Chapter 158: Monsters in the Junkyard
The cause of the dump in Valley Village is a complex historical legacy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It has been nearly 100 years since the first settlers settled in the valley village. In the early days, there were only about a dozen households and the village was small, and the dump site was a hot spring pond where people liked to take a soak and relax after a hard day's work.
Fifty years ago, the eruption of the Balle volcano caused stratigraphic changes, and the village of the valley was also affected, and people suddenly found that the water level of the hot springs began to drop, and within half a year, it was completely depleted, and only a large crater remained.
At that time, the villagers considered that such an open-air pit was not sight-looking and dangerous, and that children could easily fall into the pit when playing nearby, and their heads would be broken and bleeding lightly. So, it was suggested to fill it in.
However, considering that the village is located in a swampy area, and it is really troublesome to dig up the soil from other places to fill the large pit, so the project was delayed, and people simply threw their own garbage into the pit.
As the years go by, the population of Gudi Village has increased from a dozen households to more than 200 households, and the daily garbage generated is 100 times that of before, and the big pit is gradually filled.
The correct thing to do is to bring in earth and rocks to bury them and dispose of them in another place, but people have developed a habit over the years, so they still dispose of garbage here after the pit is filled.
As a result, not only has the originally dry pond been filled, but there are also mountains of garbage more than ten feet high on the surface, covering an area of more than 10 acres, and a pungent stench can be smelled from afar.
As the garbage dump rises above the surface, the sewage produced naturally flows downward, and the stream that is not far away suffers.
Fortunately, the stream comes from the Lucia Snow Mountain, which flows all year round, and although it seeps into the sewage, it looks clear and does not smell any peculiar smell. The villagers still wash their clothes and vegetables by the stream, and even drink raw water without boiling it, and the germs from the garbage mountain enter people's lives in this way, and it is no wonder that they do not get sick.
The cause of the garbage dump is roughly the same, but when it comes to the current epidemic of "putrid fever" in the valley village, the problem is probably not so simple, otherwise how do you explain that people have no other common diseases, but suffer from the relatively rare rot fever? There must be a special factor at work here, and Roland will need to dig into the dump to confirm his suspicions.
Seeing the garbage heap with sewage flowing from afar, the stench blowing in the night breeze in the face, the people who watched the excitement invariably stopped, covered their mouths and noses with disgust.
Veronica waved her sleeves to dispel a swarm of buzzing flies, and said to Roland with some embarrassment, "This place is so dirty and smelly, can I wait outside?" ”
Nikita couldn't stand the dirty environment either, and covered her nose and looked away.
Seeing the embarrassment of the two ladies, Roland did not force them to go along, and walked straight across the stream where the sewage was gathering and walked towards the depths of the garbage mountain.
Bloom scratched his beard, but reluctantly followed, splashing himself as he jumped over the sewage, and snorted angrily: "I said Brother Roland, this place stinks to death, what's so nice about it?" Just let people take the garbage away and fill it up. ”
Roland smiled bitterly: "Look at those villagers, which one is willing to accompany us in for a walk?" And who is willing to work hard to relocate the dump in vain? People are inert, and if I don't have enough evidence that their illness is related to this pile of garbage, I'm afraid few people will be willing to take part in this dirty and tiring work. ”
The dwarf thought about it, but he was also deeply helpless. In any case, they are just a group of passing tourists, who have neither the prestige to mobilize the people to do voluntary work, nor the possibility of forcing them to work with violence. If he paid to hire a villager to relocate the garbage dump, he felt unjustly panicked - it was obviously for your own good, why should I be an outsider to pay?
"Therefore, the solution to the rural problem cannot all rely on shouting slogans, let alone taking it for granted, and we must adopt some more down-to-earth and convincing means." Roland said.
Bloom felt the same way, but after thinking about it, a question arose: "I understand your difficulties, but how to solve them?" We spent half a day wandering around this filthy place, trying to find out what was going on? ”
Roland smiled lightly: "This has to start with 'putrid fever', it is not a disease caused by bacteria or viruses, but a supernatural disease, only some special creatures can carry pathogens, just like the rotten blood we encountered in the ruins of the Temple of Tiamat must carry the blood fever virus, and the blood fever virus cannot survive without the rotten blood for a long time." ”
Bloom was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "Are you saying that the garbage dump is not the root cause of the rot epidemic, but the monsters attracted by the garbage dump?" ”
"That's right, now all we have to do is to find out the root cause of this bane and cut it off completely."
"But where is it hidden? Isn't it all a matter of luck for us to catch that monster as blind and blind as we wander around. The dwarf scratched his head suspiciously.
Roland tugged at the corners of his mouth, but didn't say anything. The idea of dealing with the problem should be clear, but when it comes to implementation...... Useful tools could be used to be more flexible.
There was a large crowd of people waiting outside. How long can their patience be maintained? In two hours at most, people will go back to their homes without seeing the harvest, and even if the culprit of the disease is found afterwards, it will be difficult to create a sensation, let alone encourage people to raze the garbage dump while the iron is hot.
Roland knew that he didn't have much time, so before entering the garbage dump, he quietly prepared a "second-level undead summoning scroll", and he couldn't find the real murderer, so he summoned a monster like "zombie earth sloth" to come out and fill the number, and ordered it to roll a few times in the garbage heap, making it dirty and smelly, with a terrifying appearance, and taking it out to coax the villagers, saying "This is a monster that spreads rot fever", which can also achieve the effect he wants.
As for the real bane, most of them are frightened in the process of bulldozing the garbage dump, and then they will have to deal with it. In any case, he didn't say that there was only one monster in the dump, and instead of being able to find fault with it, it could reinforce the hazards of the dump and encourage the doubly frightened villagers to pay more attention to hygiene habits.
Without warning, a large pile of rubbish collapsed beside Bloom, and two long gray-blue whips flew out of them, thorny tips whistling at him with a wind-breaking screech.
The dwarf hurriedly raised his shield to block one of the whips, and the other slammed into his back, but thanks to the protection of the adamantite armor, he stumbled and nearly fell into the sewage by the sudden and powerful impact.
Roland hurriedly pulled him and blessed him with "protection against evil" by the way.
The dwarf relented and turned around and roared: "Despicable fellow, you dare to sneak up on Uncle Ben!" Go to hell! He threw the hammer with all his might.
The magic hammer slammed into the garbage heap where the monster was hiding with his rage, splattering large clouds of sewage and filth, mixed with blood.
A dull, painful howl came from the depths of the garbage heap, and the garbage on it shook and collapsed like an avalanche, revealing the true face of the monster before the eyes of Roland and Bloom.
It looks like a giant salamander, with thick limbs that clung to the ground, sharp claws that make it easy to dig holes and a formidable weapon, gray-blue skin oozing sticky, smelly bodily fluids and rubbish, and is very concealed in the garbage heap.
The monster's round head had only a large, sharp-toothed mouth, and its eyes, nose, ears, and other organs were too degraded to be seen. The most bizarre thing is its tail, which is split into three strands at the end, and the left and right strands are extremely slender, forming two tentacles covered with thorns, which it used to attack Bloom just now. The tail in the center is thick and short, curled like a scorpion's tail, with three folds arranged parallel to the end of the tail, and each time the folds shrink, the eyeballs hidden underneath are exposed, and the bones look around.
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