She released her mental power and penetrated into the soldier's body.

Strangely enough, there were no wounds inside their bodies, but their internal organs seemed to be slowly decaying.

No specific symptoms have formed, so medical equipment cannot detect it, but the disease is indeed declining.

It's like natural aging.

But according to their current age, it is impossible for them to show such obvious decline at this age.

Bai Su turned to ask Yodel: "You mean, only the soldiers who are out of the city on patrol have this condition?"

Yodel nodded.

Lu Tingyan said: "I asked people to check where they live and their daily lives, and nothing unusual has been found so far."

"Mom..." A soft voice suddenly came from the side.

When Bai Su turned around, she saw Wen Xiaobao standing not far away, looking at her obediently and cutely.

Lu Tingyan was stunned for a moment, "Xiaobao, how did you get in?"

He glanced majestically at Yodel beside him.

Bai Su was also stunned: "Xiaobao, why are you here?"

The subordinate next to Yodel trotted forward with an unpleasant look on his face: "Report to the leader, Your Excellency the Duke, the young lady is coming in, I...we can't stop her."

He pointed at the cat beastman standing on a roof not far away: "He is protecting the young lady and won't let us get within 10 meters."

Lu Tingyan frowned slightly when he saw the cat-eared boy in the distance.

He remembered that there were no cat orcs in the city.

Moreover, it is impossible for the inspectors to fail to notice such a peculiar cat-beastman appearing in the imperial capital.

unless……

This cat-beastman was as powerful as he was, and could easily evade the eyes and ears of the city's surveillance.

Wen Xiaobao waved to the cat-beast man and asked him to come over.

The soldiers outside who were beaten to the ground tensed up instantly, as if they were facing a great enemy: "Miss, be careful, this man is very dangerous!"

Xiaobu stepped on the windowsill and jumped lightly, gracefully and lightly crossing the distance of more than ten meters, like a feather, and landed beside Wen Xiaobao.

Wen Xiaobao pointed at him and said to Bai Su, "Mom, he said he might know what's going on with those soldier uncles."

Bai Su was stunned for a moment, then looked at the cat-eared boy: "You know?"

Xiaobu's eyes have been on Bai Su since the beginning, with a hint of confusion in his beautiful golden cat eyes.

He looked at Bai Su, then at Wen Xiaobao beside him.

After a while, he curiously moved closer to Bai Su and smelled it.

Lu Tingyan's face darkened as he stood in front of Bai Su and said, "Get lost."

What if he died?

Just sniffing his rabbit so blatantly.

The confusion on the boy's face became more obvious: "Why, two masters..."

Wen Xiaobao walked over and tugged at his finger: "Xiaobu, tell your mother quickly, what's going on?"

Hearing this, Bai Su looked at the young man next to her.

Xiao Bu glanced at Bai Su calmly, "Yesterday, when we were leaving the city, there were wild animals on the ground, burying garbage."

"Burying garbage?" Bai Su was stunned.

Yodel asked from the side: "Can you explain it in more detail?"

Xiao Bu glanced at him and said, "Yes, burying garbage at the foot of the city wall."

Wen Xiaobao raised his little head and said to Yodel: "Uncle Yodel, he doesn't speak fluently yet. He just learned it not long ago."

Bai Su and Lu Tingyan looked at each other and thought of the same thing tacitly.

Lu Tingyan ordered Yodel: "Take a team outside the city immediately and focus on investigating the underground situation. The areas near the city walls must be strictly inspected."

Yodel nodded respectfully: "Yes!"

Bai Su then pulled Wen Xiaobao aside and asked curiously, "How did you get to know this friend next to you?"

She saw Wen Xiaobao with this person last time, but he slipped away so quickly that she couldn't even see clearly whether he was a man or a woman, or whether he was old or young.

It can be seen that he is quite skilled, and...

Doesn't seem very smart.

Wen Xiaobao blinked his eyes: "Mom, you asked me this question last time."

Bai Su did not sense any malice from the cat-beastman, but he was not so heartless as to allow his daughter to play with a stranger of the opposite sex all day long.

And the other person is much older than her.

Generally speaking, two people with such a big age difference cannot play together.

Xiao Bu stared at Bai Su and suddenly said, "I choose Xiao Bao, not you."

Bai Su: “…Ah?”

Xiaobu: "You are strong, Xiaobao is weak."

Xiaobao needs him more.

Bai Su: “…”

What a mess.

Soon, the investigators came back.

"Chief, we did find some newly buried soil outside the city wall, but it was just some ordinary soil, like the scorched earth brought out from the abyss, nothing special."

Lu Tingyan frowned slightly: "Let me see."

The soldiers spread the excavated soil flat on the ground.

Bai Su and Lu Tingyan recognized at a glance that this was indeed the scorched earth brought out from the abyss.

Moreover, the scorched earth also contains a very strong dark power.

Bai Su stared at the soil, and in a flash, he seemed to suddenly understand something.

She turned to the soldiers and asked, "Do you often patrol outside the city, near the city wall?"

The soldiers nodded weakly.

She looked at Lu Tingyan again: "I think we still need to see it on site to be sure."

"That's exactly what I meant." Lu Tingyan said.

Bai Su glanced at Wen Xiaobao beside him and said, "Would you please just stay here obediently? Or go back to school first."

It's dangerous outside the city and not suitable for Wen Xiaobao.

Wen Xiaobao: "There are no classes in school today."

Schools today are not the same as they were before.

There weren’t many people left in the city, and those who came to class were basically family members and children, and the teachers didn’t teach much.

She now has one day of classes to attend and one day of rest, so she has a lot of free time every day.

Bai Su sent a message to Wen Lan and Wen Dabao, asking them to keep an eye on this place.

Only after making sure that Wen Xiaobao was safe did Bai Su and Lu Tingyan go out of the city.

Outside the city, there was endless black smoke and a foul smell.

The wild beasts were lurking in the darkness, staring at the people coming out of the city with their red eyes, and they did not approach rashly.

Bai Su followed people to the place where the soil had been dug up.

The pit was not deep, and the grass around it was quite bald.

Bai Su looked around for a moment, then turned to look at Lu Tingyan: "Do you feel anything is wrong?"

Lu Tingyan: "The grass here is much less than before."

Bai Su nodded: "That's right. It's summer now, and there's too little grass here."

Although the black miasma in the abyss will corrode flowers, plants and trees.

However, the imperial capital is protected by Bai Su's purification barrier, and the miasma outside cannot approach. The miasma at the foot of the city wall should not wither so easily.

Bai Su asked people to loosen the soil a little more.

It was discovered that almost all along the city wall, there were traces of scorched earth.

Even if you dig all of these out, there isn't much left.

The dark power above was quickly purified by Bai Su's purifying power.

Yodel said: "I just checked the surveillance and didn't see any wild animals approaching during this period."

Lu Tingyan: "Not surprising, it's probably a rat beast that's good at attacking from below."

Bai Su suddenly recalled that many females in the city had fallen ill recently, and many of the vegetable seedlings planted in the fields had yellow leaves...

She got it!

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