"Hateful! It's really hateful!"
Lu Jue was so angry at the two men's self-righteous words without any remorse or repentance that it seemed as if every word he uttered was followed by a flame. He clenched the handle of the hatchet in his hand and resisted the urge to chop off the two men's heads.
"Even a beast would not do such a bastard thing!" Lu Jue's rage was so intense that it almost burned away his rationality. "Don't you think that the lives of ordinary people are not human lives?"
The half-baked scholar looked ashen.
He hated Shen Tang, calling her a thief, calling Gu Chi and the others dogs, and hated the common people of Fugu for taking advantage of his misfortune, but that didn't mean he didn't understand anything. At least he knew the consequences of telling the truth - there was no way out, he would definitely die!
He was going to die anyway, so he just went for it.
He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, accidentally pulling the wound at the corner of his mouth, and the loosened gums oozed more warm, sweet blood, which flowed down his tongue and filled his entire mouth. With a look of contempt, he said, "How can the lives of common people be considered human lives?"
Lu Jue was completely enraged by these words.
He turned his hand and stabbed the hatchet vertically into his thigh.
Most of the blade was embedded in the flesh, leaving a hole.
The half-baked scholar let out a sharp and shrill scream. Lu Jue held the hilt of the knife and stirred it in his flesh and blood. His expression was ferocious like a devil, and he breathed hot air on his cheek: "Can't you bear such a little pain?"
Then he swiped down again.
Blood gushed out of the wound.
Lu Jue pulled out the hatchet with a little force and said coldly: "You will only feel pain twice, but the others will die!"
The wound was huge.
The weeds pressed by the thighs passed through.
This bloody and brutal scene stunned the other person.
When he thought about the same wounds appearing on his body, he couldn't help but tremble, and begged for mercy from Lu Jue: "Brave, brave man, I, I am innocent. I was coerced by the thieves to do such a heinous thing..."
"Brave man, I will never dare to do that again..."
"Please spare my life..."
When Lu Jue swung his sword to vent his anger, Gu Chi remained silent, looking into the distance, as if appreciating the scenery. Until he heard the spineless plea for mercy, he uttered a short, disdainful sneer: "Please for mercy? You are such a coward."
If these two people go on to the end, if Gu Chi is in a good mood, he might leave their bodies intact.
But I didn't expect this guy to be so weak.
After a little scare, he started begging for mercy.
After thinking about it, Gu Chi understood.
Their lives are far more precious than those of ordinary people.
A real man can bend and stretch. If he died easily, wouldn't it be a pity? Besides, it's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge!
The half-baked scholar also looked at his accomplice with ridicule. Although his expression was distorted by pain, it did not affect the contempt and disdain revealed in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. Oh, a broken-backed dog wagging its tail to beg for mercy at its enemy, how shameful!
Lu Jue raised his head to seek Gu Chi's opinion.
"Sir, should we kill these two?"
"It's too easy to kill him like this." Gu Chi looked indifferent. He had many ways to make people wish they could neither live nor die, especially those so-called tough guys. The effect was very good. "Take him back and let the lord decide..." He would slowly settle the accounts!
Even though Lu Jue was unhappy, he still clasped his fists and said, "Yes!"
Although the culprit who spread the disease was successfully caught, the matter is far from over and there are still many doubts.
"Where are you going, sir?"
This is not the direction back to Fugu City.
Gu Chi: "Go take a look at that corpse pit."
This epidemic was man-made, and dead rats carrying the disease were put into the well water and spread to humans, but how did the epidemics in Zhouzhou Village and Xiazhou Village two or three years ago come from? According to the records of the government office, this epidemic was fierce and the mortality rate was extremely high.
The spread was limited to two villages.
It seems that the previous county magistrate made a decisive decision and sent troops to seal off the village, which successfully prevented the spread of the epidemic, but is this really true
Gu Chi was knowledgeable and he knew very well that the epidemic was not so easy to control, and the previous county magistrate did not have such ability.
Lü Jue was puzzled: "What's so interesting about the corpse pit?"
Although he said this, his hands were not vague at all.
He held one in each hand and quickly followed Gu Chi.
Lu Jue's actions were not gentle at all. The half-baked scholar screamed in pain and almost fainted due to blood loss.
The corpse pit is at the junction of Shangzhou Village and Xiazhou Village.
The location is desolate and secluded, with weeds already waist-high.
Before I got close enough, I could smell a very pungent stench. There were many extremely decayed bird carcasses lying near the pit. Most of the carcasses were still lying in the pit, and more than a dozen had been dug out and were scattered everywhere.
Lu Jue's face turned black due to the smell.
He said, "Sir, let me go."
