As Ding Yun's curse on the human traffickers was officially released, those who had followed her and happened to be online quickly saw the new message.
They soon began to inquire with curiosity or discuss it.
【What happened?】
【Did a relative at home have an accident?】
【Yunyun jie, if a child has an accident, you should report it quickly. Just posting this online is useless.】
【This curse is too mild. I say they should die without a burial ground, and their entire families should be annihilated.】
【Online sentencing, death penalty as the starting point!】
【Hope nothing happens...】
【Human traffickers truly deserve to die...】
【If curses worked, some people would have been cursed to death thousands or tens of thousands of times already. It's not that retribution won't come, but the time hasn't arrived yet. The longer those wicked people live, the more I feel it's unjust to the victims!】
【Why is a travel blogger suddenly posting this? Was their account hacked or something? It's so confusing and makes people anxious!】
...
Facing the discussion, inquiries, and controversy from her fans, Ding Yun did not explain. After using her spiritual power to expand the curse's radius to cover one-third of the county, she felt a bit tired and began to cultivate first.
She wanted to cultivate and reach the initial stages as soon as possible.
She also wanted to quickly recover her own spiritual power.
Although she had already decided to follow the path of cultivating through merit and incense offerings, this did not mean she couldn't absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or the essence of the sun and moon for cultivation.
After all, she didn't have much merit or incense offerings for now.
There was no need to delay cultivation until she had merit and incense offerings. So, she would practice with the normal cultivation methods first, even if it was slower.
If she didn't cultivate at all, there would be no speed at all.
Since she had nothing else to do, a slower pace was fine.
Meanwhile, Ding Yun's miraculously potent divine ability, powered by her injected spiritual energy, was rapidly exerting the curse's effect.
All within the curse's radius.
Whether they had personally trafficked people, were the masterminds behind it, or had knowingly assisted them and reaped related benefits, all were included.
They suffered the curse.
This manifested as bodily deterioration, skin festering, and the formation of pustules on their backs, arms, or thighs, resembling struggling ghostly faces.
Of course, if they were unlucky, it might appear directly on their faces. The severity largely depended on their own sins.
If they had trafficked a hundred or more people,
Then there might not be a single patch of healthy skin on their entire body.
These ghost-faced sores not only made them extremely unsightly but also inflicted a pain that penetrated to the bone. It was a pain more terrifying than the "Life and Death Talisman" described in novels. After being tormented by this pain for a long time, the strong desire to die would likely arise.
At this point, another effect of the ghost-faced sores came into play: paralysis. Their limbs, as well as their mouths and tongues, would lose their ability to move. They couldn't even smash their heads against walls or jump off buildings; even biting their tongues to commit suicide would be impossible.
They couldn't even speak.
Simultaneously, their sense of pain would be greatly amplified. Their bodies would perceive pain tens or even hundreds of times more acutely. Pain that was originally a "one" would feel like a "hundred" in their perception.
It was estimated that the pain experienced in the eighteen levels of hell
Would probably be similar to this.
The most critical aspect was that in this state, they were very likely to survive. With a little food and water, they wouldn't die. If they were given nutritional drips daily, they would become even more unkillable.
So, if they had no relatives and no neighbors, and lived alone, it might be somewhat better.
After a few days, they might find release from starvation and thirst.
But if they had relatives or neighbors who took them to the hospital for treatment, even if they were only given a few bottles of glucose daily, they could be kept alive for a very long time, suffering continuously, living each day as if enduring torture in the eighteen levels of hell, yet unable to die.
The reason they were not paralyzed in the early stages of the ghost-faced sores was to give them time to beg for help, or even go to the hospital for treatment themselves.
After all, the longer the ghost-faced sores persisted, the more painful they became.
Dying after a few days of pain would be too easy for them.
Because of this, before Ding Yun's family's dinner was even ready, most major hospitals in half the county had received several or over a dozen patients with festering bodies, constantly moaning in pain, or muttering about retribution.
In some villages, over half the population contracted this strange illness.
The health department, terrified that it might be a contagious epidemic, quickly activated a county-wide red alert for medical emergencies!
Related news and the suffering appearances of those individuals
Quickly dominated the county's trending topics.
And they were spreading across the country at an astonishing speed, sparking nationwide discussion. Many hospitals from other regions also urgently dispatched personnel to provide support,
Fearing it might be some contagious disease that could spread.
At this point, Ding Yun had only appropriately spread the definition of the ghost-faced sores, their appearance, and incidentally bought some popularity for her curse.
Then, her curse quickly rode this wave of attention, rapidly becoming known to the public and topping the trending charts.
She was nicknamed the Black Koi, the God of Curses.
Retweets, comments, and likes increased by thousands every second.
Coupled with enthusiastic individuals posting the definition and legendary appearance of the ghost-faced sores, when people compared them, they immediately felt that the appearance of the patients currently topping the hot search, indeed resembled those suffering from ghost-faced sores.
But whether this matter was related to Ding Yun's curse?
And whether these people were all human traffickers?
It was still difficult to say for sure.
Most people were only half-believing, so the event, at this stage, could only be said to have high short-term popularity and a large number of netizens discussing it.
However, it was far from explosive.
The true node that ignited the hot topic was when a hospital nurse posted that two of the patients admitted to their hospital with festering bodies were discovered to be wanted human traffickers when their IDs were registered. Currently, public security officials were investigating.
However, their condition was too severe for arrest.
They could only station a few people outside their rooms to keep watch.
As soon as this news broke, those who found Ding Yun's curse to be ridiculously effective, and those who didn't believe all the ghost-faced sore sufferers were human traffickers, all began to doubt themselves and the scientific nature of the world.
Following this, ordinary people continued to spectate and discuss.
Those with some influence and media outlets eager for a sensational scoop began to conduct in-depth investigations into the specific identities and backgrounds of other patients.
Investigating whether they were human traffickers.
Many things, when hidden in darkness, are easily concealed. But once the veil is lifted and they are exposed to the sun, illuminated by the spotlight,
Their entire ancestry can be uncovered.
So, the result was predictable. Before long, many media outlets or informed individuals began posting, stating that individuals from Hospital X and Hospital Y were indeed suspected human traffickers after investigation, or evidence was directly found.
Confirming that Mr. So-and-so was definitely a human trafficker.
In the village where half the population was affected, most of the women there were likely trafficked.
In an instant, the entire nation was in an uproar.
Celebrity gossip, concerts, international disputes, and other topics were all overshadowed by the immense popularity of this event, completely pushed off the real-time trending search rankings.
It blew up! It completely blew up!