The swordsman surnamed Wu spoke in detail, but Hua Qingyu felt that there were a few things that were not quite right. The situation in Peony Set and Guyang Town is very similar in this regard: there is only one person left in Guyang Town, while there is only one normal person left in Peony Town. Combined with the false experience in Guyang Town, Hua Qingyu instinctively cast his suspicious eyes on this swordsman.

"Now you know what's going on, right? I advise you to get out of here as soon as possible during daytime. The swordsman persuaded.

Fei Tukong asked tentatively, "Brother Wu, among those townspeople...... Do you have any relatives too?"

The swordsman's face twitched visibly, "Why do you ask this?"

"Just because you haven't left this place of the hell. You say you're lonely, but you're not willing to give up. I'm afraid that the one who is reluctant is your family that has become a 'ghost', right?"

The swordsman sighed, "My family is dead. ”

Fei Tukong was a little embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the knife man added: "I killed it with my own hands." ”

"Brother Wu, you ......" Fei Tukong didn't know what to say.

The swordsman slammed the table: "Those monsters can't be called 'people' at all, they can't speak, they can't listen, they can't even make simple sounds. They don't feel pain, and in order to extinguish the slightest candle flame, they will even trample on each other until their bones break. They also have no thoughts, and naturally cannot communicate. Have you ever seen their empty eyes, and it's better to live like the walking dead than ...... Why don't I send them away!" You can feel that the swordsman was full of pain when he said this. His eyes were cold and angry, but there were tears in his eyes.

"Then why didn't you ...... the other townsfolk too" Fei Tukong suddenly felt that it was inappropriate, so he changed the euphemism, "let them be relieved too?"

The swordsman shook his head: "Shenyu Valley is not only a village and town in Peony Collection, if I kill them all, won't I become a demon who loves to kill? Besides, how will others believe the reason why I killed everyone in the future? They will only take my words as a lie, and treat me as a villain who kills people without blinking." So I can only stay here alone and warn passers-by not to stay long. ”

"Brother Wu is so righteous, I admire him very much. Fei Tukong praised heartily.

"Let me go, I'll send you out of the valley, and never come back." The swordsman stood up and took his hat with him.

Hua Qingyu, who had been muttering for a long time, said, "Don't worry. We're going to go to Cangyunling to have a look. ”

"Cangyunling, what are you doing there? It's freezing and snowy now, and the mountain road is difficult to walk!" the swordsman reminded.

Hua Qingyu said: "We plan to stay in Shenyu Valley for a while to thoroughly investigate this strange disease. ”

The swordsman was surprised: "Listen to me say so much, don't you want to leave?"

"Brother Wu, you can rest assured. This girl's medical skills can be described as extraordinary, and there is no disease in the world that she cannot get rid of. "Wasteland.

The swordsman took down the hat in disbelief and looked Hua Qingyu up and down: "The famous doctors within a radius of hundreds of miles are helpless against this disease, and in the end, even the doctor himself contracted the disease. Many of those famous doctors are masters who have been immersed in medicine for a lifetime, and they can't solve the strange disease, a young girl like you...... Forgive me for being rude, based on the accumulation of experience alone, you and those famous doctors are not on the same level!"

"To deal with the diseases we have seen, the more experienced the better. But dealing with diseases that you have never heard of depends on talent. Hua Qingyu was not angry at the swordsman's questioning, "Let me ask Brother Wu, you keep calling those doctors 'famous doctors', have they ever found out the cause of this disease? I'm afraid it won't even reach one-twelfth of the tenths, right?"

The swordsman nodded: "The girl's words are indeed sharp. But it's not a good thing for the cowhide to blow up. Okay, if you insist on staying, I won't stop you, but I won't accompany you to Cangyunling, and I have to stay in Peony Set to continue to take care of it. ”

Hua Qingyu smiled: "It's okay, the two of us can go by ourselves." ”

"And when are you leaving?"

