Nahe County was located in the middle of a col between the mountains, and from a distance, it seemed that there was still billowing smoke in the city, and Shen Zhitang immediately ordered someone to speed up the speed of the carriage

When we arrived at the city gate, it was already noon, and the guards guarding the city gate outside the city gate had stopped many merchants and passers-by who were talking at the foot of the city wall

"I heard that Nahe County was also attacked by that poisonous insect, I think this Xilin City can't stay anymore, hurry back and pack up and go to another place to make a living!"

"But my family is still inside~"

"Young people, don't worry, my family is also inside~ This is not all the officers and soldiers are here~ Let's wait"

"Didn't the two villages of Guhe and Gushan also be attacked by flying insects a few days ago~ I heard that they were all dead"

"More than that~ I also heard that those who survived by luck were covered with blisters, and the blisters were full of bugs...... All of them will die in a few days."

“……”

Inside a wooden shed standing against the wall of the city gate, Shen Zhitang's eyes roamed around, a pair of sharp eyes quickly swept over the things on the table, and his whole body was covered with strange black and red mosquitoes with open wings the size of a palm, flies with red wings the size of thumbs, and small moths that were so black and red......

Suddenly, a black object resembling a bee in the corner caught his attention, and he walked over to it, picked it up with his chopsticks on the table, and fell into deep thought

Li Jianqing stepped in front of Shen Zhitang from the city and flew off his horse and saluted: "Teacher~"

Shen Zhitang put down the chopsticks in his hand and reached out to help Li Jianqing and said, "What's going on inside?" ”

Li Jianqing shook his head, pointed to the objects on the table, and said, "These flying insects were all found in the city, I asked the guards to gather them together to see if they could find out the calendar."

Shen Zhitang patted Li Jianqing's shoulder with satisfaction, and pointed to the flying insects on the table in turn: "These objects that look like mosquitoes, flies, and moths can be understood, but this ...... that looks like a bee, bees have always eaten nectar" Shen Zhitang shook his head, picked up the bee again and said: "And you see that the thorns on its back tail are gone, it's really strange ~ weird ~ "

Immediately, both of them fell into deep thought, and after a while, Li Jianqing seemed to suddenly remember something and said in a low voice: "The guards found the body of the county magistrate in the wardrobe of the government office, but it was extremely badly damaged, and it was no longer possible to see the human appearance."

Shen Zhitang raised his eyes and asked, "Burns?" ”

Li Jianqing shook his head and said: "The flesh on the body is almost gone, and it can only be identified from the official uniform on the body."

Shen Zhitang said: "Isn't it just last night that people were killed and set on fire, and poisonous insects attacked?" How did this corpse decay so quickly?"

Li Jianqing nodded: "It's strange to say, there will be some bugs on other corpses in the city more or less, but only the county magistrate has not a single bug...... The corpse was also stained with some unknown white liquid."

Shen Zhitang silently recited: "Unknown white liquid? White liquid~"

Shen Qiu ran from the city and pointed to the people sitting under the city wall: "My lord~ Those people are clamoring to go into the city to see their families, do you want to call them over for questioning"

Shen Zhitang nodded and said, "Shen Qiu~ You are here to ask where they are from?" If you are from Nahe County, ask in detail, especially what has happened in the past half a month, I will go to the city with Jianqing to take a look."

Li Jianqing suddenly grabbed Shen Zhitang's arm and shook his head and said, "Teacher~ There are a lot of flying insects in it, and if you are not careful, you will be hit, you better stay outside!" I'll just go to the city."

Shen Zhitang gently patted the back of Li Jianqing's hand a few times and said, "It's okay~ let's go"

Li Jianqing opened his mouth and wanted to stay, but saw that Shen Zhitang was already walking towards the city gate, so he could only follow quickly

At the gate of Nahe County, a young guard was pacing in front of the city gate, and when he saw Shen Zhitang and Li Jianqing coming, he hurriedly ran over and said: "Adult~ The little one just went to the thatched house, and found that there were many bubbles on the calves, and there were ~ things crawling in them......"

