Chapter XXXIII
Lu Yan's face was solemn, although he was not as out of shape as Chen Hao, but his heart was also very unsettled.
There are many stories of safe zones being destroyed due to lack of resources, infighting, seizures of power, and other factors, and they often hear about them when they are in school.
Black Earth City is not ignorant to the outside world, it only knows how to work behind closed doors, Black Earth City has extra resources, and it will often exchange with the surrounding security areas.
Some of the surrounding security zones were in difficulty, and Black Earth City had also sent troops to support.
There are constant invasions of alien creatures outside, lack of materials, epidemics and other reasons inside, as well as ill-intentioned people trying to fight for power and oppress others, and many safe zones have been destroyed and destroyed for various reasons.
From time to time, they hear that a certain security zone around them has been destroyed, and they are often afraid that this situation will one day befall them.
The safe zone is everyone's last fortress, the fortress is broken, the strong can say that they can take refuge in other safe zones, and the most suffering are those ordinary people.
Ordinary people have no fighting power, and they are inferior to others when they take refuge in other security zones, and if they take refuge in some security zones with moderate systems, it is better to say that if they enter a security zone with a strict class and oppression and cruelty, the end is often miserable.
Could it be that Black Earth City is about to become the next safe zone to be destroyed and fallen due to internal strife?
The chief officer's personal guard escorted the guards out of the factory area and headed for the direction of the prison.
The guards are unkempt and look very decadent, they should be too tired and have no strength to resist, otherwise with the number of guards, the city defenders will definitely not be able to take so many guards.
It was the first time Lu Yan had seen these high-spirited elite warriors of Black Earth City so embarrassed.
As the strongest legion and the proudest warrior in Black Earth City, he has always been admired and worshiped by the people of Black Earth City, how could he have been humiliated in public like this, and no one dared to humiliate them.
This move of the Commander-in-Chief is really murderous.
Among the escorted guards, two people stood out.
It was a mother and son.
The mother, a woman in her thirties, walked with her shoulders bent and her head bowed, holding a little boy of seven or eight years old in her arms.
The woman's gaze at the people around her was cowardly and fearful, as if she wanted to find a place to hide, never let others find out about her mother and son.
The two of them, who had committed some crimes, were escorted along with the group of guards, a cowardly woman and a skinny monkey-like child, a combination that stood out among a group of tall warriors.
"Ah Yan, they're coming over soon, let's flash to the side first. Chen Hao pulled Lu Yan and hurriedly hid on the side of the road, so as not to collide with these fierce and vicious soldiers.
The discerning people saw that this group of people was holding back the fire, and the scene was full of gunpowder, so it was better to avoid it first, so as not to harm the pond fish.
The defenders of the city and the chief officer's personal guards were all unsheathed with long knives, and their eyes were staring at the group of escorted guards.
Although the guards have unloaded their weapons, their strength is still there, and at this time, they are willing to obey obediently, mostly because of the power of Chief Xia's arrows, so that this group of guards does not dare to resist.
But if you can't keep a guard's head hot, if you start to do it, it is likely to cause a chain effect, driving the people around you to resist together.
The tiger is old and majestic, not to mention that this group of earth guards was just caught off guard, and it is still very dangerous to wait for them to recover.
The escorted crowd passed by Lu Yan and Chen Hao, and some of them glanced at them.
Most of them are neighbors you often see, and some of them are familiar even if they can't be named.
There are tens of thousands of people in Black Earth City, everyone lives in one place, and they don't go anywhere for more than ten years, and they are active in such a place, or it is difficult to be familiar.
When the woman and the child passed by Lu Yan and Chen Hao, suddenly the woman screamed, holding the child and shouting loudly: "Child, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Don't scare your mother, who will save my child!"
The woman's shouts grew louder and louder, alarming the chief of the chief's guard.
Xun Zhao, the leader of the pro-guard army, pushed aside the crowd of onlookers and shouted: "What are you looking at here! All disperse! Line up and continue to walk forward!"
Xun Zhao walked up to the woman and couldn't help but change his face slightly when he saw the child in the woman's arms.
The child was as thin as a leather monkey, with clear joints on his arms, one arm was not as thick as three fingers of an adult, and his head was like a big watermelon stuck in a wooden stick, which looked strange and ridiculous.
This kid he had just seen when he was escorting the Garrison Guard, and he had instructed the soldiers to take strict care of him.
