Zi'an and Xiao Tuo were on Madman's Island and had no idea so many things were happening in the capital.
Just as Zian guessed, the zombie disease was indeed transmitted from the Madman Island.
The cause of the disease is actually not difficult to find. Murong Jie sent people to the island before, but they only checked people but did not check the animals on the island, so they didn't know where the source of the virus was.
The young master of the Liu family who was picked up by the doctor from the Huimin Bureau lived alone in a room surrounded by iron fences, with a mountain and dense forest behind him.
After Zi'an entered, he found many dead animals, including mice, wolves, rabbits, and many bats.
On the night he went to the island, Xiao Tuo caught a bamboo rat and planned to feast on it.
But when killing the bamboo rat, Zi'an found that the bamboo rat's eyes were very red and very active, with its mouth open as if trying to bite people, and there was a foul smell on its body.
She asked Xiao Tuo to tie up the bamboo rat and checked its body. She found teeth marks and the wound had festered.
This is also a zombie patient.
This is where the virus originated.
For the next two days, Zi'an and Xiao Tuo's only job was to chase these "carriers".
It was initially determined that the virus was transmitted from bats. The bats bit wild dogs, and the wild dogs, which were infected, bit other animals. This is a virus circulation reservoir that repeats itself over and over again.
Zi'an discovered that bats bit wild dogs and other animals, but when wild dogs bit other animals, the other animals would get sick, but the wild dogs would not. Therefore, among the corpses all over the mountain, the only ones that were not found were wild dogs.
Even bats died, but wild dogs did not.
Zi'an and Xiao Tuo began to follow the wild dogs and found that after biting other animals, the wild dogs would go and gnaw on a kind of toothed plant that Zi'an had never seen before.
The whole body is emerald green, about the size of a palm, and can grow to be one person tall. The stem is about as thick as a thumb, and when cut, red juice will appear, just like blood.
Zi'an had extensive knowledge of herbs, but she had no idea what this plant was.
She tried to feed the plant to the bamboo rats, but the rats died soon after eating it.
This plant is poisonous.
But why are wild dogs immune to the plant's poison
Zi'an and Xiao Tuo had no choice but to follow the wild dog again and found that before eating the plant, it would drink some spring water seeping from a spring in the back mountain.
Could the secret recipe be in this spring water
To verify this, Zi'an caught another wild rabbit infected with the zombie virus, fed it spring water and then gave it some herbal medicine. About an hour after taking the medicine, the wild rabbit began to calm down and no longer threatened to bite people. Although its eyes were red, rabbits' eyes are red.
Of course, it would not be enough to just experiment on wild rabbits, so Xiao Tuo transformed himself into a trapper and caught more than a dozen wild cats and even a wolf in one night, all of which were carrying the virus.
A dozen wild cats and the wolf were given medicine in the same way as the wild rabbit was treated before, and they all recovered.
This means that these springs and this unnamed plant are the antidote to zombie disease.
In order to make it easier to take back, Zian started making medicine.
In the past two days, Xiao Tuo discovered that someone was monitoring him, but they were just monitoring him and did not attack him, so Xiao Tuo did not care.
Zi'an knew who those people were. They were all sent by the Noble Concubine. There was no way to get rid of them when he left the capital.
However, Zi'an and Xiao Tuo both knew that they were not attacking now, but were just waiting for orders.
Therefore, both of them were very cautious, and Zi'an even sharpened his arrows and dyed them with poison just to deal with them.
Flour is needed to make medicine, so Xiao Tuo went to the kitchen on Madman Island to steal it, but was discovered. The process was very dangerous. The guards released a bunch of lunatics to chase them. If Zi'an hadn't been quick-witted and used the Soul-Snatching Ring to knock down a big tree to scare them away, they would have been caught up by the lunatics.
However, Xiao Tuo knew the effect of the Soul-Snatching Ring.
From that day on, Xiao Tuo had always wanted to take the Soul-Snatching Ring for himself.
"Steal some more flour."
"Show me the ring and I'll go."
"Go get some spring water!"
"Show me the ring and I'll go."
"Go pick some poisonous weeds."
"Put the ring... OK, I'll go, don't hit my face."
On the fifth day on the island, Zi'an finally made the pills. This was thanks to the island's scorching sun, which was able to dry the pills quickly.
In order to verify the effect of the pill, Zi'an tested it on sick animals and found it worked, so the two began their return journey.
There are only two and a half days left until the military order expires.
At this moment, the people who had been monitoring them on the island disappeared, as if they had received an order to evacuate overnight.
They boarded the boat with suspicion in their hearts, and when the boat left the dock, the two found something wrong.
Except for one, all the crew members were not the same as before.
These people were actually hired by the old lady with a large sum of money. After the noble concubine's people had all evacuated, the old lady's killers occupied this place.
A fight is inevitable.
Xiao Tuo gathered Zi'an behind him and said, "If you see that the situation is not going well, put down the boat and leave immediately."
The antidote was placed in a salt jar, which Xiao Tuo "took" from the kitchen of Madman Island. It had always been held by Xiao Tuo, but when Xiao Tuo took the sword, he stuffed the salt jar into Zi'an's hands.
The air was filled with the smell of murder, but no one took the first step.
There are eight crew members, including the captain and other nine persons. They walk with their heels off the ground, which shows that they are all masters of internal martial arts.
The old lady spent a lot of money this time.
When the boat reached the center of the sea, finally, the crisp sound of a sword being unsheathed was heard.
"The small boat is on the right wing. Cut the rope and drop it into the sea." Xiao Tuo lowered his voice and instructed Zi'an, then jumped up. Only the sound of swords and spears was heard. One person was left at the helm, and the other eight people attacked together.
Zi'an took off her outer clothes, tied the salt shaker to her back, picked up the dagger given to her by Murong Jie, and joined the battle.
"You don't know kung fu, hide!" Xiao Tuo roared, and fought back the killer who was approaching step by step. He grabbed Zi'an's wrist with one hand and pushed him to the right wing.
As soon as Xiao Tuo was distracted, an assassin stabbed him in the air with a sword. Xiao Tuo turned around but it was too late to dodge. He hurriedly raised his sword to block, and barely blocked it, but was forced back two steps.
Zi'an turned the soul-stealing ring, and a powerful electric current was released, hitting the killer who attacked Xiao Tuo. The current went straight through his forehead, and the killer fell straight to the ground and never got up again.
Zi'an killed someone with one move, which shocked the other killers. They all shifted their targets, thinking that Zi'an was the stronger enemy. They assigned five of their men to deal with Zi'an, while the remaining two fought with Xiao Tuo.
Zi'an had learned close combat in modern times. She had no idea about martial arts that required certain moves, so she just dodged a few moves with her agility.
She turned the Soul-Snatching Ring to the poison needle state, but the killer moved so fast, moving left and right, that she couldn't shoot out the poison needle. She came up with an idea and deliberately fell down to lure the enemy, and when the killer rushed over with a sword, the poison needle flew out.
The killer ran in a straight line, so the poison needle only needed enough explosive power to hit the target.
The second killer fell perfectly.
(End of this chapter)