When asked about this, both the young man and the girl were at a loss for a moment.

Their plan was to exchange the antidote for merit so that they could get out of the city.

However, the City Lord's Mansion was not well-intentioned, and as soon as the list was released here, he immediately secretly arranged for the evacuation. Lan Shuying caught a glimpse of an overly richly dressed fat back during the day, and Bacheng was the city lord.

The location of the City Lord's Mansion is easy to find, the corpse puppet has gone in and explored, it is empty, and all the warehouses have been emptied, and there is no going back.

In this way, the joy of this pair of men and women when they first saw the release of the list is extremely ironic.

The road ahead was unknown, and the two looked at each other, both seeing each other's helplessness.

Lan Shuying quietly looked at them for a while, and felt a little calculating in her heart.

I only heard the pale-faced corpse puppet slowly ask, "Have you ever thought about taking out the antidote to treat the patients in the city?" ”

The young man frowned subconsciously.

And Xiaoqing hesitated for a moment and nodded:

"If you can help, then help...... You contributed to this recipe, and if you agree, I'll copy it to another doctor. ”

Lan Shuying didn't speak, Xiaoqing rubbed her fingers and muttered:

"The medicine in the city is purchased on a quarterly basis, and there was only a batch before the outbreak, and the rest of it was in the warehouse before, I just went to take inventory during the day, and it is not a problem to send the medicine twice a day, and then match it with ......"

She touched the package she was carrying on her arm, and inside was the slender snow leaf grass brought by the corpse puppet: "This, there are many of them outside the eastern city wall, and the people who defend the city can pick them up and send them in." ”

After listening to her, Lan Shuying was noncommittal, and meditated: The heart is not bad.

As for the other one, it was normal for him not to want to get into trouble, but he didn't stop Xiaoqing from talking, and there was a vague feeling of "as long as she wants to do this, then support her".

Lan Shuying vaguely felt that she had eaten another bite of dog food.

She said with a straight face: "Ahem, I can agree, but you can't just take it out." ”

"Huh?"

The girl was puzzled, and there was suddenly an indescribable taste in her eyes, "...... Why? ”

After a while, it was the young man who understood, suppressed his anger and said, "Xiaoqing, don't misunderstand this gentleman, I think ...... It's us who are being used. ”

"The city lord asked someone to study the antidote, not really to let Shacheng get through the difficulties, but a blank check to lure us into the bait...... Everyone's attention turned to the antidote, so that it would be easier for him to slip away! ”

When I first saw the notice, all the doctors rushed back to the retreat to dispense the medicine.

Xiaoqing is the most anxious, because they are both "players", and they are bent on going to the bridge of the center, and now there is not much time, they are not infected, and they are still trapped in Shacheng and can't get out, how can they not be in a hurry?

At this time, a chance to be free fell from the sky, and the two didn't think much about it at all.

Even if the reputation of the city lord of Shacheng is not so good, this is his territory after all, and the local city citizens can even be said to be his property, how can he let everyone die? Normal people think so.

But he didn't plan to let them live!

If you don't have food, you don't have a mount, and you still control the city gate and don't let you go out, isn't that just waiting for death?

Just now, he was going to send the antidote, but when the young man thought about it, he was so stupid that he couldn't bear to look at it! Fortunately, there were these strangers who helped just now...... "Ah, you guys drink this antidote, Xiaoqing, bring out a few more bottles, quick!" ”

The young man stuffed something into the corpse puppet.

In fact, it was difficult for the corpse puppet to be infected, so in order to reassure the two of them, Lan Shuying still let the corpse puppet drink it, and the other corpse puppets lined up on the side to wait for the newly dispensed potion to come out.

The young man explained: "Xiaoqing has a talent for pharmaceuticals, and I know that I will definitely be paid special attention to, but before that...... Alas, I think everyone is looking forward to the antidote as much as we do, and who knows if it will ......"

He smiled wryly, still a little puzzled.

"Do they all want to live with these patients? There are so many people who have run out, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no infection inside, isn't it a good thing to have an antidote? ”

These patients have been tortured to the point of weakness, and when they really fight, they don't have the strength to snatch the antidote from him, probably because of the crowd tactic, first taking advantage of the fear of being infected by healthy people to catch them off guard, and then taking advantage of the chaos to destroy the test tube.

The question is, why?

Lan Shuying frowned, and naturally thought along this line of thought-what if, the main thing in the city is the plague blooming everywhere?

Xiaoqing identified the group of patients who attacked them and said, "These are already very sick, and the antidote may not be able to save them." I think...... Maybe someone important is being threatened......"

