She jumped off Big Flower's head and patted it. "Big Flower, wait for me outside the valley. I'll go in and take a look first. Don't worry, I'll be careful."
Da Hua knew Xia Yixin was a witch doctor, but she was still worried. "Hiss hiss hiss! (Little Xin, if you haven't come back before dark, I'll go find you. I can smell your scent!)"
"Okay, be careful." Xia Yixin nodded and walked into the valley.
The valley was filled with dense, tall trees, and in the very center was a pool of azure water, which looked vibrant with life, but at this moment it was lifeless.
Sure enough, she hadn't gone far when she encountered piles of freshly buried bones.
Not daring to be careless, she first tore off a piece of burlap to make a mask to cover her mouth and nose, and then carefully examined the exposed hand of the beast spirit with a stick. There were large red spots on the skin, and the skin was dehydrated and dull.
It's smallpox!
This disease is extremely aggressive, and if prevention is inadequate, it can lead to the extinction of an entire race. Even in modern times, there is no particularly good treatment other than smallpox vaccination.
However, because she possesses the "healing genius" cheat, and due to the unique nature of this continent, there are herbs here that can completely cure this disease.
She looked at the sky; it was around 10 a.m., and she had about six hours before it got dark.
She immediately began searching the forest for the thirty-odd kinds of herbs she needed. Luckily, this forest was a treasure trove, with resources far superior to those of the Ying tribe. She quickly found them all, and even if she was missing some, she had some in her storage ring to make up for it.
There was one plant called "forget-me-not," which she only found a little bit on the edge of the mountain rocks, but it was the key to her recovery.
She decided to make a batch of pills first. She used the tools she brought from her storage ring to pound and boil the medicine, remove the dregs, and then repeat the process. Before long, she had made more than a dozen pills. These were pills with concentrated medicinal properties, and one pill could cure the disease.
She was about to go back to find Da Hua when she suddenly smelled a strong odor of body odor coming from not far away. She quickly transformed into her original form and hid in a nearby tree branch.
Sure enough, not long after, two fox-people came over, cursing and swearing.
"Damn it, this is so unlucky! Why does the chieftain have to make us wait here? What if we get the plague too? Why doesn't he come himself?" The tall fox-man's face was full of dissatisfaction and disgust.
Immediately, the shorter man next to him chimed in, "That's right! Which tribe doesn't die out when a plague strikes? What do we need to confirm? Anyway, we secretly threw that sick brat into their water source. Even if they rack their brains, they definitely won't think of that. They're definitely going to die out."
"Yeah, we should hurry up and leave, lest we get infected too. They've already killed over a dozen people, and I think even that old witch doctor is sick, tsk tsk..."
"Yes, let's go! Anyway, we're out of the valley, we can just come back for a look in a few days."
The two male foxes, one tall and one short, started to run out of the valley, but after a few steps, they suddenly smelled a strange odor, and then they couldn't move anything except their eyes and mouths.
"Who! Who is it! Come out!" the two fox clansmen shouted.
The sun is setting in the west.
The dense forest was shrouded in shadows, and the only sound in the deathly silence was the whistling of the cold wind; no one else could be seen.
And what kind of beast spirits could turn them into wooden stakes?
This is something no human could do.
The two fox-people were quite frightened.
They tried desperately to move their bodies but couldn't move at all. They couldn't see who had done it. In addition, since they had done something wrong, they immediately thought of the legend of ghosts and gods. There was a legend on the Beast Spirit Continent that if you did too many bad things, you would be tortured by ghosts and beasts, and your skin would be peeled off and your bones pulled out.
The tall man trembled with fear and cried out, "Don't kill me! Lord Ghost Beast, I beg you, we were just following the clan leader's orders, it really wasn't our own idea!"
"That's right, Lord Ghost Beast, we were really forced into this, sob sob, there are still cubs in my clan who are not yet adults! Please, please let us go..."
Xia Yixin used the Shadowless Flower poison she had found before to dilute and make a special drug. She deliberately made the two of them howl for a long time until they were trembling with fear, and then she pinched her throat and lowered her voice.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance to tell me everything you know, otherwise, hehe."
The beast-spirit people on this continent seem to have a blind fear and worship of gods and ghosts, which can be seen from the fact that the female protagonist in the original work can make the beast people believe that some ordinary things are "gifts from the gods".
Sure enough, before long, the two fox clansmen confessed everything.
After listening, she sprinkled another handful of sleeping potion, and only after both fox-foxes were knocked unconscious did she jump down from the tree branch and transform back into her beast-spirit form.
It turns out that the Snow Wolf Clan left the Huaxia Clan before the cold season, which explains why she felt her location was strange before.
Hu, the leader of the fox clan, was a male supporting character in the original story, though he had few scenes and was a ruthless one. She never expected him to be so vicious, deliberately throwing the corpse of a cub infected with smallpox into the water source, which was equivalent to destroying all the creatures in the valley.
What terrified her most was the original female lead.
She somehow managed to knock the chieftain of the Bear-Tiger Clan unconscious, leaving the clan leaderless and the Huaxia Clan in complete chaos. She completely disregarded the lives of her own people, instead focusing solely on using evil magic to obtain the power of the Beast Spirit Human.
The evil method they used was to refine pills with the blood of 999 beast spirits, and all of them were either minors or cubs!
The only pity is that these two fox clan members were only responsible for capturing people and did not know where she took those people.
It was completely dark by then.
She decided to deal with the snow wolf clan first. She hid the two fox clan members and marked them. Then, after leaving the valley, she found Big Flower and gave her a pill so that Big Flower wouldn't be infected.
She only had 13 pills left, but something was better than nothing.
Under the cover of night, she and Da Hua followed the location of the new Snow Wolf Clan tribe as described by the fox clan.
It was another dark night.
The new community, built in the flattest part of the valley by the lake, has more than a hundred thatched huts of varying sizes and many half-built wooden houses. But sadly, it is quiet here now, with only a few bonfires burning, proving that there are still people. The air is filled with the smell of death and the painful groans of the sick.
This was a newly formed tribe, but everything came to a standstill due to the plague.
The old witch doctor lay on his bed, his speech slurred, but he still directed the able-bodied members of his tribe to deliver the crushed and boiled medicine. Through the thatched hut, he looked out at the silent tribe, his cloudy eyes filled with resentment and bitterness.
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