Chapter 12: The Darkest Hour

As soon as He Xiaoke heard this, he said to the others: "You guys continue to look here, focus on hotels, inns, and restaurants, and I'll go over there to have a look." So saying, he picked up the loach and ran.

When they arrived at the door of a hotel in the north of the city, the sparrow was sweating in a hurry, and when he saw He Xiaoke coming, he wiped the sweat on his head and said anxiously: "You are here, that person seems to be dying, this proprietress is still yelling for us to get people away, and asked me for money for staying in the hotel, I said that we are from the Beicang Army's children's battalion, and I don't know the person, she still refuses to give in, and we have to pay the money, and then quickly pull the person away, I am afraid that the person will die here, which will affect her family's business." As soon as they met, the sparrow chirped at He Xiaoke.

"You take me to see the man's situation first, and then we'll decide what to do." As he spoke, he had just walked a few steps, then stopped, and arranged for a few people: "Loach, you go to the general's mansion to report, let them hurry up and bring a Dan doctor, and the two of you go to the south and west of the city to inform Lei Ming and Pumpkin them, and focus on finding hotels, hotels, restaurants and other places." ”

"Good!" When a few people ran out, he and the sparrow entered the room where the person lived, and as soon as he pushed the door open, He Xiaoke was rushed out of the house by a disgusting fishy smell, he covered his nose outside the house and vomited wildly for a while, before it was better: "What kind of ghost smell is this, this smell is too bad." ”

So saying, he went to the proprietress and asked for some fairly clean rags, and the two of them covered their mouths and noses, and then re-entered the house, opening the doors and windows for ventilation.

When he looked at the person on the bed board in the corner, He Xiaoke was startled, only to see that the person was already unconscious, with blood foam-like serous oozing out of his mouth, and the skin exposed on his body was purple-black, and there were many bleeding spots on it, and his lower body was incontinent due to urine and urine, emitting an unpleasant foul smell.

"Did this man carry any parcels?"

"There was a suitcase, we opened it, and in addition to a few torn clothes, there were several live rats running out of it, and many various bugs, not to mention how disgusting it was."

The sparrow shuddered, and began to scratch at himself.

"What about the box and the rats?"

"I trampled one of those rats to death, and the others ran out of the room and ran away, and I threw the box and the stinking stuff in it in the garbage heap outside."

"Have you opened the mezzanine inside the box and checked it carefully?"

"No, I did. There's nothing in there. ”

"Then when you go out, if there are no important things in the box, will you only bring some torn clothes and rats and bugs?" He Xiaoke said questioningly.

"That's right, he put rats and bugs in the box, probably for fear of being stolen by thieves and scare people, the real thing should be hidden in the mezzanine, it's broken, I'll go find the box back." The sparrow followed his train of thought and hurried out to find the box.

When the sparrow came to the place where the box was discarded, he saw several beggars fighting over the box at the garbage heap.

The sparrow stepped forward and shouted loudly: "Go away for me, this box is the evidence that the General's Mansion wants to investigate, and no one is allowed to take it." The beggars were so frightened that they put down their boxes and ran aside.

The sparrow stepped forward unhurriedly and took the box, came to He Xiaoke, and scratched the box with a knife again to look for it, but did not find anything valuable, so the two had to give up.

At this time, Montaigne sent someone named Mu Yande to arrive with two apprentices, and Mu Yande brought people into the house before he could check the results, and the extraterritorial patient in the house died.

Looking at this rare case, Mu Yande, who was the protector of the Witch God Sect, thought about it, and finally made up his mind, he asked everyone to wait outside the house, leaving only two apprentices to watch, only to see him muttering a spell in his mouth, and a Gu worm that he had cultivated followed his fingertips and landed on the neck of the deceased.

Then this centipede-like Gu worm bit through the person's skin and burrowed into the person's body, he was taking advantage of the fact that the person had just died, and the things in his mind were still there, and he wanted to use the spirit Gu soul searching method on the sick and deceased.

It didn't take long for him to know everything about that person, and he also got the answer to this person's illness from the other party's residual memory.

"Oh my God, there is such a terrible plague in this world." He was like a demon, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to be confident.

Seeing Mu Yande's expression a little surprised, his eldest disciple Wang Qidong couldn't help asking, "Master, what kind of illness does this person have?" ”

"Black Death."

"What! Is it the Black Death, the Black Death that almost wiped out the entire demon race? His second disciple Fang Li asked in astonishment, he obviously understood the horror of this Black Death.

"That's right! It's the Black Death that killed hundreds of millions of people, and it looks like we're going to have a big deal this time. ”

"Master, is there a cure for this disease?" Fang Li then asked.

Mu Yande shook his head slowly, and said in a heavy tone: "Judging from this person's memory, at present, in the high-incidence area of the 'Black Death' in the Western Regions Continent, there is no good cure for this disease.

The main measure they take is to isolate the sick and to incinerate the bodies of the dead patients, as well as the objects they have touched and used.

No, I'm going to report to the lady and suggest that the whole city should be immediately controlled and the movement of people should be prohibited. You are both responsible for burning this man's body and everything he has touched in the courtyard.

In addition, all people who have been in contact with this person are to be quarantined in this hotel, and then the store is sealed down. After Mu Yande finished explaining to the two apprentices, he hurried to the City Lord's Mansion.

At this time, the same news came from the other search groups. Those who were found were either dead or dying, and they had the same symptoms. And what these people carried with them was also a suitcase containing rats and bugs.

"What, there is an extraterritorial plague in the city, and these people are infected with the 'Black Death'." When Ye Hongmian and Yun Wuying got the news, it was already night.

"Yes, I searched for souls with spirit Gu, and from his memory, I learned that they were brought into the city in an organized manner after they contracted the 'Black Death' outside the territory, and deliberately spread it in the city. The Black Death was a very contagious plague with an extremely high mortality rate. Mu Yande, the old witch doctor who went to check, reported.

"Is there any way to prevent it?"

"At present, apart from isolation, there are no good prevention and treatment methods and effective treatment methods."