Chapter 134: The Hideout of the Disease, The Book of Anshi (8.2k)
Arriving in the woods outside the city, Yu Ziqing found the young man talking about the green fruit.
He didn't know what kind of fruit it was, but Yin Shen could see a hint of black air swirling inside the fruit, which was present in every fruit.
As far as the eye can see, there are at least more than a hundred fruit trees in this forest that have already produced fruit, and there are fruits in each one.
He picked off a fruit and smelled it. It smelled like apples, with a hint of lychee. After a closer sniff, there seemed to be a hint of green dates.
Put the small fruit into your mouth. It tastes sour and a little sweet, but the taste is very ordinary.
The environment near this city is very good, with abundant rainfall and a mild climate. Anything you can grow can survive. People here should have no shortage of fruits and vegetables all year round. No wonder no one cares about this fruit.
That trace of black air sank into his belly and went straight to Yu Ziqing's intestines and stomach.
The toad, which had been vomiting, raised its eyelids, opened its mouth and swallowed the black gas.
Then, it was gone.
It was like lying there motionless when a small insect suddenly flew by, and the toad swallowed it without any other reaction.
Seeing this scene, Yu Ziqing breathed a sigh of relief.
Because after the soil toad swallowed that wisp of black energy, it didn't even develop a trace of strength. Obviously, that wisp of black energy was not worth mentioning.
The poisonous spiritual energy that was swallowed last time will be spit out by the soil toad. After going around in a circle, it will be transformed by the bodhi tree before swallowing it.
Yu Ziqing waved his hand, and he collected all the fruits here. He opened his mouth and spat out, and a ball of red flames spurted out, burning them all to ashes.
But the traces of black gas in the fruit could not be burned by ordinary flames. Yu Ziqing opened his mouth and inhaled, gathered the black gas together, turned it into a large ball of black gas, and swallowed it in one gulp.
This time, I saw that after the toad swallowed the black air, its abdomen bulged slightly. After a while, its abdomen returned to normal.
This guy was eating alone again, which made the red ape furious, but there was nothing he could do. The toad didn't even raise its eyelids and ignored the red ape at all.
After a little longer, Yu Ziqing also discovered it.
Even though the soil toad appeared later, and under the circulation of the five qi, the five little ones all grew up together, and the soil toad was still stronger than the others.
Now it is even stronger than the two-headed snake that first appeared.
I had misunderstood it before. This guy was not a Buddhist and wanted to kill everyone else.
As long as the Toad is around, no one will be able to spare the remaining four little ones. They will all be rolled up by me.
The more Yu Ziqing watched it, the more he liked it. It was a bit ugly, but as time went by, with the addition of the good quality, it became somewhat ugly and beautiful.
After scanning the woods again and finding nothing more, Yu Ziqing began to walk back.
"You still remember that young man's breath, right?"
"Remember."
"Pay attention to him." Yu Ziqing continued to recall: "Pay more attention to the yellow dog."
"I understand, brother, I will not let go of anyone who has the slightest suspicion."
Yu Ziqing returned to the city, and Lou Huai went to keep an eye on the young man. He also brought the dog back and tied it in the backyard.
Yu Ziqing didn't know how to leave here or how to resolve the disaster.
He even speculated that he could leave after resolving the disaster.
One day, everything was fine. The person he was staring at had not changed much and was extremely healthy.
He has been watching near the city gate. The Yin Shen keeps his eyes open for twelve hours every day, constantly peeking at everything around him to sense what may appear.
It was not until three days later that Yin Shen suddenly looked towards the east of the city, and Yu Ziqing's figure also disappeared in an instant.
He galloped all the way to the roof of a house in the east of the city and looked down.
In the backyard of a wealthy family, a thin and frail girl, dressed like a maid, was lying on the ground.
A wooden basin fell to the ground in front of her. She lay on the ground, moaning in pain, and seemed to be struggling to stand up.
Yu Ziqing took a quick look and saw that the girl had chapped lips, sunken eye sockets, and loose skin. She looked twenty or thirty years older. Her vitality was like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.
She was severely dehydrated and was about to die.
I don’t know how she persisted until now before she collapsed.
Yu Ziqing saw wisps of black energy circulating inside her body, and the amount was at least two orders of magnitude higher than that of the young man he had seen a few days ago.
