"How many dead people are we seeing?"

Lin Niannian lifted his mask and stared at a thin corpse on the side of the road with only skin and flesh left.

The dead man was unkempt, and his face was covered with a thin layer of cloth. When I looked closer, I realized that it was not a fabric at all, but a frizzy piece of air-dried cow dung that had been dried in the sun.

"Hey, stay away from him, maybe there's something unclean about this man."

Yuan Kui covered his mouth and nose with a fan, and jumped out as far as he could, his face full of disgust.

Lin Niannian ignored him, stepped forward, and lifted the cow dung on his face with his gloved hands, revealing an extremely thin and hideous-looking air-dried human face inside.

The dead man had his mouth wide open, as if he had suffered some great pain before he died.

Yuan Kui, who was standing behind Lin Niannian, screamed, and simply hid behind the tree, only revealing one head, looking in the direction of this side vigilantly.

"Out of breath!" Glancing at him with disgust, Lin Niannian took out the package he was carrying with him and took out his medicine box from it.

Under Yuan Kui's terrifying gaze, she slowly pulled out a knife used to dissect corpses, and then slashed at the swollen savage's stomach without hesitation.

"Poof."

After an indescribable sound, the corpse's internal organs flowed to the ground, emitting an indescribable stench.

Lin Nian accurately picked out a black, wriggling strip from the corpse's internal organs.

"It's a red worm!" After seeing the light again, the thing lost its vitality and drooped limply.

"Come out, there's no danger anymore." Lin Niannian's face did not change, he took out the fire fold and disinfected the knife.

Yuan Kui glared and walked out from behind the tree.

He glanced at the corpse lying on the ground, and then at Lin Niannian, whose face did not change, and had goosebumps on his body:

"Xiaolin, why aren't you scared at all, you... What the hell do you do? ”

In his impression, the women he knew were all delicate, and he had never seen someone as fearless as Lin Niannian.

Seeing that the expression on his face didn't seem to be fake, Lin Niannian showed a sad smile on his face.

She put the handle knife back in front of the two of them and gestured a few times: "I, it's a fool, you dare to bother me again, be careful that I cut you together!" ”

This sentence has a very deterrent effect, Yuan Kui didn't dare to refute it at all, he was resigned, standing aside, and being much more honest.

Without Yuan Kui's chattering on the side, the trip of the two was much smoother.

The two got on the horse again, still in a hurry, but Lin Niannian's mood was much heavier.

The further south you go, the closer you get to Lingnan City, but the more people die like this for no reason, which is not a good sign.

But now it's just her guess.

After all, it was important to hurry, and within half a day's effort, I came to the root of Lingnan City again.

Yuan Kui's eyes were full of excitement, and he kicked the horse's stomach and was about to break inside, his eyes were quick, and he pulled the person down:

"What are you doing!"

Yuan Kui looked vigilant, Lin Niannian looked at the bottom of the city wall, and the guards raised their chins:

"Boy, don't you see that group of people are fierce and vicious, let's come all the way, which city is more heavily guarded than here, and there must be demons when things go wrong."

"Let's take a look first."

Yuan Kui was not convinced, and was just about to refute two sentences, as if he remembered something, he scratched his head weakly: "You are right." ”

Lin Niannian couldn't help but hesitate when he saw him so obedient for the first time and didn't do anything with him.

Yuan Kui pulled a passerby and asked with a shy face:

"Auntie, why is this Lingnan so strict? Is something going on in the city? ”

Stopped by him was a gray-haired woman, hearing this, she raised her head tremblingly, looked at them vigilantly, and saw that Yuankui was harmless to humans and animals, and sighed:

"You people from other places don't know, Lingnan City has been punished by God recently. If you don't have anything else important, go back where you came from. ”

With that, he shook his head and walked away.

"It's weird...," Yuan Kui scratched his head and muttered to himself.

After the word "damnation" appeared, Lin Niannian's expression changed. He didn't know the situation in Lingnan City now, so it was better to live outside the city for the time being and wait until he inquired clearly before entering the city.

"In this case, if we stay outside the city for a few days first, and wait until the investigation is clear, then we will enter the city, so as not to cause us any unnecessary trouble." Lin Niannian proposed, but Yuan Kui didn't do anything and quickly agreed.

Simply, it is not very deserted outside Lingnan City, they found a farmer at random, and after explaining their intentions, the other party quickly agreed.

However, there is only one requirement.

"You two are strangers, and we can't control you here, but there is only one thing, that is, don't get close to Lingshan, otherwise there will be big trouble."

The peasant woman was a fat woman, and she was very kind, but when she said this, she had a look of awe on her face.

Lin Niannian followed her line of sight, only to see a cyan mountain faintly revealing in the direction of his gaze.

The miasma around the mountain makes it difficult to see the true shape of the mountain, but it has a mysterious taste.

"Lingshan?" Lin Niannian's eyes flashed, and he only felt as if he had heard this name somewhere, but he still said in his mouth, "Okay, I know, thank you, auntie." ”

The fat woman was satisfied, and smiled and cleaned up the two houses for the two of them to live in.

When they first arrived in Lingnan, the two of them felt new to everything.

Except for the fact that you can't enter the city, everything is appropriate.

But after living for three days, Yuan Kui lost 20 pounds because of miasma and water and soil unadaptation, and his face was sallow, and half of his life was about to be lost.

Lin Nian Nian was not much better, and by the time the two of them completely adapted to the environment here, it was already ten days later.

In the past ten days, in addition to recuperating from their illnesses, the big IQ has already known the reason for the blockade outside Lingnan City.

Blackwater disease, a highly contagious disease like a plague, plunged the entire Lingnan City into panic.

People who suffer from this disease will all have swollen stomachs and emaciated bodies, and the whole person's energy will be exhausted within three days, and finally die with a hideous stomach full of eyes.

To deal with the dead, a piece of herb-soaked rag must be placed over the mouth and nose to prevent infection, and many poor families could not even afford this cloth, so they had to replace it with dried cow dung.

This also explains the tragic situation of Lin Nian when he saw the corpse.