It was a full week after arriving in Yazhou that Master and I finally came across a new location where there was another outbreak. This time it happened again in a small suburban village, thirty kilometers away from the last flashpoint. Since the previous flashpoint has been isolated, there is no possibility of frequent personnel exchanges between the two, so it is particularly bizarre.

After getting the news, we rushed to the scene with several heads of the Maoshan Dao Association to check.

A total of 17 patients were infected in this outbreak, all of whom suddenly became ill overnight. Moreover, most of their family members have also started to show some symptoms. It is estimated that there will be at least 30 cases of infection at this outbreak.

HOWEVER, ZHENG FU'S RESPONSE THIS TIME WAS RELATIVELY QUICK. When we arrived, a checkpoint had been set up at the entrance of the village to intercept vehicles and people entering and leaving, and medical staff had already entered the village to carry out their work, and there were no serious and critical patients so far. According to the way the mustaches counted it, there should be an extra red pin for its position on that map.

MUSTACHE AND THE OTHERS HAD COMMUNICATED INTERNALLY WITH THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENTS OF ZHENG GOVERNMENT IN ADVANCE, SO AFTER A PHONE CALL TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION, SHIFU, XIANG RU, GONG HETAI, AND MUSTACHE AND I were allowed to enter the epidemic area. We also received protective gear such as disposable masks, gloves and goggles. Only by wearing these can you enter the quarantine area.

The mustache whispered to me that in fact, those viruses were only effective for ordinary people, and they were nothing at all for those who practiced the Dao Method and Yin Gong, and they were just doing this to show their low profile.

In any case, after some communication and coordination, we were able to meet the 17 cases and their families. Patients who have been infected are lying in bed with high fever that persists and is accompanied by occasional vomiting and diarrhoea. Naturally, it is impossible for medical staff to let us have direct contact with these people, so we can only stand at the door or outside the window and observe.

But this distance is enough for us. Each patient's face was filled with a thick black gas, and it was obvious that he had just been haunted by the unjust spirit. Their families were quarantined in another place, and even though some of them had some symptoms, they did not have any black gas on their faces, proving that they had been infected through secondary contact.

After the initial investigation, Master made a more sensitive request: to personally go into the quarantine area and observe those infected people up close!

The mustache asked him why, and he only said, "Go in and see how you can collect more clues!" ”

The mustache couldn't do it, so he went to ask Xiang Ru again. Xiang Ru was very supportive of my master's approach, personally came forward to communicate with the person in charge of the scene, and finally won a set of disposable protective clothing and five minutes of visitation time.

Master nodded and said, "Five minutes is enough!" ”

Alone, he put on a white plastic hazmat suit and entered the makeshift ward fully armed. I saw him walk up to the first patient, look at it twice, grab a wisp of black gas from the patient's face with his hand, put it to his nose and sniff it.

This action frightened the doctors present. Although he couldn't see the black qi, and my master didn't have direct contact with the patient, it was very unsafe to do so after all!

Master waved his hand at the doctor, signaling him not to panic, and then went to the other patient's bedside to check, again using the same probing method. After seeing three patients in a row, the doctor inside really couldn't see it, so they coaxed him out.

The master came out of the quarantine area, disinfected the whole body, and took off the protective clothing again, before he said to us: "Let's go, let's go to the village and take a walk casually, there is nothing to see here." ”

Xiang Ru hurriedly asked him, "What did Master Feng find out from the patient?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that it confirmed that the virus was indeed transmitted from the plague spirit, and not for any other reason!" Master replied lightly.

"So what are we going to see now?"

"Look at the route of the plague ghosts!"

"It's daylight, can you still see it?"

"Hey, hey!" Master smirked and said, "You can't do it, I can!" ”

Actually, Master's so-called "seeing" should be more accurately said to be "smelling"!

He has practiced Yin Gong for decades, and has been a ghost chef for decades, often smelling all kinds of fragrances and smells (ghost meals are not all fragrant!). The nose is naturally more sensitive than that of dogs, especially to the smell of ghosts.

And there are not no sources of smell in the village, but there are too many. Each patient had the breath of the plague ghost on their bodies, which caused great trouble for Master's tracking. Still, after walking around the village twice, he found the house he felt the most unusual.

It was an old-fashioned tiled house with a wing room on the left and right, and a small river was more than ten meters away from the back of the house. The master turned around in front of the tiled house for a while, and then walked to the river.

