I am a fairy

Chapter 65 Drone

In the evening, a group of people pushed an empty prison cart and hurried to the city gate of Xihe County.

It's clearly not time yet, and the city gates are closed at this moment.

The jailers who had returned from the county town had managed to get back before dark, so they banged on the door and shouted.

"what happened?"

"Why is the door closed? Open it quickly."

"Or lower the basket and pull me and my brothers up."

A few heads popped out from the city gate and immediately recognized the jailer below, and the jailer also saw them.

"It's us brothers."

"Open the door!"

But the other party still didn't intend to open the door, but shouted at them.

"There's an epidemic. The county magistrate has issued an order that people in the city are not allowed to leave, and people outside the city are not allowed to come in."

"You guys should find a place to stay. Everything will be fine after this is over."

The jailers pushing the prison cart under the city wall were dumbfounded: "Ah, where can we hide?"

The people on the city wall didn't care: "Don't say we are ruthless. You know the rules. Anyway, without the county lord's permission, the city gate cannot be opened. It's getting dark, you should find a place quickly!"

As it got dark, the group had no choice but to push the prison cart away.

But they didn't know where to go. They were all city dwellers, and after some discussion they decided that they could only stay with relatives in the countryside for a few days.

One person was driving the cattle in front, and the other two followed on both sides of the prison van, one on the left and one on the right.

"Tell me, is there really a plague ghost here?"

"How come there is no plague ghost? In July and August last year, there was a plague ghost in the lower river area, which was quite serious and killed many people."

"What does this plague ghost look like?"

"They say that this plague ghost is invisible to ordinary people, but once it gets into your stomach, it can make you live a life worse than death."

"Recently, some people have seen gods, some have seen dragons, and some have seen ghosts. Why haven't we seen anything?"

"I don't want to see that. If I see that, I might lose my life."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a noise on the road ahead.

The jailers stopped pulling the oxen, looked ahead, and opened their mouths to ask loudly.

"Who?"

But soon, the jailer behind him covered his mouth, preventing him from uttering the word "who".

The other jailer was even quicker. He hid directly under the prison van, waving his hands and whispering with a trembling voice.

"Hide in, hide in."

There was no village or shop on this road, and the surroundings were empty, with no place to hide. The three men could only huddle under the prison van and shiver.

Soon, the thing that had hidden the three jailers in the darkness appeared: it was the mandrill.

But in the eyes of the three people, it was a ghost or demon that was taller than the prison car.

The mandrill walked very fast, heading towards the path the three jailers came from. After seeing the prison van on the road, it turned around a few times, as if wondering why such a thing was parked on the road.

This action scared the three jailers hiding under the prison van.

The inhuman monster's hairy thighs moved around, and with every step the three men felt their hearts were about to jump out of their throats.

The three of them lay prone on the ground, with their buttocks sticking out and covering their mouths with both hands, as if they were really afraid that their hearts would fall out of their mouths.

However, the "ghost" only took a few glances, and perhaps because of its tall stature, it did not notice the person hiding underneath, and then continued walking towards Xihe County in the night.

After the "ghost" had passed, several people crawled out from under the prison van with weak legs.

"Oh my god, your bad mouth almost cost us our lives."

“Is this the plague ghost?”

"No, it looks like the ghosts and gods that those people said appeared on the Divine Peak before."

"Why did this ghost come here?" "It looks like it's going to the county. Is there anything wrong in the county?"

"Could it be that someone died in the county and they are going to collect the soul?"

"Why do you care so much? How can we control the affairs of gods? Let's go quickly."

But just as the three were about to leave, they looked at the ox pulling the prison cart, and the ox was so frightened that it collapsed to the ground, unable to get up for a long time.

On the other side, the mandrill finally walked to the foot of the city wall and began to wander in the night along the tall wall.

"Drip drip drip!"

The antenna in the box the mandrill was carrying stretched higher and moved more frequently.

The drone first landed on the mandrill's shoulder, and after resting for a while, it began to fly towards the city. The camera on the drone emitted a faint red light, like a pair of eyes looking at the earth.

This was also the first time it flew here and observed everything in the city from a direct perspective.

The city was quiet at the moment. The people were hiding in their homes without saying a word, and there were few lights to be seen.

Only occasionally someone walked on the street. Led by Liu Hu, the police were still patrolling and inspecting the residences of people who might be possessed by "epidemic ghosts" late at night.

From time to time, someone would report to them through the door, saying that they heard some noises of coughing or illness from their neighbor. Some of the reports were true, and some were false, but Liu Hu would still run around for them.

In the government office, the officials worked all night long. The county magistrate went to Shenfeng Peak himself at night, so how could they dare to rest?

At this moment, people in Jia Gui's mansion were also in panic.

The housekeeper lit the lamp and arranged affairs, and the servants carefully checked whether everyone showed signs of illness. This house was like a microcosm of the entire county.

Outside a small courtyard, the young master of the Jia family and his elder sister came out together, but were stopped by the servants.

In the end, the two could only come to the outside of a wall and listen to the sounds inside, feeling both worried and scared.

Jia Lan: "Are you afraid?"

Jia Xiaolang: "I'm not afraid of my mother, I'm afraid of the plague ghost."

The boy looked into the darkness and whispered, "I feel like there is something here, watching us."

Jia Lan: "Don't talk nonsense."

But after the girl finished speaking, she also looked into the darkness. The night was dark and cold, and she also felt a little scared.

But soon, she grabbed her brother's hand and mustered up her courage.

Jia Lan: "Passing ghost, my Jia family has never done anything bad, why did you bring disaster to my mother? My grandfather has already reported your actions to the gods."

"If you are wrong, you should leave now."

There are many rumors about plague ghosts. One of them is that people who have committed certain karma will be haunted by plague ghosts. Therefore, people who are possessed by plague ghosts are also pointed at by many people, saying that they have done something shameful.

The two were staring into the darkness when a slight sound was heard above their heads.

The two were startled and quickly stepped back to look at the top of the wall. In the darkness, they could vaguely see something that looked like a bird.

They breathed a sigh of relief.

Jia Xiaolang: "It's not a ghost, it's a bird."

At this time, the sounds of painful groans and vomiting were heard from inside the wall. The two immediately looked inside worriedly, but were helpless.

Although my mother's attack lasted only two days, the symptoms were surprisingly severe. She was extremely exhausted within two days, which was terrifying.

This is also the reason why Jia Gui rushed to Shenfeng overnight.

Jia Xiaolang was very anxious: "Grandpa, I don't know if I can get the holy water. It's not a good idea for my mother to continue suffering like this."

The young man was so anxious that he was spinning around: "This plague ghost is too hateful. It gets into people's stomachs and tortures them."

Jia Lan didn't know what to do, so he could only look at the bird on the wall and say, "Bird, bird, I heard that you can see things that humans can't see. I wish I could see the plague ghost like you. I would definitely catch it and give it a good beating."

The "bird" did not respond at all. It just stared inside from the top of the wall for a while, then moved closer and changed its angle, but flew away after a while.

It flew to house after house, investigating the conditions and symptoms of people possessed by the so-called "plague ghosts" one by one. Some of these people were so exhausted that they could not move, while others were crying for their parents in pain.

Everyone has symptoms such as headache, vomiting, and frequent diarrhea.

It transmits this information to the base station carried by the mandrill outside the city, and finally sends the signal to the distant Yunbi Mountain Peak.

(End of this chapter)