Lan Shuying had an idea, first completely transferred his consciousness to the corpse puppet, and then used Brian's ability to communicate with a patient who had just lost his breath, trying to obtain the remaining memories.

So she saw the towering gate of the city lord's mansion, and the city lord smiled and threw out a handful of coins, and the patient was unmoved;

Then, he pulled out a group of women and children who were chained......

"You have been deceived...... Lan Shuying was in a complicated mood, "When the city lord left, he didn't take those women and children with him at all. ”

The patients were stunned at the same time.

A patient gasped and asked, "Where is my son, have you seen him?" …… Are you mistaken? ”

He choked up and said, "My son is so young...... He's very good at hiding, you must not have noticed him...... He left with the city lord, he is already gone! "The end is a shout.

After roaring, he coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, crooked until he quickly lost his breath, and he didn't close his eyes when he died.

Although Xiaoqing couldn't bear it, out of instinct, she pulled her lover and Lan Shuying away.

Confirming that it was the city lord's arrangement, the young man hurriedly said, "Hurry up!" It's not safe here, the news of the antidote must have been handed out! ”

The house where Xiaoqing lives is relatively remote, and the surrounding black rumbling is full of tatters, and it is difficult for people to find it even if they are hidden.

These people are squatting here to spy on Xiaoqing.

The antidote is very important, they will definitely arrange for someone to report to the person behind the scenes, that person must be the person who can be trusted by the city lord, he can control the armed forces of Sand City and deal with emergencies.

Lan Shuying pondered that there were crises everywhere in the city, so that person either lived outside the city or was on the top of the city tower. From Xiaoqing's house, she couldn't see anything clearly, but her body was outside the city wall, and she could clearly see a group of vigorous black shadows climbing down the city tower.

"Someone is approaching, and the tower is coming."

The young man hesitated for a moment and said, "Follow me!" ”

He was very familiar with the terrain of Sand City, and before the city defenders and patrols approached, he had already moved to a place where there were no people with Xiaoqing and a few corpse golems.

A bone bird watched from above, and saw that the men pounced in the air, and simply killed and burned the half-dead sick people on the spot.

The firelight lit up the night sky of Sand City.

Rows of houses were lit up, and a faint wail drifted in the wind.

Xiaoqing sighed.

The young man was still able to hold on, and said, "The gates are blocked on three sides, and only one side is controlled by them, and we must find a way to get out...... "Is this gentleman in the city before, I don't think I have seen you...... Guys. ”

Lan Shuying said, "No, we sneaked in from outside the city. ”

Since she had already intervened in this "idle matter", she simply spread out and spoke, so as not to leave any mustard in the hearts of the two of them.

"My body is waiting outside the city, these are my puppets. I overheard you just now...... Coincidentally, I'm also planning to go to the Bridge of the Center. ”

The young man suddenly understood: "You are also a player. ”

"Yes. I still have an important task in my hand, and I won't go with you, and I think this matter in Shacheng is strange, so I came in to investigate, and I happened to meet her dispensing medicine......"

Lan Shuying briefly recounted what happened tonight from her perspective.

There were not only two of them who wanted to exchange the antidote for the doctors who wanted to get out of the city, and there was more than one room with lights on, Lan Shuying happened to walk to Xiaoqing's side, and then smelled a similar smell of medicine, so she stopped.

Xiaoqing said, "I was just about to ask you, how do you know that adding one more blade of grass can make it successful?" "The more she tried tonight, the more impatient she became, and she had already broken several test tubes.

"Serendipity."

This answer is not very convincing.

The girl opened a pair of round and black almond eyes, and she was very unwilling, and she didn't dare to speak, so she just looked at her directly.

Lan Shuying turned her eyes away as if nothing happened: "...... Actually, it's nothing, I found out that the city boils medicinal soup every day, and each person gets a bowl. ”

This is recorded in the goblin's notebook.

"Yes!"

Lan Shuying continued: "I saw someone sending medicine to the city gate during the day, and those who were guarding the city drank it, but a few of them were not protected in place, and they already had mild symptoms. ”

"Ah......" Xiaoqing was surprised with a little panic.

"It stands to reason that after drinking the medicine, you should be able to see the changes in their bodies, but in my opinion, if the medicinal soup is poured down, the effect on them is almost nothing." Lan Shuying was blunt.

That kind of medicinal soup, the taste is very similar to the one that Xiaoqing failed to configure, and it should also be from her hand.

Xiaoqing's face turned red unconsciously.

