Chapter 90: The Plague Breaks
"Unless someone did it on purpose!" Yue Linglong said lightly.
"Why is the girl so sure?" Chu Lingfeng asked again.
"But the conditions for the formation of a plague are twofold: first, natural factors, i.e., natural disasters such as floods, droughts, locust plagues, earthquakes, etc. The direct consequence of these four natural disasters is the mass death of people and livestock. If human and animal carcasses are not disposed of in a timely manner, they can easily become a source of infection. Yue Linglong said unhurriedly.
"Second, social factors, including war and famine. After the war, there were countless casualties, so to speak, corpses were everywhere, and if the corpses were not properly disposed of, it was easy to form epidemics. As for famine, the consequences are similar to war. Yue Linglong continued.
Yue Linglong's words were so clear, as smart as Chu Lingfeng, how could he not understand the meaning.
In recent years, there have been no natural or man-made disasters in the Xuantian Continent, so the sudden appearance of the epidemic remains to be considered.
"Girl, what speculation do you have in mind?" Chu Lingfeng asked as he slowly moved from the bed to the wheelchair.
"Everything has to wait for those patients to make a decision!" Yue Linglong replied.
"Master, who is so vicious? Actually put the epidemic on ordinary people! Qu Huaiyu asked angrily.
Qu Huaiyu is not a second lord who doesn't know anything, she knows the horror of the plague, and if she doesn't get it right, she can wipe out a city!
"I don't know." Yue Linglong replied.
"Someone!" Chu Lingfeng shouted coldly, regaining the majesty of his superior.
"I've seen the city lord." The two guards outside the door knelt down on one knee and said.
"Let the Commander Zuo go to the front hall, the city lord has something to ask him." Chu Ling commanded coldly.
"Yes!" The two guards respectfully exited the room.
"Girl, Ling Feng is in a hurry to deal with the epidemic, and if he is neglectful, please take care of the girl." Chu Lingfeng said with a smile.
"It's okay, it's important to get down to business, but do you have any plans?" Yue Linglong asked.
"What is the girl's plan?" Chu Lingfeng asked.
"If the City Lord of Chu doesn't dislike it, Linglong is willing to take Xiao Yu'er with him, it will be regarded as the experience of giving Xiao Yu'er an apprenticeship." Yue Linglong said.
"In this way, Ling Feng can't ask for it!" Chu Lingfeng looked a little happy.
Yue Linglong's medical skills are still very convincing, but he has just let Yue Linglong heal his legs, and he has not been paid yet, and now he feels a little sorry to trouble Yue Linglong again.
He had originally planned to go to the Medicine King Valley to ask Divine Doctor Xue to solve the matter of this plague, but since Yue Linglong had taken the initiative to go with him, he was no longer hypocritical.
The three of them went to the front hall together, and the left commander was already waiting in the front hall.
"I've seen the city lord!" Commander Zuo said with his hands clenched into fists and bowed.
"Commander Zuo doesn't have to be polite, this city lord wants to know, how did you find the plague?" Chu Lingfeng gave him a boost and asked.
"City Lord, today a villager entered Sunset City, just arrived at the city gate and fainted, his symptoms are very similar to the plague, his subordinates are afraid that it is really a plague, so they arranged him in a small cabin on the outskirts." The Left Commander replied respectfully.
"It's great to have a sick person! It's just the right time to take a good look. Yue Linglong said.
"The left commander leads the way." Chu Lingfeng commanded.
"Yes." The Left Commander replied respectfully.
Several people were cultivators, Qu Huaiyu's cultivation was relatively weak, and Yue Linglong led them, and the four of them flew to the small cabin on the outskirts of Sunset City.
Several guards surrounded the cabin in a circle, looking very vigilant.
"I've seen the city lord, I've seen the left commander!" The guard knelt down on one knee and said respectfully.
"Get up!" Chu Lingfeng said.
"Go in and have a look." Yue Linglong said lightly.
"Crunch" Yue Linglong pushed open the wooden door, a foul smell hit, Yue Linglong used his spiritual power, and a faint light shrouded the four of them.
"Ahem......" A man's cough sounded.
What caught my eye was a thin man in coarse linen clothes, lying quietly on a small wooden bed, his bare skin had festered and pus, and he looked extremely disgusting.
Although the man was in a coma, he was still coughing, Yue Linglong's face did not change, and he picked up the man's hand and began to take his pulse.
"Girl, be careful!"
"Master, be careful!"
Qu Huaiyu and Chu Lingfeng shouted at the same time, this symptom is a plague at a glance, if it is infected with the plague, it will be troublesome.
"I'm measured." Yue Linglong waved her hand and said.
She calmed down and began to check the man's pulse, Yue Linglong frowned slightly, put down the man's arm, and opened the man's eyelids to look at it.
"How's it going, girl?" Chu Lingfeng asked anxiously.
"It's poisoning." Yue Linglong said lightly.
"But it looks like a plague!" Commander Zuo asked suspiciously.
He knew that Yue Linglong's medical skills were very powerful, and if it weren't for Yue Linglong, he would have died in a nightmare a long time ago, so he didn't have the slightest doubt about Yue Linglong's words, but just asked the doubts in his heart.
