On the muddy road, the ghoul-looking woman walked first, followed by Rosen, and finally followed by Anne.

"Mary, are you okay with your legs?" Rosen asked.

Mary was the peasant woman's name, and along the way, she limped ahead, and although the wound was simply bandaged, the blood continued to seep out of the cotton cloth and down her leg.

"This injury is not tight, it is nothing compared to the abscess on the body." Mary's broken mouth grinned, and a lot of pus was suddenly squeezed out of the abscesses on her face, which looked very oozing.

Thinking about it, a person with abscesses on his upper and lower skin, bones eroded and deformed by germs, and even his nerves being violated, the pain he feels every moment is even more than an arrow wound that almost pierces his thigh.

Rosen asked himself, if he suffered such inhuman suffering, he must have found a way to cut himself off early in the morning, and it was impossible to drive away the robbers alive.

After being silent for a while, he asked again, "Do you live far from the village?" ”

"Not far, there is a small road in front of you that turns left, and after turning over, you can walk more than a mile to arrive." After Mary finished speaking, she sucked up the saliva that leaked from the corner of her cracked mouth.

When Anne heard this, she said, "Mary, you live in Caopo Village, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's Caopo Village!" Mary nodded repeatedly.

"Have you been?" Lawson turned to look at Anne.

Anne nodded: "I passed by that time a year ago, and the villagers there were very welcoming...... More welcoming than other villages. I remember it raining heavily that night and they agreed to let me spend the night in the stable. A young man named Cade even brought me a bowl of potato soup, and I still remember how delicious it was. Oh~ By the way, Sister Mary, how is Caede now? ”

Mary replied flatly: "He died, two months ago." ”

Anne was taken aback: "How so? He doesn't seem to be 17 years old, right? How could you die at such a young age? Was it a monster attack? ”

"Not a monster." Mary shook her head.

"So what's going on?" Anne asked.

"It's sick, the same disease as me. About 9 months ago, he also contracted the disease, and his illness was much more serious than others, but within half a year, he was already covered with abscesses. The young man could not bear the pain, and the pain could not be exhausted, so he took a sickle and plunged it into his eye. He wasn't the first to do this, because of this damn disease, eight people had already died in the village, and each one was a suicide. ”

Mary's tone was always flat as she spoke, and it was clear that she had become accustomed to all this.

Anne sighed sadly: "Hey~ How could the gods punish him? He has a good heart. When I said thank you, he smiled shyly at me. ”

"Whew!"

A look of resentment appeared on Mary's face, and she spat bloody saliva on the ground, and said angrily, "Who knows what the gods think? Maybe he's blind! ”

Seeing her insulting the gods, Anne subconsciously wanted to refute, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she couldn't say anything, yes, tragedies happen all the time in the world, if there is really a god, then he must have a heart of stone.

Rosen had been listening to the side, and when he heard this, he suddenly asked, "Sister Mary, can I ask you a few questions?" ”

Mary immediately said humbly, "My lord, just ask. ”

"You say, your daughter has the same disease as you, when did she get it?"

Mary sighed: "She was born with it, it wasn't very serious at first, until last year, when she was four years old, a large number of red patches rushed out of her body, and then began to rot, as if a devil lived in her body. ”

Rosen was slightly surprised: "As soon as you were born?" Could it be a disease from the womb? Did you get sick before she was born? ”

Mary nodded in pain: "It's indeed my fault. ”

Rosen thought quickly, and then asked, "Then where did your illness come from?" ”

As soon as this question came out, Mary's face once again showed a deep resentment: "My illness was passed on to me by the dead ghost of my family, and he went to Sunderland Town to provoke those coquettish girls, and he didn't say anything about it, and he hurt me and our daughter." This goddamn bastard! ”

"In other words, if your husband got sick before you, then he should be more sick than you, right?" Rosen suddenly remembered the carrion corpse he had encountered on the road before, and the corpse was also covered with abscesses, and now that he thought about it carefully, he found that this abscess was very similar to Mary's.

At this thought, he cautiously asked, "Mary, are you sure your husband is dead?" ”

"I don't know." Mary shook her head, and there was a trace of sadness in her eyes: "He has been out for five days, and he has such a serious illness, how can he stay in the wild for so many days?" I think he either can't hold it out, or he just runs into a monster. ”

Mary's tone was calm as she spoke, but there was still a hint of anticipation in her calmness, and she still wished her husband was still alive.

Rosen couldn't help but glance at Anne, and saw a trace of unbearability in each other's eyes. Apparently, Anne's guessed too.

After a few seconds of silence, Rosen felt that he should tell Mary the truth, but when the words came to his lips, he saw Mary's single eye and the abscess on her body again, and somehow, he couldn't say it, and after a sentence turned around his tongue several times, it finally became: "Sister Mary, what does your husband look like?" I'll help you inquire when I have a chance. ”

Anne was stunned for a moment, and after glancing at Rosen, she understood what he meant, and she lowered her gaze and sighed very softly.

Mary didn't know the eye contact between the two people around her, and she said happily: "Well, that dead ghost in my house is the same as me, full of abscesses, very thin, and not tall, not as good as this ...... The girl's shoulder. My lord, if you find him, tell him that if you have the ability, he will not come back in his life! ”

Rosen became more and more unbearable in his heart, and he didn't dare to look into the eyes of Sister Mary, so he could only look down at the dirt road under his feet: "Don't worry, I will definitely do it." ”

After walking for a while, there was a steep grassy slope in front of the three of them, with a steep path on the grassy slope and a mountain stream on the side of the road.

Mary stretched out her hand and pointed forward: "Over this slope, we will reach the village of Caopo." ”

Rosen nodded and continued the question just now: "The robber just said that seven or eight out of ten people in the village are sick, is it really that serious?" ”

Mary shook her head again and again: "There are only about a hundred people in the village, and there are many sick people, but far less than those robbers said, there are only 23 in total. Once they fell ill, the elders would lock people up in a large hut at the west end of the village and not let them out. ”

"That's it~"

Rosen fell into deep thought, and after a few minutes, he suddenly asked again: "Sister Mary, you just said that a year ago, a magician came to the village, when did he come, can you still remember?" ”

"It should be....... It was after last winter's bonfire, but I don't remember the exact date. ”

"Who was the first person in the village to get sick? How long ago did it occur? ”

Mary knew everything: "My husband should have been the first, then me, then my daughter, and after that, no one in the village was sick. After more than 3 years of peace, the number of sick people in the village suddenly increased, and after about half a year, the magician came. ”

"Oh~ I see." Rosen was thoughtful, and suddenly asked, "After your family fell ill, did the village elders take any measures?" ”

This seemed to touch Mary's sadness, and she pursed her lips before she spoke, "The elders don't let us have contact with other people, and they don't let the other children in the village play with little Alice. Oh yes, Alice is my daughter's name. ”

"Good name." Rosen praised and asked, "Has the elder always kept you from contacting?" ”

"Yes, he watched very strictly. Once little Alice crossed the line, he beat her with a bamboo stick, and it took a week for her injuries to heal. "Mary was sad.

"Has it been like this until now?"

"Well, it's been stricter recently, the elders let all the sick stay in the grass huts, and they also specially let the strong men in the village watch the door and don't let people go out." Mary spoke up for more information.

Hearing this, Rosen's eyebrows furrowed.

"Lawson, what's wrong?" Anne leaned over Rosen, her voice very soft.

Rosen also replied in a voice that only two people could hear: "Something is wrong. ”