Chapter 014: The Source of the Plague
After settling the spirit beast Neidan dispute, half a month later, Qin Qing's injury was also healed, and it was no big deal, but he just moved some vitality, and it was not suitable for cultivation!
Because the two of them had been relying on each other and not leaving, Ling Ling arranged for them to take care of the vegetable garden, but he was miserable, he was not gossiped about, and he could only sleep outside every night, he was very puzzled, does this immortal cultivator also like gossip?
On this day, Ling Ling was packing up, and the two of them were standing behind him, both thinking that he was going to move.
"Senior brother, if you want to bother us, just say that we will leave, why bother ......"
"Yes, Senior Brother, you don't have to clean up, Senior Sister and I will go back now, and we won't disturb your cultivation!" Xiao Ke echoed Qin Qing and said.
Seeing that Ling Ling ignored them, the two left silently, Ling Ling had been thinking about the problem, so he didn't pay attention, and then turned his head and saw that they were about to go out of the room, and hurriedly shouted:
"Come back! Where to? You stay here, I'm going to go down the mountain for a while, it's not that I bother you, it's because I heard a few days ago that a village has a plague and a lot of people have died, and I'm going to go down the mountain to see if I can help! ”
"Then I'll go with my brother!"
"I'm going too!"
Qin Qing and Xiao Ke heard that Ling Ling wanted to go down the mountain to save people, and they both wanted to go with him, but he considered that this time going down the mountain might be delayed for a long time, and the two of them had reached the critical time to break through the ninth layer of Qi training, so it was better to stay in the sect!
"No, you stay in the mountain and cultivate well, I still have four Spiritual Enhancement Pills, three in Qinqing, and one in Xiaoke, no opinion, right?"
"Nope!" Qin Qing shook his head and said.
"No, I have already refined a spirit beast inner pill, and I should give my senior sister one more!"
Seeing that they were so sensible, Ling Ling then instructed: "During the period when I am away, you can cultivate here, but remember to help me collect the vegetables, and after I come back, if anyone does not reach the ninth layer, I will punish her to go to the wasteland to plant radishes, do you hear?" ”
Although the two of them were reluctant to stay, they still nodded and agreed, and after seeing Ling Ling leave the tree house, they began to cultivate.
When Ling Ling came to the main gate of Xuanyun Sect and was about to go down the mountain, he had just stepped on the flying sword when he suddenly heard Lao Zhao's voice calling him.
"Old Spirit, Old Spirit, wait a minute!"
"Oh? Lao Zhao? You have left your post without permission, beware of the sect master deducting your salary! ”
Lao Zhao ignored his jokes, and Edgeworth flew up to him, handed him a storage bag, and said:
"Why don't you say a word? You take this, there are some medicinal herbs in it, and you should use it when the time comes! ”
"Thank you!"
After thanking him, Ling Ling accepted it unceremoniously, he had heard about the plague before, so he inquired about the situation in detail, and learned that the plague was only a large number of poultry dying at the beginning, and then it came to people, thinking about it, eight or nine is not far from ten, bird flu, in this world where mortals will die from a cold, isn't bird flu the same as the plague? The elixir he refined also needed the assistance of other medicinal materials, and the time was tight to prepare was not enough, this Lao Zhao was really an urgent need to come!
"Old Ling, you have to be more careful when you go down the mountain this time! The plague is no joke, and if you don't do it, you'll get yourself into it! ”
"Huh? Immortal cultivators are still afraid of plague? Ling Ling was puzzled.
"Alas! You don't know that, do you? There are people who cultivate immortals in order to ascend, and there are people like you who want to help the common people, but there are also people who are not right-minded just to kill, they often slaughter living beings by practicing evil arts, I think this plague is also a ghost caused by them, so you have to be more careful! ”
"I understand, thank you for reminding me, but I am sure in my heart that I must believe in the power of science, if it is really like what you said, I will also cut it off, and I will never get rid of the troubles, and I will leave!"
"Farewell! I won't be far away! ”
After the two said goodbye, Ling Ling hadn't flown far away, and Lao Zhao shouted again:
"Hey-old spirit, remember to return the storage bag to me when you come back!"
"Got it!"
After watching Ling Ling leave, Lao Zhao was quite worried, he was afraid that he would really meet someone from the Demon Sect, originally Lao Zhao also intended to go, but he was too busy to get out, thinking about the past eight years, the first time he met Ling Ling to meet and intersect with him, he was quite emotional, there are not many good people in the world, I hope he has a safe trip!
"Last time you said I was Empishi? This time convinced me of the power of science? What is the power of science? Oh, this old spirit has some strange things in his head, haha, interesting! ”
An hour after Edgeworth's flight, Ling Ling arrived at his destination, and when he fell, he saw that the entire village was full of rotting corpses, whether it was human or animal, no one cared about it, and those who were alive were still alive.
Seeing this scene, Ling Ling's first thought was the government, but if they did something, it would not let the plague be so rampant, he checked the village, and after asking the people who were still conscious, although the source of the plague was confirmed, he became more and more angry, the plague was rampant, the government not only ignored it, but also ordered it to be closed, outsiders were not allowed to enter, and people in the village could not go out, resulting in adults dying of illness and children starving, it was simply inhumane.
