Chapter 82

"Thank you very much for your call, Mr. Ma Kaiyuan.

Actually, you've dialed the wrong number. I'm not some Purple-robed Archbishop; my name is Qin Shi Huang."

After finishing his words, Chen Yaozu hung up the phone, and with his forty-nine Protector Disciples, threw himself into the tense work of treating patients.

The person on the other end of the phone, one supposes, also never expected that one day they would be treated as a scammer! This was also something that couldn't be helped!

The World's Richest Man on the surface calling his own cell phone — this is absolutely fake at first glance!

So Chen Yaozu quickly tossed this matter to the back of his mind; he's busy right now! As the saying goes, after a great disaster there must be a great epidemic; this is experience and lessons summed up by Eastern people over thousands of years.

Therefore, after a great disaster, all aspects of the disaster victims' food, clothing, housing, and travel have regulations, lest a single careless moment brews a great calamity.

In Europe, those who boil water before drinking it are definitely Eastern people; this sentence arose on the internet at some unknown time.

These people say that many students studying abroad in Europe, boiling water to drink in homestays or rented houses, would be regarded as a novelty by others.

Similarly, here in America, it is also like this.

People here boil water, perhaps to make coffee.

But in the absence of coffee, they most probably just add ice to cold water and drink it directly.

The habit of Eastern people liking to boil water before drinking is also something that only existed in modern times.

It was also because of this habit that the average lifespan of the people of that difficult country after the great war was extended by a great deal.

Europeans and Americans do not have this habit.

So, once a large-scale typhoon flood disaster destroys clean water sources, and the bottled water stored inside the house is exhausted without replenishment.

Many people here also cannot recall that the polluted river water needs to be boiled and sterilized before it can be drunk; they perhaps only let it settle and filter it.

Even muddy water can be drunk to their fill with heads lowered; as for boiling it, don't be ridiculous!

Such living habits would lead to many people falling ill — fever, diarrhea, vomiting — yet there are no doctors and not enough medicine.

Therefore, in front of Chen Yaozu's group, who had just arrived at a new place, there were already hundreds of sick people lined up.

Fortunately, that day during the Worship of the Seal, the forty-nine Protector Disciples all received the Gift — a comparatively comprehensive Pulse Diagnosis Method, and an acupuncture technique that could save lives with just a box of silver needles when supplies were scarce.

If one says this is the most superb medical theory obtained out of thin air, it still doesn't count as one's own genuine skill, doesn't count as truly knowing how to save people.

But these days since entering the disaster area, the many patients these Protector Disciples have handled have already washed away their timidity in terms of clinical experience, honing swift and decisive medical methods.

Even Red Pole Wenzhou Fish — in these ten-odd days, the ordinary common post-disaster illness patients cured by his hand have already exceeded a hundred.

He has already been tempered into shape; placed back Domestic, if he could get a Medical License, he would absolutely be an Attending Physician's skill! Yet Chen Yaozu did not go help hands-on; instead, he moved a chair and sat in front of a table.

On the table, aside from a very large dressing mirror, there was nothing else at all.

This is the Ghost Mirror Chen Yaozu brought; before departure, this Ghost Mirror was placed by him on the Altar Table where he chanted sutras and worshipped it for a night, then used a Great Seal to stamp down the Luo Yin, only then borrowing the might of the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Master's Twenty-Five Cure to subdue this mirror.

Every camp they arrive at, when conducting relief, there must be an Altar Table set up with this mirror.

Others cannot see; only Chen Yaozu can see that on every patient present, some Black Qi emits and is sucked into the Ghost Mirror.

This is Resentment Qi, and also Death Qi! This storm of wind, rain, and flood disasters that swept across six states of the East America land — how many people died, no one can give an answer.

But every destroyed city certainly lost a portion of its people, and these people died unjustly in the calamity; some due to Fate, but more had Resentment in their final moments before death.

For a worldly person to die and want to become a ghost, staying in this Human World and not entering Reincarnation, is somewhat difficult.

Besides needing a good Fate, sufficient Resentment Qi, and sufficient Spirit Qi, Luck is also a very important element. But these people who died unjustly and prematurely in the disaster, although they may not necessarily become ghosts, their Resentment before death will entangle the Living.

So, those who inexplicably fall ill after a disaster are many; a portion is due to protection, cleaning, hygiene, pest handling, and various reasons — this is understandable.

But another portion is different, because these people have been entangled by Resentment.

Entangled by Resentment, the light ones have their Luck begin to decline; the heavy ones become more prone to illness, accidents, or death than others.

So elders often say: avoid grave mounds, walk fewer night roads, don't strike up conversations at crossroads, when encountering the dead on the road stand on the high side.

Grave mounds have ample Death Qi; telling people to go less naturally has its reasons.

Walking night roads too much leads to encountering ghosts — this sentence became a proverb to teach people not to do Filial Piety, but actually at the start it was just the literal meaning.

Because walking night roads too much, one really will encounter ghosts!

Don't strike up conversations at crossroads...

Ancient legends say crossroads are the most unstable places; among this crossroads there is a path leading to the Yin Cao Di Fu.

So, many crossroads are accident-prone places, and also mostly places with the most dead people.

The last one.

When encountering a funeral procession, don't stand on the road lower side; stand on the road upper side, at the very least avoid it at a place higher than the coffin.

Supposedly, encountering a funeral procession on the road, you stand on the road's lower side to yield to it; as a result the coffin is higher than yourself — that is the dead pressing on you; afterwards you will have Bad Luck.

Like right now.

Great Disaster Great Epidemic, stretching across six states — on this land, whether living or dead, how much Resentment Qi is there?

Too many to count!

The greater the Resentment Qi, the easier to collide with ghosts!

Of course, this kind of Opportunity is rarely seen; mostly it's just that Resentment Qi is too ample, making people prone to illness and Bad Luck.

And now, Chen Yaozu guards the Ghost Mirror, watching it gradually suck in the Disease Qi and Resentment Qi from outside, his expression somewhat gratified.

Suddenly the phone rang again; Chen Yaozu raised his head to look — it was that number from just now.

Only at this moment did he react: being able to get his cell phone number, and making his cell phone have internet within this timeframe.

This seems... not something an ordinary person can do.

Since it's not an ordinary person, then his opening claim that he is Ma Kaiyuan... that really might be true.

So he answered the phone.

"Mr. Purple-robed Archbishop, please don't hang up again. Listen to me, I really am Ma Kaiyuan! I know that for this disaster relief, you personally ran to Las Vegas and won over 14 million after tax to buy supplies, and now it's almost all consumed.

So, you all only then changed from the previous method of Work-for-Relief distributing food upon arriving at a place, supplemented by curing/saving lives and cleaning water sources and such relief activities.

But now, you can only bring people to clean water sources and cure/save lives.

The food distribution step has already been skipped, because there's no money! Am I right, Purple-robed Archbishop sir?

Also, I have money! I want to make a donation!

(Chapter End)