Chapter 16: The Plague
Ji Xiu has already figured out that the emperor was really killed, and he died in the Taoist Police Building, no matter what the investigation results are, Ji Xiu will not escape responsibility, so he plans to embark on a journey of escape.
"Why are you still following me?" Ji Xiu decided to flee, so he didn't need Igu to follow anymore.
"Igu has nowhere to go, and wants to follow the adults. Igu was still following Ji Xiu.
"It's strange that you wanted to run away before, but now you won't let you go. Aren't you a monkey spirit, go back to your monkey spirit's territory. ”
Igu didn't speak, just silently lowered his head, and Ji Xiu was almost twice as tall as Igu, so when he looked down, he could only see the top of Igu's head.
"Forget it, whatever you want, follow me if you want, don't bother me. Ji Xiu thought that Igu had helped a lot before, so he casually agreed to let it follow.
"My lord, where are you going next?"
"I don't know. Ji Xiu replied, in fact, he was secretly happy in his heart, because he could defeat the Heavenly Marriage with only one blow, and this feeling of revenge was so wonderful that it was still difficult to suppress his excitement in retrospect.
"My lord, why don't we leave this country. "Igu is very rare and gives advice to Ji Xiu.
"Well, that's good. At this moment, Ji Xiu seemed to have adapted to the strength in his body again, and his strength was further strengthened. A very powerful force inexplicably appeared in Ji Xiu's body, and even Ji Xiu didn't know where this power came from, but it was certain that Ji Xiu's body was slowly merging with this power.
On the other side, at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, a large transport plane flew in the clouds, and there was silence in the cabin.
"General, how's she doing?" someone spoke to break the silence.
"It's very serious, the whole body is fractured, there is no good meat, I can't recognize it when I see it, and the doctor is still rescuing. "Someone said the situation.
Everyone was whispering, and after all kinds of discussions, someone said loudly: "Are you sure that Lieutenant General Ji Xiu injured the Heavenly Marriage General?"
Someone took out a metal plate, lifted the white cloth covering it, revealed a folded red and white robe, and said, "It should be." This red and white robe is the one worn by Ji Xiu, which was originally left in the doctor's house in the village, and later fell into the hands of the Daofang Brigade.
The metal plate was passed down, and after one person had seen it, it was passed on to the next person, and when everyone had finished reading it, the atmosphere became solemn.
"Lieutenant General Ji Xiu, is it a mutiny?" someone speculated.
"At our level, this kind of thing can't be said, don't guess in vain, even if you guess anything, don't say it, give me the truth to keep it in my heart. The organization will naturally deal with it, and our task is to escort the seriously injured Heavenly Marriage General back to the imperial capital, and has the report been written?"
"The report ...... It's hard to write...... It seems that I can only write a bunch of official words into it, I can only pretend to be confused and sloppy, and I can't let myself be implicated in the incident......"
"Whoever wrote it, lend me for reference. ”
On the other side of the road, there is an antique hanging city in front of you, and ancient buildings can be seen everywhere. After Ji Xiu and Igu decided to leave this country, they kept going north, because the southeast and west are bordered by the sea, and the north is a swampy sea, this country is surrounded by the sea, and it is not easy to walk in all four directions, but the swampy sea in the north is easier to pass, so they decided to go north.
Ji Xiu's long sword is packed with a thicker bamboo, and now he is dressed like an ethnic minority with a bamboo pole on his back, and the clothes of the young people are bought, but fortunately, the clothes of the young people are made of more fabrics, and Igu can wrap his whole body when he wears them, and Igu now looks like a little boy of the young people.
"Are you hungry?" Ji Xiu lowered his head and asked Igu, but without waiting for Igu to respond, Ji Xiu continued: "Well, I'm hungry, but in order to buy clothes, I spent all my cash, and I can't use bank cards and credit cards. ”
"It's all you, and it cost me a lot of money to buy you this garment. Ji Xiu blamed Igu for the mistake, but in fact, Ji Xiu's clothes cost more than twice as much as Igu.
Igu ran out, ghostly, on this street full of pedestrians, and no one noticed. Igu got into the back of a roadside stall, it was a fruit stall, the stall owner was spraying water on the fruit, and while the stall owner was not looking, Igu quietly stretched out his paw into the cash drawer and found a handful of money. Igu ran back, spread his hands, and showed Ji Xiu the stolen money.
