When the magic flower blooms

"Ahhhhh!!"

Viciously, He Tiansi sneezed for the fifth time within a minute.

Opposite him, Ming Ruoxing, who was putting a Band-Aid on the corner of his mouth, took out a tissue and pressed it on his nose, in exchange for a burst of yelling.

At this moment, they were sitting in the back seat of Ming Ruoxing's new car, with a medicine box in the middle, facing each other, helping each other with medicine.

To save fuel, the vehicle was not started.The door of the garage was still half open, and the cold wind whizzed in with snow flakes, and the front of the car was already covered in gray.

He Tiansi sniffed his nose and shivered: "Do we have to stay here all the time? I think I'm going to freeze to death."

Ming Ruoxing didn't feel too uncomfortable, but kept his mouth sullen.

"Let's talk nonsense. None of us can go back to the house until it's cleared up, unless you want to go crazy again."

"Do you think there's something wrong with the house? But we've lived here for more than two months, so it doesn't make sense that it's happening now, right?"

What He Tiansi said was not unreasonable, Ming Ruoxing simply asked: "Then what do you think is going on?"

"Snow?"

He Tiansi pointed to the outside of the gate, "The snow just fell today, and we are also in this situation today. No matter how you think about it, it should be the snow."

"Then have you been exposed to snow? I haven't had any." Ming Ruoxing obviously disagreed.

"Maybe it's some kind of airborne virus? As soon as the snow melts it gets into the air and people who inhale it get sick?"

"..."

He Tiansi's whimsical hypothesis gave Ming Ruoxing another headache.

"Why don't you make a call first and ask other people in the village to see if everyone is okay."

He Tiansi immediately followed suit, and quickly responded: "Everyone in the village is fine, only the two of us have a problem. From this point of view, it really doesn't look like Xue's fault."

Ming Ruoxing was also thoughtful: "It's hard to say if it's about Xue, but it must have something to do with our demihuman genes."

Speaking of this, his temple throbbed again, and the symptoms of cold and fever seemed to intensify again.

But the cold medicine should still be in the bedroom.There is a box of mineral water in the trunk, and there is an electric kettle that was almost dismantled by He Tiansi at the woodworking table, why not drink some hot water first...

water?

Ming Ruoxing's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly raised his head to ask He Tiansi.

"Have you had any water today?"

"Of course I drank it! I served you medicine in the morning and boiled a whole pot of hot water. I'll use the rest to cook instant noodles..."

"I have prepared so much food, you still have to cook instant noodles?! How lazy are you!"

Ming Ruoxing was about to growl, but Naihe had a severe headache, and after shouting a few words, he closed his eyes and leaned back on the sofa.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry."

He Tiansi hurriedly rubbed his temples to please him, and whispered in his ear.

"After eating the instant noodles, I still felt very thirsty, and drank several large glasses of water. After a while, I began to find the dead fish under the eaves not pleasing to the eye... In this way, it is really possible that the water The problem?!"

His words confirmed Ming Ruoxing's other conjecture - the two of them fought on the snow just now, not only sweated a lot, but he also punched He Tiansi in the stomach, indirectly forcing He Tiansi Tiansi spit out part of the liquid accumulated in his stomach.

Thinking of this, Ming Ruoxing suddenly raised his head.

"Water, fish...don't you feel a little familiar?"

"A shark again?!"

He Tiansi suddenly showed an expression of enthusiasm.

-

In order to further verify whether the drinking of these liquids would cause lasting damage to the body, Ming Ruoxing harassed Shen Dongli on the phone again.

After listening to his narration, Dr. Shen sighed, maybe also secretly complaining in his heart why these two people kept celebrating the Chinese New Year.

"If you can confirm that you didn't eat poisonous mushrooms, then I don't think there is anything to worry about. Some police officers have inhaled similar biological contamination agents during their missions. Generally, they will be fine after leaving the infected area for a few days. Listen to the voice , you should still be alive and kicking now."

"Biological contamination agent? What the hell is this?"

Ming Ruoxing seized the time and tried to sort out the context, "If it's a pheromone attack, there's no reason why we shouldn't be aware of it."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, but Shen Dongli still expressed his judgment.

"This is not an ordinary pheromone attack. Based on the information you have given so far, I have reason to suspect that there is demihuman corpse tissue in the water you drink. It is corpse water."

"...!!"

Although he more or less thought he was mentally prepared, Ming Ruoxing couldn't help retching.

Shen Dongli actually teased him half-jokingly: "If you want to be open, the loess doesn't bury people there. It's just that your 'luck' is too good. Don't continue to drink polluted water, and wait for your body to metabolize it. It should be fine."

Ming Ruoxing emphasized: "But we only drank tap water."

"That proves that the tap water is polluted. Find the source of the pollution and fix it."

-

The senior doctor's answer obviously pointed out a clear path, but before setting out on this bright path, Ming Ruoxing had another more important thing to do.

He and He Tiansi moved the box of mineral water in the trunk back to the house, each of them drank two or three bottles, and went to the toilet a few times.Ming Ruoxing also induced vomiting once, brushed his teeth twice, and finally suppressed the nausea in his heart.

