Chapter 25

Xiao Hua widened his cat eyes in surprise: "My father is infected with an evil spell? Impossible, the palace has special array blessings, and demons and ghosts cannot approach. Even the people of the Xuanjing Division, only Xie Shouzheng can enter and leave the palace at will."

Lin Qingyue said: "In the Imperial Study, there are guards and palace maids. I was at a distance from him, just chatting for a few words. At first, I didn't even find anything abnormal, until later, I accidentally saw his eye sockets a little red. That is not a normal disease, but an alienation caused by some evil spirit."

"Father..." Xiao Hua was so worried that he couldn't wait to rush to the palace to find out.

But soon, he calmed down.

After all, he is just a cat now, rushing back rashly, not only can't save people, but also alerts the enemy.

"Go to the Xuanjing Division and find Xie Shouzheng!"

Just arrived at the gate of the Xuanjing Division, I heard the sound of horse neighing behind me, followed by Dongfang Yan's lingering voice: "Lin Qingyue!"

Lin Qingyue looked back and saw Dongfang Yan jumping off the horse, still wearing the previous morning court clothes.

"Why don't you take the Wangfu carriage home?"

Clearly he had already left her a step, why didn't she know how to appreciate it?

He had already returned to the Wangfu, preparing to change clothes to meet guests.

As a result, he heard his subordinates report: "The Princess refuses to come back, and didn't even take the Wangfu carriage."

So Dongfang Yan didn't even change his court clothes and chased after her in a hurry.

"You didn't resign from the Xuanjing Division's errand?"

"No."

"Lin Qingyue, don't say you are my Princess, representing my face! Even for a wife of an ordinary family, before making any decision, you should discuss it with your husband!"

"Discuss with you? Sorry, I don't have that habit!"

Lin Qingyue didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore and took the cat into the gate of the Xuanjing Division.

Dongfang Yan was angry, but he still cared about his face and didn't do anything like kidnapping people in broad daylight.

After calming down, he felt something was wrong again.

Clearly Lin Qingyue was still gentle and understanding before.

How could she suddenly change like a different person in these two days, not only disobeying him, but even lowering her status and mixing with those mobs.

By the way, everything seems to have started since returning home.

Could it be because he cared too much about Zhen'er, which made her sad. So she is playing hard to get?

Xuanjing Division backyard.

Before Lin Qingyue walked in, she smelled a strong bloody smell.

Xie Shouzheng led a group of subordinates, surrounding a corpse with a flowering head and studying it.

The rat demon Dami covered his nose and said: "It's too disgusting, can't you stop the corpse outside?"

"What kind of fart are you talking about, what if you scare the people if you put it outside?" Xie Shouzheng said and yue~ twice.

Turning to see Lin Qingyue, he hurriedly greeted her:

"There is a case, come and take a look."

So everyone hurriedly dispersed, making room for Lin Qingyue—actually, they wished they could run as far as possible.

Lin Qingyue walked closer and couldn't help but frown.

I saw the male corpse's head flowering, bloody, and there was a worm as thin as a hair and about half an arm long wriggling at the wound.

It made people's scalp numb, indescribably disgusting.

Xie Shouzheng explained: "This person is the boss of Dongsheng Restaurant. He accidentally fell from the building this morning and broke his head, dying on the spot. Originally, it was just an accident, but I didn't expect a strange worm to crawl out of his head."

"The Tingwei Yamen couldn't handle it, so they carried it to us. I was eating noodles at that time... Now it's good, I guess I won't want to eat any noodles in the future."

As he said, he pointed to Dami: "Report the information you just collected to the Deputy Envoy Lin again."

Dami looked at the tabby cat carefully, "Can you let that cat go out first?"

Lin Qingyue said: "No."

Xie Shouzheng scolded: "Coward, Xiao Hua hasn't looked at you straight, it's a cat that doesn't eat mice at first glance! Get to the point!"

"Uh... okay." Dami rubbed his hands cowardly and began to tell the situation of the victim.

"The victim's name is Li Dongsheng, boss of Dongsheng Restaurant, 60 years old. He likes to drink and eat raw fish on weekdays. His restaurant also mainly operates raw fish dishes."

"Before the accident, I never heard that he had any discomfort. A month ago, he married an 18-year-old concubine, which can be described as old and strong. Last night, he drank all night with friends, maybe he drank too much, so he fell from a high place."

Xie Shouzheng took over the conversation: "I initially suspected that the worm in his brain was a parasite infected by eating raw fish. But I felt it was not like it, this worm carries a bit of evil spirit, like a demon but not a demon, like a worm but not a worm, which can be described as unheard of and unseen."

And Lin Qingyue's expression was also a bit solemn: "It is indeed not an infection of ordinary parasites. This worm should belong to the evil demon, named 'Mayfly Silk', which is a sub-worm split after the mayfly becomes a demon. Mayflies live in the morning and die in the evening, and Mayfly Silk has a shorter lifespan. The only way to prolong life is parasitism."

"Once Mayfly Silk enters the human body, it will reach the brain and control the human body. It can even imitate human habits and behaviors, even if it is a person close to the victim, it is difficult to detect anything unusual."

"And the original soul of the infected person has consciousness in the early stage of infection, but cannot speak or control the body. When the infection time reaches more than three years, the original owner's consciousness dies completely, and the flesh becomes a Mayfly Silk puppet."

"Therefore, Mayfly Silk also has a name, called 'Puppet Worm'. Turning the host into a marionette, controlled in the palm of the hand."

"Most importantly, once one case is discovered, it means that a large number of undiscovered infected people have appeared."

Everyone heard this and felt creepy.

"Then what should we do? How to find out who is infected? Also, how can it be treated after infection?"

Xie Shouzheng's questions were many. Clearly Lin Qingyue is now just his deputy, but he didn't know when he started treating her as the backbone.

Lin Qingyue knew this because the Immortal Cultivation World also had a large-scale infection of Mayfly Silk in her previous life.

At that time, a county was infected, and nearly half of the people were infected.

Even more fatal, the local county official didn't know enough about Mayfly Silk and couldn't distinguish who was infected and who was not.

In the end, the Taoist priest of the Immortal Sect in charge of this matter was ruthless and ordered the slaughter of all the people in the county.

The most ironic thing is that after killing all the people in the county, it was discovered that the Taoist priest of the Immortal Sect was also infected. And a new round of infection continued to break out.

Fortunately, later, someone researched a way to identify infected people, which calmed down a monstrous disaster.

"I saw it by accident in the countryside before." Lin Qingyue prevaricated about her past in one sentence.

"Mayflies live by parasitism, and once they leave the human body, or the host dies, they will lose their power and die within an hour."

As she spoke, Xie Shouzheng saw the worm in the dead man's head roll a few times and then stop moving.

Dami hurriedly said: "From the time Li Dongsheng fell and broke his head to death until now, it is exactly one hour!"