The Devil is My White Moonlight

In the early morning of the second day, Mu Xiyun woke up to the loud knocking on the door.

The night before, he had been running back and forth in the forecourt and backyard of the pharmacy, decocting medicine and seeing a doctor non-stop.When it was Choushi, an old lady suddenly had chest tightness and couldn't breathe. It took Mu Xiyun and the pharmacy staff to pull out the thick sticky phlegm deep in her throat. Let the aunt survive the danger, but the guy fell headlong, and Mu Xiyun was flustered again.

When everything stopped for a while and the sky was getting brighter, Mu Xiyun forced Huang Zelin back to the room, let the old man have a good rest, and leaned against the corridor of the inner courtyard and took a nap. Less than half an hour later, the front hall There was a sudden noise.

Mu Xiyun rubbed her eyes, straightened her clothes, and came to the front hall.

The shopkeeper of the pharmacy stared at the two big black eyes and opened the door, looking at the crowd in front of the door with tears in his eyes.

The townspeople who were treated last night have not yet recovered, and the clerks in the pharmacy are half exhausted. Today, so many people came to the door, the shopkeeper only felt his scalp tingling, and hesitated for a while.

Luo Qingwen ran out of the inner courtyard in a hurry, with a tired look on her face.

The shopkeeper asked in a crying voice: "Miss Jiu, what should I do? There are so many people, how can you be so busy?"

Luo Qingwen lost her mind for a while, so she looked at Mu Xiyun.

"Take it! Take it all!" The fairy in white said firmly.

"But..." Luo Qingwen hesitated a little, "The front hall and the backyard are already full of people, what should I do?"

Mu Xiyun raised her eyes and looked at the West Market. The bustling market in the past was now empty, and the rows of stalls were all vacant. Before the epidemic was over, the West Market might not be able to recover.

"If Baihua Valley can provide a place, that would be great." Mu Xiyun said: "Before that, push the stalls in the West Market aside and set up a tent as a temporary resettlement place."

Luo Qingwen's eyes lit up: "Okay! I'll go back to the valley right now, and ask my father to open the valley to save people!"

When Huang Zelin got up, Luo Qingwen had already rushed out of the city, asking for help from Baihua Valley; in the west market, Gu Qingqiao brought a team of soldiers, who were moving booths and setting up tents.

Seeing him coming, Mu Xiyun hurried over to support him and said, "Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"No, I can't sleep even when I'm old." Huang Zelin glanced at the situation in front of the door, nodded and said, "You guys have done a good job. The West Market is a big land, and young patients with mild symptoms are placed in the hospital. Here, it is enough to supply the medicine on time. The elderly and seriously ill stay in the medicine hall, and we will take care of them all the time."

The next few days were hectic.Huang Zelin and Mu Xiyun were in Huichuntang, and the others were more or less skilled in medicine, and they were scattered in various pharmacies in the city to help.

This lung disease spreads quickly, and often one person is infected, and the whole family is not spared.Fortunately, an investigation was carried out at the early stage of the epidemic, and all the mild patients were concentrated in the newly built resettlement sites, while the severe patients were arranged in various pharmacies.

The doctors and buddies in the pharmacy were all spinning and exhausted.

Fortunately, the condition has gradually stabilized. Except for the elderly who have serious illnesses themselves, everyone else seems to be gradually improving.

Huang Zelin breathed a sigh of relief when he came back from his resettlement site in West Market, and stood at the gate of Huichun Hall.

Mu Xiyun was still dressed in white, and was taking the pulse of an old man in the hall.

He has been seeing doctors and decoctions non-stop for several days. He has less than two hours of rest every day, and he can only eat without eating. He often loses time when he gets busy.After a few days, his face has become thinner, and his chin has become sharper.But his tone was still calm and gentle, and his pulse diagnosis and acupuncture were steady, which made Huang Zelin nod repeatedly.

Huang Zelin was about to tell Mu Xiyun to take a break when a sound of horseshoes approached from far away, and when they reached Huichun Hall, they made an emergency stop, and Zhu Yicheng jumped off the horse.

"Elder Huang!" He hurriedly said: "A strange patient was found in the south of the city, please go and have a look!"

"Strange? How strange?"

Zhu Yicheng carefully looked at the townspeople behind Huang Zelin and said, "I can't tell, you should go and see for yourself."

