After the army set up camp in the town, Wei Yu was not at ease, so he specially formed a patrol team and roamed around the town.

"Lord Wang, you can rest tonight, we have already arranged the patrol people." Wei Yu said that after following Zhang Jilin for a long time, Wei Yu can also touch Zhang Jirin's personality and temper a little, Zhang Jilin will never rely on his identity and status to make himself different from ordinary soldiers, as long as he is outside, Zhang Jirin's food, clothing, housing and transportation are exactly the same as everyone's, and he doesn't like others to treat him as a prince, and it is really because of Zhang Jirin's appearance that these soldiers are dead to him one by one.

"You take turns keeping vigil, and everyone sleeps." Zhang Jirin said, Wei Yu nodded.

"Yes, lord." Wei Yu clenched his fists and went down.

Zhang Jirin walked alone in the town, this town is called Luoyang Town, the town is not big, Zhang Jirin only took half an hour, he finished a town, basically understood the pattern of the town, the letter sent back by Tianquan did not say why there was no one in the town, but just told Zhang Jirin that this town can be used for the army to rest, the progress of their march is not slow, and they can reach Beirong within the scheduled time, but Zhang Jirin still fully let the soldiers rest well.

Suddenly, a mouse ran over in front, Zhang Jirin frowned, followed, and found that the mouse actually stopped, and he was not afraid of people, what surprised Zhang Jirin the most was the size of the mouse, this mouse looks about the same age as a small milk dog, such a mouse, even in the north is rare, the mouse seems to have seen Zhang Jirin, and he was not panicked, and walked in front of Zhang Jirin with a swagger.

Zhang Jirin followed the rats into an abandoned house, and as soon as a large group of rats began to run around, Zhang Jirin frowned, turned his head and walked to another place.

The next day, the army was ready to go, and nothing happened overnight, and Zhang Jilin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Isn't there any news from Tianquan yet?" Zhang Jirin asked Wei Yu.

"Back to the prince, I haven't gotten any news." Wei Yu pondered for a while and said, it has been three days since Zhang Jilin sent a message last time, and he still hasn't received a reply from Tianquan, which makes Zhang Jirin more or less irritable, it stands to reason that they are walking from the direction of Xiling, and the distance between them and Tianquan should be getting closer and closer, and Tianquan has no reason to have no news for so long.

"You keep an eye on it." Zhang Jirin advised.

"Yes, Lord Wang," Wei Yu said solemnly.

"Lord Wang, a soldier suddenly fainted." The sound of horses' hooves sounded behind him, and after a while, a soldier rode forward and hurriedly spoke. When Zhang Jilin heard about this, he tightened the horse rope and turned around, and when he went to the back of the team, he saw several people surrounding a soldier.

"The medic is coming." Wei Yu said that he had just gone to call the military doctor, and Zhang Jirin nodded, squatting down to check the situation of the fainted soldier.

"What's going on?" Zhang Jilin asked.

"I don't know, we were walking, and suddenly he fell to the ground." A few soldiers, you and I restored the previous things to Zhang Jirin.

Zhang Jirin touched the head of the fainted soldier, as if he had a fever.

"The medic is here."

Wei Yu's voice sounded, and everyone quickly got up and made way for the military doctor.

"This ......" the medic rolled the fainted soldier's eyelids and looked at his mouth again.

"It's the plague." The military doctor was shocked and said.

"The plague?" Zhang Jirin was also surprised.

"How did you get the plague?" The soldiers around whispered.

"It's probably in the town, I've seen rats in the town, it's that big." Someone in the crowd said that Zhang Jirin also remembered that he had also seen rats in the town.

"He's been bitten by rats." Suddenly, one of them said.

Zhang Jirin's expression also became solemn.

"Is there any way to do it?" Zhang Jilin asked the military doctor.

"Old man try." The military doctor seemed to be quite confident, touching his beard and saying, Zhang Jirin was a little relieved.

The military doctor quickly prescribed the medicine, found the medicine from the accompanying equipment, and decocted the medicine for the fainting soldiers while the army was resting.

"Wei Yu, go and ask if anyone has been bitten by rats, find out all of them and drink the medicine." Zhang Jilin still felt uneasy after thinking about it.

Wei Yu received the order, and in less than a stick of incense, he brought four or five more soldiers.

"Do you have any discomfort?" Zhang Jirin asked, because the few people in front of him looked as usual, there was nothing strange about it, and the face of the soldier who fainted before was gray.

"The subordinates didn't feel anything wrong." A few people, you look at me, I'll look at you, and you said at the end.

"You go to the military doctor for this medicine, and you can drink a bowl of it for each person." Zhang Jirin advised.

"Yes, General." Several people nodded.

At night, there was a commotion in the barracks.

"The prince is not good, something has happened." Wei Yu hurriedly came in from Zhang Jilin's tent, and he didn't even care about etiquette.

"What?" Zhang Jirin quickly put on his clothes and got up and asked.

"The previous soldiers are all dead." Wei Yu's eyebrows were full of panic.

