A few days ago, when they were preparing to go to Tongzhou, because Yin Shifei advocated keeping a low profile, and the two of them and one monkey were not afraid of ordinary horse bandits, they simply took the inaccessible mountain road. As a result, because of the darkness, they followed the map's direction and didn't know they went in the wrong direction. Instead, they strayed into a small village.
At dawn, when they found a small village ahead, they checked the map and found that they had gone in the wrong direction and came to a village called Giethoorn. This village is usually isolated from the world and does not often interact with outsiders, so even if The Tang Dynasty court only knew that there was a village here, and no official was willing to come here to investigate, so the information about this village was basically obtained from the Jianghu intelligence network.
Before this, the entire village had a population of more than 40 people, which was considered a small village. These more than 100 people usually lived on some livestock and planted plants, but they lived in peace and contentment, as if they were isolated from the world. It's like a little paradise. According to the map circulated in Jianghu in Yin Shifei's hand, travelers occasionally arrive in this village, but they will never disturb the lives of the villagers. Even if there are bandits nearby, there seems to be some rules not to do it, and they will never go disturb. As a result, in this small village, some escapists or people from the world who wanted to meditate and cultivate gradually came, and the population increased to more than 150 people. The villagers in this village usually have simple folk customs, kind-heartedness, and aloof from the world, but they are happy to accept these outsiders, and these outsiders are also very cooperative with the local villagers, often helping each other, and they seem to have become one.
According to what was said on the map, there were more than a hundred people in this village, so it must be a bit lively. However, when the two of them arrived at the entrance of the village, they found that the entire village seemed to have turned into a ghost village, extremely desolate, and there was still a slight smell of Ye Qingcheng in the air. The familiar stench - corpse odor, was what he had seen from Li Sihan's ghost technique, but after Li Sihan gave up the ghost technique for him, he hadn't smelled it for a long time, but that The smell is very impressive and will never be forgotten.
A bad feeling suddenly arose in the two people's hearts, and they quickly split up to explore the entire village. They found that there were still living people in the village, but there were only dozens of young and middle-aged people. It seemed that these people also had sallow complexions and had difficulty moving. , exhausted, taking turns burying the stinking corpses in the cemetery behind the village.
These people all seemed to be seriously ill, but there were still a few who were in relatively good condition. Ye Qingcheng quickly asked them about their situation. It turned out that the person in the best condition was the leader of the foreigners, whose surname was Yi, who was originally from the famous Jianshan Villa. , came here for Qingxiu. Just a few days ago, a sudden change occurred in Giethoorn. People in the whole village didn't know why. Everyone in the village was poisoned. Children and the elderly couldn't bear it and they all died. Only a few young and strong people were left. The ten people were able to hold on for a long time, and some outsiders happened to have antidotes. Unfortunately, the effect was not great, but at least it slowed down the onset of toxicity.
With a few people who were still able to move, he finally figured out that the source of the poisonous disease should be the water source. People in the village usually drank spring water left on the mountain, so he quickly told the surviving people not to drink the spring water. He originally wanted to send people out to ask for help, but with their bodies, they might not be able to reach the nearest town, Tongzhou, and Giethoorn was not visited very often all year round, so he couldn't place his hope on passers-by.
They were already desperate, so they could only bury the corpses of the villagers, and they were also thinking about their own affairs. Who would have thought that at this moment, Ye Qingcheng and the others accidentally entered Giethoorn Village.
Knowing that the situation was urgent, Yin Shifei stayed to take care of the survivors, while Ye Qingcheng took Sanlang up the mountain along the spring in order to investigate what happened to the source of the spring. Not long after, he suddenly discovered the water flowing near the spring. Inside, there was a corpse that had been rotting for a while, emitting a stench. After all, Ye Qingcheng had a background as a detective. After a sophisticated investigation of this person, he found that he was actually a cultivator, and it seemed that he once had a Yuan Jing. He should be a heavenly cultivator. The cause of death was a big hole in his chest. Although After many days, he could still feel some vitality. It seemed that he was directly punched through the chest by some powerful magic weapon. Moreover, judging from his close-fitting clothing, he must be from the Miao area. He does not have any financial or magical weapons on his body and must have been looted. At this time, Ye Qingcheng suddenly looked up thoughtfully and found a hole in the dense leaves above the body. It seemed that as he expected, the man was flying in the air while being chased, but he was shot when he passed by. Pierced through the chest, he died instantly and fell into the spring. The source of the poison was a broken small bottle on his waist. After being soaked in spring water for many days, the bottle looked very clean. It was impossible to know what it originally contained, but Ye Qingcheng could still infer that it was a bottle after careful identification. A bottle of highly toxic poison, coupled with this rotting corpse, it would be strange for the villagers of Giethoorn to drink this spring water without being poisoned.
The problem now is to figure out what kind of poison was in the bottle before. After thinking about it, Ye Qingcheng thought that since this person was killed during the pursuit, I am afraid that he might not be at peace in his heart, and he was a heavenly cultivator. , his soul may still be wandering nearby, waiting for Black and White to lead him the way.
As soon as he thought of this, Ye Qingcheng immediately began to use the soul-searching technique among the dragon-seeking secret techniques. This technique was originally used to summon the ghosts in the haunted house, and it did work now. Sure enough, the man's soul was found by Ye Qingcheng before it went to the underworld, and from the man's soul, Ye Qingcheng learned about a sensational event...
After rushing back to Giethoorn Village, Yin Shifei hurriedly asked Ye Qingcheng about the results of his investigation, and finally learned that the spring water was mixed with three-tailed centipede toxins. This toxin is colorless, odorless, and extremely poisonous. Many cultivators have collected it. , if you are intentional, this poison can kill even the elementary level cultivators of the Golden Immortal level. So even though it was just a bottle of toxin mixed into the spring water, the three-tailed centipede was so toxic that the entire spring water was filled with toxins that would kill an ordinary person.
Knowing the source of the illness, they were able to prescribe the right medicine, so Ye Qingcheng and Yin Shifei quickly used soul searching techniques to find some literate people among the ghosts who were still lingering in the village, plus some literate people among the little ghosts he had conquered, and quickly found them. He began to search for a solution among his vast medical skills. This scene stunned the survivors. Even some of the martial arts masters among them had never seen such a scene.
After half a day of searching, they finally found the antidote formula for the three-tailed centipede poison. But when they saw the name of the main medicinal ingredient, everyone present was dumbfounded.
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