Chapter 342

"What happened?"

"It seems that the earth dragon has turned over..."

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Under the flickering night, an official from the Immortal Supervision Bureau stationed in the Central State came at a gallop and walked into that square white jade building.

Not long after, all the Mu Tisi who had returned home to rest were summoned back.

Xiang Kuangcheng, who had just returned to the capital, also came along; his residence was blown to pieces in that battle in the Approaching Immortal Realm, and he was now staying at the home of his good friend Inspector Mu Jing.

The Mu Tisi of the six departments entered the Immortal Supervision Bureau together and saw the Supervisor He He Jingyuan and Deputy Supervisor Peng Peng Dongyang in the discussion hall.

There was an earth dragon turning over in the northwest of the Central State, and the vibration was strong; Dongxia County was the most severely affected, and they had to arrange for people in the bureau to go to disaster relief.

After a discussion, the Mu Tisi of the Inspection Department of the Immortal Supervision Bureau was entrusted with a heavy responsibility and took on the heavy task of going to the disaster area.

The group took advantage of the night, rode fast horses out of the city one after another, and galloped all the way towards the source of the strong vibration.

At this time in Dongxia County, the ground at the very center had already cracked a pitch-black long mark, stretching endlessly and bottomless; several isolated peaks of the Chunming Mountain Range that originally stood in the north of the county had all collapsed.

The water level of the Nujiang River flowing through this place rose instantly, and after the river burst its banks, the river water rushed towards both sides.

The northwest terrain of the Central State is complex, and it is separated from the fertile hinterland by a huge Qiling Mountain Range.

Most of the people living in this half of the state are commoners who make a living by farming.

The corpse tide that came with the demon people did not truly set foot here, but this earth dragon turning over directly caused countless civilians to die in the collapsed mountains and houses.

The Inspection Department of the Immortal Supervision Bureau traveled day and night, taking more than two days and nights; when they arrived here, they already saw countless ruins and wailing everywhere.

"My lord..."

"Team One, Team Two, Team Three, gather local officials and government office runners to go and rescue civilians; Team Four, investigate outward from the center and record the disaster situation. This earth dragon disaster is more intense than we imagined; summarize the case files and send them back to the bureau immediately."

"Yes!"

The facts were just as Inspector Mu Jing said; this earth disaster in the northwest of the Central State was more serious than they estimated when they came, and the scope of influence was also very large.

It even reached Qingzhou and Yunzhou, with collapses for thousands of miles.

The Inspection Department acted immediately and began to enter the earthquake resistance process, each performing their own duties.

Their manpower was insufficient, and they felt quite powerless in the face of the huge disaster area.

For this reason, the Immortal Supervision Bureau specially went to seek help from the century-old family Wan family, which was not far from here.

It was just that all the families in the Central State were fighting for the legacy left after the destruction of the Li family and did not respond to the request of the Immortal Supervision Bureau.

But even so, what should be done still had to be done.

So the Immortal Supervision Bureau spent four days and nights to send an investigation document back to Shengjing, explaining the disaster situation and the number of victims currently investigated, and applied to the Great Xia for disaster relief funds and additional manpower.

It was just that for several consecutive days, there was no news from Shengjing.

Aftershocks were still there, and refugees were fleeing.

Inspector Mu Jing was restless and did not understand why the bureau had always reacted quickly, but why there was not a word back at this time.

So, in his anxiety, he left the Inspection Department to continue working, while he himself rode a fast horse towards Shengjing; after entering the city, he did not pass his own home and went straight to the Immortal Supervision Bureau.

Peng Peng Dongyang was in the bureau, yawning while leaning over the desk; the dark circles under his eyes represented that he had not slept all day.

Seeing Inspector Mu Jing return, Peng Peng Dongyang could not help but raise his head, his eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.

"Deputy Supervisor!"

"Inspector Mu Jing, you are back."

Inspector Mu Jing looked at him anxiously: "Why has the disaster relief case file been submitted for so long? Not to mention disaster relief funds and manpower, my Inspection Department did not even get a single message."

Peng Peng Dongyang stood up, his pale face revealing a touch of helplessness: "It's not that there is no response; it's that something bigger has happened."

"Something bigger? What else could be bigger?"

"Plague."

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Peng Peng Dongyang looked at him: "News just received the day before yesterday that an epidemic has appeared in the southwest of Youzhou and the north of Qingzhou, spreading rapidly; the infected will cough up blood and die within seven days. Xiang Kuangcheng has already taken people to rush there."

Hearing this, Inspector Mu Jing instantly froze his eyes.

This earth dragon turning over did indeed cause countless casualties, and countless people were pressed in the ruins; the disaster relief situation was urgent.

But a contagious epidemic is indeed higher in priority than other disasters.

Because if this kind of disaster is not handled in time, no one can imagine the consequences.

Inspector Mu Jing suddenly understood why the Immortal Supervision Bureau reacted so slowly to the earthquake resistance, and could not help but clench his fists.

At the same time, Xiang Kuangcheng had already taken a large number of people to rush to the official road between Youzhou and Qingzhou.

Looking from a distance, one could see countless figures lying between the farmlands.

At this time, a team of refugees was dragging their families along the official road, walking outside the drainage ditch on the east side of the road.

