Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 164 The Skinned Toad
Under the aperture, a group of white flowers can be seen faintly floating in the water.

"Old Yang!" I raised my head and shouted towards the mouth of the well, and my voice reverberated back and forth at the bottom of the well, turning into a buzzing echo.

"What's the matter? Did you find anything?" Lao Yang poked his head out from the mouth of the well.

"Find me a fishing net or something!" I said.

"Wait!" Lao Yang turned and left.

After a while, Lao Yang's figure reappeared at the mouth of the well, and threw down a net bag for fishing for me, a long bamboo pole with a net bag hanging in front of it.I held the bamboo pole, covered the white thing in the net bag, and carefully dragged it to me.

Whoa!
The net bag lifted out of the water, I bit the small flashlight, and the light circle fell on the white ball, I shivered violently, my gastric juices surged, and I almost vomited it out.

That ball of white flowers turned out to be a big toad with its skin peeled off!

This toad is very big, about the size of the soup pot used at home. The skin has been peeled off, and only the flesh inside is exposed. Probably because it was soaked in well water, the bloody flesh has turned white. Swelling, looking like a white sponge, very disgusting.

What was even more disgusting was that the dead toad still emitted a pungent stench. I had to hold my breath and quickly climbed out of the well along the escalator.

I threw the net bag to the side, ran to the open space five meters away, and breathed in the fresh air outside, feeling that the stench was full in my lungs, and I was about to suffocate.

"Tuobagu, what's the matter with you? Let me see, what did you salvage and bring up?" Lao Yang walked over and opened the net bag to look, his face changed suddenly, he ran to the side and vomited, almost collapsed , and then stood up out of breath: "This... this thing was found at the bottom of the well?"

I nodded: "Soaked in well water!"

"Aww—" Lao Yang howled, then bent over and began to vomit again, his eyes were staring and his legs were weak.

"Why do you vomit so hard?" I asked Lao Yang.

Lao Yang spat and said, "Bah! Fuck you! Just now I drank a cup of tea at the village committee. This well is behind the village committee. It is possible that the village committee draws drinking water from here. Come up, oh-"

I looked at the dead toad on the ground, with its white belly turned over and its two eyeballs still hanging out, it was extremely terrifying.

I said to Lao Yang: "Old Yang, I suspect that this dead toad is the drug primer for the poisonous poison, who would throw a dead toad under the well for no reason, and the toad has been peeled, it looks like it was man-made! "

Lao Yang thought for a while: "Don't tell me, those poisoned villagers really look similar to these dead toads. They all have big toad-like bellies, and their stomachs are full of black blood..."

I secretly clenched my fists, what a vicious Gu technique!If I guessed correctly, this should be toad Gu, a highly poisonous Gu that works very quickly. If the Gu is not removed in time, the death rate will be very high.What the hell is this bastard lich trying to do?
Lao Yang said: "We will go to other wells to see before we can draw a conclusion. What if this is just a man-made prank?"

"I hope so!" I sighed, knowing that this was just wishful thinking on our part.

In the following time, Lao Yang and I went to five or six wells in a row. The cruel reality completely shattered our hopes, because we were horrified to find that there was a skinned dead toad under each well.Every time we went to a well, our hearts sank a little. After checking five or six wells in a row, we didn't have the courage to continue checking.The facts are very consistent with my conjecture, these dead toads are the medicine primer of toad Gu, and all the villagers who drank the well water were poisoned.

Lao Yang's face turned pale: "In this way, almost all the people in Hezi Village have been poisoned. Not only that, even all the policemen and doctors who came from the city were poisoned!" She shivered, looked at her stomach with some fear, and said with great concern: "I feel like my stomach is also swollen!"

"Don't scare yourself! Let's go to the health center again!" My heart also became heavy.

Lao Yang sighed silently, and followed me all the way back to the hospital.

The operating room of the health center has been cordoned off, and two policemen are protecting the scene. The forensic doctor from the city has rushed to Hezi Village and is examining the corpse in the operating room.

Since Butcher Wang died on the operating table, no villager has dared to perform an operation.Not only the villagers, but even the doctors from the city refused to perform surgery. What if they cut their stomachs open and died like a king butcher?No one can bear this responsibility, and they couldn't find a solution for a while, all frowning, sitting in the director's office of the health center drinking tea and smoking, the atmosphere was quite heavy.

Seeing the tea in their hands, Lao Yang and I looked at each other, and didn't mention the dead toad to them. Anyway, we had already drank it. It's too late now, and I don't want to cause them more psychological panic.

Walking into the operating room, a policeman handed us two masks.

Lao Yang and I put on masks and entered the crime scene just now.

When I heard what Dr. Zhou said just now, I didn't feel any fear. Now that I went to the scene of the crime, I realized that it was so bloody and terrifying.

