Chapter 241: The Light Desert

The so-called plague zone was centered on several small coastal towns, encompassing hundreds of miles in a radius and reaching the sea. As for the seaside fishing villages, they had long since died out.

The first small city we arrived at was called Jinghai City, which also had no city walls. As they traveled straight to the city, they saw many monks delivering food from house to house, and Yulin also brought a group of people to join the monks, testing the residents for poison and other things.

Xue Mu looked uncertain and dashed over to tug at Yu Lin and asked, “What’s the situation now?”

“Brother Xue is here too?” Yu Lin looked at Xue Mu’s men and horses and sighed, “The residents here are all at risk of infection, so they can’t be evacuated to safe territory, they can only stay behind, and they’re also restricted from going out of their homes. The monks from the Blameless Temple come daily to deliver food, while testing for poison, and those found to be infected are moved to the outskirts of the city for quarantine.”

Xue Mu nodded, it still sounded a bit rough, but it still surprised him quite a bit to have such a sense of isolation in this world, he didn’t know if it was the level of the Blameless Temple or the Medical Fairy’s opinion, all in all the medical insight was really good. He, who came from the modern era, couldn’t come up with a more excellent solution since he wasn’t specialized.

It was no wonder that the city of Heron State was still singing and dancing.

Yu Lin added, ”Those who can come to do the kind of thing we’re doing now also have to have a certain level of cultivation, and they also have to take the Medicine Fairy’s medicine beforehand, or else it’s not a joke to get infected yourself. What about several cities, adding up to a population of several hundred thousand people, the monks of the Blameless Temple are really overstretched to cope, Brother Xue’s proposal for us to organize manpower to come over and help makes a lot of sense, and nowadays, Shi Lei Leng Qingshi and the rest of them are all in the other towns to do this.”

“Uh, what about Zhu Chen Yao?”

Yu Lin exclaimed in admiration, “Senior Sister Zhu is helping the Medical Fairy save people in the quarantine zone, and in the past days, we couldn’t see that she had this kind of guts.”

Xue Mu froze and was somewhat surprised, and asked, “Where is the Medical Fairy, I have something to find her.”

“See that piece of Buddha light?” Yu Lin pointed to the south: “Ten miles to the south, there is a branch temple of the Blameless Temple, those who have contracted the poison are basically concentrated there, and the Buddhist light is the monks of the Blameless Temple forming a formation to stop the epidemic from flowing out. Medical Fairy Zhu and the others are also in there, treating the sick and saving people.”

Xue Mu raised his head to look at the Buddhist light, and didn’t have the heart to exchange pleasantries, he was about to leave with his sisters, but Yu Lin suddenly called out to him, “Brother Xue wait.”

Xue Mu was surprised, “What?”

Yu Lin hesitated for a while, pulled Xue Mu a few steps and turned to the street corner, and said in a low voice, “There are rumors that this poison is compatible with the poison you cultivate, is it true or not?”

Xue Mu’s face became very ugly, “If it’s true, do you also think I did it?”

This was what he was most worried about, not just because of the nausea of being wrongly accused, but the fact that if this kind of infamy got out, the Star Moon Sect’s tendency to clear its name a little bit easily would instantly be gone, and instead, it would be accused by a thousand people. A good situation could take a sharp turn and become even worse than when he had just crossed over when the group was rising up to pick the stars and shoot the moon.

Yu Lin shook his head: ”Poor Tao naturally will not think so, but others can be …… Brother Xue, poor Tao came here to know about this matter, because the Yuan Zhong master suppressed did not pass out, only in the infected area circulated. But now countless martial artists have come here, and since they have heard it, it is inevitable that it will spread out, and it is impossible for Master Yuan Zhong to suppress it. Luckily, right now it hasn’t had time to spread outside, there is still a chance to clear it up, you have to find a way to defend yourself.”

This time, Yue Xiaochan and the girls knew why Xue Mu was so nervous, and their expressions all became ugly.

This kind of thing, how can you defend yourself!

Xue Mu took a deep breath, “Let’s go, first find Xiao Qingwu.”

Since Yuan Zhong would suppress the rumors, it was even more unlikely that he himself would talk too much to spread them. Then there are only two possibilities for the rumor to spread, one is that when Xiao Qingwu spoke to Yuan Zhong, there were bystanders present to hear it, and the second is that Xiao Qingwu additionally spread it out.

If the first is normal, there is nothing to say. If it is the second, then Xiao Qingwu’s attitude is questionable.

