84|The Sphinx Epidemic Out of the Ground Not the Phantom Woods

That person is a tall man, madly running wildly, the street pedestrians were he knocked down several, have been dissatisfied with: “What are you doing!” “What fire in the heat of the day ah run so fast ……” “It is really the first time to see walking without a face.”

As they talked, several people laughed, not really angry. Who knows, that person rushed straight, head-on collision into a tall and gorgeous carriage, blood splattered on the spot!

He fell on his back, but the passersby who were joking about it all screamed. The owner of the carriage was also startled and poked his head out, “Who hit him? Who hit him?”

The incident happened suddenly, Xie Ren had to put aside the young man to step forward, asked: “What happened?”

The man hit his head on the hard carriage, and seemed to have fainted, with a mess of hair blocking his face, and many people were watching carefully. Without waiting for Xie Ren to approach, he suddenly leapt up again, screaming in a long, miserable voice: “I can’t take it anymore! Kill, kill! Who is going to kill me! Come on!”

Passersby have a few big men can not stand to see, said: “This is which family’s epileptic people did not close the good run out, escort back escort back ……” They would like to go up to twist this person, who knows, just surrounded the up, a clear look at the face of this crazy man, but also a number of screams, busy to avoid: “What kind of monster is this!!!”

Instead, the crazy man ran at them, screaming furiously, “Beat me to death!!!”

Those few people were horrified to the extreme, just as Xie Ren came up, once they saw that it was His Royal Highness, they were like amnesties and rushed behind him. Without thinking, Xie Ren lifted his leg and kicked the crazy man, sending him somersaulting through the air and falling into a mild dog’s teeth. A few people pointed to the ground and said, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince! This man …… this man …… he has …… he has!!!”

Without them having to say it, Xie Ren saw it – this person, surprisingly, had two faces!

To be precise, it was a face on which another face grew. This second face was squeezed onto half of this crazy man’s cheeks, the size of an adult’s palm, and while this crazy man was a youth, this face looked like a wrinkled little old man, ugly to the core!

Under Xie Ren’s ten thousand shocked, all she could think of was one sentence:

What is this monster?

He immediately gripped the sword at his waist and pulled it out. This sword was the Red Mirror, a strange sword gifted by the Divine Martial Emperor. Ever since he had met that white-clothed strange man, he had carried this sword with him, just in case he needed it someday, and maybe someday he would be able to look at that thing’s true colors. Right now it just came in handy, the longsword was sheathed, the sword’s light winning the snow, however, looking down, the scene reflected on the blade did not change in the slightest. It was still this person, still these two terrible faces. That is to say, this crazy man was not any of the demons or ghosts, he was a person!

But could there really be someone in the world who looks like this? If they were born looking like this, within the Immortal Music Imperial City, wouldn’t there be a reason why it hasn’t spread for so many years? Xie Ren was in a state of disbelief, when suddenly, a person on the side said warily, “How did he …… he become like this?”

Upon hearing this, Xie Ren inserted the blade of the Red Mirror Sword back into its sheath and turned his head to say, “Do you know this man? Wasn’t he like this before?”

Several people said, “Recognize, we work with him a piece. Of course not, he once upon a time, face …… where this thing!!!”

Seeing that the onlookers were gathering more and more, almost blocking the street, Xie Ren’s expression was grave, lifting his breath and saying loudly, “Everyone, don’t get close, there’s nothing going on, disperse!” The bandaged teenager helped him to separate the crowd, but Xie Ren didn’t pay attention. He was busy communicating with Feng Xin Mu Yi: “Come to Imperial City Shen Wu Street quickly!”

Putting down his hand, and seeing another person gulping at the side with a very hesitant look, Xie Ren took the initiative to take a step and said, “Is there something you want to say?”

Seeing the Crown Prince asking questions, the man finally gathered his courage and said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, there is one thing that I don’t know whether to say or not to say …… “

Where did Xie Ren have the time to wait for him to exchange pleasantries, he said succinctly, “Straight to the point!”

That person: “a few days ago, my chest grew a few small nest grooves, three big points two small points, nothing to feel, not itchy and not painful, but gouge a gouge is also quite comfortable. I don’t care much, but look at this brother, I have a little bit of heart …… a little bit guilty of that what, haha.” He dryly laughed and undid his clothes, frank out his chest, said, “You see me this …… no problem, right?”

As soon as he took off his clothes, the crowd was silent. This man’s chest, where is “a few small grooves”? Obviously has all the features, can see a fuzzy woman’s face!

The man looked down and was also shocked: “How can this be? It was clearly not so …… so …… lifelike before? But the exquisite? Regardless of which word is used, it is a complete horror!

Everyone was creeped out, and the man couldn’t help but grab the hem of Xie Ren’s coat, shouting, “Your Highness save me!”

