In the next two days, the situation in Yunzhou City worsened.

The only people who tried to escape from the city before were the wealthy businessmen in the south of the city. Although some of these wealthy businessmen and servants of the family were also affected and tried to leave, the overall problem was still within control. But in the past two days, the panic has completely

It spread to the entire Yunzhou City, and even the City Lord's Mansion came forward to suppress it, but it was ineffective, because even the guards of the City Lord's Mansion were focused on escaping from the city.

The entire Yunzhou City is in chaos.

But at this time, Su Anran and Chong Xingzi had no time to deal with these matters.

During the past two days, they all focused on searching for Taoist Yunming.

Chong Xingzi does have a way to find Taoist Yunming.

It's just that his search method is not accurate enough and can only calculate a rough range area. This is also the drawback of Taoism's push method - even for Qingyu, there is no good way to solve it. He can only search within this range. Of course.

Su Anran felt that her Ninth Senior Sister must have a solution, but it was a pity that her Ninth Senior Sister did not come with her this time.

So Su Anran and others have no good solution.

But after two days of searching, the two found nothing.

Although the area is indeed not small, covering about one-third of the southern area of ​​​​the city, Su Anran and Chong Xingzi are both land gods after all. Even if their spiritual consciousness cannot cover a large area in Beiling, they both moved.

To be honest, I almost searched this area from top to bottom, but still found no results. This is very thought-provoking.

"Are you sure you're in this area?" Su Anran's face didn't look good.

Half of them are tired and half of them are angry.

After all, in this area where the range of spiritual consciousness is limited, Su Anran's spiritual consciousness is not as strong as ordinary people, so it can last longer - like a star, every time he searches a street, he needs to rest.

In two quarters of an hour, the area that can be explored in one day is naturally very small.

"I'm sure!"

Chong Xingzi also blushed. He felt that Su Anran was challenging his authority.

But considering Su Anran's strength, Chong Xingzi decided not to argue with Su Anran.

Su Anran glanced at Chong Xingzi doubtfully, but in the end he said nothing more: "We have already searched the area you circled. Most of the people here have run away, and there are not many living people left.

, so if your disciple is really hiding here, there is no way we can’t find him.”

"That's no longer my disciple." Chong Xingzi snorted, "My disciple is already dead."

Su Anran sighed and stopped provoking Chong Xingzi.

It's true that he didn't like Taoist Yunming, and he did have the intention to kill him at that time, but he wanted to kill Taoist Yunming and Taoist Yunming ended up being parasitized by the Soul-Splitting Demon Mountain Spider. These are completely different things.

If he had killed Taoist Yunming, then Su Anran would not have any unnecessary thoughts now. But now Taoist Yunming was killed because of his "self-interest". The Soul-Splitting Demon Mountain Spider had the opportunity to take advantage of this.

As a result, Su Anran couldn't accept it.

He felt that he had been cheated on.

"Is that person... the maid who escaped?"

Chong Xingzi's voice suddenly brought Su Anran out of her meditative state.

Following the direction in which Chong Xingzi pointed, Su Anran, suspended a hundred meters in the air, quickly spotted a silhouette.

The other party had a scarf on her head, dressed as a woman, and was holding a vegetable basket with some vegetables and meat in it. She looked like a servant who had finished shopping and was about to go home.

Under normal circumstances, this area in the south of the city is the territory of wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families. The maids do not go out to the streets to purchase by themselves. They let the vegetable sellers pull the carts to the back door, and then the cooks choose the vegetables and meats themselves. At best, it is temporary.

You need to add a few extra meals or something before your servants can go out to buy something urgently.

However, in the past two days, the entire Yunzhou City has been completely plunged into chaos, so there is nothing to violate the behavior of this maid, which also makes her look quite normal.

However, both Su Anran and Chong Xingzi had memorized the portraits of all the missing persons in Taoist Yunming's courtyard that day, so when they suddenly saw a person with a very similar profile, they naturally

Found it right away.

After the two looked at each other, they quickly followed.

The maid knocked on the back door of a house, and soon someone opened the door, and the two entered chatting and laughing.

"It's the residence of a wealthy businessman," Chong Xingzi said.

In the past few days, he has been checking the records of the steward. Although these are the secrets of the Qiyuan family, it stands to reason that people from the Qiyuan family should be responsible for checking and sorting them out. But now so many days have passed,

However, there was no response from the Northern Tang Dynasty. Chong Xingzi and Su Anran could not wait idlely forever, so it was naturally left to Chong Xingzi to check the account books and records of the outgoing and incoming cargo orders.

