The moon was also surprisingly good, shining brightly in all directions, and the houses of the village looked strange in the moonlight, like an empty city.

When the Lord of Baiyun Temple woke up, Fairy Yu was very happy and said, "Master, you have finally woken up, it's great. How do you feel?"

"Where is this?"

"On Sister-in-law Gu's fishing boat, Gongzi Zhuo saved you and sent you back for healing. ”

"What about Zhuo Gongzi?"

Yang Xianmao sat cross-legged on the deck with Sister-in-law Gu at the bow of the boat, vigilantly watching the surroundings and feeling the tranquility at the same time. Hearing someone talking in the cabin, he knew that the Lord of the White Cloud Temple had woken up, and immediately stood up and came to the Lord of the White Cloud Temple. The moonlight shone coldly on her face, showing a particularly bright and clean appearance. Yang Xianmao said, "How are you?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, it's just thirsty and I want to drink water. ”

"No, you can't drink water yet. Because your visceral belly is ruptured. If you drink water, before the wound heals, the water will penetrate your abdominal cavity again and cause an infection, then you have to open your stomach again. So stick to it and wait until you're ventilating properly before drinking water. ”

The Lord of Baiyun Guan nodded and said, "I listen to you, how is the situation now?"

Yang Xianmao said: "I just saved four hunters who escaped from the scorched earth, and the four of them were trapped in the scorched earth and broke out. But they were burned all over their bodies, and the burns were similar to those burned by fire, and I have given them emergency treatment. Except for one that was very badly injured, the other three were relatively good and might have survived, but the fourth one was hard to say. ”

"He had fallen into a deep coma when I was treated earlier, and even though he woke up, he only passed out again for a short time. This treatment of the terrible scorched earth gave me some of my own views and understanding of this disease, and laid the foundation for similar injuries in the future. ”

The White Cloud Viewer said, "That's great, but what's the origin of that thing? I heard you say that I feel creepy, and now I don't know what's going on? Is it still spreading this way?"

Yang Xianmao said: "We can't see the situation of the scorched earth from here, and we are also pondering this problem. Ready tomorrow morning we'll paddle down the river and get a feel. ”

The Baiyun Guan Lord said, "You still have to be careful, that thing doesn't know if the water will be affected?"

"yes, I'm worried too, if it can also burn from the water, then we're really in danger, and we have nowhere to go. ”

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Sister-in-law Gu propped the boat down the river and slowly rowed towards the underground dark river channel. When they saw the mountain in the distance, they stopped the boat. Because here they can already see clearly where the shore has turned into scorched earth. And as it moved slowly, it continued to devour the green woods, and the place where it passed was charred black.

Yang Xianmao noticed that the rocky beaches by the river had also turned black. Including the rocks, it seems that they have been grilled by the fire, and they have been grilled for a long time, and some of the fragile colors have been cracked.

However, to Yang Xianmao's relief, the water along the river has not changed in any way, and it is still quiet and quiet. But one thing that made him feel faintly uneasy was that there were a small number of dead fish floating in the river, belly upside down, floating on the water.

The little mallet pointed at the fish and said, "There are a lot of dead fish, let's catch them." ”

Sister-in-law Gu hurriedly pulled him and said, "Children, don't talk nonsense, now we are in great danger, everything is up to my uncle." He said that we will do whatever we want, and we must not make our own decisions. ”

"Okay, I see. The little mallet pouted

Yang Xianmao saw a wooden barrel on the boat, and there were a few fish in it, which was caught in the river last time when Sister-in-law Gu was looking for the Baiyun Guan Lord when Yang Xianmao went to Beishan.

Yang Xianmao immediately caught the largest fish and found a fishing rod from the cabin, the kind with a long fishing line hanging on. Hooked the hook to the fish's lower lip, then picked it up, and instructed Sister-in-law Gu to move the boat forward, the closer the boat went, from the perspective of the parallel point of view of the water surface and the shore, they had reached the edge of the scorched earth belt that was slowly moving forward on the shore. But Yang Xianmao didn't feel the violent beating that his heart had felt. Because it's still far enough away from the scorched earth on the shore.

Yang Xianmao struggled to throw the fish with a hook on his mouth far away to the scorched earth area, and the fish on the surface of the scorched earth area fell into the water and swam quickly. The fishing line in Yang Xianmao's hand rattled and pulled forward. Apparently the fish are desperately swimming forward, swimming farther and farther.

Sister-in-law Gu had already fixed the boat in the river water, looking at Yang Xianmao nervously, waiting for his next instructions.

Yang Xianmao stared at the fishing line in his hand, and was quickly pulled less and less. But at that moment, he noticed that the speed at which the fish was pulling the line had slowed down, and it was getting slower and slower, and finally stopped.

Yang Xianmao and the feather fairy next to him glanced at each other, and they both immediately became nervous. Yang Xianmao began to spin the wheel in his hand and began to reel in the fishing line, and it spun faster and faster, because at first he still felt that the fish seemed to be struggling. But then the struggle soon died down, and he dragged the fish back. Before he could retract enough of the line, the feather fairy pointed to the clear river and said, "Look, it's floating out." ”

Yang Xianmao's heart sank, and he looked at it, and sure enough, he saw a fish floating at the bottom of the water, and the fish belly was facing the sky. The tail of the fish is still wiggling slightly, and there is a fishing line hanging from the fish's mouth.

