"Give way! Give way! Get out of the way!"
Three or four people dressed as guards from the west of the city came rushing from the street corner pushing a wooden cart. Several adult-sized items were wrapped in heavy cloth on the wooden cart.
When pedestrians on the street saw the wooden cart, they quickly scattered to avoid it, as if encountering a savage beast.
Before Shen Mochi could react, he was grabbed by someone beside him. As soon as he stepped back, a wooden cart drove past.
The wooden wheel hit the gravel, and the car jolted heavily. A piece of fabric was blown away by the wind, and a pale hand fell out.
The exposed hand only stayed in the air for a moment before being covered with cloth again by the guard of the cart.
After the guard pushing the wooden cart disappeared at the end of the street, the people around him continued to work on what they were doing.
Shen Mochi frowned, thinking of the mission given by Ling Zong, the city chief, and asked the aunt who had just given him a hand.
"Auntie, do you know what's going on? Are there dead people in there?"
All Shen Mochi knew about the plot was that the heroine met the Demon Lord in Lincheng and encountered some troublesome things. The plot did not detail what happened.
"Hey, the young master is from out of town, right?" The middle-aged lady straightened the bamboo basket hanging on her wrist and said, "Do you have anything to do when you come to the city? If you have nothing to do, just leave here quickly?"
"Auntie, can you tell me why?" Shen Mochi's curiosity was aroused, and he took out a lychee he just bought and gave it to his aunt.
Taking the lychees handed over by the man, the aunt glanced at the slowly eating pile of food held by the girl in the other man's arms and pouted, cleared her throat and began to narrate.
"Recently, there have been demons in Lincheng, and anyone marked by the demons will die if they don't leave two.
When those people died, each of them was either drained of essence and blood by the demons, or their bodies were rotten and smelly. "
“Where did this first start?”
"I heard people say that it started from the surrounding villages, but I can see the guards of the City Lord's Mansion disposing of corpses every day. It can't be true."
As the aunt was talking, she saw several guards pushing a wooden cart passing through the street. There were still corpses covered with cloth on the cart.
Waiting for the wooden cart to pass by, Shen Mochi hesitated for a moment and decided to follow it and take a look.
However, the aunt stopped him, so he walked through the crowd with the little mermaid in his arms, followed the guard along the street, and walked for a while before hiding himself while no one was paying attention.
After the guards pushed the body out of the city gate, they walked to the nearby path. They walked along the path for more than an hour until they stopped in a village.
The village is shabby and almost abandoned.
The entire village was guarded by armed guards.
At first glance, there were almost a hundred people in the dilapidated village. Some were huddled in their houses, while others were hiding outside. It was like a temporary camp.
The guards took the bodies that were transported by wooden carts to the pit behind the village, then lifted the cloth wrapping the bodies and pushed the bodies directly into the pit.
The pit was about four to five meters wide and several feet deep. There were hundreds of corpses in it. Most of the corpses below were rotting and infested with maggots. Big dogs were towering into the sky.
Lan Yaoyao lowered her head and glanced down, then looked away. She wrinkled her face in disgust and buried her head in Shen Mochi's chest.
"Brother, it stinks so bad, can we go?" The girl's voice came from her chest.
"Shhh."
Shen Mochi patted the girl's back gently to signal for silence. Fortunately, she was surrounded by the wailing of those gathered here, and Lan Yaoyao's voice did not attract any attention.
"Yaoyao knows, Yaoyao won't speak anymore." The girl immediately covered her mouth and raised her head, obediently admitting her mistake.
The two of them wandered around this guarded village in hiding for more than an hour. From the interactions with people around them, they found out that this was where the infected people gathered.
Since three months ago, people have been getting strange illnesses near Lincheng.
I didn't pay much attention to it at first, until more and more people showed this symptom.
At first, they just had itching and red pimples all over their body, but it didn't take long for the pimples to turn into abscesses, causing excruciating pain all over their body. No medicine could work, and even practitioners were helpless.
In the end, these people could only die in pain. After death, the blood in their bodies suddenly disappeared, as if they had been sucked dry by something.
Now in Lincheng, anyone who is found to have such symptoms will be immediately sent to this village and put under guard.
At first, the city lord of Lincheng would send doctors to treat them. After several twists and turns, not only the patient's symptoms could not be relieved, but one of the doctors was infected. In the end, the city lord had to give up on these people and let them fend for themselves.
The infected people here range from elderly people in their 70s to 80s to newborn children.
In fact, most of the people who were exchanged here died not of illness but of hunger.
The people in Lincheng sent the infected people here without preparing food for them. Many people starved to death within a few days of being captured.
Shen Mochi frowned as he looked at this temporary isolation zone that was like a purgatory on earth.
With a thought in his heart, he shrunk into an inch, left the smelly area, and appeared at the entrance of the woods outside the village.
Thirty meters away, Shen Mochi touched Lan Yaoyao's head and said earnestly: "Yaoyao, do you want to help those people?"
In no mood.
The girl moved her snow-white feet and tilted her head to think. After a moment, she said in embarrassment: "Brother, can you help them? He will get sick. Yaoyao doesn't want his brother to get sick."
"Brother is a cultivator and won't get sick." Shen Mochi was moved.
Sure enough, his little shark was the best in the world, and he actually cared about him so much.
He will definitely teach Xiaomeri to be a good girl with upright values and will never become the villain in the plot.
"Then tomorrow my brother will take Yaoyao to see them and give them food. Yaoyao, don't worry, my brother will help them." As he said that, Shen Mochi rubbed the top of the girl's hair, showing his fatherly relief.
"...Okay, Yaoyao, listen to brother." Lan Yaoyao sniffed, with a hint of disgust in her eyes.
She really didn't want to come here again, it was ugly, dirty, and those lowly humans.
As a result, the two of them reached an inexplicable consensus. One was full of pride and pride, while the other was disgusted and had to cooperate with the other to make trouble.
The two left the village, and as soon as they returned to the city and settled in a private room for temporary residence, they encountered an inspection by the city guards.
The process is not complicated. You only need to lift up your sleeves and show your wrists to the guards. Anyone with red rash on their wrists will be taken away.
This includes people who use knives to cut off the skin where the rash appears in order to avoid detection.
Because once he is captured by the guards, it means there is no way to survive.
The majority of people are infected, which is why Lincheng is so calm now.
It was a store where Shen Mochi lived, and there were more than a dozen people carrying him away.
"It's over, it's all over. If I had known, we shouldn't have come to the city in the first place."
"Shouldn't you come? Aren't you not infected? If you want to leave, just leave." Shen Mochi heard the complaints from people around him and took advantage of the situation.
"Leave?" The man smiled bitterly, "You must have just come. I have never seen you before. As long as you enter Lincheng, no one can leave until this serious illness is over."
"Do you know why Lincheng is like this? Are there any guests in the inn?"
