Chapter 419 Dangerous
What!
So dangerous.
Gu Yuchuan's pupils suddenly shrank, and his eyes, which usually seemed a bit careless, narrowed dangerously. The lines at the end of his eyes were stretched straight, with a bone-chilling chill.
He subconsciously pursed his lips, and a chill ran down his back.
If he had not given the pill to Lin Yi but eaten it himself, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
"System, why do you want to harm me?" He asked in his heart in a deep voice. There was no emotion in his tone, but there was a sense of oppression.
The system shrank into the corner of Gu Yuchuan's brain, like a child who had done something wrong, without saying a word.
"I know even if you don't say it. You don't want to harm me, you want to use me to harm Gu Jiayue, right?"
Gu Yuchuan's eyes became even colder.
He and the system are bound together and have long been a symbiotic whole. If one side gets into trouble, the other side will suffer as well. The system has no reason to harm him.
Although the system is not good at thinking, it has extremely strong computing capabilities.
It must have discovered through data integration that its attitude towards Gu Jiayue was not as cold and disliked as it appeared.
If I were to take this pill, I would most likely pass it on to Gu Jiayue.
As long as Gu Jiayue eats it and gets infected with the plague, she will die!
But plans can't keep up with changes! Who would have thought that Gu Yuchuan didn't give the medicine to Gu Jiayue, but gave it to Lin Yi for research!
"Little thing, you succeeded in irritating me!" Gu Yuchuan's voice was as cold as ice, without a trace of warmth.
"Host...Host..." The system was so frightened by the tone that its voice trembled. It was shaking in his mind, and even Gu Yuchuan could feel the cowardly emotion.
Gu Yuchuan temporarily put the matter of the system in his heart.
There are more important things to deal with right now. I'll slowly settle the score with it after I get through this.
"I got that pill by accident. If it's useless, just throw it away!"
He deliberately slowed down his tone to hide the coldness in it.
Lin Yi nodded. "Don't worry, I have destroyed it."
"We have the prescription now, but we don't have enough herbs!" The pills have been destroyed, so there's no point in talking about it. What needs to be solved now is the shortage of herbs.
People often say, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water.
If it weren't for the three consecutive months of drought, there would be no shortage of herbs in these mountains that stretch for hundreds of thousands of miles.
But the three months of severe drought turned all the plants in the mountains into dead branches and rotten leaves.
Not to mention herbs, there's not even a hint of green to be found.
If they want to get enough medicinal materials, they can only purchase them from outside.
But now the entire southwest has suffered from drought, the south of the Yangtze River has suffered from floods, and coupled with this plague, there is a shortage of life-saving medicinal herbs everywhere in the Dagan Dynasty, and there is no idea whether they can be purchased.
Gu Jiayue took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling slightly, as if she had made a great decision. "Leave the medicinal materials to me. I'll find a way!"
"What can you do? Now we may not even be able to leave Annan County!" The village chief next to him couldn't help but interject, his face full of worry.
Gu Jiayue turned her head and looked at everyone.
Her eyes were firm, and the curve of her mouth was full of unquestionable strength, trying to calm everyone down. "It's okay, I can think of a way!"
"And the prescription for treating the plague must be developed as soon as possible!" She changed the subject and looked at Lin Yi with anticipation in her tone.
Lin Yi had already made plans for this. "I think so too, so I plan to rush back to Annan County overnight and work with the county doctors to develop a prescription as quickly as possible. This way, we can prevent the deaths of many people!"
Hearing this, the village chief suddenly stood up from his chair, rubbing his hands over his chest, his face full of anxiety. "Doctor Lin, you can't leave. If you leave, what will happen to the people in our village?"
"Don't worry, I have told my apprentices everything I can do. It's useless for me to stay here without a prescription!" Lin Yi's tone was helpless, but also very frank.
He is proud, but also very sober.
He was indeed very good at surgery, but he really didn't know much about epidemics.
It is far better for one person to work alone in Taohua Village than to go to the county town to gather the strength of all the doctors, which would be much faster.
The village chief opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed heavily and slumped back in his chair.
