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Chapter 439 Transforming Water
When Zhu Yu had rested enough to walk freely up and down the stairs without Lu Qing's help, she learned that the building was actually an inn, but Lu Qing had bought it. The current manager was a trusted confidant brought by Lu Chao, and the staff were all newly recruited from outside.

Currently, the inn is not open to the public. Instead, it is using the excuse of changing owners and needing to renovate the interior to house the girls in the small building who might still be salvageable.

Yan Daoxin tried every day to devise an antidote, but the effect did not seem to be very ideal.

There were originally about ten medicine people in that small building who had not yet been sent out. Two of these people had been completely "marinated" and could not be seen by even the slightest bit of light, let alone walk.

The two people were carefully carried out on the dismantled door panels, covered with layers of cloth.

Even so, one of them still developed ulcers on his fair skin after the wind accidentally blew off the cloth covering him and he was exposed to the sun.

The people around her hurriedly helped her cover it up again, but it was still to no avail.

The skin ulcers began to spread uncontrollably from the sunburned areas.

The poor girl screamed in agony on the bed all night, and by the next morning she was completely still.

It is said that the girl's death could be described as "extremely horrific" - a perfectly healthy person was reduced to a pool of blood, leaving only a skeleton that would break at the slightest touch, already reduced to fragments, and a skin soaked in blood.

Moreover, there was a great deal of blood, which flowed everywhere and even seeped into the corridor through the cracks in the door.

Yan Daoxin felt something was wrong, but he couldn't be sure. Even the soldiers that Lu Chao had borrowed were frightened by the scene and dared not approach. So he had to do it himself, soaking a cloth in blood and twisting it into a copper basin.

They went back and forth like this, over and over again, until they finally managed to clean up the floor, having wrung out more than two large basins of water.

He made a point of noting how much blood he wiped out, and when he told Zhu Yu about it, he even had someone bring over a large copper basin so that Zhu Yu could see it properly.

Looking at the large copper basin, Zhu Yu estimated that it was at least a dou (a unit of dry measure), and a dou at this moment would be equivalent to at least 10 jin (a unit of weight).

Two large basins would still have some left over... that's definitely going to weigh thirty pounds.

A normal adult woman has at most eleven or twelve pounds of blood in her body.

The amount of blood in the body of that tragically deceased woman was more than twice that of a normal person.

I've seen this kind of ridiculously excessive amount of blood before, along the way I came with Lu Qing, but it's nowhere near this extreme.

However, when you think about it, there is a certain continuity between them, and Zhu Yu firmly believes that there is no inherent connection between them.

As they were talking, a young man who looked like a shop assistant rushed over, his face pale, and said to Yan Daoxin, "Master Dao, it's terrible! I just went to deliver medicine to those girls, and one of the girls in one of the rooms... she... she's not even recognizable as a human being anymore!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Daoxin dared not hesitate any longer. He got up and pulled the young waiter towards that room, with Zhu Yu following closely behind.

Fu Lu, fearing that something might happen to the mistress who had just recovered, followed closely behind. When they arrived at the door of the woman's room, the young waiter, having just caught a glimpse, was so frightened that he was almost scared out of his wits and dared not take another step closer.

Yan Daoxin didn't care whether he wanted to come closer or not. He pushed open the door and went inside, with Zhu Yu following closely behind.

The room retains the original layout of the guest room, simple and square, with a table and a bed inside, nothing more, with no obstructions and a clear view.

On the bed lay a huge puddle.

It wasn't that Zhu Yu was unwilling to call that thing a person, but what the young waiter said was true. The woman who should have been resting here was no longer even remotely human!

Her body swelled up dramatically for some reason, but it wasn't in a bloated, hard shape; it was more like a huge, almost melting... jellyfish...

Beneath the eerily yellowish-green skin, which was almost transparent, one could clearly see the person's crisscrossing blood vessels. The facial features were distorted and twisted, and the person appeared to have long since lost consciousness.

A faint, fishy odor permeated the air throughout the room.

Zhu Yu saw the woman's appearance clearly and reached out to grab Yan Daoxin's sleeve, who was about to carefully approach her to take her pulse.

"No need to confirm, this person is definitely dead." She sighed. "The fat all over his body has melted away. This kind of thing can't happen to a living person. Even a normal dead person wouldn't look like this."

I know you have superb medical skills, but unless you are truly a divine being descended to earth, there is no way you can save this person.

And look at her now, her skin is as thin as paper, and she's already showing signs of collapse. I'm afraid you won't be able to grasp her pulse and might end up hurting her even more..."

Yan Daoxin paused for a moment, realizing that Zhu Yu's words made sense, so he had no choice but to abandon his original plan and asked Fu Lu to help him get a large bath tub and place it next to the bed.

"At least the bodily fluids will flow into the bucket, making it easier to clean up," he instructed the talisman, his face ashen.

Fu Lu hurriedly carried the bathtub inside and arranged it according to Yan Daoxin's instructions, then came out and closed the door tightly.

Yan Daoxin then went to each of the other women's rooms to check on their conditions and took their pulses one by one.

Zhu Yu followed behind him, looking at each person one by one.

This was the first time she had ever seen those girls who had been turned into medicine people. Among them, only one woman who had entered the building a few days earlier than her and Yan Daoxin was in slightly better condition, at least she still had some energy. The others gave people a feeling of death. Not only were they not very clear-headed, but they also exuded a rotten smell as if they had already died.

After checking around, Yan Daoxin's face was as dark as the sky before a storm. He gritted his teeth, his cheeks bulging, and after checking the last woman, he turned and left without saying a word.

Zhu Yu followed silently behind him, all the way downstairs to the table where they had been sitting and chatting over tea. Then she watched him slam his fist heavily on the table.