Chapter 524: Princess, something terrible has happened
Xie Yingmian opened the door.
Fu Mo's forehead was covered in sweat, and his face was pale: "Princess, something terrible has happened."
"Something happened to the servants who were responsible for emptying the sewage. Something serious happened."
Xie Yingmian said: "Don't be anxious, speak slowly."
Fu Mo: "The servants who went to empty the sewage thought it smelled too bad, so they took it to a sewer that was far away from Prince Ling's mansion."
"At the beginning, the sewage was normal, just a little smelly."
"Later, when I poured the contents into one of the buckets, thick fog suddenly emerged from the sewer."
"The thick fog was the same as the one on the Ghost Festival. After the bucket of sewage was poured in, the fog quickly enveloped the surrounding area."
"They were trapped in the thick fog and were acting like hysterics."
"We pulled them out of the thick fog wearing masks. They looked like they had seen a ghost, their behavior was strange, and they were saying strange things. We couldn't pull them out, and we didn't dare to move them easily."
Xie Yingmian and Yu Lingye looked at each other.
Xie Yingmian said, "Let's go and take a look."
Yu Lingye went back to the house to get a gas mask.
When they arrived at the location, they saw that those people were indeed suffering from hysterics.
A man squatted on the ground, holding his head, and shouted: "I am a little mushroom. I haven't grown up yet. Don't pick me. Don't pick me. I'm not tasty at all."
A man stretched out his arms and lay on the ground with his face up at the sky: "I am a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum. I want to absorb the sunlight, I want to absorb the rain and dew. I want to grow up quickly. I want to cultivate into a human form to save my mother. Mother, have you been cooked and eaten? Woo woo woo, I miss you so much."
A weasel-like person sat on the ground, looking at Xie Yingmian and the others with empty eyes: "Donor, what do you think I look like?"
Another kept making swimming gestures: "The boat capsized."
"The waves are so big, our boat is going to capsize. Help, help, I'm seasick, is there anyone who can save me? Why is this boat so seasick? I'm going to drown."
"Ahhh, help, I can't breathe."
Xie Yingmian looked at these people and the corner of his mouth twitched.
The hallucinogenic effect of thick fog is very similar to that of poisonous mushrooms with red umbrellas and white stems.
Fu Feng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Xie Yingmian and Yu Lingye arrive: "Your Majesty, Princess, they have been like this since we pulled them out of the thick fog."
"The one who said he was a mushroom, when we approached, he thought we were here to pick mushrooms and was so scared that he started crying and screaming."
"The one who claimed to be Lingzhi said we were the bad guys who kidnapped his mother and wanted to die with us."
"The one who claimed to be Wong Tai Sin kept asking him what he looked like."
"The one who said he fell into the sea was even more bizarre. He said we were sharks, and when we got close, he tried desperately to swim in the air."
"They're acting like hysterics, sleepwalkers. We don't dare knock them out easily. What do you think we should do?"
Xie Yingmian said, "Give them the antidote first."
After Fu Mo and Fu Feng fed the antidote to several people, they quickly fell into a deep sleep.
Xie Yingmian took their pulses.
"They are all in good physical condition and nothing serious is wrong. The concentration of the fog was relatively low, so it just caused them to hallucinate. When they wake up, if they are conscious, nothing serious will happen."
About a quarter of an hour later.
The four people gradually woke up.
They were a little confused.
The hallucinating mushroom user looked at his hands and scratched his face: "I'm not a mushroom anymore? Hahaha, I'm back, I'm finally not a mushroom."
The Ganoderma Lucidum Illusionist was dejected: "Why am I back? I have finally cultivated to the point where I am almost transforming. I will soon become a Ganoderma Lucidum Immortal and enjoy incense offerings."
The hallucinating title seeker: "The title-seeking really works. I've transformed into a human form."
A hallucinating drowning person: "Thank God, I'm alive. I'll never swim again in my life."
Xie Yingmian and Yu Lingye: ...
"Everyone, behave yourself." Fu Mo said unhappily, "Can't you see the prince and princess are here? Stop going crazy."
The four people were stunned and looked at each other.
A moment later.
They finally emerged from the illusion completely.
"This subordinate greets His Majesty and His Majesty."
Xie Yingmian: "Get up, how do you feel?"
"You were hit by a poisonous fog, which caused you to hallucinate. I have asked Fu Mo and Fu Feng to give you the antidote. Although your hallucinations have disappeared, your internal bodies may be damaged."
"Don't hide anything. Tell me everything that's wrong with you."
The four of them were still frightened.
"Princess, I feel dizzy and a little nauseous."
"My throat feels uncomfortable and burning. It might be because the small one was the one pouring the dirty water out, and I was closest to him."
"Princess, I don't have any special symptoms, I just feel a little nauseous."
"Princess, I feel short of breath."
After a careful examination, Xie Yingmian determined that the person who poured out the sewage was slightly more seriously injured, while the others were just suffering from psychological effects left by hallucinations and just needed to rest.
She asked the four of them to go down and rest first.
A total of sixteen basins of sewage were sampled from various places in Shangjing.
Each pot is numbered.
The sewage with thick fog is numbered six.
There are still ten basins of dirty water left that have not been poured out.
Xie Yingmian asked people to wear masks and take the antidote. After ensuring that it was safe, he went to dump the sewage again.
The remaining sewage showed no reaction at all.
"Only No. 6 has an abnormality." Xie Yingmian said to Yu Lingye, "Where was the sample of No. 6 sewage taken from?"
Yu Lingye: "Taken from the sewer near the moat outside the palace."
Xie Yingmian: "The Imperial Palace?"
"I remember you said there would be no thick fog in the palace."
Yu Lingye: "Let's go back to the study first."
"I think I already know the modus operandi and location of the person behind the scenes."
Xie Yingmian immediately took Yu Lingye back to the study.
"Hurry up and tell me." Xie Yingmian poured two cups of tea.
Yu Lingye found a map from the bookshelf.
This map is different from ordinary maps. It is a detailed water map.
Yu Lingye: "The palace's drainage system is divided into open ditches and underground canals."
"Open ditches and underground canals run in a north-south direction. Water like rainwater from the palaces, kitchen water, and washing water flow through the open ditches into the underground canals."
"The drainage system of the underground canal will be collected and connected to the main canal, and then discharged to the Yujin River outside the imperial palace."
"The Yujin River is the moat surrounding the imperial palace."
"After the Yujin River receives the sewage from the imperial palace, it will flow through the large and small ditches in Shangjing to the Huozhao River in Shangjing City."
"Huo Zhao River is the largest river in Shangjing. It not only receives sewage from the imperial palace, but also from the entire Shangjing."
Xie Yingmian looked at the river that Yu Lingye pointed to.
It can be seen from the map that Huozhao River is connected to the wharf in Hedu District.
"The entire Shangjing sewage system eventually flows into the Huozhao River, which then drains into the sea near Shangjing and flows into natural rivers to complete the final drainage."
"I understand the drainage system of Shangjing, but I don't understand how the thick fog is formed," said Xie Yingmian.
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