At this exact moment, Feng Xin and Mu Yi received the psychic and rushed over from the city tower. Seeing this, they both frowned, and Feng Xin drank, “Get up, what’s going on here?”

Xie Ren was too busy to explain and patted the man’s shoulder, soothingly saying, “It’s fine. You should calm down.” His tone was gentle and sure, serious and calm, the man thought he had a plan in mind, even more convinced that this little matter was as easy as a slap in the face for His Highness the Crown Prince, and settled down his heart. However, Xie Ren’s heart was rippling.

This “human face”, in fact, grows gradually! And since there is more than one person with this symptom – let’s call it a symptom – is it not possible to guess that there are more?

He immediately gave a few brief generalizations to Feng Xin and Mu Yi, and said, “Inform the Imperial Palace, and pass down the order to search the entire city to see if anyone else has something similar appearing on them, make sure that no one is left out!”

Because this thing is too horrifying, the lord of the country got the news and attached great importance to it, sent a large number of manpower to search and inventory, and the efficiency was surprisingly high. Late that night it was determined: the entire immortal music imperial city, just the body has emerged more clear human face has been five people. These five people, either saw did not take seriously, or “human face” long in the parts that are not easy to notice, coupled with no pain and itch, so did not notice. In addition, there are more than a dozen people, the body has appeared shallow pits and bumps, suspected to be not yet formed “human face”.

In these twenty people, women and teenagers are mostly sent to Xie Ren, they are all anxious, greeted each other and casually comforted each other with a few words. Xie Ren was originally explaining things to the others, noticed this section, slightly felt that something was wrong, and asked, “Do you all know each other?”

The official who had been busy all night glanced at the pamphlet and said, “Your Highness, these many of you live on the outskirts of the Imperial City and live closer together, probably because there is some interaction between neighbors on weekdays.”

Many of them live in the same place? Muoi was stunned, “The set of people who live close to each other have human faces growing on them? Could this thing be contagious???”

Xie Ren thought faster than him, just not as fast as he spoke, immediately saying, ”Partition! Dismiss the crowd, no one should hang around in the neighborhood. Find a place to isolate everyone here!”

“There is a strange disease that is contagious.” As soon as those six words leaked out, they were more useful than any demobilization evacuation or procession of soldiers, and not only did the crowd of onlookers disperse? Most of the houses on the street were empty. Xie Ren ordered the officials and soldiers who came to follow his deployment to be fully armed and protected, and led these twenty or so people to the wilds of the Imperial City where some of them lived.

There is a large area of woods near the civilian area in the suburbs, called the Unseen Forest, where the ministers intend to build an area to temporarily house the “sick people”. However, walking into the woods, others were busy setting up camp, but the more Xie Ren walked, the more a wave of uncertainty hovered in his heart. Fengxin and Muqi naturally realized it too. Feng Xin was the first to say: “Your Highness, this is not that Lang Ying …….”

Xie Ren crossed his arms and said with a deep frown, “Yes. This is the place.”

Is this unearthly forest not the place where that Lang Ying personally made the pit and buried his son’s body!

The three of them realized this section and looked at each other. Although they could not tell what it was, there was a vague guess that drove them to start looking around for the place where Lang Ying buried his body that day. However, a few months have passed since that day, not to mention the many trees in the Buyei Forest, where can they still remember under which tree they buried the body at that time?

At that exact moment, an indescribable stench wafted over.

The stench was somewhat like a corpse rotting but smelling, but it was even more suffocating than that odor, and with just one inhalation, it was as if the whole person was about to pass out. The rest of the people also smelled it and backed away, covering their noses and fanning themselves, “What’s over there?” “What’s going on! It stinks more than if it had been pickled in a sauce jar for ten years ……”

Xie Ren grabbed the step to grab, followed the terrible smell all the way straight, and indeed found a somewhat familiar crooked neck tree, under the tree a land slightly bulging, forming a small gentle earth bag. The soldiers raised their swords and gathered to protect him, but Xie Ren raised his hand to stop them and said in a deep voice, “Be careful. No ordinary people should come over.”

Feng Xin, who is not an ordinary person, casually copied a shovel and went forward. A few shovels down, the earth bag will become a mound, the stench is more and more intense, he down shovel also more and more careful. After a few more shovels, something black turned up under the soil, seemingly wriggling slightly.

He slowed his movements, and the crowd of soldiers looked on as if they were on the verge of an attack. Suddenly, the surface of the earth arched high, and a huge, puffy, swollen figure broke through, exposed to the torch-carrying crowd.

The putrid stench instantly skyrocketed, and quite a few people vomited on the spot with a wow. Xie Ren’s pupils also shrunk by a circle.

That thing could not be described as “human” at all, anything could be more human than it was. No one could tell that this body, which could almost be described as “huge”, had once been a small, skinny child!

