Chapter 73: Erosion (10)
"Finally home!"
Sitting on his horse, Ferro let out a long sigh.
After this long-distance journey, the caravan finally arrived in Jiaoyan City, which also put Fei Luo's hanging heart at ease.
Every business trip is a life-and-death adventure.
Of course, the results of a successful venture are encouraging.
After these goods arrived in Jiaoyan City, they would inevitably bring a lot of profits to the caravan, and at the same time, they would also bring themselves rich revenge.
Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other.
Ferro sighed.
When he looked back, he saw the female knight chatting happily with her young lady, Cecili.
He rode over, "Lord Isabella, we're in Scorched Rock City, thanks to you this time. β
"You're welcome, it's a pleasure to walk with you. Isabella replied with a smile.
She was already good-looking, but now she was wearing armor, and when she smiled like this, she immediately fascinated countless people in the caravan.
looked at Isabella obsessively, and thought that whoever could marry such a girl would be happy.
Perhaps only Isabella's ghost thieves don't think so.
The girl who can stand in a group of robbers has never relied on a smile and beauty, but on an iron wrist.
Isabella may have been a Chinese New Year girl at first, but since the day she was made the leader of the ghost thieves, she has been forced to constantly change herself in order to survive.
Die or win.
Isabella became, she became the true leader of the ghost thieves, and she changed herself in the true sense of the word.
Today's Isabella is no longer the innocent girl she was at the beginning.
But the more this happens, the more Isabella is willing to face others with a pure attitude.
"Now that we've arrived in Jiaoyan City, let's come to my house and sit down. Cecily extended an invitation to Isabella.
"I don't have a problem, but why does this city look a little weird?" Isabella pointed with her chin pointing at Scorched Rock.
At this time, in Jiaoyan City, although the city gate was wide open, the gate was extremely cold, and few people could not be seen walking on the street. Looking in the direction of the city gate, the entire city is sparsely populated, and there are no pedestrians in sight.
Fei Luo muttered, "It's a little strange, where have all the people gone? β
"Let's go, let's see. Isabella spurred her horse's belly and sprang forward.
The gates of the city were once guarded by soldiers, but now they are ignored. When the convoy entered the city with ease, it was deserted and terrible, except for a few ragged beggars sitting on the ground, their eyes glazed as if they were dead, and they did not pay attention to their conversations.
"What the hell is going on here?" Ferro frowned.
Cecili said directly: "It feels like walking in a ghost town." β
These words made Fei Luo's heart tremble: "Everyone hurry up, go back to the trading house quickly." β
The convoy sped past, babbling through the bluestone streets.
The Red Kite Merchant House arrived soon, just as deserted as the long street, and there was no one to be seen in front of the Comptoir, only a man sitting at the door.
"Adam, what the hell is going on here?" Ferro asked, jumping off his horse.
"Mistress Ferro, you're finally back. The dead fish-like eyes of the guy named Adam finally showed a look of expectation.
"Tell me, what's going on here, where have all the people gone, what's going on in Jiaoyan City?" Ferro asked a barrage of questions.
"It's a curse, a terrible curse!" replied Adam.
With Adam's answer, Ferro realized that not long ago, Jiaoyan City suddenly fell a curse from the sky.
This curse is so terrible that the middle one will weep and weep until he dies. The worst thing is that the curse is extremely contagious, and once you come into contact with the curse, you will quickly become infected.
It was because of this curse that Jiaoyan City caused a large number of people to flee, and the entire city was mostly empty, and the rest of the people were unable to escape.
"How so? Isn't there a solution to this curse?" asked Ferro aloud.
Adam shook his head slightly.
In the face of this curse, all the temple can do is protect itself.
Before the curse, the temple could ensure that the target was not corrupted by the curse, but once the curse was applied, even the priests could not do anything. Because, according to the pastor, this curse is deep in the bone marrow and extremely difficult to eradicate.
Ferro couldn't stand still.
Miss Cecily next to her exclaimed, "What about my father?"
"The patriarch is fine, but he has already withdrawn from Jiaoyan City. But Madame, she ......."
Adam didn't say any more, but Cecily realized something, and his eyes were dark, and the person was paralyzed.
"Miss. The guards stepped forward to hold Cecili.
"Mother......" Cecily had wept.
"Well, if something goes wrong, you just know how to cry? A cold voice came at this moment.
Following the prestige, I saw Isabella having jumped off her horse and walked not far away.
There was a corpse lying on its side, presumably a passerby who had died not long ago.
