Chapter 235: Finding the Source of the Epidemic
Unexpectedly, the day after arriving in the Heavenly Continent, we began our adventurous career.
Of course, this kind of thing is headed by our Dr. Hong, and we followed this professional to the western district of Tiandu City early in the morning.
Naturally, the source of the infectious disease must be figured out first, and under the leadership of the Yin family sisters, we wandered around the stinking western district. We didn't spend time with the Yin sisters until dinner in the afternoon, and Yin Le didn't forget to comfort Hong Tong, who was frowning, when he was leaving.
"Brother Xiao, don't be too discouraged, my father has been looking for the source of infection, but he has never found it. ”
After bidding farewell to the two sisters, Yin Huan and Yin Le, we walked back to the Hailan Hotel.
"Tongtong, is this plague tricky?"
Erya, who has the charm of a young woman and the pure temperament of a girl, can't help but worry when she sees her husband always frowning. Hong Tong saw Erya's worried expression and his heart warmed, and he gently hugged Erya's slender waist with one hand, and a gentle smile appeared on his face.
"Boss, what do you think of this epidemic?"
I was about to lead Feng'er and hurry up to the front of the two people who showed affection, but I didn't expect this guy Hongtong to show me off.
"The plague was transmitted through the water source, but the well water in the western side was not contaminated, only there were toxins in the river water. The people who died in the West Side were all residents living near the river, and I had to look at the rest of the city to make a conclusion. ”
"Brother, let's go now. If he can't get an answer, he won't be able to sleep well tonight. ”
I looked at Erya jokingly, and Erya blushed and turned her face away from my gaze.
"Brother, let's go. Didn't the coachman say yesterday that the southern district was the worst plague? Let's go over there and have a look. ”
In the no-man's land, we summoned dry food and drank water, and walked and ate as we walked, and walked towards the south of the city. The western and southern districts of Tiandu City are divided by rivers and connected by several bridges.
"Stop, you filthy rats of the West Side are not allowed to enter the South Side!"
When we walked to the middle of a stone bridge of more than 10 meters on the border between the western and southern districts, several ordinary civilians with weapons on the bridge stopped us menacingly.
Seeing this, Hong Tong just wanted to say something, but Erya's face was already cold, and the energy was released, and those civilians suddenly sat on the ground with pale faces one by one. Ignoring the frightened gaze of the civilians sitting on the bridge deck with the smell of fishy dissipation, I threw the bamboo tube with the rope in my hand into the river below the bridge.
When I retracted the bamboo tube, with the familiar energy fluctuations, several masters came to the bridge from the southern area. I couldn't help but look at the comer with some curiosity, it was really surprising that it was the people who came with the streamer and flying shadows, and the leader was Dou Yilan.
"Huh, it's you, Brother Wu Yong. How did you do anything to civilians?"
"Hello, Sister Dou. We were forcibly recruited by Masterdo, so we are dealing with this outbreak. These civilians are in our way, so I gave them a little warning. ”
Although Hong Tong smiled and greeted affectionately, his eyes were very cold, and he did not have the excitement of seeing Dou Yilan again.
"Sure enough, you are all ......"
Dou Yilan raised her hand, and Xiao Lisha, who had resisted the first pirate attack with us in the Streamer Flying Shadow Squad, stopped halfway through her words.
Dou Yilan looked at Hong Tong and smiled mildly and said, "Our Streamer Flying Shadow has also been forcibly recruited by Wanshitang, let us be responsible for guarding these bridges and preventing the flow of people on both sides to avoid the spread of the epidemic." ”
Dou Yilan's tone intensified when she said 'stop both sides', and a gentle smile appeared on her face. Hong Tong's face turned red as soon as he bent down to Dou Yilan and said, "I'm sorry, Sister Dou, I misunderstood you." ”
Dou Yilan covered her mouth and smiled when she heard this, and said, "I don't blame you, Brother Xiao Tong." Presumably, in the day since you got off the ship, you have also seen how the Heavenly Continent "welcomes" the people of our Human Continent. Seeing us standing here, everyone has ideas. ”
Dou Yilan turned her eyes to me who was frowning tightly and looked at the wood chips taken out of the bamboo tube and asked, "Brother Wu Yong, is there a problem with this river?"
I glanced at the civilians on the ground and nodded at me, "There's a problem, the closer you get upstream, the higher the toxins in the water." Sister Dou, we are going to the south of the city to take a look at the situation of the well water, will you come with us?"
Although I am not interested in saving these Heavenly Continent masters who are above the top, since I have accepted the task of Wanshitang, I will either not do it or go all out. In order to avoid unnecessary interference, it is naturally a good choice to let Dou Yilan, who has been in Tiandu City all the year round, accompany us.
Soon we were in front of a well on which hundreds of families depended. I looked around and saw that the buildings were beautifully maintained, the garbage was cleaned, and the residents were neatly dressed.
It's a world away from the West End, and if the West End had been so tidy, the epidemic might not have killed anyone.
After testing the well water, my conjecture was confirmed, and the well water had a higher level of toxins than the river water.
Hong Tong turned to the old man who came in a hurry and said, "Old man, please arrange for an offspring to go down to the well to see if there are any dead animals in this well." ”
Sure enough, a dead mouse was salvaged, and when I dissected it on the spot, I found that its internal organs were purple and black.
We looked at four wells in quick succession, and all of them fished out dead animal carcasses.