And when he was busy cleaning himself, He Tiansi had already started to think.

"Think about it carefully. If it's really a problem with tap water, how long have we been drinking it? It doesn't make sense to say that it suddenly broke out today, right?"

"It should be related to the cold wave."

After rinsing his mouth, Ming Ruoxing looked like a bright mirror at the moment, "I guess, this time the big drop in temperature should have cracked the water pipe somewhere. The tap water we usually drink is polluted by corpse water."

"Yup!"

He Tiansi slapped his thigh, took out his phone from his pocket, flipped through it, and then showed the screen to Ming Ruoxing.

That was the construction design drawing sent to him by the designer last time, including the detailed trend layout of the upper and lower water.

According to this blueprint, the two immediately began to search carefully at home, but found nothing.

Such a result is of course not an accident. They did not give up, and immediately wrapped their coats, scarves and gloves, and walked out against the bitter cold wind.

Several hours of snowfall has completely changed the scenery near Jinyu Village.There is a vastness between the sky and the earth, and all the sharp things are smoothed and become soft and lovely.But this cuteness makes what lies beneath the snow all the more dangerous.

They supported each other and walked on the snow-flooded road with one deep foot and one shallow foot.The water pipe marked on the construction design drawing ends in front of the gate.Fortunately, according to the relative position of Uncle Hu's house and this place, He Tiansi still deduced the general direction of the water pipe, which should be almost parallel to the river beside the road.

However, Ming Ruoxing quickly corrected his deduction.

"It's not parallel, the water pipe is right in the river."

I really didn't know this kind of operation was possible until I looked at it-knocking open the thin ice layer, I saw a thick pvc plastic pipe inserted into the river like this.

"Isn't this too troublesome?" He Tiansi couldn't help being speechless.

Ming Ruoxing immediately began to analyze: "Generally speaking, the temperature at the bottom of the water is higher than that on the water surface. The water pipes are protected by an outer layer, so the possibility of freezing and cracking is not high. Jinyu Village belongs to the south, and the water pipes were buried in the soil and were cracked by freezing." It is less likely. The most likely problem should be the part exposed to the air."

He Tiansi also sorted out along his train of thought.

"But now that the temperature is so low, apart from the river, the smaller pools on the road are either covered by snow or frozen. The possibility of pollution entering the water pipe is even smaller."

"Hmm. So the pollution is likely to occur where land and water meet. The temperature is low enough and there is a flowing water source."

After having a preliminary inference, and then follow the map to find out the direction.The two split up, broke through the ice along the bank of the river and observed it carefully, and finally found it near the Hetang Covered Bridge.

"Look!"

He Tiansi used the bamboo pole in his hand to push aside a clump of decaying grass covered with snow, revealing a section of white plastic pipe underneath.Obviously, the water pipe is connected into the river from here.

Ming Ruoxing squatted down to observe carefully, and saw several cracks on the surface of the plastic pipe, and the roots of dead grass had already penetrated into it.Pull out all the grass roots, and you can see that the inside of the plastic pipe has been filled with liquid, and a thick iron water pipe is wrapped in the middle.

There is no need for Ming Ruoxing to say more.He Tiansi poured the paint water prepared at home into the pipe, and the two of them started walking back along the river.

When they got home, the two of them immediately turned on the tap and turned on the water.After about five or six seconds, sure enough, a stream of green paint rushed out of the bridle.

At this point, the hypothesis of water pollution has basically been confirmed.The next step is to find the source of the contamination.

According to He Tiansi's observation, the upstream of the small river at the gate is Daxigou next to the main road of Jinyu Village.This stream branched out into many branches, covering almost the entire village and the surrounding farmland area.Searching is not easy.

But Ming Ruoxing has already thought of a possible location.

"Get your tools and follow me!"

-

The two left the safe house again, headed east along the river, and soon came to the field northwest of Goldfish Village.

As the Spring Festival approaches, farming has already stopped.The field is full of hay piles here and there, topped with thick snow.Looking to the south, the white walls and black tiles of Jinyu Village have all turned into plain white, and the windows of every household are filled with golden lights, making them look extremely warm.

Just to the southeast, near the end of the village, the mansion of the senior activity center stands quietly on a raised high ground, which can be recognized at a glance.

He Tiansi chewed on the deduction that Ming Ruoxing told him two seconds ago.

"You mean, the corpse of the demihuman that polluted the water source is near the activity center? But that place is so lively all day long, so there's no reason why it shouldn't be discovered?"

Ming Ruoxing shook his head.

"Not every courtyard is lively. For example, the one we only entered once."

"You mean—"

He Tiansi reacted quickly, but put on a wry smile again, "It's Chinese New Year, what do you think we have done!"

"Can't you think about it from another angle?"

Ming Ruoxing scoffed at his negativity.

"This year's mystery will be completely resolved this year, leaving no doubts until next year."

As he spoke, he took the lead and walked towards the mansion full of mysteries.