After Qin Xuezhen bound herself to the system, the system immediately gave her her first task.

[Ding, reminding the host, your first priority right now is to find the Imperial Doctor Wen in the palace, become his disciple, and obtain the half-written "Qi Huang Bai Shu" from him.]

Qin Xuezhen frowned and thought for a while. She knew Doctor Wen, the old man who was impolite and didn't know how to respect others.

Did he have anything else written? And would it be of any use to him? Could it be that the ancients' medical skills were even better than his own?

She was thinking this in her mind, but she didn't expect that the system seemed to be able to see through her thoughts and quickly reminded her.

[Reminder to the host: the ancients' medical skills weren't necessarily inferior to yours. "Qi Huang Bai Shu" contains many prescriptions lost to later generations, as well as a large number of poisonous formulas. This item will be of great significance to your future development, and the host must obtain it.]

When the system said this, its tone was extremely serious, even with a hint of threat.

"It's strange. Isn't your system just like a mobile phone app? How come your speech has the same emotions and ups and downs as a human? What will happen if I can't get this thing?"

After hearing her question, the system seemed to sneer softly.

"The host doesn't want to know the punishment for failing to complete the task."

After he said that, Qin Xuezhen became even more curious, so she chased him and asked.

"So what exactly is the punishment? Don't be so stingy. How can I be motivated to complete the task if you don't tell me what the punishment is?"

As soon as Qin Xuezhen finished speaking, she suddenly felt a tingling sensation of electric shock from inside her body.

And the electric shock became more and more intense, until she was twitching all over, foaming at the mouth, and her body seemed to be burned.

What made her even more unbearable was that he felt as if thousands of silver needles were piercing his body at the same time, causing him excruciating pain.

"Ah! Stop it, stop it, do you want to kill me?"

As she roared, the system finally stopped punishing her.

At this moment, Qin Xuezhen didn't care that she was beaten with twenty canes. After rolling on the ground twice, she lay on the ground gasping for breath.

"You're crazy, you lunatic! Didn't you say I'm the heroine of this world? How could you do this to me?"

The system seemed to be really similar to a human being. When it heard her words, it actually sneered, with a tone full of arrogance.

[Reminder host, you are only the heroine in the original plot. If you fail to complete the mission, or if other outsiders completely disrupt the plot, you will lose the heroine's halo.]

[Similarly as you said, knowing what punishment is will help you complete the task with even greater dedication. Think about your future as a heroine. Come on, host!]

Qin Xuezhen was breathing heavily, and after the system finished speaking, she could no longer bear it and finally fainted.

However, Qin Xuezhen's body has not recovered yet, so it is impossible for her to complete the task.

So this system didn't force her to do anything, which gave Qin Xuezhen a chance to breathe.

But neither she nor her system is quite clear, who is the outsider, and who ruined the plot?

After much thought, Qin Xuezhen set her sights on the second and third princes, but they were still in the disaster area, so she could only wait for them to come back before testing them.

However, Qin Xue's wish to test the waters was about to come true, because the plague in the disaster area had been completely brought under control.

That day, the third prince looked at the death toll that had been reduced to zero and couldn't help but report the good news to his second brother.

"That's great, second brother. Finally, no one died from the plague today. Even the seriously ill old man is fine now."

Yaoguang Jing nodded with great satisfaction, and then opened a map. The map showed a panoramic view of the river surrounding Wancheng.

"Next, we just need to clean up the river and relocate all the people back. After they have settled down, we can return to the imperial city."

There was a glint of excitement in the eyes of the Third Prince. He had been anxious to go back and tell his father in person about their brother's actions this time.

"Now that you mention it, I can't wait any longer. Speaking of which, wasn't my uncle dancing like crazy a few days ago? Why has he disappeared these past two days?"

The second prince sneered, then picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip.

"Uncle Wen must have drunk something he shouldn't have. He's been ill these past two days!"

When Master Yaoguang saw his second brother's expression, he instantly understood what had happened to Wen Xiuting, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth... Fighting with them, haha.

On the other side, Wen Xiuting really lost more than he gained. He originally wanted to establish a good image, but he didn't expect to be infected with the plague.

Now he only feels high fever, body aches and fatigue, and is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea.

For some reason, he drank a lot of Artemisia annua, but it didn't help.

"Asshole! What kind of medicine did you get? Why is it that it's useless? I've been drinking it for three or four days!"

The people below were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and didn't dare to look at him.

At this time, a subordinate who knew about herbal medicine checked the residue and found that something inside seemed to be wrong.

"No, this doesn't look like the medicine we got. The Artemisia annua in it isn't the right one. This is ordinary Artemisia annua. The two look very similar, but if you look closely, you can tell they're different."

His men pulled out some medicine residue and placed it in front of him. Wen Xiuting snatched it and took a look at it. Although he couldn't tell whether it was real or fake, his men were definitely not lying to him.

"Damn it, damn it! Ugh!"

Wen Xiuting was so angry that he exerted force and felt something warm coming out from his crotch.

Soon, the group of men kneeling on the ground smelled an indescribable stench.

A group of people felt the stench, but they didn't dare to cover their noses with their hands, so they could only hold their breath. After a while, their faces turned purple.

Fortunately, Wen Xiuting also felt embarrassed and quickly drove everyone out.

"All of you, get out! Anyone who dares to tell anyone about what happened today will die! Go and change the medicine!"

The group of people were frightened and hurriedly crawled out.

But he had just taken two steps when Wen Xiuting called him back.

"Wait a minute, come back here, two of you, and help me change clothes and take a bath."

The group of grown men turned as pale as ghosts when they heard this. Soon two of them were betrayed by their other brothers and kicked back, while the rest ran away.

The two men were helpless and carried Wen Xiuting into the bathtub with bitter faces, but the water turned yellow in a short while!

How do I start this?