Shen Zhitang immediately replied: "Oh~ Pick up the trouser leg and I'll take a look~"

The guard slowly lifted the hem of his trousers, and the symptoms were exactly the same as Xia Huaixu in the carriage, and immediately called Shen Qiu and said, "How I dealt with Xia Huaixu just now, you can deal with him."

Li Jianqing was stunned for a moment before asking, "Teacher~ What is this?" ”

Shen Zhitang said: "After these poisonous insects bite people, some of the muscles of people will be unconscious, and those insects will slowly bite all over the body, you first call a few people to call out the guards inside to check the body, and I will talk to you later."

At the foot of Nianhe Village Mountain, Su Yun pointed to a small green river channel under the mountain: "Wouldn't that be the place where the old man fished last night!" It stinks so much that it's smoking~ he can go down too."

Wearing this leather coat, it was extremely inconvenient to move, Li Zhilian glanced at him coldly, did not reply, and continued to keep his head down and hurry

Su Yun leaned in and said, "In this broad daylight~ Won't it be too conspicuous for me to dress like this?" ”

Li Zhilian still didn't answer, and continued to walk forward, and after a while, he suddenly turned his head and drilled into the grass, so frightened that Su Yun immediately threw himself on the ground and asked, "Where is there anyone?" ”

Li Zhilian held back his smile and said: "I just think what you said is right, we can't go so openly, we should go to the mountains"

Su Yun pouted and got up, threw a few punches into the air, and was turned around and glared at by Li Zhilian, and immediately smiled: "I listen to you~I listen to you~"

Approaching the canyon, the miasma was getting thicker and thicker, and Li Zhilian's self-made mask could not completely isolate the smell of decay

Su Yun looked at the black shadow wandering on the edge of the canyon, looked at Li Zhilian with inquiring eyes, and made a movement to wipe his neck

Li Zhilian pondered for a moment and said softly: "I'll bring him over!" You knocked him out~"

The black shadow in the canyon held the weapon in front of his chest, and kept muttering: "It's none of my business~ I'm here to guard~ It's none of my business~ It's not my business~ Don't come to me~"

Li Zhilian leaned against the edge of a boulder, picked up the falling rocks on the ground, and threw them at the black shadow in the canyon

The black shadow was so frightened that he retreated, looked around for a moment, and then leaned against the edge of the mountain wall and did not move

Seeing the black shadow move, Li Zhilian picked up the falling stone on the ground and threw it at the black shadow, just throwing it on the black shadow

The black shadow screamed in fright, crouched down, and curled up in the corner of the mountain wall......

Su Yun waited in the grass on the side of the road for a long time, and when he heard the shout, he immediately flew up and hung upside down in front of the black shadow, who was so frightened that he couldn't scream, and he fainted without taking a breath

Su Yun looked at the person in front of him, wanting to test whether the person was still alive, but he couldn't pull out his hand and could only turn to Li Zhilian and ask, "He~ won't be scared to death!" ”

Li Zhilian replied: "I don't know~ let's go in first!" Be careful~ I don't know if there is anyone inside"

On the other side of the canyon, a boy suddenly shouted: "Little Liu~Little Liu~ How are you?" Still adapting? ”

"Little Liu~ What's wrong with you? If it's okay, go back to Brother Lin! ”

Li Zhilian stretched out his hand to stop Su Yun, slowly squatted down, and hid behind the protruding mountain wall

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Li Zhilian seized the opportunity to snatch Su Yun's short knife against the waist of the person who came, and said in a deep voice: "If you want to live, shut up!" ”

In the mist, the man slowly raised his hands, and Su Yun kicked the man's knee to make him kneel down and asked, "Who are you?" Is it just the two of you? ”

The man nodded, then shook his head again and said, "My name is Xu Lin, a person from Nianse Village in front of me, who are you?" How can you wear this dress? ”

Su Yun kicked Xu Lin again and said, "Did I ask you to ask?" Answering our questions"

Xu Lin sat up holding his stomach and grinned: "There are only two of us guarding here, but these two miles away, there is a stronghold, about one or twenty people."