This didn't develop to this point in a day or two.
Yu Ziqing felt that he was wrong. It was not that the disaster on his side had not happened yet, but that it had already started before he discovered it and thought everything was peaceful for the time being.
It might have started half a month ago, or even a few days after he landed.
Before Yu Ziqing could do anything, the fire of life in the girl suddenly went out, and the wisps of black energy were swirling in her body, waiting.
Yu Ziqing understood that it would be useless to do anything now.
Lou Huai was right, the disease was indeed serious enough, and he had already started taking action before he even knew about the disaster.
Then, maybe the movement caused by the girl falling down attracted people, and two maids came to see the situation. After they saw the girl lying on the ground, they rushed over.
As they came into contact with the girl, a wisp of black energy entered their bodies, waiting to take root, sprout, and continue to grow.
Yu Ziqing began to explore the surroundings with this house as the center. He wanted to explore every household in the entire Dinghai City.
Let’s take the east side of the city as the starting point.
The house below is definitely not the original one.
Three hours later, Yu Ziqing stood on the roof of a medical center with a sullen face, looking at several patients lying inside. All the symptoms were diarrhea, and the symptoms were so severe that they were already dehydrated.
The doctors at the medical center seemed to be very experienced. They had prepared separate wards to house the patients so that no one could come into contact with them casually.
Everything the patients came into contact with, whether it was clothes or other items, was burned.
However, the effect of these measures has been very small.
He found that there were patients in at least a dozen households, and they were the kind that he could see through at a glance without even touching them.
Draw a map from the lightest to the heaviest. The most central place is this medical center.
Yu Zi walked into the medical center and directly found the doctor.
"I advise you to seal off this place immediately. The disease has already spread."
Yu Ziqing walked into the ward and came to the seriously ill patients. He stretched out his hands and grabbed them, and wisps of black air kept flying out. He forcibly grabbed them out and fed them to the toads.
But as he removed the illness, one of the patients suddenly died.
Several other patients did not improve immediately.
They were already seriously ill. He could not save them by removing the illness. He could only give them a little chance of life, turning them from certain death to having a chance.
The doctor behind him could not see Yu Ziqing's illness, nor did he say that Yu Ziqing had harmed a patient. He began to examine several other people.
After a while, the doctor came up and saluted.
"I am a student of Xia Xian Medical School. I wonder who you are?"
"I'm just an ordinary doctor, a person who eliminates demons and protects the Tao. You'd better report it to the magistrate here immediately. There are demons and diseases raging. I think you are quite organized when you deal with them. How come you don't know that doing this is actually...
You can’t control it at all?”
The doctor gave a wry smile.
"My strength is limited and my skills are limited, but I can't ignore them and shut them out.
Of course I understood that it would be difficult for me to save them, and I did everything I should do to deal with their symptoms.
But if I don't accept them, they will die outside, and the situation will be out of control.
When I found that the number of patients increased, I already reported it."
Yu Ziqing sighed secretly, not knowing what to say.
“Where did the first patients come from?”
"People from the county government in Liujia Village in the east of the city should have already passed there and sealed it off."
Yu Ziqing's figure flickered and disappeared from the spot.
The doctor looked at the few seriously ill people who were still alive.
"You are lucky. You have met the devil-killing guards who can help you get rid of your illness. Don't give up. Think about your family. What will you do if you die and there is no labor at home? Hold on.
"
The doctor arranged for people to give those people water and some food, and continued to observe them.
Yu Ziqing had already rushed out of the city and ran towards the outside.
A hundred miles away, a small mountain village has been sealed off.
When Yu Ziqing arrived, he happened to see a person trying to rush out. From the perspective of Yin Shen, his body was almost completely infected by the disease. The reason why he was still alive and not dead was because of the disease.
As if he was conscious, he did not extinguish the fire of his life.
Before Yu Ziqing arrived, he was stopped by a monk.
"Those who came from above found that there is disease raging here. I'm afraid there are monsters."
Not far away, a man in official robes looked back at Yu Ziqing, immediately waved to his subordinates, and let Yu Ziqing pass.
"I am the governor of this county, Mu Shouchang. Are you here for that monster?"
"good."
