Gao Chunguo year: the twenty-third year of Tianfeng, the ninth morning of the fourth month of summer. "Words, feelings, first, http://www.Klxsw.com

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Congfu, Yulin Town, Yubai County, Fenglin County.

I know that the purpose of this visit is not just to come on vacation and play as usual, but to come for the outbreak of the epidemic in Maplewood County last month. The night before leaving, my father repeatedly told him to try his best to find out the truth about the epidemic in Fenglin County on the premise of ensuring his own safety. Therefore, although she was secretly surprised in her heart, Princess Yunxing didn't think too much about investigating what happened in this mansion, which seemed a little inexplicable and unusual.

Because he had instructed Xiao Jun in advance to lead his subordinates and Wuling County to collect as many bones as possible on the road, so that they could start studying today, when Princess Yunxing came to the house across the street the next morning, where Xiao Jun and the others lived, there were already a lot of white bones piled up in the yard.

Seeing Her Royal Highness the princess walk in, the servants who were busy kneeling down and saluting, Xiao Jun and other guards also knelt on one knee, and after bowing to the courtesy, they got up and reported to Princess Yunxing:

"Her Royal Highness Princess Qiqi, the last general has already brought people to collect three remains of each of the large, medium and small, as well as two bones of various types of poultry. If there is still a need, please ask Her Royal Highness the Princess to command. ”

"That's all, I'll tell you if I need to. Take your people outside the door and wait. ”

"Yes, Your Highness Princess."

Princess Yunxing only left six servants, as well as the two girls Xia Yun and Hongyun who were by her side.

"Tell me your point."

Knowing that the six servants must have been studying for a long time, Princess Yunxing wanted to hear their opinions first.

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, it's really unseen and unheard of. The villain has lived for so many years, and has been working in the county for more than thirty years, and it is the first time he has seen such a strange plague. ”

A man with a gray beard and a little gray hair, who was close to sixty years old, spoke.

The other five echoed reads(); Mecha Battle Queen.

"What's the difference?"

Princess Yunxing bent down to pick up a radius and asked as she looked at it.

"Your Highness the Princess, please see that the bones of all the dead, whether they die of natural cause, of disease, or of sudden calamity, are all blue-gray in color, unless they are poisoned and the bones of the dead are black, and now these bones are all miserable white. In addition, there is not a single bone marrow left in any of the bones. It is understandable that the bone marrow would disappear if you had been dead for many years, but the plague had only occurred a month earlier. Some of them have been dead for less than twenty days, and they should never be like this. ”

As he spoke, a slightly younger servant casually broke a femoral bone and handed it to Princess Yunxing.

Sure enough, it was empty, as if it had been dug up with something, and there was no trace of bone marrow.

Moreover, seeing the appearance of the man who broke the femoral head, it didn't take much effort, Princess Yunxing also followed his example, and with a slight force in her hand, the radius bone in her hand was very light and was broken.

"What else?"

"Also, whether it is a human or an animal, there are only bones, and there is not the slightest trace of clothing, nor hair. What's more, even the insects on the ground have disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace of skin and shell. ”

"So we don't think it's a plague."

"Huh?! What is not the plague? ”

After being reminded by several people in front of her, Princess Yunxing also felt that what happened on the ground in Fenglin County was far from being as simple as a plague.

"We can't figure out what it is. Plague is nothing but the life of a man or an animal, not even flesh and blood. According to the temperature of the current season, it will take at least three to four months for a person or animal to completely decay after death, how can it be that in less than a month, only bones remain. Moreover, the shells of some insects are very hard, not inferior to the bones of animals, and if they are only plagued, they will definitely leave their skins after death. ”

"What I saw in front of me couldn't help but make people wonder if something had eaten it."

Another servant added.

"Do you eat even clothes and hair? Besides, where is the bone marrow in the bone cavity? ”

"yes, that's confusing. Not to mention birds, animals and insects, just the population of Fenglin County, there are more than 300,000 people in 13 counties, what has such a big appetite? ”

Quietly listening to the conversation of the six servants, Princess Yunxing lost her opinion.

Indeed, the analysis of the servants is not wrong, and it is impossible to explain what happened in Maplewood County simply by the word "plague". But if not the plague, what would it be? Obviously, it is impossible to say that it was eaten by something. Princess Yunxing has also seen the reports from various places about the sudden plague in Fenglin County. It is clear enough to record the scene of the outbreak of the plague, where people first turn into zombies, and then turn into a pile of white bones with a burst.

didn't stay long, Princess Yunxing returned to Congfu with a radius in her hand, and came directly to the rockery pavilion in the middle of the lake in the backyard. Waving his hand, the maids all withdrew, and a person sat quietly in contemplation.

