Chapter 97: The Cave of Sorrow (6) The Veiled Fairy in White…
Gao Mengtang listened with his ear tilted. They were talking about an ugly girl named Xingzi who married the Ghost Doctor. The atmosphere suddenly became cold and everyone kept silent.
"What about Xingzi..." someone asked tentatively, "How could the Ghost Doctor take a fancy to her?"
Gao Mengtang pricked up his ears and listened.
It turns out that Xingzi is a notoriously ugly girl in the village, who looks like a hybrid of a mouse and a goblin. The villagers are uneducated and evil by nature, so they bully her because she is ugly.
Even Xingzi's biological parents hated her because she was too ugly and couldn't get married.
It is said that Xingzi was about to drink pesticide to commit suicide, but the Great Witch suddenly told her that the Ghost Doctor praised her simplicity and forbearance, and wanted to invite her to become a goddess in heaven.
Overnight, the hated person became the favorite of all people. Wherever Xingzi went, people flattered her. When she went door to door to collect dirt, those who had thrown stones at her and called her ugly offered her tea in fear and trepidation. Some even kowtowed to her and begged her to be magnanimous and spare their lives.
Xingzi didn't hurt anyone, and after the ceremony, she entered the blessed land and became a fairy.
However, the villagers are quite upset about Xingzi marrying the Ghost Doctor. They have bullied Xingzi before, and who knows if Xingzi will take revenge in heaven?
In the past six months, people in the village have been contracting strange diseases and dying. Maybe this is Xingzi's revenge.
"What kind of strange disease is this?" Gao Mengtang asked.
As soon as he opened his mouth, the herbalists who were chatting were startled and turned around to stare at him. Only then did they realize that someone had been eavesdropping on their conversation.
Don't hit a smiling person, and Gao Mengtang's smile is so beautiful. In addition, he is blind, which can arouse people's sympathy.
A one-eyed herbalist stepped forward and grabbed Gao Mengtang's shoulder. He was tall and strong, with a scar running diagonally from his hairline through his left eye.
"Little brother, let me tell you, the weird thing about this disease is that there is no pattern at all!" said the one-eyed herbalist.
Over the past six months, people in the village have died of illness one after another. Some had their stomachs cut open to dig out their organs, some vomited continuously, some coughed up blood, or had cold limbs and cyanotic faces... The symptoms varied.
What is creepy is that before the villagers fell ill, without exception, they all ran into a beautiful woman who looked like both a ghost and a fairy, and she smiled and asked them: "Are you jealous? I will take you to heaven."
"Did you meet a fairy in your dream?" Gao Mengtang asked.
The herbalist shook his head: "It's not a dream, I saw it with my own eyes."
"What do fairies look like?"
"I can't see clearly, she is wearing a veil and a hat." The herbalist added, "People who have seen the fairy said that judging from her voice, she is not very old, and should be the servant of the Ghost Doctor Fairy."
Gao Mengtang hummed, frowned and thought. At this moment, Wei Wei called him in his mind.
"Mr. Blind, please come here. There are new clues here."
Gao Mengtang followed the instructions and rushed over, and it turned out to be Xiao Xing's house.
An old woman was crying and wailing, sitting on the ground, holding onto Wei Wei's legs and refusing to let go. Wei Wei wanted to help her up: "Grandma Liu, calm down."
"I can't calm down!" The old woman cried with her mouth wide open. "My husband is gone. I'm a woman with no son and my daughter is gone too. How can I live on?"
Granny Liu is Xingzi's biological mother. Not long after Xingzi married the Ghost Doctor, Granny Liu and her husband ran into a veiled fairy in the backyard.
"Do you miss her? I'll take you to see her in heaven."
After she finished speaking, a scent of flowers filled the air, and Granny Liu and her husband felt dizzy and could not even stand. When they came to their senses, the veiled fairy had disappeared.
The next day, Old Man Liu had a high fever, severe abdominal pain, and vomited blood. That night, he vomited two pieces of bloody meat and died that night.
