At this moment, Ye Qiu only felt a great pain in his heart, like a knife twisting, and he couldn’t stop the tears from flowing down his face.
Even he himself wasn’t sure why it was like this.
Could it be because of this person called Ghost Servant in front of me?
I don’t even know him, what does his death have to do with me?
But for some reason, Ye Qiu had a feeling of grief, as if he had lost a very important relative.
A full three minutes passed before Ye Qiu’s emotions gradually calmed down, and at that moment, he remembered the last words spoken by the ghost servant.
“The thing is at the foot of the stone bed, what is it?”
“He even said he left it for me, but I don’t even know him!”
Ye Qiu’s mind was filled with doubts as he walked over to the stone bed and shone his torch.
Soon, he was at the foot of the stone bed, placing a brick.
This brick was hollowed out internally, and if Ye Qiu hadn’t opened his Heavenly Eyes, I’m afraid that he wouldn’t have been able to discover it for a while.
Ye Qiu picked up the brick and saw a piece of cloth-like thing placed inside, pulling it out and opening it, he found that it was actually a map.
The map was old and stained with blood, but the mountains and rivers drawn on it could be clearly seen.
There were also two very small seal characters in the lower left corner of the map, which Ye Qiu recognised after a while.
“Hidden Treasure!”
Ye Qiu’s heart shook.
Could it be that this was a treasure map?
He held the map in his hand and turned it over and over, and noticed that the map was emitting a faint fragrance, which surprised Ye Qiu and he lowered his head and took a sniff.
At once, a faint fragrance poured into his nostrils.
In an instant, Ye Qiu only felt that all his fatigue was swept away and his heart was relaxed.
“This is …… Shu Brocade!”
Ye Qiu was shocked.
Shu brocade has a history of more than two thousand years, the raw material is silk, exceptionally precious, its production process is cumbersome, production efficiency is low, so in ancient times there is a “inch brocade, inch gold”.
In the past, Shu brocade was a luxury product only enjoyed by royalty and dignitaries.
This treasure map was actually made of Shu brocade, so it was obvious that it must have an extraordinary origin.
Ye Qiu looked at it carefully for half a day, but could not see any clue, and then put the treasure map away.
It wasn’t until this time that he remembered that he had forgotten to ask the ghost servant an important question.
Mandala’s poison was not contagious, which meant that the five households and twelve mouths inside the residential building had died from direct contact with Mandala’s poison.
But how did they come into contact with the Mandala poison?
There was no doubt that the ghost servant was the source of the poison.
What Ye Qiu didn’t figure out was the transmission route.
Holding a torch, he searched around and finally saw a four-square pool in a corner.
At this moment, the water in the pool was black and filled with a foul odour, so it was obvious that the water also had the poison of Mandragora.
Afterwards, Ye Qiu saw another pipe in the pool.
This pipe went all the way through the Buddha’s head from inside the pool and extended outside.
Other than that, there were no other valuable clues.
“I think that the poisoning of those people should be related to this pipe.”
Ye Qiu was ready to leave to explore where the pipe actually extended to when suddenly, his footsteps stopped again.
His eyes fell on the ghost servant.
“After being hit by the poison of the Mandragora, you can still hold out for more than twenty years, this endurance is definitely not human.”
“Although you and I have never met, I have obtained a treasure map from your hands, this gift, I will not take it for nothing.”
“I will find the one who poisoned you and take revenge for you.”
“Rest in peace!”
Ye Qiu bowed three times and left this place.
Because the Ghost Servant was highly poisoned, Ye Qiu couldn’t take the Ghost Servant’s body out for burial.
Back to the ground.
Gu Feng then asked impatiently, “Brother Ye Qiu, how is it? Did you find anything?”
Yang Qi also asked curiously, “Doctor Ye, what’s inside the Buddha’s head?”
“There’s a person living inside.”Ye Qiu said.
“Where is the person?”
Gu Feng and Yang Qi looked at each other in surprise.
“No way, living inside a Buddha’s head, what does he eat? What does he drink?”Yang Qi felt incredulous.
Gu Feng was also a little disbelieving.
“There is indeed a person living inside, but when I went in, he was already dead, and I found the Mandala Poison from his corpse.”
Ye Qiu didn’t tell the truth.
It was because he had yet to figure out what the ghost servant had said, including the identity of the ghost servant.
“In that case, it seems that it should be that the dead man was poisoned by the Mandala Poison and then spread it to the occupants inside the residential building.”Gu Feng frowned and said, “There’s another thing I can’t figure out.”
“You mean the transmission route, right?”Ye Qiu asked.
“Right.”Gu Feng nodded his head and said, “How did those five families of twelve inside the residential building get poisoned?”
“There’s a pool inside the Buddha’s head, there’s Mandragora’s poison inside the pool, I also saw a pipe inside the pool, and that pipe extends out, I think it’s highly likely that that pipe is the propagation pathway, let’s explore it more carefully!”
Ye Qiu led Gu Feng and Yang Qi and searched the scene.
In no time, they found the pipe.
The pipe extended from inside the Buddha’s head all the way to the vegetable field, and it was more than a hundred metres long.
Because it was buried inside the soil, it caused them to not see it before.
Ye Qiu tested it again on site, and sure enough, there was Mandragora poison in the vegetable patch.
Not only that, there was also Mandala Poison present on the vegetables.
When Ye Qiu had previously checked the residential buildings, he had found vegetables in every home.
At this point, everything was all unravelled.
The water from the pool inside the Buddha’s head had flowed through the pipes to the vegetable patch, causing the vegetables to be tainted with Mandala’s Poison, and then the people inside the residential building had consumed the vegetables, which was why there had been a collective poisoning and death incident.
“I didn’t expect things to be like this, Brother Ye Qiu, thank you so much, if it wasn’t for your help, I still don’t know when I would have been able to investigate clearly, thank you.”Gu Feng said gratefully.
“No need to be polite.”Ye Qiu instructed, “This vegetable field and the Buddha’s head have to be cleaned up so that the toxin doesn’t spread.”
“Good.”
“It’s getting late, I should go back too.”Ye Qiu said.
Gu Feng said, “I still have to clean up the mess, so I won’t see you off, I’ll treat you to dinner later. Xiao Yang, send Brother Ye Qiu back.”
“Yes!”
On the way back to the hospital, Ye Qiu closed his eyes and leaned on the seat.
At this moment, his mind kept recalling the words that the ghost servant had said.
“At that time, when I mentioned my mother’s name, he seemed to be very excited, and by the looks of it, he should know my mother.”
“Also, who is that one called Ye Wushuang?”
“Why did he say again not to enter the capital or else he would be in big trouble?”
“What secrets are there in the capital?”
Tut tut tut-
Suddenly, a shrill ringing of a mobile phone interrupted Ye Qiu’s thoughts.
Pulling out his mobile phone, he saw that it was Bai Bing calling.
It was immediately connected.
Before Ye Qiu had a chance to speak, Bai Bing’s gravely voice came over, “Where are you? Something’s wrong!”
