An unusual epidemic was indeed spreading in Fushui Village. The source of the unknown plague was fish in the river that flowed through the village, and the villagers suffered from a mysterious illness after eating the fish.
On the first day when those people started suffering from the skin disease, they did not know that the disease would only get worse if their skin was exposed to sunlight. Worsening of the disease was not the only effect if it got exposed to sunlight, but the disease also became contagious once the sufferer was exposed under the sun.
The old woman named Ting even said that if someone suffering from the disease came out of their house and stood in the sun, other people standing around them within a few meters would get the disease too. In the end, people who were previously healthy also contracted the disease, and that was the reason why almost everyone in the area also suffered from the disease.
