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Chapter 48 Gu Poison
The distance of more than [-] miles can be covered in one day for the healthy horses raised in Yaowang Mountain.

When the setting sun was setting, smoke and dust billowed on the avenue, Chen Xun followed more than [-] riders headed by Qin Ying, and had already rushed to Tengshan Town.

Although Tengshan Town is a town, it is located on an important traffic road, and there are many merchants coming and going, and it is also one of the medicinal materials dumping points of Yaowang Mountain.The town's population has exceeded [-], and its scale is even close to catching up with some small counties.

Soon, a group of Yaowangshan disciples all wore face masks and sprinkled powder on their bodies, and entered the town, only to find that the streets and alleys of the whole town were empty, except for a few scattered officials in burqas, there were hardly any people in sight. traces of the people.

Obviously, the news of the plague had spread, and the people who learned about it hid in their homes for fear of being infected.

On the deserted and empty street, a few officials saw the arrival of Chen Xun and others, and rushed over as if they had seen a savior:

"May I ask if you are all masters of Yaowang Mountain?"

Elder Qin Ying sat on the horse's back, frowned and said:
"I am Qin Ying, the elder of Yaowangshan Medical Hall. Where are the sick people? How did you deal with them?"

The burqas on several officials covered themselves tightly, and said in a trembling voice:

"Back to the elder, yes, it started from the north of the town. Since two days ago, there have been people in this town feeling weak all over the body, bloodshot eyes, skin ulceration, and loss of energy and blood, so they went to the medical center see a doctor.

However, the level of doctors in this town's medical center is really limited, and they can't really see what the disease is, but they just prescribed some prescriptions for invigorating qi, nourishing blood, strengthening the root and strengthening the original.

Unexpectedly, on the second day, the number of people suffering from this type of disease suddenly increased to nearly a hundred, and all of them had the exact same disease, but a few of those patients on the first day had already died suddenly at home. The death condition was particularly terrible. terror!
On that day, we realized that something was wrong, and immediately conducted an investigation, and found that the disease spread from the northernmost street in the town. When we realized that we sent people to Yaowang Mountain, at least 300 people in that area had been infected. epidemic.

Today, more than 500 people have been infected!The doctors in the town are all infected and helpless, and even two of your students from Yaowang Mountain have been infected. Now all the infected people are concentrated and blocked in the two blocks in the north of the town, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. "

Bai Yuehe frowned suddenly:
"You don't care about the people inside anymore?"

A group of officials immediately shouted injustice:

"It's not that I'm waiting to die, it's that the plague is so terrifying that I've never heard of it. There's no doctor in the town who knows what kind of plague it is, let alone prescribing a cure. There are old and young, who dares to get close? In order to prevent the whole town from suffering, we can only come up with this bad policy, this elder has learned a lesson!"

Although the handling of these official errands was somewhat cruel, it was also reasonable, and Chen Xun couldn't help but sigh secretly.

The most obvious features of ancient plagues are contagiousness and prevalence.Once the disease spreads in a densely populated place, it will break out like a scourge. If it is not effectively prevented and controlled, the death toll will be unimaginable.

The reason why the plague was finally eradicated in ancient times was not because of the superior methods of epidemic prevention, but because of the extremely poor mobility of the population in ancient times. All the people in a place died, and the plague would naturally never spread again.

Also knowing that it is not wrong to deal with it this way, Qin Ying said in a deep voice:
"Okay, don't gossip, take us there to see the situation first!"

The official did not dare to say any more, and immediately bowed his head honestly to lead the way.

The doors and windows on the street were closed tightly, and there were almost no figures, and the flow was unimpeded.

In less than a quarter of an hour, they saw a block of intersections in front of them surrounded by a circle of spiked wooden stakes, surrounded by a group of soldiers also wearing burqas armed with knives, guarding against death.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! The masters of Yaowang Mountain are here!"

The shouts of foxes and tigers, the officers and soldiers who blocked the block and trembled were surprised, as if they were relieved to see the savior, but Qin Ying led a group of disciples dismounted and stepped forward, looking at the blocked block ahead, Commanded:
"Yue He, Xiao Wu, the two of you come in with me, and the others will boil water outside for later use!"

People who are successful in martial arts and have strong qi and blood are often not afraid of epidemics, not to mention that Chen Xun himself is a doctor of a certain level. , and Bai Yuehe followed Qin Ying into the neighborhood.

The huge block was dead silent and oppressive, as if there were no living people. After walking for a while, the three of them came to the door of a house and listened to the faint moans, as if there were patients.

Chen Xun pushed the door open, and after entering the room, he saw a couple lying on the hospital bed in the back room. Their faces were pale and bloodless, trembling and moaning, and their exposed skin was festering.

One of the women seemed to be aware of someone coming in, opened a pair of bloodshot eyes, and issued an extremely weak pleading:
"Please, please, please help my husband."

The condition of the two of them was really miserable, and it was hard to bear to look directly at them. Qin Ying waved his hand abruptly, making Chen Xun and Bai Yuehe stay where they were, and then stepped forward to check and take a pulse diagnosis.

And after a while, after looking at her eyelids to diagnose her pulse, her brows frowned.

Chen Xun saw something was wrong, and immediately whispered:

"Elder, how is the situation?"

"It's a little weird."

Qin Ying pondered and said:
"The complexion is pale, the lips and tongue are pale, the skin is dry, and the pulse is thin and weak. This is a bit like the disease of qi and blood failure caused by schistosomiasis, but schistosomiasis only occurs in the water towns of the southern regions, and it should not be in the northern regions.
In addition, their skin has begun to fester, which seems to be a sign that the internal organs are beginning to fail, and I have never seen a plague that matches these two symptoms at the same time."

"Even you haven't seen it?"

Bai Yuehe came in front of the couple with a look of unbearable expression:

"Master, is there a way to save them?"

Qin Ying said slowly:
"It's certainly not a problem to use some means to save them, but the first priority now is to find out the specific cause and prescribe the right medicine, so that the treatment can get twice the result with half the effort. Come with me!"

As she spoke, she tapped the back of the woman's neck on the hospital bed to make her fall asleep, while she took Chen Xun and Bai Yuehe to look for the next patient.

And the infected people in this block can be said to be everywhere. After pushing open the door of the second house, Chen Xun saw the next patient, or the deceased.

It was an old woman in her fifties, she just stretched out her hands and fell to the ground, her breath was cut off, she seemed to have been dead for a while.

What was even more frightening was that the old woman's skin was shriveled, her head and face were festered, and even her eyeballs were gnawed out by something unknown. Her death was extremely horrifying.

Chen Xun and Bai Yuehe were both shocked when they saw this, but the elder Qin Ying's expression darkened immediately, and he stepped forward to examine the corpse carefully.

Then, her eyes became extremely cold and serious:
"This is not a plague! It's an evil cultivator, and there are evil cultivators who are using the technique of Gu poison and epidemic disease to practice!"

(End of this chapter)