No matter how you take a detour, as long as you want to enter Avili's sphere of influence from Erathia, then Mologan City is an unavoidable level.

Like the Helion Fortress, Mologan was a military city built between two cliffs, guarding the only passage between Erathia and the Eschore Mountains. Erathia has 30,000 troops stationed here all year round, but they are mainly crossbowmen and pikemen, and there is also a squadron of griffin knights to assist in the defense, but the Holy Crusade, the Silver Heavy Knights, and the Holy Priests, who are the three pillars of the Imperial Army, are not stationed here, because the direction facing Mologan City is not the warlike Krulord, but the elven kingdom of Aveli, which advocates nature and peace.

Shen Hao and Shi Yuxuan returned to the main road a hundred kilometers away from the city, rested for the night in the nearest town, spent a few gold coins to buy horses and carriages, and bought some basic equipment used by ordinary mercenaries, and made some camouflage for themselves.

This time, Shi Yuxuan was no longer willful, she changed into a loose black robe to hide her seductive figure, and another scarf covered half of her face, looking just an ordinary adventurer. And Shen Hao himself looks ordinary, and after changing into a low-grade hard leather armor, he doesn't look much better than those wandering martial artists.

However, this was not enough to reassure, so the two of them summed it up and decided to find a merchant group that went to Avili or a mercenary group that entered the Esquor Mountains to hunt and sneak in, so that it would be easier to pass the level with many people.

But when Shen Hao spent a gold coin to sit in the Oak Bar, the news distribution center in the town, he unfortunately learned a news.

"Mologan City is under martial law? Why? Shen Hao drank a whole glass of ale in one gulp, and then placed the empty cup in front of the bartender.

"I heard that there is a plague, there has been a blockade of imperial troops outside the city, and the entire city is only allowed to enter but not leave, and no one here knows what the situation is in the city." The young bartender, who received a gold coin tip from Shen Hao, replied weakly while helping Shen Hao refill the glass.

Shen Hao glanced at Shi Yuxuan on the side, the latter nodded, Shen Hao was relieved, and turned back to the bartender and asked, "Has the Holy Priest of the Empire arrived?" Are there any doctors recruited from the private sector? "There are still healers in the world of magic, after all, many magic or magic with healing effects are based on the principle of stimulating the patient's metabolic ability to fight diseases and heal wounds.

This kind of technology is still very convenient to use in emergency situations, but it cannot be used often, because excessive stimulation of human potential will only shorten people's life expectancy in disguise. Therefore, in general, small trauma or common diseases, people will go to those doctors for treatment, these doctors are similar to the Z doctors in ancient Z country, in addition to not knowing the pulse and acupuncture, the treatment is also used in the field of some herbs, as well as some tissues taken from special animals that may be used for medicinal purposes.

Plagues are likely to occur wherever there is a gathering place of life, and this is the norm in any world, especially in times of turmoil and war, where the chance of plague is greater. It's just that if it's an ordinary plague, it should be easy to control it by letting the Holy Priests use a large-scale healing magic and cooperate with the targeted drug treatment of the healers, which is much more convenient than in the real world.

"There are a lot of priests of the Holy Sect, and a few days ago, I saw a golden chariot painted with the symbol of the Holy Sect passing by, maybe a certain big man of the Holy Sect also came." The bartender cupped his chin and thought for a moment and said, "But it seems that until now, I have not seen any orders from the military to recruit doctors." Don't say it, after you asked, I also thought it was strange, the plague, it seems that the magic treatment is only an auxiliary, and the drug treatment is the key, but even the doctors in the three medical centers in our town have not received any notice. It's just that several nearby cities seem to be moving troops over there one after another...... Tsk, it's strange whether this is fighting the plague or preparing for war......"

Shen Hao and Shi Yuxuan made eye contact again, and they didn't dwell on this topic. After tipping another gold coin, Shen Hao began to ask about the battle between Erathia and Krurod on the side of the Helian Fortress. The bartender's answer surprised the two of them slightly.

It turned out that Krulord also made a bloody investment this time, in addition to investing in the two main battle legions, he actually dispatched fifty Beamon Behemoths at one time at the dawn of one day to launch a fierce attack on the Helion Fortress. Although the Holy Crusaders and the Silver Heavy Knights had arrived at the fortress to reinforce them by this time, after a morning of fierce fighting, the world-famous fortress of Hairion still fell.

