latelenovela Chapter 164 Flower Gu.
Chapter 164 Flower Gu.
"Yes." Doctor Liu bowed slightly.
Jiang Xue had been out for such a long time and was worried about Yi Yi, so she didn't dare to delay and went back.
In a carriage outside the palace, Li Lingxuan half-closed his eyes and listened to Mu Qi's report. He frowned slightly and looked up at Mu Qi and said, "Flowers growing on your body?"
Mu Qi nodded and said, "Exactly. Once that kind of flower grows on your body, your skin will quickly break down until it spreads to your entire body."
Li Lingxuan suddenly recalled a medical book he had read when he was a child, which described similar symptoms. His brows turned cold and he ordered, "Go back home."
"Yes." Mu Qi nodded, got out of the carriage, and drove the carriage quickly towards the palace.
In prison.
Wenchuan was interrogating the few people he had just captured. These people were obviously frightened and started talking nonsense.
No matter what Wenchuan asked, they just said, "It's evil magic."
When Pei Zhijin came over, Wenchuan helplessly explained the situation, "Sir, they were very scared."
Pei Zhijin walked up to those people, squatted down and asked, "Have you seen those people who died on the street just now?"
One of them nodded slightly, and then began to repeat the words "it's witchcraft".
Pei Zhijin stood up, frowned slightly, and then continued to look at Wenchuan and said, "Please ask the doctor to come over."
"Yes."
Just as Wenchuan asked the doctor to come over, those men suddenly looked hideous, rolled on the ground, and flower-shaped blood grew on their faces, which quickly withered and festered. When the doctor saw this, he was so scared that he fell to the ground and ran away crawling.
Wenchuan also frowned, looking at the situation at a loss as to what to do. He wanted to immediately order someone to hold them down, but before his men could hold them down, those people stopped moving.
Wenchuan immediately asked someone to invite Pei Zhijin over.
Pei Zhijin looked at the people who had died and said seriously, "Autopsy."
"Yes."
Wenchuan immediately left to ask for a coroner.
This day.
The rumor of flowers growing on people's faces quickly spread throughout the capital, and everyone was in a panic. The government immediately posted a notice, threatening that anyone who spread the rumors would be charged with treason.
The rumor was suppressed, but at night, several more people experienced similar situations. It was curfew time, but the streets of the capital were brightly lit, and guards were carrying people out of the houses from time to time.
Inside the coroner's workshop, there were already more than a dozen corpses placed in the yard. They were all those who had died today with flowers growing on their faces.
Pei Zhijin stood there with a serious expression, watching the coroner examining the bodies one by one.
The coroner who examined the body was a middle-aged man with a scarf on his face and gloves on his hands. He was holding tweezers and was carefully examining the festering areas.
Gently digging away the rotten flesh, the bones inside could be seen. The coroner resisted the urge to vomit and looked carefully at the rotten flesh.
Wenchuan frowned as he watched from the side, but finally couldn't help but turn his head away.
Suddenly, the coroner seemed to have discovered something, looked up at Pei Zhijin and said, "Sir, I have discovered something."
Pei Zhijin walked over quickly and asked, "What did you find?"
The coroner carefully picked up a tiny worm from the rotten meat with tweezers and placed it on the white cloth next to it. He said, "It looks like this worm is eating the rotten meat."
Pei Zhijin looked carefully and saw the tiny bug slowly crawling on the white cloth. Pei Zhijin frowned and said, "This is not a bug at all, it's a poisonous insect."
The coroner carefully turned the worm over with the tweezers in his hand, and suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "This is a newly born worm. The mother worm should still be in the body."
"Find it out immediately." Pei Zhijin said coldly.
The coroner nodded immediately and was about to start looking again, but suddenly he stopped and looked at Pei Zhijin and asked, "Sir, what were their initial symptoms before they became ill?"
Pei Zhijin thought for a moment and said, "Abdominal pain."
The coroner immediately picked up a blade and gently cut a hole in the corpse's abdomen. Sure enough, there was a red, thumb-sized worm under the skin, shaped like a petal.
The coroner used tweezers to gently pick up the worm and placed it on the white cloth. He said, "The mother worm should have absorbed enough ingredients from the human body and is about to start giving birth to those small worms, which will cause abdominal pain in people."
Wenchuan frowned and asked, "What kind of bug is this?"
Pei Zhijin frowned slightly, looking at the insect that looked like a petal. He felt like he had seen it somewhere. Suddenly, a picture flashed through his mind, and he remembered that he had seen the portrait of this insect in the strange news magazine left by Pei Chong.
