Light 21.4-C: The Baron's Rampant (Part I)
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You take the first letter in your arms, give the other one to Hathaway, and tell her to find a way to get it to the Kingdom Law Enforcement Team as soon as possible.
"It's not difficult to get it delivered immediately, so please rest assured. ”
Hathaway had some unspoken words, and even if it was delivered, what would the law enforcement team do? What about Viscount Polz, who could cover the sky with one hand in the five-lane bay where there were abundant manpower and material resources? No one is stupid, of course the law enforcement team has known about these things for a long time, and has long known that now the odds are only slightly better. Slightly. In any case, Hathaway is your staunchest executor.
You need to wait for the results – the results that will come before tomorrow night, and hopefully they will do something and react quickly.
The manpower is assembled,
You set off towards the civilian quarters, a few blocks behind the guild, and arrive quickly. Your team is no longer two powerless receptionists and a high-ranking priest who is not good at fighting in the ancient city, there is no shortage of resourceful and long-term wielders, and there is no shortage of capable people and fierce and ruthless people, the encirclement is not large, and within three minutes everyone will block the area of three or five streets and prevent any civilians from going out.
Julianne was sweating profusely and commanded the scene: "The incubation period is about one day! All people who have been in close contact with the patient should be isolated in groups, take medicine as soon as possible, be careful not to touch the patient's dirt, cover the mouth and nose, strictly prohibit drinking water, and tell me immediately if there is a wound! Label every patient with the signs of "chills" and "stickydeath" according to the severity of the disease. Mild cases only need to be treated, and severe cases are brought to me to be treated with spells, and the rest will be determined later depending on the number of spell slots and the progress of the disease! Every patient who has just been treated by the spell must be isolated separately immediately to prevent secondary infection. ”
What's worse is that there are nearly 100 patients in the epidemic area, which is far beyond Julianne's expectations! She will never understand why she is so sick and still does not come to the treatment center. Is it because of the lack of money? Is it because of the distrust of the black treatment center? Or is it because you are used to it, and you are numb.
The folk customs are different, and the situation is naturally different from that of the ancient city. The pressure of the blockade was very small, and this group of civilians had no intention of fleeing the epidemic area at all, not even realizing that it was a plague, and there was nowhere to go, if people in the ancient city had already gone crazy, they would have to flee. The pressure of healing is very high, and in fact, there are not many people in the guild who can perform magic spells, and all of them need physical therapy. The only consolation to Julianne is that there is no shortage of medicine, because the labyrinth camp is also because of your alliance with the ancient city market.
After treating a dying patient, Julianne knelt on one knee with her fists folded in front of her forehead and whispered, "Thank you Shayn Rui for sheltering ......."
She's in control of the situation, she can! because it's all in time. She swears to you that there will never be a single death!
There won't be,
You just hope that the guild doesn't show up dead either, whether it's a contagion or a night attack.
You wanted to help out as much as you could, but Julianne sternly refused, she had always been worried about the lack of spell slots since the first day she came to the guild, and she was careful every day, and now she is even more so. If you're sick too, you're bound to crowd out one of the few spell slots that everyone else has.
thereupon
You freeze and watch everyone busy...... It doesn't seem appropriate to shout cheers at this time.
Two blocks away is the guild to set up a blockade line, a whole circle, and there is still no sound of fighting. No, if you were Viscount of Portz, you would never let go of the God-given opportunity to kill on the street and save more trouble. He has a lot more troops than you.
You turn around and look, and Hathaway isn't there.
I looked for Tong En again, of course she went to help cast a spell to heal. The level 3 magic "Removing Disease" is not something that everyone can do. Tong En is not an orthodox priest, and when she casts a spell with a success rate, the power is low under the influence of psychogenicity, and she can easily cure chills, but slime death often fails.
So only Annette was left at her side.
She bowed slightly: "You are a great leader, and I can learn a lot by your side." ”
"As you might expect, because we have sent all the mercenaries in the camp, even the private soldiers who are still rookies, and the momentum is so great that the enemy can't easily attack. Your mind is really meticulous - if this kind of thing had been yesterday, there would have been a fierce battle in the streets, but today Viscount Polz has returned, and while he is in charge of the whole thing, it means that he is in charge of the whole thing. He is a sensible leader who does not attack the manpower of the "nobility" on a large scale in broad daylight. There were too many people for him to assassinate. ”
Annette's face was full of admiration,
It's like,
It's as if you've really thought about it so much.