"Everyone here is infected, and there is no cure. We can only ban it."
"Let me try..."
Yu Ziqing always felt that the county magistrate looked at him a little strangely.
After he finished speaking, the county magistrate directly ordered the blockade to be released, allowing Yu Ziqing to enter.
Yu Ziqing felt even weirder.
The disease was eradicated and fed to the soil toads, and the progress was very smooth.
Only this time, the toad seemed to be unable to swallow it. After swallowing, it could only separate some and circulate among the other four little ones.
After eradicating the disease in the entire village, most of the people were dead.
Those people are actually dead. Their fire of life is like a small flame falling into the sea. If it is not extinguished by the surrounding water, it is actually dead.
As Yu Ziqing eradicates the disease, their vitality will also be destroyed.
When Yu Ziqing walked out of the village, Mu Shouchang held the big seal in his hand and looked at Yu Ziqing with extremely complicated eyes.
He was certain that Yu Ziqing had indeed neutralized the power of the monsters here, and he was also certain that Yu Ziqing himself was not affected.
When Yu Ziqing walked up to him, he spoke slowly.
"Has the Divine Dynasty finally found a solution?"
Hearing this, Yu Ziqing was slightly shocked and looked at Mu Shouchang in surprise.
At this moment, Yu Ziqing understood why Mu Shouchang believed in him so much.
The first time he saw him, Mu Shouchang knew that he was an outsider.
Mu Shouchang even knew where he was now.
"you……"
Yu Ziqing didn't know what to say.
"Let's talk while we walk." Mu Shouchang waved to his men, turned around and took Yu Ziqing towards Dinghai City.
"I am the county guard of Dinghaicheng, and I have the trust of your majesty. I am the pastor and guardian of the area. In the area under my jurisdiction, monsters have appeared and are raging, but I have never found where the monster is.
I know that if it is not sealed, the evil of the monster will spread to all directions.
I felt guilty and didn't want to leave them behind, so I sealed myself with the monsters.
Waiting for the divine dynasty to one day find a way to resolve it and destroy the monster.
I don't know how long I've been here, but I still haven't found a way.
Now, I have recognized everyone here, except you, so I know that you are a foreigner.
The Divine Dynasty finally found a way, and after all, it has not given up on the hundreds of thousands of people in Dinghai City."
Yu Ziqing didn't know what to say.
Mu Shou always fulfilled his duties loyally, sealed himself in the seal, and never gave up.
He still doesn't even know that Datui has disappeared long ago, and there aren't even many records left.
But Yu Ziqing couldn't say these words.
After pondering for a while, Yu Zi came to his senses.
"There is indeed a solution to the scourge of monsters, and I can also eradicate those illnesses.
Now the only thing left is how to find the monster.
However, let’s treat illnesses and save people first, and then talk about other things.”
"Great kindness." Mu Shou often smiled and seemed to relax a lot.
"When I sealed everyone in the entire city together, I already put life and death aside.
If I can save them now, they will be worthy of the seal in my hand.
I don’t know how much time has passed outside. Here, I have forgotten the years, but I dare not forget who I am.
I'm afraid that one day I won't remember the seal or the monster, and I'll slack off."
"Your Majesty's devotion to duty is admirable. I wonder if I can't do this." Yu Ziqing bowed his hand.
"There is nothing admirable about pursuing his own political position. In fact, it is because of my lack of ability.
If I had the ability, I would not let things develop to this point. This is the only way it can end up.
If it can really be resolved this time and they hate me, I can accept it calmly. I just hope they don't involve my family.
I don't know how long it has been. Their relatives and friends may have finished their lives, and there is no one left who has any relatives as far as the eye can see.
I actually don’t know how to face them anymore…”
Mu Shou often walked on the road and kept talking to Yu Ziqing.
It seemed that he hadn't told anyone this for a long, long time. When he mentioned his children, he would smile.
Mentioning the people in the city also makes them smile.
Some things about Dadai will also be mentioned, some will be praised and some will be criticized.
Yu Ziqing just listened quietly, feeling a little uncomfortable.
He now somewhat understands Mu Shouchang's mood.
He clearly knew a lot of things, but he just couldn't tell them. Seeing a smile begin to appear on Mu Shouchang's face, he felt even more uncomfortable.