Huang Zelin's heart trembled, and an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.He nodded, went to the medicine hall to pack up the medicine box, shared a horse with Zhu Yicheng, and headed to the south of the city.

South of the city, a slum area.

This is the worst living environment in Hundred Flowers City.The houses are small, mostly made of a few thin wooden boards, covered with a layer of thatch for people to live in, and the eaves are stacked on top of each other, so the sun cannot penetrate into the house.In July, there are heavy rains in the southwest, and the weather is humid. The stagnant water in the slums has never dried up, and there is a strong musty smell in the air.

The "strange" patient was named Zhao Qi, and he lived in one of the huts.

A few days ago, when Su Yanjun brought people to investigate, he had already screened out all the suspicious patients here. Those who were seriously ill were sent to the pharmacy, and those with mild symptoms were gathered in an open space on the side. He took the soup and divided it up.

Zhao Qi was the first to get sick in this area. After receiving the decoction that day, he went home and lay down, and did not go out for the next two days. Today, a familiar neighbor went to the medicine hall again, and came back with a free decoction. Give him a share, who knows that when he arrived at his house, he found something unusual and hurriedly reported it to the government.

When Huang Zelin arrived, a group of well-protected soldiers had already surrounded Zhao Qi's house, and a group of townspeople stood in the distance pointing, not daring to approach.

Huang Zelin covered his mouth and nose with a cloth towel and entered the house.

Zhao Qi lay straight on the bed with his eyes slightly open, motionless.When Huang Zelin approached, he saw that his hands and feet were firmly bound by straw ropes. He frowned and asked, "Why is this? Let him untie it. I have to see what the symptoms are!"

Zhu Yicheng made a gesture and called two soldiers, and the three of them stepped forward together.He asked the two men to stand by the bed and get ready. He pulled out his dagger and quickly cut off the grass ropes on Zhao Qi's hands and feet. He took a step back and stood guard not far from Huang Zelin.

Zhao Qi lay on the bed for another half a quarter of an hour, and slowly opened his eyes.

When ordinary people open their eyes, they will definitely look towards the place where there are people, but when Zhao Qi opened his eyes, the eyeballs did not move.He sat up, got out of bed as soon as he rolled over, and started walking around the room.

With a dagger in his hand, Zhu Yicheng knocked heavily on the head of the bed twice.

Zhao Qiben paused in his wandering body, then turned around suddenly, his hands were bent like claws, and grabbed Zhu Yicheng fiercely.

Zhu Yicheng flinched and dodged, Zhao Qi immediately turned around and grabbed him again.

The two ran after me in the room for a while. Huang Zelin found that if Zhu Yicheng was far away from Zhao Qi and there was no loud noise, Zhao Qi would be at a loss, but as long as Zhu Yicheng made a sound or approached, Zhao Qi would immediately respond to the sound. The source rushed.

After a stick of incense, Zhu Yicheng waved to the two soldiers, and the two rushed forward, pressed Zhao Qi on the bed, and tied him up again.

Huang Zelin went up to check Zhao Qi's complexion, tongue coating, and pulse, feeling surprised.

The so-called "five internal organs store: the heart stores the spirit, the lungs store the soul, the liver stores the soul, the spleen stores the mind, and the kidney stores the mind" (Note).People have three souls and seven souls, and lung disease makes the soul that should be in the lungs scattered around the body.If it is an ordinary disease, after acupuncture and medicine, the soul can return, and the person will return to normal. However, although Zhao Qi took the medicine, the lung problem disappeared, but the seven souls did not fully return to themselves, lacking the master's mind and emotional peace. The two souls turned into walking dead, or very violent walking dead.

I don't know if he is the only one like this, or everyone who has the disease will be like this.Huang Zelin suddenly felt shuddering.

Rejuvenation Hall.

Mu Xiyun was resting on the counter in front of the medicine cabinet after seeing the last critically ill patient.After days of exhaustion, he fell asleep almost as soon as his forehead touched the table.

I don't know how long it took, only to hear a "snap", something fell to the ground, and then there was a man's scream.

Mu Xiyun stood up abruptly, only to see a medicine jar fell on the ground, and the medicine juice and dregs spilled all over the floor.A clerk from the medicine hall was shivering and curled up in the corner of the wall, surrounded by a circle of people, who were stretching out their hands to grab him.

Those people are patients who were still lying in the medicine hall just now!