Gu Chi shook his head: "Nothing."
The corpses inside and outside the pit were crawling with countless wriggling maggots. He walked up to one of them, took a closer look, raised his hand and took out a pair of gloves from his arms, and then took out a pair of bamboo products similar to chopsticks and a delicate small plate.
Lu Jue: “???”
Just as strange images appeared in his mind, Gu Chi said without turning his head: "Shousheng, stay away, pay attention to the martial energy to protect your body, don't be hit by the evil energy."
"Yes!" Lu Jue was worried about Gu Chi, and couldn't help but stretch his neck, watching the master's actions without blinking, and at the same time alerting all around, fearing that the two men in his hands had other accomplices. After looking for a long while, he asked, "Sir, what are you doing?"
Gu Chi was seen using his right hand with distinct knuckles to hold chopsticks, and the tip of the chopsticks was moving back and forth on the corpse, pushing away the dense maggots that gave him goosebumps. He seemed to be searching for something on the corpse, and after a while he picked something out.
Lu Jue didn't see clearly what it was.
I only saw Gu Chi carefully placing the things on the plate. At first glance, I thought he was dipping the food in sauce, preparing for something else.
Gu Chi: “…”
He could have held on.
But the content of Lu Jue's inner voice made him sick.
To prevent Lu Jue from imagining more disgusting things, Gu Chi stood up with the plate and handed it to Lu Jue for him to take a closer look.
"Look."
Lu Jue leaned back in disgust and avoided it.
"Sir, what's so good about these maggots?"
It was smelly and disgusting, and covered with sticky yellow corpse fluid. I don't know how the gentleman managed to hold back from vomiting.
Gu Chi asked back: "Do you think this is a maggot?"
"If this isn't maggots, what else could it be?"
Lu Jue pinched his nose, endured the nausea and took a closer look. Soon he found something wrong - compared with ordinary maggots, the worm in the dish was obviously several times larger, and its body was covered with countless tiny dots, which looked like shrunken white sesame seeds.
The head and tail are also different from those of maggots.
There are dozens of curled legs on both sides of the body.
The back is covered with complex black lines.
They are more like grubs than maggots.
"What the hell is this?"
Or, what kind of bug
Gu Chi fiddled with the dead insect, his eyes gradually turned cold, he said: "Insect? To be precise, it is a poisonous insect! Look at the white spots on its body, they are all insect eggs. The eggs of the poisonous insect rely on the absorption of blood essence to hatch, and after hatching, it also needs a lot of blood essence to continue to lay eggs. Ordinary people will die in ten days or half a month!"
Although Lu Jue didn't know what kind of Gu worm this was, he couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end just by hearing these two words, and he wanted to retreat as far as he could. He looked at the corpse pit, and then at the Gu worm corpse that Gu Chi had pulled out from the corpse, and said, "If this is a Gu worm... then the epidemic in Zhou Village and Xia Zhou Village was also caused by humans?"
If it was a real epidemic, anyone in the city would die.
The epidemic two or three years ago was indeed strange.
"Most likely."
Gu Chi found several more dead poisonous insects from other corpses... This thing must be the culprit of the epidemic. He ordered Lu Jue to find firewood and licorice, and clear a large area to burn the corpses.
There were not only human corpses, but also bird corpses nearby.
The two of them worked until dusk, and finally returned to Fugu City with two half-dead "fish that escaped the net" and a dish of poisonous insect corpses and eggs. For safety reasons, he wrapped the eggs heavily with paper and cloth, and Shen Tang waited for a long time.
"Looking at the tide, are there any results?"
Fugu City was still under martial law, and Shen Tang hadn't slept for two days and one night. She, who used to be full of energy, now looked a little listless.
Gu Chi breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission."
These words sounded like heavenly music to Shen Tang and the others.
"Have you found the source of the disease?"
“It’s not a disease, exactly.”
When Doctor Dong heard this, he disagreed.
"If this isn't a disease, then what is it?"
Gu Chi opened the plate carefully.
Instantly, the stench of the corpse was so overwhelming that Doctor Dong, who was unprepared, was almost suffocated. It took him a long time to recover.
Everyone looked at Gu Chi suspiciously, wondering what he meant by bringing back a few maggots. Was this the source of the disease
Gu Chi: "This is a Gu worm, its eggs."
"insanity?"
This word triggered some memories of Shen Tang. Last year, she met Gong Xichou outside the camp of the Allied Forces, and the latter mentioned the matter of the Gu worm - Shao Chong was poisoned, and there was an "epidemic" caused by the Gu worm in Heyin - was this really a coincidence
The poisonous insect will not appear out of thin air.
