The memorial that the emperor showed him before was presented by Prefect Sun of Pingdong Prefecture. It said that a strange man-eating insect had appeared in Dachuan Village under Pingdong Prefecture. Dozens of people had died so far, and the people were in a state of constant fear.
Some people wanted to escape from Pingdong Prefecture, but Prefect Sun ordered the city gates to be closed. This was because the strange insects would lurk in people's bodies and would not be noticed at first. However, once the internal organs were eaten by the insects, people who had previously had contact with the deceased would be very likely to be infected by the strange insects.
If the person with the strange insects escaped to another place, the consequences would be disastrous. Magistrate Sun had no choice but to do this.
Gu Lingze ran for half a day and finally arrived at Pingdong Prefecture.
The city gate was closed, and Gu Lingze jumped over with a leap.
There was no one on the street and the doors of all the shops were closed. Gu Lingze looked at the desolate city and decided to go to the government office first.
Magistrate Sun was walking anxiously in the yard when suddenly a man flew in from outside the wall and he was startled on the spot.
"Governor Sun." Gu Lingze called out as he looked at the official uniform on him.
The other party nodded dumbfoundedly. Gu Lingze took out the token and held it in front of him, "I was sent by the emperor."
The other person looked at him with a complicated expression at first, but after looking him over, he felt like crying but had no tears.
Is the emperor going to abandon them, Pingdong Prefecture? Why would he send a young man to solve the problem?
Gu Lingze didn't care what he was thinking and just asked, "Which direction is Dachuan Village?"
Magistrate Sun's eyes were dull, and he raised his hand and pointed casually, "West."
Gu Lingze looked at him and said, "The emperor has sent General Jianwei to bring troops to support us. As the prefect, you must not abandon your people under any circumstances."
After he said this, he turned and left. In the blink of an eye, he flew over the courtyard wall and disappeared, leaving Magistrate Sun standing there stupidly.
Gu Lingze rushed westward and after searching several places, he finally found Dachuan Village.
He had just taken a few steps into the village when a man vomited blood and rushed towards him with a ferocious face. Before Gu Lingze could do anything, the man fell to the ground and twitched continuously.
He was just about to step forward when he unexpectedly the man slammed himself to the ground, hitting his head and causing bleeding, and he became motionless.
Gu Lingze moved closer and suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the man's neck, as if something was moving.
He pulled out his dagger and stabbed it directly, but he didn't expect the thing to move so fast that he stabbed it three or four times before he finally stabbed it.
As soon as Gu Lingze pulled the knife out of the corpse, blood flowed out of the wound, and then thirteen or fourteen worms emerged and fell to the ground.
Gu Lingze narrowed his eyes slightly, it turned out to be a Yin borer.
How did the Yin borer appear here? Moreover, this kind of insect has always fed on Yin energy and rotten meat, why did it start eating living people now?
Gu Lingze thought of a possibility, and a dark light flashed across his eyes.
He walked around Dachuan Village in a complete circle. There was a corpse every few steps. There was not a single living person in the entire village.
Gu Lingze went to several nearby villages and although there were fewer corpses than in Dachuan Village, there was still no living person.
He guessed that it was Prefect Sun who took all the living people to the city to prevent anyone from escaping in the chaos.
Gu Lingze discovered that along the way, there were not only human corpses, but also the pigs, cattle, sheep, and dogs raised by the villagers, all of which died miserably.
He decided to return to the city first, to protect the survivors at all costs.
When Magistrate Sun saw Gu Lingze again, he had calmed down a lot.
As soon as Gu Lingze came in, he asked, "Where is your water tank?"
"Kitchen." Magistrate Sun pointed in a direction.
"Call everyone in your family to the kitchen."
Gu Lingze went to the kitchen, opened the lid of the jar, and dropped a drop of spiritual milk into it.
After Magistrate Sun and everyone in the mansion arrived, Gu Lingze picked up the gourd ladle from the water tank and handed it to him, "Each of you drink half a ladle."
Everyone else looked at each other, but Magistrate Sun, with the mentality of trying his luck, was the first to drink the water.
When the others saw that Magistrate Sun had drunk, they also followed suit.
"We have all finished drinking, what should we do now?" asked Magistrate Sun.
Gu Lingze said calmly, "Wait."
"Wait for what..." Before he could finish his words, his youngest daughter began to vomit, spitting out the water she had just drunk and five worms.
Prefect Sun was shocked, and before he could react, a beam of fire hit the insects, directly burning the five insects into black powder.
At this time, his little daughter's wet nurse also began to vomit, and the worms she vomited were also killed by Gu Lingze.
Prefect Sun was so excited that he almost knelt down to him, and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Pingdong Prefecture is saved, and the people are saved!"
After Gu Lingze waited for him to calm down, he asked him to call all the constables in the government office, and Magistrate Sun quickly did as he was told.
After the eight detectives drank the water, three of them vomited.
Gu Lingze looked at Prefect Sun with some doubt, "Are there only eight detectives in the government office?"
Prefect Sun wiped his face helplessly and said, "The other five are all dead."
Gu Lingze lowered his eyes. "Have two of them carry the water jar to distribute water to the mansions around the government office. Remember to bring torches. Once the insects leave the body, burn them all to death immediately."
"Take the remaining six yamen runners with me and go to where the villagers gather."
When we arrived at the market on the east side of the city, all the villagers from the villages around Pingdong Prefecture gathered here.
The constables carried out two water jars filled with water from the nearest house, and Gu Lingze dripped spiritual milk into each jar.
Afterwards, Magistrate Sun stood on a chair and loudly called all the villagers over.
"Everyone line up to drink water, no crowding allowed!"
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "They think we have bugs in our bodies, and now they are making us drink poisonous water to kill us."
Nearly a thousand villagers were in an uproar, and everyone immediately moved away from the water tank, with noisy sounds deafening.
With a clang, Gu Lingze summoned out the Mo Shuang Sword, rushed into the crowd, grabbed a man by the collar and threw him out.
The man got up from the ground and tried to escape, but was kicked to the ground by Gu Lingze.
He walked forward, drew out the Mo Shuang sword, and placed it on the man's neck. "If you keep making these alarmist remarks, I will cut off your tongue and feed it to the dogs."
Prefect Sun jumped off his chair, picked up the water scoop from the water tank and drank a mouthful. "This is really not poisonous water. I have already drunk it. Don't worry!"
But the people were still a little panicked, pushing each other, trying to be the first to drink.
At this time, an old man stood up and shouted, "I believe in Lord Sun." Then he picked up the water scoop and took a sip.
The old man was safe and sound after drinking the water. After a while, another family came forward and drank the water.
As a result, the man vomited after drinking it. Just as he vomited out a few insects, Gu Lingze used a fire talisman to burn them to ashes.
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