Looking at the purple-black dead cat in front of him, Hong Tong let out a long breath and then turned to Dou Yilan and said, "Sister Dou, please tell the Tai Ge Hall Master. The main cause of the disease has been clarified, which is caused by toxins spread from dead animal carcasses in well and river waters. ”
In the evening, Dou Yilan insisted on taking us back to the Hailan Hotel. She was going to sit in our room, but my "uncle's" fiery gaze said goodbye to us.
"Room service, little sir. ”
The waiter who came in was the waiter who led the Yin sisters to raise donations, and I remember that he should be surnamed Hua.
After the waiter surnamed Hua finished cleaning the room, he came to Hong Tong and me, who were discussing the recipe for disinfecting the well water. He seemed to have something going on, but he didn't dare to open his mouth for fear of disturbing us.
Erya noticed the embarrassment of the waiter surnamed Hua and asked him, "Do you have anything else?"
The waiter surnamed Hua laughed, grabbed the back of his head and said, "That, Tai Ge Hall Master, he asked me to ask a few seniors, have you prepared the disinfectant potion?"
We looked at him together, and Feng'er pointed to the waiter surnamed Hua with a sudden expression and said, "It turns out that the contact person that the master of Taige Hall said last night is you." ”
The waiter surnamed Hua took out a bamboo jack-of-all-trades brand from his neck and said, "Hello seniors, my name is Hua'an." I'm also a member of Wanshitang, but unlike your predecessors, I'm just an ordinary person. I can't do difficult work, so I can only do this kind of errands. ”
Although Hua An's tone was very deferential, he was still proud when he said that he was a jack of all trades. Hua An, who is the same age as us and looks very handsome, knows that he is a very down-to-earth and responsible person when he cleans.
I smiled and handed the prescription that Hongtong and I had already discussed to Hua'an: "You send this prescription to Wanshitang, this matter cannot be delayed urgently." ”
"Okay, seniors, I'll go after cleaning. ”
Looking at Hua'an, who left after sweeping the floor seriously, I couldn't help but feel that this kid was teachable.
When Hua'an comes back, I'll teach him the Ice Heart Technique.
The next day, we left Liu Zhuang and other news of Hua'an, while the others set off to the north of the city, ready to check the water source there.
On the way, we passed by the well, there were crowds of onlookers, which was a rare scene in the epidemic Tiandu City, through which soldiers could be seen standing by the well. Apparently, the Tai Ge Hall Master, who had been reported by Dou Yilan and Hua'an, had already contacted the officials of Tiandu City and the Yan family to launch an operation to clean up the wells throughout the city.
On the way, we met a group of soldiers walking past us with a group of prisoners covered in wet, ragged clothes and shackles. A captain-like man with a vicious expression on his face slammed his whip into the air and slammed into the air to furious the prisoners.
"You lazy worms on the continent, hurry up for me! After clearing the well, I still have to clear the river!"
When we heard this, our hearts couldn't help but rise in anger, but it was not easy to interfere, who told these people to break the law.
Women and children in the distance looked at the prisoners with grief, and one of the children rushed over screaming for his father. When the child passed by me, Feng'er grabbed him. The dirty children, who were only 5 or 6 years old, struggled desperately and even bit Feng'er's hand. Feng'er just flickered black light in her hand and sucked the child's teeth, controlling him without hurting him and preventing him from rushing over.
It wasn't until the child-like dirty, unclothed mother came up to hug the child that Feng'er collected her energy and let go of the child.
"You're bad, you're helping the bad guys bully my dad. ”
The child didn't know that Feng'er was for his good, and cried loudly to Feng'er.
Feng'er said very seriously: "Your father made a mistake, so he was arrested, and your father is the bad guy." ”
Feng'er, who was educated by me from the legal world, thinks that those caught by the arrested people must be people who have committed crimes.
"We didn't make a mistake, it was those people from the Heavenly Continent who robbed our shop and framed my husband for the money he owed them!
The child's mother's sad and angry voice attracted a chorus of echoes from the people around me, and looking at those eyes full of hatred, my heart suddenly became extremely heavy. Regardless of whether what the child's mother said was true or false, the Heavenly Continent was indeed not a place for people from the Human Continent to set foot in.
Feng'er wanted to get some money for the child's mother but was stopped by me, we are not wealth boys, we can't help so many people. If it can be solved with money, it is not a problem, and the deep-rooted discrimination of the people of the Heavenly Continent against the people of the Human Continent is obviously not solved by money.
By the northern part of Tiandu City, the cleaning of wells and rivers had already begun.
However, the clean-up work in many places is carried out by prisoners in handcuffs and shackles, and most of them are from the Human Continent, although there are some people from the Earth Continent, but there is no one from the Heavenly Continent.
With a lot of resentment, we ended the survey of the water source in the north of the city early.
However, we can also be sure that the wells in the northern zone, which are inhabited by a large number of terrestrial people, are much less infected than in the southern zone. This also makes the North Region the second least fatal region in the epidemic after the Western Region.
"Boss, it seems that this plague is really looking for people from the Heavenly Continent. ”
Hong Tong's tone was full of schadenfreude, but if the plague continued to spread like this, the entire Tiandu City would become a dead domain.
Feeling the familiar energy, we stopped and looked at it together.
"You're here, have you met Hua'an? It's a waiter of such a tall pitch at the Sea Blue Hotel. ”
I looked at Dou Yilan, who was looking anxious at Hua An's height, and a bad premonition spread in my heart.
I hurriedly asked Dou Yilan: "Hua'an, did you go to Wanshi Hall last night?"