An urge to vomit surged up his throat, and Xie Ren looked sideways. Feng Xin and Mu Yi were also stunned, both saying offhandedly, “What is this thing?!” “Is this a curse or simply a rotting corpse?”

Whatever it was, Xie Ren knew what to do at the moment and said, “All back away! The farther away the better! Burn this thing clean!”

After saying this, he raised his hand, a fiery flame erupted. The firelight rushed to the sky, thick smoke rolled in, at this moment, the distant city tower came from the mournful horn sound, whine urge life!

The three of them looked up at the same time, this was the signal of an incoming enemy army, and Feng Xin cursed, “Damn it, hitting the door at this time of the day!”

Mu Qi sank his face, which seemed cloudy under the firelight, and said, “Perhaps, they did it on purpose?”

Xie Ren decisively said, “Mu Ai stays behind to handle this place. Feng Xin, you come with me, beat them back first, and remember not to let them see the slightest crack!”

It was night, and the two hurriedly flew out of the city and fought hastily.

This one was won despite being caught off guard; despite winning once again, all the Xian Le people, including Xie Ren, did not feel the slightest joy of victory.

This sudden “strange disease”, was called “human face epidemic”, in the immortal music imperial city, with the speed of lightning is not anxious to cover the ears of the speed of the rumors, making people panic.

The Lord of the Kingdom had also considered blocking the news, but the first patient was rushed out on the street, and there were countless people present to witness it, so it was impossible to hide it from the start. Moreover, the human face epidemic spread and flared up extremely quickly, and within just six days, suspected symptoms were found in over fifty more people.

At the same time, Yongan’s attacks were also frequent. Under the multiple attacks, Xie Ren almost had no time to spare to go to Yongan to send down rain, and most of the mana and energy that was originally used to do this was consumed in the Imperial City Isolation Zone.

The Sen cool unsexy forest was pitched with large and large suggested tents and shacks. Xie Ren traveled through a field of patients. This quarantine area has evolved from a group of about twenty people at the beginning to the current size of nearly a hundred people, getting bigger and bigger. Every day, Xie Ren comes here whenever he has the time, using his magic power to alleviate the horrendous symptoms of the patients here. After all, relief is not a cure, and what people are looking forward to is for him to cure himself. As Xie Ren was walking, a young man lying on the ground suddenly raised his hand, grabbed the hem of his coat, and said, “Your Highness, I won’t die, will I?”

Xie Ren was about to speak, but he realized that this person looked a bit familiar. Upon closer inspection, wasn’t it the passerby who gave him an umbrella the day he learned that Xianle was short of water and it was raining in the Imperial City?

Thinking of that day, that rain, and that umbrella, Xie Ren’s heart warmed at that moment, squatted down, patted the back of this person’s hand, and said earnestly, “I will do my best.”

As if the man had been given hope of life, his eyes flashed with joy as he said yes and lay down again. From the eager eyes of these people, it was completely evident that they deeply believed that he could do it. Therefore, whenever he met their gazes, Xie Ren’s heart felt a little self-condemnation towards himself, wanting to seek out a solution more quickly.

After walking around the quarantine area, Xie Ren found a place to sit down, Mu Xiang raised a bonfire while he sat in contemplation. In the distance, there were a few small handymen carrying a stretcher away, whispering, but unbeknownst to them, they had already been caught in Xie Ren’s ears:

“How many is this?”

“Fourth or fifth, I think.”

Carried on the stretcher were the patients who had died within the Unseen Forest. In fact, it is very difficult to die from the sphinx epidemic. However, not dead is terrible, not dead, that is to say the future life on the body to carry this kind of thing over, think about it all make people lose the courage to live. Especially some young women, love to cherish the face, if it is long in the face of this important place, eventually most will choose to die.

One man sighed, “Ugh! When will it end, yo.”

The other said, “With His Royal Highness the Crown Prince around, we won’t defeat the war, don’t worry.”

The original man said with a bit of complaint, “I am not worried about defeating the war, but now in this situation, what is the use of just not defeating the war? It is still not good for people like us to live, alas …… forget it, I am not complaining. You take it as I didn’t say it, take it as I didn’t say it.”

If Feng Xin was here, he would have immediately gone over to scold the people. And Mu Qi glanced at Xie Ren and continued to build the fire, not saying anything, waiting for those two to completely walk away before faintly saying, “What a small people’s opinion, only complaining about the heavens and the people. Do you still want a Martial God to take over everything?”

Xie Ren, however, shook his head. What that man said had some truth to it. He was a Martial God, and an army with him in it would be invincible in battle. However, at this time, what was the use of just being able to win battles? The original reason for establishing the army was to protect the people, while the people in the rear were being attacked by the plague, wouldn’t the original advantage become a joke?

At this time, the campfire shook slightly, and a person sat down beside Xie Ren, but Feng Xin returned. Xie Ren immediately said, “How was it?”