This should be the fish from before, Yang Xianmao pulled the fishing line, and sure enough, he pulled the fish and moved it this way. Sure that it was the fish, Yang Xianmao immediately slowly retracted the fishing line, lifted the fish out of the water, and put it on the deck. Squat down to see that the fish was dead, and not even its tail was moving. Yang Xianmao tentatively reached out and touched it, there was no special feeling, it was cool.

I turned the fish over and over again and found that there were no burns on the fish. And the surface of the water doesn't feel any temperature, which means that the fish doesn't seem to have been roasted to death by scorched earth, as for what it died of, Yang Xianmao didn't know for a while. But there was one result that made everyone's hearts hang, and that was that the fish, which was alive before it was thrown into the water, was already dead after only a few moments, with its mouth wide open.

Yang Xianmao said in a deep voice: "It seems that there may be some terrible substance in the river that is enough to kill people. The fish in this section of the river are dead, and if people fall into it, they are afraid that it will be equally difficult to survive. ”

Sister-in-law Gu kept looking at the scorched earth area that was moving forward slowly but firmly, and said, "It's already close to us, do you want to retreat?"

Yang Xianmao said: "Of course, let's leave here and go up." Look upstream, that's probably the only way out. Because the passage down, even if there is a place that has not been blocked by rocks, there is no way to pass, and the water is poisonous. Look where the water is coming from and see if you can get through there. ”

Sister-in-law Gu immediately propped up the boat and went upstream.

Yang Xianmao stood at the stern of the ship and looked at the scorched earth, and said, "That place is obviously much larger than yesterday, and it seems that the scorched earth is advancing faster than we imagined." According to this calculation, I am afraid that the entire village can be completely swallowed up in a month at most. We have only a month left at most, and we must get out of here during this month. ”

When they heard this, everyone's hearts were heavy. Yang Xianmao had originally said that he would go to the four hunters for a follow-up examination at dawn, but now that he had discovered a new situation, he had to determine as soon as possible the immediate danger that the new situation might bring to their survival. So they rowed up the river until they reached the entrance of the river.

But when they got here, hundreds of feet away, they stopped. For they found that from the front of the cave was the same as from the exit below, and that the scorched earth was spreading outward. It was already hundreds of feet in circumference, the trees and flowers had turned into scorched earth, and the river was full of dead fish. It's just that the expanded area is not as large as the previous one, and the speed is about the same.

Yang Xianmao's heart sank, and he said, "It's over, the entrance of the water is also controlled by this terrible scorched earth, and the fish in the river are also dead. It seems that it is impossible to get out of this water, and there is also scorched earth expanding outward, adding two places together in the upper and lower waters. The speed of sweeping through the entire disaster shelter village will be doubled, and it was originally estimated that it would only take half a month now, I'm afraid it will only take half a month. We have to get out of here for half a month, or we'll die. ”

Sister-in-law Gu said: "Maybe many people in the village don't know that this kind of scorched earth also appears on it, and if they do, they will be even more panicked." ”

Indeed, they all went out from the downstream river, the dark river, and the upstream water came out of the underground river. There is no actual access to the outside world, so there are basically no people who come here because it is relatively far from the village. Yang Xianmao and the others slid the boat down until they came to the river, and stopped near the inn where the four hunters had healed before. They met several other fishermen on the river and greeted each other, all with obvious horror on their faces.

After their boat docked, Yang Xianmao went ashore and waved their boat away. Only then did I quickly come to the pharmacy.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard the crying of several people inside. Yang Xianmao was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "I'm Lang Zhong, what's wrong?" I'm coming in. ”

The reason why I said hello first was to avoid misunderstanding the people inside, thinking that there were thieves entering, and it would be inconvenient to start moving.

Zhou Orion's sad voice came from inside: "Childe, you're finally back." But I came back late, and my third brother was already dead. ”

Another Orion said, "Maybe it's not dead yet, why don't you ask Gongzi Zhuo to take a look again?"

The youngest of Orion cried and said, "Look at the people, they have become stiff, and have been dead for several hours. ”

Yang Xianmao had already pushed the door in as they spoke, and saw several of them lying on their beds. Zheng Orion, who was in the third bed, was lying upright on the bed, with a cloth sheet covering his face, and he didn't know when he died.

Yang Xianmao was taken aback and said, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Orion said: "In the second half of last night, the third child suddenly woke up from a coma and said a few words, vaguely. He also said that he saw his father and mother, but we knew that his father and mother had died a long time ago, and it seemed that something was wrong, and sure enough, he died after a while. We didn't even have time to call you. ”

Yang Xianmao thought to himself, so sick, especially this kind of burn injury is more difficult to control than ordinary diseases. Even if they called themselves at the time, it was useless, and the same could not be cured.