It is said that the Governor of Annan was instigated by this woman to go out this time.
Therefore, when the escort was carried out, he specially ordered his subordinates to take the woman and the child away together, in case the chief officer wanted to question him.
Xun Zhao was surprised in his heart, this child was not like this just now, although he was also very thin, but at least he looked healthy, not so malnourished as at this time that people felt ...... Malformation.
What's even more chilling is that the child's face is full of sudden black blood vessels at this time, the cortex on his head is tight, only a layer of fascia remains, his eyes are so swollen that they are about to fall out of his sockets, and his whole body is constantly convulsing, and it looks like he will die violently at any time.
"Ah~~" The child suddenly screamed, "You're not my mother...... Mom...... I want my mom ......."
"Child, mom is here, what's wrong with you?Why did you start talking nonsense, don't scare mom~~" The woman's face was full of grief and grief.
"I beg you, save my child, you can do whatever I want...... I beg you. The woman held the child, reached out and grabbed Xun Zhao's trouser legs, and kept kowtowing to Xun Zhao and begging.
"Everybody, get out of the way!"
Xun Zhao suddenly roared.
Black Earth City has experienced epidemics, and every time it has brought heavy blows to Black Earth City, in this last age of lack of food and medicine, epidemics and poisonous miasma are too common.
Every time this strange disease appears, everyone's first reaction is the fear that it will spread.
"Who escorted the mother and son just now?" Xun Zhao asked.
"Me!" "And me." ”
The two fighters came out of the ranks, their faces solemn, they had already guessed something.
"You two, take them to the infirmary, remember, don't touch this child, understand?" Xun Zhao reminded, with concern in his words.
"Yes!"
The two fighters took the order, let the woman hold the child, and rushed to the medical office.
The team continued to move forward, and this episode did not disrupt the escort work of the Guardians, but it cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.
Epidemics, which are great disasters that kill people in the invisible.
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When the two city defenders arrived at the medical office with the mother and son, the hospital was already busy.
More than a dozen people with the same symptoms as the little boy were lying frantically in the courtyard to the east of the medical office.
Some people couldn't stand the pain, and scratched the ground with their five fingers, and some grabbed the ground with their heads, as if they were crazy, and they didn't stop bleeding all over their faces.
The ground in the hospital was shocking, full of patients howling and self-harming, bloody scratches, and the medical department instantly turned into a purgatory on earth.
Medical Officer Dyson was directing several medical staff in rudimentary protective suits in the courtyard to isolate the eastern part of the compound and put it on a cordon.
Seeing the two city defenders, Dyson hurriedly stepped forward, kept a certain distance and asked, "You two didn't have contact with him, did you?"
The two warriors nodded, scared for a while.
On the road just now, the woman couldn't run fast with the child in her arms, and begged them to help take the child to the medical office first.
Fortunately, the fighters were trained and knew the horror of the epidemic, so they did not dare to touch the little boy casually, and insisted that the woman carry the little boy here.
It's good to keep a distance, otherwise it might be yourself who is lying on the ground and frantically self-harming now.
"Very well," Dyson commanded the woman, "you, take the child in first, put the child down, and then go over there to quarantine." ”
The divided quarantine area is subdivided into several parts, among which there are people who are in normal physical condition but have suspicious conditions.
The woman holding the child is already considered to have been in contact and must be isolated.
Seeing the tragic condition of the sick person in the courtyard, the woman almost collapsed, and knelt on the ground with the child in her arms and begged: "Your Excellency Medical Officer, please save my child, I beg you, I will kowtow to you, I beg you~~"
Having lived in this last life for so long, everyone knows how powerless words are, but she is only a weak woman, and what can she do but kneel and beg for mercy.
Medical Officer Dyson is in his early thirties, wears glasses, and has a somewhat scholarly temperament, and is supposed to have been doing medical research all year round, and rarely participates in battles, which makes him still have some compassion.
"Don't worry, as long as it is the people of Black Earth City, we will do our best to rescue them. With a few words of relief, Dr. Dyson arranged for an assistant wearing protective clothing to send the mother and son into quarantine.
"Go back and report to the Governor-General, from now on, everyone is strictly forbidden to contact each other, and it has been determined that this disease is contagious, and it is not necessary, so everyone should not gather. ”
"Also, tell the Governor to be on guard, I have a very bad feeling about this disease. ”
Dyson told the two of them some precautions for protection, and then left in a hurry.