Tao'er whispered: "Alan is right, we really can't all stay here, it will only increase Alan's burden,"
"That makes sense..." Ye Yi lowered his head in disappointment.
Tian Lan smiled and said: "Don't give me that expression, it's just a plague. I'm not going to die." He pointed to his head, "You know, I have dealt with countless plagues."
Unexpectedly, Nangong Kui stood up and objected righteously at this time: "No, I can't let you stay here alone,"
"A Kui," "Nangong boy," Tao'er and Ye Yi were both surprised. Nangong Kui actually dared to speak so loudly and resolutely. This was going to change.
Nangong Kui continued: "This village is indeed very unsafe. We can't all stay here, but we can't leave you alone. If something happens, in such a village full of strangers, you won't even have a person to look after you." There is no one, and no matter what you want to do, there must be someone to help you, do chores and so on..."
Ye Yi's mouth was already open enough to put down an egg, and it took him a long time to close it. He gave Nangong Kui a thumbs up and said: "Okay, Nangong boy, I have you, and I will look at you differently."
Tao'er praised with a playful smile: "Akui has made great progress under my guidance, hehe, I am very happy for the teacher,"
Nangong Kui couldn't stand the praise, and instantly blushed with shame, and said weakly: "Well... I'm the best at doing chores. Let me stay with Brother Tianlan..." There was another sentence he didn't say. , he would never leave his companions and run away in the face of danger like that time in Yuling Forest. At that time, facing the terrifying Mimosa, he forgot about Tianlan's safety and only focused on his own escape. These days, that scene often happened Appeared in a dream, and today was his first attempt to overcome his cowardice.
Ye Yi patted him on the shoulder and said: "Not bad, not bad. It's rare that Nangong boy said 'human words' for once, so we will comply with your wish."
Nangong Kui's mouth twitched, thinking: Could it be that what I said before was not human?
Tao'er clapped her hands happily and said, "Then I'll leave it to you, A-Lan. If something goes wrong, we can look for you."
Tian Lan felt helpless and said: "Oh, you guys..."
Ye Yi guessed what he was going to say as soon as he heard it, waved his hand and interrupted: "Hey, the decision is on our side, right, Tao Yatou... Look, even Tao Yatou, who doesn't know the general situation, nodded, Just wait quietly for our decision,"
Tao'er stepped on Ye Yi hard and said with a smile: "You, tell me, who doesn't know the big body,"
"Oh, I was wrong, I was wrong, am I not good enough?" Ye Yi howled in pain, hugged his feet and begged for mercy, secretly cursing himself for being too outspoken and accidentally speaking out what was in his heart.
Tian Lan couldn't help but smile. The two of them were really a pair. Faced with this brief separation, he still solemnly said: "You two, be careful when you act."
Ye Yi waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, we are not three-year-old children, but you. Don't be brave. Don't be brave. If you really can't do it, leave as soon as possible. Don't lose yourself."
"...I have my own sense of proportion,"
After sending Ye Yi and Tao'er away, Tian Lan was very busy in the next few days. He wanted to understand the daily life of the local people, including their frequent residences, the condition of the fields, abnormalities of domestic animals, customs and habits, and Recent changes or outsiders, etc., it is not easy to fully understand these things in three to five days, and he has to visit them one by one, and he has to go to each place in person to discover any abnormalities.
In three days, he visited almost all the places where villagers often go, but he almost never went to the residence arranged for him by Wang Kai. Poor Nangong Kui tried his best just to keep up with him. Not to mention helping, but the fact that he didn't complain about being tired or miserable made Tian Lan change his opinion of him.
The plague spread extremely fast. In just three days, more than half of the people in the village fell ill with the strange disease. At first, Tianlan could find time to give them acupuncture, but later the number of patients was too many. , and he had to go around to explore the cause of the disease, and he had no time to stay in the village as a full-time doctor, so there was nothing he could do.
According to his speculation, almost everyone in the village has been infected with the disease, but some people get sick early and some people get sick late, but without exception they will die from this strange disease. Wang Kai said before The method of burning patients to death is not applicable at all. Their hopes now are placed on the approachable and elusive "God". In fact, the village chief Wang Kai is just an agent. The real village chief has already been established by Tian Lan and others. He had died of a strange disease the day before his arrival, so it was no wonder that the whole village was in panic.
In the early morning of the fourth day, Tian Lan and Nangong Kui came to a small river. This river is one of the three major drinking water sources in Changsheng Village. It can be said that the village mainly depends on this river for survival. Tian Lan knows that drinking water is the easiest There was one link that went wrong, so he was extra careful when checking the water source. He had checked the other two water sources and found no problems. This was the last one.