"Now. ”

"Good. Ten miles north from Peony Collection, there is a trail leading to the Cangyunling Mountains. You won't miss it. Everything is precious. ”

Hua Qingyu and Fei Tukong walked outside the house. When he arrived at the door, Hua Qingyu suddenly turned around and asked, "Brother Wu, do you usually like to drink?"

"Oh, that's a question. Didn't Brother Wu just finish drinking a pot of wine?" Fei Tukong pointed to the empty wine jug on the table, "Hey, you don't ...... Uh......" His words came to an abrupt halt as Hua Qingyu twisted his lower back.

"Even though it's a flask, I can't smell a trace of wine. I guess Brother Wu should have been drinking tea just now, right?" Hua Qingyu guessed.

The swordsman was stunned, and then said, "The girl is really careful. I do never drink alcohol. The best wine store on the peony market is the one you broke into by mistake. It is precisely because there are many people who go on weekdays that the door is easy to break. But I advise you not to take the risk of getting a drink, and if you don't drink that little wine, you won't die of hunger, will you?"

"Brother Wu misunderstood, I just thought that a good wine must be mellow and strong, just to protect against the cold in the mountains. Farewell. Hua Qingyu pulled Fei Tukong out of the house.

After leaving the courtyard of the swordsman, Fei Tukong couldn't wait to ask, "Sister Qingyu, why did you stop me from telling me just now?"

"Of course! Hua Qingyu glanced at him angrily, "You're not unfamiliar with me, am I the kind of person who asks questions directly without thinking about it?"

"Okay, okay, you're right. You're not talking without going through the brain

'I'm, okay?" Fei Tukong grinned, "Don't sell it, tell me quickly, why didn't I notice anything wrong?"

Hua Qingyu sorted out his thoughts: "First of all, things are weird. If, as Brother Wu said, those sick townsfolk don't like the light, then why did they rush out and besiege us when we were in the tavern before?"

Fei Tu thought for a moment: "This is too much for you. The townspeople don't like light, and they don't fear light, and you have to distinguish that. Candle flames, they can be extinguished, the sun, they can do nothing. ”

"How can I not tell the difference between such a simple thing? If I am afraid of light, the townspeople will not go out at night, right, moonlight, starlight, aren't they all light?" Hua Qingyu said.

"What's the blame?"

"Blame it on the moment of stagnation after we retreated to the tavern's outer hall. The townsfolk don't like the light, so they wouldn't have rushed to the outer hall, but then they all rushed out together, which was weird. ”

Fei Tukong recalled carefully, and it was really like this. After retreating to the outer hall, the two of them had spoken a few words, and the townspeople then rushed out of the inner hall.

Hua Qingyu continued: "After we retreat to the street, it will be even more strange. We didn't make much of a commotion, so why did the townsfolk in the other houses rush into the streets, even willing to brave the bright sun?"

"This ...... It's really weird. Fei Tukong agreed.

"The last point is Brother Wu. Isn't it strange that he came to his rescue, but the townsfolk turned a blind eye to him, pointing the finger at the two of us all the time?"

Fei Tukong scratched his head: "Maybe the townspeople all knew Brother Wu before they fell ill and knew that it was their own people, and the two of us first arrived, and they both recognized their lives?"

Hua Qingyu smiled: "Your explanation is too far-fetched. Brother Wu said it himself, those townspeople have no thoughts at all, how can they recognize and recognize life?"

"And based on these three oddities, what conclusion can you draw?"

"I haven't finished talking yet, these three points are just weird things, and there are other weird things!"

"Oh?"

"The other weirdness is all in the words that Brother Wu said. While Hua Qingyu said this, she subconsciously looked back behind her. The streets were empty, and there was no sign in sight.

Fei Tukong first went through the words of the swordsman in his mind, and did not find anything wrong, so he had to wait for Hua Qingyu to say it in detail.