Since childhood, he likes medical skills, and when he was five or six years old, he often frequented the imperial hospital in the palace, and almost none of the imperial doctors in it did not like this sensible and smart little princess, although occasionally it seemed a little willful.

The key is that Princess Yunxing has shown unusual talents in medical skills since she was a child, almost whether it is medical science or pharmacology, she will reads(); Miss Bahu Four. This is one of the main reasons why all the royal doctors love her. Another reason is that who doesn't want to have an apprentice of Her Royal Highness the Princess, let alone Princess Yunxing has been the pearl of the current saint since she was a child.

However, Princess Yunxing is also quite strange, although she likes any medical skills, she only has a soft spot for the plague, so Jing Chun, who is familiar with the plague in the Tai Hospital, has become Princess Yunxing's favorite imperial doctor. As long as there is free time, it must be around Jingchun. Naturally, Jingchun is also willing to pass on the knowledge she has learned all her life to this little princess, especially after returning from going to the local area to deal with the epidemic, she will carefully tell the little Princess Yunxing what happened in the epidemic area.

It's just that when Princess Yunxing was eleven years old, that is, in the spring of the year before last, when Jing Chun went out to deal with an epidemic, he was accidentally infected, because of his advanced age, his own resistance was greatly reduced, and because of carelessness, he missed the best time for treatment, so that he died in the epidemic area, which can be regarded as a martyrdom.

After the news was transmitted back to the capital and reached the ears of Princess Yunxing, she was very sad for a while. After Princess Yunxing recovered from the grief of Jingchun's death, even the emperor noticed that her daughter seemed to have suddenly grown up and matured, and Princess Yunxing, who used to be a little petty, became more and more virtuous.

Especially when the entourage who followed Jing Chun to the epidemic area came back and relayed Jing Chun's last words, and asked him to leave the book "Plague Overview" written by him with his life's energy to Princess Yun Xing, Princess Yun Xing already regarded Jing Chun as her master in her heart. and secretly begged his father to bury Jingchun, and at the same time gave Jingchun's family a generous gift to express his respect for Jingchun.

Princess Yunxing, who was sitting alone in the pavilion, did not find a reasonable explanation for the epidemic that happened in Fenglin County from her memory, and she was depressed and had to return to the four bungalows in the middle courtyard, and took out the "Plague Overview" left by Jing Chun from the luggage she brought with her, and looked at it carefully from the beginning.

When she was about to see the end, it was some rumors about the plague left by Jing Chun. In other words, Jingchun has not seen the epidemic in person. One of the passages describes it like this:

"When I was young, I liked to go up to the mountains to collect medicine, and when I heard that there was a cordyceps in the northwest plateau where Kim Shanguo was located, which was regarded as a miracle medicine by the locals, I went to find out out of curiosity. When they arrived in the northwest plateau of Jinshanguo, they dug up the so-called magic medicine Cordyceps in their mouths under the guidance of the locals. Careful observation, coupled with the explanation of the locals, finally figured out the ins and outs of Cordyceps. It turns out that after a fungus reproduces in autumn, the young offspring of its own division burrow into the ground, burrow into the body of a locust larvae, and use the body of the locust larva as nutrients, and wait for the summer and autumn of the following year, break through the soil, so Cordyceps is formed.

The so-called Cordyceps intuitively means that it is an insect underground, and it grows into grass, so the locals call it so. Actually, no, it is the fungus that grows, not the grass in the real sense.

This phenomenon is also a kind of parasitic in medicine. Unlike others, the fungal parasites here regard the host as a source of nutrients for growth.

I've seen similar situations in the forest, for example, the same fungus will take the insect as its host, and its reproductive offspring will be nourished by the insect's body, and when the fungus matures, the insect is left with an empty shell.

Other than that, there have been no instances of this fungus hosting large animals or humans. ”

This large description gave Princess Yunxing some inspiration.

"Could the fungus in the Cordyceps mentioned by Master Jingchun be the culprit behind the death of all the people and animals in Fenglin County, as well as the insects?"

Immediately, Princess Yunxing shook her head again, thinking to herself, according to Master Jingchun's description, it would take a whole winter and spring for the fungus to absorb the host's flesh and blood. The situation in Maplewood County is too short a time. Moreover, it does not explain how the clothes and hair of the deceased disappear. It is also inexplicable that the fur of the dead animals, as well as the shells of insects, have gone.