick."
"It would be good to know it a little earlier," Li Tianrui said. "At least we can isolate him earlier and try to prevent him from infecting others."
Magna nodded.
"So, does that mean that all the food in this room is inedible?" Anar asked.
"Of course. Anyone who eats this food will definitely get sick." Magna said.
Anar looked at the piles of wheat and flour around him and sighed, "What a waste."
A few people walked forward a little, and Li Tianrui said: "I smell that smell."
"Do you hear the sound of water dripping?" Anar asked. They listened quietly and found that there was indeed a very slight dripping sound.
Anlin, the elf who suddenly had dark vision, said, "Look there."
Anar waved her hand and summoned a ball of light that flew into the air. The ball of light illuminated the ceiling of the dark warehouse. Under the light, a large piece of wood on the ceiling was much darker than the surrounding area, and drops of black water dripped from that position.
"This is the black liquid, we found it." Li Tianrui said. Several people ran up the stairs to the second floor, following the increasingly strong smell, they moved several piles of food and found a human-shaped object hidden in the middle.
It is said to be a human-shaped object because apart from the general shape of a body, limbs and head, nothing specific can be seen. Neither the face nor the fingers are visible. It looks like a pool of black jelly or asphalt, or a melted black snowman.
"That's what it looks like. The black liquid I mentioned looks like this." Li Tianrui squatted down and cast a lighting magic. "However, this person's melting condition is even more serious than Bocas's. It's obvious that he has been dead for a much longer time."
"I guess he was put here after we found the house where the experiment was conducted. Assuming they completed the enchantment of the bacteria in the first house and successfully completed the first experiment, then all they had to do was to place infected bodies in various places?" Magna said.
"I don't think they're trying to place the bodies, but to feed people something that can cause the disease," Anar said. "Wouldn't it be better to just capture a prisoner and feed him some bacteria here?"
Li Tianrui said: "Indeed, when we were cleaning the room that the Baron locked, we found a crystal bottle inside. I think he drank the contents of the crystal bottle, which is why he became like this. I guess the bacteria that are spread through air contact will develop much more slowly than if you drink the bacteria, so we haven't found a large number of people infected yet."
"Let's purify these first." Magna prepared to release positive energy magic.
"Wait a minute, let me take a sample. It may be useful when I study ways to treat this disease later." Li Tianrui took out a glass bottle, used his mental power to pick up some black juice and put it into the bottle. He then blocked the mouth of the bottle with a long wooden cork and then wrapped it with several layers of plastic bags.
Then Magna, Anlin and Anar all released positive energy balls. Under the illumination of positive energy, the black liquid on the ground gradually turned grayish white, and finally turned into a gray gelatinous substance. As the warehouse was very large, it took them about half an hour to purify the two floors.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. We must hurry to find the next source of infection. I don't know how many corpses these lunatics have left behind. How many people have had the opportunity to come into contact with them in nearly two days..." Li Tianrui could hardly imagine to what extent this demonized bacteria had spread. He could only hope that they had placed them in places where few people came.
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The second source of infection was in a much worse place, it was the backyard of a small noble family, the family had already left here for refuge, so the body was left in the yard for two days without anyone finding it. And around this small noble family lived a large number of nobles and merchants.
According to this location, many people around may have been infected. Li Tianrui and his team tried to knock on the doors around them. After knocking on three doors in a row, they found that many residents were gone. It was not until the fourth door that a man who looked like a housekeeper finally appeared and opened the door.
"Sir, who are you?" The old butler asked cautiously when he saw several people with extraordinary aura at the door, including two elves.
"I am the commander-in-chief of the Tower of China Army. I want to ask you something." Li Tianrui said.
"Oh, it turns out to be the master from the China Tower. If you have any questions, please feel free to tell me." said the butler.