Chapter 128: The Dead Live Forever

In order to keep the villagers from rioting out of fear, Haka concocted a lie.

He declared that the herpes on their bodies was a test given to them by the man of God, that those who survived would become the favorites of the man of God, receiving endless wealth and glory, and that the dead would be able to enter the kingdom of God and enjoy eternal peace and well-being.

The villagers of Baini have been directly subordinate to the priests of Baini for generations, and have been brainwashed for hundreds of years.

Hearing Haka's words, most of the villagers were convinced.

Even a few sane people who find the loophole will not be able to combat this mass frenzy.

Liu Zheng was not willing to deceive them like this, just like the great man always said, the people understand things, as long as you talk to them well and explain the reason clearly, they can understand.

But Haka rejected the public suggestion.

"My people are tired, and it is painful to be sober, so let them enjoy the last bliss of ignorance." He said.

Looking at the rash that gradually appeared on his body, Liu Zheng had no way to refute it.

The outbreak of the plague was even more rapid than expected, and many villagers soon experienced headaches, fevers, nausea, back pain, and sometimes some spasms or insanity.

This is typical of smallpox, and Liu and Raphael used it to separate the infected from the uninfected.

There are 83 people in Baini Village, and only 23 have not been infected.

Those who were infected were placed in grass huts, and those who were not infected were temporarily put up in straw huts.

Fortunately, the climate here is hot, even at night, there are more than 20 degrees, and there is no problem of cold land.

Thankfully, several pregnant women with children did not participate in the celebration, so they were not infected, which made Liu Zheng's conscience feel a little better.

Baini Village is a poor village, and although the villagers are not hungry, they rarely have enough to eat.

Now all the labourers were infected with smallpox, and the village soon ran out of food.

Adequate nutrition and hydration are very important support for smallpox patients.

Fortunately, there is a spring next to Baini Village, which is one of the reasons why Haka chose to settle here.

But nutrition is very difficult to do, the fields in Baini Village are planted with corn, sweet potatoes and the like, which can fill the stomach, and the nutritional value is very low, especially the lack of protein.

In order to solve this problem, Raphael launched the crew fishing, and the fishing nets were readily available in the village, although they were a little more primitive, and they were also usable.

The infected sailors were all light and strong, and there were no major problems other than a period of discomfort and scarring on their bodies.

So Wolfheart and Gertrude got off the boat and came to the village to help.

Gertrude could take care of the sick, Wolf Heart could maintain order, and Liu Zheng found time to hunt in the jungle.

Needless to say, his skills are also inhuman, his hearing and eyesight are also inhuman, and with the assistance of the Closing Bow and the Tong Zi Cut, the animals in the nearby jungle can be regarded as suffering.

In addition to some common beasts, Liu Zheng also caught many fierce beasts such as cougars, jaguars, crocodiles, and pythons.

He even spotted an obese Andean bear by a river.

The Andean bear, also known as the spectacle bear, is named because of a pair of glasses-like rings around its eyes, and is the only bear species in South America.

Spectacled bears have medium-length coat and are usually uniformly black, with reddish-brown or dark brown individuals and very thick and coarse fur.

This bear is not a behemoth in the bear family, but is a medium height at best.

But the fat bear was clearly gifted, more than twice the size of his kind, and lay there like a hill.

The fat bear had just shaken the tree for a long time, and finally shook the honeycomb off the tree, and was licking the honey there with his butt pouting, ignoring the angry flying bee colony around him.

Liu Zheng wanted to shoot it in the head with an arrow, and shoot it with an arrow, but he inexplicably changed his mind, walked straight to its back, raised his foot and kicked its buttocks.

The fat bear was licking hard, and his ass was suddenly hit, and he turned back a little dazedly.

After seeing Liu Zheng, his eyes narrowed into a small slit opened up immediately, and he subconsciously lay down to protect the hive.

Rao is his mood was heavy, and he was also amused by this foodie fat man, and his heart to kill it also faded.

Anyway, today's harvest is enough, and the big python is enough for the whole village to eat one meal.

Liu Zheng casually grabbed the short tail of the fat bear, and the fat bear shook him dissatisfiedly, as if to say why do you owe so much?

Then he ignored him and continued to lick its hive.

Is this guy so non-aggressive? Liu Zheng smiled.

But think about it, the spectacled bear is one of the strongest beasts in South America, although the hunting efficiency is not as good as that of the cougar and jaguar, but it is not a fool to go it alone.

This fat bear is so huge that he is afraid that he has no rivals in this forest.

Coupled with the abundant biological resources of tropical forests, this guy must not lack food, so it is not incomprehensible that he has a good temper.

He pulled two more small ears of the fat bear, and his mood was much better, carrying a group of giant pythons in one hand, and dragging prey such as cougars and jaguars tied with ropes with the other hand, and turned around and walked towards Baini Village.

After taking two steps, Liu Zheng suddenly turned his head, glanced in a certain direction, showed a sneer, and turned his head and walked away.