I believe Mu Shouchang is the same. When he saw the peace in Dinghai City, he would probably feel very uncomfortable.
Upon entering Dinghai City, Mu Shouchang immediately ordered the city gates to be sealed, and no one was allowed to go out. All shops were closed, and those that had to be opened were all taken over by people sent by the county government.
Mu Shou often sits in charge of the county government and mobilizes the entire city's manpower.
And Yu Ziqing began to use the stupidest but most effective method to start a carpet sweep.
The city of Dinghai is not small, and there are villages outside the city, with a combined population of hundreds of thousands of people.
Yu Ziqing worked without sleep, starting from the east of the city, and bit by bit swept through the entire city, including everyone and everything that moved.
Seven days later, Yu Ziqing left the city and began to raid the nearby countryside.
Hundreds of miles away, one village after another was swept over according to their household registration.
Many diseases have been eradicated, and at least thousands of people have become ill.
But there was never a trace of the disease.
Lou Huai followed Yu Ziqing, his eyes almost turned into rabbits, but he didn't find any trace.
After finishing sweeping the outside of the city, Yu Ziqing returned to Dinghai City, stood under the city head, looked at the words, and already had some guesses in his mind.
Returned to the county government office.
"All of them have been removed, but no trace of the monsters has been found."
"It's impossible. I'm very sure that I sealed the monsters together. If I didn't seal the monsters, but just sealed the people here, the Divine Dynasty wouldn't have unsealed it for so long." Mu Shou said with great certainty.
"Then do you know why you are so sure that you sealed the monsters together?"
"Of course..." As soon as the words left his mouth, Mu Shouchang froze on the spot.
Yes, why can he be so sure?
With this certainty, there is only one possibility. He sealed the monster with his own hands and even saw the monster.
But at this moment, he was stuck. He couldn't remember what the monster looked like or how to seal it.
Yu Ziqing's expression was a little complicated. Looking at Mu Shouchang's appearance, he said slowly.
"I personally confirmed it. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Dinghai City, and none of them are missing. But there is one person. I haven't personally confirmed it. Does Master Mu know who that person is?"
The confusion on Mu Shouchang's face slowly faded away. He sat there, looked at himself, and suddenly laughed.
"it's me."
"Hahaha, it turns out it's me. No wonder I'm so sure. I sealed the monster. Turns out I sealed it into myself."
"It's okay, it's okay. It'll be fine if it's really sealed."
"No wonder I still remember that I sealed this place. So that's it, that's it..."
Before Mu Shouchang could stop laughing, he saw magic-suppressing cones suddenly appearing around him.
The demon-suppressing cone was controlled by himself and pinned him in place. Then he raised his head and looked at Yu Ziqing.
"I have always forgotten to ask, how do you address your Excellency?"
"Qing Ziyu."
"Good name. Your Excellency, take action. Don't let my subjects in Dinghai City go to waste for so many years and such a high price."
In Yu Ziqing's eyes, a black vortex began to appear in Mu Shouchang's abdomen. A large amount of black energy was swirling there. The black energy seemed to want to escape, but Mu Shouchang used his body to imprison him and used the demon-suppressing cone.
suppressed in his body.
"Brother, it's here, it's in his body." Lou Huai reminded him immediately from the side.
"You're right, the disease is really good at hiding it, even if you don't notice it, even if it doesn't struggle, I can't see it either."
Yu Ziqing walked up to Mu Shouchang and patted him on the shoulder.
"Master Mu, you don't need to do this, as long as I find him, he will be dead.
Don’t you want to know how to deal with monsters in the future? I’ll let you see it today.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Ziqing's face showed the appearance of a hungry ghost, and a yin energy suddenly emerged from his body. The strange and ominous aura turned into wisps of black oil and swayed continuously.
Yu Ziqing stretched out a hand, and the palm slowly turned into a skinny and dark shape, and he stretched it directly into Mu Shouchang's body.
As Yu Ziqing retracted his claws, he saw a mass of black energy churning in his palms.
The black energy turned into a face, and it was useless to struggle without waiting for him to say anything.
Yu Ziqing opened his mouth wide and swallowed it in one gulp.
The black energy fell into the hands of the Yin God, and was held and chewed by the Yin God, while the initial disease energy circulated among the five little ones, and was divided and devoured by the five little ones.
