After everyone left, the general's wife said to Zheng Xian:
"Xuan'er, you are becoming more and more outrageous now."
Zheng Xian pouted and said:
"Mother~~~"
The general's wife looked at Zheng Xian helplessly:
"Tomorrow, I must go with my mother and believe in the Heavenly Master with a pious heart, and then I can get the holy water."
Zheng Xian yelled, said some nice words to coax the general's wife, and then coaxed the general's wife away.
As soon as he entered the room, Zheng Xianwen couldn't stand the cloying aroma and slipped into Meng Li's room.
Meng Li asked:
"Do you know what's inside that black box?"
Zheng Xian shook his head and said he didn't know.
Meng Li sighed and said:
"I'm practicing, you go to sleep."
Zheng Xian said:
"I also practice. Heavenly Master is not simple. We still need to be able to protect ourselves."
She took out the spirit-gathering bead and held it in her hand, and the two sat together to practice.
When it was almost dawn, Zheng Xian returned to his room, and the general's wife took them to the Heavenly Master's Dharma assembly again. This time, she even brought the housekeeper and aunt in the house with her.
A lot of people walking together.
Zheng Xian said impatiently:
"I don't even want to ask for some holy water."
Meng Li said:
"But aren't they all out now? How can we find a way to go back?"
Zheng Xian said:
"The key is that you can't get it even if you ask for it. Do you have a pious heart?"
"Besides, I don't dare to drink that holy water." Zheng Xian muttered.
Meng Li shook his head. How could she believe in something of unknown origin, especially when that guy kept such a disgusting thing? She felt bad at first sight.
This time Meng Li and Zheng Xian still didn't ask for the holy water. Surprisingly, Wen Chuxue didn't ask for the holy water either.
The Heavenly Master sat opposite Meng Li and the others and said:
"Keep your head up."
Meng Li and Zheng Xian both raised their heads and looked at the Celestial Master. There was a strange stripe pattern on the Celestial Master's mask. Looking closer now, staring at it made people feel that the stripes seemed to be flowing.
Staring for a long time seems to have a hypnotic effect
Now that Meng Li's soul power is stronger, he is not afraid at all when seeing such things.
But it was Wen Chuxue. Meng Li felt that Wen Chuxue's eyes were getting duller and duller.
The Heavenly Master stared at several people with unclear meaning, and after a while he said with a magnanimous face:
"That's it, you still have no piety, go down."
“Next time please come with a reverent heart.”
The three of them had no choice but to follow. They went there twice in a row without asking for the holy water, which made many people look at the three of them very strangely.
There were also a lot of reproachful looks. The Heavenly Master’s Dharma Conference only lasted so long, so I felt unhappy being delayed.
The general's wife's eyebrows were filled with anxiety, especially when she saw the gloomy and displeased eyes of the emperor and the prince, she had a bad feeling.
After taking Meng Li and the others back to the house, the general's wife treated the three of them well.
Zheng Xian asked:
"Mom, what kind of mentality do you have to have to be pious?"
The general's wife was stunned for a moment, and then said:
"Don't you think that the Heavenly Master is omnipotent? Don't you think that the Heavenly Master is like a god and there is nothing that cannot be solved?"
"There are so many people in the world, and the officials sent to the local areas to solve the plague problem. Even the imperial doctors cannot solve the epidemic. Even the official doctors died, and the Celestial Master solved it with just a pack of medicine."
Zheng Xianfu came to his heart, and as if he had some enlightenment, he said:
"So you have extreme adoration?"
The general's wife nodded and said:
"The Heavenly Master is here to save the world."
Zheng Xian:…
God damn saves the world.
The general's wife said she was tired, so she decided to leave with the three of them. Meng Li and Zheng Xian huddled together again to discuss things.
Zheng Xian expressed her guess and said:
"I once heard someone say that there is another kind of power in the world called the power of faith."
Meng Li nodded. She also knew this concept. The power of faith in the world is pure and powerful. The more people who believe, the stronger the power.
But it is not available to those who are not mighty.
If a person can be passed down through the ages and people believe in him for thousands of years, he will always have a steady stream of faith.
However, according to Meng Li's understanding, it is recorded in most ancient books that the power of faith can most easily be deceived by many evil organizations.
They had never thought that it was the power of faith before, because they did not have a pious attitude, so naturally they did not know what kind of mentality they should have to get the holy water.
When the general's wife said this, she dedicated her power of faith to the Heavenly Master.
Meng Li had a clear understanding in her heart, and she said:
"You mean, Heavenly Master, the so-called piety is the power of people's faith?"
Zheng Xian nodded, and Meng Li said again:
"If you really have the ability to save people in the world, you will be able to withstand the power of faith from everyone."
Zheng Xian pondered for a moment and said:
"Let's find a test subject."
Meng Li hummed, and took Zheng Xian to catch a mouse and trap it with a barrier.
Zheng Xian wanted to experiment in the general's mansion, but Meng Li stopped Zheng Xian and said:
"Absolutely not. I suspect that the Heavenly Master seems to have some means to know where these things are."
"Otherwise, last night wouldn't have come so quickly."
Zheng Xian nodded and said jokingly:
"Ali, you are too careful, I have to learn from you."
Meng Li said with some embarrassment:
"You are my senior."
Zheng Xian patted Meng Li on the shoulder and said meaningfully:
"My principle is to do it if you can, and if you can't do it, use your brain."
Meng Li agreed:
"Simple and straightforward."
The two people slipped out of the general's mansion and wandered on the street. They heard people on the street discussing that the Heavenly Master had sent soldiers and doctors out of the city, set up camp and started distributing good medicine, and also brought food and clothing to accommodate the people outside.
He also said that the soldiers and doctors drank the holy water and would not be infected.
It can be seen that everyone trusts the Celestial Master. In the past, the emperor also sent many officials and soldiers to treat patients outside the city, but they all failed to return and were infected with the disease. Everyone did not dare to go, and the emperor did not dare to send anyone again.
Now because of the holy water of the Heavenly Master, they are not afraid anymore.
The two listened, then found a relatively private place and locked the mouse and the flying maggots from yesterday in a barrier.
The flying maggot senses the living thing and pierces his sting into the mouse's body like a mosquito.
The mouse had no reaction when it was pierced, but when the flying maggots pulled out the thorn, the mouse slowly collapsed inside the barrier, its limbs twitched weakly, and its mouth slowly opened, breathing heavily like a human.
Meng Li and Zheng Xian looked at each other. After killing the maggots in the barrier and cremating them completely, they found a mouse and locked it up with the previously bitten mouse.
Sure enough, this originally lively mouse was also infected with the disease.
And their symptoms are somewhat similar to those of human diseases. In other words, this disgusting maggot is probably the first thing to spread the virus.
Or perhaps, the thing itself is poison, not a disease.