Although the two of them were not very familiar with this smell, they had a guess.
It's a putrid smell. What rotten thing can have such a strong smell?
Corpse!
Qingyan and Chou Chou looked at each other, took two steps, ran to the front to block the crowd and said, "Everyone, stop for a moment. I smell some rancid smell. There is something wrong with this smell. It's better not to enter the village yet. in case."
Li Hao stepped forward and said doubtfully: "I didn't smell it? But if you ask, shouldn't you go and investigate?"
Qingyan explained: "My sense of smell is very sensitive and I can smell even a little bit of smell. The reason why I stopped everyone was because I was afraid that the putrid smell was coming from the corpse.
If there are rotting corpses in the village, we will not be able to enter. You know, the plague is spread from rotting corpses! "
As soon as these words were said, everyone panicked and took a few steps back. Even Li Hao and the other three had serious expressions.
Everyone's sense of smell is not as sensitive as Qingyan's and the two's, so they haven't smelled it yet, but they know how powerful Qingyan and ChouChou are, so they don't doubt what she said.
They all stood there at a loss, subconsciously waiting for her next instruction.
Qingyan said: "Let's not go any further. It's best to stay away from the village today. Even if you want to explore, you have to wait until dawn tomorrow to avoid encountering something that cannot be touched in the dark."
Everyone nodded in agreement. It was dark now and they couldn't see anything. Although they were curious about what was going on in the village, they didn't dare to take risks.
If it's daytime, you can climb up to a taller tree to see what it's like inside.
But now, I can only find a place to rest outside.
It's not that they have to enter the village. In fact, it's best to just bypass it.
But if they don't know what's going on in the village, what they're encountering, and if there's any hidden danger, they can avoid it if they know it in advance and move forward without knowing anything. It will be even worse if they fall into someone else's ambush. It's dangerous.
Li Hao had a heavy look on his face. He also had a guess. I'm afraid things are not going well over there in Handeng. Although this is not the only way to go to Handeng, it is not very far either, only a few dozen miles away.
On the mountain road they came out of, there were only traces of their journey and no one else, which meant that it was definitely not done by people who came out of the mountain. This also meant that the direction they were going was even more dangerous.
A road on the other side of the village leads to the main road outside. If all the villagers in this village have been killed, it means that the danger comes from that side, which is not good news for them.
Finally, they decided to back off a bit.
They don't dare to light a fire to cook or rest in the open space here, because they always feel a little unsafe.
As a result, the people who had just left the mountain were a little tired because they no longer had the excitement of the previous rush.
Being exhausted, I had no choice but to drag my feet back another mile and find a triangular place with leeward wind to rest.
Fortunately, there were more people there, so it was better. If there were less people, I really wouldn't have the guts to stay here.
I'll just make do with it tonight and wait until the next morning to find a way to find out.
Qingyan told them some ways to prevent the plague and infection. It wasn't that she wasn't afraid of being exposed, but that they were now one. If someone really came back infected with any virus, everyone would suffer.
Everyone listened attentively, especially Li Hao and the others.
After listening to what Qingyan said, she silently memorized the words to cover her mouth and nose with a cloth scalded with boiling water, change her clothes and use high-temperature sterilization with boiling water, etc., as well as some relatively easy-to-find heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs. Come down.
In fact, diseases occur in some places here every year. They are not necessarily plagues, but they are also very contagious and many people die.
It's just that it hasn't spread in many places, or there are rumors. If it has spread, most villages and cities will be sealed off, and they will just wait to die. It is impossible to cure it.
If this method can really be prevented, at least the chance of infection will be much smaller, so they all listened very carefully and were surprised.
The women were busy heating hot water and asked everyone to wash their hands and faces first. When they pass by the village tomorrow, they must cover their mouths and noses with cloth towels, and the cloth towels must also be scalded with boiling water.
Although there was a water pool not far away from them, they were a little worried, fearing that the water was no longer clean.
Qingyan still said that before fetching water, take a good look around to see if there are any dead objects or footprints. If there are any, then don't use the water here, just use the water they saved before.
Later, I discovered that this pool should have been formed by the stream in the mountain that infiltrated into the bottom and then seeped out here. It was actually very clean.
It should be used to irrigate the fields in the village, so no one comes here to fetch water.
And outside the triangle of land where they were, there was a field.
It's just that the crops in the fields have been harvested. When I saw patches of yellow on the mountain, I thought they hadn't been harvested. It turns out that they just cut off the wheat ears above, and the wheat stalks were still stuck in the ground before they could be processed.
So from a distance, it looked like there was still food in the ground. Looking at this scene, they were quite disappointed.
Regardless of whether the people in the village are alive or not, if there is still food in the fields, they can at least replenish it.
But now if the people in the village are dead, then even if the villagers have food at home, they would not dare to take it. Who knows if they will eat themselves to death.
