"Plague?"
Hearing Lin Yue's words, Constable Zhao's heart skipped a beat. His face immediately darkened. "Are you sure?"
Li Mu could clearly feel Constable Zhao's nervousness and knew why he was so nervous.
Cultivators had created all kinds of supernatural powers and Fu-lu pills that could cure hundreds of diseases and save thousands of lives. However, they were not omnipotent.
Although the cultivators themselves would not contract certain human diseases such as the plague, they were powerless when they encountered them. They could only watch as the patients' illnesses worsened and they died. In the past, the Imperial Court's method of dealing with the plague was to completely seal off the infected areas. Once all the infected people died, the plague would naturally stop spreading.
Lin Yue nodded solemnly and said, "I'm sure it's the plague. I used to practice medicine with my master and encountered it before."
Constable Zhao hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to save it?"
Lin Yue shook his head and said, "Fu-lu is useless for this disease. Whether the infected can survive depends on God's will. Unless you encounter a medical expert or use a heaven-grade Fu-lu to help them reconstruct their bodies …"
Li Mu did not expect the plague to be so troublesome.
The heaven-grade Fu-lu had the power of creation. When Wu Bo's heart was crushed by Senior Brother Qin, he could also regenerate his body. Naturally, it was not a problem for him to treat and save people. The problem was that it was unrealistic to have a heaven-grade Fu-lu for each of the infected people in Yang County.
It was impossible to even get one, let alone one.
Since the rise of Buddhism, schools of cultivation such as medicine, painting, and music gradually declined. Now, even preserving their orthodoxy was a problem. It was not easy to encounter a plague.
Constable Zhao looked at Li Mu and asked nervously, "Can you save them?"
Li Mu had full confidence in the Buddhist light of the Heart Sutra. He said, "I'll try my best. The plan now is to isolate the villages where the epidemic happened as soon as possible. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Then, gather the sick people together and try to prevent more people from being infected …"
Lin Yue nodded repeatedly and said, "Big Brother Li, you're right. Apart from that, we must exterminate the rats as soon as possible to prevent the plague from spreading further."
Constable Zhao first ordered a bailiff to return to the county yamen to report the situation. Then, he asked someone to find the village chief and block the roads at the entrance and end of the village, forbidding anyone from entering or leaving.
Then, he began to investigate the epidemic situation in the village.
The other two constables took on the responsibility of exterminating the rats.
Lin Yue asked them to dig a big pit in the village. Then, they filled the pit with water and poured an unknown powder into it. After the powder was mixed in, it emitted a faint fragrance.
Soon, the crowd heard the sound of footsteps.
Gray or black rats appeared from all corners of the village and jumped into the puddles one after another.
After jumping into the puddle, they did not struggle and floated quietly on the surface of the water. After a while, the puddle was full of floating rats, and there were no more rats around.
One of the bailiffs threw out a Fu-lu, and the puddle was set ablaze. All the rat corpses were incinerated.
In order to completely eradicate the plague, they had to cut off the source of the plague.
After a few people investigated, they found that the infection in the village was not serious. Only ten villagers were infected. Constable Zhao gathered the ten people together. Lin Yue went out once and found some herbs. He boiled them into a pot and distributed the decoction to the villagers who were not infected.
Li Mu did not stay idle either. After the ten people were cleansed by his Light of Buddha, their symptoms gradually disappeared.
Li Mu obtained a lot of merit from them, but he also used up a lot of his mana. This made him envious of Buddhism, Taoism, and the imperial family.
If he wanted to obtain merit or psychokinesis, he had to do it himself. He used up his mana to treat the sick and heal the wounded. They only had to build a Taoist palace, a temple, a national temple, and erect a few statues or stone tablets to obtain the psychokinesis and merit from the people.
In the Great Zhou, only Buddhism, Taoism, and the imperial court had such special privileges.
If other people or forces dared to build temples privately, accept the worship of the people, and absorb the merit and psychokinesis, they would be destroyed as Heretical Cultivation.
Therefore, he could only envy them in his heart.