Mu Xiyun jumped up, jumped over the counter and came to the center of the medicine hall.As soon as the landing sound came out, several people standing closer to him immediately followed the sound and rushed towards him with their hands open.

Mu Xiyun got out of the gap with a short body, pushed aside the uncles and aunts surrounding the clerk, and pulled him out.

The guy was trembling with fright, with snot and tears all over his face.

There were also screams coming from outside the door, Mu Xiyun's heart trembled, she dragged the waiter to the door, and closed the door of the medicine hall.

In the resettlement site in Xishi, patients with mild symptoms lay down quietly, motionless; those with severe symptoms before had already started to move around, jumping at anyone they saw.The sound of crying father and mother shouted on the street.

"Bang, bang!" A red firework bloomed in the distant sky, which was a distress signal from government officers and soldiers!

"Bang! Bang!" A few more times, several main areas of Hundred Flowers City had fallen.

The people on the street were running wildly. If people were able to suppress the panic in their hearts and stay in the city a few days ago, it was because they couldn't bear to see their relatives get sick and have no one to take care of them, and the medicine prescribed by the pharmacy could still control the disease , Now that the patients suddenly change, as if they have fallen into a demon together, where do people have the heart to stay?

For a moment, the whole city was in chaos, and all the people who could still move rushed towards the city gate.

Gu Qingqiao was standing on the street in the north of the city at this moment, and the crowd here also fell into madness.He was dragged by the crowd and moved towards the city gate, staggering a bit.Just as he was about to jump up, he caught a glimpse of a figure approaching with a sword in the distance.

Gu Qingqiao stopped abruptly, allowing the runners behind him to bump against him continuously.

There were crowds of people in front of him and behind him, you pushed and shoved without any rules, in the world, it seemed that everyone was running to the distance, and everyone was trying to abandon him.There was only that white figure, who had no fear in the face of people's madness, and came against the current against the turbulent crowd.

"Qingqiao!" The fairy who controls the sword stretches out a hand, and the next moment, Gu Qingqiao has stood on the sword body.

The running crowd had reached near the west city gate at this time, and the golden light shone in front of the city gate, and a huge barrier continuously included the running crowd.

Sitting in front of the formation, Qin Le closed his eyes slightly and kneaded the magic formula with his hands. It was obviously the eye of the defensive formation.Su Yanjun, Huang Zelin and others stood behind him, inputting spiritual power for him.

Mu Xiyun and Gu Qingqiao joined the team to maintain the barrier.

Soon, all the residents entered the barrier, and outside the barrier were full of patients who looked like walking corpses. They couldn't hear the voice in the barrier, and they began to walk around in a daze.

In the enchantment, there was a lot of crying and shouting, and several strong men desperately patted the city gate, but the gate was closed and could not be opened.

"Let us out, let us out!" someone cried.

"All the city gates are closed, what should we do?" Someone wailed.

"Why lock us up here!" The crowd shouted angrily, "Those people are crazy, I don't want to die, let's get out!!"

"Who sealed the city gate?" Gu Qingqiao asked, "Where is Lord Shen?"

"Here is the little official!" A trembling voice sounded, and Shen Yi stood up from behind Su Yanjun in a panic, "I did not give the order to close the city gate."

"Who acted like this?" Gu Qingqiao said angrily, "I'll smash it open!"

"Wait!" Mu Xiyun grabbed his arm and whispered, "You can't let him out!"

Gu Qingqiao was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly realized.

The plague in this city is extremely contagious, and no one knows when a healthy person will suddenly fall ill.If the city gate is opened at this time, the residents of the town will disperse in a rush, which will definitely bring the plague to nearby towns.It is feared that it will become a catastrophe for the Central Plains.

"What's more," said Zhu Yicheng on the side, "If you smash it now, it's impossible to break it open."

Behind them, outside the tall city gate, hundreds of cultivators from Baihua Valley surrounded Baihua City, outputting their spiritual power, and the solid barrier shone with silver light, sealing Baihua City airtight.

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The author has something to say:

I made up the illness without any factual basis, so please don't take it for granted.

Note: "The five viscera store: the heart stores the spirit, the lungs store the soul, the liver stores the soul, the spleen stores the mind, and the kidney stores the aspirations" comes from——Huangdi Neijing·Suwen·Xuanming Wuqi Chapter