From his words, there are three strange things that can be judged: the first is the symptoms of this strange disease. The first young man to be infected with a disease had a high fever for more than two months! This is absolutely impossible. In a state of high fever, it is harmful to the human brain, and it will not take more than two months at all, and the brain will be finished. ”

"So, the young man was burned to the point where he couldn't live or die. Fei Tukong forcibly explained.

Hua Qingyu glanced at him: "Then how do you explain the sudden decrease in fever? and how can you explain the same illness, his mother only had a fever for three days?"

"That's right......" Fei Tu was speechless.

"The second point is the speed of contagion of strange diseases. No matter how ferocious and violent the plague is, it will take time to spread. In just one week, it is absolutely impossible to reach the point of spreading to the entire Divine Jade Valley!" Hua Qingyu was very sure about this.

Fei Tukong nodded again and again: "Yes, I was also startled when I heard it, how could it be so fast?"

"The third point lies in the sentence that Brother Wu said: 'If you are caught and bitten by those living dead, the gods will not be able to save you!' Judging from this sentence, it can be speculated that the way of transmission of this disease is contact infection. ”

"Yes. ”

"Two strange things can be deduced from this: one is the speed of the spread of the plague just mentioned. Since it was a contact infection, it was impossible for everyone in a wide area to come into contact with each other in a week, and the point was that scratching and biting would leave wounds, and from the ferocity of the townspeople when they besieged us, everyone should have been hurt when the plague spread. But the townsfolk were only disheveled, and they didn't see any scars. It's weird. ”

"Your mind is so delicate, I sigh to myself. Fei Tukong sighed.

"There are three things that don't make sense. At first, I wondered, could it be that Brother Wu did all this himself?"

Fei Tukong was shocked: "He, himself?"

"Listen to me. At first, I suspected that he deliberately wanted to capture the two of us, saying that he was letting us leave, but he was taking advantage of the chivalrous heart of our Jianghu people. Something happened to so many Li people, but anyone with some sense of justice probably wants to find out about this matter. And he can take advantage of our unpreparedness and secretly use a black hand to ...... us And it became the same as the townspeople. He was innocent when he later described his helplessness when he killed his family with his own hands, and his distrust when I said I wanted to find out the cause. As for the three oddities in his words, they may be explained in this way: the first and second points are because he does not understand medical science, so he does not find it strange. As for the third point, it was actually his own imagination of the way the epidemic spread. "Hua Qingyu said.

Fei Tukong shook his head again and again: "After listening to what you said earlier, I just felt that Brother Wu had a problem, but you immediately 'rehabilitated' him...... I'm all confused by you!"

Hua Qingyu smiled faintly: "I just explained the reason why there were weirdness in his words, but the weirdness of the high fever for too long and the spread speed was too fast, and it had nothing to do with what he said." Therefore, to sum up, there are five major doubts about this so-called 'plague'. So I concluded that it wasn't a disease at all!"

"That's, that's

What?" Fei Tukong unconsciously felt a little nervous.

Hua Qingyu clenched her fists and concluded with great certainty: "Someone is doing it in secret!"

Fei Tukong's heart furted when he heard this, who was it, why did he do this, and how did he do it?

"No, all the other townspeople have changed, but Brother Wu is fine. If someone is secretly doing evil, isn't it still him?"

"No, it shouldn't be him. The remaining doubts are the goals of our trip. Hua Qingyu said, suddenly turned a corner, and did not continue to walk along the road outside the peony set, but turned to the big river next to the town, the Tianxing River.

"Didn't you go to Cangyun Ridge, why did you go this way?" Fei Tukong followed.

"First, I want to confirm one of my conjectures. Then we went to Cangyunling. ”

"What do you think? I can't stand the fact that people are hanging my appetite, so tell me quickly. Fei Tukong admired Hua Qingyu at this time.

"I'm guessing the reason why the people of Shenyu Valley are changing rapidly. Since it's not a disease, it must be something that people are in contact with on a regular basis. Thinking of the villages and towns in the Shenyu Valley are surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is easy to draw an inference. ”

"I see, water!!" cried out to Fatu.