Who is the person who cast the curse
Questions kept running through Shen Tang's mind.
But these are not the most important things.
Most importantly—
"How do you cure this poison?"
Doctor Dong twisted his gray beard and said, "If it is really a poisonous insect, we just need to lure it out before it absorbs a lot of blood and lays eggs... No wonder ordinary medicines don't work."
After all, he studied medicine, not witchcraft.
I only have a vague understanding of witchcraft.
Shen Tang asked: "Draw it out? How to draw it out?"
Doctor Dong said, "I don't know about that. I just heard my teacher mention that each poisonous insect has its own preferences. To lure them out, you have to use their favorite things, such as vigorous blood, a certain smell, martial energy, literary energy, or even flowers..."
There are tens of millions of poisonous insects, each with different temperaments.
Who knows what this thing likes
Shen Tang: “…”
Doctor Dong added: "You must act quickly. These are ordinary people. Their energy and blood cannot be compared with those of scholars and warriors. Once the poisonous insects are ready to lay eggs, even the Golden Immortal will be powerless to save them..."
Shen Tang asked: "How long?"
Doctor Dong assessed the patients' conditions and estimated the time: "Two days at most."
Judging from the situation, this insect is impatient.
"Two days... OK, I got it, bring me a bowl!"
"What are you taking the bowl for?"
In Shen Tang's right hand, a sword that had not been seen for a long time appeared.
Without hesitation, he grasped the sword with his left hand.
Before anyone could react, a streak of blood was left.
"bloodletting!"
She was able to wrestle Gong Xichou last year, but the brave warriors under her command were no match for her. The scholars were all very gentle, and they formed a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people. After thinking about it, it must be her blood that was most attractive to the Gu worm.
"What are you standing there for?"
"Bring the bowl over here and catch it—"
Watching the blood dripping onto the ground and being absorbed by the soil, Shen Tang felt so distressed. He stretched his hand forward and hung it above the tabletop—the blood would flow onto the tabletop and he could collect it later. Doctor Dong was awakened and screamed.
"Mr. Shen, why are you doing this--" Bleeding without any care and not even worrying about causing chronic disease is really too reckless!
Shen Tang bled enough to fill half a bowl.
Doctor Dong bandaged her while muttering to himself. Just as he tied the knot, Qi Shan walked in from outside with a bad look on his face. He half-raised his left hand, which was bleeding, with the wound skin and flesh turned outward. As soon as he came in, he asked, "My lord, is he injured?"
Before I could get an answer, a bowl arrived.
Qishan: “???”
Shen Tang looked at Qi Shan guiltily: "I was careless."
She really didn't think that much at that moment.
Qishan: “???”
I am completely confused and have no idea what is going on.
Fortunately, this matter was not complicated to explain. After a few words, Qishan quickly understood what was going on with the wound.
He said helplessly: "If you need blood, either let Shan come or let Banbu and the others come. How can we let the lord hurt himself?"
It is not certain whether these blood will be of any use. If the lord releases so much at once, wouldn’t it be a waste if it is useless
Doctor Dong went to the ward carrying two bowls of blood.
Research how to use blood to force out the poisonous insect.
Shen Tang didn't stop here either.
Since we know someone threw a dead mouse into the well, the dead mouse must be fished out and the contaminated well water must be sealed to avoid a repeat of the same mistake. At present, it seems that someone accidentally drank the raw water and drank the insect eggs.
Shen Tang was helpless: "Drink more hot water and avoid drinking raw water. Do we need to repeat this simple truth over and over again?"
As the county magistrate, she is simply an old woman.
She has to supervise the common people under her rule to take a bath.
She also has to keep an eye on you when you drink hot water.
Verbal instructions are not enough, an order must be stamped!
Fortunately, it was discovered in time and controlled before it spread widely, minimizing casualties. As long as these poisonous insects are lured out, the crisis should be resolved. However, Shen Tang was obviously relieved a little too early.
Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly.
Bad things like to come in groups.
While waiting for news, she heard the sound of hurried footsteps approaching outside the house, and she knew who it was right away.
"Text Notes."
The person who came was Xu Jie.
At this moment, Xu Jie's face looked as if covered with a thick layer of soot, almost blending into the dark night sky. Shen Tang greeted his injured left hand and said, "Here is some good news."
Xu Jie smiled grimly, his breath sounded much weaker: "What a coincidence, I have some bad news."
"Bad news?"
"The exact same disease has appeared in Tianhai!"
Shen Tang was so frightened that he almost knocked over the teacup on the table.
"Tian Hai also showed up?"
Good guy—
Is this an attempt to catch them all in one fell swoop
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