After treating these people, Li Mu sat on the side to rest. Perhaps they had discovered it early, but no one in this village had died of the disease. In order not to delay, they had to go to the next village in 15 minutes.
Lin Yue took advantage of the free time to come over and asked, "Brother Li, are you a dual cultivator of Buddhism and Taoism?"
Li Mu also just found out that this young man was a descendant of the School of Medicine. He nodded at him and did not deny it.
Lin Yue chatted with Li Mu for a while, mainly out of curiosity about his Light of Buddha. After asking Li Mu a few questions, he stopped talking and sat quietly in the corner. He took out a cloth bag from his sleeve.
When he opened the cloth bag, Li Mu saw that there were dozens of silver needles of different lengths and thicknesses in the bag.
Lin Yue took out a silver needle and inserted his mana into it. He then inserted the needle into an acupuncture point on his wrist.
Soon, he had inserted more than ten silver needles into his body.
There were all kinds of cultivation methods in this world, not just Buddhism and Taoism. It was normal for there to be some that he had not seen before.
After arranging everything in this village, they did not delay and immediately rushed to the next village.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw the villagers in a confrontation with more than ten constables.
The constables all used black cloth to cover their noses and mouths. They held weapons in their hands and pointed at the villagers from afar. They shouted, "Your village has been infected with the plague. We are under the orders of the county magistrate to seal this village. No one is allowed to enter or leave!"
A group of people gathered at the entrance of the village, their faces filled with grief and anger. The leader of the group, an old man, said in a trembling voice, "There are dozens of families in the village. You don't care about the sick and only sealed the village. You are forcing the villagers to die!"
The constable said loudly, "The county magistrate said that sacrificing your village in exchange for the safety of the entire county is worth it. Do you want to implicate the county, or even the entire North County?"
"Bastard!"
Constable Zhao sent the constable flying with a kick. He said angrily, "Is this how you treat the people?"
The constable got up from the ground and said angrily, "Who are you? How dare you interfere with our work!"
"Are you blind?!" Behind Constable Zhao, an old constable from the county government kicked him to the ground again and said, "Get lost. You have no right to speak here. Go and call your lord here!"
The constable was about to curse again, but when he saw their clothes, he quickly swallowed the curse words that were about to come out of his mouth.
The lord could afford to offend the people from the county government, but he, a lowly constable, could not.
After getting up from the ground, he hurriedly led the group away.
Constable Zhao walked to the entrance of the village and said to the old man, "We are constables from the county government. We are here specifically for this plague. Old man, how is the situation in the village?"
Hearing that the county government had arrived, the villagers hurriedly welcomed them into the village.
When they were in the previous village, they had already discussed a series of procedures to control the epidemic.
First of all, in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading, the village had to be sealed. However, the infected people could not be ignored. They had to be quarantined and treated those who were already infected. They also had to prevent new infected people from appearing.
The division of labor was clear. Lin Yue and the others were in charge of exterminating the rats, while Li Mu was in charge of saving people.
Fortunately, no one had died in this village so far.
This should be great news. According to Lin Yue, the plague was just a general term for the plague spread by rats. There were more than ten types of the plague that had been discovered. Each type had a different fatality rate, different harm to the human body, and different medicines were used to treat it.
For this type of plague, none of the infected people had died. This meant that its harm was not that great. At least, the patients would not die in a short period of time. This gave them enough time to treat them.
Li Mu had just saved ten people. He had used up some of his mana and had not fully recovered yet.
There were more infected people in this village, a total of twenty-six. Li Mu saved another ten people and felt that his mana was overdrawn. When he stood up, his body swayed and he almost fell.
Constable Zhao quickly supported him and said, "You should rest for a while. This time, we are relying on you."
Li Mu also wanted to rest. However, from the moment he saved the first person, an endless stream of Virtuous Thought Power gushed out from these patients, from their relatives, and from the people of this village. The mana in Li Mu's body was circulating faster than it had ever been.
This was a real and miraculous power that could increase the speed of cultivation. Once he started, he did not want to stop.
Li Mu gritted his teeth and said firmly, "Help me up. I can still save …"
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