At that moment, Zhouzhou's phone watch suddenly rang. She looked down to see that it was a call from Liu Hanqiu. She was puzzled; he had said he was in the southwest gathering herbs, and they hadn't seen each other in a long time. Why was he calling now? She answered, "Hello?"
"Master," Liu Hanqiu called, sounding anxious. "Something bad has happened!"
Upon hearing this, Zhouzhou quickly asked, "What happened?"
"I was gathering herbs and found a patient on the mountain. I suspect it's a plague. He said many people in their town have the same symptoms."
Plague?
Zhouzhou was taken aback; she had only read about such things in books and had never encountered one before.
Ancestral Master, hearing this, quickly asked, "Is it in the southwest direction?"
Zhouzhou repeated his words, and Liu Hanqiu exclaimed, "Yes, Master, how did you know?"
Zhouzhou glanced at Ancestral Master, who pointed outside. "You can check for yourself."