Soon, the night passed.

Fu Yao, Sheng Yunzhi, Cheng Yu, and Zhou Sui got up and gathered together to listen to Cui Lin tell about the situation after they went back yesterday.

There are more people infected in Pangzhou, and the number of deaths due to the epidemic is also increasing.

The whole Pangzhou seems to have fallen into a bottomless pit, and if it continues like this, the whole Pangzhou will become an empty city.

There seems to be no pattern to the spread of the epidemic in Pangzhou, sometimes there are only new patients in the east and south, sometimes there are new patients in the west, and sometimes there are new patients in the east, west, north and south.

Even though Zhou Sui ordered yesterday not to let people go out casually, there are still reports of people who have never been in contact with sick people who have contracted the disease in their homes today.

This made Zhou Sui not know what to do for a while.

Zhou Sui used various prescriptions, but still did not see the infected people get a trace of improvement, and even as if there was no medicine, as time passed, the condition gradually worsened.

It's just that this just confirms Fu Yao's conjecture, that is, the Northwest Gu worm, which is also a kind of witchcraft.

Witchcraft includes curses, shooting dolls, and Gu worms, which Fu Yao had heard of when he was a child in the Northwest.

If it is an ordinary Gu worm entering the body, at most it will only make the person's body weak and die, and this will not happen. But the special Gu worms in the northwest are not necessarily, the witch doctor can make different Gu worms according to the requirements of the guests, and it is unknown how the Gu worms will make people.

Although Fu Yao guessed it, he couldn't say it. Because this is specially made in the northwest, no one else has heard of it, so it is tantamount to self-destructing identity.

So although Fu Yao couldn't bear it, he still didn't say it in the end.

"Zhou Sui, do you know that there is something called Gu worm?"

Sheng Yunzhi's sudden question made Fu Yao a little surprised, but he didn't expect Sheng Yunzhi to go with him. If Sheng Yunzhi said it, it would not make them suspicious, and he could save the people of Pangzhou.

"Gu worms? It seems like...... Only seen in books. But Chen remembered that the book said that Gu worms would not cause symptoms of suspected epidemics. ”​

"I saw a similar record in an ancient book before, saying that there is a kind of Gu worm that can be specially cultivated by people to produce different diseases, which is somewhat consistent with the current situation in Pangzhou."

"Is there a solution?"

"Ordinary Gu has a solution, but this is the ...... I have to ask the Gu people, and I don't know what a good way to do it. ”​

But where can they find the people who have fallen under the Gu? For a moment they fell silent again.

"However, when the minister inspected the corpses yesterday, he didn't find any red spots or traces of Gu worm invasion on their bodies." Zhou Sui did not let go of any doubts, and raised questions again.

"Maybe it's because the Gu worms came out after the patient died, otherwise how could there be so many Gu worms to plague the people. These Gu worms must have burrowed out of the patient's body after his death and entered another person's body. So that's why there are new patients every day in Pangzhou, and there is no pattern to be found. ”​

"Then go and check on the newly infected patients."

"I'm going too."

"Why do you have to go no matter what?" Fu Yao was not happy when he saw that Sheng Yunzhi was going to follow again.

"Now that you know that it's a Gu worm, isn't it infectious, what are you worried about?"

"Before it is confirmed that it is a Gu worm, the possibility of an epidemic cannot be ruled out."

"Eight, nine, ten. Don't you think that this is a Gu person who has carefully cultivated this kind of Gu in order to confuse us? Therefore, the matter in Pangzhou must have been caused by Gu worms. ”​

"If it's really a Gu worm, isn't it more dangerous than an epidemic, then you can't go."

"Commander Fu, this Gu worm comes and goes freely, even if you don't let me go, I can't guarantee whether it will come to the inn."

"Okay, then I'll go too."

"I'll go too." Immediately afterwards, Cheng Yu also had to follow.

"Okay, okay, go all the way."

Zhou Sui casually found a newly infected family today, and walked in with Fu Yao and them.

"The grass people meet the adults." The sick old man is now in a room by himself, and he has been staying in the house for the rest of the time, except for someone who brings a veil to deliver food during the meal, for fear of affecting his relatives.

"No need to be polite." Fu Yao helped him up.

Now, although they have eight or nine points of certainty that it is caused by Gu worms, the possibility of infection cannot be completely ruled out, so they are still wearing veils.

Zhou then came to the back of the screen with the old man and began to comprehensively check the patient for traces of Gu worm invasion. I just looked around, from head to toe, and found no traces.

Zhou Sui shook his head and looked at Fu Yao and them.

"Impossible, how could it not be found?" Sheng Yunzhi didn't believe it, because there was no better explanation than Gu worms.

"Have you read carefully?" Fu Yao didn't believe it, even the most delicate Gu worm wouldn't be without traces.

"Look carefully, I don't believe you're looking for it."

"Old man, can you loosen your hair?" Fu Yao thought of a point that Zhou Sui hadn't looked for and wanted to give it a try.

"Okay." The old man said and scattered his hair for Fu Yao to check.

It's just that Fu Yao looked at the place where the old man's hair was covered for a long time, and he also didn't find anything.

Suddenly, when Fu Yao picked up the old man's hair and wanted to look at the back of the old man's neck, he didn't find anything from the back of his neck, but he saw a red dot behind the old man's ear.

"Zhou Sui."

"What did you find?"

Zhou Sui hurriedly walked over after hearing Fu Yao call him, and Sheng Yunzhi also followed.

"Is it this red dot?"

"Exactly."

In order to be more confirmed, Fu Yao and the others then went to the homes of several infected people to check, and they were right, the patients had a red dot behind their ears.

Suddenly, the truth was revealed.

But instead of the expected sense of relief, things got complicated.

If the epidemic is easier to treat, the most that doctors can spend more time dispensing medicine will do. But Gu worms are different, and people who can't find Gu can't make the people better.

But Zhou Sui didn't want to give up, he still used the solution of using ordinary Gu worms, but as expected, it didn't work for this.

Several people flipped through the ancient books for a day, looked for various books that recorded strange arts, and finally found the solution.

It's just that they can't do this method.

This special Gu worm is connected to the life of the Gu person, and if you want to force this Gu worm out, you need to find the Gu person and kill the person.

"Where the hell are you going to find this Gu man?" Sheng Yunzhi dropped the book, a little anxious.

"In this vast sea of people, anyone can be a trick, so you can't kill people at will." Immediately afterwards, Cheng Yu also began to complain.

"Don't think about it, it's not too early, you're all tired from the day, let's go back and rest first."

"Okay."

Then they returned to the inn, but they kept thinking about it so much that they didn't sleep well at night.

On the second day, they continued to rummage through ancient books, trying to find out where the method of making special Gu worms was circulating, so as to narrow down the scope of Gu people.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of the book falling to the ground, and when they looked for the sound, it was Sheng Yunzhi who didn't hold the book steady, so he dropped the book to the ground.

"What's wrong?" Fu Yao walked over to Sheng Yunzhi and picked up the book.

"I'm a little tired, maybe I didn't sleep last night."

"Then you go back to the inn first, don't look at it."

"No, there are so many books, can you read them?"

"It's okay, you two should go back, it's just a little bit anyway, just me and Doctor Zhou here." Cheng Yu was also worried that Sheng Yunzhi was tired at this juncture, so he hurriedly followed Fu Yao to persuade Sheng Yunzhi to go back to rest.

"yes, you guys go back." Zhou Sui also nodded and agreed.

"Okay then."