The shiny riding boots kicked the dead man, picking him away, revealing a face full of red dots.
"Beware of contagion!" Adam shouted.
Isabella turned a deaf ear: "Sure enough, it's the Red Spot Curse." β
"Red Spot Curse?" everyone asked strangely at the same time, "What is that?"
"A vicious curse from the invention of a fallen arcanist, a dark death-like arcane that is contagious and extremely lethal. It is named after the large red spots that will appear on the body of the deceased. Isabella replied.
"Who is itβwho is doing such a vicious thing?" asked Cecili, indignant.
Isabella gave her a strange look: "They all said they were fallen arcanists." For power, or wealth, or whatever, who knows?"
Or did Ferro react quickly: "Miss Isabella, have you seen this kind of curse before?"
"How else would it be called?" replied Isabella, "the curse has been rampant in the western regions for a while. β
"I've never heard of it. β
"Most of the people who heard about it died. β
"Is there any solution?" Ferro asked hurriedly.
"The solution?" Isabella tilted her head, then replied, "Gotta find the source." This curse has a source of power, which can be solved by finding the source of power and destroying it. β
"Where is the source of strength?"
"Then you'll have to take your time. Isabella looked around, then said, "Go find some people who have the Red Spot Charm but aren't dead, they'll sense the source." The source can only be found through them. β
"I see. Ferro muttered, but didn't move, his eyes flickering as he looked at Isabella.
"What?" Isabella asked.
Ferro replied, "I just think it's lucky." The curse has just erupted in Scorched Rock City, and here you are. It's like we've been in danger before, and you've appeared. β
Isabella raised her eyebrows, "Are you suspicious of me?"
Fei Luo hurriedly said, "How dare you? I'm just worried about you." After all, the Red Spot Charm is very contagious, in case it ......"
Isabella looked at Ferro sympathetically: "The Red Spot Spell is indeed very contagious. However, if the source is removed in time during the period when the Erythema Curse is not yet dead, then all patients will heal themselves, and not only that, but they will also develop resistance to the Erythema Curse. β
"And this kind of thing?" Fei Luo was stunned: "Then you ......"
Isabella said coldly: "I said that there is a large outbreak in the western region, and we all came from there. β
Adam exclaimed, "I see, you must have brought the Red Spot Charm!"
Isabella said coldly: "We are immune, not carriers. And when did you hear that the curse ran ahead of people?"
The last sentence dispelled Ferro's suspicions.
Anyway, it's a fact that Isabella was with them before the curse broke out in Scorched Rock City.
Isabella said, "Now give you one last chance, and if you delay any longer, we'll go." β
"I'll go!" Adam said as he ran, knowing that the last hope for saving the city lay with these men.
It didn't take long for a large number of bearers of the Red Spot Charm to be gathered around Isabella.
These people are cursed, death is coming, and they are already waiting for death to come.
Suddenly, someone told them that they didn't have to die, and that they still had hope of life, and they were naturally overjoyed, and they did whatever they wanted.
Isabella began to teach them how to sense their hearts, to follow their hearts and feel the existence of the Source.
This is an extremely mysterious feeling, which is inexplicable, but if you can feel it, you can feel it, and if you can't feel it, you can't.
Only one in a thousand people can sense it.
Fortunately, there were enough people in Jiaoyan City, so soon, several people in a row had senses.
"Over there, over there! I sensed that something was calling me in the east of the city. A teenager called out excitedly.
"Yes, over there!" echoed the others.
Finally, the price found its source in a private house in the east of the city.
It was an altar with a ghost tree planted on it.
The curse came from this ghost tree.
At Isabella's reminder, everyone destroys the altar and then uses the purification array to purify the ghost tree.
As the source was purified, the haze that had originally shrouded Jiaoyan City gradually disappeared, and death was finally announced.
Those who had been cursed by the red spot curse and waited to die were also miraculously cured one by one.
According to Isabella, they who have been cursed once don't have to worry about this curse anymore.
This made everyone rejoice, and at the same time sad for the dead companions.
This is probably the fastest and fastest disaster in the history of Jiaoyan City, before and after the disappearance of no more than forty-eight, I experienced the feeling of hell to heaven, and everyone sighed for the beauty and hard-won life of life, and was full of gratitude to Isabella, a group of foreign visitors.
But until the wicked are removed, the trouble never seems to really die.
"I just got the news that the Emerald Earth Forest has also encountered the Red Spot Curse. β
At the celebration dinner in Scorched Rock City, Ferro said to Isabella.
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