"That's right! The problem is out of the water of the Tianxing River!"

"Then how could Brother Wu be fine?" If it weren't for the plague, then naturally there would be no such thing as "resistance", Fei Tukong immediately thought of this contradiction.

Hua Qingyu asked rhetorically: "Do you remember what you saw in Brother Wu's yard?"

Fei Tukong's eyes lit up: "There is a well!"

Hua Qingyu nodded: "That's right!"

"However, in the entire peony set, and even in the huge Shenyu Valley, it is impossible that he is the only one who has a well!" Fei Tukong had another question.

"But all villages and towns have liquor stores, and there is not just one. ”

"Ahh Because the wine shops also take water from the Tianxing River to make wine. Only Brother Wu never drinks alcohol, and the water for making tea is taken from well water, so only he escaped!" Under Hua Qingyu's guidance, Fei Tukong finally reached the conclusion that Hua Qingyu had thought of as early as in the knife house.

"No wonder Hua Jun has a poisonous vein and a unique medicine, and the emotional acceptance of disciples is specially accepted for you who are good-looking and easy-minded?" Fei Tukong complimented.

"Poor mouth again?" Hua Qingyu smiled, and then, she straightened her face again, and her tone was heavy, "If my conclusion is correct, I'm afraid the enemy we are going to face is a very terrifying character." ”

"Yes. However, he has harmed so many people, and there must be an explanation. He can't be left to do anything wrong!"

With that, the two arrived at the Tianxing River. The water of the Tianxing River is very clear, although it is very deep, you can see the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river clearly. When Fei Tukong was worrying about how to detect whether there was a problem with the river water, Hua Qingyu had already squatted down and sprinkled a blue powder into the river.

"What's that?" asked Fei Tukong curiously.

"This is a kind of medicinal powder that I developed myself, although it has no effect of curing diseases and repelling poisons, it has a peculiar ability to detect whether the water is poisonous. ”

"Amazing!" Fei Tu said in his empty mouth, but he didn't believe it in his heart, so he asked again, "Can it detect all the poisons in the world?"

Hua Qingyu explained: "You must know that all the poisons in the world will eventually invade a person's blood, even if the person has already died of poison. One of the ingredients from which this powder is made is human blood. Whether there is poison in the water or not, you will know if you try it. ”

The water of the Tianxing River was flowing, and the medicinal powder sprinkled by Hua Qingyu drifted into the distance with the waves, and she also followed downstream. It didn't take long for the river not far away to turn a pale red, and the discoloration was particularly noticeable in the clear water.

"Look, I'm right, right?" Hua Qingyu stood up and sighed, although she was sure of her judgment, it didn't mean that she wanted to see such a result.

"What should we do next?" Fei Tukong had unconsciously begun to obey Hua Qingyu's orders.

"Go against the current, look for the source of the river, and also look for the source of the problem. Hua Qingyu looked up at the snow-capped peaks in the distance.

Hua Qingyu suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of her eyes, hurriedly turned around, and exclaimed, "Brother Wu!"

The swordsman was not far behind the two, his face was pale: "Is it the problem of the river?"

Hua Qingyu knew that he had already seen them all, so he had to tell the truth: "Yes." I am afraid that someone threw some kind of strange poison in the river, which caused the people along the river to suffer. ”

"This river is still waving even in the middle of winter, how can the poison always exist?" the swordsman asked.

"Hmm...... I guess there should be a polluted source of the river upstream. ”

The swordsman clenched his fists, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out: "Then can you solve this poison?"

Hua Qingyu hesitated for a moment before shaking her head gently: "I'm not sure." But if I let my seniors study it, it should be solved over time. ”

The swordsman's body trembled, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, not opening them for a long time. Perhaps, he is remembering the innocent family members who have died. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were blood-red, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "I'll go with you to find that villain!"

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