You must know that semi-infected people are already a type of person who has been changed in a negative direction by the Gu worm virus, and the appearance of this scaly and thyroid skin now indicates that they are one step closer to "negative", and if they are allowed to develop like this, I even suspect that they may eventually become resurrected corpses.

At this time, Qin Yao and her personal guards were inspecting other coal mine equipment in the vicinity, which was quite far away from us, so I took this opportunity to call Gechai over and asked him to come and see what was going on.

I noticed that these half-infected people were all frightened at this time, so I told them not to be nervous, saying that I would not hurt them.

Before I could finish my sentence, I heard one of the semi-infected people whisper to me, "You...... You're Xiao Chen, right?"

I was startled and hurriedly looked around, but fortunately, Qin Yao's attention was not here, and I immediately asked the semi-infected, "How do you know it's me!"

After all, I'm wearing a human skin mask now.

"I hear it in your voice......"

"Voice?" I couldn't believe it, "Is my voice so special?"

"It's not just the timbre, it's the way you speak...... I just wanted to give it a try...... I didn't expect ...... Are you really Xiao Chen? You seem to ...... It doesn't seem to be the same as before......"

"Where have you seen me before?" I asked, glaring.

"We used to be Monk Ma's people!" one of the semi-infected people whispered, "At that time, you and another person gave Monk Ma a Gu, and a few of us were watching from the side!"

I was a little surprised, I had wondered if I would happen to meet a few of those semi-infected people, but I didn't expect it to happen......

However, the semi-infected people under the hands of Monk Ma still make me a little disgusted, I remember that when I first went, those semi-infected people were completely like ruffians and hooligans, but now because of their miserable situation, I still can't help but have a natural empathy for them.

"Great! It looks like it's really you! Now we're saved! You...... You're dressed like this to help us!" said another semi-infected man excitedly.

I hurriedly told the half-infected to shut up, and told him that if I got rid of my identity now, not only would I be doomed, but he would be ruined.

At the same time, Gochai also suggested that I should directly kill these people, and I naturally couldn't let him do this, because if I wanted to recruit the semi-infected people here to start trouble, I would definitely have to buy people's hearts first, and at the moment, these half-infected people could be my stepping stones.

"Listen up, you guys!" I said to them solemnly: "The situation is more serious now, the voodoo people have already hit us! In the next step, those wanderers will definitely push you to the front line as cannon fodder! And the voodoo people don't care who you are, whether you surrender or not, they won't let you live!"

"Then what are we going to do......" said the wanderers, their faces even more ugly than before.

I glanced around again, and soon my eyes fell on one of the empty sheds, and I immediately motioned for Liu Yong to go and tell Qin Yao that I was going to take a few semi-infected people to the house for further examination, and told the others not to approach if they had nothing to do.

Liu Yong immediately nodded and went to do it, and the rest of us quickly entered the shed with these semi-infected people.

There was a smell of sour rot everywhere in the house, the smell of the wanderers, which was now ingrained in the house.

But the smell was nothing compared to the stench of corpses I'd used to smell.

Once inside, I sat the half-infected on their beds separately and asked Gochai to begin explaining his thoughts.

Gochai said that these semi-infected people did not show any signs of turning into resurrected corpses, and although their skin was scaly and carapacey, it actually had nothing to do with the origin of the resurrected corpses.

To put it bluntly, a soul corpse is a person who has been manipulated by the Gu worm virus to move his body, and such a person's brain has long since died, so it is just a walking corpse. The reason why the skin of the resurrected corpse will become scaly and carapace-like is completely caused by the Gu worm virus, after these Gu worm viruses completely attack the host's body, they will intentionally make the host their own nest, these scaly and carapace-like skin is actually a layer of condensed entity Gu poison secreted on the surface of the skin, these Gu poisons wrap the host's body into an almost closed space, so that the Gu worm virus can survive perfectly in it, and then more perfectly control the host's ability to act.

At present, this principle is only applicable to humans, and it doesn't work for animals, and the specific reason is not very clear, but Gechai guesses that this has a lot to do with the particularity of the human brain structure, and other animals do not have this characteristic, so there is no way to become something similar to a resurrected corpse, but can only exist in the form of a Gu thing.

In a sense, not being able to turn into a resurrected corpse has become an advantage for the animals.

And now there is such a change in the skin quality of these semi-infected people, it is nothing more than because of the cold weather, so that the Gu worm virus on their bodies began to instinctively protect themselves, and then created such a protective film on their body surface, Gechai believes that if they move to a warmer place, these symptoms will naturally subside on their own.

"Won't the viruses take the opportunity to eat away at them, and turn them into resurrected corpses?" I asked, confused.

"Of course not. Gechai said firmly: "Now the Gu worm virus in their bodies is still the same as when they were in South China and North China before, and there is no change, and even in those places, they have not been turned into soul corpses, and it is even more impossible in such cold regions." Instead of worrying about them turning into resurrected corpses, we should now worry about whether they will end up with some inner wounds from this impermeable skin. ”

"You mean...... We now have to find a way to remove these hard layers of skin to save them?" I asked.

Gochai nodded: "That's right, otherwise, if this state continues to develop, they will die in a short time, and they may even precede the attack of the voodoo." ”

When Gechai was talking, I had been carefully observing the state of these semi-infected people, and sure enough, several of them showed an extremely depressed appearance, and their words and eyes were weak. When I asked them how they felt, the answers they received were all in line with Gochai's judgment.

