That's right, Xu Er mentioned yesterday that the steward said that there are many fewer patients recently.
The steward, Xu Er, guessed that it should be because there have been fewer and fewer patients in the city recently.
She was still thinking at the time that autumn and winter should be the seasons when people are most likely to get sick, and it's really unusual for the number of patients to decrease instead of increase.
Yun Chang squinted her eyes, could it be that there are fewer sick people, but...
But there are fewer people in this city...
To be more precise, there are fewer living people in this city.
Yun Chang pursed her lips, no wonder, she has always felt recently that the city seems to be getting more and more deserted, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the street during the day, and it is getting quieter at night.
Yun Shang frowned, summoned Xu Er and the dark guard to her room, and told them about the matter.
Both Xu Er and the leader of the hidden guards felt a little unbelievable: "Your Majesty thinks that there are fewer and fewer people in Wu'an City, but it's impossible for these people to disappear out of thin air?"
"It didn't disappear out of nowhere, it just died."
The leader of the dark guards frowned: "I do feel that the number of people on the street has gradually decreased recently, but I feel that it is probably because of the panic caused by the Wu clan's Gu worms before, and the weather is getting colder. There are fewer people wandering the streets.”
"Only a few leaders of the rebel army know about the Gu worms of the Wu tribe, and they have not made it public. There is no such thing as causing panic because of the Gu worms."
"Wake up, let's stop guessing here." Yunshang directly ordered: "Let's split up, Xu Er, you stay in the city longer, and you know more ordinary people. You should try to find out To inquire, start with our medical center and the rouge and gouache shop, and then find shopkeepers you know around, or chat with other people."
"Just ask, recently, for example, if there is a waiter in the store, for some reason, he didn't come."
"Send a few secret guards to the street, ask the rice, flour, grain and oil shops on the street, and ask the nearest rice, flour, grain and oil shops, are there fewer and fewer people coming to buy them?"
The dark guard and Xu Er both responded, and each followed Yun Shang's instructions.
It was quick to inquire about the news, and in the evening, the dark guard and Xu Er hurried back one after another.
Xu Erxian said: "Yes, my subordinates have asked, this medical clinic, and the rouge and gouache shop, in the past two months, some people have not come for no reason. There is a medicine boy in the medical clinic, who was still working the first day. I even said that I would come early the next morning to sort out the medicinal materials, but I didn’t come the next day.”
"There are two waiters in the rouge and gouache shop, and they both didn't show up for some reason."
"It's just that this kind of thing is not uncommon in this time of chaos. Many people saw that the situation was not good, and their family members refused to let them come. So they didn't investigate carefully."
"I asked several shops, and nearly half of the shops had this kind of thing happen."
"Not only did he not come to work, but he never even saw anyone again. There was also a shopkeeper who went to his home to find someone, but no matter how hard he knocked on the door, no one answered. Although he is the shopkeeper, it is not easy to trespass. Residential houses, we can only give up."
After Xu Er finished speaking, the secret guard continued: "The rice, flour, grain and oil shop also said that the amount of rice, flour, grain, and oil sold has been decreasing month by month recently. This happened in previous years, but it was because of the When the farmers have a good harvest in their fields, they will send some rice, flour, grain and oil to the city to sell, and the business of the rice, flour, grain and oil shops will be a little bit worse."
"But this year, the rebel army occupied Wu'an City, and the gates of the city were closed. The ordinary people couldn't come in and out at will. Logically speaking, this kind of thing shouldn't happen."
Yun Shang nodded lightly, the situation they inquired about was not what Yun Shang expected.
"So, it's not my illusion that the number of people in the city is decreasing. It's the people who are really decreasing."
Xu Er pursed his lips, his expression a little ugly: "But, those common people died? Quietly? Why didn't anyone report to the officials? His family should report to the officials?"
After Xu Er finished speaking, thinking of the current situation in the city, he was silent for a moment: "Even if you don't report to the officials, you should make a fuss. It's impossible that there will be no news at all, right?"
Yun Chang smiled: "In this world, the current situation in the city is nothing impossible? And, I guess, it's not because his family didn't report to the government or didn't make trouble, I'm afraid that this death will be a family."
"Didn't you say that just now? A shopkeeper also found out that the waiter in his store hadn't come to work, so he went to look for that person's house, but no matter how much he knocked on the door and shouted, no one answered."
Xu Er trembled all over: "It's not that no one answered, but... are they all dead?"
Yun Chang nodded.
The leader of the hidden guards on the side had been listening to them all the time, and finally opened his mouth: "But we have also placed twenty or thirty people in the city, and they have been watching everywhere in the city. The Wu people's martial arts are not high, how can they Maybe they killed people quietly under our noses?"
Yun Chang shook her head: "They don't need to kill people like us. They have to face to face and stab sharp weapons into other people's bodies to kill people."
"In the Xia army camp before, the guards next to Wang Jinhuan were planted with Gu insects by the Wu tribe, and then the Wu tribe manipulated him to do things, and I discovered it. After being discovered by me, he said that some Wu tribe wanted him to convey If he did, he died violently in front of me."
Xu Er and the dark guard immediately understood the meaning of Yun Shang's words: "It's a Gu worm."
Yun Chang nodded: "That's right, it's Gu worms."
Yun Shang narrowed her eyes: "The ghost doctor mentioned to me before that besides being hard to find, the Gu worms planted by the Wu people in this city have another characteristic, that is, people who get along day and night will be infected. "
"In this way, the Wu tribe can easily control the life and death of the family. Silently, without letting us find out."
The faces of the three were a little dignified, and after Yun Chang finished speaking, they fell silent.
After a long time, the hidden guard spoke again: "But what about the corpses? Since the corpses can pass through the dark stream to Qingyun Lake outside the city, it means that the corpses should have been transported to the canal and river by the Wu people."
Yunshang raised her eyes and glanced at the dark guard: "Since the Wu tribe can control the whereabouts of those people and control their life and death, why can't they let them walk to the canals and rivers in the city by themselves while they are alive. Then, die by themselves ?”
Yun Shang pursed her lips: "We don't have too many hidden guards in the city, so most of the hidden guards are staring at the witches and rebel leaders in the city, and rarely arrange people to go to other places."
"Send a few people to carefully check around the canals in the city from this evening to tomorrow morning to see if there is anything unusual."
"Think again, find some rivers and canals, take advantage of the darkness tonight, sneak into the bottom of the water quietly, and check carefully."
"yes."