After swallowing part of it, Yu Ziqing grabbed another part.
After a stick of incense, Yu Ziqingyin's belly swelled slightly, and the five little ones all gained weight. There were still a lot of undigested things on the Bodhi tree, which turned into demons.
The head looks like a skull, hanging on the treetops.
Yu Ziqing pulled out the demon-suppressing cone on Mu Shouchang.
Mu Shou often looked at Yu Ziqing with a somewhat complicated expression.
"This is no longer an ordinary method, but a new path of practice.
There are also some accents and words you use when you speak, which are not what Da Dui has.
Can you tell me, has it been a long time?
Are you not from Dadui at all?"
Yu Ziqing was silent for a moment and nodded.
"That's right, I'm not from Dadui."
"This seal is impossible for people who are not from Dadui to touch. Is Dadui already... gone?"
"You are wrong. Whether Datui is here or not does not matter. As long as people like you are still there, Dadaui will still be there."
Mu Shou often sat there and smiled.
"That's right. As long as I am still here and these people are still here, then Dadui will still be there."
As the two of them talked, they saw that the world around them was like a scroll, rolling toward the middle.
Lou Huai immediately got into Yu Ziqing's boots. Mu Shouchang looked at Lou Huai's appearance, a little shocked.
"Don't worry, in my era, there are demons who have started to take the right path." Yu Ziqing explained casually.
"That's great..."
Yu Ziqing's figure floated, and Mu Shouchang's figure also floated. Everything under them seemed to have melted into a scroll, becoming flat and then shrinking continuously.
After a while, there was nothingness around them, and everything transformed by the seal turned into a page of book, hanging quietly in front of them.
It says.
"In the 820th year of Jiazi, in Dinghai City, monsters were wreaking havoc, and many people died of illness.
At that time, the county shepherd Shouchang used his body as a prison to seal the demon into his body, and later he sealed himself into the seal with the people of Dinghai City."
Mu Shou often looked at the short sentence above, and then looked at the big seal in his hand.
He stepped forward, pricked his finger, and continued writing under it with blood.
"There is a god named Qing Ziyu who swallows a demon into his belly and destroys his spirit and form."
After finishing the writing, he stamped it with his official seal.
Then he handed the big seal to Yu Ziqing.
"Take it, what I should do and what I can do has been done. Now, as the county governor of Dinghaicheng, I will pass it on to you."
Before Mu Shouchang could finish his words, he saw that his body began to dissipate bit by bit as if it was weathered.
"I think about it. In fact, I should be dead. I feel unwilling and obsessed with it.
Over the years, I have been inside the seal, fighting against the monster, with the intention of destroying it.
I have forgotten many, many things. I even forgot the names of my children.
It's just this thing that I never dare to forget.
Just take it, you will use this thing, you deserve it."
Mu Shouchang's hand turned into powder and disappeared silently.
Yu Ziqing caught the falling seal, and the seal absorbed a wisp of his breath and automatically recognized its owner.
"Thank you very much."
"Next, if you want to leave, you only need to use the big seal, and the big seal will take you away. There are many things that cannot be solved with your current strength. You should be careful in everything and take care of yourself first."
After Mu Shou Chang said this, more than half of his body had turned into powder and dissipated.
He looked at his body and looked up to the sky laughing.
"Your Majesty, I am here."
Yu Ziqing put away the seal, bowed his hands and saluted to show respect.
Amidst the laughter, Mu Shouchang's figure turned into nothingness and disappeared without a trace.
Yu Ziqing stood in the void, quietly looking at the lines of words on the page.
Just one line of words encapsulates Mu Shouchang's life.
He took out the official seal, and as soon as he thought about it, he saw pages after pages emerging from behind that mere page.
Finally, all the pages are closed together and turned into a book.
A dark book with two large bloody characters written on the surface.
"Anshi."
Yu Ziqing stretched out his hand, and the big seal on his other hand immediately lit up with a ray of light, which hit the book of Anshi.
The book of Anshi flew by itself and fell into Yu Ziqing's palm.
This can be said to be the history book of Datu.
Mu Shou often regarded Yu Ziqing as his successor and asked the official seal to recognize him as the master. He is now the county guard of Dinghai City.