"But there's one exception." Lan Shuying added, "He was so bitter that he plucked a few leaves from the side of the road and chewed them in his mouth, and not long after chewing, the infection gradually subsided......

Suppose that this kind of grass blade and medicinal decoction can be combined under certain conditions to act as an antidote. For the time being, the conditions are assumed to be temperature, so let a professional pharmacist try it.

So she asked the corpse puppet to collect snow leaves and bring them into the city, originally wanting to find a doctor to force him to do it, but she met Xiaoqing, a genius pharmacist, and succeeded once, and came up with an antidote that could cure mild to moderate symptoms.

The two naturally believed her explanation.

Xiaoqing also took the initiative to find a reason for her, asking her if she had a pupil technique that could see inward.

She nodded.

Now that the antidote has been revealed, it's time to talk about something else.

Lan Shuying was the first to speak: "This plague broke out suddenly, do you know its origin? ”

Both shook their heads at the same time.

Xiaoqing said: "We were unlucky, we met someone on the day we entered the city, and we never went out again. ”

"Huh?"

"Zhou Lang bought half a basket of flowers from a little girl on the street and ran back to give it to me, and then we turned our heads and saw the child crying and falling, with roserash all over his body and foaming at the mouth......"

Because they had come into contact with the little girl's flowers, they were then locked up in a small black room, during which they did not know what was happening outside, and only one patrol soldier brought food.

"Speaking of which, I remember that he was drunk when he first came to deliver food, and told us that the city was very lively a few days ago, and the caravan sent a lot of novelty goods, all of which were sold out."

The young man Zhou Lang said with certainty, "Before the caravan came, the plague had not yet begun!" ”

Lan Shuying's eyes changed slightly.

So, could it be that the caravan brought in?

"You said that, I also remembered that his daughter-in-law wanted to buy silk, but her salary was late that month, and she was reprimanded by her daughter-in-law before she bought it, and she was very unhappy, so she borrowed wine to kill her sorrows." Xiaoqing recalled.

Zhou Lang said: "Then the person who delivered the meal changed, and we never saw him again." ”

Xiaoqing followed up and added: "Yes, in those days, people always came to talk to us and asked what we talked to him about. We said we didn't know it, and we only asked him for seasonings, because we weren't used to eating the food here, and he didn't give it to him. ”

"Well, there were five different people before and after. We felt that something was wrong, and we insisted on this answer and did not let go. Later, they heard that Xiaoqing was good at pharmaceuticals, so they let us out to work. ”

They showed a tacit understanding that they had known each other for many years, and explained the process very clearly.

Lan Shuying followed them at the time node, and found that they were released just when Shacheng was most short of people, because the news of the plague spread, and the people of the city rushed out at night in terror, and it was said that they couldn't stop it.

The scene was chaotic, and a number of mounts were robbed of the carriages and horses outside, making the goblins hold their hearts when they mentioned it.

"I still have a question, someone asked you for information, where did those five people come from?"

"City Lord's Mansion."

"City Lord's Mansion."

The two spoke in unison.

·

The suspicions point in two directions.

One is a caravan, and the other is the city lord's mansion.

The actions of the City Lord's Mansion were weird, Lan Shuying suddenly regretted it a little, she knew this, she should have tried to drag the City Lord, but unfortunately it was too late to regret it now.

The caravan was a traveling merchant, who unloaded a dozen truckloads of goods and left Shacheng after selling, and had long disappeared into the long yellow sand, let alone could not be found, everything was based on description.

All three agreed that there was a high possibility that the caravan would be poisoned.

And the City Lord's Mansion responded very perfunctory after the incident, and I heard that none of them were infected with the epidemic, and they were also very suspicious, just like colluding with the caravan!

Zhou Lang mentioned the patrol again.

After the two of them were released, they inquired, and that very night, the patrolman's house was on fire, and the whole family was burned to death along with the neighbors on both sides.

"None of them ran away?" Lan Shuying was stunned.

"Not a single one!" Zhou Lang replied in the affirmative and whispered to her, "I suspect they were dead before the fire." ”

Because of the fire, people who sleep lightly should be awakened, at least one or two can run out, right?

Zhou Lang didn't see the scene at that time, but he only heard that the deceased were lying in the courtyard, and there were leftover meals and wine next to them. It is assumed that alcohol fueled the fire, and the dead were drunk, so it may be that they did not escape.

Xiaoqing retorted: "It's impossible to be drunk and become dead pigs, there are still children who die!" The city lord's mansion said that it was burned to death, and the body was thrown outside the city...... After so many days, they've never handled anything so quickly! ”

Lan Shuying: "Then have you investigated?" ”