Gochai further gave a simple and feasible preliminary plan, that is, he can prescribe some drugs to alleviate skin symptoms, they also have their own reserves of herbs needed, and the amount of medicine used by each person is very small, according to the previous information, the total number of semi-infected people here is 5,400 people, if everyone wants to use medicine, they can maintain the medicine for a month, and after a month, if we can successfully expel the wanderers and voodoo, then we can let these semi-infected people return to a slightly warmer place, and after a long time, their symptoms will be self-defeating。

But let Gechai give a solution that can be completely solved without leaving Dongkou Province, but he shook his head and said that it can't be done, because the change in climate cannot be fought with drugs for a long time, and all the means now are just to delay the symptoms and buy time.

But there are two big drawbacks to this method of Gechai, first of all, the number of semi-infected people is more than this, the five thousand four hundred semi-infected people here are only for the second city of life, if you count all the semi-infected people, I estimate that there must be at least forty or fifty thousand people, so that the other semi-infected people will die.

Secondly...... We are not at all sure that we will be able to drive out the people of other forces in a month, let alone a month, I don't think it will be possible for a year and a half.

So I asked him to think about any other way, and he thought about it for a while, saying that if these semi-infected people could stay in a soft and comfortable place indoors for a long time, they could also delay the symptoms, but the premise was to convince those wanderers to do so.

I thought about it quickly, and said in my heart that I would simply start with this Qin Yao, but I wouldn't tell the truth, but lied to her that if I continued to let the semi-infected people work outdoors in the cold, it wouldn't be long before all the people would turn into resurrected corpses, which would threaten their own safety.

At the same time, I would also give Qin Yao a suggestion, that is, while maintaining the productivity of the semi-infected, keep them in a warm environment, so that they can have the best of both worlds, without affecting the production value of the semi-infected, and also avoiding their own potential dangers.

Soon I went outside to find Qin Yao and told her about the idea, to my surprise, Qin Yao actually agreed immediately, and she said that she also agreed to promote this suspended method to other loiterer communities, but there will definitely be a delay in implementation.

"I hope you will implement it as soon as possible, otherwise they will become a resurrected corpse that harms everyone within a week, and it will not benefit anyone. I said.

Qin Yao nodded, glanced at Liu Yong again, and then said: "I believe in you, but this matter must be done step by step, and now if you want to achieve this condition, I am afraid that you must first repel the next offensive of the Fudu Sect." So...... Now that you've found the problem here, let's not delay and get on our way!"

Before leaving, I called the semi-infected people to my side and told them not to give up hope, and to protect themselves as much as possible, that is, to keep the ambient temperature as high as possible, such as lighting a fire to keep warm.

Several semi-infected nodded their heads and begged me not to abandon them.

"If you want to live, you have to keep it a secret!" I finally warned: "Don't spread the word about this, even your own people!"

The semi-infected nodded their heads and left to get back to work.

I still have deep sympathy for the plight of these semi-infected people, they are much more unlucky than the group of semi-infected people led by Tan Wei before, although those half-infected people have also suffered a lot, but at least they have never been treated as slaves, and now these guys are working as laborers in this fucked environment, you can imagine how desperate they must be for their own prospects.

After leaving this small coal mine, we soon approached the winding mountain road in the Qinhuai Mountains, and we thought that the road surface here would be difficult to pass, but we didn't expect that the road maintenance here was surprisingly good, basically there was no place to hinder normal traffic, and we could even often meet passing trucks.

On these winding mountain roads, you can see a checkpoint blocking the road almost every few kilometers, and people passing by will be interrogated and checked, but because our car is sitting on the two "big shots" Qin Yao and Liu Yong, we are naturally allowed to go wherever we go, so it will save us from being questioned, and there will be no risk of revealing our stuffing.

We took this stretch car and finally stopped at the end of the main line of the east branch of the Qinhuai Mountains, it was just noon, and then ordinary vehicles would not be able to pass, because they were all rugged trails, and they could only be entered by walking.

I was surprised, I thought that the several loiterer strongholds in the Qinhuai Mountains were also of the same category as the No. 2 City of Life, but now it seems that this is not the case, these strongholds are probably hidden in the mountains and forests, similar to the system of tribal communities, although it looks more primitive, but it is more hidden.

At this time, Qin Yao distributed some colorful plastic feathers to us and asked us to stick them on our heads, saying that this was a signal to enter the mountain, so as not to be accidentally injured by the wanderer patrol in the mountain.

After we put these feathers on our heads, they are all the same as the Indians, the person who is most suitable for dressing like this is naturally Chenxi, and the person who is the least suitable is Qin Yao, her original unsmiling appearance with these feathers There is a strong sense of contrast, and even a little funny.

Qin Yao let her personal guards scatter around us, nominally to protect us, but I understand that it is more to monitor our movements, but I don't have any other plans now, just to follow Qin Yao to meet the "alliance leader", it doesn't matter how she wants to spy on us.

The trails in the mountains are intricate, but it is obvious that they are often crowded, and some of the tree trunks and weeds on both sides have been rubbed off due to the long round trip.

Now this is still the territory of the wanderers, so although the terrain is huge, but we did not encounter any danger, we only encountered some patrols interrogation, Qin Yao and Liu Yong opened the way, these patrols instantly became guides, leading us towards the nearest loiter's stronghold in the mountain.