When he was far away, the fat bear's nervous fat that was licking honey finally relaxed, and he even snorted.

The ghost has a good temper, and its fat bear is a ruthless character in this forest, and it has no territorial awareness, because wherever it goes, it is its territory.

Back then, it fought a group of maned wolves alone, and the flowers were almost bitten off and didn't give an inch, and finally slapped the group of maned wolves into jam.

If it weren't for its natural instincts, as soon as it saw Liu Zheng, it knew that this guy couldn't be provoked, how could it behave so stupidly and cutely.

Luckily, the horrible human seemed to have been tricked by it.

As for being pulled by the tail and rubbing the ears again, hey, no other bear saw it anyway.

It's too dangerous, this forest is too dangerous, this bear should go to the grassland to bully the maned wolf.

As for the few humans hidden in the jungle over there, it's not worth mentioning, and Uncle Xiong doesn't bother to pay attention to it.

The fat bear walked away, and the three scouts of the Gravel Tribe finally let out a sigh of relief.

They had heard of the bear, which had rough skin and thick flesh, and was cunning and insidious, and had a speed that did not match its appearance at all, and was very difficult to mess with.

There was a large tribe that tried to hunt it to boast of its strength, but it escaped and retaliated frantically, and then the other tribes did not dare to provoke it.

And the person who can make this ruthless bear pretend to be stupid is even more terrifying, and the scout can clearly see that the jaguar's neck has been torn off.

The glance that had just turned back made the three scouts feel like the jaguar for a moment, with their necks broken.

"Who is that person? What does it have to do with Baini Village? The three scouts looked at each other and decided to report back to the tribe first.

Liu Zheng carried the prey back to the village, skinning, dismantling the bones and flesh.

The boy who doesn't wear out the meat is quite easy to use, just cut down like a knife to cut the surface.

Meat strips with vegetables, and then put some messy spices to cook, the taste is not to mention the nutritional value is very high.

Liu Zheng took the broth, hesitated for a while, and walked into the grass hut.

The first girl to be found infected was lying on a bed covered with hay.

The natives did not have the habit of sleeping in a bed, and this bed was made by Liu Zheng himself by cutting wood to make the girl as comfortable as possible.

Her illness progressed the fastest, and she fell into a coma the day after the onset of her illness.

The iconic red rash appeared on the faces of the natives, who were much fairer than usual, and the smallpox virus seemed to use it as a means of announcing its existence.

Typically, these flat, light-red spots begin on the face and quickly spread to the arms, chest, back, and legs.

The rashes on the face, forearms and legs are more dense than those on the central part of the body.

Over the next few days, the flat acne begins to swell, first as a pimple, then into a blister, then as a pustule, and then as the pustule splits and begins to become a crust or crust, and the process is unbearable and the patient swells all over the body.

At their worst, these pustules are densely packed in piles, turning the patient's skin sallow yellow. In fair-skinned patients, there will be a faint red halo around the blisters or early pustules; In the pimple phase, the entire skin of the rash turns red.

Many people die within the first few days of the rash, others die quickly after a week of persistence, and some die even before the rash appears.

The cause of death is usually uncontrolled toxemia or massive bleeding. In the case of heavy bleeding, a large amount of blood flows into the skin, throat, lungs, intestines, or uterus.

Such patients do not have the typical papules or vesicular protrusions, but only the usual red or purple spots, petechiae, or morbilliform erythema.

Of the 60 villagers infected, 47 have developed toxemia or haemorrhage, while the girl has both.

The continuous high fever kept her in a semi-coma, and Liu Zheng had to control her muscles to even eat and drink.

The girl was constantly having nightmares, her thin eyebrows were furrowed all the time, and her face showed a painful expression from time to time.

Liu Zheng could only hold her hand, and the strong and hot palm seemed to bring her some sense of security and make her brow stretch a little.

But that's all, her body was inevitably crumbling, and Dr. Gertrude couldn't do anything about it.

Toxemia plus internal hemorrhage, even in a tertiary hospital, it is a serious illness that requires the director to be in charge, let alone in this era of bloodletting and amputation to cure all diseases.

He asked Wolfheart if he could kill them by giving them dragon blood.

The wolf's heart replied that it would only make them die faster, and the dragon's blood was raging and uncontrollable, and letting such a force rampant through the patient's body would only make the virus, dragon's blood, and the patient all die together.

"It's you, God-man. Have I passed your test? The girl finally woke up from the nightmare, saw Liu Zheng, who was looking down at her, and asked in a low voice.

"Of course, you are already my favorite. My name is Liu Zheng, what's your name? Liu Zheng asked softly.

"My name is Yelayan (local language: epiphany). Can I enter your country? Liu Zheng. The whites of the girl's eyes were completely bloodshot, but her pupils were still dark and shiny.

Her tone was shy and bold, as if she were asking the gods and the lover.

"Of course, you will live forever in my memory." Liu Zheng said gently but firmly.

"That's good." The girl smiled, then froze.

Extremely prosperous and dying, just like a flash in the pan.