He walked to the river, lowered his head and looked into the water. The water was extremely clear, like a mirror. The ripples of light could be seen directly at the pebbles on the bottom of the river, making people want to hold it in their hands and drink.
Nangong Kui walked up to him, looked into the water as well, and said with a smile: "Such clear water is really rare. I think there will be no problem here. Let's go to the next place."
"No," Tian Lan said, "This is where the problem lies."
"Hey, how could this happen?"
Tian Lan smiled and said: "The water is extremely clear and there are no fish." He squatted down and put his palms into the water. The river water was ice cold. On this day that has not yet entered autumn, the water was surprisingly cold.
"Sure enough," he stood up expressionlessly, turned around and walked upstream.
Seeing that he had discovered something, Nangong Kui took the initiative to follow him. Before he could ask questions, Tianlan explained: "I sensed a bad smell in the river. I can't tell what it is, but it's the same as the smell in the patients in Changsheng Village." The smell is the same. The water has been polluted. Of course, the villagers may have polluted the water, but it is also possible that the water directly caused the strange disease in Changsheng Village, and this strange disease can spread rapidly among humans. Caused a plague. If it is the latter, I am sure that there is either a foreign object somewhere in the river, or something happened upstream. In short, we have to find the answer from this river,"
Nangong Kui said oh, as if he didn't understand, but he didn't need to use his brain anyway, he just had to follow Tian Lan.
But I didn't expect that this trip would last for three hours. After noon, it was extremely hot and scorching. Nangong Kui wiped his sweaty brow and said, "Brother Tianlan, it's too hot now. Let's leave later."
There were slight beads of sweat on Tian Lan's forehead, and he frowned. He sighed softly and said, "No need, we're here."
"What, ah, this is..." Nangong Kui took a few steps forward and looked forward intently, but the sight made him straighten his eyes instantly, his stomach tumbled, his face was extremely ugly, and he almost vomited.
There were several corpses scattered in twos and threes in and beside the river. These corpses must have been dead for more than a month, and near the river, the corpses had completely decomposed. A stench could be heard from a distance, and there were countless ants and insects all over the carrion. Extremely disgusting.
After all, Nangong Kui had been trained as a mercenary since he was a child. He forced his eyes away and said, "This is too cruel. They have been dead for so long, and no one helped them collect their bodies, leaving them to rot."
Tian Lan sighed: "It's not that I won't help, it's just that there is no one around here anymore,"
"Why is there no one there? They must be people from nearby villages,"
Tianlan glanced at him and said, "Follow me,"
Nangong Kui took another look at the corpses of those who died tragically, then turned his head unbearably and followed Tian Lan. In less than half an hour, they came to another village, a village larger than Changsheng Village.
However, this is a dead village. You can see corpses and rotting corpses all over the place from a long way away. However, because it is some distance from the river, the degree of decay is slightly better, but it is still beyond recognition.
"This..." Nangong Kui couldn't bear it and said a little bit angrily, "Who did it? What's the hatred for this?"
Tianlan always had a calm expression. To him, this level could not be called cruel at all. He said softly: "Don't come over here. Stand far away." Nangong Kui was very obedient and took a few steps back and stood aside.
Tianlan casually broke off a branch from the tree and walked slowly towards the corpse. He walked to the nearest corpse, gently opened his clothes with the branch, and looked around until he got what he wanted. The information was returned.
He retreated not far from Nangong Kui, looked at the countless corpses, sighed thoughtfully, gathered his spiritual energy, and released a huge whirlwind that leveled the entire village to the ground, and rolled up countless soil to cover it. After a while, He completed the "burying" work in no time. Of course, this work was not easy. He was exhausted from mobilizing so much spiritual energy all of a sudden.
As he led Nangong Kui back to the river, he explained: "Seeing such a scene, you should understand that the source of the plague in Changsheng Village is precisely because of this massacre, especially those who died by the river. The corpses polluted the water and caused diseases, so I just didn’t let you get close to those corpses. If you get too close, you will also contract the disease,"
"Then why did this... massacre happen? Could it be that there were enemies?"
"No, I don't think so." Tian Lan paused, as if he was having trouble speaking, and seemed to be thinking about speculation. After a long time, he said: "I think the murderer is probably... that fierce sword..."
"Fierce sword, you mean the difficult ghost sword that you and Brother Ye Yi encountered last time," Nangong Kui shuddered, and felt a chill when he thought of that terrifying unmanned ghost sword. From the soles of the feet to the top of the head,