"What's going on?" Zhang Jirin and Wei Yu asked as they walked outside.

"The military doctor has already gone to see it, and I found that rats have also appeared in the place where we are stationed," Wei Yu's last sentence caught Zhang Jirin's attention.

"Mouse?" Zhang Jilin asked rhetorically.

"It's a mouse, exactly like the rat we saw in Royang that day." Wei Yu emphasized.

Zhang Jirin stopped talking, and he was very surprised in his heart, how could there be such a coincidence?

To be honest, rats in Luoyang Town should be rare in other places, not to mention that in this wilderness, although the survival ability of rats is very strong, but in this kind of wilderness, except for bamboo rats, it is rare to see that kind of rat.

Zhang Jilin always felt that there was something wrong.

"Doctors, what is the cause of their death?" Zhang Jirin asked.

"Back to the prince, it's the plague." The military doctor said with palpitations that the death of those soldiers was not very good-looking.

His face was shrouded in black gas, and the entire corpse also turned black, which made Zhang Jirin suddenly think of the walking corpses they had encountered in Tianque City before.

When he came back, Zhang Jirin thought about what happened in Tianque City again, most of the walking corpses in Tianque City should be illusions created by Wu Qi, in fact, there are no real walking corpses, even if there are, it will not be all over the city, they can often see fog when they are in Tianque City, and the atmosphere is too tense, so there is no time to think so much, Zhang Jilin at that time is even more unable to think, Liu Meiniang was taken away by Wu Qi, Zhang Jirin has already messed up, how can he have time to think about so many other things?

"Didn't they all prescribe medicine? How so? Wei Yu asked puzzled.

"This, the old man too...... The first time I saw it, although the plague is difficult to treat, but since the beginning of the previous dynasty, a prescription for the treatment of the plague has been developed, and after so many years of attempts, the prescription for the plague is basically the same now, and the old man is also treating the disease according to the prescription, it stands to reason that their condition will improve today and tomorrow, but I didn't expect ......" The military doctor's face was also anxious, as he said, in this case, those soldiers have no reason to get the plague and die.

"Lord Wang, the bodies of several soldiers, are they going to be cremated!" Although Wei Yu was also sad, he had always been accustomed to taking a long-term view, this corpse had been contaminated with the plague, if he continued to stay here or be buried, the plague could not be completely eliminated, and the most reliable way was to cremate the corpse.

"I'll take care of this matter, and give them more silver at home, and find a way to bring back the ashes." Zhang Jilin pondered for a while and said.

"Yes, lord." Wei Yu nodded.

Zhang Jirin was still thinking about something and didn't speak. It wasn't until the second half of the night that someone heard outside.

"Lord Wang, Tianquan can't be contacted." One of the guards knelt on the ground and said. He is also one of the secret guards in Zhang Jirin's mansion, Zhang Jilin didn't bring anyone else when he came out, he could only bring a few secret guards from the palace.

"Can't be reached?" Zhang Jirin asked in shock. What does it mean to be unreachable?

The secret guard told Zhang Jilin what he knew, it turned out that Tianquan disappeared after sending back the marching map that time, they couldn't get in touch, and they didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at the beginning, because Tianquan's identity is special, so many times Tianquan can't be contacted, they all feel normal, but this time things are different, Tianquan not only can't be contacted, but there is no reply to the correspondence, so Wei Yu hurriedly told Zhang Jirin, but he didn't expect it to be a step late.

"Divide all the people in the army who now have symptoms of plague." Zhang Jilin said.

"Yes, Lord Wang," Wei Yu replied loudly.

"Doctor, I'm going to trouble you to make some more medicine to get rid of the plague." Zhang Jilin said.

"This is natural," the military doctor nodded, and after Zhang Jilin finished communicating with the military doctor, he gave Wei Yu a few more words and left.

Zhang Jirin took advantage of the night to return to Luoyang Town, and as soon as he arrived at the house where they were resting, Zhang Jirin heard all kinds of mouse calls, almost bursting the entire night sky.

Zhang Jirin frowned and went in from the room, and sure enough, he saw at least twenty or thirty mice, all of them were huge, and he didn't panic and fled when he saw people, Zhang Jirin walked step by step into a group of rats, the mice just squeaked a few times, moved the place, Zhang Jirin squatted down and saw that there seemed to be something bulging in the straw pile on the ground, and Zhang Jirin reached in. I actually touched a person in the straw pile.

Zhang Jilin scolded a few more times, all the mice left, Zhang Jilin directly took the straw on it, and sure enough, there was a seriously injured person lying underneath.

"Heavenly power!" Zhang Jirin was stunned after seeing the silhouette of that person clearly.

Tianquan still has breathing, Zhang Jirin can be sure, but this Tianquan is completely unconscious, Zhang Jirin quickly checked Tianquan's state, and took out the spiritual spring water and poured some into Tianquan's mouth.

Tianquan's breathing voice was finally not as weak as before, and Zhang Jirin tried to pick up Tianquan and leave this ghost place.