"It's just that I really can't understand why Viscount Polz has already returned, but waits until tomorrow night to act? Annette looked in the direction of the market and muttered, "Could it be a mistake in divination?"
Of course, there will be mistakes in divination spells, but Julianne and Tong En can't be wrong, and Linda is also keeping a close eye on the enemy's movements.
Oh, yes
Why is Viscount Polz so patient? not like his character.
There were a few exclamations in the distance, as if something had happened but did not cause much commotion. Soon Elizabeth returned with a splash of blood on her face and a sneer. She bowed to you slightly: "Found it." The night before yesterday, the Haiqiang Sect cast a spell in a well near us, and it was a well. This plague will soon be over. ”
muttering to herself that it was boring, and then Elizabeth continued to report to you: "I heard that the arsonists will definitely return to the scene of the fire, so I pricked up my ears and listened carefully. There's a fool who has been locked up in the epidemic area by our people. ”
Elizabeth suddenly pointed at you and asked, "First guess! You pretend to be a good person, but you have already secretly discussed with Raumi that you are going to do the same thing to the market, to cast a curse on their wells and even the entire reservoir of fresh water at the bottom of the fountain, right?"
You're stunned.
Elizabeth raised the corners of her mouth high, looked at you triumphantly with her arms folded, and said with a smile: "Okay, don't pretend, I don't mean to condemn you." A tooth for a tooth is human nature. ”
You are silent.
“...... Honestly, right?"
You shake your head and hold your forehead. Whatever the reason, this feud is between you and Viscount Bolts, so why destroy the entire town. Let's not talk about good and evil, what is the benefit to you after the ghost town?
Elizabeth looked at your outstretched fingers in confusion and snorted. It's too hard to get a shapeshifter to guess the minds of humans, and they usually listen directly to their hearts and never guess. With the two points of "Raumi" and "Qi Number Spell", you can guess to this extent, which is already good. Looking at Elizabeth's frustrated back, you know she won't be guessing a second time in the near future.
"Something happened, President!"
Hathaway, who had always been calm, ran back in a panic, she should have been busy arranging blockades and black letters, how did she get here?
Gasping and gasping, Hathaway repeated: "I'm sorry for your trust, I'm sorry for Raumi's secret medicine, I noticed it too late, something happened." ”
With a thump in my heart,
Bad premonition.
"There is also a blockade, longer and farther than ours. Hathaway desperately pointed in the direction of the market, "The overall layout of the bay is like a horizontal L, and now the long coastline, streets, and suburbs are all cut off by market guards. The scale was so large that it could only be ordered by Viscount Polz himself. ”
That means – the "The Division" has begun. The siege hasn't been locked yet, but it's hard to say whether the three adventurer squads you sent out will be able to come back safely.
Hathaway waved her hand and explained, "No, no, no, I'm not talking about whether the adventurers are safe or not, but that we have fallen into a trap. You are now a nobleman, this is the most important thing for Viscount Bolts, the reason why you want to make a roundabout night attack instead of directly stepping on it, and the reason why you plan a global blockade is all because you are a nobleman. ”
yes, and then what?
"Actually, I always have a doubt in my heart, what is the "reason" that Viscount Bolts wants to block the adventurer's guild. At first I thought he was mad and didn't plan to find a reason, but when I saw a second blockade in the distance a few minutes ago, I figured it all out in an instant! I just said that Elizabeth said that the plague is a curse taught by Haiqiang. It was all my carelessness, I didn't think about it immediately, and mistakenly thought that it was just Haiqiang Sect planning to make a windfall from the black treatment center to do so. In fact, Haiqiangjiao and the market are simply working together. ”
"The guild is in a remote location, and the reason why Viscount Bolts is cursed is because no matter what, he is sure to make money. If the guild drinks the water from this well, we will be defeated without a fight, if the plague outbreak is not controlled, he will attack the guild even more wantonly, and disguise the mountains of corpses as sick and die, and destroy the corpses, if the guild and adventurers leave, he can easily order us to be killed in the suburbs, in the name of controlling the epidemic for the safety of the kingdom. Killing three birds with one stone, suppressing the power of the temple, the local council halls have always been closely linked to the temple, and can cut off the new parties in the council hall who are interested in rebelling against him, and rightfully block the adventurer's guild and eradicate it, and before the law enforcement team comes, kill all the mermaids who have escaped and hide in the guild, and eliminate the future troubles forever. "Myxedosis" is a plague caused by the Shark Bloom people many years ago, and it just so happens that the Shark Blossom people have attacked on a large scale before, and all these disasters will be blamed on those monsters. ”
Too bad.
