Chapter 111: Death of Fox Fairy
The little civet nodded: "Of course, it's winter, there's no extra food for it. It's so fat that if it was found by the villagers, it wouldn't be able to run fast enough to survive until now."
Shen Yijin thought so too, but this made her even more certain that the plague was man-made.
At this time, the civet cat leader also came back with a dead dog in his mouth.
The leader of the Civet Cat tribe put down the dead dog and said to Shen Yijin, "The last few pills were eaten by these dogs. There are no low-grade longevity pills left. Have we completed our mission?"
"You did a great job." There was no joy on Shen Yijin's face, and his brows were full of sadness.
The leader of the civet cat tribe found it strange. They had solved the source of the plague and would be able to get merit immediately, so why was Shen Yijin still not happy?
The patriarch looked at the little civet and asked it with his eyes what had just happened.
The little civet just shook its head in confusion, it knew nothing.
The Civet Chief didn't say anything, so Bei Shitao asked for him: "Yi Jin, why are you unhappy? Haven't we stopped the outbreak of the plague?"
Shen Yijin revealed all her guesses: "Now all clues show that this plague is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. Since it is man-made, if they find that the plague did not break out as expected, they will definitely plan another plague..."
The civet cat leader's face suddenly fell: "In other words, we won't get any merit this time?"
Shen Yijin was not sure: "I should be able to take a little bit..."
Except for the leader of the civet cats, most of the civet cats did not take the merit too seriously. When they saw that the leader looked unhappy, they consoled him by saying, "It's okay, boss. At least we had a meal of meat!"
The civet cat leader has a hard time explaining it. These civet cats have no idea what they have lost!
At this moment, a civet cat that had secretly gone to the river to fetch water came back in a panic, its eyes full of fear: "Boss, it's too dangerous here, let's go back to the mountain!"
The river near the village was frozen, and the civet cat took a long time to break it open by hitting it with stones.
Just as it was about to scoop up some water to drink, it smelled a strange odor.
"There's something wrong with the river water near the village. I saw dozens of dead mice at the bottom of the river!" the civet cat said anxiously, "The plague is about to break out. Let's go back to the mountains for shelter!"
Hearing this, Shen Yijin's hanging heart finally died.
The civet chief was shocked. The plague outbreak was not something they could solve. Good deeds were not as important as lives. "Hurry, hurry, hurry, everyone, hurry back to the mountain!"
When the civet cats heard the order from their leader, they all ran up the mountain with their caught prey in their mouths.
In the blink of an eye, Shen Yijin and the others couldn't even see the shadow of the civet cat.
"What should we do now?" Bei Shitao looked at the direction where the civet cats left and felt extremely helpless.
Shen Yijin sighed: "What else can I do? I can only try my best to save people."
Bei Shitao had never practiced cultivation and her body was still that of a mortal. Shen Yijin asked her to go up the mountain, but Bei Shitao insisted on staying.
She couldn't help much if she stayed, but she couldn't go up the mountain at this time and leave Chen Yijin at the foot of the mountain to fight the epidemic.
Chen Yijin couldn't persuade Bei Shitao, so she had to let her go.
A few days after the plague broke out, Shen Yijin and Bei Lanshan went around buying medicinal herbs to make antidotes for the villagers.
But they are not monks specializing in medicine, and all they can do is delay the onset of the disease but not cure it.
The fox came back with its head down. Seeing this, Bei Shitao knew that it had gained nothing. "Are the doctors from other places still unwilling to come and help?"
Fox shook his head. "The doctors heard about it and were afraid of offending people, so they didn't dare to come here to help. There are a few doctors who are willing to help, but their medical skills are really not good. I'm afraid they will lose their lives before they can help."
"We can't go on like this..." Bei Shitao sighed.
Without a doctor willing to help, the villagers wouldn’t be able to hold out for long relying on Shen Yijin and Bei Lanshan alone.
Many villagers have died from the plague now. If no antidote is found, they may also be infected with the disease.
The fox ran into the house and suddenly kicked Bei Lanshan.
Bei Lanshan was sorting medicinal herbs, and was almost knocked over by the beast's kick.
He turned back angrily: "Fox, what are you doing?"
"You've been writing to the sect for so long, but they haven't replied yet. They must be feeling guilty! I've already gotten news from the doctor. The cooperation between the wandering merchants and the Meteorite Sect is to spread the plague in Qianfang Village under the guise of wandering merchants! Your sect is coveting the fox fairy's bones!" the fox said angrily.
The Meteorite Sect had already figured out Hu Yunrong's character and knew that he would not ignore the lives of the villagers, so they let the traveling merchants attack the villagers.
The new immortal from the next door village is also one of them. His existence diverts the villagers' faith.
Bei Lanshan stared in disbelief: "Are you telling the truth? No, I don't believe it..."
If the fox fairy loses the incense and offerings, it will just turn into an ordinary fox.
What use would the sect have for the skeleton of an ordinary fox?
Bei Lanshan didn't believe it. He thought the fox was lying to him.
"I don't believe what you said. I want to find out the truth myself!" Bei Lanshan rushed out of the house and went to find a doctor to find out the truth.
Bei Lanshan didn't believe it, but Shen Yijin had already guessed it.
Knowing that his work was mostly in vain, Shen Yijin still worked on developing an antidote for the villagers: "It seems that we can't change what happened a thousand years ago. Fox, go tell Fox Yunrong about the situation at the foot of the mountain."
Bei Shitao couldn't bear it and stopped the fox from going: "Isn't this too cruel for Hu Yunrong?"
"It is Hu Yunrong's own choice whether to save the villagers or not. You have also seen that we can't stop the outbreak of the plague, nor can we save the villagers." Shen Yijin analyzed calmly, "If we can't stop the fox fairy from dissipating, we must at least fight for her bones and prevent the Meteorite Sect from getting what they want."
"But can we really do it?" Bei Shitao was still hesitant. If they couldn't change what happened a thousand years ago, how could they rewrite the ending where the fox fairy skeleton was taken away by the Meteorite Sect?
Shen Yijin's eyes darkened: "Maybe, this is how history was thousands of years ago?"
They can now travel back a thousand years ago because of a photo, so why couldn't someone from later generations appear a thousand years ago and help rewrite the ending?
Bei Lanshan placed the photo in the Fox Fairy Temple, perhaps to make history repeat itself.
The fox finally went up the mountain to find Hu Yunrong.
Hu Yunrong was not surprised to hear about the plague at the foot of the mountain: "I thought you would come to see me a few days later."
Hu Yunrong had long heard people praying to her, asking her to quell the plague at the foot of the mountain.
It wanted to fulfill the wishes of the villagers living at the foot of the mountain and had already prepared itself for death.
But before she died, Hu Yunrong wanted to take another look at Bei Lanshan and her new friends.
"Bei Lanshan has left? What a pity..." Hu Yunrong hid her sadness in her eyes. It seemed that she would not be able to see Bei Lanshan again before she died.
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