Chapter 127: Return to Ram
Roland decided to separate from Kakarit for a while.
He asked his mentor to send a message to Cakarit, telling him to pick up Duoduo and Farina before leaving Richero and heading straight to Bansar instead of going to the City of Fortune.
If it is convenient, try to develop some believers from Richero during this time. Especially the Marquis of Saya and the Marquis's daughter, such a person with druidic talent and excellent perception should pay special attention.
In addition, if after finding Farina, you find that Farina is abnormal or uncooperative, you don't need to hesitate or report, just cooperate with Duoduo to kill her on the spot.
Roland's decision is enough to drag Kakarit to Carlar for at least a week. He didn't want to keep his distance from Kakarit, but now that Gahalad and Elukado were in place, Roland no longer had a high demand for Kakarit's combat power.
The Holy Grail Knight Gahalad, plus the natural scourge Elukado, this is enough combat power for Roland to bulldoze several cities. Coupled with Roland's own rampage, there is no way that there is anything in the whole Caral that threatens Roland.
And it is much more important to keep an eye on Carral than to further spill over the already saturated combat power. He was about to leave for Bansa, and he didn't have any eyeliner in Karar.
At the very least, he needed a dead crow who could help him heal the plague to stay here—
Roland looked at the desolate and dilapidated countryside in front of him and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
A smell of decaying wood came through the deserted countryside. It was almost spring, and the temperature was not too cold, but I couldn't see a single person plowing the fields, and all the doors and windows of the houses were closed. The few people I saw occasionally were lying outside the house leaning against the corner of the street, and from time to time there was a violent cough. It even makes people wonder if they will cough up their stomachs.
Roland looked from afar and could see that some of the people's faces were covered with black linen. And no one cared about them, so they were thrown in the streets, and no one cared even when they were rotten.
This is the plague. Terrible plague.
People don't know how to respond, and all they can do is choose to avoid it.
If anyone is infected, let them live in the sun. Pray for Mother Earth's mercy......
In other words, life and death are fateful. Or let them wait for death.
There is no doubt that they have definitely tried various methods. Druid magic, folk herbs, bloodletting, or the recent popularity of exchange transfusion—but it is clear that there is no cure for this plague.
The eyes of these people lying in the streets, breathing in the not very fresh air and basking in the sun, are almost calm despair.
Their eyes were grayish-white, and the rise and fall of their chests was faint. Lips are dry and eye sockets are sunken.
No water, no food, no sleep - not because of pain or abuse, but because of sheer despair.
More and more people are showing symptoms of the plague.
At first, there was anemia, weakness, and occasional fainting, just like the symptoms of ordinary malnutrition.
This can cause cold-like symptoms afterwards. They began to have a continuous fever, their muscles became weak, they had difficulty walking, and they coughed violently.
For people from a small village. This is already a very serious, deadly plague. After a period of fever, blood marks will suddenly appear on their bodies as if they had been beaten.
It varies according to the system of the person. Some of the blood stains are deep and some are shallow. It is not an exaggeration to say that some of the blood marks are open to the flesh, and the whitish and swollen skin rolls to the sides, revealing the crimson blood marks in them. Then they began to cough up blood, dizzy, vomiting, convulsions, and confusion. Then die quickly and turn into a dried corpse.
It is enough to call it a plague of despair. Since the first death had occurred three days earlier, the number of deaths had reached a quarter of the village population in just two days.
The infected can only lie quietly outside their homes, hoping for a miracle that will never come. The pale and weak sunlight was quietly sprinkled on them, and it had no effect on dispersing germs.
And in the periphery of the agglomeration. The verdant trees that are characteristic of Caral have all died without exception. The brutal blood stains of the salt-soaked whip on the bark of trees and the facades of buildings were deeply imprinted.
"Should I say yes......"
Roland sighed deeply.
"The result...... In the end, the village became the source of bloodstain syndrome. ”
- This is the sick village of Ram, where Roland first tried to set fires.
According to the development of history, it is from here that the plague of bloodstain syndrome was put into Farina. And it passed to Bansar a week later, to Fararo ten days later, to Titan eighteen days later, and to Suze forty days later.
When spring came, all the countries west of the El Qat desert were stricken with a terrible plague.
According to the practice of dealing with plagues in the past, the gods would give targeted magic at this time, and the priests would sell them at a high price for a period of time, and then use the magic to heal everyone who remained.
However, this time is different.
It was as if the gods were all blind, and the priest could no longer get a response from the gods. Although the magic they had acquired had not disappeared, their divine grace was no longer quick to reply to prayers, as if all the gods were dead - but they could clearly feel that the gods were not dead.
Just abandoned them, that's all.
Enraged people gather in groups, smash up local shrines, hang priests and nuns, and then take up their money and flee desperately, trying to find an uninfected paradise.
So, in the chaos and violence. In the midst of the turmoil, the revival of the plague that subverted people's thousand-year-old worldview began.
Roland stretched out his hand and gently touched the dead old tree in front of him, touching the dark red blood mark with his hand, like a wound that appeared when he cut a human body.
At that moment, Roland's Plague Lair was immediately activated!
[Plague sample detected...... Verification perception, verification success】
[You confirm that the plague in front of you is from bloodstain syndrome, and a total of one mutation]
[Current Live Level 3, 2 Plagues have been successfully produced, and Plague Seedlings 2 are still available]
【Whether to refill it in the Plague Lair】
Be.
Roland silently nodded in confirmation. The scarlet powder immediately burrowed into Roland's skin.
[Bloodstain syndrome is a plague caused by fungi, and you need 48 hours to parse it]
[Consuming Divine Grace can speed up the progress of analysis, and it can be accelerated to six hours at the earliest]
Roland naturally did not hesitate to increase the consumption rate of divine grace to the fastest. His divine grace won't be needed anyway.
Almost instantly, Roland's divine grace bottomed out. After that, his divine grace was immediately replenished, up and down like a jumping machine.
After confirming that the Plague Nest was fully activated and consumed Roland's divine grace quickly resolved the plague, Roland quietly lowered his finger from the tree.
Another reason why he no longer needed to meet with Kakarit was that Roland no longer needed to get a sample of the plague from Toto.
This was undoubtedly beyond Farina's prediction. Roland was delighted by the surprise.
What Farina didn't expect was that Roland didn't stay to fish after Richero was stirred into a muddy water. As a result, Roland arrived at the village more than three days earlier than he had started.
In another week, I'm afraid there will only be corpses left. And three days later, it would be almost the scene after the complete collapse of order.
However, there is still salvation.
As long as Roland waits for the Plague Nest to be resolved, he can use the antidote set by Falina to remove the plague. But it's already dusk, the sun is about to set, and all the hotels are closed. Roland's plague analysis will take at least eight hours, and if you count the world looking for the antidote, it will take at least two days to delay here.
-- So, now comes the problem.
Is Roland leaving, or staying? (To be continued.) )
PS: Plot Branch:
A: Anyway, even if Roland relieves them of the plague, they will be reinfected sooner or later. It's better to save time and rush to Bansar first.
B: Now that time has been earned, even if it is only earned for one day, it does not mean that Roland has lost two days. It is better to simply relieve them of the plague.