"It looks like it, but it's not, just look at it." Yue Linglong said unhurriedly.
She took out a detoxification pill from the Linglong space, this detoxification pill was refined last time Yue Linglong was in a bad mood because of the matter of the night north underworld, and her blood was added to it, which can detoxify all kinds of poisons.
Yue Linglong just wanted to open the man's mouth and feed him the antidote pill.
"Girl, leave it to me!" Commander Zuo stared at the three Dan Pattern pills in Yue Linglong's hand and said with some excitement.
"It's fine." Yue Linglong casually threw the pill in front of the Commander Zuo and said lightly.
Commander Zuo hurriedly took the pill, and couldn't help but be speechless, this superb pill was like a cabbage in Yue Linglong's eyes, and it was not precious at all.
Commander Zuo didn't dare to delay at all, quickly opened the man's mouth, and fed the best elixir very painfully.
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Lijia Village
Lijia Village, now it is also a plague village, the village is inhabited by some ordinary people who can't cultivate, the villagers make a living by hunting, and they have lived here for generations, and they have been in peace until the stinking beggar appeared and broke the peace in the village.
No one expected that the beggar who suddenly fell to the ground was actually infected with the epidemic! Many villagers are panicking, it is a plague! If you don't get it right, the whole village will die.
The old village chief made a quick decision and ordered a few bold village names to burn the beggar's body on the spot, and finally bury it on the spot.
The villagers thought that this was the end of the matter, but they did not expect that this was just the beginning, first the old people in the village began to have fever, headache, cough symptoms.
At first, the villagers thought it was just ordinary wind and heat, and thought that drinking some ginger water and sweating would be fine, and if the conditions were better, they also asked the barefoot doctor in the village to prescribe traditional Chinese medicine.
Unexpectedly, those "wind and heat" people did not get better at all, and their bodies began to be covered with red spots, red and itchy, and then the red spots began to grow into pus, which broke as soon as they were scratched, and the stench was incomparable.
Then there were many children in the village, women and children who had the same symptoms one after another, and it was not until the elderly who were the first to show symptoms died one after another, that the villagers realized that something was wrong.
"It's not going to be a plague, is it?" A stout man said in a gruff voice.
It was only then that the villagers realized the seriousness of the situation, and the whole village began to become panicked, especially those whose families had symptoms of the plague or whose family members had died as a result.
The village chief immediately decided to let a few brave villagers pull the people who died because of the plague to the barren mountain with a hand-pushed tricycle to be cremated, but this time no one dared to act, the plague is current, or their own lives are at stake.
The village chief promised that everyone who participated in the removal of the corpse would get a silver coin, which was a few months' income for each family, but still no one moved, everyone died, what was the use of asking for money?
In the end, the dead spontaneously organized themselves, covered their mouths and noses with cloths, and pulled the dead to the barren mountains in human-powered tricycles to be cremated, including their belongings.
And those who had the plague were also sent to the barren mountains, where a grass hut was erected, and people were sent to send a little food from afar every day, so that those who were infected with the plague could fend for themselves in the barren mountains.
And the people who stayed, every family closed their doors, lived on the food stored at home, and drank the Chinese medicine prescribed by the barefoot doctor every day, but the plague seemed to be out of control, more and more people were infected, and more and more people were sent to the barren mountains.
The village chief couldn't sit still any longer, so he had to send a young and strong villager to Sunset City to report the local epidemic to the city lord of Sunset City.
Unexpectedly, this young and strong person was infected with the plague early in the morning, he fainted as soon as he entered Sunset City, and when he saw someone fainting, a group of people who watched the excitement quickly surrounded him, no matter where it was, the most important thing was to watch the excitement.
I saw that the villager was covered with red spots, some of which had turned into pus, and were emitting an unpleasant stench.
"Oh my God! How his symptoms were so much like the plague. A man hurriedly took a few steps back, hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, and said in a panic.
When a group of people heard that it was a plague, one by one they covered their mouths and noses as if they had seen a plague god, and hurriedly retreated, and the scene fell into chaos for a while.
"Run, everybody! There is a plague! A man shouted in panic.
A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many people began to flee the place, all the shops were closed, and the street vendors left in a hurry before they could even take their belongings, and Sunset City, which had only been restored for a few days, became deserted again.
The guards guarding the city saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly reported this time to the left commander.
When Commander Zuo heard that it was a plague, he didn't dare to be careless at all, and hurriedly reported this time to the steward of the City Lord's Mansion, and finally reached Chu Lingfeng's ears.
And now in Lijia Village, five or six days have passed since the young man went to Sunset City, and the plague in the village has worsened, and many young adults have died.
In the open space at the head of the village, many villagers gathered, all with panic on their faces.
"Village chief, it can't go on like this, maybe we have offended a certain great god, this is the punishment of the great god for us!" A middle-aged man said anxiously.
"Not bad"
"It is"
"We agree too"
"How about I ask a wizard to do it?" One villager suggested.
Everyone echoed the gossip, and everyone pinned their hopes on the wizard.
"Okay, just ask the wizard to come over and do it." The village chief clapped his head.