Chapter 170 Turning Point

Not just touching the corpse, but the rats and crows that ate the corpse may be infected with the plague.

Therefore, a few doctors personally prepared prescriptions, and began to kill rats and other animals that would eat corpses on a large scale. As for whether someone will eat the poison bait by mistake, that's out of consideration. The poison deserves it.

Soon, the interrogation and confession of the survivors came out, and the news was exciting. Just like Shen Hao's judgment, the reason why these people did not get sick and died was because they ran away early and had no contact with the dead bodies of the sick.

"According to the surviving people in Xiushan Village, some of them had contact with the deceased the day before his death, but they didn't touch the dead body the next day after his death. But even so, they were not infected with the plague. That's very Maybe it’s because the source of the disease can only be spawned from the corpse after dying from the disease?”

"If that's the case, it would explain why there are so many people running around without widespread deaths elsewhere."

"Yes, because death will come suddenly once you get sick, and a monk in the Qi Refining Realm will die if you can't resist for two days. This will also cause the geographical scope of the source of the disease to not expand too quickly."

To put it bluntly, the latency of this plague is extremely poor, which means that the contagion will not become uncontrollable. This is the greatest good news.

"But we still have to experiment. Go to the dungeon to find a death row prisoner who has cultivated the Qi Refining Realm, and then let him stay in the same box with a black-spotted corpse to see if he will die. At the same time, find an ordinary person and put them in the same box." Together but without contact, if it is as we expected, the monk will die soon, but the non-contact ordinary person will not."

"It's my lord, I'll arrange it right away." Wang Yiming is getting more and more excited now, he finds it very refreshing to work with Shen Baihu, no matter what he does, he will be organized and will never mess up the rules. In addition, he is now considered to be a member of Shen Hao's family. Because as early as a few days after arriving at the mouth of Wanhe River, Fengri City's secret investigation into the dental office's management had already begun to take shape, and he had already handed in the nomination certificate to Shen Hao's hands.

However, for the time being, Wang Yiming's handle on the management of the dental office is not yet useful. Things must be dealt with closely with the plague here, and then it will be the turn of the dental office.

However, with the certificate of nomination, Shen Hao obviously relied on Wang Yiming a lot more and released a lot of authority. The more this is the case, the more Shen Hao feels that Wang Yiming's ability is still very strong.

The next day, Wang Yiming brought the experimental results. A death row prisoner at the third level of qi refining stayed in close contact with a black-spotted corpse in a box for a night, and then died of heat all over his body before dawn today. The cause of death was organ necrosis, blood coagulation, and his body followed There are dark spots.

And the ordinary person who was also locked in a cell but had no contact with the corpse, although he was scared to death, was fine, and was kept alone for observation.

However, this basically proved Shen Hao's judgment: the source of the plague was the black-spotted corpse, and as long as the living did not come into contact with the black-spotted corpse, they would not be infected.

This great news was reported by Shen Hao, Wu Changhe was overjoyed, and an order was issued saying that it was a big reward after the event, and at the same time hurriedly reported the new news to the Yamen of the Zhenfu Envoy. These days, Wu Changhe has lost all of his limelight, but at the same time he also feels pressured. He is the number one contributor to the good control of the plague, at least on the surface. If the plague spreads, he will be the number one blamed, and it will not be surprising to be beaten into the mud at that time.

Now that Shen Hao has figured out the root cause of the plague infection, Wu Changhe felt a big stone in his heart, and he breathed a sigh of relief. From now on, he will no longer face the situation where the plague is out of control.

However, Wu Changhe also received an order from the Governor's Yamen, asking him to try his best to find out the source of the plague, otherwise he might not be so lucky when this kind of thing comes again.

Of course, Wu Changhe has no interest in figuring out the source of the plague, and this will not bring him any benefit. Moreover, there are countless kinds of plagues in the world, and the plagues have not disappeared after we figured it out? Just figure out how to deal with it? Why are you making such a big effort?

However, even if Wu Changhe didn't agree with the order of the governor's yamen, he still had to carry it out, and it was just transferred to the first line of Wanhekou. Isn't the person in charge specifically surnamed Shen?

Unlike Wu Changhe, the order of the town governor's yamen to thoroughly investigate the source of the plague was in line with Shen Hao's mind. He has always been brooding about this matter in his heart, and he always has an indescribable strange feeling. It seems that the plague this time It was very abrupt, but he couldn't tell where it was, maybe it was the half-basket of ghost pears?

Maybe it's a professional habit, anyway, Shen Hao always wants to understand when he encounters doubts, otherwise he will feel a lump in his heart and will feel uncomfortable for a long time.

"Perhaps it should be checked from that hunter."

However, almost all the people in Xiushan Village have died. The people in the neighboring villages either don’t know the Orion family named Xu, or they just heard about it. If you fight, go to the battlefield to gain fame, and if you don't fight, you will return to your hometown to be a hunter to support your family. Little is known about the life trajectory of the family before the accident that Shen Hao wanted to know.

After that, there will be clean-up work, and at the same time continue to confine those people in the disaster area who have not completely eliminated the danger.

After knowing the way the plague is infected, the disaster area will no longer be a daunting place. Wear thick sheepskin gloves to cover your mouth and nose, and use special shovels and tongs instead of touching the corpse with lime powder or bury it on the spot. incinerate. There is always a need to live again, especially those larger towns, which cannot be abandoned because of a plague, and the disposal of corpses is also a top priority.

Therefore, under Shen Hao's instructions, the cities along the Wanhekou line began to deal with the corpses on both sides of the official road in an orderly manner. The thickened soil layer that has been deeply buried and sprinkled with lime. Immediate incineration without deep burial or exposed corpses.

In addition, who knows if the animal will die immediately after touching the corpse, or will it cause plague changes and continue to kill people? So Shen Hao ordered to spread poisonous bait all over the mountains and fields at the same time, trying to kill all animals that might have come into contact with the corpse. As for whether some innocent animals will be exterminated, no one cares about this place. After all, when the plague comes, people almost die.

But things took a turn for the better when they gradually cleared up Xiushan Village. It was like a green tea that whetted your appetite and gave you some sweetness when you wanted to give up your pursuit.

"My lord, I found this when cleaning up Xu's house. I think it's suspicious." Wang Yiming found Shen Hao with a very old parchment scroll.

"This is a map?" Shen Hao opened the parchment and found that it was a simple map. Looking at some signs and directions on it, it seemed that a road into the mountain was drawn. In the innermost part of the mountain road, there is a specially marked red dot.