After taking the fortress of Hayryon, Crulord did not continue to attack the city of Gondelon in the north, but instead took an uncharacteristically defensive position. Erathia was shaken by the high levels, and His Majesty the Emperor ordered the mobilization of nearly half of the country's army to launch an attack on the Fortress of Hairyon, wanting to recapture this pass at any cost, and even dispatched dozens of Angels of Light. However, the attitude of the Krulod side is also extremely resolute, using the advantage of the city defense to resist the impact of Erathia, and the two sides have been fighting to the death under the city of Hairian for half a month, and the winner has not yet been decided.

"Since the battle on the southern front is so fierce, and the upper echelons of the empire have sent so many troops to Mologan City, I feel that something is wrong." Out of the tavern, Shi Yuxuan suddenly spoke. If it is just to prevent the plague, it is only necessary to mobilize some junior sergeants to set up a quarantine zone outside the city, and then dispatch a priest of more than ten meters to bring a large number of doctors to treat it in batches.

However, according to the bartender, there were more than 500 holy priests stationed in Mologan City this time, and tens of thousands of junior sergeants, and what was even more suspicious was that the healers were not summoned. Indeed, as the bartender had said, it was more like preparing for war than a plague.

However, Mologan City is Avili's territory to the outside, and Avili and Erathia are now allies, and neither Avili nor Erathia has any reason to attack each other.

"Anyway, we're going to have to take a look, after all, if we want to get to Avli, then Mologan City is the only way to go." Shen Hao touched his chin and thought about it, and finally made up his mind, even though their purpose at the moment was to keep a low profile. The ideal outcome would be "cross the border secretly, and don't shoot guns." ”

Suddenly, he remembered something, raised his head and asked Shi Yuxuan, "Sister Xuan, if it is really a plague, do you have a way to treat it?" ”

Shi Yuxuan spread her hands and said with a smile: "It depends on what kind of plague it is, although I have also dabbled in medicine, but most of my time and effort have been spent on poison, and the medicine in this world is still very different from the medicine in our real world." Seeing Shen Hao's frowning appearance again, Shi Yuxuan patted him on the shoulder, "But don't worry too much, although it may not be possible to cure this plague, it is still okay to keep the two of us from being infected." Even if Mologan City is high and thick, if we have the heart to infiltrate, it shouldn't be too difficult. ”

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Although they had been mentally prepared, the two of them were still secretly a little embarrassed when they saw the continuous tents outside Mologan. The scale of the camp set up by tens of thousands of troops is naturally not small, but in addition to the barracks, there are countless civilian tents of different sizes in a large open space near the foothills on one side, which are all residents who were evacuated from Mologan City in time, and the military temporarily placed them near this neighborhood in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

"It's really weird...... Shen Hao stood on a mound, looked carefully at the camp not far away, and suddenly said to Shi Yuxuan, "If the camp is established to isolate the epidemic, then the direction of the camp should be to face the people who are isolated, and in order to ensure that no infected people sneak out, they will adopt a scattered and encircled camping method; But if you look at the military camp over there, it is clearly a standard defensive formation in wartime, and the defensive side is facing Mologan City. Is there something dangerous in Mologan City that needs to be rushed? ”

"That's right, and look at the ......tents of the Holy Sect Army," Shi Yuxuan raised his hand and pointed to a golden tent area in the large barracks, these tents were larger and more elaborate than ordinary sergeants, and the Holy Sect flag fluttered high on a white background and gold edges. Different from the natural murderous atmosphere in the ordinary military camp, the camp tent here is holy and splendid, as if there is a faint golden glow flickering all the time, which is particularly sacrosanct.

"If it is to fight the plague, these gods should be scattered near the refugee camp, instead of huddling together in front of the gates of Mologan. So I'm afraid we're right, they're preparing for war, and the object is in this city. ”

"However, even if it's a ghost gate, we have to break through......" Shen Hao smiled bitterly, looked at the blood-colored remnant sun in the distance that was about to fall below the horizon, and said softly.

On moonless nights, everything is immersed in deep darkness. On the top of the cliff on the side of Mologan City, Shen Hao carried Shi Yuxuan on his back, like a gecko, quickly climbing on the almost vertical cliff.

Although the military camp in Erathia blocked the area outside the northern city gate, in such a dark night, most of the army's lighting tools were concentrated on the city gate. There was no light on the walls of Mologan City, including the inside of the city, which was also pitch black, and the former Xiongguan was like a dead city, exuding a suffocating weirdness. In such a situation, even the top experts among the priests of the Holy Sect would not be able to detect Shen Hao and the others who were sneaking up on the city from the direction of the cliff.