"This insect is a flower poison."
"What? Flower Gu?" The coroner exclaimed in surprise, "How could such a vicious insect appear in the capital?"
Pei Zhijin continued, "This kind of bug usually grows in the Southern Region, but the Southern Region has been destroyed."
The coroner quickly took out the mother worms from other corpses, but they were all dead, with only the small worms crawling on the rotting corpses.
Pei Zhijin immediately and decisively ordered: "Burn these corpses immediately. When these insects grow up eating the rotten meat, they will leave the corpses and look for the next host."
After hearing this, his men did not dare to delay any longer. They lifted the corpses and started moving them to the open area at the back.
The coroner took off his gloves, shook his head, looked at Pei Zhijin and said, "Sir, this matter is probably not simple."
"Yeah." Pei Zhijin nodded quickly. He was afraid that the enemy would launch a surprise attack at this time.
His eyes moved slightly, and then he left quickly.
The starry sky was shining brightly at night. Gu Yu rode his horse with the box and quickly stopped at the gate of Jiang Mansion. Then he jumped off the horse and ran straight inside.
Ignoring the people at the door trying to stop him, he rushed in anxiously.
Jiang Xue was taking care of Yi Yi. Suddenly, Yi Yi frowned, curled up, and sweat began to seep out of her forehead.
The pale, bloodless lips opened slightly, "Cold...Cold..."
Jiang Xue quickly covered Lin Yiyi with several quilts that had been prepared nearby. Her expression was full of worry, and she wished she could take the punishment for Yiyi.
The door was suddenly opened, and Gu Yu's voice said anxiously: "Yiyi!"
Jiang Xue saw that it was Gu Yu, and hurriedly shouted to him: "Why are you here just now? Hurry up and open the Bi Han Xi."
Gu Yu ran to the bed, quickly opened the box and took out the Bi Han Xi. Jiang Xue put the Bi Han Xi in Lin Yiyi's quilt.
The warmth from the cold-repelling rhinoceros made Yiyi feel less cold and she stopped shivering.
Jiang Xue picked up a towel and wiped Yi Yi's sweat. Gu Yu's face darkened instantly when he saw Yi Yi was injured like this, and he stood up to leave.
"Where are you going?" Jiang Xue stopped him.
"I'm going to kill Hongying." Gu Yu said coldly.
"Hongying has lost her trace and cannot be found."
Gu Yu suddenly turned around and shouted, "Then I will destroy Fengyun Tower and raze it to the ground."
"It has been razed to the ground." Jiang Xue said calmly.
Gu Yu immediately walked to the bed and squatted down like a deflated doll, saying dejectedly: "Then what else can I do?"
"The most important thing now is to take out the cold needle in Yiyi's body. I don't have any internal strength, so I need your help."
Gu Yu nodded and said, "Okay, I'm not going anywhere." Then he looked at Yi Yi who was still unconscious, his eyes full of heartache.
Suddenly, a maid knocked on the door and said, "Miss, the young marquis is here."
Gu Yu immediately stood up and was about to leave like a monkey with its hair blown off. Jiang Xue immediately stood up to stop Gu Yu and said softly, "You stay here, I'll go out."
"No, I'm going to teach that kid a lesson. If it weren't for him, Yiyi wouldn't be like this."
"Listen to me, or you won't be able to stay here."
Gu Yu calmed down, turned around and sat on a stool nearby, and said, "Okay, I won't go out."
Jiang Xue then opened the door and went out. At the gate of Jiang Mansion, Wang Ziyan was still wearing his same clothes, standing there with a haggard face. His chin was filled with blue beard, and he no longer had the youthful vigor and aura he had that day.
Jiang Xue couldn't help but be moved. If Yiyi saw him like this, would she feel sorry for him?
While thinking, he whispered to Prince Yan: "What are you doing here?"
"How's Yiyi?" Wang Ziyan said anxiously.
Jiang Xue said coldly: "It's very bad."
"I want to go see her." Wang Ziyan said as he was about to walk around Jiang Xue and go in.
Jiang Xue stretched out her arms to stop Wang Ziyan, her eyes full of coldness, and asked, "Yiyi is like this because of you, how dare you see her?"
"I...I didn't mean to hide it."
"Okay, what I hate most is that you men conceal things under the pretext of doing good for women. In my opinion, you are completely distrusting her by doing this."