"Don't worry, Village Chief! Doctor Lin's not here, but we're still here, aren't we?" Gu Jiayue stepped forward, her voice gentle but powerful. "There are many patients in the academy. If we completely ignore them, it won't work. Cross-infection will occur, and the conditions will worsen. So, we also need to pay attention to disinfection in our daily lives."
"The patients' clothing needs to be boiled and disinfected, and their feces need to be incinerated. If anyone doesn't make it, their bodies must be promptly disposed of! The village chief needs to arrange all of this!"
The village chief nodded slowly, his voice as dry as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper. "Okay, I understand!"
The medicine made from the existing herbs is not enough for the whole village, so it can only be used to feed the elderly and children who are not sick yet.
The elderly and children who drank the medicine were strictly ordered not to go out of the house. The village also arranged people to patrol. If anyone was seen moving around casually, their record would be written down in a notebook and the village chief would take revenge on them later.
How to calculate?
Hey, it’s simple. If you don’t obey, your whole family will not be allowed to work in the village workshop.
Where can you find such a good job in this world? Stable work, close to home, and with all kinds of benefits?
So most people stayed at home obediently.
Those who are disobedient are also strongly persuaded by their families.
It is even simpler for children. They are given ten papers and are not allowed to leave if they don’t finish them.
What should I do after I finish? Oh, Director Gu has enough here. After you finish ten, there are still ten left.
The child cried: Wuuuu, I want to be sick!
Some of the young and strong middle-aged people were assigned to the school to help take care of the patients and prepare medicine, while others were arranged to patrol the village.
At this critical moment, we must not only prevent people from other villages from coming in and bringing the plague, but also keep an eye on the people in the village and not let them run around freely.
Gu Jiayue sat alone on a stone bench in her yard. The moonlight shone on her through the sparse branches, making her face look a little pale.
Others looked at her as if she was in a daze, but in fact she was closing her eyes and talking to the system in her mind.
"Host, you really have no education points left." The system's voice was somewhat cautious. "Because of this plague, literacy classes in the county have been suspended, and the children in the school have all gone home. Everyone is sick or busy, and no one is studying. Only a small amount of education points have been received today. They should be the students who came to the school for exchanges before."
"Hasn't my educational method been implemented in Kyoto? Doesn't their educational value count?"
There was a hint of anxiety in Gu Jiayue's voice, and her fingers tapped randomly on the stone table.
"It's calculated, but because we're so far away, there's a delay in their calculations. Also, it seems something bad happened in Kyoto, so the education value is really low lately."
The system's voice grew fainter.
Gu Jiayue sighed, a trace of fatigue etched across her brow. "Advance it. First, advance me enough points to buy the herbs, and I'll make up for it later!"
The system was silent for a few seconds, as if it was making a difficult decision, and finally agreed. "Okay."
Looking at the string of glaring negative education values on the system page, Gu Jiayue felt her heart pounding.
It’s really a headache.
When the system tried to sell her the loan business, she vowed that she would never spend beyond her means.
I didn't expect that she would also like it now.
But I can’t care about so many things right now. Saving lives is the most important thing.
Fortunately, the medicinal materials have been obtained. Regardless of whether Lin Yi's prescription for treating the plague can be developed in time, at least this preventive decoction can save most of the villagers.
Looking at the mountains of medicinal materials in the virtual warehouse, what we need to do now is to find a way to take these medicinal materials out and use them openly.
"Send these herbs to the grain warehouse that Li Si bought in the county town, and then send him a message to ask him to deliver them early tomorrow morning." Gu Jiayue instructed in her heart.
"With so many herbs, trying to leave the city without a hitch might cause unnecessary trouble, right?" the system said, a little worriedly. "After all, the county magistrate just issued an order today prohibiting unauthorized movement. If Li Si not only leaves the county but also takes so many herbs with him, he'll definitely arouse suspicion."
“It’s okay, tell him to go find Zheng Qinghe before he leaves, he will let him go!”
Zheng Qinghe is a person who takes the overall situation into consideration and will not lose sight of the big picture for the sake of small details.
"Okay host, the message has been sent to Li Si. He will do as you instructed." The system responded.
It knew it couldn't help much right now, and the only thing it could do was to obey.
"By the way, how much education points do you need to reach level 35?"
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