Two hundred and fifty-seven. The exorcist walking with black hair and black eyes
"It's just... like a dream."
Murray stared at the shillings on the table and whispered, unable to believe that he had obtained them so easily. But he was a little worried: "Are you sure that is true? What kind of plant disease was caused by those pagans? They are still causing it.
A bigger conspiracy...?"
If it's fake, they should run away now. If it's true, the money is worth it, but it makes people unhappy...
"Who knows." Parker replied drunkenly, holding a bottle of wine.
"Uh..." Murray looked at the shilling on the wine table again, his eyes a little hot. "Put your reward away, don't be discovered by those guys."
"No. It's you who should hold it."
"What? This isn't—" Murray was about to defend, but was rudely interrupted by Parker. "Why not? It's all for drinking and burping anyway—"
"Okay... I will keep the money alone and just buy wine for you and me." Murray sipped the taste of wine in his mouth and reached out to pick them up.
Parker pushed back his chair at this time, stood up unsteadily and walked towards the door of the pub.
"Where are you going?"
Parker raised his head and drank the last drop of wine. He held up the bottle and said without looking back: "I want to go back and have a good rest for a day, and then... continue drinking."
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
Pushing the wooden door open with his shoulder, Parker shook and disappeared behind the door.
…
"Tavi Town is...here."
The delicate fingers poked at the northeastern part of Luo Lei Fort, which was more than thirty miles away, not very far.
"Should we go there now? I think it's better to deal with this side first..."
"Why?" Lu Li asked calmly while observing the yellowed map.
"Weird believers are creating a big conspiracy. We have to stop them. After all, this is our purpose, isn't it? As long as we destroy the conspiracy of Thunder Castle, their conspiracy will stop like a machine that has lost its gears."
Ai Min didn't know Lu Li's real purpose, but her suggestion was equally effective: Aunt Mary fell into the hands of weird believers, and destroying their plot could delay her death.
But if we go to Tawi Town at this time, we might be able to meet up with Anna.
"We can also help the assistant lady in this way. If the attention of the weird believer is attracted, she will act better." Amin added.
Ai Min persuaded Lu Li and they returned to the Exorcist Association.
Knowing that Lu Li decided to stay and help, the exorcists were very happy. It's always good to have someone to share the pressure, especially when there are only two exorcists here.
However, they are not optimistic that Lu Li can solve plant diseases.
The plant disease spread for at least three weeks, during which time they found no solution.
The branches that emerge from the body are cut off, and new branches will soon grow elsewhere.
The exorcists once tried to "clean" the branches of a patient who had recently been infected, but it had no effect except leaving the patient with scars, ischemia and severe pain all over his body.
Infected individuals continue to grow branches and buds.
"We can't feel the curse or parasitism from them, it's as if the plants that grow are part of their bodies..." the exorcist sighed.
There are no fools who can become exorcists. They quickly suspected whether the plant diseases that locals were infected with were related to locals, and began to investigate the origins of the infected people and the history of Thunder Castle, but unfortunately no useful clues were found.
"How many infected people are there?" Lu Li asked.
"There are seventy-eight people in total, and there are fifty-six left. They are all arranged on the second floor of the association." The exorcist replied.
"Can you die if you are infected with a plant disease?" Ai Min asked puzzledly.
"No... you have seen the patient who has been infected for the longest time. She is still alive. It is... other reasons..." The exorcist became depressed and did not hide what happened before from Lu Li.
"When people first discovered the first infected person, the city lord's palace arrested him and turned him into a terrifying monster, and then he was pushed to the gallows as a weirdo..."
"You use the gallows to deal with 'weirdos'?" Emin interrupted the exorcist's narration.
"No... we all know he is not one of those weirdos, but the City Lord's Mansion needs the people to be brave, and patients infected with plant diseases can't think and resist..."
The exorcist continued bitterly: "The poor patient was hanged on the gallows, but soon some soldiers and civilians who had been in contact with the patient also appeared in similar situations. After killing several more patients, people realized
This is a terrible plague."
"Where are the dead infected people?"
"They were all burned. We were worried that the bodies would contaminate the land."
"So you haven't done any dissection and dissection?"
"No……"
The exorcist shook his head. That sounded like something a doctor would do, not an exorcist.
Lu Li asked them to find a doctor who could operate and a patient who could perform the operation.
Anatomy may not help them find the truth, but it can help them eliminate some illusions.
The surgical mortality rate in the early industrial era was very high, and most patients died from bleeding during surgery, postoperative infection, and various complications.
So the exorcist forcibly selected a patient who was "willing to cooperate" with the operation. The exorcist described him as "a scumbag who harmed an innocent little girl because of rape", and the poor little girl who was hurt also became an infected person.
.
Obviously they were prepared for the patient to die.
This sloppy man was still struggling and yelling like a mad dog when he was tied to the operating table. He fell into a deep sleep after the doctor gave him an injection of anesthesia.
The surgeon was an "outsider" doctor who had lived in Luoleibao for more than ten years.
"Local" is a very demanding condition, for example, you must be born in Luo Lei Fort.
However, just in case, the doctor, Lu Li and others who were watching all put on clothes to prevent splashing.
The doctor took off the patient's shirt and found that his body was covered with wounds that had not yet scabbed, some of which were already oozing pus.
"Did you see those wounds? Only a patient who has been infected for more than ten days will grow so many branches, but he was only infected for less than three days. The more he resists pulling out the branches, the faster they grow."
A dull voice came from behind the exorcist's mask and explained: "His wounds have nothing to do with us, they were caused by the infected themselves."
"I'm going to start the operation, step back."
As a reminder, the doctor took a sharp scalpel and gently scratched the skin on the patient's chest and abdomen.
When a blood line appeared, the doctor used cotton to wipe away the blood and continued the operation...or dissection.
The doctor will of course know the patient's identity.
After peeling back the skin and fat layers, the doctor's sighing voice sounded from under the blood-stained mask: "It's unbelievable... All his organs are fibrotic..."
"Fibrosis? What is that?" asked the exorcist.
Lu Li observed quietly. The patient's organs exposed to the air were not pathologically fibrotic, but looked more like rough wood fibers.
"It just becomes like a cork." The doctor's explanation was simpler.