The operating room in the health center is not large, and most of the time it is only used for minor operations or delivery of women, and the medical conditions are relatively simple.

Even though I was wearing a mask, I could still smell a strong smell of blood, which made me want to gag.

It was not an ordinary bloody smell, but a stinky bloody smell. That smell... um... was very similar to the smell emitted by a dead toad.

Shocking black bloodstains were everywhere on the operating table, on the ground, even on the walls and ceiling, many of which were in the form of jets, and blood foam continued to drip from the ceiling, making a rattling sound.The operating table was originally covered with snow-white sheets, but now the sheets have turned black and purple, exuding a pungent stench.

There was a dead body lying on the operating table, it was Butcher Wang.

Wang Butcher's eyes were wide open, and he looked like he was dying, just like that dead toad.

If it wasn't broad daylight, Wang Butcher's dead appearance would really scare people to death.

Wang Butcher's abdominal cavity and chest cavity have been fully opened, revealing the bloody internal organs and white skeleton.

A forensic doctor, wearing a mask and gloves, is concentrating on dissecting Wang Butcher's body.

He skillfully used all kinds of equipment, as if what was placed in front of him was not a corpse, but a handicraft.

"How's the test result?" Old Yang asked.

The forensic doctor raised his head, and because of the mask, he said in a low voice: "Nothing was found. I checked all his organs, and they are all healthy, but he may have smoked a lot, so there is something wrong with his lungs. I also opened him. I checked my stomach, and there was nothing there!"

Lao Yang said: "In other words, apart from the inexplicable black blood flowing out, there is nothing in the stomach of the deceased?"

"Yes!" The forensic doctor nodded, and said with a puzzled look on his face: "I have taken over so many corpses and seen various causes of death, but the cause of death of this deceased is too strange. Let’s analyze it, I can’t even find out the cause of his death!”

"Have you checked the blood?" Lao Yang asked.

The forensic doctor pointed to an assistant behind him: "My assistant has extracted the blood of the deceased and is doing a blood test to see if there is any toxicological reaction! If so, there should be toxins in the organs of the deceased, and it is impossible not to detect them!"

Sure enough, after a while, the assistant came to report that there was no toxic reaction in the blood of the deceased!

The forensic doctor wiped the sweat from his face, showing the same dejected look: "I have been working in forensic medicine for more than 20 years, and this is the first time I have encountered a corpse for which the cause of death cannot be found. It's really strange!"

In fact, this result was within my expectations, and I was secretly surprised in my heart. Lich is indeed the world's number one Gu poison expert, and the Gu poison he casts is invisible and colorless, and even scientific instruments cannot detect it. It is too deep.

Lao Yang obviously expected this result, sighed, and told the forensic doctor to deal with Butcher Wang's body better, so as not to make Butcher Wang's family feel sad.

The forensic doctor sewed up Butcher Wang's wound, and then wiped off the blood on his body. It seemed that Butcher Wang didn't die, but fell asleep peacefully.

Lao Yang turned around and informed Huang Chuanzhen that he had come to see Butcher Wang for the last time, and Huang Chuanzhen lay beside the operating table crying like hell.She wanted to take Butcher Wang's body away, but Lao Yang didn't approve.It wasn't that Lao Yang was indifferent, it was that Butcher Wang died so strangely that Lao Yang didn't dare to dispose of Butcher Wang's body casually, and at the same time notified the city's CDC.

In the evening, the old bird brought people back.

Lao Yang asked them if they had discovered anything, and the old bird shook his head: "We have sent more people to control the roads in the village, and strictly checked the villagers who came in and out, but we haven't found anything yet!"

For a whole day, there was no progress in the case. He knew the suspect but couldn't find any trace of the suspect. Lao Yang was so angry that he couldn't help being furious: "If you can't find it, why come back? Keep looking for me!" Find me the man with the scar on his head all night long!"

As time goes by, more and more patients come to the hospital for treatment, and every patient has a big belly.

At the same time, the entire Hezi Village was panicked, rumors of a virus outbreak spread everywhere, and some villagers began to pack up their belongings in panic and prepare to flee.

After the city's disease control center got the news, a large number of disease control experts in biochemical suits and armed police rushed to Hezi Village, isolated and controlled Hezi Village, cut off contact with the outside world, and did not allow anyone to enter or leave.Although this isolation method is very cold, it is also the only way to cut off the spread of the virus.In order to prevent more people from being victimized, we can only choose to sacrifice a small number of people, although this is very unfair to that small number of people.

For a while, Hezi Village became turbulent, the roosters stopped crowing, the dogs stopped barking, and the whole village was lifeless, like a huge tomb shrouded in death.

(End of this chapter)