Qingshui City is a bit far from Baidi City, it takes three days to travel, and it is also a provincial city.
But when the tour arrived at Qingshui City, I was a little surprised.
Generally speaking, prefectural cities are extremely developed and have prosperous commerce.
This Qingshui City is a little different. It has a quiet environment, tree-lined streets, exquisite and elegant architectural style, and blue brick eaves. There is a sense of tranquility and comfort everywhere.
The pace of life here does not seem to be tense, and the people's faces do not show the busyness of running around for life.
This time during a secret investigation, Zhou You was not riding a black-scaled horse, but was leading an ordinary horse, dressed in a white shirt, dressed as a wanderer.
This kind of dress is very common and there is nothing eye-catching about it.
I also found an inn that looked pretty good while traveling around.
"Shopkeeper, I heard from my friend that there is a beautiful mountain called Liuling Mountain near Qingshui City. Is it true?"
When checking in, Zhou You asked casually.
This Liuling Mountain is where Monk Shenxiu discovered the second human head sacrifice.
"Sir... then you must have been deceived by your friends. This Liuling Mountain is not a good place."
The innkeeper is a middle-aged man with a thin face, wearing a light blue Confucian shirt, and he has the air of a scholar.
"Oh? How do you say that?" Zhou You asked.
"When I was a child, Liuling Mountain was indeed a good place with beautiful scenery and beautiful scenery..."
"But just over ten years ago, a large-scale plague broke out here... The plague killed many people. In the end, the government transported all the corpses of those who died from the plague to Liuling Mountain and burned them."
"Since then, Liuling Mountain has become an extremely scary place. I heard that you can hear the moans and groans of those who died of illness every night. No one dares to go there anymore."
The shopkeeper sighed.
"So that's it." Zhou You nodded thoughtfully.
The head sacrifice in Guyue City was guarded by the village that turned into ghosts. Ordinary people would seek death if they entered.
As for Qingshui City, there are even more terrifying rumors, and ordinary people avoid it. How can anyone enter Liuling Mountain?
It seems that the God Society has really put a lot of thought into hiding the head sacrifice.
If Taoist Tianzhang hadn't wanted to drag Zhou You into trouble, he would have told him this secret.
I'm afraid you won't be able to find the human head sacrifice behind the mountain village if you travel around.
The shopkeeper quickly completed the procedures for Zhou You and gave him a room number plate.
I went to the next room and found that the environment was pretty good, clean and tidy. I nodded with satisfaction.
For the next time, he didn't go anywhere, he just stayed in the room and closed his eyes, meditating and resting.
It was not until night that he opened his eyes.
It was dark now and there was silence in the inn.
Zhou You opened the window and jumped directly.
With his current skills, he looked like a raccoon cat, without making any sound, disappearing into the darkness.
Qingshui Mansion Office is brightly lit.
Two government officials on duty stood on both sides of the door.
However, Qingshui City has been peaceful for a long time. Not to mention the treacherous monsters, there are also very few thieves.
The two government officials stood at the door, yawning long ago, and did not notice a figure leaping over the wall like a big bird.
"When I was in Guyue City before, I focused all my attention on the cases of demons causing trouble, but I never thought that the gods would hide the human head sacrifice in this way."
The person who slipped into the government office was naturally Zhou You. With his extremely powerful perception, he easily escaped all the patrolling government officials and reached the information room.
In the government office, the status of the reference room is not high. Naturally, no one will be assigned to guard it at night. It is just a symbolic lock.
This iron lock was nothing in Zhou You's eyes, and it was torn off with just a pull.
Sneak in quietly.
Facing the mountains of files in the data room, Zhou You could only look for accumulations about the plague.
Normally, for a plague like this that kills tens of thousands of people at once, the government office should keep files.
But after searching around for a long time, I couldn't find any relevant information.
I only saw some sporadic records in the government records.
"In the thirty-sixth year of Xuanwu Dayin, an unknown plague broke out. More than 130,000 people died and were buried in Liuling Mountain."
"In the 39th year of Xuanwu Dayin, an unknown plague broke out, killing more than 100,000 people, and they were buried in Liuling Mountain."
"In the forty-first year of Xuanwu Dayin, an unknown plague broke out again, and the number of deaths was unknown. They were buried in Liuling Mountain."
Judging from the official records, the records about this plague became increasingly vague. When it came to the last unknown plague, they didn't even bother to count the number of people and simply wrote that the number of people was unknown.
"The water in Qingshui Mansion here is not shallow either." Zhou You sneered in his heart.
This unknown plague has killed so many people. Not only does it not have any relevant information and files, there are only a few strokes. Any normal person can see that there is something fishy about it.
"If such a big thing can be covered up, I'm afraid not a single person in the entire Qingshui Mansion is clean."
Zhou You narrowed his eyes slightly.
It seems that the infiltration of the Celestial Society is even scary in imagination.
Due to the Da Yin royal family's fear of the Demon Slayer, the intelligence department has been clamping down on everything to prevent its development.
What's more, people from the Demon Slayer Department and the government have never dealt with him and rarely communicate with him.
However, in order to investigate the truth behind the plague, one should not be in a hurry when traveling around.
With his strength, there is no problem in rushing directly into the government office and killing everyone, but his target is not these, but the God Society hidden behind it.
If people like the government office are touched now, I'm afraid it will only scare the people away.
After thinking for a while, Zhou You put all the files back intact, then exited the data room and disappeared into the government office.
In the next few days, Zhou You didn't do anything, just collecting information secretly.
Wandering around the streets and alleys of Qingshui City, looking for those lonely old people to chat with.
He has a handsome appearance and a strong body. At first glance, you can tell that he is not a bad person, and those old people are not wary of traveling around.
The thing that gets asked the most when traveling around is naturally the plague.
This day, under a willow tree beside a small river.
Zhou You was playing chess with a spirited old man when he accidentally mentioned the plague.
Speaking of the plague, the old man couldn't help but sigh.
"This plague is strange to say the least. Not only does it come and go very suddenly, but only young people are infected. Once infected, they will be extremely weak and die in less than a day... pitiful
My two sons have both contracted this nasty disease." The old man mentioned the past, with a flash of sadness in his eyes.
"Didn't you ask a miracle doctor to come over and take a look?" Zhou You asked seemingly casually.
"I found it. I remember that when the plague first broke out, the old prefect found a miracle doctor."
"As a result, the miracle doctor said that there is no cure for this plague. As long as the corpses of those who died of the disease are gathered together and burned, the plague can be eliminated."
"Later, the plague broke out twice more, both using this method." The old man shook his head.