Granny Liu developed papules and macules on her arms, neck, ankles, etc., and blisters appeared the next day. She is not in danger of death.
Wei Wei crossed his legs and took a puff of his cigarette: "What kind of pimple?"
Granny Liu rolled up her sleeves and said, "It left a scar."
There was a round black burnt lump on her arm, which was slightly swollen and neither painful nor itchy. Apart from being unsightly, it had no other impact.
When he saw the eschar, Wei Wei's eyes widened: "This is anthrax."
Gao Mengtang: "Is it scary?"
"It's not a question of whether it's scary or not," Wei Wei said. "Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis. In the natural environment, Bacillus anthracis lives in the soil and the probability of causing human death is even lower than that of a plane crash. It is only after being developed and produced in the laboratory and made into a modern biological weapon that the mortality rate increases. Bacillus anthracis is often used in real-life bacterial warfare, and its appearance in the Black Tower instance is a bit... out of place."
According to Granny Liu's description, Old Man Liu was probably infected with intestinal anthrax. Anthrax bacteria live in the soil, and it is impossible for a healthy person to lie on the ground and eat soil. This rule out the possibility of infection in the natural environment.
Then, there is only one possibility left: someone gave them anthrax.
If the villagers were infected with some "Cthulhu toxin" and had octopus tentacles growing all over their bodies, players wouldn't be surprised. But they were attacked by biological weapons, which made players puzzled. It was like encountering a ghost, and the ghost shot them with a machine gun.
Gao Mengtang expressed his understanding: "It's similar to the absurdity of pagans calling the police. Granny Liu, please think carefully about what else happened on the day you saw the fairy?"
Granny Liu burst into tears: "That day was a month after Goddess Xingzi ascended to heaven. My husband and I were so happy, but we only had this one child... Bah, how could Xingzi have a mother like me? She was born from heaven and earth and was conceived in my belly."
After slapping herself twice, Granny Liu continued, "We two old things don't like each other. We don't even have a baby at home, and we started quarreling early in the morning..."
Even as they were arguing, Granny Liu did not forget to bring the hot food from the pot to the table.
Xingzi married the Ghost Doctor Fairy, and from time to time, some brocade treasures, fish, meat, eggs and milk appeared in the blessed land of the ghost doctor. For a month, Granny Liu's family ate very well.
That morning, even with a table full of delicious fish and meat, Old Man Liu couldn't stop getting angry. He blamed Granny Liu for not giving birth to a son and sat on the kang cursing.
Suddenly, a burst of "hehehe" laughter came from outside the window.
The laughter was sharp and thin, and sinister. The two leaned out of the window and saw a young girl in a white dress standing in the backyard. The white veil of her hat covered her face.
"Mrs. Xingzi sent me to greet you."
The two were so shocked that they were speechless, but the girl was still laughing: "Do you miss her? I'll take you to see her in heaven."
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Granny Liu recounted her experience of that day in great detail, but the three players didn't notice anything unusual.
"Is there a shadow under the feet of the fairy in white?" Wei Wei asked.
Granny Liu: "How can I care to watch! I just think the fairy is too young, not even old enough to have her period."
Wei Wei thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Liu was killed that night, but you were fine. Please recall carefully what happened in between."
"No, no!" Granny Liu slapped her thigh and cried, "After dinner, we all felt sick in our stomachs and vomited twice. The old man was sick and made us suffer, and I was busy taking care of him. He died that night before he even left the house! I'm a widow, what am I going to do in the future?"
"What about Xingzi?" Gao Mengtang asked, "Did she have any abnormalities before she married the Ghost Doctor?"
Speaking of Xingzi, Granny Liu was in a good mood, "The Queen is kind, there was a drunkard in the village who always bullied her, he got drunk and fell into the river, Xingzi rescued him and brought him ashore. That night, Queen Xingzi did not return home all night..."
Gao Mengtang interrupted her: "Have you looked for it?"
"Um, this..." Granny Liu stammered and couldn't answer.