Li Zhipian said: "It's Nianse Village inside? ”

Xu Lin nodded

Li Zhipian said: "Let's talk about it!" How did your village become like this? ”

Xu Lin shook his head hurriedly, although he couldn't see the expression on his face under the gauze, he could clearly feel his panic

Li Zhilian smiled and said, "It's okay if you don't say it!" Every time I ask, I will pick up a piece of your clothes, and the insects here are all raised by you~ You should know the end very well! ”

Xu Lin was stunned for a while, shook his head violently, and said, "I said~I said~"

"Things have to start from three years ago, there is a big crack at the foot of the mountain in our village, which is the source of the Nian River, and several villages down there rely on this river to survive."

"One morning three years ago, a few women in the village went to fetch water, and saw a corpse floating on the river, and after careful identification, they found that it was not from our village, we were all very scared, and we didn't dare to make a noise, so we could only bury the corpse secretly, but I didn't expect that after less than half a month, four or five more bodies floated out~ A few young men in the village planned to go inside from the crack to see, and we walked with the water in the hole for a long, long time~ Several torches were extinguished, and only then did we find an exit, and it was already dark when we came out. As soon as we came out of the cave, we were hung up by a net, and we could only see a lake in the distance, and when we woke up, we lay in a village in the center of the lake, and we told the reason, and the people inside gave us a lot of silver, and left us there for one night."

Su Yun couldn't help but ask out loud, "This is the reason why you helped them grow herbs later?" ”

Xu Lin was obviously taken aback and replied, "How do you know? ”

Li Zhilian slapped the short knife in his hand

Xu Lin immediately replied: "After we came back, less than two days later, many corpses surfaced on the river, and they were all different from the previous ones, those corpses were stinky, and there were still things growing on them...... No one wants to go down and fish them up, they are about to float to the lot of Nianhe Village, and two people came out of it to let us bury the corpses in the land, and when something grows, they will come to collect it, and the silver is not a problem~, at first, few families were willing, and then they slowly began to look at other people's income, and the whole village followed suit"

Xu Lin began to choke up a little as he spoke: "I knew earlier~ We wouldn't have ruined the village like this for those few taels of silver~"

Li Zhilian pondered for a while and asked, "What about your family?" ”

Xu Lin replied viciously: "Family? Where do we have any family! The death of the wounded in the past two years has long become the nourishment of those flowers and plants! ”

Su Yun hurriedly said: "That's not right! Don't you still have ......" Li Zhilian slapped Su Yun to shut up and asked, "Can you have a lady surnamed Fan in your village?" ”

Xu Lin immediately replied: "No~ The surname of our village is the surname Xu, and there are several outsiders who are surnamed Liang, and there is no surname Fan"

Li Zhilian stood up slightly, wiped a short knife on Xu Lin's neck, and then walked to the fainted Xiao Liu and said, "Is it enough?" If that's not enough, you don't have to get up! ”

Su Yun was stunned! He had never seen anyone kill a person so neatly, and it was still a little girl who was only thirteen or fourteen

Li Zhilian shook his eyes with a short knife, and Xiao Liu stood up violently and said, "I~ I really don't know anything, I was only recruited to guard here two days ago......"

Li Zhilian stabbed Xiao Liu's throat with an indifferent expression, and then took off the clothes of the two and threw them to Su Yundao: "Take it~Let's go~"

On the way, Su Yun followed behind Li Zhilian in a trance, and the appearance of Li Zhilian's murder just now kept coming to his mind, and he seemed to be starting to regret it a little

Walking through Nianse Village and passing by a mountain col, Li Zhilian stopped and looked at the mountain col in a daze, where more than 10,000 corpses were scattered among the rocks and weeds, and the black flying insects lingered on them...... Turned to Su Yun and said, "They don't die~ That's what happened to us"