Chapter 840: Chapter 840

"If you don't speak, you will die within three days," Ding Fan said indifferently.

Once the Black Death virus activates, death is inevitable.

Hearing Ding Fan speak , the man's eyes suddenly filled with panic. "I... I... I don't want to die... I... I..."

Before the man could finish his words, he suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, then continuously rubbed his head with his hands.

"I... it hurts so much... save me... help me..."

The man reached out his hand, but before he could finish speaking, his body began to self-ignite, and soon he was engulfed in flames.

Xu Yiman had never seen such a scene before and was frightened, her eyes shut tightly, while Huang Can also looked incredulous.

He had seen many deaths, but the spontaneous combustion of a human body was indeed something he had never witnessed before.

"He was actually afflicted with a Gu insect..." Ding Fan's eyebrows furrowed tightly.

The reason why the man self-ignited was because he couldn't bear the secret, and the Gu insect inside his body, sensing the emotional change, directly triggered.

The man was quickly burned to ashes.

Because there was a big commotion, two soldiers quickly ran over. There was nothing much for Ding Fan to explain; he just instructed them to clean up the area...

Ding Fan, Huang Can, and Xu Yiman then continued to check the other rooms.

The patients in these rooms were all infected or suspected to be infected. They were all isolated here, with only a few being taken to a temporary field hospital outside.

The situation in the other rooms was largely the same, so Ding Fan was no longer in the mood to continue looking.

Shortly after, Ding Fan led Huang Can and Xu Yiman out of the town government building.

The more he dealt with the situation, the more mysterious it seemed to Ding Fan.

The first person to release the Black Death virus pathogen was that Sun Wei, but upon investigation, Sun Wei was just a wasteful playboy. It was impossible for him to have orchestrated such a big scheme.

As for the second person, the one they just encountered with the ring on his finger, Ding Fan was certain that this person wouldn't know about the ring and the Black Death virus.

Not only did the man wearing the ring not know, but Sun Wei definitely didn't know either.

Thinking of the Gu insect planted on the person with the ring, Ding Fan wondered who exactly was controlling these events from behind the scenes.

Not long after Ding Fan and his group left, other specialists and doctors also came out.

At this moment, everyone's faces were exceptionally grave. Clearly, regarding the Black Death here, everyone felt helpless.

There wasn't much that could be done by staying there, so they immediately left the epidemic area and went to the field hospital outside.

Ding Fan was feeling very oppressed at the moment, as if someone was pressing down on the whole situation. All the events were completely clueless.

Just as Ding Fan's car was about to leave the epidemic area, he suddenly sensed a trace of aura.

"Driver, stop the car."

Screech… The car stopped immediately, and Ding Fan stood up. "I'm going to walk around here; you guys go back first."

"Mr. Ding?" Huang Can stood up.

Ding Fan shook his head at him. "You go back first; I'll be back soon."

Seeing Ding Fan insist, Huang Can reluctantly sat back down.

After the car left, Ding Fan's figure flashed, and he darted directly into the woods next to the town.

The main reason Ding Fan chose to get off here was that he detected a trace of vitality nearby.

The area around was heavy with an atmosphere of death, all living creatures' vitality was suppressed, and even the leaves on the trees had begun to wither, but nobody had noticed.

Yet in such a place, Ding Fan could still feel a trace of vitality, which was simply like a beacon of hope. What kind of thing could maintain such stubborn vitality here?

Following the trace of the aura, Ding Fan ran madly until he reached a lake in the park next to the town. The vitality was emanating from this lake.

Ding Fan pondered for a moment then dove into the lake.

The lake was quite deep, the deepest part being about three meters. In the depths of the lake, Ding Fan found some white lotus roots.

The vitality was coming from these white lotus roots.

And after finding these white lotus roots, he was even more surprised to discover a crack in the stones at the bottom of the lake, narrowly allowing a person to pass through.

Using his Divine Sense, Ding Fan explored along the crack, and it turned out to lead underground.

Moreover, his Divine Sense could not even reach the end of this crack below.

One should know that Ding Fan, now in the Middle Stage of Golden Core, could detect situations within twenty miles, yet the place this crack led to was beyond twenty miles.

Ding Fan pondered again, then directly dived into the crack.

With Ding Fan's current cultivation level, he could completely breathe underwater; if he encountered any danger in the water, he could also enter the Small World.

The reason he wanted to enter the crack below was that Ding Fan felt that the situation below would not be so simple.

Perhaps the main reason the mysterious person behind this chose to act upon the people in this town is because of this place.

At this moment, Ding Fan's body was as agile as a fish, and he had already traveled five or six kilometers through this crack in no time.