It seems that they didn't look for her. The herbalist said that Xingzi was extremely ugly and despised. She was a girl, and her parents hated her. They didn't care if she didn't come home all night.
Gao Mengtang patted her shoulder: "Please continue."
"The queen didn't come back all night. The next morning, the old man next door told me that after one in the middle of the night, he saw the queen Xingzi walking into the Medical Temple alone, and she cried with joy."
"That afternoon, the Great Witch Minister told us that the Ghost Doctor Fairy had taken a fancy to Xingzi and wanted her to go to heaven to become a fairy."
After a few pleasantries, the three of them left Granny Liu's house.
"Mr. Blind, what do you think?" Wei Wei asked.
Gao Mengtang used one hand to tidy up the curls on the ends of her hair: "Xingzi didn't come back all night, and ran to the temple in the middle of the night, crying with joy..."
What was she happy about? Did she know that the Ghost Doctor favored her?
And the fairy in white and the anthrax bacteria are also very strange.
We visited several more households and learned from their inquiries that, over the past six months, a small half of the villagers who had died mysteriously, like Grandma Liu's family, had been infected with various bacteria, while the other majority had their stomachs cut open and their organs dug out.
After collecting 60 handfuls of yellow earth, the three returned to Wu Xiang's old house again.
As soon as you enter the door, the rich fragrance of flowers hits you in the face. A group of people are laughing in the yard, and their laughter like silver bells makes this gloomy old building full of vitality.
"it's beautiful!"
"Prettier than a grown-up girl!"
"Good! Good!" Warm applause and cheers.
The girl Xiuhong, who had always had a sullen face, now smiled and leaned against the old locust tree in the yard, giggling non-stop. The old wrinkles on the face of the always angry Zuo Hufa were gradually smoothed out, and he was full of vitality like a dead tree coming back to life in spring.
Since the Wu Xiang old house was built, it may not have been so lively, and there was a cheerful atmosphere everywhere. Gao Mengtang and the other two were quite surprised. After entering the two doors and looking into the yard, they understood why.
Qin Xishuang also put on her wedding dress and called over a hundred crimson butterflies to dance with them. She held the pipa in her hand and gently plucked it with her slender fingers, producing a string of clear and melodious notes like jumping beads.
All the people in the house came to watch the fun, and they were in high spirits and full of joy.
"Do you want to listen to "Ten Sides of Ambush" or "The Overlord Takes Off His Armor"? " Qin Xishuang asked with a bright smile after the dance. He didn't wear a crown or a hairpin. To match his red wedding dress, he tied up his golden hair and wore a waist-length black wig. His makeup was gorgeous, and his every move was like the sound of gold and jade colliding and jingling.
Xiuhong laughed and shouted, "It's going to be lively!"
Qin Xishuang took a red butterfly with his fingertips, and turned his hand over, and the red butterfly turned into a girlish pink velvet flower. He pinned the velvet flower on Xiuhong's temples and smiled: "Okay, play a song "Huanqin"
"...Can Qin Xishuang charm NPCs?" Gao Mengtang asked quietly.
Wei Wei's expression was as if someone was forcing him to eat the 60 handfuls of dirt in his arms: "Yes."
After pinning the velvet flower, Qin Xishuang looked up and saw Gao Mengtang, Wei Wei in his wedding dress, and Xiao Canglan walking in. He was tuning the strings in his hand, striding over with his long legs and fluttering sleeves.
"Mengtang, who is more handsome, me or Wei Wei?" Qin Xishuang leaned over and asked in his ear.
Gao Mengtang: "Wei Wei is so beautiful. You can't compare to him at all."
Qin Xishuang laughed softly: "You are telling lies with your eyes open."
"You can be blind, but you can't be blind in your heart," Qin Xishuang tilted her head to look at the pipa in her arms, and said nonchalantly in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "It's not good to be blind in your heart and recognize the wrong person. Tonight, I will look for you."
What does it mean? Just as Gao Mengtang was about to ask, Qin Xishuang left like a gust of wind, playing a cheerful song.
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