Feng Xin shook his head and said, “It’s still the same as the result of your previous exploration, you can’t find Lang Ying at all on the slope of the back, and you can’t see any strange people in white clothes, you don’t know where they’ve hidden, so you can’t check if they’re up to something. Also, the people of Yongan are really good, none of them have the human face epidemic.”

Mu Qi rattled the fire and said, “With the Imperial City and the back slope being so close, it is impossible that none of them are infected in any case. It’s obvious that it must be them who are up to no good.”

Many people secretly think this way, and it does make sense to think this way. However, even if they know in their hearts that it is the Yongan people, or to be clear, it is Lang Ying who is messing with them, but the other party is hiding extremely deep, and they can’t catch the handle.

They suspected that the sphinx epidemic was caused by a curse, and that the corpse of Lang Ying’s son was the source of the curse. However, if it was a curse, this curse was really very beautiful, and did not leave any traces that would allow them to follow the trail and feel back, what could prove this suspicion? Not really. Who knew if this Sphinx Plague could simply be a brand new plague born naturally? Unless they caught the object of their suspicion, Xie Ren had a way to determine what the human face plague really was.

He also hastily informed the court of heaven of his own guess. However, early said, Xie Ren is a violation of the ban on the earth, this is not the same as in the past to inform what, directly into the temple of the God of the martial arts rushed to Jun Wu ear loudly told him that is, and now to be in accordance with the routine to come. Must know, the so-called routine, good luck, ruthlessly smashed some merit will be able to pass, passed to the magistrate there; bad luck, may be forced to go through a set of extremely cumbersome and complex program, infinite delay. Finished is only sent down to deal with the magistrate, and Xie Ren himself is the magistrate, in addition to Jun Wu, the court of heaven in the mana can be out of its right does not exist, sent down the magistrate really does not have to be as strong as he is, Jun Wu burden so heavy, with the earth in a phrase called the day-to-day management of all kinds of things, but also impossible to come down to help him in person. Therefore, this briefing is only symbolic, and does not really hold any hope.

However, what was pondering in Xie Ren’s mind at the moment was not these, but another question. He said, ”If it was Yongan’s side that sent out the curse in order to defeat the Imperial City, then the most effective attack should be to attack the army. As long as the army is defeated, wouldn’t it be the same as the city gates opening wide? But the fact is, the sphinx epidemic didn’t spread to the army at all.”

The army is not without patients of the human face epidemic, but relatively speaking, the number is really extremely small, but three or four people, and sent to the quarantine, the situation was immediately under control, and did not spread. Feng Xin is always thinking of what to say, said: “Perhaps because they feel that even if they defeat the army, there is no doubt that you will lose, simply do not deal with the army, directly deal with civilians.”

Upon hearing this, Mu Please let out a laugh, and Feng Xin said, “What are you laughing at?” Mu Please said, “Nothing. You always come up with very sensible insights, I have no problem with that.”

Feng Xin is most annoyed with his style of always pretending to be civilized when he wants to stab people in his heart, and directly ignored him, saying, “If it is really made by them, I will look down on it. If you have the ability to see the real chapter on the battlefield, out of some underhanded tricks to harm the innocent people count for what?”

Hearing this, Xie Ren thought deeply, sighed, and said, “These days, I’ve been thinking about how exactly it gets infected. First, I have to know how it’s infected before I can control it.”

Feng Xin said, “Isn’t it clear? When you get close, when you have more contact, when you drink, eat, sleep together, or whatever, it’s contagious.”

Xie Ren rubbed his brow and said, “On the surface, this is true. However, let’s take the military for example, well, soldiers in the military also drink, eat, and sleep together, and their contact should be closer and more frequent than that of ordinary people, but why are there so few soldiers who have been infected?”

Mu Yi stared and said, “What you mean is that under the same conditions, with different body qualities, some people will be infected and some won’t. What you want to ask is exactly what kind of people can resist the human face epidemic, right?”

Xie Ren looked up and said, ”Mu Er understands me. It is exactly like this. If we can find this out, there will also be a way to choke off the spread of the sphinx epidemic.”

Mu Yi nodded once and said, “Good then. Let’s look at it the other way around, what kind of people are more likely to get the human face epidemic. What kind of people have the most of these patients in the Unseen Forest?”

Xie Ren had taken away countless times these days in the Unseen Forest Isolation, and could answer with his eyes closed, immediately saying, “Women, children, teenagers, old people, and young men who are not very tall in physique.”

Feng Xin questioned, “Could it be that only those with weak bodies will be infected? Shouldn’t we ask the Lord of the Kingdom to order and call on all the people of the Imperial City to exercise diligently?”

“……”

“……”

Xie Ren and Mu Yi both glanced at him, neither seeming to want to answer. After a pause, Feng Xin added on his own, “It’s not right.”