"Uh...... It's very capable, but it's always weird, I haven't used the money I got this way, and the government used to give me a lot of money on a regular basis. Ji Xiu picked up a large banknote, looked at it again and again, and then said to Igu: "But even if I become a fugitive, I can't use the stolen money, this time forget it, I won't make an example." ”
At this time, Ji Xiu quietly threw a coin back to the fruit stand, and this coin was actually left a message by Ji Xiu, which probably means: There is a temporary difficulty, and I will return some money without asking, and I will return it later.
It was Igu's act of stealing money that found the first creditor for Ji Xiu, and one of Ji Xiu's apprentices in the future came with this coin.
Igu understood. Igu nodded.
"Yes, eat something first, then find a place to sleep, get rid of the demon at night, and earn some money. Ji Xiu said.
Ji Xiu walked into a restaurant, looked at the menu, ninety percent of the dishes were the names of the dishes he had never heard of, so he ordered a few baskets of steamed buns, and nibbled on the steamed buns with Igu, and ate them with relish.
"Have you heard, the epidemic is here again, and I don't know how many people will die this time. The person at the table next to him spoke very loudly, and Ji Xiu passively heard it even if she didn't want to listen.
"What's worse is that the people of Wuxing sit on the ground and start the price, and the price of a pound of original mola grass is more than 1,000, isn't this a money grab. The original mola grass is everywhere in Wuxing, just like the grass of the tangram star, and the Wuxing people want to use the original mola to generate foreign exchange income. ”
"These black star thieves, the plague was brought by them, and a few grasses and faces ask for money. ”
Although Ji Xiu didn't listen to it all, she knew what was going on after a little listening, had it been the season when the epidemic was raging, time passed really fast. At this time last year, the epidemic infected millions of people, and the situation was very serious, and Ji Xiu was ordered to be sent to the epidemic area as the supreme commander.
"I don't know who the commander-in-chief of the epidemic area will be this year?" Ji Xiu chewed the steamed bun thoughtfully.
"Someone fainted, it's a bad epidemic, run. "There was an unusual movement outside the street, and all kinds of noises mixed together, as if the whole street was in chaos.
The people in the restaurant were also like frightened birds, halfway through eating, and running out without even paying the bill. Igu looked at the fleeing faces of the people around him, and his face was puzzled.
"Your ancestors came from Wuxing, and when you were in Wuxing, the plague could not kill you, but here, the plague can kill you. Ji Xiu seemed to be analyzing something.
"Igu hadn't heard of a terrible plague. ”
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, I haven't eaten yet, do you want to go out and take a look, boss, come and settle the bill." Ji Xiu shouted.
The customers in the store are all gone, no one checks out, and when the store guy is having a headache, there is still the last table of customers to settle the bill.
"Guest, if you are kind, I will give you a 20% discount. "The owner came in person.
"Just these few baskets of steamed buns, it doesn't matter how much discount you make, I want to pack them. Ji Xiu said.
"Okay, guest, you go slowly, come back next time. ”
After settling the bill, Ji Xiu walked to the door of the hotel, and Igu followed behind, carrying a large bag full of steamed buns.
As soon as Ji Xiu walked out of the door of the hotel, he saw a little girl fainting on the ground, and the whole street can only see sporadic pedestrians now.
Ji Xiu squatted down, looking at the little girl's situation, and saw that the little girl's nails were dyed with a layer of pale green, and wiped her fingers on the little girl's nails, this is not nail polish, the nails really turned green.
"It's really a bad epidemic, such a coincidence, I heard a severe epidemic when I was eating just now, and I ran into a severe epidemic patient when I went out after eating. Ji Xiu shook her head, and thought to herself: No wonder the pedestrians on the whole road have run away, maybe there are already passers-by who have come to see the little girl, and when they see those green nails, all of them are scared faster than a rabbit.
In fact, this is very normal, after all, the infection efficiency of the epidemic is ridiculously high, when there is a severe epidemic patient in a small city, the whole city may have been infected with the epidemic, it is because of this terrifying contagion ability, the following situation will occur, when the people in a certain place are still talking about where the outbreak of the epidemic, the next moment their people here may have been infected with the epidemic.