The sky was overcast, obscuring not only the sun, but also the hope of all the people in the town.

Early in the morning, Zhong Xiaoshu took Imperial Doctor Chen to inspect the streets, hoping to find some useful cases and conditions for analysis.

Suddenly, Fang passed by a pile of garbage, but Zhong Xiaoshu suddenly paused.

His eyelashes fluttered, he closed his eyes and sniffed the air.

"Wait." Zhong Xiaoshu stopped Imperial Physician Chen, "There seems to be some problems here." ”

Zhong Xiaoshu looked at the alley on the side of the long street.

It stands to reason that only those who had died violently from the plague had been found in that house, and from this dilapidated alley, she could also smell a faint smell of blood.

It is even mixed with a very light corpse smell.

"Questions?" Imperial Doctor Chen was suspicious, and also learned from Zhong Xiaoshu to smell it.

"Don't you smell blood, and the stench of corpses?" Zhong Xiaoshu was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that the doctors of the Tai Hospital should be very sensitive to this. It's right, how to get her here is the opposite.

"I really didn't smell anything." Imperial Physician Chen also had a bitter face.

"Queen Mother, why don't you go and see it first?"

"Let's go together." Zhong Xiaoshu nodded, frowning, "If I don't go to see what it is, I'm still a little uneasy." ”

The two walked into the narrow alley, stepping on the bluestone paved ground, and always felt that their feet were very sticky.

It seems to be stepping on a swamp or extremely wet. Moist earthy in general.

Zhong Xiaoshu's face was also very solemn.

"Huh?" Walking to the end of the alley, Imperial Physician Chen looked around and said in surprise, "This seems to be a beggar's house?" ”

It is not surprising that beggars are present in this town, especially now that diseases are rampant.

"That's right." Zhong Xiaoshu sniffed the smell in the air again, "The smell of blood is coming from behind this door." ”

It is a door, but it is more like a patchwork of several wooden boards, and under the wooden planks, there are still faintly rotting wooden blocks and insect corpses.

Imperial Physician Chen nodded, at such a close distance, it was obvious that he could smell it too.

stepped forward and knocked on the door, and Imperial Physician Chen asked, "Is there anyone?" ”

After half an hour, there was still silence, and no one answered.

"What do you say, Queen?" Imperial Physician Chen frowned.

"Forcibly open." Zhong Xiaoshu replied.

There was a hunch that drove me to open the door.

Seeing that Imperial Physician Chen kicked it up, the already old wooden board was directly cut off from the middle.

It's okay not to look at it, but at first glance, Zhong Xiaoshu's pupils shrank suddenly.

Lying in the courtyard were corpses.

All of them died in a terrible state, and their bodies were twisted in an extremely abnormal posture, and they looked extremely horrifying from a distance.

Blood flowed all over the ground, staining the bluestone alley red.

Zhong Xiaoshu only felt a churn in his stomach, hurriedly held on to the wall of the alley, and quickly turned his head.

In the end, she is also a woman, and it is normal to suddenly see so many corpses that are horizontal and vertical, and she can't stand it.

"Queen Mother, the minister will go and call people first, and then move them out. You can dodge the dodge first. Imperial Physician Chen said solemnly.

Obviously, he also noticed that the corpses were unusual, and immediately went back and called some guards to bring them all back.

Zhong Xiaoshu agreed.

She couldn't suppress this feeling of nausea. If you don't remove it, it's really unclear if you'll vomit.

"Mother, be relieved."

After the corpses were neatly stacked in a row, Imperial Physician Chen carefully probed for their signs and spoke slowly.

"In the summer, Japan is hot and dry, and the disease spreads quickly.

Yichen believes that it must have been when they knew they were sick and went out to beg that they passed the disease to the soldiers, and then caused this series of infections. ”

"You're right." Zhong Xiaoshu frowned slightly, "But now it has been spread to the people of the town, and there is more than one case of violent death in the town." ”

"Yes."

Imperial Physician Chen agreed.

"But at least after finding out the cause of the disease, I thought that with so many cases, as long as there was a certain amount of time, the antidote would definitely be developed."

"Ugh." Zhong Xiaoshu couldn't help but sigh and smiled bitterly.

How could she not have known that she would be able to develop an antidote when she had time?

But she also knows that whether it is Imperial Doctor Chen or herself, she has done her best.

But looking at the overcast sky overhead, we have to hope that the day will come when the people will be able to develop a cure.

In the next few days, whether it was Zhong Xiaoshu or Imperial Doctor Chen, they all spent their sleep and forgetting to eat.

The eye sockets are deeply sunken, and even the eye sockets are starting to redden. In just two or three days, Zhong Xiaoshu has obviously lost a lot of weight.

It's not just because of the lack of food, but also because of mental exhaustion.

In the past two days, I have turned over all kinds of ancient books and materials, which is really unbearable.

"I think, the two of you should save it, this medicine can't be studied."

Zheng Cong finally couldn't stand it anymore, and walked to Zhong Xiaoshu's side, with a pair of narrow eyes with a hint of sharpness, half contempt and half sarcasm.

"This kind of thing has already been experienced on our side a long time ago, so give it up."

"The plague too?" Zhong Xiaoshu asked reluctantly, "Then how did you solve it?" ”

Zheng Cong looked at her and was silent for a long time.

Just when Zhong Xiaoshu thought that he couldn't speak, Zheng Cong glanced at him, and faintly spit out four words from his thin lips: "No one is spared." ”

Without saying a word, he didn't look at Zhong Xiaoshu, turned around and left, leaving only a slightly thin back.

For some reason, Zhong Xiaoshu suddenly felt that this back was very depressed and lonely.

Zheng Cong's words are just a small episode for them, and they still have to continue to study.

I don't know how many days have passed, but the death in the town has not stopped.

The first man seemed to be the beginning, and the beggars who died in the most miserable condition were the fuse, and the plague was brewing, and the outbreak was also continuous.

One day, the haze in the sky suddenly dissipated a lot, and a ray of sunlight shone into the town.

"Succeeded? Finally, it worked. ”

Zhong Xiaoshu's hair was scattered, but his eyes looked at the bottle held high, but his eyes showed obsession.

The obsidian-like eyes seemed to shimmer with an unusual brilliance.

With the support of the medical center, Zhong Xiaoshu and Imperial Physician Chen worked tirelessly to develop and finally prepare the medicine for treatment.

Zhong Xiaoshu was almost about to cry when he saw the successful results of the first batch of drug trials.

As soon as the two of them were ready, they prepared and distributed them in large quantities, and the thick smell of medicinal soup was scattered in every corner of the medical hall.

The haze is gone.

The sun is coming.

The people of this town will never forget that it was on this long and gloomy street.

The beautiful woman was holding a bowl of decoction, and the smile on her face bloomed with the brilliance of life.

It turns out that this is the sunshine.