So...... What is the "big thing wrong"?
"Uh?" Hathaway said suddenly, "but, we are already under the siege of Viscount Polz! and all of them are dispatched, and there are a large number of enemies a few blocks away. We ...... now"
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Huh? Hathaway scratched her head. She began to realize that all these conspiracies were based on the premise of the "plague", and as long as Julianne eliminated the plague and nipped it in the bud, nothing would happen?
What the hell was she worried about?
You notice that someone next to you is silently staring at the medicine bottle you are holding in your hand for a long time. Maybe Julian is strictly implementing hierarchical management, this person is not serious enough, so he is at the back, maybe Julian is too busy and negligent.
You gave this bottle of medicine to the other person, one who was not too sick
A, young lad
B, the old beggar
C, Auntie
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"What do you mean by 'escape'?"
"Lord Viscount's anger!"
Viscount Polz covered his tightly knit brows at the moment, and put his trembling hands behind his back. He was currently under the effect of a Level 1 Arcane "Makeover", and in the open space four or five blocks away from you and the epidemic area, he didn't have the strength to even take a look at the market guards around him who bowed deeply and apologized. The bad news continues, and this has a very bad impact on the mind of the newly resurrected self.
He couldn't afford to be angry anymore.
Viscount Boltz suppressed his anger and asked again in as calm a tone as possible: "What do you mean by ...... 'escape' just now? ”
"Yes, Lord Viscount!" the market guards maintained a deep bow posture and did not dare to raise their heads, "There are more than 100 people in charge of the market guards in charge of the sea salt vendors, together with the other teams, a total of more than 200 people, "absconding in fear of crime". After the real "Clementine Walter" appeared, the captain of Haiyan's guard exclaimed that he had been fooled, and immediately led more than 200 people out of the city to chase him. At this time, because the situation was sudden and beyond common sense, they did not realize that the "liar of Haiyan" and the "chairman of the fault finder" were the same person. It was already the second day since they left the city to chase them, so the distance was far away, and it was not clear where the Haiyan caravan was going. At least, at that time, the pursuit team still sent news back from time to time. Since this morning, they have not heard back five times in a row, and we have looked for eyeliners from other places to inquire and say that there are no corpses of more than 200 people near the location of the missing contact...... So, not to die in battle, but to ......"
Escaped?
Why did he escape? Viscount Polz felt that his eyes were dark, his body shook slightly, and he barely stood still. He let out a long sigh of relief, tried to adjust his emotions, and asked in a low voice: "Who can tell me that they are my old subordinates brought out by myself, even if they commit stupidity and cause a big disaster, I will at most reward a few lashes in anger, and the crime will not lead to death." Why abscond? They have a lot of other options, they have. ”
Someone ran over in a panic: "Lord Viscount! I just found out! All the money from the sea salt vendor is missing!"
Portz suddenly felt a wave of nausea in his stomach.
During his death, the practice of daily settlement could not be carried out. The sea salt vendor made a huge amount of money overnight for a rare time in a hundred years, and it was more than 10,000 gold coins. Gone?
“...... It's awesome, it's empty. Viscount Polz laughed angrily, "Suddenly you can understand why those bastards chose to abscond." It's just that they went out of the city to chase and steal from the guards, and the timing is not right, right?
The third person ran over, his feet were weak, and he actually fell to his knees with a grunt: "Lord Viscount! I just confirmed! The president of the Adventurers' Guild has arranged for an adventurer named "Matthew" to be mixed into the market guards of the sea salt vendors, and he is very useful. Now, the people are gone!"
"Hahaha, good, good, very good! I said, how can a madman run into the enemy line just to go shopping and buy a few slaves, so the doorway is here. Viscount Bolts' smile made the people around him shudder, he looked in the direction of the guild, and said coldly, "Come, go, come with me to learn from that shameless wise general—to go into the enemy formation." ”
His cronies persuaded him: "Please lift your disguise and ...... again"
"I've prepared such a "makeover", and the removal of the arcane effect will not delay the business in the future. Viscount Bolts looked at the elite market guards around him and said, "Are you afraid that he will kill me?" I can take so many elite market guards with me, and no fool in the whole world will recognize me as someone else." But you did remind me that this might be a good opportunity. ”
Before leaving, Viscount Boltz instructed all the market guards to be on standby, and if the Adventurers' Guild made the first move, whether he denied his identity, he would finally have a reason to go all out and put everything down.