In front of Ding Fan, a Concealment Formation suddenly appeared.

This Concealment Formation was not made using Array Flags. It was more intricate than those formed by Array Flags. Its creator used the terrain to isolate the water.

After passing through the Concealment Formation, Ding Fan seemed to have entered another space entirely.

This space had no water but was damp. Looking up, he could see many roots overhead, while the ground beneath his feet was extremely muddy.

In these muddy grounds, Ding Fan found some footprints.

With these footprints, Ding Fan could be certain that someone had been here. Judging by the footprints coming in and going out, it seemed that the person had already left.

With this discovery, Ding Fan felt even more certain that the sudden attack of the Black Death virus on the town was connected to this crack below.

Immediately, Ding Fan fully released his Divine Sense, not being careless in the slightest, and sped underground.

After traveling around twenty kilometers downward, Ding Fan was suddenly greeted by a more spacious area. A huge Underground Lake appeared before him.

The end of the crack was right here.

Ding Fan used his Divine Sense to scout around but didn't find anything concerning. He then probed beneath the lake with his Divine Sense.

Soon, at the bottom of the Underground Lake, he detected something.

There, a massive Concealment Formation had been set up at the bottom of the lake. Without his exceptionally powerful Divine Sense, it would have been impossible for him to detect it.

If he hadn't absorbed the Soul Power remaining on the Iron Piece given by Dai Qiliao, Ding Fan would also not have discovered the Formation at the bottom of the lake.

Immediately, Ding Fan jumped back into the lake.

The water here was bone-chillingly cold. This type of cold was unlike any ordinary cold. Ordinary cold was nothing to Ding Fan.

But the cold in this lake made even Ding Fan shiver...

After a thorough investigation, Ding Fan understood, realizing that Death Qi was continuously accumulating here...

Ding Fan then quickened his pace, and soon he had reached the center of the lake, where he directly broke the Concealment Formation with a wave of his hand.

After entering the lake center, Ding Fan discovered a modified Spirit Gathering Array.

Seeing this, Ding Fan quickly confirmed the reason why the person behind it had spread the Black Death virus in this town. The terrain around here could be easily modified into a large Spirit Gathering Array.

But, unlike normal Spirit Gathering Arrays that gather Spiritual Energy, the person behind this gathered Death Qi...

Ding Fan approached the edge of the Formation. The Death Qi here was particularly thick, almost tangible. And in the middle of the Formation, there was a black Pill as large as a watermelon.

This black Pill was condensed from the Death Qi over this period.

Being able to condense energy into a tangible object was already quite rare, yet a Pill as big as a watermelon was formed here...

Even Ding Fan couldn't help but feel a surge of shock and anger when he saw this.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh… Ding Fan instantly sent several Wind Blades to shatter this setup, and after breaking the Formation, he found three Red Spirit Stones by its side.

Ding Fan was quite shocked to see these items. Red Spirit Stones were considered the finest among Spirit Stones, rarely used even by veteran cultivators.

The value of a single Red Spirit Stone was perhaps beyond what ten thousand ordinary Spirit Stones could buy, and furthermore, they were priceless.

Yet here, three of them had appeared all at once, showing that the mysterious person behind this was willing to spend lavishly. Immediately, Ding Fan unceremoniously stuffed the three Red Spirit Stones into his storage ring.

Then, he lifted the watermelon-sized Pill from the bottom of the lake.

Leaving such things in this world was simply a menace to the vicinity.

With a bunch of Heavenly Flame, Ding Fan directly annihilated the black Pill. After doing all this, Ding Fan then made his way back along the original path.

It didn't take long for Ding Fan to climb out from the lake inside the town park. He also casually dug out some white lotus roots from beneath the lake.

Once on shore, Ding Fan could clearly feel that the virulent Death Qi in the area wasn't as intense as before.

For the sake of gathering Death Qi, the mysterious person behind this had cruelly used the lives of all the townspeople for exchange.

Ding Fan pondered for a moment; what he should do now was to let that person know that the Formation beneath the lake had been broken, then lure that person out.

Only by dealing with this mastermind behind the curtain could the virus matter be fundamentally resolved.

And how to draw that person out?

Ding Fan already had a plan; as long as the media was brought in and it was announced that the situation in the epidemic area had improved, he believed that the mysterious person behind the scenes would reveal themselves.

Having made his plans, Ding Fan took the white lotus roots he had dug up with him.

In such a densely death-laden place, and especially in the direction of the eye of the Spirit Gathering Array, these white lotus roots were still oozing vitality. From this, it seemed possible that the white lotus roots might help with the epidemic this time.

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