As for the Book of Anshi, it has been for who knows how many years, and it has never come into contact with the officials of Dadui again.
Yu Ziqing is currently the biggest official, so he has to keep this book of Anshi.
Yu Ziqing put the official seal into the sea of blood to warm it up, and he opened the book of Anshi.
The paper inside is gray and the text is red. Many of them cannot be opened at all, and the content inside cannot be seen.
The only page with white text on a black background and a large seal was the page that Yu Ziqing saw just now.
This means that that sentence has become real history.
Every page in this book is a seal.
Every page is history.
An unresolved seal, a history that has not yet been settled.
Looking at this thick bloody book, Yu Ziqing no longer knew what to say.
He used to think that Dadui's magical power was very strong and could seal disasters that could not be solved in time. He could resolve the disasters when it was best to prepare and find a way.
How many lives will be saved and how many disasters will be avoided.
But now, he feels that Datui may have perished because of this.
Everything is left to future generations to solve, but more and more things accumulate, so much that one sentence is a disaster, one sentence is a seal, and it turns into something that can be called a book of disasters to be precise.
That will crush future generations.
Even Yu Ziqing felt that maybe the magical power of sealing disasters was so useful that in the later stages, when Dadai encountered problems, he might not even think about how to solve them, but would seal them first, and then slowly
Consider how to solve it.
Of course, it may be that the parts that have been solved have been eliminated, and the rest are unresolved.
Unfortunately, when Yu Ziqing saw the only page with white text on a black background, he knew that after the book was written, not a single problem was solved.
There may be many reasons for the demise of Datu, but this book must be one of them.
Yu Ziqing continued to look through it, but most of them could not be opened, and there were very few others that could be seen.
There was one page, and the words on it were filled with blood.
"In the eighty-eighth year of Ding Mao, strange fire fell from the sky, thousands of miles of scorched earth, and countless people were scorched to death.
The strange fire is treacherous, the rain does not extinguish it, the wind does not extinguish it. A man of the gods came from the South China Sea to throw strange treasures into the valley.
The Milky Way fell to the ground, blocked its path, extinguished its fire, and turned into a silver lake to remain in the world."
This is what Lao Yang told him before.
But in this book of Anshi, there is another sentence at the end.
"The fire is gone, but the strange fire is not extinguished. The faceless man Yi San Er draws the power of the gods and seals it until it can be resolved."
Seeing this sentence, Yu Ziqing immediately contacted Lao Yang.
But this time, after summoning for a long time, after the old sheep arrived, it was so stuck that no one could see clearly, and the text that was typed was stuck on the screen.
Yu Ziqing thought for a while, then left a message for Lao Yang, copied the sentence and told him, and added more later.
"Be careful. The strange fire has not been resolved at all. It is still there. Even the Silver Lake cannot extinguish the strange fire. You must not get involved in it.
Also, where you are now is both a seal and a page in the history books, so be careful.
I'll try to figure out how to get you out."
After leaving the message to Lao Yang, Yu Ziqing looked at Lao Yang. He flashed and stayed there for a long time, then flashed again and appeared in front of the message wall.
After waiting for a while, Lao Yang's figure disappeared, and then two words suddenly appeared on the wall.
"clear."
Yu Ziqing shook his head, turned and left the seventh floor.
In the past, when everyone was on a page in the history books, communication was already stuck.
Now it is even more difficult to communicate face to face.
After reminding Lao Yang, Yu Ziqing continued to read the Book of Anshi.
Most of the parts that can be opened are silent, with blood on the gray background. If someone is inside, the blood on them will start to flow, which means someone is breaking the seal.
After turning over and over, he found three pages, all with blood-colored handwriting.
He and Lao Yang were each assigned one of the pages.
Then Feng Bujue and Prince Xiang should each be assigned a page.
Those who entered before, those who entered with the Yin family, should all enter on the same page.
Therefore, they must have a way to choose to enter a specific page.
They just don't know, do they know that what they entered is the Book of Anshi, not a normal seal.
Also, the guy before didn't know that when entering this seal, a specific method was needed to enter the page of the Yin family.
Or is it that guy who actually knew it and deliberately told only 99% of the truth, the most crucial truth, but concealed it and deliberately deceived them?