"The breath of the plague ghost will be broken here!" He pointed to a grassy path by the river.

"Jumped into the river? Or did you crawl out of here? Xiang Ru asked.

"Coming out of here, also leaving from here!" Master replied in the affirmative.

"How can Master Feng be sure of this?"

"Because there are two breaths here, one is weaker and the other is stronger." Master explained, and he stretched out his hand and pointed to the sides of the house: "The stronger ones are on the east side, and the weaker ones are on the west side, which proves that the plague spirits came out of the river and entered the village from the east side, and when they came back, they jumped back into the river from the west side." ”

"Why is the strength of the two breaths different?"

"Because this is just a beginner-level ghost, even lower than I originally expected!"

"Beginner ghosts?"

Master's words surprised us a little again, he just walked like this, and he could even judge the level of the plague ghost?

Master nodded and said, "I said before that if you want to become a plague ghost, its resentment needs to be at least as strong as a ghost. However, although the plague ghost can spread the plague, it needs to consume some resentment, especially if it spreads to seventeen people overnight, the resentment will be temporarily weakened. Judging by the degree to which its resentment has weakened, this difference is obvious, so I judge that it is now at most a beginner-level ghost! ”

"Perhaps, this plague ghost may have been sealed for too long, so its resentment has lost a lot, and it has not recovered to its best state for a while. Because of this, when it has done something bad, it must leave and return to the yin veins to rest and recover, and then come out again after a few days. That's why I asked where the Qing Yin vein was located in the first place! ”

"That means that the place where the plague ghost haunts must be very close to the Yin veins?" The mustache asked.

"That's right, or not too far away!"

"But it's quite far from the known Yin veins?" I asked.

Master flattened his mouth, shook his head, and said, "The local Yin Cultivation Sect is very unreliable, and it is estimated that they rarely come to this area for activities, and they may have missed a place!" ”

"Where would that be?"

Master pointed to the upper reaches of the river and said, "Let's go up the river a little bit more." ”

The small river at the edge of the village is flowing fairly fast and well-flowing, and it is clear that there must be a larger source of water upstream. Sure enough, after two or three kilometers upstream along the river, we arrived at a lake.

The lake was oval-shaped, next to a local hill, and several streams flowed down from the hill into the lake. It seems that the rain from the mountains was the initial source of water for the formation of this lake.

The lake is about 400 meters long and 200 meters wide, and three rivers flow in three directions downstream, forming three small rivers.

"If I'm not mistaken, this lake is Lake Songtao." Mustache looked at the map every day, and naturally he was very familiar with it, and immediately called out the name of the lake, "The location we are where we are now is in the center of the town of Three Rivers, and the town of Three Rivers is obviously named after these three rivers. ”

"What are these three rivers called?" Master asked him again.

"Master Feng, wait, I still have to find a sense of direction." The mustache blushed a little, and finally pulled out his phone to check the navigation map.

But all three rivers are too small to be named on the map. However, according to the towns and villages they flow through, we will tentatively name: Benhai River, Sanhe River, and Longshan River. Among them, the Sanhe River is the small river we just walked along all the way, located in the middle, and the Benhai River and the Longshan River are separated from the north and south.

I also opened the navigation map on my mobile phone, and the three rivers on it were like three big monster claws, and Songtao Lake was the palm of the claws. At this time, without the need for Master's reminder, I could clearly feel the cool air constantly emerging from the lake.

It's noon, and the sun is shining high above us. Even so, there is a cool breeze on the lake. Ordinary people may not be able to see anything abnormal, but judging by the sensitivity of Yin cultivators to Yin Qi, there must be a place full of Yin Qi under the surface of this lake!

Master climbed to a high place again, looked around the lake, and finally pointed to the center of the lake and said, "I think there is a natural outlet of the yin vein under this lake, which is directly connected to the dark hole at the bottom of the lake. The ghost can dive, it can go down from three small rivers through the lake, and when it reaches the village by the river, it will dive out and do evil, and then return to the same place when it is over! ”

If it is really according to Master's analysis, the problems that appear randomly at the flashpoint can be found. Ghosts can dive in the water without being discovered by Taoist cultivators, and the previous flashpoints seem to be irregular, but basically they appear in the villages along these three rivers in turn, in order to play tricks and hide people's eyes!