Soon arrived at the temple, soft Buddhist light shrouded the whole temple, a little close to can feel the power to drive away evil and expel filth in it. Xue Mu found that his own kind of cultivation based on poison, by this kind of Buddha light, the skin will actually slightly tingling feeling, the flow of poisonous qi in the body also began to stagnate.

Xue Mu’s heart was slightly awe-struck, this kind of metaphysical restraint was a bit annoying, Poison Skill really wasn’t a good cultivation.

But he didn’t care to look deeply into it at the moment, and flashed his Door Six sign to the monk guarding the door.

“So you are the Gold Medal Constable of Department Six.” The monk politely handed over a few pills, “Before you all go in, you have to take the medicine first, otherwise it’s dangerous.”

Xue Mu took the medicine and gave it to his sisters to share, making a gesture to swallow the medicine himself and actually gathered it into his sleeve.

Other people are afraid of contracting poison, he’s not afraid of it, most likely it’s his own poison, keeping the medicine to study it is the real thing.

When he entered the temple door, he saw the large temple courtyard densely lying full of people, moaning and sighing, many people have red spots on their bodies, but he couldn’t smell any odor, the Buddha’s light that enveloped the whole territory can expel the filth, and naturally expel the fishy stench as well.

There were quite a few monks and nuns feeding people medicine, among them Zhu Chen Yao’s figure was the most eye-catching.

In this kind of sorrowful place, full of patients, monks and nuns, this one super beauty stood there playfully, softly soothing, and that radiance was truly dazzling and incomparable, straight as if she had descended from the Nine Heavens. Xue Mu clearly heard the patients near her thanking her profusely, “Fairy is truly a Bodhisattva-like figure ……”

Countless patients looked at Zhu Chen Yao with gratitude and adoration in their eyes, and even some monks were not exempt.

Dare to still come to the limelight, otherwise come to save the patients to wear so beautiful why ……

Xue Mu sighed, let it be, even if it is for the sake of making a splash to earn prestige, it is always risking the risk of infection in curing the sick to save the people, if the world all use this way to get eyeballs, then it is a good thing to be right.

Zhu Chen Yao also saw Xue Mu and his party, she was slightly stunned, quickly walked up and whispered, “Xue Mu, you didn’t do this, did you?”

Xue Mu knew that the impression he had left on her back then was not that of a good person, and she in turn might not believe in herself as much as Yulin did, he took this for granted and said, “What if it was?”

Zhu Chen Yao took a deep breath, “If yes, then Xue Mu, you and I are done with each other.”

After saying that, she directly turned around and said no more.

Zhuo Qingqing, who was standing by Xue Mu’s side, was furious and was about to say something when Xue Mu waved his hand to stop her attack. Following this, he inclined his head and looked at Zhu Chen Yao’s back, dumbfounded, “This guy …… is suddenly cute.”

Next to her, Yue Xiaochan gasped, “Are you guilty of being cheap?”

Xue Mu laughed, “There are a lot of little faults, but the bottom line is there, such a person is very real. Actually ……”

He was halfway through his sentence, and he held back and swallowed the second half. What he wanted to say was that in fact, such a person was a truly normal person, more real than many of the sisters around him. Of course that would be a real offense if he said it, he wasn’t that stupid.

Afraid that the girls would pursue him, Xue Mu casually pulled a passing monk and asked, “Where is the Medical Fairy?”

The monk took a look at Xue Mu’s waist tag and also answered honestly: “The medicine garden in the backyard.”

Xue Mu then directly bypassed the front hall and went straight to the backyard.

This monastery was also very large, countless halls, countless monk’s rooms, and all of them were packed with people at the moment, all the way through to see that a rough count was likely to be close to ten thousand patients. This is still only a quarantine area, so it can be imagined that the Blameless Temple being tossed around for so long is not without reason.

It is not easy to pass through countless buildings, finally arrived at the rear compound. There were no more people here, and the noisy and crowded atmosphere was suddenly quiet, as if it was separated by a tiny back door into a pure land on earth.

There was a small medicinal garden in the courtyard that looked newly transplanted, with traces of freshly turned soil. A variety of unknown medicinal flowers and herbs grew luxuriantly, and a light fragrance came from the wind.

A young girl wearing light green clothing stood quietly at the edge of the medicine garden, looking down at the medicinal herbs and contemplating something. Her figure was thin and frail, looking like she was going to fall down when the wind blew, and her face carried an unnatural pallor, her eyes were confused and carried some hints of sadness and compassion.

Soft, sullen, obviously standing there alive, but it was as if Xue Mu saw a small flower by the wall that was fluttering in the wind and rain and could wither at any time.