Thinking that he would settle the accounts after the autumn, Ling Ling first distributed the food he brought with him to the living villagers, and then built a stove to boil medicine, this medicine was refined by himself after learning about the plague, and its effect could eliminate the abnormal state on ordinary people.
Some villagers were just so hungry that they couldn't move, and their illness was not very serious, so they ate some food given by Ling Ling, so they gathered around him to help, but these people were either children or old people, Ling Ling thought to himself that this would not work, he had to get some food back, but the corpse had to be disposed of before that!
After arranging for someone to feed the medicine to the seriously ill, Ling Ling took the active people to get all the corpses outside the village, and asked the villagers to collect the firewood from house to house, and if it was not enough, they would knock down the thatched house, because now there was no time to go up the mountain to pick it up, the corpse was ready to be burned, Ling Ling lit the firewood with a fire, and now the situation is serious, there is no distinction between people and animals, and their relatives have no intention of blaming!
"Old Immortal (Ling Ling's hair is snow-white), thank you Old Immortal for saving your life!"
The living villagers knelt on the ground to thank him, but Ling Ling knew that this matter was not over yet, and he couldn't afford this great gift!
"I'm not an old immortal, I'm a disciple of the Xuanyun Sect of Wuliang Mountain, I've traveled all over the world, passing by here to help, let's get up!"
After seeing everyone get up, Ling Ling turned around and was about to leave, when an old man asked:
"Is the old fairy leaving? If so, can you take the children out of here? It's just that our old bones are dead, but we pity these children, their families are either sick and dead, or they go out to find food, and they don't come back this time, alas~"
"Can the old man store food in the village?" Ling Ling asked rhetorically.
This knowingly asked everyone, making everyone stunned for a moment, and then they all shook their heads to indicate no, Ling Ling saw this and first appeased them, and then asked about some situations nearby.
"Do you know if there is an official house around here?"
"Back to the old immortals, twenty miles west of here, there is a county seat!"
"Good! When the corpses are burned, you go back to the village to rest, remember not to live in a place where people have died, no matter how hungry you are, you can't eat the dead livestock, remember! I'll be back early tomorrow morning at the latest! ”
With that, Ling Ling released the flying sword and stepped on the sword, and the villagers knelt down again and again when they saw this!
When he arrived at the city gate, the guards did not let him in, Ling Ling had to use his money ability, and after entering the city, he inquired all the way about the location of the county office, but when he arrived at the county office, he learned that the official was not there, but he found that the yin qi in the government was very heavy!
"Did you just die?"
"The old man is not going to talk nonsense, the county master is not here today, let's come back tomorrow if there is something!"
"Where is the county magistrate going?"
"How dare we care about this? Let's go! Go back to you! ”
At this time, the person Ling Lingxin wanted to find was not there, but he couldn't leave at will, the yin qi in the mansion was too heavy, even if he hadn't died before, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't in the future!
"Go and call all the people in the palace to me, I want to see who it is?"
"Hey? You dead old man, you dare to call us? Tired of living, right? Brothers, beat him out with a stick! ”
As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen officials besieged Ling Ling together, but in less than a minute, they all lay down!
"Humph! With this little ability, I didn't have enough to fight before I cultivated immortals! ”
Seeing that the problem was not on them, Ling Ling went to the inner courtyard of the government to find it, and after walking for a long time, he heard an old woman scolding, Ling Ling saw that it was not her, so he asked:
"Who else is here?"
"Who dare you to break into the inner courtyard of the palace? I don't know if this is the county lord's inner family? ”
"Who else but you, I ask?"
Ling Ling amplified his voice a little, and the man was so frightened that he confessed honestly!
"Yes...... There are ladies and misses, and ...... And a few girls! ”
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you, you go and call them all, go quickly!"
After understanding that there were only female dependents here, Ling Ling did not continue to move forward, but planned to let the old woman call them out, but as soon as the old woman brought people out, a woman glanced at him and jumped over the wall and fled, how could this ordinary woman jump over the two-meter-high wall? Ling Ling expected it to be her, so he chased after her.
"Why are you still stunned? Why don't you go to the master! ”
A richly dressed old woman shouted, and the rest of the people were at a loss and ran around.
"The demon still wants to escape?"
Ling Ling caught up with the woman and subdued her.
"Why are you harming people here?"
"The fairy family spares her life, the little woman is not harmful, and I hope that the fairy family will let the little girl live!"
Seeing her begging for mercy, Ling Ling thought that if she harmed others, then the people around her would be weakened and languishing, but only then did she see that they were fine, and the people she possessed were no different, so she thought about it, she didn't plan to kill her, everything has a spirit, and ghosts are no exception, not to mention that it reminded him of Xiao Nuo, who also planned to solve the plague this time, so he went to find Xiao Nuo, and then took her out of the White Tiger Cave.
"Good! However, the person possessed by the ghost will damage her longevity, so you can leave! ”
"The grace of the Xie Xian family not to kill!"
The moment the ghost left her body, Ling Ling was surprised to find that she was actually a familiar ghost?
"Arnold?"