EFB Chapter 2509: Experiments in the Year
Chapter 2509: Experiments in the Year
Chapter 2509: A Ten-Year Experiment
Even in such a confused state, Dr. Yu showed hesitation.
Ling Jinbao pressed him repeatedly before he finally revealed the secret he had kept hidden deep in his heart:
"I've treated hundreds of cases of peach blossom marks, and I think..."
His voice grew softer and softer, and he even paused, clearly reluctant to speak:
“There are some symptoms and pulse signs of peach blossom marks, especially when the red rash has been present for several days, which are similar to those of a woman who has miscarried.”
Ling Jinbao was slightly startled: "'Some', what does that mean? Aren't the others?"
"No. The others are just ordinary rubella."
Have you mentioned this deduction to anyone else?
"No. I know two doctors who made similar diagnoses, but one of them broke his neck after falling in the rain, and the other moved his whole family away from Baisong City. I don't dare tell anyone else. Baisong City is so big, it doesn't need me."
He Lingchuan's mind raced, and he added another question:
"Do patients who suffer from peach blossom marks multiple times experience a decline in their health?"
"It varies from person to person. But generally speaking, women who have had peach blossom marks five or six times or more generally have some deficiency of qi and blood."
After finishing his questioning, Ling Jinbao clapped five times rhythmically near Doctor Yu's ear, the clapping very softly, while whispering:
"Okay, you can go to sleep now."
Dr. Yu fell back down, and Ling Jinbao put him back on the bed so he could continue sleeping.
When he wakes up tomorrow morning, he'll just think he had a dream.
Ling Jinbao continued, "I have a new address here. I'll go keep an eye on one or two people there, hoping to increase the chances of encountering monsters."
Aunt Zhu readily agreed: "Give me a few too."
Just as Dong Rui was about to speak, the bat demon puppet suddenly sent him a signal:
Something's approaching!
He perked up and rubbed his hands together.
"I've got a job!"
Soon, a wisp of smoke drifted in through the window crack and quickly spread.
It smelled sweet and fragrant, and Dong Rui, a master of pharmaceuticals, knew at a glance that it was a powerful sleeping powder.
Of course, he was not afraid.
Meanwhile, the Gu couple below quickly fell into a deeper sleep, and even stopped snoring.
Then the small window in the attic was gently pushed open, and a shadow slipped in smoothly, without making a sound even as it stepped on the broken wooden planks.
By the moonlight streaming through the window, Dong Rui was able to see the whole thing.
When it walks on all fours, it resembles a sheep, even having short horns, and its body is covered with thick fur. However, when it stands up, its hips and legs change, and its body shape becomes similar to that of a human. Its face is also very similar to a human's, with dark gray skin, a raised forehead, a large nose that takes up half of its face, slightly drooping eyelids, and thin, long hands that resemble tree branches outside a window.
Huh, it's this?
Dong Rui was somewhat surprised. The shadow in front of him was a rare monster, a roe owl. It usually walked like a sheep, but it would wander around the wilderness and villages. If a passerby saw its figure, he would mistake it for another human on the road and ask for directions, only to be eaten by it.
But the roe owl is not short at all, unlike the short monster Erpang described.
It seems that there is more than one monster venturing out at night.
After the roe deer stopped, it looked around a few times to make sure there were no other problems, and then walked straight to the bedside.
Its observation of its surroundings was perfunctory, with a kind of numbness from working for too long.
Dong Rui had carefully chosen his hiding spot beforehand so that the owl wouldn't block his view. The monster lifted Gu Niangzi's clothes, exposing her belly, pressed around her a few times to check her reaction, and then took a long needle, about the thickness of a little finger, and stuck it into her lower abdomen.
The long needle is hollow. After it is secured, the roe owl takes a soft tube and inserts it into the long needle.
Erpang had also witnessed this scene, but Dong Rui's eyesight was far superior to his. He immediately realized that this was not a flexible tube at all, but a thin, long hookworm that could even twist and turn!
The hookworm seemed to be searching for something inside Gu Niangzi's lower abdomen.
In just a few dozen breaths, the owl pulled back the tube and the long needle, and casually applied some medicine to Madam Gu's belly.
The medicine worked incredibly quickly; in about twenty breaths, the wound had closed, healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The owl then wiped away the blood with a cloth and covered her with her clothes. In this way, when Madam Gu got up the next morning, the wound on her abdomen would be completely healed.
The roe owl performed this task with great skill, indicating that it had done it quite often before.
After tidying up, it returned the way it came, and even closed the window behind it.
Dong Rui did not make a move because He Lingchuan wanted to play the long game.
As the roe owl walked to the bedside, it didn't notice that it had stepped on something round and soft—the eggs of a snail-toad.
The snail-like toad can use this mucus to track its movements.
Dong Rui also quickly left the fabric store, taking a deep breath in the fresh evening breeze:
"Sure enough, they specifically target women with flushed faces."
As for what the roe owl sucked out with hookworms, "I roughly know what they want."
"So for them, the 'peach blossom mark' is like a marker, letting them know who to attack!"
Things didn't go smoothly with Ling Jinbao. He visited three houses in a row, but there were no signs of monster intrusion.
However, their strategy of casting a wide net succeeded, because Aunt Zhu was lucky and after searching four places, she finally found a monster.
This thing is short, similar to what Erpang described. It is also a small, humanoid monster, but only up to a human's waist in height, and is named Taozhi.
"Take it down!" He Lingchuan said decisively. "We only need to track the owl. You retrieve what Tao Zhi stole! If we encounter any other minor monsters, ignore them."
"Okay." Aunt Zhu was particularly skilled at catching monsters.
Dong Rui countered, "Has Lord Baisong confessed?"
“Song Kingdom’s Yuan Power is very weak and cannot withstand my nightmare,” He Lingchuan said. “The original city lord passed away three years ago. The new city lord is a confidant of the Song Kingdom’s king and was appointed by him to take over Baisong City.”
This shows that the ruler of Song knew there were many unspeakable secrets here, which is why he put his trusted confidant in charge of Baisong City.
"Actually, the expansion of Baisong City began to be planned thirteen years ago. If you calculate the time, it was not long after Jialoutian defeated Yinshenjun."
He Lingchuan was also connecting these facts: "The Heavenly Palace gave Song Kingdom an order to build a new city south of Yanxia Bay. The age of the city's residents must not exceed thirty-four years old, and the ratio of adult men to women must be equal. Everyone should live together as much as possible to facilitate the city's management."
Ling Jinbao suddenly realized: "That's why there are so few towns and villages outside the city."
“The farmland is not in the hands of farmers, but is handed over by Baisong City to special estates for large-scale cultivation, so that farmers do not have to live scattered in various places and can live in the city.”
“Song Kingdom must guarantee the food, clothing, housing, transportation, and health of its citizens.” He Lingchuan sighed. “Judging from the city government’s accounts, its income is far from enough to cover its expenses. It has been losing a lot of money every year for the past ten years.”
(End of this chapter)