"He is one of the partners in Qiyuan's business."

The businessmen of the seven major families of the Northern Tang Dynasty in various places in Beiling will have their own network channels. Depending on the resources these people have and the depth of the cooperation projects, the degree of their relationships will naturally be different.

For example, the most stable collaborator is called a partner, followed by allies, collaborators, regular traders, long-term suppliers, short-term collaborators, etc.

Partners are able to share part of the dividends from the resident merchants in the area, and they can even call on the family behind the cooperative resident merchants to take action if something big happens.

After the maid entered, she quickly started busy in the kitchen.

The person who opened the door earlier was a cook in the house.

However, because the merchants in the house left the city with their families - they were actually eaten by Song Baiye, but no one in the house knows it now - only some long-term workers were left to guard the house, so the people in the house were actually

Not much.

Of course, Su Anran and Chong Xingzi did not just look at it, but used their spiritual senses to scan what they found.

Soon, the lunch was ready, and people came to the backyard to eat one after another.

But Su Anran and Chong Xingzi's attention had always been on the maid, and at this time, the other party made a new move.

I saw this maid leaving from another door of the kitchen. She was holding a meal in her hand, but she took advantage of the fact that no one was around to pour some medicinal powder into the meal:

There were four packages of medicinal powder in total, which were poured into the four meals separately instead of mixed together.

Su Anran and Chong Xingzi knew instantly that they had won the prize.

"It seems that the people in this house will inevitably die."

Chong Xingzi took another look at those people who were still eating in the kitchen and backyard.

These people had no idea that death had come quietly, and they were still talking and laughing while eating.

Su Anran sighed.

He wanted to go down and stop these people from eating, but at this time he was not sure whether these people were parasites, or to what extent they had been infected by parasites - Qingyu had already obtained some research results in the past two days, she

It was found that all infected people in Yunzhou City can be roughly divided into three stages: the first stage is the initial infection, which means that they have just eaten food mixed with parasites. However, these parasites will not eat away immediately after entering the body, but will

It begins to absorb the vitality of the host to strengthen itself; then comes the second stage of growth. Once the infected person begins to experience a decline in body functions, it means that these parasites have absorbed enough nutrients and have begun to become active.

They then begin to take over the infected person's body.

Once it completely takes over the infected person's body, it will enter the third stage, which is to completely become a parasite.

There is still the possibility of rescue in the first stage. Although the second stage can eliminate these parasites in the infected person's body, it actually depends on the symptoms. Once it enters the later stage, as these parasites die in the infected person's body,

These infected people will also die at the same time.

As for the third stage, there is really no salvation.

Su Anran did not dare to take the risk to save these people. One was because he was afraid of exposing his identity, and the other was that he had already seen that several of them were pale and low in vitality. They were obviously in the late stage of the second stage. Such people could not be saved at all -

-Don’t think about the third stage. They must have followed those wealthy businessmen long ago, and it is impossible to stay here. After all, in the eyes of those parasites, only the parasites that have entered the third stage are their own kind.

The maid soon entered a room.

Su Anran and Chong Xingzi suddenly looked at each other again, because in their perception, the maid's aura suddenly disappeared.

"The secret room!"

The two of them instantly realized that it was not their problem that they had not been able to find Taoist Yunming these days, but that a secret room had been built in the house that could block the detection of spiritual consciousness, and the other party had been hiding here.

In a secret room.

"Okay! Now I can catch them all in one go!"

"Wait a minute." Su Anran stopped the impulsive Chong Xingzi.

"What are you doing?" Chong Xingzi was a little dissatisfied.

"We are here to find the mastermind. Do you think this maid is the mastermind?" Su Anran did not forget the reason why she was searching for Taoist Yunming. "If we break in now, we can only find your disciple and this maid.

, as for the mastermind behind it, we have no chance of discovering it, so now we have to let the maid go."

Chong Xingzi was silent for a moment, but in the end he had no impulse. He nodded and waited aside.

This went on for quite a while.

During this period, as Su Anran had guessed, everyone eating in the kitchen was poisoned, and there was no survivor.

But the maid, as if she had calculated the time, her breath finally appeared in the room again.

However, there was still a slight smell of blood on her body.

There is no doubt that the maid was injured.

"I'll follow her." Su Anran thought for a moment, then said, "You go collect the body for your disciple."

Chong Xingzi nodded slightly and said nothing more.
To be continued...