Chapter 14: The War of the Gods (10) The Curse
As soon as he walked into the town, a disgusting corpse stench hit him, and Meng Xinyao frowned unconsciously. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć There was an unknown pungent smell in the smell of the corpse, Gao Ming wanted to show his gentlemanly side as much as possible, he said to Meng Xinyao, "You guys wait here first, I'll go to the town to see what the situation is!" ā
Meng Xinyao nodded gratefully, "Be careful yourself!" ā
"Hey!" Gao Ming agreed, turned around and strode towards the entrance of the town where the road sign was erected.
"Help me!"
After Gao Ming left, Meng Xinyao helped the old woman to rest on the stone pier, and suddenly grabbed her ankle with one hand, "Ah! She screamed in fright.
"Please...... Help me......" The owner of the hand said this sentence with difficulty, and passed out.
The streets of the town are full of decaying corpses, and the stuffy heat breeds many fleshy maggots, which are rampantly sucking the flesh and blood of the dead. Gao Ming didn't dare to look up again, and walked quickly to the center of the town, and met many living people along the way, but most of those people had sores on their mouths, and their exposed skin was also flowing with purulent yellow-brown liquid.
Gao Ming tore off a piece of cloth and put it on his face, but he didn't know if it was really useful, just to feel at ease.
In the center of the town is a fountain with a radius of about four meters, the original clear pool water has long been dark green, and from a distance, there are still wisps of faint mist, like a witch in a fairy tale boiling poisonous soup.
Can't go any further, Gao Ming reminded himself like this, risking himself in such a strange environment, perhaps, he would also be infected in the next second, turned around, and he walked back quickly.
"Where have you been?" Gao Ming, who returned to the entrance of the town, only found the old woman under the dead tree, and slept on the ground with an infected person whom he had never met. asked the old woman, she was crazy and played with her fingers and ignored him, but fortunately, Meng Xinyao finally came back at this time.
Meng Xinyao held a wooden basin that he got out of nowhere, missing half of the edge, and moved cautiously, for fear that the water would spill outside, "I'll go back to the river to get some clean water, have you found out the situation in the town?" ā
"Don't mention it!" Gao Ming took the wooden basin and squatted beside Meng Xinyao, watching her drip water into the mouth of the infected person little by little. "I suspect that all the people in this town may have been infected by some kind of virus or plague, and there are many deaths in the town, and it is not easy to meet a few survivors, who are almost like him, and they can't talk at all, but he may be in a better situation." He raised his chin and pointed to the infected lying on the ground, "Why did you get an infected person back?" Aren't you afraid that he will infect us! He didn't complain about Meng Xinyao, he just wanted to remind her of their situation.
After Meng Xinyao fed the infected person, she shook her hand to dry it naturally, and said a little helplessly, "No way, I didn't bring him back, I don't know where he came from, I think he at least has a breath left, he can't die without help!" ā
Because the body was replenished with enough water, it didn't take long for the infected person to gradually wake up, Meng Xinyao stopped his blind words of gratitude and asked straight to the point. The account of the infected person is no different from the news brought back by Gao Ming, only in more detail.
"The name of our town is Equena, and the name is named after the beautiful queen of our country, Equena, which means beautiful and holy. Not long ago, our peaceful and prosperous homeland was invaded by foreign tribes, who burned and looted and took everything for themselves. I heard that the fierce foreign tribe was called Akdor, and that their supreme ruler was a mysterious and strange witch, and she wanted her people to become her, the goddess. At the behest of the Divine Woman, all our people have become slaves of the Akdorians. And the fate of our town, even more tragic, is only because we share the same name as our queen, which has aroused the wrath of the goddess, who claims that the people of our town are attached to the faithful queen Egrena, so let us bury the queen! ā
At this point, the infected was quite agitated, his fists clenched, his chest rose and fell violently, and when he waited for him to catch his breath, he continued to narrate, "I don't know what kind of witchcraft the goddess used, but suddenly one day, after a storm, a dark green poisonous mist rose after she had recited the incantation, and the miasma quickly filled the mountains and fields, and the sun hid in the dark clouds after that, refusing to give us a glimmer of brightness. As the months passed, the sweltering wind blew day and night in the town, all the water from the well turned green and smelly, and waves of poisonous snakes attacked the townspeople. Later, all the domestic animals went crazy, and they didn't know their owners and bit wildly. People who have not been able to drink clean water for a long time, some of whom die of thirst, and who can't help but drink well water, will all be infected with unknown epidemics, and their whole bodies will festering and dying, and their corpses will become the source of the disease and continue to be spread. Over time, corpses were scattered all over the field, and this is what you see now. ā