Even if they were fleeing, they still did not forget that this official road was built by the Immortal Lords and did not dare to step on it.

Before they even met, the man in cloth clothes walking at the very front suddenly fell straight to the ground and instantly spat out a mouthful of blood.

In an instant, the entire fleeing team was in chaos, and countless people began to flee in panic.

"Team One, Team Two, go and stop the refugees from flowing out; Team Three, go and dig trenches to burn the corpses; the rest of the people continue to move forward with me."

"Yes!"

Following Xiang Kuangcheng's order, the people of Team One and Team Two immediately pulled the reins, shifted direction to block the entire official road, and scolded those refugees to stop immediately.

And Xiang Kuangcheng took people to continue inward, and saw more and more people lying down.

Their skin was red, extremely weak, with only half a breath left to breathe.

And as they got closer and closer to the Qibao County where the incident occurred, they saw more and more people, almost densely lying in the city.

"There are signs of high fever; it is external evil entering the body, which can be fatal in seven days; it can be called the most severe of the severe diseases."

Several doctors who came with the team saw the hellish scene in the city, and their faces were pale.

Xiang Kuangcheng frowned: "Go to the government office to clear out the prison cells, find some whose symptoms are not yet too serious and bring them over, observe the situation, and give them the medicines brought, especially the kind of pill refined by the Pill Sect's direct disciple back then."

"Yes, my lord."

All departments of the Immortal Supervision Bureau were well-trained and did things very neatly.

The Qibao County government office was soon cleared out; the mortals detained here were moved to another place and replaced with some infected people whose symptoms were not too serious.

According to the symptoms, they were fed different existing medicines for the plague.

Among them, the pills from the hands of the Pill Sect's direct disciple were fed to five people.

This was what was fed to the group of refugees where Qingwa was after the Qiling incident; Yuan Yuanchen later improved the pill formula and left it behind.

Although the pills imitated by the Immortal Supervision Bureau did not have as immediate an effect as those refined by Yuan Yuanchen, they were also the best medicines for treating external evil entering the body.

It was just that what they did not expect was that no matter who took which pill, they all eventually coughed up blood and died.

Useless.

It was not the same epidemic as the one contracted by the people who fled from Qiling back then.

The doctor who came with them looked terrified: "My lord, what should we do?"

"According to the previous arrangements, prohibit refugees from flowing out, clean up an area separately for reception, burn the corpses of the dead on the spot, continue to try other medicines, and figure out the source of infection."

"Understood."

"Pay attention to protection..."

The news of the earth dragon turning over was known to people in Shengjing early on, but everyone's reaction was not great.

However, when the news of the virulent epidemic came, it caused an uproar throughout the city.

In tea houses and taverns, there were discussions everywhere, recalling that after the Qiling incident happened back then, an epidemic also appeared, which could even infect immortal cultivators; I don't know if it was the same kind.

For several consecutive days, the prices of medicinal materials in Shengjing were rising rapidly.

However, because there were no cases in Shengjing, the activities of everyone chatting and meeting friends did not decrease.

Amidst the chattering sounds, a guest sitting in the tea house began to feel a dry mouth and tongue, only to realize that he had been here for a long time without being served tea.

"Waiter, waiter!"

"Coming... coming, guest."

"Where did the tea go? This tael of silver, is it just the price for sitting here?"

"I'll go urge them for you, guest!"

The waiter, who had no choice, ran down in a hurry, only to see that the shopkeeper was no longer at the counter; in desperation, he could only lift the curtain and go to the tea workshop behind the building.

What surprised the waiter was that the shopkeeper who was not at the counter was now in the backyard, and in the backyard were other tea house staff, looking terrified and restless.

"This... what on earth happened?"

"Don't know, it's been like this since morning."

"Hurry, hurry to the water shop and tell them to send water immediately."

"Already went, but the water shop is also like this."

The waiter wanted to say that the guest had been waiting impatiently, but after walking to the shopkeeper's side, he suddenly froze his eyes.

I saw that the wooden bucket just lifted from the well was full of water, but the water was an eerie blood color, and it also emitted a fishy and evil smell.

And when he walked to the well and looked down, he saw the dark red of the whole well.

The tea house shopkeeper immediately notified the proprietor, and the proprietor's response was to hide the matter, claim that the water quality was polluted, return the silver, and ask the guests to leave.

But the matter was not hidden because of this, because except for surface rivers like the Nujiang and Wujiang, and streams everywhere, almost all the water wells in Qingyun had appeared with unknown dark red.

And the most critical thing was that the water official handed a case file to the Great Xia not long after, which instantly shocked Shengjing.

Because according to their observations, the water level of those rivers was continuously decreasing; at this rate, it would be close to exhaustion in less than half a year.

Panic had not yet fermented, and more puzzling things continued to happen.

That was seven days after the water source turned red, and a heavy snow visited Qingyun.

The sudden coldness quickly spread on the surface of Qingyun, causing the river water to freeze and the earth to be covered with frost.

The key is that Qingyun had just entered autumn, and the summer heat had not yet faded; such a scene was difficult to understand.

And the most critical thing is that virulent epidemics, water source exhaustion, and cold air permeating—no matter which one, if it continues to develop, it will be a devastating disaster.

Inner Court of the Heavenly Academy, in the Auspicious Hall.